The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-08 00:00:00

ROYAL MARINES.

Colonel Owen, the Deputy Adjutant-General, con-
cluded his annual inspection of this division rather
abruptly this morning, without going to the field with
the artillery companies of the corps to witness their
eminently serviceable and matchless gunnery efficiency.
He, however, inspected that branch of the corps in heavy
marching order on their barrack-ground at three P.M.,
which pelded the most unqualified satisfaction. Last
evening Colenel Menzies, Kai., the commandant of this
division of Royal Marines, entertained the Deputy Ad-
jutant-General, Major-General Lord Frederick Fitz-
clarance, and the heads of the corps, at his residence.
riamouTEr, JUNE r Majesty's screw-schooner,
Reynard, 11, sailed yesterday afternoon for Madeira
and the coast of Africa, and her Majesty's steam- frigate
Arrogant, 46, sailed in the evening for the Mediter-
ranean.

THE HUNGARIAN CAUSE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Permit me to return you my heartfelt
thanks for the able manner in which you have advo-
cated the cause of the Hungarians, both by your
"leaders.' and by the faithful statements you have put
forth from time to time of their many victories over
their combined enemies.

It is to be lamented that men of talent, and news-
papers of known respectability, should lend their aid,
in trying to suppress the truth, and substitute gross
falsehoods in its place, for the purpose of shielding the
oppressor and injuring the oppressed. If paid and
unpaid subordinates act thus in England (be it said to
their shame and diFgrace as Englishmen), we may
believe some of the reports from the continent of men
having their noses slit, being loaded with irons, and
frequently losing their lives, by the orders of those
legalised imperial assassins. A boy Emperor tries to
cheat a brave nation of one of its rights, then tries to
murder them ; being foiled in both instances, he calls
in a brother Emperor, celebrated for his cruelty and
tyranny, to assist in massacreing his subjects ; thus
showing the doctrine of Emperors—treachery and
murder—a doctrine the sooner it is known to the
world the better.
There is, however, a faint gleam of hope about this
Russian intervention. The Russian hordes may be a
little enlightened on passing events, and will doubt-
less "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" what
is taking place. The French Republicans of '9B were
inoculated in a foreign country (America), and
perhaps the seeds of Hungarian freedom may take
root in Russian soil and bring forth abundantly.
We are told the Russians have entered Austria, but
they have not yet performed their task, whatever that
may be. Well, they play the part the Saxons did in
Britain when called in to subdue a neighbour ! Pos-
session is nine points of the law. The wily Russian
may be one too many for the Austrian boy.-Napoleon
said, " Russia must either fall or aggrandize herself,
and it is natural to suppose the latter will take place,
by invading other nations." Nous verrons.
The Hungarian leaders have shown unparalleled
skill, both in the Senate and in the field. They have
beaten and nearly beggared Austria, and Russia has
perhaps taken the first step that is to lead her to her
downfal.
May the Almighty grant success to the chivalrous
Hungarians. So prays daily, yours, &c.,
Manchester, June 6, 1849. M.

EMPLOYMENT OF THE FOWL—For the last five
weeks the " street orderlies," under the direction of the
National Philanthropic Association, have been en-
gaged in 'cleansing the principal streets of the
parishes of St. George and St. Giles, besides
other localities in Holborn and the vicinity. There
are only 14 men engaged, to each of whom is assigned
a superficial space of 2,000 yards for his day's
work. The result of this has been to elicit the unquali-
fied approbation of the inhabitants at the improved con-
dition of their streets, many of which were formerly able
to compete in dirt with those of any other district in the
metropolis but are now, perhaps, the cleanest in or
around London. No increase of expenditure has been
requisite to effect this improvement; on the
system
ontrary,
the advantages of the " :treet orderly"
are—
first, that it contributes to relieve the ratepayers from
the maintenance of a number of idle men, i
and converts
those men always into useful, and sometimes
maternally
profit-
able agents; secondly, their occupation may
infloeke the health of the placest Nvber
removal of
seotertihi;
ale
are employed, by instant
any
any animal or
ay nothing of t
chance to be deposited, to
ds in all weather ; and
comfort of walking on cleafint,rotabes
vegetable refuse w.hich _ mai),
men themselves by
thirdly, it materially
employ-
ment always gives, andwhichincreasing
their ae f- rcs pec,
keeping up the moral tboennee
bymforts of a home with moral
by the knowledge
eight men, but ninny
and physiesupoefrinteenedence.
.The Philanthropic
of them • have been taken off their hands by the parish
Association used to employ forty.
of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, which is cleansed ny
street orderlies, and by the Street Cleansing Machine
Company, where they have obtained permanent em-
ployment. It is confidently expected that many of the
metropolitan parishes whose cleansing contracts will
shortly expire, will adopt this new system, which
stems, as far as it has already been tried, to offer
the double advantage of employing the poor in a pro-
fitable manner and of releasing the ratepayers from their
burden.

GRAY'S INN, JUNE 6.—Sir George Stephen and
Thomas Hughes Greenland, Esq., were this day called
to the degree of 134rrister-at-Law by the Honourable
Society of Gray's Inn.
Mr. W. G. Hayter, the newly appointed Secretary
to the L►►rds Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
vice Mr. Parker, nominated Secretary to the Admiralty
depaytraent, has assumed the duties of his office.

GREAT N ORTHERN RAILWAY.
An extraordinary general meeting of the proprietors
of the Great Northern Railway Company was held yes-
terday, at the London Tavern. Mr. Denison, M.P.,
the chairman of the company, preside d.
The objects of the meeting is ere:-
1. To confirm the forfeiture declared by the directors
of certain shares upon which calls are in arrear, the re-
quired notices of the forfeiture of which have been given
to the respective proprietors; and to determine the
course to be adopted for disposing of the shares so for-
feited by a sale or cancelling, and re-issue or otherwise,
and upon such terms as the meeting shall direct, for the
purpose of raising the capital represented by such
shares.

2. To determine the course to be adopted with respect
to the 40,000-London and York Extension scrip shares
of 25/. each—issued in December, 1845, and by a reso-
lution of the general meeting of 13th August, 1847, con-
solidated two into one registered Great Northern share—
to induce the holders thereof to pay calls to be made
thereon, that the capital which those
,shares represent
erfay become available.
3. To approve an confirm, or otherwise, certain agree-
ments entered into by the directors with the Eastern
Counties Railway Company, and the Boston, Stamford,
and Birmingham Railway Company, for securing to the
Great Northern trains the right of running over the
Eastern Counties Company's line between Wisbeach and
Peterborough, thereby to supersede the necessity of con-
structing the parallel line from Peterborough to Wis-
beach, agrted to be leased by the Great Northern Com-
pany: and to compromise and dispense with such lease.
With respect to the forfeited shares in arrear, the
number on which calls, up to and including the eighth
call, due November, 1848, was stated to be 35,076. Of
this number 6,169 are shares, against the proprietors of
which actions are pending for the recovery of calls in
arrear, and 2,473 are shares on which security has been
given for payment of calls in arrear. The proposition
of the directors was (deducting the 6,169 and the 2,373)
to confirm the forfeiture of 26,534 Great Northern re-
gistered 251. shares under the following conditions,
viz.:—To issue in lieu of each forfeited share two scrip
shares of 121. 10s. each; that these 121. 10s. scrip shares
should have credit for 2/. 10s. as a deposit paid thereon,
and should bear interest, or preference dividend, at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum in perpetuity, and should
be issued to the proprietors of Great Northern
inshares
and A and B half-shares, who stand registered the
company's books on the 7th of June, rateably to the
number of shares held by each proprietor, which would
give in the proportion of about one scrip share to four
whole shares, or to eight A and B half-shares.
The effect of the proposition would be, as the Chair-
man stated, to give those who took the scrip shares a
perpetual guaranteed dividend of 61 per cent. The
average amount paid upon the shares proposed to be
forfeited was stated as Si. per share.
After some discussion the meeting confirmed the for-
feiture of the 26.534 in the following terms:—" 1. That
the forfeiture of the 26,534 shares be and hereby is
confirmed, and that they be cancelled or sold, or other-
wise disposed of by cancelling, at the discretion of the
directors."

With respect to the 40,000 London and York Exten-
sion scrip shares of 251. each, issued under date of the
Ist Dt cember, 1845, with 2/. 10s. per share paid, and
which by a resolution of the half-yearly general meeting
of August 13, 1847, were to have been consolidated into
and registered as 20,000 Great Northern shares of 251.
each, with 51. paid up, representing a capital of 500,0001.,
and which are held as follows:

Number of scrip shares consolidated two into
one Great Northern share, and registered...
Number still in scrip ... ...

7,198
32,802

Total shares as above ... ... 40,000
The directors proposed that these shares should be con-
verted into 40,000 scrip shares of 121. 10s. each, with a
deposit of 21. 108. per share as already paid thereon, and
be credited with the further sum of ss. per share for two
years' interest accrued to 30th June inst., and be entitled
to 5 per cent. per annum interest or preference dividend
in perpetuity; and further, that these 121. 103. scrip
shares should be issued to the holders of existing London
and York extension scrip, who were to send into the
company's offices their scrip to be exchanged for an
allotment letter, authorising the company's banker to
receive the first call of 2/. ss. payable from the 25th to
the 30th June, making with the deposit and the ss. in-
terest credited, 51. per share paid.
Upon this proposition the directors moved the follow-
ing resolution :—" 2. That the 40,000 London and York
Extension scrip shares of 251. each, dated Ist December,
1845, and subsequently by resolution of half•yearly
general meeting of 13th August, 1847, reduced to
20,000 shares of 25/. by consolidation of two into ono
Great Northern share, and repre►enting a reduced
capital of 500,0001., be converted into and exchanged for
40,000 scrip shares of 121. 10s. each, bearing 5 per cent.
interest or preference dividend in perpetuity, upon the
terms and conditions recommended by the directors to
this meeting, and that any remaining unclaimed be
offered to Great Northern registered proprietors rateably,
or be otherwise disposed of at the discretion of the
directors."

Considerable objection was taken to this mode of rais-
ing the money required, and several of the shareholders
considered a small call would be much better than such
a creation of preference capital.
Mr. CORRIE proposed that the question should be
adjourned till the general meeting in August, as he
thought so important a matter should not be determined
at a meeting at which so few of the proprietors were
present.
The original resolution was, upon a show of hands,
carried.
Mr. CORRIE then demanded a ballot.

Mr. Corrie and Mr. Morgan were appointed scruti-
neers; and on the ballot being concluded, and the numbers
computed, there appeared for Mr. Corrie's amendment,
20 shareholders, holding in all 2,815 shares; and for
the original motion, 61 shareholders, holding in all 6,982
shares. The original motion was therefore declared to
be carried.

It was next resolved (the resolution shoald have fol-
lowed the one confirming the forfeiture of the shares)—
" That in lieu of, and to the amount of capital repre-
sented by, the Great Northern 251. shares—of which the
forfeiture hay been confirmed by this meeting—there be
issued, upon the terms and conditions recommended by
the directors to this meeting, scrip shares of 121. 10s.
each, bearing five per cent. interest cr preference divi-
dend in perpetuity."
This resolution was carried.
A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and
the meeting broke up.