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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1847.

gal Railway Company to be exchanged for an equal
number of shares in the consolidated company.
2d. The relative expenses of the two companies to be
equitably adjusted by mutual arrangements.
3d. Three of the directors of the Great Western
Bengal Railway Company to join the consolidated
company.

4th. Claims of the officers who may be displaced by
the amalgamation to be considered by the consolidated
board.

The balance-sheet produced showed receipts amount
ing to 11,320/. ; disbursements 7,0441. ; leaving a
balance of 4,2761., with no outlying debts—the expen-
diture being something under 3s. 2d. a share.
The CHAIRMAN Said he had but little to say in re-
gard to their peculiar position, which he hoped they
would sanction and confirm. It would be the more un-
necessary, as Sir George Larpent had the other day
given so very able a report of the whole conditions and
state of the amalgamation. He felt it necessary to state,
however, that they were about to be rejected at the East
Indian Company's Board, and they were about to call a
meeting, in order to wind up, when a proposal was
made for amalgamation with the East Indian Railway
Company, which the directors considered to be of a
nature not to be rejected or lost. They had tried to
have a greater number of the directors in the consoli-
dated board, but that was not conceded, and they
thought it best to accept the conditions which were
offered. The Chairman concluded, by moving that the
report be received, adopted, and printed.
RICHARD HARTLEY KENNEDY, Esq., in seconding the
motion, said the calculation of the expense on the pro.
posed line of 900 miles had been made by the East
Indian Railway Company at 17,0001. a mile. He was
strongly of opinion that that sum was quite the outside
calculation, for if a canal in the very same route was
reckoned at 3,0001. per mile, he did think a railway
might be made much cheaper than the rate that had
bee!r taken in that calculation, say something like
10,0001. a mile ; for the labour in that country was
very cheap, twenty cubic yards of earthwork being
accomplished at 2s. In remarking on the traffic
.returns put forth by the East Indian Railway Corn
pally. which showed a dividend of 15i per cent.
he expressed his opinion that that was very much be-
low what the traffic would actually be. He risked this
opinion on the traffic that must be created in Indian
cotton and corn—the latter, most excellent, being capable
of being landed in England at 365. a quarter from Bengal.
The motion was put and carried.
Mr. WRIGHT proposed the confirmation of the amal-
gamation, ar.d the conditions of the same, with the East
ILdian Railway Company, which passed unanimously.
Mr. CARDEN proposed a vote of thanks to the direc-
tors, which was carried.

The CHAIRMAN responded, and the meeting dispersed,

REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS
' DURING THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 10.
Deaths registered in the week. Births registered in the week.
Males ... ... ... 527 Males ... ... ... 776
Females ... ... 524 Females ... ... 713

- -
Total . . 1,051

Total ... 1,489

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
BLACKBURN V. EDWARDS.

This was an action to recover the sum of 31. 18s. The
plaintiff is a laundress, and the defendant a cab proprie-
tor. Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted.
Mr. Miller appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Locke
!or thv defendant.

The evidence for the plaintiff was that the work had
been done, and the charges fair and reasonable.

On the- rart of the def'endant it was shown that pre-
vious monetary transactors had taken place between
the plaintiff and defendant, and that at one time the
plaintiff held 2ot belonging to the defendant, but which
,he had said she had paid over to defendant's father,
Llh is dead.

To prove that the plaintiff had admitted that she held
thy money for defendant, Mr. Ellis was called, but his
evidence was not conclusive, as it left the case open to
the impression that the money bad been paid to the
lather, whose estate was insolvent, as an advance, by
order of the son.

Mr. MILLER remarked on the impropability of a person
in such humble circumstances going to the expense of
L:n action if the claim was not just.
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the full
amount claimed.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE 01 COMMONS, April 13.
SUPPLY.

On the order of the day that the Report be received,
Mr. lIUME wished to ask a question which he
had omitted last night. It was, whether Burnet's
patent solution for the pprotection of canvass and tim-
ber had been introduced into the service of the navy ?
He had seen the most beneficial effects from it.

Mr. WARD replied, that it had been largely intro-
duced into the service of the dockyards, and was fast
increasing.
Captain PECIIELL complained that what he bad
stated last about the treatment of the officers connected
with the Haslar Hospital bad not been answered. As a
petition on the subject had been laid on the table, he
trusted that before the report was agreed to an explana-
Licit would be given.
Mr. WARD said that the answer to the observations
of his Honourable and Gallant Friend was, that
all those abuses were of old date, but he
might state that in respect to the first of the cases to
which he had particularly referred there had been a
regulation established by which one half of the half-
pay had been made over to the friends of the
invalid. As respected the second of the cases,
he regretted to say, that a gross abuse had
existed, but the Government bad taken measures
for its removal.—(" Hear, bear," from Captain Pechell.)
By the advice of that excellent nobleman, Lord Ashley,
every effort had been used to ameliorate the condition of
the parties to whom his friend referred. _ .

Sir G. GREY said that on the case being made known
to them, the Board of Admiralty had sent down in-
structions to direct that every attention that could be
shown should be paid to Lit utenant Cawse, and he be-
lieved that those instructions had been efficacious for the
purpose.

EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee. The whole
the clauses were agreed to.
PRISONS (IRELAND) BILL.
The report on this Bill was brought up and received.