The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-25 00:00:00

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL. ENGINEERS.

At the annual general meeting of the institution of
civil en7ineers—G. B. Bidder, Esq., in the chair—the
report of the council for the past session, which was read,
stated, that since the corresponding period of the last
year, though political tranquillity had been restbred,
the monetary crisis consequently upon the large public
expenditure, occasioned by a state of warfare, bad re-
tarded the resumption of works of public and private

enterprise.
Same few of the foreign works in progress were then
noticed ; mentioning particularly the successful opening
and the extension of the East India Railway, under Mr.
Rendel, the late distinguished past-president of the

institution. In connection with this subject, it was
stated that the honour of knighthood had been confer.
red upon Mr. Macdonald Stephenson, Assoc. Inst. C.E ,
who originally proposed, and had carried out the first
portions of the vast network of railways, which was
destined to work such a revolution in the Indian empire.
A similar distinction was, at the same time, conferred

upon Dr. O'Sbaughnessy, the energetic projector, and
constructor of a system of electric telegraphs
extending over nearly 4,000 miles, through dense
jungle, or over the vast plains, rivers, and mountains
of India. The Indian Peninsular Railway, construct•
ing by Mr. James Berkley, M. Inst., C.E.,
under the direction of Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P., presi•
dent, had now about 100 miles open, and the great work
of extension up to Sholapoor, and through the Bhore
Ghaut, was now fast progressing; whilst the execution of

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