The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

The CHAIRMAN said that the Hon. Proprietor seemed
.not-to understand the nature of the Bid ; the.Battle-
bride referred to was a Battle-bridge in Essex, and not
at Pentonville. •
Mr KENT said that he ctid not believe this line could
ever. pay. He deprecated the attempts o' companies to.
make so Many .branch lit.es—they were always injurious
to the main trunk line.
The CHAIRMAN—If the Hon. Proprietor will look at.
the map, he will sce that the proposed line is-one which
is ro.dr.law n-itierable share of traffic.
Mr. KENT did not nods rstand fiivares, it was no use
tt L4l,
The CII AIRMAN beggA to tiy* that he slid tudicrstand
them, and had ci,nstdmil the subject at. considerable o
1 tg h. If th• i'ronri• t, r would mkt, it upon' hist
reconimeo la: ion, x-oidd rind
yial he yfell. not not.cithcr 16r nis own inter,sts, or the int#rATs ot
the company.
l'he,r-solution appro‘ kg 4.f the 13;11 'ts..s tl-An putond
unanimously i.gr,
CHAIRMAN said that thi n,:st 8.11 he had to
subtnit to the. meeting wits the "Staiuns Eularg-ment
and Amendm• tit of Act, Bill."
air. Tract: wishiql 10 know whether the clauses he
object, dto at the la-A meeting had been expunged from
the Bill?. .

WORCESTER, HEREFORD, ROSS,
AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.
A general meeting of the scripholders in this corn
pany was held yest rday, at the Company's offices, 449,
West Strand, Sir R. Price, Bart., President of the Com-
pany, in the chair.
to-
gether'b The CHAIRMAN
the AIRb I
considerationAN said thatof a mutter they
mhaudhr ieebnat
round to be very simple, and would occupy but a v, ry
short time. i hey were all aware that at the la=,t., meet-
ing complaints were made of the large amount of tlie
solicitor.' hills, and it was then agreed upon thlt they
:-hould be taxed. auwever, the (lir• ctors disc(:verLd
that such a proceeding would be at.ended with a gr• at
dial of delay and expense, which they were most a•.xious
to avoid, and had therefore come to the de term.nition
of endeavouring to make an arrangement with the soli
citors. With a view to the accomplishment of that
otject, his friend, Mr. BA, r, with a great deal of trouble
and loss of time, went into an exatnination of the items
of these and the result was that they had resolved
to deduct a considerable sum from the gross amount of
hose bills. It would now b 4 for the proprietors to s.:y
whether or no they would sanction that arrangement, or
still per,ever e i t their original determination of having
these bibs taxed by the taxing-master. As he hail said
before, the latter proceeding would be ltmg, tedious, and
expensive, and the chances were that they might effect
no saving at all. The amount they had agreed
upon to deduct from the bills was 4;0001., which would
now leave the claims at the sum of 10,143/. Bs. 10d., and
the shareholders should be satisfied with that arrange-
ment. 11.e•begged to propose a resolution to that effect.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to some questions from the
shareholder, said it was true that there were other Bills,
but that that meeting had nut been called for any pur-
pose other than that which he had stated, and he would
not be drawn into any other statement,
Several Shareholders having insisted on knowing what
the other Bills were,
Mr. BAKER (a director).- said Otatk these could be no
injOAhm. his uttlang- *lll4,SheY were. -Thry 1.66'0(4
that the solicitors bil a 'we're so heavy Ars that
they hart been compelled to employ six of
them. Then, with regard to the engineers'
claims, that of Mr. Brunel was very small indeed;
but,with respect to the bill of their local engineer, Mr.
Foljamb, he had to state that he was their local en-
gineer at Gloucester, and it was through . his mistake
that the Bill had been lost on the standing orders. In
consequence of that, they had taken from his bill
4681. 83. Id., leaving bim, in fact, very little more than
his costs out of pocket; and the whole amount of all their
engineering expenses did not exceed 6,5001. If, then, the
shareholders were willing to accede to these arrangements,
the directors would be i., a position to declare a dividend
of 45., which would still leave about 5001. in hand, which
would be quite sufficient to meet the small outstanding
bills.
After some discussion, the meeting unanimously
agreed to the recommendation of the directors, and then
separated.

The CHAIRMAN that afier mewl.° consideration,
the dirt curs had come to t he (6 tertuntati,,u to allow the
clauses to remain, and it tit, ( on mission( rs thoukht it
desirable to expunge th, m, the directors would not.ob-
ject.to doing so.
Mr. PRICE objected on principle to the clauses; he did
not wish to see a railway company mixed up with the
affairs of a steam-packet company. There were a num-
ber of minutiae connected with a steam-pat.k, t company,
which a -railway beard could not control; and a steam-
packet company in connexion with a. railway company
would he certain to prove an entire failure.
A SHAREHOLDER s..id that the Southampton Com-
pany had made it answer very well.
Mr. PRICE said, that in that case the Scuthampton
Railway Company had only made an advance of money
on the security of the boatS.
The CHAIRMAN—That was,-:all the company pro-
posed to do iu the present case. The directors saw that
it would be of no use having a railway to Harwich, un-
less a steam packet coinpiny was in connexion with
that port, such a packet company as should make the
port one worthy of the great traffic which would arise
between that port and the Continent.
Mr. PRICE objected to the clause as it then stood, as
it did not state that the money was to be advanced on
the security of the boats of the company.
Mr. DuNcart said that he thought the most convenient
course would be to allow the clause to pass as it stood.
It would be idle to suppose that the directors would ad-
vance the money unless upon sufficient security.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, and Mr.
Price declining to move any amendments, the original
resolution was agreed to, there being only one hand
(that of Mr. Price) held up against it.
The other Bills (ten in number) were then put seri-
atim, and unanimously agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN said that he wished to make an im-
portant statement to the meeting, and-one which, con-
sidering the great 'attention the subject was re-
ceiving at the • hands of the Railway Com-
missioners and of the Government, he wished to
go forth to the body of the shareholders. The
share capital of the company for the new lines was
2,700,0001., with power to borrow 555,0001. They had
the power of raising under Bills already sanctioned
1,665,000/., and there was yet a call of 10/. remaining
upon the York extensions, which would give a capital of
1.850,000 L, from these two sources a capital of 3,515,000/.
The whole of the capital required foe the new lines was
only 2,700,000/. ; the company had, therefore, a surplus
capital of upwards of 800,0001. to meet any contin-
eencies which might arise. There was also another
subject to which he would just allude. Numerous
letters had been rt,ceivei from the heads of colleges at
Cambridge, expressing their opinion of the general
arrangements of the line, and particularly referring, in
the most flattering manner, to.the arrangements of the
company at the time of the recent election of the Chan-
' cellor of the University.
' A vote of thalls.wgs then proposed to the Chairman,
and the meeting broke up.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of the shareholders of this
compel was p et r ,ay held, at the Bishopsgate Station
of the company, fur the purpose of confirming an agree-
ment for the least-, by the above-named company, of the
East Anglian Railways, and for the purchase of the
Enfield and Edmonton Railway ; at which special meet-
ing the Bill for caarying the first mentioned agreement
into effect, end the other Bills promoted by the Eastern
Counties Railway Company in the present session, were,
in pursuance of the standing orders el the House of
Lords, submitted to the shareholders for their approval.
The chair was taken at one o'clock by D. Wadding
ton, Esq., the deputy-chairman of the company.
C. I'. RoNEY, Esq., the secretary to tee company,
having read the notice convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said that he regretted the absenceein
common with the' other proprietors, of their respected
Chairman, who was at present staying on the
Continent, but who did not think that it would be
necessary for him to_ post from France in order
to attend this meeting, thinking that the propositions to
be submitted to the meeting would be unanimously
agreed to. The object of the present meeting was to
approve of the agreement entered into with the directors
of the Eastern Counties Railway with that system of
rai iway called the East Anglian system, including the
Lynn and Ely Railway, the Lynn and Dereham Railway,
sod the Ely and'Huntingdon Railway. The Lynn and
Ely Railway was about 26 wiles in length, and there was
also a branch to Wisbech, about 10 miles in length.
The Lynn and Dereharn Railway was about 261 miles in
length. Of the Ely and Huntingdon Railway' there was
only five miles at present under contract, upon that
portion of the line between St. Ives and Huntingdon,
and as the directors did not propose to call
Upon the East Anglian directors to promote that
portion of the line between St. Ives and -Hunt-
ingdon, the whole extent of mileage included
in the East Anglian system would be about 67 miles ;
and it was this extent of proposed mileage that the
directors sought to obtain the sanction for at the present
meeting. The amount of capital upon which it was pro-
posed to guarantee a per ventage by the Eastern Coun-
ties Company was 884,000/., the amount of borrewed
capital would be 170,0001., making a total of 1,054,000/.
Upon this amount of capital the directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway proposed to pay for the first year
after the railways were completed 5 per cent., and
liter the first year 6 per cent. in perpetuity. The Ly nn
n oil,'
suz
111 ENTRANCEgr A
and Ely
.Railway, when constructed, would complete the
, raeNonosCtr,eter Ees.—At half- past twelve yes-
communtcation between London and Lynn. The Port
of Lynn was the port from which the town of Cam- terday morning thisN establishment of quadruped and
bridge and other places in that district derived their biped performers, the most extensive atnemblage that ever
supply of coals. The Lynn and Dereham Railway was paraded the metropolis, made a tou of
a line which would open up a large agricultural traffic and the 'fineness of the morning a. tracted a pvraisntelasspale assemblage
of persons in the neighbourhood of the New-road and Eu-ee
between Lynn and the interior of the county of
Norfolk, and also a considerable local traffic. ton-square terminus, that being the commencement of the
The St Ives and Huntingdon Railway was announced route. In the interior of the Terminus,
thei preparations foe caparisoning the Burmese ele
a natural communication from the Wisbech and St.
Ives Railway, and the ,Cambridge and Huntingdon Pea)ralintin' the morning, and the numerous stud, commenced
and to a stranger the scene resembled
Railway, but thecompanyhavingreceived powers only to an Asiatic cortege
ando a military character, so various were
make the line from Cambridge to St. Ives, they its hues, costumes,tahppendages. Afew minutes after the
wished therefore to obtain power to run on at once from time named as above, the gates of the station were thrown
St. Ives to Huntingdon. The importance of so doing open by the police,
aaectish-elly
.employed in
would be at once evident from the fact that the Midland keeping back the crowd which hinaedst
the procession issued in the followin asordmer, eat
einra
pfrave,danhdr
Railway Company had proposed to construct a line from
the cheers of the multitude :—No. The leader on horse-
Leicester, by Kettering in Northamptonshire, to Hunt-
back, the horse richly caparisoned in blue and gold, with
ingdon. It would not, of course, be necessary to enter
which yellow. and scarlet trimmings. 2. The magnificent dragon
at that moment into the details of the traffic
carriage, drawn by four camels, with burnished gold oma-
night be expected to flow from this source en to the Tents, and _ the panels painted with appropriate de-
main line of the Eastern Counties Railway. The
directors of the Midland Company conceived that it high.ce, Tnhichtliswitwh erecuptedstatnhdes
band,
feet
twistolve. in
would be of advantage to them, and the directors number, playing an Eastern. march. and The housings
of the Eastern Counties believed also that and trappings were in Egyptian, in keeping
it would tend to increase the prosperity the carriage, which was driven by 'Mr. Wyld, the ma-
of their line. With respect to the whole nager. 3. Two-richly-ornamented travelling carriages, each
system of the East Anglian Railways, he believed that drawn by two camels similarly harnessed, the drivers in
costume. 4. Four large vans, termed dressing-room car-
the only way to work them to advantage to the propels-
attired;
sthin full Eastern
riages, drawn by two horses each. 5. The grand Burmese
tors, wouli be for them to allow the system to come
under a united management will the Eastern Counties
costume, elephant
th carriage,e driver withheing theaim i
ltawr
lo ,
Hughes's private
was
Railway, and it was Lis firm opinion, shared also by his one mass of Oriental splendour.3 6. Mr 'Huge
colleague , that they were running no risk whatever in carriage, in which were Mrs. Hughes and family. 7. Eight
ged, and ele-
calling upon the meeting to sanction the agreement horsemen, single file, the animals in new and rich housings.
which they had entered into with the directors of tee 8. Eight ladies on horseback, similarly arran
gngle file. 10. Mr. Hughes, the
East Anglian Railways. There was one contingency in gantl)h-orastetsireedadin, riindinsi habits. 9. Ten lugeage vatilk
the agreement which he had no doubt the meeting would r"
Webb,parie carriage, drawn
wish might come into operation, viz., that in the rerorrieatfr r, in
..danatilau culrlricl2.
laand pair, built in the
event of the Eastern Counties Company paying bsr:f'our horses, and Nautilus. 11.
by Mirge
acsaytalr.
the curator. 12.
mere than eight per cent, then the Lynn and Ely, tight Burmese ponies with e .riate trappings of blue and
with a present minimum dividend of six per cent., gold, led by grooms. Lasit.l ale ca.mebi
, former ones, a;.d led by four attendants, made upttehds
should rank with Eastern Counties shares
though always to receive two per cent., less than the cade. From the enormous number ofpersons who lined the
Eastern Counties shareholders. The other Bill to which streets, the procession moved at a slow pace and by
ithhe time
he would call the attention of the meeting was the line it reached Piccadilly the crowd was immense : mit
tt st;nd-.
from Enfield tc Edmonton; it was a line branching out ing, the most perfect order was preserved throu how
of the main line at Edmonton, and running on to En-
.vva estminster- bridge, Lambeth-road, and Blackfriars-gb-rcidese,
Piccadilly the route taken was along Pall-mad, thaarin eroul
t the premises prepared for the troupe in Farringdon- ge'
field; the length of the line was about three miles.
About eighteen months since the directors were applieds t,
where it reacher its destination.
to by the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Enfield to The funeral of Mdlle. Mars took place on Friday,
support them in their application to Parliament. Ac-
in Paris. The. service
cordingly they subscribed for 500 shares in the concern, was psrformed in the church of the
Madeleine, and was attended by all the company of the
the total number of shares.in which was 1,800. and the Theatre Franeais, female as well as male actors, and most
proposed estimate 36,000/. The directors of that line of the performers of the other theatres. Four hundred
then opened up a communication with the Eastern Coun- placesie were reserved round the catafalque, and the rest-of
ties directors as to the working of the line, and the result churchKeratr v
of their negotiations had been that the Eastern Counties tbli. I.vasvicceom completely
vice-president
filled.e fth
the
Theee
specialrlleOwlnalns ire byf
directors had agreed to purchase the remaining 1,300 the Royal- theatres M. ' Viennet, M. Leadieres, Baron
shares, at a preuiium of ss. per share, being rather more Taylor, M. Auber, and M. Samson, of the Comedic Fran-
than 5 per cent. interest upon the whole of the money gaise. After the service was finished, the procession pro-
expended. This agreement it was now proposed to sub- seeded to the cemetery of Pere La Chaise. When the body
mit to the meeting for its approval. had been deposited in the vault several orations were deli-
vered over it. No performance took place on Friday night
Resolutions, approving of the agreements, were then at the Theatre Francais.
unanimously agreed to, as were also resolutions em- TUB GAME;LAWS.—To the utter disgrace of some
powering the directors to carry out the provisions of the
agreements. of the game preservers in the country, when mew are con-
victed of poaching, and their own keepers, cers.
The CHAIRMAN then said, that at the meeting recently labourers, or servants are evidence in the case on their own
held the Bills which he was then about to submit to the estates, they stop their wages for the time occupied by them,
meeting, had received its sanction and approval, but it l and require the amount to be included in the costs against
appeared, howeVer, that that meeting was not held in the party convicted. This is most shameful, and it is a dis-
strict conformity with the requirements of Lord grace to any magistrate to allow such a practice. What
Wharnclift-'s standing order, the notice for convening
eticroscoees,eike- -
shall we hear of next in connexion with the odious game-
it not having been sufficiently long ; under these preserving and the infamous game-laws?—From a Corns-
spot:dent.
ton Grosvemer circumstances it was thought advisable by their law TISEMENT:j—SENT INTO THE COUNTRY
clerk that another meeting should be held for the pur- UPLAADPVPREORBATION.—No. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,._ 'lrv'
pose of complying with the requisite standing order. invented Spectacles, Telescopes, Opera Glasses,
It would be his duty, therefore, again to submit those PatronizsedldbLsCt:nnerlrlsetirr:idgardflaiLgwet, Sirl Evan Lloyd, sir John
lir H.
Moe-
Bills to their notice; and, with the exception of one or
tititss,_and Cock ;
IrCiseontili;ot Robert: son, Mackenzie, Galwa'y, Biggs,a
Lieut.-GenYerel
Woolf,-Gtie Murray'
two of them, he did not think it necessary to trouble Walker, Fox, Price, Lindsay, and Thackray ; ajor
Elptianctoonpiqianr thonnit4f,user,nSeirr James Cockburn, AchmtyrP
the meeting with any remarks, the whole of them
having been fully gone into at the last meeting. The P 7
sir Henry Bouverie, Sir J. Ma'etloiL.
Ilford, Tilbury Fort, and Southend Railway, he thought, and Sir Wm. Eustance; Admirals Lord Slor,llll..lilarton, Sir T. Dallas.
Cockburn.
required a few leinarks. The length of the line was ti:_irgnelodrgieto3slsui.!idliei3,',anSdiir George I\l artin, 11 I
Sir J amaye's Sir
NGN:lit°se
thirty-five miles, and the branch to Battle-bridge six P
Viee-Admiral Sir F. AuSrtiel(,lll. riz,ons, Tompkinson, 'Hollis, andiVricSeh:
miles. The line was proposed to leave the main line &c. Messrs. S. and B. Solomon;,
Brown and Ribouleau,
at Ilford, and proceed along the south coast of Essex, heroic enses upon a new construct' noptiicians, have invented Spec-.
and keeping as near as possible the line of the Rive
ieeyeisnipserafeteot vision, that mist al i d duill'imi yes': ima•
tieniLtahey,arares pbrek.
r
Thames. Che traffic taken upon this line had induced, u
So that the most aged removed, every object becomes clear and distinct,
and
the directors to believe that this was one of the and is brought to its
sight becomes bright and brilliant.
best lines ever projected by any company in this die- Achromatic Telescopes, youthful natural original state. Alan
Invisible and all
triet. The directors hoped that, through the medium of kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief Microscopes.
of the most extreme deaf-
in this line nes& Caution—Messrs.
cheap fares which they intended to adept ,
any
wayconnecten S. and B Solamuns, opticians, are not In
that they would be enabled to draw off a considerable diate neighbourhood‘.vitlT:personprevent
mistakes,otthcsambe name, in their instils-
cautious, and observe
portion of the passenger traffic at present using the —Only to be had at 39 l ario-street,
, Piccadilly, opposite the
means of water communication, and affo
rd a cheap and I York Hotel.
expeditious route to Margate, Ramsgate, and the Con.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] —BILE INFALLIBLY CURED BY
tin i
ent. There would also be a considerable amount of
11OLLOWAY's l'lLLs.—Many who suffer from bile are unconscious of
; they complain of sick-headache, a derangement and sinking at
goods traffic, the line passing through a highly ime
For- the stomach, loss of appetite, lowness 01 sp rite, want of slip.
taut agricultural district, and supplying the wants of feet, hand, and lace swellings, and know not that these symptt ms
itayneens, Dagenham, Tilbury Fort, and the districts denote the imperfect action of the liver, and, if not rem, died, might
I lead to dropsy. Holloway's Pills will always be found to act directly
around those places. lon the liver and .tomach and 11 h duudancy of humour
, . carry t. t e
.re s.
Mr. T. LEONARD fully concurred in the opinionsjust ' ' and thereby restore the patient to a full enjoyment of health. The
expressed by the chairman, as to the valuable nature of blue pill is a mercurial and destructive medicine, which no one should
this line. The goods traffic would beofconsiderable take.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor
unlit, 244, Strand, London. or Holloway's Establish.

Bath
Birmingham
Brighton ..............
Bristol
Cheltenham .................
Clifton ......... .....
Leeds
Liverpool
Matichet+ter
1 Norwich
Newcastle-oti-Tyne
Plymouth

21,888
15,364
16,551
14,635.
7,293
8,724
8.005
30,686
20, 60
6,543
6,266
11,520

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Stamp and Taxes,