The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN LINES.

COLOGNE AND MINDEN.—A letter, dated Cologne
(Prussia), Dec. 17, states that on the morning before
yesterday, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather, the railway from that city to Minden was inau-
gurated. On that occasion the Count de Wittgenstein,
president of the company by which the railway was con-
structed, pronounced a discourse, in which he thanked
the Government. for having overcome the obstacles oppos-
ing the establishment of this line, which, branching to
the railway in full construction in the kingdom of Ilan-
over, will put our province in direct communication with
the Hanseatic towns, with the ports of the North Sea,
and consequently will contribute powerfully to the deve-
lopment of the commerce of all the Rhenish countries.

INCREASE OF IRON WORKS IN FRANCE.—The Echo
de Valenciennes states that the same effect produced in
Belgium upon the forges is felt on the French frontier.
The furnaces of the arrondissements of Valenciennes
and of Avesnes, which were either languishing or extinct,
are renewed, and, moreover, new ones, are being con-
structed. To the third furnace in erection at the Denain
establishment, a second, built at the forges of Berbaimont,
taken by the proprietors of Montalaire, is about to be put
in operation, if it is not so already. M. Dumont, of
Fei riere, also erects ani.ther furnace,"ancl the same is being
done at the establishment of la Providence (Charleroi),
while there are thoughts of doubling them in the north.
The railway fever appears to be the cause of this increase.
PARIS AND LYONS.-When the inquiry opened in
conformity with the law upon the projected plan for the
'direction to be taken by the Paris and Lyons line at its
entrance into Paris, and the establishment of the station
upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, near the Place de la
Bastille, numerous complaints, objections, and protests,
were placed upon the register relative to the suppression
of the Rue Traversiere and to several works of art to be
made upon the Rues Moreau, Mazes, &c. In consequence
of these complaints to the Commission of Inquiry, com-
posed of the Prefect of the Seine, Messrs. Perrior, Ferret,
Moreau, Galio, the Mayor of the Eighth Arrondisse-
ment, and of Messrs. Jullien and Delarue, the engineers,
it has been decided that the terminus, instead of being
built upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, shall be in the
Rue Mazes ; that a square shall be opened in that street,
in face of the station ; that from this place to that of the
Bastille a large and fine street shall be made, if the pro-
prietors will make a gift of the ground ; and that in con-
sequence of these arrangements the Rues Moreau and
Traversilre shall preserve their present state. In conse-
quence of these determinations, sail by decree of the
Prefect of the Seine, another and a final inquiry, which
will last until the 26th, has been opened at the Prefec-
ture of the Seine, where the plan and the deliberations
of the commission d enquete are open for public inspec-
tion.

STRASBURG AND BALE.--In November last the num-
ber of passengers conveyed on the above line was
56,297, and the receipts from that source amounted to
112,088 f. 15c. For the conveyance of luggage 4,046 f.
66c. was received, and for merchandise 54,613 f. 50c. ;
total, 170,7.18 E 31c. Adding to this the sum of 5,904 f.
64c., the receipts of the Mulhouse and Tharm line, the
total returns of the railway amounted in Ihe above-men-
tioned month to 176,652 f. 95c. In the corresponding
month of 1844 the receipts amounted to 171,885 f. Bc.
An ordinance of the King of the French opens for the
Minister of Public Works a credit of 2,000,000 francs,
for loans and grants to the Paris and Rouen, and Rouen
and Havre Railway, Companies.
TOURS AND HONFLEUR.—M. Malachy Daly, banker,
of Paris, has written to several of the Paris paper::, com-
plaining of the statement contained in an English pro-
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PARIS AND VERSAILLES.— PROJECTED WESTERN
LINE (OF FRANCE).—The shareholders in the Paris and
Versailles Railway Company (right bank) held a general
meeting recently, for the purpose of receiving from the
Bdard of Directors an account of the steps taken, con-
formably with the resolutions of the 27th of March last,
to obtain the concession of a railway to the west. The
assembly was composed of more than the number of
shareholders required by the statutes to render the re-
solutions valid. The number of shares represented being
11,970, the meeting was opened and declared regularly
constituted. The various documents relative to the pro-
Ceedings of the directors were then read, and also a re-
port of the steps they had taken, not only with respect
to their agreement with the company of the left bank, but
to the negotiations commenced with the Government,
and the statement submitted to the commission of the
Chamber of Deputies charged with the examination of
the projtt de lei concerning the concession of the Western
y is a good
Railway. The measures taken by the mixed commis.
sion of the two companies, formed of three members from
the left bank and of•two from the right bank, were
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panies. As to the negotiations commenced with the
Government, they had proceeded as far as to the sig-
nature of a convention provisoire, which assured to
the two companies united the direct concession of the
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Western Railway. The ratification by the Chambers
was the sole thing wanting to comelete this convention,
and there is reason to hope that this ratification will be
given in the commencement of the next session, now
that the meeting has accorded to the directors the ne-
cessary powers to treat definitively for the concession of
this line. It was but a matter of form, and of powers de-
clared to be sufficient by the company and declared in-
sufficient by the Commission of the Chamber, which pre-
vented some months ago the conclusion of arrangements
relative to the Western Railway. The Legislative Com-
mission expressed an opinion that it was nenessary that
the two Versailles companies should be dissolved, and
re-constituted one company, in order that the concession
of the Western Railway might be made to them legally.
The companies, on the contrary, thought that they could
offer for the line without changing their present position.
The Chamber did not pronounce upon this point, but as
this question might be raised again in the next session,
the council of the company, in order to guard against
difficulties, required the powers necessary to conclude
definitively, were it even to dissolve the existing com-
pany and form a new one, in the manner explained in
the report of M. Lacrosse. The meeting approved of
the reports made, and gave to the directors the fullest
powers, especially to dissolve the society, if they found
occasion to do so.—From the Journal des Chemins de Fer.
KOENIGSBERG, DEC. 1 I.—By a Cabinet order of the
25th of last month, the King decrees the formation of a
commission for the building of the two bridges over the
Vistula and Vogat, for the Dinshurg and Berlin Railway,

HOSPITAL roH CONSUMPTION, AND DISEASES OF THE
CHEST, BRomprox.—At the meeting of the directors and
committee of the Hospital for Consumpt►on and Diseases of
the Chest, at present located at Chelsea, held yesterday at
the board-room, Great Marlborough-street, it was stated that
her Majesty the Queen had most graciously condescended to
patronise the forthcoming bazaar, to be held in honour of the
opening of the western wing of the new building, now in
course of erection at Brompton. It is stated by the builders
(the Messrs. Birds, of Brook-green, Hammersmith) that the
new hospital will be ready for the reception of patients about
Midsummer next.