The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-07 00:00:00

CENTRAL WALES.

A special meeting of this company was held on Monday
at the Westminster Palace Hotel, .I\lr F. Maitland in the
chair, to consider the propriety of creating £60,000 of ad-
ditional capital by the issue of £lO ordinary shares, and of
borrowing the sum of £30,000; and also of adopting an
agreement for amalgamating the Knighton Railway with
the undertaking of the completion of the Central Wales
Extension line.

On the motion of the CHAIR:NUN, seconded by Mr
LLOYD, those propositions were agreed to.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market very strong at hardning prices. Sales,
probably 12,000 bales.

The Atlantic and Great Western Railway is now
completed, having been opened throughout on the
21st Jane last, from New York to St. Louis, a dis-
tance of 1,200 miles, and passengers may proceed
from one extremity of the line to the othc.r without
change of carriage. This important railway is des-
tined to be the great passenger, mail, and freight
route between Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
on the seaboard, and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi.
sago, and St. Louis, and other principal cities of
the lake districts and the valley of the Mississippi.
The bitidinge for £300,000 in bills on ladle took
place today at the Bank of England. The pro.
portions allotted were—to Calcutta, £163,200; to
Bombay, L 120,000; and to Madras, 116,800. The
minumom price was as before, le. 1)0. per rupee
on Calcutta and Madras, and Is. 11:42:1.on Buinbsy.
The applications within the limits amounted to
£1,710. Tenders on C4!sutra and Madras at le.
111 i. will receive about 31 per cen!. ; on BombaY,
at 25., about 24 per cent. ; and all above these
prices in full.
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A NAVAL ENCAMPMENT.—In consequence of the
epidemic of smallpox which has appearedh eit oßnohadosa,rdit
her Majesty's ship Racoon, while lying in
has been resolved to encamp the crew
sailorsreawaforatim
taken
e on thets
aehcre
Island of Inchcolm, near Burntisland, d a supply f tents
and camp apparatus from Edinburh Castle has been sent to
the island for that purpose. One of th
died on Monday in the Edinburgh Infirmary, and several
others are lying ill there. Meantime the 'vessel, which lies
off the island, is to be subjected to a thorough purification.
Prince Alfred, who came ashore on Saturday, is still regd.
iag at Edinburgh, waiting the arrival of the Aurora, Cap-
tain Sir Leopold M,Clintock, which it is understood he is
now to join. On IdondaY he visited the studios of Mr.
Steoll and Mr Brodie, sculptors,
N GOVERNMF.NT.—Canada is again in
of a political crisis. It is bat a very
e since the last Ministry resigned in consequence
of its befo.s unable to command a majority in the Assembly,
and now the next Ministry, formed from the other side of
tlthihtetetlheltirauN throes psAethlAas been placed in a minority of 53 against 60 on
a vote which amounts to a censure of some of the most pro-
minent of the Ministers, condemning as it does a financial
transaction in which they were concerned as members of a
former Ministry. A dissolution was expected.
THE FORTY MELODIES OF METERBEER, collected
and revised by himself many years ago, and with a promise
on his part to make considerable additions for this country
(a promise never to be fulfilled), will, we hear, be ebortly
published, with English text paraphrased,
some years
since, by Mr Henry F. Chorley, at the composer's instance.
HERR MULIQUE's MASS has been for a third
time performed at the Catholic Church in Somers Town.
This excellent and sterling composition, sure to live (if life
depends on reality, says the ilthenzon), will, we hope,
shortly be published.
EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE.—TONBRIDGE,
Wednesday Night.—At half-pest seven this evening a ter-
rible explosion took place at the powder mills of Messrs
Curtis and Harvey. Four lives lost.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £t steri. On
c;impariu,,x these rates with lAC English priz•,e of •
17a. Loa& per ounce for standard gold, it appears that is
rather more than i-it:tb per cent. dearer in Faris than
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London.