The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

. M. Martinez do la Rosa has had a long interview
with the Minister of the Interior, which was of a
most satisfactory kind. It appears that the Govern-
ment will support M. Martinez de la Rosa as Vice-
President of the Royal Council. The decree rela-
tive to the liberty of the press is not yet ready.
Bourse.—Three per Cents., 441 ; Deferred, 24# ;
Exchange on London, 51 paper.

BATING OF THE LONDON AND NORTH.
WESTERN RAILWAY. .

Yesterday a general meeting of the vestry of St. Pan-
cras was held in the vestry-hall, King's-road, Camden-
town, for the purpose of hearing the appeal of the London
and North-Western Railway Company against the as-
sessment made upon the company's property in the
parish—James Parker Pierce, Esq., in the chair.
Mr. STRUTHERS, from the firm of Messrs. Swift and
Wagstaff, stated that he appeared to appeal against the
assessment of the property of the London and North-
Western Railway Company, situated in the parish of St.
Pancras. The present assessment was laid at 34,331/ ,
whereas, by the late decision of the Court of Quarter
Sessions of Middlesex, the amount was fixed at 16,0001.
Mr. Wagstaff had no objection to the appeal being gone
into that day, but the understanding was that this case
should stand over till the special case came before the
Court of Queen's Bench, and his principal witness was
subpoenaed elsewhere, but if the vestry declined to delay
day, he would at oncego
the hearing till another . on
with the business of the appeal.
Mr. E. W. Watkins, examined by Mr. Struthers,
stated that the gross earnings of the railway in the
parish were 10,2291. The opening of the Great Nor-
thern and Birmingham and Oxford lines had greatly
re-
duced the earnings of the line in that parish ; from the
above sum was to be deducted, for working and other
expenses, 6,2111., leaving 4,0181. His valuation of the
Eu,stion-station, comprising the land and buildings, was
5,248/. ; the Camden station he estimated as 7,346/.
The rateable value of the property, as laid down by Mr.
Serjeant Adams at the Quarter Session of September,
1851, was 12,718/. Thee xpenses of the line were cal-
culated at 371 per cent. ; the gross receipts were esti-
mated at two-and-a-half millions, and the expenditure
at 1,300,000/. ; the amount of capital invested in the
Whole
2,000,000 railway
during the last year amounted to
at thperocir
rt-ci He could not say what the receipts were
the en and Euston stations ; he did not believe
ParlY not j,would have been so valuable had the coin-
ting the varu:he terminus at Euston-square. In estima-
judgment a,B t of the property he was guided by his own
what it had cosot what the property would let for, not
station had building. The portico at the Euston
cost 50,000/. ; its only value now was,
beyond ornament
railway station to
bine merely nominal. He never knew a
cos, except in one instance, that at
Rugby, which
1,0001. 100,000/. in building, and let for
Mr. HARDING, a
ovestryman, regretted that a
gentleman who appeared
behalf of the railway com-
pany should be ignorant of rateable value of the pro-
perty removed by the erection of the two stations in the
parish. If this oppulent company were permitted to go
robberypar„s.
Mr. WATKINS contended thath, while the company con,
tributed 3,0001. annually towards the rates, it
caused no
increase in pauperism.
Mr. Churchwarden BILLET denied this assertion.
Mr. JOHN KISSTCK moved that the
assessment of the
railway property at 34,3311. he confirrao
Mr.. J. CRAMP seconded the resolution.) which, after
some further discussion, was carried with one dissen-
tient.