The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

1848,

any private trader would pronounce it perfectly fit to take
the most precious cargo to any part of the globe without
one penny outlay in repairs. Mr. Logan was repeatedly
thanked by the different spokesmen of the operatives,
and having met fully all queries, and presented the in-
stitution with maps, publications of the society, and co-
lonial journals, resumed his seat amidst vehement ap-
plause, which was resumed with increased heartiness
when he promised to pay a second visit shortly, and sup-
ply any omissions which a perusal of the documents he
now left might suggest that ho had made.

After a pause, the meeting having now lasted a couple
of hours,

Mr. BOYD proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
and in doing so passed a very elaborate encomium upon
him. Mr. Sturrock had made the Colonisation Society
collectively, and himself (Mr. Boyd) particularly, his
debtors, for the instructive evening that had been spent,
and for the results that would asuredly flow from it; and
he therefore begged leave to present to him the best
thanks of that most numerous, and, ho would add, alto-
gether unprecedented meeting.
Mr. A. H. FORRESTER having ceconded the motion
which was carried with enthusiasm,

Mr. STURROCI briefly and appropriately adverted to
the compliment that had been paid him, and then went
on to say how deeply he felt the painful duty the direc-
tors had, with the greatest regret themselves, imposed
upon him, of discharging a large number of workmen.
Unfortunately, such was the state of the money market,
such the depreciation of all railway property at present,
that the directors could not think of proceeding with
further extension, either in the shape of their own tri-
butary lines, or of lines they have leased from other
companies; and therefore the present reduction of their
establishment was equally a natter of necessity and of
duty, and every person would admit its propriety and
justice, even those who most suffered by it.
After some remarks as to the probable value of the
information the deputation had afforded, the meeting
broke up.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
EASTERN UNION.
An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the
Eastern Union Railway, took place yesterday at Rad-
ley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, for the purpoie
of taking into consideration a proposition of the direc-
tors for the modification of an agreement made between
the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead
Railway Company, the Ipswich and Bury Saint Edmund
Railway Company, and the Eastern Union Railway
Company, on the Bth day of June, 1847, for demising
and leasing the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and
Halstead Railway, and certain Extension Lines and
premises, to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Rail-
way Company, and for working, using, and enjoying the
same; and if the meeting should determine upon any
modification of such agreement, then for the purpose of
approving the terms thereof, and of authorising the di-
rectors of the Eastern Union Railway Company to affix
the corporate seal of that Company to such contract or
agreement as may be submitted to the meeting for car-
rying out such terms, and also to such other deeds, con-
tracts, agreements, leases, and instruments as the diree•
tors of such last-mentioned company may deem neces-
sary for carrying the same into effect.
Colonel Barlow took the chair shortly after two
o'clock.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read by the Secretary,
The CHAIRMAN said that it would not be necessary
for him to occupy their time by stating the provisions of
the modified agreement, as the proprietors were already
in possession of a circular recently addressed by the
directors to the shareholders, fully explaining the cir
cumstances that had induced them to enter into the
agreement for a lease with the Stour Valley Company.
Mr. FEW, the solicitor of the company, then read the
heads of the provisional agreement to lease the. Stour
Valley line. In the heads of the agreement it appeared
that the Eastern Union Company proposed to lease the
Stour Valley line for 999 years, and to pay a rent equal
to five per cent on the cost of the Stour Valley line up
to 83,000/., and three per cent. on the residue expense
of establishing the Stour Valley Company, Parlia-
mentary contests to be included.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution to the
effect that the modified provisional agreement should
de adopted by the meeting.
Some considerable discussion took place, in the course
of which
Mr. LECHMERE asked the Chairman whether any
treaty was in existence between this company and the
Eastern Counties.
The CHAIRMAN said that no treaty was in existence
between the Eastern Union Railway Company and the
Eastern Counties Company.
Mr. LECHMERE was most happy to hear it.
The CHAIRMAN—And so am I.
After some further discussion,
Mr. LECHMERE moved, as an amendment, that the
question of adopting the modified provisional agreement
should be adjourned until this day six months.
The CHAIRMAN said that the line was in a great state
of forwardness, and he had no doubt the line would be
opened to Norwich in the course of next summer. The
line would be opened to Diss in a very short time.
Some considerable discussion then took place upon the
original resolution and the amendments, atter -which
The CHAIRMAN, amid some confusion, put the amend-
ment to the meeting, and declared it to be lost upon the
show of hands.
Mr. LECHMERE then demanded a poll, but ultimately
after a most irregular discussion, withdrew it.
Another amendment was then moved for an adjourn-
ment for a fortnight, but that was also lost.
The original motion was then put, and declared to be
carried.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
I meeting separated at five o'clock.

OPENING OF THE CREWE LINE OF THE

NORTII-STAFFORDSHIRE.

The Crewe Branch of the North-Staffordshire Railway
was yesterday opened for the conveyance of passengers.
The new line is thirty miles in length, and commences
at Stoke-upon-Trent, running through Stanley, near to
Newcastle, to Burslem, and Conglet m. A very fine
station has been erected at Stoke, which will be the chief
station on the North-Staffordshire lines. This station
is a very elegant building in the sty le of the period of
James 11. It looks more like a baronial residence than
a railway station. There is a large hotel attached to
it, and the whole forms a very imposing quadrangle.
At this station all the offices of the company will be
fixed, and the future meetings of the shareholders will
be held there. The cost of the station, with the hotel
approaches, &c., will, when wholly completed, bo 43,0001.
Under the colonnade in front of the booking-offices
the flooring has been laid with encaustic tiles of very
beautiful design. Mr. H. A. Hunt is the architect.
The line from Stoke to Burton upon-Trent was
opened for traffic about a month ago, and the part opened
yesterday is about fifteen miles in extent. A new
route has therefore been opened from the midland
counties to Liverpool and the manufacturing districts of
Lanc6shire.
The line, with the exception of the Flarecastle tunnel,
and two small tunnels, has been of easy construction.
The Harecastle tunnel is upwards of a mile in extent.
Mr. Ricardo, M.P., the chairman of the company,
together with the directors and their friends, passed
over the line, and were met by the authorities of Con-
gleton at the station, and by them were conducted to
the Town• hall, where a banquet had been prepared for
them.
At the conclusion of the feast, which was presided
g
over by J. Waddington, Esq., the Mayor of Con let
the usual loyal toasts were given, and heartily responded
n to. On the toast of " The Queen "b • '
elng given, the
company sang the national anthem.

The -MAYOR, in very complimentary terms, proposed
the toast of " Success to the North Staffordshire Rail-
way Company, and health, long life, and happiness to
John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., M.P., its chairman." The
toast was received with three times three, and one cheer
more.

Mr. RIcARRo, M.P., on rising to respond to the toast,
was received with loud cheering. After some few pre-
fatory observations, he said that the North Staffordshire
Railway Company had had many difficulties to encoun-
ter, difficulties at the commencement, difficulties during
their operations, and difficulties now. First, from the
opposition with which they had been met ; and secondly,
from the monetary crisis which had happened, which was
scarcely over before it was followed by those events on
the continent which he was sure no man in the country
could fail to deplore, while he felt grateful to Providence
that he had been born in a country where property and
life were secure.—(Cheers.) Ile might be permitted
to say that they were suffering from those events
now. He had heard a great deal said about this coun-
try being dependent on the home trade ; but he would
say, speaking to commercial men—men who understood
what trade and commerce were—that the home trade
was dependent upon the foreign trade; that this country
at this moment was suffering from the adversity of
our neighbours, and would continue to suffer until our
neighbours were more prosperous.. Let us not then in-
dulge in jealousy of our neighbours, as we might de-
pend upon it that their prosperity was our prosperity,
and that their adversity was our adversity.—(Cheers.)
He did not mean to say that this was felt as much in
railways as in other things ; but after all, railways were
merely part of the machinery which we manufactured in
this country. The cost of production was not to be cal-
culated on the priCe of the commodity when it was in
the factory, but it was to be calculated at the price in
the market to which it was to be sent; and if they could
bring those commodities which they manufactured
to the market cheaply, then they had an advantage
over their competitors, and that advantage the North
Staffordshire Railway Company had in a great mea-
sure endeavoured to secure for them. When he saw
the chimneys of the factories smoking, when he 'knew
the working people were employed, when he knew the
farmers were flourishing,' and that agricultural produce
was in demand, he should not want to go to his secre-
tary, Mr. Samuda, and ask him what the receipts of the
North Staffordshire Railway were. lie would not ask
him if the railway was prosperous or not. He thought
the jealousy of one railway company with respect to
another was absurd altogether. lie did not want the
North Staffordshire Company to flourish at the expense
of any other company; but he would say this, that if the
North Staffordshire Railway did flourish, he was sure
that those around it would flourish nlso, and that the
trade would he distributed among them. The worthy
mayor had coupled his name with that of the North Stal-
forthire Company, and he (Mr. Ricardo) could only
say that he kad undertaken this great enterprise not
with any view to personal profit or advancement, but
simply with a view to benefit his constituents and the
country at large.—(Cheers.) If he had succeeded, the
only reward he would ever require was to see the North
Staffordshire Railway prosperous,—(The Ilona Gentle-
nrin resumed his seat amidst loud applause.)
Captain ANTI-tours, in a humorous speech, proposed
the toast of ‘4 The Directors," Whii:h was responded to
by Mr. Broderick.

• The healths of the Mayor and other gentlemen locally
connected with the railway were then proposed and duly,
responded to.

Samuda, the secretary, Mr. Bidder, the engineer,
and the contractors were proposed.
In the course of the reply to the toast, Mr. Pearson
and other gentlemen referred to the uniform good con-
duct of the railway labourers ever since they had been
employed on the works. Such was their praiseworthy
behaviour, that when there was a prospect of the town
and peace being disturbed by Chartist agitators, they
immediately came forward in a body and requested to
be enrolled as special constables, a proceeding which had
no doubt tended very much to the maintenance of the
peace of the locality. This announcement was received
with loud cheers.

At five o'clock the corporation of Congleton accom-
panied the directors of the railway in a special train
to Stoke, and returned to Congleton late in the evening.
The banquet at Congleton was served by Mr. Stocker,
of the Lion.

THE LATE MA. STEPHENSON.—The following is an
extract from the minutes of the Liverpool Board of., the
London and North-Western Railway, under date !6th
September, 1848:—" The public papers having 13an-
nounced the lamented death of Mr. George Stephenson,
on Saturday, the 12th ult., Resolved unanimously—That
the directors embrace this first opportunity of recording
the strong sentiments which they entertain, of admiration
for the talents and esteem for the character of the man
whose death they cannot but regard as a. national loss.
The directors, on the present occasion, look back with
peculiar interest to their first connexion with Mr. Ste-
phenson, in the construction of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway; to a period now twenty years past,
when he floated their new line over Chat Muss, or cut his
way through the rock cutting at Olive Mount. Tracing
the progress of railways from that first beginning to the
present time, they find Mr. Stephenson foremost in
uriting forward the great railway movement, earning and
maintaining his title to be considered, before any other
man, the author of that universal system of locomotion
which has effected such mighty results, commercial,
social, and political, throughout the civilized world.
Two years ago the directors entrusted to Mr. Gibson, of
Rome, the duty and privilege of producing a statue
diet might do honour to their friend, then living
amongst them. They did not anticipate that on the
completion of this work of art the great original would
be no more—that they should be constrained to accept
the marble effigy of the engineer in lieu of the living
presence of the man.—Resolved: that a copy of this
resolution be transmitted to Mr. Robert Stephenson,
with an expression of the directors' earnest sympathy
under the irreparable loss which he has experienced."—
Liverpool Journal.

ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS DURING 1847.—From the
First Annual R,-port of the Commissioners of Railways,
just published, it appears that there is a great reduction
in the number of railway accidents for 1847, notwith-
standing the great increase in the number of passengers
conveyed. At the beginning of the first six months of
1847 there were 3,036 miles of railway opened in the
United Kingdma; at the beginning sof the latter six
months of that period there were 3,496 miles open; and
at the end of the latter period, passengers were carried
on 3,816 miles of railway. It appears from the returns
that the number of passengers conveyed in the former
period was 23,119,412, in the latter 31,734,607, being
an increase of passengers of 37 per cent. Yet
the number of passengers killed and injured
by causes beyond their ow❑ control was less by
29 per cent. in the latter than in the former
period, and the whole number of accidents to passengers,
servants of companies, ;trespassers, and others, was less
by 7 per cent. The whole number; of accidents
during this period, attended with injury to the public,
was 330. The number of accidents from carriages
leaving the line, during 1847, was 5, and from en-
gines running off 15. Accidents from axles breaking
were 11, and from tires of wheels 6. During the same
year there were 37 accidents from collisions; and .the
Commissioners aro strongly of opinion, from investiga-
tion, that these arise from the fact of large trains ge-
nerally not being accompanied by a sufficient number of
guards to work the breaks, and they consider that the
most effectual method of ensuring attention to this sub-
ject is a public statement of this their opinion.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER OPENING.—The opening
of this important line, which is 60 miles in length, takes
place on Thursday next.—Liverpool Albion.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—There is a rumour in town,
but on what foundation it rests we are unable to say,
that Mr. Laing, the chairman, is to have 800/. • per an-
num out of the 1,6001 allowed to the directors, as
chairman and manager, and the other eight directors
1001. year each.—Hsrapath's Railway Journal.
IRISH RAILWAYS.—A correspondent, in a private let-
ter, writes to us :—" You will be amused to hear that
in Ireland, where they widened their gauge (at General
Pailey's recommendation) for the very purpose of giving
more roe►m for the cylinders, &c., between the Wheels,
they are using several outside cylinder engines. They
have in that country, by widening the gauge, got into
the expensive forms of carriage and engine of the Great
Western, and with a beggarly traffic. Their trains
weigh, exclusive of the engine, forty or fifty tons, and
their engines, which burn a full allowance of• coke,
weigh twenty tons, or, with the tender, twenty-eight,
making the gross weight of a train eighty tons, where
forty should suffice. Now this forty toes of extra car-
rying stock will be worth something like 90/. per ton, or
3,6001. per train, which requires continual repair and
renewal ; besides the interest upon it, 20 per cent., will
not be too much for this-20 per cent. on 3,600/.-7201.,
or 2/. per day. Say you get forty miles of running
throughout the year on each train of carriages with the
engine, here is 'a charge of one shilling per mile per
train impo:ed by this uncalled for widening of the Irish
gauge, in carrying stock only."—Herapath's Railway
Journal.
TOURNAY AND JURBISE.—The opening of the entire
line is fixed for the 15th of the present month.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Om 9.
STOCK EXCSANOE.—Th• share market continues in a
very depressed state. Great Western 111. Shares were dons
at 3% dia.

LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 9.
STOCK Excrweciz.—We have to notice a further depres-
sion in our share market, and a decline in prices. The sales
ara— Birkenhead,- Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 311.
Shares, 93i dis. —East Lancashire, 6t,,* Preference, % die.-
-Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming-
ham), Fifths, 5% dis.—Ditto (late West Riding Union),
Fifths,_ dis.—London and North-Western, 1043/4—Ditto,
New Quarters, 13/4 C. dis.—Ditto, Quarteri (C), 1 p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Docks, 15% dis.—
Midland Stock, 78%—Ditto, New Halves, 1 t 3,4 dis.--South-
Eastern and Dover, 22% —Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 6%—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 3% dis.
MANCHESTER, OCT. 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Clvdesdale Junction,
55—01 d Grimsby, 30% dis.—Sheffield, Preference, 9%
South-Eastem and Dover, No. 4, 6 7-16—East Lancashire,
Preference, 3-16 dis.—Caledonian, Preference, 1 dis.—
Sheffield, Quarters, No.l, 10% dis.—North Staffordshire, VA
dis.—East Lancashire, 11% dis.—Sheffield and Lincolp,
14 3-16 c. dis—East Anglian, 18/. Shares, 2 li-16—Leeds,
Preference, 346 die.

BIRMINGHAM, Ocr. 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midlands, 77—Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 54 dis.---
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 44 dis.—Shropshire
Union, 3% dis. _

YORK, OCT. 7.
STOCX EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-dar was
as follows : Great Northern, 41. 2s.—Lancashire and York-
shire, Preference, 4% —North British, Thirds 4/. 16s. c.—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), fib.

DOVER HARBOUR OF REFUGE.--The works of this
great national undertaking have been most actively pro-
secuted during the summer months; and the progress
made reflects much credit on the energy and skill of the
contractors. The piling of the breakwater has been
carried out to five feet water at low water spring tides ;
while the massive masonry which forms the pier is ra-
pidly growing up, rock-like, on either hand.—Dover
Chronicle.

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On the sth inst., at Belle Vue, Teignmouth, the lady of
Lieutenant-Colonel Osborn, Bengal Army, of a son.
On the sth inst., at the Vicarage, Willen, Buck; the wife
of "the Rev. G. Phillimore, of a son.
On the sth inst., the wife of the Rev. M. Wilkinson, Mas-
ter of Marlborough College, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst, at Regent-square, the wife of. J. Gordon,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, the
wife of J. H. Baxendale, Esq.. of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Albany-court-yard, Piccadilly, the
wife of T. Mortimer, Esq., of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Caroline-place, Mecklenburgh-squiret
Mrs. E. Sealy, of a daughter, stillborn.
On the 7th inst., at Woburn-park, Surrey, the Hon. Mrs.
Locke King, of a son.