The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-24 00:00:00

Proprietors'eapi-
f. I

Rest ..
Public

... : .... £14,553,000
3,385,877

,eposits
Leluding Ex-
chequer 8
av-

tugs' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) ...... 5,994,761
Other Deposits... 18790,917
Seven Day and
other bills

551,128

£43,275,678

EXTRAORDINARYACCIDENT.—At Southsea yester-
daya a little girl named Bowyer, aged nine, was mullinglong the pavement with a glass bottle containing stout,
when she stumbled and fell. The bottle broke off at the
neck, and the edge, which was jagged, was, driven with
considerable violence into her neck, and inflicted a fright-
ful wound. The child was taken home, thud Dr. Tardy,
.sargeon,
wasthemain
sentfora' but life was extinct, the glass hav-
nig pierced artery of the neor. vird caused almost
instantaneous death.

Railway and other Companies.

GREAT WESTERN.

A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the Padelington Station; Mr. D. Gooch,
M.P., in the chair.
Mr. Saunders, the secretary, having read the notice
convening the meeting,

The CHAIRMAN stated that of the 21 bills on their
list five only were promoted by or in connexion with
the Great Western Railway Company, and of those
only three were now ready to submit to the proprie-
tors for their approval. The other 16 bills on the
list were promoted by other companies, and required
the approval of the Great Western Company. The
first he had to submit was a bill for conferring fur-
ther powers on the Great Western Railway Company
in relation to their own undertaking and the under-
takings of other companies.
After some explanations, a motion approving the
bill was agreed to.
wharf,
The next was a bill for making a railway,
and depot in Bristol, to connect the existing railways
with the floating harbour, and for granting certain
powers to the Great-Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railway Companies, and to the mayor, aldermen,
and burgesses of the city of Bristol with reference
thereto.

This was also approved, the subscription being
£60,000.

The next bill approved was a bill for making a
railway from the South Wales'Railway, near Swan-
_ sea, to Clydach, and for other purposes.
The following bills, promoted by other companies,
were also approved :—A bill for converting the
estuary of Barrylsland, in the county of Glamorgan,
into a tidal harbour, and for constructing works in
connection therewith; a bill for making railways from
the Great Western Railway near Drayton, in the
county of Middlesex, to Clonbreok and to the
Windsor branch of the London and South Western
Railway at Staines ; a bill for making a railway
from Ellesmere to Llansaintffraid-Glyn-Ceiriog and
for other purposes ; a bill for authorising the Lon-
don and South Western Railway Company to
make and maintain the Brentford curve and the
Kew-bridge curve, and other works, and for autho-
rising arrangements between them and other com-
panies, and for authorising a lease or transfer to
them of the Okehampton Railway, and for the in-
crease of capital ; a bill for conferring additional
powers on the Midland Railway Company for the
capital, for giving effect to arrangements with_ the
Great Western Railway Company in reference to
lines and stations at Malvern ; a bill for making a
railway from the Great Western Railway to Wan-
tage, in Berkshire ; and a bill for making railways
from the South Wales line to the Coleford, Mon-
mouth, Usk, and Pontypool Railway, and to the
authorised line of the South Wales and Great
Western Direct Railway, and for other purposes.
The Wharncliffe meeting was then adjourned to
the 7th of June next.
A special general meeting was then held, and the
directors were authorised to raise £300,000 for the
general purposes of the company, under the powers
of the Additional Powers Act, 1865, to be entitled
to a preferential dividend not exceeding 5 per cent.
per annum.
The proceedings then terminated.