The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

South-Eastern Railway.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING.—(THIS I)AY.)
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
and directors of this company was held to-day at the
Bridge House Hotel, London-bridge. James Byng, Esq.,
chairman of the board of directors, presided.
Tho report (which has already appeared in The Sun)
having been taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN rose to move the formal resolution for

its adoption. He congratulated the proprietors generally
on the fact that the receipts for the half-year ending the
31st of July, 1865, had been in excess of those of the cor-
responding:period:of 1864 to the amount of £33,540 6s. 2d,
The statement of expenditure on revenue account showed
that the ordinary working expenses during the half-year
had amounted to £'266895 9s. 4d. ; the rates, taxes, tolls,
and Government duty, to £43,633 10s. Bd. ; and the work-
ing of the steam-packet service, to £13,994 2s. 10d.
After providing for the fixed charges against revenue, there
remained a net balance of £111,012 9s. ld. available for
dividend on the ordinary consolidated stock of the com-
pany. A dividend at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum
would absorb a sum of £95,252 10s. 10d., leaving a balance
to be carried forward of £15,759 18s. 3d. ; and that rate of
dividend /.4(iAlia/440 UP6'2llWalidit9olilitily'gratr tui the
directors thought it right to recommend that it should be
reserved to meet claims for compensation arising out of the
calamitous accident which happened at Staplehurst in
June last. The works on the direct line to Ton-
bridge were progressing satisfactorily, and the entire
work, it was confidently anticipated, would be com-
pleted by next year. The City station was also
rapidly advancing, and that also it was fully expected
would be available for traffic at the opening of the ensuing
year. The passing by Parliament of a competing line for
the company's traffic at Godstone and Tonbridge Wells
would demand the serious attention of the directors ; and
the traffic arrangement with the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway had worked so favourably, that the direc-
tors felt quite justified in recommending it for the confir-
mation of the proprietors. With respect to the City
terminus extension of the Charing Cross Railway the
works were all being pressed forward. The bridge over
the Thames was rapidly advancing, and the station in
Cannon-street was not far from completion.

The report was adopted, and the dividends were ordered
,o be paid on the 11th of September.

The meeting was then made special for the purpose of
considering and affirming certain agreements with the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and the London
and North Western, and other business matters.

MARKETS—This Day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The supply of beasts on sale at our market to-day was
only moderate, whilst the quality of the stock was very
middling. Good and prime breeds consequently changed
hands at the extreme rates of Monday, viz., from 5s to 5s 6d
per 81bs. ; otherwise the beef trade ruled quiet, at Monday's
currency. The market was moderately supplied with
sheep, the trade for which was firm, at full prices. The
general top figure was 6s 8d per 81bs. The few lambs on
offer sold at about late rates. The trade for veal was steady,
at full quotations. Pork ruled firm, and prime small
porkers were rather dearer than on Monday.

Per 81b to sink the offal.

s de d
Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 0 4 0
Second quality do ..4 2 4 10
Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 2
Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 4 5 6
Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 6 5 0
Second quality do ..5 2 5 8

s ds d
Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 10 6 2
Prime s'thdowd d 0.6 4 6 8
La,ge coarse calves. 4 4 4 10
Prime small d0......5 0 5 4
Large hogs .4 0 4 6
Small porkers 4 8 5 2

Lambe....6s Od to 7s Od.
Suckling calves, 19a to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 25a
to 3Ca each.

Head of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts 1,03) Beasts 6lO
Cows l3O Cows.
Sheep and lambs B,l t.O Sheep and lambs
Calves 520 Ca yes
303
rigs 3:10 Pigs .. ........
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The Attempted Murder and Suicide in

Westminster.

At three o'clock this afternoon, the man Shaunessey,
under the care of the surgeons at 'Westminster Hospital,
was going on very favourably. The wound in the throat,
although there is much inflammation, is not likely to prove
fatal. The female also is going on so well that a fatal
result in her case is not now anticipated.

Detector's Revelations of Quacks and
Quackery.

Having driven the nail well home by his " Reve-
lations," Detector, otherwise Mr. F. B. Courtenay,
has here effectually clinched it in his Second Edi-
tion, with an " Addenda." He had already hurled
the vagabonds down, so to speak, into the gutter
bordering the public highroad : and he now contents
himself with fairly smothering them in the
mire of their own dirty facts and cases, of their
own nefarious practices and disgusting publications.
It required some pluck to have anything at all to
do with such a set of rogues, even in the way of
meting out to them the deadliest punishment

of all, meaning thereby the punishment of exposure.
But Detector has done his work, here, bravely and
well—he has spoken right out—he has entered from
the first uncompromisingly upon the untemptingJand
unsavoury task which he had, with so signal a
self-abnegation, set himself to accomplish ! Set-
ting himself about its accomplishment, in effect,
not only with a determination to call a spade a spade,
but with a determination also to use it resolutely,
wheresoever it might be deemed needful, in the effec-
tual cleansing out, namely, of those fouler Cloaca, the
haunts of Quacks and Quackery ! Before Detector
began his raid against the evil-doers and against
the evil system which they had set on foot and
were encouraging with such fearful success to them-
selves and with such pernicious consequences to
many members of the general community—the atro-
city he has since laid bare was already notorious. It
stank in the public nostrils. It was blatantly au-
dible and brazenly visible, to the right hand and to
the left. There was no gainsaying the fact of its
existence. And yet—granting all this—Until De-
tector put a sharp point to his pen and dipped it
into that searing ink of his of a gall and bitterness
doubly distilled—Until he had fairly written the
Quacks down, lower even than Dogberry wanted to
be written down by the Sexton, namely, not only as
Asses, of a densely illiterate stupidity, but as Sneaks
and Bullies to boot, as Swindlers and Extortioners of
the most degraded character imaginable—Until De-
tector had done all this the Quacks were virtually un-
denounced, they were certainly in no way formally
charged with their iniquities ! Quackery until then,
in fact, drove its villanous trade triumphantly in the
very midst of us. For what he has done, there-
fore, actually done, in his capacity as Detector-
General of Quacks and Quackery, we take Mr.
Courtenay to be nothing less than a Public Bene-
factor. His exposure of the rascals has been com-
plete and most effectual. lle has stripped them
not simply of a mask or a domino, but of the whole
of their disguises : and, afterwards, taking into his
" honest hand" a " Whip" like that apostrophised
by Emelia in the play, he has relieved his own over-
wrought feelings and those we arc sure of very many
others besides, by " lashing the rascals naked through
the world," through our own noisy, babbling
world, that is, of Vanity Fair ! The additional Facts
and Cases he has here brought together in the form
of the " Addenda," appended to this Second Edition
of his " Revelations," are as telling, as pungent, as
acrid we might even say, as any with which the vaga-
bonds were, some months ago, pelted by him in the
original Revelations themselves. The Pamphlet as
it now stands—in its entirety—consisting as it now
does, that is to say, of Revelations and Addenda
combined—is for all the world like the application
to a most foul and loathsome ulcer, now of the knife,
now of the cautery !