The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-22 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, in Mr. Mowbray's committee, the Bill
for the amalgamation of the North British, Edin-
burgh, Perth, and Dundee, and West of Fife Rail-
way Companies was passed, clauses being inserted
providing that separate registers shall be kept of
the preference, guarantee, and debenture stocks of
the dissolved companies, with power to the new
company, to be called " the North British Com-
pany," to exercise the powers of the dissolved com-
panies in regard to the creation of new shares and
stocks. Clauses were also accorded in favour of
the Caledonian and Scottish Central Railways.
In the committee of which Mr. Howes is the
chairman the case of the Brecon and Merthyr
Railway, for a line six miles in length from
the main line to a junction with the Taff
Vale at Merthyr Tydvil, and six other branches
to mineral works and railways in the dis-
trict, and to raise £150,000 for their general under-
taking and £86,000 for their separate undertaking,
was opened. The committee decided that the Lon-
don and North-Western had no locus stanch in oppo-
sition, and evidence in favour of the Bristol and
Clifton was given by inhabitants of Bristol. The
clauses of the West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby
Bill were settled.

THAMES EMBANKMENT.—Yesterday Mr. Bidder,
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
gave evidence in favour of the Bill of the promoters
and confirmatory of previous engineering evidence.
As regarded the desirableness of extending the pro-
posed embankment from Blackfriars-bridge to
Queenhithe, or Southwark-bridge, he agreed with
other witnesses that it might be desirable, but the
compensation towharfingers and owners of property
consequent thereon would be enormous—something
like £1,500,000 ; still the wharfingers might be
induced to accept the land to be reclaimed in lieu of
the compensation required. Mr. Scott, chamberlain
of the city of London, deposed that the proceeds of
the Coal Tax and the Wine Continuance Act would
be adequate, during the term of years proposed for
carrying out the embankment, to defray the cost of
it, and that, as regarded the cost of constructing
the new street between Blackfriars-bridge and the
Mansion-house, he was of opinion that it could be
constructed by the Corporation, as had been the case
with all the other streets they had constructed,
within the Parliamentary estimate. Captain Gal-
ton, R.E. one of the Thames Embankment Com-
missioners, having been examined, Mr. Sergeant
Wraugham apprised the committee that this closed
the case for the promoters of the measure, and the
committee intimated that thu would proceed to
consider the case of the opposition of the Corpora-
ion of the City of London on re-assembling this
day.

PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO JOHN CALVIN AT
GENEVA.—Last night the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird,
received a numerous and distinguished company at his re-
sidence, No. 2, Pall mall East, to hear from the Rev. Dr.
Merle D'Aubigne, of Geneva, a proposal to commemorate
the tercentenary of Calvin's death, by erecting a public
memorial in Geneva, towards which all the Evangelical
proirikional COMInittQO Wee appointed.
m might unite in contributing. A
Churches of Christendom