The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

IMILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY ExTENsioN.--Rumours are again rife in the
South of England that the Great Western Railway Com-
pany purpose to extend their line to Southampton,
entering it at the western side, the South-western ter-
minus being on the eastern side. Sir John Barker Mill,
who owns the mud land to the western side of Southamp-
ton, is understood to be prepared to form docks there,
and has purchased a small slip of land contiguous to his
property, at an expense of 3,0001., to facilitate a com-
munication between a railway and docks. The Great
Western Company have already reached Basingstoke
about forty miles from Southampton, and the extension
of that line farther south would doubtless be on the site
of the Andover canal, and the once projected Manchester
and Southampton Railway. Nothing would be more
welcome in the extreme south than this extension of the
Great Western line.

CENTRAL RAILWAY OF SPAlN.—According to the Bar-
celona journals, the works of the Central Railway of
Spain are being rapidly proceeded with. ICUs said that
the part of the line between Bnrcelona and Cornelia can
be opened in the month of November next, and that to
Molina de Rey the month after.
NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.
—The directors have withdrawn their extension to Bre-
con bill. In their declaration to Parliament they sub-
mitted that, over and above everything else which the
law might compel or they themselves desired to accom-
plish, there remained of their money powers a sum of
170,0001. for the purposes of this extension. We may,
therefore, congratulate the shareholders on their escape
from a tax to that extent ; but they should do well to
consolidate their capital, and strike out every shilling
not absolutely required for the works of the line they
have already obtained. It is only by taking the means
of mischief out of the hands of indiscreet directors that
the value of property already acquired can be preserved.
—Railway Times.

EAST INDIAN RAILWAY.—The East India Railway,
says the Calcutta Englishman: is now a threadbare sub-
ject, and has lost much of its interest, in consequence of
the unexampled slowness of its progress. We are now
assured that it cannot be completed as far as Burdwan
before 1856 ; and, if it proceeds at the same rate, it will
but reach Mirzapore, even if the whole capital required
be supplied at once, in the present century. Few of us
can reasonably expect to benefit by a railroad in the
year 1900, and we should therefore leave the considera-
tion to those more immediately interested than travellers
—namely, the engineers and contractors - had we not a
faint hope that either Queen Victoria, Louis Bonaparte,
or the Emperor Nicholas, may take the affairs of India
into their own bands within the next ten days.

TESTIMONIAL TO AN OLD DETECTIVE CONSTABLE.—
The officers of the L division of the metropolitan police
yesterday presented Charles Burgess Goff, late a sergeant
of that division, and for nearly twenty-one years an
active detective, with a handsome lever watch and
Albert chain, for the kindness and urbanity -displayed
by him towards the men under his charge. Mr. Goff
has retired on a full pension much respected by who
knew him,