The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, before the Examiners, the following Bills were
declared to have duly complied with the Standing Orders
of Parliament :

CHESHIRE Lins.—To enable the Midland Railway Com-
pany to become joint propietors of the Woodley Junction,
the tStockport, Timperley, and Altrincham, the Cheshire
Midland, the West Cheshire, the Garston and Liverpool
and the Liverpool Central Station Railways, with power to
the Midland Company to raise funds by the creation of new
shares.

PLYMOUTH AND DARTMOOR.—To make arrangements
with the South Devon. Capital, £35,000, with power to
create an additional capital of £75,000 by new shares, and
to revive borrowing powers.
WOLVERHAMPTON AND WALSALL.—A railway from
Wolverhampton to Walsall on the South Staffordshire.
Capital, £120,000; loan, £40,000.
TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD JUNCTION.—For devia-

ions from authorised line.
MOWDDWY.—For a railway from the Cambrian Railway
;o near the town of Dinas Mowddwy. Capital, £21,000 ;
Loan, £7,000.

MONMOUTH, FOREST OF DEAN AND STANDISH JUNC-
TION.—For a railway connecting these places. Capital,
£300,000 ; loan, £lOO,OOO.

TEES VALLEY.—For a railway from Lartington to Mid-
dleton-on-Teesdale. Capital, £50,000; loan, £16,000.
FolicErr.—For a railway from near Sanford to Forcett,
in the North Riding. Capital, £30,000; loan, £lO,OOO.

CALEDONIAN TERMINUS AND GLASGOW HARBOUR AND
CALEDONIAN.—For amalgamation, also for extension to
Dumfries and the Lockerby Railway. Capital, £110,000;
loan, £36,000.

. .
BLANE VAT.TIIY.—For an extension to the Forth and
Clyde Junction, and diversion. Capital, £25,000 ; loan,
£B,OOO.

GIRVAN AND PORTPATRICH..—A railway from Girvan to
East Challock, in Wigtonshire. Capital, £250,000; loan,
£83,000.
CRIEFF AND COKRIE.—For a line between these places.
Capital, £10,000; loan, £13,000.
The bill of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway for
lines to the Great Western, near Bath, and the Midland at
Bristol—capital, £165,000 ; loan, £55,000—was declared
not to have complied with the Standing Orders in some
particulars.
The Bills withdrawn were those for the Balham and
Brixton Junction ; the Llanfair ; the Andover, Hungerford,
and Farringdon ; and for the Maryport and Carlisle and
Whitehaven Junction, and other railway arrangements and
amalgamation.

SELECT COMMITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS.--Yesterday
this committee, consisting of Colonel Wilson Patten, chair-
man, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Henley, Mr. Wrightson, Mr.
Gregory, Mr. Bramston, Mr. B. Carter, Mr. Lefroy, Mr.
Dunlop, Mr. Egerton, and Mr. Paget, met for the first time
to take into consideration those Bills declared by the Ex-
aminers not to have complied with the Standing. Orders.
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The Bills before them were those of the East London,
Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Nuneaton, Northampton, and Ban-
bury Junction, Bedford, Northampton, and Leamington,
Monmouthshire, and East and West India Docks. After
deliberation, the committee decided that the Standing Or-
ders might be dispensed with and the parties be allowed on
certain conditions to proceed with their Bills in all these
cases, with the exception of the Bedford, Northampton, and
Leamington.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week
Miles Opened. ' Reoeipts.

Railways.

1864.

1863.

1864. 1863.
x
1,966 1.815
649 651
1,7J3 1,331
5,405 6.078
18,339 16,5..0
1,411 1,294
306 280
117 112
393 387
1,431 1.368
261 248
,233 1%38
1,493 1.456
245 190
1,857 2,116
2,843 3,093
7,836 8,007
29,582 28,703
32.947 28. W
2,081 2.393
34 406
7,6 6 6,463
59,578 5.0611

Belfast and N. Counties 136 138
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211
Caledonian
Cambrian
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
32 325
Cornwall 651 655
Deeside l7 17
CCoorrkk,aßnldacykrooucgkh,
a& 6
I •• •• Passage... 1 65
Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 914 915
Furness, &c 5O 50
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 387 353
Great North of Scotland 9J 99
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 714
at.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 384 3731
etrnWesess:nl Perth Junction 1195 1195
Inverness
1225 118 4
Hull and Hurnsea l3
Inverness & Aberdeen June ll7l 1171
Irish North-Western 145 145
Sent Coast 27 27
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 402
Limerick and Ennis... 241 24/
Limerick and Foynes 26 261
Llanelly 46 461
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2671 2411
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 725
Do. Metropolitan Extension 1i 104
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Aan.,S hetlield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 95 95
Slaryport and Carlisle 2B 28
Metropolitan
3lidland (incl. N.-Western) 6635 611
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 2591
llonkland 7ll 711
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee . . .
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Rhymney l9l
Scottish Central ll3
Scottish North-Eastern . . 138
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB
Taff Vale 57
_ _ _

840 816

935 918
1,615 1,586

430 250
35,100 34. 57
142 1.4
130 153

562 590

430 353
98,260 94,041
1,717 1,612:
18,770 16.740
15,519 13.7r3
4,476 3,78
1,451 125
962 1,025
16,735 !6,631
1,254 1,147
1,187 1.428
2,468 1,961
43,160 41.604
4,772 4,556
1,561 1,441
2,674 2,6.3

5831 19,056 18.257
1095 53,468 61,922
9 3, 11 3,139
251 7,572 8.100
191 992 9;0
113 5,089 4,900
138 5,296 4,694
66 :2 594
751 3.177 2,959
808 17,650 15.763
67 6,080 5,890
1051 2,118 2.389
10 155 147
431 2,461 2,417
31 371 308
77 1,129 1.159
271 616 776
52} 4.181 3.292
10 445 602
13 802 1,011
35 758 916

Ulster lO5l
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 431
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 27i
W. Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 52
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
'FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction 261
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185
Central. Italy lB3
Detroit and Kilwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish 108!
Eastern of France 1176

27,708 26,953
547 -
299 244
2,800 3,513

3,787 3,377
4,278 3,908
57,649 52,515
:.776 1,440
33.984 24,791
20,251 22,33
5,459 4,886
15,714 10,871
4,986 3,718

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Eastern Bengal ••• o llO
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Central of Belgium 295
Great Indian Peninsula 5:)3
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras o •••• 571
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6BO
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman ..
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 1967
Paris and Orleans 1616
Pernambuco 774
Sande.... 1025
Do. Punjab, &c 32
South Austrian, &c -.... • 1461
Southern of France 123
Victoria
Welland ..... 25
W. & N- Westn of France..., 1011

473
9,297 14,050
7,437 5 234
20,132 20.910
1,328 1,421
53,179 50,547
477 6-,2

481
1781
1811

77i
105

1360
770
196

497 317
125,.524 119,017
61.657 61.412
1,412 1,25
827 1,914
343 266

26, C 6 25,558
11,631 9,156

_ -
37,505 36,896

Foreign Mail Packet List.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. !8.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb.—.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pac. et Mar. 6.
Ditto, by British packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 19.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton Feb 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. —.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Feb. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India ( B.,mbay), via Southampton. Feb. 26.
Ditto, via NI amines
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseir e 3, ..
Newfoundland Feb. 15.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United btates and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
t,.3n
Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Feb. 17.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerille Mar. 13.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico . Feb. 13.
Bahamas, via New 1 ork. Mar. 9.
Bermuda, ditto Feb. 15.
Cuba and Mexico