The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

ThE SUN, LONDON,r-SATTTItDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1846.

NORTH DURHAM.

R. Mathews, Esq., the barrister appointed to revise
the lists of voters for the county of Durham and the bo-
roughs therein, opened his court at the city of Durham
on Tuesday last.
Mr. Coxon, the Secretary of the North Durham Re-
form Registration Society, appeared on behalf of the
Liherals and Free-traders; Mr. Tiplady, for the Hon.
IL T. Liddell; and Mr. Stafford, for the Marquis of Lon-
donderry and Lord Seaham.

Both sections of the Tory party, although opposed to
each other, are equally strenuous in their opposition to
the votes of the free-traders.

The following was the result of the revision for Durham
polling districts:—
Objections made by the Liberals 7O
Objections made by the Tories .. 39

Total..

109

The Liberals sustained fifty-three objections and failed
in fifteen. Two of the Liberal objections stand over for
final adjudication.
The Tories sustained twenty-two objections, and failed
in seventeen. Majority in favour of t►ie Liberals thirty-
one. The result of the revision has not been so favour-
able to the Liberal party for several years.

THAMES HAVEN. DOCK AND

RAILWAY COMPANY.

A special general meeting of the proprietors of the
Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company was held
yesterday, at the Company's offices, Basingball-street, for
the purpose of empowering the directors to sell and dis-
pose of certain shares in the company, according to the
directions of the Act, the forfeiture of which shares was
confirmed by a resolution of the shareholders, at the
half yearly general meeting on the 31st of August last.
Shortly before two o'clock, James Esdaile, Esq., took
the chair, and the minutes of last meeting having been
read and confirmed, a resolution, empowering the direc-
tors to sell the forfeited shares was proposed, seconded,
and unanimously agreed to, and the meeting broke up.

GLOUCESTER, ABERI'STWITH,
AND CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY.
A meeting of the scripholders in this company was
held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of
determining whether or not the company should be
dissolved.
After some discussion, Captain Berkeley, M.P., chair-
man of the company was called to the chair.
The advertisement convening the meeting having been
read, Messrs. Clark, J. T. Saunders, and J. Bentley
were appointed scrutineers.
Mr. LEWIS moved that the company should be dis-
solved forthwith.
Mr. FISHER seconded the resolution.
Mr. CLARKE here read a letter he had written to the
solicitor, apprising him of the present meeting, request.
ing his attendance, and calling upon him to furnish the
accounts of the company at the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said they were prepared with the ac-
counts, and the reason that they (the directors) did not
call the meeting was, that there was a great number of
the claims not settled. He mentioned these things to
show that they were anxious for, and courted inquiry.
A statement of the accounts was then read, from which
it appeared that the amount paid on the shares (in
number 28,593) was 40,8781. 10s., while the claims upon
the company would leave a balance of 7,7171. 15s. 10d.
The CHAIRMAN said he thought that whatever opinion
iiight be entertained, they could not decide on the ques-
tion of the accounts at the present meeting.
Mr. LEWIS said that it was desirable that the item of
16,097/. 18s. 3d. investment should be fully and satisfac-
torily explained. He thought the meeting were entitled
to know what these assets were, and where they were
placed.—(Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said there was a difference between
his legal advisers on this point. The secretary was of
opinion that the wishes of the meeting should be com-
plied with, while the counsel considered that he was not
entitled to give the explanation hero required. Now,
he would take the advice of the former, which was in
conformity with his own wishes. The only delicacy he
felt in giving the explanation here required was,
that the gentleman who filled the chair of the com-
pany before him was absent, and, consequently,
unable to meet any accusations, or to explain away any
suspicion. He begged leave to state that the investment
was made before he was a member of the provisional
committee, or even before he belonged to the company.
(Hear, hear.) That investment consisted in
purchase of ecrip.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") Now,
having stated so much, he must, in justice to
himself, request the meeting to give him a full hearing.
The investment was made during Major Lindham's
chairmanship. He would here state that he gave that
gentleman full credit for the rectitude of his intentions.
The fact was, those who had had the arrangement of
the affairs of the company had taken upon them-
selves to speculate with the funds in their possession,
and to engage in that species of gambling which was had
recourse to upon such occasions. In fact they were in
the position of persons who had certain funds entrusted
to them, which they used in a way that they considered
would be most advantageous to the owners. If they
had succeeded their zeal and trustworthiness would have
been applauded, but in the present case it so happened
that they were unsuccessful. He understood that not
one of the directors had sold his shares.
A SHAREHOLDER said that he believed such was not
the case.
The CHAIRMAN said, he was instructed that what he
had stated was correct. He trusted, in conclusion, that,
as he had had no hand in the transactions of the com-
pany anterior to his having become chairman, that he
would be exonerated from any blame, and he trusted
that the strictest scrutiny would be exercised in this
matter.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. LEWIS said that he could inform the meeting
that the late chairman had sold his shares, in conse-
quence of which several of his (Mr. L.'s) friends had
been ruined.
Mr. CLARKE said, he would beg to ask the chairman
if the whole of the sums to which the shareholders were
entitled were invested in scrip ?
The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative.
A long discussion ensued as to whether the scrip in
question should be used in taking the votes.
Mr. LEWIS contended that it would be extremely un-
fair to do so, the same having been purchased with their
money, which was turning their own weapons against
themselves, and proposed a resolution to the effect that
the scrip should not be used.
A long and desultory discussion ensued, which ended
in the meeting being adjourned, the scripholders present
having adjourned, under the Act, to investigate the
accounts.

The Earl and Countess Grey left town yesterday for
Howick Hall, Northumberland.
PORTLAND BREAKWATER..--A number of gentle-
:en, surveyors and engineers, are now in Portland,
murveying the site of the intended Breakwater. Owing
to the roughness of the sea, they were only able to be-
gin their soundings of the bay this day (Tuesday) ;
hitherto they have been employed in marking out the
tramway by which the stone will be transmitted to the
Pier. They expect in three weeks to have it com-
pletely surveyed, and then we may expect active
operations will commence forthwith. Large quantities
of rails, wheelbarrows, &c., continue to arrive for the
purposes of the railroad. We hope soon to see a be-
ginning here as well as at other places.—Sherbourn
Journal.

GHOST CAUGHT.—For many months past, since
the death of the late Mr. Nicholas Harris, of Sinus,
Redruth, it has been reported that the house was
" haunted." Terrible noises, and alarming screams have
often been heard about midmight, and after that hour.
Suspicions were awakened that these nocturnal distur-
bances were occasioned by wicked and designing rascals,
for interested porposes, and early on Saturday morning
last, a man, called Gordon Chadwick, was apprehended,
brought to Redruth town about three o'clock in the
morning, and lodged in the lock-up. In the forenoon
be was taken before the Rev. George Treweeke, at 1110
gan, who severely reprimanded him for his foolish con-
duct. Chadwick offered a very humiliating apology,
and for the present the case stands over, but it may be
brought on at the sessions,—Penzance Gazette.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DOWNING-STREET, SEI-r. 16, 1846.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Earl of Elgin
and Kincardine to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief
of her Majesty's provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and
Nova Scotia, and of the Island of Prince Edward, and Go-
vernor-General of all her Majesty's provinces on the Con-
tinent of North America, and of the Island of Prince
Edward.

DOWNING-STREET, Ssivr. 18.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Partridge,
Esq., to be Deputy Commissary of Police for the Island of
Mauritius.

, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to nominate, constitute, and
appoint the Right Hon. Sir James Robert George Graham,
Bart., to be one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Eng-
land, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart.,
resigned.
The Queen has also been pleased to nominate the Right
Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., being one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State, an Ecclesiastical Commissioner
for England.