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

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 Erith
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
slloY(uettxhhte.e:Eastern Railway Act, &c.) Act, 1864 ; theusion to Westerham)
South-Eastern Docks similar power was inserted in the bill so as to
enable the South-Eastern: Company to enter into
arrangements and obtain the use of the line No. 3.
The resolutionsroNavderee agreed to,
for the ;purpose
of after
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meeting
was
authorising the directors to exercise the
powers conferred by the South Eastern Railway (ex-
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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 PnEss.—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.
evening with the forged signature of our Paris
rr
The following is a copy of a telegram received at this office
coonXesopnodnadyent :—'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 Re 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.
well
duringh
tThateyth theaerepu m
likelybclioc
to ply their iniquitous trade with
activityingdiscussions, and therefore it is
as 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 pobitive has been received from