The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1860,

better. This was a fittitig place for him to remark
that there (pointing to Mr. Roebuck) was the first
man who suggested to him that the packet station
would never be right till the company's offices
were on the quays of Galway; and he had a letter
from J. 0. Lever to the same effect, besides several
from Sir H. Fleetwood, who observed that a man
should not live in London having his shop in Galway.
(Applause.) These were all Englishmen. He now
felt he was justified in declaring that the worst
feature in the company was an Irishman—he would
not mention his name, but they could read over the
list of directors and would readily find him out.
He hoped when next the shareholders would elect
their representatives at the board they would, re-
gardless of creed or country, select honest men, and
when they were found such they should respect
them as they did Mr. Roebuck. (Great cheers.)
He was delighted to perceive by the present demon-
stration their appreciation of public and trustworthy
men. It showed that they were not led. astray by
the slanders of interested parties. (Cries of "No,"
and applause.) Father Daly then returned thanks
for the expression of feeling they had manifested.
Mr. LEVER also thanked Father Daly and the
meeting, and begged to be excused any lengthened
remarks till he should have the pleasure of address-
ing them in a few days on another occasion. (Loud
and enthusiastic cheering.)
Mr. O'GRADY begged leave to have the honour
of saying a few words. (Hear, hear.) He had
only to mention that the body whom he repre-
sented, the journeymen tailors, had just added to
their list of freemen fourteen of the trade—new
supports for Mr. Lever—and they would do every-
thing in their power to secure at the next election
his unopposed return. (Great applause.)
Father DALY remarked that this was the most
effectual proof that the people of Galway were not
deceived in their estimation of Mr. Lever.
The meeting then separated, cheering loudly for
Father Daly, Lever, and Roebuck.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH EASTERN.

The report of the directors to be presented at the
half-yearly meeting on Thursday next states that
the revenue of the company for the half-year
ending the 31st of July last exhibits an increase of
38,5311 15s 2d ; the gross receipts for that period
having been 563,450/ 14s 2d, as compared with
524,9181 19s in the corresponding six months of
1859. The statement of expenditure on revenue
account shows that the ordinary expenses during
the half-year amounted to 213,024/ 17s 5d ; the
rates, taxes, tolls, and Government duty to 33,642/
2s 3d ; and the working of the steam-packet service
to 16,0201 19s 11d. After providing for the fixed
charges in respect of rents, interest, annuities, pre-
ference dividends, &c., there remains a net balance
of 175,827/ lls available for dividend on the or-
dinary consolidated stock of the company. A
dividend of 14s per 301 stock, or at the rate of 41
13s 4d per cent. per annum, will ab -orb a sum of
173,453/, leaving a •balance to be carried forward
of 2,3741 lls, and this rate of dividend the
directors recommend to be paid on Thurs-
day, the 6th day of September next.
The receipts and expenditure for the half-
year, and their results as compared with
the corresponding period of 1859, are as follows :-
Receipts-Passenger traffic, including mails, par-
cels, &c., 403,0121 8s 10d ; increase, 22,92115 s 3d.
Merchandise traffic, including minerals and cattle,
125,596/ 5s sd; increase, 15,384/ 12s 3d. Steam-
boats, 24,000/ 8s 3d; increase, 1,0741 Os 10d.
Rents, &c., 10,8351 lls 8d; decrease, 8121 9s 2d.
Gross receipts, 563,450/ 14s 2d ; increase, 38,531/
15s 2d. Working expenses and other deductions
(see expenditure), 270,785/ 12s 9d ; increase,
19,984/ 17s. Net receipts for the half-year, 292,665/
is sd; increase, 18,5461 18s 2d. Expenditure-
On locomotive power, 57,487/ 12s ; increase, 2,978/
7s 10d; on carriage and waggon repairs, 19,805/
14s lld ; decrease, 398/ 15s 9d ; on way and works,
51,130/ 16s 3d ; increase, 12,727/ is ; on steamboats,
16,020/ 19s lld ; increase, 1,661/ 8s 2d • on pas-
senger and merchandise expenses, 66,959/ 8s sd;
increase, 3,416/ 6s 7d. On general charges (in-
cluding Parliamentary), 20,204/ lls 4d; increase,
642/ 3s 2d. On compensation, &c., 5,524/ 7s 8d ;
decrease, 1,668/ Oa 3d. On Government duty,
17,7301 13s 8d; increase, 992/ is 2d. On rates,
taxes, and tolls, 19,911/ 8s 7d; decrease, 365/ 14s
11d. Total-270,785/ 12s 9d ; net increase, 19,984/
17s. There has been an increase in all descriptions
of passenger traffic during the half-year. The in-
crease in the passengers has been 418,990, and in
the receipts 24,862/, showing that the prosperovs
state of the undertaking continues to be mainly
attributable to the development of the local traffic
for short distances. At the same time the receipts
for through continental passenger traffic have been
fully maintained, the company's steam packets hav-
ing performed the services from port to port with
. their accustomed regularity. There has also been
an increase in the receipts for parcels and
for mails, the former being partly attri•
butable to the increased intercourse between
France and England arising from the commer-
cial treaty recent'y established; and the latter to the
accelerated service of mail trains required by the
Post-office. The directors quote a passage from the
last report of the Postmaster-General, as to the
efficient manner in which this service is performed.
There are now four two-hour mail trans, two each
way, running between London and Dover daily,
excepting Sundays ; end the service continues to
be satisfactorily performed. The only considerable
item of decrease in the receipts for the half-year
has been in the amount received for the convey-
ance of bullion between England and the continent,
this description of traffic being of an exceptional
character, and entirely governed by the state of the
money market. The merchandise, coal, and cattle
traffic of tie railway continues to make satisfactory
progress as compared with the corresponding
periods of the two previous years. The principal
increase has been in general or local merchandise
traffic; but there has also been an increase in the
continental merchandise, which the directors trust
may exhibit a still further improvement in future
years under the operation of the commercial treaty.
There has been an increase of 2,579/ 12s ld in the
charge for locomotive power and maintenance of
rolling stock, arising principally from the addi-
tional number of miles (169,308) run during the
half-year, in order to give proper accommodation to
the above increase of traffic. The rolling stock has
meanwhile been fully maintained ; the older car-
riages have been gradually replaced by vehicles of
a better description, and the whole passenger-car-
rying stock of the company has been considerably
improved in character during the last few years.
There has been an increase of 12,727/ is in the
charge against revenue for repair 3 and renewal of
the road and works. Twenty-one miles of single
line have been relaid with new materials; extensive
repairs have been carried out at various stations;
timber structures have been re-built where necessary
with permanent materials, and the condition of the
way and works has thus been materially improved.
The
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by the sale of surplus lands. The principal items
of expenditure have been on account of the new hop
and grain warehouses in course of erection at the
Bricklayers' Arms, additions to Canterbury Station,
new carriages and waggons (39,0351 19s 9d), and
calls paid on account of the Charing cross Railway
(60,000/). The expenditure on these several ac-
counts has already received the sanction of the pro-
prietors. To provide for the proper accommodation
of the increasing traffic the directors have to re-
quest the sanction of the proprietors to the follow-
ing further expenditure on capital account :-Ad-
ditions to Merstham, Higham, Dorking, Woking-
ham, St. Leonards, Hythe, and other stations,
5,000/; additions to Dartford station, 1,562/; ap-
proaches to Strood station, 1,446/; goods shed at
North Camp, Aldershot, &c., 2,0001; Wellington
College station, 1,5001; Reading station, 3,000/;
new sidings for carriages at Bricklayers' Arms sta-
tion, 2,000/; tools for locomotive workshops at
Ashford, 915/; 50 coal waggons for locomotive de-
partment, 4,0001; 15 brake vans, 2,400/. The di-
rectors have had under their further consideration
the subject of the extension to Charing-cross, the
early construction of which as a line valuable for
local purposes, as well as for the completion of a
through route between the South Eastern districts
and the North and West of England, is alike called
for by the requirements of the public and necessary
for protecting the interests of the company. With
regard to the working agreement with.the Charing-
cross company, the directors have thought it right
to take no further steps until the determination of
Parliament with regard to schemes promoted by
other companies should be ascertained. The sanc-
tioning of the extension of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway to Farringdon-street appears,
to the directors to render it necessary that some
further support should be given by this company to
the Charing-cross Company, with a view of
enabling that company to complete their railway
and terminus at the earliest possible period. Ap-
plications have been received from the Charing•
cross board with reference to the capital of the
undertaking remaining unsubseribed, and the op-
portunity thus occuru of increasing this company's
interest in that concern. Under these circum-
stances, the directors recommend that they be
authorised to subscribe a further sum towards the
construction of the Charing-cross Railway, applying
to Parliament, if necessary, for the re visite powers
to give effect to such subscription, and that, in the
meantime, they be empowered to adopt all such
steps as may be expedient to carry forward the
works to completion at the earliest practicable
period. The directors have had under their consi-

deration the most secure method of transmitting
the half-yearly dividends to the proprietors ; and
have resolved, for the future, to issue all dividend
warrants crossed except in those cases in which the
proprietors may request the secretary, by letter, to
issue them uncrossed at their own risk; and such
practice will accordingly be adopted from this date.

AN ITALIAN LAST WILL AND TESTA-
MENT.

The Italian papers speak of the sensation which
has been lately prod aced in the law courts of Padua
by the public reading of the last will and testament
of Vincenzo Calzavara Piston. The announcement
of its anti-Austrian provisions called forth the un-
restrained applause of those present in the court
during the reading. The Austrian judge, Presi-
dent Healer, Procureur-General Hemmerle, and
Councillors Pretz and Colle, were in great wrath at
the popular demonstration, and Hemmerle could
not refrain from muttering, " Only to think that
the fellow can't be arrested !"

" TESTAMENT.

" Pianiga, 10th July, 1859.
" In the name of the omnipotent, best, and
greatest God,

" Feeling that the illness which for two years has
afflicted me is daily getting wore, and that my
end is in consequence drawing nigh : feeling that,
by God's mercy, I am still sound of mind, and
thoroughly conscious of all my actions, I hereby
make the present testamentary dispositions.
" Although I have ro apprehension that my be-
loved children will ever abandon their excellent
parent—the best of mothel -, and though I know
they will all share, undivided, their small paternal_
inheritance, nevertheless, to provide for every pos-
sible eventuality, I declare that I leave, and do
hereby leave, the half of my poor property—viz.,
the disposable part—to my dear and affectionate
w;fe for the term of her natural life ; and that, after
her death, the said part shall be divided in equal
portions amongst my three beloved male sons, whilst
I bequeath a legacy of 200 lire to each of my be-
loved daughters.

" I declare and make known that if any of my
sons, either directly or indirectly, shall serve under
the Austrian flag, he is to be disinherited and to
forfeit the sum which he would have received after
the death of his mother, which sum, in teat event,
shall. be paid over, one half to the poor of the parish
of Pianiga, the other half to the Ministry of War
of his Majesty the King of Piedmont. Victor Em-
manuel and his successors, to be distributed to the
young men of the province of Venice who shall
serve under the adored standard of the King of
Piedmont. Rather than serve Austria they ought
to be ready to die.
"In like manner, I declare any one of my sons to
have forfeited his succession in the portion afore-
said, who shall accept any office whatever under
Austria, or who shall become connected with, or
contract matrimony with, any Austrian woman.
In that case, I equally declare that the portion be-
longing to any of my sons guilty of such an offence
be disposed of in the same manner as by the pre-
ceding article.
" I forbid my fondly beloved daughters from
giving their hand in marriage to an Austrian.
They should prefer death rather than such a deed
—the most iniquitous and shameful of which an
Italian woman can be guilty.
" I impress upon my sons, and I impose it upon
them as a duty, to be always ready to shed their
blood for the independence of Italy—of this blessed
and unhappy Italy which I so much loved. Let
them recollect that the blood which flows in their
veins is not only their own blood, but the posses-
sion of their country. Their arms and their minds
must be exerted in behalf of their country, and
against the oppressors who keep it down beneath
an iron yoke. Accursed the Italian who is not
ready to die for the independence of his country!
I bequeath also to my children the following truths,
which they must always keep in mind, and again
impress on their own children

‘-‘ Man is nothing. The omnipotent God alone is
everything. The Chrislian religion is the sole true
and divine one. It springs from infallible and ad-
mirable principles. The true Christian alone can
p:ss his days, if not in happiness, at least in tran-
quillity, during his brief pilgrimage on the earth.
The life of man is an arrow, shot from a bow—so
quickly it passes away. Wealth is nothing to him
who is its owner. Unhappy the man who thinks
only of it. Wealth is equally a chimera. In order
to secure wealth and greatness, man does not shrink
from stooping to the commission of the most
execrable deeds. When he has secured wealth and
greatness, he is more unhappy than before. To live
honestly in that state in which Providence has
placed us, to make use of the talents with which
we have been endowed, to act for our own good,
for that of our brethren, for that of our country—
such is the programme of life of every good citizen,
and such, my dear children, should be yours." &c.