The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-13 00:00:00

Mr. LEVI said before the meeting proceeded any
further he begged to say that the company had
already exceeded their borrowing powers—(hear,
hear, and cries of " That's true," and uproar) by
the amount of £300,000. (Uproar.) The meeting
had been called, therefore, for an illegal purpose, or
for giving its sanction to the continuance of an
illegal act. Under these circumstances he trusted
the meeting would at once refuse to give its ap-
proval to everything submitted to it.
The CHAIRMAN said if, was a mistake to say the
parliamentary powers of the company had been
exceeded. (Uproar.)
A SHAREHOLDER hoped the meeting would give
the directors a patient hearing, but he could not but
think that the preliminary report issued by the com-
mittee had done more harm than good. (No, no,
and uproar.) He thought the time had now arrived
when some alteration in the conduct of their business
should be made. (Cries of " Turn out the directors.)
That could not be done at the present moment,
but he thought if if they had any Itoneur amongst
them they would resign in a body. He thought
the secretary had failed in his duty in not at once
refusing his assent to the.illegal proceedings of the
board. The time had passed for the controlling
influence of secretary and engineers--(hear, hear)
—and he thought the directors would bow to public
opinion, but instead„pf that he believed they in-
tended to use proxies- on the present occasion to
carry out their object.

The meeting was one of great uproar.
[We shall give the conclusion iu a later edition.]

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Dec. 13.—Wind this day at noon—North-.
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 13.—Wind N.E.—Sailed.—Delta,
steamer, for Alexandria.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 12.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Ocean Tra—
veller, for Rio Janeiro.

I_l3Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I•
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.

Arrived, Dec. 13.—Bleikam, from Helsingborg ; Mars-
done, from Holy Island; Ellen, from Dunkirk; Alabama,
from Wyborg.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Passed, Dec. 12—Squehna, screw steamer, from London,
for Malta; City of Foo-Chow, from London for Glasgow ;
Express, from Shields for Genoa.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 18
Ditto 3 Months. 12 if 12 2
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45 25 55
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 10 25 17*
Ditto 3 Months. 25 37* 25 47-1
Marseilles
Franlrfor: on the Maine 1201 121
Vienna — 10 00 10 95
Trieste — 10 90 10 95

Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Oporto
Lisbon

30 __ _
30/
6 28 6 281
46f 471
47/ 48
25 60 25 65
25 60 25 65
25 57i 25 621
25 60 25 65
25 60 25 65
25 60 25 65
511 511
511 511

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mile pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.15 per .£1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £.3
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-It,ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.

By adviccs from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, at
about the same price in London and hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is ICBI to IC9 per cent. At these rates there
is no profit on the importation of go'd from the United
States.

A prospectus has been published announcing the
formation of a company, under the title of the
Anglo-Romano Water Company, with a capital of
£200,000, in shares of £2O each, for the purpose of
supplying Rome with the water of the never-failing
springs at Arsoli, known as the "Aqua Marcia" and
" Regina Aquarum" of the ancient Romans. Whenn,
it is considered that for some months in the year,
owing to its almost tropical climate, water is consi-
dered a luxury in Rome, the scheme of making the
supply as general as that of the great metropolis of
London seems to be productive of but one result--
viz., a large profit to those engaged in the under-
taking. The most favourable terms have been
secured from the Pontifical Government, and the
utmost care has been taken to place the works in
the hands of responsible parties. Judging from
the other Anglo-Roman works now in operation,
the proposed Water Company seems well calculated
to equal, if not exceed, them in a profitable return
for the capital expended.
SUICIDE OF STORER.—SALISBURY, Dec.
About half-past two o'clock this afternoon Storer
committed suicide at the county gaol, Salisbury, by drown-
ing himself in a warm bath. He had succeeded in tying his
hands behind him, and was found, five minutes after his
having been left by the warder to bathe himself, quite
dead, with his face in the water. Medical assistance was
quickly obtained. The Marshall Hall and Sylvester
methods and other means were used without avail.

SPANISH RAILWAYS. —The total amount of capital
raised by Spanish railway companies at the close of
tnh e
the MNa do ti:itd,h e
rSn aor
fa gsopsasial and Alicante, and
last year was £60,658,553. Of this amount, £14,344,199
Both these enter-
Xrelf el.r,Sr6ed4,o6too t
prises are in a by no means flourishing condition ; indeed,
failures. A
embarked
considerable'
in the Madrid Spanish railways generally must be regarded as financial
flur
armid7ousnatragofnaaFa:eanncdh
Alicante eapital
andhas
been
the Northern of Spain Companies.
THE DIFFERENCE. BETWEEN "A " POET AND
" THE" POET.--" A " poet is simply nobody. If he
goes in for attending to conventionalities, it cannot be said
to be anything in their favour. The blighting influence of
society cannot be altogether escaped by making verses,
and many a poet goes to church, and wears frock coats,
and has his hair brushed by machinery, just like any other
ordinary being who has got no soul. " The" poet is natu-
rally a different kind of creature. Ho likes his hair long,
and plenty of it. When he goes into private life, it is with
a haughty step and an eye that rolls far more than gay
worldlings would find comfortable, and he regards custom
and fashion with the most withering scorn.—Saturday Re-
view.
A FENIAN FIRE-EATER.-O'MATIONEY, the Irish
Head Centre or President of the Fenians in the United
States, has recently called upon the Hon. HENRY W. RAY_
MoND, the Editor of the New York Times, for a "retrac-
tion" of charges contained in a leading article which de-
nounced the Fenian leaders as impostors. Mr. RAYMOND
has declined to retract, and subsequently also declined to
fight. The following is the article in question : "Fenian
Imposture.—Hundreds, and probably thousands, of poor,
honest, unsuspecting Irish, living in unsophisticated
sections
of this country, have been cajoled into making remittances
to the managers of the Order here and elsewhere - not OLIO
tithe of which, they may depend on it, aro used for any
other purpose than maintaining a set of scamps in idleness.
Stories come to us of remittances of Fenian funds to Ire-
land. Most of these stories are doubtless intended to sho
that the contributions received are actually expended for
some revolutionary end. Even if an honest share of the
funds were sent to Ireland, the result would apparently be
merely to send a few more ill-advised young people to jail,
But we do not believe that the money is used for any other
Purpose than getting notoriety and patent leather boots
for a set of idlers in this country. It is really time that
those who are in a position to advise the unsophisticated
people in the rural districts as to the real nature of the
Fenian swindle should do so. It is a crime to bolster up
the concern, even as a joke. Tho clergy, on whose
administrations the Irish-Americans chiefly depend, are
probably doing their best to stop the swindle. But every
one who wishes well to Ireland and her people should lend
a hand in exposing what is really an unmitigated
imposture."