The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-08 00:00:00

BELGIAN EASTERN JUNCTION.

The adjourned meeting of the shareholders was held
yesterday, at the London Tavern ; Colonel Sir F. Smith
in the chair.

A long conversation took place, but no business was
transacted, as no legal meeting can be constituted till the
shareholders have exchanged the bankers' receipts for
certificates of shares.

The general feeling of the proprietors appeared to be
in favour of dissolving the company altogether, which
can only be done by the votes of three-fifths of the share-
holders of the company, with the consent of the Belgian
Government. The directors were not opposed to the
measure if legally carried out, but the chairman ex-
pressed no hope of the caution-money being returned in
that event. It was stated that no objection would be
raised to any shareholders exchanging their beakers
receipts for certificates in respect of a part only of their
shares, there being an apprehension on the part of some
proprietors that the operation tended to increase their
liability, when their chief object was the abandonment of
the scheme.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to
the directors.

THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE AND
GREAT NORTHERN.

The opening of the Askern branch of the Wake-
field, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, and also of
about four miles of the Great Northern, took place
on Monday, the bth instant. The Wakefield and
Goole line is a branch from the Lancashire and
Yorkshire (late Leeds and Manchester), and the
Askern branch forms a junction with the Wakefield
and Goole at Knottingley, from whence it proceeds to
Askern, a well-known bathing place, about six miles
from Doncaster. At the terminus a little beyond Ae-
kern a junction is formed with a part of the Great
Northern, north of Doncaster, which is now com-
pleted within a mile and a half of that town, thus
forming a direct communication from this point (the,
first by railway from Doncaster), to Leeds, Manchestet
Liverpool, Bradford, Huddersfield, and the north
generally. The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole
line was opened about six weeks since, and since then
several trains have been running daily from each ter-
minus. The Askern branch is expected to be the
main line from London to Leeds, &c., as soon as
certain portions of the Great Northern are com-
pleted. It commences at Knottingley, a large vil-
lage famous for its limestone quarries and canal
navigation, and proceeds from thence to Wimeraley,
where it passes the seat of Lord Hawke, the lord
of the manor, whose fox. hunting zeal is well known for a
considerable distance. The line next passes Stapleton
Park, the villages of Wentbridge, Stubbs, Walden, and
Little Smeaton, and crosses the river Went. It next ap-
proaches Norton, Campsall, and Askern. This has for
some years been a watering-place, and famous for its cele-
brated mineral springs, which are frequently resorted to
for scrofulous, rheumatic, and gouty complaints. Here
the line terminates at a place called Reedholme Wood,
where the Great Northern runs into it, and thus the
route is completed to Stockbridge, about a mile
and a half from Doncaster, that small, distance
being expected to be opened in a few weeks.
In order to convey passengers northwards, a line is
contemplated between Knottingley and Burton-Salmon,
a distance of about three miles ; an Act for this has
already been obtained, and until this line is made, an
omnibus will run between those two places. It is ex-
pected, however, that ultimately the Great Northern
Company will make their line direct from Doncaster,
through Aolzorn, Sothy, kr. , to York. and so make an
independent line throughout. The whole of the pro-
ceedings passed off without any accident.

UNIVERSITY IN TELL IGEN CE.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE G.

At the Congregation holden this day, the following
degrees were conferred : _

BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Thomas Guest Forrest, St.
Peter's College; Francis James Armitage, Christ's Col-
lege ; Thomas Negus Burke, Catherine Hall; James
Goodday, Queen's College; Frederick Henry Richard
Lateward, Queen's College; James Chadwick, Queen's
College; John Frederick Evans Holloway, Trinity Col-
lege ; Edward Cragg Haynes, Trinity College; Arthur
Edward Polhill, Christ's College; Ebenezer B. Howell,
Corpus College; Frederick Robert Kite, St. Peter's Col-
lege; George Waddington, Emmanuel College ; John.
Joynes, Emmanuel College ; Thomas Clark Bretting-
ham, Emmanuel College.

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, JUNE 6.—The present aspect
of this once crowded watering place forms a most strik-
ing contrast to that which it presented before the revo-
lution. No crowds assemble, jostling each other, to
witness the arrival of steamers; the departure of vessels
is no longer accompanied by waving of hats and hand-
kerchiefs ! The natives make great complaints—many
declare they are ruined, and feel sorely the blank occa-
sioned by the absence of les Anglais.
EAST INDIA HOUSE.—The transfer books of East
India Stock closed on Tuesday last, and will open again
on Thursday, the 13th of July.
NATIONAL GALLERY.—THE VERNON COLLECTION.
—Yesterday the trustees of the National Gallery for the
exhibition of the Vernon Collection, at Mr. Vernon's
house, No. 50. Pall-mall, gave notice that the issue of
tickets of admission at the National Gallery, to view this
collection would take place on Mondays, to admit on
Tuesdays, and on Wednesdays, to admit on Thursdays,
and not on the first four days of the week, as previously
determined.

DARING BURGLARY AT ROCHESTER.—After a few
weeks of repose, the inhabitants of Rochester and its
vicinity have been again awakened from their fancied
security by the return of some of those nightly ma-
rauders by which the neighbourhood had been for some
time infested, and who at the time were driven away by
increased vigilance on the part both of the authorities
and inhabitants. Early on Sunday morning the Glean-
ings, the mansion of J. Espinasse, Esq., the recorder of
Rochester, was entered through a window in the back
part of the house, by forcing off the fastenings, the
thieves visiting many of the rooms, and among them one
adjoining that in which Mr. Espinasse was sleeping, and
in whose room there also was a dog, ransacking in their
course every spot in which they thought it likely that
valuables might be deposited, possessing themselves of a
lady's gold watch set with pearls, several silver coins and
copper tokens, silver sugar tongs, bearing the crest, three
Taglioni coats, a watch stand, and other articles, with
which they made their escape unobserved. Other pre-
mises were also visited, most probably by the same par-
ties, from the marks of the instrument used or the
occasion, and from other circumstances. An attempt
was made the same night to obtain an entrance into the
house of Mr. Greenwood, silversmith, in the High-
street; to accomplish which the thieves sealed the wall
of Mr. Caddell's garden, after having in vain endea-
voured to force the lock on the outside, and which, after
having gained admittance, they wrenched from the gates,
and threw into the cattle market. They then crossed
the garden of the Rev. G. Davies, by climbing over two
walls, and leaving evident traces of their course, and
scattering several lucifer matches in their way. On
reaching the back of Mr. Greenwood's house, they threw
open the back parlour window, which happened to have
been left unfastened, but the shutters lined with iron
proved too much for them, and they then got on the root
of the kitchen in order to obtain an entrance by an upper
window, and here, from the slippery state of the roof
they appear to have had some difficulty, as the slates
bear the marks of both hands and feet, which evidently
with difficulty maintained their hold, and that only for a
short time, as the gutters by which they endeavoured to
maintain their position had given way, and the thieves
retreated without effecting their purpose, or disturbing
any of the inmates. Two auspicious-looking characters
were seen on the common between twelve and one o'clock
close to the spot where they scaled the first-mentioned
wall.

DECISION UVDER THE NEW FACTORY .ACT.—.
Messrs. Jones, brothers, and Company, of Mosley-street
in this town, and also of Bedford, in the parish of Leigh,
were summoned to appear at the Atherton Petty Ses-
sions, by David Jones, sub-inspector of factories of the
Bolton district, upon two informations of working a
female, and also a young person, for more than ten hours
in one 'day. Mr. Sanderson, Mr. Turner Greene, and
Mr. Sylvester, were the magistrates present. Mr. Gas-
kell, of Bolton, opened the case at great length, contend •
ing that the sy stem of working relay s of hands was con-
trary to law, and that the time every person worked in
a mill must be computed from the time the engine first
started in the morning until stopping time at night, with
the exception of one uniform period of meals. Mr. Ovens,
barrister, who was instructed by Messrs. Slater and
Heelis, contended that Messrs. Jones had not violated
the law, inasmuch as the Legislature never contemplated
so stringent a construction being put upon the Act as to
prevent a system of relays. The bench declared they
were unanimously of opinion they could not convict the
Messrs. Jones. 'The case was, therefore, dismissed.—
Manchester Examiner.