The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-04 00:00:00

East London..• • •• • • •• 8/.
'Grand Junction .... •• 3/. 10s,

Rent.........

21. 10s.

Vauxhall . ••••• •.. . • • 51. per cent.
West Middloser .•• • .. 5/. ss. pr cnt.

£ s. d.
100 0 0
41 13 4
100 0 0
100 0 0
63 12 9

114
101%

LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland ..... 61, per cent. 100 0 0 171
Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 1158
British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 224
Commercial Bank • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 165
National Bank. ..... • • 61. per cent. , 10 0 0 /141.14 s
Union Bank of Scotland 732 1. pr cent. 50 0 0 92y,
Western Bank •.• • . . 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 85
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. . 5 0 0 7ki
Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. 10 0 0 13%
Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 11
Caledonian Bank
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. i 5 0 0 71. 4s.
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 131. 8s
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. , 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 9d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Incur. Co. of Sceand— 51. per cent. 1 10 0 0 All paid. 9I
North British Incur 534 /. pr cent. ,200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. ;100 0 0 10 0 0 22
Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. ;100 0 0 12 10 0 1S
Edln. &Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. pert. 50 0 0 50 0 0 72
Ditto, 3 Shares •• • . 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 1730
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 e() 0 0 18
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 76
Glasgw&Greenckßail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 16%
Gisgw & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 40
Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 () 0 All paid. 37
StanclardLifeAssarnce.l 51. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9

THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
EXTENSION, NORTHAMPTON, DAVENTRY,
LEAMINGTON, AND WARWICK RAILWAY.
—(THIS DAY.)
A meeting of the shareholders of this Company took
place to-day, at the Hall of Commerce, in pursuance of
the requisition contained in the following advertisement:
We, the undersigned, being respectively Shareholders in the
London and Birmingham Extension, Northampton, Daventry,
Leamington, and Warwick projected Railway Company, in virtue of
the powers given by an Act, passed in the present session, cap. 28,
Intituled "An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of Certain Railway
Companies," having lett, at the registered place of business of the said
Company, a requisition, calling on the Members of the Provisional
Committee of the said Company to call a Meeting of the Share-
holders of the said Company, and the said Committee having
neglected or refused to comply with the said requisition, do, by
the authority aforesaid, hereby call a meeting of the Shareholders
of the said Company, to be held at the Hall of Commerce, Thread-
needle-street, in the City of London, on Friday, the 4th day of
September next, at One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of deter-
mining whether the Partnership or Company formed. or intended to
be formed, shall be dissolved, and hi what manner the affairs of the
said Company shall be wound up.
L witness our hands the 24th day of August, 1546.
EDMUND EVANS MOLLADY, Warwick.
GEORGE READ, Warwick.
GEORGE THOMAS SMITH, Leamington.
EDWARD COLLINS, Birmingham.
BENJAMIN STOKES, Islington, Birmingham.
Mr. Powell took the chair at two o'clock.
After an irregular discussion, Powell, Mr. Rice
Davis, and Mr. Spackman were appointed scrutineers,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether a sufficient num-
ber of votes were present.
It was then moved by Mr. WIIITCO3IB, and seconded
by Mr. LAwsoN, that the Company should be dissolved,
but that the dissolution should not be considered an act
of bankruptcy.
The scrutineers then proceeded to ascertain whether
a sufficient number of scrip votes were present to enable
the meeting to adopt a resolution for the dissolution of
the company.
After some considerable lapse of time,
The scrutineers reported that there were 4,636
votes present; that the whole of that number voted
for the dissolution of the Company; that 110 voted for
the dissolution being an act of bankruptcy, 4,321
against it, and 203 were neutral.
The CHAIRMAN then said that, there not being a suffi.
cient nuinbtr of votes present to constitute a meeting,
it must be adjourned to some future day.
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meet
ing adjourned to Thursday next, at one o'clock.

THE WARWICK and WORCESTER
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)

A meeting of this Company took place to-day, at the
Hall of Commerce, in consequence of the following re-
quisition
the undersigned, being, respectively, Shareholders in the
Warwick and Worcester Railway Company, in virtue of the powers
given by an Act, passed in the present session, cap. 28, intltuled
" An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of Certain Railway Companies,"
having left, at the registered plAce of business of the said Company,
a requisition, calling on the Members of the Provisional Committee
of the said Company to call a Meeting of the Share-
holders of the said Company, and the said Committee
having negleked ortefuaed to comply with the said requisition, do, by
the authority aforesaid, hereby call a meeting of the Shareholders of
thesaid Company, to be hell at the Hall of Commerce, Thread-
needle-street, in the City of London, on Friday, the 4th day of Sep-
tember next, at Three o'clock precisely, for the purpose of deter-
mining whether the Partnership or Company formed, or intended to
be formed, shalt be dissolved, and in what manner the afiltire of the
said Company shall be wound up.
As witness our hands this 2 ith day of August, 1.8413.
EDMUND EVAN 3 MOLLADY, Warwick.
crtlucEs REDFERN, Jury-street, Warwick.
RICILARD GRANT READING, Warwick.
WALTER COOKES, Warwick.
EDWARD COLLINS, Birmingham.
Mr. Lewis Davis, shortly after four o'clock, took the
chair.

Some discussion then took place as to the propriety
and validity of the meeting, the Company having amal-
gamated with other railway companies, which ended in
its being decided that the meeting was a proper one.
The usual advertisements calling the meeting having
been read, the requirements of the Act having been
gone through, and Mr. Powell, Mr. Nathan, and Mr.
Blurton, having been appointed scrutineers,
Mr. HODGSON moved, and Mr. NATHAN seconded, a
resolution to the effect that the Company should be
dissolved; and
Mr. BASTING. moved, and Mr. Powmseconded, that
" That dissolution should bo considered as an act of
bankrup4cy."

Upon these motions the scrutineers then pro-
ceeded to take the votes, and after the lapse
of some considerable time they announced the
numbers to be—for the dissolution 2,280 ; against it
none. There were 400 in favour of the dissolution
being considered an act of bankruptcy, and 1,880
against it.
The CHAIRMAN then declared that there was not
a sufficient number of votes present to constitute
a meeting that eould adopt a resolution for the dissolu-
tion of the Company, and the meeting was therefore
adjourned to Thursday next, at three o'clock.
The meeting did not break up till after five o'clock.
The following protest was put in against the meet-
ing =To the Chairman of the meeting of the Warwick
and Worcester Railway.
" We, the under-mentioned shareholders, do hereby
protest against the regularity of the meeting called of
the above-named company, to be held at the Hall of
Commerce, London, on the 4th day of September,
1846, on the ground that the notices in the Gazette
were contrary to the provisions of the Act of Parlia-
ment, the Warwick and Worcester Railway Company
having amalgamated with other companies.
" Dated the 4th day of September, 1846.
" J. N. WHITCOMB.
" W. J. LAWSON."

JAMAICA SOUTH MIDLAND
JUNCTION RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the shareholders in this
Company was held this day at the Company's offices,
17, Essex-street, Strand, for the purpose of receiving
the report of the directors, and the engineer's report.
The usual preliminaries having been gone through,
the Secretary read the report, which stated that there
had been a considerable increase in the number of sig-
natures to the deed, which now amounted to 10,215, more
than half of the total required:; that the Company had
obtained their Bill from the Assembly at Jamaica,
which had received the royal assent, and therefore that
the Company was at present legally constituted. In
compliance with the resolution of the meeting of the
9th of March last, the directors had entered into a
treaty with the Jamaica Company to construct seven
miles of reilway from Spanish Town to Cherry Town,
and their negotiations had been successful. With
the addition of these seven miles, the lino was now forty-
five miles in length, and the total estimated cost of the
undertaking was 335,6951., to which there had been
added, engineering contingencies 10 per cent. In the
report made at the meeting of the 9th of March a table
of the probable traffic on the line had been submitted to
the shareholders then present, and it appeared that
the estimate was not so favourable as it subse-
quently turned out. It appeared that the line
might be worked at an expense of 20,0001.
annually. In consequence of the depressed state of
the market, the directors thought it would be better
not to proceed further at present with the works
than to make that nominal commencement which
was required by the Act of Assembly. The balance
in hands was 16,1161. 19s. Ild., which was placed at
interest. This sum would be reduced to about 15,000/.
The directors were ready to give the shareholders who
desired to retire from the undertaking 12s. 6d. per
share, as they were satisfied of the responsibility
of the parties who were ready to take up those
shares. In conclusion, the report stated that great
cordially existed between the proprietors of the Jamaica
and the directors of the present Company, and that
several of the former were very anxious to get. shares in
the South Midland Company.
The SECRETARY then read the report of the engineer
of the Company, Mr. Miller, which was very favourable.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed two resolutions, to the
effect that the report should be adopted, and that the
directors should be authorised to prepare the supple-
mental Bill to be presented to the Assembly atgamaica.
These resolutions were seconded and carried unani-
mously.

Thtinks were then voted to and acknowledged by the
Chairman, and the meeting separated.

SALES OF RAILWAY SHARES BY
AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.)
Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale to-day went off rather
quietly. Little speculation is going on, from the ab-
sence of so many of the principal operators in the
country. A good business was done. The following
are a few of the principal sales:—
Great North of India a 5 6
Cambridge and Oxford ... 1 7 6
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 1 2 0
Reading and Reigate 1 1 6
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston
Taw Vale Extension and Dock 0 11 0
Great Eastern and Western 1 0 0
Norfolk Extens. to Norwich and Brandon 2 7 0
London and York ... 2 3 0
Eastern Counties, York Extension......... 2 7 0
Shrewsby., Wolverh., and South Stafford 2 8 6
Chnrnet and Blythe
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 1 25 15 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham
East Indian 0 17 0
Paris and Lyons
East Lincolnshire
Direct Northern
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush
London and Blackwall, New
Northern and Southern Connecting
Grand Union 0 14 0
West Riding Union ... 5 2 0
Manchester and Southampton 1 3 0
Louvain ala Sambre 1 5 0
Great Western of Bengal 0 11 6
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire
Shropshire Union and Canal

THE GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY.
—ln our report of the meeting of the shareholders of
this company yesterday, we represented Mr. Spack-
man to have stated that the managing committee
were squandering 40,0001. or 50,0001. of the money of
the shareholders; the statement should have been 401. or
50/. a day in unnecessary advertisements, which expen-
diture was declared to be illegal under the Act, until
after a general meeting had been held.

BANK OF
(From this nig
An Account, pursuant to the Act 1
the Week ending on Saturday,

ISSUE DEP.
X.
tcotes issued.... •• 29,875,890

£29,875,890

Dated the 2d day of September,

BANKING DI

Proprietors' capital•• 14,553,000
Hest ••••••• • • • • • • • 3,354,370
Public deposlt3 (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

vidend accoants)• . 7,142,212
Other deposits ••• • .. 9,161,568
Revert day and other

885,680

ENGLAND.
;ht's Gazette.)
Tth and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
, the 29th day of August, 1846.
'ARTMENT.

Government debt . • 11,015,100
Other securities .. • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 13,199,102
Silver bullion .. .. • • 2,676,783

1 X 29,875,890
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1846.

35,297,130

OEPARTMEN T.

Dated the 3d day of September,

Government securi-
ties (Including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 12,961,735
Other securities •• .. 12,395,457
Notes • • • • • • • • 9,449,760
Gold and silver coin • • 4:."0,178

COURSE OF EXCH.

X 35,297,130
M. MARSHALL. Chief Cashier.
1846. •

.NGE.-(TIIIS DAY).

Amsterdam C.F. 12 BY2
Ditto, at sight . l2 SW,
Rotterdam 2U. 12 9
Antwerp••...... 26 15
liamburgh ......M.B. 13 1342
5it0na........., „
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • 25 80
Ditto, 3 months...... 26 10
starselllea •••• • • • • 26 15
Bcurdeaux...... .. 26 15
Frankfort on 3faine.... 122%
Petersburg,h, 3 U 5.... ••
Berlin ••..•• • • .. •• • •
Vienna, effec. flo ••• • •• 10 12
Trieste, ditto.... • • lO 12
3facir id . • .. ...... 35%
Cadiz • • ... • 36
Bilbao.. • • • • .. • • • • • • • •
Barcelona • • •... ..

Gibraltar
Leghorn .. .. ..
Genoa .. .. . .
Venice
Naples
Palermo, per oz ll9
Lisbon.... ..... ... „
Rio Janeiro • . . .....
Bahia .
Buenos Ayres ........
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .... • • ....
I,BICIS OF BULLION, FEB OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars .. ..• • • • 0 4 9%
Silver in bars •. 0 4 11%

WAKLEY
(THIS DAY.)
A preliminary meeting of the friends of T. Wakley,
Esq., M.P., was held in the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
Strand, to take into consideration the best means of for-
warding the penny subscription now in progress for pur-
chasing a piece of silver plate to be presented to that
gentleman as a testimonial of his worth, and the high
respect in which he is held for his zeal, impartiality, and
firmness in the office of Coroner.

The me,..ting was very respectably attended.
Mr. Sandford, of Lincoln's Inn, was. called to the

chair.
The CHAIRMAN briefly explained the purposes which
had called them together. He thought that the services
of Mr. Wakley imperatively called upon them to exhibit,
by some reward like the one contemplated, their appre-
ciation of his great abilities, and the admirable manner
in which he had performed the duties of Coroner. Cer-
tain resolutions would, therefore, be submitted to the
meeting, and he would at 'once save the time of the
gentlemen present by calling upon Mr. Sullivan to pro-
pose the first resolution.
Mr. SULLIVAN, in moving drat this meeting duly ap-
preciate the indefatigable industry and unflinching pro-
bity of Thomas Wakley, Esq., in the performance of
his duty as Coroner, and considers that he is well en-
titled to the gratitude of the country," eulogised in the
warmest manner the conduct of Mr. Wakley, more
particularly in the recent pro ceedings at Hounslow.
lie hoped that the recent changein the amount of punish-
ment would be followed by the total abolition of " the
cat," and when this devoutly-to-be-wished-for consum-
mation should have been accomplished, the friends of
humanity would have to thank: Mr. Wakley for it.
Mr. A. RAMSAY seconded, t nd Dr. WEBB, of Mary-
Lbone, supported it.
Mr. W. HINDE, formerly in the 7th Hussars, the same
regiment to which the unfort =tate man belonged, then
rose, and in a very earnes;tt and energetic manner
defended Colonel Whyte from the charges of inhumanity
which had been urged again sue him. He well remem-
bered seeing on one occasion .an old soldier tied to the
ladder, when Captain Whyte r u.shed out, and said to the
commanding officer, Colonel King, "For God's sake,
Colonel King, do not punish that old soldier. I shall be
answerable for his good condu at in time coming." The
man was unbound and pardoned. He also called to
mind a circumstance that oc curred in Canada, where,
when they were in daily expe ciation of being engaged
with the enemy, a man was found in the act of deserting.
He was sentenced to recive one, hundred and fifty lashes,
but was pardoned by Colonel. Whyte after he had re-
ceived fifty lashes, on his prom Ase of future good conduct.
He might multiply many such cases, but he did not de-
sire to take up too much time. He had served under five
colonels, and in no instance 12 1d he served under a more

humane unfeeling officer; and this opinion he was certain
would be corroborated by every soldier in the regiment.
He fully appreciated the services of Mr. Wakley, as did
many of his former companions. and he had no doubt that
a considerable portion of the subscriptions would come
out of the army.
Dr. EPPS suggested that it would perhaps be better to
confine their approbation of Mr. Wakley's conduct to
his recent services at Hounslow. Many persons had
expressed their disapprobation of the witticisms with
which the Coroner for Middlesex occasionally sought to
relieve the tedium of business, and he (Dr. Epps) did
consider that this levity was beneath the dignity of a
judge. On these grounds he thought it better that the
resolution should be confined to their approbation of
Mr. Wakley, the case he alluded to, and he was sure that
that would secure general approbation.
Mr. WHITE moved the following resolution:—" That
the friends of Thomas Wakley, Esq., in consideration of
his independent conduct as Coroner, Pmore particularly
upon the occasion of the late inquest at Hounslow, have
resolved upon offering him some slight testimonial of
the high opinion they have formed of him as a public
officer."

Mr. CHURCH, in an eloquent speech, seconded the
resolution.

Mr. WHITE also moved the third resolution, " That a
committee be formed to raise a sufficient sum of money
to purchase a handsome piece of silver plate to be pre-
sented to that gentleman."
The committee was then appointed ; and after thanks
had been voted to the Chairman, the meeting broke up.

THE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 2, 1846.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto
David Pollock, Esq., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Judicature at Bombay.