The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-18 00:00:00

Judge MOORE considered that there was no founda-
tion for any portion of the writ of error in the present
instance.

The prisoners were then remanded into the custody
of the Sheriff, and removed fer,m the couif,'from whence
they were conveyed to Richmond Bridewell in the police
van, guarded by a party of the 17th Lancers, no excite-
ment being exhibited except what was manifested by a
number of persons outside the precincts of the court in
th.tr anxiety to behold the individuals who had figured
so conspicuously before their countrymen and the world
during the stirring events of the momentous year just
closed.

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
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LrOhNpe
jst LONDON
learned that thaNt°a
to the comfort and convenience of the travelling
public has ,been suggested by the general manager of
the company, Captain liuish, and is likely to •be
brought into early operation. Our readers may have
observed that at the principal stations there are bOok-
stalls, where popular literature as well as newspapers
can be purchased. The supply of books is about to
be largely increased and improved in character; and
the whole of the stations on the line being now un-
dertaken by one party (Messrs. Smith and Son, of
the Strand), Captain liuish proposes to establish a
gigantic circulating library, on the plan that the pas-
senger may select a book at a stall, paying the price
thereof, and after travelling any distance on the rail-
way (where his journey terminates) deliver it at the
station, receiving back the value, less a trifle for the
perusal. When it is considered that the London and
North-Western Railway extends over nearly 500
miles, and that more than six millions of passengers
travel upon it annually, we cannot conceive any plan
more likely than the above to while away a tedious
hour, and improve the time necessarily spent in
journeying.

CAMERON'S COALBROOK STEAM AND

SWANSEA AND LOUGHOR.
The adjourned special meeting of the shareholders
of this company took 'plave yesterday, at the com-
pany's offices, No. 2, Moorgate-street, Mr. N. P.
Cameron in the chair.

This meeting had been adjourned for the purpose of
taking into consideration the best means of dealing
with the letter which was received by the directors
from Mr. W. P. Cameron. In fact it was merely a
continuation of the meeting held last week.
Mr. Burls, on the part of the dissentient share-
holders, handed in his protest against the legality of
this meeting, and entered fully into the alleged
grievances of the proprietors.
After a great deal of discussion a motion was car-
ried to the effect that the proposition contained in Mr.
Cameron's letter be respectfully declined.

ABERDEEN.
Yesterday a numerous meeting of the directors and
shareholders in the Aberdeen Railway was held at
Radley's Hotel, Bridge.street, Blackfriars, for the
purpose of conferring and deciding on the best mode
of extricating the railway from its present financial
difficulties.

Mr. JAMES SPICE, chairman of the committee of
London shareholders, presided ; and, in opening the
business, introduced to the meeting the newly elected
directors—Lord James Hay, Colonel Frazer, Captain
Christie, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Alexander Pine, and Mr.
Atkinson, who were received with applause. He then-
proceeded to show that, if they were to deri►e the full
advantage from the Aberdeen Railway that its capa-
bilities led them to expect, it must be by maintaining
their independence, and by raising from their own re-
sourses the sum necessary to complete the
(Applause.) It was now their duty to make the
Aberdeen line an object of desire; and by so doing
they would with certainty command better terms than
had yet been offered either by the East Coast Com-
panies or the London and North-Western. They
had succeeded in securing a board of directors who
would set their faces against all sorts of jobbing, and
manage the company economically. It was proposed
that the proprietors should each take a share of the
preference stock, which it was proposed to issue
at a preferential dividend of 6 per cent. per annum
in perpetuity. The money they had already in-
vested was unproductive ; but by a helping hand from
each of the shareholders it " could be made amply
productive.— (Applause.) The directors and their
friends had volunteered to take four
_times their
amount of preference stock, if necessary, and already
they had pledges and promises of 90,0004 being taken
at once out of the 276,000 L, though the circulars had
only at present been sent out to the English stare-
holders.—(Applause.) He had it on the authority of
Mr. Locke, their eminent engineer, that within four
months after the line was again commenced they
might open to within miles of Aberdeen, and that
within four months more they might be open to the
south side of the River Dee, at Aberdeen. The pros-
pects of their traffic were highly encouraging. If
the resolutions proposed for adeptioti Were carried,
there was not one who, that. day twelvemonths, would
sell his shares for double the price at which they Were
now quoted in the market.—(Applause.)
Colonel FRAZER, in a speech of some length, in the
course of which be urged the shareholders to come
forward to the rescue of their property, proposed a
resolution to the effect that, in consequence of the
Edinburgh and Northern Company having abandoned
the agreement with the Aberdeen Company, under
which the additional capital necessary for completing
the line was to have been raised by the former, it was
the 'duty of the original shareholders to step forward
and by a united effort rescue their property from its
present unproductive condition.
Mr. F. PIRIE seconded this, and it was carried by
acclamation.

Mr. Rrn then moved, and Mr. J. KNOX, managing
director of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway,
seconded a resolution, which was carried unanimously
to the effect that, in order to place themselves in an
independent position, the shareholders come forward
and take up the whole of the 276,0001. new preference
stock.

Mr. D. Nlcuol. proposed the next resolution, re-
commending that the new stock should be given off
rateably among the proprietors, at a preferential
dividend of 6 per cent. per annum in perpetuity, sub-
ject to any increased dividend beyond 6 per cent.
that may at any time accrue upon the stock. Should
any of the proprietors not take up the proportion of
the stock that falls to their share, the surplus
remaining to be offered at 6 per cent. to those parties
who bad already taken up their share, and in case of
any still remaining over, the balance to be offered it
an increased preferential dividend of I per cent. pro
rate to those who had already taken up their share of
the 6 per cent. stock in proportion to the quantity
taken up.

Mr. PRENCH seconded the motion, and it was-car-
ried.
Mr. BOWDEN observed that he had entered the
meeting with the intention of adding no fa4her to
his stock ; but the explanations given by the chair-
man had induced him to alter his mind.
Lord JAMES HAY proposed, and Mr. ALEXANDEz
Plum seconded a vote of thanks to Mr. Spicer, the
chairman of the London committee, for the perse.
vexing interest he had,taken_ in_ extricatineo •
com-
pany from its difficulties, and the meeting es_ar ,
I, ate('
with three cheers for its success.

ICALEDONlAN.whoareoppopposed
meeting of the shareholders in the
d to the- contem-
platedlt atycompany of the Scottish Central,
lease by
Midland, and Dundee .
and Perth rail-
war, took place in the house of Mr. Fawcett, 12;
Trump-street, Guildhall, for the purpose of preparing
an address to the shareholders respecting the course
which the dissentient shareholders ought to adopt,
with the view of preventing the contemplated leases
being carried into effect. Mr. Fawcett, who is a
holder of nearly six hundred of the 50/. original
shares, was called to the chair. .n
A draft of the address to the general body of the
shareholders was then read, in which it was an-
nounced that every opposition will be offered to the
Bill about to be brought into Parliament for the
purpose of saddling the Caledonian Company with
the guarantees in question. The address was
unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be sent to all
the shareholders.

The gentlemen present expressed their confident
conviction that their opposition, if the shareholders
rally round the committee, will )e successful.

A subscription at the rate of Is. per share has been
entered into to defray the expenses of Parliamentary
opposition ; and already a very large sum has been
collected.

A vote of thanks having been given to the chair-
man, the meeting separated.

TILE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, AND WICKLOW
RaiLwAr.-13aAr HEAD.—An accident took place
on Monday which nearly proved fatal to three of the
workmen
.employed in blasting some of the rocks on
this line of railway. It appears there were three
holes charged with powder. two of which exploded.
The unfortunate men, thinking all had been dis-
charged, returned to their work, when the third hole
went off, blowing the men in different directions
One poor fellow, the father of a large family, fro

error assigned was, that the prisoner was
what he had to say why judgment should'
against him. For these several reasons I
c3use3 of error should be disallowed.
Mr. Judge CRAMPTON concurred in the jtuk
pronounced, but took the opportunity of agai,
iug the whole case. The Learned Judge
verted •to the startling proposition, that there was* no
such offence known to the law as the ieviog of war
against the Queen in Ireland, said that the objection
came upon him with as much surprise as if it were al-
leged that there never had been a traitor 01,11 rebellion
in Ireland. Judge Crampton then proceeded to a*review
of the remaining objections, and held that, none of tem
could be sustained. ,
Judge PERRIN, in pronouncing his opinion, ruled that
on all the counts the judgment of the Court beloWahould
be affirmed.

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