The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—It is stated that notice
has been given that the portion of this line, extend-
ing from Gloucester to the Chepstow Bridge, will be
ready for the Government inspector on the 12th.
The bridge not having been completed, we under-
stand that the directors have entered into a contract
for the conveyance of passengers over the river.
THE NARROW GAUGE TO BRISTOL.—The Midland
Railway Company appear at last determined to do
away with the break of gauge to Gloucester, by con-
tinuing the narrow gauge from that city to Bristol.
This company, as our readers may remember—after
repeated applications to Parliament, and in spite of
the determined opposition of the Great Western
Company—succeeded in carrying a Bill, empowering
them to run a narrow gauge line of rails along the
present line ; and in order to do this they must buy
a strip of land, from Gloucester to Stonehouse, of the
Great Western Company.—Bath Gazette.
VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY.—Mr. Brunel, the
engineer, has announced to the Railway Commis-
sioners of the Board of Trade that this line will be
ready for the inspection of the Government officer on
the 12th inst. Its public opening will therefore take
place in the course of the following day or so. It
was thought that the recent steps would have de-
layed it, but those difficulties have been overcome.
PROJECTED RAILWAY.—A scheme is now in con-
templation to furnish a more direct line of railway
communication through Upper West Kent and Lower
North Kent than is at present afforded by the South-
Eastern routes. Maidstone is proposed to be on the
contemplated new line. The omnibuses which run 14
times daily between that town and Strood are crowded
every trip, the passengers preferring that route to the
metropolis to the expensive and circuitous journey by
rail via Paddock %%Tood. If a new through line could
be formed, it is said that a branch could be constructed,
and without any large expense, from the Strood ter-
minus of the North Kent to Maidstone.

WINDING UP OE RAILWAYS AND JOINT-STOCK
COMPANIES.—The two important questions connected
with the law of liability on this subject, namely, as to
the validity of calls upon contributories, and as to
whether companies not completely registered come
within the operations of the Act, having yet to be
settled, the whole process of winding .up in that par-
ticular point is at present at a perfect stand still.
RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BET WEEN PIEDMONT
AND SWITZERLAND.—The Patriole Saroisien states
that a company of Swiss, Italian, and English engi-
neers have been studying the best means of opening
a communication by rail, as short as possible, by the
St. Gothard or the St. Bernard. It seems that they
have discovered a passage from the Vallais to the Val
d'Aosta, which will only require a tunnel of three
kilometres.

FLEET WOOD, PRESTON, AND WEST RIDING RAIL-
WAY.—The agreement between this company and the
Preston and Longridge Company proposes that the
shareholders in the latter company shall receive 6-7 ths
of the clear profits of the railway in lieu of the pre-
sent rent charge, and that the shareholders in the for-
mer shall receive 1-7th, the line to continue under its
present management.

- RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA.--A committee
of gentlemen of Louisiana and Mississippi, appointed
for the purpose, have issued a circular, in which they
propose a convention of delegates from the states of
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio,
to unite with the people of Louisiana and New
Orleans, to deliberate upon and concert such
measures as will be likely speedily to influence the
construction of a system of railroads connecting the
Gulf States with those of the west and north-west,
and radiating throughout all the interior. They also
invite delegates from others of the Southern states,
in order more fully to understand the systems of work
projected or being carried out by them, and to co-
operate in the construction of any which may have
an interest joint and common to all. It is proposed
that this convention shall be held on the first Monday
in January next, at New Orleans.

BIG SALMON.—This is really proving a season
likely to be distinguished from past as from future seasons by
the number of salmon of uncommonly large size which it
has yielded. We have already chronicled the cepture of a
fish 451 b., in the Spey; of one 401 b., in the }indhorn ; in
the Beauly one of 291 b. was lately taken with the fly; of
large till in the Moray Firth ; of monsters in the northern
streams, and now, to can all, it is recorded that in a bag net
near Macduft, about a mile and a half from the mouth of the
Peveron, a salmon was caught a few days ago of the extra-
ordinary weight of 531 b. This fish may be looked upon as
the king of the year, for
we suspect a heavier one is not
likely soon to be taken. He was 4ift. in length, and at the
thickest part 2ft. 1-3 d in girth, with a tail spreading 12A
inches. What a pity there should be bag-nets or any other
kind of nets to pick up such fish, and mole especially to inter-
cept them in the sea before they could get into their native
streams !--invernels Courier