The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, after adducing the usual proofs, the Standing
Orders were declared to have been complied with in the
following cases :
NORTH LONDON.—To enable the company to widen a
further portion of their railway from the north side of
Devon's-road to the south side of High-street, Poplar ; and
for a dock, with cuts, at Poplar; capital £100,000; loan,
X 33,000. _

GREAT NORTHERN.—For a line from Rornsey to their
Hertford, Luton, and Dunstable line near Hertford ; capital
£600,000 ; loan, £200,000.

EDGWARE, HIGHGATE, A..ND LONDON.—For lines from
Islington to the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction at
Holloway-road, and from Hornsey on the Great Northern
to a junction with the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction ;
capital, £105,000 ; loan, £35,000, with power to the Great
Northern to subscribe.

SOUTHAMPTON AND ISLE OF WIGHT—FOT a railway from
the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, Fidley-bridge,
to Fawley, and another shert branch ; capital, £70,000 ;
loan, £23,300.

IPSWICH AND FELIXTOIVN.—For a line from Westerfield
Station, near Ipswich, to Feliastown ; capital, X 0,000;
loan, £23,000.
Nonni SURREY.—For a line from London and Brighton
at Tooting-common to the London, Chatham, and Dover
at Clapham ; capital, £225,000 ; loan, £75,000.
lIAVANT, HAMR.LEDON, AND DROXFORD.—For a line be-
tween these points and the London and Brighton and the
Petersfield and Bishop's Waltham ; capital, £150,000 ; loan,
£50,000.

STRATHSPEY.—For a junction with Keith and Dufftown
and branch to the Inverness and Perth Junction ; capital,
£25,000 ; loan, £B,OOO.

DLiGWALL AND SKYE.—For a railway from Dingwall to
Kyle; capital, £450,000; loan, £150,000.

KIDWELLY AND LLANELLY.—To discontinue the use of
their canals, to make a line to the mountain branch of the
Llanelly ; capital, £120,000 ; loan, £lB,OOO.
CALEDONIAN.—For the Glasgow South. Side Railways,
and a station there ; capital, £350,000 ; loan, £116,000.
LOSTWITHIEL AND FOWEY.—For arrangements of capital.
RYDE PIER.—For tramways at Ryde, floating baths, and
connecting lines between Ryde Pier and the Isle of Wight
Railway ; capital, £25,000 ; loan, £8,900.
GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN (Ayrshire Lines),
The only non-compliance was that in the case of the
Nantle Railway.
The following cases were partly heard and adjourned

Brecon and Merthyr (for various powers), Ashby-de-la-
Zouch and Nuneaton ; Chipping Norton, Banbury, and
East and West Junction ; Northampton and Banbury (de-
viations) ; South Hams (Devon) ; and the Leeds, North
Yorkshire, and Durham.

NATIONAL STEAM NAVIGATION.
The second ordinary meeting of this company was held
yesterday at Liverpool, Mr. Gunston presiding. The report
stated that the company had a fleet of five vessels, which
would be increased to eight within a few months. The
earnings in the New York and Alexandria trade amounted
to a net profit of £27,168. The directors recommended that
£lB,OOO be placed to the credit of depreciation account ; that
£9,000 be distributed at the rate of 9s. per share to the
shareholders, leaving £l6B for next account. It was not in-
tended to call up mote than £3O per share ; and the direc-
t tors had determined not to accept any remuneration for
their past services. The chairman, in moving the adoption
of the report, stated that the company had been quite as suc-
cessful as they could expect, and that their vessels had be-
haved remarkably well during the late gales. The motion
was agreed to and the retiring directors were re-elected.

EMPIRE -MARINE INSURANCE.
The second ordinary generallsiezime?ting took place yester-
dayerthe chair.
at. Liverpool ; Mr.
The report stated that during
deparewy2Tl t ugilmonthstheana interest
company
the regular ac-
count had earned £89,815, after
ex-
penses. £15,000 had also been placed to athe
ecrelcht of the
reserve fund by the premium of 30s. per share
ad-
ditional shares which had been issued by the on 10,000
Ndividend was declared on the underwriting account, but. the°
interest account would enable the board to pay a dividen
of 5 per cent., with a bonus of 2s. per share, both free of in-
come-tax, leaving a balance to the general account of

£3,579.
The adoption of the report was agreed to on the motion of
the chairman, seconded by Mr. Woodall.
The CHAIRMAN said that, considering the bad times they
had passed through during the Last six months, and compa-
ring their position with that of other companies, they had
every cause for congratulation and hope.

LIFE-BOATS.—Colonel Fitzßoy
Clayton, of the
Grenadier Guards, delivered on Wednesday night,
in the school-room, Wellington Barracks,
an nesting iter
lecture on "Life-boats," to the 3d Battalion of the Gre:ua-
dier Guards. The gallant colonel entered fully into the
history of the life-boat, and showed the great and satisfac-
tory result arising from the use of lifeboats on our coasts,
and. stated that they saved yearly about 500 lives from
perishing. He also referred to the great value of the life-
belt and to barometrical observations. He showed the
audience the silver medal of the National Life-boat Insti-
tution. As a member of the committee of that society, he
could speak from experience of its thorouglr organisation
on the coast, and of the large amount of benefit it conferred
in the hour of extreme peril on shipwrecked Si. N•ilurs in Ws-
tress on our coasts.