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GREAT NORTHERN OF FRANCE

RAILWAY.

The annual general meeting of the shareholders of
this company took place on the 28th inst. in one of the
great rooms belonging to the Paris terminus, Baron
James de Rothschild, the president, in the chair. Near
him were seated the following directors:—The Duke de
Galliera, the Marquis Dalon, Baron N. de Rothschild,
M. Delebecque, M. E. Pereire, M. Caillard,
Hottingeur, M. Pepin-Lehalleur, M. Lebobe, M. Dassier,
CahlnollmdraMo At
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1849,
which, that document declared, were in every way cor-
rect, daaiumedrie,n lerle.taJolly
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Dreicrte,catonrds:Ll. E. Pereire read the report of the Board of
" This document commences by stating that the share-
holders assemble on this occasion for the first time since
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last
section
ri rwe the
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maining three millions will be supplied from the reserve
prescribed by the statutes. The debt to the State, which,
54,711,G67f. , was on 31st last December only 31,319,229 f.
were paid on an average on march 24; the four millions
due in 1851, up to the present time, were also paid be-
forehand, one half from May 10 to July 1 of last
year, and the other half from February 4 to March 5
presentre yeeedart.oT29h,e3ld2e,b2t2o97.,iningtetroestht einSeltuadteedis. cTohne-
in hand 6,877,916 f. in Treasury bonds, taken in s°Befoltaureednhtlas paid since 1848, 29,000,000 f., and has in addition
y
Decem-
ber last at 4 per cent. interest. As the whole sum re-
mainingcip a l
line to a
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texpendedh
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Calais,3 , IDB4u9n,kliorir,,thaendprsint:
Quentin amounted to 11.819,026 f.; and as a sum of
4,535,468 f was paid in 1850, there remains still to be paid
on Dec. 31, 1850, a sum of 7,283,557 f. The money ex-
pended in 1850 related principally to the completion of
the St. Quentin line; the definitive construction of the
stations of Calais, St. Omer, aed Douai; the enlarge-
ment, as foreseen, of a number of station's and goods'
yards; and, finally, the construction of stock. The commu•
nication of the line with the docks at Dunkirk has been
carried considerably further down the quay, and Low per-
mits goods to be transferred at once from the waggons of
the railway to the vessels ready to receive them. This
produces a considerable saving, and facilitates the deve-
lopment of the relations with England, particularly in
the exportation of flour, which is every day increasing.
The whole sum expended during the year 1850 amountzd
to 16,535,466`'. 83c. The report then proceeds to give
account of the working for the past year, and states
that the remits have been most favourable, as appears
from the following table:—
_ . _

1543. 1849. 1850.
Passengers
Goods by quick;
trains
Goode by slow
trains

15,474,214 f. 19,326,478 f. 23,694,8931'
.
In looking at the receipts of the stations it is found
that the:Jo on the frontiers have increased by far the
most—those of Quievrain are 40 per cent. higher; Dun-
kirk, 38 per cent.; Calais, 28 per cent.; and iouseron,
71 per cent., ard if a more intelligent system of
customs were estabiithed, this increase would
doubtless be own still more considerable. The ex-
pen,es have by no means augmented in proportion
to the increase in the receipts, as from being
7,386,534 f., they are only 8,837,865 f. in 1850. The aug-
mentation in the items of the central administration, di-
vision of working, and division of repairs, is only 141
per cent.; and in the division of stock and workshops, the
charges of which are in more direct connexion with the
traffic, 24 per cent. And even this latter charge has
during the past year been unusually high in consequence
of the extraordinary repairs rendered necessary in the
carriages, the state of which had suffered more than or-
dinarily from the perturbation caused in the workshops
in consequence of the revolution of February. This
item during the present and ensuing years will return to
its general level, the stock now being in the most peLz
fect state of repair. The receipts of the working, de*
duetion made of taxes on passengers, indemnities,
money paid back, &c., amount t 0... 22,670,411 f. 46c.
And the expases to ... 8,858,124 21

Leaving a balance of ... 13,816,217 f. 21c.
This balance has been expended as follows:
Sinking fund 2,451,695 f. 56c.
Interest on the money due to tho

2,062,343 85

State ... •
Interest at 4 per cent. on tho
sums paid by the share-
holders ... 6,400,000 f. '
6,086,503 48
Deduct interest on money in-

vested and on delain in
paying calls 313,496 f. 52c. j
Dividend for 1850 ... 3,200,000 0
Sum remaining over fur 1850 ... 15,741 32

13,816,287 f. 21c.
There was paid to the shareholders on July 1, 1350,
and Jan. 1, 1851, as interest at 4 per cent. for the year,
1850 ••• ••• •••
16f. per share.
••• ..•
The dividend will amount to 8 /I

Giving for each share for 1850 ... 24
The dividend of Bf. will be paid at the same time as the
interest of the first half-year of 1851, which will raise
the sum to be received on the Ist of July
next to 16f. per share. The report then briefly
touches on the law-suit at present pending between
the Northern Company and that of Boulogne, and
declares that the suit :s not yet terminated, but that
the Northern Company awaits the result with confi-
dence. The establishment of the electric telegraph on
the line is then alluded to, and is spoken of as highly
advantageous to the service in simplifying all the details
of the working. The plan of receiving shares in depot
for the shareholders had been found to answer perfectly.
The Northern Company had purchased, in conjunction
with that of Strasburg, nine hectares of land situated be-
tween the Paris termini of the two lines. The two com-
panies addressed, on October 25th, 1350, to the Minister
of Public Works an application for permission to
establish a junction line between the two main
lines. The application was referred to a com-
mission, and no definitive answer has yet been
given to the demand made; all that the Northern
and Strasburg companies wanted was a ready means of
communication between their lines, which they:were quite
willing to effect at their own expense, and the cost of
which would exceed from 60,000 F. to 80,000 f. The es-
tablishment of such a line was altogether independent of
a general junction line, and would it executed save both
companies very considerable expense. In the last place
the report alludeste the improvements lately established in
the commuuications with England and Germany. The
traveller can now leave Paris at half-past seven in the
evening, and arrive in London at a quarter to eight the
next morning, and can go over the whole distance from
Paris to Edinburgh, 1,211 kilometres, or 757 English
miles, in less than 26 hours. Also, from the let of May
such additional rapidity was to be imparted to the
Berlinsef-
vice to Germany, that the journey from Paris to
would be effected in 35 hours, and from Paris to Co..
logne in 17i hours. Likewise, by Calais from Berlin to
London, in 40 hours, and from Cologne to London in
22i hours.
After the reading of the report, the conclusions of the
report of the committee on the accounts of 1849 were
approved of, and the accounts declared to be definitively
passed.
The accounts presented for 1850 were then provision-
ally approved of, as was the dividend of Bt. per share
proposed; and the same committee was appointed to ex-
amine them as had examined those of 1849.
The outgoing directors, MM. Ilottinguer, Caillard,
Dastier, F. Baring, and Dalon, were re-elected unani-
mously.
The CueinetaN, in answer to a question asked rela-
tive to the payment of the dividend, stated that any
shareholder could be at once paid the amount coming to
him, at a discount of 4 per cent., the rate of interest at
which the Treasury bonds were held by the company
being 4 per cent.—(Marks of satisfaction greeted this
announcement.)
The meeting then separated.

.KIN G'S COLLEGE.
Yesterday the annual meeting of the council of this
institution took place, at the College, Strand; the Bishop
of Lichfield in the chair.
The Right Rev. Prelate having briefly opened the
proceedings, the report for the past year was read. From
this it appeared, that of matriculated students there
were in the theological department and preparatory
(Awls, 54 ; general literature and science, 111; applied
science, 39; military sciences, 11; medical department,
196; the total, 411. Of occasional students the re
.swere,
in the medical department, 27; vatious other cltssty
67; total, 94. In the school there were, it *pea e"'
in the division of classics, 321; of modern insane-
college,
tion, 128; total 449; grand total, for school and
954. lir. J. J. btutzer, the lecturer on. English .
his-
tory and literature, had, with, of elm u•
founded a scholarship of 301., for tilii.e p
for whichP scholar_
the requurtroesed sanction,
raging the studies which he direct
ship, open to all the students cf t
would take
gene-
ral literature and science, the first 1
e election would
of
In
allu-
sion inadequay of Its the
report at Eater. As regarded then bospitl, the
report strongly urged theds
commodation to the demands
the studnts were upon ce
to the medical department,hmselvs at the Universities to
to have distinguished t
;ande as to the finances, it was
which they had passed
• s for the current year were
stated that the
expenditure,receip
41,023/. It further appeared,
41,3271,; the
I upon the table, that the gross ex-
by the accountsto the 31st December, for building, fitting.
penditqe, up .
eluding 4,0001. etill due to the hospi-
' tarnishing,. 84c., in

0 165
.58.!. From strsfes th4,re had ti .en
the othor nand, 61,356/., fltinations, 65,502/.,
ayizg a sum of 31,7251. stiii chargeable upon inc:Aue,
rfne report containing these particulars having been
adopted, and testimony borne to the excellence of the
inaltuticn NS Lich it dcle.:ibvd, too distribution of prizes
and certificates of honcur for the medical department
commenced. At this ceremony the Bishop of London
presided. After a brief but appropriate address from his
Lordship, the names of the successful candidates were
announced ns fo/iov.s:—
SCHOLARsHIPS AND PRIZES—EASTER, 1851.
S:nior Scholar—S. B. Partridge.
Sec:lnd Year Scholar—A. Pique.
Ju.tior Scholar—E. Dawson; E. W. Alexander and
W. J. Palmer, mq.
Divinity—Prizes: 4th year, E. A. H. Head; 3d year,
W. E. Maslen; 2d year, E. J. Lock; Ist year, E. M. it.
Rendie.

1, amounte,
!ceived, 0'

Warneford Endowment—lst prize, S. B. Partridge;
2d prize, E. A. H. Head; extra, J. K. Spender.
Leathe's Endowment-Ist priz-, F. N. Macnamara;
2d prize, T. Macknight.
Anatomy—Prize: F. N. Macnamara. Certificates of
Honour: H. B. Franklin, W. Langford, 2d year; G. K.
Curme, G. Skrimshire, R. B. Searle, Ist year.
Physiology—Prize: F. N. Macnamara. Certifidates
of Honour: A. Playne, T. H. Cheatle, W. Langford, J.
11. Drew, 2d year; G. Skrimshire, G. K. Curme, W.
Pearl, 11. B. Searle, eq., Ist year.
Chemistry—Prize: H. W. Lewer. 'Certificates of
Honour: W. Langford, C. J. Jackson, W. Pearl, G. K.
Curme, G. Skrimshire.
Chemical Manipulations—Prize: F. N. Ilacnamara.
Certificates of Honour: H. W. Lewer, W. E. Masten.
Materia A. D. Smith. Certificates of
Honour: H. W. Lewer, J. a. Sylvester.
Surgery—Prize : A. M. Edwards. Certificates of
Honour: F. W. Headland, J. H. Sylvester.
medicine—Prize: E. Liddon. Certificates of Honour:
W. E. Masfeu, J. H. Sylvester, F. W. Headland, W.
Hoar.
Midwifery—Prize: T. H. Cheatle. Certificates of
Honour: R. Wilkinson, J. 11. Sylvester, S. P. Partridge,
G. Lawson.
Botany—Prize: A. Playne. Certificate of Honour:
R. Wilkinson.
: E. A. H. Head. cercifia.
Forensic Medicine—Prize
cates of Honour: S. B. Partridge, M. L.
. Burrows.
.
Comparative Anatomy—Prize:. E.
Medical Clinical (Winter)—Prize: E. Liddon Cer-
tificate of Honour: J. H. Sylvester.
Ditto (Summer)—Prize: J. C. Dickenson.
Surgical Clinical (Winter)—Prize: A. M. Edwards.
Certificates of Honour: E. D'A. Evezard, C. Lee.
Ditto (Summer)—Prize—J. C. Dickenson. Certifi-
cate of Honour—J. B. Cockburn.
Medical Society's Prize—J. K. Spender.
The report of Professor Guy, the dean, on the state of
this department, was highly satisfactory. The numbers
had increased, the discipline was unrelaxed, the system
had worked well. On the subject of the hospital, the
Learned Professor spoke at length, and adduced the
most convincing statistics to prove the inefficiency of
the present building, and the necessity of immediately
erecting one more capacious to supply its place. He re-
ferred, also, to the distinctions won at other universities
by quondam pupils of King's College, and whilst
praistrg the present generation, urged them to emulate
their predecessors' industry and worth.
Dr. Jelf, and others, next addressed the meeting, and
the prizes having been distributed, thanks were vot ed to
the chairman, and the company dispersed.