The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

We read in the Sydney Herald of March 21 :
The event of the month most remarkable is the
advance made in the production of gold. Accounts
have reached us privately which, if borne out by
further experience, will justify the conclusion that
golei jpin,ipe„b•v,opsil, n„,-1,:d,a„,„,„;,__,_ ..,,,,,, j: ~,
rank with the most impor:ant gold-producing
countries. More than twelve thousand ounces
were delivered at the Mint last Saturday
from the various fields ; but our `telegram
informs us that the next escort from the Lachlan
—a comparatively new district—will amount to
tirl uliuutS. 1 lle Fivauu, e'r the last
Crrnnr, 411111cn
five or six years has been no mean item in our
exports, but it has been subject to considerable
fluctuation, from the restless movements of
the diggers and the Chinese disturbances, which
have been attended with so much general loss.
We have never yet had a Ballarat or Bendigo to
fix the mining population, or to give those great
results which have been achieved by its concentrated
efforts. There is, however, no reason, that we have
ever been able to comprehend, for supposing that
the political line which divides this from the adja-
cent colony distinguishes their probable auriferous
fortunes. It has always been the faith of New
South Wales that industry and perseverance would
some time or other fall upon the right place, and
that we should see some such examples of progress
as have been so often witnessed in the neighbouring
1 colony.

RAILWAY AND :PUBLIC COMPANIES
IN PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday the committee appointed to consider
the merits of the various railways for the Kentish
and South-Eastern district assembled in committee-
room No. 4. The bills of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway Company for their proposed
extensions to Walmer and Deal, and from Bromley
to St. Mary's Cray, were postponed for the present,
and the case of the Mid-Kent and Addiscombe Rail-
way for a three mile junction line between Becken-
ham and Addiscombe, and to raise £35,000 by new
shares, and £11,500 by loan, was opened. The bill
is opposed by the London, Chatham, and Dover, and
by the Brighton and South Coast Company, in
favour of whose locus standi Mr. Sergeant IVrang-
ham made a long address. Ultimately the commit-
ham
tee decided in the affirmative, and then
ion pr
of the
with the general evidence. The opposit
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Cheshire, Midland, Great
Western, and other interests, to the bill of the
London and North-Western Railway for additional
powers having been concluded, the committee passed
the bill and settled the clauses. The Team Valley
Extensions Bill of the North Eastern Railway was
also passed. In the committee on the West Riding(
Hull and Grimsby Railway, the evidence of Capt.
O'Brien, general manager of the North Eastern
Railway, occupied the entire day. Evidence in
favour of the Wellington, Drayton, and Newcastle
was continued ; Mr. Ashdown,
principal witness examined. The
Ce.aEs
e, ,
of
fbtehi being g i t tande_
stock and Keynshara,
mittee, is tending Railway, in Mr. Adair's com-
to a termination.
In the committees on Scottish railways, the case
of the Inverness
and Aberdeen Junction, and Inver-
ness and Ross-shire Railway Companies' Bills, for
the purpose of vesting the latter in the former, the
authorised loan capital of the united company to
amount to £271,580, was opened by Mr. Hope
Scott, (IC',
and witnesses examined by Mr. Mere-
wether, Q,C., and Mr. Loch, and the opposition hav-
ing been overruled, the bill passed unopposed. The
committee having decided that the North British
Company bad no locus standi in opposition to the
bill of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, further evidence
was taken in its favour. The bills disposed of in
the Lords were the London and South Western
Additional Powers Bill, for a branch from the South-
ampton and Dorchester, near Wareham, to Creech
Heath; in the Purbeck Clay District, for enlarging
their stations at Nine-elms, Vauxhall, and South-
ampton ; for additional rails to Southampton ; and
to regulate their share capital, the present ainovon
unt
of which is declared to be £9,207,316; North
aY D
toit
Railway and Dock, to authorise the Airm
prov•
repay the company £3,000, to be laid outdiron iTaw ; Zon-
ing and deepening the estuary of the
donderry and Coleraine, to revise powers granted
for the creation of four classes of debentures, and
with liberty to lease the line. Ceylon Railway, to
wind
Chase' Li rue
, undertaking r i Weston-super-Mare
c k Markets,
Pier, up
Hatfieldth thee Tranmero
Improvement, and llalifax Corporation.