The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN•
COLNSHIRE.,

The adjourned special meeting or this company was
held yesterday in the Corn-exchange, Manchester ; the
Earl of Yarborough in the chair. T'.".
The Earl of YARBOROUGH saki!' that some of the
members of the committee appointed at the last ad-
journed meeting had declined to act;; and consequently
shareholders in the different towns had since met to-
gether to consider what course thee had better take,
and it would appear that all wereg desirous that the
movement for a committee should t not be allowed
to fail on account of those refnials. The direc-
tors, in this state of things, neted the names
of certain shareholders for the ommittee. The
names were those of Messrs. JohnlParker, of Lon-
don (formerly M.P. for Sheffield, rid chairman of
the old Manchester and Sheffield (':cmpany) ; Robert
Ashton, of Hyde; James Sidebotteim, of Mottram ;
Charles Haigh, of Rochdale ; Wm. Fenton, of Roch-
dale ; W. P. Bradshaw, of Manchester ; Charles Com-
ber, of Manchester ; John Adamthwaite, of Manches-
ter; James Walker, of Manchester; flames Heywood,
of Sheffield ; W. Fisher jun., of Stkeffield ; Thomas
Coltman, of Lincolnshire ; J. Highfiele, of Liverpool ;
and W. C. Fosbury, of Liverpool. Thits directors felt no
exception could be taken to these gentlemen, and
if they were elected the directors would most un-
reservedly lay before them all proposals from other
companies, and explain to them the system of ma-
nagement, and generally advise with them how it
would be possible to put the concern in a more pros-
perous position than that it now occupied. It might be
said the directors ought to retire if they were not able to
manage the concern. (Hear, hear.) But he did not
agree with that view, for the object of the board was to
manage as well as they could the property given in
trust. His lordship moved that the gentlemen he had
named be a committee to consult and advise with the
directors upon the present and future policy of the com-
pany, and to report thereon to the shareholders at a
special general meeting.
Mr. MELLOR seconded the motion.
After some discussion, the resolution was carried by
a very large majority of the persons present, and the
proxies held by the directors were not, therefore, re-
quired.
The report of the directors and the statement of ac-
counts, which was not passed at the half-yearly meeting,
was passed, on the motion of the CHAIRMAN, and the
meeting separated.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND 6OUTH-EASTERN KAlLWAY.—Traffie re-
turn for the week ending June 4, 1853 £16,410 17 4
Corresponding week last year 16,206 3 9

£204 13 7
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending June 4,
1853

Increase in 1853..

'212,016 3 7

Corresponding week last year 12,013 15 3
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 228,646 6 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 205,904 18 1

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
;,urn for the week ending June 4, 1853 £5,025 4 2
Corresponding week last year 4,091 11 7

Increase in 1853,

£930 12 7

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.--Traffic return fos
the week ending May 29, 1853 (283 miles) £16,260 13 0
Corresponding week last year (2234 miles) 11,754 4 2
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending June 5, 1853 £19,140 12 0
Corresponding week last year '22,108 3 8
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAT.—Traffic return for
the week ending June 5, 1853
Corresponding week last year 3,702 2 7
Increase in 1853

£545 15 2
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending June 4, 1853 £217 12 9
Corresponding week last year 144 11 1

SILK MANUFACTURE.—Advices from Lyons state that
"the looms have been somewhat slack, but that renewed
orders from London and Paris, to an extent equal to
anything of late years, have again excited industry and
capital. Some of ie finest fabrics yet made, and
through which this additional impetus to the trade of
this city has been given, were commissioned by the
Maison Delisle in Paris, and Sewell and Co., of Old
Compton-street, London. The latter house appears of
late to have arisen to considerable importance, if we may
judge from its name being so often alluded to in the
official Continental trade reports."
FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, Mr. Baker, coroner, 'received
information ithat a man named William Sprines, who
resided in Bull-yard, Stoke Newington, had been killed
on the Eastern Counties Railway, near Tottenham. He
had been fishing in the Lea, and was crossing the line
on his way home as the seven a.m. Hertford train came
up, knocked him down, and cut him in two before the
driver could bring it up. The deceased was in the
habit of crossing the line near the same spot, and was
frequently cautioned not to do so, as it was not a public
footway. He was 70 years of age.
LIBRARY IN NOTTINGHAM.—Yesterday morning the
foundation-stone of a new building to be used as an
artizans' library was laid in Thurland-street, Notting.
ham, by the Rev. Benjamin Carpenter, president of the
institution.
AMERICAN CRADLE.—An American has obtained a
patent for a new cradle, which moves between two up-
right columns placed upon a moveable base, upon the
principle of the pendulum of a clock. It runs by means
of a weight in one of the columns, and when wound up
will run 24 hours, or as much shorter time as the nurse
may desire.
AN ARGUMENT.—There would be no counterfeits but
for the sake of something that is real. For though all
pretenders seem to be what they really are not, yet they
pretend to be something that really is. For, to counter-
feit is to put on the likeness and appearance of some
real excellence. There would be no brass money, if
there were not good and lawful money. Bristol stones
would not pretend to be diamonds, if there never had
been any diamonds. Those idols in Henry the Seventh's
time (as Lord Bacon calls them), Lambert Simnell and
Perkin Warbeck, had never been set up, if there had not
once been a real Plantagenet and a Duke of York. So
the idols of the heathen, though they be set up in affront
to the true God, yet they rather prove that there is one
' than the contrary.—Archbishop Tillotson.
INEBRIETY.—When this vice has taken fast hold of a
man, farewell industry, farewell emulation, farewell atten-
tion to things worthy of attention, farewell love of virtuous
society, farewell decency of manners, and farewell, too,
even an attention to person : everything is sunk by this
predominant and brutal appetite. In how many instances
do we see men who have begun life with the brightest
prospects before them, and who have closed it with-
I out one ray of
_comfort and consolation. Young

men, with good fortunes, good talents, good tempers,
good hearts, and sound constitutions, only by being
drawn into the vortex of the drunkard, have become
by degrees the most loathsome and despicable of
mankind. In the house of the drunkard there is
no happiness for any one. All is uncertainty and anxiety.
He is not the same man for any one day at a time.
No one knows of his outgoings or his incomings. When
he will rise, or when he will lie down to rest, is wholly
a matter of chance. That which he swallows for
what he calls pleasure, brings pain as hourly as
the night brings morning. Poverty and misery
are in the train. To avoid these results, we are
called upon it to make no sacrifice. Abstinence requires
no aid to accomplish it. Our own will is all that is re-
quisite ; and if we have not the will to avoid contempt,
disgrace, and misery, we deserve neither relief, nor com-
passion.— Weekly Magazine.
TRAFFIC IN AUSTRALIAN GOLD.-Mr. Pegler, a gold-
smith of Southampton, has received a consignment of Aus-
tralian gold. It was purchased at Melbourne for 31.125. 3d.
per ounce a short time before the Sarah Sands left Port
Philip. The expense of conveyance to Southampton has
been exactly 2s. per oz., viz., 41d. per oz. for freightage,
ls. 6d. per oz. insurance, and the box in which it was sent
home and the ship charges cost 1 Ad. an oz. more. The value
of the gold in Southampton is as nearly as possible 4/. an
ounce. Tile transaction has, therefore, turned out a pro-
fitable one, realising as it does ss. 9d. an ounce. Before the
Sarah Sands, however, left Port Philip, gold rose to 31.175.
an ounce in Melbourne ; and it is very evident that if
that price is sustained gold-buying in Australia cannot
be a remunerative employment. A box sufficient to
hold 50 ounces of gold dust, and which is necessary for
the safe transmission of the precious metal to England,
costs iu Melbourne, 6s.