The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The directors of this company have concluded an ar-
rangement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to
the terms on which 500;0001, are to be advanced for the
construction of the line from Mullingar to Galway.
That sum is to be advanced by way of loan, and tits
company are to proceed with the line as speedily as
possible. The rate of interest on the loan is to be 3}
per cent. per annum. At the expiration of ten years the
principal to be repayable by intalments of per cent.
per annum, independently of the interest, ai per cent.
per annum, which it is calculated will liquidate the debt
in about thirty-five years. Should the net profits of the
railway from Athlore to Galway not prove sufficient to
pay the interest of the loan, the deficiency is to be made
good by the county of Galway, and by two baronies
of Roscommon. These terms are considered to be very
favourable to the railway company. A meeting of pro-
prietors will shortly be held to confirm the arrangement.

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
It appears from a return of French railways that the
estimated cost of construction of 18 lines amounted to
927,410,000 P. (37,096,400/.), of which 13 were esti-
mated to cost 624,110,000 f. (24,964,4001.), and it has
since been ascertained that they will cost 849,422,000 f.
(33,976,8800, being on the average 36 per cent. above
the estimates. Some of 'the lines cost between 60 and
75 per cent. above the estimates, whilst others cost no
more than 24 to 16 per cent. above the ssm specified.
Two of the lines were completed within the estimates
—namely, the Paris and Rouen, and the Boulogne and
Amiens.

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HOP INTELLIGENCE.
MAIDSTONE.—We have accounts from all quarters of
oura
officegreat
yesterday,
accessionof vermin.comple completely specimen
with
y.
HOLLINGDOURNE, BEARSTED, OTHAM, &c.—The Hops
have come out evenly and well, growing very fast and
looking remarkably kindly ; a little fly has been seen.
YALDING, WA PERINGDURY, AND ADJOINING PARISHES.
—ln this district there is a general increase of fly. In
other respect the gardens look well.
STAPLEHUEST, MARDEN, &c.—We have a great deal
of fly here, which is rapidly increasing.—maidstou
Journal.

STATE OF THE CROPS IN MID ICE.NT.
Hors.—The hop bine is growing fast, and looking
well, but there is a gradual increase of fly,
CoßN.—The wheat plant is looking bell ; and the
same remark, we are happy to say, applies to barley,
oats, and beans. Peas have suffered much from the
effects of the slug, the ravages of which have exceeded
anything almost ever before known, leaving the plant
very thin on the ground.
FRUlTS.—Cherries are very much blighted, but there
will be some black hearts and Kentish reds. The goose-
berries are entirely destroyed. Currants and apples
promise a good crop.
There is every appearance of an abundant crop of
grass. Clover and seeds generally look well.—Maid-
stone Journal.

CONSECRATION OF THE NEW BISHOPS OF VICTORIA
AND PRINCE RUPERT'S LAND.—CANTERBURY, TUES-
DAY EVENING.—His Grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury having appointed this day for the consecration of
the Bishops of Victoria and Prince Rupert's Land, a
large number of prelates and other dignitaries of the
Church assembled in the cathedral, shortly before ten
o'clock. The Archbishop of Canterbury occupied tho
throne. Full choral service was performed, and at its
close the Right Rev. George Smith, D.D., cf St. Mary
h ill, Oxford, Bishop elect of Victoria (Hong Kong),
and the Right Rev. David Anderson, D.D., of Exeter
College, Oxford, Bishop elect of Prince Rupert's Land,
were then introduced to the Archbishop, and the con-
secration service, as set out in the Book of Common
Prayer was performed. Dr. Smith. and Dr. Anderson
Purpose starting for their distant dtrceses in the course
f a few weeks. Both the Right Rev. Prelates will be
accompanied by clergymen, schoolmasters, and catechists.
THE SCOTTISH BENCH.--Lord Medwyn, we are
informed, is about to retire from that bench which he
has so long adorned. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Mait-
land, will, it is supposed, be called on to supply the va-
cancy in the civil court, while we observe from the Lon-
don Gazette that Lord Ivory has been promoted to the
Justiciary, an appointment which we have no doubt will
be hailed with great satisfaction by the bar and the
public.—North Biitish Mail