The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-29 00:00:00

RAILWAY No. 5.

A Railway (hereinafter called Railway No. b), commenc-
ing by a junction with the Great Western and Brentford
Railway at or near the mile-post on that Railway, denoting
3 miles from Southall, and terminating by a junction with
the proposed Railway (No. 3) in a field belonging to the
Duke of Northumberland, at or near a point 20 chains, or
thereabouts, measured south-westerly in a direction from
the bridge carrying the Great Western and Brentford
Railway over the leop line of the London and South-
Western Railway, and which intended Railway will be
wholly situate in the parish of Isleworth and County of
Middlesex.

RAILWAY No. 6.
A Railway (hereinafter described as Railway No. 6), to
be wholly situate in the said parish of Ealing, and com-
mencing by a junction with the said proposed Railway No.
3 at or near the point where the last mentioned Railway is
intended to orooo CtilumcLatnuy-lcaun (being about 120 yards
north of the bridge next hereinafter mentioned), and S.L-
minating by a junction with the North and South-Western
Junction Railway at a point 500 yardi or thereabout from
the bridge carrying the last mentioned lane over the said
last mentioned Railway, and measured in a north-easterly
direction.

And it is intended by the said Act to take powers to effect
the objects following, or some of them, that is to say-
To make lateral deviations from the Lines of the pro-
posed Railways and Works to the extent of, or within the
limits defined upon, the plans hereinafter mentioned, and to
cross, divert, alter, or to stop up, whether temporal ily or
permanently, all such roads, highways, streets, bridges,
works, mines, streams, rivers, sewers, mainpipes, drains,
canals, navigations, railways, and tramways within the
sail parishes, townships, and extra parochial and other
places aforesaid or some of them, as it may be necessary to
cross, divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of the said
intended Railways and Works.
To purchase lands and houses by compulsion or agree-
ment, and to vary or extinguish rights and privileges in
any manner connected with the lands or houses proposed
to be taken for the purposes of the said Railway and
Works ; and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or
in respect of the said Railway and Works, to confer ex •
emptions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties ; to alter,
vary, or extinguish the existing tolls, rates, and duties of
any of the Companies herein mentioned, and other tolls,
rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, and extinguish other
rights and privileges.
To authorise the Company to use the Kensing-
ton Station of the West London Railway and
the works and conveniences thereof, and also to en-
able them, their officers, and servants to run
over, work, and use with their engines and carriages,
and for the purposes of their traffic, upon such terms as
(in default of agreement) shall be settled by the Board of
Trade, so much of the said West London Rail-
way as lies between the proposed points of junction of
Railways Nos. 1 and 2 with that Railway, and also to form
junctions with the rails of the said West London
Railway, the North and South-Western Junction Railway,
the Great Western and Brentford Railway, and the Wind-
sor Branch of the London and South-Western Railway,
at the proposed points of junction with those Railways
respectively,
To enable the Company and the before-mentioned Com-
panies respectively to grant all proper and reasonable faci-
lities for the transmission of, and to transmit upon and
along their respective Railways, or any part thereof, all
traffic which having passed over the said intended Railways,
or any part thereof, may be tendered to them respectively
for transmission along their own Railways, or any part
thereof, for the purpose of being afterwards conveyed on
and along the said intended Railways, or any part thereof,
upon and subject to such rules and regulationst and upon
payment of such tolls, rates, and charges as shall, in case
of disagreement, be settled by arbitration or by the Board
of Trade.
And Notice is hereby further Given, that duplicate plans
and sections describing the line, situation, and levels of the
intended Railways and Works, and the lands and houses
through which the same may be made, or which may
be taken, for the purposes of the Bill, and a Book of
Reference to such plans containing the name of the
owners, or reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees and
occupiers of the lands and houses which may be taken
under the powers of the Bill, and a published map whereon
will be defined the general course or direction of such
Railways, together with a copy of this notice as published
in the London Gazette, will, before the 30th day of Novem-
ber instant, be deposited for public inspection with the
_
Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, at his
office, at the Sessions House, Clerken well, in the said
County, and on or before the same day a copy of the said
Plans, Sections, and Book of Reference, together with a
copy of this notice, so far as relates to the Parishes of St.
George's, Hanover-square, St, James, Westminster, St.
Boards
Mary Abbott, Kensington, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
tively,
of St' a
will also be deposited with the respective Vestry Clerks of
of the.
Patishes at their respective offices, so far as relates to
Parishes of Saint Margaret, Westminster, and Saint
Athnenste
Soho, respectively, with the Clerks of the District
Peter
Districtan BdoSatr.dPoafutkeHFamul
otf the Westminster and Strand Districts, rest ec-
their offices; and so far as relates to the Parish
itsht,ri
cm; i, taht
histh office Clerk;
and so far
mentioned, as relates to the other Parishes or places before
mhaemrsalDi
his place with the Parish Clerk of each such Parish, at
of abode.
To enable the Company, on the one hand, and the said
London and so
and South-wesuth-Western, the West London, the North
Brentford lern Junction, and the Great Western and
on the otherßailway Companies, or any or either of them,
hand,
with respect t
from, time to time to enter into agree-
mentsothe working, use, management, and
maintenance of the
said
any part or parts id intended railways and works, or
stock and marl' thereof respectively; the supply of rolling
..._ machinery
:e and of officers and servants for the
conduct of traffic on the
and the conditions to brail ways ; the payments to be made,
erformed with respect to such
working, use, management,
and maintenance ; the inter-
change, accommodation, and conveyance of traffic coming
from or destined for the
respective undertakings of the con-
tracting companies, andthe
the revenue arising- from that division and appropriation of
appointment of joint traffic ; and to authorise the
such agreement as f committees for carryinginto
a oresaid. and to
already made, or which, 'irk. confirm any agreement
r to the
may be made touching any passing of the Bill,
of the
To amend and enlarge matters aforesaid.
the powers
following and of any otheracte relatingand provisions of the
South Western Railway Company, to the London and
IV., cap. 88 ; 1 Vic., cap. 71; I an( namely, 4 and 5 Wm.
3 Vic., cap. 28; 4 and 5 Vic., caps. 1 and i' Cap. 27 ; 2 and
caps. 5, 63, and 86; 8 and 9 Sic., caps. 86 9 ; 7 and 8 Vic.,
165, 185, and 199 ; 9 and 10 Vic., caps. ilr, 93, 107, 121;
175 252, 355, 370, and 391; 10 and 11 vie, 131, 173, 174,
88:96, 97, 115, 145, 167, 243, 244, 249, 2,7* caps. 57, 58,
and 12 -Vic., caps. 75, 85, 87, 89, 125, and 157Tid 297 ; 11
Vic., caps. 33 and 34 ; 13 and 14 Vic. ca 24,. 1124 and 13
Vic., cap. 83 ;
1 16 and 17 Vic., caps. 99 and 164 • 17 and 15
, and 18
Vie., caps. 18. 6 and 208; 18 and 19 Vic., caps. 177 and 178 •
19 and 20 Vic., cap. 120; 20 and 21 Vic., caps. 18,72,121'
and 136; 21 and 22 VW., caps, 66, 68, 67, 89, and 101; 22

4LBERT STATION AND MID-LONDON
RAILWAY.
(INCORPORATION of COMPANY for the PURPOSE
of MAKING a RAILWAY from ST. MARTIN'S-
LANE, CHARING-CROSS (and a NEW STREET
in connection therewith), together with a RAILWAY
to or near to the authorised TERMINUS of the KEN-
SINGTON STATION RAILWAY, and to the WEST
LONDON EXTENSION RAILWAY at KEN-
SINGTON, and for other purposes in connection there-
with,)

Application is intended to be made to Parliament in the
ensuing session for an Act to incorporate a Pompany to
carry into effect all or some of the objects faihring, that
is to say,—
Firstly, A Railway (No. 1) commencing in the parish of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, in the county of Middlesex, at
a point on the east side of a certain house, No. 100, in St.
Martin's-lane, occupied by George Baker, and terminating
in the parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, in the said
county of Middlesex, at a point abuttihg, on the western
side of Love-lane, and about 8 yards from Redfield-lane,
and which said intended Railway and Works will be made,
and pass from, through, or into the parishes, townships,
and extra parochial and other places following, or some of
them, that is to say—St. Martin's-in.the-Fields ; St. Anne,
Soho; St. James, Westminster; St. George's, Hanover-
square; St. Margaret's and St. John's the Evangelist,
Westminster • Brompton, Old Brompton, Knightsbridge;
St. Luke's, Westminster;
; St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Secondly, A Railway (No. 2) commencing at the last-
mentiont d point and terminating in the said parish of St.
Mary Abbotts, Kensington, by a junction with the autho-
rised Line of the Kensington Station and North and South
London Junction Railway at a point about 36 yards east of
that part of Wright's-lane which is abou; 66 yards north of
the intersection of the said Wright's-lane and the said Red-
field-lane, and which said intended Railway and Works
will be situate wholly in the said parish of St. Mai y
Abbotts, Kensington.
Thirdly, A Railway (No. 3) commencing at the last-
mentioned point and terminating in the said parish of St.
Mary Abbotts, Kensington, at a point on the west side of
Earl's Court. road, and about 20 yards north-west of the
intersection of the said Redfield lane and the said Earl's
Court-road, and which said intended Railway and Works
will be situate wholly in the said parish of St. Mary
Abbott's, Kensington.
Fourthly, A Railway (No. 4), commencing at the last-
mentioned point, and terminating in the said parish of St.
Mary Abbotts, Kensington, at a point 63 yards north-
west of a certain cottage, situate on the south-west side of
Warwick-road, and belonging to Lord Kensington, and
now or lately in the occupation of William Westbrook, and
which said intended Railway and Works will be situate
wholly in the said parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Ken-.
sington.
Fifthly, A Railway (No. 5), commencing at the last-
mentioned point, and terminating in the said parish of St.
Mary Abbott's, Kensington, by a Junction with the
Eastern Line of Rails of the West London Extension
Railway. at that part thereof which is situate about 127
yards north-west from the cottage lately used as the resi-
dence of the lock-keeper of the Kensington Canal Basin,
and which said intended Railway and Works will be
situate wholly in the said parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Ken-
sington.

Sixthly, A Railway (No. 6) commencing at the said last-
mentioned point, and terminating in the said parish of St.
Mary Abbotts, Kensington, by a junction with that part
of the said eastern line of rails of the said West London Ex-
tension Railway, which is situate about 107 yards south-east
of the bridge by which the turnpike-road from Hammer-
sinith to London is carried over the said West London Ex-
tension Railway, and which said intended Railway and
Works will be situate wholly in the said parish of St.
Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Seventhly, A Railway (No. 7), commencing at the said
last-mentioned point, and terminating in the parish of All
Saints, Fulham, in the said county of Middlesex, in a
garden, at a point about 50 yards south-west of that por-
tion of the said West London Extension Railway, which is
situate about 320 yards south-east of the said turnpike-
road bridge, and which said intended Railway and Works
will be situate in the said parishes of Saint Mary Abbotts,
.A.ll
Big/11114, A Railway (No. 8) commencing at the last-
mentioned point, and terminating in the said parish of Saint
Mary Abbotts, Kensington, by a junction with that part of
the western line of rails of the said West London Exten-
sion Railway, which is situate about 107 yards south-east
of the said turnpike-road bridge, and which said intended
Railway and Works will be situate in the said parishes of
Saint Mary Abbotts, 1 ensington, and of All Saints, Ful-
ham.

Ninthly, A Railway (No. 9) commencing at the said
last-mentioned point, and terminating in the parish of
Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Hammersmith, in the
said county of Middlesex, at a point on the west side of the
western platform of the Kensington Station of the West
London Extension Railway, and about 187 yards north-
west of the said Turnpike-road Bridge, which said intended
Railway and Works will be made, and pass from, through, or
into the parishes, townships, extra-parochial, and other
places following, or some of them, that is to say, Saint
Mary Abbotts, Kensington ; All Saints, Fulham; and
Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Hammersmith.
Tenthly, A Railway
(No. 10) commencing in the said
parish of Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, at or about the
centre of the eastern boundary of the garden attached to
the houses numbered 26 and 27, in Castle-street, Leicester-
square, and terminating in the said parish of Saint Mar-
tin's-in-the-Fields, on the north-east side of, and adjoining to
Brewers-lane, at the point where Craven-court crosses over
such lane. And which said intended Railway and Works
will be wholly situate in the said parish of Saint Martin's-
in-the-Fields.
Eleventhly, To enable the Company to construct a new
street, road, or way, commencing at the point where a cer-
tain place called " Great Ma s-buildings," opens into
Saint Martin's-lane, and proceeding from thence, in a south-
easterly direction, towards King William-street,west Strand,
and terminating by a junction with Chandos-street, at the
spot whereon the house numbered 44, being one of the sta-
tions used by the London Fire Brigade now stands ; and
aor to dtehvc i,
xi toenrist o fromr within
ae
t
which said street will be wholly situate in the parish of
Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields aforesaid ; and it is intended
in such Bill to apply for the following powers or some of
them.
To makendwlateralk sthe lines of saidttshsehow Rail-
waysnupon
the plans
hereinafter mentioned, to make and maintain the
intended Railways,
numbers 1 and 10, under the several pub-
lic roads,
,streets, or highways following, or some of them
or some parts thereof
that
is to say, Chandos-street, Tay-
lor's-building's, Great May's_ buildings, C harles' -buildings,
Lemon-tree-yard, Turner' 8-
Etcourt, Cecil-court, White Hart-
court, Brewer's-lane, Strand, Adelaide-street, Peter's-court,
s-court Leicester-court, S intMartin's-
lane, Castle-street, Leicester-square,
r. square,.New Coventry-street,
Coventry-street, Regent's-circus, Piccadilly, Hyde Park-
corner, St. George's-
P-ans,' Knightsbridge, Brompton-road
Old Brompton, Cromwell-road Gloster-road, and Love-lane,Cromwell-road
and for that purpose to appropriate and use the subsoil of
the same streets, roads, or highways respectively, and to
break up, remove, alter, and interfere with all water, gas,
and other pipes thereunder, or under any other streets,
roads, or ways to cross, stop up, alter, or divert either
temporarily or permanently the same streets, roads, or
highways, and any other turnpike, and other roads, high-
ways, streets, footways, railways, tramroads, aqueducts,
springs of water, rivers, streams, canals, navigations,
sewers, drains, and water-courses in the several parishes,
townships, and extra parochial places before mentioned, or
any of them.
To levy tolls, rates, or duties upon or for the use of such
intended Railways, and to confer, vary, or extinguish
exemptions from the payment of Bich tolls, rates, or duties
respectively.
To purchase by compulsion or agreement all lands and
houses required for the purposes of the said intended Rail-
ways and Works, and the proposed New Street and Ap-
proaches, and all works connected therewith respectively, and
to acquire easements over lands, and to vary or extinguish
all existing rights and privileges connected with such lands
and houses, and all other necessary rights and privileges
for the construction, maintenance, or use of the said in-
tended Railways and the proposed new Street.
To authorise and enable the Company to sell and dispose
of any surplus land they may acquire to the Metropolitan
Board of Works.
And it is intended to incorporate with the Bill " The
Companies
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," "The Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1846," " The Lands Clauses
Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860,' " The Rail-
ways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Railways
Companies Arbitration Act, 1859, " The Towns Improve-
ment Clauses Act, 1847," and all other statutes, powers,
and provisions necessary for the purposes to be authorized
by the said intended Act.
And it is intended by the said Bill to alter, extend, and
enlarge, and where necessary to repeal all or some of the
powers and provisions of the following Acts of Parliament,
public and general, that is to say, 18th and 19th Vic., cap.
12, the 19th and 20th Vic., cap. 112, the 22d and 23d Vic.,
. 104, and 25th and 26th Vie., C. 102, all relating to the
Metropolis Local management.
And Notice is Hereby Also Given, That duplicate plans
and sections of the propo:ed Railways and Works, and of
the proposed New Street, with a Book of Refe-
rence to such plans, and a published Map, with
the Lines of the proposed Railways delineated
thereon, and a copy of this notice, as published in the
"London Gazette," will, before the 30th day of November
instant, be deposited for public inspection with the
Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex,
at his office at Clerkenwell, in that county, and with the
Clerk of the Peace for the City of 'Westminster' at his
office at the Sessions House, Westminster, and that before
the same day, a copy of so much of .the said
plans,
to each parish or extra-parochial place in or through
which the said railways and works, and the pro-
posed New Street, will be made, together with a copy of
this notice, as published in the _London Gazette, will be de-
posited for public inspection in the case of each of the
parr •s hes of Saint Martin' s-in-the-Fieid
, Saint J am es, West-
minster; Saint George's, Hanover Square Saint Luke,
Chelsea, St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, with the Clerk of
the Vestry of
each such parish at each of their respective
ofticee ih each ouch parish; is the case of each of the

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ALEXANDIUA, Nov. 17.
The reports current on the subject of the Vice-
roy's health have lately again been unsatisfactory. -
For about a fortnight past he has been living at
Djuzeh in complete retirement—indeed, closely con-
fined to his room. ; and although it is probable that
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concealed that anxiety is felt, heightened, without
doubt, by the difficulty that is experienced in ob-
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were placed at his disposal, and he was conveyed to
Cairo by one of the Viceroy's special trains. Said
Pasha, it is believed, will have been able to receive
him this morning.

Sir Henry Ifulwer shortly leaves for Upper
Egypt, but will first pay a flying visit to the
Isthmus Canal works. To this excursion, I may
add, much less political importance is attached than
would have been the case had it occurred two or
three years ago. Indeed, here the general opinion
seems to be that the canal scheme is gradually
drawing on to its natural end. Fears of interfer-
ence on the part of the French Government have
almost if not quite disappeared, and the claims
which may ultimately be brought against the
Egyptian Government, it may be hoped, will be
treated simply as a commercial question.
A grand fete has lately been prepared by the
company to celebrate with all possible eclat the
admission of the waters of the Mediterranean, or as
it ought more correctly to be said of Lake Menzaleh,
into the basin of Lake Timsah; It has, however,
for the present been deferred on account of
,the
Viceroy's inability to attend.
The construction, of the " rigole," which form
the channel for the conveyance of the water to the
centre of the •isthmus, has been pushed forward.
during the past summer by a concentration upon it
of the company's whole efforts, regardless appa-
rently of every consideration but that of being able
to put forth a fresh sensational announcement.
This rigole, it will be remembered, constitutes the
result of an expenditure of nearly half the com-
pany's capital. Being simply a ditch of no great
width, and with barely 12 inches of water, through-
out the greater part of its length, it can in reality
only by a strong effort of the imagination be re-
garded as a serious step towards the conquest of the
difficulties with which the company has under-
taken to grapple. Excluding even the important
question of the entrances to the maritime canal, the
rigole constitutes but a minute portion of half the
work that has to be performed in the Isthmus.

As regards the eonstruction of the harbour of
Port Said, the difficulties with which this part of
the work is surrounded seem still as distant as ever
from their solution ; but on this point we may hope
before long to receive some more authoritative in--
formation. The Viceroy has invited Mr. Hawk-
shaw, the hydraulic engineer, whose name will be
familiar to most of your readers, to inspect the site
of the proposed port and to report upon it. Mr.
Hawkshaw arrived here by last mail.

Another point, upon which some further light
might be thrown with great advantage to the
shareholders, is that relating to the means there
may be of obtaining a sufficient foundation for the
embankments of the proposed canal in traversing
Lake Menzaleh. The mud which forms the
bottom of the lake, it is stated, rests
upon a bed of sufficiently stiff clay, hut, on
the other hand, we are informed that /he latter
is simply a layer of no great thickness; that
it must be removed to give the maritime canal the
depth of water necessary for the purposes re-
quired ; and that beneath it is found a bed of
thin mud in a semi-liquid state, and destitute,
consequently, of the slightest consistency. The
difficulty, if so, must surely be a most formidable
one.

I have more than once remarked upon the fact
that the French promoters of the canal scheme have
nowhere met with more determined criticism than
among their own countrymen. A fresh instance is
at this moment afforded by the publication, which
has been commenced at Alexandria, of a series of
papers upon the operations and progress of the
company. They are understood to be the produc-
tion of an engineer lately in its employment, and
the revelations that have already appeared are cal-
culated to excite keen feelings of expectation for
what may yet be forthcoming. The author com-
mences his subject with a notice of the quarries
of Me; near Alexandria. He quotes in scrupu-
lous detail the repeated statement put forward
on behalf of the company, that the cost of quar-
rying and conveying the stone to Port Said
fell within the original estimates of 14f. 50c.
the cubic metre, and finally informs us that the ac-
tual cost last year amounted to 48E. 61c. per cubic
metre, when conveyed by the boats of the company,
which he states are maintained at an annual cost of
upwards of £30,000. The maximum quantity of
stone extracted and conveyed to Port Said during
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995,000 cubic metres. What, then, asks the author,
will be the time required to provide the material
for the jetties? Then follows the subject of the
fresh-water canal. Here, again, detailed quotations
are made from the official journal of the company,
and ins reports upon the progress of the works are
contracted with what was actually occurring on the
Isthmus. He describes the astonishment with which
the statements contained is the Paris papers were
read on the scene of the operations described, and
significantly adds that he needs not explain why it
is that the employes of the company are most
strictly prohibited from supplying either the
public papers or private individuals with
the slightest information upon the progress of
their operations. Some of the work,,, which have
been repeatedly announced as completed, have even
yet never been seriously commenced. The official
journal of the company loudly proclaimed that the
fresh-water canal, originally valued at nine mil-
lions of freines, and which had even been estimated
at nearly 18 minions, was in process of rciuizaticn
at a cost of only two millions. 13ut the existing
fresh-water canal, which is about 26 miles long and
some 40 feet iu breadth, is not that originally
planned,nor can it, on account of the mode in which
it is constructed, ever serve for the purposes
re-
quired. Being, moreover, dug in a low level, it
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cannot be prolonged to Suez. So far, therefore,
from its having been productive of economy, it will
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have to be dug,
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from the higher levels in the vicinity
of Cairo, and at a cost, probably, of no less than
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new igfnressohf-twhaet cer7cpaannayl will are
£500,000.