The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE LONDON AM) NORTH-WESTERN, AND
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER, AND SHREWSBURY AND
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANIES.—It is rumoured
in a quarter where accurate information generally
circulates, that such a change is likely to take place
in the management of the Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham Railway as Rill, in all probability, put an end
to the unfortunate dispute which has so long existed
between that company and the authorities of the '
London and North-Western Railway. The necessity
of some change in the policy of the two companies—
the Shrewsbury and Chester and the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham—who are associated in opposition against
the London and North-Western Company, would
appear to be self-evident from the fact published
by us a few days since, viz., that the Shrews-
bury and Chester Company absolutely applied
to the Court of Chancery for the committal to
the Queen's Bench Prison of three of the London
and North-Western directors, who, as members
of the Chester general station committee, felt it to
be their duty to oppose the measures advocated by
their opponents belonging to the Shrewsbury and
Chester and Shrewsbury and Birmingham party.
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Chester Company.

WEST INDIA MAIL CONTRACT.
The particulars of the mail contract, recently en-
tered into between the Admiralty and the West India
Steam Packet Company, have just been printed and
published by the Government. According to this
document, the West India and Brazilian form one
contract, which is to commence on the Ist of January
next, and to last 11 years. The company are to
provide 15 wooden steam-vessels; ten of them are to
be of 400, four of 250, and one of GO horse power.
They are to provide also a sailing vessel of 100 tone
burthen. All these vessels are to have lightning con-
ductors, and the commanders, and chief, and second
officers, must have certificates of fitness from the
Board of Examiners appointed by Act of Parliament.
None of the small vessels are to perform the Atlantic
service. The company are to receive 27,0001. a-year
from Government, and the penalties to which they are
liable are 50,0001. for non-performance of the con-
tract ; 5001. for not starting from Southampton at
the proper time ; and 2001. for not starting from any
other port. They are bound to vary, if required, the
route of their vessels employed in the North rind
South Atlantic Oceans, between the latitudes of 27
degrees North, and 37 degrees South, and 20 degrees,
and 97 degrees, 52 seconds, West longitude. They
are to receive Os. 10d. for every additional mile their
vessels are required to perform in the course of a year
beyond 547,296 nautical miles. They are bound to
make improvements in the construction, equipments,
and machinery of their vessels, as the advanced state
of science may suggest. If the packet station is re-
moved from Southampton, they are to receive com-
pensation for the expense of removal, and for dimi-
nution of receipts. In case of war, they are to be
paid extra—that is, in the event of increase of rate
of insurance, and of the freight of coals. But the
extra pay is not to exceed in one year 75,000/., nor
are they to be paid for additional freight on more
tha❑ 75,000 tons of coals annually. They are bound,
if required, to convey as passengers on board each
ship a limited number of officers in the navy, army,
and civil service of her Majesty, and of non• commis-
sioned officers and soldiers, at reduced fares.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—AIaOther Proof of the Effi-
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At length it was decided that Holloway's Ointment and Pills
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AN AMERICAN GASOMETER.—The Philadelphia
Ledger states that the gasometer being put up at the Phila-
delphia gas works will be the largest in the world. It is
built in the telescopic form, with two sections. The di-
mensions are one hundred and forty feet in diameter, by
seventy feet in height, capable of containing one million
cubic tees of gas.