The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-14 00:00:00

TArr VALE ILE.ILWAY.

(On re-commitment.)
Mr. Sergeant WltAmomot then opened the can for the
promoters of this scheme. This Bill has been referred
back to the Committee, in consequence of some technical
error.
Considerable discussion arose as to whether Mr. Calvert,
'bo ::opmred for the Glamorganshire Canal, in opposition
to i!lel.'l4 had or had not a locus standi before the Com-
mittee.
The CHAR.nIAN atlength decided that Mr. Calvert had
not proved, to the satisfaction of the Committee, sufficient
grounds to enab.le him to have a locus standi before their
Lordships.
Mr. Heighton, th "!, engineer
and asked a few form to the line, was then called.
After which their L,
el questlons ;
,rdships declared the preamble of the
Bill to be proved.

PROTEST AGAIYST THE SECOND
READING 6F THE SI:GAR DUTIES BILL.

DISSENTIE Or.
of slaves, tends to
1. Because the importation into the United Kingdom of
sugar, which is produced by the laboklt.
promote the slave trade with all its atrot:ities, and is quite
inconsistent with the principle upon which this ceuntry has
so long acted, and for which it has made, an,d still continues
to make, enormous sacrifices.
2. Because there is no reason to apprehend a deficiency in
the supply of sugar from other sources, as the qualitity which
is produced in the East Indies, and in !other British posses-
! sinus is rapidly increasing, which would also be the case -with
the British colonies in the West Indies, if they received
protection and encouragement.
3. Because the propo-sed nie:asure would be most unjust to
those colonies, and would be riiii:ou3 to their interests, which
have already been grievously injured by reducing the price
of their produce without a corresponding reduction of the
taxation to which it is subject, and kr the want of sufficient
labourers for their cultivation.
4. Because the consequences of the proposed measure
might be very calamitous, and might occa.'sion such distress
and discontent as would ultimately lead to be separation of
those very important colonies, which, when dc:nrived of the
protection that is justly due to them, might luse also their
allegiance.

STA-SHOPE,
LOVELL and HOLLANgf
GAGE,
DENMAN, for the first reason..
S. OXFORD, for the first reason.

NORFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY.
The half-yearly general meeting of this Company was
held at their offices, Guildhall-buildings, yesterday, at one
o'clock. Adam Duff; Esq., took the chair.
The SECRETARY having read the advertisement of the
meeting, then read the report of the directors for the past
six months. It stated that the accounts for the half-year,
ending the 30th of June last, showed a gross amount of
revenue of 37,936/. I.ls. Bd., making the total income, for
the eleven months during which the line had beee.l opened
throughout, 62,9791. 14s. 11d., a result considered by
the directors to be as favourable as could be ex-
pected in the first year of a new line; that out of DLii
the directors recommended a dividend to be declared at tha
rate of six per cent. upon the capital paid up; that the
branch to East Dereham would be opened by the let of Oc-
tober, and the branch to Lowestoft about the same time;
that the directors had been successful in obtaining Bills for
the East Dereh am branch to Fakenham, Wells, and Blakeney,
and for carrying out the arrangement for vesting the Lowe-
stoft railway and harbour in the Company; and that during
the eleven months ending the 30th June, there were 093,068
passengers conveyed upon the Norfolk Railway, out of which
28,254 were booked between Norwich and London, or alJout
one-thirteenth of the whole, and that these passengers gave
a gross revenue of 9,303/. 10s. 6d., being less than 300/. a mile
for the whole year.
The CHAIRMAN then said, that the report which had been
drawn up at some length would make it unnecessary for him
to say much. The first subject alluded to in it was the re-
venue, and on that bead it was a subject of congratulation to
the directors that the line bore out all their expectations.
It had never been the custom of the directors to exaggerate
the prospects of the Company; they had always promised
them a line at a small cost, with a remunerating
traffic, and their words were completely fulfilled. 'The work-
ing expenses had, as usual, been calculated and set down at
40 per cent. That was the best arrangement at the present
which they could make, but when the line was in full work-
ing a more detailed estimate would be given. However, it
was for the shareholders to recollect that when the Ely and
Peterborough line was opened it would be wrought with
their own staff, without any other addition than that of some
station clerks. He said he had no great fear of the London
traffic being diverted from the line; but, he said, their great
salvation was the small cost of their line, being not much
above 15,000/. a mile, including their plant and stations. As
for the Eastern Union Railway, if they succeeded at first is
materially damaging them, that Company would bitterly re-
pent it themselves. He concluded by moving that the re-
port read be received, printed, and circulated among the
shareholders.
Captain TINDAL seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN moved that a dividend be declared at the
rate of six per cent. upon the capital paid up, on the respec-

ive shares as follows :--
.2s. per share on 7,500 Yarmouth and Norwich shares.
Is. 10d. ... on 1,875 New Yarmouth and Norwich shares.
Is. Id. ... on 19,000 Norwich and Brandon shares.

2s. Bd. ... on 22,000101. shares.
Os. Bd. ... on 39,375 2/. shares.
Mr. HARVEY seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN moved that, pursuant to the power con-
tained in the Company's Act of the present session, an! ad-
ditional capital of 300,0001. be raised in 15,000 shares of 201.
each, and that upon such shares there shall be granted a
dividend at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, in preference
to and before any dividend shall be paid upon the other stock
and shares of the Company, and shall not be entitled to any
further proportion of the profits of the undertaking or any
future creations of capital.
This resolution was seconded and carried.
The CHAIRMAN moved that the 9,375 shares of 20/. each
of the late Yarmouth and Norwich Company and the
1,900 shares of 2/. each in the late Norwich and Brandon,
and the 39,375 shares of 2/. each in- the same company, be
consolidated into a general capital stock, and divided
amongst the shareholders, according to their respective inte-
rests and shares.
This resolution being seconded, was put and carried una-
nimously.
The CHAIRMAN moved that such shares be appropriated
among the subscribers to the extension stock, in proportion
of one share for every three subscribed for, and that until
such shares be paid upon fully, interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. be allowed upon the advanced calls from the time of
payment upon these shares respectively.
The resolution was put and carried MM. con.
The CHAIRMAN moved that the directors be authorised to
raise 100,000/. upon loan, under the powers of the Act.
Mr. PARSONS seconded the resolution, which was put and
carried.

Before the meeting was dissolved,
The Rev. Mr. HERRING, of the parish of Thorpe,
represented to the meeting the lack of church ac-
commodation in that parish, on which the Com-
pany had lately built a considerable hamlet, and
located a large number of their servants. He said that
it was proposed to rebuild the parish church, which
at present was too small, and that from 1,700/. to 1,8001.
had already been raised for the purpose. He hoped that
the Company, in consideration of their servants, would
give 3001. for this object.
Some discussion ensued between Dissenters and Church-
men, the former of whom gave way, on hearing that the
directors had handsomely given ground for a site on which
to erect a school connected with the British and Foreign
School Society.
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CHARING-CROSS-BRIDGE COM.

PANY.

The general half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in
this Company took place yesterday, at No. 9, Villiers-street
Strand; llawes, Esq., in the chair.
The following report was read by the Secretary, and
unanimously adopted:—
" Your directors have to report that the tolls of the past
half-year will justify a dividend of 12s. 6d. per share, being
at the rate of five per cent. on the capital stock of the Com-
pany, the payment of which they recommend accordingly to
the meeting. Your directors have not yet obtained the Act
of Parliament to enable them to convey the bridge to Messrs.
Jackson and others : they think it due to the proprietary to
state that the report of the Commissioners appointed to ex-
amine the plans for the proposed railway termini in and near
the metropolis, has retarded the progress of the Bill in Par-
liament. Your directors very much regret to be again
obliged to refer to the differences existing between the Hun-
gerford-market Company and this board. After the strongly
expressed opinion of the last general meeting against law
proceedings, your directors submitted plans for the arrange-
ment of the steam-boat passenger traffic to the directors of
the Hungerford-market, so advantageous to that Company
that nothing but a disinclination on their part to co-operate
in obviating the difficulties incidental to a strict construction
of the agreement, can account for their refusing. All attempts,
therefore, to arrange the difference between the companies
having failed, and the market directors still refusing to refer
the subject to the consideration of some competent authority
for decision, your directors have no other alternative, to avoid
law proceedings with which they are threatened, than to en-
deavour to carry out the provisions of an agreement, a slight
modification of which would afford to the public ample
accommodation, and without which confusion and delay
must arise to all frequenting the pier and bridge, to the
injury cf both companies. The correspondence between
the companies is printed, for the use of the shareholders.
A statement of the accounts of the Company is annexed.
Three of your directors and one auditor retire from office, in
accordance with the 68th section of the Company's Act of
incorporation, but being eligible for re-election, offer them-
selves accordingly."
The following gentlemen were then re-elected as di-
rectors :—Mr. Ilobbes, Mr. Millar, and Mr. Sutton.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and
the meeting separated.
It was stated that the bridge had cost above 119,0001.

The Ford Abbey estate, which was sold by Mr.
George Robins a few weeks since to the Rev. Laurence
Gwvnne, of Teignmouth for 52,000 guineas, is, we perceive,
again in the market. The advertisement explains Why, and
the auctioneer will try his eloquence withthe the Catholic 13od
ryy,
and tell them it is, beyond all doubt, finest monaste
throughout England, and, with its splendid demesne, was
estimated the other approacht 70,000 guineas, so that the possi-
bility is, that, at the aing sale (which must be a pc..
reuiptory oxie), it Will sell higher than to Dlr. Gwynn.

THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF.
A Bill reducing the duty on imports, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of: Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That from and after the first day of De-
cember next, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by
law on the articles hereafter mentioned, end on such as
may now be exempt from duty, there shall be levied,
collected, and paid, on the goods, 'wares, and mer-
chandise herein enumerated and pre vided for, imported
front foreign countries, the following rates of duty—that
is to say :
On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in
schedule A, a duty of one hundred per centum ad valorem.
On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in sche-
dule I, a duty of forty per cent.
On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in sche-
dule B, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem.
On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in sche-
dule C, a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in sche-
dule le, a duty of twenty per cent. ad valorem.
On goods, wares, arid merchandise mentioned in sche-
dule E, a duty of fifteen per cent. ad valorem.
On goods, wares, and metchandiee mentioned in sche-
dule F, a duty of ten per cent. ad valorem.
On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in sche-
dule G, a duty of fire per cent. ad valorem.
sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and
after the first day of December next, the goods, wares
and merchandise. mentioned in schedule H, shall be
exempt from duty.
sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from a-A
after the first day of December next, there Shell be
levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wars,, and mer-
chandise imported from foreign count-Acs' and not
specially provided for in this Act, a du'„y of twenty per
centum ad valorem.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases
in which the invoice or entry not contain the
weight or quantity or measure oi goods, wares or mer-
chandise now weighed, or meas'ared, or gauged, the same
be weighed, gauged, or measnred, at the expense of the
owner or consignee.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and
after the first day of December next, in lieu of the
bounty heretofore authorised by law to be paid on
the exportation, of pickled fish of the fisheries of the
United States, there shall be allowed on the exporta-
tion thereof, if cured with foreign salt, a drawback,
equal in amount to the duty paid ow the salt, and no
more, to be ascertained under such regulatiovs as
may be prescribed by alp SQcretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all goods,
wares and merchandise imported after the passage of
this Act, and which may be in the public stores on the
:second day of December next, shall be subject to no
other duty upon the entry thereof than if the same were
imported respectively after that day.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the twelfth
section of the Act entitled "An Act to provide re-
venue from imports, and to change.and modify existing
laws imposing ditties on imports, and for other pur-
poses, approved August thirty, eighteen hundred and
forty-twJshalthe, and the same is h :reby so far modified,
that all goods imported this side the Cape of Good
Hope or Cape Horn may remain in the public stores for
tae space of one year, instead of the term of sixty days
prescribed in the said section ; and that all gods im-
ported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape
Ham, may remain in the public stores one year instead
of the term of ninety days prescribed in the same
section.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, that it shall be
lawful for the owner, consignee or agent of imports
hick have been aclially purchased, on entry of the
same, to make such addition in the entry to the cost
or value given in the invoice, as in his opinion may
raise the same to the true market value of such im-
ports in the principal markets of the country whence
the importation shall have been made, or in which
the goods imported shall have been originally mann-
fitctured or produced, as the case may be ;and to add
thereto all coats and charges which, under existing laws,
would form part of the true value at the port where the
same may be entered, upon which the duties should
be assessed. And it shall be the duty of the col-
lector, within whose district the same may be im-
ported or entered, to cause the dutiable value of
such imports to be appraised, estimated, and ascertained
in accordance with the provisions of existing laws ;
and if the appraised value thereof shall exceed by ten
per centum or more the value so declared in the entry, i
then, in addition to the duties imposed by law on the
same, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a duty of
twenty per centum ad valorem on such appraised value:
Provided, nevertheless, that under no such circumstances
shall the duty be assessed upon an amount less than the
invoice value; any law of Congress to the contrary not-
withstanding.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the deputies
of any collector, naval officer, or surveyor, and the clerks
employed by any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or ap-
praiser, who are not by' existing laws required to be
sworn, shall, before entering upon their respective duties,
or, if already employed, before continuing in the dis-
charge thereof, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation
faithfully and diligently to perform such duties, and to
use their best endeavours to prevent and detect frauds
upon the revenue of the United States ; which oath or
affirmation shall be administered by the collector of the
port or district where the said deputies or clerks may be
employed, and shall be of a form to be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That no officer or
other person connected with the navy of the United
States shall, under any pretence, import in any ship or
vessel of the United States any goods, ware, or mer-
chandise liable to the payment of any duty.
SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, that all Acts, and
parts of Acts repugnant to the provisions of this Act be,
and the same are hereby repealed.