The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEIDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1847.

BANK OF ENGLAND,

A General Curt of this Company was held yesterday
at the Board Room, to determine whether, in addition to
the divided of 3/. 105. per cent. for the year ending the
.sth of April next, a bonus out of the interest and profits
should be made of one per cent. out of the capital stock
of the corporation. There were present the Governor,
Deputy-Governor, and a lartze number of the directors.
The adverifteinent convening the court having beill
read, the ballot 5.:3 immediately commenced, hut titcl
not terminate till after four o'clock. . . .

_The scrutineers then made their report, which stated
that 253 of the cc rporation had voted, of which 196 were
for the affirwadon of the report, and 57. against it.
The bonu's of 1 per coot. wai consequently coutirmed.
The Cuurt then separated.

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPAI\ Y.

A meeting of the proprietors and shareholders of the
Lbove company was held yestt rday at the Nine Elms Sta-
tion at 'Vauxhall.
The Cria:r was taken at one o'clock by Mr. Chaplin.
The SECRETARY having read the advertisement con-
vening the ale,tih,g,
The CHAIRMAN said that the meeting had been called
ac,ording to Lord Wharnclifie's Act for confirming the
resolutkits which they had previously adopteg with re-
gard to certain Bilk; in Parlianeut. The solicitor would
re ml to them the various Bills to be submitted for their

consideration.
Tile SOLICITOR then read the titles and preambles of
the Acts, which were agreed to, al follows :
A Bill to amend the Acts relatint, to the London and
South-Western Railway, and to enable the London and
South-Western Railway Company to increase their
capital, and to complete various arrangements with
other companies, and undertakings, and for other pur-
poses.
A Bill to enable the London and South •Western

Railway Company to widen and improve the London
and South• Western Railway from the junction thereof
with the Richmond Railway to the terminus at Nine
Elms, and to enlarge their intended station at the York-
road; Lambeth.
A Bill to enable th. London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make railways from Andover to join
their Salisbury Branch Railway at Michaelmarah, and
f.om the same branch at Romsey, to join the South-
ampton and Dorchester Railway at Reobridge, all in the
county of Southampton, to be called " The Andover and
Southampton Junction Railway."
A Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make a railway from Salisbury to
Yeovil, with branches to Shafte,bury and Wincanton,
and to the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester and Wilts,
Somerset and Weymouth Railways ; and to purchase or
lease the said Ex, ter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway.
A Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make a railway from Blandford. in the
c-unty of Dorset, to Breton, in the county or Somerset.
A Bill for making a railway from Exeter to Yeovil,
with branches and extensions therefrom, to be called
" The Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway."
A Bill to amend the Exeter and Exmouth Railway
Act, 1846; and to enable the London and South-Western
Railway Company to subscribe towards lease, or pur-
chase the said railway.
A Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way to make Railways from Exeter to Truro and Ply-
mouth, with various branches therefrom, to be called
" The Cornwall and Devon Central and Plymouth

Railwy."
A Bill for improving and regulating the Harbour of
Sutton Pool, within the Port of Plymouth, in the county
of Devon. . _ .

A Bill to enable the Taw Vale Railway and Dock
Company to lease their undertaking to the London and
South Western Railway Company.
A Bill for making a deviation in the line of the Taw
Vale Railway, for making branches therefrt m to the
towns of Bideford and South Molton, for enlarging the
dock, and amending the Acts relating thereto.
A Bill for enabling the London and South-Western
Railway Company to make extensions of the Guildford
Extension and Portsmouth and Farehain Railway, near
Portsmouth ; and a deviation in the authorised line
thereof, near Godalming.
A Bill for authorising the sale of part of the Brighton
anti Chichester (Portsmouth Extension) Railway to the
London and South-Western, and the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway Companies, and the use by
the last-mentioned company of part (Wandsworth to
London) of the London and South-Western Railway.
A Bill for making a railway from Staines to Woking-
ham, with blanches to the London and South- Wester

Railway.
A Bill for making a railway from Richmond to Wind-
sor, with a loop line through Brenttord and Hounslow.
A Bill for making an alteration in the line of the
Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and branches
therefrom to Lymington and Eling, and for other
purposes.
A Bill for making a Branch Railway from the South-
ampton and Dorchester Railway to Blandford, and for
other purposes.
A Bill for making a Branch Railway from the South-
ampton and Dorchester Railway, at Moreton, to Wey-
mouth, and for other purposes.
A Bill for making a Railway from Southampton to
Cheltenham, to be called " The Manchester and South-
ampton Railway."
A SHAREHOLDER inquired whet was the estimated cost
of the execution of these various projects?
Mr. LOCKE said about (1,000,000/.
The common seal of the company was then affixed to
the Bills.

The CHAIRMAN expressed his regret that so little ad-
vance had been made by the directors since last meeting,
but they had been compelled to wait for Mr. Struts's
Bill being completed, which would not be until after
Easter.

A SHAREHOLDER wished to make a few observations
with regard to the Bill introduced by Mr. Strutt. It
was a Bill which bad been very much criticized and
handled by the various companies, and it was consi-
dered as affecting the interest of railway property in a
very material degree. It was criticized as having not only
a prospective, but a retrospective effect, and in that shape
it would inflict incalculable injury upon railway property.
He knew perfectly well that the chairman, in common
with the other directors, had organized an opposi-
tion against the measure, but in his opinion
the opposith n should have been carried to a larger
extent. It appeared to him that a petition signed by
the whole of the railway proprietary would have great
influence in Parliament. The Chairman, in the commit-
tee of which he svaa au unworthy me.nber, had presented
a petition against the measure; but the view he took of It
was—that the proprietary, one and all, sh. old hay,•
joined in that petition against Mr. Strutt's Bill. It was
a measure calculated to inflict seribus injury upon vested
interests. The Government might as well interfere
with their landed properties, for when they pur-
chased shares, they had Ipoked at their rights,
under the Act of Parliament, and they knew what they
were baying; but now came a power, under the sanction
of the Government, for the purpose of disarranging
entirely the foundation upon which their property rested.
—(Hear, hear.) His intention was not at the present
time to go more particularly into the measure which Mr.
Strutt had proposed; but he trusted, however, that the
opposition which they had so wisely raset! against the
scheme might have the success it deserved.
The CHAIRMAN said that he believed that the railway
world, whose interests were much affected, were unani-
mous against the Bill, and the reason they had not pro-
ceeded more vig,trously up to that moment was because
it was generally understood that considerable modifica-
ti ins would be introduced by the Government when the
Bill came again before the House of Common:.
Tree meeting then resolved itself into a s[ecial meet-
ing, fur the purr se of electing a new director, in the
room of Mr. Robert Sheddon, retired.
The SECRETARY read a letter from Sergeant. Gazelee,
declining to become a candidate for the vacant office,
according to the notice he had given.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed Mr. Ker Seymer,
M.P., and sated that the influence of that gentleman in
Dorsetshire would very materially further the views of
the company.
Lord MORLEY seconded the motion, which was unani-
mously agreed to.
Mr. KKR SEYMES having. returned thanks in an
appropriate speech,
A vote of hanks was given to the Chairman and
directors, and the meeting separated.

CLARENCE RAILWAY COMPANY.
A special general meeting of the proprietots of this
railway was held yesterday, at the George and Vulture
Taverit, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, tai submit to them
the draft of a Bill introduced into Parliament this ses-
sion, to enable the company to amalgamate with the
Leeds and Thirst: Railway Company. Mr. Blanshard
was called to the chair.
As th, meeting wai a formal one, in accordance with
the standing orders, the only business transacted was
the submitting resolutions to the meeting, approving of
the amalgamation, and giving a discretionary power to
the committee of directors to act as circumstances might
require in carrying out the arrangements, which were
unanimously agreed to. The meting then separated.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING.
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this
railway was 11,:ld yest: Hay, at one o'clock, in the Board-
ro:im, Paddington Station, for the purpose cf taking into
consideration the drafts of twenty-two Bills, which the
company intended to apply for in the present session.
Charles Russell, Esq., chairman of the company,
presided.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read,

The CHAIRMAN then saic, that the meeting of pro-
prietors conveNed for the 14th of December was for the
double purpose of sanctioning the Birmingham and Oxford
lines, and for giving approval to other schemes. Many of
these were Bills of last session,and it would be unneces-
sary for him to r:.vert to them, as they had already received
the approbation of the shareholders. The present meeting
was called for the purpose of giving effect to the long
list of Bills suimitted to them, and he woula therefore take
the projects, not as th:i came in the list, but as they
were distributed through certain localities; and he would
take first that which was known by the name of the
West London Railway, which would give them the ad-
vantages t iat %N•Nn'e at pr-sent, or would be, enjoyed by
the London and S,,utli-Western Railway ; the
next would be the Bill fit making branches
to E,;iiam, Staines, Brentford and Twickenham ;
an,l th-e, third Bill he would associate with this group
would be one for making a branch railway to Henley and
Radit,ck, to widen certain portions of tire Great
Neste-n Rail, ay, to enable the Great Western to
atnalgatnate with the Birioiiigham, iVolverhatopton, and
Dudley It .0 way, and to purchase the Wycombe and
Great ‘Vest,rn and Uxbridge Railways, i.nd for other
purposes ; and the fourth and last was a scheme to make
a line from Windsor, to join the Great Western at