The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-30 00:00:00

STAND PLATE.

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Eight ran.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly general meeting of this company was
held this afternoon, at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-
bridge, Mr. James Byng, deputy-chairman presiding.
The meeting was also ma-le special to reQolve "if the
meeting should so think fit and determine, under the
authority of an act paqsed in the present session of Par•
liament, that the borrowed monies of the company, or a
portion thereof, secured by mortgages or bonds, not ex-
ceeding two millions sterling, may be coverted into stock
of the company of the like amount, either by agreement
with the holders of such mortgages or bonds respectively
before the same respectively become due, or by paying
off the same respectively when due, and issuing stock
of a corresponding amount instead of re-borrowing the
sum so paid off, and to attach to any stock ■o created a
fixed and perpetual redeemable or irredeemable yearly
dividend or interest at any rate not exceeding the rate
of four pounds for every one hundred pounds thereof,
payable in equal half-yearly portions as may also be
thought fit and be then determined or authorised."
The report and accounts were taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN having read a letter received by him
from Mr. Rich, resigning the chairmanship of the
company, which, he said, accounted for him taking the
chair on the occasion, said the accounts for the half•year
were encouraging, and if they approved of the amount
of dividend ❑awed in the report, the warrants should be
issued immediately. Notwithstanding the extra expenses
during the half-year for coke, &c., there had been au
increase of receipts. The directors contemplate no
further extensions or branches—(hear)—and he was of
opinion they would best promi.te the interests of the
company by giving their best attention to the extension
of the traffic on the present constructed lines. He
moved the reception and adoption of the report.
Mr. TxuLoN seconded the motion.

Mr. BARROW drew the attention of the meeting
to the manner which railway property had been
treated by the Legislature, remarking that the
South-Eastern Railway bad been unwarrantably
a.sailed and- shamefully treated by the Legislature.
If the Legislature gave railways its fostering care
instead of opposition, railway property would be
improved and the public benefitted by a reduction of
fares and rates of carriage. It was impossible for the
officers of the company to pay due attention to the in-
terests of the company free having so continually to
appear before the Legislattre, and moved a resolution that
this meeting views with the utmost alarm the action of
Parliament.on the railwaypruperty of the country, espe-
cially towards the South•tasteru Railway, the effect of
which was to bear u►ijusty and depreciate railway pro-
perty without a corresponting benefit to the shareholders
or the public, and that the directors use all constitu-
tional means to obtain that, redress for railway property
it was entitled to.

The CHAIRMAN suugested the report should be ap-
proved of first, and then the hon. shareholder's resolu-
tion could be put to the ranting.

Mr. HOGES called attention to a remark in the report
stating, "That on the whole the working of the line for
the last half-year may be regarded as satisfactory."
Although he must admit there was an improvement in
the working of the line, be dii not think it sufficient to
warrant so strong an expression as that contained in the
report.

Mr. G. SMIrI called attention to the falling off of the
traffic on the Greenwich line, amounting to 1,7581. com-
pared with 1854. He also adverted to the expenses
under the head of omnibus.

[We will give the conclusion in our next edition.]

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DAY.)

MANSION•HOUSE.

Frederick Vane Cooper, the man who was remanded
from Monday, charged with attempting to obtain 133.
6d. from Mr. Cooper, artist, London-bridge, was again
placed at the bar, before the Lord Mayor.
The prisoner, it will be recollected, represented himself
to Mrs. Cooper as a reporter, arid deor.A..l 13s. 6d.
from her to keep nut of the newspapers a charge that he
said had been preferred the day before at one of the po-
lice courts against her husband, the publication of which
would much disgrace bim.

His conduct on the former examination was so strange
that he was remanded, to entble the prison surgeon to
examine him as to the state )f his mind.

When planed at the bar thi► morning he bahaved in the
same incoherent manner ai co the former occasion, and
stated he had written t a M.P. ralattve to the charge
but bad received no answer.

His Lordship said he had received the following cer
tificate from the prison surgeon relative to the prisoner's
state of mind :- -

" I hereoy certify that I rave seen and conversed with
Frederick Vane Cooper six times since his admission
into the gaol of Newgate, aid it is illy opinion that hs.
is of unsound mind.

"JOHN ROWLAND GIBSON,
" August 30, 1855." Surgeon.

The prisoner was again remanded.
Several men, women, anC children were fined in small
sums, or two days' imprisonment each, for obstructing
the public thoroughfares .n the crowded parts of the
city, by selling fruit, &c.

ROBBERT.—Hannah Fitzpatrick and Mary Murray
were charged with stealing 10/. from a sailor, named
James ThompQon. About three weeks since the pri-
soner were seen changing rioney in Seething-lane, and
afterwards toithrow a purse down the area of one of the
houses in the lane. The parse had since been recovered.
The prosecutor gave information of his loss to the
police, and front his descri)tion of the females who
robbed him police•constable 588 apprehended the pri-
soners.

They were remanded till Saturday for the attendance
of the prosecutor.

BOW-ETREET.

EMBEZIMENT.— A respectably-dressed young man,
named George Pamphilon, aged 21, lately in the employ.
ment of Mr. Maple, the er,ensive upholsterer and furni.
ture dealer, of Tottenham-court-road, was placed at the
bar this morning, charged with embezzlement.
From the evidence of a boy, named Payne, who
acted as the cashier, it appeared that the prisoner was
lately in the employ of Mr. Maples, in the capacity of
porter, at a weekly salary of es., and that on Tuesday last,
the 28th, he was entrusted with a parcel, containing a
pair of blankets, a bolster, and several other articles,
which had just been purchased by a lady named Ander-
son, residing at 42, Upper Gower-street, for delivery.
The goods arrived safe at the residence of Mr. Ander-
son, and the bill, amounting to 1/. 16s. 4d., was handed
over to the prisoner, who gave a receipt for the amount.
Instead of proceeding home, as he ought to have done,
with the money, he absconded with it, and he
had noc been bearl of until he was taken
into custody. It was a rule in their e.tablishment that
any person receiving /Toney in payment for goods was
td immediately hand itover to him as cashier. He was
not empowered to Rive the prisoner credit for the
amount, neither did he do so.
Mr. Hall—Where is Airs, Anderson? It is stated
that she p.tid the prisoner the amount with which he
afterwards absconded.
The detective officer who apprehended the prisoner
stated that he had been to her residence this morning,
and she declined to OW forward unless compelled to do

rape! the lady to attend. I shall
SO.
Mr. must 05
direct a warrant to issue to that effect, and in the mean•
time the prisoner must be remanded till Monday next.
ATTACK UPON A PASTRYCOOK'S SllO/I.—A little ragged
urchin, whose bead scarcely reached above the bar, was
charged with stealing some tarts, awl other articles, the
property of Mr. Buckland, a pastry-cook, residing at the
corner of Wellington.street North.
A beadle attached to Covent Garden Market stated,
that last evening, about 6 o'clock, be saw a crowd of
little boys of a similar description to the one now at the
bar, at the corner of Brydges-street, and from their man-
ner and conversation he thought Covent Garden Market
was the point of attack, and be watched them. The
whole body then in a short time started off, and darted
into the pastrpoook's shop, and each one seized the first
thing that came to hand. He had only time to secure
the primer, who upon being taken into custody threw
the dainties away.
Mr. Buckland stated that he was continually being
robbed in the manner described. The boys watched the
. shop and immediately it was empty they darted in, and
_
made off with the first thing they could lay hold of.
la answer to gr. 1141, .the boy_said hedidpt know