The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-01 00:00:00

ENFIELD AND EDMONTON RAIL

WAY.
The first general half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of
this line was held on Saturday, at the London Tavern ;
Captain Owen in the chair.
The directors presented a report and submitted the ac-
counts to the meeting, by which it appeared that a balance
of 7511. 6s. 4d. remained in the hands of the treasurer.
Ground has been purchased at Enfield for the erection of a
station, and terms have been come to with the Northern and
Eastern Counties Company for a junction with their line. A
contract has also been entered into with Mr. H. Earle for the
construction of the works for 20,5001., the line to be com-
pleted within five months after possession of the land has
been obtained.
The report on the motion of Captain BOSANQUIT, seconded
by Dr. ASTLEY HOLT, was unanimously adopted.
Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting was
dissolved.

DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM CIiIAYTOR, BART.—We
deeply regret to record the death of Sir William Chaytor,
Bart., which took place on Thursday last, at his residence,
Clervaux Castle, near Darlington. The deceased Baronet
was highly respected, and his loss will be severely felt and
deeply lamented. In " Dodd's Peerage, Baronetage, and
Knightage of Great Britain," we find the following :—" Sir
William Chaytor, first Baronet, created 1831, son of William
Chaytor, Esq., by his marriage with Miss Jane Lee. Born
1771. Married, 1803, the youngest daughter and co-heir of
John Carter, Esq., of Tunstall and Richmond, Yorkshire."
The late Sir William Chaytor was Lieut.-Colonel Com-
mandant of the Yorkshire Militia (North Riding), and a
deputy lieutenant of the county of Durham. He repre-
sented Sunderland in Parliament, in 1833 and 1834, but has
latterly retired into private life. The deceased was in the
76th year of his age, and is succeeded in his title and estates
by his son, William Richard Chaytor, who was born in 1805,
and married, in 1836, a daughter of Mr. Lacy, of Easingwold,
but she died in 1837. The present Baronet represented the
citz_of Durham from 1831 to 1834.—York Herald.
DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR EDWARD GIBBS,
K.C.8., LATE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. OF JERSEY.—This
distinguished officer, whose terms of service as Lieutenant-
Governor of Jersey ceased a fortnight since, expired on the
24th ult., at the: residence of one of his friends in that
island, in the seventieth year of his age, though for some
time suffering from an attack of gout. Sir Edward was
carried off somewhat suddenly. Having given up possession
of the Governor's house he proceeded on a visit to a friend in
the interior of tile island, and while there sustained an attack
of paralysis, Which baffled all medical aid, and terminated
fatally on the above-mentioned day. A few days before the
melancholy event, the gallant officer received the most flat-
tering testimonials of approbation from her Majesty through
Sir George Grey, and addresses were presented to him from
all classes of the inhabitants, comprising English, French, and
native, congratulating him on the successful termination of
his eight years' service as Lieutenant-Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief, and complimenting him on the impartial
manner in which he had ever discharged his duties. Sir
Edward Gibbs entered the army in 1798, and his other coin-
missions are thus dated : lieutenant, November 28,.1799 ;
captain, Februa7 24, 1803; major, February 4, 1808 ,
major-general, January
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ber 9, 1846. Sir Edward was the son of Samuel Gibbs,
Esq., of Housley Park, Essex, by the daughter of Admiral
Sir William Rowley, and was brother to the late Sir Samuel
Gibbs, who fell at New Orleans in 1815.
SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS FREAD,
R.N.—We regret to record the death of Captain F. Fread,
R.N., which took place at his residence, Nightingale Vale,
Woolwich, yesterday (Sunday). The deceased officer, who
was of a full habit of body, was seated at breakfast with his
family, when he was suddenly seized with a fit of apoplexy,
and expired before medical assistance could be procured.
Captain Freed was a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Kent, and was one of those officers who accepted the retire-
ment a few weeks since. He was brother_ of Colonel Fread,
late of the Grenadier Guards. He has left a large family to
mourn his sudden decease, and a general feeling of regret has
been felt in Woolwich, where as
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sent week, but there was not much grain to release. The ex-
ports from Gloucester to Ireland are now very considerable;
and the purchases of grain here for that destination—some
say on behalf of Government—daily become larger.—Glou-
cestershire Chronick,