The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-25 00:00:00

UNIVERSAL PRIVATE TELEGRAPH.

A special general meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at their offices, Adelaide-street, Strand.
The notice convening the meeting stated that after the
payment of the dividend there would remain a balance of
£2,373 to the credit of revenue, being £321 more than the
balance carried forward from last March. Mr J. Mellor,
the chairman, presided,
The CHAIRMAN said the directors had thought it their
duty to call the shareholders together for the purpose of re-
commending them to declare an interim dividend at the rate
of 6 per cent. per annum. The directors could recommend
it with confidence, and that would show the shareholders
that there had been considerable energy exercised in the
management of their affairs, which gave promise for an in-
creased dividend in future. There was another question for
the meeting to consider, and that was the honorarium to the
directors. He then moved a resolution authorising the de-
ch:ration of a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum.
jth• F. C. GAUSSEN seconded the motion, and it was car-
unanimousl
ri
Dlr .
MACKEsziE then moved that the honorarium to the
directors bo il.xed at £6OO per annum, and, on the sugges-
tion
itolder, added that the ex pentes of the country
d
AP to attend the meetings be also paid,
directors
ofr a s s
in harehu
comingl
He considered that as they had had the directors' services
for some years without rernuneration that they should now
pay them from the commencOnent.
The CHAIRMAN said they would take it only for,the pre-
sent year.
Mr MACKENZIE said he would theft confine his motion to
the past year. He considered that the use of private tele-
graphs would be like the use of gas, whoa once adopted
they could not be done without.
Mr REID seconded the motion, ant after some discussion
it was carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

A STRANGE STORY.—The Giornale di Napoli
relates the following incomprehensible incident as
having just occurred in that city :—The Princess de Tevra,
Mdlle. d'Avalos, and M. di Quarto, the betrothed of that
young lady, were walking in the Gardens of the Vasto Pa-
lace, when they wero met by M. d'Avalos, uncle of the
future bride. That gentleman, who is greatly oppesed to
the intended union, giving way to a sudden fit of anger, set
a bull-dog by which he was followed on M. di :quarto. The
animal, however, instead of attacking M. di Quarto, ap-
proached the Princess and frisked around her as if to solicit
a caress. M. d'Avalos, rendered more furious at this failure,
struck M. di Quarto in the face with a riding whip. The
letter then drew a pistol from his pocket and fired at 31,
d'Avalos, wounding him severely in the side, while a lady
who was present, a very intimate friend of M. d'Avalos,
fired a pistol at M. di Quarto. The Princess de Tevra and
Mdlle. d'Avalos had in the meantime fainted away. The
Dake d'Avalor, the father of the young lady, then appeared
at a window of the palace looking on the gardens, and en-
deavoured to calm the opponents, begging his brother to
moderate his anger ; but the latter, now more enraged than
ever, took up a double-barrelled gun and discharged it at
the Duke, who was struck in the face by the contents of
one barrel and fell bathed in blood. The police then arrived,
and having ascertained the facts of the incident, arrested
M. d'Avalos, and ordered M. di Quarto to accompany them
to the station. The Duke is confined to bed from his
wounds, and the Princess, who is in an interesting situa-
tion, is likely to have a miscarriage,