The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMERON'S STE
LO CUGHOR.OAL AND SWANSEA
AND
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday at the office, Moorgate•street; Mr. W. Win-
throp in the chair. The report stated that the directors
had to lament that several of the shareholders in arrear
of calls not only evade the payment thereof, but endee.-
your to frustrate the zealous efforts of the directors. It
was not until every effort to conciliate parties and to in-
duce those in arrear to pay up had failed of success that
the directors had been compelled, in justice to the ge-
neral body, to institute legal proceedings against every
shareholder in arrear whom legal proceedings could reach,
and they have no doubt that theso proceedings will have
the desired effect. The whole of the works on the branch
line to Llanelly have been completed, with the excep-
tion of a small portion near Loughor-bridge, and the
line is now ready to receive the permanent way, which
may be finished within six or eight weeks after the rails
are placed at the disposal of the contractor. An
agreement has been entered into wiLh Mr. W. Cameron,
by which he allows a preference to all other
shares in the company up to 8 per cent. over
his own shares; and up. to 15 per cent.. over all his
shares, with the exception of 2,000,. which are to take
dividend after the other shares. receive 8 per cent, should
the profits of the undertaking admit of it. The re-
maining 9,970 shares which he holds are not to be enti-
tled to dividend until all the other shares in the company
receive 15 per cent. He has also given up all other
claims alleged to be due by the company to him. He is
to have an annuity of 4001. per annum out of certain
tolls on the Swansea line when completed and in opera-
tion. The directors regret that arrears of calls to the
amount of 3,000 Z still remain unpaid. They believe that
the sum of 2,000/. would enable them to complete and
open the branch railway to Llanelly. The directors
urge on the shareholders the necessity of an immediate
exertion to release the company from its present finan-
cial difficulties, and to bring the undertaking into pro-
fitable operation. The report of Mr. Atkinson, the
manager, stated that 460 tons of coal per day could be
raised and conveyed on the line when completed, and
that making allowance for the reduced price of coal, the
profit, after paying all expenses, would be sufficient to
pay 8i per cent. on the share capital of 79,4001., in-
cluding 40,0001. of new shares. The directors express
their belief that the arrangement with Mr. Cameron, if
carried into operation, will be for the benefit of the
shareholders.
The CIZAIADIAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said from the present position of their affairs it was im-
possible for them to go on much longer unless the share-
holders came forward to assist the directors by paying
up the calls in arrear. The creditors of the
iv company
were not oppressive, and they were disposed to se them
a little time, provided they saw a determination on the
part of the shareholders to carry cut the undertaking
without any further delay. The directors intended to
circulate the report of the manager among certain parties
acquainted with mining, with a view to obtain assistance,
and thereby save the property for those who had paid up
all their cells. He believed that if their affairs were put
in a healthy condition, the property would yield them a
good dividend. About 3,0001. would enable them to go
on and bring their coal to market, for which they would
obtain an immediate return. They had got over the
greater part of the opposition and difficulties they had
to contend against, and all
.they wanted now wag pecu-
niary assistance to render their property productive.
After a short discussion the report was adopted; the
retiring directors, Messrs. Winthrop and Cazalett, were
re-elected, and a vote of thanks was passed to the chair-
man, which concluded the proceedings.

NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTREVOR
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Wedneeday at Liverpool; Mr. F. Shand in the chair.
The report stated that the payments under the work-
ing contract with Mr. Dargan have been made to the re-
ceiver up to the 9th day of July instant. The directors
have from time to time been in negotiation with the
Newry and Enniskillen Company, with a view of ar-
ranging for a distribution of the sums received from Mr.
Dargan towards payment of the interest on the deben-
ture debt of the company, and they have at length suc-
ceeded in effecting terms fur that purpose, and for stay-
ing further litigation between the two companies. Ne-
gotiations between the Newry end Enniskillen and the
Dublin and Belfast Junction Companies, for the purpose
of effecting a junction of the two lines at Gorah, are still
peeling.
The CHAIRMAN said, in moving the adoption of the
report, he was glad to see a prospect of the contention
which had been goLg on between this company and the
Newry and Enniskillen Company being settled. The
terms hail not yet been distinctly stated, but he had
reason to know that the basis of a satisfactory arrange-
ment had been agreed upon, and that therefore the legal
expenses would not be continued. Those expenses had
been heavy.
Mr. BOWERS—Row long does Mr. Dargan's lease
last?
The CHAIRMAN—Five years from the commencement.
One year and a half had expired. The directors of course
contemplated making more of the line as soon as the
lease was out. In the mean time they were receiving
from Mr. Dargan more than paid their interest. They
confidently hoped and expected that the Dublin and
Belfast and the Newry and Enniskillen Companies
would enter into such arrangements with them
as would be more favourable for the interests of
the shareholders, and enable them to get rid of Mr.
Dargan.
After some further discussion the report was adopted,
and the meeting was then made special to authorise the
issue of debentures for the purpose of liquidating the
remaining debts of the company.

SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER.
The directors of this company, it appears, have de-
clined to comply with a requisition to call an extraordi-
nary meeting of the company for the purpose of consi-
dering a proposed agreement between the Shrewsbury
and Chester and the London and North-Western
Companies, assigning as their reason the agree-
ments already sanctioned by the shareholders of
this company- with the Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham and the Great Western Companies, which are en-
tirely inconsistent with any such agreement as that
now proposed. They state that the Legislature, acting
upon the great principle of securing to the public a se-
cond mode of communication between London and Li-
verpool, Manchester and the North, has, in the present
session, granted to the company the power of running
their engines, carriages, and waggons, over the lines of
the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway, from Chester towards Manchester on the one
side, and towards Liverpool on the other. They have
also been authorized to run over that portion of the
Chester and Holyhead Railway which intervenes be-
tween Saltney and Chester; and, to secure them against
any attempt on the part of the London and North-
Western, by influencing either the Holyhead or the
Birkenhead Company to impede their traffic to Birken-
head, a power has been conceded to their company to
conduct their business there in a station of their own,
and to demand an impartial arbitration as to tolls. They
conclude by stating that this great system of communi-
cation may now be regarded as finally established, and
any attempt to interfere with it can only result in useless
litigation, ending in certain defeat.

THE DEVIL AT PISA.
FLORENCE, JULY 16.—One of those ridiculous prac
tic al jokes which so often end 'fatally to the actor has
just occurred at Pisa, and as it occasions
agreat sensa-
tion here, in consequence of the stain itf attaches to the
o
friars in one of the convents that city, I
take leave to give you the particulars, partly
as I have heard them recounted by others, and partly
as I find them in the local journals. At Pisa
,
there lived in latter years a young man,
whose morals were something like thest' celebrated lean-
ing tower, a little inclined the wrong way, and who,
among other escapades, had caused a great scandal in a
respectable family, and refused to repair it by marriage,
according to the prayers of the victim and the ota
mantis of the Church. The gentleman was, in facct;
regular mauvais sujet, a fit subject for a French novel,
and he went on from day to day, strutting along the
banks of the Arno, and pervertiag all the foolish
/Duals of that not over-religious vicinity, neither
fittending to the advice of his friends or the remon-
strances of the clergy, till sickness overtook him in the
midst of his sine, and death struck him with its most
mortal arrow. Scapegrace as he was, he declined the
consolations of religion in his last days, and refused to
confess or repent, like another Don Giovanni. In vain
an excellent and pious priest spoke of his immortal
soul and the peualties prepared in the other world for
those who take leave of this in find impenitence—
in vain did the friars declare that the Devil would
claim him as his own the moment the last sigh was
drawn—and in vain did one of the reverend gentlemen
recount how in a vision he saw his Infernal Majest y
maltreat a hardened sinner on a similar occasion. Don
Giovanni died game, as the greatest criminals often do,
rbefore he gave up the ghost he made ono of his
,Teh,dst a Corsican resident at Pisa, promise that he
and never
watch over the body in the Chapelle Mortuaire,
ho"me.hever leave it until it was consigned to its last
th d The Corsican kept his word, and alone and in
f'rieencleadinhtf the night he sat by the side of his departed
for twentyb-e_oconvent chapel, where corpses are exposed
crated
er
unfeeur hours before burial, either in cense-
struck tweleaufterre.ted ground. But just as the clock
cf chains, emai:leeep groan, accompanied by the rattling
a figure enter, draersds'dand the watcher to his horror saw
receipt for fitting : according to the most approved
a long tail, a
ehaiili ai devil, with tremendous horns,
girt his body, and draped
in red and black, af
a bold heart, Maj
The Corsican had esty should be.
Devil
and he asked the Devil
what he wanted. The replied by an awful
groats, the rattling of chains, the outspreading of
his claws to seize his prey.
would not
Corsican, still un-
&wilted, declared that he
then Dote allow the body
sevinldthahtiimf he did to he touched, and he warned
not leave the place he would
to his infernal regions faster than he
cameaau from
them.scornful
To this speech the Devil replied b
Y
laugh, such as Zamiel in Der Freischtd-, used, d with
another rattle of the chains advanced to the coffia-s ide ;
on which the faithful friend produced a loaded pistol,
and taking sure aim, shot the Devil through the heart,
and dropped him at his feet, dead, as they say at Am-
sterdam, as a herring or, at Birmingham, as a door nail.
The report of the pistol alarmed the police, and a num.
bar of those guardians of the night having appeared,they
caw to their astonishment the corpse lying in its proper
place, the Corsican sitting tranquilly by izs side, and
a bleeding masa covered titheed and black, with a
tremendous pair of horns, awellnown tail. An
explanation was soon given, and when the Devil
was stripped of his finery he turned out to be thefri a bellrs
-
man. of the convent, employed no doubt by the
whole religious assistance was refused, for the purpose
ootufiving a striking proof of the danger of dying with-
tke consolations of the Church, and of the fate to