The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-22 00:00:00

The first annual meeting of thi.
held yesterday at the London Tavt
donald Stephenson in the chair.
The report stated that the whole of
of shares was taken up immediately on thepubla
cation of the company. The unemployed capital
had been profitably applied, and the securities in
which it was invested were now worth considerably
more than their original cost. A further sum had
also been received for interest. Managers of many
years' experience in the carrying business bad been
despatched to Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta in
March last. The reports of those managers con-
firmed in every way the anticipations upon which
the company was formed. The Government autho-
rities in India had promised every aid and assist-
ance, and the railway authorities, without excep-

tion, had shown the utmost desire to aid in promot-
ing the establishment of the company. Contracts,
mutually favourable to the interests of the respec-

tive companies, had been made with the Madras
and East Indian Railways, which would tend to
secure this company from injurious competition. By
advices received from the manager in Calcutta the
Board were informed that on the opening of the
East Indian Railway through to Allahabad the
Government Commissariat Department would
transfer to this company their carrying business
upon that line. In furtherance of their operations,
the Board had rented the Dalai-bridge and
Beypoor ferry, in the Madras Presidency and
in connexicn with the Madras Railway. The
receipts from this source commenced on the
lst.of July, and in addition to the advantages which
the possession of the ferry had secured, the step was
likely to prove a very profitable one. General
business in the Madras Presidency commenced on
Aug. 18, between four stations on the main line of
the railway and the large towns adjoining. Busi-
ness in Calcutta would be commenced in October,
and the company would be fully prepared for the
opening of the Eastern Bengal and Calcutta and
South-Eastern Railways, which was to take place
at the beginning of November. Th" capital account
to June 30 showed that £25,220 had been received
and £2,394 expended, leaving a balance of £22,826
in cash and securities.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said it was found that the establishment of
the Indian Carrying Company was indispensable
for developing the full advantages of the rail way
system, and, judging from European analogy and
experience, there was every reason to expect that
it would realise as great pecuniary benefits as its
prototype in this country. It was the Pickford's
of the East, and already promised to take its place
at an early period among the most useful institu-
tions of the country. The directors had been for-
tunate in their selection of the managers, who had
shown themselves fully deserving the confidence re-
posed in them. Waggons of various descriptions
suited to the several localities had been built
and despatched to India, with ironwork for con-
structing others of the wood of the country.
The company's managers had received the cor-
dial assistance of the merchants, of the Government
officers, and of the agents and engineers of the rail-
way companies, and had enlisted the good will of

those engaged in limited local carrying operations
by intimating their readiness to co-operate with or
to employ them. The directors had exercised the
utmost economy consistent with effectually accom-
plishing the object in view, and the funds which
they had invested exclusively in Government secu-
rities were now worth upwards of £l,OOO more
than when invested, besides having yielded
nearly £5OO for interest. (Hear, hear.) Carrying
stock was constructed and shipped sufficient to
commence work in each Presidency at the cost of a
few thousand pounds, leaving invested a sufficient
sum to increase the supply of cattle and waggons as

required by the increasing demands of the traffic,
and to render it unnecessary at present, and pro-
bably for some time to come, either to issue a further
portion of capital or to call up any more upon the
shares already issued.

Mr. J. WALKER seconded the motion for the
adoption of the report.
After a few observations from Mr. G. SMITH and
other shareholders the report was unanimously
adopted ; the retiring directors, Sir M. Stephenson,
Mr. J. G. Frith, Mr. Norton, Mr.P. D. Hadow,
Hartridge, Mr. J. F. Leith, Mr. G. Norton, Mr .J.
Stewart, Mr. J. Walker, and Mr. A. Wilson were
re-elected ; Mr. J. E. Coleman and another share-
holder were elected auditors of the company, and
they were to receive 25 guineas each per annum for
their services.

The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors.

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND
GLASGONVRAILWAY.—Another death resulting from this
accident is reported, making the total number of deaths 18.
Mr. Isaac Marr, fruiterer, Falkit k, who was on Sunday
night so dangerously ill, in the infirmary, that it was not
expected he would survive the night, breathed his last at 5
o'clock on Monday morning. Harvey, the Scots Grey, and
M‘Donald and Allison, still continue in a dangerous state.;
but all the others are progressing favourably. By the latest
accounts from Linlithgow, we learn that Mr. Shaw, of Fal-
kirk, Mr. Brown, East Fortune, and Miss Isabella Wood,
Leith, aro still very dangerously in.—Scotsman.
The Chief Constable of Cheshire reports that the
distress in the manufacturing districts of the county is on
the increase, and many of the evil-disposed avail them-
selves of the opportunity and circumstances thus produced
to impose on the charitable, or commit depredations, al-
though the hard-working operatives themselves continue
to hold their high character free from crime, and to bear
their sufferings with a firm and peaceful resignation.
SINGULUR COINCIDENCES.—A series of singular
coincidences in connection with the demise of no less than
three of the Presidents excited extraordinary interest at the
time of the occurrence, and are still referred to as among
the most remarkable of their class. On the 4th of July,
1826, being the fiftieth anniversary of the birthday of the
nation, died John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the imme-
diate successors of Washington in the executive office. They
were both originally lawyers, both members of the Congress
which declared the national independence, both on the com-
mittee by which the declaration itself was reported. One
was actually the author of that memorable instrument, and
the other one of its strongest advisers and supporters, while
both signed it ; both were subsequently employed on foreign
missions, both became Vice_Presidents, and both, finally,
Presidents; and both having assisted so materially at the
nation's birth, and watched and fostered its growth for
exactly half a century, sank at almost the same moment
into their final rest, and their memories received jointly
the funereal honours bestowed upon them by their mourn-
ing country. It is doubtful if a parallel can be found any-
where in the pages of history. But to add to this extraor-
dinary record, the death of James Monroe, the fifth Presi-
dent, occurred just five years later, in the year 1631, and
also on the 4th of July. Although he had not been per-
sonally connected with the history of the Declaration of
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animal temperament, this negro ranks next to the lowest
Guinea type : with strong appetites and gross bodily health
—except in one particular, to be mentioned hereafter, In
the everyday apparent intellect, in reason or judgment, he
is but one degree above an idiot—incapable of comprehend-
ing the simplest conversation on ordinary topics—amused
or enraged with trifles, such as would affect a child of three
years old. On the other side, his affections are alive, even
vehement, delicate in their instinct as a dog's or an infant's ;
he will detect the step of anyone dear to him, in a crowd,
and will burst into tears, if not kindly spoken to. His
memory is so accurate that he can repeat, without the loss
of a syllable, a discourse of fifteen minutes in length, of
which he does not understand a word. Songs, too, in French
or German, after a single hearing, ho renders not only lite-
rally in words, but in notes, style, and expression. lie
voice, however, is discordant, and of small compass. In
music, his boy of 12 years old, born blind, utterly ignorant
of a note, ignorant of every phase of so-called musical
science, interprets severely classical composers with a clear-
ness of conception in which he excels, and a skill in me-
chanism equal to our second-rate artists. His concerts
usually include any themes selected by the audience, from
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