The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-01 00:00:00

SOUTH YORKSHIRE.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Sheffield yesterday ; Dr. Dymond in the chair. The
Secretary read the report, and the Chairman moved its
adoption.

Mr. IRoNRIDI inquired whether the Blackburn Valley
branch would be opened for passengers as well as for
coal traffic, and when 1
The CHAIRMAN replied that it would be opened for
both on Monday next.
Mr. IRONED!! hoped they would give every company
the privilege of working over the line, that Sheffield
might be better supplied with coals.
The report was adopted unanimously, as also were
resolutions declaring the dividend for the half-year.
♦ftef some observations, the arrangements with the
Great Northern specified in the report were adopted.
A ♦ote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
business.

MANCHESTER, BUXTON, AND MIDLANDS.
The half yearly meeting of this company was held at
Derby yesterday ; Sir Joseph Paxton presiding.
The report stated that the half-year's rent, amounting
to 5,2661., had been received from the lessees, and the
directors proposed to pay the usual dividend of ls. 4d.
per share for the half-year. During the last session of
Parliament an act had been obtained by a company in-
corporated as the Stockport, Disley, and Whaley-bridge
Company, for constructing a line of railway of about 10
miles, and passing over the same ground as the line for
which this company obtained Parliamentary powers.
A dividend of ls. 4d. per share was then declared,
and the election. of Mr. Condell, as director, confirmed.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman
and direetors, and the meeting separated.

DEAN FOREST.
The Bubo Pill, or Dean Forest Railway, a mineral
line, extending from the river Severn at Bulk Pill into
the mineral district of the Forest of Dean, has been
opened for public traffic. This line also forms a branch
of the South Wales Railway, by which coal can be
brought upon that line, and carried thence to Glocester,
Cheltenham, Swindon, and the metropolis, via the Great
Western Railway.

ST. ADREZ-,--
of the A sharehold;
The half-yearly " 8 AND QUEBEC
re in this
nndertaking Itwas hEelid day at the offices,
the chair.
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Mr. J. W. 13TRNII, the secretary, in
the report,
Parlia,
stated that the directors hadetrYl read which
last an engine was running Oreernlfortned that in Juneh
With regard to the engineering ape miles of the
the surveys had been carefully cornprieette4iona of the line:
distance to Woodstock, and a favourable rer the whole
obtained. It was hoped that the first mine had been
line would he opened for traffic in a
few
months,
of the
a considerable business in the carriage of tirnitt' when
immediately commence. The directors, acting "uld
authority given them, had raised 7,5001. in anticipation
of calls, in order to sustain the contractors. The dir-e-en
tors had been anxiously engaged for some time past in
for the increase of ctheapitaln rolling
this subject would occupy their best attention during
the next Bess i o n of the colonial legislature. 1
The statement of accounts showed a balance in hand
of 2,388/.
The CHAIRMAN briefly moved that the report and
statement of accounts be adopted.
Mr
• W • S. F EATIIER3TONE seconded thelmotion, which
was areed to.
Aftegr seine other formal business, the meeting
separated.

CALEDONIAN AND DUMBARTONSHIRE
JUNCTION.
was held in
The half-yearly meeting of this company
Glasgow on Wednesday, Mr. John Orr Ewing in the
chair.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
alluded to the satisfactory state of the company's affairs.
The revenue was going On steadily increasing, and the
works and plant were in an efficient and perfect state.
The capital account remained nearly in the same state as
formerly ; they were, however, gradually going on de-
ire the liabilitiee, Re thou moved the edoptiou of