The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

LLYNVI VALLEY RAILWAY.

The second halr- yearly ordinary general meeting of
this compiny, vt as held yeAterday at the offices, 449,
West Strand ; Dr. Bowring, 11. P., in the chair.
The advertisement convening the meeting having
been real, and the seal of the company affixed to the
register of proprietors,
The SECRETARY read a report, of which the fol-
lowing is an abstract:—
" The directors congratulate the proprietors on the
complete succ-ss which has attended their proceeding,
from the date of the report of the 10th December, 1846.
" That report referred to an agreement then entered
into with the Duffryn, Llynvi, and Forth Caw 1 Com-
pany, for the purpose of consolidating the two under-
takings. The directors have now the satisfaction of
stating that the agreement has been confirmed by Par-
liament, and that the Act, authorising the union, has re-
ceived the royal assent.
" By this Act, the property and powers of the Duffryn,
Llynvi, and Forth Cawl Company, are vested in the
Llynvi Valley Railway Company, the capital of the
Duffryn, Llynvi, and Forth Cawl Company, is declared
to be part of the capital of the Llynvi Valley Railway
Company, the proprietors of the former company re-
ceiving stock of the new company equivalent to their
shares in the Duffryn, Llynvi, and Porth Cawl Company,
with the same privilege as the holders of existing shares.
" From the nature of the above, and the provisions of
the Act, the proprietors cannot fail to perceive that the
whole arrangement between the old and the new com-
pany, has been based upon fair and liberal terms, and
are such as will. in the judgment of your directors, pro
duce a moot satisfactory result to the proprietors of both
companies.
" The Act .for authorising the short Extension from
Castel-y-Wewa to Angle-town, in the parish of New-
castle, has received the royal assent, and they cannot but
regard this short extension as a most important accession
to the powers possessed by this company.
" The directors have only been put into possession of
the Duffryn, Llynvi, and Porth Cawl line, within a very
recent period, and therefore they are not able at this
meeting to afford the proprietors any precise informs
tion as to the adoption of various suggestions which
have been made to them for the improvement of the old
line; but they trust, by the next half-yearly meeting, to
be in a position to lay before the proprietors a statement
of the results of their plan of working it during the con-
struction of the new line."

The accounts showed the receipts up to the 30th or
June to have been 19,2261. 10s. id., and the expendi.
ture 11,8701. 3s. ld., leaving a balance in hand of
7,3561.75.
Tne CHAIRMAN having briefly addressed the meet-
ing, the report was received and adopted, and a vote
of thanks having been passed to the Chairman and
directors, the meeting separated.

RI:MA RIC ABLE TENACITY OF LIFE IN A CAT.—A
singular eircouistanee has arisen out of the lute fire in
Market.A.reet. A favourite tortoise-shell
the cat, the pro-
perty of Richard Gri-enalls, porter at Nlessrs. (Jun -
idle and 8r..0k,' bank, S' ho tecupied a room in the lop
story, waS supposed to have been di,stroyed in ton, con
fi.gration. Puisey was in this room at teu time on th,
night of the fire, and consequently when it was nearly
Ord with the flaw's, she was observed to run about the
apartment, as if wild for a moment, ai,d then to make a
spring in the direction of the fire place. Not a doubt
was telt that she had perished, but H. ither her life not

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troubles were )etat an end. Directly underneath th,
apartment iii which she had been lust seen, but on the•
basement storey, anti consequently on the sixth from
the top, was a part of the cellaring oc -upied by Mr.
Wood, ale anti porter dealer, and in this cellar was a
boiler, used for heating wcer for the washing of bottlev,
whico boiler, notwithsialiding that the whole of the five
storeys above fell, or were pulled down, was not much
damaged. On Monday Mr. Wood's man endeavoured
to make a fir., in the furnace underneath the boiler; but
though he put a quantity of light. d pap, r in, could not get
it to burn, there beteg no draught of air whatever. On
Wednesday morning the porter's attention was attracted
again to the obstacle in the flue, and putting up his
hand drew forth by the tail the poor cat, but so
begrimed with soot as totally to conceal its colour, and
so much emaciated front want of food as to be scarcely
able to siittid. It -...aas taken in the man's apron to the
porter at the bank in King-street, where the company
have removed to. •He at once recognised his old favou-
rite, and she, on hearing his voice, was not slow to give
tokens of recognition on her part. On some nourishing
diet being given to her, she soon revived, and except
being still very thin, appears little the worse for the
danger and privation she has undergone. There ap-
pear to be two ways of accounting for her extraordinary
preservation. One is that she may have fallen through
from the top of the premises when that portion of the
building fell in, and afterwards crept to where she was
found; but the greater probability is, that in that case
she would have been crushed to death instantly; the
other is, that, with the instinct of self-preservation, she
reached the chimney with which the flue communicated,
and, having fallen or scrambled to the bottom, made her
way to the flue where she was discovered. However
improbable it may appear, it seems evident that the cat
has subsisted without food ever since the fire. This oc-
curred on the night of the 11th inst., so that a period of
thirteen and a half days, or three hundred and
twenty-four hours, elapsed from the time she was
missed until she was discovered.—Manchester Examiner.
WIDDICOMBH AT EDDBN.--011 Saturday, the 21s
August, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. Widlicombe, o
Astley's Amphitheatre, to Miss Elizabeth Elden'
daughter of the late Mrj.Edden, of Ely- place, Holborn

aALLlClA.—According—to a letter from Vienna,

tory, great agitation reigning
the 20th, the intelligence—from Gallicia was unsatisfac
in the province and at
Lemberg. The priest, who was to have been executed,
has had his sentence commuted to twenty years im-
prisonmentin the fortress et Kufstein.
The several rumours respecting
appointments to
the bishopric of Manchester are unfounded. No ap-
pointment can take place until the arrangements for
the constitution of the new see shall have been formally
announced iu the Gazette.—Observer.
ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 17.—Count Tschernit
schen, who hay just returned from his furlough, has,
by command of his Majesty, again undertaken the
department Minister of War.
it is staled that the cointnittee of Spanish bond-
holders have made art angements ,or the mount of Arr.
Henderson from Alutrid,ch, Be.giun, and Germ.ai and that a general eonar.ss of
the English, Fr, rich, hutch,
cre-
ditors wSpain is to be held in that city next month. The mission from EH-
wand is to be composed of a Mem-
her of Parliament, who has undertaken its manat,,e-
meat, accompanied by a deputation Ir.,fia the committee,
to whom the especial support of our Government is
understood to have been promised.
COFENHAaEN, AUG. 21.—The Russian fleet, which
was lying at anchor in the entrance of the Sound, is
said to have lust between four and five hundred men
in its short expedition to the North Sea, and still
numbers a great many men on the sick list. I'he
provision., which it fetched from 1104pgor.
steam-frigate Smell° has just supplied it with fresh

NING, AUGUST 3

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

DEATH or AN INFANT THROUGH NEGLIGFNCE.—
Julia Sullivan and friary Lane, her sister, were placed
at the bar, before Aldernian Moon, charged with so
neglecting the child of the former, un infant about one
month old, as to cause its death.
Police constable David Hewitt stated that while on
duty in Field-lane, about ten o'clock that morning,
he was informed by a female named Murphy that she
had been requested by the prisoner Sullivan to look
after her infant for a short time, and that on proceed-
ing up stairs she found the unfortunate child dead in
a chair. On receiving the information' he (Hewitt)
went to No. 20, Field-lane, and found the child dead,
as described by Murphy, upon which he sent for Mr.
Gibion, the district surgeon, whose assistant attended,
and attributed the cause of the child's death, to gross
negligence, the poor thing, to all appearance, not
having been in bed all night. Finding such to be the
cae, he (witness) locked the door, and proceeded in
search of the prisoners, whom he eventually found
in a public house in the neighbourhood, drinking
with some other Irish people. On telling Sullivan
for what she was taken into custody, she said that
she gave the child to her sister the previous evening
to take care of, being too much intoxicated to do so
herself.

Alderman MOON asked the officer why he had taken
Lane into custody ?
Hewitt replied, in consequence of Sullivan stating
that she gave the care of her child to her sister.
Alderman MOON said there appeared to be no evi-
dence against the prisoner Lane, and she was, there-
fore, discharged. With respect to Sullivan, he
should remand her until the result of the Coroner's
inquest was ascertained.
Neither of the prisoners said anything, and Sulli-
van was then removed, howling and crying at a great
rate.