The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-14 00:00:00

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-•''' EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
11>t, is ~,aASaURANCE COMPANY,
capital i6Ol,
of
kt, 11:1_k,ir -91f4ga1.t.0 the Shareholders in the s
e,"`e rem.-.L t;Dividend of Five per cent. thereon for the year
_
"rsess 24 if,t.. has been declareg, and will he payable on
bed,-
- the how! of March, at the Chief Office of the Company,
I, et 44, —°l Twelve' and Four.
t, 1°442,1,,, _ ' ALEX. ROBERTSON,IB4& Manager. :
~1111), " . Mansion-house. Feb. 11,
'''N.,., EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
3 r,i!''lPE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
I/16 -earlotte-row, Manslon-house, London.
At lit NTITARD SPOONER, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
141, tile
~,.1- JAMIR IFILL, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
.'','nl,,\'„,* deej„,N,..,1:,11A1, COURT-, held on the 9th day of, July last,
cent. on the current years'
14,1‘'-it4:4:11,,111-clU,pra:tier,::Eof:371::.agfigeraai4e1P•dipatttinetgiopnnhofcia2a5per
opened on or before the 9th day
Oat, whoannopuaenied a policy for I,OOOL
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if ti„,-,4 to
play this
pypeirdenkytopremium..
.0.f...... :: *... ::£3224 17
6
r 'kiLll,4pateinellt be it
4114 "ofan . (4,i_ , itss„, additional policy, the party will be
*t.yh.e.the first year's
215 9 4
14, oor t,"'“ed to the extent of .. ••• - • • • ' •'.• • • ...
14'11 " Dre".l"t rePort containing a full exposition of the p.rincl-
- of the Society may be obtained by aPPlytng at
-'
nt anY of the agencies.
CINT \,,, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.
Lick_v 5C...7-4,IICIAL and GENERAL LIFE AS-
-. 488P0c—fi,ri4NNUITY, FAMILY ENDOWMENT. and
11.2 and 113, CHEAPFIDE LONDON.
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DIVIDENDS.
441:-'l4tal erebY given that the HALF-YEARLY
()11 the rat re
of this'essoc• iation. due in December
/ eef 61 - - - nnum, Mrill be „PAYABLE at the
°lir ~,°,l %I, • Per cent Per a prirlasMt,Ert andon
clock ~,ad following days, between the hours of Ten and
,-.-bursaaYs excepted).
°file. By order of the Board, .
-,R, 112 -
r-, end' IP, Cheapside.F-RE D. LAWBANCE, Resident Sec.
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likk, 4,17, -r-aRCIAL and GENERAL LI liE AS -
'''' As-c`'IVCE, ' ANNUITY FAMILY ENDOW NT, AND
eOCIATION,' '
thj,kt,A, , „ 112 ancl,ll3, CHEAPSIDE. LONDON,
fes voei,„:',NUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of
44',411,
a..ereial and General Life Office, heel at the Company's
~l't el,' atk)ve, on February 13th, 1846, H. G. 'WAR.), Esq., M.P.,
at ;ailr, it Was resolved unanimously :-
11,;_i:iiit! e.renort now read be adapted by this meeting,.
,13.,,,:,. divilene of Cl. per cent. upon the paid-up capital for the
at ending the Ist of January, 1846, be declared.
,N,,,,'_1. G. Ward, Esq. MP William Ilastow, Esq., and T. Bush
,S.;, 4(1., be re-elected Directors of this Company.
il,,,,lktit th: Wellington Cooper, Esq , be re-elected Auditor.
lt:tl.ll:4:4,,,o44,::atv,l;etifriiree:ielfteoor:sueinchrreevi,aedistispitre:v.m.steher.e.wi toor:lankge such steps ao thy may
capital of the Company,
,ite ,D Voted to the Chairman and Directors, and the meet-
otti Itorder of the Boarg,
I'(4 Ilk FRED. LAWRANCE, Resident Secretary.
lIT and 113, Cheapside.
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AN
1'"4..l 11'1)11N FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR,-
s-v AN CE COMPANY.
. , arSEET, at the Entrance of the Old roe
office, London.
lie, ZORN, DIRECTORS.
doh r 4 aqii -, LABOUCHERE, Esq., Chairman.
) ;11,, IV 4114 I.ltrLN IAXO.N, Esq., Deputy.' 'bairn:um.
!-,,ci . ..tlek -01, Esq , George Lean. Esq., M.P. ..,... p
Irl,, 1,-,,,_ .
11,44,414, Ii Dyke:q••
Rq Stewart Marjoribauks, Esq., .a. •
John Martin, Esq.. M.P.
ri4lll'se,4 114111"Zlnitar, *Bart 1 Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
dCl.'u a "eY, t""4,1., Esq • Robert Mitford, Esq.
~,, ~_ 01,,,,,_ sq •
' Wiliril, t"it, t,._ James Morri, Esq.
3/40Je, a, 3q. Henry R. Reynolds, Jun., Esq.
A. ly
John Thornton, Esq.
tee, iloh,, . tkl.. James Tulloch. Esq.
•
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one, sq AtiDrroas.
In t, 'oyci, t
le9 the LlpAel.,4 sq. 1 Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
1 Henry Norman, Esq.
kokra',!leeece„ 1411;1,1-Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
rltiii''e 6 1 ti,t k.n, „ 'uTMENT a Bonus was declared. in June
01. kae " (tiff - 4'er cent per Liam on the sums insured, on an
t(ii,4'l'''l.4rizt: 'v:rre-i'tAges**and two subsequent divisions of nearly
,411:v4,,-,ofne' to Christmas 1835
narysaddea
itve„" 47 p:,,-. rol " ree divisions the Reversi Bonuses
41)-(-; Year,' neat. sei,;;ie:' at the end of every seven years amounte.d,ntsoa-
-I,o`.nnlal ,1,-411(1111.,,...t,1'e total premiums paid thereon
at
urlige ithree
vit,,i-411,44115inn, ',6le amount of Bonuses allotted at
ts.itl'tklit'?Q:lbn. l'eaotrocile7,3l',,alfleeerrao7hcise3S°t'r theel• extenta of their values, pro-
th l'iilt. casts a n e been effected sufficient time to have
\541 ,e ith e btpalue not under 591.
I,t sow ad he J c-I'ItENTT a Return of profit was declared
',Z.,' le ee-i,`'ll 4no-; uPon ihe'premiums received on all Policies
kiiie ils!' tlip'rksc off -" *even yeaL at Christmas 1844, and the same
-'r th.- "oars of daily (Friday and Saturday ecepted),
- Age,ta?f ten ouncee o'clock, at the Head Office ; and
4 tile Districts.
GEORGE .KEYS, Secretary.

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TEE LATE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN ARDOUR-
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the bodies. The evidence did not vary materially from the account
wh;ch appearediu The Sun of yesterday., =lithe jury, after a_patieot
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throats, while in a State of temporary butanity."

The half yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this
railway was held at the Company's offices, Euston Station,
yesteeday. The meeting was-also a special, one for the put--
pose of submitting to the shareholders the drafts of several
Bills proposed to be introduced into Parliament during the
present-session, for-the formation of railways mentioned in
the
.advertisement canvening the meeting. There was an
unusually large attendance of shareholders, and near the
chairman we ooserved Joshua Procter Westhead, Esq., the
chairman of the Manchester and BirMingham Railway
Company. ' •
GEORGE. CARR Gasretet, Esq., the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, took the chair at twelve o'clock precisely, and
onunenced the business of the day by calling- upon Mr. Be
Creed to read the 'advertisernentewhich, having been done,
the chairman, with the consent of the meeting, affixed, the
seal of the Company to the register of the proprietors, and
also to the register of the holders of 201., 25/., and 32/. shares.
The SeeretuaY then read the minutes of the last meeting,
after which
The CIiA.qtMAN said that ha believed hon. proprietors were
aware, from the advertisement which had appeared in the
newspapers, that although this was the usual haleyearly
meeting for the passing of the accounts and declaring a (livi-
d, lid, it was also a special general meeting for the purpose
of laying hefore them Acts of Parliament in which this Com-
pany was particularly interested. He had proposed, consi-
dering the value of the time of those present, particularly at
such a part of the day, to make a few remarks upon the
matters which would he brought - under their consi•
deration at the special general meeting, as the
Bills . had already • passed the standing orders of
the House of Lords. However, before he did that, he would
say a few words with regard to the dividend which would be
shortly proposed for the last half year. The Grand Junction
Company had declared that the amalgamation entered into
e'with them last half year was satisfactory to them, and
lie believed lie might say that it was also satisfac-
tory to this Company.—(Loud applause.) Since he
had had the honour of occupying a seat in the
board of this Company, he knew nothing that was so cal-
culated to give satisfaction not only to the parties concerned,
but also to the public at large; as that amalgamation.--e-
-(Cheers.) • He sincerely rejoiced that it bed fallen to his
lot to be a director when that amalgamation was carried out.
—(Hear.) But with reference to the accounts it was right
that they should know that a very satisfactory result had fol-
lowed the recent reductions which had been made in the fares.
both for passengers and goods. However the dividend. fur
this half-year would not be so large as the dividend Of- the
corresponding half-year in 1845, because they would all be
aware that the last year was one-of -the most extraordinary
excitement, and the number of passengers and the amount of
traffic passing along. the different lines in England was
greater than might be expected for some time to
come. That remark applied especially to the amount
of goods passing. along• railways. • They- were
aware that since the commencement of this year, as regarded
passengers, there had been ,a very large reduction in the
fares, and. the•directors were also determined to make those
rates still lower as soon as it was deemed priident. It was,
however, quite impossible fur him to enter into that
subject now. They were determined to show the
public . that their policy was to: do everything that
might . advance the interests of the public at large con-
sistently with those of themselves.—(Cheers.) Indeed, that
was the course which-they had pursued fot years, and he did
not, for .bis•:own part, _see. that. a proper reduction in the
fares for both passengers and goods at all prejudicechthe in-
terests of the Company.--( Heaa.hear.) He did not mean
to say that, the first of such reductions,. would he
a decrease in the income of the- Company,. but ha
did not think that, arty reasonable 'man 'would deny
that those reductions, under the proper regulation of Parlia •
ment, 'eventually tended to the interests of a Company. But
whilst they made -reductions on one particular article of
traffic, they should alsp take care that a corresponding de-
creasawas made in t he.rates on other articles. -He believed
that they might .learn a. lessen on this head from other
railway companies. Foreign Governments took • great
care upon this point. • They took care that the -.public
should have the advantage of as low rates as possible, but
that was not effected ,by giving their sanction
to competition. They effected the object by Parliamentary
regulations, and that tie believed was the only way in which,'
in point of fact, the object could be carried in conceals of the
nature.—(Applause.) And although lie was not one of these
who.were willing to subscribe to the doctrine quoted by
some people, namely, that the cost of a passage
from Loudon to Dover should be more, mile for mile,
than the cost of a passage from Oat end to Bruxelles,
he ,yet believed that the cost of the different articles of
food, &c , in each county should be taken into account in
regulee ing the rates of fares to.be paid for passages on a Hee.
of railway. It must be recollected, that although;
the cost .of a passage from London to Dover
was as as was paid for a journey on
a French railway from Ostend to Bruxelles, yet all the in-
cident tl expenses eventually made the cost as large as the
fare from London- to Dover • • If the rates for passengers in
the foreigtie Jules' were sine% those 'for luggage were error-
nious—(Hear, hear)'-arid' an ;point of fact made travelling
by railwity precieelY as expeneiae as it Yeas in this country.
l• It was an extratordinarenthct. (and he did not mention it
merely for the -purpose of showing the cheapness of the fares
charged by the London- and Birmingham CoMpany, but
merely for the purpose of allowing the-eatramtlinary reduc-
tion which had taken plaoe in the fares of passengers and
goods since the formation of railways), it was a fact he re-
peated of the most extraordinary character, and had
been communicated to him the other day by a large
carrier—that when the Grand Junction and the
London and Birmingham Companies first commenced
operations; the cost of one ton of goods between Manchester
and London was 41, 10s., and the cost of a similar quantity
of goods now. between London and China was only 31. ss.
(Great laughter and applause.) He did not say that this
ompany could take to themselves the credit of that redue •
tion which they hoped to make still more marked, but still
lit was a remarkable fact in the statistics of this country as
ishowing what a vast change had been effected by the
!reduction of fares by the different rail Way companies. It
!would be clear to those present, that, looking forward
as they did to the great increase in traffic which, in point of
fact, must yet develop' itself. though those reduced rates, the
accommodation which the Company had at present for its re-
ception-would not be sufficient. They had, therefore, niade
a very large and considerable purchase from the Duke of
Bedford, for the purpose of increasing the accommodation at
the Euston station, and the directors would now ask the leave
of the proprietors to Complete that purchase. The directors alio
proposed to enlarge the accommodation provided 14 the
-Company at Birmingham, if power were given to them- by
the proprietors. The proposed site would be in the very best
position in Birmingham, especially in reference to the traffie
which was expected from Wolverhampton and Dudley,
was proposed to expend rather large sums in the erection
of the two contemplated stations. Those proposed additional
accommodations would be made solely for the purpose of
meeting the increased requirements of the public; and that
would show the public that they were determined to de-
serve their confidence. This liberal conduct on the part of
the Company, he felt satisfied, would also gain the. sanc-
tion, rather than the discouragement, of Parliament.
As regarded the different projects which the directorshad in
view, he thought he need not enter into a great discussion
about them ; but he would draw the attention of the pro-
prietors present to a few of them which called for some brief
remarks. One the Bills which would that day. be brought
under their consideration was, "A Bill for authorising certain
arrangementsbetween the Londonpnd Birmingham Railway
Company, and the Company of proprietors of the Birmingham
Canal Navigations with reference to the purchase, leasing, or
use of the said navigations." He made mention oft his Bill first,
because the directors some time ago thought that such an
arrangement would contribute considerably to the prosperity
of this Company, and they were not now at all disposed to
disturb that arrangement or alter their views. The next
project to which he would refer was also one
which he believed would be most advantageous
to the Company if carried out, and that was
the formation of the Buckinghamshire Railway. There
were too Bills for that project. He mentioned that fact be-
cause he believed that some honourable proprietors, then pre-
sent, had complained that the directors had proposed theiri-
trodtiction of an unusually large number of Bills into Par-
liament during the present session. Now, the fact was, that
in some instances there were two, and in some instances, three
and four Bills for one and the same project, a step which had
been recommended by their Parliamentary advisers.
The Buckinghamshire line would connect this Com-
pany's main line with Banbury, Buckingham, and
Aylesbury. It would also connect this Company's line with
the Warwickshire line, which would form one of the very
best cfanmunications between that part of the country and
Cheltenham ; it would also give the best and shortest com-
munication between Leamington and Warwick, as well as
tßhuisckeinongitpiaamnyawndastheengmageetdrov,p,oals.
sitheTexheterniesxiotal(i)fnetheinlinesei;iich
ito
the town of Leamington, which was in point of tact a_ mere
local line, but it was one which the Inhabitants were very
anxious to have made. The remuneration arising out of the
traffic on that line would be exceedingly small. The next
projeet would be an extension to which he had already al-
luded, viz. the extension of . the line into the heart and
centre of Birmingham. The 'text was the Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley
Ras-
way. This project he mentioned to them in August
lasi. The directors had. arranged that the Birmingham,
Canal Company, and the Shrewsbury and BirMingliam Rail-
way should have a third of the interest in that railway, and
this Company two-thirds. That project was also sanctioned
at the meeting held in August last. The next Bill which
would be laid bdfore them was one for formally carrying out
the arrangement to which he had alluded, and which had
given so much satisfaction to all parties, viz., the amelga-
matien ol,this Company with the Manchesterand Birmingham
Company. That subject, be was sure, would not require a single
observation from him. He believed he had now gored over
all the Bills in which they were themselves immediately con-
cerned, and he would, therefore, proceed to make some ob-
servations with respect to those projected undertakings in
which they would become partners. The first of those pro-
jects was the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Railway.
That was a short line, and very strongly supported in. that
part of the country, and was one, he believed, whiche would
prove very advantageous and remunerative to the Company.
The Bill had already Rassed the standing orders in the HOua3, f
Lords. The capital which this Company would have to subscribe
would be 450,0001. The next project was the North amptom Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railway, which would pass, as they
might be aware, through a very extensive district of the
country; the capital to be subscribed by this Company
would be 300,0001. The line he had reason to be-
lieve would be a very remunerative me. ,The next
project would be the formation of a railway from or near the
Blisworth station to the towns of Banbury and Cheltenham.
He had spoken upon the advantages of such a line at the

meeting held in August last. It was one which wrwithhe
very cheap in its construction and was called for by the inha-
bitants of that district. There was also another line in -the
formation of which they would receive a considerable smoutjt

of support from other parties, and that was the proposed litre
from Rugby to join the Midland Counties line at Stamford.
The district through which it would pass was a very rich one,
and the traffic was considerable: they would, .in point of
fact, realise such advantages from that undertaking as they
had already reaped from the Peterborough line. The next
line mentioned in the advertisement was the extension of the,
line at Camden-town to Farrinplon-street. At ptwent
the directors did not sanction the extension of
the , line into the heart.. of. the metropolis,
on account of the enormous expense which ,the
would subject themselves to in pulling down property to
carry out that extension. That project would, therefore
(for the present, at any rate), be abandoned.—(Applause.)

"As regards the Chester and Holyhead RallWay •in which the
Company's stake is the largest, the engineer, Mi.'Robett Stephenson,
reports that the experiments which have been made for the purpose
of testing the efficiency of his plan of bridge over the Menai Straits,
having fully verified his calculations, the construction will commence
at au early period. The reports of. the Directors on that line are
equally sat sfactery as to the progress made with the other works.
"In addition to Bills for projected lines In which this Company is
interested, and the objects of which have been already stated to the
proprietors at former meetings, the directors have considered it ex-
pedient that a branch shall be madeito unite the town of Stamford
with the main line at Rugby, In the view of completing, without
whit h the public acconamodatlon in that district would be imper-
fectly provi ed for.
" The directors have also taken a portion in the line for connecting
the Camden Goods Station with the East and West India Dock, for
which a Bill is now before Parliament.
" The directors, in pursuance of the fourth resolution of the last
half-yearly meeting, have elected the following five directors, viz.:—
Hon. Colonel,Georktas Anson, M.P., John Bestbow, Esq., M.P., Jelin
Ellis, Esq., Edward Tootal, Esq , and Joshua Proctor Westhead,
Esq. • and they have also elected Frank Somerville Head, Es.q., to
ell the vacancy caused by the retirement of Booed Garnett, Esq.
" The tellowing directors go out of office at the present meeting,
and are re-eligible :—Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, Esq., David Hodg-
son, Esq., Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Captain Constantine It.
aloorsom, R.N., John Lewis Prevost, Esq., and Thomas Smith, Esq.
Resolutions receiving the report, and confirming the divi-
dend announced therein, were then put trona the chair, and
carried unanimously.
Mr. AmmtxusT, in connexicn with many gentlemen from
the north, moved, in terms-of a notice given at a previous
meeting, that the shareholders residing in the country should
be permitted a free passage to attend the meetings of the
Company, and as it was sometimes impossible that they
could arrive in town and depart on the same day, that they
be permitted to come tip on the day before the meeting and
leave, town the day after.
The resolution was seconded.
A long discussion cnsued, the great body of the meetiog
affirming that system was likely to lead to abuses, and
that as the dividends were sufficiently ample, the share-
holders
tresolution
should pay their fares. Oil th; question being put,
db 3 an Immense majority.
Mr. SPARROW thought that while so many improvements
this evil would be remedied.
of the retention of goods at
should not be overlooked.
were in con te wasmpla gtniten.attivhe providing of a larger board-room
The CHAIRMAN intimated that when the extensions at the
the Crewe station ; imputed no blame to the managers of that
department at the Euston station ; their arrangements were
stationll,tn wDercrexce;lson
perfect, but he thought that a little surveillance would im-
prove
the stations further down the.conntry.
The CHAIRMAN said that • they could not always control
completed,
complained
private carriers, to whom the goods might be consigned after
leaving the railway, but he would nuke inquiry into the
matter complained of.
This completed the business of the general meeting, and
the shareholders formally adjourned.
The meeting was then made special for the purpose of ap-
provii% r the Bills referred. o in the Chairman's address.
The following Bills were then severally put from the chair
and unanimously approved of by the meeting :
Three Bids to authoris-e the construction of railways from the
London and Birmingham ifailway ; one of such railways front or
near the Harrow Station to Aylesbury; another thereof from or near
the Tang* Station to Banbury ; another thereof from or near the
Bletchiey Station to the city of Oxford.
Thtee Bills to authorise the construction of railways from the
London and Birmingham Railway; one thereof front' or. near the
Hampton Station to Banbury ; anoth r thereof trompr near the said
Hampton Station to juin the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, in
the parish of Ashchurch, in the aunty of Gloucester; and anoth•l•
thereof from or near the Weedon :station to the city'of Worcester,
with A branch to the town of Aleester.,
A Bill for making a railway from the London and Birmingham
'Railway, at Coventry, to join the Pate of the Trent 'Valley Railway
in the parish of Nuneaton. •
A Bill for making a railway; from the London and Birmingham
Railway, in the parish of Weet.on Beck, to' join the Blisworth and
Peterborough Railway in the parish of Hardingstene.
Wit for extending the line of the Coventry and. Leamington
Branch of the London and Birmingham Railway to the town of Lea-
mingtern Priers.
A 1111110 authorise the extension of the .London and Birmingham
Railway to Navigation-street, in the town of Birmingham.
A Bill for making a railway front the London rind Biriningham
Railway at Rugby to the town of Leamington. •
A Bill or Bills for making a--rfativierfrolst--the London and Bir-
mingham:Railway,*in the parish of Aston *ma Birmingham; to the
Grand Junction Railway, in the parish of buslibury, in the county of
Stadbrd, _With branches to Dudley.
And also to authorise, Certain arrangements betwpen the London
anrlliniihiglialn Railway Company, and the Company of Proprietors
of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, with reference to the pur-
chase, or leasing, or use of the said navigations.
A Bill or Bills to authorise and empower the union and consolida-