The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

GEKILA. N 1.

The new Preussische Zeitung states that the dif-
ferencfs respecting the boundsry lines between the
Dtic'rits of II )Istein and S,:hleswig are likely to be
referred to arbitration to s,itne Government not con-
cerned in the question, and that the selection will be
from the three Governments of Naples, Portugal, and
Spain.

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The Cologne Gazette has been fined 50 thalers for
publitbiog one of Elihu Burritt's " Olive Leaves"
aglinst " Mllitary Potnp." It was ruled to come
within the statute against " turning the measures of
the Government into contempt." The same " Leaf"
has been published at Berlin, and even at Vienna,
without notice.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
PARIS AND LTONS.—It appears that a new con-
cession for the completion of this line is to be granted
on Saturday next. The total capital is to be
8,000,000/. The terms of the concession are, a lease
of 99 years, a guarantee of 4 per cent. per annum
daring 50 years upon the entire capital of 8,000,0001.,
from the completion of the undertaking. At the end
of 1.5 years from the latter event, one-half the net
profits above 8 per cent. per annum will belong to the
State. The payment by the company of 4,400,0001.
to the State as the purchase money of the works from
Paris to Chalons, and the reimbursement of 160,0001.
expended on the works south of Chalons, is to be
made in the following manner—namely, 400,0001. on
receiving the concession, 400,000/. more on taking
the line, 960,000/. at the end of 1852,
remainder 2,800,0001. in annual payments
andpo possession e
thess io n of
c 1853, extending over a period of some
years,
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and chargeable with interest at the rate of 4 per
cent, per annum. The length of the line from Paris
commencing
to Lyons is 325 miles, of which 244 miles, from Paris
to Chalons, have been open for traffic since the Ist of
June last. The remaining portion of the line, from
Chalons to Lyons, 81 miles in lergth, is to be com-
pleted by the new company. The original estimate of
the cost of the entire line amounted to 8,000,0001, but
that amount has been already expended on the section
between Paris and Chalons. The French Govern-
ment has also expended about 160,000/. on the re-
maining section between Chalons and Lyons, which
section, with other matters, is estimated to cost
3,600,0001., including the 160,0001. to be reimbursed
to the State. In order to obtain the extension of the
line to Lyons, the Government intended to concede
the section from Paris to Chalons, upon which
8,000,0001. has been expended, for 4,400,0001., so
that the company will have to provide 8,000,0001.,
of which 2,400,0001. is to be borrowed. The
receipts on the line from Paris to Chalons, since
its opening in June to the 22d of November last,
amounted to 671,1121., being at the rate of
2,820/. per mile per annum. Of the total amount re-
ceived, 509,1121. was for passengers, and but 162,0001.
for goods, in consequence, as it is alleged, of the
arrangements for the latter being imperfect. The
receipts for goods on the Paris and Orleans, the
Paris and Rouen, and the Northern Railways being
about the same as that for passengers, it is estimated
that when the arrangements are completed the gross
traffic on that section will not be less than 3,8401. per
mile, or 936,0001. per annum. The traffic from
Chalons to Lyons is estimated at 2,5601. per mile, or
208,0001. per annum, together 1,144,0001. The
working expenses are estimated at 514,8001., or 45
per cent., leaving 629,200/. per annum as the esti-
mated net revenue, being equal to 9 per cent. on the
proposed capital of 5,600,0001., after paying 5 per
cent. on the '2,400,000/. proposed to be borrowed.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND LANCA-
sautE AND YORISHIRE.—These companies have been
for some years past running trains over their lines
from Manchester to Liverpool in competition, the
trains of each starting at about the same periods of
the day, thereby throwing away much locomotive
power without advantage to the public (except so far
as intermediate station traffic is concerned), but by
an arrangement now entered into they are reducing
their trains by one-half, and starting them alternately
so as to divide the traffic and reduce their expendi-
ture. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, from
the date of this arrangement, the Ist of January, will
also run from the same station as the London and
North-Western—namely, the Victoria Station, in
Manchester.

LONDONDERRY AND ENNISEILLEN.—It appears that
the Exchequer Loan Commissioners have at length
granted a loan to this company of 50,0001, to enable
them to proceed with the extension of the line to
Omagh. The necessary preparations are being made
to let the contract for the works between Newtown-
stewart and Omagh.
UNIFORM OR RAILWAY TIME.—It is proposed, by
means of the electric telegraph, to regulate all the
public clocks throughout the kingdom in accordance
with Greenwich, or railway time. Precisely at noon
the signal indicating Greenwich time, as observed by
the great electric clock in the central station, Loth-
bury, is to be sent over the various lines of wire,
giving at an inappreciable interval the exact time at
every terminus.