The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

AN AWKWARD LARK.--Anthony Selani, a tall,
respectable looking man, Ellen Morris, and Emma
Balfour, were placed at the bar charged with steal-
ing a horse and phaeton, the property of Mr. Henry
Vane, of 13, Godliman-street, Doctors'-commons,
bill broker.

After some evidence had been given, the male
prisoner was ordered to find bail and the female
prisoners were discharged.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad, Maine, is
being rapidly built, and over 20 miles have been al-
ready graded.
A proposition for the city of Concord, New Hamp-
shire, to aid the extension of the Concord and Clare-
mont Railroad by an appropriation of $50,000, was
submitted to a popular vote on Saturday, Oct. 10,
and decided in its favour by a large majority.
One fourth of the White Mountain Railroad,
from Littleton to Northumberland, the northern
extremity of the State, has been contracted for.
The following are the officers of the Dover and
Winnipiseogee Railroad for the ensuing year :
President, William Hale ; directors, C. W. Wood-
man, William Hill, John M‘Duffy, Amos Paul, G.
M. Herring, and S. A. Walker.
The survey of the route of the West River (Ver-
mont) Railroad is completed, and it is thought that
the distance from Brattlebore to Jamaica, 27 miles,
can be built for $400,000.
Negotiations long in progress have been consum-
mated whereby the Chicago and St. Paul Railroad
Company have transferred their land grant, road,
assets, &c., to a new company, consisting of the Pre-
sident and leading directors and stockholders of the
Chicago and North-western and Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad Companies. The company have
subscribed to the stock of the company two mil-
lions of dollars, divided among twenty of the capi-
talists connected with the above companies. St.
Paul is regarded as under an implied pledge to issue
the bonds of the city to the amount of $lOO,OOO in
aid. A direct communication between Winona and
the Milwaukee and Chicago lines is already ap-
proaching completion, and Winona has subscribed
$lOO,OOO toward the construction of a bridge at that
point. The building of the hundred miles of road
between St. Paul and Winona will thus supply the
only link necessary to complete an air-line connec-
tion between St. Paul and Chicago.
The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad no longer ter-
minates at Lake Minnetonka, the track having been
extended to Crow River. The Lake Superior road
will reach Wyoming, and the Hastings and Dakota
be constructed to Farmington, before the middle of
November.
Mr. Parks, of Bennington, Massachusetts, con-
templates, in case the Williamsburg and North
Adams Railroad is built to North Adams, to meet it
with his road ; and the Harlem Road is to branch off
at Stephentown and run through Hancock and
Williamstown to Nortb Adams another season—at
least so it is currently reported.
The New Haven and Northampton Railroad
Company is displaying much vigour in its prepara-
tions for running the Canal Railroad after June 30,
1869, when the lease of the New York and New
Haven Company expires. Orders for new locomo-
tives have been given to the Rogers Locomotive
Works of New Jersey; the contract for new
cars, with the Wason manufacturing company,
amounts to nearly 200,000 dollars ; and the day
the New Haven and Northampton Company takes
possession of the road they will run it with new
material throughout. The company is about to
extend the Collinsville branch to New Hartford,
and to build a wharf at deepwater, New Haven,
which will furnish the most ample freighting facili-
ties and steamboat connections with New York,
and a large part of the road in ;Connecticut will be
reconstructed and materially improved. Mr. C. N.
Yeamans, of 'Westfield, superintendent of the com-
pany, has lately been advanced to the position of
vice-president, still keeping, however, his active
superintendency.
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.--Despatches from
San Francisco state that the track of the Central
Pacific Railroad is finished to Reese River Valley,
500 miles east of San Francisco, and about 65 miles
north of Austin. The grading, it is asserted, is
ready for the iron rails 100 miles beyond, and it is
stated that the requisite site grading to Salt Lake
will be done by the 15th of December. The earn-
ings of the railroad for September were $263,000
in gold. In a few days, it is reported that Wells,
Fargo, and Co.'s stages will connect with the rail-
road at Gravelly Ford, on Humboldt River, instead
of Wadsworth. This will shorten the stage route
nearly 200 miles.

The estimated cost of the Monadnock Railroad,
New Hampshire, through its entire distance from the
Cheshire Road at State Line station to Peterborough
(15 miles), exclusive of rolling stock, will be atout
$320,000, as given by careful engineers. Of
this sum Jaffrey- and Peterborough take nearly
$lOO,OOO as corporate towns, while individuals and
manufacturing corporations in the same town will
take another $lOO,OOO.