The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.

(THIS DAY.)
The usual half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
of this company was this day held at the London
Tavern.

The chair was taken at eleven o'clock, by G. 11.
Packe, Esq.; the chairman of the company.
The usual preliminaries having been gone through,
the secretary proceeded to read the report, which
stated that the two Bills, one, to enable the directors
of this company, and the Great Northern Company,
to carry out the agreement for leasing, &c., already
approved by the shareholders of both companies ; the
other to enable the company to purchase an existing
lease of the Louth Navigation, at a rent of 1,5001. per
annum, for a period of twenty-nine years, had re-
ceived the sanction of the Legislature. The -works
upon the line were being proceeded with as rapidly
as possible; and the Great Northern Company were,
in conformity with their agreement, providing the
kof engines,
teer
sceavrriaar es, waggons, &c., for working
the tn e
line portions of it were completed.
The total receipts of the company, on payments of de-
s as h
posits, instalments, and calls, had been 175,3961.45. 6d.,
leaving. a balance in the hands of the company of
53,567/. 12s. Bd.
The report having been received and adopted, se-
veral resolutions, in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the directors, were agreed to.
A vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and
the meeting broke up.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The usual half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
of this company Vok. place to-day, at the Euston-
square station.
George Carr- Glyn, Esq., M.P., took the chair at
twelve o'clock.

The usual preliminary proceedings having been
gone through, and the minutes of the last meeting
having been read and adopted,
The CHAIRMAN said, before the report was read,
he was anxious to make a few observations. lie
thought the Company had given to the public all the
advantages of competition ; but if that principle
was carried on, it would be found that where
combination was po-sible, COlllt etirion would
tie found to be impossible. The public safety would
be endangered thereby, because no }_erson would be
found in railway companies to keep them up to that.
perfection which they had hitherto att•,ined.—
(Cheers.) The accounts of the company were before
the proprietors; there was a great falling off, he was
sorry to say, of- the passengers traffic of the com-
pany for the last half-year. In first class passengers
alone there was a falling off of 16,4001. In the
second class a small increase had taken place, but
in third-class passengers, there was a falling off of
8,345/. There was also a great deduction under the
head of horses and carriages, and live stock ; added to
this, there was a great increase in the rates and t axes.
The worthy Chairman, after alluding to the Bills in
which they had been successful, and those in which
they had failed in the late Parliament, stated that it
was not the intention of the directors to proceed
hastily with any of the measures for whicn they
had obtained the sanction of Parliament. The regu-
lations of Parliament had forced upon them the course
they had pursued.—(Cheers.) This company had
been anxious for x settlement of all the differences
between all companies ; and he hoped the time was
not far distant when they would all pull together—
(Cheers)—and every railway company have an op-
portunity of looking into its own concerns.
The SECRETARY then read the report, which, after
taking a review of the proceedings of the company
for the last half year, and the works that had been
carried on during that period, recommended a divi-
dend of 4i per cent. for the last half year.
The report was unanimously agreed to, as were
also resolutions for a dividend of 4f per cent. for the
last half year, after a few observations from some of
• the proprietors.
In an'wer to a question from a PROPRIETOR,
The CHAIRMAN said that the proprietors might ex-
pect but a small increase in their dividends next half
year. :With respect to the Oxford and Birmingham
line, all the company asked for was, that it might be
a second line for them into Birmingham. Their
object in this was to prevent an immense outlay of
the capital of this company, and that was the whole
secret of the proceedings of the directors of this
comoany•
Mr. CROSSFIELD said that it had been decided that
it was not illegal for the proprietors of that com-
pany to possess shares in the Oxford and Birmingham
Company, and he trusted, therefore, that the pro-
prietors would increase the number of shares which
they at present po-sessed in that company.
Thanks were then unanimously voted to the Chair•
man and directors, and the meeting separated.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
doses Rosenplatt a Jew hawker, was charged by Mr
Coatles Hail, 112, B.acktriars-road, with hawking goods
without a livens,.
The complainant stated that about six o'clock on the
previous aft, moon defendant came into a. public-house.
where he was, in Burlington street, and off, red jewellery
or sale. A person in the room purchased a void 12",
complainant 13,ught one also. Ile then asked de
ndmit to produce his license. Ile said that lie had not
,tot one, and hastily left the i• 011 SP. Complainant :01-
tow, d hitn, and saw him cater the White Horse pubde-
uou.e, in !la,- same street, where he endtavowed to sell
a pin to the harm-dd. Complainant then calved a con-
staLle and gave him in charge.
In answer to the charge the defendant sail he was in
re piverty. and hai a wife and tour little children
depending upon him for suprt. He was i•,treat ilis-
gat p
tri ss, and could not afford to pay tor a lie •.n e. The
,goads were not his own, they belonged to Mr. Davis in
Hounsditch, who employed him to sell then.
Mr. BINGHAM Suitt that there were many poor trades-
men who had rates and taxes to pay, and he thought it
very hard upon them for people like the defendant to be
allowed to sell without the proper license, and he cer-
tainly would not allow it; but if he (defendant) could
prove that he wss an agent employed by another party,
that would alter the case. If he could not do that, he
(Sir. Bingham) had HO alternative than to inflict the
usual penalty of 50/.
The defendant begged the magistrate to send to Arr.
Davis, who would no doubt satisfy him that he was
merely his agent.
Mr. BINGHAM said he would send an officer with him
to Mr. Davis, and if his statement was found correct he
should discharge him.

s ET joibNd.
AUG.MR. COBDEN'S ARRIVAL AT
-Richard
Cobden arrived here from
Berlin, after a stay of eleven days in that city, and
was received at the terminus by a large number of
his friends and admirers. A grand entertainment
was to be given that evening, in his honour, at the
Hotel de Presse. He will proceed to-morrow morn-
ing, by way of Danzig and Conigshey, to St. Peters•
burgh and Moscow, and to return thence by . Stock-
holm, Copenhagen, and Hamburgh, whefe it is now
expected that he will not arrive till near the end of
September. This latter place will terminate Mr.
Cobden's grand continental tour; and, doubtless,
Place the crowning honour upon his triumphal career..
Berlin; which may be considered as the birth-place
and focus of the Zollverein province, for Mr. Cob-
den's signal distinctions and sympathies, both from
his Majesty and the Prince of Prussia, as well as the
leading men both in the state and the commercial
world. Mr. Cobden often (expressed his sentiments
at the Zollverein, and the germs of our developing
greatness which it contains, in his speech at the public
dinner given in honour of him, he lamented that his
own country had not followed the example of Prussia
thirty years ago, and manifested some reciprocity of
feeling.

IMs1.••••••
EXPORTATION OF GRAIN FROM
SPAIN FERNILI TED.
The Spanish Consul-liunersl has transmitted to
L'oyds' a copy of the tollovving royal decree:-
1. From the time of receiving this royal i,rder, the
royal proelarnationc of the 14th and 23d 01 March last
17.3re.e,
yans.
CD:(flut,,rd:teti.rtd.i,ersiacbrtyi.d,
secaortasieidquieuilt
ottliecorTmoratiazte,onbatro.
potatoe, whatever may be their
r, spe,tive prier s in the markets, is permitted.
2. Front the same date the royal s and other
impo arid to whi, h grain at d alimentary seed
were formerly subject, and which were suspended by
the said royal orders of the 14th and 23d of last March,
shall be again demanded throughout the kingdom,
. 3. Tee importation of foreign grain will be regu-
Jived as before the said royal orders, in conformity with
what is directed in the royal decree ot January 29, 1834,
which returns to its lull force and vigour.
4. All the royal proclamations and instructions,
getters! and particular, which have teen issued relative
to the traffic and commerce in grain, since the royal
ord.rs of the 14th ai.d 23d of March ultimo, are an-
nulled.
The above decree has been issued in consequence of
the very favourable amounts received by the Spanish
Government respecting the state of the grain harvest
in all the provinces .ttt Spain.

--
The Government of Stirling Castle has become
vacant by the death of Major General Sir Archibald
Christie, K.C.11., late commandant at Chatham,
A WINDFALL.—A discharged soldier of the 93d
liighlanders named A twos Macpherson, has just fallen
heir to a fortune of 2,7001., bi the death, ill India, 47f a
near relative. lie is still engaged at his daily labour, in
the employment of his Grace the Duke of Sutherland,
and resides in Golspie.— Witness.