The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-10 00:00:00

R.11L117.1Y INTELLIGENCE.

Among the bills which came before the Mas,ia-
chusetts Legislature, was one from Senator Alexan-
der allampden, incorporating the Bennington and
North Adams Railroad Company, with a capital of

$500,000, and under a suspension of the rules it was
passed through its various stages.
After hearing a mass of testimony as to the
claims of rival companies to the ownership of the
Kansas Union Pacific Railroad, the judiciary
committee has decided that it is a question for
the courts, not for Congress, to settle, and dis-
missed the whole matter. The lawyers will now
have their chance for a hand in. Whatever may
be the decision as to ownership of the road, the
Government interest in it is secured by a lien upon
the road itself.

The Lee and New Haven Railroad Corporation
at their annual meeting held at Otis on Wednes-
day, May 23, elected the following directors :
J. E. Field, D. B. Fenn, and H. J. Dunham of
Stockbridge ; W. H. Hill, of Lenox ; S. Johnson,
of Adams ; S. S. Rogers, C. C. Holcomb, and P. C.
Baird, of Lee ; J. S. Eldridge, of Canton, Con. ;
Edward Crane, of Dorchester ; J. E. Sheffield, of
New Haven; William Call and A. Crittenden, of
Otis ; S. C. Parsons, Albert Hull, and Oro Burt,
of Sandisfield. Otis S. Lyman was chosen clerk
and treasurer, J. E. Field was elected president,
and W. H. Hill was vice president. There is a pros-
pect that the road will be built this year.
The new freight depot of the Worcester and
Nashua Railroad at Worcester is completed and
ready for occupancy. The depot is of stone, 400
by 65 feet, cost about $90,000, and is one of the
finest structures of the kind in New England.
By the recent consolidation of the Franklin and
Insulated telegraph companies, the new company
(the Franklin) has six lines from Boston to New
York and four from the latter city to Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and Washington. The president of the
new corporation is T. B. Stearns, of Boston, and the
general superintendent, J. G. Smith, formerly of
New York.

Maine has 573 miles of railroad in operation, and
438 miles in process of construction.

The Portland and Rochester railroad voted on
Friday, May 24, to accept the loan of $700,000
recently offered by Portland, and to mortgage the
road for its security. _ _

The twenty-second annual report of the

Northern Railroad gives the receipts of the year as

$681,301 and expenses $138,301, net earnings
$247,996. The increase in the gross receipts over
those of the previous year was $65,573, and in the
net income $27,023. The bonded debt of the com-
pany was reduced $6,000, and the number of pas-
sengers carried was 149,727.
The shareholders of the New York and New
Haven railroad held their annual meeting at New
haven, on Thursday, at which 44,161 of the 60,000

shares were represented. A movement had been
set on foot to put the rcad in entirely new hands,
but the old board of directors was triumphantly re-
elected, and William D. Bishop, of Bridgeport,
superintendent of the Naugatuck railroad, was
chosen to fill the place in the board made vacant by
the death of E. C. Scranton. It is understood that
he will also succeed to Dlr. Scranton's place as
president.
The legislative committee on railroads is busy
with the petition of the Air Line road to bridge
the Connecticut at Middletown. According to the
testimony of the engineers it will cost about $BO,OOO
a mile to build and stock the road and about
$200,000 to build a low and $500,000 a suspension
bridge.
The legislative railroad committee will not grant
the Norwich and Worcester railroad privilege to
build a track from Norwich to New London, but
will require the New London Northern road to lay
a second track between those places within three
years, or stand aside for their rivals.

The annual catalogue of the Hartford Theological
Institute contains the names of 26 students-2 seniors, 11
middlers, and 13 juniors. The term bills of the institution
amount to only $2 per year, and to each indigent student
$lOO a year io given by the American educational society.