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, Mr F. Maitland in. the
chair, to consider the propriety of creating £50,000 of ad-
ditional capital by the issue of £lO ordinary shares,
,and of
borrowing the sutra of £3i,000; and also of adopting an
agreement fur amalgamating the Knighton Railway with
the uoderiaking of the c:Anpletion of the Central Wales
Extension line.

Ou the motion of the CHAIRMA.N, seconded by Mr
LLOYD, those propositions were agreed to.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

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

The Atlantic and Great Western Railway is now
completed, having been opened throughout on the
21st June last, from New York to St. Louis, a dis-
tance of 1,200 mites, and passengers may proceed
from one extremity of the line to the other 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-
cage, and St. Louis, and other principal cities of
the lake distncts and the valley of the Mississippi.

The biddings for £300,000 in bills on Ifidta took
place toaday at the Bank of Englaad. The pros
pe'rtions allotted were—to Calcutta, £163,200; to
Bombay, £120,000; and to Madras, £16,800. The
miuntnaha price was as before, ls. 130. per rupee
on Calcutta and Madras, and Is. 11I,Lon Bombal•
I'he applications within the limits amounted to
—la
consequence of the
£1,710. Tenders on Calcutta and Madras at it.
111 d. will receive about 31 per cent.;
at 25,, about 24 per cent. ; and all above these
on Bombay,
the crow for a time on the
prices in full.
and a Supply
A NAVAL ENCAMPMENT.
appeared on board,
epidemic of smallpox which has
while lying in Leith Roads, it
her Majesty's ship Racoon,
One of the sailors taken ushers
has been resolved to encamp the
Island of inchcolm, nearspd;ls:
nr Castle has been sent to
and camp apparatus from Edinb
the island for thatinputbrpeose.
died on Monday
others are lying ill there. Meantime the vessel, which lies
off the island, is to 1,3 subjected to a thorough purification.
Prince Alfred, who came ashore on Saturday, is still resid-
hg at Edinburgb, waiting,. the arrival of the Aurora, Cap-
tain Sir LeoPotd M'Clintock, which it is understood he is
now to join. Oa Monday he visited the studios of Mr.
1 Steed and 'Mr Brodie, sculptors,
1 CANADIAN CiOVERNMENT.—Cunada is again in
the throes of a political crisis. It is bat a very
little time since the last Ministry resigned in consequence
linfirmaand osefvteenrat:
of its bein!!, unable to cninmand a majority in the Assembly,
and now the next Ministry, firmed from the other side of
the house, has 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 cAacerned as' members of a
former Ministry. A dissolution was expected.
THE FORTY MELODIES oF M EY ERB EER, 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 shortly
published, with English text paraphrased, soma years
since, by Mr Henry F. Chorley, at the composer's instance.
HERB MULIQUE'S MASS, has been for a third
time performed at the Catholic Church in SL,mers Town.
This excellent and sterling composition, sure to live (if life
depends on reality, says the ..V.kencen.n), will, we hop:',
shortly be published.
ETpLosios AND LOSS 0.7 LITC.--TC.NZRIDG Z.,
wrdne,:iay 7,-,;ighta—At half past seven this evening* a ter-
rible explosion t.ok place at the puwder mills el Nest:3
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