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

RAILWAY INTILLIGENCE.
CAMERON'S STAND M COAL A
.ND SWANSEA
LOUGHOR
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday at the office, Moorgateestreet; Mr. W. Win-
throp in the chair. The report stated that the &rectors
bad to lament that several of the shareholders in leveler
of calls not only evade the payment thereof, but endea-
vour 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 these proceedings will have
the desired effect. The whole of the works o n 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 with Mr. W. Cameron,
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by which he allows a preference to all
cent. m
other
shares in the company up to per o
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 4005 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/. still remain unpaid. They believe that
the sum of 2,0004 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 81 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 CLIAIRMAIT, in moving the adoption of the rep?rt,
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 company
were not oppressive, and they were disposed to give them
a little time, provided they saw a determination on the
part of the shareholders to carry out 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 calls. 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 was pecu-
niary assistance to render their property productive.
After a short discussion the report was adopted; the
retiring directors, Mr ssrs. Winthrop and Cazalett, were
re-elected, and a vote of thanks was passed to the chair-
man, which concluded the proceedings,

NEWBY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTREVOR
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday at Liverpool; Mr. F. Shand in the chair.
The report stated that the payments under the work-
ing contract with Mr. Dergen have been mode 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.
Dargeri towards payment of the interest on the deben-
ture debt of the company, and they have at length BIM.
ceeded in effecting terms fur that purpose, and fcr etay-
ing further litigation between the two companies. Ne-
gotiations between the Newry and Enniskillen and the
Dublin and Belfast Junction Companies, for the purpose
of effecting a junction of the two lines at Gorah, are still
pending.
The CHAIRMAN said, in moving the adoption of the
report, he was glad to see a prospect of the contention
which had been going on between this company and the
Newry and Enniskillen Company being settled. The
terms had 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 legel
expenses would not be continued. Those expenses had
been heavy.
Mr. BOWERS—How 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.
Darwin.
Attcr some farther 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 ANT) 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 canal-
deriag a proposed agreement between the Shrewsbury
and Chester and the London and North-Western
Companies, assigning as their rearon the agree-
ments already sanctioned by th 3 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 ,
sesiion, 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
aide, and towards Liverpool on the other. They have
also been authorized to ran 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 this
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 arbitrati_n 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.

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which all impenitent sinners are exposed. The Corsican
was tried, and acquitted, as he showed that in the Tuscan
code there was no Penalty attached to shooting the Devil,
and as he persisted in saying that when he fired he be-
lieved he had to deal with his Satanic Majesty, and no
mortal representative.
The best joke of all remains to be told, and that is,
the friars of the convent declare that the whole story is
a fabrication, and the Minister of Instruction announces
that he will prosecute the Gazzetta die Triiunale for
having inserted it.

LONDON NECROPOLIS and NATIONAL
MAUSOLEUM COMPANY.
Tho following petition will be presented to the House
of Commons by Sir B. Hall:—
TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT
ASSEMBLED.
The humble petition of the undersigned directors and
others of the London Necropolis and National
Mausoleum Company,
Sheweth,—
That your petitioners are the registered promoters,
and with others the directors of a company called the
London Necropolis aad National Mausoleum Company.
That your petitioners have in that capacity, and with
a view to the establishment of a grand necropolis or
burial-ground, obtained a site comprising 2,000 acres of
land at Woking-common, in the county of Surrey.
That your petitioners have caused such site to be mi-
nutely surveyed and examined by a surveyor of great
ability and experience, and that it has been found emi-
nently. calculated for burial purposes.
That such site, moreover, possesses all the require-
ments of tha Board of Health—namely,
1. A suitable distance from the metropolis.
2. A moderate price and very limited outlay.
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vigorous interment
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vegetation.
4. Facility of a,ccess.
5. A double approach (by railway and canal with
converging roads), aad
6. Suitable and convenient termini.
That the purchase money for such site is only 57,0001.,
and that the other contingent expenses of making the
same available to interment purposes do not, upoa a
careful estimate, exceed 93,0001., making together
150,0001.
That the requisite arrangements have been made
with the South-Western Railway Company for the trans-
mission of bodies, and the conveyance and return cf
mourners, upon very reasonable terms.
That the comparative inexpensiveness of the site and
the facility of adaptation will enable your petitioners to
adopt a tariff of charges to which they will bind them-
selves by the sanction of your Hon. House considerably
lower than that at present demanded for interment
within the metropolis, or in existing cemeteries.
That your petitioners will, moreover, make due re-
servation of the rights of the clergy and all concerned.
That the funds for effecting all these objects are forth-
coming, a great proportion of their capital being al-
ready subscribed for, and that the other arrangements
requisite for the adaptation of the site will occupy a
comparatively very short period, and render it almost
immediately available.
That the two cemeteries proposed to be purchased for
provisional interments out of the 137,0001. granted by
your Honourable House contain only 89 acres, and are
moreover surrounded by houses and a dense population,
and are at most only capable of receiving under 6,000
bodies, including those already buried there; whereas
the annual ordinary mortality in the metropolis alone
averages 55,000.
That your petitioners humbly submit a comparative
statement of their contemplated expenditure and that of
the Board of Health
LONDON NECROPOLIS, &c.
Purchase of land,
2,000 acres
Cost of making the
same available as
detailed in the
report of their
surveyors, in-
cluding suitable
buildings, en-
closing, draining
road, making
fencing. ece., and
incidental ex-
penses of the
Company

93,000

BOARD OF HEALTH.
Already advanced £ 49,000
Proposed grant, to
purchase two out
of nine cemete-
ries 137,000
Purchase of seven
remaining ceme-
teries, at 50,0001.
each at the least 350,000
Purchase of suit •
able site of 800
acres, only at 45/.
(See report) 36,000
Cost of making
same available,
and incidental
expenses

Z 150,0001 X 656,000
Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly suggest that,
concurring as your Honourable House does in the ne-
cessity for the prompt and effective provision of a suit-
able and sufficiently extensive burial-place for the
bodies of all persons dying within the metropolis and
its suburbs, or at least for that portion of those bodies
which the most distant of the existing cemeteries can-
not receive, your Honourable House will not sanction a
manifestly inefficient and highly costly preliminary ex-
penditure, and which must be auxiliary to a charge of
many hundred thousand pounds upon the public when
the same objects can he more completely,more promptly,
and more satisfactorily effected by the contemplated
measure of your petitioners.

SEABORNE MAILS.
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by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up in ! From what When
PLACES. General Post-officel port dis- due.
London. patched.
America (by Brt. pkt.)N Aug. 1 Liverpool.. Aug. 4
America (by U.S. pkt.) N Aug. 5 .. •• !Liverpool Aug. 12
America (by U.S. pkt.) 31 Aug. 13 .. 'Southampt. !Aug. 7
Africa (West coast) • . N'l4th of the month ,(Plymouth Aug. 3
Alexandria* ........ Nll9th & 30th of mo.lDover .. Aug. 18
Belgium • . NI Daily ......Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. M, 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 12
Buenos Ayres • • .. 3119th of the month ISouthampt. Aug.l2
California(viaChagres) 3112 d & 17th of month !Southampt. Aug. 5
Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of month !Plymouth.. Aug. 3
Constantinople* .. NI 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover !Aug. 10
Central America .. 3,112 d & 17th of mon. ISouthampt. Aug. 5
Channel Isles • • .. NlMon., Wed., & Fri.lSouthampt. Tu. Th.S a
Chili.. • • .. M 17th of the month !Southampt. Aug 5
France .• M& N Twice daily 'Dover —ll`vriceciaily
Greece* • • • . Nl7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .• !Aug. 10
Hamburgh .• N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Holland M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Moa.Thi:r
Honduras .. • • . N 17th of the mouth Southampt.lAug. 5
Ireland .. M& N Twice daily .. —(Holyhead Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. lAug. 23
India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th of month Dover .. Ain, 15
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .• M 20th of the month ,Southampt. Aug. 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. N7th& 24th of monthlDover .. Aug. 15
Mexico 11112 d of the month ..ISouthampt. Aug. 5
Madeira • • •• M!9th of tie month ISouthampt. Aug. 12
Malta* .• N 7tB.ti,,3lo7tthh ,elf9mthc.,2n7thth Dover Aug. 10
Naples* N sth 15th 25th of mo ,Dover • • lAug. 2
Papal States* .. N sth 15th25thefmoi,Dover Aug.l 2
' Peninsular.. • • .. M 7th 17th 27th of mo'Southampt.lAug. 5
Peru M 17th of the month Southampt. Aug. 5
Tuscany* N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover • • Aug. 2
West Indies .• M 17th of the month Southampt.!Aug. 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Southampt. Aug. 5

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and from California, via the United states
Ate by every American packet.

A MERCHANT VESSEL SEIZED BY THE
PASSENGERS.
The Advocate, or St. Helena Weekly News, a paper re-
cently started et St. Helena, gives an account of some
extraordinary occurrences said to have taken place on
board a vessel called the Levcnside, and which were
being investigated by the authorities of the island. The
vessel had on board Captain Vesey, of the Royal Artil-
lery, in command of a detachment of his corps, and Capt.
Neill, aide-de-camp to the expected governor, Sir Emer-
son Tennent. She arrived on the 29th of May, and it
appeared that on the 15th of that month, while at sea,
Capt. Campbell, the master, ordered the booby-hatch to
be closed. This was done, and immediately afterwards
Capt. Vesey summoned the troops under his charge to
take off the hatch in defiance of the master's order, which
was immediately carried into effect. On the 17th,
two days after this, a squabble appears to have taken
place between one of the soldiers and the ship's carpenter.
Captain Vesey insisted that the carpenter should be
punished, but Captain Campbell, the master of the vessel,
would not punish the man. This led to some sharp words
between the officers, and it is asserted that Captain Vesey
said he had a superior force on board, and should not
hesitate to use it when he thought requisite. This
language appears to have excited Captain Campbell.
At half-past eight o'clock at night, the captain ordered
the booby-hatch to be put on; but no sooner was the
order given than Captain Vesey, in charge of the troops,
said it should not be done. Captain Campbell then
pulled out a pistol, and told Captain Vesey that if he at-
tempted to interfere with him, and prevent any of the
crew obeying his orders, he would shoot him through
the heart. Upon this qualified threat being uttered,
Captain Vesey immediately called his men to fall
in round the hatchway, and ordered the bombs-
dier to go below for arms. This order was instantly
obeyed, and as soon as Captain Campbell saw the arms
being handed up the hatchway he went forward, seized
hold of one of the muskets, and 'commanded the
soldier to give it up, saying, "put that down, it does
not belong to you—it belongs to the ship." The
soldier refused, whereupon a struggle took place for
the gun, when some one called out, " seize him!"
on which several soldiers seized the captain,
threw him against a boat, wrenched the pistol
out of his hand, as well as the musket he attempted to
take from the soldier. Captain Vesey then ordered his
hands to be lashed behind his back, and it appears, at
the instigation of Captain Neill, ho was hurried into
the hold and secured to a stancheon. The next
morning he was unlashed from the stancheon, and
had strong chains fastened to his wrists by padlocks.
In this position he was kept in the hold,
twelve days and nights, with an armed sentinel
keeping watch over him. He was not allowed to com-
municate with the crew during this time, nor was he
released from his captivity, even on the arrival of
the vessel in the roads, till the police went
on board and caused him to be unchained. Im-
mediately Captain Campbell was seized and forced
into the hold, Captain Vesey commanded one of the
soldiers to turn every one belonging to the crew out of
the cabin, and take
possession of it, which was done. He
then seized the ship's papers, and the vessel was navi-
gated by the mates, by direction of Captain Vesey, and
on its arrival at St. Helena, on the 26th, he went on
ellete, and obtained a warrant against the master, ou the
assault and attempted murder. Captain Vesey's
chars©
odrf eaon for not allowing the booby-hatch to be
danger the health o weatherthe was hot, and that it would en-
closed is, that the
a thet chargega in
After four days' investigation
men, about thirteen in number.
CoaipatsasianuCltawmipthbell
intentwas
to murder. Information was then laid by
committed for trial, •
Captain Camp-
bell against Captain Vesey a the others of his passen-