The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

In Lord Redesdale's committee, House of Lords,
yesterday, the following bills were passed :—The
Buckley and Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay ;
the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay (addi-
tional powers) ; the Carmarthen and Cardigan ;
and the Caledonian (Edinburgh station). The
Elham Valley Bill was adjourned.
In Room A the Swansea and Clydach Bill was
thrown out. The opposition in the case of the
Brecon and Llandovery Bill was withdrawn.
In Room C the following were heard and ad-
journed :—The North British (Wishaw branches),
the Bowness and Grangemouth, and the North
British (Tay bridge).

In Room 1, House of Commons, the Wye Valley
Bill was passed. The Barry (extensions), the
Pembroke and Tenby, and the Northampton and
Banbury Junction Bills were heard and adjourned.
In Room 2, the Midland (Ashby and Nuneaton),
the Halesowen and Bromsgrove, and the Vale of
Neath (transfer) Bills were heard and adjourned.

In Room 3, the Caledonian and Scottish North-
Eastern ; and the Caledonian (Lanarkshire branches)
Bills were heard and adjourned.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CREDIT.

A general meeting of this company was held yes-
terday, at the Baltic, Threadneedle-street ; Mr. G.
Sheward in the chair.

The report congratulated the shareholders on the
satisfactory condition of the company. The balance
of profit and loss on Dec. 31 last was £10,568, out
of which, in accordance with the resolution of the
meeting of Feb. 6, the sum of £5,163 was absorbed
by a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum, £4,000 was
carried to the reserve fund, and £1,405 to new profit
and loss account. The result of the operations of
the half-year ending on the 30th ult. was a balance
to the credit of profit and loss of £8,379, which it
was proposed to appropriate as follows :—£5,163 in
payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum ;
£3,000 to be transferred to the reserve fund, which
would then amount to £12,000; and £216 to new
profit and loss. The sum of £355 was carried for-
ward to new interest account, being rebate on cur-
rent transactions. The balance-sheet showed that the
capital wa5£101,465, and the cash at bankers£l2,sBl.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said he wished to give them the fullest infor-
mation in his power, and when they considered 'the
whole financial difficulties of the past half-year they
would see that the pledge given by the directors at
the last meeting had so far been carried out care-
fully. They had no bills to pay, and no liabilities.
They carried over £3,000 to reserve, and he believed
that every security they held was fully and honestly
worth what they had taken it for, with the excep-
tion of one, which would not be available to realise
so soon as expected ; but having made the advance
they could wait till it was worth principal and inte-
rest. He told the shareholders at the last meeting
that the directors had no necessity to make a call.
They had no intention to make a call now, nor
would they do so until they were enabled to reduce
the liability of the shareholders. The business of
the companywas not so large as it might have been;
high rates of interest generally entail high risks.
They had been very cautious in conducting the
business of the company, and if the worse were
to come to the worst they could not lose more
than the amount of thtir reserve fund. They had
placed the reserve in Consols, but a circumstance
occurred which rendered it necessary to place it
in another security owing to the high rate
of interest recently prevailing, but as soon as possible
the reserve fund would again be invested in Consols.
The sums due on current account had, since the ac-
counts were made up last month, been reduced to
less than one-third. A question had been asked as
to whether the directors had sold any of their shares
since the last meeting. He could say that none of
them had sold shares, but some had increased the
number of their shares in the undertaking. He then
explained that the directors had it in contemplation
to reduce the nominal amount of the shares on a
plan similar to that intended to be carried out by
the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England; but
nothing would be done in that respect without the
assent of the shareholders.
Mr. F. MOWATT said it would be more desirable
for credit with the public not to reduce the nominal
amount of the shares; but if they did, he thought
the liability could not be reduced to less than £2O a
share. The present capital was too small, and the
expenses would not be more for managing a capital
of £500,000. He would rather see the present capi-
tal increased, and the number of directors reduced
from eight to five. It was very satisfactory to be
told that their capital was intact.
A long discussion ensued, in the course of Which
lit was propsed to reduce the nominal
1
amount of
with
t of the
shares from £5O, with £7 10s. paid,
of
£7 10s. paid ; also to appointsca committee
in-
quiry, but the motion was no
The report was unan ii"usi adopted, and a divi-
dendt y
seconded.
The
at the rate
of 10 per cent. per annum was de-
dared, payable on the 18th inst.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors.

INDIAN CARRYING (LIMITED).
The half yearly general meeting of this company
was held yesterday at the office, Great 'Winchester-
street—Sir M. Stephenson in the chair.

Mr. W. THomrsoN, the secretary, having read the
notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract
of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, said the first subject in it referred to the in-
terim dividend which would be considered, satisfac-
tory, as the directors did not recommend a dividend
until they had satisfied themselves that it had been
fairly earned in the half-year's working. The second
point referred to the relinquishment for the present

In reply to questions, it was stated that the total
gross receipts. for the year ending June 30, 1865, •
amounted to £178,388, and for the half-year ending
Dec. 31, 1865, to £97,281, being at the rate of
£194,562 per annum. The increase was mainly in
Madras, and to some extent in Bombay. The sum
of £75,000 had already been paid on capital ac-
count, and £12,500 had just been called, which
would make £87,500 ; another call of ss. per share
would increase the amount to £lOO,OOO. The di-
rectors had authority to raise a further sum, in fresh
capital, of £50,000 when the money market would
permit, which would make £150,000 in all.
After a few observations from Mr. MERRILEES,
Mr. PHILPOTT, and Mr. BUTLER, the report was
unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of
6 per cent. per annum (froe of income-tax) for the
half-year ending the 31st of December, 1865, was
declared payable on and after the 2d of August.
Mr. J. WALKER explained that the additional
capital would enable the company to double the pre-
sent business, and a vote of thanks to the cha4rm.au
and directors concluded the proceedings.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return)

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towns of the United Kingdom were 3,992 ; the
deaths registered 3,123. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 27 per 1000 persons living.
In London the births of 987 boys and 976 girls,
in all 1,963 children were registered in the week. In
the corresponding :weeks of ten years, 1856-65,
the average number, corrected for increase of
population, was 1,948.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,540. It was the 28th week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week was,
with a correction for increase of population, 1,293.
The actual return exceeds the estimated number by
247.

Small-pox has increased within the last six weeks ;
and the deaths from it now returned are 44. The
disease prevails chiefly in the East districts.
The intense heat of the weather has favoured the
development of diarrhceal disorders. Diarrhoea
was fatal in 150 cases, and 32 deaths by cholera
are recorded in the week, of which 2 were in the
west, 4 in the north, 3 in the central, 20 in the
east, and 3in the south districts. About half of
the number are cases of death by choleraic diarrhoea,
or summer cholera. The 17 following 'are of a
severer character :

London City (North-west).--At 27, London-
wall, on the 12th July, the wife of a blacksmith,
aged 40 years, cholera (24 hours).
Shoreditch (Hoxton New Town).—At St. Luke's
Workhouse, on the 9th July, a japanner, aged 62
years, cholera (2 days).
Bethnal-green (Green)—At 29, Wellington -
place, on 12th July, a porter, aged 37 years, cholera
(12 hours). In same sub-district, at the workhouse,
on 13th July, a bricklayer, aged 42 years, Asiatic
cholera (30 hours.

Whitechapel (Church).—At the London Hospi-
tal, from Whitechapel, on 11th July, a female, aged
25 years, cholera.
St. George-in-the-East (St. Paul). —At 14,
Lower Chapman-street, on 13th July, a railway
porter, aged 30 years, Asiatic cholera (9 hours).
Stepney (Ratcliff).—At 10, The Orchard, on 14th
July, a ballast-getter, aged 22 years, cholera (14
hours).
Stepney (Limehouse).--At 72, Lower North-
street, on 11th and 13th July, the son and wife of
a dock labourer, aged respectively 9 and 46 years,
cholera Asiatica (9 hours), exhaustion ; cholera
Asiatica (14 hours). In same sub-district, at 73,
Lower North-street, on 13th July, the daughter
of a painter, aged 6 years, cholera Asiatica (13
hours).

Mile-end Old Town (Eastern).—At 1, Washing-
ton-street, on, the 14th July, a rope-maker, aged 37
years, cholera Asiatica (22 hours).
Poplar (Bow).—At 1, Crown-terrace, Bromley,
on 11th July, a domestic servant, female, aged 50
years, cholera Asiatica (12 hours). In same sub-
district, at 5, Catherine-street, Bromley, on 12th
July, the wife of a shipwright, aged 41 years,
Asiatic cholera (16 hours) In the same sub-district,
at 8, Wellington-street, Bromley, on 12th July, an
excavator, aged 56 years, Asiatic cholera (14 hours).
In same sub-district, at 1, Halsey-court, Bow,
on 13th July, a mariner, aged 63 years, choleraic
diarrhoea (30 hours).

Bermondsey (St. James).—At 23,Keeton's-road,
on Bth July, a mate in the merchant service, aged
29 years, Asiatic cholera (11 hours). The medical
attendant states that the man arrived with a cargo
of fruit on the 7th instant from Rotterdam, where
cholera has prevailed.
Camberwell (Camberwell).—At 60, Waterloo-
street, on 13th July, a carrier, aged47years,tholera
18 hours.

Immediate measures should be adopted byhouse-
to-house visitation and otherwise to treat the disease
therde s
troy choleraeci.
in its earliest stages of diarrhoea,
excretions should be effectual
The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per
in EdininbNuergwhe,aasnade.luspionnD_Tubylnine,,
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32 in Bristol, 19 in Birmingham, .
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and 24 in
in the same week in London, where the rate was 24
per 1,000.
in the borough of Liverpool ofthe
the
J 32 deaths re-
turned last week 13 were f dre erre to cholera.
At the Royal Observator 'G •
height of the barometer in y,. reen ,
wich the mean
the week was 30.038 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30inon fourdays
of the week. The barometrical reading decreased
from 30.17 on Wednesday to 29.92 on Friday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was
68.2 deg., which is • 6. 3d eg. above the average of the
same week in 50 years(as determined byMr.Glaisher).
The mean daily temperature was above the average
on every day after Friday, and on Sunday the excess
was equal to 11 deg. On this clay the thermometer
in the shade rose to 87.2 deg., the highest point at-
tained in the week ; and on the same day the ther-
mometer in the sun attained 163.5 deg. The dif-
ference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 7.7 deg. The mean degreo
of humidity of the air was 77, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The direction of the wind
was variable. There was no rain in the week.

IRELAND.—The Marquis of Abercorn will arrive
on Friday next, merely to be sworn in, postponing his
public entree. It is stated that Mr. R. Longfield is ap-
pointed law adviser. Dr. Singer, Bishop of Meath, died
yesterday, in his 80th year.