The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

LIST OP SCOTTISH CO

Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. 1 Price
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ a. d
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 158
British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 223
Commercial Bank •• .• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 164
National Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 923
Western Bank .. .• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 84%
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 I 714
Clydesdale Bank ... • 61. per cent. 10 0 0 131. 7s.
Eastern Bank .. ... •• • 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 I 1
Caledonian Bank ... • . 7341. pr cent. I 210 0 4/. 4s.
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. 5 0 0 71. 3s.
City of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. 10 0 0 13/. 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 Scotlnd.. 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9%
North British Insur. • • 531 /. pr cent. 1200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent.,loo 0 0 10 0 0 22
Edinlsurgh Life Incur. 61. per cont. 1100 0 0 12 10 0 1814
Edin. &Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pert. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto, 14 Shares.... 73. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 17%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 76
Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 16%
Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 40
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssantce.l W. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(THIS DAY).
Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 8 Gibra1tar..............
Ditto, at sight • ..... 12 5X Leghorn ......... ..... 30 65
Rotterdam .... • • 2U. 12 834 Genoa ............ •• .. 26 15
25 15 Milan
Hamburgh .... • . 31.17. 13 14% Venice.. •• • .....
Altnn.

COURSE OF
Amsterdam ......C.F.
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .... •• 2 U.
Antwerp— ..........
Hambtirgh .... • .3.1.11.
Paris, 3 days' sight

Naples ...... • • .... • • 39%
Palermo, per oz 1191,4
Lisbon .. .•• • . •
Oporto .......... ••.. •
Rio Janeiro ........ .
_ .

Ditto, 3 months...... 26 10
Marseilles •• • ..• 26 15
80urdeaux......... • • 26 15
Frankfort on 122 6
Petersburgh, 3 U 5......
Berlin .. . • . •• •
Vienna, effec.flo.... •
Trieste, ditto....
Madrid •
Cadiz • .. :

Bahia .......
Buenos Ayres

New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia ..........
PRICES OP BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coln • • 3 17 5
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars • • .•• • • 0 4 9%
Silver in bars • • 0 4 11%

Bilbao
Barcelona ....

MANCHESTER afidSOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.—( DAY.)
A public meeting of the scripholders in thi; Company
was held to-day at the King's Arms (Herte-t's) note',
Palace-yard, Westminster, to take into eons.d.vation the
position of the Company, and to adopt measures for their
future guidance.
Sir John Barker Mill took the chair.
The Secretary having read the advertisement calling
the meeting,
Mr. J. WALKINSHAW, deputy-chairman, then said
he wished to inform the meeting that they had on the
table memorials from Cheltenham, Cirencester. Crick
lade, Swindon, Marlborough, Andover, Stockbridge,
Romsey, and Southampton, praying that the directors
would proceed with the line. Letters also had been re
ceivt d from Earl Bruce and Viscount Duncannon to the
same effect, and he stated that other noblemen
and influential landholders on the line had signed
one or other of the numerous itemorials
which had been got up with a view to urging the di-
rectors to continue their application to Parliament for
their Act authorising the construction of the line. Ile
further deprecated any expression on that occasion of ir-
ritable feelings which were so apt. to be occasioned
by temporary failure in railway matters ; he was
sure that any such expressions would only tend to im-
pede their future progress. He assured the meeting
that, for himself and the directors it was not their inten-
tion on that occasion to use any means which would
influence the vote of the scripholders, that the result
might be purely their own.
The Secretary then read the report.
Sir JOHN BARKER MILL rose to move " That the re-
port now read be received and printed fOr distribution
amongst the shareholders." He said he did not feel
himself called upon to enter at any length into the de-
tali after the ample report which had been re id.
Contrary to his expectation, he regretted to
say that they had been disappointed of success
before Parliament. He joined with the deputy-chairman
in deprecating any expression of angry feeling on that
occasion, and he was happy to allude to the numerous
and spontaneous meetings which from one end of tliti
land to the other had been held to urge them to persist
in their application to Parliament, and he
hoped one day, as their chairman, to be able-{
to congratulate them on receiving their Bill.
The object of their meeting then was to say whether
they would persist in going again toParliamcnt, or whe-
ther they would at once give up their Bill. He would
venture to suggest one thing—that he hoped the share-
holders would continue to support the directors, who
Verre yet prepared to continue their exertions, and to
undertake any responsibility in going to Parliament.
Att%gow, High Bailiff of Cheltenham, seconded the
motion..:,
The Reif, FRANCIS CLOSE, said that ho appeared
on that occasion representing the people of his
parish. He was called up from his seat by
the word used by the Chairman in describing the meet-
ings as spontaneous. He had never seen a more spon-
taneous and more unanimous meeting of his parish-
ioners. They were all most, forward for the suc-
cess of this line, and nothing seemed to give
them more concern than the announcement
that the Company had failed of success, or to excite more
their indignation than the conduct of those opponents
through whom they had met with that failure. Their
appro.ich to the town of Cheltenham had not boen such
as to meet with the entire approbation of the town, but
rather than throw any obstacle in the way of
the Company's success, they agreed to submit without
expressing their dissent.
After a few words from EDWARD TOOTAL, Esq., from
Manchester,
JAMES HOSKINS, Esq., Mayor of Portsmouth, said he
would urge them to continue their exertions for the line,
first because it was a good line. It was a good line,
because, connecting the great manufacturing towns

of the north with the great seaport towns of
the south, it opened a track of country unsupplied with
railway communication. He urged them to do so,
secondly, because they had the most ample and over-
whelming evidence to show that it was a good line, con-
ducive to all in the kingdom except five ; and thirdly,
because all the inhabitants on the route of the line were
unanimously in favour of it.
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously
with great applause.
Mr. WALKINOSRAW in moving the second resolution
said, he would but repeat what he had already said, that
he, or his brother directors would do or say nothing
which would in one iota sway in any way the opinion
of the shareholders on the subject. He moved:—
" That this meeting declares its deliberate opinion ta be
that the line advocated by the Company is called for by
- the public interests, and ought to be made, and that
nothing occurred in the course of the Parliamentary
ti proceedings which at all affects the confidence of the
shareholders in the soundness of the undertaking, as a
va'ttible investment."
Lord ERNEST BRUCE, in supporting the resolution,
said he appeared as the representative of' the town of
Marlborough, and stated the very great necessity which
that town and Andover both had for that communica-
tion proffered by the line, and impressed upon the meet-
ing the desirableness of proceeding with it.
As no other person felt inclined to speak on the re-
solution, it was put and carried with acclamation.
Mr. G. FARQUITAR said he support. d the line entirely
- on public grounds, for he was sure that once made it
te, would become one of the most important main
trunk lines in the kingdom; and, in common with
others, felt strongly inclined to urge the meeting
to vote for prosecuting the line. He moved :
" That, therefore,a renewed application be made to Par-
- liament in the ensuing session for an Act to authorise
the construction of the railway, with such changes and
;3i modifications, if any, as to the directors may seem meet ;
and that the directors be, and they are hereby autho.
rised to take such steps, based upon the suggestions con-
tained in their report, as they may think fit, with a view
to give effect to this resolution ; and that they be
further authorised to allow dissentient shareholders to
avtlidraw, and the scrip be re-issued in such manner and
;12 uponaitielkerms as they shall think expedient."
Mr. WILLIAM LANKESTER, from Southampton, said
it was the strong desire of the people of that town to-
IA get a connexion with the north• west by way of Chel-
,y4 tenham into Wales, the west of Scotland, and also with
it<3 the coast of Ireland. It was of no avail to have
given them the line by Oxford, for they could not
44 be convinced that the longest way round was
S 4 the nearest way home. Considering it was the main
9s. port for the mail packet from Asia, and an arsenal of the
: kingdom, it was no wonder that the people were united
t in their determination and their purpose to have this line.
They felt strongly on the subject, and not a little indig-
nant, if they might be allowed to express it, at the Bill
having been thrown out, and they pledged themselves
not to rest till they had obtained it.
The resolution was carried.
- Mr. GEORGE, of Romsey, moved—" That the thanks
of this nu eting be presented to the directors for the
• energy and ability with which they have devoted them-
selves to the interests of this Company, and for the ten-
der of continued service, which their report of this day
contains."
It was seconded by Mr. SAINSBURY, and carried
unanimously.
The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN, at the request of the Hon.
Baror.et in the chair, acknowledged the honour which the
meeting had done them. He begged now to state what
he reserved before, that the directors were now doubly
confident of success, from the evidence which had come
out in favour of the line. He said, also, that within
the last few days more than twenty thousand scrip
had been sent in ursolicited to the office, with
urgent requests to proceed. He then referred to the
opinion of Mr. Robert Stephenson, their engineer, that
no line of railway could be laid down at a cheaper rate,
and to the admission of Mr. Brunel, the engineer of the
opposing line, that he would not interfere with the Great
Western, though made, and that line along the route
must one clay yet be made. They had retained their old
friends, they had gained new ones ; they had gained the
co-operation of the South-Western, and he might say,
now that they had determined to proceed, that they
would further have the co-operation of the greatest lines
in the country, although he could not enter more into
particulars then.

Lord Ernest Bruce having been voted into the chair,
2 unanimous vote of thanks to Sir John Barker Mill
was passed by the meeting, which then broke up.

SALES OF RAILWAY SHARES 131
AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.)
Messr3. Lamond and Co.'s sale of Railway Shares
to-day was well attended, and a fair business done, but
rather quiet. The fear exists that the market is again
about to decline seriously. East Indians very flat; Dutch
Rhenish have improved from qto i dis. Some prices
in Belgian lines very low. The following are a few of
the principal sales:—
East Indian 0 15 0
Direct Northern 1 14 6
Grand Union ..... 0 12 6
Louvain ala Sambre - - 015 6
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4
London and Blackwall, New
London and York
,
Dutch Rhenish 5 0 0
Manchester and Southampton 1 2 6
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham . 0 11 6
Taw Yale Extension and Dock 0 12 6
Reading and Reigate ... 1 0 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. .. 2 15 0
Eastern Counties, York Extension 2 2 0
Cif urnet and Blythe
Manchester and Leeds, Quarters 6 10 0
Cornwall and Devon Central
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 15 0
Leicester and Bedford
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston
Over Yssel

I'llE LONDON GAZEIT
(THIS EVENING.)

CROWN-OFFICE, SEPT. 14, 1846.
MEMBER LETURNED TO SERVE IN TAUS PRESENT P.I.R-
LIAMENT.
Borough of Derby—Edward Btrutt, Esq.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieut.
W. A. Sanford to be Captain, vice Blake, resigned, Sept. 9;
Lieut. C. N. Neiman to be Captain, vice Lethbridge, re-
signed; Cornet T. J. Clarke to be Lieutenant, vice Welman,
promoted, Sept. 10.

BANKRUPTS.
Henry Drysdale, auctioneer, Lamb's Conduit-street, to
surrender Sept. 25, at three, and Oct. '27, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assigi ee, Abchurch-
lane, Lombard-street; Van Sandau and Cumming, King.
street, Cheapside.
John Hardy, cattle- dealer, Castle Don in gton, Leicestershire,
Sept. 17 and Oct. 20, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Scott and
Tahourdin, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Smith, Birmingham.
Henry Deverill, corn-factor, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford-
shire, Sept. 29 and Oct. 15, ten, at the Bil mingharn Dis-
trict Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Wads-
worth, Nottingham ; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
William Mellinger Higgins, laceman, Birmingham, Oct.
3 and 31, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy,
official assignee, Birmingham; Everest and Co., Hatton-
garden. _ _

Peter M'Shane, cattle dealer, Dundalk, Ireland, Sept, 25.
and Oct: 20, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
C••:zenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Messrs. Gregory and
Co.. Bedford-row; Green, Liverpool.
William Warburton, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct.
5, at half-past ten, and Nov. 5, at half-past one, at the Neiv..
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Jobling, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;
Bell, Broderick, and Bell. Bow Church-yard.
Jonas -Mines, Joseph Lang, Joseph Wilbv, and Thomas
Brook, blanket manufacturers, Littletown, -Yorkshire, Sept.
26, and Oct. 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds; Jaques and Edwards, Ely-place,
Holborn; Battye and Firth, Birstal ; Bond, Leeds.