The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

(From the Wall-Street Journal.)

The first meeting of the Boston and Albany Rail-
road Company, formed by the consolidation of the
Boston and Worcester and the Western Railroads,
was held in Boston, on October 21. Judge B. F.
Thomas presided, and the following gentlemen were
chosen directors :—Chester W. Chapin, Josiah
Stickney, Ignatius Sargent, James D. Colt, Daniel
Denny, Ginery Twichell, D. Waldo Lincoln, and
William Claffin. A list of byelaws was adopted,
ordered to be printed, and the clerk instructed to
send a copy to each stockholder.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.—Ground was
broken on October 15 on the southern branch of
the Union Pacific Railroad at Junction City, Kan-
sas. Appropriate speeches were made by Colonel
Goss, president of the road, the Mayor of Junction
City, and others. A banquet was given in the
evening by the city authorities, at which Major-
General Grierson, General Blunt, ex-Governor
Carney, Colonel Shomaker, and others spoke. The
work will be pushed forward vigorously. A sur-
veying party, under Major Beach, left Fort Gibson
on the following day to begin work on that part of
the road.

RAILROAD PROJECTS IN MAINE.—The various
railroad enterprises in Maine are progressing finely.
The survey of the Knox and Lincoln Road will be
commenced shortly. The Board of Directors have
been ehosen, of which Oliver Moses, of Bath, is
President. 'The total amount of subscription has

reached nearly $400,000. The Eastern terminus o:
this road is at Rockland, and the Western at Bath.
Already one survey of the Belfast and Moose-

head Lake Road has been made as far as New-
port, and another survey is in progress which is
to intersect the first survey about ,twenty miles
this side of Newport. The survey of the Ban-
gor and Piscataquis Road will be entered upon
in about three weeks. It will go to Dover, con-
necting at Milford. This road, as well as the pre-
ceding one, penetrates a region rich in material re-
sources. the line from tide-water at Winterport
to Bangor, the necessary link to give Bangor a
winter outlet, 11A8 ben subjected to a preliminary
reconnoissance.. The work of laying a portion of
the track on the European and North American

Road will be shortly commenced at Bangor, and it
is expected that the road to Milford will be open to
the public before many months. Grading ou the
Dexter and Newport Road is rapidly approaching
completion, and the work of laying the rails will, be
commenced before many weeks. The survey of the
Portland and Ogdensburg Road is going forward
with activity. The energy and spirit with which
these various subjects are characterised promises an
early success.

THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The United
States Commissioners have completed the inspection
of the section of the Central Pacific Railroad west
of Cisco. They carefully examined the grades, cul-
verts, bridges, &c., which they pronounce to be
twenty-five per cent. better constructed than any
portion of the road before accepted. Over this
section already four miles of roofing had been com-
pleted, and two and a half miles of additional roof-
ing will be built this fall. After a thorough inspec-
tion the commissioners unanimously recommended
the Government to accept the road. The corn=
missioners next commence:a primary inspection of
the road two miles east of Cisco. From Coburg's
Station cars are running eastward eight and one
half miles ; and construction trains are laying the
track at the rate of a mile and a half daily. In
thirty days the section will be completed. The in-
termediate section over the summit will not be
finished for transportation purposes until early in
the spring, although the company expect to lay the
track before winter. By August next cars will be
running to Tuckee River, near Crystal PeAk, while a
considerable portion of the road will be graded to-
wards llumboldt.

The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company
completed, on the 15th of September, the connect-
i❑g link between what was formerly known as the
M'Gregor Western and the Minnesota Central
Railroads. Regular trains of cars will commence
running over this line from M'Gregor to Minnea-
polis and St. Paul on the Ist of November. The
completion of this link connects the Minnesota sys-
tem of railroads with the East, and trains of cars
can now run by connected rail, via Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad, from the city of New York as
far north-westerly as St. Cloud, in Minnesota, about
1,500 miles.

There is now a continuous railroad communica-
tion between Chicago and St. Paul. The last rail
in the chai❑ was laid at Adams, Mower County,
Minnesota, on Monday. The distances by the new
route are as follows :—Chicago to Prairie du Chien,
235 miles; Prairie du Chien to St. Paul, 482 miles.
OMAHA, Oct. 28.—The five hundredth mile of
the Union Pacific Railroad was made yesterday,
and 17 miles more will carry the track to Che-
yenne, at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains.
The difference in the settlement of the accounts
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, the for-
mer being the lessee of the latter, was brought to a
conclusion October 29. The amount in dispute was
originally $1,400,000. Committees of the respec-
tive companies have been negotiating the matter
for nine months, and their conclusion has at length
been accepted as mutually satisfactory. By the
terms of settlement the Pennsylvania Company
become 3, next to the City, the largest stockholder
in the Philadelphia and Erie Company.

Tlic " Allegheny Valley Railroad " i 3 nearly
completed, and trains will run on it about the
middle of November.

RAILROAD ENTERPRISE IN CONNECTICUT.— A
number of railroad enterprises, which promise to be
of great advantage to Connecticut, are being pushed
just now with an earnestness that indicates success.
The great Air Line route, which shortens the dis-
tance between New York and Boston twenty-seven
miles, is only retarded by a Hartford opposition
that cannot long prevent the consummation of the
enterprise. It is the most important route in the
State which is yet unbuilt.
On Friday the citizens of Middletown voted, in
town meeting, by 371 yeas to 92 nays, to loan the
road $200,000, and this vote, it is said, will secure
the construction of the road from the New Haven
depot to the east bank of the Connecticut at ik lid-