The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-27 00:00:00

LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX
JUNCTION.

The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday at
Bradford, Mr. E. Akroyd in the chair.
The report stated that £14,814 was the amount
to the credit of revenue, which enabled the direc-
tors to declare a dividend of 21 per cent. for
the last six months, leaving £527. The divi-
dend was a quarter per cent. less, and the amount,
of capital £45,000 more than at the correspond-
ing half of 1858. The total expenditure on capital
account amounted to £589,946.
The report was adopted, a dividend at the rate of
44 per cent. per annum was declared for the past
half-year, payable on the 6th of March, and the
retiring directors and auditors were re-elected.

EASTERN COUNTIES.
It appears that on the question of re-electing the
retiring directors, and of electing two new directors
and one auditor, the result of the proxies showed
that £2.950,000 stock, representing 47,800 votes,
were recorded in favour of the re-election of Mr.
Love and Mr. Goodson, and £760,000 stock and
16,300 votes in favour of the election of Mr. D.
Waddington and Mr. Gamble to the board, and also
in favour of the election of Mr. Walford as auditor,
showing a majority of £2,190,000 stock and 31,500
votes in favour of the re-election of Messrs. Love
and Goodson.

LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOU MEND.
The report states that the receipts for the half-
year ending the 31st of December amounted to
£33,283, and the expenditure to £17,266, leaving
a balance of £16,016. Considerable progses for ress bad
been made in the erection of the hou the
new town at Southend. The capital account showed
that £592,816 had been expended on the Southend
line, and £201,288 on the Barking branch—
£794,104.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
The report of the directors states that the gua-
rantee secured to this company by her Majesty's
Government has been found insuffieient for the pur-
pose of raising the amount necessary for the prose-
cution of this enterprise. The directors had hoped
that, is the absence of better terms, a fixed mini-
mum revenue of £34,000 a-year, added to a condi-
tional guarantee of 8 per cent. upon the new capi-
tal, might suffice for that object, especially
so large, to
main difficulties of the undertaking were,as the
an extent, removed by the successful submergence

and the working of the Atlantic cable (baring_ ekth
month of Augustin 18,58. In this hope, how-4r)Wely- -)A.P174,R
Lave been disappoir led. The absence in
piikpoi
meat terms of any provisi in against a t,.)litzi'eti
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lute loss of tie in overly of the sh:.r,h 14011.11,
of failure, and the continuance of the it. rhatiti
income during the working of the ca e, - (t!
R oved hitherto insuperable obstacle?, tkst - - L
ing sufficient subscriptions, hotwithstENZitie,
great exertions that have been made for tAi •
pose by the directors and officers of the company.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow were succes-
sively visited by the chairman, who explained to
large meetings of shareholders and others the posi-
tion and expectations of the company, and an active
canvass was afterwards maintained in two of these
places, and to some extent in London, but the total
result in subscriptions only amounts to £72,000.
The directors propose to keep the company in
existence, and to raise £20,000 for the purpose of
restoring the cable to working arder, or to recover
as much of it as possible. The directors trust that
the enterprise will not be suffered to expire for
want of such additional help us may be neeetsary.
The capital account showed that £466,685 hid
been expended.

RECEPTION OF THE 78th HIGH-
LANDERS IN EDINBURGH.

This celebrated regiment having been ordered to
move from Fort George (Inverness-shire) to Edin-
burgh, a party of about 180 men, under
Lieut.-Col.
Lockhart, arrived in the beginning of last week and
took up their quarters in Edinburgh Castle, vacated
by the West York Rifles, who are now distributed
in Paisley, Avr, and other towns. The main body
of the regiment, under Colonel Ewart, left Fort
George at' 2 o'clock on Friday morning, and, tra-
velling by railway, reached Edinburgh about half-
, past sin the afternoon. The expectation of their
coming had deeply stirred the hearts of the inhabi-
tants, and arrangements were made to give them
the warmest welcome. The city bells were rung as
the signal that the regiment was expected in an
hour, and the Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, the Mid-
lothian Coast Artillery, and the j,eit h turned
out to line the way for the -gallant Highlanders,
and to give them a military salutation. All the way
from the railway station at Waverley-bridge to the
Castle (via Princes-street and Mound) there was an
immense concourse of people of all classes in the
streets, the windows and other favourable points of
view being also crowded. The darkness was rapidly
falling by the time the train conveying the regiment
reached the station. At the platform two bands—.
those of the County Militia and the Coast Volun-
taers—had taken up their places to play the
" Conquering Hero" and other appropriate tunes.
The Lord Provost was. present, and shook hands
with the Colonel, giving him welcome and con-
gratulation. When the regiment left the station
they were at once involved in a tremendous and
eager crowd, who sent up ringing cheers, while
hats and handkerchiefs were enthusiastically waved
from the windows commanding the scene. The
Volunteers were scarcely able to stem the multitude,
and their line not being very continuous the gal-
lant Highlanders had actually to push and
elbow their way through at many points. At length
the protecting lines of the Volunteers ceased
altogether, and the soldiers, fatigued with their
journey, could with difficulty make their way up
to the Castle, owing to the pressure. The band of
the regiment was quite unable to continue the
strains of " Auld Langsyne," with which they had
hitherto responded to the public welcome, and the
" big drummer" had for some distance to hold his
sonorous instrument in silence above his head till
some of the ready throng gave their aid to drag it
along. Even the ranks of the column were some-
what broken, and the gallant Highlanders could
not in some cases prevent their being relieved of
their rifles by tlicue who desired to do them the

service of carrying thcm,while many of them found
old and new friends in the crowd who eagerly
sought to bear them company. It was not till
half-past six o'clock, it being now quite dark, that
the regiment reached the Castle into which they
were followed by the last echoes of the loud huzzas
that had accompanied their whole progress. It is
just 20 years since the 78th were last quartered in
Edinburgh Castle, and it was shortly after they
left Edinburgh that they were sent out to India,
whence they have now returned covered with so
much glory.

THE GREAT TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS
:AT ST. HELENS, LANCASHIRE.

ST. HELENS, FEB. 25.
The strike of the colliers employed at the mince
in this district is assuming a very formidable cha-
racter, and, from what has transpired within the
last day or two, there is too much reason to
fear that it is extending. Up to yesterday the
number out on strike wag estimated at about
3,000 ; and last night we learn that this number
was increased by between 250 and 300 men more,
who, in a body, left the Ciopper's Hill Colliery, in
which they had been working. We understand
that the proprietors of the mine refused to give
them the advance they demanded, and hence the
strike. The expressed determination of the turn-
outs continues to be that they will not yield until
they obtain an advance of 10 per cent. on their
present wages, arguing that, inasmuch as the
masters have raised the price of coal, they are en-
titled to a proportionate advance. Duiing the last
few days the turn-outs in large numbers have
paraded the town of St. Helens and the surrounding
distrirbe, and held open-air meetings. We learn that
at one of these meetings held at Haydock, near
St. Helens, yesterday, the men were addressed by
several delegates, who harangued them strongly in
favour of "sticking out," and communicated the
significant intelligence that they had every reason
' to believe that the great bulk of the colliers in the
Wigan district were also about to strike.
Some hundreds of the county constabulary,
drafted from the Liverpool, Manchester, and other
districts, have been stationed in the neighbourhood
of the mines during the past week, to be ready to
act in case of an outbreak, which was expected, the

turn-outs having threatened intimidation to the few
hands remaining at work. So far there has been
no breach of the peace, but it his been found neces-
sary to escort the " knobstieks" to
and from the
mines, in order to prevent their being interfered
with by the turn-outs.
The greatest possible excitement prevails amongst
the manufacturers and inhabitants of St. Helens
and the neighbourhood, for it is now feared that
the supply of coal for manufacturing purposes is
almost exhausted. The St. Helens Railway Com-
pany have offered to run a special train to the
Springs' Branch Colliery, near Wigan, in order to
convey coals to St. Helens, to meet the deficiency
there; but it is said that the Wigan colliers will
strike next week, and, if so, the effect upon trade
in the neighbourhood of St. Helens will be most
disastrous, as several works are n'w unable to go
on for want of coal ; and it is confidently believed
that, should the strike continue even only for
another week, it will be necessary to import coals
into St. Helens for home consumption, as the stocks
at the various mines have been reduced very low
indeud.

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