The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-01 00:00:00

iagan, Willinm Moore, George H.
Ferguson, Sir R. Mowatt, Francis

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nolllott, J.
Fitzpatrick, J. W.

Abdy, T. N.
Adam', Sir T.

Muntz, G. F. Dunne, F. P.
apler, Joseph O'Flaherty,'Anthony,

Aleock, Thomas
Anderson, Arthur
Anson, Colonel

Anson, Viscount
Armstrong, Sir A.
Arundel, Earl of
Baines, M. T.
lialdock, E. IL
Barnard, E.G.

MAJORITY-NOES, 165.
Fortescue, J. W. Paget, Lord A.
Galway, Viscount Paget, Lord C.
Glyn, G. C. Paget, Lord;George
Godson, It. Palmer, Robert
Graham, Sir James Parker, John
Greene Thomas Perfect, Robert
Creolell, C. Pascoe Peto, Samuel
Grenfel , Charles W. Pigott, Francis
Grey, Sir G. - Pilkington, James
Grey, Ralph W. Pinney, W.
Harris, lion. Capt. Price, Sir R.
Hastie, Alexander Pugh. David
Ilastie, Archibald Pusey, Philip
Hay, Lord J. Raphael, Alexander
Ilayter, W. G. Renton, John C.
Headlam, T. E. Ricardo, Osman
Heathcoat, John Rice, E. It.
Heathcote, G. J. Rich, Henry
Heneage, G. H. W. Robartes. T. J.
Henry, Alexander Russell, F. C. H.
Heywood, James Rutherford, A.
llindley Charles Salwey, Colonel
Hope, Henry T. Scrope, G. P.
Howard, C. W. Seymour, Lord
Inglis, Sire R. Shell, R. L.
Jervis, Sir:John Shelburne, Earl of
Jervis, John Simeon, John
Jolliffe, Sir W G. 11. Slaney, It. A.
Jones, Captain Smith, Vernon
Keppel, G. T. Smith, J. A.
Kershaw, Jaßans Smith, J. Benjamin
Kildare, Mai4ftls Somerville, Sir W.
King, P. J. Spearman, IL J.
Labouchere, Henry Stanley, E. J.
Lascelles, W. S. Stanton, W. 11.
Lincoln, Earlief Strutt, Edward
Lindsay, Colonel Stuart, Henry
Litt/eton, E. R. Thicknesse, 'Ralph
Mackenzie, W. F. Thornely, Thomas
li'Gre3or, John Trelawny, J. S.
Mahon, Viscount Tynte, Colonel,
Maitland, T. Verney, Sir H.
Marshall, J. G. Vesey, Hon. T.
Martin, , J. Villiers, Charles
Matheson, Alex. Vivian, J. E.
Matheson _Colonel Walmsley, Sir J.
Melgund, Viscount Ward, H. G.
Miles, William Wawn, J. T.
Mitchell, T. A. Willcox, Brodie
Moffatt, George Wilson, Matthew
Morgan 0. Wood, Sir Charles
Morpeth, Viscount Wortley, J. S.
Morris, David Wyvill, Marmaduke
Mostyn, E. M. L. TELLERS.
Mulgrave, Earl Tunicll, 11.
Neeld, Joseph Hill, Lord Marcus

Barrington, Viscount
Bellew, It. M.
Berkeley, Captain
Birch, Sir Thomas
Blackstone, W. S.
Boldero, Henry

Foyle, le Colonel i
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Bright, John
Brisco, M.
Brotherton, J.
Brown, W. _

Buller;Sir, J. Y.
Buller, Charles
Campbell, W. F.
Castlereagh, Vise.
Cavendish, C. C.
Cavendish, G. 11.
Cayley, Edward S.
Chaplin, W. J.
Charters, Francis
Christopher, R.
Christy, Samuel
Cobbold, John C.
Colebrooke, Sir T.
Coles, Henry B.
Courtenay, Lord
Cowper, W F.
Craig, W. G.
Cripps, W. . .

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Dalr„ymple, Captain
Davie, Sir 11,

Deedes, W.
Denison, J. lE.
Drummond, IL
Duncan, George
Dundas,:Admiral
Dundee, Sir D.
Duzdas, George
Edwards, Henry
Elliot, John E.
Evans, William
Fergus, John
Fordyce, A. D.
Forster, Mathew

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Six,—On Monday, the 28th, the Chancellor of the
Exchuer abandoned his intention of increasing
the income-tax to 5 per cent. He further proposed
to take the expenses of the Kafir war out of the ba-
lances lying in the Exchequer. It strikes me forcibly
that this last is not a diminution of the expenditure.
The further discussion was deferred till Friday.
On the same evening Mr. Hume asked Lord John
Russell whether it was the intention of Ministers to
interfere in any way in consequence of the changes in
the form of government in France ; and was answered
most distinctly in the negative, which was received
with cheers from all parts of the House. Some of
the orators on the Opposition side attempted in the
course of the evening to draw the Prime Minister
into debateable ground; and intimated that Mr. Pitt
had made the same kind of declaration,—by way of
inferring that a good-jolly war was possible after all.
But the result was only a repetition of the declara-
tion. A mischievous race, these orators !

On Tuesday Lord Palmerston was asked by Mr.
Monckton Mines whether he had any information on
the course intended to be pursued by the French
Government towards foreign Powers. And the
Minister replied, that he had this day assurances from
the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, that it was
the intention of the French Government to maintain
all the existing relations with foreign Powers, unless
attacked.

Nearly six hours were afterwards spent in debatit
upon a motion for a Select Committee on the work-
ing of the Irish PoorNlaw ; which was finally ne•
gatived.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONI4:T THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, March 1, 1848.

LONDONDERRY and COLERAINE

RAILWAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders
of this company was yesterday held at the offices of the
company, No. 5, Church-passage, Guildhall, for the
purpose of receiving a report and statement of accounts
from the directors, and for the transaction of the'ordi-
nary business of the company. The meeting was also
made special for the purpose of considering the subject
of the forfeiture of certain shares held by defaulting
shareholders, and for taking into consideration the
draft of a Bill to be submitted to Parliament, autho-
rising a deviation in the line of railways as at present
authorised to be made.

The chair was taken at one o'clock by the Chairman
of the company, Johu Griffith Frith, Esq.
The minutes of the last meeting having been con-
firmed, the Secretary read the report, from which it
appeared—
" That this project originated in the belief that if the
railway could be taken along the shores of Lough Foyle,
and within the Slob Lands, to be reclaimed from the sea,
the land so recovered would be of value sufficient, not
only to pay for the works necessary for the reclamation,
but also for the railway itself.
" Contracts for the embankments necessary to "com-
plete the reclamation were entered into with Messrs.
Bromhead and Hemming, at prices advised by the
engineers to be moderate, the contractors stipulating to
perfect the works by the first day of January, 1849.
Looking at the character of the work, the directors
were advised to make an advance upon plant, upon
condition of double that sum being expended by the
contractors for the same purpose.
The works having thus been placed under contract,
were commenced; but the directors regretted to be
obliged to state, that notwithstanding they had afforded
every facility to the contractors, and made the required
advance upon plant, the contract for the embankment
was not duly, or at all satisfactorily, carried on, and
the directors became convinced that the contractors were
unable to carry on the entire works simultaneously) and
hadaproposed enclosures, leaving
all
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their energies should be di-
rectedthe others in abeyance until that was completed; but
e e
one odf
tthhea t
threeeven with this limit the works did not make that pro-
gress
which the directors felt they had a right to expect;
and the directors had to report that they felt, under the
circumstances, that they had no alternative but to take
the contract for the reclamation out of the hands of
Messrs. Brombead and Hemming.
" The present arrears of calls amounted to 64,0001.;
of this it was computed the sum of 50,0001. would be
paid, leaving 80,0001. to be provided for the completion
of the middle enclosure in two years.
" When the three enclosures shall have been com-
pleted, the number of acres belonging to the company
would be 10,200, being 2,000 acres less than originally
designed, the difference being caused by the Admiralty
having required the line of embankment to be set back
landwise, within the line chosen by the engineers. But
taking the diminished number
, of acres, as by the pre-
sent plan, at the value of 504 per acre, being twenty per
cent. under the lowest estimate put before tbe Parlia-
mentary Committee, they would produce 510,000/4
enough, in all reasonable probability, to pay for the re-
clamation, and also to provide the capital necessary for
the construction of the railway.
Haying regard to this statement, the directors
would submit that three plans suggest themselves for
consideration. First, to stop, and to keep the present
works from falling into decay. Second,
to proceed at a
speed such as will serve to complete the Middle Enclo-
sure in two years. Third, to fiud the means necessary
to complete it in a shorter time.
The first of these plans would plainly 1;e disastrous,
and could only be justified by the insolvency of the
company.
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" The second promised a safe termination to the first
and most important part of the work, but protracted
much beyond the time anticipated, or necessary for its
completion.
" The third seemed to your directors the best way of
forwarding the interests of the company under the pre-
sent circumstances. It presented, however, the difficulty
of finding the sum within the time required. The diffi•
culty did not appear to be insuperable, and might be met
by seeking part of the sum required in arrears of calls,
and the remainder either in a loan, or an issue of prefe-
rence shares."
Mr. BUTTS stated that he had lately paid a visit to
the works upon the line, and ho regretted to see the
state in which they were. It appeared to him that the
present deplorable position of the company was owing
entirely to the management of the parties having the
control of the contracts and works. The sum of
200,0001. had been already expended, and they had
nothing whatever to show for it. A tunnel had been
made, but there was no communication with it, and
the whole of the works he could look upon in no other
light than that of " splendid ruins."
Mr. TYRELL, the solicitor to the line, said that al-
though the expenditure might at present appear useless,

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but be contriveu uiLL,,,at") ,1/4, ..,,,,,, tilb Vb1.551/tl. kill LIMil uvi,...a.kE, .........,. ..., --
fairs. He thought it important so to arrange the Mr. WAKLEY resumed. The Cork union was
return to the spot w here they first met with him, they made, but there was no communication with it, and carried unanimously. SUL , V. 7 VI , lialll ..JA. ay.“....,...,....
unions that landed proprietors might have an induce- not. the one referred to by him, nor could it be, so proceeded to examine the bale, which turned out to be a the whole of the works he could look upon in no otherne , It appears that in the year 1529 there were 1,157 com-
ment rather to employ the poor than to pay increased long as the board of guardians had amongst them one large quantity (bete een 200 and 3001bs) of leaf tobacco light than that cc " splendid ruins." committee of five shareholders in the Charing-cross Blockley, Worcestershire, corn dealer—J. Hills, Billeri-
,it was resolved that a Sussex, wine and spirit merchant—T. 8.. Elpures
missioned officers of the yeomanry, 35,958 non- com-
rates • and this would be, attained by decreasing the so kind and so hheral hearted as the Hon. Member of a very fine quality, which, of course, had been smug- Mr. TYRELL, the solicitor to the line, said that al.motion
noaynr
ie ofnt ;or. .mbßepißannOgyW,
should be appointed for missioned officers and men. For the years 1835, 1840,
for Cork. The question he would put upon the gled• The officers then conveyed the prize to the Excise though the expenditure might at present appear useless, BridgeiiuO nng e rCf theo
or° amd holders of shares in the cay, Essex, auctioneer and appraiser.
size of the unions. This was a fit subject for inquiryPARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. and 1847 the return is nil, the yeomanry having been
as Was also the rating of personal property, which had dietary point was, what was the proportion of animal warehouse. it would not ultimately prove so. The position of the the purpose of investigating the claims of the latter C. E. secretan and J. 11. Capper, Change II
"a•-eYp Corn- disbanded on the 31st of March, 1634.
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