The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY:EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1865.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
RECOVERY and RESTORATION of CABLE and
SUBMERSION of a SECOND CABLE between VALEN-
TIA and NEWFOUNDLAND.

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF

SHAREHOLDERS.

Notice is Hereby6l;;;;,Tllaia;hXiraordinary General
Meeting of the Shareholders of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street Within, in the City of London, on THURSDAY, the
14th day of September 1865, at half-past 1 o'clock precisely,
for the purpose of reporting to the shareholders upon the
present position of the undertaking and the measures
recommended by the board for the resuscitation of the
company's existing cable in connection with the manufac-
ture and submersion of a second cable. .

And it is further intended at the said meeting to rescind
a certain resolution adopted at an extraordinary meetinc,
of the company on Wednesday, the 9th day of August,°
1865, under which the right to ,a preferential dividend of
8 per cent. per annum was conferred upon certain new
capital authorised to be issued at the said meeting, and it
is intended in lieu of such resolution so to be rescinded,
to • propose for adoption by the shareholders a resolution
conferring upon the same capital, or so much thereof
as may then and there be determined, a preferential
dividend of 12 per cent. per annum, and it is intended to
propose that the right to the said 12 per cent. per
annum shall either be a first preference taking prece-
dence over all the other preferential stock of the com-
pany, or that (as may be decided upon in the interim) it
shall be a second preference with right of precedence to
the existing preferential stock of the company.
And it is further intended by the directors to take power
to convert the said preferential capital, or such thereof as
may from time to time be fully paid up, into consolidated
preferential stock of the company ; and the directors fur-
ther give notice that at the said meeting they intend to
take such powers and propose such resolutions as will
enable them to carry out effectually the foregoing proposals.
JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Chairman.
GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary and General
Superintendent.
12, St. Helen's-place, Bishops ate-street Within,
London.; '2Btlr-AtiOsc - -

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

LIQIIFIELD RACES—TuEsDAy.

Tho Anson Plate of 30 soTs (Handicap) for all ages;
winners extra. Half mile.

Captain De Lane's Blue Mantle, 5 yrt Bst 91b (J. Daley) 1
Lord Baterean's Gipsy Girl, 5 3-iA Ist 12Ib
(J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. 11. Barter's Balomock, 4 yrs, Bst I_2lb ...(E. Taylor 3
Mr. Lincoln's Carnizette, 2 yrs, Set pi (Kenyon 4
The following also ran :—Edinbinill, Speranza, Tring,
Knight of Kars, and Petra filly.
Betting-6 to 4 ngst Gipsy Girl, 4to 1 agst Carnizette,
5 to 1 agst Blue Mantle, 100 to 15 agst Edinburgh, and
10 to 1 bar four. After three failures, Blue Mantle,
with Gipsy Girl and Carnizette, got away in front, and
came into the dip clear of Balornock fourth, Speranza
heading the ruck to the top .of the bill, where she fell
away and Balornock joined Carnizette.lnside the distance
Gipsy Girl looked like winning easily .1 but Blue Mantle,
being in the vein to try to-day, challe 'ed her opposite the
lower end of the enclosure and won of r a good race by a
length; the same between second 'an third; Cannizette
was fourth, two lengths from Balornac. ; Speranza was a
T
bad fifth, Edinburgh sixth, Tring next with the Petra filly
last.

The cold Cup of 50 sovs in specie, added to a Handicap
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, 2 ft;
hr all ages; winners
extra. One mile. 17 subs.
Mr. J. N. Astley's Overture, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b ...(Clement) 1
Lord Coventry's Tennyson (h b), 3 pi, Gst 51b (Jarvis) 2
Mr. A. Temperley's Alice Leo, 3 yrs, Ist 51b...(Kenyon) 3

neck. There was no advance in the selling price of the