The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-04 00:00:00

CORNWALL.

The half-yearly meeting of this company waa held
on Saturday at Truro, Mr. M. Williams, M.P., in
the chair.

The report stated that the works at the Royal
Albert Bridge, with favourable weather, may be
completed during the present year ; while the other
works on the line are in such a state of forwardness
that they may be proceeded with comparatively at
leisure. The undertaking is now so far advanced
as to warrant a hope that at the next half-yearly
meeting the time for opening the line from Ply-
mouth to Truro, may be stated with confidence.
The report of Mr. I. K. Brunel, the engineer,
states that during the last half-year the first or
western span of the Saltash bridge had been floated
into place, landed on the piers, and the raising
commenced. Upon the whole of the rest of the
line little beyond the superstructures of the Lie-
keard viaduct, the timber viaducis between Ply-
mouth and St. German's, and the piling and super-
structure of the St. German's viaduct remains to
be completed. The laying of the permanent way
is now about to be commenced.

Resolutions were passed adopting the report of
the directors and engineer.

BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
at Belfast on Friday, Mr. W. R. Anketell in the
chair.

RAILWAY COMPETITION.
The Warrington and Stockport Railway Com-
pany, in pursuance of their Act of 1853, having
powers to run over and to use the Birkenhead
Company's line from Warrington, through Ches-
ter, to Birkenhead, gave notice fast week to that
company that they would commence to run trains
from the Chester station three times each way per
diem, in connexion with their own traffic and the
through trains now running between Liverpool,
Mauehesler, and London. The route into London,
as is well known, is over the Great Northern, Oa
Monday an engine and carriages of the Stockport
Company, in pursuance of this notice, took their,
place in the Chester station for the purpose °I
starting to London at a-quarter to nine o'clock is
the morning, the time advertised for the first trains
when the station superintendent accompanied by
two solicitors, warned the driver that he was
trespassing, and desired him to leave the station;
This he declined to do without his passengers, and
a passenger having entered one of the carriages 110
prepared to depart, but then found a rail had beer:
removed, and that the exit from the station Wat
barred by signals. Subsequently, however, ab°,ll
9.50 a.m., the rail having been replaced, the
csig-
nals were withdrawn, and the train was
to depart for Warrington. The return train from
Warrington on its arrival was shunted on to a siclin,g9
but ultimately this train was allowed to takof! 0
place at a side platform, and discharge its passe""
gers. Since this time the trains have been
to start regularly, and thus a new through route
,
there and
from Chester to London has been opened, by which
passengers tau make the journey alloweds
back at
21s. first class, and 12s. 6d. second class, three timed
per day, in six hours and a quarter 9 while the Lon-
don and North-Western and the Great Western
fares remain at the previous sums.