The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

Yesterday, in Mr. Scholefield's Committee, the
bill of the Swansea and Neath Railway, after
nearly a fortnight's inquiry, was declared proved.
The general traffic evidence having been concluded
in the committee on the North Somerset Railway,
the engineering evidence will be taken to-day. :Mr.
Hope Scott, Q,C,, has to reply in the case of the
competing lines of the Newcastle, Derwent, and
Weardale Railway and North Eastern Railway,
and the committee will decide upon it to-day. The
bill of Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock
Company, for powers to construct branch railways
to Bolton and the Maryport and Carlisle, at Wig-
ton, at an estimated cost of £52,000, occupied the
entire day in Mr. Hassard's committee. The com-
mittee on the Metropolitan Railways were occupied
all the sitting in considering the insertion of pro-
visions into the North London Railway Company's
bill, making it incumbent on the company to run
a train for the labouring classes every morning and
evening between the Liverpool-street (City) station
and Kingsland, Sundays, Christmas-day, and Good
Friday excepted, at one penny per passenger per
journey, the Board of Trade, in the event of com-
plaint, having power to regulate the arrangements.
An application was made on behalf of the parish of
Shoreditch for the insertion of clauses to enable
them to transmit all the cinders, breeze, ashes, and
refuse of the district, now carted away by contrac-
tors, by the North London Railway, and have it
discharged at any of the stations ; but finding no
precedent for this in previous railway legislation,
the committee declined to entertain it. The com-
mittee, of which the Duke of Buccleuch is the chair-
man, passed the Penarth Railway and Dock Bill,
The case of the Oswestry and Newtown Railway,
for power to construct additional lines in the
counties of Montgomery and Salop, and to connect
their line with the Shrewsbury and Welchpool and
Severn Valley Railway, was opened in Earl St.
Germans' committee, and general and engineering
evidence adduced.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

SHEFFIELD-JUNE IS.

A very short supply of English wheat to-day, with a
dull trade. The better descriptions sold at 6d to is per
load lower than the prices of last week; inferior samples
were in little request. Barley is lower. Flour unchanged
in price. Beans and oats at former prices, with a dull in-

Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels...24s Od to 28s Od
White 7/ 7, ...258 Od to 28s Od
New red • 9 7, ...20s Od to 22s Od
New white „ ...22s Od to 26s Od
Beans 77 77 ...16s Od to 18s Oct
Peas, per qr s4s Od to 55s Od
Grinding barley, per qr
Malting ditto, „ 3ss Od to 43s 04
Oats 2ss 6d to 34s Oct
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Millers' prices for flour-2s 2d, 2s 4d, and 2s 7d per
141 b.

NEWARK—JUN-1z 19.
Only a moderate supply of wheat at market to-day,
the trade in which was quiet, and former prices gave way
2s per qr. Barley inactive, in favour of the buyer. Oats
in small supply, and met a slow inquiry, at is under late
rates. Beans were scarce, and an inactive demand.
White wheat, new, 65s to 70s Barley, grinding. 229 s to 33a
Red do. 6os to 65s Oats, old, .. 26s to 333
Old white 6ss to 708 New do —s to -S
Red do 5OB to 60s Beans.. 56s to 58s
Barley, malting 38s to 42s Beans,' new 44s to 48s
Peas, ....40s to 50s,