The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-20 00:00:00

THE SU N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1849.
struetion are brought to a close, or will be so in the pre- Llee, Wellington, South Tolgus, West Providence, Tre- Thomas Henry Etherington, Stableford, Staffordshire, THE mt,
SOUTH LONDON MEDICAL SO- LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN
CIETY-EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. RAILWAY. sent month, and these lines are provided in working hare, Kingsett and Bedford, Sec. contractor.
stock, the whole of which, with very trifling exceptions, Wheal Mary Ann adventurers audited their accounts James Stanford, Birminghamcn,rldicwenasueeir.victualler. I
An extraordinary meeting of the members of this The usual half-yearly general meeting of the pro-•s paid for. Thus the directors feel enabled to state for March, April, and May, on the Bth instant, showing James Lavill, Birmingeam The accoi
society was held on Thursday at the Literary Institu- prietors of the London and South-Western Railway
I with confidence, that from this period the affairs of the a profit of 5571. 11s- 00 the three months' workings, James Ilooper,Mosely, Worcestershire, plumber and Pap ors of Sat
tion, Borough-road, for the purpose of discussing the was held on Saturday, at the Nine Elms Station; .
company will progressively amend, and as there can never which, with the balance from last account, carries a painter.
nature and treatment of the prevailing epidemic. Mr. William Chaplin, M.P., Chairman of the Board be,'without the distinct authority of the proprietors, given credit of 1,01•11- 19s- Bth to the next meeting, when a John Yates, jun., Handsworth Staffordshire, brickm k r this extraord
t,o,r(ti:eatiosncNovr
Mr. HILTON, surgeon, of Guy's Hospital, and pre- of Directors, in the chair.
as it must be assumed for beneficial objects, a recurrence dividend may be fully expected. The mine is now re- William Osborne, Aston, W arwieleshire, ae
commission*
f
i
sident of the society, took the chair, and said the The advertisement having been read, the minutes of a period when the capital entitled to dividend shall be presented to be in a better position than hitherto seen, agent. O'Connor, I
meeting had been called in consequence of the general of the past proceedings were proposed to be con- so great in proportion to the earnings as at the close of and capable of returning 65 to 70 tons per month, and, John Thomas Brecknock, butcher,
the present half-year, so the directors believe it may from present appearances, may be considered a perms- John Atkin, Newark-upon-Trent, farmer,
Charles Bennion, Birmingham, commission agent. toms as a gal
feeling of medical men, in the district and elsewhere, firmed, when
fact that h
that those who bad experience might communicate Mr. WlLsolt CROCKER objected to that part of safely be predicted that at no future period will the vent and paying mine.
shortly to
the results at which they had arrived, and so extend them which related to the steam-boat guarantee. It affairs of the company be in a state of such depression as Wheal Trehane two-monthly meeting was held on the Joseph Hellier, irmingham tail brewer.
at present. At all events, the proprietors may feel en. 9th inst. The accounts for March and April show a James Osborn; Birmingham,' turner, * who was wel,
the benefit of that experience osier a wider area. For was, perhaps, not generally known that most of the
tire confidence, that the undisguised truth is before them, balance in favour of the adventurers of 6471. 13s. 9d. A Thomas Jackson, Birmingham, die sinker, fifty years of
the better guidance of their discussion, therefore, he proxies used by the chairman in support of that
and that no effort has been made to conceal or qualify dividend of 30e- Per share was declared, and paid forth- Edward Griffith, Birmingham, jeweller.
eatlel)i
cdrpsee.aiassre2tasdlnaaicdhnea.tti
had
and generall
advised that they should confine themselves rather to guarantee were forwarded to him for another purpose,
the real„ state of the property or prospects of the corn- with. We learn that some new steam machinery is about Joseph Gibbs, Duddestoa-with-Nechells, Warwickshire'
deceased
an enunciation of principles, or a statement of strict namely, to support the election of two gentlemen who
pany. being erected, for which a reservation has been made in huckster.
facts, than to attempt to diverge into the different were candidates for seats in the direction.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the thevery funds.favourTahhlen agen
position,t's
and represents
operations thepr
progressing
ai
inn
ga
John
nr Stevens,Co o.k , Bath,e r a
s st blacksmith,horpe
Nottinghamshire,.
modes of treatment. It would be of great im- The CHAIRMAN said the Hon. Proprietor was in
towards some very important points. A parcel of about George Robinson, Newark-'upon-Trent, miller.
report, observed that it would be bad taste on his part
portance, for example, to state facts which went to error. were he to occu much time after the lenthenedconnexion w
show whether the disease was contagious or not, under Sir J. EASTROPR took that opportunity, not having
report.h Much might be said on the depression which
idnivifdaevnodur
of
ff
11. 103.
ipnvers William Perry Mills, Young's-green, Staffordshire, far- s headnwßnaiansiglie,nyittfh(
certain favouring circumstances; for to prove that it been present at the last meeting, of thanking the pro-
t e country had recently suffered from, or the pros- 131
Thetons was sold ohinesst.bhea3ldal.no;cteah.
Wellington Mints bi-monthly meeting was held mer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. OMI
was not contagious would be impossible. But facts prietors for the compliment they had paid him, ha
ects there were of the company's returning to a amountedo n the
256th shalrotetohw4. 4481. 15x.
for March and April, leaving shill-Ye, Mts.:LlE:Tit ,wrighDt
Drummond
grodc,eritGlenlmavis, Lanark-
bending to show that it was communicable from one formally acknowledging the services he had rendered P
state of prosperity ; but the gentlemen before him
a balance of 64/. 15s. 3d. to
thenex3t2afcnaco.ulnevnel
eTshpeenaiagielynt, Aug.n s2L2ir,
lainngd, Set . withinl2, at twelve, upon the Cl-re
person to another, under certain favouring circum- the concern in the capacity of chairman and director.
were tco well versed. in commercial matters, tooal Hotel, Airdrie, informed, we
stances, would be most important. He explained that his retirement from the direction
coPmmission awgent;Glasgow and Calcutta,
well acquainted with the causes of that depression, doubtful cha
Mr. 'WRIGHT said a case occurred in his own arose out of the pressure of his other business avo-and the influences that affected railways, to which is the deepest level, and there is every prospect of toof th • e circun
meet within the Crow Inn, Glasgow, Aug. 123, and
practice which went to show the contagious nature of cations. reports the lode productive in
render it necessary for him to dwell upon the course of ore holding down.
imypt:ovMeEdireshi:iceelptihiel,, al nasdt thCommercial. Hotel, Dingwall, Augd supposed to
the disease. In Wandsworth a person living in a row The minutes were then confirmed. Sept. at twelve.
these topics. He should be content to allow the re- The Alfred Consols adventurers met on the 10th, and A. Campbell, merchant, Strathpeffer, to meet within evening, M
where no case of cholera had occurred, was seized Mr. WYNDHAM HARDING then read the following • • • •
P to speak for itself, without being explained by a
mine repro-reniained al
suddenly, became blue, and died in seven hours ; report of the directors :- May; the division of loss for the four months amounted epl9, g 23, at twelve, an
single remark him, from but there were one or two
saeundtietded ttlale ah:evseninc:::re February,
at one. days afterw
medicine had no effect. Three nights after he was " From the accounts which are in the hands of theto 11 ls. 2d. per I,o24rathblyshare. The is Sept,-G.. Robertson, flesher and cattle dealer, Perth, to meet enough to s(
Sept. 17, at one
points which he could not refrain from touching
called to attend a child seized with cholera in the same shareholders, it will be seen that the traffic for the half-
ett and Bedford meeting wasand Jhuelnde, ownertehere6atdh;
year, ending on the 30th June, amounts to ... £254,627 upon.-(Hear, hear.) The proprietors were aware within the Saint John's Tavern, Perth, Aug. 23, and neighbourhoc
house, and this case, too, proved one of extreme cha-
The expenses, including rates and taxes, to ... 126,752 that the half-year they bad Just closed was the
nAlceayof 5i.23. 7d. against the went to th,
racter, for the patient died in nine hours.
, worst of the two, and yet their traffic had not in
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM- the murder
Mr. WATERWORTH said it was necessary to show
" The comparison with the corresponding half-year is any way fallen off. To no circumstance of that meeting.
icings
PRICES OF SHARES
when
theand took a
that the district had been untainted for at least half as follows:- at
statement
heemanoncto u
showsn t accounts for
aA pbrailla,
or quarter of a mile round, because two or three of sort could the diminution of the dividend be attri- company, to meet which, and future operations, a call of his propert
Traffic for the half yeaPANIES' STOCK, bonds and
a family living in the same house might die in
ending Increase in 1849. buted, as the accounts, which were true, simple, and ss. per share was made, with a sanction for the cotn-
r June, 1848, From the Official List. No suspicion
consequence of exposure to the same tainted cir- 208 994 Z June,-
, ; 1849, 254,6274 ... ... £45,633
whichishigthelyy agrerantoirwyinwo.rkingupon, several
correct, would show. If there was one thing more mittee of management to make a further call of 53.,
than another that his board was proud of, it was the should it be required, . before the next meeting. The PUBLISITED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EV NG. in the habit
oumstances. Expenditure for the half-year ending June, g, exclusive of the
Mr. HICKS said his experience led him to discern 1848,118,3701.; June, 1849,- 126,7521. ... 8,382 fact that they had never had recourse to unfair orLONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17. during his al
between three degrees of the disease. First, there nefarious means for increasing the dividend.-(Hear.) .
improvements
_were anticipated, which _-,e,-.. was comm
. we learn have IOIRTT-STOCIL n.a.Nnts.s. s had hitherto
_ p:toratbiooun
and neatly-I
The dividends which the proprietor annguenrste'snrfelpeoadrt
was a dais where diarrhoea was permitted to con- Increase of net revenue therefore ... £37,251 had been • Dividend Amount kitchen und
tinue for perhaps a fortnight without attention; that "Average number of miles open for the half-year end-Vincent meeting was held on the Bth, when the re- Name of Company. per of
been realised since the meeting.
Paid. Price. abuts on Mc
was a class amenable to treatment, if not too far gone. ing June, 1848, 194; June, 1849, 219. oenujtooyfedthhee wouldrealand
stakebona his
fide reputationearnings
of the railwpaayld, ports of several agents were read, confirming the opinion Annum. Share.
Secondly, there was a class where the poison had "The increase of expenditure in 8490
of
arisesrailway, en t i rtenl ye ,r, and the mode of, operations adopted by the managing -- -
and from the increased number of milesl this occasion was the fact, that this half- agent as being the most satisfactory towards bringing Australasia •• .. •• •• •• 3/.per cent. 40 sO
O. 104 50' dO.
t tohfret,
Molesworth,
taken more serious effect and occasioned p • urging cause that could now b_ e assigned for its
year the capital participating in the dividend had the mice into a profitable position; the statement of ac- BritsliNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
vomiting, but not passing into collapse ; that, too if maintenance of which is chargeable on revenue. and
by no less a sum than 2,800,0001. counts was satisfactory, and a call of 10 by instal- Ceylon •• •• -••• • • • 71per cent. 25 0 0 ^
25 0 0 - On Saturt
not neglected till too late, might be checked. But " The balance disposable for dividend is 108,660/. 3s. 3d. been increased
hear.")s. two
100- 0 0 '
Some fewyears back ments made, which will free the mine Commercial of London 61. per cent.2o 0 0 - Leather Mar
This balance remains after the payment of all interests -(Cries of "Bear,
this
Wheal -
there was a third class, where collapse ensued after one on capital, whether productive or unproductive, except e for new lines compelled company to Tregorden account for April May and G
the rag .in„ June, loucestershire -.• • • , 15/per cent. - - _ into the dent
action of the bowels. He was called the other m •'project schemes and promote projects Parliament,
was held on the 9th; the accounts showed a balance of lonian ........ ••••• • , 61 per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - had
morning interest at the rate of 4 er cent. for six months on thebeen exa
only to a child which -had been seized at three laid Pmiles ofrailway in ac- •
413,847/. out on the twenty
to keep - Mr. Welsh,.
o'clock, and which died at nine the same morning, A tual progress of construction during the past half-year,
was quite ready to admit that many of the past acts share was made. The mine has much improved •
since London
-..-••• • • • • • 1 0 0 -
Joint-Stock... en per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 16M whose eviden
woman, the night before, had gone to bed well and which will be open for traffic before the close of the
of the board were highly censurable and erroneous, the last account, and continues to hold out prospects of Provincial of Ireland .. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 40 companied a
further and immediate •
enough eseecept complaining of constipation of the present month. to dividend they were not alone to blame for the increase in the improvement ; the lead raised Ditto, New.- ••• •• • : 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - ".
" The stock and share capital entitled here is unusually rich National
,of Ireland .. 1 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 o - Previous to th
bowels, but she was seised at six o'clock next morning, e capital.-(Hear, hear.) Having adverted to the in-
21 3681.
this half-year, is 6,5 • per ton. Nat. Provincial of Eng. 1 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -- and that the
that a dividend troduction of Lord Monteagle's Bill, which he con Ditto, New. ••••• •• ' 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
and died by seven. Such were examples of the third
"The directors, therefore, recommend - In foreign mines there has been a fair proportion of South Australia -•• • • 5/. per cent. - 22 10 0 - and :a half.
class ; but with regard to the disease itself, he believed tper cent. per annum (or 16s. 3d. on sidered highly objectionable, the Hon. Gentleman
after the rate of a business done. United Mexican has been in demand, Union of Australia.... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - laid upon th(
it non- contagions. For although many cases might ace) be declared, amounting to 105,972/. 4s. 7d, and went on to propose, that the accountants and Ditto some of and several transactions closed. In Alien, Co ' piapo,- together, and
•6/. per cent. - 2 10 0
St. Union of L0nd0n..... GI. percent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 10%
be produced of several dying in the same house, leaving a balance to be carried in the next half-year of the principal proprietors should be requested
~ , John del Dey and Australian b buyers have been found, Union of Madrid ..... 40 0 0 40 0 0 - No evider
these were all clearly exposed to the bad circumstances 2,687/. 18s. Bd. to attend an aggregate ' meetingof railway and bargains effected. _
"It now becomes the duty of the directors to make a
which produced the disease in the first instance. officials to consider the best means of se- INSURANCE C 01VIPANICES.
observations on the increase of the share capitaladduced.
Last week, in his own practice, a child was seized few
• cu • the bestauditofrailway
dto dividend this half-year as compared with the ring
late at night, and a few hours afterwards the woman entitle
- - further stated that the legal Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. jury, it was ul
a last.expenses of the (From the United Service Gazette.)
attending it took ill also ; but both were living inAnnum. Share.
The capital now entitled to dividend is ... £6,521,368 company had been greatly reduced and liquidated, C - adjourned to :
house exposed to the most noxious odours from an HATHAM GARRISON.-During the absence of Colonel -
The capital so entitled upon 31st December while the company was in the satisfactory situation S. £ a. d. £ s. d.
open privy at the back door. He had never seen any anps( n, the Commandant, on leave of absence, the Albion .. 10 0 0 50 0 0 75
last was ... ... ... ... ... 3,707,335 of having no schemes to submit to Parliament in the command has devolved upon Colonel Sir Frederick Alliance Brit. and•••• For.• 71134i5• 6da& bs 50010 AN ACCOU
case where sporadic cholera extended itself. His ex-0 0 Ii 0 0 -
--- next session of Parliament.-(Cheers.) It only re- Smith, K.H., Royal Engineers. Several cases of Ditto Marine.- •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5o o 5% AND HIS V
• which had been extensive, led him to say es • •
perience, es the additional amount, therefore, entitled to rosined for hitn to mention that a great saving would cholera having been reported to have terminated fatally titla'' • •••
•
that almost invariably, in nine-tenths of the cases, dividend this half-year is ... ... ... £2,814,033 shortly be effected in the maintenance of the permanent in Chatham - British Commercial -7. per share. 50 0 0 50 0 -5
, Rochester, and StrooJ, on the evening c % yet involved •
lericl,Med.&Gen.Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19
cholera was preceded by diarrhoea. There were cases, " The shareholders have always been aware that, . of Sunday last, the whole of the troops ingarrison County way, and in order that the proprietors might
however, without this precedent, and these almost From the terms under which they have, from time to have been prohibited entering the towns, except on dut •cr `'vn •••••••• • • •• •• 143. 50 0 0 50 0 -
form some idea of what that saving would be he and sentries
Eagle
• • •• 6a. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5N e
way Compan3
invariably ended fatally. He added that these last time, resolved to make their several issues f 11 o cap a , have been placed on the upper and lowerheated in th(
would just state that a contractor had undertaken to d_, Eng.& Scot. Law •• • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 1'
were cases to which he was always called away about this large addition to the amount entitled to a dividend I 'cl
raw .ri ges, near the Ordnance Gun Wharf, to pre- European Life ••• • •• 4% per cent. 20 0 0 All -
that l•
paid. 15 On ine,
three or four in the morning. would arise at this time. It has already been shown keep up the permanent way between London and vent the men passing out. This is a wise and salu- Family Endowmrt Soc. 4/. & bs. 100 0 0 40 0 - space of a two
Mr. HAWKINS said hie experience quite confirmed that there is an increase of 37,251/. in the net revenue Southampton, including all the new lines, fur 17,5001. tart' measure, for it has been ascertained that two Freemasons' .• •••.• • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 a 0 0 - of 4 000/
'what had Linen from Mr. Hicks as to the non-con- of the present half-year, as compared with the corre- a year, which would effect a saving upon the existing soldiers of the garrison were drinking in the house gle',Leeieee ..; • -- - 61. per cent.
100 - 122x.d ' way
51. 36 10 0 as y,, y,, was guard. I
tagious character of the disease. For instance, in spending six months of 1848; and, consequently, it is to system of no less a sum than 30,000/. per annum. where the case of cholera terminated Wally on the very Imperial Fire. ••: •••• •••• :: 121. per cent. 500 0050 0 0 220 - vice, and was
one house where the father of the family was seized, ' the increase of capital now entitled to dividend, that Mr. UPCUFT said he was quite convinced that evening of the disease breaking out in an adjoining room. filindpeerinailtLi
jure • 41;7: l2s. s 100 0010 0 0 15 took place in
the diminution of the rate of dividend is to be attributed, the public would never have confidence in the under- One
dof the Royal Marines, when on duty as sentry on Law7ireY.. • a........... it, sh. &b .
too
(0) 00 13t)
0i -2u
___as no clue cot
an infant at the mother's breast was removed to an- and not to any falling off of revenue or increase of ex- taking until its affairs had been thoroughly investi- -61 night, attacked by cholera, and died in a
was Law Life..........., 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - mail, suspicioi
other house that the mother might attend to her few hoursaY after.order of Monday last Legal and General Life
By a garrison ,
Fire- 50 0 0 20 0 4% wife. here i
pense. gated by a committee who should be entirely Melee10s. 25 0012 10 0 16,, husband. She was afterwards taken ill of cholera, " This ca ' • • ' capital, it will be remembered, consists firstly, di P of the rectors. the whole of the married men, of the various corps
Londonn --•• ••
in Ldon Sh'D 10s. 25 0012 10 0 1614 some months
and the child which had been removed was seized of new 501. and 40/. shares (created under resolutions garrison residing out in the towns, have been ordered • 'i- -'• - -Inn, at Taunt
Mai hie - ........... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 9Yq
Mr. SMITH wanted to know when the proprietors into barracks'
likewise. But this was a house with a drain of the passed by the proprietors on the 7th of December, 1844), and by a subsequent order of Tuesday, &tee. envild&Gen.niee 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2% appeared. TI
of were likely to reap any advantage from the it,. troops rational Lean Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - u
worst character behind it, and in front was a tan- on which, and the tenths (created under resolutions W . •• . -.-- in garrison, together with the women and undergoing in
yard ;so that what way soever the wind blew, the the proprietors, passed 29th August, 1846), the first goods traffic ? He was afraid the coin- • Siptional Life
children, are to be medically inspected, each day, with a Lahadi„re uf',2 B/ per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
5!.. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2109. dismissed, in 4
efflavium that went through and through the house' dividend, payable from revenue, was to be calculated pany .
would
never derive anything from that view to arrest the progress of disease, should it show Pelican - _ _ the same time
was so offensive that a man had to put a handkers from the Ist day of January (or July) next after the traffic until they adopted the system in operation itself among the troops in garrison. Z'aceaix - - 141 connected wit
opening of the Waterloo Extension, that is, on the Ist on the London and North-Westernand South • THE OFFICERS WllO DESERTED FROM THE CHM- Protector Life..... 54 er 20 0 0 10 0 - plunder. In
chief to his nose. There .had been one victim in the Provident Life • - • P cent.
11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
January, 1849; and, secondly, of such amounts as have Eastern lines, and became their own carriers. DERS.-A Court-martial is ordered by the Admiralty to Rock Life............." Life....
- - while staying
house adjoining it on the left and in that on the b.
been called upon the Thirds (1847),under reso- e CHAIRMAN said that question
(created The C • • had been in- assemble at Devonport to try Lieutenant Graham and itosee Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. - 200 The rumou
right, but none in the others. His practice led him lotions of the proprietors of 17th November, 1846), on vestigated by a committee of directors, whose report Mr. Elliott, Master, R.N., late officers of the Childers on
S`ll2 lilt:tire • •e•••• •••• • • ' • 6/. 10s. - - 203 Manning's cot
daily into lodging-houses where he saw two or three 30 th December, 1848, and 30th March, 1849. would now be read. certain charges arising out of the desertion from that univereslaifesite.• ••
••••• it. 6s. - - 44
10% pr cnt. 100 0 0 90 0 - were subsequ
beds in one room, continuously occupied, without 4. To avoid misapprehension, it is right to remark The report - sloop, when at the Cape, by the Lieutenant, he being Victoria Life .-".• •• - 51. per cnt. - 40 0 4% the Spring a
bad effects from a case of cholera in one of the ad- that the item of 52,1631. 13s. for interest, in the capital commanding-officer at the time; and on the part of the years' trans p,
sent system but the committee had not pursued
joiningbeds in the same room. There was one case expenditure of the past half-year, includes the payment .
air to Master for quitting the Childers with Lieutenant Gra- DOMES. White Hart, i
the matury to a sufficient extent to enable them
which he had been attending, where the patient re- of interest on the new 501. and 401. shares of 1845, and - ~ham, he being under arrest at the time. picion, that ii
covered from collapse, and sank into a state of fever. the Tenths, to December 1 Iga . to decide whether it would be advisable for the com-
-3 31st, __ _B, such paymem, TORRES STRAITS SURVEYING EXPEDITION.-The ar• Name of Company. Dividend Amount
per of Paid. Price. business, Affir
being, by the terms of the creation of the shares, to be Pany to become their own carriers. rival of Mr. M'Clatchie, lato assistant- surgeon of the Annum. Share. coming up t(
The woman nursing the patient had no fear whatever ____
____
borne by capital until the shares came in for dividend. Mr. BAKER thought there was something wrong in Bramble, gives us information of the past and future opened a beer
of cholera ; but having mentioned fever to her, hex 0. d. X 8. d.
Capital thus bears no portion of the burden of interest the goods system, or the returns from that source movements of this expedition. The Rattlesnake and her East and West India... 6/. pr cent. Stock. but this place
found on his return that the nurse complained of sick- . - 134
Which is chargeable on the revenue of the past half- would have been more instead of less than those of tender had completed the survey of the Inner Barrier Hut Countr - 21 was abruptly
ness, and had evislently caught fever. This showed route from Rockingham Bay .to Booby Island, and were London ........Cl.pr cent. Stock. - 115
year; while the revenue is charged with the interest on the London and Brighton Company. taking with 114
the effect of fear. a large unproductive expenditure. Mr. ALEXANDER KAY, a member of a deputation ola the eve of sailing(April 15) for New Guinea to resume Ditto Bonds.. ••• • • 41 per cent
St. Katharine .... • . 4. P.-
per cent. Stock, -
- _
80 was done at
Dr. HUNTER LANE said, having used every means, " The directors therefore have satisfaction in being appointed from Manchester to attend this meeting the survey where it was left off by the Bramble. Mr. Ditto, Scrip.... ...-
- pared a home
on occasion of the outbreak of cholera, in 1832, at able to refer to the report of the auditors, showing that having he di t
blamed and strongly censured
_t _ directors ors
9 M'Clatchie has brought home with him the charts of the Ditto Beads - 4%1, pr cent. - metropolis. 1'
South
Sunderland, to become acquainted with the disease, the capital .account has not been burdened to augment forinner passage. We suppose they will shortly be pub- Southampton •• .. •-• 21. per cent. 50 7) 0 50 71 0 ---: who had drive
the ex,travagant guarantees they had siven to lished. Mr. M'Clatchie went out in
and having extensive experience afterwards at Liver- the amount applicable to dividend-a point which has re-. 1842 under Captain III3LXXIGES3 up matters, as
tributary lines proceeded to ask the following ues-
he believedi he could cite many cases that went cently excited a more than ordinary degree of anxiety . . , P . gq. Blackwood's command, when the Bramble was
than
and eventuall3
pool,tons :-Pirst, can the capital accounts of the lines to the Fly, and has thus been absent more than seven Name of
A.-m"
among railway proprietors. Company. per of Paid. Price. murder was
to show the disease was non-contagious, and many
"The branches from Guildford to Godalming and completed be finally closed ? Secondly, what allow- years in an arduous service, and one necessarily at- Annum. Share. day.
thatserved to - the reverse.He then mentioned
prove
Farnham, and the loop line to Hounslow, will be opened ante do the directors receive from tributary lines ? tended with many privations. The scientific gentlemen - - From circus
that at Liverpool a woman lay in the hospital in a X. s. d. X. s. d.
for traffic during the h
25 0 0 _ little doubt e,
state of collapse, and a girl bent by the bedside, seem-
" The company will, after this present month, there-profitand loss the Richmondand Windsor • h
on - 632 12 8 - - was premediu
ingly occupied with the patient; he found out that fore not have a single new line or branch in progress. 1. P Fourth[whether G •
lines .y, , now that all the Guinea would, doubtless, afford them. Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - -3 house was a
she was sucking her breast, and yet without serious 4,'.
Les regards the lines now suspended, or not corn- lines are comleted, the board of directors cannot be Waterloo ............ - 100 0 0 -
Ditto Old Ann. ofBl. 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 27 Mannings, th
consequences following. He considered that the menced, the directors will repeat the assurance they Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - ao 0 0 24 had got rid of
reduced nodes
man in director
ag g appointed; and FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE condition necessary to the exhibition of cholera was a gave in November last, viz., ' that no further engage- Vauxhall •.... .. • AT. 11. 70 10 3 - 18 tion of the ft
lastly, what are the liabilities and engagements of the
predisposition to it; and the conditions necessary to ments in relation to those lines will be entered into until OF FRIDAY. critical; scam
f t l o DIVIDENDS. WATER- O ES
f th di o e large amount
l ? He complained the latter were starvation, and the foul or the electri- the matter shall have been again formally submitted to company
hhi were In the Country. Dividend Amount
had
that
shares been created, which
preferential tai state of the atmosphere. 'What was contagion ? the reconsideration of the proprietors, specially convened neiehbourhoo
Contagion arose from the exhalation of vapour from for that purpose, and until the whole of the shareholders understood to have been distributed amongst the di- J. Hinchliffe, Wakefield, carrier, Sept. 25, at eleven, Name of Company. per of
Annum. Share. Paid. Price. e'
appeared, to u
the person suffering from the disease itself •; and shall have an opportunity of recording their votes, and rectors and officials, and of the pass system, which at the Court, Leeds-J. Protheroe, jun., Bristol, iron . - _ _____ _ next door, "h
timber merchant, Sept.
a decided majority shall have determined in favour of enabled each director to claim a transferrable pass and.lB, at eleven, at the Court, £ a. d. £ s. d. a light burnini
others were affected by these exhalations according as Bristol-W. Rurgoyne Plymouth, builder, Sept. 12, at East London.... • • ...• 81. 100 0 0 - 177
the prosecution of the undertaking.' over the line. thing mysterh
they had a predisposition to receive them. What was „ •.,_
eleven, at the Court, Exeter---J. D. Blake, Honiton gent.
Grand Junction -..- 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 81
At the last meeting, the directors pledged them- The CHAIRMAN said it was proposed to close the31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 75 act was long
the nature of cholera ? What tissues of the body did selves to enforce the most rigid economy consistent with entire capital • •
account of the working plant in Febru- innkeeper, Sept. 13, at one, at the Court, Exeter-N. Lambeth••• 11- ••
••
••
- 5/.2r.efor. 100 0 0 - 99 July, Manning
it effect, and what organs ? It chiefly affected the the efficiency of the service. This -they have done, and a - • • - = . . Bishop, jun., Honiton, victualler, Sept. 20, at one, at the
ry next, providing for any extra outlay by obtaining Ne, Rivr Lai 11;dg-e - 55 the ironnsonge
nervous system ; it was a paralysis of the organic as the salaries and wages formed a large item in the ex- of
votes money from the from time • proprietors to time Court, Exeter-J. C. Brown, Taunton, draper, Sept. 20, vauxhan ............ 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 -
West Middlesex •. . 61.0 a pr cnt, - - 99
192 chase a crow
nerves. The stomach lost its secerning power, penditure, they were reluctantly compelled to reduce theat one, at the Court, Exeter-N. Baker and W. S. Ben-
as the were required.
and therefore it turned to exsudation ; and an scale of payment throughout the establishment, taking
Mr. they
G • • Sergeant ABELEE did not think that would eleven Newton Abbott, Devonshire, bankers, Sept. 12, at GAS-MIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. on the counter
analogous effect occurred in the case of the the larger proportionate amounts from the higher at the Court, Exeter - told him he h
digestive organs, and of the lungs acting on the blood. salaries. In determining upon these measures, the direc- be satisfactory. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. Name of Company. Divi
per
dend Amount
of Paid. Price. one ;he there
tors resolved to take no remuneration for their own ser- Sir JOHN EASTHOPE took the declaration of the J. D. Harper, Derby, woollendraper, 4s. 4d., on Sa- Annum. Share. possible, and t
In the state of collapse it was a paralysis of the or- _
vices durin the last six months. The directors are chairman to be virtually that the capital account of turday, Oct. 13, or any subsequent alternate Saturday - - he gave, at tht
genic
nerves. In that state many means had been x. d. X. 8. d.
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleston,
glad
to acknowledge the ready ae iescencewith the company
seu
employed. Sometimes strychnia with phosphorous, .Nottingham. Ditto Provincial-. 11. 83. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18 sent the MODE
which the reduction wasgenerally met, as well as the
in a solution of ether, were administered; sometimes fa.H. Cranston, Sunderland, Durham, confectioner, 5s Bristol .. ••-•• • • • • ••• 101. per cent. 20 0 0 _
- Manning at th,
faithful and zealous service rendered b ever officer • k b
Y. Y wor sto e provided for as I have stated.-(Cheers.) Brighton .. •... ••• • .. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 - 16
ammonia, but neither with much good effect. He • Saturday,Oct 13 or any following Saturday b "
on • , able to do wilt
and servant of the establishment, no less since than be- Mr. Sergeant GASELEE had misunderstood the„ -e e- City of London ...... 101. 1100 0 0 100 0 0 249
offic F Mr. w
had employed blood- letting before collapse, as recom- fore the reduction. statement of the chairman. What he had now stated
. tween ten and three, at the eO. ., aaley, New- ContinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share' 50 0 0 39 5 0 30 pearance of th,
mended by Dr. Stephens, and had found it exceed- " The shareholders are aware that a Bill was intro-castle-upon-Tyne. Equitable........ •• •. 50s, pr share' 50 0 0 50 0 0 26 that it had bee'
as perfectly satisfactory. T. Grey, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, schoolmaster, 3e. 9d., Imperial ••--•• • • .- 6/. percent, 50 0 0 50 0 0 606
ingly beneficial. Another plan recommended by Dr. duced by Lord Monteagle in the last session of Perlis- w ment of the I
Independent .......... 6/. percent. 40 0 0 40
0 0 62%
The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to answer Mr. Kay's on Saturday, Oct. 13, or any following Sat d bur ay, between
Stephens was flee administration of saline injections, ment, under the title of a Railway Audit Bill. L0nd0n•........... -. -50 .0 0 50 0 0 - stones, which a
ten and three,
questions. The directors received no remuneration at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-
in a room with the temperature at 90 degrees. This "The effect of this meausure would have been to im-- 50 0 0 50 0 - To show thi
With regard to the earnings of upon-Tyne.
from the new line.
..•• • •.... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 27Xarticular) h
P y t was a plan he had himself employed in 26 cases on VW, permanently on railway companies the expense andßatcliff ..... ...... _ 51. 'lOO 0 0 90 0 0 75
adults, from seventeen to sixty-five years of age, but inconvenience of a large Government staff of officials, the lines, they stood thus- J. 0. Hogg, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, accountant, Is. 2d
Southampton ... ... ... 41167,686 on Saturday, Oct. 13 or fll • e United General ....... 4361. pr cent. 50 0050 0 0 tete dinner in the I
o owing Saturday, be-
out of these 26 cases, he had only two recoveries. and to transfer that power, which the shareholders alone London toWestminster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0 - 45 over the spot v
He did not think that any one would be justified have a right to exercise, to a Government board, wantingand Windsor 28 878 tween ten and three, 'any
Richmond
. ... ... ... , _ ee, at the office of Mr. Wakley, New- Ditto, New •• •• -•- 12s. 50 0010 0 0 8% and when the i
Hampton Court (2 miles)... ... ~. 564 castle •ut on- Tyne. -
in the experience requisite for the successful conduct of
in attempting saline injection more than .- Monday, to inc
once, commercial transactions. The directors therefore felt Chertsey (21 miles) ... ... ... 291 NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. CANALS.
because the vessels of the brain and of the heart bound, with others, it,Bill Guildford (6 miles)
to oppose and the was with • .., ... ... 2,527 In the Country. ,e 1 - them in, bade t
.. . ,
tions with the
ruptured under its effect. The minimum quantity drawn in the House of Commons. At the Sam® time Gosport (16 miles) ... ... ... 9,900 W. Pardington, Elmstone, Hardwick, Gloucestershire Names of e. Dividend' Names of
, Price. r, Dividend;
deceased who
he ever injected was twenty pints in the course of they desire that the shareholders should have the fullest Portsmouth (9 miles) 4 900
~„
...
~, , coal merchant, Sept. 7, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-' Companies. •21 le- companies. A .ePoer . Price. .
tweetv-four hours. The Learned Doctor was about power of audit and examination; and it is proposed Salisbury (22 miles)vz Annum.
... ... ... 10,180 P. Chaloner, Clirow, Radnorshire, innkeeper, Sept. 24, -- - --- c ."-" slight tremor, t
- --- to be ill." She
hold a meeting of the representatives of •
to proceed, hut was reminded by the chairman that to . .
ifdifferent Dorchester (63 miles) ... . ... 23,200 at twelve, at the Court, Bristol-Archibald Dickson,is £ J ness about six
companies, to consider any further provisions are With regard to the shares Ashtn& Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield 100' 2/ 10
the meeting was one of members of the society.held bthe directors,of N blaP •
y - yet." Her coo
really necessary to secure this object.
Dr. J. P. 'MURPHY said that he had little doubt but old shares all paid up, they held to the extentof at eleven, at the Court, B' t 1
_ship
broker, Bristol-W. o -W. H. Suter, Liver- Itrknk&Abrg 150 mi. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. - guard; and alit
"In the meantime, in order to secure a thorough 576,0001., andofthe •Birmingham 35 41. z 83 Peak Forest. 78 31.185. - some foul play
thet the disease was contagious, in which he thought . . ff this th cl* .
examination o the accounts o ie company, e tree- ,
31,000/.-(Cheers.) - stock Pool,
Liverpool-J. Morgan, Liverpool, hotelkeeper, Sept. 11, Derby •
•• •.100 ~
. 100 26.1 • 2r3 ItteouindV;i ••• • 33 11. Os. 17N
„,, like the police
Le was borne out by the history of ite progress, „
tors beg to state, that knowing the laborious nature of After some further discussion, the motion for the at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool-F. Poynter, Penzance ensLesec•hs 133 56.; 41 somrseated.;.l 85 7/10 itir there was no cl
introduced fir into the seaports of England and
the duties of the auditors, when thoroughly performed, adoption of the report was put and carried, and the Cornwall, attorney, Sept. 18, at eleven, at the Court, Erewash - mei 32/: - 'Do.Lkahlt I
12
61:
p. toy. -
Almost imm
of Ireland, and thence ramifying in regular advance and the lecgth of time which had been devoted to the dividend was declared able 1 d
paya eon an ear y ay. Exeter-G. Millership, Oldbury, Worcestershire, draper, GrandJunctn 100;Stffrel&Worc 140 28/. 210 cab drove up t
Grand Surrey 100 21. 30% Shrewsbury..
Sept. 11, at twelve, at the Court Birmingham-J. Bent, 125 151. -
over the country. Indeed, all epidemics were conta- task on a former occasion by the present auditors, they Mr. CROKER then moved for the appointment of a jun Dudley, Worcestershire,'
~ grocer, Sept. 11, at twelve Grantham . 150 Severn,aud 7 putting her he
'2l. Os. -
gious ; endemics were not-cases confirmed him. A thought it right to offer to defray whatever expenses
committee to inquire into the whole circumstances at the Court, Birmingham-T. Winter, Basford, Not-: Kenut & AvL 39' 72: 6- d. -5% Wye Litil.s 26 quick; drive fa
w ,man came up from the country to see her has- the auditors might incur in obtaining the assistance of
relative to the
connexion of the company with the tinghamshire, builder, Sept. 21, at ten, at the Court, Lei
Leeds& Livrp 100 3.01. 325 Warwick&i
Leicester.... ...• 140 51. 63% Birming, j 100 41. 57% The police, i
band, who had died of cholera; she raised the coffin a professional accountant; they, however, preferred to
steam-boats ;but after some discussion, in which it Nottingham.
Cercstr &Nth 83 U. 45 WarwickBol „„ i on Mcinday nil
lid and saw him, she left, was seized and died in 20 perform themselves the task committed to them by theboatshdb
at the ease o ea been thl f thAt the Court of Review, Sept. 7. Lou4hborogh 142 701. 650 Napton., j luu' •'`' 4' obtain an entry
hours after. He thought it was all nonsense to say shareholders, and have accordingly done so, as their was explained
J. S. Rollinson, Argyll-street,Kin '• . , Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &
ofthe Act of
duly entered into under the authority
the air was affected in one district and not in an- repor t explains.E. Wood tga e, Green Mntgemrysh 100 - - Birming
Greenwich electro plate manufacturer 1 -•1 •• ' The maintenance of the working stock of the rail- Parliament, the motion WAS negasi y t'ved b about • kieltnMwbrylloo - - Wilts &Brks - 11. 10 picion; but al
other. He contended that instead of being a paralysis A. White Wi , orne Minster, Dorsetshire, saddler-
way to its full efficient value has attraetsd a degree of 10 to 1.
.I._ Oni.lpv_ nirlrenheßil 1,1,,..1.4..n ..:-......11- rr n_.:-
nf the nrcrun;r• nervaq the aI4POCIP nriorinnted in the_ _ _ _

Dr. HUNTER LANE said, having used every means,
on occasion of the outbreak of cholera, in 1832, at
Sunderland, to become acquainted with the disease,
and having extensive experience afterwards at Liver-
pool, he believed he could cite many cases that went
to show the disease was non-contagious, and many
that served to prove the reverse. He then mentioned
that at Liverpool a woman lay in the hospital in a
state of collapse, and a girl bent by the bedside, seem-
ingly occupied with the patient; he found out that
she was sucking her breast, and yet without serious
consequences following. He considered that the
condition necessary to the exhibition of cholera was a
predisposition to it; and the conditions necessary to
the latter were starvation, and the foul or the electri-
cal state of the atmosphere. What was contagion ?
Contagion arose from the exhalation of vapour from
the person suffering from the disease itself ; and
others were affected by these exhalations according as
they had a predisposition to receive them. What was
the nature of cholera ? What tissues of the body did
it effect, and what organs ? It chiefly affected the
nervous system ; it was a paralysis of the organic
nerves. The stomach lost its secerning power,
and therefore it turned to exsudation ; and an
analogous effect occurred in the case of the
digestive organs, and of the lungs acting on the blood.
In the state of collapse it was a paralysis of the or-
ganic nerves. In that state many means had been
employed. Sometimes strychnia with phosphorous,
in a solution of ether, were administered; sometimes
ammonia, but neither with much good effect. He
had employed blood- letting before collapse, as recom-
mended by Dr. Stephens, and had found it exceed-
ingly beneficial. Another plan recommended by Dr.
Stephens was She administration of saline injections,
in a room with the temperature at 90 degrees. This
was a plan he had himself employed in 26 cases on
adults, from seventeen to sixty-five years of age, but
out of these 26 cases, he had only two recoveries.
Ile did not think that any one would be justified
in attempting saline injection more than once,
because the vessels of the brain and of the heart
ruptured under 'its effect. The minimum quantity
he ever injected was twenty pints in the course of
twenty-four hours. The Learned Doctor was about
to proceed, but was reminded by the chairman that
the meeting was one of members of the society.
Dr. J. P. MURPHY said that he had little doubt but
that the disease was contagious, in which he thought
Le was borne out by the history of its progress,
introduced first into the seaports of England and
of Ireland, and thence ramifying in regular advance
over the country. Indeed, all epidemics were conta-
gious ; endemics were not—cases confirmed him. A
w ,man came up from the country to see her hus-
band, who had died of cholera; she raised the coffin
lid and saw him, she left, was seized and died in 20
hours after. He thought it was all nonsense to say
the air was affected in one district and not in an-
other. He contended that instead of being a paralysis
of the organic nerves, the disease originated in the
mucous membrane. All epidemics did so ; measles,
small-pox, Egyptian ophthalmia, and others. Blood-
letting could not be other than injurious in a disease
which separated the serum, and left a coagulated
crassamentum, which the heart could not propel
through the veins.
Dr. BARLOW, of Guy's, was convinced the disease
was contagious, from single cases he had himself
known, and from the fact of its passing regularly
along a street into which it was once introduced.
Dr. REES, of Guy's, after naming a number of
agents he had employed in treating the disease,
stated it as his decided opinion that it was contagious,
and that the young medical gentlemen who had
courageously continued to act in Bermondsey-work-
house, notwithstanding the scenes which surrounded
them, had earned for themselves great glory.
Mr. Evvss mentioned a number of cases which
appeared to him to corroborate the same opinion.
Dr. CRISP, after naming a number of means he had
used as a remedy, concluded by strongly recommend-
ing Dr. Eyre's (of Hull) prescription, as it appeared
other day in the Lancet, which principally con-
sisted f
d the administration of small doses of calomel
and the tincture of opium, administered every ten
minutes.

Mr. DENBY thought it had been decided in 1832
that the disease was non-contagious. He contended
that diariqhm I and cholera essentially distinct,
ar.l al:houzh the one might end, theh ether, it was a
essential a pr ()m
connectedul g ao n
gri-at mistake in tho press evei:'‘ltno
the opinion that there was any
b twat'!" them.
Several other gentlemen spoke afterwards of
dif-
ferent methods oftreatment, but Messrs. Gaz2lee and
Waterworth, who closed the debate remarked that
almosi every one recommended a different mode of
treatment, tending alto4ether to show that they yet
knew very little about the disease.
It was then moved and carried that the discussion
be adjourned to that night fortnight.
After a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting
broke up.

'the additional amount, therefore, entitled to
dividend this half-year is ... ... £2,814,033
" The shareholders have always been aware that,
from the terms under which they have, from time to
time, resolved to make their several issues of capital,
this large addition to the amount entitled to a dividend
would arise at this time. It has already been shown
that there is an increase of 37,2511. in the net revenue
of the present half-year, as compared with the corre-
sponding six months of 1848; and, consequently, it is to
the increase of capital now entitled to dividend, that
the diminution of the rate of dividend is to be attributed,
and not to any falling off of revenue or increase of ex-
pense.
" This capital, it will be remembered, consists, firstly,
of new 501. and 401. shares (created under resolutions
passed by the proprietors on the 7th of December, 1844)
on which, and the tenths (created under resolutions of
the proprietors, passed 29th August, 1846), the first
dividend, payable from revenue, was to be calculated
from the Ist day of January (or July) next after the
opening of the Waterloo Extension, that is, on the Ist
January, 1849; and, secondly, of such amounts as have
been called upon the Thirds (1847), (created under reso-
lutions of the proprietors of 17th November, 1846), on
30th December, 1848, and 30th March, 1849.
" To avoid misapprehension, it is right to remark
that the item of 52,1631. 13s. for interest, in the capital
expenditure of the past half-year, includes the payment
of interest on the new 501. and 401. shares of 1845, and
the Tenths, to December 31st, 1848, such payment
being, by the terms of the creation of the shares, to be
borne by capital until the shares came in for dividend.
Capital thus bears no portion of the burden of interest
which is chargeable on the revenue of the past half-
year; while the revenue is charged with the interest on
a large unproductive expenditure.
" The directors therefore have satisfaction in being
able to refer to the report of the auditors, showing that
the capital account has not been burdened to augment
the amount applicable to dividend—a point which has re-
cently excited a more than ordinary degree of anxiety
among railway proprietors.
"The branches from Guildford to Godalming and
Farnham, and the loop line to Hounslow, will be opened
for traffic during the present month.
" The company will, after this present month, there-
fore, not have a single new line or branch in progress.
"As regards the lines now suspended, or not com-
menced, the directors will repeat the assurance they
gave in November last, viz., 'that no further engage-
ments in relation to those lines will be entered into until
the matter shall have been again formally submitted to
the reconsideration of the proprietors, specially convened
for that purpose, and until the whole of the shareholders
shall have an opportunity of recording their votes, and
a decided majority shall have determined in favour of
the prosecution of the undertaking.'
" At the last meeting, the directors pledged them-
selves to enforce the most rigid economy consistent with
the efficiency of the service. This they have done, and
as the salaries and wages formed a large item in the ex-
penditure, they were reluctantly compelled to reduce the
scale of payment throughout the establishment, taking
the larger proportionate amounts from the higher
salaries. In determining upon these measures, the direc-
tors resolved to take no remuneration for their own ser-
vices during the last six months. The directors are
glad to acknowledge the ready acquiescence with
which the reduction was generally met, as well as the
faithful and zealous service rendered by every officer
and servant of the establishment, no less since than be-
fore the reduction.
" The shareholders are aware that a Bill was intro-
duced by Lord Monteagle in the last session of Parlia-
ment, under the title of a Railway Audit Bill.
"The effect of this meausure would have been to im-
pose permanently on railway companies the expense and
inconvenience of a large Government staff of officials,
and to transfer that power, which the shareholders alone
have a right to exercise, to a Government board, wanting
in the experience requisite for the successful conduct of
commercial transactions. The directors therefore felt
bound, with others, to oppose it, and the Bill was with •
drawn in the House of Commons. At the same time
they desire that the shareholders should have the fullest
power of audit and examination; and it is proposed
to hold a meeting of the representatives of different
companies, to consider if any further provisions are
really necessary to secure this object.
"In the meantime, in order to secure a thorough
examination of the accounts of this company, the direc-
tors beg to state, that knowing the laborious nature of
the duties of the auditors, when thoroughly performed,
and the length of time which had been devoted to the
task on a former occasion by the present auditors, they
thought it right to offer to defray whatever expenses
the auditors might incur in obtaining the assistance of
a professional accountant; they, however, preferred to
perform themselves the task committed to them by the
shareholders, and have accordingly done so, as their
report explains.
" The maintenance of the working stock of tho rail-
way to its full efficient value has attractA a degree of
attention proportioned to the importance of the subject.
It has been the practice of this company, from the open-.
ing of the line, to keep up, at the expense of revenue, the
engines, carriages, &c., either by replacing those worn
out by an entirely new article, or, as the case might de-
mand, by the renewal of those parts requiring it. New
engines, carriages, and waggons have thus been added
from time to time to the original stock at the expense of
revenue, and this principle will continue to be strictly
carried out in future.
" The maintenance of the rails and permanent road is
a subject of not less importance.
" In respect to the wooden sleepers, as symptoms of
decay appear, they have been, and will continue to be,
replaced by new sleepers, at the cost of revenue. The
rails are, generally, in excellent order.
" It is to be remarked, that the present contract prices
for the maintenance of the permanent way are high.
This arises from these contracts having been the first en-
tered into after the opening of the respective lines, when
the works were untried, and in some cases not thoroughly
completed; a very large reduction under this head will
consequently be effected at the termination of the year
1850, when the present contracts expire. When this
period arrives, therefore, and the revenue is relieved
from the additional expense uncler this head peculiar to
the first years of a railway, it will be proper to consider
what provision should be made for the expense of ex-
changing the old rails for new as the necessity shall
arise for doing so.
T applications
sanctioned a
tthe
a
to
latmeeting, Parliament, w
werehicli
the
successively
proprie-
tors he
prosecuted. Under the amended Actiof the last session,
the proprietors are authorised to alter the half-yearly
periods at which the accounts of the company have
hitherto been made up; and thus a more equal division
of the half-yearly earnings and dividends of the company
may, when the proprietors see fit, be effected. An Ina
portant alteration has also been made in the right of
voting by proprietors at general meetings, and a fuller
rc presentation has been given to those whose holdings
votingar sTn ahaeol
fl
directors
once
cce ommamount,ocpraaenn lay
to ho,
Company's
Clausestchtoh:e
cp lraued dsoeepnt
ttiohs adoption
sa Consolidationtorefe potofhret
the scaleAw ci
ttcom-
pany's oomuo
-tf
adverting
Theanticipated, dividend
afnodr
the pany's financial position.
Pa s t i
directors,al r'e
commonin is less than
had
proprietors generally, feel sensibly the they
di with the
disappointment
tntme ncti
arising from this cause ; but it must be b
that the company-has virtually no outstanding liabilities,
nor any, obligations to other companies or parties beyond'le
its own control ; all the new lines in progress of con•

Mr. BAKER brought forward a resolutinn for alter-
ing the constitution of the board of directors, whip
gave rise to some conversation, in which it was urged
that as the affairs of the company must undergo in-
vestigation by the shareholders, at no distant period,
either by means of the movement set on foot by the
Manchester shareholders, or some other section of
them, it was arranged that no alteration should take
place in the management until the whole subject
could be brought under the consideration of the pro-
prietors at a meeting convened for the purpose.
A resolution to increase the allowance of the audi-
tors from 201. to 1001. per annum was postponed for
the same reason.

Cordial votes of thanks having been given to the
Chairman and auditors, the meeting separated, having
sat upwards of four hours.

J. S. Rollinson, Argyll-street, King's- cross, cowkeeper
E. Woodgste, Greenwich, electro plate manufacturer
-A. White, Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, saddler—
J. Quigley, Birkenhead, Cheshire, victualler—C. Oswin,
Harley-street, Cavendish-square, dentist—T. Plumley,
jun., Brist)l, grocer—T. Hughes, Liverpool, woollen
draper—J. Bonifas, jun., Dorchester, woollendraper—
I. P. Cartwright, Nantwich, Cheshire, chemist.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
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Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share..
•-------• - --
A s. d. A 1. d.
Australasia •• - •• • • •• 3/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
BritsliNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ceylon •• •... •• • • • • • • 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Cammercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial.. .... ..... .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire .. • • • • 115/per cent. - - -
lonian • . • • •• .. • • •• • • i 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Lowin and Westminstr ' 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Ditto
- - 13 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock ••• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 16%
Provincial of Ireland - 181. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 40
Ditto, New.- • • . • • • B/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland .. ; 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 1 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 --
Ditto, New. . . • • • • • 151. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia • ..• .. 5/. per cent. - 22 10 0 -
Union of Australia-. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto •• ...... • • • • •• 6/. per cent. - 2 10 0 -
Union of London... •• GI. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 10%
Union of Madrid ..... - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
A N. d. A s. d.
Albion •• •• •• •• • • •• • • 3/. 10e. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s 6d & bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 -
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Atlas • •• •• -
British Commercial - 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 5 pr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19
Caunty ...... - •• •• • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 60
Crown - 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle . •
Eng.& Scot. Law •• •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 12 6 -
European Life • • • • • • 4% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15
Family Endowmet Soc. 4/. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 -
Freemasons' .• • • • • • • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 -
G 1 ,Le - 122x.d
G iardi am .... - • • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49%
linperial Fire •• • • • • - 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220
imperial Life • • • • • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15
Indemnity Marine • • • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 13 1 -
Law lire .......• •• •• - 100 0 0 2 10 0 2%
LAW Life ...........• 11.165. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 4%
liridon Fire •• •• •• •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 161,
London Ship . . • • •• •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16%
limine.. ........... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 9yi,
&led. Invlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 23,
National Lean Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 -
ti stional Life -
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2109.
Pelican - •• • • - •• - - - - - -
l'acenix - - 141
Pt °teeter Life........ 54. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
Prc,vident Life..... • •• 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
Uock Life............ ss. 5 0 0 0 10 0 5%
Ltoyal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. - 200
San Fire ....... .. • • - - 203
Ditto Life - - 44
Universal Life.....• -
Victoria Life • . - 4 0 0 4%
DOCIEB.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
------ -- -
A e. d. A e. d.
East and West India... 6/. pr cent. Stock. - 134
East Country - 21
London • • - 115
Ditto Bonds.. ••• • .. 41. per cent. - - -
St. Katharine .... • • •• 4 per cent. Stock. - 80
Ditto, Scrip ....... . - - - -
Ditto 80nd5........ 4%1. pr cent. - - -
Southampton • • .. - - 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Mining Journal.)
The amount of business which has been done lately,
and the expected advance in copper and tin, have given
a tone of firmness to the mining share market. Public
confidence appears to be gaining, and it only requires a
stability in our metal market to arrive at business both
safe and permanent. The constant inquiry for divi-
dend and leading mines is strong evidence that the mining
interest is not likely to be so disregarded as it has hitherto
been.

J. Jones and J. Clark,Astondantlow, Warwickshire,
papermakers—Elizabeth Dean and J. J. Dean, Man-
chester, oammon brewers—D. Palmer and P. Hall,
Taunton mews West, Dorset-square, Marylebone,
coachmakers—J. Hopkins, sen., J. Hopkins, jun., and J.
Peggs, Shoreditch, linendrapers (as far as regards J.
Peggs)—R. Renshaw and D. Edwards, Newport, Shrop-
shire, drapers—J. Rylands, T. G. Rylands, and P. Ry-
lands, Warrington, Lancashire, wire manufacturers (as
far as regards J. Rylands)—W. Jackson, S. C. Hall, E.
G. Salisbury, and G. Virtue, Pall-mall, proprietors and
publishers of the Art Journal and Vernon Gallery (as
far as regards W. Jackson)—G. Parko and R. Parke,
Whitby, Yorkshire, woollendrapers and sbarebrokers—
E. Yarde and J. A. Edwards, Crediton, Devonshire,
surgeons—J. Parker, J. Knowles, R. Brook, W. Gibbins,
and G. Green, Plymouth, contractors—J. W. William-
son and 0. D. Hedley, Durham, owners of Burnhope
Colliery—H. Unwin, W. Unwin, and S. Kirk, Sheffield,
coal miners (as far as regards S. Kirk)—G. Cornford
and S. T. Plummer, Mark-lane, Tower-street, ale and
stout merchants—W. Hale and T. Richbell, Woolwich
.and Plumstead- marsh, manufacturers of rockets—W.
Hardy and W. Robinson, Leeds, pot manufacturers—H.
A. Wildes, H. D. Wildes, and F. Smith, Maidstone,
Kent, solicitors (as far as regards F. Smith)—J. Ste-
vens, C. F. Ellerman, and H. S. Coleman, City of
London Portable Manure Company (as far as regards
C. F. Bierman) —J. Lodge, J. Gunson, and P. B. Bell,
Lancaster and Preston, cabinetmakers—S. Greenwell,
W. Cook, J. Gladstone, and T. Richardson, Castle Enen
Colliery, Durham (as far as regards S. Greenwell.)
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Enoch Percival, Kingston upon-Hull, hatter.
John Havereroft, King4ton-upon-Hull, sawyer.
Elijah Haller, ICingston-upon Hull, currier.
George Eyre, Kingston-upon-Hull, mariner.
John Walker, Kingston-upon-Hull, basketmaker.
Henry Critchett, Stone, staffordshire, currier.
William King, Dover, labourer.
John CreffiAd, Slough, Buckinghamshire, coachmaker.
John Vickers, Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire,
blacksmith.
James Clark, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, blacksmith.
William Townsend, jun., Cirencester, Gloucestershire,
butcher.

His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, Minister
Plenipotentiary for Belgium, and the Countess of Van-
denberg, arrived on Saturday at St. Katherine's-wharf
by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship
Triton from Ostend.

In Tincroft there has been some considerable business
done .since our last, the reports from the mine more than
confirming the discoveries referred to in last week's
notice. Treleigh, Trelawny. Bedford, and East and
South Tamar, have bean in request, and business
done. In the latter, a large number of shares have
changed hands at an advance. Inquiries are
also being made for East Wheal Rose, North Pool,
South Basset, South Francis, and West Caradon.
In Kingsett and Bedford some considerable improve-
ments are said to have been reported, and shares have
found buyers. A requisition. for convening a special
general meeting has been signed by several adventurers.
North Roskear, Comfort, Treviskey and Barrier, and
West Caradon,
are among the mines lately represented
as improved.
Shares in the following mines have changed hands
since our last, viz.; East Wheel Rose, Devon Great
Consols, Trelawny, Treviskey and Barrier, South Basset,
Tincroft, Bedford United, Mary Ann, Treleigh, South
Tamar, Tregorden, East Tamar, Tamar Consols, Esgair

raT OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. s. d
Bank of Scotland ••••• 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 177
British Linen Comps:ly 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 204
Caledonian Bank • • 8 per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 3/. IS,
City of Glasgow Bara 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank •.• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank •-• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 163
Eastern Bank .• •• •• - • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91. 7s
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 5 0 0 5%
Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 25%
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank •• 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Northof Scotland Bank 4/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.5 s
North British Bank .•
Royal Bank of Scotia:lid 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 129%
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 84
Western Bank.... • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70%
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 6 2
B. Accord. Life and Fire 20 0 0 0 10 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 9s 6d
Caledonian Fire Ilium. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2
City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 75
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18%
East of Scotland Life.. 10 0 0 0 15 0 95.0 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life Si. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
llercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Scotlnd- Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 11. 63
Mercantile Life -4/. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 ,3s. 6d.
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 '2os.6d
North British Incur... 5%1.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 23
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 '193.6d
Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 0 11 0 -
3cot.Mas. and Gen. Life 0 0 015 0 I -3cottish Union Inarnce. 6%!. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s
itan lard Life •. • ... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 944
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 I 0 0 14s 6ct
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X. a. d. X. s. d.
Australian Agricultnrl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0
Ditto, Half Shares.. 210 0 -
Canada ... ••.• • . GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 -
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per_cent. 89
City Navigation ....
90
Comp .Cppr Mnrs Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& b 5,21100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 51, pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 104
Gon.SteamNavigation 11.89. 15 0 0i 14 0 0 -
London Institution .... 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... 26 5 0 3
Penlnslr& Orient.S tm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 5O 0 0 70%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 -
South Australian • 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16
Van Diemen's La2pd,s 100 0 0 23 0 0 1%
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renry Noble, Kingston-upon-Hull, retailer of beer.