The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-15 00:00:00

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

A special general meeting of the shareholders of this
company was yesterday held at the Nine Elms' Station,
for the purpose of haling submitted to them the drafts
of several Bills intended to be presented by the company
in the present session of Parliament.
The notice convening the meeting having been read,
The Chairman, Mr. CHAPLIN, M.P., stated the objects
of the meeting. .

Mr. Horsi wished to know whether any arrange-
ment would be made in the Bills about to be introduced
to secure to the company the services of gentlemen as
directors who held other property in the company be-
sides the guaranteed stock?

Mr. CHAPLIN said that no person could be a director
who was not a holder of shares in the capital stock of
the company.
Mr. BURL ELL, the solicitor to the company, then
proceeded to read the short titles and abstract of the
Bills.

Mr. HOYEEI wished to know whethqf it was the inten-
tion of the company to proceed with ffie extension of the
line to London-bridge? .

The CHAIRMAN said that the company intended to
prosecute the work as rapidly as possible. At present
the directors thought that the better course to adopt
would be to defer any proceedings on that extension
until they had become acquainted with the working of
that portion of the extension to Waterloo-bridge.
Resolutions were unanimously agreed to, autho-
rising the directors to proceed with Bills now
pending in Parliament for enabling the London and
South-Western Railway Company to effect certain ex-
tensions and deviations at Godalming, Cosham, London-
bridge, Southampton, and Poole, and certain arrange-
meats respecting steam-packets, and for other purposes.
A Bill for amalgamating the Southampton and Dor-
chester Railwaky Company with the London and South-
Western Railway Company.
A Bill for enabling the Windsor, Staines, and South-
Western (Richmond to Windsor) Railway Company to
make deviations in the main line of their railway, and
an extension therefrom to join the Great Western Rail-
way at Slough; and
A Bill to amend the Acts relating to the Exeter and
Exmouth Railway Company.
Other resolutions, authorising the directors to proceed
with the following Bills, were also agreed to, there being
but two dissentients, Mr. Noyes and another share-
holder, from the resolutions:—
A Bill to enable the London and South-Western
Railway Company to make a railway from Salisbury to
Yeovil, with branches to Shaftesbury aad Wincanton,
and to join the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, and
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railways, near Yeovil;
and to purchase or lease the said Exeter, Yeovil, and
Dorchester Railway.
A Bill for making a railway from Exeter to Yeovil,
with branches and extensions therefrom, to be called
the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway.
A Bill to enable the Taw Vale Railway and Dock
Company to lease their undertaking to the London and
South-Western Railway Company.
A Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make a railway from the Queen-street-
road, Exeter, to join the Exeter aad Crediton Railway at
Cowley-bridge, near Exeter.
A Bill for authorising the sale or lease to the London
and South-Western Railway Company of the Exeter
and Crediton Railway and the Bodmin and Wadebridge
Railway, and the carrying into effect of certain arrange-
ments between the same company and the Taw Vale Rail-
way and Dock Company.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and
the meeting broke up.

SOUTHAMPTON and DORCHESTER

RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of the shareholders of this
company was yesterday held at the Nine Elms' Station, at
two o'clock, for the purpose of approving of a Bill to be
submitted to Pailiament for the amalgamation of the
Southampton and Dorchester Railway with the South-
Western Railway.

Resolutions to that effect were unanimously agreed
upon, and the meeting broke up.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
General Post-office, March 14, 1848.
During the ensuing summer mails will be transmitted
between Liverpool and North America once a week, by
the British contract mail packets, which will leave Liver-
pool for Boston and New York, alternately, on every
Saturday, and will be dispatched from Boston and New
York, alternately, on their return voyage, every Wed-
nesday.
This weekly service will commence with the outward
packets in April, and with the homeward packets in
May, and will continue until the end of November, after
which time, and during the following four months, mails
will be conveyed to Boston and New York only once a
fortnight instead of weekly.
The following will show the dates upon which
the first six packets will be dispatched during the
summer, both to and from North America, and will form
a guide for the remainder of the year:—
The packets will leave Liverpool for Boston on Sa-
turday the Bth of April, Saturday the 22d of April, and
Saturday the 6th of May.
For New York on Saturday the 15th of April, Satur-
day the 29th of April, and Saturday the 13th of May.
The packets will leave Boston for Liverpool on Wed-
nesday the sth April, Wednesday the 3d May, and
Wednesday the 17th May.
The packets will leave New York for Liverpool on
Wednesday the 19th April, Wednesday the 10th May,
and Wednesday the 24th May.
The branch packet fur Newfoundland will be dis-
patched from Halifax on the arrival at the latter port of
the homeward packet from Boston, and the branch
packet for Bermuda will he dispatched on the arrival at
Halifax of the outward packet for Boston.

Regiment
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 12.—The 52d
leave this garrison in three divisions on Monday, and
two following days, for Manchester. Tho 9th (East
Norfolk) Regiment will arrive here from Winchester on
the same days, to replace the 52d. The first battalion
of the 44th Regiment (the first corps for foreign service)
is to proceed to Malta as soon as ships can be provided;
as the entire regiment is now at Cork, the battalion
ordered out will embark at that place; the other battalion
will go to the Mediterranean in the course of this year,
probably to Malta also. The Apollo troop-ship, Com-
mander Radcliffe, arrived at the Mauritius on the 17th
of December, all well. The 35th Regiment were to
embark on the Ist of January, and sail on the 3d for
England.
MARY ANN HUNT.—Amongst the pri9oners who
had been tried and convicted at the late sessions of the
Central Criminal Court, and who have subsequently been
removed, was Mary Ann hunt, who, it will be recol-
lected, was tried at the last June sessions for the murder
of asn aged woman of the name of Stowell, in the Edge-
ware-road. The prisoner is to remain in Tothill-fields
prison for two years, for the purpose of attending to
and bringing up her child, but at the expiration of that
period the commuted sentence of transportation for life
will he carried into effect, when her child will be allowed
to accompany her.
Mr. JOSEPH ADY AT NEATH.—This übiquitous
personage, we are informed, has been trying his " much-
to-your-advantage" scheme at the above town, in the
course of the last few days. It would appear that the
gentleman is getting more liberal the older he gets.
His charge is now reduced from one guinea to 6s. rit
Cambrian,

cikwAss.
Dividend
wNames of !Dividend! Price. Names of
Per Price.
Companies. As 1 per ! Companies. 4 Annum.
az i Annum.i In
-- I ,- -
A i £
A.shtn& Oldh 971 71. p c . 110 Macclesfield. 100 21. les. -
ti,mcicy.... 1601 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 211
'lrknit&Abrg 1501 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 200
Birmingham 35 41. 78% Peak Forest. 78 31. 10s, 66
Coventry .... 1001 251. 270 Regent's •• • • 33 it. 43. 18.%
'env ••• - 1001 61. 63 Rochdale .. • • 85 41. 54
Ells i re&Chs 1331 41. I 45 Somrset Coal 150 71.105. 130
,:ze, ash •• • 100 32g. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c.
GratidJunctn 100 51. 80% Strfri&Worc 140 28/. 275
Grand Surrey 100 - 30 Shrewsbury..
1231 15!. -
urrand Union 100 11. 10s. 21% Stourbridge.. 145 201. 285
lrantham .. 1801 121. - Sevens and/
{ennt &An 391 7s. 6d. 15 4 Wye Rail. 3 26 IL 55. 30
bee.ls&Livrp 100' 341. 430 Warwick/0 ,
Leloester .... 1401 101. 75 Birming. jOO 51. 65
Cetcstr &Nth 831 41. I 36 Warwick& }
:Aughboregh,l42l 701. 330 Napton.. 1I- 46
Nfonmouthslr 100' 81. - Worcstr & 1 78 21. 39
Mittgomrysla' 100' 51. - Binning. j
MeltnMwbry, 100 101. f - Wilts & Brks, 67 11. 11

MARKET INTELLIE
(From th© London New Price Curren,

ENCE.
of March 14.)

St:GA-R.—To-day prices were further depressed for
both free and slave-labour Sugar, as there was a further
diminution in the home demand, and shipping orders
nonelected were trivial. The supply continues to be
good, especially of East India and Mauritius. Although
the rates accepted for West India Muscovado exhibit a
reduction of 6d per cwt; still the home trade operated
with reluctance in all sorts. The private purchases did
not exceed 300 hhds and tres. The rublic sales to-day
consisted of Bengal.
REFINED.—To-day the home trade were induced to
operate more freely in refined goods, in consequence of
easier rates being accepted. We quote brown grocery
lumps et 52s to 52s 6d, and standard lumps at 53s to
.33s 6d per cwt, at which many parcels were sold; but
there is a larger quantity on offer, especially of low and
middling sorts. The market for bonded crushed Sugar
is in a dull state.
AfALMITIM—This afternoon there was no publio sale
of Mauritius Sugar, and privately all sorts were dealt in
with caution, although bolders were sellers at prices
rather under those of Friday. There are several parcels
on offer, especially of the better sorts.
EAST Is/Dm—This afternoon the market was plenti-
fully supplied with Bengal Sugar. Three parcels were
submitted to public sale, ttmountinsgbratoit6,262 bags:
merchants were willing sellers, and u
fur-
ther reduction in the value of 6d to is per cwt, but the
whole sold.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of any
kind of Foreign, and the amount of business done pri•
vately, was limited for all purposes,
whilst the progress
of prices is yet downwards.