The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES OF RAILWAY
BILLS.
CANNOCK.
Lord STANLEY reported from the sub-committee that
they had examined the allegations contained in the pre-
amble of the bill, but the same had not been proved to
their satisfaction.
DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTERSHIRE

JUNCTION.
Lord STANLEY reported from the sub-committee that
in the case of this company's bill for the revival of
powers, &c., they had examined the allegations con-
tained in the preamble of the bill, but the same had not
been proved to their satisfaction.

FESTINIOCI:
Lord JOCELYN reported from the snb-committee that
the parties promoting the bill had stated to the com-
mittee that it was not their intention to proceed further
with the same.

PERTH AND DUNKELD.
Mr. BOUVERIE reported from the sub-committee that
the proposed capital of the company is 80,0001., and
the amount of loan 20,0001. The length of the pro-
posed railway is 84 mileq, and the steepest gradient is
lin 88. There is one tunnel on the line, which is to
be 350 yards long, 18 feet wide, and 18 feet high. It
is intended that the railway shall cross on a level five
public roads. The amount of the estimates of the cost,
or other expenses to be incurred up to the time of: the
completion of the railway, is 70,000/. The quantity of
land required for the railway is 120 acres. The com-
mittee are satisfied of the fitness, in an engineering
point of view, of the proposed railway.

SHIPPING INT ELLIGENCE.

LISBON, April 8 QUARANTINE
.—The Board ofNOTICE Health has declared
Amsterdam to be "suspected of cholera" from the 20th of
December last, and Copenhagen from the 22d of February
last.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 15.
ENTERED INWARDS.—The Rosevean, from St. Michael's;
Kangaroo, Harlingen ; Volante, Terceira ; Little Jenny,
St. Michael's ; Railway, do. ; Jean Bart, Gravelines ;
Solide, do ; Ale xandrina, Salonica ; Cornet, Antwei p ;
Clasina Margaretha, do. ; Luna, Hookseil ; Wilhelmina,
Emden ; Emanuel, do. ; Margaretha, do. ; Antina, do. ;
Ida Maria, do.; Edgar, Mauritius; Milinka, West Coast
of Africa; Prima, Leer; Isabel, Weile ; Carleton, Callao;
Affghan, Mauritius; Emperor, Calcutta; Agatha Wilbel-
mine, Ditzum ; Drie Gebroders, Rotterdam; Frow Helke,
Leer; Harmie a, do.; Wilhelm, Fedtterwarderseil; Bolton,
Bom bay.

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Dins, for
Port Philip; Rose, River Gambia; William the Third,
Port Philip ; Norma, Adelaide ; Driving Mist, Rio Ja-
neiro ; William, Leer ; Accommodation, Flensburg ;
.ZE A, Bermuda : Banca, Launceston ; Demerara, Deme-
rara; Hydra, Havannah; Jonge Ball, Stettin; Meander,
Melbourne; Mary, Hong Kong ; Alfred, Shields and
Stockholm.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Angantyr, for
Rio Janeiro ; Gratitude, Madras ; Osiris, Montreal ; ...,och-
libo' ditto and Quebec ; Gesina, Stettin ; Everhardus,
Harburg ; Marie, Antwerp; Louise, Hamburg; Gambia,
Bathurst; R G. Maria, Hamburg and Harburg ; Jane
Cockerill, Gallipoli ; Ebenezer, Dunkirk ; Sarah Birkett,
Nevis ; Historia, Adelaide, Port Phillip, and Sydn!_7 ;
Maria Christina, Santander and Corunna ; Horatio, BA:
vannah and Matanzas; Candidate, Hamburg ; Spirit of
the Deep, Calcutta. ,

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Energy (barque), April 4, three miles south of
Tarifa.

The Sultan (s.), April 6.
The Trent (s.), with troops, and the Orinoco (a.), both
on April 9.
The Great Western (s.), April 12.
The Arran and Stamboul, from New Orleans for Liver-
pool, March 12, lat. 24 N., long. 81 W.
The Canada, bound for Hong Kong, Nov. 11, off the
Cape of Good Hope.
The Expres,=, from Mauritius for England, Feb. 3, lat.
19 S., long. 4 W.
The James Booth, from London for Australia, Feb. 25.
lat. 4 N., long. 23 W.
The Baltic (s.), from Liverpool for New York, April 3,
lat. 41 N., long. 68 W.
A barque, showing 2d dist. penult., No. 9,485, from
Liverpool for Belize, April 6, lat. 49 N., long,. 10 W.