The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

f ourthlititton

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL
RAILWAY—(THIS DAY.)
The usual half-yearly meeting of this company
took place to-day at the London 'raven:, for the pur-
pose of receiving the report of the directors, and to
transact the other business of the company usual at
the half-yearly meeting.
Janes Nugent Daniel, Esq , the Chairman of the
company, took the chair at twelve o'clock.
Tne usual formal proceedings having been gone
through, the following report, having been printed
and circulated amongst the proprietors, the meeting
did not consider it necessary to read it :
" Tee statement c f the revenue account for the pact
half-year shows that the gross receipts, with the balance
of 3371. 133. 4d. from the previous account, amount to
21,61161. 43, and that the expenditure, inclusive of
r-
est on dc.hentu-es, ha 4 been 18 7351. 143., Vie b dance
being 2,8701. 10i., which is left at the disposal of the
prop tors.
`• The comparative pascen7- r traffi
c, during the corre-
sponding months of this andlast year, is as follow?, viz.:
13t0. 1850.
Passengers. Amount. Passengers. Amount.
January. 136,409 £2,365 14 4 140,Pt33 .£2,117 011
February 111,816 1,958 1 0 151,458 2,210 3 6
a 1 arch t 1,949 13 2 190,511 2,800 15 1
April 167,233 2,924 13 11 213,893 3,150 611
May 217,621 3,775 13 2 255,302 3,684 11 1
Juno

1,010,2t8 £17,558 12 6 1,313,975 £19,147 511
" Upon an analysis of this traffic, it is found that
there has been an increase, during the past half-year, of
355,750 passengers, and 2,9681. in the local traffic, and
a decrease of 52,043 passengers, and 1,3791. in the river
traffic—the total increase being 303,707 passengers, and
1,5891.
" From the increase in the local traffic, the directors
are disposed to think that the system of day tickets, at a
reduced fare, for the double journey, which was intro-
duced throughout the line at the close of last year, has
had a beneficial effect. The directors have strongly ad-
vised the Gravesend and Woolwich Steam-boat Com-
panies to adopt a similar system, in the belief that it.
would have proved more advantageous than a reduction
of the fare for the single journey. The directors are,
however, happy to observe that fur the past few weeks
there has been an increase both in numbers and receipts,
in the river, as well as in the local traffic, compared with
this time last year.
" The receipts from wharfage are le's than they hare
hitherto been, which is ateribataele partly to the falling-
off in the river traffic, and to the reduction in the wharf-
age dues, which the directors have deemed it prudent to
make, to encourage passenger traffic to the railway. The
increased number of wharfs privileged ei land cattle, and
the withdrawal of the General Stearn Navigation Com-
pany's boats, have likewise affected this source of re-
venue, notwithstanding the conveniences which the
Brunswick Wharf affords.
"As regards the expenditure, the directors have to
observe that the locomotive charges are somewhat more
than during the previous ha!f-year, as the mileage of
the trains has been increased; they also include the
wages of the drivers, for two aditional engines. The
following shows the comparative consumption and cost
of coke, and the charge. for locomotive power per mile
run, during each period:—
" July to December, 1849, number of miles run by
trains, 103.224; quantity of coke consumed, 1,112 t,,n..);
being 23,0151bs per rale. Total cost, 1,3501. 12s. 7d.•
cost, per mile, 2.995 d.; total locomotive charges, 3,657/1
18s 1 Id.; cost per mile, B.llld.
" January to June, 1850, number of miles run by
trains, 134.457; quantity of coke consumed. 1,228 t.‘ni;
being 20,457ib5. p•-r mile. Total cost, 1,606/. 155. 9,1.;
cost per mile, 2.868 d.; total locomotive charges, 4,38x1.
Is. 3d.; cost per mile, 7.832 d.
" The only other portion of the revenue account which
seems to require notice, is the miscellaneous charges.
These expenses were increased by the sum of 797/. tor
compensation for injuries sustained in consequence of the
accident which occurred on the 7th of November last.
Some of tt ore chums were, es usual, exorbitant, and the
directors ga, e tuem their lei st at t.mtion, and were enabled
in several instances to effect very considerable reductions
in them. .

" The Bill introduced in the present session of Par-
liament, fur the purpose of enabling this company to
off,r facilities to passengers on the &sworn Counties
R always to avail themselves of the City terminus of the
railway, received the R..yal atiscut on the 25th of June.
By the provisions of this Aet the E ,stern Counties
Railway Company are requirel (within three months
efer notice by the cue:Tarty) to cony, y by all their
trains, except express or mail trains, the carriages and
passengers of this company between the Bow
Junction and Brentwood, or intermediate stations. And
it is also provided that the fates payable by passengers
using the Eastern Counties Railways from or to the
juncuon, shall not exceed the mileage rate charged be-
tween Shoreditch a!id the station on the Eastern
Counties it,tilways, to or from which the passengers may
be conveyed. The notice required by the Act has not
yet been given, in cAlitque!nce of negoti.ttions now in
progre,, fur a more extensive ani friendly interchange
of traffic.

" Tne directors have been informed that the East and
West India Docks end Birmingham Junction Itai!way
Company hare obtained the requisite certificate from
the Ci,mraistioners cf. s kr the opening of the
t an irnmedidte inerea:e of trbtfia will,
therefore, be derive o:n ihii source."

The auditors' report wns read, from which it ap-
peared that they acre s.itiAed with the Dtne of the
accounts.

The Cu:us:wee, in moving the adoption of the
report, stated that he and his brother directors would
have wish?cl that a larger balance, should have been
shown than appeared by the report, but it must be
remembered that this was what was termed
their winter or bad helf-year, during which it
was not usual to rn,ke a dividend. The
directors had done all they could ; it must be recol-
lected that they had had a difficult task to perform.
They had had the North K-nt line to contend with,
and yet they had increased their traffic rather than
diminished it. lie was rot one who liked to hold
out delusive hopes, but he thought they had now
arrived at a point at which the hopes of the directors
had been almost realised.—(Hear, hear) Their
line to Bow had not yet been opened,
but the Dock line to Islington was ready
to open, but had not yet been put in
traffic. When the Dock Junction Line was opened,
the traffic on that line would be all profit to the com-
pany.—(Hear, hear.) lie was 1 appy also to say that
the direeters were now in cordial communication with
the Eastern Counties Company, and there was every
prospect of a quantity of traffic of two descriptions on
the line from that source that would be no cost
to the company.—(Hear, hear) The preliminaries of
an agreement with the London and North Western
had been agreed upon, by which a considerable quan-
tity of goods traffic would be brought on the Hee.—
(Ilear, hear) T, ey were assured to a certain
amount, and the directors calculated that bete een
4,0001. Lnd 5,0001. a year net would be insured to the
company by the goods traffic which the London and
North-Western Company would bring on their line.
Of course it would be neces try to have a special
meeting to ratify the arrangement, but the preliinineries
were agreed upon, and it trfght be considered as settled.
They had also good reason to xi,ect an increase of
traffic from the Eastern Counties— (lleur) —hut they
were certain of a goods traffic trom the London and
North-Western, which would bring them in an in-
ceme of 5,0001. Their passereeer traffic generally
had increased, and notwi'h,tanding the competition
of the North Kent line, they were carrying as tn• Any
passengers to Gravesend as they were last I ear.—
(Hear, hear.) There was a small balance in hand,
sod if the proprietors wished it it must be divided.—
(Cries of " No, no.") The Chairman concluded by
moving the adoption of the report.
In answer to a question from a Proprietor, the
CHAIRMAN denied that the same offer had not been
made to all the steam-boats. The directors had of-
fered to book through for all the steam boats, at a
certain price, but the Diamond Company had other
interests, and refused to adopt these terms. He
trusted, which he had never stated before, that this
was the last time that they would appear at their
half yearly meeting without declaring a dividend.
After a variety of questions had been put to the
Chairman, and satisfactorily answered by him, and
after also a lengthened discussion, the report was
adopted. Iu the course of the discussion it was de-
clared by the chairman and Mr. Tite that the arches
of the railroad were as sound as ever they were, and
that they had been declared to be so by the Govern-
ment inspector.
A vote of thanks having I;een unanimously carried
to the chairman and directors, an- the Chairman hav-
ing returned thank., the meeting separated.

THE LEGITIIVIATIST CONGRESS
AT WIESBADEN.

The Opinion Publique publishes the following from
Wiesbaden, 21st inst. :—" The influx of visitors con--
tinues,
_and you will not be surprised when I tell you
that Me:z has sent twenty-five delegates ; that
Picardy, Franche-Comte, Lorraine, Lower Brit-
tany, the Haute Garonne, &c., have also furnished
deputations. There is here a centre of attraction,
which acts on every point in France. At the dinner
given to the Parisian deputation there were seventy
at table. On one side was the Marquis d'Epi-
nay Saint Luc ; opposite the Count de Lsaferonnays,
at one end of the table the Prince de Montmorency
Robecq, and in the midst of the pell-mell of political
confraternity MM. the Marquis Duplessi&..-Belliere,
Barthel+ my Sauvaire, j un., De Roug6, &c., placed here
and there among the workmen. The table, which was of
a loNe.o/tlMm, was laid out in the charrninggallery on
(gram outid'fibbt pf AbAhotel. At the dessert the Prince
-.epees Fl'dpis,-,Arill rose. He made the round cf
Alffe,44le-f- urfifiehi the middle he asked for a
sotrichlie- filled; and, with a deep and vibrating
C;voict'o, Aiitt. ‘,.:.ienitlefr n, I give you as a toast : To
knee--toxnr4ii,er ntry l' I need mot tell you with
*hat enthusoisiut... as received. It came from, the
befit, and ill ear& t 8 responded to it ; as our good and
Attett4JActt de Fiti.junes taid, ' In spite of all,

France is always great France'—she bas come out, and
she will come out again from those momentary eclipses
which shade ber rays without extinguishing them. This
cry To France!' long resounded—every breast was
heaving, every eye was moistened. By degrees
silence was restored, when one of us demanded
permission to reply to the toast, and you may
easily divine whose health was given. Our hearts
palpitated in our voices, and all our arms were
extended towards him ; the Prince was deeply
affected, and we all felt the same emotion. He
addressed some kind and cordial words to his
guests and then retired, and the company soon
atter broke up. The brave workmen who were pre-
Sent each took away with him the glass in which he
had drank to the health of the Prince. They hoped
that Providence and France would one day allow
them to drink to the health of the Count de Cham-
bord in the country of his ancestors, and they
therefore desired to provide themselves with
their glasses."—The same journal adds, un-
der date of 10 o'clock Saturday evening :
—" We have just seen one of the delegates
of the deputation of the workmen who arrived in
Paris from Wiesbaden during the day. He confirms
all the details which we have given above. The three
delegates cf the Parisian population fixed on by that
deputation to be received in a private audience by
Henry of France were Al. Petit, a pasteboard-box
maker, M. Mathias, a saddler, and M. Salat, an
employe. The three delegates had a long con-
versation with the Count de Chambord on the
situation of the working classes, and the Prince
himself treated the question in a manner that showed
he had deeply studied. He spoke with the greatest
emotion of the women and young girls who were
exposed by their misery to fall into snares laid for
them, and pointed out institutions which might be
established for their assistance. He entered with
great feeling into the situation of the workmen who
were prevented from earning their bread honestly
from want of employment. He also spoke of
the means which might be adopted to give em-
ployment to, liberated convicts, and to bring them
back to the paths of honesty. He left the three dele-
gates deeply impressed with gratitude for the solici-
tude evinced towards the working classes. We asked
M. Sale, one of the three delegates, whether, accord.
ing to the version of the Siicle, there was any one
present at their interview with the Prince, and he re-
plied in the negative. In all the private audiences
the Count de Chambord was always alone."
A complete rupture has taken place between the
Ilerryer and the La Rochejaquelin sections of the
Legitimatists. It is thus described in the Ordre
:
"M. de Larochejsquelin, whose monarchical devoted-
ness does not exclude a certain republican frankness, and
who has a strong feeling of his personal value, showed a
pretension to play a principal part. After the arrival of
the Prince he held a second rank. Apartmentt; had been
reserved by order of the Count do Chambord in the Hotel
Durringer for M. Berryer and several other leading mem-
bers of the Legitimatist party, but M. deLarochejaquelin
was overlooked. This gentleman afterwards wished,with-
out waiting for the advice or the convenience of the Count
de Chambord, to proceed to prescribe the conduct which
the Legittmatist party should adopt. He was given to
understand that he showed himself too impatient. A
short time alter the Count de Chambord formed a s, rt
of privy council, with whom he proceeded in lung
and private conferences to that examination on which
M. de Ltiroch(jsquelin pretended prematurely to
bring on a discussion, This privy c,uncil was cem-
voted of M. Berryer, General de Saint Priest, M. de
Vatimesnil, M. Benoist d'Azy, and the Duke de Noailles.
M. de Larochejaquelin did nut firm a part of it. Th4t
gentleman was deeply hurt at this exclusion, and
abruptly left Wiest) Wen, without taking leavo of the
Prince. After his departure, the Count de Chambor
said before several persons, 'I regret for M. de La•
rocqej•Aquelin's sake that he Las left in this manner.' I
have dwelt on these facts because they explain the state
of tnings declared by the Glint de Cbauab rd. The
Prince has loudly declared himself, both by his acts and
by his words, in favour of tee prudent, circumspect,
and conciliatory polity of M. Berryer, and against
the azgrssive one of M. de Larochv jaquelin, and the
Gazette de France. Conrrire to the opinion of the ultra-
Legiticeattsts, the persons engaged.in the conferences at
Wiesl-a-len asserted that hcfore all it was necessary to
defend and save material ()H
()Her. It was to that work
that, for the last two years, Mrsl. Berryer, de Vatimes-
nil, and Benoist d'Azv have devoted themselves, and
their conduct has met with the entire approbation of the
Count de Chambord.'"