The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

Vauxhall • • • • 100 0
West Middlesex . . 15s. pr ent. 63 12

COURSE OF EXCIL
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 7
Ditto, at sight •• .... 12 4
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 71)4
Antwerp.............. 25 95
lismburgh 13 15

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Faris, 3 lays' sight .. 25 55
Ditto, • • ...... 25 90
Marseilles • • • . •..... 25 95
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Frankfort on Maine.... 1224
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • .

Berlin .• • ..... •• ••
Vienna, effee.fio•• •• •• 10 6
Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 10 7
Madrid •• ..
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Leghorn
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Venice.. .•• • • .
Naples • . • • • • • • .. • • 40h
Palermo, per 02 . 121
Lisbon.. • • • ....... 524
Oporto . • .. • 43%
Rio Janeiro • • ...... • • 26
Buenos Ayres .. •
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .... • .....

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Barcelona •• • • ........

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PSICP3 OP BULLION, Pia OIL
Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
New Dollars • • .... 0 4 10%
Portugal Gold Coin .• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11

NORFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly general meeting of this company
took place to-day, at the company's offices, Guild-
hall-buildings.
Adam Duff, Esq., took the chair at one o'clock ;
and the usual preliminary proceedings having been
gone through,
The SECICETART read the following report
The accounts of this company, which have been
already circulated among the proprietors' show a gross
revenue for the half-year to the 30th June last, of
47,5451. 9s. 2d. ; of which 26,1301. 9s. id. is the result of
the passenger traffic, and 17,6581.75. 9d. for goods and
jive stock, showing an increase over the corresponding
half-year of 1846 of 7,476/. 10s. lod.
" The working expenses during the same period, in.
eluding 1,063 L 13s. l Id. for Government duty, amount to
24,668 L 155. 9d.
" These results, in the opinion of the directors, afford
grounds for congratulation to the proprietors, as they
• show a steady, uniform increase in every branch of their
traffic ; until the traffic of the line can be fully developed
the working expenses will unavoidably bear a larger
proportion to the gross receipts than on lines which
have been opened for a longer period ; at the same time
the directors believe that, taking the mileage rate, this
line will bear a favourable comparison with any other.
•"The opening of the branch to last Dereham has
fully answered the expectations which were formed of it ;
and the short experience (which "has been had of the
Lowestoft Line has been very satisfactory.
" The directors recommend that a- dividend at the rate
of 3L per cent, for the half-year on the Consolidated
Stock, and Is. per share on the new shares created by a
vote of the proprietors at their last general meeting;
upon which 51. deposit has been paid, be declared at this
meeting.
It may, perhaps, be as well, in reference to the amount
of dividend, to call to the recollection of the proprietors
• that the dividend declared at the last half-yearly meeting
included a repayment of interest on the capital expended
• in the Dereham branch, which increased its amount be-
yond the actual earnings of the half-year ; the present
.dividend is therefore really at the same rate as the ere-
ding one, although this half-year is notoriously the
lea: r%Pth: apdacplieivaeiions of this company to Parliament, in
the late session,
for branches and extensions of their
main line have been, on the whole, successful. With
tion (rim) Bills, withdrawn in consequence of
thethe ea
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the Bills have been passe
the proprietors had been obtained. The following is a
summary of them:—
" An Act for making a railway from Renednhaln, passmi,eonthe
L pion -
. Lowestoft line, to Diss, on the Eastern
ing through the Waveney Valley, and throwing off a
branch at Beccles to the important agricultural town_ off
Halesworth. The greater part of the capital for this
undertaking has been subscribed by the late Waveney
Valley and Great Yarmouth shareholders, on a guaran-
teed interest at 5 per cent. per annum. This meeting
will be called upon to sanction the creation of these
shares, under the provisions of the Act of Parliament;
and also of the shares necessary to raise the additional
capital of 30,0001. required to complete the line.
" An Act for Extending the Main Line of the Norfolk
Railway across the river Bure into the town of Yar-
mouth, and continuing the rails along the Yarmouth
- • quays for the distance of a mile and upwards, parallel to
=' The directors think this a very important
both to the interest of the railway a to the
towabfirarteduth. The estimated cost is 75,0001.
Up dimwit ask the authority of the meeting to
*se Zti ODOn the capital required for the two kat Un-