The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-13 00:00:00

MONMOUTHSHIRE.

The report of the directors states that the receipts for the
half-year ending Dec. 31 amount to £60,735, .against
£61,335 for the corresponding half of 1860, showing 21 de-
crease of £6OO. The working expenses amount to £28,21.2y
or 46f per cent., against £30,227, or 49 per cent,, showing
a decrease of £2,015. The net earnings amounted for the
past half-year to 32,523, against £31,108 for the correspond-
ing period of 1860, showing an increase of £1,415. The
average rate of interest now paid on debentures is £4 7s 7d
per cent. per annum. The reserve fund now amounts to
£9,440. The general revenue account shows that there is
a balance of £15,973, and as that sum, less income tax,
will yield a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum
on the ordinary shares, leaving a balance of
£1,220, the committee recommend that a dividend be de-
clared at that rate, payable on the sth of April. The en-
gineer reports that the works and the company's railways
and canals are in a good state of repair. The capital ac-
count to the 31st December last shows that £1,138,477 has
been received, and £1,168,571 expended, leaving a balance
of £30,094 against the company.

GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA.
The total receipts on this company's line for the three
weeks ending 21st of February amounted, on 345 miles, to
£32,246 against £23,748 for the corresponding period of last
year, showing an increase of £8,498.

DETROIT AND MILWAUKIE.
The traffic receipts on this line for the seven weeks end-
ing the 20th February amounted en 185 miles to £18,612
against £10,730 for the corresponding period of last year,
showing an increase of £7,883.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday the bill of the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany for their proposed new lines in Middlesex was thrown
out in Mr. Hassard's committee. It was opposed by the
North London Railway and other interests. The commit-
tee subsequently proceeded with the bill of the London,
Tilbury, and Southend Railway, by which it is intended to
vest that undertaking, at present vested in the Eastern
Counties and Blackwell Railway Companies, under the pro-
prietorship and management of the extension shareholders,
who, it is alleged, have now no voice in the management of
the undertaking, and to appoint a board of ten directors, to
be nominated in equal numbers by the three interests. The
bill of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway to con-
nect the west-end section of their Metropolitan Extension
at Claphamwith the West London at Battersea, and which
is oosed by the South-Eastern, the Dover Harbour
Board,p and Lord Darnley, was opened in Mr. Scholefield's
committee, and continuous evidence on the Andover and
Great Western lines occupied all the sitting. The, prb.ll
-
amble of the East Gloucestershire Railway
subject to the
was passed passed in Mr. Woodd's conimittee, Company s
sertion of compensation and protection clauses on behalf of
the opponents of the measure.

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waterside, with drawing docks and free landing places, and
for all of which the free use of the river shore is essential,
While expressing their unwillingness to offer any opposi-
tion to public improvements, or to relieving the evils arising
from the floodings of the river, the memorialists consider
that their entire trades would be seriously damaged if any
material impediment should be created in the river traffic
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The following
Bombay
show the export of cotton
from
-„ombay to Great Britain, in January of the years
1860 .1862,
2 to Liverpool, 69,839 ;to London, &c., 979 ;
total,
70,818. 1861, to Liverpool, 103,036; to London, &C.,
10,813; total, 113,649. 1860, to Liverpool, 48,808; to
London, &c., 6,464; total, 54,272.

THE POST-OFFICE PACKET SERVICE.—The esti-
mate for this service for the year 1862-3 amounts in all to
£915,897. Of this sum, taking as a basis the, cost of th©
service, when that service does not exceed the amount of
the ocean postage, and in all other cases tho amount of
postage received, about £470,000 may be considered as ex-
penditure for barely postal services. The estimate for last
year was £994,956, ,but only £919,956 was voted, £75,000
having been withdrawn in respect of the service between
Galway and America.

GOVER,NMENTEMI.ORATION.—The Lady Milton,
of 903 tons, commanded by Captain Thomas Houston, and
belonging to Mr. George Seymour, of London, sailed from
Plymouth for Sydney, New South Wales, on the Bth inst.,
under charge of Surgeon Superintendent:Arthur Guillot,
with the following' emigrants on board, viz., 23
married
couples, 109 single men, 130 single women,
girls from 1 to 12 years of age, and 6 infants,:rmsabvklinns-:saGto and 26
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