The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-26 00:00:00

CUT FLOWERS.

Class 24-24 Tulips, dissimilar-Ist prize, £2, Mr. N.
Norman, 98, Crescent-road, Plumstead.

Class 25-24 Verbenas, three trusses of each variety—
first prize, £1 10s., ➢lr. W. H. Treens, I ictoria Nursery,
Rugby.

Class 26.-24 Pansies, dissimilar—first prize, £l, Mr. J,
James, gardener to Mr. W. F. Watson, Isleworth.

FRUIT.
Class A—Pineapples, single fruit of any kind—first
prize £5, Mr. J. Barnes, Bicton-gardens, Budleigh, Salter-
ton, Exeter.
Class B—Grapes (black) single dish—first prize, £3, Mr.
A. Henderson, Trentham, Staffordshire.
Class C—Grapes (white), single dish—first prize, £3,
Mr. Daniel Clements, Chase Side East, Barnet.
Class D—Grapes 101 b weight—first prize, Mr. M. Hen-
derson, Cole Orton Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Class E—Peaches, single dish of one kind only—first
prize, £3, Mr. H. Baker, gardener to Mr. J. Harrison, Bel-
grave, Leicester.

Class F—Nectarines, single dish of one kind only—first
prize, £3, Mr. J. Peacock, gardener to Mr. J. S. Crawley,
Stockwood, Luton.

Class G—Melons, green-fleshed, single fruit—first prize,
£2, Mr. A. Henderson, Trentham, Staffordshire.

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Class H—Melons, scarlet-fleshed, single fruit—first prize,
£2, Mr. James Barney, Bicton- gardens, Budleigh, Salter-
ton, Exeter.

Class I—Figs, single dish, 10 fruits—first prize, £2, Mr,
J. Close, gardener to Lord Ashburton, The Grange, Alres-
ford, Hants.

Class J—Cherries, single dish—first prize, £3, Mr. A.
Henderson, Trentham, Staffordshire.
Class K—Strawberries, single dish in 50's first prize,
£3, Mr. R. Smith, Richmond-road, Twickenham.
Class L—Strawberries, three kinds, 25 of each—first
prize, £l, Mr. R. Smith, Richmond-road, Twickenham.
Class M—Strawberries in pots, six plants—first prize,
£2, Mr. Th.)mas Reid, gardener to Mr. T, N. Farquhar,
Sydenham.

Class N—Miscellaneous—first prize, 11, Mr, R. H.
Betieridge, Milton-hill, near Steventon.

There will be another display of the great foun-
tains on Saturday next, May 31.

_RAILWAY _INTELLIGENCE.

COCKERMOUTH,KESWICK,ANDPENRITH.

On Wednesday the ceremony of cutting the first
sod of this railway took place in a field at Great
Crosthwaite, about half a mile from Keswick. The
site was surrounded by an amphitheatre of moun-
tains, and the day kept in Keswick as a holiday.
Mr. T. A. Hoskins, the chairman of the company,
cut the first sod of the railway amid the applause
of thousands.

Mr. W. FLETCHER, deputy-chairman, adverted
to the commercial advantages which the railway
would confer on the district, especially as the direct
route for the con veyanae of hwinatite iron to the
Cumberland furnaces.

In the evening the directors, promoters, and
friends of the undertaking dined together at the
Derwentwater Hotel, Portingscale.

ABERYSTWITHAND WELSH COAST,

A special meeting of this company was held on
Thursday at the offices, Bridge. street, Westminster,
Mr. Whalley, M.P., in the chair.
The following bills were submitted and unani-
mously approved, viz.—A bill for authorising the
Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway to make and
maintain additional lines of railway, to reclaim lands
near the railway, and to raise a further sum of
money ; also a bill for making a railway from Car-
narvon to Portmadoc, for incorporating the Dovey
Reclamation Company, to reclaim lands in the
estuary of the river Dovey, and for authorising
arrangements between them and the Aberystwith
and Welsh Coast Railway.

The meeting was then adjourned for a fortnigh
to consider other bills.

WEST HARTLEPOOL.

The steamships belonging to this company have
been sold to Messrs. Pile, Spence, and Co., ship-
builders of West Hartlepool, and it is intended to
run them to Hamburg, Rotterdam, and St. Peters-
burg, as heretofore.

BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held on Friday at the Loudon Tavern, Mr. IL
W. Andrews in the chair.
The report, an abstract of which has appeared
in 7he Sun, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said ho thought they would consider it satin•

factory. The receipts for the past half-year were
£14,000 in excess of those for the corresponding
period of the previous year. A portion of that in-
crease was due to the completion of their works at
Goderich Harbour. The traffic on their line was
chiefly derived from the locality through which it
passed, The district was described as the garden of
Canada, and had greatly improved since the con-
struction of the railway. The increase in the local
traffic was very important, as they were able to carry
it at much less expense than through traffic. Every
endeavour was being made to keep the expenditure
I as low as possible. The working of the line was
rather difficult, for at times they were exposed to
sudden demands for large quantities of rolling stock
at different places, whiie for months, when the roads
were bad and the market prices low, they had
not much produce to carry. Their line and
rolling stock were in a very satisfactory state.
They had applied to the Government for a fair and
reasonable amount of compensation for the mail
service, and they had also asked for assistance to
make Goderich a harbour of refuge on Lake Huron.
It appeared that a certain arrangement had been
come to between the Great Western and Grand
Trunk Railway Companies for working the traffic,
but the directors of the Buffalo Company could
get no information from either of the companies as
to the terms of the agreement. They were told that
the Buffalo Company might come into the arrange-
ment if they thought proper. Mr. Carter, their
general manager, was watching the progress of the
bill in the Canadian Parliament, and was also in
communication with Messrs. Brydges and Watkin,
who represented the Great Western and Grand
Trunk Companies, respecting a proposed working
arrangement.

A long discussion ensued, in the course of which
it was contended that the company had such good
prospects that it would be better to keep it inde-
pendent of the other companies.
The report was unanimously adopted. The meet-
ing was then made special, and the directors were
authorised to issue 25,000 shares of £lO each at
.£6 13s. 4d. in consideration of their not being en-
titled to dividend for five years; the company at
the expiration of that time wore to have the option ,

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of paying them off at £lO each, or of commencing
to pay the holders fk guaranteed preference dividend
of 7 per cent. per annum. The chattel bonds would
be paid off by means of the money raised on the
preference shares. The issue of those shares would
complete the share capital of £1,640,000, which the
company was authorised to raise.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
The financial statement of this company for the
month of April shows that in the land department
6,065 acres of land were sold during the month for
71,808 dols. ; from the Ist of January to the end of
April 27,440 acres were sold for 331,857 dols.,
making with previous sales 1,264,411 acres of land
sold by the company for 16,493,060 dols. The con-
struction bonds cancelled previous to March 31
amounted to 2,105,500 (131 s. The cash collected in
April amounted to 14,786 dols. They had on hand
50,000 bushels of corn received in April. The net
collections to March 31, 1862, amounted to 4,178,424
dols. The railway department showed that the re-
ceipts on the railway for the month of April
amounted to 183,484 dols., against 192,054 dols. for
April, 1861, showing a decrease of 8,570 dols.