The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-13 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies.

GLOCESTER AND DEAN FOREST.

Tho half-yearly meeting of this comany was held
at Glocester on Thursday ; Mr. W. Price .in the
chair.

The report stated that the balance would allow
the distribution of 13s. per share, and the directors
therefore recommended that that amount of divi-
dend be declared.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report,
which was adopted.
Resolutions were also adopted declaring a divi-
dend of 13s. per share payable forthwith, and re-
electing Mr. Price and Mr. Avery, the retiring
directors, and also Mr. Pike, the retiring auditor.
Thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

reserve fund would stand at £116,913, and a credit
to the profit and loss account of £62,076. The re-
port was unanimously adopted, and a very strong
feeling was expressed in favour of a general revision
of the rates of premium. The retiring directors,
Messrs. G. Booker, J. Holme, T. D. Hornby, E.
Royds, and J. Torr, were re-elected.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1866.

A Session's Changes.

The Spectator thus sums up the changes in the
personnel of Parliament during the past session :
" The deaths of 19 peers were recorded. Their
names and ages are as follows :—" The Marquises
Camden, 67 ; Lansdowne, 50 ; Earls Gainsborough,
84 ; Kinnoul, 81; Bathurst, 76 ; Lanesborough,
71; Rosslyn, 64 ; Chesterfield, 61 ; Limerick, 53 ;
Donoughmore, 43; Beauchamp, 37 ; Harrington,
21; Viscount Clifden, 43; Barons Glenelg, 83;
Monteagle, 76 ; Clinton, 74 ; Bayning, 69 ; Ver-
non, 62 ; Rivers, 56. The baronies of Bayning and
Glenelg have become extinct, while the successors
to the titles of Clifden, Donoughmore, Monteagle,
and Rivers, are minors. The Duke of Hamilton
has attained his majority, and the Marquis of Or-
monde, who became of age on sth October last, has
taken the oaths and his seat. There are thus 15
new peers by right of succession. Fourteen peers
have been created—viz., his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh, Viscount Halifax, Barons
Barrogill, Clermont, Hartismere, Hylton, Kenry,
Lytton, Meredyth, Monck, Northbrook, Penrhyn.
Romilly, and Strathnairn. Five of these are
creations of Lord Derby, and eight owe their
rank to Earl Russell, the Dukedom of Edinburgh
being a thing of course, no matter what Prime
Minister was in power. Two barons of the United
Kingdom, Lord Dartsey and Lord Wodehouse,
were promoted by Lord Russell to a higher order
in the peerage. The former now sits as Earl of
Dartsey and the latter as Earl of Kimberley. Turn-
ing to the House of Commons we find that 31
constituencies have changed their representatives.
Of these 31 places four have each elected two new
members—viz., Devonport, Nottingham, East Suf-
folk, and Windsor. Of the members who were re-
turned at the general election 16 have been unseated,
nine have become peers, six have died, four sit for
other constituencies, two have become chief judges,
two have resigned, and one lost his seat on appeal-
ing to his constituents for re-election. The members
unseated were Sir J. Acton, Sir R. Clifton, Mr. E.
M. Fenwick, Sir H. H. Hoare, Mr. G. W. Leveson-
Gower, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. S. Morley, Mr. Parry,
Mr. Ponder, Mr. Schneider, and Mr. A. W.Young,
Liberals ; and Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Fleming, Mr. For-
syth, Mr. Mills, and Mr. Westropp, Conservatives.
The M.P.s who have gone to the Upper House are
the Earl of Brecknock and Sir Charles Wood, Libe-
rals ; and Lord Henniker, Sir W. Jolliffe, Hon. F.
Lygon ; Sir E. B. Lytton, Col. Douglas Pennant,
Lord Stanhope, and Hon. C. Trefusis, Conserva-
tives. The deaths have been those of five Liberals
and one Conservative, viz., Lord Palmerston, 81 ;
Colonel Lloyd Watkins, 63 ; Hon. J. C. Dundas,
57 ; Mr. F. D. Goldsmid, 53 ; Right Hon. H. A.
Herbert, 50 ; and Sir Minto Farquhar, 57. The
two resignations have been by Conservative mem-
bers, Mr. W. Leslie and Major-General Lindsay.
Two chief judgeships have been given to Conserva-
tives—the Chief Justiceship of Ireland to Mr.
Whiteside, and the post of Chief Baron of the Ex-
chequer to Sir F. Kelly. Mr. H. Fenwick, Liberal,
was defeated at Sunderland on offering himself for
re-election, after his appointment as a Lord of the
Admiralty in Earl Russell's Government. Four
Conservatives have left their former constituencies
and gone to others; Mr. Gathorne Hardy exchanges
Leominster for Oxford University ; Mr. Dowdeswell
leaves Tewkesbury for West Worcestershire ; Sir
Stafford Northcote relinquished Stamford for North
Devon ; and Sir E. Kerrison forsakes Eye for East
Suffolk. There are now 31 members in the House
of Commons who had no seats in that assembly at
the commencement of the session. They are Vis-
count Amberley, Mr. Candlish, Mr. M. Chambers,
Hon. J. Denman, Mr. Edwards, Lord Eliot, Mr.
Eykyn, Mr. Fordyce, Mr. Julian Goldsmid, Lord
John Hay, Captain Herbert, Mr. Nicholson, Mr.
Bernal Osborne, Mr. Staniland, Mr. Vanderbyl,
and Mr. Wyvill, Liberals ; aad Mr. Arkwright,
Hon. G. W. Barrington, Mr. Brett, Mr. Capper,
Mr. Dimsdale, Mr. Eckersley, Mr. Gorst, Sir John
Hay, Hon. J. M. Henniker-Major, Mr. Hildyard,
Hon. Egremont Lascelles, Sir E. Lechmere, Mr. J.
Abel Smith, Mr. Walsh, and Mr. Whitmore, Con-
servatives. The result of all these changes is that
the Liberals have won five scats—two at Devon-
port, one in Aberdeenshire, one at Bridgewater,
and one at Petersfield. The Conservatives have
gained three seats—viz., at Bridgnorth, Helstone,
and Sandwich. There is, therefore, a net gain of
two seats, counting four votes on a division, to the
Liberals. In addition to the alterations above
enumerated, there have been 36 re-elections—nine
on account of the formation of Earl Russell's Go-
vernment, and 27 through the acceptance of office
by the Earl of Derby. The seats now vacant are
Carnarvonshire, Brecon, Lancaster (2), Totnes,
and Reigate—the two first through the late mem-
bers having been called to the peerage, and the four
others through the unseating of their late represen-
tatives."