The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-01 00:00:00

... 19,500 0 0
7 7

220 5 3

£19,727 12 9
By balance ... ... 7,741 17 10
The CHAIRMAN said, the directors recommended a
dividend of 3d. 9d. on the unprivileged shares should be
,leclared from the available balance, to be payable on the
9th proximo. He then moved that the accounts just
read be received and adopted.
Mr. HITCHINS seconded the motion, and asked if the
company had received any security at the appointment
of the clerk who had since robbed them?

Mr. WeLsoez —No; there is some difficulty in getting
a security in such a case, because the trust is not a
money one. It is unlike a case of embezzlement; it
was a forgery of deeds; but the directors think they
wilt be able to prevent the possibility of the like occur-
ring again.
Mr.eircetnes—l think this is a case which shows the
absolute necessity of requiring a security from every
clerk to a public company, however strongly he may be
recommended, or however well he may be connected.
The motion was then put and unanimously agreed to;
the dividend was declared; and Messrs. F. Mattbert and
Josiah Wilson, the, two retiring directors, were unani-
mously re-appointed.
M. MAIJBERT suggested the advisability o' the direc-
tors considering the propriety of reducing the interest
on the company's bonded debt to four per cent. Their
security was ono of such a character as was rarely to be
met with in this country; and he thought they would,
in these times, have no difficulty in obtaining money at
four per cent.
Thanks were then severally voted to the Chairman end
directors, and to the secretary (Mr. Adson), and the
meeting broke up.

RCtJLWAY 61iA Rh MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JA/r. 31.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —Great Western, Quarters, were done
at 114 dis.—Ditto, New 171. Shares, 13-16 dis.— Midland
Stock, 961 A—Ditto, UM Shares, 4 dis.—Eastern Counties.
11%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase'
1 7-16 p.

LIVERPOOL, JAX. 81.
STOCK EXCHANO IL—The sales are—Aberdeen, 20—Bol-
ton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire, Preference,
6 per cent. guaranteed (B), 171,1—Caledonian, Preference,
p.—Great Western, Quarters, % dis. —Lancashire and
Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), 15 dis.—
Ditto, Quarters, c. dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 2% dis.—Ditto,
321. Shares (late Extension), 5J4 dis.—Ditto, 101. Prefer-
ence, 13 p.—Ditto, Halves (late W. P. and G.), 42
Ditto (late West Riding Union),Fifths, 33/4 dis.—London and
North-Western, 137 c.— Ditto, New Quarters, 5% p.—Ditto,
Quarters (C), 33g p.—Ditto, Thirds, 9—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 101. Preference, 114—Ditto,
201. IShares, 10 dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 6 c. dis.—Midland
Stock, 98—Ditto, New Halves, 3,4 dis.—North British, 16—
Ditto, Quarters, 334—North Staffordshire, 2% die.—
Scottish Central, 253/4 - Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Pre-
ference, 8 per cent. guaranteed for ten years, 934 c.—
Shrewsbury and Chester, 101. Preference, guaranteed 8 per
cent., 1431—Shropshire Union, 51s. 3d dis. —South-Eastern
and Dover, 2614—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7%—York, New-
castle, and Berwick (Extension, No. 1), p.— Ditto (G. N.
E. Purchase), 13/4 c. p.—York and North Midland, Prefer-
ence, guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, 14 c. p.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 31.

Srocx Exenawan.—The sales are—Manchester and
Birmingham, Quarters (C), 3 13-16 p.—Leeds, 32/. Shares,
6 die. —Caledonian. Preference, 1% p.—Leeds, Fifths, 2UI
dis.—Ditto, Preference, 13/4,.p.—Ditto, Sixteenths, 5 5-16 -
Preston and Wyre (A), 5 1-16 p.—Sheffield and Lincoln,
12 7-16 dis.—Ditte, Eighths, VA die,—North Staffordshire,
3% dia.—Chester and Birkenhead, 151,1 a die. —Cheshire Junc-
tion, 9% dis.— Grimsby, 20!. Shares, 101 A, di'.—Scottish
Central, 253/4—West Riding Union, 3% die.—East Lanca-
shire, Preference, VA—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,7:%
Grimsby (Docks), 12% die.
BIRMINGHAM, JAR. 31.

&root ExcErArtc.F...—The following are the day's quota-
tions :—North Staffordshire, 23/4 dis. —Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham (A), 5 dis.—Ditto (B), 3/. 3s. 9d. dis.—Ditto, Pre-
ference, 335. 9d. p.—Shropshire Union, 2% dis.—South
Staffordshire, 2% dis.