The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-27 00:00:00

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of this company was
held at the station, Nine Elms, this day, at one
o'clock, Mr. W. J. Chaplin in the chair, to consider
a report to be submitted by the directors upon the
following subjects, and to decide upon the measures
to be adopted with reference to them :
" The re-introduction into Parliament in the en-
suing session of the Salisbury and Yeovil Extension,
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, Blandford Branch,
and Taw Vale Railway Leasing Bills, all which Bills
were suspended in the last session, under the resolu-
tions of Parliament, passed on the 10th of June last,
and are privileged to be re-introduced in the next
•
a
session, on the terms of these resolutions
" The making by this company subscription
towards the making of railways from the Windsor,
Staines, and South-Western Rail\a to Slough, with
v
a deviation in the same line near Staines, from Wim-
bledon to Epsom, and from the proposed terminus of
rdoßn
the Exeter, Yeovil, and
Dorchester
Exeter, to join the Exeter and ceit near
Cowley Bridge, Exeter.
L " The making of further arrangements with the
undon, Brighton, and South Coast, and Direct
London and Portsmouth Railway Companies.
The acquiring of powers by this company to
subscribe towards, and lease or purchase the Exeter
and Crediton and Taw Vale Railways; to become
amalgamated with, or complete plete.the purchase of the
Southampton and Dorchesterenincomßail7y and Branches
and with reference to this
navigation."
interest and pro-
ceedings as regards steam navirant
The report, which was a voluminous one, stated,
amongst other matters, that the capital for the line
between Salisbury and Exeter had been considerably

reduced by the withdrawal of branches, would not
exceed 2,500,0001. The directors recommended the
prosecution of this line, and also the creation of 161.
13s. 4d. in respect of each sum of 50/., which would
raise the necessary capital. On the present payment
of 11. 13s. 4d. per share, they proposed, in conse-
quence of the pressure, a payment of 7 per cent., to
be guaranteed as a preferential dividend, the entire
amount of such dividends to be returned without de-
duction, and with interest at the same rate, in case
the directors should not acquire, in the year
1848, power to raise any further capital.
No call beyond the deposit to be made on
the Ist July, 1849, by which time they anti-
cipated the money market would have recovered its
ordinary condition. Therefore the rate of interest
would not apply beyond the first sum.

The CHIIiMAN addressed the meeting. He said
the proposition made by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer last night left the shareholders the option of
either abandoning or proceeding with the Salisbury
and Exeter, and other Bill only partially proceeded
with. The subjects of which Bills should proceed
and those which should not would be referred to the
Committee of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
he trusted they would be enaqled, by show-
ing themselves ready to proceed, to in-
duce that tribunal to report favourably of their
projects. Unless they proceeded in the
present session they would lose all the money they
bad expended on their incomplete projects, they
would be wanting in moral courage if they did not
do so.—(Hear.) They had already 180 miles of
railway, and. unlike many other companies, they had
no guarantees to meet, save what might arise out of
their earnings ; and then their expenditure was
moderate. He was happy to inform them that the
line to the York-road would be opened before June.
The: Windsor and Staines, the Chertsey, and the
Salisbury and Brighton lines, would be opened about
the same time. To show that their new lines were
remunerative, he had only to quote the recent re-
ceipts. They had expended 255,1071. on the Dorset
line ; the returns for the six months ending the 30th
of October were 16,4651. Taking the working ex-
penses at forty per cent., the return to the share-
holders would be 54 16s. per cent., the Southamp-
ton and Dorchester 41. 55., and the Richmond, Si. 4s.
On the motion that the report be received,
Mr. A. HOYLE moved an amendment, to the effect
that looking at the present depression, the Bills re-
ferred to shall not be proceeded with, especially as the
towns between Salisbury and Exeter were either
now accommodated by existing lines, or by those
about to be made..

This led to a prolonged and animated discussion—
a few gentlemen urging that the company would
entail certain ruin upon itself if it extended itself
into a territory now occupied, and from which they
could not anticipate much profit; whilst, on the
other hand, a vast number of the speakers contended
that the line to Exeter could not fail to prove remu-
nerative, and besides that, it would be folly now,
when the Bill was actually in the House
of Lords, to lose courage ; the more espe-
cially as their success was almost certain. If
they were to defer proceeding they would lose all
they had expended, and render it very doubtful
whether they would be enabled at any future time to
obtain the consent of Parliament to such a measure.
Let the South-Western deserve the name it bore,
urged one proprietor, and stop not until it stretched
its way to the extreme of Cornwall on one hand and
Dover on the other.

Six voted for the amendment, and against it a
sea of hands were held up.
The report was consequently received.
Power was conferred to carry out the other matters
mentioned above, and a vote of thanks having been
passed to the Chairman and directors, the meeting
separated at four o'clock.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, NOV. 26.--The busi-
ness of the week has been limited, chiefly owing to the
poor assortment at market, as the demand continues
very good. The refined market is very steady.—Bristol
Mercury,

INCREASE OF PAUPERISMIN
MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday a very numerous meeting of the board of
directors and guardians of St. Marylebone, was occupied
in considering the extraordinary measures of relief ne-
cessary to meet the unprecedented amount of distress
and pauperism.
Mr. Jacob Bell having been called to the chair,
Mr. MESSER, the relieving officer, reported that the
number of persons receiving relief during the present
week, was 9,100.

Mr. JoNES, the master of the workhouse, reported
that the house was at that moment so overcrowded as to
be in an unhealthy condition.
Mr. ALLEN, one of the surgeons of the Workhouse
Infirmary, reported to the board that the amount of
sickness prevailing amongst the poor was so great that
it exceeded the usual number twofold, that the appoint-
ment of two additional assistant visiting surgeons was
absolutely necessary.
An order for such an appointment was immediately
given by the board.
Sir J. HAMILTON said, he would move,

" That the attention of the board be at once specially
directed to the crowded state of the house, and to the
alarming increase of applications for outdoor relief, with
a view to adopt such measures as may be practicable to
meet, and, if possible, to mitigate the increasing desti-
tution."

Mr. A. DANIELL seconded the motion.
This resolution having been adopted, the board re-
solved itself into a committee of the whole board.
Counsel's opinion was read as to the power of the
board to erect additional buildings out of the parish, or
anywhere except on the site of the present workhouse,
for the pauper children. The opinion was, that under
the Local Act they had no such power, but that the
vestry had.
Mr. G. S. SMITH said, they were in a sad predica-
ment. Only yesterday, Mr. Allen, the surgeon of the
infirmary, had to take one sick patient out of his bed to
make room for another, who had returned after an opera-
tion from the Free Hospital.

Mr. CARR moved, with regard to outdoor relief,
" That four inspectors of the poor be forthwith em-
ployed to assist the relieving overseer in affording relief;
and that Mr. blesser be empowered to employ additional
officers to supply the place of the inspectors."
This was seconded and carried.
Sir W. STIRLING said this was a gigantic evil, a per-
manent increase of workhouse accommodation was
therefore absolutely necessary.—(Hear, hear.)
After Some discussion it was resolved—
" That the master be requested to report specially as
to the amount of room available in the workhouse, and
the number of persons possible to be got rid of out of
those inmates under 30 years of age."
Mr. CARR said he held in his hand the South Austra-
lian Gazette of the Gth of March last, which had been
addressed to the board, and from which it appeared that
whilst there was so much distress and want of employ-
ment here there was abundance of it in the colony of
South Australia. The paper stated, " The want of
labour in the colony is daily becoming more pressing.
Every available pair of hands are employed, and enter-
prise in all directions, pastoral, agricultural, and mineral,
is cribbed and confined by the impossibility of obtaining
a sufficiency of working power to carry on the legitimate
operations of the coloni,ts. The landed proprietors of
the colony had presented a memorial to the Secretary of
State for the Colonies on the subject; and had prepared
ships to carry over emigrants. Carpenters, masons,
and smiths obtained constant employ at Gs. to 7s. Gd. per
day, and labourers from 2.15. to 30s. per week." He felt
assured there were hundreds of poor fellows who would.
avail themselves of this rather teen come to that work-
house for relief. He moved—
" That the secretary communicate with the Colonial
Land and Emigration Commissioners for information
on the subject."
Mr. Mc= seconded the motion, and it was carried
cent con.
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the workhouse.
The bcard then broke up.

peYrsooanits .
0 n MONUMENTthe 19thof
lastT TO
ImVonstirthGirr°tyN thAoTusaNnEdw
as-
sembled to witness the ceremony of laying the first stone
of en enormous monument to Washington, in New
York. The members of Congress, ministers cf state
birds
formed
in
ed
of an parwhite
foreign ambassadors, and a triumphal ear, drawn is by '
; to repre-
sent horses, containing a bust of the American herox,
youngsseunrtroinknedetdhirbt3e-enthiorrtiegeinna
states, g
im-
mense procession to the site. The
com-
menced on elevated ground, and beingm.onument is
as a landmark for ships
at sea, is intended to serve
considerable height. A N , proposed to be of very
Yo.rk
view of it, showing it to be a tower New
paper gives a small
decreasing in size, and separated in six stories, gradually
lines, after the fashion of whatlpara.ted by hard horizontal
the arrangement of the T is believed to have been
opera-glass pulled out to its
of Babel, or a monstrous
says, that when th its furthest extent. Our au-
thorityshower of money and bouquets e coffer. had been deposited, a
spectators, each
hquets rained in from the sur-
roundingto the memory of Wash• anxious to make his offering
LOSSES or THE FRington.-,- The Builder.
gives the following 'LI'AYI..—A French con-
temporaryowing as. a. correct statement of
the losses of the French navy within the last two years:
—" The state has lost th Berceau,eo corfvitette of 3aodgriiuiceg.
which went down at sea; the
advice-
boat, which like the Berc eau was oren of
gßuonustlbon sta-
tion,. and was also lost at sea; the Doris schooner of
six 18-pound carronades which sunk in sight of Brest;
the Levrette cutter of 6 guns, wrecked on the coast of
America; the Seine sloop of war of 24 guns, which was
driven on shore at New Zealand; the Gloire frigate of
54, and the Victorieuse of 24 guns, wrt-cke,i on the
coast of Goree; the Greenland steam-frigate of 450-
horse power, run on shore on the coast of Africa as she
was returning from the expedition against Mogador;
the Caraibe, of 450 horse power, lost at Senegal; the
Pepin steam-sloop of 160-horse power; the Sphynx, also
of the same power; and the Er• ,
icl...n of 60-horse power,
wrecked at Guyana."
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. FRIDAT.—This week
there is a pretty good arrival of wheat,
,for which we
have a steady demand at last week's prices. Barley is
offered at a reduction of ls. per
quarterto without leading
to much business. No change note. in the value of
oats and shelling. Beaus sel quite
in retail tat rather
lower rates.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Nov. 26.
The Earl of SuArrEsnuar, in the absence of the
Lord Chancellor, took his seat upon the Woolsack at
Four o'clock, when several Peers took the oaths and
their seats.