The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-04 00:00:00

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MA 1846.

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

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDON.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE GARDEN.
The first Meeting Will take place on SATURDAY, the 9th of May ;
at the Garden • before Half-past Eight o'clock, AM.,
subjects for Exhibition must be at this office on FRIDAY, the Bth, or
Exhibition.
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tridee:_fr2olm,
Regent-street.
Fellowsen
The gates will be open to Visitors at One, P.M. Tickets are issued
to Fellows at this office, price ss. each ; or at the Garden, in the
afternoon of the days of Exhibition, at 7s. 6d. each ; but then only
on the day of
of the Society.
N.B. No Tickets will be issued in Regent-street on the day of Ex-
-st

ROYNovelties of extrem, interest and information at the
AL 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 Hardinge, Sir Robert and Lady Sale. The
PHYSIC/SCOPE and cintomArnorn, 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. Lectures on
CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant ex-
periments. . _

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

RA'

TOM THUMB'S .LEVEES AT

THE EGYPTIAN HALL.

The little General begs to return his sincere and grateftil thanks to
the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, for the very liberal support he
continues to receive, and to inform them that he will appear every
Day and Evening in all the costumes and per.Ormances in which
he had the honour of appearing three times before her Majesty, and
all the principal Courts of Europe.
Hours from Half-past Twelve to Two ; Half-past Three to Five ;
and Half-past Seven to Nine o'clock. Admission, is.; Children,
under ten years of age, Half-price.
After Niue o'clock each Evenhig, he appears in his New Play at
the City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate-street.

CLEANING of the STREETS, and EM-
PLOYMENT of the POOR.
A MEETING is to be held TO-DAY, at Twelve o'clock, at the
Guildhall, for the furtherance of the 'above objects. Eight thousand
rate-payers have already signed the petition in favour of cleansing
tha.strects and ernploying,.the poor upon the plan proposed by a So-
ciety formed by s<,:tie phifantllropie.gcytlenien.•. • • •

NOTICE TO. EQUITABLE POLICY HOLDERS.
UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.

No. 8, Waterloo-place, PO-mall, London.
The attention of Equitable Policy Holders is particularly called to
the HALF CREDIT SCALES of PREMIUM of this Company, by
which table the bonus to be declared at the next investigation, in
January, 1850, may be secured at a pfescnt annual payment of one-
half the rates charged by other companies. In the event of death the
sum insured will be paid less the amount ofpremituns on credit. Should
the life insured survive the declaration of the bonus, the policy may be
allowed to lapse, and the Company will renounce all claim for the
half premiums which may be due thereon , or, in the event of the
party being at that time in bad health, the policy can be kept up
by commenting to pay the full premium of the age as when first
accepted. The above plan, originating with the Company, was
found peculiarly advantageous at the last equitable division in 1640,
when it was largely adopted. and many of the polities then effected
are still in force, and latge bonuses have been aided to them on the
scale of the following table;—

Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sum added to Policy.
£5,000 •• • • 6 years 10 months •• • • £683 6 6
5,000 .••• • • • 6 years ........ ••• • • • 600 0 0
5,000 ••• • 4 years ..... • • 400 0 0
5,090 ........2•• years ...... • • 200 0 0
Prospectuses and every information may be obtained on application
to the'Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and F. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., at the offices, 6, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

crOLD FLAT HORIZONTAL WATCHES,
gold dials, carefally finished, with engine-turned cases,
Jewelled in four holes, going barrel to continue the aetion el the
watch while winding, are offered price 7)4 guineas. These elegant
little Watches will be found to perform very correctly, and a printed
undertaking is given, with fixed terms on which they will always
receive any attention required.
T. COX SAVORY and Co., Watchmakers, &c., 47, Cornhill
(seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London.—N.B. Second-
hand Watches purchased in exchange.

BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, EXCLU-
SIVELYTM used 'S, ST. 'S, ST. 'S
the WESINSTER,atAND OTHERGEORGE THOM
HOSPITALS, and at tAS he
MANCHESTER, BRISTOL, BRIGHTON, and other INFIRMA-
RIES, may be procured in every locality, at 3s. per bottle, protected
by the Patent Metallic Capsule, embossed " BErrs's PATENT BRANDY,
7, SMITHFIELD-BARB," or at the Distillery, their only establishment,
at 16s. per Gallon, in Bulk, or at 18s. in the capsuled bottles, in
quantities not less than two gallons.

ViZ.-

CORNWALL and DEVON CENTRAL
RAILWAY.

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The following report was read by the Secretary of the
above Company, at the meeting held at the London
Tavern, on Thursday last:—
" The Committee of the Cornwall and Devon Central
Railway Company are desirous of bringing distinctly before
the proprietors the actual state of the Company, in order to
enable them to judge for themselves as to the course to be
pursued.
"The Cornwall and Devon Central Railway Company ori-
ginated in the proceedings of a public meeting of the county
of Cornwall, hold at Bodmin on the 28th of August last, in
consequence of the Great Western Railway Company having
definitively refused to comply with the repeatedly. expressed
wishes of the county in favour of a central line. The pro—
motors of the direct lines through Salisbury and Yeovil to
Exeter were invited to attend. At this meeting, which was
presided over by the High Sheriff, and most numerously and
respectably attended, resolutions were -passed unanimously
recommending the formation of an independent Cornwall and
Devon Central Company.
"The Company thus formed received an unprecedented
amount of local support both from the principal landowners,
and also front the towns and inhabitants generally of the
counties of Cornwall and Devon : as a proof of this, it may
be sufficient to refer to the petitions from the two counties
in favour of the Bill presented by Lord Brougham to the
House of Lords in the month of March last, which contained
50,000 signatures, including a great majority of the prin-
cipal landed proprietors, and of the registered electors of the
county of Cornwall.
"Time Committee think it important to refer to these facts,
because they establish a broad line of distinction between the
Cornwall and Devon Central, and many of the schemes
which were got up about the same period with a view merely
to a speculative investment of money.
" The Cornwall and Devon Central was pre-eminently a
bona fide project, originating in the wish of an important
district to obtain the benefit of railway communication, and
as such it was announced to the public. ‘
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" The applications for shares were unusually numerous, and
within a few weeks after the formation of the Company, a
deposit of 10 per cent. was paid upon the number of shares
required by the standing orders of Parliament.
"Under these circumstances, the Committee could have
no hesitation in acting upon the belief that the Company
was one which had obtained a firm standing both in the dis-
trict And in public opinion,. and in Rroceeding accordingly to
' take such steps as in-theiritilginent iiiiptared calculated to
insure the ultimate success of the undertaking.
" The first step was to conclude an amalgamation with the
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil, and Exeter, Yeovil, and
Dorchester Companies, whose interests were obviously identica with those of the Cornwall and Devon Central Company, and
whose co-operation was necessary in order to go before Par-
liament with an integral scheme.
" The next step' was to negotiate a purchase of the Both rain and Wadebridge Railway for the sum of 35,0001., the
possession of that line being very important, with reference
to the contest with the Great Western Company for the
trunk line through Cornwall. The committee were reluctant
to conclude any purchase which was not conditional on
their Act being obtained, but circumstances at the time
left them no option but to conclude an absolute purchase,
or to zee the line pass into the hands of the rival interest.
As the amount of purchase-money was not large, either
with reference to the capital of the Cornwall and Devon
Central Company, or to the extent and value of the pro-
perty acquired (which with sidings included 17 miles of
railway, and gave access to one of the best harbours on
the coast of the British Channel, and most favourably
situated for intercourse with Cork and the south of Ireland)
they did not hesitate to exercise the powers entrusted to
them, with a view to similar contingencies, by the sub-
scribers' agreement, which expressly provides that the Com-
mittee should have power to enter into such bargains or
contracts with any existing railway or canal Company as in
their judgment might be advisable for facilitating the ob-
taining of an Act, and for the success of the undertaking.
"It must be also remembered that the possession of the
Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was absolutely necessary
in order to carry out the object announced by the prospectus
of making a branch to Padstow, and that if this railway had
fallen into other hands, this great object of the Company
would have been defeated.
" The third and most important step taken by the com-
mittee was that of concluding, in concert with the London,
Salisbury, and Yeovil, and Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester
Companies, an arrangement for the amalgamation with the
London and South-Western Company .
" The importance of an arrangement with that Company
was manifest both as securing the support of a powerful
established company, and as enabling the united companies
to go to Parliament with an integral scheme on the narrow
gauge all the way from London to the Land's End.
" The details of this arrangement, the principles of which
were affirmed at the last meeting of the shareholders, have
been already made public, and are no doubt known to most
of the shareholders, but it may be well to repeat the con
ditions.

"The companies agree to be bound to each other for two
years to prosecute their respective applications to Parliament,
and, if successful within that period, to amalgamate on the
following terms :--
"Two stocks to be created in the amalgamated company,