The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday the following bills were declared to have com-
plied with the standing orders of Parliament :

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT.—To confer further powers on
the company. To enable them to abandon one of their
junction railways already authorised, and to adopt another,
to make a line to the Hammersmith-road, and to raise an
additional capital of £150,000 and £50,000 loan.
GRAVESEND LANDING STAGE.—For a railway from Den-
ton to Chalk, near Shorne Battery, with a landing stage
and warehouses. Capital, £150,000 ; loan, £50,000.
DOVER, DEAL, AND SANDWICH.—For a railway between
these points, at an estimated cost of £llO,OOO.
NORTH KENT EXTENSION. For a railway from the
North Kent at Denton to the Coastguard station on the
Medway opposite Sheerness, together with a pier, wharves,
&c. Capital, £120,000; loan, £40,000.
WYCOMBE.—Extensions to Uxbridge and Great Marlow.
Capital, £300,000 ; loan, £lOO,OOO.
ELY, HADDENHAM, AND SUTTON.—TO extend tho line
from Sutton, in the Isle of Ely, to St. Ive's, with powers to
the Great Eastern and Great Northern to use the same, with
power to raise an additional capital of £66,000, and loan of
£22,000.

BARNSLEY, ACKWORTH, AND PONTEFRACT.—For a rail-
way 'between these points. Capital, £225,000 ; loan,
£75,000.

CARMARTHEN AND CARDIGAN.—For branches near Kid-
welly, and to extend the time for purchase of lands and
execution of works.

SWANSEA AND ABERTSTWITH JUNCTION.—For DOW
branches, and to raise £57,000, and borrow £l3, 0 00.
SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—For railways between the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, London and North Western, and river
Mersey, with a dock on the Lancashire shore of that river.
Capital, £700,000; loan, £200,000.

WEST CORNWALL.—To enter into working arrangements
with other companies and to lease or sell their undertaking.
WEST RIDING AND GRIMSBY.—TO raise £50,000, and bor-
row £16,000 to carry out works already authorised.
FISIIGUARD BAY AND HARBOUR.—For construction of a

railway from the South Wales Railway to Fishguard Bay
and a harbour at Goodwick-pier. Capital, £250,000 ; loan
£83,000.

DUBLIN METROPOLITAN JUNCTION.—For railways in and
near Dublin. Capital, £lOO,OOO ; loan, £133,000.
BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN, AND BELFAST AND HOLY-
WOOD AND BANGOR.—To authorise the transfer to the Bel-
fast, Holywood, and Bangor Company of the Holywood
branch of the Belfast and County Down.
NEWRY AND GREENORE.-7-For new works and deviations.

DUBLIN, RATHMINES, and RATHGAR.—For extension to
Blesington and Dublin. Further capital, £200,000 i loan
X 66,000.

The other companies were the Lanca'shire Union (for new
lines) and the Buckfastleigh, Totnes, and South Devon.
The non-compliances included the Monmouthshire.
The bill of tho Thames Valley and London and South.
Western was withdrawn.

ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.
The report of the directors states that the progressive
advance in the revenue of the company for many years past
had continued, with slight interruption, during the sixh
months just completed. There was a diminution in tone
cost of maintenance, arising from the liberal provisionthis account made in former half years. Therfeo was, how-
ever,s
tnl e includedt iou of
the under
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chester, and Birmingham. The net
profter making every
of the company for the half-pear,p
£1 000 to the
provision for the working charges,
loans, and the special vote of , , 6
.11 ,
8 , the corresponding
secreta,
amounted to £54,076 against .C00c0,5
ended a dividend of 4
period of 1863. The directorsh
the stock and shares of the corn-
per cent. for the half
directors had decided on extend-
amount to £54,672• Theiz
the north of Ireland, and con-
fon,El4,B3l to be added to the trust
com-
pany, leaving a balance
or
throng
by a cable across the Chan-
With the accumulated interest,
thfugnd,thweirbicshystwemould then,
Scotland
This extension would bring into
nel near
with England and the Continentthe active
communication.*tricts of Ulster, and the company would also
commercial districts necting Beplfoaarttp
secured by the possession of a double connection from
be
such an interruption and consequent loss of ',traffic
as had recently occurred by the temporary failure of
awtritihck.
their cable from Wexford to the Welsh coast. In repair-
jug this cable the directors had used some miles of thick
shore-end, specially constructed for the purpose, and the
expense of this renewal would be charged against the fund
for that purpose. The other extensions of the company's sys-
tem during the half-year were 111 miles in length, princi-
pally for railway companies. The revenue account for the
half-year showed that £141,590 had been received, and
£87,513 expended, leaving a balance of £54,077.

SOUTH KENSINGTON HOTEL,
The second half-yearly meeting of Xis company was held
yesterday at the hotel; Mr. T. Vaughan in the- chair.
The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The
Sun, was taken as read. The profits for the short time the
hotel was open prior to the 31st of Decemberlast amounted
to £l2l.

On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Wood,
the report was adopted.

A resolution was also passed declaring that'for the future
the advertisements of the company's meetings in the Times
should be considered a legal notice, the Chairman stating
that the directors would send a notice round to the share-
holders as usual.

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The-
remuneration of the directors for the past year was
fixed at £3OO, and that of the auditor at £lO, and they
were all re-elected.
A Tote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings,