The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

The railway bills introduced this Session, but al-
ready withdrawn, comprise the following :—The
Axholme and Marshland, the Channel Piers and
Ferry, the Gravesend and Farningham, the Hamp-
stead, Holloway, and Kingsland, the Hull, West
Yorkshire, and Lancashire, the Kilburn, the Maccles-
field, Buxton, and Sheffield, the Midland and Great
Western Junction, the Metropolitan (station con-
necting lines No. 1), the Manchester and North
Lancashire, the Melton, Loughborough, and Ashby-
de-la-Zouch, the Penzance and St. Just, the Shrews-
bury and Potteries (extensions), the Waterloo and
Whitehall (extension to Newington Butts), the
Barnet, Hendon, Hampstead, and London, the
Caledonian (Glasgow lines), Caledonian (Greenock
and Gourock), the Caledonian (Stonehouse and
Galaton), the Downs Dock and Canterbury Junc-
tion, the Epsom Downs, the Rosherville, the Wy-
combe, Marlow, and Uxbridge, the Bangor and
Llanberis Direct, the Caledonian (extension to
Largs), the Caledonian (works at Dundee), the
Callington and Central Cornwall, the Fareham and
Netley, the Monnow Valley, the Rostrevor Exten-
sion, the Sedbergh and Hawes, the South Stafford-
shire and London, the Vale of Llangollen, the Ban-
bridge Extension, the Brighton Pneumatic, the
Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction (capital), the
Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, the Glasgow
Union and Suburban, Glasgow and South-Western
(Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Junction), the Great
Northern and Manchester and Sheffield (Haxey and
Goole), the Grangemouth, the Maley, Thorpe, and
Walton, the Navan and Kingscourt (Castleblaney
extension), the Newry and Greenore, the North
Surrey, the Bishop's Castle, the Newry and Ar..
magh, the Pontypool, Caerleon, and Newport, the
St. Bride's Bay, the Tyne Valley, theWensum Val-
ley Extension, the Blyth Valley, the Brecon and
Merthyr Tydvil Junction (amalgamations), the
Caledonian (KilsytA branches), the Caledonian
(Edinburgh and Larbert Junction and ;branches),
the Cambrian (Docks, &c.), the Clapham and Lon-
don-bridge, the Cray Valley, the Great Northern
(Hertford to Stevenage), the Havant, the City,
Kingston, and Richmond, the Hambleford and
Droxford, the Holloway and Metropolitan Junc-
tiou, the Holywell Port, the Middlesborough, Stock-
ton, and Billingham, the Midland and South Wales
Junction, the South-Western and North British
Junction, the Tyne, Wear, and Tees, the Wolver-
hampton and Bridgnorth, the Worksop and Don-
caster, the Dublin, Rathmines, Rathgar, and Rath-
gachan, the Wolverhamton and Walsall, the Shef-
field Buxton, and Liverpool, the Calcutta and
South-Eastern, the Skipton and Ilkley, the Stock-
bridge, the Devon and Somerset (Amendment of
Acts), the Calne, the Bristol and North Somerset
(Southern Extension), the Cambrian (Steamboats),
the Hampstead, Highgate, and Charing-crosA, the
London, Bucks, and Gloucestershire Junction, the
Neath and Brecon, Central Wales, &c. (Amalga-
mation), the Great Eastern, Great Northern, and
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, the Great
Great Northern and Great Eastern Arrangements
(Spalding to Lincoln), the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire and Great Eastern, the Maryport
and Carlisle, the Ross and Tewkesbury, the Wilt-
shire, the Andover, Radstock, and Bristol, the
Cambrian (Amalgamation), the Castle Cary and
Langport, the Salisbury and Dorset Junction, and
the Ely Valley. In all 94 bills thus appear to
have been withdrawn out of 417 deposited,
leaving 323 for consideration. Of these the follow-
ing have already failed in their passage through
Parliament :---The Wimbledon, the Great Western
and Brentford, the Mid-London, the London and
Worthing Direct, the London, Chatham, and Dover
(new lines), the Croydon Direct, the London,
Brighton, and South Coast (Surrey lines), the Lon-
don, Croydon, and Caterham Junction, the Cleve-
don and Portishead, the Hadlow, the Sandown and
Newport (Isle of Wight), the Ardrishaig and Loch
Awe, the Birkenhead and Liverpool Junction, the
Birkenhead and Liverpool, the Bristol and North
Somerset, the Bristol Port Extension, the Cork
Harbour and Curraghbinny Extension, the Craven
Junction, the Crystal Palace and South London
Junction, the Devon and Cornwall, the Devon and
Somerset (Deviations), the London Railways Gas,
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (spuri-
ous Bill), the North and South Wiltshire, the North
Wales, Birkenhead, and Liverpool, the Rochester
Docks (Railways), the Sirhowy (Extension), the
Skipton and Warfdale, the Somerset and Dorset
and Bristol and North Some/set, the Swansea Ge-
neral Station and Hotel, the Tavistock, and Gun-
nislake, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay,
the Balham and Clapham, the Metropolitan and
Epsom, the Swansea and Canal Transfer, the
Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil (northern lines), the
City and London Bridge ; the Croydon, Mitcham,
and Kingston ; the Potter's Bar, Barnet, and Hen-
don Junction ; and the Bromley, Farnborough, and
West Wickham. We have thus a total of 43 Bills
rejected, leaving 280 Bills still pending. Last
year 276 Bills received the royal assent.