The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-13 00:00:00

Western Company by Mr. Dobie, on behalf of this com-
pany, requiring their compliance with such demand
within one week from this date, and further giving
notice to the Great Western Company, that failing such
compliance, sash steps will be forthwith taken for the
protection of the interests of this company, under the
agreement, as counsel shall advise; and this meeting
doth hereby authorise and order such steps to be taken
accordingly by Mr. Dobie on account of this company."
Mr. PNITON seconded the resolution,
The CHAIIIMAN did not mean to contend that the
coupons were contingent upon the extension of tho
bread gauge, provided the shareholders did all in their
power to obtain it ; and he considered that before the
coupons were given, they ought to sign a declaration not
to oppose the broad gauge.
Mr. SAUNDERS then gave a minute statement of the
negotiations which had taken place between Sir F.
Rally and Mr. Rolt. It appeared, from his statements,
to be a disputed point with whom the conditions of the
"secret article" originated.
Mr. Russnu. (Chairman of the Great Western) said
they had beeiyasked if they were prepared to adhere to
the agreement of November 11, 1846. He would answer
in the affirmative; but as to the extent and mode in
which they should carry it out they must be guided by
their legal advisers. That agreement should be fulfilled
as speedily as possible; but as far as his influence went,
he would never deliver into the hands of the dissentient
shareholders the securities sought for, until they, the
Great Western Company, possessed assurances that
they should not encounter opposition similar to that
which they had hitherto experienced. He would never
consent that the Great Western Company should be
bound over to the amount of a million-and-a-half of
money, and still be subjected to the opposition of those
who were benefited by it, to whichever denomination
they might belong, North Western, Midland Counties,
or Buckinkleamshires.
At this stage of the proceedings, the meeting ad-
journed for half an hour, in order to hold
THE ADEOURNED SPECIAL MEETING.
This meeting was adjourned for the purpose of taking
into consideration Bills enabling the company to make
deviation lines from Leamington to Warwick ; to con-
struct a loop line through the town of Birmingham ; and
• Bill to confer additional powers on the Great
Western, with reference to the agreement of November
12th, 1846.
Mr. MOZLNY said he should not make any observa-
tions, but content himself with moving the following re-
solution :—" That the said Bills be opposed in the name
and in the behalf of this company, for the purpose only
of procuring the insertion of such clauses therein res-
pectively, as counsel may advise, for giving full and
immediate effect to the agreement of the 12th of No-
vember, 1846, and that the seal now produced be
affixed, as the common seal of this company, to such
petition or petitions as counsel shall advise for the pur-
pose aforesaid."
The CHAIRMAN said that, acting under the advice he
had received, he should decline to put the resolution.
A long and angry conversation ensued, in the course
of which Mr. Mosley and Mr. Russell exchanged ex-
pressions far from complimentary.
The Chairman still refusing to put the motion, Mr.,
Mosley undertook the duty, and it was carried by a
large majority.
Mr. Mosear neat moved the following resolution :
" That the present attorneys and solicitors be no longer
employed as such, and that all business of this company
et law, in equity, in Parliament, or otherwise, be hence-
forth conducted by Mr. Alexander Dobie, of London,
and Messrs. Colmore and Beale, of Birmingham, as the
attorneys and solicitors of this company, and that the
directors be, and they are hereby instructed to act in
eonformity with this resolution ; and that the seal now
produced be now affixed as the common seal of the com-
pany to this resolution."
This meeting was then adjourned to the 28d of March,
to be held at the Adelphi, Liverpool, at two o'clock in
the afternoon.

lIEIPITYZD ITALY-YEARLY MEETING.

The business of this meeting having been resumed, the
resolution of Mr. Mosley, with regard to the correspon-
dence between Mr. Dobie and Messrs. Hume, and the
proceedings against the Great Western railway, was
then put and carried.
The CiaArnmeN having real a brief report of the
directors, together with a statement of accounts, moved
their reception and adoption.
Mr. MOZLEY, on the ground of not having seen the
accounts, opposed the motion; and this meeting was also
adjourned to the !3d of March, to be held at_the Adelphi
Hotel, Liverpool.

THE MEETING OF FRENCHMEN
AT THE OFFICE OF " L'OBSERVATEUR
FRANCAIS."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sll),—ln your paper of the 7th inst. you say, alluding
to the French meeting held at the office of the Observa-
tear Francais, " that the meeting was presided over by
M. Caplin, reputed to be a Royalist."
This must be at least a mistake, and one of very great
inconsistency, because it is not rational to admit that the
persons present at the meeting would consent to be pre-
sided over, not only by a Royalist, but even by any one
of doubtful opinions or unknown to them.
The opinion of a man must be known by his deeds
more than by his words, and those who know me well
are aware that I am one of the vainqueurs de Juillet—
that during the three days r was in the struggle, and
fighting Jt la easerno Babylone, au pouf des Ades, a /a prise
des TuileristA; and the next day after the revolution I was
entrusted with the command of the camp do Vaugirard,
a place intended to receive the regular soldiers, then
eying and scattered in every direction. I had also, at
the same time, the superintendence of five different
pasts of the National Guard, which was assembled
and organized through my exertion in the evening of the
third day of the revolution; and it is in consequence of
my conduct and my service that I have been the first
officer elected by the people as first captain: I was
honoured afterwards with the care of the funeral service
and burial of the men killed during the three days.
I was in uniform at the burial of General Lamark, as
an ostensible manifestation of my opinion, and I have
been the object of a public ovation in the place I was
living (Vaugirard). I left France of my own accord,
because I would not submit myself to the tyranny of the
chief of the Government office where I was employed as
an artist. I will now ask if these facts constitute a
Royalist? I, therefore, give openly the lie to every one
who would try to insinuate that lam a Royalist. I have
never cried for any party or any government. The
word republic is but a name : as long as that name
signifies public liberty, and will secure the rights of the
oitizens; as long as that sort of government shall prove
to be the best, to be impartial, wise, rational, and make
the people happy, I shall be republican—if it should
prove to be a deception, I shall be against it. Liberty,
equality, fraternity is my motto.
Trusting, Sir, that you will, according to your principle
of honour, insert these few lines for the sake of truth,
I remain your most obedient servant,
J. CAPLIN.

MI, Berners-street, March 10, 184.11.
P.S. If it were necessary that some well-known Re-
publican should ♦o*ch for the correctness of the above
statement, I have no doubt that my friend Marrast, now
a member of the Provisional Government, would be the
man.

[Our reporter received his information from some one
present al the meeting.—En. gun.]

Tx' Faviiscu EMBASSY.—His Excellency the
Count de Jarnae is at length relieved from his duties as
French Minister at this Court. On Friday last M.
Cottee, whose name will be familiar to many of our
readers as one of the Attaches to the former embassy,
arrived at Hertford House from Paris, charged with
instructions from the Provisional Government to receive
from the Count de Jarnac the archives and seals of the
Embassy. His Excellency having (delivered over the
seals took his final departure from Hertford House, and
is now residing (where, indeed, he has been staying
during the put fortnight) at the house of his noble
brother-in-law, Lord Foley, in Grosvenor-square:

Tix FAxim- or FRANCE.—The re-
ception of the Royal family of France in this country has
been marked by sound judgment and good feeling.
Everything has been forgotten except that they hare
fallen from the summit of human greatness to a condi-
tion so dejected that the bitterest animosity must be
disarmed in contemplating it. In common with the rest
of the world, we are under the impression that the
Comte de Neuilly had prudently amassed and
secured sufficient funds to support his family in
afinenc,e and comfort, but we regret to find
that this notion is the reverse of the truth.
Louis Philippe, it now appears, whether frora an ill-
groundeil confidence in the stability of his Government,
or from motives of nationality and patriotism—possibly
from a mixture of both—had entrusted the whole for-
tunes of himself and his children to the soil or faith of
Trance. If, therefore, the future Legislature should de-
termine to confiscate the private property of the House
of Orleans, those unhappy Princes would be reduced to
a state of destitution which would fill all Europe with
sentiments of shame and indignation. We do not, how-
ever, anticipate anything so merciless and unjust—so
inconsistent with the magnanimity of the French cha-
racter, and with those principles of equity, humanity, and
moderation on which the revolution professes to be
found • d Times
DIAVH 0/ SIB WILLIAM YOMNO, BART.—Thi,
venerable Baronet, the particulars of whose recent con-
viction for the illegal sale of East India cadetships are
fresh in the recollection of our readers, died on Friday
last at his residence in Wesbourne-terrace, Hyde-park,
aged Ti. He had been latterly in a very delicate state
of health ; so debilitated indeed was he, that the result
of the trial was never communicated to him, and arrest
of jiidgment on his behalf was moved for last term
ay Cockburn ; but now all, so far as regards his
part in the transaction, is over. The deceased was
for many years an East India director ; hut, although
thus connected with, perhaps, the richest corporate
body in the world, he latterly suffered from great pecu-
niary embarrassments. Ile is succeeded in the title by
his eldest son, John, ALP., for Cavan county, and late
Searotary to the Treasury. The other male members of
his family hold oivil and military appointments in India.
—Obserotr.

Tim GOVNINOR or MADBAIL—HiS Excellency
Lieutenant-Goneral the Marquis of Tweeddale, K.T.,
C. 8., by letters received in town on Saturday, intended
to leave Madras, In her Majesty's frigate Fox, 42 guns,
Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., on the 45th of
January, for England.
VISCOUNTIOS PALMIESTON'S ASSEMBLY. Vis-
count and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner
on Saturday last, at their mansion in Carlton-gardens,
his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, Lord and Lady Beau-
♦ale, Lord Edward Howard, Lady Anne Charteris,
Lord and Lady Ashley, Sir George Shee, the Hon. W.
Truiple, the Hon. W. Cowper, Mr. and the Misses
Suliran, ham. In Ike erasing Lady Palmerston had an
assembly.