The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.—
Statistics shew that 56,000 Persons annually fall vic-
tims to Pulmonary Disorders, including Consumption,
Diseases of the Chest and the Respiratory Organs. Preven-
tion is at all times better than cure ; be, therefore, prepared
during the wet and wintry season with a supply of KEAT-
ING'S COUGH LOZENGES, which possess the virtue of
averting, as well as of curing a Cough or Cold ; they are good
alike for the young or for the aged.
Prepared and sold in Boxes, is. lid., and Tins, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.,
and 10s. 6d. each, by THOMAS KEATING, Chemist, &c., 79,
St. Paul's-churchyard, London. Retail by all Druggists, dre.
IMPORTANT TO CLERGYMEN, PUBLIC SPEAKERS,

RAILWAY INTELLIGEIVVE.

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE.

The annual meeting of this company was held at
Newcastle on Tuesday, Mr. W. Woods in the chair.
The report stated that the remaining unissued
shares had been disposed of, thus closing the ordi-
nary share capital account, and the whole of the 4
per Cent.NewPreference shares were promptly taken
up, which had enabled the directors to pay the pur-
chase moneys of lands which had by agreement re-
mained at interest in the hands of the company, and
to reduce the debenture debt, which, during the
past year, had been renewed on more favourable
terms. The increase in the carriage of coke for
ironworks and other purposes had been very consi-
derable. While the North British Railway Com-
pany and the Border Counties Railway Company
were combined in resisting the amalgamation of
this company with the North-Eastern Company,
they were themselves promoting a bill for the amal-
gamation of their'two companies, through which
amalgamation the North British Company sought
to divert traffic from the line of the Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway to their own, and from the east to
the *est side of the island. The agreement with
the North-Eastern Company had proved that great
advantages to the trade of the district resulted from
a good understanding between the two companies,
and that still greater advantages would result from
the amalgamation of these two lines being carried
out. The collieries on the Newcastle and Carlisle
system had a desirable access to the Tyne Docks,
and the collieries of the North-Eastern system were
availing themselves of the facilities of shipment in
the ports on the west coast of Cumberland.
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re-
port. He gave a very favourable account of the
progress of the traffic on the line, especially in the
conveyance of minerals, during the past ten weeks.
He complained very much of the conduct of two
shareholders in taking proceedings in Chancery
against the company, to prevent their amalga-
mation with the North-Eastern Company-. He
protested against the North British, Border
Counties, and two other companies asking for
running powers over their line, which, if granted,
would virtually take the management of their rail-
way out of their own hands ; and he trusted the
shareholders would also oppose the applications to
Parliament.

Mr. P. HOWARD seconded the motion for the adop-
tion of the report, which was unanimously agreed to.
A dividend of £3 10s. per £lOO share for the half-
year ending the 31st December, payable on the 29th
inst., was declared, which, with the previous inter-
mediate payment of L 2 15s. per cent., made the
dividend for the year £6 ss. per cent., leap ing a
balance of £1,709.

The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution, authorising
the directors to oppose the bills now before Parlia-
ment promoted by the Derwent Valley Company,
the North British and Border. Counties Railway
Companies, the Silloth Dock and Railway Company,
and the Port Carlisle Company, which sought run-
ning powers over the Newcastle and Carlisle line.
The motion was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Dunn, and Mr. Woods were
re-elected directors, and also Mr. Miller, the retir-
ing auditor.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that in 1827, 1828, and
1829, they had to fight inch by inch for their bill
te make the line, at great cost, in contending against
the prejudices of the landowners,who opposed them
from one end of the line to the other. When they
first commenced the railway they were obliged to
make it a mere tramway, and upon the directors
subsequently placing a small locomotive engine upon
the line a landowner procured an injunction in
Chancery to prevent them continuing it. Things
had since been entirely altered, for landlords now
opposed new lines if they did not pass through their
estates.

The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
:o the Chairman.

GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND.

The report of the directors states that the revenue
account for the half-year ending the 31st of January
last shows that £40,280 had been received, and
£20,718 expended, including £5,468 for interest on
loans and commission, leaving a balance of £19,562.
The proposed dividend, at the rate of 4-3. per cent.
per annum on the new preference shares, at the
rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the preference
stock, and at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on
the original stock of the company, would absorb
£19,279, and leave £283. The working expenses
for the half-year amounted to 38 per cent. of the
gross receipts, as compared with 40 per cent. for the
11 months ending July last. The applications for
the 43 per cent. new shares having exceeded the
company's existing requirements, the directors
deemed it expedient to place £210,000 of those
shares. The surplus had been lent by way of tem-
porary advance to the Formartine and Buchan, the
Alford Valley, and the Aberdeen and Turriff Rail-
ways. The directors had sold at par to parties con-
nected with the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction
Railway the 40,000 shares held by the Great North
of Scotland in that company; the purchase price was
to be paid by equal instalment on Jan. 1, 1861, and
Jan. 1, 1862, with interest. The directors continued
to maintain friendly relations with neighbouring
railway companies. The promoters of a railway
from Keith to Dufftown, nine miles inland, made
application in August last for assistance in carrying
out their undertaking. Believing that the proposed
line, when completed, would beneficially affect the
traffic the directors intimated to the promoters that,
e provi'd d the sum of £25,000, being one-half the
estimated cost of the line, was subscribed in shares
interested
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Influenza, Bronchitis.—At the beginning of spring chest
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and the parts then encased n flannel. This course of treat-
ment will lessen fever, rectify incipient congestion, relieve
the oppressed lungs, and remove restlessness, hoarseness,
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attention i4l relining this advice,