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

GRAND TRUNK O 1 CANADA.

The report of the London directors states that the
receipts for the half-year ending December 31, 1861,
amounted to £119,469, and the expenses to
£323,761, leaving a balance of £95,708. The
working expenses amounted to 77 per ceo., against
841- per cent. for the corresponding half of 1860.
The balance of £95,708 had been applied towards the
payment:of the bond interest of the Atlantic end Sr.
Lawrence Railway Company, payable at Portland,
and similar interest payable orf mortgages on lr:nds
belonging to the company and in I.(:;luction of other
liabilities. Mr. WAtkin reported t!ot the working
of the line was in rapid progress of reCrganisation,
withthetraffic
thev
iew to greater efficiency :and economy,
and
was improving. The outlay on the
road would continue heavy for some time longer.
oThen
alinmeowreas being
substantial renewedplawniththhaenaviwerhernailso,raigni!
ginally constructed. The whole cost of the re-
newals was necessarily charged to revenue, but in
other departments cOnsidcrable reductions would
I ultimately be made.

MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAy.
The traffic returns of this company amounted
for the week ending the 27th March last to £1,233,
against £1,279 for the corresponding week of 1861;
for the week ending 3d April to £1,786► against
£2,141 ; ending the 10th April, to £1,128, against
£1,340; ending 17th April, to £1,232, against
£1,010; and for the week 24th April to £1,453,
against £l,lBl. The total receipts for the five
weeks amounted to £6,832, against £6,951 for the
corresponding period of 1861• The receipts avereged
£273 per mile per week, against £278 per mile per
week at the corresponding period of last year.

RAILWAY BILLS.
On Friday the bill of the South Yorkshire Rail-
way for a line of three miles, from a junction with
their line at Kimberworth to a double junction
with the Manchester, Sheffield, And Lincolnshire at
Attercliffe, and another of eight miles between
Bentley and Thorne, and to raise £133,000, was
passed. The bill of the same company for their
proposers null extension and branches, and to raise
£533,000, was opened, Mr. Baxter being examined
at considerable length. The bill of the West Shrop-
shire Railway Company, for mineral branches in
that district, was betpasse ord Stauley's Committee
on the competing linesbetween Mold andWrexham.
resumed their inquiry, and heard counsel in reply
upon the general merits of the rival schemes.
The only bill passed in the Lorcis was the North-
Eastern and Market Weighton and Beverley, for a
line of 10 miles between those places and to the
Victoria Docks, and to raise £117,000.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.--On Friday the
Committee agreed to a clause vesting in the Metro-
politan Board of Work the execution of the act, and£
the entire control of the undertaking. Clauses were
also agreed to, giving power to the board to grant
building leases of ground not wanted for the pur-
poses of the act, and forbidding the erection of
houses in front of the gardens of the Inner and
Middle Temple. Provisions were also inserted re-
lative to the raising of money for the purposes of
the works, and for its repayment; and a protective
clause was inserted in favour of the Dulke of
Northumberland, to the effect that the Board of
Works should not take any more land belonging to
the duke, except with his consent, required for the
formation of the streets in continuation of Nosrtfh-
umberland-street and Whitehall-place, unlesor
sewerage purposes, or the erection of public monu-
ments and fountains.

THE MIDDLE LEVEL INUNDATION.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
LYNN, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Fortunately for the cofferdam and the works in
progress here, the wind has been S.W., and for two
or three days has blown very strong. This has bad
a twofold effect ; one ie that it has to a great extent
checked the tides, which have been very strong,
however, and by SO doing from.bly preserved
the whole of the work destruct;on• The
second effect has been upon the waters wljeh lie
stretched upon the wide plain, and this action N%B
caused huge- waves to roll with a heavy surges
strongly resembling the sea. A personal inspection
last evening disclosed the following unpleasant
facts :—The west side of the west bank of the cut
is greatly damaged by the fearfully high winds
which we have had. There are several places where
the slope of the bank has been almost totally washed
away. The embankment of the railway is also very
much injured, and several more of the telegraph
posts have been washed away; indeed,
on Friday
the communication was cut off nearly all day. Tileto
has been a larger quantity of water on the land dur--
ing the past three days than ever before, to an el-
- of several inches. The wind has blown
b the
water on to some land that had not before been
under water. But for the favourableire
dctiog of
the wind the result would have been most dins.
trous, and, indeed, may be still,as the tides will not
begin to lessen till after to-morrow.
time the mean-
time the greatest exertions ought to be made to
strengthen the banks against the force of the water,.
In reference to the very insecure state of the
banks, it may here be stated that Mr. Page, C.E.,
and Mr. Richard Young, Mayor of Wisbeach, a few'
the language of the
oarhoarwefiuslbesetaht.e,;
ntosqomuoete _
days ago examined the banks and found them in 0.
lMnlikoaesyta riddle, and an iron
a drain- i places the banks were
spear eight feet in length
with them was easily put through,
awnhdi which twhenhe theywithdrawntook the water came bubbling up
as if through
At a meeting of the Bedford Level held the other
day, the chairman,-the Earl of Hardwicke, con-
in not very measured terms, the conduct of
demned,
the Middle Level Commissioners, thinking them
culpable in not using proper supervision, which, if
used, would probably have prevented the destruc-
tion of the sluice. The inability to cope with the
flood also endangered the whole level of the Fens.
The bottom of the cut by the Short Fen, North..
bank, above the Magdalen-road bridge has been
scoured to a depth of 17ft. below its original level,
and the sides show evidence of curving in, they be-
ing undermined. The existence of the hole has
been known for, nearly a week, being one of those
to which attention has been previously drawn, but
no steps have been taken to remedy the evil, though
proper representations have been made to the right
quarters.
At the cofferdam matters are pretty nearly at e
sandstill. The shores, to the weakness of wb1(311 at
tention has before been called, are being strength
e
ened by bracing, and placing concretebehintl d
abutments. The concrete is formed of Poran
n it sets be-
cement, gravel, and clunch, and when
comes harder than granite. Sheet
4- piles are being
ork at whieh
driven in those two bays of tahpela fersaatrineed in the localw
the pannels failed on Tuesday lar and anon
Various communications from re
mous correspondents have appeared
papers, in which attempts have been:made to show
that the statements as to the failure of the dam are
incorrect. That the design of the cofferdam is a fail-
divided, and that proper
ure is notorious, end these attempts to show
that
it
is not so only make matters worse, as it now appears
Mr. a.wkshaw to
the advice of Mr. Lynn, c.
ina is apparent.far from
E
ethonastidthereataiuonthworaistiensotare
given
by
1m
ii
haTdhbeefpourebibizteemn., a gentleman who,
certainly carried it
since he took charge of the work a week ago, has
on with greater energy than
being tranquillised
by the present aspect of affairs.

TFIE LATE MURDER IN ESSEX.—Rebecea Law,
who was acquitted at the last Essez assizes of the murder of
her husband at Clavering, Essex, has been removed by her
Majesty's warrant to a lunatics asylum at Fisherton,
on near
Salisbury. The unhappy woman was acquitted the
ground of insanity, but will remain in confinement during
her Majesty's pleasure.