The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.
The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the Euston Station; Mr Deane in the
chair.
The CIIAIR3fAN said he was sorry to inform the proprie-
tors that the bills remaining on their list were not yet in a
position to submit for their approval. He then proposed
tha► the meeting be further adjourned to Friday, July 8, at
the same place and hour.

The motion was agreed to, and the meeting adjourned,

METROPOLITAN.
The adjourned Wharncliffa meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the L)ndon Tavern; Mr W. Wilkinson
in the chair.

The CllArumANsail he regretted that another adjourn,
ment would be necessary, in consequence of the bills no
being ready, and the meeting adjourned accordingly.

NORTH LONDON.
The adjourned Wharnelitle meeting of this company was
appointed to ba hell on Tuesday at the Euston Station for
the consideration of the company's Bill for the Kingsland
and Tottenham line, but in consequence of it not being
sufficiently advanced in the House of Commons the meeting
was further adjourned to Monday, July 11, at the same
place and hour.

BLYTH AND TYNE.
The new branch line of this company, connecting Mot.-
peth, North Shields, Blyth Bedlington, and the Northum-
berland steam coal distri3 with Newcastle, has been opened
this week for traffic. At a Wharncliffe meeting of this
company the sanction of the shareholders was given to the
Bill now before Parliament for the construction of the
Wark worth, Walbottle, and Nowbiggen extension, and the
Tynemouth Dock branch.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
The annual meeting of his company was held at the office
in the city of Chicago of Wednesday, the 25th ult., the
Hon. M. Skinner in the ciair. The meeting was declared
to be duly constituted, there being represented in person
and by proxy 169,611 shams. The acts and doings, reso-
lutions and votes of the 3oard of Directors sine the last
meeting were ratified and confirmed.
The PRESIDENT, in submitting the annual report of the
affairs of the company up to the 31st of December, 1863,
stated that there was to the credit of income account at the
end of last year 1,328,716d0i3, and that payments of interest
and dividends from the Ist cf Jan. to the Ist of May had
been 981,990 dole, leaving ciao and payable for interest and
dividends 405,024 dots. The gross traffic receipts since the
let of Jan. up to and inclusive of April 30th, 1864, had been
1,592,029 dols, and the lard receipts for the same period
627,490 dole. The directors could not give a detailed
account of the expenditures since the let of Jan., because
the accounts were only made up annually, hut the business of
the company was in a prosperous condition, and there was
every reason to expect a continuance of semi-annual divid-
ends. The company was entirely free from floating debt,
and the funds on hand were mainly invested in Government
securities,

On the motion of the PRESIDENT, seconded by Mr C.
BORTHWICK, it was resolved that the cancelled bonds scrip
be amalgamated with the general stock of the company by
converting the same into Scrip shares, and that the holders
for each sum of 90 dol. su'rendered receive one scrip share of
the stock of the compan! having 90 dol. paid thereon, sub-
ject to a further call of 90 dol. ; and the meeting reoom-
mended the directors to call up the 10 dol. still outstanding,
so as to consolidate the whole into one class of shares.
Mr W, H. Osborn, Nr W. Tracy, Mr A. S. Hewitt, and
Mr H. Chauncey were duly elected directors.
Mr F. C. GERHARD Proposed the appointment of a com-
mittee of five shareholders to investigate the affairs of the
company, but it was negatived by 117,362 votes, against
48,500 votes, and the proceedings terminated.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held in New York
on the 14th inst., it was resolved that a dividend of 4 per
cent, in cash, free of income tax, be paid on the Ist of
August next to the hollers of the shares and cancelled bonds
scrip registered on the 15th of July next,
The agents of the company in London, Messrs H. Benson
and Co., impress on the shareholders the necessity of at
once having the shares held by them registered in their own
names to prevent difficulty in obtaining the dividend pay-
able in New York,
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A. special Court of Common Council was convened yester•
.
day at Guildhall, Alderman Sir John Musgrove presiding as
locum tenens for the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of receiving
a report from the Remembrancer, to the effect that the
Holborn Valley Improvement Act had passed and received
the Royal assent on the 23d of June.
Upon the motion of Mr Deputy Far, it was referred to
the Improvement Committee to carry the act into execution,
and to confer from time to time with the Corn, Coal, and
Finance Committee as to how the funds shall be raised for
the purpose.

Mr PARREE asked Mr Fry, the chairman of the commit-
tee, whether the bill reported by the Remembrancer was in
confirmation of the plan approved by the Court, and if any
new provisions had been introduced of which the Court was
not aware.

Mr Deputy FRY said he was not aware that anything had
been introduced contrary to the views of the Court.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday, in Lord Stanley's committee on the Great
Eastern Railway Company's proposed metropolitan station
and railways, Mr Bidder, C.E., and Mr Sinclair, resident
engineer of the Great Eastern, were examined at consider-
able length by Mr Merewether and Mr Round relative to
the engineering characteristics. Mr Hunt, surveyor to the
Commissioner of Woods and Works, was also examined
relative to the land value of the property for the company's
central city station on the east side of New Broad-street and
on the north side of Wormwood-street.
The clauses of the Redruth and Falmouth Railway hav-
ing been settledin Mr Adair's committee,
Mr Burke, QC., opened the case of the Great Northern
and Western of Ireland Railway Company's Bills for rais-
ing £40,000 by new preference shares, and for arrangements
with the Midland and Great Southern and Western Rail-
ways, and witnesses were examined.
In the Lords, the bill to enable the London and North-
Western to make arrangements for facilitating the inter-
change of traffic k connection with the steamboat traffic of
the Channel and the principal railways in Ireland, after
evidence adduced on these points, was passed.