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
gold mining has made a decided spring, and that
its share in our exports will entitle the colony to
rank with the most important 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
fifteen thousand ounces. The produce of the last
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

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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 ease 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. Serg
com
eant Wrang-
ham made a long address. Ultimately the mit-
tee decided in the affirmative, and then proceeded
with the general evidence. The opposition of the
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 TeamN-
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Extensions Bill of the North Eastern Railway
also passed. In the committee on the West Riding(
Hull and Grimsby Railway, the evidence of Capt.
tahaey.NorEthvidEenaseteerinn O'Brien, general managerof
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Drayton, and Newcastle
was continued ; Mr. Ashdown C.E., being the
principal witness examined. The case of the Rad-
stock and Keynsham Railway, in Mr. Adair's com-
mittee, is tending 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, Q.C., 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 had 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 amount
of which is declared to be £9,207,316; North Devon
Railway and Dock, to authorise the Admi.raltyrov•
repay the company £3,000, to be laid out in imp_
Zon-
ing and deepening the estuary of the Taw ;
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 up the undertaking ; Weston-super-Mare
Pier, Hatfield Chase, Limerick Markets, Tranmero
and Halifax Corporation.
Improvement,