The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-28 00:00:00

BANKING DEI4.I.ICTICENT

roprictors' capital.. 14,553,000
. 3,613,216

Government securi-
ties (including Dead

Kest .. -
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sat-
ings-bank s, and Di-

Weight Annuity) .. 12,961,735
Other securities .... 13,( 12,824
Notes ...... •.•. • . • . 9,506,025
Gold and silver coin • . 422,676

vidend accounts)..
Other deposits
Seven day and other
..

6,843,002
10,074,026

920,016

4 36,003,260

£36,003,260
if. MARSHALL. Chief Cashier.

Dated the 27th day of August, I

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 9%
Ditto, at sight .......12 6L
Rotterdam...... 2U. 12 10
Antwerp .......... .... 26 20
liamburgh ......M.B. 13 15%
Altona.
Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 85
Ditto, 3 months...... 26 15
Marseilles • • • • • • 26 20
80urdeaux......... .. 26 20
Frankfort on Maine.... 12234
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • .
Berlin
Vienna, effec.ilo ••• • • . 10 15
Trieste, ditto.... • ..... 10 14
Madrid • • ..... 35%
Cadiz • • •.. : . . 36
Bilbao.. • • •

LN GE.-(TIIIS DAY).
Gibra1tar........".. • • .. -
Leghorn 3O 70
Genoa •
Milan . ••
Venice.. • • ......
Naples
Palermo, per 0z........ 119 4
Lisbon ~.. ........ 62%
0p0rt0.... ..• 62%
Rio Janeiro . ..... 21

Bahia . ....... ... •
Buenos Ayres .. .•.. .•
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .... •

PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold in bars.. 43 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars ........ 0 4 93(,
Silver in bars ...... •• 0 4 11%

Barcelona • • • • . ...

Seville.. • • ............

GROUSE SHOOTING.—A SINGULAR DAY'S SPORT.—
On Monday, the 23d, Sir Benjamin Hall went out for the
purpose of killing old birds on the high grounds at his sport-
ing quarters in Aberdeenshire. lie shot for nearly eight
hours, using only one gun and a brace of dogs, which he
changed once in the course of that time, and bagged 73 old
cock birds, 10 barren hens, 7 young cocks, 7 young hens, and
3 blue mountain hares, making a total of 100 head.

ARMAGH, COLERAINE, AND
PORTRUSEI RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A numerous and respectable meeting of the share-
holders of this company was held this day, at the London
Tavern, for the purpose of considering the propriety
ef en amalgamation with the Dublin and Belfast June.
lien Railway Company.
In the absence of the Right llon. George Dawson,
the chairman, Mr. Fox was called to the chair.
The SECRETARY having read the notice convening the
meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said, that having heard the advertise-
ment they were aware that they were called together
for the purpose of taking the sense of the shareholders
on the proposed amalgamation. They, the directors,
thought it would be desirable to effect that amalgama-
tion. Their line, as they were aware, went through
some of the richest parts of the country in all the
features that would enrich a railway proprietary. The
railway would pass through Loughrea. The property
here traversed belonged to the Irish Society, who were
the best- landlords in Ireland. The competing line
started about the same time, and when such was the
case it must be evident that it was a desirable project.
The Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine line differed in
one or two particulars from their line. They intended
to connect Stewardstown and Portadown with the
Ulster Railway, while the other company took a slightly
different direction. The Chairman concluded by pro-
posing a resolution to the effect that the proposed
amalgamation should be agreed to.
There was some objection to the resolution, and an
amt. ndiiient was proposed.
Scrutineers were then appointed.
It was alleged that the shareholders in the present
Company had never given auy authority in their deed
for the amalgamation, and they consequently demanded
a return of the deposit.
Charles Fox, Esq., the chairman, said that the meet-
ing was perfectly legally constituted, and that it was not
called under any Act, but was a voluntary proceeding
on the part of the directors.
Mr. MAXWELL and Mr. RICIIAUDSON addressed the
meeting against the proposed amalgamation, which they
denounced as wholly illegal.
Ten of the shareholders left:the room, and, from the
statement of the scrutineers, it appeared that the amend-
ment was negatived, and the original resolution carried;
the numbers being
For the amalgamation 7,593
Against it B7O
Captain Heaviside was then called to the chair, and
the meeting separated, a vote of thanks having been
passed to the former chairman.
Those holding scrip were permitted to vote, and there
appeared to be the strongest desire on the part of the
chairman to give all parties fair play.
The following is the report submitted to the meeting
and which was adopted:—
The directors have convened this meeting of the
shareholders in the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush
Railway Company, to lay before them the terms of the
amalgamation which have been entered into by them
on the part of this Company with the directors of the
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Company; and
also to give a brief statement of the reasons which in-
duced them to form what they conceived to be a most
desirable junction with what was once a powerful oppo-
sition company.
" It will be remembered that the project for construct-
ing a line of railway from Armagh to Portrush origi-
nated in the latter part of the year 1944, when every
endeavour was made to ascertain the statistics of the
company, and the particular information necessary for
so important an undertaking. In the spring of 1845
the company was established. The Dublin, Belfast,
and Coleraine Junction Company, with which, as before
stated, an amalgamation has taken place, was formed
about the same period. The object was nearly, the same,
being only characterised with some few distinctions as
to the precise country that it should serve in the direc-
tion of the line, not material to be noticed here. It Ras
impossible to deny but that there were features in
both schemes that were deserving of great public
support ; and the two companies for a considerable time
disputed the ground with each other without it appear-
ing very probable that either would recede, or that any
particular advantage would result to the shareholders of
either scheme. The directors, un 'er these circum-
stances, felt that it was worse than useless to continue a
fruitless opposition, and they considered themselves.
bound, upon every principle of justice to the share-.
holders, to aft•ct a cessation of hostilities if possible,
provided they could ultimately obtain their object,
which was to make the line of railway from Armagh
to Portrush. They are happy to say that a correspond-
ing disposition was evinced on the part of the directors
of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Railway.
Overtures for a treaty were therefore made, and in the
month of November last the deputations from each
company met and arranged that, as the two lines were
nearly identical, together with the branches, the selec-
tion of the line to go forwar in Parliament
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