The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-14 00:00:00

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER-
HAMPTON.

We are happy to be enabled to state that a provisional
agreement has been entered into between the directors
of the Midland Company and of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Company, the effect of which will
probably be the speedy completion for opening of the
branch line from this city, to the junction with the
Bristol and Birmingham Railway, at Abbott's Wood.
This part of the line is to be completed if possible by
the Ist of September, and to be worked by the Midland
Company, as soon as it shall receive the sanction of the
Railway Commission. This agreement on the part of
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company
is subject to the approval of the Great Western Com-
pany, and should it receive their sanction, the laying of
the permanent way, and the other preparations neces-
sary to put the branch in working order by the time
specified, will be proceeded with immediately. We un-
derstand that the cuttings and levellings along the
whole line of the Oxford, Worcester, and IVolverhamp-
ton railway between this city and Stourbridge are com-
pleted, with the exception of a few chain lengths near
Oldswinford, and that of the Dudley tunnel, which is
now partially open throughout, is approaching comple-
tion. The repairs of the bridge over the line at the
Dudley station, which fell down some time ago, are also
nearly finished.—Railway Chronicle.
A correspondent states, I believe that the Midland
Company cannot 'ewe it. for the following reasons:—As
soon us the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway Bill was passed, the Great Western Railway
Company agreed xith that company to take a lease in
perpetuity of the railway at 31- per cent. on a specified
sum. Afterwards the Great Western agreed to increase
the rate of interest to 4 per cent., and on a larger amount
of capital. I attended two several meetings of the Great
Western Company, and confirmed those agreements.
Subsequently some discontented shareholders of the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway called
a meeting of proprietors, with a view to annul the agree-
ments, but failed to do so.

The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
is on the broad gauce, Mr. Brunel, the engineer, who, in
his report to .the directors of the Great Western Rail-
way, February 16, 1847, stated that the works on the
South Wales, and on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton R tilo'ays, in the completion of which the
Great Western Railway is so much interested, are pro-
ccedin,, satisfactorily. The Great Western also have
agreed to lease the South %Vales.

WATERFORD, WEXFORD, AND Dunum—A Bill, pro-
moted by this company, has received the royal assent for
a subscription of 224,0001.; a guarantee of the Great
Western of the payment, and five per cent. interest, is
stated to exist. The shareholders of this and the South
Wales Company and landowners' petitions against the
Bill, and for an investigation into the conduct of the di-
rectors, were re-heard before the Standing Orders Com•
mittee, but, owing to the defective steps of the South
Wales dissentient shareholders, they were not allowed
to be heard on the facts they brought forward.
SOUTH WALES.—The Committee of the House of
Commons, presided over by Sir Robert Peel, refused to
sanction the guarantee of fire per cent. by the Great
Western Company. The guarantees to the South
Wales Company, as to the Lynvi Valley, Vale of Noath,
and Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin Companies, are
not yet perfected.
Lusts LINES.—The through route between London
and Holyhead, and Dublin and Limerick, will be com-
pleted in a few weeks. Parliament have sanctioned the
steamboat projeoz, of the Holyhead Company, consi-
dering that the Liverpool and Dublin routes, and the
projected lines through South Wales to Wexford and
Dublin, will be sufficiently competing to keep the Holy-
head route in check. The South Wales is far from
completion, and the Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin
line is opposed by its shareholders. The Waterford and
Limerick line is also in abeyance as to the Waterford
end. The Lords' Committee, of which the Earl of St.
Germans was chairman, wished to bind the Holyhead
Company to charge no more by sea than by land, and
vice versa, but abandoned the proposition on being in-
formed that it was interfering with a toll measure, and
would be fatal to the Bill in the other House.

HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY.—Yesterday,
after the field exercises, the battalion formed three sides
of a square, when Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Henry Fitz-
roy, M.P., presented, in his own name and that of the
regiment, a handsome sword and appendages to Acting-
Major Barnard. Colonel Fitzroy, in a neat and eloquent
speech, addressed Major Barnard upon his long and
active services in the corps, and at the conclusion buckled
the sword round his waist. Major Barnard. in short but
feeling terms, expressed his thanks for such a valuable
testimony of the opinion entertained by the corps, and
was warmly congratulated by his brother officers. We
understetrd tt,et his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who
is Colonel c t this c.nuient end honourable corps, intends
reviewing the regiment, on their growl& in Finsbury,
on Tiaurzday next. During the recant threatened dis- 1
turbances the honourable corps has been almost con-
stantly under arms, ready at a moment's notice to assist
in the suppression of any outbreak.
THE POCKET PROTECTOR.—This title cannot fail
to prove attractive, if not very interesting, to all ; par-
ticularly as at the present moment almost every civilized
kingdom in the world is either deeply involved in some
national dilemma, or close upon the verge of being so.
But, unfortunately, the Pocket Protector will not drive
away the tax- gatherer from the dwelling of its posses-
sor, however calculated it may be to do him good ser-
vice by preventing the possibility of his coin, purse, or
other property from falling ont, whilst he can place such
in, qr withdraw it from his pocket with all customaryconvenience. The invention is patented by
Nicoll, of Regent-street, and. Cornhill, who are Paletots:
makers to 11.R.H. Prince Albert, &c.—Globe.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Royal Santiagostated
Mining Company, on Wednesday, the directors
that the operations at the mine had not beedne
yearly receipts by about 300/ The low price,,o t o success-
fuli
As the
as formerly, the expenses having exceesdoftheeehpaplefr-
was, however, the main cause of
etsheirsvede:
they thought
directors had about 40,0001. in
sharer to the proprietors,
they could safely pay back 255.
thus leaving about 30,000/ for
future. Baron de Goldsruidin pe effrearttsi o nns in
future.
the copper trade, to sup-
making by those interested rddeducttothf heb
press to him as respected this
been made
and overtures had h
confidence in its prospects
as far as practicable the foreign copper companies,
•'concern, but he had too roue.
.
to aid such a proposal..