Railways. Return, showing for each railway company the amount of capital and loan which the company has been authorised to raise by acts passed previous to and in 1854; the amount of share capital actually paid up on the 31st day of December 1854, &c. Return of the amalgamation of railway companies effected during 1854; and, return showing the length of each line for which the powers granted by Parliament for the compulsory purchase of the land required for its construction have been allowed to expire without the exercise of such powers, &c., (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no. 494, sess. 1854) [electronic resource].