The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHAMPTON AND DORCHESTER.—Mr. Peto confi-
dently expects to be able to complete this line by the Ist
of May next, and be is to receive a handsome premium
in the event of his doing so.
The line between Gravesend and Rochester is to be
re-opened in the course of the ensuing month. A junc-
tion has been formed near the Gravesend terminus to
connect the London and Gravesend branch of the South-
Eastern, in the course of formation.

SOUTH `VALES.—The works are rapidly progressing.
The portion from Kidwelly to Whiland will soon receive
the permanent way. The company have offered the
contractor a large premium if he completes the works
earlier than the time specified in his contract.
The Kelso branch of the Newcastle and Berwick is to
be proceeded with immediately, from Tweedmouth to
Sprouston, twenty miles.
NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN.-- The branch from
Newark to Mansfield is staked out, and the works will
be commenced forthwith. The surveyors are busy
staking out a branch from Nottingham through Basford
to Mansfield, and Pinxton near Suttoh-inbAshfield,
which will shortly be ready for the contractors.
Yonx AND NEWCASTLE.—The new line, in connexion
with Sunderland, fr2iin Pensher, is staked out from the
main line to the. 'Winfield cottages, at the north-west
end of Bishopweiribouthi and is in length about
miles. It runs parallel with the river Wear tjll opposite
Deptford, when it takes a southerly direction by Dia-
mond Hall.to Millfield, and thence in a curve past Sun-
derland Infirmary, across the Stockton-road en the north
side of Building.hill, by Hendon-terrace, to the pro-
jected docks. At Claxheugh rock there will be a cutting
through limestone forty feet deep for some distance, and
the whole of the way from near Diamond hall to the
shipping terminus will pass over ground at present occu-
pied by dwellings and garden ground for the space of
nearly a mile and a half. This branch fro Pensher to
Sunderland docks will be let in eight contacts, it is said,
in order that it may speedily be done, so as to get by
railway from Pensher quarries the freestoneaprequired
for the construction of the new docks at Sunderland.

The new station will be near the Burdon-road, in a line
with Fawcett-street. A new station is also to be erected
forthwith near the bridge at Monkwearmouth, in con-
nexion with the branch from that part of the town to
Shields and Newcastle. All these important improve-
ments will be completed in the course of the ensuink.
summer.

Nonrotx..—At the approaching special meeting, the
proprietors will have to consider propositiong-1. For
authorising the directors to convert the present loans on
mortgage into capital, by the creation of new shares.
And 2. For authorising the directors, under the powers
of the Act 8 Vic., cap. 16, to consolidate the 101. shares
into the general capital stock of the Company.
ROYSTON AND EITCHIN.—This Company, of which
Lord llacre is Chairman, propose to extend their line,
and, on satisfactory terms being made, lease it to the
Great Northern.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.—Captain
Coddington has recently inspected the branch from
Brighton and Chichester, and also that from Brighton
to Hastings, both of which have been undergoing im-
provements, and also having a double line of rails laid
down. The Inspector. General expressed himself per-
fectly satisfied with the works, and the lines will be
opened in a day or two.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.—The section be-
tween Londonderry and Strabane is to be opened in the
middle of Februare. Tbe Comnany are tok take rlokjig to
ana from I.onaonaerry, the time allowed Deing haft an
hour.

SOUTH-EASTERN (WHITIOTABLNI HARBOUR).—For
several months engineers have been employed improving
the harbour at Whitstable, in order to render it a prin-
cipal coal depot. A substantial breakwater has been
erected, which has been singularly successful in its ac-
tion, having deepened the entrance and the harbour from
four to seven feet, enabling colliers of any tonnage to
unload. The work has been designed by Mr. Barlow, ,
the acting engineer of the Eastern Counties.
SURVEY OF THE HALIFAX AND QUEBEC.--The various
parties engaged on this important survey, now in charge ,
of Lieutenant Henderson, R.E., have assembled at Fre-
dericton, where a building has been hired and fitted up
as offices. Messrs. Wightman and John Grant, and the
surveying sappers, are now engaged in calculating the
barometrical and other observations, and compiling plans
of the various routes explored. One line for the pro-
posed railway has been explored as far north as the
north-west branch of the Restigouche, and another line,
formerly examined for a military road, has been ex-
plored from the Bend to the Waagan portage, between
Grand River and the Lead waters of the Restigouche.
The country north of the Restigouche, and thence to
the St. Lawrence, has not yet been examined, but it is
proposed to commence that service early in March next.
The exploring parties have met with a tract of very
broken and hilly country stretching directly across New
Brunswick, from the Tobique to the Bay Chaleur, which
will require further examination before the central line
for the railway can bs determined upon. It is hoped
that the central line will be settled next summer, and
then the exact survey for the railway will be commenced,
the duties at present being confined to seeking the short-
est and most practical route. The whole of the la-
mented Captain Pipon papers, which were left by him at
Madawaska, have been brought to Fredericton, and are
now deposited in the fire-proof safe at the railway office.
The surveying sappers have great experience, and are
men admirably qualified for the service on which they
are engaged. Not a moment is lost in the propess of
the work, which isycested on as fast eta the mature of the
duty will admit. Nothing has yet been done with refer.
ence to the disputed boundary between this province and
Canada, owing to the sudden death of Captain Pipon;
but the railway survey has not thereby been delayed.
THE BREAK OF GITAGE AT GLOUCESVEL—Some
months since the country was in a ferment on the ques-
tion of the break of guage, and the station at Gloucester
gained an unenviable notoriety as the most inconvenient
terminus in Great Britain. Our Gloucester correspondent i
informs us that one source of general complaint has been
remedied, shewing some slight symptoms of concession.
Until lately the Great Western and the Birmingham and
Bristol stations were separated by partitions, whereby,
on the arrival of the several trains, some confusion was
created by transferring luggage from one station to an.
other through the narrow apertures in the walls, the in •
convenience of break of guage was thereby greatly ag-
gravated. These partitions have been reataitly taken
down, and the terminus now presents a commodious
appearance, besides being less obstructive to the efforts
of those who were desirous of mitigating the inconveni-
ence of a break.

ENLARGEMENT OF THE EASTERN COUNTIMB GOODS
DEPOT.—The goods depot of the Eastern Counties, at
Bethnal-green, is now being enlarged to about three times
its original extent. A number of miserable thoroughfares,
crowded with wretched dwellings, have been d esuolished
to make way for the warehouses which aro now being
erected on their site. Of late the goods traffic has in-
creased enormously; the weekly receipts amounting to
nearly 4,0001.
SUNDAY TRAINS ON THE EASTERN UNION.P--•-At the
half-yearly meeting of the Ipswich and Bury St. Ed-
mund's (which is to be amalgamated with the Eastern
Union), to be held on Friday, an effort, we uncle rstand,
is to be made to outvote the directors in suppressing the
running of trains on a Sunday. A memorial, big ned by
nearly 300 inhabitants of Ipswich, is about being pre-
sented to the chairman and directors, praying ttiat the
Sunday trains on the Colchester and Ipswich and Ips-
wich and Bury St. Edmund lines shouldbe abolished.
At the last half-yearly meeting a similar attempt was
made, but failed.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION.—A. TeqUisi

tion has been sent to the directors of the Birmingham
and Oxford, for a special general meeting, for the olee •
tion of new directors, and fur the re-consderati on of the
proposals of the Great Western for 49. purchase..
NEWMARKET AN]) CHESTERFORD.—The call of 51. on
the shares of this company is to continue, and not to
commence the works.
So much has been said, and so many evils have been
predicted, on all matters connected with railways and
their formation, that some people (observes a corre-
spondent) may perhaps wonder how a single share re-
mains to be quoted, but experientia docet, and p eople will
for the future be only led by truth. If a few ir illions of
our bullion are destined to be drawn from the Bank
coffers for various requisites, we are most fortunate in
having it in deposit to meet the demand. It may now
be a fair question to put a spoke in the wheel c in the side
of railways; not only do they hold out labo ur to the
poor, bat does it not happen most fortunately at the
present moment, that such an amount of capit d should