The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-31 00:00:00

PARIS ANA ROUEN.

The half-yearly general meeting of the sharebold ,?.rs o 7
this company took place last Saturday, in one o f the
large rooms of the terminus at the Rue d'Amsterd am—
M. de L'Esp6e, the president, in the chair. Near him
were seated the following directors :—Viscount Dud aatel,
Sir John Easthope, Bart., M. C. Laffitte, Mr. Chaplin,
Mr. W. Reed, M. de Kersaint, and Mr. G. Blount.
M. THIBAUDEAII, the secretary, read the report :
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This document gives a very favourable account of the
progress of the undertaking during the last half-year. The
establishment account, which had, on the 30th of June
last, amounted to 67,292,495 f. 53f., had been increased
123,539 f. 37c. by the establishment of new sidings, changes
in the stations of the Batignolles, Meulan, &c., and changes
in the working stock. That expense had been diminished
by 31,207 f. 45c. by the sale of land, &c., leaving the total
amount, up to the 31st of December, 1852, at 67,389,827 f.
45c. The receipts during tho half-year ending at the. date
just stated, were 5,573,718 f. 52c.
and the expenses 3,299,6991. 540.

2,274,018 f. 980.

The net profit was to be thus
distributed :—Sum kept '
back for the sinking fund 12,500 f. Oc.
Interest to shareholders for
six months 900,003 f. Oc.
A tenth of the surplus,
1,361,518 f. 98c. for the
projectors' shares 136,151 f. 89c.
Total to deduct 1,048,651f. 89c.

Leaving a remainder of 1,225,367 f. 9c.
Of which the sum of 36,000 f. to be given to
the Dieppe Company, for the 10th part
coining to it in the share of the annual
dividend over and above 45f. for each
Rouen share

Le 1,189,3671. 9c.
aving
To this sum be added the interest for six
months
And the balance from the preceding six
months 2,855f. 74c.

Giving a total of
or 29f. per share.

...2,092,222f. 83c.

The accounts were then approved of ; the dividend of
29f. per share voted, payable at the offices of the com-
pany, on and after the Ist of February.
The CHAIRMAN—There now only remains for us to
draw by last fifty-five shares, to be repaid for the gradual
reimbursement of the social capital. This having been
done the proceedings then terminated.

THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—It is not generally
known that the bride of the Emperor Napoleon 111. re
ceived her education in England. When a girl, Madlle.
Montijo, with her sister, the present Duchess of Alba,
were pupils at a highly respectable establishment at
Bristol.
SulomE BY A CITY MERCHANT.—On Saturday, Mr.
Horn Wakley
seyhe ,
on
an
nd
mr. inquestFredk Fredk. Wey,
the Palgoeudg h 6 LTloaltlei ngo tfotnh-ep afirrkm,
of Lock and Wey, merchants, Gutter-lane, Cheapside,
who destroyed himself under the following determined cir-
cumstance :—Mr. Fredk. Leonard, deceased's nephew,
said he resided with his uncle, at 4, Tollington-park.
On
Thursday afternoon witness was alarmed by hearing
a noise in deceased's room, and upon rushing up he
found the door locked. Fearing that something had
happened he immediately burst open the door, when
he was horrified to see deceased lying on the floor
weltering in his blood, and his head nearly severed
from his body by a razor which lay by his side.
That morning the deceased had been to town to sign
a deed for the dissolution of partnership. For some
time past he was in a state of great excitement, could
not sleep at night, and complained much of his head, for
which he was medically treated. After hearing further
corroborative evidence the jury retired, and, after con-
siderable deliberation, returned the following verdict :
"Deceased committed suicide, but what was the state of
his mind at the time there is no evidence to prove."
THE VINES OF PRUSSIA.—It appears from a recent
official return that the quantity of land in Prussia culti-
vated with vines is about 50,000 English acres, and
the produce in wine nearly six millions of imperial
, gallons.