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•
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXIII.,
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I. LAST YEARS of FREDERICK the GREAT.
11. LORD CAMPBELL'S LIVES of the CHANCELLORS. 2d
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111. 3fEMOIRS of VISCOUNTESS SUNDON.
IV. LIFE of ELIZABETH FRY.
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Just published, price Six Shilllings.
THE DUBLIN REVIEW. No. XLVI.
JANUARY, 1848.

1. Spanish Novelists.
2. Vestiges of Catholic Faith in Scandinavia.
3. rrescott's Conquest of Peru.
4. Adventures in the South Seas. •
b. Flanagan's Manual of British and Irish History.
G. Mr. Brawnson on Developments.
7. The Russo-Greek and Oriental Churches.
8. The History and Antiquities of Ireland.
9. Present Position of the High. Church Theory.
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SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY
A special general meeting of the proprietors of
this company was held yesterday, at their offices, 19,
Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of considering the
expediency of capitalising a portion of the company's
debentures, and of empowering the directors to effect
the same. C. E. Barlow, Esq., the chairman of the
company, presiding.
After the usual preliminaries,
The SECRETARY read a report of the directors,
which stated that the present capital of the company
consisted of 350,0001., including the recently issued
quarter shares ; 186,5501. raised on debentures, and
12,8001. on loan notes, issued in 1842. By the 6th
and 7th Victoria, the company had power to raise a
further capital of 350,0001. stock, and 150,000/. on
debentures; but the sum of 4,6501. only of that
350,000/. had yet been issued, and 50,0001. of the
150,0001. had been raised on debentures. The amount
of the debenture debt had been reduced by the issue
of the quarter shares, in June last, from 200,0001. to
the amount at which it then stood, viz , 186,550/.
and the amount of loan notes from 17,5401. to
12,8001., and it was then proposed to raise
70,000/. of the • 350,0001. to extinguish, as the
bonds became due, a further 'portion of the de-
benture debt. The report then adverted to the dis-
advantages in ordinary cases of raising money by
this mode, which did not exist with respect to this
company, and in order to meet the debentures be-
coming due in 1848 and 1849, and to enable the pro-
prietors to take their share of the benefits then enjoyed
exclusively by the parties lending their money on
debenture, it was proposed to create a guaranteed 6
per cent. stock, to be offered rateably to the propri-
etors of the existing stock capital, not as an increase
to the capital stock of the company, but in substitution
of an existing debt of 5 per cent., and which had a
preference to all other dividend. It was proposed to
give the additional 1 per cent. to the present propri-
etors who might be disposed to take their 10/., 201.,
501., 1001., or any other amount of the guaranteed
stock, which would reduce very little, if at all, the
dividend on the general stock of the company, as it
would be counterbalanced by a saving in the expense
of renewing the debentures; while by reducing the
proportion which the borrowed capital bore to the
stock capital, would improve materially the financial
position of the company. The report concluded with
a strong recommendation of the course proposed.
The CHAIRMAN, after pointing out the advantages
that would result from the course suggested in the
report, concluded by moving that the report be
adopted,
Air. STONE seconded the resolution, which, after a
protracted' discussion, was agreed to unanimously.
Resolutions authorising the directors to carry the
game into effect, were then agreed to; and a vote of
thaLks having been passed to the Chairman, the meet-
ing separated.