The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH EASTERN.
A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge,
for the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit,
of approving the following bills now pending in
Parliament, intituled, " An Act for making a rail-
way from Maidstone to Ashford, and for other pur-
poses ;" and, "An Act for incorporating the Dagen-
ham Dock Railways Company and for authorising
them to make and maintain railways from the
Dagenham (Thames) Dock to the Great Eastern
Railway and the London, Tilbury, and Southend
Railway, and from the North Kent Railway at Eritl
to the River Thames near Crossness Point, with
piers, and, to provide and run steam and other ves-
sels in connexion with the railways, and for autho-
rising arrangements between the company and other
companies, and for other purposes." The proceed-
ings were entirely formal, and only occupied a few
minutes. Mr. Watkin having taken the chair, Mr.
Smiles, the secretary, read the notice convening the
meeting. The Chairman then stated that the two
bills laid before the shareholders were bills in which
they had no interest except that they included in
them power to form working arrangements, should
it be necessary hereafter to do so. By the 50th
clause of the Maidstone and Ashford Company,
power was given to the company to make arrange-
ments and enter into a contract with this company
for the user of the railway, to run over it and make
arrangements for conducting the traffic, and similar
optional power was given to the London, Chatham,
and Dover Company. In respect to the Dagenham
Docks similar power was inserted in the bill so as to
enable the,
,oath-Eastern. cpmpany,to,,Anter into
arringements and obtain the use of the line No. 3.
The resolutions were agreed to, after which the
meeting was made special for the
,purpose
of authorising the directors to exercise the
powers conferred by the South Eastern Railway (ex-
tension to Cranbrook, Hythe, &c.) Act, 1864 ; the
South-Eastern Railway (extension to Westerham)
Act, 1864 ; and the South-Eastern Railway Act,
1865, of borrowing on mortgage, in addition to the
sums which the company have previously to those
acts been authorised to borrow, a sum not exceeding
£417,600; and a resolution to that effect having
been agreed to, the proceedings terminated.

HOAXING THE PRESS.—The Times of yesterday
contains the following statement :—" The public
must during the next few days be prepared for false alarms
and lying news manufactured for stockjobbing purposes.
The following is a copy of a telegram received at this office
on Monday evening with the forged signature of our Paris
correspondent The Italian Government has rejected
the Conference as not offering a basis for the immediate
cession of Venetia. The excitement of the people is no
longer controllable. There have been disturbances at
Milan. Garibaldi is supposed to be on board the Rd d'ltalia
with Persano. Hostilities are expected at once. The Paris
Bourse is very flat.' The knaves who originate these
falsehoods for their own purposes certainly deserve punish-
ment as much as the ordinary forger or swindler, and it is
much to be desired that the law could be made to reach
them. They are likely to ply their iniquitous trade with
activity during the coming discussions, and therefore it is
as well that the public should recollect that until the final
rupture of the negotiations and separation of the Confer-
ence there is not likely to be any act of war." It would
appear from the annexed telegram in the Daily Telegraph
of yesterday that that journal has really been imposed
upon :—" Refusal of Austria to join the Conference. From
our own correspondent. By submarine telegraph. Paris,
Tuesday night. Count Mensdorff has refused to take part
in the Conference. This, I learn from Vienna, is certain.
The forces on the Saxon and Prussian frontiers have been
advanced. Nothing positive has been received from

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MERSEY.—On Tuesday
morning a fishing boat was upset by a squall on the
Mersey, near Egremont, and sank in deep water. Her
crew consisted of a blind man, named William Makin, and
William Idenden, a fish-dealer, who lived near Egremont
Ferry. The latter sank with the boat; but the blind man
was discovered by some persons from a brigantine, who
lowered a boat and picked him up. The deceased w ad-
vanced in years, and leaves a widow.

, The Chinese, to whom we must look for the initia-
tion of many so-called European ideas, have, time
out of mind, been in the habit of collecting the impregnated
eggs of fish, and of depositing them in the clear streams
irrigating their rice fields. Nay, they have even anticipated
our eccaleobion in a most ingenious manner for the pur-
poses of pisciculture. In order to facilitate the hatching of
fish eggs, they aro in the habit of making a small aperture
in a fowl's egg, sucking out its contents, and replacing it
with fecundated fish ova. The egg is then placed under a
hen for a few days, and the ova are thereby so far ripened
that it is only requisite to break the egg into sun warmed
water in order to speedily produce—not a chicken, but a
its
enormous of young fishes ! In China, notwithstanding
enormous population, fish is so cheap that it forms a very
important part of the food of the people, and nothing,
we
are told, more astonishes the Celestial than the high price
of this kind 9f food iziEnglaud.-040 a Ina.