The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

There is ev,ry prospect that the telegraph between
New York and Boston \vitt be completed as fur as
New Haven by the time the next steamship arrives at
Boston.

Snow in the United Stater, appears to have been fall-
ing in such quantities as material!), to impede the traffic
of the main lines.

TOURS AND NANTES.—The works on this line are
urged with such activity, that the section from Tours to
Saumur is likely to be finished in a year. The road-
way and the stations are being constructed at the same
time.

BORDEAUX AND BAYONNFL---The conferences which
have taken place between the military engineers and the
agents of the pont3 a chaussees, on the subject of the
direction to be taken by this line, were brought to a
termination on Monday. The result is, that the line is
to quit the railway from B irdeaux to the Mediterranean
at Podensac, follow the Valley of the Ciron, and cross.
the great plain of the Landes, to arrive at the Mont-de-
Marsan. Quitting that city, the line will follow the
course of the Midouze, reach the right bank of the
Adour, and arrive at Bayonne near the fortifications.
THE SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.—A petition
to Parliament in favour of this line, :-.a)s our Birming-
ham correspondent, was laid before the ironmasters'
meeting at Birmingham on Thursday, and signed by all
the ironmasters of the district through which the line
will pass.

PERTH AND INVERNESS.—WINDING UP.-At
meeting of the subscribers, just Le!d at Perth, it was re-
solved—" That the altered ,state of the money market,
and of the general circumstances of the country since
this scheme was projected, render it eminently advisable
that the same should not be further proceeded with in
the meantime, but that the deposits, less the expenses,
should be immediately returned, and all parties freed
from their obligations up to this date, leaving to the
scripholders a preference in the scheme should it after-
wards be resumed."
Within the la.t few weeks (says the Doncaster Gazette)
Messrs. Flower and Co., of Gainsborough, wharfingers,
have established a regular steam communication between
Gainsborough and London. The railways had nearly
deatroj ed the legitimate trade of Gainsborough by di-
vertiug the traffic into other channels.
The directors of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield
have resolved not to wind up the concern at present, but
to return IL per share forthwith to the shareholders.
The Sheffield and Manchester are about to commence
their locomotive establishment at Gorton.
The clause to be proposed by Mr. Hudson, after
Easter, to be inserted in all railway Acts, provides that
registered shareholders, "at a meeting called for the
purpose of dissolution, at which meeting three-fifths of
the registered proprietors shall be present, either per-
sonally or by proxy, shall be enabled to dissolve, having
given full compensation to all landowners for any losses
which they may have sustained from the operation of
the Act."
WINDING-UP.—There are vigorous efforts now being
made at Birmingham on the part of the shareholders in
several of the lines projected last year, and now in pro-
gress through Parliament, to get the directors to with-
draw them for the present and wind-up. A great num-
ber of sharehclders in the Direct Leicester have already
signed a memorial to the directors to call a meeting of
subscribers with a view to close the business of the
e .ncern.

HIGHLAND ROAL) and BRIDGES.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, AND
BURGESSES, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
The Thirty-Second Report of the Commi-sioners ap-
pointed for the purposes of an Act passed in the 59th
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George
111., intituled, " An Act to repeal two Acts, made in
the 54th and 55th years of his present Majesty, for
maintaining and keeping in repair certain Roads and
Bridges in Scotland ; to provide more effectually for
that purpose, and fur Regulation of Ferries in Scot-
land."
The highlands of Scotland have been almost entirely
exempt from snow during the past winter, and few of
the casualties ordinarily attendant on the breaking up
of the frost have occurred. The wear and tear of the
general surface of the roads has somewhat exceeded the
average ; but the whole, with the exception of the Loch-
side road (which the floods have repeatedly covered with
rubbish, not yet removed), are stated to be now in good
travelling order.
In the county of Inverness the Fairy bridge, on the
Stein road (which fell in 1844), and a heavy breast wall,
near Coran Ferry, on the Fort William road, which was
carried away in the past season, have been rebuilt. On li
the Badenoeh road the expenditure of a further sum of
3601., between Aviemore and the Bridge of Carr, has
rendered this portion as safe and convenient as any part
of the Highland line.
The "Improvement " tolls on the Invermorriston road
have been applied, to the amount of 3221., in widening
the bridges of Ruskie and Aberiachan, in building
parapets, removing prominent points of rocks, and in-
creasing the width of the road-way, principally between
Ruskie Ince and Strone Castle. On the Fort William
road much has been done (at a cost of 1991.) by rock
cutting and embankment along the shore of Loch Eil,
between Corran Ferry and Fort William. In Strath-
glass (Beauly road) has been effect, d an alteration in-
volving much labour and expense of rock cutting through
the steep and dangerous hill adjoining the well-known
scenery of " The Dream." On the South Boleskine
road, the produce of the " Improvement" toll, which has
hitherto been suffered to accumulate, has been directed
to be appropriated at a pass where frequent accidents
have occurred, near Aldonrie.
From the surplus tolls on the Fort George road, a
further sum of 300/. has now been directed to be handed
over to the county trustees, making 9701. paid in reduc-
tion of the original debt.
In Ross-shire the Milnain bridge, on the Contin road,
and the breast-wall near on the Kintail road
(which fell in 1844), have been rebuilt: the Conan bridge
approaches further improved ; and an important altera-
tion at the Logie bridge, near Tain, has been completed.
Upon the application of the county, agreed to at their
meeting of the 30th of April last, the Commissioners
have consented to add to their charge the High-street
of Tain, so far as it is in the line of the Parliamentary
road ; and having received satisfactory certificates of
their state of repair from their principal inspector, they
have now assumed the care of the streets of the royal
burghs of Dingwall and Tain, as well as Fort Rose.
In Sutherland and Caithness no outlay for other than
ordinary repair has been made.
In Argyllshire a portion of the Glenco road has been
satisfactorily improved, and will be open to travellers in
the coming summer ; but in conlormity with the ex-
pressed desire of the county, the larger portion of the
works necessary to render the communication south-
ward of Balachelish safe and convenient, were postponed.
Their gradual execution will however, be kept in view.
It has been found necessary to widen the approaches
to Craig Ellachie bridge (Morayshire), and the whole of
the timber and iron-work of the bridge has also been re-
pair d and painted.
The total expense of repairs of 1845, to which the
assessment is applicable, independently of the works ex-
ecuted from the produce of the " Improvement " tolls
above mentioned, has been 9,6041. 6s. 7d. ; but in this
expenditure are included the works of which the Com-
missioners here annex the particulars and amount of the
cost ; considering them as extra works, to be distin-
guished from ordinary repairs:—
INVERNESS-SHIRE.
1. Extra expense on the Lochnagaul and .£ s. d.
Lochyside roads, caused by carriage
of materials for repair of Caledonian
Canal ... ... 51 12 4
2. Repairs to timber bridge at Laggan,
East Laggan road ... ... 28 810
3, Rebuilding Fairy Bridge, Stein road 55 12 7
4. Railways on Beauly road ... 76 8 8
5. Repairing damage by floods on Fort
William road ... 111 2 2
6. Improvements between Carr Bridge
and Aviemore, Badenoch road ... 360 6 2
ROSS-SHIRE.
7. Rebuilding Milnain Bridge, Contin
road ... . . 248 8 9
8. improvement at Logie Bridge, Inver-
gordon road ... 317 1 2
9. Ditto et Conan Bridge, Dingwall road 89 14 4
10. Rebuilding Breast-walls, Kintail and
Glen Shiel roads ...
MORAY AND BANFF.
If. Repairing and painting Craig Ellachie
Bridge, and improving approaches ...
ARGYLLSHIRE.
.2. Improvements on Glenco road, and re-
pair of damage from floods ...
3. Building Breast-walls, Glenco road ..

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