The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-27 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OP CANADA.

The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the
week ending the Bth inst. amounted for local pas-
sengers to £7,266; for foreign passengers, to £3,030;
for emigrants, to £383 ; for mails, &c., to £829 ; for
local freight and live stock, to £9,336 ; and for
foreign freight and live stock, to £2,741 ; total,
£23,589 against £21,635 for the corresponding
week of last year, showing an increase of £1,954.

LANGHAM HOTEL.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the Hotel, Langham-place, the Earl
of Shrewsbury in the chair.

Mr. J. A. GRANT read the report. It congratu-
lated the shareholders on the commencement of the
business of the company under the most favourable
auspices. The business since the opening of the
hotel on the 12th of June had been most satisfac-
tory. The receipts had far exceeded the highest ex-
pectations of the directors, taking into consideration
the unfinished state of a - large portion of the

` The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, congratulated the shareholders upon being
seated in one of the handsomest rooms in London,
and also on the success they had hitherto met. The
hotel, he hoped, in course of time, would be second
to none in the metropolis. It was a most extraor-
dinary thing as fast as hotels were put up they all
seemed to fill. lie not only looked upon the hotel
as a commercial speculation, but as supplying a
want long felt in the metropolis. lle trusted in
future the directors would be enabled to give the
shareholders a handsome dividend.

Mr. HALL seconded the motion for the adoption
of the report.
A DIRECTOR said the hotel had been full from the
time it was opened, and when it was furnished it
would be the best in London.

Mr. RENDELL, a director, said that the hotel had
been opened 44 clays, and during that time the
amount received from visitors was £6,302. The
number of visitors who had slept at the hotel was
6,025, and casual ones 1,166, making 7,189. The
average amount received per day was £143, and
the number of visitors per day 163. The gross
amount received for apartments was £2,051; when
the hotel opened the number of roomsfurnished was
128 ; at the present time the number furnished was
236, and there remained 49 to be furnished.
A long discussion ensued, in the course of which
the report was adopted, the retiring directors were
re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman
closed the proceedings.

SERIOUS RIOT IN NORTH LEICESTER.--The polling
for North Leicestershire took place on Monday. Dis-
turbances took place at Loughborough, Syston, and
Ishby-de-la-Zoucla, and at the latter place the row was so
great that it was necessary to adjourn the poll until the
following day. At Syston the disturbance was con-
fined to brawling and fighting, and at Loughborough
nothing further occurred than the smashing of the
windows of Mr. Moron, draper, a supporter of Lord
John Manners and Mr. Hartopp. The mob also broke
the window of the Bull's Head committee-room of Lord
John Manners and Mr. Hartopp. At Ashby-de-la-
Zouch the rioters may be said to have been in pos-
session of the town for several hours. The disturbance
began about noon, when a large number of colliers and
others from adjacent villages assembled in front of the
Tovyn Hall, where the polling booth was erected, and
insulted the voters as they went to vote for Lord John
Manners and Mr. Hartopp. The Rev. Mr. Greasley, of
Colverton, was one of the persons attacked, and he had
to seek refuge first in an adjoining house, where he hid
his valuables, and afterwards he made his escape to the
workhouse. The mob was for a short time dispersed by
Inspector Ward, with about ten of the Leicester borough
police and a few " specials," but a crowd of several hun-
dred persons soon collected again, and an attack was made
on an empty waggonette belonging to Mr. Worthington, of
Newton Park, near Burton-on-Trent. The carriage was
drawn by four horses, and the postilions being attired in
blue jackets, were pulled from their seats and assaulted.
In the scuffle one of the horses broke the gearing, and
dashed off at full speed iu the direction of Smisby, but it
was fortunately caught at a distance on the road. The
mob then returned into the Market-place, and threw a
shower of stones at the police, striking several and injur-
ing them. The police charged the mob, and a regular
fight then took place between them and the rioters,
'many of whom, occupying positions at public-house
windows, hurled down stones and glass bottles
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charged upon an officer with.epitchfork, but fortunately
he simply tore the man's clothes.- The police were drawn
up in line at the top of High-street, and as most of the
windows of the Town Hall were broken, another charge
was made upon the rioters and the streets were gradually
cleared. An nine o'clock more police arrived by special
train from Syston, and by 11 o'clock quiet was restored,
though police continued to come into the town up to early
in the morning. Nine or ten policemen were severely
wounded on the head, ono of them dangerously. Many of
the rioters were also injured. About 100 borough and
county police were present in the town at the adjourned
polling. Though there were a few noisy demonstrations,
the peace was not broken. The polling did not affect the
return of Lord John Manners and Mr. Hartopp. A num-
ber of tha rioters wero brought before the magistrates yes-
terday and remanded.