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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRIGHTONTAND SOUTH COAST.

The adjourned special meeting of this company
was held yesterday at the International Hotel, Lon-
don-bridge, to receive the result of the poll demanded
at the meeting on Friday in respect of an amend-
ment on the resolution approving the agreement for
amalgamation with the South-Eastern Company,
and also in respect of the resolution—Sir C. Jack-
son in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said he took the chair in conse-
quence of the absence of Mr. Laing, who was de-
tained by the Duke of Richmond, the President of
the Board of Trade, on the business of the company.
As the poll had been taken up to 12 o'clock it would
require about a quarter of an hour to complete the

figures.
On the completion of the poll it was announced by
one of the scrutineers that there werefor the amend-
ment persons present holding £170,159 stock, re-
presenting 2,880 rotes, and proxies holding £3,210
stock and 108 votes, making for the amendment
£173,369 stock and 2,988 votes. There were against
the amendment persons present holding £190,113
stock and 3,702 votes ; and the proxies represented
£1,763,930 stock and 43,954 votes, making toge-
ther £1,954,043 stock and 52,256 votes against the
amendment, showing a majority of £1,780,674
stock and 49,268 votes.

For the resolution approving the agreement with
the South-Eastern for the amalgamation of the two
companies there were persons present holding
£183,430 stock and 3,555 votes, and proxies of
persons holding £1,763,930 stock and 48,954 votes,
making together £1,947,360 stock and 52,509 votes;
and there were against the resolution persons and
proxies representing£lls,3o9 stock and 1,956 votes,
showing a majority of £1,832,051 stock and 50,553
votes in favour of the agreement, and for authoris-
ing the directors to affix the seal of the company
thereto.

Mr. ADAMS remarked there was only a majority,
of 119,954 stock and 922 votes against, the anhepd-
ment of persons who were present at the meeting on
Friday. He complained that Mr. Laing, the chair-
man of the company, had taken the poll on the re-
solution as well as on the amendment, which pre-
cluded any one from moving another amendment on
the question, which he contended was a very unfair
proceeding.
The CHAIRMAN said he had no doubt that Mr. Laing
was fully qualified to defend himself ; the present
meeting was for the declaration of the poll, and itwas
evident the resolution was carried by a very large
majority. He then declared the proceedings of the
special meeting terminated.
The dissentient shareholders who remained in the
room then requested Mr. Adams to take the chair,
who at once contended that it was a most unfair
agreement for the Brighton Company, that the
shareholders ought to oppose it, and that instead of
the division of net traffic being 45 per cent. for the
Brighton and 55 per cent. for the South-Eastern, he
made it out from the figures that in 1872 the pro-
portion ought to be 52 per cent for the Brighton and
48 per cent. fcr the South-Eastern, because the
London, Chatham, and Dover would then take half
the continental traffic. He based his calculation on
an increase of 5 per cent. per annum in the traffic of
the Brighton,
and of 3 per cent. per annum in the
traffic of the South-Eastern.

Mr. J. SCOTT said he held £lO,OOO stock in the
Brighton Company. He believed no notice had
been taken in making up the calculations for agree-
ment that the fares on the South-Eastern Railway
had been raised some time ago, which made a differ-
ence in the receipts on that line, and that the
Brighton tolls were now about 30 per cent. below
those charged on the South-Eastern. All he wanted
was to see an amalgamation on equitable terms, and
then ho would give it his hearty support.

Mr. GOEZ, a member of the late committee of in-
vestigation, said he had gone most carefully into the
published figures of the Brighton and South-Eastern
Companies, and had come to the conclusion that the
Brighton Company ought to have 4G per cent. of the
net receipts of the old lines, and the South-Eastern
51 per cent., which would give £12,400 per annum
more than the agreement to the Brighton Company.
Ile agreed with Mr. Adams that the agreement re-
quired further consideration and adjustment.

Mr. C. CHILD contended that the future of the
Brighton Company was full of hope. They had
several watering places on the south coast to them-
selves, while the South Eastern had only Dover,
which they had to share with the Chatham and
Dover Company. The latter company would also
share in the large traffic of the North Kent line
when the Greenwich and Woolwich new extensions
were complete.
On the motion of a SHAREHOLDER, a resolution
was unanimously carriel to the effect that no action
should be taken on the proposed agreement with
the South-Eastern Railway until it received the
sanction of Parliament.

Mr. ADAMS said it was of no use to pass resolu-
tions unless the dissentient shareholders at once
formed a committee and subscribed funds to pro-
tect their interests.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LONDON, July IG.--Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; strong breczo and cloudy weather, with rain in
the morning.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, July 15.—Pandora, Sir John Lawrence, and
Ganges—all from Calcutta ; William Cory, steamer, from
Odessa ; Ellen, from Barbadoes ; Cabalva, from New York ;
Horatio, from Grenada; Necker, from Quebec; Sarah
Burnyeat, from Montevideo; Charlotte Geddie, from
Picton ; Sarah Maria Ann and Secret, from Guernsey;
Lightning, from Nassau ; Seaforth, from Cronstadt ;
Cruiser, from Mauritius ; Two Sisters, from St. Malo.
Arrived, July IG—Metropolitan, steamer, from Ham-
burg; Verona, steamer, from Archangel; Rhine, steamer,
from Boulogne; Battalion, steamer, from Dantsic.
Sailed, July 15—Orion, for Montevideo; Palmerston,
for Colombo.

Sailed, July 16 - Thetis, steamer, for Lisbon.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed, July 15.—Mignionette, from Trinidad, for Lon-
don.
Passed, July 16.—Shakspeare, from Foo-cho -Poo ;
America, from Capo of Good Napo; Carioca, from Japan ;
Rosa Bonheur, from tke West; E. A. Sonder, bark, from
the West; 11. M. W. M. Commercial Code, from the West;
Devon, from St. Lucia—all for London ; Gerolaino, bark,
from Odessa, for the North.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton—a... July 20.
Ditto, via Marseillets ............. .... ..... 5.
July 14.
Ditto, via Panama ......... .. ••• An'
...........
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .
.. ... . Jul y-7
.. . ..
Ditto, by Frenoh paoket .......... .. ....
Cape Verde. by Brazil paouet ...... Aug. 5.
Ditto,
Cape of Good Hope. Aseenaion. and St. Ltelena July 28,
China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—July 20
via Mannino ........... .. ........ . ,July 11.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton t0n....... •••
July 13.
India, via Soutnsutpton ...... . ......... • July 20.
Ditto, via Mars ell ea ...................... July 22.
Malta, Elgypt, dvo. .. ......... ....... July 13.
Ditto, Marseilles.. July 14.
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Southampton . ................................. „July 20.
Ditto, via MarsePles
Newfoundland .....
• caitiotaLraistbao. Lisbon
rortugal ..........................
Ditto, by private ship to Oporto
by BrltialtJuly H.
July 17.
Aug. 5.
Ditto ditto
United States, Canada,
packet
Ditto, by United States packet July 17.
Ditto ditto (New York i
Ditto ditto (New York)
Ditto ditto (Baltimore)
Ditto, by Canadian packet
West Coast July 12.
of Africa. Madeira, and Tene
Wert In . ales and Pacific ,ex riffd•
• • • • 'July
17.
Baha-
mas)
Cub t and .i.exicoJuly 5.
Bahamas, via New York
Julyls.
Bermuda, via ditto
July 31.

THE MAYORALTY OF BIRMINGHAM.—Yesterday
Mr. Thomas Avery was elected Mayor of Birmingham.
Tho vacancy in tho chief magistracy of this borough was
caused by tho resignation of Mr. Dixon, that he might
become a candidate for the parliamentary representation.
The political sentiments of the new mayor are moderate
Conservatism, and, with the exception of the late Sir John
Ratcliff, ho is tho only man of that creed who has ever
filled the office of Mayor of the town.
SCOTLAND AND THE REVISED CODE.—The period
within which annual grants may be paid to elementary
schools in Scotland according to tho Code of 1860 is ex-
tended for another year—viz., to 30th of June, 1869, in
order to allow time for measures to be taken upon the
, report of the Commissionary on Schools in Scotland,