The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

TAW VALE RAILWAY AND DOCK

COMPANY. -
The half yearly general meeting of the proprietorr of the
Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company was held yesterday at
the London Tavern, Biahopgate-street, for general pur-
poses; the meeting was also special for the purpose of con-
sidering the draft of a Bill to enable the Taw Vale Railway
and Dock Company to leas. their undertaking to the Lon-
don and South-Western Company; Mr. Emanuel Cooper
presided.
After the common seal of the company had been affixed
to the registry of proprietors,
The CHAIRMAN said that before the finance report was
read, he might say that an addition would require to be matte
to the expenditure side of 3,805/. ss. 11d., which would give
the balance to the end of the year. Thus the xpense
getting their Bill passed, &c., would amount to some 16,000/.
The report was then read, which. after referring to the
account, stated that measures were being taken for the pur-
pose of leasing the line to the South• Western Company.
They had also made proposals to lease the Exeter and
Crediton Railway, which had been well received by the pro-
prietors of the latter Company. This would give them a
direct and thorough line from Cornwall and Devon to the
heart of the Metropolis. The directors, therefore, strongly
urged upon the shareholders the propriety of acceding to
this proposition.
The engineer's report was then read, as were the heads ot
of the draft submitted to the Exeter and Crediton Railway.
The report was unanimously agreed to.
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amount of deposits, calls, and paid up capital of the Exeter
and Crediton Railway Company.
" That provided the profits exceed five per cent. the amount
of such profits up to one-haf per cent. be further paid to the
Exeter and Crediton Company.
" That provided the profits exceed 51 per cent. (the excess
beyond the 51 per cent.) be equally divided between the two
companies.
"'That the profits be estimated after deducting one-third for
working expenses.
" That the lease be guaranteed to the Exeter and Crediton
Railway by the Suui h- Western Railway Company,"
On the motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, seconded b. Mr. JAMES,
the sum of 1,5001 was voted to the directors (ten in number),
for their past services.
Mr. W. ihtlasts also moved that the sum of 1,200/. per
annum be granted to the board for their services, until the
works should be completed. This resolution, having been
seconded. was also carried.

Two South- Western Directors were appointed directors of
the company in the room of two gentlemen of the Taw
Vale Company, who retired.
Mr. Williams and Mr. Horne were appointed auditors, with
a salary of 201. each.
A resolution, sanctioning the leasing of the Exeter and
Cresliton Railway, was then passed unanimously.
The meeting was then declared special, for the purpose of
considering the draft of the Bill, leasing the Taw Vale to the
South .Western Company. The Bill was approved, and the
business of the meeting being declared at au end, the pro-
prietcrs separated.
Ths finance report showed a balance in hand of above
8,0001., which, deducting the sum mentioned by the Chair-
man, would leave somewhere about 5.0001. in the bankers
hands.

STEAM SHIPPING ASSOCIATION.

The general meeting of the proprietors of the Steam
Shipping Aseeciation took place yesterday, at the office of the
Company, 28, St. Switliiit'g-laite. We are prevented from
giving the particulars, as the press were excluded.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] —TEAS AT WHOLESALE PRICES,
No. 2, BUCYLERSBURY, CHEAPSIDeEco...--taxIII.
whose
will dconsumption is large, and study no
eriae
considerable advantage at this establishment. One uni-
form price is affixed, by which the purchaser of a single
pound can obtain it on the same terms as the trade.
Black Tea ...2s. Bd., 35., 3s. 4d, 3s. Bd,, 4L, 4s. 4d., ss.
Green 3s. 4d., 3s. Bd., 48 4s. 4d 55., 65., 7s •
Coffee 9d., 10d.. Is., ls. 2d., is. 4d., ls. 6d., 16.8 d.
One pound sent tree to any part of town. Orders from
the country forwarded the same day ; and when the
quantity is for Glb. weight (tea only), the carriage is
paid to any part of EngIand.—MANSELL aryl Co.
wholesale tea dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Chespside,

After a vast deal of conference and consultation it Was
agreed that several suggested amendments should be brought
under the consideration of the legislature. The limitation
of the advances out of Ibe growing protuce of the Consoli-
dated Fund, flir the purposes of the Act, to 1,500,0001., was
regarded as injudicioul, and the general imprt-viol appeared
to be that the freasury Citiontissiowrs should receive per-
mission to issue, as trim, ; inn! io time might be required, sums
of money not excee,dr.g in the whole the sum of 2,000,0001.
Mr. F. FuENcit sug,4ested that the third clause, which
vested all powers appertaining to the execution of the Act in
the Commissioners of Publ,c, Works, should be amended by
the substitution of local conniusAioners, paid or unpaid.
Viscount BERNAIiU and Mr. Ilamii:rox considered that,
in addition to .he works of ge, suiisoiling, trenching,
irrig,tion, or warping of land, reclamation, erecting and
making corn initn, cleating iamis of ro.ks and stones, erect-
ing substantial farmhouses ..ad building;,, embanking lands
front the sea, specified in the 4th clause as those on whid
the proposed loans were to be expended. the construction of
bridges and embankment of tidal piers would be found mani-
festly advantageous.
Mr. Smrrii O'Ba:ati recommended an amendment of the
12th clause, wnich authorised the Commissioners of Public
Works to requii e by deposit, land or otherwise, security for
payment of the expenses incurred in reporting upon and in-
vestigating tie subject of an application for loan. Instead
of leaving the Commissioners at liberty to charge such costs
as they pleased, he thought it would be well to have the
liability for expenses limited to a per centago on the amount
applied for. Mr. O'Brien also suggested that the Commis-
sion-rs should give notice of such application, not only in
the Dublin. Gazette and the newspapers circulating in the
county in which the lands are situate, as the 18th clause
prescribed, but in the Dublin newspapers also, and in such
other manner as wilt secure proper notice to the immediate
lessor or his known agent. With regard to the 22d clause,
rendering lands chargeable with loans granted from the date
of the Commissioners' order, Mr. O'Brien further suggested
that each portion 4 the land improved with the loan should.
be only liable for the amount expended on itself.
Lord MOUNTCASIELL intimated that, in his opinion, the •
22d clause—providing that errors and omissions in memo-
rials, schedules, or notices proceeding under the Act, were
not to prevent the Commissioners doing all matters in
their judgment requisite for carrying the provisions into
effect, or to invalidate any rent charge chargeable under
the Act—should be reconsidered when the Bill went into
Committee.

It was generally considered by the meeting that the loans
should be issued by instalments, not exceeding at any time
one-tenth of the entire sum, instead of one-fifth, and that no
instalment should exceed in any case 5001., instead of 3001.
In the event of an owner desiring to clear off his rent charge
for loan more speedily than at the rate of 6/. 10s. per cent.
for 22 years, the 40th section enacted that he could do so with
the sanction of the Treasury Commissioners; but the Irish
party thought that in such case notice should be given to the
reversioner, and his consent obtained.

Mr. ORMSBY GORE suggested that there should be clans•
introduced into the Bill, extending its benefits and advan-
tages to incorporated societies, such as the Waste Land Im-
provement Society of Ireland.
Many members agreed with Mr. Gore, and it was deter-
mined to bring the subject under the consideration of Go-
vernment.

Some routine business was then transacted, and thanks
having been voted to the Marquis of Westmeath the meeting
separated.

"The Irish party" met again on Saturday; the Earl of
Massarene in the chair. The following members were pre-
sent :—Mr. W. S. O'Brien, Mr. P. S. Butler, Mr. H. Grattan,
Colonel Acton, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. T. Martin, and Mr.
Grogan.
Some clauses of the proposed Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill
were again discussed.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN announced that it was his intention
to move several amendments to the Bill in Committee. In
the formation of electoral districts pauperism had been so
allocated, in respect of the property liable for its relief, as to
cause the pressure of poor-rate taxation to be very unequal.
He should, therefore, propose that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners should revise and reconsider the electoral divisions
of the several unions in such a manner as that the pau-
perism of each district should bear to the property liable for
its relief as nearly an uniform proportion throughout each
union as circumstances would allow ; that for each elec-
toral division there should be formed a relief committee,
consisting of the justices of die peace, residing or pos-
sessing rateable property within such electoral divi-
sions, of the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Protestant,
and Presbyterian clergymen, usually officiating in such divi-
sions, and of a proportionate number of wardens to be elected
simultaneously wit h the guardians ; that the relief committees
thus constituted were to consider and determine who stood
in need of relief in each electoral division, and to certify their
opinions with respect to the claims of each person applying
for relief to the board of guardians, stating at the same time
their opinion whether the person so applying ought to be re-
lieved in the workhouse or out of it ; that the Poor-law Com-
missioners shall revise and reconstruct the unions, so that the
extent of each shall not be more than 150,000 acres; that
the repayment of the loans borrowed for the construction of
the workhouses sh4ll be defrayed by a rate levied accord-
ing to the net valuation, as an uniform poundage upon all
rateable property in Ireland ; that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners shall make an uniform valuation of rateable property
throughout Ireland, in so far as the same may be possible
under the existing valuation Acts ; and lastly, that persons
receiving fixed incomes from rateable property, by way of
jointure, rent charge4or any other annuity, not being created
in satistsction for debt, shall be liable to all rates levied. for
the relief of the poor, just as if the income so received were
receivable as rent.

Several letters were read giving an appalling account of
the daily increasing state of destitution in Ireland. It was
unanimously resolved, that the fearful details of misery and
suffering contained in those communications should be stated
in the House of Commons, and the necessity of immediately
providing food and seed for the Irish people again pressed
upon Government.

THE MAILS.—SOUTIIAMPTON, FEB. 20. —The
Oriental Company's steam-ship Oriental, Captain Brookes,
left the docks at 3 P.M. this day with the East India and
China mails for Alexandria, a tull cargo of bale and other
goods, and 60 passengers. Captain Brookes was formerly
the commander of the Tagus, and prior to his removal to
the Oriental had the Erin. He is the oldest officer in the ser-
vice. The next Portuguese mails will be brought in the
Tiber,
Captain Bingham, and may be expected on the 26th
inst. The Royal Tar steamer came into the dock at 6 P.M.
to-day from the Lazaretto, at the Motherbank, and landed
the cargo of the Erin, consisting of silks, goats' wool, &c. A
very fine steam-ship. called the Fire King, came into the
docks at 3 P.M. from Liverpool. She is appointed by her
charterers to trade between this port and Carrel and Spanish
coast with cattle, &c., in the room of the Transit steamer.
The Ripon, Captain Soy, with the East India and China
mails, may be expected from Alexandria on Sunday next.
The Erin, Captain Russell, will leave on the 3d proximo
for Malta, Constantinople, and the Black Sea, &c.,. with
dtarikao and
Bombay,mthae mails
Peninsular a r andTpassengers,heMediterraneanlSln tr°includingseCaptain tohnost forebßeu 2rn7et Alexandria
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EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--
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crossed the Kennington and Vauxhall-bridge-
rabOoneandtdbBsa'alhr;teautalro.ddi-ynadg'y the houses in Gloucester row, Princes-row,
Moss-fields, Salamanca-place, street, and row, together with
several in Anderson's-walk, will be demolished for the further
progress ; as also, in the course of a few days, the houses on
either side of the Westminster-bridge-road, where the rail.
way crosses at the Marsh-gate.
ACCIDENT ON CONSTITUTION-HILL.—An accident,
which was fortunately not attended with serious results, oc.
curred to a gentleman who was riding a spirited horse, on
Saturday, down Constitution-hill, at the time her Majesty
was proCeeding through St. James's-park, en ronte to Clare-
mont. The horse, alarmed at the lances of the troop of
Lancers, wbo formed her Majesty's escort, became unma-
nageable, .nd backed against the carriage in which the
Queen 1% as riding, nearly untiorsi: g its rider. It had no
looker cleared her Majesty's carriage, than it dashed with
great force against the carriage and horses which followed,
containing the two equerries to her Majesty and the Prince
Consort. The violence of the concussion knocked down the
horse ; its rider being thrown to a considerable distance into
the mud on the side cf the road. Her Mjrsty, seeing the
alarmil,g situation of the gentleman, immediately ordered
the carriage to stop, and commanded the Equerry in Waiting,
the Hon. Colonel Grey, to ascertain the state of the gentle-
man who had met with the accident. iler Majesty, after a
delay ofsome minutes, having been informed that the gentle-
man, although covered with mud, was not seriously hurt, then
proceeded onwards to Claremont. Both the Queen and the
Prince Consort manifest,cl great regret that au accident,
under such circumstances:should have occurred.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE, GEORGE..
STREET.—The periodical " soire.e," which took place on
Friday evening last, in the drawing-rooms of the institute,
was attended by the largest and most brilliant company of
the season. The amusements were of the usual diversified
and agreeable kind; music, both vocal and instrumental
being contributed by Miss Dolby, Miss Ransford, Mr. and
Mrs. Weiss, Mr. Bodda, Mr. Lindsay Sloper, Mr. Willy,
Mr. W. Dorrell, Mr. Goodban, and a new Belgian violinist.
whose name has escaped' us; while Mr. Buckingham took.
occasion
manner, oa deliver,
short
lecture
thui sreo uump(m popular,t aby...01
ounen
at
_ Tower of
Babel. The reunion Nosed off with great spirit and enjoy..
the social friendliness of the evening a great and peed*
ment, the air of polite aid elegant refinement throwing over
charm. ,11717tdheInructive
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ATTACK of A MOB oN LAMBETH WORRHOUSE..-..
Lambeth in consequence of a violent attack made by a mob
of at least 100 persons on the parish workhouse. It was
tioLl .noa though
o their cases, some of them were discon-
tented, Saturday afterngomho
Pfassteil)id relief,haa antatdtnesdnebricks, stones, and other rubbish. were thrown
ennth:
a
against the doors, threatening at the same time a forcible
entrance. Things began to assume the most alarming ap-
pearances, and expostulations having proved useless, a body
of ,the police of the L division was
sent for, and notwith-
standing the formidable number of rioters, the " bobbies'
neighbourhood of their the ringleaders, and clearing the
body forms no violentfollowers.inconsiderableitemfs, the relief for which
succeeded in apprehending
r t
h e Thishurd workhouse
ened rete
already numbers nearly l
-
,000 inmate
payers of the parish,
THI TRIESTE ROUTE.—Mr. Waghorn left Rams-
gate yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. Austin, the
engineer, to obtain more land facilities for the overland
route, by way of Trieste.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT CARSHALTON.—On
Friday afternoon an inquiry was gone into before William
Carter, Esq., at the Greyhound Inn, Carshalton, touchiag
the respective deaths of Charles Cooper, aged 45, Alice
Cooper, aged 43, and Charles Cooper, aged 6 years, who lost
their lives under the most frightful circumstances. It ap•
peared from the evidence that the deceased persons resided
in a house built against a chalk pit, and formerly used as
stable, the roof being level with the adjoining fields. On
Wednesday the earth gave way, forcing the brick wall in on
the unfortunate occupants. At the back of the premises was
formerly a warren for rabbits, which most likely was much
undermined by them. The Coroner having summed up the
case, the jury returned the tbllowing verdict ;=" That the
decried persons w ere as identally suffocated by the falling of
a quantity of earth, which forced in the wall of a cart* 112
dwelling•hQUBo, which fell upon Ultra as they lay in bed
aaleepr.