The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
took an early airing in a pony phaeton this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken
a carriage airing in the forenoon.
Divine service was performed to-day (Good Friday)
in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev,
C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert attended the afternoon service.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken out in the pleasure grounds
of the Castle this afternoon.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, on Thursday, at Gloucester
House.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Jamaica, and also from the
Governor of the other West India Colonies.
The Dean of Westminster preached the sermon
yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, the lessons
by the Rev. Dr. Dakins, and the Communion service by
the Sub-Dean. Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lords
St. Germans, Hawarden, and Vivian were among the
nobility present.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The San of Last Night.)
To-day is observed as a strict holiday in the City, and there
is nothing particular to communicate, for parties merely call
for their letters, and this but in a few instances, and take
them home for perusal.
COURSE OF EXCFIANGF.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam .... C.F. 19 9% Gibraltar.. ••.••• • • • • • •
Ditto, at sight • ... 12 6 Leghorn .
Rotterdam 2U. 12 10 Genea .. •••• • • • 26 15
Antwerp. .
thimburgh ......M.B. 13 15% Venice .. .•••••• • • • • • • •
Altona •• .
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 85 Palermo, per 0z........ 119%
Ditto, 3 months...... 26 10
Marseilles • ..... • ..... 26 IS Oporto .•..• • • • • 52%
Bourdeaux....
Frankfort on Maine.... 122% Bahia ..
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... . • Buenos Ayres .. ••• . • •
Kerlin ..... •• • • New York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effee. tlo ••• • • • 10 11 Philadelphia ..........
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 11% moms OF BULLION, ?LI 01.
Madrid ••.. • • • ....... 36% Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Cadiz • • ... : ...... 36% Portugal Gold Coin ••3 17 5
Bilbao.. ••••.• • • • • • New Doubloons 00 0
Barcelona ••..•• . • • . New Dollars ••. . • • 04 9%
Seville.. •• •... • ..... Silver in bars ...... •• 0 4 11.4 t

HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, APRIL 7.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents •••••••• • • • • • • • • 113
Bank Shares •• • • ••• • • • • •
Anglo-Russian Loan .• ••• • • • 107)4
Russian 5 per Cent., Harnb. Certificate. 161%
Ditto Ist series Inscription. • • • • • 10234
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series• • 96
Ditto, in Certificate.... ••• • • • ........ 96
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• . • •
Ditto Stieglitz • • • •••• • • • ••••• • • • •
Spanish New 5 per Cent • • 17
Ditto 3 per Cent .. • • • • • • • • 2634
Anglo-Portugueee Loan, 234 per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent ..... 59
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••..••• • • • • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.. • • 61
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •••• • • 86%
National Bank Shares• •••••••• • • • • • ••
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 2
5 per Cent. Metalliques• • ••• • • • • • II I 15-16
4 per Cent. ditto .• •••••• • • • • • • • • 101
3 per Cent. ditto.. •••••• • • • • • . .• •• .. 75
Loan, 1834 .. • • •• • • •• • ............ ..... 154
Ditto, 1839 • • •• • • • • • • • • .• ............ 122
Bank Shares ••• • • • • • • • • • •• ••••••••••• 1572
Estorhazy's Loan ••.•• • •• ••••••• • • •• ••
•Aligemeine Zeitung, April 5.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWARKET CRAVEN MEETING.
The following horses have arrived at Newmarket in the
course of the week :
Lord Stradbroke's Idas, Lynmus, and Pole Cat—Lord
Chesterfield's Lady Wildair, Arkright, and Free Lane—Lard
Glamis's Satyr—Colonel Auson's Toga—Lord Maidstone's
Tom Tullock—Colonel Anson's Austrian, Turpin, and Row-
land Hill—Mr. Jacques's Spur—Mr. Bowes's Ukrane, Volga,
and ilowerina. The stables are healthy, and all the horses
here, except the Lucetta colt, doing good work. The
weather is fine, and the course in good order.
Vol-au-vent is declared not to start.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag hds, Mon., Stoke Common—lo%.
B. V. H., Tues., Stoke Wood; Fri., Whatcomb Wood-
-11/ (a deer).
Cambridgeshire hds., Tues., George Inn (Buckden).
Mr. Horredon's hds., Mon., Golberdown ; Thurs., Five
Lanes-10/.

WINDING-UP OF RAILWAY
SCHEMES.

CLAUSE PROPOSED BY MR. HUDSON TO BE INSERTED
IN ALL RAILWAY BILLS OF THE PRESENT SESSION
BY WHICH NEW COMPANIES ARE TO BE INCORPO-

RATED.

And be it enacted that the directors shall, within
three months of the passing of this Act, cause the
names and addition of all the several corporations and
persons entitled to shares in the company. to be entered
in the " Register of the Shareholders." directed to be
kept by " the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845 ;" and the said directors shall cause an extra,
ordinary meeting of the shareholders in the com-
pany to be called within six months from the t ass-
ing of this Act, for the purpose of consider-
ing and determining whether the company shall proceed
in the execution of the powers of this Act, or whether
such company shall be forthwith dissolved ; and it
shall be lawful for such meeting so called, at which
three-fifths at least of the shareholders shall be present
either personally or by proxy,to determine either that the
company shall proceed in the execution of the powers of
this Act, or that the company shall be forthwith dissolved ;
provided that before such meeting be called, it shall not be
lawful for the company or the directors to put in force any
of the powers of this Act relative to the taking or
using of land; and in case such meeting so called shall
determine that the company be forth with dissolved, the
company shall be thereupon forthwith dissolved accord-
ingly, except for the purpose of winding up the affairs
thereof as hereinafter mentioned; and thenceforth all the
powers of this Act with relation to the taking or using of
land, or otherwise, shall absolutely cease and determine
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstand•
ing (subject, and without prejudice to all existing debts.
liabilities, or agreements contracted or entered into by
the company, and subjectl to the provisions hereinafter
contained); and the directors, after full payment and
satisfaction, in the first instance, of all the debts, liabi-
lities, and agreements contracted or entered into by the
company, and of such compensation as hereby provided,
shall divide the residue or surplus of the moneys and
effects of or belonging to the said company, rateably
among the shareholders in the said company in propor-
tion to their respective interests therein ; provided ne-
vertheless that the company shall make full compensa-
tion to all owners, lessees, and occupiers of land and
others, inithe same manner as is herein provided in cases
of compensation for land required for the purposes of
this Act, for all loss, damage, costa, charges, and ex-
penses, which they may respectively have sustained or
been put unto in consequence of the proceedings of the
company in obtaining this Act, or under any powers
thereof ; the amount to be ascertained, in case of dis-
pute, by the verdict of a jury, or by reference to arbitra-
tion, as hereinbefore provided in other cases of disputed
compensation ; and all corporations and persons to or
with whom such debts, liabilities, or agreements shall
have been contracted or entered into, or who shall be
entitled to any such compensation as aforesaid.
shall, notwithstanding the determination of such
meeting, have such and the same rights and
remedies against the said company for the recovery
and enforcement thereof respectively, as they would
have had if no such meeting had taken place, and as if
the company had continued to exist. And be it further
eacted, that it the directors shall not within four months
from the passing of this Act, cause due notice of such
extraordinary meeting to be given, it shall be lawful
for any six or more of the persons entitled to shares
in the said undertaking, holding in the whole shares
or stock to the amount of at least 5,0001., to call
such meeting by notice, signed by such shareholders,
and published in the manner required by this
Act, with regard to extraordinary meetings of the Com-
pany, and the proceedings of the meeting so called by
such shareholders, at which three-fifths at least of the
shareholders shall be present, either personally or by
proxy, shall be as valid, and shall have the same force
and effect as if such meeting had been duly called by
the directors ; and for the purpose of winding up the
affairs of the said company, in case such meeting shall
determine on the dissolution thereof, it shall he lawful
for such meeting to appoint a Committee, consisting of
such number of persons as they shall think fit, being
shareholders in the company ; and the directors shall
forthwith transfer to such committee all documents,
books, papers, and accounts of or belonging to the
company, and shall also transfer to such committee
all moneys, security for money, and other effects
and property of or belonging to the company ; and
snch committee, or the survivors or survivor thereof, shall
forthwith proceed to wind up the affairs of the company,
and shall, in the first place, convert into money such
of the effects as shall not consist of money, and pay and
discharge all the debts, contracts, and liabilities of the
company, and subject thereto, and to the necessary ex-
penses of such committee in the execution of their powers,
the surplus of the said moneys shall be forthwith divided
by such committee rateably amongst the shareholders
in the company in proportion to their respective
interests therein ; and in the event of the directors
refusing or neglecting to transfer to anysucmhocommittee
documents, books, papers, and accounts,
other property and effects of the company,nc witKin, ten
days after demand, in writing, dby such com-
mittee, or the survivors or survivor of them, and
delivered to any one of such directors, or left at his
last or usual place of abode, it shall be lawful for
such committee, or the survivors or survivor of
them, to pass a resolution that such company is
desirous but to wind up its affairs ; and upon a copy of
such resolution, signed by any one or more of such
committee, being filed in the office of the Lord Chancel-
lor's secretary of bankrupts, every such company shall
be deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy at the
time of filing the copy of such resolution, and thereupon
such proceedings shall be had and taken for the purpose
of winding up the affairs of the said company as are di-
rected in and by an Act passed in the eighth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for faci-
litating the winding up the affairs of Joint-Stock Com-
panies unable to meet their pecuniary engagements," in
the case of any of the acts of bankruptcy therein mentioned
being committed by the companies therein referred to •,
provided that notice shall be given by the directors or such
coir mittee as aforesaid, if appointed, of the determination
of such meeting ef shareholders, to be called as aforesaid,
with reference to the proceeding in the execution of the
powers of this Act, or the dissolution of the company, in
the London Gazette, and in one or more newspapers of each
county, in which the lands proposed to be affected by
this Act shall lie, within fourteen days from the holding
of such meeting; and at any such meeting to be held as