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will be great convenience in settling the interest accounts
at fixed half-yearly periods, the directors have deter.
mined that interest, from the time of the passing of the
Act, shall be paid up to the 29th of September, and that
interest warrants be prepared on the Ist of October,
which will be delivered to the parties entitled thereto on
the production of the sealed certificates of registry."
The accounts showed the expenditure to the 30th
of June last to have been 56,644/. 73. 9d., and the
receipts 75,548/. 10s., leaving the above-mentioned
balance.
The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting.
After adverting to the principal matters in the report,
he said the directors had had great difficulties to con-
tend with ; they had, however, been happily over-
come, and he confidently believed that the line would
prove a profitable source of investment. In reply to
several questions, he stated the traffic estimated for
the line by their opponents in the House of Commons
was 13,395/. The estimated returns would be 81. per
cent.

The report was adopted.
Mr. GARRATT said it was unlikely, in the depressed
state of the money market, that they would get a
considerable portion of the calls paid up by the time
stated in the report, even though they paid 4 per cent.
interest. He, therefore, begged to move, as an amend-
ment, " That the time of payment be deferred until
March next," which was seconded by Mr. ILiuN.
A DIRECTOR cited the fact that 160,0001. out of
calls amounting to 180,0001., in a Welsh railway had
been paid up within a fortnight after they became
due, to show that the money market was not in
so deplorable a condition as the Hon. Gentleman
conceived.

Mr. GARRATT reminded the Hon. Proprietor that
this was an Irish railway, and that money could not
be so easily raised upon it as upon English railways.
The CHAIRMAN said one-third of the proprietors
had sent in their concurrence with the report.
The amendment, modified to a recommendation,
was then adopted, and a vote of thanks being passed
to the Chairman and directors, the meeting separated.

LONDON AND BLACK WALL RAIL-
WAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The twenty-second half- yearly meeting of the
London and Blackwall Railway Company took place
to-day at the London Tavern.
J. N. Daniels, Esq., took the chair shortly after
twelve o'clock, when the usual formalities having been
gone through,
The SECRETARY read the report, from which it
appeared that the total amount of receipts
for the last half-year was: 27,6021., and the
expenses 23,841/., leaving a balance of upwards of
3,0001., out of which it was proposed to pay a dividend
of ls. 6d. per share, clear of income-tax. The re-
port also stated that the circumstances that had
diminished the receipts on other railways had affected
that of the London and Blackwell Railway. The
falling off had taken place principally in the local and
Gravesend traffic, while that to Woolwich had been
doubled.
The CHAIRMAN said it was always matter of regret
to state to the proprietors of any company that there
was a falling off in their receipts, and more especially
I to do so with respect to a company whose receipts
N hal never been of the most flourishing description.
,s 4 The falling off, however, upon this line had not been
greater then that upon other lines, and that,
too, from the same cause. The directors
had abandoned proceeding with the Bill for
there extension line in the last session with regret
and reluctance, but they did it under the best ad-
vice, considering the circumstances in which they
were placed. With respect to the branch line, the
proprietors might depend upon it that the directors
would do all in their power to meet the expenses of
34 it as they became due, but they were anxious not to
34 be too hard on the shareholders in their calls.
39. A PROPRIETOR observed that the directors had
made three calls within the last five months.
fl The CHAIRMAN admitted that they had, but it had
s been found necessary to do so.; if the directors had
3•• not made the calls they had to pay the contractors,
jy they would not have done their work.
A PROPRIETOR wished to know if the directors
had made any arrangement with the Eastern Counties
line when their branch was finished, because at the
present moment this company was entirely at the
mercy of the Eastern Counties Company.
The CHAIRMAN denied that this company was at
the mercy of the Eastern Counties Company. The
directors, however, did not look to the Eastern Coun-
ties alone for the value of their extension line. They
looked to the traffic from Bow.—(Hear, hear.) He
had no doubt if the Eastern Counties Company
1% did not come to proper terms with this company,
looking at the situation and importance of their ter-
minus being in the heart of the City, the public would
2i
Its force them.—(Hear, hear.)
A PROPRIETOR said—Then he was to understand
9s
4s that no agreement had been made with the Eastern
11 Counties Company at all.
ad
The CHAIRMAN said that an undertaking bad been
given by the Eastern Counties Company, that when
04 there was a junction of the two lines they would
give every facility ••for working and vibe-. the
Eastern Counties Company refused to carry out the
134 agreement it would be time enough to think of
making them.
A SHAREHOLDER observed that the proprietors had
shown great confidence in the directors, but he
thought that the company was too weak to carry out
and place in a proper situation their line, so as to
make it worth anything. He thought it would be
os, well worthy the consideration of the directors whether
an attempt should not be made to get some gentle-
men
on the direction who was connected with other
and longer lines. (Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said that endeavours had been
made to form some connexion with the Eastern Coun-
ties line and the London and North-Western line,
in order to secure their traffic to the Mark-lane
terminus of this line, but they had been unable to
effect it.
A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether any agree-
ment had been made with the London and North-
Western Company as to their taking, leasing, or
otherwise, the Blackwall line.
The CHAIRMAN said there was no agreement what-
ever with the London and North-Western Company.
That company denied that they were proprietors
of the East and West India Railway Company.
Captain MANGLES, as a director, covld assure the
proprietors with respect to the suggee.tion of an ad-
dition to the direction, that he and his brother
directors would never stand in the, way of any addi-
tion to the direction. which would benefit the pro-
prietors.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to questions that were
put by proprietors, obser-red that they had nothing
whatever• to do with ti le expense of repairing the
three boats that runy,m the Brunswick Pier. The
directors were most, ,nxious to make that pier avail-
able to all steam-beats,' and were most willing, and
always had beent to place all on the same footing.
With respect to the Diamond boats they had never
stipulated to their proprietors that if they called at
the Brunswick Pier they should stop there.
After a long and desultory conversaiien, the report
was agreed to.
A. resolution declaring a dividend of Is. 6d. per
share was unanimously adopted, the dividend to be
payable on the 6th of September.
• A vote of thanks was carried to the chairman and
directors, and the meeting separated.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

CROWN-OFFICE, AUG. 13.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO sErcvE IN THE PARLIAMENT
SUMMONED TO BE HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER, ON
TUESDAY, THE 21sT DAY or SEPTEMBER, 1847.
COUNTY OF PEMBROKE.
John Frederick Vaughan. Campbell, commonly called
Viscount Emlyn.
BOROUGH OF PEIsIBROKE,
Sir John Owen, Bart.

COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND.
EASTERN PAVISION.
The Honourable Charles Wentworth George Howard.
William Marshall, Esq.

WESTERN DIVISION.
Edward Stanley, Esq.
Henry Lowther, Esq.
UV: OF CARLISLE,
John Dixon, Esq.
William Nicholson Hodgson, Esq.
BOROUGH OF WHITEHAVEN.
Robert Charles Hildyard, Esq.
BOROUGH OF COCKERMOUTIL
Henry Aglionby Aglionby, of Newbiggin-hall, in the
county of Cumberland, Esq.
Edward Horsman, of Edinburgh, Esq.
COUNTY OF DURHAM
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Robert Duncombe Shaft°, of Hampworth-lodge, in the
arr y called
vaViscount
e , co
SOUTHERNnlmSoenalbya
county of Wilts, Esq.
H
George Henry Robert Charles William Vane, commonly
cialleaDLllLldSHlOarNry.
James Farrer, of In I b e oror,gh. hall, in OriVe Vane.
of
York, Esq.

Thomas Colpt-littsaw.
ger:, GranCITY OF DURHAM.
Barrister-a of the Inner 'ff
Henry John Spearman mple, London,
of Durham, Esq. 'Of
Newton Hall-:, in the county
(IVouUrGkbll) e OGPeorSgUe Hl\TuDdEsultn4LOlLDifayor and
of York, and of ThAeilideirgmht:ll°of
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'city
o Newby Park, in
the county of York.
David Barclay, of Eastwich Park, in the county of
Surrey, Esq.
BOVJUGFI OF SOUTH SU lELDS.
John Twine). Wawn, Esq.
'BOROUGH OF GATESII: EAD.
William Hutt, of Gibside, in the co ut Ity of Durham,
E,q.

COUNTY OF SALOP',
NORTHERN DIVISION.
William Ormsby Gore, Esq.