The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-16 00:00:00

A ►SHAREHOLDER remarked, that at one time the car-
riage of eggs along the line was enormous, but that had
now disappeared. He would be glad to know the reason
of that.
The CHAIRMAN said that those eggs were brought
from Jersey and Guernsey by poor boat owners, who,
if the weather permitted, ran at once to London, and
saved the expense of railway carriage. It was only
stress of weather which caused them to have recourse to
the railway at all. They had now found a :ueans of con-
veyance which suited them better. The directors always
thought the day tickets were of great advantage and
convenience. What might arise out of the season
tickets was more doubtful. The number of these sea-
son tickets issued by other companies was very trifling.
The report was then put and adopted unanimously.
It was moved that a dividend of 2/. 2s. 6d. per share
should be declared, and made payable on and after the
21st of February next, which was carried unanimously.
It was moved that a double line should be constructed
to Guildford, which was carried.
It was moved that a double line should be constructed,
with bridges,&c., throughout to Dorchester, which was
carried.

Mr. REID proposed the re-election of the three re-
tiring directors, viz., William James Chaplin, Thomas
Smith, and James Aikin, Esqs.
Mr. WARREN thought it would be for the good of the
Company, and the brisker management of its affairs, if
new blood were infused into the Board of Directors. .A
self-elected body was always dangerous to society. He did
not mean to affect the present election, but in future.
He moved an amendment that the three directors who;
go out in rotation should not be re-eligible for twelve
months.
Mr. TOWNSEND said that the effect would be to threfw
out those who were interested in the Company, who had
borne the burden, and being once removed from the
board would never return.

The SOLICITOR of the Company said, that in order to
carry out that amendment it would be necessary to
have one of the clauses of the Act of Parliament re-
pealed.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WARREN withdrew his amendment, but moved
-that a list of proprietors and their addresses should be
printed and given to the proprietors.—(" Oh, oh.")
"''The original motion for re-electiorr was put and
carried unanimously.
It was proposed that Henry C. Lacy, Esq., and
Richard Austen Townsend, Esq., should be elected to
fill the vacancies in the board.

A SHAREHOLDER moved the election of Mr. Sergeant
Gazelee and Mr. Snow to fill the vacancies in question.
The CHAIRMAN mid the gentlemen nominated could
not be elected, as they had not given notice of their inten-
tion to become candidates.

The original motion was put and carried for the elec-
tion of Messrs. Lacy and Townsend.
The CHAIRMAN called on the Secretary to read the
Company's prospectus in reference to the establishment
of a steam navigation company in alliance with the
railway Company, with a view to trading by steam-
packets from Portsmouth and Southampton to the coast
of France and the Channel Islands.

A SHAREHOLDER objected •to the railway Company
giving any guarantee to the packet Company. Any
agreement come to at the last meeting he considered a
mere nullity, for it was a special meeting, and no notice of
such a meeting had been given to the proprietors in the
terms of the Act of Parliament. Had it been notified,
he would have sacrificed the business which detained
him to come and oppose so monstrous a proposition, as
to give a guarantee to a losing Company.
The CHAIRMAN—What they were doing that day
evinces that nothing was done on that occasion.

The GENTLEMAN continued—He saw the motion
which had been carried ; and he thought the movement of
that day Ras a mere formality. The chairman had
given them statistics; he had shown a falling off at Havre.
Of course there would be. It was the longest way to
the continent. _ _

Mr. LEFEVRE rose and said that Mr. Chaplin had
acted exceedingly ill to him and his friends connected
with steam at Southampton, and had he known it, he
vould have used every effort to have thrown him out.--
(Great confusion.) The Chairman, when he brought
forward the 10th resolution, said it was the last ; the
consequence was, that many left the room, and then the
Chairman brought forward the subject of the Packet
Company.
The CHAIRMAN said that the feeling of the meeting
on that occasion led him to announce the subject.
Mr. LEFEVRE was still more surprised, for he had re-
ceived a letter before that meeting from Mr. Morgan,
saying that the subject would be brought forward at the
meeting on the 20th.
The CHAIRMAN said that several arrangements hale
been entered into about the Steam-packet Company, but
on account of other business pressing on them, the day
appointed for the ratification of that agreement had to
be postponed, and on the 20th the subject had been
mentioned to the meeting.
Mr. LEFEVRE continued to address the meeting amid
much confusion and disapprobation.
Mr. REID rose to order; he said the matter might be
interesting to the secretary or clerk of the Packet Company
for which Mr. Lefevre acted in that character, a com-
pany which was about to be dissolved, and therefore Mr.
L. might lose his salary ; but it could not be so to that
meeting.
Mr. TITE said the boats of the South of England
Company had been offered to the proposed company at
25,0001., and gave other particulars of a bargain pro-
posed by another company, but not entered into. He
said four boats were offered for 25,0001., and the other
company had offered that their stock should be taken at
cost price, the shareholders proposing to take the
amount in shares. He said the company to be formed
should be an independent company. He then moved
that the Railway Company considered that the Steam
Company to Havre would be in favour of the railway.
Mr. SNow, in supporting the motion, said there was a
line of rail being constructed from Paris to Rouen, and
thence to Havre, and there was nothing wanting, to
make this route as facile as the others but tine
wretched hiatus created by these boats. lle inought
even if the Railway Company should have to pay the
per cent. profit on the proposed Packet Company, it
would be better for them to do so than tumble into the
desuetude, which they would inevitably do, unless they
entered spiritedly into the competition.—(dear, hear.)
The motion was put and carried, with two exceptions.
The CHAIRMAN called on
Mr. TITE, who said that it had been proposed to in-
stitute some benevolent fund to provide against the con-
tingencies to which the servants (about 800) were liable.
It was proposed that a committee should be formed to
manage the fund. The share would be but one penny,
and the income would be 3001.
A motion was made on the subject, and carried most
heartily.
The thanks of the meeting were voted to the Chair-
man, and the meeting then broke up.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, FEL 14.—Wind W.. light breeze, and fine weather.
FALMOUTH, FIJI. 12.-31 d. Rifleman, Hammack, Sydney, New
South W,4les.

LIVERYOOL, FEB. 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Arid. Challenger, Arche-
bald, ChinalSalisbury, Hubback, Moulmein ; Dream, Alley, Para ;
Pontiac, New Orleans. Ski. St. George, Hutchinson, New Orleans ;
Susqueliannali, Turley, Philadelphia; Medora, Halifax. Oft'
Port, Helvellyn, and Avoca.

The fiat, ➢corning Star, of Northwick, from Wicklow, Ina put into
Southport, with damage, and leaky, &c. having been ashore on Yeds
Bank. The Heywood, from Africa, ou shore on Carnarvon Bar, hat
been towed off and alongside the Quay, after cutting away main and
wizen masts ; her leaks have been stopped, and is At to proceed to
this port.

STROMNESS, FEE. s.—Sld. Orivell, Colburn, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Rapid, Largee, Montrose.

.
lIDOVER, FEB. 13.—The Joseph, of Yemenill, Brereton, from
Seaham, was in contact off Beachy Head, this morning, with the
Matchless, of Scilly, and sunk soon after ; crew raved.
CLTDE, FEB. 12.—Wind N.W.—Sid. Medora, M'Pherson, Trinidad;
James Edward, Webster, New Orleans ; Europa, Boyle, Trinidad ;
Michigan, United States.
YAILMOUTIL ROADS, Feb. 12.—Arid. Brunswick, Merrlson, St.
Andrews.
LIARTLEPOOL, FEB. I I. —SM. Merchant, Storey, Monte Video.
NEWPORT, Feb. 13.—The Sawpo, Bostrom, of Chriatianstadt,
bound to Malta, in hauling out of the Cardiff docks, caught the
ground and lay athwart the Gut ; is much strained and very leaky.
BELFAST, FEB. 12.—The Horsford, Drennan, from Liverpool to ,
Trinidad, which was on shore in Larne Lough, was got off yesterday
after discharging a great part of cargo.
Sntossnr-ss, FEB. s.—The Jessie, of Week, bound to Londonderry,
drove on the Quarry Rocks, 3d inst., lightened and got off into the
harbour, and hauled on the beach for survey. The Marquis of
Queensberry, from St. John's, N. 8., which was at the back of the !
Holmes, Slat ult., waterlogged, has been hauled on the beach, had
her leeks stopped, and will proceed to Leith in a day or two.
CLA T, FEL 12.—A boat, marked " Jelin bannister, of Hull," hio
been picked up in the harbour, supposed to have belonged to a vessel
which appears to have foundered off this coast within the last few
days.
DEAL, FEB. 13.—Arrd. from the River,
CNN. :ilwliaesntimlinlalstcesr,,
Venus,
Bombay. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Arequipa,
Ilon
; Cglrialtnogr'ei,l°Bbaarllt,
Town ; New Express, Hewett, Calcutta, sz
New York ; Fellowship, Armstrong, Bahia Curra
Ascension; Murillo, Woodside, Havannah ; Mary Caroline, Brewer.
•t. John's, N.B.
BRISTOL, FEL 13.—Arrd. Falcon, Savage, 1,,a0. Jim's, N.B.

LOSS OF THE PATRIOT, MALTESE VESSEL:A letter
has been received at Lloyd's, from the Foreign-office, in-
closing a copy of a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at
Cagliari, reporting the wreck of a Maltese barque, the Pa-
triot, on the west coast of that island; second mate and one
seaman drowned,

POOR-RATES AND LOCAL TAXATION.—From the
returns just obtained by Sir James Graham, pursuant to an order by
the blouse of Commons, it appears that the amount levied for poor-
rates in England and Wales was in 1826, 6,966,1571. ; in 1833,
8,606,5011.; and in 1841, 6,351,828—making an average of 7,308,162/.
per annum. The annual value, in the year ending Lady-day 1841 of
real property assessed to the poor-rates is England and Wales was
62,540,0301. The total amount of local taxation in England ant
Wales, for the year ending the 25th of March, 1844, was 11,187,0271.
For Scotland, it:was 530,6651. In Ireland it wax 1,561,191/.—making
a total in Great Britain and Ireland of 13,2778,883/. _

SPANISH WHEAT.—There has just been delivered at
this port a cargo of extremely fine wheat from Cadiz (being the first
that we remember direct from Spain into this vast emporiums of
corn). It weighed 6411)5. to the bushel, and was very dry. The
Jane Pope, of Bridport, Captain Symonds, brought the cargo for
Messrs. Grutt, llshnsing, and Co., and the captain reports that
twenty-three other cargoes were loading at Cadiz when he left.
Hun paper. _ _ _

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GAME LAws.--Lord Deere's Bill (for • the further
amendment of the laws in England relativ . game) proposes to
enact that no person shall sell game to any licensed dealer, unless
such person be lord or lessee of a manor or reputed manor, or his
gamekeeper, as the owner or occupier of -- acres of land at the
least (the number is not yet fixed). Nothing, however, herein, le to
affect or take away the authority of any inn-keeper or tavern-keeper
to sell game for consumption in his house. Licensed dealers are to
keep a book, to be open for inspection ; and persons in possession .°1
game or snares, are to account for it to justice, if called on se ton?.
Damage done by game is to be apportioned among neighbouring pro-
prietors ; and a right of appeal is, given to the nexttQaduoartetor
Sea-
alone. The provisions of the former Act are- l
to he
*e menu p 05311119, Ic.