The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-15 00:00:00

No. 16,740. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING

SEE THE DAILY NEWS of JUNE 1
Daily News Office, Whitefriars.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, TRAFAL-
GAR-SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling.
Catalogue, One Shilling.
HENRY HOWARD, ILA., Sec._

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
The Subscribers and the Public are respectfully informed that
the FIFTH CONCERT win take place on MONDAY EVENING
NEXT, when will be performed Mendelssohn's Symphony in C minor,
Beethoven's in B flat, Weber's Overture to Euryanthe, and Cheru-
bini's Abencerages. Solo performers—Pianoforte, Mr. H. Field;
Violin, M. Deloffre ; Violoncello, M. Filet. Vocalists—Madlle. Rum-
mel and Miss Eassano. Conductor, Mr. Costa.
Single Tickets, 11. Is., and double Tickets, it. 10s., to he had at the
music warehouse of Messrs. Addison and Hodson, 210, Regent-street.

Novelties of extrem4 interest and informstion at the
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
Scenes in the OREGON TERRITORY form a part of an en-
tirely NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. PORTRAITS of
the most Distinguished Men in the SIKH GOVERNMENT and
ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE ;
also, Portraits of Sir Henry I mlinge, Sir Robert and Lady Sale. The
PHYSIOSCOPE and CHROMATROPE, with new and beautiful
variations. The most interesting of the Novelties at work are
MACINTOSH'S ROTARY ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined
Planes, FARRELL'S ARCHIMEDIAN RAILWAY, an ENVE-
LOPE CUTTING MACHINE, WOOD'S NEW PATENT STEAM-
ENGINE GOVERNOR, and the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
Experiments with the DIVING BELL and DIVER. Leetures on
CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant ex-
periments.

Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.
A brief Description of the Oregon Territory, from Notes by a Nine
Tears' Resident, presented to the Visitors.

BEARD'S IMPROVED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTRAITS, so highly eulogised by all the leading journds,
are TAKEN DAILY, from Nine to Six, at 34, Parliament-street,
Westminster; 85, King William-street, City; and the Royal Poly-
technic Institution, Regent-street.

" The brilliancy and warmth of tone gained by the Patentee's
new method of colouring, add materially to the excellency of the
portrait."
" The portrait stands out in bold relief, clear, round, and life-like."
Licenses to practice the invention in London, or the Provinces,
granted by Mr. Beard (sole patentee of the Daguerreotype), 85, King
William-street, City.

IL SON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
MENTS. Music Hall, S+ore•street, Bedford-square.
On MONDAY EVENING, MAY 18, at Eight o'clock.
Mr. WILSON will give an ENTERTAINMENT, in which he
will sing a variety of the
SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
Pianoforte—Mr. LAND.
PART I.—O weel may the Boatie row—Of a' the airts the wind can
blaw—Whall buy Caller Herring Y—Hame cam our gudeman at e'en
—Ower the Water to Charlie—Bonnie Bessie Lee—The Married
Man's Lament— Pibroch o' Donald Dhu.
Peal' ll.—The Flowers o' the Forest— The Auld School —Woo'd
an' married an' a'—Auld Joe Nicolson's Bonny Nannie—Get up and
bar the Door.
Tickets, 2s. Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. Private Boxes for Six, 155.,
for Eight, 1/.

SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY AND
CANAL COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the HOLDERS of SCRIP, or BANKERS' RECEIPTS for
SCRIP, in respect of the undertakings proposed to be carried into
effect under the Bills below-mentioned, will be held at the Lion
Hotel, Shrewsbury, on FRIDAY, the 22d day of May, 1846, at
Eleven o'clock, for the purpose of submitting to their approval
copies of the following Bills, viz. :
A Bill for making a railway from Shrewsbury to Stafford, with a
branch to Stone, and for other purposes.
A Bill for making a railway from the Chester and Crewe branch of
the Grand Junction Railway at Calvaley, to Wolverhampton, and for
other purposes connected therewith.

A &11' for making a railway from Newtown, in the county of
Montgomery, to Crewe, in the county of Chester, with branches, and
for other purposes connected therewith.

The Cliair will be taken by the Earl of POWIS, K.G., at Eleven
o'clock.

N.B. Each Shareholder attending at the meeting will be required
to produce his or her Scrip or Bankers' Receipt for Scrip ; and for the
purpose of duly recording the rotes, forms will be prepared, in which
each party will be required to enter his er her name and address, the
number of Scrip, and. he designating numbers thereof, to which
forms the Scrip must be appended.

The requisite (form of Toting-paper may be had on application a,
the Company's Offices, 9, Great George-street, Westminster.
WILLIAM COWAN, Secretary.

London, May I, 1846

NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is herby given that, in compliance with the sessional
orders of the Houses of Parliament, a SPECIAL MEETING of
HOLDERS of SCRIP and BANKERS' RECEIPTS in this under-
taking, will be held at the Palatine Hotel, in Manchester, on SA-
TURDAY, the 16th instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely,
and that at suchrneeting a copy of the Lill now pending in Pania-
ment, to empower the Company to construct their proposed railway,
will be submitted for consideration.

Parties attending this meeting will be required to produce their
scrip or bankers' receipt, and to furnish the Secretary with a memo-
randum of their name and address, denoting the numbers of the scrip
produced. In order to facilitate the business of the meeting, the
Secretary will be in attendance at the Palatine Hotel two hours pre-
vious to the meeting, to receive the scrip and take the denoting num-
bers thereof.

THOMAS BTRKBECK, Chairman.
EDMUND SHARFE, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 107, Jermyn-street, London.
May 6th, 1846.

... .._ , .
.REAT WE STERN RAILWAY.
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for a period of five or seven years, on the security
TENDERS for LOANS il MONEY, in sums of notion than 1,0001.
The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY are ready to receive
of mortgage de-
bentures, bearing interest at the rate of tour per cent. Per annum,
payable half yearly.
Applications may be made to the undersigned, at the Railway
Office, Paddington station.
CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL WAY
COMPANY.
HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on NEW SHARES of 141. 16s. each.
The Directors of this Company hereby give notice. that the HALF
YEAR'S INTEREST on the ABOVE SHARES WILL BE PAID,
on and after MONDAY, the let of June next.
All holders of the Certificates of those Shares upon which there
are not any arrears of calls or interest, are required to leave their
Certificates at the Company's Office, Shoreditch-station, London,
two clear days, in order that the Certificates may be duly examined
and entered, preparatory to the Half-yearly Interest being paid.
Parties holding Certificates will be pleased to observe, that interest
will not be paid upon them until such time as all arrears with in-
terest are duly satisfied.
By order of the Board,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Eastern Counties Railway, Shoreditch-station, May Bth, 1846.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY CUM,
PAN Y.

NEW SHARES of 14/. 16g. EACH

FOURTH INS rALMENT of 2/. per shaie,iiiieifay 28, 1846.
Notice is hereby given, that under the Resolutions passed at a
Special General Meeting of the Proprietors, on the 10th of April.
1845, the FOURTH INSTALMENT of 2/. PER SHARB on the
above Shares becomes payable on the 28th of May instant.
Holders of the Certificates of these Shares are therefore requested
to pay this instalment on or before the 28th inst., into one or other of
the Company's Bankers, as subjoined, in defa )1t of which, interest
will be charged at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman.
By order,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Eastern Counties Railway, Shoreditch Station, May 8, 1846.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
London and Westminster Bank, Loth,,ury, or any of its branches.

COUNTRY RANRERI.
Liverpool Borough Bank—Liverpool.
Manchester and Liverpool District Banlo—Manchester.
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company—Salisbury.
Messrs. Lemon and Co.—Brentwood.
Messrs. Mills, Bawtree and Co.—Colchester.
Messrs. Sparrow and Co.—Chelmsfoßk:
National Provincial Bank—Bath. '
National Provincial Bank—Birmingham.
National Provincial Bank—Boston.
Western Bank of Scotland—Edinburgh.
Western Bank of Scotland Glasgow.
Royal Bank of Ireland—Dublin.
East of England Bank—Great Yarmouth.
West of England and South Wales District Bank—Bristol.
Messrs. Harvey's and Hudson's—Norwich.
Messrs. Racon, Cobbold, and Co., and Messrs. Alexander and CO.
Ipswich.
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Bank—Cheltenham.
Messrs. Fisher and Sons—Cambridge.
Messrs. Beckett and Co.—Leeds.
Union Bank—York.