The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-24 00:00:00

1d.=1,5201. 15s. sd.—By copper ores sold, 3081. 17s.
5d.; mundic, Si. ss. HA; profit on Wheal Francis, all.
3a. 3d.: leaving balance against adventurers of 1,1751.
Bs. Ild. A call of 11. per share was made.
At Wheal St. Agnes meeting, on the 15th instant, the
accounts showed—Balance of last account, 48/. ss. Bd.;
mine cost for October, November, December, January,
and February, 3271, 3..=-.3751. Bs. 81.—Cal1 of 1/. per
share, 2561.; tin sold, 571. 6s. 4d.:—leaving balance due
to purser, 32/.25. 41.

At a meeting of adventurers in the Beacon Mine
the accounts were passed, and a call of Is. per share
made for the prosecution of future operations.
At West Wheal Friendship meeting on Thursday, a
committee of management was appointed.
At Wheal Langford and Baring bimonthly meeting
on the 16Th inst., the accounts showed a balance of 2051.
16, 9d. in favour of the mine.

At Tsvy Consols Mines meeting on Tuesday, it was
s Toed that all shares on which the call made on the
33 February, and previously thereto, remaining unpaid,
be forfeited to the company; and the meeting adjourned
to the 4ch May to determine thereon, increasing the then
number of shares by multiplying the same by 4,6, or 8.
At East Wheal Msrgaret meeting on the 13,h inst..
the accounts showed a balance of 5881.35. 7d., and a call
of 11s. 6d. pc, share was made.

During the week shares have changed hands in Devon
Great Consols Alfred Consols, Bedford, West Provi•
dents, Tincrott, Wellington, LPwis, Levant, St. Aubyn
and Gryll3, Merliyn, Treleigh Consols, North Downs,
Chiverton, Bryntail, Wheal Golden. St. Agnes Beacon,
Trehane, West Darlington, North Buller, Wheal Uny,
West Alfred Consols, West Ding Dong, Trebarvab,
Millpool, Hslamannirg and Croft Grothal, Georgia,
Hennock, Weston, Tre+)ell, Pricer' Albert, Clivo, Har-
riett, EsS5 Tamar, Klbricken, Great Bryn, East Russell,
CrOior, Orsedd, Trenacce, CojAh and Wentworth,Wheal
Arthur, Sampson, Spcelwell, Neptune, Cupid, Cabert,
Pembroke and Elva Crinnis. Ailf-y-Crib, Galt-y-Maen,
Lydford Console, Caradon Woad, North Robert, East
But ingdon, Victoria, Wheal Williams, East Trescoil,
East Rashleigh, Coed Mawr Pool, North Pool, Comlord,
Cwindyle Rock, Mendip Hills, Wheal St. Agnes, and
Minirg Company of Ireland.
In Kreigti Mines, selea have been principally in Cei-
bre, which advanced from 31j/. to 36j closing at 35k.
St. John del Rey, Mexican and South American, San-
tiago, and United K..:itican, have also changed hands.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
On Tuesday (James M. R-ndel, EN., President, in
the chair), the met read was " The Economy of Rail-
ways, as a me.ins of transit, c ,mprising the classification
of the traffic, in relation to the most appropriate speed;
for the conveyance of pasAzugers and merchandise," by
Mr. Braithwaite Poole, Assoc.lnst. C. E.

After referring to the influecceWlich cheap and
rapid communications had on the prosperity of a na-
tion, the author alluded to the rise of the railway
system in this country, expressing the belief, that it
would have been economical and wise if the Tae-gislatare
had in the first instance, determined the line on which
the system of railways should have been constructed
throughout the kingdom, so aa to have avoided the
present ruin)us competition. The passenger traffic now
exceeded, annually, four times the entire population of
Great Britain, and was conveyed at three times the
speed and one-third the fares formerly
charged by the
old stage, or mail coaches, whilst the cost of conveyance
of merchandise, minerals, and agricultural produce had
been re limed full fifty per cent., as compared with the
rates charged on canals and turnpike roads fifteen years
ago. The ordinary fares for passengers ranged from
twopence three farthings to a halfpenny per mile, and
for merchandise from one penny to 6d. per ton per mile.
The author then proceeded to consider the economy
which might be introduced into the working of
railways, and divided the subject into sixteen diffe-
rent heads, eseh of which referred to some
particu-
lar print, where it was thought a reduction of expenses
might be made. The princip4l point advanced was the
amalgamating, or working, of all the railways in four
great
divisions, and ensuring unity of management in
every department, in the maintenance of the permanent
way, and of the rolling stack,
as well as in their
manufacture, several improvements in the construc-
tion of the waggons being suggested. If a general
classification of trains were arranged throughout
the kingdom, separating esch class, and running
them at d;fferent speeds whenever practicable, it
was thought that it would be cutiducive to the interest
of all parties, as it was urged to be a manifest injustice
towards those who paid the highest fares, to find third-
class passengers arriving at the same time with them.
Punctuality and regularity required to he strictly at-
tended to tor the maintenance of a certain definite speed.
Numerous instances were adduced to show the vast
advan•ages and economy of the railway system, without
which the peony- vstage could not have been achieved,
or the Great Exhinition rendered available to the multi-
tude; the reduce of the land and sea in vegetables,
flaw, meat, &h. all provisions and fuel, would have re-
mained as limited in consumption as heretofore; and the
poor rusti'a fire side in the rural districts would never
have been warmed by coal.

The paper announced to be read at the meeting of
Tuesday, April 27th, was—" Railway Accidents, their
cause and means of prevention. Detailing particularly
the various contrivances which are in use, and have
been proposed, with the regulations of some of the
principal lines," by Captain Mark Huish, Assoc.
Inst. C. E.

•- - - -
DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Monday
night a terrible calamity occurred at the Marehay Colliery,
in the township of Riptey, Derbyshire, by which two human
beings, and probably three, I,st their lives. A young man
named John Bacon, whose duty it is to go down one of the
pits I,:n- mending the ventilati, n fire, was about to descend
the shaft at the usual time for that purpose, when two lads,
who worked az, Denby P ttery, at,..ked to be all,med to ae-
eornpiny him. They prepared to do so, when almost as
s ,on as the engine was set in tuition, the machinery on
which the rope was wound b.:came detached, and they were
dashed to the bottom with fearful velocity, the rope and
drum falling upon them. Ac, nsiderable time elapsed bef ,re
they could be reached, which at length they were by
another shaft-, when a frightful spectacle presented itself.
Bacon was almost roasted, having fallen into the fire. He
was qui•e dead. A second, named Hamlet Smith, son of
Mr. Daniel Smith, painter, died the following morning, and
the third la not expected to recover.

STRAND UstoN.—At the first meeting of the new
board of guardians, Mr. Thomas Moseley and Mr. R. J. P.
J.lquet were ananimnsly elected, respectively, chairman and
vice-chairman for the ensuing year.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, April 23.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
Christopher Juseph Kuapping, cattle dealer, Eastwood
Essex.
Hugh Clark, stock and share broker, Cheshunt, Herts.
BANKRUPTS.
Henry Lamplongh, chemist, Hamilton-place, New-road,
May 1, at eleven, and June 4, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury;
Langley and Gibbon, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
John George Lacy, gun manufacturer, 'treat St. Helens,
Biahopsgate-street, May 1, at half- peat one, and June 12, at
half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street ;
Reed. Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street.
James Laing, coal merchant, Southampton, May 4, at one,
and June 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee; Hark, Southampton-buildings; Philip.
son, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
William Loder, innkeeper, Wokingham, Berkshire, May
6. at two, and Jane 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Soames, Old Broad-
street, and Wokingham.
Thomas Welsh, builder, Buralem, Staffordshire. May 5
and 27, at halt-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Smith,
Shelton, Staffordshire; blotteram, Knight, and Emmett,
Birmingham.
John Meek, victualler, Wolverhampton, May 3 and 24, at
half-past ten, at the Birmingham District court. Bittleston,
official assignee, Birmingham; Kitson, Wolverhampton;
Motteram, Knight. and Emmet, Birmingham.
Richard Wilson Todd and Richsrd Hobbs. ironnysagers,
Bath, Mal 6 and June 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Miller, official assignee. Bristol; Hollings, Bath.
r•liribeth Ann Yandall, innkeeper, Bath. May 7, and
Jni.e 2. at eleven, at the Bristol Ilistrict Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol; Hellings, Bath.
Mary F .urricre, innkeeper, Wigan, Lawnshire, May 1 and
;?7, at twelve, et the Manchester District Court. Mackenzie,
official assignee, Manchester; Price, Wigan,
To,ma.4 Pearce and Wiltiarn Thackray, timber merchants,
Sunderland, May 11 and June 10, .rt twelve. at the New-
castle-unoc-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Moore.r. Btsnopsw.armouth.
Henry Bates and Henry Williamson, brewers, Halifax,
Yorkshire, :Stay 24, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Wavell, Philbrick and Foster,
Halifax.

DIVIDENDS.
At the GAlrr, Basinghall-street.
J. Burl 4, Eagle Brewery, Hampstead-road, brewer,
May 14, at tw4ve—W. Getlics!. Leieuater-aquare. linen-
draper, May 7, at twdv.-11. Pinhorn and R. Pinhorn,
SArtharcpton, tailors, May 14, at eleven—R. Pinhorn,
Southampt.n. tailor, May 14, at eleven—Z, Warren,
Ard14712, E,sr, miller, May 14, at me—E. JonPs,
Strand, woollendraper, May 14, at cne—A. Dean,
grightne, (,lotraar, Mey 15, at half wit twelve—W.
D!,nrnan, Chem, Surrey, earperrer. nay 15, at twelve
14 Tire nub. Highgate, butcher, May 20, at half-past
cloven. _

In the Country.
S. E. R. Jones, Wrockwardine, Shropshire. apothe-
cary, May 15, •t halt-past eleven, at the Court, Bir-
mi►,gham—J. Chew, Mauch-rater, stuff Manufacturer,
May 15. at eleven, at the Court, MancheWar—R. A.
Taylor. Dunstnu, Durham, Epsom salt, and c -lour ma-
nufacturer, May 14, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

G. Nook and J. Williams, Frith-street, Soho, gold-
smiths and jewellers, ls. 61, any Wednesday, between
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basing-
hall-street.
J. Williams, Frith-street, Soho, goldsmith and
jeweller, 4s. Id., any Wednesday between eleven and
three at the offs -e of Mr. Whitmore, Bssinghall street.
B. 'Ground, Wi.beacb, Cambridg-shire, draper, Bs.
6t, anY Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the
offi.?e of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
d 15' Wyon, Regent-ktreet, engraver, Is. 9d., on Satur-
tway, Lexr, and on the three subsequent Saturdays, be-
en eh
Abehurch"n and two, at the office of Mr. Groom,
J. Johnson. and
Liverpool, grocer, Is. 2d., on Wednes-
day,
April 28, any su. and 4
(event Wednesday, be
tween eleven -
and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Li-
verpool.
B. Thompson, Derby, woollen draper, ls. 2id., on
Friday, April 23, and
tween eleven and three, the office eof Mr. BittleSton,
we tbe
Nottingham. the
m two following Fridays, be-

J. Devrhurat, Preston, provision dealer, 7d. and 55-
64the of a penny, ou
any Tuesday, between eleven and
one, ac the office of Mr. Mackenzie, Manchester.
J. Dixon, Morley, Leeds, dyer, 4d., any day between
eleven and two, at the office of Ur. YouPgP 144:416.