The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-13 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1360 .. 1362 50
Northern
New ditto 892 50 ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 947 50 .. 948 75
Geneva.. 4lO .. 408 75
Southern 575 .. 576 25
Western ..
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard , 497 50 .. 497 50

RAILWAY 1N ELLIGENCE.

SOUTH-EASTERN.

A special general meeting of the proprietors was
held yesterday, at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-
bridge, Mr. Byng in the chair, for the purpose of
considering, and if so determined, of approving the
bill now before Parliament, entituled " A bill (as
amended in committee) for enabling the South-
Eastern Railway Company to make an improved
communication with the harbour at Folkestone,
and for conferring further powers on that company
wirh respect to steam vessels ; and for enabling
that company to make bye-laws for regulating the
London and Greenwich Railway, and for amend-
ing some of the acts relating to the South-Eastern
Railway Company with respect to the accounts to
be kept by them ; and for other purposes."
The CHAIRMAN said that the bill had passed the
House of Commons, and only awaited formal
sanction to pass ,the House of Lords.
The heads of the bill having been read by the
company's solicitor, a resolution of approval was
proposed from the chair, and carried unanimously.
An extraordinary general meeting was then held
for the purpose of exercising, either in whole or in
part, the powers conferred on the company by the
South Eastern Railway (Capital Arrangements)
Act, 1861, of subscribing towards the construction
of the Charing-cross Railway.
The CHAIRMAN said the total amount authorised

to be raised by the new act was £672,000, of which
£Bo,soo2rnight be raised by loans. The amount he
had mentioned did not include the cost of the
Folkestone branch, but it included an additional
sum of £350,000 authorised to be subscribed on
account of the Charing•-cross Railway. In conse-
quence of the state of the money market, the board
proposed to limit the exercise of the company's
powers at present as regarded the share capital to
about one-third of the amount, or £241,500, and to
raise £BO,OOO on debentures. That would be suf-
ficent for the present year. It was proposed that
the new shares should be issued at five per cent.,
redeemable at par at any time after the expiration
of ten years from the date of issue, the other con-
ditions being expressed in the resolution by which
it was proposed to create the shares.

The resolution for carrying out the object was
passed unanimously.
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Mr. Rim, M.P., a director, made some observa-
tions with regard to the prospects of the Charing-
cross Railway. He said, in effect, that while he
believed that the line would pay a fair dividend he
thought the management was not satisfactory,
inasmuch as though the money and the credit with
which the line was constructed were South Eastern
money and credit, the South Eastern shareholders
had no actual control. There were five directors
who had little, if any, interest in the South Eastern
line. He should decline to hold himself responsible
in any degree for the management.
The CHAIRMAN said he felt precluded from enter-
ing into that question, inasmuch as it was not
regularly before the meeting.
A SHAREHOLDER protested strongly against Mr.
Rich's disclaimer of responsibility, especially as he
was originally one of the strongest advocatesof the
Charing cross scheme.
Mr. G. SMITH was sure Mr. Rich felt bound to
do all in his power to protect the interests of the
company. _ _

Air. Rim replied that that was certainly the
case.

Mr. COLES CHILD, a director, said it would be
impossible to alter the existing state of things
until the Charing-cross Railway was complete ;
adding that he hoped it would then be amalga-
mated with the South-Eastern line. (Hear.)
The meetivg then separated.

SUSPECTED MURDER.—At the Dudley Arms, Pad-
dington, last night an investigation took plaee before Mr. G.
S. Brent, the deputy coroner far West Middlesex, into the
circumstances attending the discovery of the corpse of an un-
known woman in that part of the Regent's Canal known as
the Grand Junction, near No. 16 Wharf, Paddington. The
body was that of a young woman of 24, supposed from her
dress, which was clean and respectable, to have earned her
living by labour. From a post mortem examination by Dr.
J. S. Beale, of Paddington-green, it appears that the de-
ceased had been ravished and shockingly mutilated before
her death by drowning. The body not being identified, the
Deputy-Coroner adjourned the case, in the expectation that
the publicity given to the facts through the press will throw
light upon it.