The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-09 00:00:00

COLCHESTER AND STOUR VALLEY.

The adjourned special meeting of the proprietors was
held at Colchester on Tuesday; the important point for
consideration being the leasing of the line to the Eastern
Union.

Mr. T. Lestrange Ewing in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN stated that since the last meeting
negotiations, conducted without prejudice to the legal
position of either company, had, under the existing
agreement, taken place, and had resulted in a provi-
sional agreement, by which the capital to be guaranteed
by the Eastern Union would be considerably diminished,
and the extent of liability lessened. The objections on
the part of a body of shareholders in the Eastern Union
to the large amount of capital over which that company's
guarantee would be extended was thus got rid ot, and
the lease, after a vote and division, had been affirmed by
the Eastern Union on the 9th ult.

The agreement submitted to the meeting provided
that the Colchester and Stour Valley Railway shall
immediately complete their main line to Sudbury,
together with the branch to Halstead, on being called
to do so by the Eastern Union, and that the other
branches (which would interfere with the projects of
the Eastern Union) shall not, without that company's
consent, be proceeded with. The lease to be at five
per cent. from the completion of the line between
Hythe and Sudbury, to increase with the Eastern Union.
After some conversational discussion, of no particular
importance, resolutions in ratification of the agreement
were passed. The transfer of this new subsidiary to the
Eastern Union gives that company an aggregate rail-
way territory in the eastern districts of some 150
miles, uniting the ports of Yarmouth, Ipswich, and
Harwich, and the towns of Colchester and Norwich,
with London by the Eastern Counties, at a cost of about
3,000,0001.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Return of cattle,
grain, &c., for the London markets over the Eastern
Counties Railway for the week ending Nov. 4, 1848.
Cattle Department: Beasts, 232; cakes, 48; sheep,
4,676; pigs, 304. Granaries Department: Malt, 3,454
qrs.; wheat, 652 qrs.; barley, 523 qrs.; oats, 125 qrs.;
beans, 206 qrs.; peas, 202 qrs.; total, 5,162 qrs. (10,324
sacks); flour, 7,662 sacks; seed, 580 sacks; total, 18,566
sacks. General merchandise: Meat, dead, 199 tons,
5 cwt., 1 qr.; poultry, 43 tons, 6 cwt., 2 qrs.; fish, fresh,
311 tons, 8 cwt., 2 qrs.; fruit and vegetables, 434 tons,
10 cwt.; ale and porter, 178 tons, 2 cwt.; wines and
spirits, 80 tons, 12 cwt., 1 qr.; wool, 28 tons, 7 cwt.,
2 qrs.; general merchandise, 2,694 tons, 5 cwt., 1 qr.;
total, 3,969 tons, 17 cwt., 1 qr. Milk, 16,856 quarts;
bread, 49 cwt.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Gross traffic receipts for
the week ended the 4th Nov.—Passeng,ers: First class,
11,526; second class, 28,575; third class, 30,725;
total, 70,826; amount, 6,1111. Os. 6d.; carrying account,
2,9691. 13s. 21; total, 9,0801. 13s. Bd.

MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND, AND
ROYAL CANAL COMPANY.—Revenue for the week ending
sth of November, 1848, for goods and passengers (exclu-
sive of mails), to Mullingar, 50 miles, 1,1431. 16s. 2d.
BELFAST AND BALLYMENA.—WiIIiam Hunter, the
person whom we referred to as having been arrested on
a charge of placing an obstruction on this line of railway,
near Andraid, has been fully committed for trial. From
circumstances which have since come to light, there is
reason to suppose that other parties will be amenable.
In addition to the reward offered by the company and
that got up by private subscription, a third is oft'ored by
the Government for the conviction of the offenders.—
IVerthern Whig.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES ON SOUTHEND PIER.--
The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company,
who hive become the proprietors of the pier at Southend,
have recently had a line of railway formed On that
strecture for the conveyance of passengers to and from
the steam-boats. The pier is about a mile and a half in
length, and this accommodation is understood to be only
a preparatory step to more extensive improvements.
When a railway communication is effected between this
town and the metropolis, it will, no doubt, become a
favourite watering place to the Londoners.
SUSPENSION OF WORKS ON THE BASINGSTOKE AND
SALISBURY LlNE.—Proceeding from Basingstoke to
Andover, through Whitchureb, Overton, Monxzon, and
Thruxton, to Appleshaw fair, this day, we found the
works alt standing still, and every man discharged on
this day week (Friday), by orders received from Mr.
Brassy, the contractor, although the line appears to be
in a very forward state as far as Andover—the rails down
a great part of the distance, the embankments finished
off, and the bridges across the cuttings complete. It is
said that the South-Western Company do not intend
carrying this branch further than Andover for the pre-
sent; and to that town it is expected the line will be open
by the Ist of June, 1849.
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.—The works on the
unfinished portion of the Huddersfield and Manchester,
a line of twenty miles in length, and one of the subsidiary
lines in which the London and North-Western are in-
terested by subscription, contribution, or gu'arantee, are
to be resumed, one part being a contract of four miles, by
Stalybridge, and the other of three miles, between Hud-
dersfield and Marsden.

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE.—The
proprietors have been called together to take into con-
sideration a proposed application to Parliament, in the
coming session, fckr an abandoment of a portion of their
line, and for a decrease in their capital.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business clone to day has been
to a fair extent, but the general tone of the market is not so
good as yesterday. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 22/. Shares, 934 dis.—Cale-
donian, Preference, Bs. 9d. dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire
(late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths, 4 dis.— London
and North Western, 1181/2 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 734 p.—
Midland Stock, 83—Ditto, New Halves, 91/2 dis.—North
Staffordshire, 61.35. 9d. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No.
2, 12 dis.--York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 1% die.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, 4 dis.—Fleetwoods, 121 s. dis. —North •Western, 91%
dis.—North Staffordshire, 6 7-16 dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 4t
dis.—Ditto, 32/. Shares, 9% dis.— West Riding Uuion, 4%
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 13-16 c.—North
Union, 200.,

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 8.
STOCK ExcriANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire,
dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7% dis. ex
new—Ditto (B), 4% dis. ex new—Shropshire Union, 314 dis.
GLASGOW,
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ference, 925. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves,
No. 1,61 s. Glasgow and Greenock, 121/2—Great Northern,
713.—North British, Thirds, 745.—Scottish Central, 231,h
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G.N. E. Purchase), 61/2.

THE CORN TRADE.
LEEDS, Nov. 7.—The supply of wheat is moderate,
and the trade is very firm at fully Friday's prices.
Barley is without alteration in value. Beans sell at late
rates. Oats, shelling, and other articles, without material
variation.

HULL, Nov. 7.—Much rain has fallen daily during
the past week, making seeding operations almost im-
possible. On Friday night we had a complete gale of
wind and sl,et; on Saturday a good deal of snow, fol-
lowed on Sunday by a very sharp frost, which has since
almost disappeared. The transactions of the week have
been on a limited scale, and quite of a retail character;
still, fair prices have been made, stocks in granary being
moderate our weekly import is little interfered with.
We have for this diy's miirket a good supply of wheat
from our own farmers and a better show o' foreign than
of late; fredt, dry samples of English suet ready sale at
fully the rati-s-Of last week, but anything out of condi
tiou was most difficult to quit. The farmers gave de-
plorable accounts as to the flooded slate of the country.
In foreign wheat not much doing—prices unaltered,