The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

CHESHIRE MIDLAND.

The half-yearly meeting was held at Maachester yester-
day. Sir H. Mainwaring, Bart., presided. The receipts
on capital account had been £200,740, and the expenditure
£206,057, the balance due to the bankers being £5,317.
Under the agreements with the Sheffield Company and the
Great Northern the shareholders would be entitled to 41
per cent., amounting to £787 for the half-year, and would
be payable on the 29th inst. Messrs. B. C. Egerton, M.P.,
C. W. Forbes, and G. Walker were elected to the board in
the place of the retiring directors. The report and dividend
were agreed to, and the remuneration of the directors was
fixed at £lOO a year. At a subsequent meeting of the direc-
tors Sir H. Mainwaring was appointed ehairina,n, and Mr.
Townsend deputy chairman, for the ensuing year.

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DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION.
The report of the directors states that the traffic receipts
for the half-year ending Deo. 31 last amounted to £36,926,
being £371 less than during the corresponding half of 18'32.
The total income of the company for the half-year amounted
to £38,253, the working expenses to £13,133, and the total
expenditure to £21,462, leaving as profit £16,790, which
with £1,852 from the previous half-year makes a disposal
sum of £18,642, out of which the directors recommend a
dividend at the rate of 4 per cent per annum (less incoml
tax), leaving £1,039 for the next account. The capital ac •
count shows that £1,077,198 had boon expended.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Mlles Opened. 11439.eipte.

Railways. ,„..--......._____„____..--_,,
1861. 1863. 1864. 1863.
Z
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 1,815 1,712
Belfast and County Down 49 49 661 605
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,331 1,458
Bristol and Exeter 121% 1211 5,073 6,268
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington Bl 8% - -
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 280 !..93
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6% 6% 112 154
Cork and Youghal .. 32% 321 387 317
Cornwall 653 53% 1,368 1,108
Deeside l7 17 246 219
Dublin & Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,466 1.521
LA,lblin and Meath
pub.:' Wicklow and World 91% 48
3, 2,116 1,652
Edhasurgh and Glasgow 1691 109% 7,093625 6,981
50 5 2,691
Fame"' &";-• '-Western
Glasgow & Sotlti. - Union 663 614 28,703 27,240
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&b...
Great Northern ... 353 8.51 25,893 25,779
Great North of Scotland . . ... 58.4 7581, 1583 1 602
ot. Northn. & Westn. (1re1.).. 7.4 na. :.
„ "'3 6,4994
89
Gt.Southn. & Westn.a 5
rind.).. 371 .', u.'
Great Western 1056 1034 5,216 52,177
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 865 863 816 787
Inverness & Perth Junction 119% - 018 -
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,536 i 695
~
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 895% 84,657 31,150
Limerick and Ennis
Limerick and Forties 261 - 26 158 139
Llanelly Of 441 500 446
Louden & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5 1,612. 1,555
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast- 261 261 13,763 15,608
1
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 72 3,510 2 710
Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 6 825 270
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
blan.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9l 9% 1,147 1,066
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) O4l 6so 43,469 38,943
Midland Gt.Westn. of' hind- 259.5 259% 4,x.56 4,801
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,613 2,182
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Danl 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O
Rhymney ......... -....- l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 62
Scottish Central .. B9
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon . ......... - 75%
South-Eastern...... 306
Taff Vale ........-.....- 67
Ulster ......• • 105%
1 Vale of' Clwyd ........ •.. 10
Vale of Neath 32%
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 27%
W.HartlepoolHarbt&Rail 62
W'haven,Cleator,dr Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction.. l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern ;I unction 2
Bombay, Baroda, &Cm India 185
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish .... .... lOBl
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France. . ... 1135
East Indian -.. 936%
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 5 3
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras 417
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650
Northern of Canada ....• ••• • • 91
Northern of France..... 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5
Paris and Orleans l6ll
Pernambuco ... 771
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian
Southern of France .... . 770
Victorian 196
Welland
West Flanders 75
W. and N.W. of France

4101
10791
9
254

11,325 10,406
51,922 47,814
3,234 2,908
8,100 7,939
1,029 903
970 877
2,141 2,124
4,232 8,971
4,835 4.654

138
39i
751
308

'691 815
2.989 2,877
15,763 17,(,12
6,800 6,183
2,689 2,022
147 117
2,417 1.818
898 855
1,159 1,086
776 664
3,202 3.548
602 693
1782
'915 7.0

1,282 1,005
28,953 25,978
265 240
3,255 2,002
2,017 1,8?.9
3,376 2.238
4,730 4609
1,401 815
53,148 52,040
18,683 12,729
19,699 19,259
10,974 7,226
3,748 4,191
492 512
14,080 13,020

16,055 13,220
1,372 1,277
47,032 47,548
311 442
341 385
124,798 122,880
60,740 55,0,5
:1,251 1,470
787 369
1,266 1,312
39,359 41,070
25,807 23,156
9,157 10,050

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1713
1494

1468
640
193

943 927
40,212 37,682

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Evening at the Whitlc
•

Ridentem dicero vernnta S
Quid vetat.
On the return of Parson Beecher, the President
invited a distinguished party to meet his reverence
at supper, when " the feast of .reason and the flow
of soul" had full swing, and " inter vine," many
truths were stated.
The President's hammer after the first round of
cocktails, having induced silence (u.nusual amore,-,
Yankees), the War Minister of Plymouth Church„
and the "Greek and Hell fire," Dr. Brownson,
forgetting sectarian differences, cheek hands.
Beecher not forgetting to hint, that if tho Arch-
bishop stripped the fiery doctor for disobedience, ho
would be but too happy to have him play second
fiddle, as he could admit no equal or even a co::,diu-
tor. The learned doctor diseonted, thinking hie.
self the best man of the two.

The President called for a bumper, and gave the
health of his reverend friend, " Ward Berchor,'
whom he sent to Europe to raise, the churChos, and
:;et up a feeling in favour of the North. This was
difficult. to de, except in Russia, as those ignorant
and uneducated Earopeans, looked on the Grout
itpublie, acting the same despotic part in America
as Russia was doing in Poland with an evil eye, all
being favourable to the South, fighting for their in-
dependence, and being well supplied withithe sinews,
of war, he got a good many supporters there by
spending some of Uncle Sam's gold " slugs," all the
greenbacks being
returned as useless, which his
his friend Chats would have goad use for here. He
would not further detain the crowd, but give the
health of the Cock of Brooklyn, which was drank
with all due honours.

The rev. gentleman replied with his usual
modesty, stating that on his arrival in England he
found the feeling of the people against the North and
in favour of the South, with the exception of the
Manchester school, headed by Bright, Cobden, and
Leathern, who wished to have a Republic like this,
where a cotton spinner, rail splitter, or vote buyer
might be President in place of a Queen, and a new
emancipation and clerical party who looked on
Brougham, Wilberforce, and such claptraps as old
fogies, and on the Church as sheer nonsense—his
particular friend Baptist Noel having seceded from it.
With these exceptions ho found public opinion and
all the churches against them. However, by his
blarney, economy of the truth, oratory, and being
all things to all men, he showed the Bti•
tishers that the Northerns were the " hail fellows"
of the blacks, whom they all looked on as " men
and brothers"—(no, no)—and that in a short time
they would all through the North have mixed mar-
riages between pure niggers and Fifth Avenue
beauties, and coloured ladies with the Broadway
swells. (No, no, no.) But what pleased him most
was the great terror he infused into the chief men
—Lord Russell eating np his word of "Empire
and dominion" and cowering to the "Live
Yankees'' by seizing the Confederate rams,
though allowing ns to get what we wanted_
The North had no better friend in Europe than.
Lord Russell. On this account he must com-
plain of Secretary Chase wanting to pull England
by the hair. Such a throat was quite unnecessary,
as Lord Russell was now their best backer, break-
iag all international law in our favour and doing
all he could to injure the rebels. Only for him
France long ego would have recognised the South.
Before sitting down he would give the health of
friend Bright and the free-traders of England but
protectionists of America—may they soon establish
a Republic in England with Bright as President,
when the country will enjoy the same peace, liberty,
and happiness as we nos enjoy under the mildest
of Presidents and most sagacious and prophetical
of Secretaries.

The President and Company rose to do honour to
the toast of the " Agrarian Tribune of England,"
and to show his high sense of Mr. Bright's anti.
English but American services he had granted a
free pardon to a convicted pirate at his request which
he would not have done for the Queen of England
or Emperor of the French. The only real friends
the United States had in Europe were the Czar of
Russia and Bright and his party in England.
Mr. Seward got up to say that as soon as this
war was over the Monroe doctrine should be en-
forcod—Napoleon driven from Mexico, and the
Britieh out of Canada and Nova Scotia ; he would
only leave them Newfoundland to take codfish.
'` On to Canada" was his watchword. He showed
that he did not care three pins for England, by pro-
moting Wilkes to bo an admiral for seizing the
Trent, and sending that eminent statesman Cassius
Marcellus Clay nominally as ambassador to Russia,
but, in reality, to raise a rebellion in Ireland aril
India, referring to the Congress Blue Book as the
subject.

Mr. Chase then started on his legs, threatening,
that England must foot all the claims for the losses
sustained by the Southern pirates, giving a hint to
the owners to quadruple •them. Ho thought that
Welles ought to have bought the rams, instead of
spending his money in useless ships and worthless
ironclads.

Mr. Welles rose, rather excited, saying that
having no goldlo pay, the English builders refused.
to take Chase's greenbacks, in which they were
quite right, as they never would be paid. He
congratulated them in a war with England, as
Captain Baldwin, of the Vanderbilt, had done double
as much as Wilkes, seizing a British ship in British
waters, and British coal on British soil, and holding
them too.

Now, if Palmerston or Russell had the spunk,
they could take up the gauntlet thrown down to
them, but they were afraid of this almighty country
which could, would, and will whip all creation.—
Cork Reporter.