The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-16 00:00:00

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GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.
The report of the London directors states that the
receipts for the half-year ending December 31, 1861,
amounted to £419,469, aild the expenses to
£323,761, leaving a balance Of £95,708. The
working expenses amounted to 771,-,er cent., against
841 per cent. for the corresponding h,2lf of 1860.
The balance of £95,708 hadbeen applied toNTrares the
payment:of the bond interest of the Atlantic al; (I ;it.
Lawrence Railway Company, payable at Porthlnd-,
and similar interest payable on mortgages on lanclg
belonging to the company' and in reduction of other
liabilities. Mr. Watkin reporled that the worhing
of the line was in rapid progress of reorrnisation,
with
the view to greater efficiency ;and economy,
and the traffic was improving. The outlay on the
road would continue heavy for some time longer.
The line was being renewed with heavier rails, and.
on a more substantial plan than when origi-
ginally coOtructed. The whole cost of the re-
newals was Receosarily charged to revenue, but ill
other departments cOusiderable reductions would
ultimately be made.

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MELBOURNE AND IiOBSON'S BAY.
The traffic returns of this coullyany amounted
for the Week ending the 27th March i',?et to £1,233,
against £1,279 for the corresponding week of 1861;
for the week ending 3d April to £1,786, against
£2,1413 angling the 1003. April, to £1,128, ftgainst
£1,340; ending 17th lipril,Jo' £1,232, against
£l,OlO ; and. for the week Zith April to £1,453,
against £l,lBl. The
total receipts for the five
weeks amounted to £6,832) against £6,951 for the
corresponding period of 1861. The receipts averaged
£273 per mile per week, against £278 per mile per
week at the corresponding period of last year.

RAILWAY BILLS.
On Friday the bill of the South Yorkshire Rail-
way for a lino of three miles, from a junction with
their line at Kimberworth to a double junciien
with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire at
Attercliffe, and another of-eight miles between
Bentley and Thori-...9. and to raise £133,000, was
passed. The bill of tine same company for their
proposen Hull extension and branches, and to raise
£533,000, was opened, Mr. Baxtor being examined
at considerable length. The bill of the West Shrop-
shire Railway Company, for mineral braznches
in
that district, was passed. Lord Stauley's Committee
on the competing lines between Mold and Wrexham
resumed their inquiry, and heard counsel in reply
upon the general merits of the rival schemes.
The only bill passed in the Lords was the North-
Eastern and Market Weighton. and Beverley, for a
line of 10 miles between those pieces and to the
Victoria Docks, and to raise £117,000.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.--Of Friday the
Committee agreed to a clause vesting in the Metro-
politan Board of Work the execution of the act, and
the entire control of the undertaking..Clanines were
also agreed to, giving power to the board to grant
building leases of ground not wanted for the pur-
poses of the act, and forbidding the erection of
houses in front of the gardens of the Inner and
Middle Temple. Provisions were also inserted re-
lative to the raising of money for the purposes of
the works, and for its repayment; and a protective
clause was inserted i favour of the Duke of
Northumberland, to thn e
effect that the Board of
Works should not take any more land belonging to
the duke, except with his consent, required for the
formation of the streets in continuation o for
f North-
umberland-street and Whitehali-place, unless
sewerage purposes, or the erection of public Monu-
ments and fountains.

TIIE MIDDLE LEVEL INUNDATION.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
LYNN, SUNDAY AFTERNOON. .
Fortunately for the cofferdam and the works int
progress here, the 'wind has been S.W., ao for two
or three days has blown very strong. This hns had
a twofold effect ; one is that it has to a great ext:nt
checked the tides, which have been very strong,
however, and by so doing has probably preserved
the whole of the work from destruction. The
second effect has been upon the waters which lie
stretched upon the wide plain, and this gctiou has
caused huge waves to roll with a heavy surge,
strongly resembling the sea. A personal inspection
last evening disclosed the following unpleasant;
facts :—The west side of the west bank of the cut
is greatly damaged by the fearfully high winds
which we have had. There are several places where
the slope of the bank has been almost totally washed
away. The embankment of the railway is also very
much injured, and several more of the telegraph
posts have been washed away; indeed, on Friday
the communication was cut off nearly all day. There
has been a larger quantity of water on the land dur-
ing the past three days than ever before, to an ex-
tent of several inches. The wind has blown
b the
water on to some land that had not before eel!
under water. But for. the favourable directioisas-
n oi
the wind the result would have been most
trous, and, indeed, may be still, as the tides gill not
d
begin to lessen till after to-morrow. In the mean-
time the greatest exertions ought to
be made to
forceeure os
tf
atthee
owl a ttehre.
strengthen the banks against 11113
ese
In reference to the very
banks, it may here be stated
Page, a
few
C.E.,
and Mr. Richard young, Mayor of Wisbeach, that Mr.
days ago examined the banks and found them in a
the language of the
most shameful state, to quote
Mayor of Wisbech. In some places the banks were
eight feet in length
was easily put through,
and
inkhdei
c a
when theywhen
riddle,took a ndN vaiirothnethem spear
Aifttahrmoueegthinagd:fatihn water came bubbling up
as
day, the chairman, -pipe
Level held the other
the Earl of Hardwicke, con-
demned, in not very measured terms, the conduct of
the Middle Level Commissioners, thinking them
culpable
in not using proper supervision, which, if
used, would probably have prevented the destruc-
tion of the sluice. The inability to cope with the
flood also endangered the whole level of the Fens.
The bottom of the cut by the Short Fen, North-
bank, above the Magdalen-road bridge has been
scoured to a depth of 17ft. below its original level,
and the sides show evidence of curving in, they be-
ing undermined. The existence of e hole h '
been known for nearly a week, being one of thoso as
to which attention has been previously drawn, but
no steps have been taken to remedy the evil, though
proper representations have been made to the right
quarters.
At the cofferdam matters are pretty nearly at.:
sandstill. The shores, to the weakness of whroh .:
tention has before been called, are being strevagtthue
ened by bracing, and placing concrete
abutments. The concrete is formed
OflPsets be-
cement, gravel, and clench, and whe.lo
1 are being
comes harder than granite. Sheet
111 ersk at which
behinrtland
driven in those two bays of the Wow°
the pannels failed on Tuesday lest.
Various communications from
ppeared in the local
moue correspondents have a regular and anony.
have been:made to chow
papers, in which attempts ,
that the statements as to the failure et the dam aro
incorrect. That th© design of the cofferdam is a fail-
ure is notorious, and these attempts to show that it
is not so only make matters worse, as it now appears
that the authorities are divided, and that proper
consideration was not given by Mr. Hawkshaw to
week advice of Mr. Lynn, (1.E., a gentleman who,
with greater energy than
37, tookcar
carried
d chargeit on
the work a Lel ago, has
nf c
had before been apparent.
cseinrctaoinh
The public mind is far from
being tranquillised
by the present aspect of affairs.

THE LATE MURDER IN ESSES.—Rebecca Law,
who was acquitted at the last Essez assizes of the murder of
her husband at Clavering, Essex, has been removed by hear
er
Majesty's warrant to a lunatic asylum at Fisherton, n
Salisbury. The unhappy woman was acquitted on tho
ground of insanity, but will remain in,continoment during
her Majesty's pleasure.