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

ment.
RIFLE CONTESTS Sc , TO COME,—The Volunteer
Times of Saturday gives the following arrangements:
Tuesday : Grand review at Bristol on Durdliam
Down ; Inns of Court competition for a rifle pre-
sented by Mr. Merewether.—Wednesday, 18th :
Rifle shooting at Sneyd-park, Bristol, for volunteers
and all corners ; annual prize meeting of the City of
Edinburgh and Mid-Lothian Association—va con-
tinue next three days.—Thursday, 19th : review of
Eastern Counties Volunteers at Yarmouth.—Fri-
day, 20th : Inns of Court and West Middlesex
Battalion Match ; 20 men on each side, at 300
500, and 700 yards—Wormwood Scrubs.—Satur-
day, 21st : Inspection of the (South) Middlesex.
Inspection of the 19th Middlese• •( - • '
College.) Inspection of the I•4_
Rifles.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN.
The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com-
pany was held on Saturday at the Paddington sta-
tion, the Earl of Shelburne in the chair:
The Secretary read the heads of a bill for making
a railway from the Hooton station of the Birken-
head Railway to the Chester Arms at Parkgate.
The CHAIRM N said that it had been unanimously,
resolved by the London and North Western and
Great Western companies to construct the line for
carrying on the existing traffic of the Birkenhead
railway, and there could be no question as to the
desirability of that line. He moved a formal reso-
lution approving the bill, and it was carried unani-

mously.
The meeting was then further adjourned to Wed•
nesday, the 25th inst, to consider the remainder o.

the bills,
A Wharncliffe meeting was then held for the
consideration of five bills now before Parliament.
The secretary read the heads of a bill to enable
the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway Com-
pany to construct a branch railway to communicate
with a pier and other works at the mouth of the river
Avon, and to authorise certain arrangements with
the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Bristol with
reference thereto. It also authorised working
arrangements with the Great Western Company.
A formal resolution approving the bill was carried

unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said that No. 2 on the list was not
ready, and No. 5 would not be required. No. 3 was
a bill to authorise the construction of a railway in
Shropshire and in Cheshire to be called the Wel-
lington and Cheshire Junction Railway.
The secretary stated that the name of the railway
had been altered to the Wellington and Drayton
Railway. The Great Western and West Midland
Companies had power to subscribe £30,000 each
towards the construction of the railway. The new
company had power to use certain portions of the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shropshire Union
Railways, and also to enter into contracts for the
maintenance and working of the railway.
The CHAIRMAN stated that all the landowners in
the district supported the undertaking. The line
would bring the Great Western system at Welling-
ton into communication with Nantwich, Newcastle,
and Silverdale.
A formal resolution approving the bill was carried
unanimously.
The next was a bill for making a railway from
Market Drayton, in the county of Salop, to New-
castle, in the county of Stafford. This was intended
to carry out the objects of Bill No. 3, and to com-
plete the communication to the places abovemen-
tioned. It authorised working arrangements with
the Great Western Company, subject to the approval
of the Board of Trade.
. A formal resolution approving the bill was carried
unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned to the
25th inst.
A special general meeting was then held, and the
directors were authorised to complete the agreement
for the purchase of the Herefordshire and Glouces-
tershire Canal, and in respect thereof to pay an
annuity of £5,000 a year, commencing from the Ist
of January last. A working arrangement between
the Great Western and the Calne Railway Com-
panies, dated the 28th May, was also sanctioned, and
he proceedings terminated,

VALE OF NEATH.
A Wharneliffe meeting of this company was held
OD Friday at the Westminster Palace Hotel, West-
minster, to consider four bills now before Parlia-
ment ; Mr, Bruce, M.P., in the chair.
The Solicitor read the heads of a bill for authoris-
ing the Vale of Neath Railway Company to lay down
rails for the narrow gauge, as well as the broad
gauge, on the Vale of Neath Railway, and to raise
further moneys. The bill authorised the raising on
shares of £lOO,OOO, to lay down the narrow gauge
on the main line and branches, and to borrow
£33,000 if requisite. It also authorised the raising
of £60,000 for the Swansea and Neath Railway.
Mr. F. G. SAUNDERS, on behalf of the South
Wales Company, opposed the bill.
On a formal resolution approving the bill
dbeding
carried by a show of hands a poll was dem.atnh, eand
The other bills were then proeeededhwsi
Swan
after some discussion a bill to enable t.:
Harbour trustees to raise a further sum oefmonety to.
lease the Swansea Harbour Railway and cer am
wharves in the harbour to the Vale of Neath Rail-
way Company was approved.
A bill for authorising the Llanelly Company to
make new lines of railway and other works, to raise
further capital, and to make provision for laying
narrow gauge rails on the Carmarthen and Cladigan
Railway, and also a bill authorising
the Construe.
tion of the Dulas Valley Mineral Railway, were
submitted and approved.
On the poll being taken capital to the amount of
£624,762 was represented in favour of the bill, and
£147,410 against it. The bill was consequently ap-
with the standing orders of
proved in compliance
the Souse of Lords.

NORTH YORKSHIRE AND CLEVELAND.
A delay has arisen in the opening of this line,
owing to a dispute as to the method of working it
between the boards of the North Eastern and the
Stockton and Darlington companies.

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SOUTH YORKSHIRE AND MANCHESTER,
SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE.
It being obvious to the promoters of the bill for
the amalgamation of these companies that it could
not, in the face of the threatened opposition, be
carried through in the present advanced period of
the session, it has been withdrawn.

SHREWSBURY AND WELSHPOOL.
The traffic receipts on this company's line
amounted for the month of March last to £B7l, and
cor the month of April to £1,290. The average re-
appcared,were about £l5 per mile per week.

LYNN AND HUNSTANTON.
This line is approaching completion. The per-
manent way is in an advanced state, and the traffic
will probably be commenced in August.
SOUTH-EASTERN.
The gross traffic receipts for passengers, parcels,
mails, goods, &C., in the four weeks ending the 24th
of May, amounted to £81,901, from which was de-
ducted £2,332 for collecting and delivering goods,
leading £79,569. To this onm was added