The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-16 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

WEIGHTS FOR THE CHESTER

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the London-bridge Terminus;
the Hon. J. Byng, in the chair.
Mr. S. SMILES, the secretary, having read the
notice convening the meeting,the report was taken
as read. It stated that the receipts for the half-
year ending the 31st December last amounted to
£355,504, and the expenditure to £324,097. The
receipts had been derived principally from calls and
prepayments of calls on the company's shares, and
the exercise of the borrowing powers under the
original Act. The principal items of expenditure
had been in respect of land and compensation,
£203,294; of the Hungerford-market purchase
£50,000, and for works, £55,680. Possession of the
whole of the land required for the purpose of the
works situated between the south bank of the
Thames, opposite Hungerford, and the east end of
Ewer-street, Southwark, had been obtained and
cleared of its building materials, and arrangements
for the remaining property, up to Wellington-
street, London-bridge, were far advanced towards
completion. The company had also obtained pos-
session of thesouthern portion of the Hungerford-
market property, o❑ the north side of the river at
Hungerford, to enable the northern abutment of the
bridge to be proceeded vt ith, and negotiations were
in progress for the purchase of the requisite
property in the Strand and in Villiers-
street for the new terminal station at Char-
ing-cross. The company had been compelled
to purchase the whole of the St. Thomas's Hos-
pital property. The only part of that property re-
quired for the purposes of the railway was the cor-
ner of the hospital garden, forming the angle
situated at the junction of the South Eastern incline
with Wellington-street, Borough. Notice was given
of the company's intention to purchase such portion
of tie hospital land, but the governors having ob-
tained an injunction in Chancery, restraining the
company from proceeding with the purchase of a
part only, the value of the whole property was re-
ferred to arbitration, as provided by the Land
Clauses Consolidation Act. The amount originally
claimed by the governors of the hospital was
£750,000, and the amount awarded by the umpire
appointed by the Board of Trade, Mr. J. Stewart,
of Liverpool, was £296,000. This amount the com-
pany proposed to pay over forthwith and take pos-
session of the hospital, in order that the railway
works might be proceeded with. The directors of
the South Eastern Railway Company, who were to
work the line when opened for traffic, having re-
quired that the city terminus should be constructed
without delay. the necessary steps had accordingly
been taken to serve the legal notices for the pro-
perty required for that part of the railway, and
arrangements bad been made for proceeding with
the works, including the bridge across the river to
the new city terminus in Cannon-street, as soon as
possible after such property had been purchased.
The directors were using their best efforts to have
the line ready for the conveyance of traffic between
London-bridge and Waterloo station by the ensuing
summer, and into the terminal station at Charing-
cross by the beginning of next year. The capital
account to Dec. 31 last showed that £672,655 had
been received, and £572,113 expended, leaving a
balance in the hands of the Accountant-General of
£100,542.
The report of Mr. Hawkshaw, the engineer.
stated that the contractor was making satisfactory
progress with the works of the railway. The brick-
work of the viaduct was nearly completed between
Belvidere-road and Collingwood-street, and was
generally in an advanced state between Coiling-
wood-street and Blackfriars-road. Satisfactory pro-
gress bad been made with the manufacture of the
ironwork for the street bridges, and the girders
were being fixed over Sutton-street, Broadwall,
and the South-Western branch crossing of the
Waterloo-road. Considerable progress had been
made• with the Charing-cross bridge over the River
Thames. The four openings from the Surrey side
to the centre of the liver were fininished, excepting
the cross girders and the roadway platform ; and as
respected the remaining four openings the cylinders
of one of the piers, at the far end, had been nearly
sunk to their proper depth. The ironwork of the
bridge, so far as had not yet been fixed, was gene-
rally in a forward state. Respecting the Cannon-
street Extension, since the passing of the Act the
line had been re-surveyed, and a property plan had
been prepared on a large scale, to facilitate the pur-
chase of the lands and houses that would have to
be taken. The design for the bridge over the
Thames at Southwark had been nearly completed,
and would be submitted immediately to the Lords
of the Admiralty and to the Conservators of the
River Thames for their approval.
The CIIAIRINIAN, in moving the adoption of the
report and statement of accounts, said they had
nearly completed their arrangements for obtain-
ing possession of the whole of the land and
property required for the original line. They
had been under the necessity of making
arrangements to take considerably more
property than was needed for the line.
They had also been compelled to purchase tl:e St.
Thomas's Hospital under a decision in Chan-
cery, although when they went to Parliament for
their original Act they intended only to take that
part of the property at the other corner of the
hospital-garden which the railway was to cross and
they did not propose to touch any part of the
building. When the purchase-money was paid they
wculd take what they required and dispose of the
site, which could not fail to be valuable. The works
were rapidly progressing towards completion, and,
although there might not at present be much ap-
pearance of progress at the London-bridge end of
the line, ho could assure those who had not seen for
themselves that a great deal had been done at the
west end of the railway, and at the crossing of the
river at Hungerford. In the course of a few days
from that time the works at the London-bridge end
would be in full progress. They were about to take
immediate steps to proceed with the city branch
into Cannon-street, and in which he trusted they
would make some progress by the time they next
met.

Mr. THOMSON seconded the motion for the adop-
tion of the report.
Mr. COLES CHILD called the attention of the
auditors to an item of £42,000 in the accounts which
he believed should have been only £40,000, and if
that were so the balance would be X 102,541 instead
of X 100,541.

The Secretary explained that a certain sum had
been invested for the special purpose of meeting
part of the claim of the Hungerford-bridge Com-
pany, and the discrepancy would be rectified in the
next account.

The report and statement of accounts were then
unanimously adopted. The retiring directors, Sir
J. Duke, M.P., Lord A. Paget, M.P., and Mr. S.
Teulon, were unanimously re-elected.
Mr. A. BEATTIE, in moving the re-election of Mr.
G. Smith, the retiring auditor, proposed that the
allowance to the auditors be in in future £25 each
per annum.

Captain WARREN seconded the motion, and said
that it was a most satisfactory matter for a company
to have good auditors, and of importance that they
should be paid to do the business well.
The motion was carried unanimously.
The meeting was then made special, and the
directors were authorised to raise £525,000 under
the powers of the Charing-cross Railway (City
Terminus) Act, 1861, by the issue of new shares of
£2O each. It was proposed in the first instance to
raise £250,000 in 12,500 shares of £2O each.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A WAREHOUSEMAN.—WiIIiam Head, a
young man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with steal-
ing some cloth the property of Messrs. Landon and Co.,
woollen warehousemen, in whose employ he was as a
warehouseman, at No. 10, Old Bond-street.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was in
the employ of the prosecutors, and in consequence
of an anonymous letter received by the firm, Butcher,
137 C, watched the prisoner from his employers, and
on the way to Chelsea, prisoner took from under
his coat two pieces of cloth which he made into
a parcel and then took into a tailor's shop. Butcher
then took him into custody and found another piece of
cloth secreted on him, and at his lodgings the officer found
a number of waistcoat pieces, the property of the prose-
cutors.

Butcher asked for a remand, which was granted.
The most unnecessary delay took place in calling on the
cw.e, the prosecutor being kept waiting a considerable time.
Two men were taken into custody this morning with a
dog-cart, who are in the practice of calling at jewellers'
shops, and while one keeps the shopkeeper engaged at the
kerb, the other enters the shop and commits a robbery. The
case will be heard at a later hour.

'1
HE PRINCE OF WALES.—It is stated that his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will leave England for
the Levant via Trieste about the 13th or 14th of next
month, and that his stay in the East will extend over about
four months. It was anticipated that the Prince would
have taken the most prominent part in the inauguration of
the Great Exhibition, but under the above arrangement it
is not probable that he will return to this country for some
weeks after that event shall have taken place. The Ad cm-
ralty yacht Osborne is about to proceed to the Mediterra. 1
nean, to be at the Prince of Wales's disposal during his tour