The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

HULL. Amu, 6.

Srocs ExcnANoz.—Scripholders are less inclined to force sales
to-day, which in some measure accounts for the small number of
transactions. There is a rumour prevalent that the Lords are xot
unlikely to prevent the adoption of Sir Robert Peel's new Corn-law,
and that probably the present Parliament may be dissolved, and thus
many of the new schemes Mid a speedy death. Much as this is to
be wished, no faith can be placed in the rumour. The sales are—
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 10s. dia.—Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 3%—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 25s.—Derby, Gains-
norough, and Grimsby, LC:l.—Hull and Barnsley Junction, 245.
Hull and Lincoln, ;a—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 24—London and
York, 24s.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 30s. tid.—North Staf-
fordshire, 31. 178.—Shropshire Union, 1 lA—West Riding Union, 3 .

SHEFFIELD, APRIL 6.

STOCK Exciwrox.—The sales areLEasternCountles, York Exten-
sions, 1% —Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherham, 34—Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield, 11. 6s.— Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal,
I/. 2s.—North Western, 11. Is.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 11. Is.—
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, lis. 611.
YORK, APRIL 6.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales. are—Grand Union (Nottingham to
Lynn), 9s.—London and York, 14—Newcastle and Berwick, 16%
—North British, Carlisle Extension, 11. 9s. 6d.—York and North
Midland, New (East and West Riding), 8%.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

MONDAY, APRIL 6.
The following Petitions for Railway Bills were reported,
and the Bills ordered to be brought in by the undernanied
lion. Members :
wVilts, Somerset, and Weymouth—Mr. Ilayter and Mr.
W. Long.
Midland (Claycross to Newark)—Mr. Cavendish and Mr.
Hudson.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
MONDAY, APRIL 6.
The following petitions on Railway Bills have been ad-
journed till the first day after the Easter recess
East and West of England Junction.
North Devon.
North Gravesend.
Cork and Passage.
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Longford to Sligo).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Liffey Branch and Long-
ford Deviation).

THE RICHMOND RAILWAY.—The works upon this
line of railway, for which Mr. H. Brill is the contractor, are rapidly
approaching completion, and there is little doubt of the line being
opened throughout in June. The line is six miles in length, and is
almost a dead level from Richmond to Barnes Common, where it
rises a few feet, and then a cutting commences, which deepens as it
approaches Putney, under the High-street of which it passes, the old
road being connected by a flat iron bridge, which is now in course of
construction. Between Richmond and Putney nearly three miles of
permanent way are completed, and the rails are laid down. The
.ireatest engineering difficulty was the crossing of the osier beds, which
ore considerably below the level of high-water mark, and a mere de-
FOSIt of mud to the depth of mane feet. Over these beds and the
Wandle, as well as other streams, twenty-two arches were to be
erected, and of these all hut one have been completed. Two of the
bridges are seventy feet span, and of very handsome appearance.
n earth embankment succeeds these arches, and the railway is con-
tinued along it until it joins the South-Western Railway at Falcon-
hridge, Battersea. This latter portion of the line has been completed
-ome time, and on Monday numerous platelayers commenced fixing
the rails.

FRENCH RAILROADS.—The Journal des Chemins de
Per announces that the Minister of Public Works had declared his
intention not to concede this year the railroad between Lyons and
\Joutins. The administration of the Bordeaux road was waiting
until the Orleans Company should have organised Its summer service
to work the section comprised between Tours and Orleans. The
road will not, consequently, be opened before the 15th inst. The
municipal body of St. Quentin voted, on the 29th. a resolution to
the effect of calling on the Ministry to present, without delay, to the
Chambers, a project of law authorising the Government to concede
the prolongation of the Creil and St. Quentin Railway, as far as Belgium,
to the Company which had demanded that concession. The Assembly
had, however, appointed a committee, of which Mr. Cordier, was a
member, to whom it had given inn powers to take steps necessary
to forward that object. The receipts of the Orleans line during the
week ending on the 31st ult., amounted to 150,730 f., and these of the
first quarter of 1846 to 1,745,633 f. The Rouen and Paris road pro-
duced during the same week, 142,648 f., and during the last quarter
1.692,888 f. The receipts of the latter in March, 1846, exceeded by
154,600 f„ those of the corresponding month of 1845. The Journal
des Debats announces that the Government was preparing to
lay before the Chambers some new projects of law relative
to railroads, and that the Chamber of Deputies would in
a few days enter upon a discussion relative to several.,
Ibis
east lines. Thus," observes the above j°"al'
east enterprise of 'public interest, followed up with energy and suc-
cess during preceding sessions, will, in the course of the present year,
be finally brought to a conclusion in the Chambers. The system of
railroad communication will be nearly complete, and in fhture it will
merely be necessary to form certain branches. The new railroads
which are to be laid before the Chambers are four in number—namely,
the two sections of the Vierzon line, which were mentioned in the
law of the 11th June, 1842, but the plans of which were not suffi-
ciently advanced, and which will extend, the one from Chateauroux
to Ligomes, and the other from Bee Allier to Clermont ; thirdly, the
Normandy line, which will connect Caen, and eventually Cherbourg,
with Paris; and, lastly, a line from the Saone to the Marne or from Gray to Vitry." ,
QUICK WORK.—Mr. Hudson has summoned his
co-shareholders in the Midland Railway Company to meet at Derby,
so Saturday, May 2, to give their approval to twenty-six railway
Bills which that Company has now in Parliament. The following
Monday, at ten o'clock, the York and North Midland Railway pro-
prietors are required to meet him at York for the purpose of having
submitted for their approval six Bills, and also to confirm certain
deeds and agreements affecting the Manchester and Leeds and Hull
and Selby Railway Companies. A quarter of an hour is allowed for
this. A,. a quarter past ten the Hon. Member for Sunderland meets
the Newcastle and Darlington Company to consider and approve
even Bills in Parliament and certain agreements. These are to be
decided by half-past ten, when the chairman of the north and south
lines is to officiate as head of the Newcastle and Berwick. We should
not be surprised to find the Hon. Member taking his seat in the House
of Commons in the evening of the same day, having obtained between
the rising of the House on Friday and its sitting again en Monday,
the assent of the proprietors to ten millions of railway property to
forty Bills in Parliament. —Railtra7 Record.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.—The, works
in this neighbourhood are progressing with considerable rapidity, the
very favourable state of the weather having enabled the spirited
contractor, Mr. Mackay, to proceed without intermission through
the winter. Near the site of the station, however, a very formidable
obstruction has presented itself, in the shape of a huge whinstone
rock, extending across the entire breadth of the line; but even this
is fast disappearing, and from present appearances, there is every
probability that this portion, at all events, of the line will be ready at
the specified time. A locovnetive engine has been placed on the line
south of this to assist in forwarding the operations.—Berwick Warder.
RAILWAY LABOURERS' STRIKE.—The greater rum-
ber of the labourers employed on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
at and in the neighbourhood of Penrili, who lately struck work in
consequence of the contractors demanding 10% hours' work per day,
xclnsive of meal times, instead of 10 hours' daily labour, have re-
sumed their work, agreeing to the demand of the contractors, with-
out an advance of wages.
. Tor, BRICKLAYERS' STRIKE AT BIRMINGHAM.—The
workmen employed in the above trade have refused the offer of the
Masters, which appeared in The- Sun of yesterday.
We have to announce the demise of Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir Thomas Stephen Soren, KM., her Majesty's Consul-
General to the Austrian Italian states, who expired on the 24th ult.
at Venice, at the age of seventy. lie had been Consul-General at
Venice since 1834, having filled a similar office at Corunna from
MO to 1832, and at Oporto from 1832 to 1834. His rank of Lieute-
nant-Colonel, we should add, was of a local nature, and confined to
the continent.
A grand ball in aid of the " Distressed Needleivomen's
Society," is, we understand, to take place on the 24ih inst., at Al-
mack's Rooms, St. James's. Many noble and influential names are
among the patrons on the ace anion; and we trust that the result may
be such as to reflect increase d honour on their exertions, and to add
liberally to the means of the Bociety. The object is a most laudable one.
The Countess of Wilton and family arrived early on
Monday morning at the 111 ickwall pier, by the General Steam Na-
vigation Company's steam-4 hip Wilberforce, after a pleasant passage
of 19 hours Crop Antwerp.