The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.
On Monday Mr. J. Smith and Mr. T. E. May, the ex
aminers of petitions on private Bills, appointed by the
House of Commons to inquire into their compliance with
the Standing Orders of the House, met, for the first
time, in Committee-rooms No. 16 and 17, in pursuance
of the Speaker's direction. There was a numerous at
tendance of Parliamentary agents, solicitors, and en-
gineers, and after the usual inquiries, which occupied
from eleven o'clock until five, the Standing Orders were
declared to be complied with in the case of the following
Bills:

Chester and Holyhead Railway (for extension to Bir-
kenhead, regulation of capital, and alteration of tolls).
South Yorkshire and River Dun (extension into and
near Isle of A xholtoc).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (No.
3, fur altering tolls now authorised to be taken by the
North Staffordbhire Railway on the Trent and Mersey
Navigation).

Vale of Neath Railway (extension of railway and
further works and powers, abandonment of part of au-
thorised works, and further power as to capital.)
North Stz.ffordshire Raibi ay (No. 2, for powers to
make railway and branches Isom Colwich to Wolver-
hampton and Wednesbury, and establish mixed gauge).
Partially heard.
The standing orders were also declared to be complied
with in the case of the following general joint stock
Bills:—Hatfield Chase Drainage and New Outfall into
Trent, Bradford Piece Halls, Cork Improvement, Royal
Harbour of Ramsgate, Wolverhampton Gas Company,
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (new reservoir
and additional money), and East London Waterworks
(for amendment of Acta and raising further capital).
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE.—The statement of ac-
counts for the meeting on the 31st instant shows a net
balance of revenue of 1,4441. os. 7d., after providing for
bond and preference interest. The usual half-yearly di-
vidend of ss. per share absorbs 1,1171., leaving a surplus
of 3271. to add to reserve, then amounting to 1,927/.
6s. 9d.

LONDON
.AND NORTH-WESTERN AND GREAT NORTH-
ERN.—We nave much pleasure in being able to state
that tho injurious differences between the above com-
panies with respect to a division of the traffic to and
from the towns of York, Leeds, Wakefield, Doncaster,
Lincoln, and Peterborough, have been amicably settled.
We believe that on Thursday last Captain Huish (the
general manager of the London and North-Western
Company) and another gentleman connected with the
line, and Mr. Seymour Clarke (the general manager of
the Great Northern Railway) with another gentleman
connected with the company, met, at Oxford, Mr. Glad-
stone, to whom the matters in dispute have been re-
ferred. We understand that three points were raised,
and that they were settled in favour of the Great
Northern Railway. The two companies will now charge
equal fares to the towns above mentioned. This will be
exceedingly beneficial to the revenue of the Great
Northern line, inasmuch as the London and North-
Western Company have, through the very low fares they
have been charging to the towns enumerated by us, se-
cured a very large proportion of the traffic, and thereby
abstracted from the former railway much of that trade
to which they say they have a legitimate claim. We
have no doubt, from the information we have received,
that the two companies will now work their traffic in
friendly spirit to and from all points where they come
into competition with each other.—Herald.

LONDON AND GREENWICH.
The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
was hold yesterday afternoon, at the company's offices,
Coleman-street, for the purpose of declaring a dividend
on the unprivileged shares, and electing directors in the
place of Mr. Josiah Wilson and Mr. Thomas Corvey
who retired by rotation. The chair was taken by Mr'
ebalancea9r had
Shadbolt. From the accounts submitted to the meeting-
it appeared that the receipts during the half-year
been, for rent, 21,0001.; transfer feed, 101. 23.
)bonds ..53,9*-035di
of interest account, 991. Gs. 9d.; total, 21,1091.
(including interest on Tho expenditure
, 24a9m1ounted to
12s. 5d.; and on preference shares 5,5681.
of
11,8661. 14s. 5d., leaving a
to be disposed of.
proposed accountsthpaterthe, - . 14s. 10d.
be received
The CHAIRMAN
and that a dividend of 43. 3d.
unprivilegedFehr share, clear of income-
tax,shares be paid on
on the original and
and after Monday, the 2d of
After a short conversation the resolutionullry was put and
carried unanimously.
Captain SELTON then moved that the salary of Mr.
Watkins, the clerk, be increased from 501. to 75/.
The motion was seconded by Mr. 111`LAREN, and agreed to.
The retiring directors
ofthanks
were then re-elected, and after
the usual vote
to the chairman, the proceed-
ings terminated.

GENERAL
ROYAL G ANNUITY SOCIETY.—The an-
nual meeting
Monda of the subscribers to this institution was held on
y at the London Tavern—W. Pownall, Esq., in
an-
nuitants chair. The reortasdtadteedd
to
thin t.hetptastt. ynearanthdirtsfixenal
had been eore
wouldd be elected on that day. Visve annuitants had died
uring the last year. At the anniversary festival held on sth
February, 1851, a large addition lied been made to the funds
of the society. The amount paid to annuitants had been
1,1881. 103, being the largest suns paid for nineteen years.
It was to be regretted that no addition had been made to
the subscriptions and donations of the year ; but, on the
Contrary, ,they had fallenlofr by the sum of 7621. 15s. 4d.
The usual anniversary would take place in February next
The expenses uf the institution had been greatly reduced,
and only amounted to 6591. 03. 9d., as compared with
1,0921. 2s. in the preceding year, showing a decrease of
4351. 2s. 5d., and there was every hope they wouid be still
further diminished in succeeding years. The receipts for
the year had been 3,6381. 18s., and the expenditure 1,9641.
13s. 9d. The report was adopted, after which the election
was proceeded with.
LoNoEVITY.—There is now living in the parish of
Pitminster, near here, a woman, aged 104, named Betty
Oaten, the ages of whose living progeny are 80, 78, 65, 63,
61, 54, 53, in all 558. She has also 40 grand-children and
200 great grand-children now living, and several descendants i
of the fifth generation 1 She is supported partly by parish
pay, and partly by the benevolence of the ladies and gentle-
mea in the neighbourhood, who know her extreme old age.
She has always subsisted on the most simple diet.-- iirestcr"
Flying Post.

1,773
940
To this 9401. dispensed in the payment of 1,773 men,
a sum must be added for 195 apprentices paid a third of
the wages they were receiving when at work.
The total amount probably will be about 1,0001. spent
in the support of the unemployed. The money paid
this week is one-half more than it was last week, an order
having been received by telegraph last night to pay 15s.
per man instead of 10s. paid last week, the state of the
funds permitting it. The support received from the pub-
lic has enabled the society to hand over 140/. to the la-
bourers' fund, and that body of men is now paid by them,
though from a separate fund. A series of meetings has
been held,by the non-society men, to determine whose
position they ought to espouse, in antieipation of the
masters making the offer wo have referred to, and in two
of the shops—Sharp's and Hethrington's it is said—the
resolution was to hold to the cause of the men.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—A general meet-
ing of the engineers and mechanics in .Liverpool district
was held yesterday at their club room, the Odd Fellows'
Hall, Sir Thomas-buildings, which was very numerously
attended, for the purpose of considering whether any
further steps could bo adopted to bring about an acco-
modation with the masters. The chairman having
briefly recapitulated the proceedings of the body, and
shown that the case of the men in this district was en-
tirely different from that of other districts, no complaint
being made here of systematic overtime or piecework;
and instead of the shops being closed entirely, as in other
districts, a few parties only being picked out for the of-
fence of being members of the society, which to them
stood in the place of an insuraeco or provident society,
proceeded to declare that they had no desire to be at
cross purposes with their employers; on the contrary,
they were anxious to eoEciliate them, if possible, and
had met that night for the purpose of ascertaining if
any thing could be- suggested--tetrillg alscierifqtalt-
meta. After some dismssion it was determined
unanimously that a d, putetion should be ap-
pointed out of their own body, to wait upon the
masters, having previously prevailed upon two or three
merchants or gentlemen of the town to accompany them
as mediators. The members, however, guarded them-
selves against its being supposed that in any case they
could consent to resign their clubs. They were only
anxious that they should bo permitted to occupy their
old position, or remain neutral, like the men of Birming-
ham and Bristol. If their employers refused an accom-
modation on these terms, it could only be because, as
they bad before admitted, they bad bound themselves
beyond recall to the masters' club.

We understand that the men who were dismissed
from Messrs. Forrester and Co.'s, and Fawcett and Co.'s
foundries, in consequence of their connexion with the
Amalgamated Society, still remain out of employ. Both
masters and men adhere to their determination to hold
out, and at present there does not appear to be any pros-
pect of an amicable arrangement. The number of men
discharged from the two establishments above alluded to
is thirty-four, and they are said to be some of the most
skilled workmen in the various branches of the engi-
neering business.
At the Southwark County Court yesterday, one
Casey, a labourer recently in the employ of Messrs.
Maudslay and Co., was summoned by the Waterloo Loan
Society for the balance of a loan for which be was
surety. Defendant said he certainly was the surety, but
he was unable at the present time to pay a farthing. In
fact he was starving owing to the strike of the engineer
His Honour—What are you, then? Defendant—l 8.
now I am com-
pelledonly a labourer, but when the engineers were turned out
we we
amyoandfaary-.
were complied to leave also, and being Out of work
colontheningf foroffieerslof
so long, what little I saved is food,e and
the court said
work cannot
r
Messrs. Mands-
thing at topresent.sell
loy,, employ would return to theirwu
crsholy results h© had been informed that'statrillilekte men in
vire actually starving
Ile knew several of the labourers
of the combination of
a Honour said this
twharsouognlei
otfhtobeeningehalaeue
workmen, which not only ruined
poor person connected with them.
themselves, but every
that the men were about to He was glad to hear
that would enable the defendant
return to their work, and as
he should adjourn the to turn himself round,
case for a fortnight.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N 'lgnites that the mails are sent frora the General Post-office
by the night and M by the morning--dispatch.]

~~~ 4 ~E9.

torn what
port dia-
l:latched. 1

When
due.

America (by Brit. pkt.)N . :erpool ••
America (by U.S. pkt.) N 11 • • !Liverpool • •
America (by U.S. pkt.)M'March 3 .. .. 'Sonthampt.
I Africa (West coast)" N 14th of the month Plymouth
Alexandria* ...... N Dail & 30th of mo. Dover ••
Leigh= .. •
.. •
.. N y .. .. .. Dover • •
Brazil .. . .. M,9th of the month Southampt.
Buenos Ayres •• .. M9th of the month Soathampt.l
California(viaCkagrc!)ll2d & 17th of month Southampt. '
Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of month Plymouth..
Twice dai:Fri..da.y.lLDoonvdeorn
...
Constantinople. .. • • Nl7th 17th 27th of mo 'Dover .. I
Central America • .. M2d & 17th anion. ISouthampt.l
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fitt SoutnaMpt. ,
B,Te:ann)..(vi.a..
Iti2d of
Chili .. .. .. . M 17th of the month t Southampt.
France •
.. .. M& N
Greece* • • .. • • N Ith 17th 27th of mo .Dover ..
.... .... mNiwTneedsndoesafYth. &e
mSatounrth4osountdhoarnn
pi':
RollandlT a m bur g h
..
.. .. M &11,1*112Twicithcco, of the M.onth.• h;o°ulYthhanaeadp.t..
:Ni,i2slothihth&o/f4ththeefmmoonnththDover
Honduras .. ..
Ireland
India (via Southamp ..)
India (via Marseilles)
Nitinh& 24th of month
Mediterranean
..(vla.:
the month.. !
119th of the month I
3hiSfaeociduiethtiroriarra
mMexiarscoeilles.).
.. .
1 7th,l7th,l9th27th'
Malta* • • • • k 1 & 30th of month
Naples* .. • • • • N sth 15th 25th of me t Dover
Papal States* • . • • N sth 15th 25th of mo;Dover ••,
peninsular • • • • • • M 7th 17th 27th of mo'SouthamPL•
Peru • • • • • • • • M 17th of the month 'Sonthampt.
y's Tuscan .. ..
..
__
Nlsth 15th 25th of mo Dover • •
West Indies ..
.. Mll7th of the month SouthamPLl
West Indies (except t
liavaßna & Nassau) Mild of the month ..Scuth
are iu"t• Feb. 5
* The mails to those countries thus marked (*)conv eyed by
French packet VIA Marseilles.
The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton.
etathe U - *
month will be made up three times a week on/Y• tead of daily
rdted State,
CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to and from California,
American packet
are now despatched and due by every

tFeb. 1
,Feb. 4
Feb. 14
Feb. 3
Jan. 28
Daily
Feb. 16
Feb. 16
Feb. 5
Feb. 3
Jan. 33
Feb. 5
Tu. Th. Bat
Feb, 20
Twicedaily
Jan. 30
Ties. Sat.
Mea.Thur

'Feb. 20
Twicedaill
Feb, 23
Feb. 1

'eta. 23

Feb. 1
jlFeb. A
Feb. 16
.lan. 26
Feb. 2
Feb. 2
Jan. 26
IFeb. 20
IFeb. 2
Ifeb. 20

p
Benjamin nail Bart.,Sq.'
....,UILDERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.--Th a
I King-street,
mut ball of the above charity, to
,beihreßldeuajt Willis.s Rooms,°--111".
ajgaernoef stlii,eto.riiie.Tseitrenrsstd? ari:h,
onathaes 9
1 th r
influential gen-
tlemen, under the patrSotri
i'e great success attending
Grijelr 11:m"'
F.S.A., Lord Dudley Stllar_ b.
due to
aboutahli.efl 1504
M.P., Mr. Alderman W. Cu itt, and other ,
was
ableadde added
superin-
tendence ri then.
promises to be ou a ..,cale
of completoness
honorary secretary, Mr.
have prevailed upon that gentle.
thhies cNo,anliumaihttleeeass. t
ttnehonetdeb
ballui
et eensureoafni
(at s
tpyuebalirc
exertionsawphp
when
nco) :: th e
funds of the society, being
plthsoußclecirnedscis is confidently looked
• Is apoe this year also, when
enJqioaus
nae
for. We trust the public
win not be slow to patronize this
charity„ which has afforded reliefi is
valuable and deserving
of the profession—and to
their endeavours to extend
encourage
to many decayed members
ourage the officers thereof in
its benefits The votaries of
Terpsichore will not be sorryth to learn that Adams's cele-
brated band is engaged for occa,ion, and that the expe-
rienced Mr. Corrie will officiate e
The Chevalier Drouet transacted M e
aeted. business yesterday
at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade.

When made up is Fr
General Post-office, pc
London. pg
Jan. 30
,Feb. 10 ..