The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-18 00:00:00

BIRTHS.

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the 17th inst., at Herne-hill is"
, Surrey , Mrs.
pher North Graham. of
On the 17th inst., at Clapham-park, Surrey, the Wife
Sydney Laurence, Esq.

OP A DAUGHTER. rift
Oa the 16th inst., at 12, Sassex•gardens, ErYdela
the wife of Captain Hansard. grh On tho 15th inst., at 2, Regent's-park-terrace,
Robert Clay,

On the 17th inst.,
JoPoir, Haute, MARRIED.
toJessie Mary,
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, et
i Major-General H. Lechym'ere Worrall, of the ,13e-''
Cavalry.
On the 17th inst., at St. James's, Westbourne-te-411'
ythreirCd"suterv'ivEinig"d:4lfonhol°
Hudson, M.D , of 11, Cork-street, Burlingto„.2l..
dens, to Louis, Grover, of 22, Cambridge-streeto Pi
park, daughter of the late Captain Grover, F.R.S.
D I E D.
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On thecyottherbo
inst. the
aged 6
theVe9.ry Rev. William Rowe DI
Dean of
wara°
On the 17th inst., Mr. James Well, of Heaton 11P üb•
of 25 years assistant to Messrs. Wm. Tegg andeo., P
lishera, Queen-street, Cheapside, aged 58.
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On the 16th inst., at Horsham-park, Robert i'll• m
Esq., aged 69. the
yoinger son of the late Sir Edmund Filiner, Bart., 31-. -
,
On tin 15th inst., at Hoddesdon Heits, Arthur,
.
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On the 15th inst., at Grantham, George White,
aged 88.
On the 14th inst., at 8, Harley-place, Bow-roado 3-fl'a4
rl
than Arnold, Esq., formerly of the Stock Exchange, " ,
78. tile
On the 14th inst., at 2G, Upper Grosvenor-street,
Rev. Arthur Atherley, vicar of Heavitree, Dev0n_......,

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ALOON OMNIBUS COMPANY.-
- To the STIA.RE`dOLDEUS of Cie SALOON
OMNIBUS COMPANY :-

aleiriamEN,—Wben I was solicited to become a director of
year Company, I was offered as an inducement one hundred
Scares, as a qualification : however, at the first meeting I
paid down 251., my qualification on one hundred shares. On
reference to the cash-book I there found the expenses for
punting and parading the omnibus in different parts of Lon-
.,°ll (before I joined the board) very great. This it was my
ilititY to protest against and stop, and I did so. At one of
last meetings of the board, a communication was re-
ceived, and negotiations were opened between the Chairman
of the General Omnibus Company and a deputation of.our
ki°l4l)any, expressing the willingness of the .General Omnibus
Company to run the Saloon Omnibuses, and pay the sum of
4,300/. to this Company for the shareholders, whose deposits
ady paid amount to 800/. This sum offered by the General
Omnibus Compan would have been sufficient to repay the
deposits to the shareholders, and with the advances made by
this
Company;to the builder of the omnibuses would have
cleared it from debt. The directors, however, thoughtthem-
calves justified in declining this offer. Conceiving it, there-
fore, satisfactorily to carry on the business of the
rollsany, from the want of confidence shown by the public
(partly through the paper war that existed between the two
companies) in not taking up its shares, and coupling that
With the trifling balance of cash at the bankers, the wishes of
certain parties to issue the shares of the Company, and to
borrow further capital by adding another solicitor to the
staii44ll of which I consider would bo acts of injustice to the
shareholders—I beg leave to tender my resignation of the
seat r. hold at the board into your hands, and think it my
duty, as a publi:: man, to make you thus briefly acquainted
with the real state of the affairs. —I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen, your obedient servant, E. T. SMITH.
Strewan-house, Chelsea.

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SUNDAY TIMES."

Snt,—l observe in your first edition a letter from Mr. Smith,
notifying his resignation of his seat in the direction of the
Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company. As on the same
ground I also have found it necessary to withdraw my name
*ern the direction of which I was Chairman, I should feel
obliged by your giving place in your columns for the follow-
ing explanation of my reasons for so doing
At the commencement of the undertaking I was solicited
by the. promoters to take the chair and chief direction of the
"n*Pany's affairs, and believing from my long experience in
t(lnThibus conveyance, that I could be of material assistance to
,
'le Company and service to the public by joining the under-
114inffilmsdidaite o, and have from that time exerted myself as
belt*
Iteh iiitenenthe-Saloon Omnibus, which,
I
I a, Possesses qualifications which would be appreciated.
have found, however, that insuperable difficulties have
arisen, the shares have not been taken up, an expensive paper
Irarfare has been entered into, and that, after several months
'Pont in endeavours to raise the capital necessary for the un-
dertaking, the funds are exhausted, and the public confidence
aPPareattly lost.
At this juncture I opened a communication with the Lon-
don General Omni bus Company, in the hope that they being
an established Company, and manifesting a willingness to
Hive the public the advantage of an improved conveyance,
would give trial to oar Saloon Omnibus. I was met by them
In a fair spirit, and a deputation from the two beards met
'With a view to an arrangement of the kind, which resulted in
an offer of the London General Omnibus Company to pur-
chase the interest of our Company for about 1,3001., whereby
our shareholders might be reimbursed, and the omnibus
worked fer the public benefit, and a ruinous competition
with a powerful organised Company prevented ; others of
the directors of the Saloon Company have, however, chosen
to bring in another solicitor to their Company, who, pro-
-1)1'414 to raise more capital, will, I fear, involve the Corn-
PanY in further difficulties. Under these circumstances,
feeling that the public requirements would be fully served by
the London General Omnibus Company working the Saloon
"mnibus, and that the interests of our shareholders would be
best served by the offer of the London General Omnibus Cora-
Pailb__Y being acceded to, I have felt bound to retire from the
'"ua•rd, with whose proceedings I can no longer concur, and
to take this course of making known to the shareholders, to
whom I am accountable, my reasons for doing so.

I am your obedient servant,
"t7-road, Feb. 14, 1847. G. SHILLIBEER.

riIHE LONDON, HARWICH, and CONTI•
1 NENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY.

(Limited).

Capital 100,000/., in 10,000 Shares of 101. each, with power
to increase. 2/. per share payable on allotment.
lacorporated under the Act 19 and 20 Vic., chap. 47, by
which the liability of the Proprietors is limited to the
amount of their shares.
TRUSTEES.
Ralph Walters, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Eastern Counties Railway Company.
Colonel William Petrie Waugh, Director of the London and
Eastern Banking Company.
David Waddington, Esq., M.P., 4, Spring-gardens.
Jshu Bagahaw, Esq., M.P., Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway.

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