The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-14 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the
week ending the 20th of January amounted, for
local passengers, to £4,229 ; for foreign passengers,
to £1,460 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ; for local freight
and live stock, to £11,746 ; for foreign freight and
live stock, to £2,598 ; total, £21,009, against
£21,201 for the corresponding week of last year,
showing a decrease of £192. The total receipts
from the Ist January to the above date amounted
to £64,865, and for the same period last year to
£63,757, showing an increase of £1,105.

RAILWAY BILLS.

The Examiners held courts on ➢Zonday.

Mr. Smith declared the standing orders to have
been complied with in the following cases :—Tot-
tenham and Hampstead Junction ; Bideford, Ap-
pledore, and Westward Ho ; 'Dagenham Dock
(Railways) ; Ilfracombe ; Birmingham and Sutton
Coldfield Extension ; Caledonian (Lanarkshire,
Renfrewshire, and Mid-Lothian Branches) ; Lan-
cashire Union (new lines) ; and the Waterford and
Limerick (arrangements). The standing 'orders
were declared not to have been complied with in
the case of the Shrewsbury. and North Wales (Mei-
fod Valley Extension)._ The Mid-Wales and the
galisbUry and Dorset Junction were postponed until
the 20th inst. There was no appearance entered in
the case of the Sidmouth and Buelleigh Salterton.

In Mr. Frere's Court the standing orders were de-
clared to have been complied with in the following
cases :—Caledonian (Galston and Troon Branches);
Manchester and Stockport, South Essex, Great
Northern and Great Eastern Arrangements (Spald-
ing to Lincoln) ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin•
colnshire ; Teign Valley; and the Greenock and
Ayrshire. No appearance was entered in the cases
of the Great Northern, Manchester, Sheffield and
Lincolnshire (liaxey to Goole) ; Grangemouth
Forth Docks and lines ; South Yorkshire (abandon-
ment,
&c.), and the Wensum Valley Extension.
The consideration of the Birkenhead and Liverpool
Junction Railway. and Road was adjourned. The
standing orders were declared not to have been com-
plied with in the.case of the Dublin, Rathmines, &c.,
and the Bristol Port Extension.
Yesterday, in-Mr. Smith's court, the following
bills complied with the standing orders:—London,
Brighton, and South Coast (various powers), Ely
Valley, Llanelly, and Dublin and Antrim Junction.
There was no appearance entered for the North Sur-
rey. The Langharne was adjourned until the 20th
inst., and the bills of the-Metropolitan and the Liver-
pool Tramways until this day (Wednesday). Mr.
Frere declared the standing orders complied with in
the following cases:—Esk Valley, Forth and Clyde
Junction and North British, North British (St. Mar-
garet's Diversion), North British and Leadburn,
Linton and Dolphinton, North British (Camps, &c.,
Branches), Mid-Kent and South-Eastern, Solway
Junction (capital), Worcester, Bromyard, and Leo-
minster; Stourbridge (Valley of the Stour Exten-
sion), East Norfolk, and the Mersey Pneumatic.
The North British (Stirling, &c., Branches) was ad-
journed until Thursday; the North British (Wishaw,
&c., Branches), St. Bride's Bay, the Birkenhead
and Liverpool Junction, and the London, Chatham,
and Dover, and South-Eastern (Bromley, Farn-
born, and West Wickham) were adjourned until
this day (Wednesday). There was no appeardnce
entered in the case of the Mistley, Thorpe, and Wal-
ton; and the Tamar, Kit-hill, and Callington was
postponed until Monday next.