The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

LLANELLY.

The half yearly meeting of this company was hold
on Friday at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriars,—Mr. S. Biddulph in the chair.
The report stated that the revenue for the half
year ending December 31 amounted to £16,910,
and the working expenses, including the hire and
purchase of waggons, to £9,146, leaving a balance
of £7,764, to which was added £36 from the pre-
ceding half year, making £7,800. After payment
of £3,351 for interest on debentures and rent of Vale
of Towy Railway, £4,449 remained for dividends,
out of which it was proposed to pay £1,883.f0r divi-
dends at the rate of 5 and 6 per cent. per annum on
the A and B preference shares respectively, and
£2,462 on the ordinary stock, being at the rate
of £1 ss. per cent., making, with per cent.
declared in July last, a dividend of 2-1- per
cent. on the ordinary stock for the year 1863, leav-
ing a balance of £lO4. The income of the company
in 1862 was £30,772 as compared with £31,658 in
1863, showing an increase of £BB6. The rent pay-
able to the Vale of Towy Railway Company bad
been increased from 2 per cent. to 3 per cent. per
annum on the share capital, in accordance with the
terms of the lease. The progress of the works on
the Swansea and Carmarthen lines had been much
retarded by unfavourable weather, but now several
portians of the Carmarthen line were ready for the
permanent way, the laying of which had been com-
menced. The capital expended on the original line,
28-1, miles in length, amounted to £358,438 ; on the
Swansea line to £131,023; and on the Carmarthen
line to £95,765.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said that, although there had been a falling
off in their coal carrying trade of 16,000 tone,
there had been an increase in the passenger
traffic. Several new linos had been projected,
which, if carried out, would probably do them a
great deal of good, eNlecially the ORO from Llandilo
to Lampeter. A proksal had been made by the
Llanelly Harbour Commissioners for the enlarge-
ment of the company's dock, estimated to cost
£40,000, but the matter was under the consideration
of the directors, the opinion at present being that
the dock was quite large enough for the purposes
of the company.

Resolutions were passed adopting the report, de-
claring a dividend at the rate of £lss. per cent., on
the ordinary stock of the company for the past half-
year ; re-electing Mr. Fowler, Mr. &mice, and Mr.
Lewis, the retiring directors, and also Mr. W.
Morris, the retiring auditor.

The meeting was then made special, and the
directors were authorised to issue 800 shares of £lO
each for the Carmarthen line; and 11,400 shares of
£lO each for the Swansea line.

The proceedings terminated with a vote of thankb
to the chairman and directors.

-
LIGHT consists of certain vibrations of the pon-
derable molecules of matter. On the frequency of
these vibrations depends, in the first place, the colour of
light ; but, next, it has been ascertained also that the range
of vibrations perceptible by the eye is limited in extent—red
light, which is produced by the slowest vibrations, being
represented by 460 billions in a second; and violet light,
which is produced by the quickest vibrations, being repre-
sented by 730 billions in a second,

The following is the text of the address, already
briefly announced ikour columns by telegram, as
having been the otlAr day solemnly presented to
the Holy Father by ;:490 Cdholics of all nations, at
present in Rome:—
Holy Father,—As Catholics of all the nations represented
in the capital of Christerfacan, we have solicited the honour
of laying at the feet of.your lipliness the homa-e of our
deepest veneration and :roost laithall self-devotion. We
have already been witneisses at the beginning of the New
Year that your Holiness-vas greeted by the inhabitants of
your city of Rome with moving manifestations of their love.
Be it rlso allowed to us, Your children in the spiritual order
of things, to hail with oir greetings and our good wishes
that Pontifical royalty, trade more sacred still by misfor-
tune, and the necessity:it whose existence increases in the
very proportion of the c nal machinations which threaten
it from abroad. ti
May The year which i4a. pening be better than preceding
years. May it bring some6nsolation to your paternal heart!
May it, by the restoraiiim of you 7 authority, satisfy the
long expectation of just& end tight, which have not on
earth a more august impersorification then your Holiness I
Such is our most ardent le,ire, and the prayer which riar
from our souls towards tliat God whose Vicar you ere.
Having been witnesses of all the great works of a univer-
sal character whichare carried out in Rome, we shall
go back to our vario.4*.kut: to tell to orr brethren how
41sLazid-I;..aly,..ieNthei..:-Iplah,stfid-of the- wants of-
our common Father and of our common country. For
Rome, such as the piety of ages has made her, Rome is
truly our common country, as you are our common Father.
There is no nation, however rebellious or wandering, who is
not under obligation to the Holy Roman Church. It is she
who keeps entire the depesitof moral truths without which all
societies would townn to barbarism. It is from her womb,
ever torn yet evtr prolific, that came forth, end still come

forth, the Apostles of all nations.
We, who come from the most varied climes, from the
East or the West, from Europe or America, to meet at the
feet of your Holiness, we cannot make a step in Rome with-
out meeting with botsteps of some great ancestor in our
faith. Within that magnificent enclosure, which St. Peter
crucified contemplated and blessed from the top of the Jani-
culum, everything, from the prison of St. Paul to the trium-
phal spot of his mar yrdom, from the Church of St. Gregory
to that of St Clement, from the Missions of St Alexis to those
of the Gesu, everythng speaks to us of our native lands ;
there did the heroic nen, who gave baptism to our nations
and bore them to civiization, draw their inspiration and
fire their souls with tie sacred fire ; St. Denis of the French,
St. Austin of the Engit.h, St. Patrick of the Irish, St.
Boniface of the Germus, St. Adalbert of the Poles, St.
Cyril of the Russians, St. Auschait as of the Scandinavians.
We should quote the2opes also ; for,creators and saviours
as they are of Italy, tiny belong at the same time, by the
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immensity of their Aptstleship, to the whole of mankind I
How then, Holy Fathir, should not our gratitude mingle
with our admiration ? At present, perhaps, more than ever
under your memorable Pontificate, the Ete.nal City ap-
pears as the universal city; everythigg done in Rome is
done for the city and ,he whole world. Those seminaries
for all nations foundedor kept up by your solicitude, those
houses of hospitality, dose colleges, oecumenical as it were,
that incomparable insttution of Propaganda, where we
were present but yesteday at one of the grandest festivals
of the great human fanily ; those crypts restored to the
light of day and the veneration of the faithful; those ma-
jestic basilicas found spin underground or restored rrom
their ruins; these cemoteries of the martyrs honoured with
a love which recalls that of Damascus and Pascal ;
that museum of the Lateran, added to so many other
magnificent displays , those daring and learned re-
searches in the depth► of the catacombs, whence we see
come forth, thanks to splendid publications, a new and
irrefutable apology forour holy religion; those pious resto-
rations of an immorta: past, which your Holiness carries on
with a magnanimous tranquillity through spoliations and
persecutions l—in a word, so many works and so many
labours, which are the glory of Rome, are Christendom's
treasure and form a pert of her most precious patrimony.
And we may say, in the name of our brethren, that Christen-
dom shall acknowledge so many services and benefits.
The St. Peter's Pence, resuscitated in days of crisis: by
the free charity of the faithful, is, first and foremost, a
debt of conscience. Is it not just that all should contribute
to what is a profit for all ? Christendom shall not be want-
ing to her sacred obligation. She knows that in its more
and more generous realisation resides, until the restoration
of order, ono of the last guarantees of the material inde-
pendence of the Church. She will try to make her offerings
equal your misfortune and her love; and, at the same
time, she will continue to acrid her children around you,
in the ranks of that Pontifical array, issued also in full life
from the spontaneous impulsa of children who sec their
Father attacked, and from the Royal inspiration of your
heart, which in spite of perils from without, would not
allow the often. necessary but ever rigorous burden of con-
scription to weigh on your subjects. This army of volunteers
of all countries, so small in numbers, so groat from the re-
collection of Castelfidardo which rests on it, is greater still
from its spirit of sacrifice, from its disinterested self-devo-
tion, from its patient abnegation, from all those qualities
which are the noblest form of heroism, and truly worthy
of watching with the soldiers ofFrance around the chair of
St. Peter and of Pius IX,

It is with such feelings, Holy Father, of veneration for
your person, of admiration for your courage and virtues,
of absolute devotion to your cause, cf unshakeable and
calm trust in the triumph pronised by Providence to your
rights, that, prostrate at your feet, we implore from your
Holiness its paternal blessing 02 ourselves, our families, our
countries.

The Pope responded to this address by one of
those impressive allocutioas of which that august
Pontiff knows the secret, and which was tran-
scribed by some of its
hearers With all possible
fidelity, as follows ;--

The words, so full of tencleiness, which you have made
me hear, my dear sons, and which give to my poor heart
new strength to maintain to the end right, justice, and
courageous
;i,o
m his
faith
truth—those words are but tho echo of what the Church,
the Pope, and Religion have given to hear to the world.
They are the echo of that voice of justice and truth which
the Apostles and their success)rs have raised in all ages, at
all times, and especially in the time in which we live.
T h
) as St. Lawrence has said, by
coming
i thed
greatermore
oPerweetda grea:er an
was tin but a forest of wild and
irritable beasts. But little bs little, on listening to the
o mi ne g Apostle
to Romea cit
y Ss
showed
which
en-
tering
than when he walked on the 86% -
into
voice of the Apostle of Jesus Christ, those wild beasts be-
came good and obedient lambs. During the very first hour,
St. Peter sent into Umbria St. Briceus, and into Romagna
St. Apollinarius.
The inhabitants of those couatries lived at tbat time in
barbarism and paganism. I know not whether it was in
God's designs to give these provinces to the Church as a
patrimony, but I know that the Church possesses them at
present, that they are entrusted to the Pope ; and what I
know
conclude,cu la
my rly
is
dearth a
granting you my Apostolic
Blessing; but I wish to say, however, that if I desire to
particularly is I Ethan never consent to abandon
sons,
by
keep those provinces, it is not t 3 be a King. Many people
to be a King. NG ! I keep
because it is a necessity in
the order of the Church, that she should preserve what
such
so
my wishes s
dh ue
ts 7 ,
pthreetmenbdee thatau se thesu Ph()
Providence has
given her.
My ambition as a Pope is to be the worthy successor of
the Apostles, to maintain in all kingdoms the spirit of faith
and love, to teach to nations obedience, and ti Princes love
and respect for right and justice. This is the reason why
it is necessary for the Pope to keep his own kingdom I And
sof the earth? Wretchedness I
the end I will make that voice of
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neatetc
;haenrdoen
oetnshsee.l k
Aidm
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d otnoo
one has a right to touch what is
justice and truth bo heard.

Let us listen, then, tor.the voice of the Apostles of Jesus
Christ, my very dear sons ; end may God bless you all, in
society, ever, and make you live in a Christian manner, and
as happily as is possible in this vale of tears.
Among the signatures to the address are the most illus-
trious as well as the most humble names of English, Irish,
French, Italian, American, Polish, &a., Catholics.

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FIRE AT TlACENEY.—Yesterday in orning, be-
tweenthe premises belonging io Mr. J. Chis well, an eating the hours of two and three o'clock, a fire happened in
house-
keeper, No. 11, Broadway, London-fields, Hackney. For-
tunately the occupants were enabled to effect their escape
from the buildings without receiving any personal injury.
Upon the arrival of the firemen they found the whole of
Mr. Chiswell's promises enveloped in flames. The mains
of the East London Company's works having yielded a
bountiful supply of water, the brigade at once took advan-
tage of the same, but the fire could not be extinguished un-
til the building and its stock in trade, the furniture, and
other effscts were totally dsstroyed. The origin of the fire
is unknown.

The long interval between those two periods is
marked in my remembrance of him by many occa-
sions when he was supremely humorous, when he
was irresistibly extravagant, when he was softened
and serious, when he was charming with children.
But, by none do I recall him more tenderly than by
two or three that start out of the crowd, when be
unexpectedly presented himself in my room, an-
nouncing how that some passage in a certain book
had made him cry yesterday, and how that he had
come to dinner, " because he couldn't help it," and
must talk some passage over. No one can ever have
seen him more genial, natural, cordial, freshoind
.hazteetly-impulsizei,- than I- toAte fteabits _at thosE-2

times. No one can be surer than I,;ot the greatness
and the goodness of the heart that then disclosed

:self.

We had our differences of opinion. I thought
that he too much feigned a want of earnestness, and
that he made a pretence of undervaluing his art,
which was not good for the art that he held in trust,
But, when he fell upon these topics, it was never
very gravely, and I pave a lively image of him in
my mind, twisting both his hands in his hair, and
stamping about, laughing, to make an end of the
discussion.

When we were associated in remembrance of the
late Mr. Douglas Jerrold, ho delivered a public lec-
ture is London, in the course of which he read his
very best contribution to Punch, des-ribing the
grown up cares of a poor family of young children.
No one hearing him could have doubted his natural
gentleness, or his thoroughly unaffected manly sym-
pathy with the weak and lowly. He read the paper
most pathetically, and with a simplicity of tender-
ness that certainly moved one of his audience to
tears. This was presently after his standing for
Oxford, from which place he had despatched his
agent to me, with a droll note (to which he after-
wards added a verbal postcript) urging me to "come
down and make a speech, and tell them who he
was, for he doubted whether more than two of the
electors had ever heard of him, and he thought then
might be as many as six or eight who had heard of
me." He introduced the lecture just mentioned,
with a reference to his late electioneering failure,
which was full of good sense, good spirits, and good
humour.

He bad a particular delight in boys, and an ex-
cellent way with them. I remember his once
asking me with fantastic gravity, when he had been
to Eton where my eldest son then was, whether I
felt as he did in regard of never seeing a boy with-
out wanting instantly to give him a sovereign.
thought of this when- I looked down into his grave
after he was laid there, for I looked down into it
over the shoulder of a boy to whom he had been
kind.

These aro slight remembrances; but it is to little
familiar things suggestive of the voice, look, man
nor, never, never more to be encountered on this
earth, that the mind first turns in a bereavement.