The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-21 00:00:00

Adinlttaree, One Shilling. richo-ols, Half-price.

WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY.
The Editor of "tne-41 RAILWAY TIMES" begs to correct a
total mis-statementWhleh appears in his paper of this day. An sill-
dal communlc:alOn to the effect that the decision of Sub-Committee
-.No. 2 in tll4 ftbovo case had been confirmed was forwarded to the
Editor yesterday afternoon. The source from whence this informa-
tiqa wss derived did not allow of a doubt of its authenticity.
122, Eleet-otrect, Feb. 21, 1846.

CIGAR and CHEROOT WAREHOUSES,
21, BUDGE-ROW, WATLING-STREET, CIIEAPSIDE,
LONDON. Ono of the largest stocks in the kingdom, warranted
first quality, at CHARLES TOSSWILL and CO.'s, Commission
Merchants, Importers, and Manufacturers. Foreign Cigars, 18s.,
205., and 21s. per lb. ; Colorados, a new Cigar, 21s. per lb. British,
manufactured from the finest Tobaccos imported. CheroOts, Gs. ;
Ambrosial, 7s. ; Mexican, 7s. Cigars—Cnba, 75.; Havannah, 7s. Ct. ;
Sllras, As. 6d. ; Itegalias, to. Gd.; Cabanas, As. 6d. ; Lopez, 9s. Gd. ;
Priucipes, 9s. Gd. per lb. ; and every other kind.

ST. GILES-IS-THE-FIELDS and ST. GEORGE, BLOOMSBURY.

CONTRACT FOR MEAT.
THE Directors of the roor of the above Parishes
will meet in the Vestry-room, near the Church of St.
George, Bloomsbury, on TUESDAY, the 3(1 day of March next, at
seven o'clock in the evening, to contract for supplying the poor of
the above parishes, for three, six, or twelve months, with Meat ;
Beef, Mutton in carcases, legs and shins, clods and stickings ; Meat
of the best quality for the Governor's table ; and Suet. Persons
willing to tender are desired to apply for printed forms at the Vestry.
clerk's office, Workhouse, St. Giles's, where they must, on or before
twelve o'clock of the same day, rend their tenders, scaled and en-
dorsed, and attend themselves the same evening at Bloomsbury
Vestry, at 7 o'clock precisely. The Directors will not be bound to
accept the lowest tender, and will not receive any except upon a
printed form.

By oriltr of the Directors,
T. 1). ROBINSON, Vestry-clerk.

Feb. 21, 1846.

SHROPSHIRE MINERAL
COMPA.N.

A general muting et the shareholders of this Company Wag
held yefterday, at one o'clock, at the George and Vulture
Tavern, Cornhill ; Mr. Sergeant Adams in the chair: As
tome startling discoveries were expected to be made reapeetiNg
the management of the Company, there tai a very full
attendance.

The CHAIRMAN, 13 there was no report submitted
to the meeting, made a long speech in reference to the
history of the Company. In doing so, he said, he would have
many painful matters to bring under their consideration, still,
as in duty bound, he would keep nothing back. When he
joined the Company he did so under the impression that it was
a bona fide undertaking, and one that would be of service to
all parties concerned, He had held no shares in any previous
railway company, and was only induced to join this
from its great respectability and the respectability of
the solicitor who had the conducting of its affairs:
The first meeting of the directors that he attended
was in the middle of October last, when he was asked to take
the chair, in the absence of Major Newcombe, and at a suc-
ceeding meeting, on the 17th of October, he was elected the
chairman of the Company. He again attended meetings on the
24th and 31st, in the capacity of chairman, and afterwards the
managing committee changed its sittings into Shropshire, on
the grounds that it would be necessary to attend to the getting
forward of the surveys, and to the preparatien of the plans and
sections against November 30. Sittings of the board were there
held day by day, but he was not able to be present at any of
them. All the meetings that he had attended were four,
previous to the painful circumstance to which he would here-
after have to allude. He had told them of the value of the
line. On that subject they had the evidence of the engineers,
solictiors, and traffic-takers, to the effet that it would, if con-
structed, yield from fifteen to twenty per cent. on the capital.
He could not, therefore, advise them hastily to dissolve the
Company, nor to pass a censure on the directors, but
his advice was to appoint a committee to make a full and fair
examination into its whole affairs from its first commencement
until now. He wished a committee of three or five persons to
examine and sift into the whole mt+tterl as he, fur one, was
willing to submit his condnet to the closest scrutiny. He would
now proceed to the financial affairs of the Company. on which
he was torry he could not enter into detail so much as he desired.
He would give the amount that had been received and
the items that had been paid, but he could not admit their
accuracy, on account of his not having been a party to a great
proportion of the disbursements, At the time that he joined
the Company he found the accounts in a very unsatisfactory
state, but he was not aware of the actual state of affairs till the
12th of December. He had stated that he had not attended the
Shropshire meetings, and the 12th of December was the first
meeting after those that he was able to attend. At that meeting
he asked to sea the banker's books, frem which he learned that
there was only 6,000. in hand. " Good Gad!" he exclaimed,
" whet has come of all the deposits ? There should be at least
30,0001. in hand." It was then stated that 21,3211. 15s. had
been drawn out to purchase shares on the part of the finance
committee. An adjournment then toook place for a fort-
night, in order to make inquiry into this. At this
adjourned meeting he wished to see the cheques, in or-
der to have an explanation of this proceeding, to which he had
not been a party. The cheques were produced in the room,
but being laid down for a short time, when they were again
asked for they had gone.—( Shame, shame.) He knew the
party who took the cheques at the time, and whether he had'
destroyed them or not, he (the Chairman) could not say; but
if that !gentleman would give up the cheques, then he (the
Chairman) would not mention his name.
Mr. GRIFFITHS—I am the person, and I will explain how it
was. The reason why he took the bank cheques ( which were
cancelled ones) was to protect himself, as he saw he was dragged
into a responsible situation with parties little able to meet it ;
that the cheques were not destroyed ; and that he was willing
to produce them if called on by the meeting, and under an in-
demnity for what he had done.
The CHAIRMAN said that relieved him of the difficulty. Mr.
Griffiths was the party.
Some uproar then took place, and manifestations against
Mr. Griffiths, at the close of which

•
The CHAIRMAN proceeded—The cheques to which he re-
ferred were signed by three directors out of the four who were
empowered to sign cheques. He for one had not signed any of
those cheques. The only sum that he was a party to was
12,0804 These matters had been brought under the consi-
deration of the gentlemen who had signed the cheques and
several of them, as well as others with whom they acted, ex-
pressed themselves sorry for what they had done, but intimated
they had done so under the impression that by buy-
ing the shares at the time they did, as there was
a great probability of the shares rising in price,
the Company would be likely to be a great gainer. They
further expressed themselves willing, seeing that it had Lot
turned out as they expected, to pay back the sum. Shortly after
this there was an expectation of an amalgamation being effected
with another Company in the midland counties, in which
event there would have been, he believed, no difficulty in
getting the parties to pay up this money ; in that case, there-
fore, he thought it would be wise to allow the matter to stand
over till the result was known. He might have erred in advising
that, but he did it for the best. The amalgamation did
not succeed, and to add to their embarrassment a bill in Chan-
cery had been filed against him and the other directors. Under
these circumstances, several of the gentlemen who had promised
to pay back the money intimated that this altered the case,
and did not feel justified in doing so with that hanging over
them. The board of management never sanctioned this trans-
action and considered the directors who had acted
in this matter alone responsible. The statement of
accounts was to the following effect :—Received from
shareholders as deposits, 37,7371. ; paid for expenses and sanc-
tioned by the board of management, 12,0801. ; drawn out by
the parties to whom he had referred, to purchase shares at 2/.
each premium in the market, 21,321/. ; balance at the banker's,
4,381/. ; deficiency remaining unpaid, 7,5001. ; leaving a de-
ficiency on the total deposits of 3,189!.: deducting the
21,3211. illegally expended, there would then remain a
balance in favour of the shareholders of 18,1321.
The Hon. Gentleman then entered into some particulars about
a dispute with their country solicitor, Mr. Garbett, who was
making a claim fora larger amount than he (the Chairman)
considered right, and in consequence of which a sum of money
in the hands of the Bilston Banking Company, amounting to
about 2,0001., belonging to the Company, was attached in
the name of that gentleman. The Chairman concluded his
address, of which the above is but a sketch, by reading
certain correspondence which had passed betis een himself and
several of those who had been coneerned in using the Com-
pany's money to buy shares, expressing their regret for what
they had done, and their willingness to make amends. A
long and stormy discussion here ensued, in which
personalities were freely bandied about. The principal point
elicited by it was from Mr. Griffiths, that of the 21,3211.,
18,000/. had been expended at three different times to buy
shares at a premium in sums of 4,0001., 11,000/., and 3,000/.
The expenditure was made under the impression that the market
would improve, and that the money would be of advantage to
the Company.
In the course of the discussion great complaint was also
made of the other items of the expenditure, and especially to the
bill of Messrs. Yarborough and Adam, the solicitors to the
Company; but to that Mr. Yarborough replied that he was
willing his
,bill should be taxed, or if a committee was appointed,
to submit all his charges to it, or to any respectable railway so-
licitor. _ _ _

Ultimately, after Mr. FYLER, the party who has filed the
bill in Chancery, had explained that he did so on his own
responsibility to protect the shareholders, and that he
was willing to act with any respectable committee to
bring matters to a settlement, en the motion of
Mr. Alderman CorELANn, M.P., a resolution was agreed to
that a committee of five be appointed to make a full investiga-
tion into all the affairs of the Company from the beginning, and
report the result to a future meeting.
This done, the names of the committee were agreed to, and
the meeting, one of the stormiest of the kind we ever attended,
broke up about half-past four o'clock.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, ST, JAMES'S PALACE,

FEB. 20: 1846

Notice is hereby given. that the carriages coming to her
Majesty's Drawing-room, on Thursday, the 26th of February,
byaed thep pass
ss
are to fall into the line at the top of St. James's-street, come
down the left hand side, and enter the iron gate
bee o
rnetusren,
nearest to the Palace, set down at the Arcade,
irontbr
through
e Pall-mallnearest
satr b o rouges Jam's-
square, by George-street.
When
from St. James's-square, en called, they are to pass
ar
street, -street, by Charles-street, into Regent-
before, take up, anh comee' down St. James's- street, as
go away through Pall-mall. No
hackney carriages will be
the gates. For all persons having
to come within
of the entrée, tickets will beprtiviler
Board of Green Cloth, on Tuesday next deliveredetweaen the
e
hours of eleven and three o'clock ; their 'carriages are to
enter the gate at Constitution-hill, proceed down St. Jamee'e-
park, through Stable-yard, into the Ambassadors'-court, set
down, and go out into Cleveland-row. The carriages of
the Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, and
Great Officers of State may afterwards wait in the
Ambassadors'-court, and those of all other persons
having the entrée may wait in Stable-yard or St. James's-
park till called; they are then to take up in the same order
as they had set down, and pass a ay up the left hant, side of
St. James's-street. No carriage will be admitted with com-
pany a second time with the same ticket, to prevent which
it must be produced at Constitutioit Hill-gate, and Stable-
yard-gate also, where a corner:of it will be torn off by the
Marshalmen in attendance ; and no person can be allowed
the privilege of the entrée by any other approach to the
Palace than the gates last mentioned.
LIVERPOOL, Lord Steward.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 17.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord
Forester, to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to her
Majesty's honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms—Erin
Vardon, Esq., vice Hodgson, and henry Mulock, Esq., vice
Trick, who have retired.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 19.
The Queen has been pleased to nominate and appoint the
Eight Hon. llenry Pelham Pelham Clinton (commonly called
Earl of Lincoln), to be one of the visitors of Maynooth Col-
lege, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Francis
Fremantle, Bart., resigned.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 17.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Jose Maria
Mendoza, as Consul in London for the Mexican Republic.