The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUNG LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1862.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES
IN PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday the case of the Vale of Neath and Swan-
sea and Neath Railway Companies Bill was taken
in Mr. Howes's committee, the object of it being to
authorise the Vale of Neath, who have already
subscribed £lOO,OOO in the Swansea and Neath, to
subscribe for the remaining £20,000 of the autho-
rised capital, and to lend to the latter £40,000, with
power to the Vale of Neath to add narrow gauge
rails on their own line, and to raise for that and
incidental expenses £133,000. After hearing evi-
dence pro and con, the committee passed the bill.
The bill for incorporating the Dare Valley Railway
for the construction of mineral branches in Glamor-
ganshire, in connection with the Taff Vale Railway,
was withdrawn, and the committee commenced
the consideration of the Llanelly Railway and Dock
Bill, for deviations and arrangements in their
Swansea and Carmarthen lines, and to raise £32,000.
The proposal of the Birkenhead Docks and West
Cheshire Junction Railway for ten branch lines in
that locality, of an aggregate length of 25 miles,
and to raise £600,000 in shares, and £200,000 by
loan, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
and Midland Railway Companies subscribing
£200,000 each, occupied Mr. Hassard's committee.
The case of the Mold and Wrexham closed with the
hearing of the opposition of the London and North
Western, and the competing line of the Whitchurch,
Wrexham, Mold, and Connahs Quay Railway, with
a proposed capital of £320,000, broke ground. The
evidence of Mr. Fowler, CY., on the Bristol and
Clifton Railway, occupied the attention of that com-
mittee all day, and evidence for the promoters of
the Hull extension of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
is not yet concluded in Mr. Wood's committee. In
Lord Churston's committee of peers, the bills of the
Mid Sussex and Midhurst Junction, and Kington
and Eardisly Railways were fully considered and
pacanti, br.4 *ha gno.l oottivw.nt of the
Company's bill for their new lines in Lord Taun-
ton's committee is postponed to this day.

minster-bridge and passed along the embankment
road, as the traffic join ng the embankment road
would cause greater obstruction than the relief
afforded by it. He condemned the First Commis-
sioner and Sir Joseph Paxton sitting on the com-
mittee, as they were sotething like the chairman
and vice-chairman of th 3 Great Western Railway
sitting to try a bill in which they were personally
interested. He never for a moment meant to im-
pute that they had any other than a public object
in view. If a grand imFrovement were required,
let them take away one block of buildings in Par-
liament-street and throw it open to King-street,
which would greatly relieve the traffic, and at the
same time be a great mament to the metropolis.
He saw no reason why tie committee should not
adopt the plan so far as to allow the construction of
the low-level sewer, leaving the rest of it and Mr.
Pennethorne's scheme for consideration next year.
If the embankment is made at the expense of the
Crown, and the land so reclaimed is thrown into
the gardens of the Crown lessees, the public would
have no more right to go into those gardens than
they would have to walk into the drawing-rooms.
If the Crown had the power to purchase the land
which lies between Richmond-terrace and West-
minster-bridge, and construct an embankment, he
believed that it would prove to be a very profitable
investment.
Mr. Calvert said that was his case on behalf of
Sir R. Peel, Mr. Martin, Lord Gage, Mr. and Mrs.
Tomlin, Mr. Horsman, and Dr. Sutherland.
The room was then cleared, and remained so
until the Speaker was announced to be at prayers,
when the committee adjourned.

RAILWAY IN2ELLIGENCE.

COLNE VALLEY.

The extension of this line from Castle Heding-
ham to Voldharn cutiS Opened on. Monday. 'rho
navvies on the line wore entertained at dinner, and
other rejoicings took place in honour of the event.
The works between Yeldham and Haverhill, where
the line will terminate for the present, are being
actively proceeded with, and will probably be com-
pleted by the end of the year.

EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND CANAL.
The directors state in their report that the nego-
tiation with Goverment, which commenced so far
back as June, 1858, for the settlement of terms to
enable the company to commence its first opera-
tions, has been finally and satisfactorily concluded
by the approval of a deed of contract by the
Supreme Court of India, and the execution of such
deed by the company. They have been enabled to
appoint as their chief engineer in India Lieutenant-
Colonel F. 11, Rundall, lately superintending en-
gineer of the Godavery Irrigation and Navigation
Works, an officer of large experience in the con-
struction of hydraulic works in India. The decd
of contract provides that the whole of the works
shall be constructed in accordance with plans ap-
proved by the local Government ; that all land to
be occupied by such works, including banks on
either side of the canals, to whatever breadth may
bo considered necessary, including sites for the
storage of water, shall bo provided for the Govern-
ment free of charge ; that all water to be supplied
for irrigation shall be sold by the company to the
Government, to the extent of the public demand, at
prices to be fixed by arbitration ; that the whole of
the prices so fixed, less the extra cost of collection,
shall belong to the company, up to 25 per cent. upon
the capital expended upon the works, after which
the surplus shall be divided equally between the
Government and the company; that the whole of
the profits to be derived from the navigation of the
water ways opened up shall belong to the company
solely ; that the Government shall have the right
to purchase the works constructed at the expiration
of the first 20, or the first 30, or the first 40, or the
first 50 years after payment for irrigation, at the
market value of all the shares, taken at the average
price of the three preceding years. It also provides
for the settlement by arbitration of all differences
which may arise between the Government and the
company. Interest at 5 per cent. per annum will
be paid on the deposit and calls during construction.
The capital received to the 31st December last
amoluatea xo • ,ovo, man LAO ospowseer to i0,t20,
leaving a balance of £41,182.

wool, 22s to 228 6d per 14-I,lb ; two-third hog, 21s
to 21s 6d ; half-hog, 20s 3d to 20s 9d ; ewes, 18s to
18s 9d.

ROCHDALE, 26Lh.—The flannel market has been
a shade better than last Nl' eek. Within the past
few days some good purchases have been made—it
is alleged for exportation to America—which has
improved the demand to a slight degree to-day.
The Yorkshire goods trade, too, is a little better,
and there is more demand for kerseys. Prices are
steady, manufacturers generally refusing to take
orders for future delivery except at the current
rates. There was not much done in wool to-day,
manufacturers and dealers being alike disposed to
wait till the new clip comes to hand.

HEALTH OF LONDON DUREN THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-Genera's Weekly Return.)

The deaths registered in London in the week
that ended last Saturday were 1,209. The average
number derived from the returns of corresponding
weeks in ten previous years, 1852-61, and cor-
rected for the increase of population, is 1,183.
Therefore the rate of mortality last week was
rather higher than the average.
Fatal cases of measles were more numerous than
they had been in preceding weeks, while typhus
exhibited a decrease. Of 46 deaths from measles,
32 occurred in the Central and East districts ; nose
in the Western districts. There were 4in the sub-
district of Goswell-street, 4 in the sub-district of
Haggerstone West.
Four children died of scarlatina in the City-road
sub-district ; 6 in the two sub-districts of Lambeth
Church; 2 children died of the same disease in a
family at 6, Market-street, St. James's-square; a
boy, aged two years, of " cholera infantum (5
days)," at Jennings'-buildings, Kensington. Seven
deaths from typhus occurred in the London Fever
Hospital ; 11 in the district of Shoreditch. Ten
persons, of whom 9 were children, died by syphilis.
A sugar-baker in Whitechapel, aged 35 years,
died of " coma (10 hours),exhaustion from the:heat
of the sugar-house."
A hundred and seventysix persons died from
phthisis (or consumption) in the week.
Last week the births of 951 boys and 969 girls,
in all 1,919 children,were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61
the average (corrected) was 1,847.