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 LINES.—To enable the Midland Railway Com-
pany to become joint propietors of the Woodley Junction,
the ',Stockport, 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-
tions from authorised line.

MownDwY.—For a railway from the Cambrian Railway
to near the town of Dinas Mowddwy. Capital, X 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.
FORCETT.—For a railway from near Sanford to Forcett,
in the North Riding. Capital, szo,oco ; loan, £lO,OOO.

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

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

GIRVAN AND PoRTPATRicx.—A railway from Girvan to
East Challock, in Wigtonshire. Capital, £250,000; loan,
£83,000.

CRLEFF AND COMILIE.—For a line between these places.
Capital, £40,000; 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, £ss,ooo—was declaibd
not to have complied with the Standing Orders in some
particulars.
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The Bills withdrawn were those for the Balham and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.
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. Receipts.

Railways.

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1864. 1863.

1864. 1863.
£ £
1,966 1.815
649 651
1,743 1,331
5,4u5 5,u78
18 339 16,5.0
1,414 1,294
306 280
117 112
393 387
1,431 1.368
261 246
1,233 1.:33
1,493 146
245 190
1,857 2,116
2,843 3,093
7,836 8.007
29,682 28.703
12.647 28,691•
2,031 2,393
3'o 406
7,6 6 6,1,61
59,578 54.611

Belfast and N. Counties . 136 136
Belfast and County Down.... 49 49
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1214
Caledonian
Cambrian
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 65
Cork and Youghal „... • 321 321
Cornwall 655
655
Deeside l7
Dublin & Belfast Junction . 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75
Dublin and 51eath - 35 23
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 914 911
Furness, &c 5O 5'
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 387 853
Great North of Scotland 9J 99
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711
'it.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3874 3735
Great Western 1225 118 5
Hull and Hurnsea l3
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno ll7f
Inverness ,& Perth Junction 1191
Irish North-Western 145
Kent Coast 27
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403
Limerick and Ennis... 244
Limerick and Foynes 261
Lianelly 461
Llynyl Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 257
London, Chatham, & Dover 72
Do. Metropolitan Extension 11
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffieicl, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.& Altriucham 95
Nlaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6635
Midland Gt. Westn. of hind 262
Monkland
%lonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 1093 53,468 51,922
North London 9 9 3, 11 3,139
North Staffordshire 254 251 7,572 8.160
Rhymney 195 191 992 970
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,196 1.094
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 52 591
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB 306 17,650 15,763
Taft' Vale 67 67 6,080 6,80• t
Ulster lO5l 1055 2,418 2.389
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 431 431 2,461 2.417
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 34 308
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,129 1. t 59
West Cornwall 274 275 646 776
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL 521 525 4,181 3.2 )2
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt lO 10 443 602
Whitchaven Junction l3 13 802 1,011
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 758 916
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 27,708 26,953
Bahia and San Francisco -
Belgian Eastern Junction 265 265 299 244
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1855 1854 2,600 3,513
Central Italy lB3 167 -
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 185 3,787 3,377
Dutch Rhenish lOB4 1(81 4,278 3,908
Eastern of France ... 1176 1428 57,649 52,515
Eastern Bengal • . ... 110 110 :.776 1,440
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1333 20,251 22,33
Great Central of Belgium 295 272 6,459 4,886
Great Indian Peninsula 5)3 5385 15,714 10,871
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,086 3.718
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 35 9,297 14,080
Madras 571 448 7,437 5 234
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6BO 650 20,132 20 910
Northern of Canada ..
Northern of France 697 697 53,179 50,547
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 1967 1784 125,24 119,017
Paris and Orleans 1616 1614 6!.657 61.412
Pernambuco 775 771 :1,442 1,251
Sonde 1025 105 827 3,914
Do. Punjab, &e 32 32 34. i 266
South Austrian, Ste .... . 1464 1360
823 770 26, 'WI r 5 55-
Southern of France
Viotoria
196 11,631 9,156
Welland
W. &N- Wcstn of France lOll 93( 37,505 36,8'9-6

1171 880 816
1191 935 918
145 1,615 1,586

27 430 250
402 35,190 34..57
24i 142 . 1:•4
261 130 154
461 562 500

201 430 353
1234 93,260 94,011
5/ 1,747 1,612:
4541 18,770 16,740
2011 15,519 13.7 t 3

724 4,476 3,78
104 1,45 825
424 952 1,025
239 k 15,735 • 6,651
96 1,254 1,147
28 1,187 1.428
2,468 1,961
641 43,140 41,6:4
2596 4,772 4,556
716 1,561 1,00
44 2,674 2,6:3

Foreign Mail Packet List.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 3—.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pac•et Mar. 6.
Ditto, by British packet Feb. 2
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Fen. 19.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton Feb 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, v la Southampton
....Feb. —.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Feb. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (13.,mbay), via Southampton Feb. 26.
Ditto, via harseilles Feb. 20.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marsell e . Mar. 8,
Newfoundland Feb. 15.
P0rtuga1.............
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton..
•• • •• ••
Ditto, via Cork . ••. ..... • .•••
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Feb. 17.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe . Mar. 13.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico
Bahamas, via New Y ork. Mar. 9.
Bermuda, ditto Feb. 15.
Cuba and Mexico Feb. 28.