The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-26 00:00:00

TOWN-HALL.

William Hamilton, an ill-looking fellow, was this day
brought before Mr. Alderman VENABLES, charged by Edward
Thomas, whose face bore evident marks of the punishment
he had received, with having stolen four bird (*ages and four
linnets, and with having dreadfully ill-used him when he at-
tempted to take him for the offdnce.
Edward Thomas stated that on Saturday be met the pri-
soner, and knowing him to be out of work, he took him to the
Adam and Eve public house, in the Borough, and gave him a
pint of porter. They afterwards went to the Dog and Bear,
in Crucifix-lane, where he treated him with some more beer
in the tap-room. Having occasion to go backwards, he
left in the care of the prisoner four bird cages and four linnets
which were tied up in the silk pocket-handkerchief; on re-
turning he found the prisoner, the pocket-handkerchief, the
bird-cages, and the birds all flown. On speaking to the land-
lady she told him that the prisoner bad gone out with them.
Witness did not discover the prisoner till last night, when he
had the greatest difficulty to secure him.
Mrs. Udell, the landlady of the Dog and Bear, and her
daughter, positively swore to the prisoner as the person who
took the property. Thomas had hardly turned his back before
the prisoner went off, but as they bad both come in together
she had no suspicion that be had gone off with the property
improperly. The handkerchief in which the cages were tied
was a most remarkable one, and excited Mrs. Udell's cu-
riosity, it was painted so as to represent sovereigns, Bank
notes, and other things.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES committed the prisoner for trial.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

The First General Meeting of the Directors and Share-
holders of the Eastern Counties Railway took place this day,
at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, H. BOSANQUET,
Esq., Chairman of the Court of Directors, in the Chair.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been read,
Mr. J. C. COBBOLD, of Ipswich, moved, as the first official
act of the Company, that the Corporate Seal of the Company
be affixed to the Register of Proprietors, now produced. He
felt great pleasure at congratulating the Company upon the
progress that had been already made by the Company. He
had no doubt that it would be most beneficial to the
Shareholders and to the public generally. Most of those
present were aware that the Company were breaking new
ground where neither railways nor steam engines had
ever before been introduced, and they would not therefore be
surprised to find that the shares were not so extensively taken
in that part of the country as in the west. Another cause
of the backwardness of the Eastern Counties was the dis-
tressed state of the agricultural interests throughout the
country ; but he would add that there was no doubt of the ul-
timate success of the undertaking.
The motion being seconded by Mr. COLBOURNE, was
agreed to unanimously, and the Corporate Seal having been
affixed, 1
The CHAIRMAN now felt it his duty to make a few observa-

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tions to the meeting, and he would remark that ho fully agreed
with the first Speaker, as to the importance of the undertak-
ing which they were embarked in, and he had no doubt that it
would be eventually most beneficial to the country, and to those
who had their capital invested in it. The great object of the
present undertaking was to secure, in the general competition
that was now going forward, to the large districts through
which it was intended to run, the large traffic with London,
which had for ages been running in these channels. It would
tend, he was fully convinced, to effect these objects, and to
promote the commerce, trade, and agriculture of the great
towns through which it passed. He would in conclusion ob-
serve, that there was every probability of the eventual success
of the undertaking, and of its being an ample source of re-
muneration to the proprietors, because it was founded upon the
broad and stable basis of national utility.—( Cheers.) He
would now call upon the Secretary to read the Report to the
Meeting.
The Chairman then read the following Report :
" The Act for the incorporation of this Company, received the
Royal Assent on the 4th of July last, and by one of its provisions
the first general meeting of the shareholders is appointed to
be held within six months after the passing of the Act; but
the directors, feeling persuaded that the sooner they could
make officially known to the proprietory and the public the
actual state and prospects of the understaking, the sooner it
would attain that high place which it is entitled to hold in
public estimation, have called this meeting within less than
three months from the date of the Act—on the earliest day in
fact that the time unavoidably occupied in organizing the esta-
blishment of the Company, and in auditing the expenses in-
curred in its formation, could possibly allow.
" Nearly three years have now elapsed since the design of
the Eastern Counties Railway was first given to the public,
and several preliminary surveys made, but it is not more than
ten months since it can be said to have taken any considerable
hold on the public mind. The month of October last was far
advanced before a provisional committee of sufficient weight was
formed for the prosecution of the undertaking, and there then
remained but six weeks within which to make all the neces-
sary preparations previous to going to Parliament in the
ensuing session. Within this brief space, the whole line
of a hundred and twenty-six miles, the longest that is
yet in progress in any part of the kingdom had
to be surveyed, and the maps and sections required by
the forms of Parliament prepared—the whole of the owners
and occupiers too, for a breadth of half a mile, had to be can-
vassed for their assents, that extreme breadth being taken in
order to allow ample scope for such alterations as circumstances
might afterwards render expedient. Even when the requisite
plans, sections, and books of reference had by extraordinary
exertions on the part of the engineers and their assistants--
exertions which the directors honestly believe to be without a
parallel in the history of such undertakings—been deposited in
due time, there yet remained much to be done, in order
to obtain for the undertaking an adequate share of public
confidence. Early in November the Chairman and two
other Members of the Provisional Committee had made a pro-
gress through Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, for the purpose of
personally representing to the leading gentlemen of these
counties, the claims which the undertaking had to their coun-
tenance and support ; and also of calling public meetings of
the inhabitants to investigate and decide on its merits, and the
demonstrations of local approbation which this deputation were
the means of eliciting, were so numerous and decisive, as to
leave the Committee in no doubt that they had the hearty con-
currence of the counties in their endeavours to carry out the
plan to a successful conclusion. But though the good-will of
the counties had certainly been conciliated, the confidence of the
monied interests of the country, from whom alone could be ex-
pected the bulk of the large capital required for its execution
(the largest subscribed during the past year for any Railway
project) had still to be gained. The various steps taken to this
end, the Directors need not stop to detail ; it may suffice to state
that by the choice of active and judicious agents, and without
having recourse to any adventitious aids to stimulate the spirit
of adventure, by simply making known, far and wide, the
sterling merits of the undertaking, the greater part of the
capital was subscribed before the second reading of tile Bill.
In point of numbers, the shareholders residing in or connected
with the counties themselves, bore a fair proportion to those
having no local interest in the line, but the amount of capital
subscribed for by them was little more than one-twelfth of the
whole. Without the powerful assistance, therefore, derived
from other and distant parts—from Manchester, Birmingham,
Bristol, Bath, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin—and, above all,
from Liverpool, the opulent and intelligent citizens of which,
ever foremost in the encouragement of great enterprises, at
once subscribed for upwards of 12,000 shares of this Com-
pany's stock, it may with perfect truth be said that the under-
taking must have fallen (for the present at least) to the ground.
" Notwithstanding the success which had so far crowned
their exertions, the Directors were still but in the midst of
their difficulties. A Parliamentary opposition had yet to be
encountered—an opposition, as it happened, of a more than
usually obstinate character. There were two rival lines in the
field, both of more recent suggestion than the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway—neither of them well suited to the wants of

these counties—but both, nevertheless, very respectably sup-
ported. There was also a formidable array of dissenting
owners and occupiers, headed by gentlemen of great Parlia-
mentary influence, and to all appearance irreconcileably op-
posed to the undertaking. It was, under these circumstances,
with no ordinary anxiety that the Directors proceeded be-
fore Parliament, and by no ordinary exertions that they
were enabled to maintain their ground there, against
the serious opposition with which they were met. The second
reading of the Bill in the House of Commons was not
carried without a division, and on the Committee to which it
was referred were several of the most active Members of that
minority who voted for throwing it out. So strong, however,
was the case proved in evidence for the Bill, and in so con-
ciliatory spirit were the opposing parties met and arranged
with out of doors, that in a short time all opposition was at an
end, and the Committee unanimously agreed to a report to the
House in favour of the measure, which concludes in the fol-
lowing highly recommendatory terms :—' Your Committee
think it right to add, that according to the evidence adduced,
the Eastern Counties Railway between the termini would tra-
verse the most populous and most cultivated parts of the
counties through which it is intended to be carried, and that
great benefit would be given to trade and agriculture by its
adoption.'
" After the Bill had passed the Commons, several new and
powerful opponents sprung up, but the Directors, by meeting
the parties with the same promptness and in the same fair
spirit which had carried them successfully through their pre-
vious negotiations, effected amicable arrangements with them
also, and the Bill was finally passed by the House of Lords as
one which was now on all hands allowed to have for its object
the accomplishment of a measure of great public utility.
The Directors, in giving this brief history of the undertak-
ing, would have been disposed to dwell less on the difficulties
they have had to encounter and have overcome, could they by
a more reserved course have equally well justified to their
constituency the price at which success has been purchased.
" The Shareholders will see, in the speed with which the
Parliamentary Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference were
undertaken—in the more than usual breadth of country which
was surveyed—in the great number of persons that it
was requisite to employ for that purpose at a time
when hands for employment of this description were
scarce, and their terms of remuneration proportionably high—
in the numerous agencies which had to be put in motion in
order to raise so large an amount of capital—in the many op-
ponents who had to be negotiated and arranged with—and in
the very short period within which nearly the whole of these
things were transacted—the Shareholders will see in all this
reason- sufficient for anticipating a much larger amount of ex-
penditure than would under less extraordinary circumstances
have certainly sufficed.
" As it is, however, the Directors believe that, compared
with other Railway contests, this will not be found to have been
more costly than usual ; and instead of having occasion to
bespeak your patience for an exhausted exchequer, they are
happy to announce that great as their expenditure has been,
they have still on hand a large and unencumbered balance.
" From the balance sheet annexed, it will be seen that the
total receipts of the Company up to the present date, amount
to 61,8451. 2s. 9d. The claims brought against the Com-
pany have, by a careful revision, and allowances conceded for

prompt payment, been reduced by 2,3831., making the nett
amount of the expenditure 36,.`,61/. 19s. 2d., deducting which
from the monies received (61,8451. 2s. 9d.) the balance re-
maining in hand is 25,8451. 2s. 9d.
" When the Directors look to the magnitude of the object
which the sum thus expended has been the means of
achieving, they think they may fairly congratulate the
Shareholders upon the general result. In a single Ses-
sion, with no more delay than the forms of Parliament
rendered unavoidable, this Company has obtained
of Incorporat. h for whichother have bad
lon—t at
to struggle through several sessions, and to pay to ice and
secures
thrice as much,—an Act of Incorporation, too, which
to diem the perpetual proprietorship of one of the best lines
of railway in the whole Kingdom, with all the great profits le-
gitimately derivable from it.
" The Eastern Counties is not only the longest integral
line of Railway which has yet obtained the sanction of Par-
liament, but traverses a larger extent of cultivated and highly
productive country than any other—those districts from which
its Act
the immense
population..of the metropolis derives its chief sup-
plies of agricultural and marine produce.
" From the peninsular character, too, of this portion of
England, washed as it is on three sides by the German Ocean
and the Thames, it is obvious that a main trunk line which

follows as this does the ancient and long established course of
traffic, and touches at nearly all the places of greatest busi-
ness, must draw and keep to itself the great bulk of the car-
rying trade of the district. Other railways may be interfered
with, but this never can. As a great main-line, it must al-
ways stand alone, dividing with no other railway, though re-
ceiving the tributary contributions of many.
" Another novel and important feature of the Eastern
Counties line, is that, notwithstanding its great length, there
will not from beginning to end be a single tunnel.
" If at one or two points it goes wider off considerable towns
than could be wished, this has arisen from no indifference to
the wants of those places, but from the necessity of consulting
the general interests of the whole line, and of the majority of
those who are to use it, in preference to all minor conside-
rations.

" The Eastern Counties Railway will have completely ful-
filled the purpose for which it was designed if it serve as the
great trunk line of this part of the kingdom, from which
branches may radiate into as many of the outlaying districts
on both sides as possess traffic enough to pay for the superior
means of communication.

" Already not less than six Railways branching from the
Eastern Counties have been projected with apparently fair
prospects of success, all of which, when executed, must con-
tribute more or less to swell the profits of this Company with-
out involving the necessity of any addition whatever to its
capital.
" The Directors desire particularly to call attention to the
Thames Haven Railway, for which an Act of Parliament was
obtained in the last Session of Parliament, and which is to
branch off from the Eastern Counties at Romford. The ca-
pabilities of this line are undeniably great. Were it to do no
more than introduce into the heart of Essex a more abundant
supply of coal, it would confer an incalculable advantage on
that county, and pay the adventurers well ; but should it also
become, as its projectors confidently anticipate, the Great
Channel for the conveyance of an article of such universal
consumption as coal to the Metropolis, it would be difficult to
assign a limit to its value in a financial point of view.
" The point chosen for its seaward termination offers also
such facilities as a steam packet station, that there seems
strong reason to hope for a large accession of passenger-traf-
fic to both Railways from this source.
" Next in local order follow the Maldon, Witham, and
Braintree, the Harwich, the Ipswich and Bury, the Beccles,
Bungay and Harleston, and the Norwich and Leicester
branches, which embrace among them nearly all the principal
towns of the three counties, which were necessarily left at a
distance in the setting out of the main trunk line, but will be
now brought by these branches into immediate and productive
connection with it.

" To these branches there is yet another to be added, which,
though not projected with a view to the wants of any part of
the districts immediately intersected by the Eastern Counties
Railway, will in all probability prove one of its most valuable
tributaries. The Directors allude to the recently projected
line of Railway from London to Rochester and Chatham,
through Essex, the communication between the opposite sides
of the Thames being effected by a short steam ferry at Til-
bury and Gravesend. By taking advantage of the Eastern
Counties and Thames Haven lines for about seventeen miles
of the entire distance, tis Railway will be executed for one-
fifth of the cost of any line that can be executed along the
Kentish side of the River. Although this line takes what
may at first sight seem a circuitous course, it will, in fact, be
little longer than a straight line between the two termini, and
exceed by one mile only the distance by the present high road.
The number of passengers to and from those parts of Kent, to
which this Railway will present the shortest possible communi-
cation with the Metropolis exceeds at present one million,
and in assuming that one-fourth only of this immense passenger
traffic will fall to the share of this Railway, this will add
25,0001. per annum to the revenue of the Eastern Counties
Railway, from a source never thought of or taken into account
in the original calculations of its promoters.
According to the estimates which were produced in evi-
dence before the Committee of the House of Commons, and
reported by that Committee to be verified to their satisfaction,
the traffic of the Eastern Counties Railway will yield a return
of 22 per cent. on the capital required for its formation. The
Directors have since tested this result in a variety of ways,
but so far from seeing any reason to doubt its accuracy, they
incline to think that the real facts of the case would have
fully justified even a higher estimate. No credit what-
ever was taken in the Eastern Counties Railway Estimates
for any of the passenger traffic from transmarine sources, as
that traffic was at best of a contingent character. But unless
the Directors are' greatly mistaken, the traffic from these
sources alone will suffice to pay the entire expense of working
the line leaving all the revenue derivable from the home traffic
to count as so much clear gain.
The counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk stand in such
a geographical position as regards the Northern Continent of
Europe and the Eastern coast of Scotland, as to offer the
nearest route by railway from all these parts to the British
Metropolis; steam vessels from any continental port north of
the Texel, or from any port on the east of Scotland, by put-
ting into Yarmouth, which they can now do with the greatest
facility at all times of the tide, and landing their passengers
there, will enable them to reach London by the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway from 15 to 24 hours sooner than they can now
do by water, and on occasions of contrary weather even
two days sooner. To the steam packets again from the more
southern ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp, Ostend, and Dunkirk,
the Port of Harwich will present an equally accessible harbour
from which the passengers may with a proportionate saving
of time, proceed to London by the Harwich branch of the
Eastern Counties line. Yarmouth and Harwich were, it is
well known, formerly the principal packet stations on the
Eastern Coast of England, but lost that traffic through the
introduction of steam navigation. It was then found that by
dispatching the Hamburgh and other North of Europe mails
by steam vessels direct from the Thames, even though these
vessels should not leave the river for 8 or 9 hours after the
mails were made up, the land journey to the outports was
saved, and the mails conveyed to their destination in less time
and with more certainty than could be done by steam vessels
from any other part of the coast. But as soon as a Railway
communication is established with Harwich and Yarmouth,
all this advantage will be lost to the Thames. The damage
which steam has done to these ports as packet stations, the
same mighty power will yet be the means of amply repairing.
For by sending off the mails by the Railway to Harwich and
Yarmouth as soon as made up, which is not later than twelve
o'clock at night, they will reach these ports by the same hour
of the morning at which they now leave the Thames. One
half the voyage will be saved, and an entire day and often
much more gained in the course of post. And thus, in the
same way that the modern steam vessels supplanted the old
sailing packets, may we surely reckon on seeing the steam
carriages of the Eastern Counties Railway restoring to its
former course the passenger-traffic and commercial corre-
spondence between the British metropolis and the whole of the
North of Europe.
" The Directors beg in conclusion to assure the Share-
holders that the same spirit of determination which has
enabled them to overcome the numerous difficulties which
stood in the way of their obtaining the Act for the incor-
poration of the Company will continue in full vigour till
every obstacle to the execution of the trust reposed in them
has been also overcome. Immediately on the Act being ob-
tained, they directed all the necessary measures to be taken
for enabling the engineer to commence operations with the
least possible delay, at both ends of the line, in order that the
two portions of it likely to be the most productive, namely,
the London and Romford and the Norwich and Yarmouth,
might be the soonest completed and opened; and negotiations
for the purchase of the houses and lands required, are already
in an advanced state. The expenditure on these parts of the
line will be heavier than on any other ; but, in consequence of
the considerable balance of the deposits left in hand, it has not
been found necessary to make in the first instance a larger call
than 11. per share ; which the Directors have no doubt will be
responded to with cordial unanimity. The works will be in full
progress before any further call is made on the shareholders.
" Since the Act was passed, two vacancies have occurred
in the list of gentlemen therein nominated, to constitute, for
a limited time, the first Board of Directors—one by the la-
mented death of Mr. Crawford, and the other by the
resignation of Mr. The, who has since, with much advan-
tage to the interests of the Company, been appointed its
surveyor. The Liverpool shareholders, who now hold one-
third of the entire stock of the Company, having, at a public
meeting held there, expressed a strong desire that they should
be represented in the Board by two or more of their number,
the Directors considering this desire to be no more than just
and reasonable, have in virtue of the power given them by the
Act elected two of the largest shareholders in Liverpool, viz.,
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., and Richard Hall, Esq., to succeed
Mr. Crawford and Mr. Tite. In thus obeying the voice of
aref the
large and respectable portion of their constituency, who
resident in Liverpool, the Directors are happy to state that
they have, at the same time, added to their. body two gentle-
men, whose assiduous habits of business and intimate acquaint-
ance with Railway matters, are likely to rendteor
ttheeLaecrceesstssio
of
con-
sidering a
to the direction of the greatest advantage
the Company. Act of
.e Parliamentetors
eacthheceprtiiificate of se_
" It may be proper to add, that by the
certain fee is authorised to be taken on
gistry and each transfer of shares, bfuete
that
ould im
is es Particularly
that the levying of such
ian the first sta rlios an
unne-
cessary tax on the shareholders
of the undertaking—have ordered that it shall not be enforced.
the signed on behalf of tl Directors.
" 18, Austin Friars, Sept. 26, 1836."

ks
E TE,IIN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.
BALANCE
SHEEP , JULY
4, 1836.
' ' k
.................. 1:61,676 0 0
Deposits received 61.676 Shares
Interest ••. ............ . ... ~ ............................. 169 2 9
remaining to be disposed, of at the discretion
Share,ohe Directors for the benefit of the Com-
pany--2,324.

Cr. £61,845 2 9
By expended.
For Surveying and valuing 126 i miles, and 15 miles
of variation lines ..
£4,826 12 1
Engineering
....................................... 6,408 15 4
Books o
Canvassingf Owners and Occupiers, preparing
Reference, and proving the se
before both Houses
of Parliament-93 jait-
nessos
Survey of Traffic.
Travelling Expenses of Provisional Committee
525 13 3
and Officers
•••
Engraving and Printing 1,250 16 11
Advertising and Newspapers
....... 168 1 1
Maps, Stationery, and Copying ......—.
Solicitors' Bills for preliminary proceedings
expenses of obtaining the Act
5,796 15 3 and
Expenses of Witnesses to Traffic, value of Land,
&c., and generally in favour of the Bill
Parliamentary Agent . 364 3 5
1,523 8 7 Fees of Act of Parliament

SMITHFIEL]
The supply to this day's marke
dull, at the following

PRICES PER STONE OF BLI
S. d. to s. d.
interior Beasts 2 0 2 4
Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0
Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 6
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 C
Prime small ditto 4 2 4 8
Slckling Calves each l6 u 35 0

I MARKET.
was moderate, and the trade was

1. TO SINK TliN OFFAL%

s. d. to s A.
Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 6
Second qual►ty ditto 2 8 3 0
Coarse-woolled ditto 3 6 310
Southdown Wethers
Large Hogs 3 6 310
Small l'orkers 4 0 4 6
Quarter old Pigs 'each) 12 0 20 0

SUPPLY, AS PER. CLENI, S STATEMENT.
Beasts. Sheep Calves. I Pigs.
94 3,743 I 700 I 115 510
About 2340 of the Beasts came up the St. Alban's road; about 1000 up
the other northern reads; annul VSO (including Irish) from the western
and midland districts; about 150 from Norfolk, Su fthlk, Essex, and Cam-
bridgeshire ; about 40 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of jhe remainder
from the marshes. &c. in the neighbourhood of London.

-
NENVGATE AND LtA
At per stone, I
s. d. tos d
s. *l. to s. d.
2 2 2 4 Mutton., inferior ......... 2 4 2 '
___----
im)rlidmdeling ........ 3 0 2 2
Beef, inferior
'3 4 3 S
3 El 3 4 Perk, large 1 6 310
prime mall
310 4 4 --small 4 4 4 8
_ pinriiiclndel i1nagr?..........
32
06 10.
Veal
Lamb 3s `2.d. to 3s. Sd.

.DENHALL MARKETS.
by the Carcass.

ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET.
This day's supply consisted of 138 Beasts, 2519 Sheep and Lambs,
and I Calves. The. trade was dull throughout at the following
prices per stone of Sib, sinking the offals :
Beef :ls. 2d. to 4s. Od. I Veal Os. Od. to 45. 4d.
Mutton 3 4 4 4 I Pork 0 0 0 0
ainh . ............ 4s. Od. to 4s. at

Ihe Uhair at the Liverpool dinner to Lords Mel-
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On Saturday an inquest was held at the Compasses,
Vauxhall, on the body of William Streeter, aged 29, who was
scalded to death on Wednesday last at the distillery of Mr.
Burnett, of Vauxhall, by falling into a vat of boiling liquor.
Verdict—Accidental death.
Drury-lane Theatre will not be opened as soon as
was originally announced ; the first night of the season will be
Monday next. The orchestra is to be increased to 100 per-
formers, by taking three seats from the pit.
The Marquis of Chandos is entertaining a select
party of friends at his seat, Wooton, Bucks. His Grace the
Duke of Buckingham, who has perfectly recovered from his
late illness, joined the party on Saturday.
Sandbeck Park, the scat of the Earl of Scarbo-
rough, has been visited by a distinguished party during the
Doncaster Races. Amongst the assembled guests were 'the
Dowager Countess of Scarborough, Lord Portarlington, Lord
William Powlett, Count Bathayny, Sir Sandford and. Lady
Graham, Hon. Capt. Vyner, Capt. Kaye, &c.