The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

The following railway bills have been declared by the
examiners to have complied with the standing orders of
Parliament :

SOUTH EssEx.--For three railways from Shenfield to
Southminster and Burnham; from Woodham Ferris to the
Malden branch, and from Shenfield to Great Warley.
Capital, £250,000 ; loan, £83,300.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—For vesting in the com-
pany certain portions of railway near Blackburn.

IVHITEILAVEN JUNCTION.—For addition to station aßeoin-
modation at Whitehaven, and to raise £50,000 on shares,
and borrow £16,000.

WHITEHAVEN JUNCTION AND COCKERMOUTH AND WORK
INGTON.—For the lease of the latter to the former company;
also to raise £30,000 on shares, and to'borrow £lO,OOO.

COMBER AND GREY ABBEY.—Fora railway between these
places in the county of Down, and to reclaim lands in Shan-
ford Lough. Capital, £120,000 ; loan, £40,000.
ENNISKILLEN, BUNDORAN, AND SLIGO.—To extend the
time for the purchase of lands and the completion of Sligo
Extension. Capital, £lOO,OOO ; loan, £33,000.
NEWPORT AND Usx.—Fora railway between these points.
Capital, £138,000 ; loan, £46,000.

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BURTON-ON-TRENT.—For a railway in Burton, with power
to Messrs. Bass to make the same.
BARRY.—For a line from the Peterston station of the
South Wales Railway to Barry, and branch to Sully.
Capital, £70,000; loan, £23,000.
LLANTRISSANT.—For a line to join the Taff Vale Rail-
way. Capital, £45,000; loan, £15,000.
CORK AND LIMERICK DIRECT.—Power to lease tho line
to the Great Southern and Western Company, and to Zinc,
preference shares and create debenture stock.

Clonmel, Lismore, and Dungarvan ; Waterford, Lismore,
and Fermoy ; the Hoylake (for new works) ; the Denbigh,
Ruthin, and Corwen (Extension) ; the Dublin Trunk Con-
necting (for deviations) ; the Solway Junction (deviation) ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (for widening part'
of South Junction and Altrincham, and Extension between
Worksop and Mansfield) ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow and
Monkland (Amalgamation) ; the Newport Pagnell (Exten-
sion to Olney) ; Hammersmith and City ; Stourbridge ,
Hadlow ; North and South Wiltshire Junction ; London
and South Western (Kensington Extension) and Pirbright,
Aldershot, and Farnham Junction ; Ilfracombe, Bodmin,
and Wadebridge ; Vale of Neath (Swansea Lines) ; West
Sussex Junction.

The following bills were withdrawn :—Manchester Cen-
tral Station and Railway, Macclesfield and Knutsford,
Manchester and Cheadle, Ledbury and Tewkesbury, Devon
and Somerset (Ilfracombe Harbour), and Fermoy and Lie-
more.

THE ALBERT MEMORIAL CHAPEL, WINDSOR
CASTLE.—The decoration of the interior of the
Wolsey Chapel, as a memorial to the late Prince Consort,
with mosaic work byDr. Salviati, of Venice, is making great
progress. The side panels (six to each) of six of the win-
dows on the north and south side of the chapel have been
filled in with the imperishable glass mosaics, arranged in
elegant patterns from the cartoons furnished by Messrs.
Clayton and Bell, and produce an exceedingly rich effect.
The centre of each panel is occupied by the initial letter
A., surmounted by a crown, both in gold colour, while
above and beneath are white ribands bearing the motto
" Treu and Fest," in black German text, the ground colour
of the designs being a dark crimson. The carved stonework
facing of the interior west wall is now being prepared for
the grand and beautiful work with which it will be covered.
There are no less than 28 large panels upon this wall,
which it is understood will be filled with mosaic pictures of

the Sovereigns of England. The side windows will be filled
with stained glass by Messrs. Clayton and Bell, while the
portion of the wall beneath the windows will be decorated
by Baron Triqueti in marble inlay-work. Although only a
small building, the decorations will probably cost some
£20,000 before they are finished, and the works will take a
long time to execute. Mr. Scott is the architect, the cost of
the decorations being defrayed by the Royal children.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Saturday afternoon,
the 14th inst., a man named Frederick Hibberd, in
the employ of Mrs. Pinchin, of Winsley, went to a straw
rick belonging to his mistress, near the Camberwell Turn-
pike-gate, on the Bath-road, for the purpose of getting some
straw. When he got there he began to remove the straw,
and after he had taken off some of it, to his great surprise he
found a man in the rick. He looked at him and found that he
breathed, and thinldng he was drunk and had got there and
covered himself up for shelter, he ordered him off, saying
that if he did not go he would fetch a policeman. The man
did not move, and as the weather was exceedingly rough, and
unfit for removing the straw, Hibberd left the rick and the
man, and went home. The next morning (Sunday) he went
to the rick again for the straw, and still found the man there.
He again ordered him off, but received no answer. He then
went and got assistance of police-constable Matthews,who,
on his arrival, examined the man, and found li.im to be in a
very exhausted state and unable to speak or move. Matthews
then posted off to Cumberwell Farm, and acquainted Mr
Stokes, the occupier of it. Mr. Stokes kindly lent a horse
and cart to remove the mai, and also accompanied the con-
stable back, :and administered to him some brandy and
water, and after some time he spoke. He then gave the
following account of himself :—" He said his name was
Thomas Williams, and that he was 60 years of age ; he was
a native of Queenstown, in Ireland, but had lived in Eng-
land nearly all his lifetime, having come over when he was
quite a boy. The last food that he had taken was on the
6th of January, when he was at Trowbridge, and was re-
lieved at the police-station. On the next day, the 7th, he

left Trowbridge for the purpose of going to Bristol, and
passed through Bradford. On the evening of that day,
about dusk, he turned into this straw rick for a night's
shelter, and covered himself over with straw, and during
the night he was taken very ill and was unable to move,
but his senses never forsook him. He had neither ate nor
drunk anything since. After this statement he was re-
moved to the workhouse at Avoncliffe, and every attention
paid him, and he is now recovering. His appearance when
found indicated that he had suffered from want of food and

exposure for some time, being in a most exhausted state. ;
he was also wet and filthy. A man answering his descrip-
tion was relieved on the 6th January at the Trowbridge
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ary was not prepared for
FOUR HUNDRED GIRLS.--
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department. The cellar was
pantomime ; this was the grand. transformation. It was not
immense hall,
groom, but an
ds of 400 girls. The gleam of fair faces
that fell upon me, like a sudden flash of sunlight, as
entered the hall, quite startled me,,ltnd it was a minute
or two before I quite recovered. my self-possession.
There was not a male worker to be seen. They were
all girls, the majority of them very young, and
every one of them held at that moment a handful of to-
bacco leaf, which she was rolling up into a cigar. Four
hundred and odd cigars would be made in a, twinkling. It
was a busy scene., Girls, girls everywhere, all neat and
tidy and cheerful, many of them exceedingly pretty. The
effect of these 4,000 white fingers nimbly plying their task
was like that of a dancing light—like the sunlight glinting
through rustling leaves. The hundreds upon hundreds
of fair faces dotted at regular intervals over the vast area
of the hall, brought to my mind the garden of Contrairy
Mary, which was laid out, as you may remember,
" With silver bells and cockle shells,
And pretty girls all of a row."
—Dickens's " All the Year Round."

LADTERTISEMEN—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Rheumatism and Neuralgia.—Though the former disease
remorselessly attacks the young and the robust, and the
latter relentlessly selects its victims hem the weak and
delicate, the same medical treatment will infallibly cure
both complaints. After the affected parts have been:dili-
gently fomented with hot brine and the skin has been dried
Holloway's ointment must be well and perseveringly rubbed
in for a few minutes twice a day, and his pills must be
taken according to the printed directions wrapped round
each box of his medicine. Both ointment and pills are ac-
companied by intelligible instructions, designed for the
public at large, and no invalid who attentively roads they
can be at any loss hew to doctor hinaolf gucceofullY.