The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-16 00:00:00

LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND.

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The following is the report of the directors, to be pre-
sented at the half-yearly meeting on Tuesday next :—The
total capital received amounts to £800,628 10s., and the
total capital expended to £794,244 ss, 4d. From the state-
ment of the revenue account, which is furnished by the
lessees, it will be seen that the gross receipts for the half-
year have amounted to £21,711 195., and that the expendi-
ture has been £15,689 ss. 5d., leaving a balance of £6,022
13s. 7d. Since the last half-yearly meeting a change has
taken place in the management of the affairs of the corn.
pany, and the directors deem it their duty to record the cir-
cumstances under which that change was made. In No-
vember, 1861 (some previous communication on the sub-
ject having taken place between a committee of proprietors
and the joint Committee of directors of the railway, a requi-
sition was received, signed by the prescribed number of
shareholders, calling upon the joint committee or direc-
tors to convene an extraordinary meeting of proprietors of
London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway stock, for the pur-
pose of considering and determining upon the propriety of
an application to Parliament in the then ensuing session,
for leave to bring in a bill for the purpose of incorporating
the proprietors, and giving them some share in the manage-
ment of the affairs and property of the undertaking. A
meeting of the proprietors was accordingly convened for the
16th December last, when the subject was fully discussed,
and it was resolved that a bill for the purposes suggested
should be brought in, and a committee of proprietors, who
took charge of the condu4it of the bill, was appointed for
promoting the application to Parliament. The act, in-
titled, " An Act to incorporate the proprietors of shares in
the undertaking called the London, Tilbury, and Southend
Extension Railway, and to vest such undertaking in the
company so incorporated, and for other purposes," received
the royal assent on the 16th May last, whereupon the pro-
prietors of shares in the undertaking were incorporated by
the name of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway
Company. The first ordinary meeting of the new company
was held on the 10th June last, and the present board of
directors was then constituted in accordance with the pro-
visions of the act of Parliament, three of the directors beinc,
appointed by the company, three by the directors of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, and three by the
directors of the London and Blackwall Railway Company.
The provisions in the act of 1852 relating to auditors hav-
ing been repealed by the act of 1862, it will be requisite for
the proprietors at this meeting to elect two auditors.

ASCENT OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SPIRE.—On
Thursday afternoon last James Matthews, a workman in
the employ of Mr. Frederick Richard Fisher, of the High-
street, bailder, performed his annual feat of ascending from
the small weather door up the iron handles to the summit
of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral, for the purpose of oiling
the vane. Before descending, he got astride the iron cross-
baralof Maintenancegw.ma yor,se th. ane
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above the vane, which is at an
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400 feet from terra firma.
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