The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-16 00:00:00

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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

We learn, from good authority, tow, she pi eliction
which we ventured to wake a few days since, that the
section of Liverpool shareholders who, under the dicta-
tion and guidance of Mr. W. Williams, the ex-Member
for Coventry, have raised an opposition against the
directors for:mere party purposes, would sustain a signal
defeat, has been realised to a mortifying extent, which
we must confess we did not anticipate. In power end
influence we knew the Liverpool opposition to be
thoroughly insignificant and contemptible, but we did
think that before they determined to put the company to
large expenditure in issuing proxy stamps, seriously
interrupting the business of the management, and
creating mischievous doubts respecting its wisdom and
efficiency—we did, we repeat, imagine that they
had calculated their forces, end would possibly
make a "decent death of it." The factious opposition
of the northern section of shareholders has, however,
more than verified the fable of the mountain and the
mouse. After all the bluster and " fury," their noise
really "signifies" a comparative "nothing." They have
literally "moved heaven and earth" in whipping up
proxies, and have resorted to all those little economical
manoeuvres which, in these days of railway depression,
are so well calculated to enlist in their support the
natural nervousness of railway shareholders, but with a
lamentably miserable result. The information we have
obtained, and which we believe may be fully relied on,
is, that the directors have had their policy sanctioned by
not onlylan overwhelming but an annihilatinglmajority of
votes, and an enormous preponderance of the stock of
the company—ti) an extent, in fact, that can scarcely
fail to astonish even i\lr. W. Williams and his '` demo-
nical" friends.

We trust that this defeat will have a proper effect upon
the ex-Member for Coventry and his party.
Since writing the above we have been put in pos-
session of a fact that will, we think, be quite conclusive
with the Great Western shareholders on the injurious
tendency of the niggardly policy which the section
of Liverpool shareholders would, if they could, pursue
in reference to the salaries of the able and zealous offi-
cers of the company. Mr. Seymour Clarke,the present
traffic superintendent of the line, has been in the service
of the company for upwards of 13 years; that is from
its formation. With, perhaps, two or three exceptions
a more valuable officer is not to be found in the com-
pany's service. In the course of the experimental in-
vestigations we have, during the last four or five %ears,
been permitted by the courtesy of the management to
make or to witness upon the Great Western, on the
questions of railway accommodation and economy.
we have, on numerous occasions, had opportunities
of judging of Mr. Clarke's ability, ald of
his untiring indefatigability in promoting the
interests of the undertaking. We have, not °rico, twice,
nor thrice, but more than fifty times, found him at the
Paddington station long before the starting of the
earliest train, and as frequently seen him oil the station
to meet the last up train at night. At all times, and
upon all portions of the line, we have witnessed his zeal
and activity, and have on many occasions found our-
selves in the same compartment with him, and seen him,
while on his journey, " hard at work," either engaged in
reading his letters, or writing instructions to the station-
masters along the line, and which instructions we have
noticed him leave at the various stations. Kied-hearted,
but firm, in his conduct to all persons under him, he has
earned a railway character which he may be justly proud
of. At the time the consultation committee commenced
its labours, his thirteen years' hard, valuable, and
very responsible service!, had earned for him a
salary of 9001. per annum. The consummation of the
" economy" of the Liverpool section of shareholders
would reduce his salary to 6001 a year. And what is
the consequence of the attempted introduction of such a
policy? He retires from the compaay whose interests
he has greatly promoted, and goes, at a higher salary,
43 superintendent of the Great Northern Railway. Tots
is the third able officer whose retirement from the ser-
vice is attributable to the wretched policy of the Liver-
pool economists. And this is not all. Immediately the
report of the consultation committee was circulated, se-
veral of the valuable assistants resigned their situation,
being utterly without hope of benefiting themselves
otter a long period of service. We are personally cog-
nisant of the fact that the company are at this moment
suffering seriously from the consequences of the econo-
mical interference of Mr. W. W. Williams and his party.
For the apparent saving of a paltry amount per annum
the Great Western Company lose the services of one of
the most able, if not the most able railway superintendent
of the country. So much for an unjust and a beggarly
economy.—Herald.

UNIVERSLTY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, MAY 15.—1 n the Convocation to be
holden on Saturday next, the 18th instant, at tea
o'clock, the name of the Rev. Piers Calveley Claugh-
ton, M.A., of University College, who has been duly
nominated to succeed to the office of select preacher
at Michaelmas 1850, in the place of the Rev. John
Gibbons Longueville, M.A., of Wadham College, re-
signed, will be submitted to the house.
The Junior Proctor will receive the names of
under-graduates, who intend to offer themselves for
the responsions in Act Term, on Monday, May 20,
from twelve till one o'clock ; Tuesday, May 21, from
twelve till one o'clock; Wenesday, May 22, from
one till three o'clock.
It is necessary that each candidate should bring his
matriculation paper, and the certificate of having sat
in the schools, or copies of them attested by the re-
gistrar.
These papers must either be presented by the can-
didate in person or transmitted through his tutor.
N.B. Those candidates who may need a dispensa-
tion from the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, in order
to having their names inserted in the list, are re-
quired to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's house, on
Friday, May 17, at twelve o'clock, and to bring
with them, from the head or tutor of their colleg,
or hall, a statement in writing of the grounds on
which the dispensation is sought for.
CAMBRIDGE, MAT 15.—At a Congregation holden
this day the following degrees were conferred :
Doctor of Laws William Wright, Trinity
College.
Masters of Arts—C. J. Monk, Trinity College ;
J. S. Smith, Trinity Hall ; P. A. Longtnure,
Emaenel College.
Bachelors of Arts—E. H. Rogers, King's College ;
H. J. Simonds, King's College; E. B. Vance, King's
College; Matthew Tierney, Trinity College ; C. G.
McPherson, St. Peter's College ; F. C. Leeson, Ca-
therine Hall ; W. Shipman, Catherine Hall ; J. N.
Trevethan, Emanuel College.
Thomas Blackburne, M.A., of Brasenose College,
Oxford, was admitted ad eundem.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
DIVIDEN DS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Bradshaw, St. Alban's, draper, June 4, at twelve.
In the Country.
J. Metcalfe, New Melton, Yorkshire, corn and seal
merchant, Juno 4, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W.
Green, Birkenhead, Cheshire, auctioneer, June 4, at
eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Fosberry and E.
Ingleby. Liverpool, merchants, June 4, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Yonge, Strand, watchmaker, June 6, at half-past
eleven—J. Bowser, Milton-s rest, Dorset-square, St.
Marylebone, timber merchant, June 6, at twelve.
In the Country.
T. C. Dauncey, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, boot and
shoemaker, June 6, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—J.
Young, Manby, Lincolnshire, innkeeder, June 5, at half-
past twelve. at the Court, Kingston-upon-Hull—J. D.
Woodcock, Leeds, calenderer, June 4, at twelve, at the
Court, Leeds.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
W. Livermore, Oxford-street, certificate of the second
class—T. Sadler and W. E. Sadler, Brightlingsea, Essex,
sailmakers, certificate of the first class—W. E. Smith,
Plymouth, shipwright, certificate of the first class—B.
Axford, Devonport, victualler, certificate of the first
class-4. Kemp, Colchester, carpenter. certificate of the
third class—H. Smith, jun., South Ockendon, Essex,
farmer, certificate of the third class—C. T. Glover,
Manchester, smallware dealer, certificate of the second
class—G. Matthews, Monmouth, pianoforte and music-
seller, certificate of the first class, afier one month from
May 6—S. W. Anthony, Everton, Lancashire, shipowner.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Felkin and W. Vickers,. Nottingham, lace manu-
facturers—S. Wood and T. Wood, Littlemoor, Derby-
shire, grocers—G. Deane, sea., and G. Gould, Manches-
ter, curriere—J. Daniel and G. Dunbar, Leeds, York-
shire, stone merchants—R. Stringer and J. Grey, Hare-
field, Middlesex, linendrapers—Laura Elizabeth Ann
Hill and Sophia Vines, Lansdowne-road, South Lambeth,
school mistresses—A. G. Pooley, Louisa Jane Lewis,
and C. S. Rayner, Dawley, Shropshire, coal masters—B.
Hawked and G. Wallington, Birmingham, hair cutters
—W. Cooper and T. Cooper, Leadenhall-street, pre-
servers of fresh provisions—R. Knight and W. Mitchell,
Brighton, coal merchants—J. Hill, W. Hill, J. Hill, J.
Hill, and T. Hill, Bradford, Yorkshire, blue slaters (so
far as regards the said W. Hill and J. Hill)—W, Bee-
croft end M. Beeeroft, Rycle, Isle of Wight, grocers—
C. Satterthwaite and E. F. Satterthwaite, Throgmorton-
street, stockbrokers—J. Newtou and G. Newton, Ram-
sey, Huntingdonshire, merchants—F. Burnap and W.
Ackroyd, Bradford, Yorkshire, top manutacturers—
Elizaheth Badger and E. Clarke, Shipton-upon-Stour,
Worcestershire, mercers—W. Sabine and W. Sabine,
jun., Old Broad- street, architects—Elizabeth Thomas
and R. Thomas, Circus-road, St. John's-wood, builders
—J. Russell, W. J. Horsfall, T. Wheeler, and J. Law-
rence, Rim, Monmouthshire, ironmasters (so far es
regards the said J. Lawrence)—J. Stevens and J. F.
Peatt, Gower-street North.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Frederick Ky nastou, St. Martin's-le. Grand.
John Minter, jun., Canterbury, tobacconist.
Edward Bird, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, millwright.
Thomas Kirk, Nottingham' purse manufacturer.
John King, Kidlingtop, Oxfordshire,
William Brocklesby, Summer-town, Oxfordshire, car-
penter.
Joseph Soar, jun., Nottingham, butcher.
Thomas Lamprey Clementi, Bristol.
John Till, Wootten-under-edge, Gluuceitershire, fanner.
Moses Holt, Bury, Lancashire, tailor.
John Dixon, Bradford, Yorkshire, journeyman tailor.
John Evans, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire, glazier.
Joseph Garner, Kirkbride, Cumberland, grocer.
Henry Knevett Brausby, South wold, Suffolk, school-
master.