The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.

100 to 6on the field—offered
100 to 6 agst Avalanche (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Master Bagot (offered, take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst The Dane (offered)
33 to 1 agst Jerusalem (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
200 to 9 agst Stradella (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Black Deer (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Plover (offered)
33 to 1 agst Anfield (wanted)
40 to 1 agst Zetland (offered, take 50)
40 to 1 agst Caller On (offered, take 50) .
50 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (taken)
50 to 1 agst Ben Webster (taken and offered)
66 to 1 agst Knave (taken and offered)
WATERLOO CUP.
100 to 8 aget Mr. Spinks' nomination—offered
100 to 6 agst Mr. Worrall's nomination—wanted
25 to 1 agst Mr. Gregson's nomination—offered
33 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's nomination—taken

Bank of England Return.---This Day.

An Account, pursuant to f
cap. 32, for the week endinil
Or Jan., 1863 :

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
ion Wednesday, the 28th day

ISSUE DET
Notes issued ......X27,387,475

'LRTMENT.

Government Debt £11,015,1C 0
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,737,475
Silver Bullion ....

£27,387,4751

£27,387,475

BANKING
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

:PARTMENT.
Government Seen-

rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £10,606,648
Other? Securities 19,535,217
Notes
Gold and Silver 874,348
Coin

counts) 6,416.863
Other Deposits 14,414,763
Seven Day and
other Bills 670,066

£38,302,518
W.

£38,302,518
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

Jan. 29, 1863.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE,
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Manchester yesterday—Mr. Chapman, M.P., in the chair.
The report was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report
and accounts, said he could not congratulate the meeting
on the state of the traffic, which had been affected by the
badness of trade arising out of the American war. He
was glad, however, to say, that they were able to pay in-
terest on bonds and guaranteed stock, carrying over
£5,000 to next half-year's accounts. There was a
decrease of £3,000 in the passenger, and £15,000 on
goods traffic, but he was glad to say that their working
stock was in good condition, and they had hopes of decreas-
ing their working expenses. Ho congratulated them that
they had no bills before Parliament. The amount received
from the preference shareholders towards the Central Itelief
Fund was £695. He concluded by announcing that Mr•
Gamble had tendered his resignation to the Board.
Mr. BARKER, deputy chairman, seconded the motion.
Mr. G. WILLS complained of the accounts at great length,
and was of opinion a change was necessary both in the
direction and management.
Mr. BAZLEY, M.P., thanked the shareholders for the re-
sponse which they had made to his recent appeal, and
having succeeded in effecting a change at the Board he would
retire from the meeting.
Mr. FITZGERALD complained that in Mr. Gamble's re-
tirement they had lost a valuable member of the Board, and
he did not approve of the conduct of Mr. Bazley in this
matter. He said the accounts would not bear investigation:
He also condemned the making of the Cheshire lines, which,
he said, would never pay working expenses, and were only
made with a view of forcing the London and North-Western
Company into an amalgamation. He expressed an opinion
that the accounts ought not to be passed.
Mr. FILDES expressed satisfaction in the election of Mr.
Mendel and Mr. render, M.P., on the Board. He then
reiterated charges made at former meetings, to the effect that
one of the directors had only a small holding in the stock of
the company, while he held the position of director in other
companies connected with this company, and derived a re-
muneration out of in proportion to his stake in the com-
pany. He ultimately moved that the relation of Mr. Lees
to parties interested in the professional business of the com-
pany rendered his individual action at the Board a breach
of the spirit of the law, and that he be requested to resign,
and that in the event of his refusal the Board be requested
to exclude him from committees and from all other direc-
tions, the qualifications for which were derived from this
company.
The consideration of the report, at the wish of the meet-
ing was postponed in order that the motion might be taken
first, and, after a long discussion, the motion having been
seconded, was carried.
Mr. E. WATKIN said he could speak of the executive in
the highest terms of praise, and, considering the badness of
the times in the last six months, the directors deserved cre-
dit for the result they had to show. He could not help look-
ing back, however, with regret, to what he believed to have
been those last chances, the realisation of which might have
placed this company today in a totally different position.
Reference had been made to the South Yorkshire Agree-
ment, on which:there was a loss. lie wanted to know how
it was that, having taken that line, not only for a commer-
cial, but for political purposes, the directors had hitherto
made no use of it in a political direction. The Great North-
ern Company were exulting in the anticipations of paying 9
per cent. But were they aware that this dividend was in
great measure derived from the £lBO,OOO a year of coal
traffic out of the South Yorkshire district, of which this
company (the lessees of the South Yorkshire), who paid
the whole of the loss, chose for some reason, or on account
of some difficulty, to make a clear present to the Great
Northern ? Were that' aware also that the value of the
Lancashire traffic exchanged with this company, via R et-
ford, was nearly £200,000 a year ? Mr. Denison ought to be
reminded that Parliament gave last year extensive powers
to the Great Eastern, and it could not be expected that that
company would keep out of the manufacturing districts.
If the railway map was now going to be altered, the part.
nership of this company and the Great Northern should be
adopted ; the various .adjTuhseterdeponorstqwuaasreunanandimeVoeuilsltyeramdos.
p
gua-
ranteed dividends were declared; Messrs. Withers, Fender,
and Mendel were re-elected directors; Mr. A. M'Dougall
was elected director in place of Mr. Gamble ; Mr. Unwin
was re-elected auditor, and the directors were authorised to
borrow on mortgage £75,000 in pursuance of the Garston
and Liverpool Railway Act.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the
' chairman.
Ler

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday the railway bills declared to have complied
with the standing orders of both houses were those of the
London and South-Western, for amalgamation of the North
exten-
sion Devon Railway and Bideford Extension and for the lease
of the Andover and Redbridge Railway; the Stonehouse
and Nailsworth, for an extension from the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Railway to Stonehouse, at an; eFstoimrniataerdticnoestanofd
£66,000 ; the North and South Staffordshire Junction, for
tePnosriotsnoyto, aFnrdasSetrrbauthr
o.ishla,afnoar
extensions from Rugeley to Uttoxeter and Abbott's Brom-
ley ; the Ely Valley Extension Railway, for new lines and
to Portgordon and to raise £llO,OOO
Bt ourcahi
as on
,Xt9os,aoboaon;dßo
abandon
Banff,
substi-
tute another line; the Banff, Macduff, and b
extension to the harbour of Macduff and Turriff, for an
the Glasgow and South-Western, to raise to raise L 6,000 ;
nect Glasgow and Paisley with Paisley £286,000 to can-
to use the Ayr and Maybole Railway and Renfrew, and
Glasgow Railway, for a line to Dunfermline ; the Edinburgh and
ferry and subsidiary branches andunfermline by
esti-
matedQueens-
cost of V 500,000 ; the Merth' piers, &c., at an
),r, Tredegar, and Aber-
gaYenny, for extemions to joie,