The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-14 00:00:00

PRIVY COUNCIL.

The Queen lipid a Privy Council at twelve o'clock
yesterday, at Windsor. It was attended by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne
(Lord President), Lord John Russell (First Lord of
the Treasury), Sir George Grey (Secretary of State
for the Home Department), Viscount Palmerston (Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs), Earl Grey (Se-
cretary of State for the Colonies), Sir John Hobhouse
(President of the Board of Control), the Earl of Car-
lisle (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), the
Marquis of Clanricarde (Postmaster-General), the
Right lion. Fox Maule (Secretary at War), and the
Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse).
tier Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of
Lansdowne previous to the .Privy Council.
At the Privy Council Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, a
Vice-Chancellor of the Court of Chancery of England,
was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his
seat at the board.
Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued
from Thursday, the 14th November, until Tuesday,
the 17th December.
Mr. Warburton and Mr. Moncreiff were appointed
Assistant Inspectors of Schools.
The lion. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.

DEATH OF SIR RICHARD NAGLE —Sir Richard
Nagle, Bart., who has been for some months in a declining
state of health, died on Sunday last, in Grenville-stre.t,
Dublin. He was the son of the fi.st baronet by his second
wife, daughter and sole heir of Owen Geoghegan, Esq., of
semount. Sir Richard was born in the year 1800, and
succeeded hit father in 1827. He served the office of High
countyheriff and- was a Deputy.
arLieutenant of Westmeath, which
he regreeented in Pliament from 1E32 to 1841.

DIRECT LONDON Alm EXETER.—Yesterday the state-
meat by way of discharge to the five several states of
facts and charges brought in by the official manager,
Mr. Wrygbte, against the directors of this company,
was lodged with his Honour Master Brcugham on be-
half of Mr. Walter Shairp, formerly one of the di-
rectors of the company, in which there are some
thousand shareholders, among whom upwards of 60.000
shares were allotted. The drift of the voluminous docu-
ment is to show that the official manager, at the di-
rection of the Court, seeks to charge Mr. Shairp, as one
of the directors, personally for the benefit of the share-
holders who paid the deposit of 1/. 7s. 6d. per share,
with the sum 01,33,372/., on the ground that theconductof
the directors in managing the affairs was such as to
disentitle them to credit for any of the expenses in-
curred in carrying ;on the company beyond the sum of
2,9364, being 2s. 63. per share on the 23,495 shares on
which deposits were paid. In case this general claim
should not be sustained, then the object is to charge Mr.
Shairp personally with specific portions of the funds, en the
ground that they were snieapplitd by him or through
his a,7,ency. Mr. Sh.irp, in his detence, submits that
it. is unti,uil and contrary to justice to :.elect ore icdivi-
dual in respect of transactions in %shit:la he acted j,tintly
with others, and protests against the decision as re-
' gards himself until the eases of all the other 14 direc-
tors shall have been invested and decided on. He coo-
tenes that the shareholders, and not the (Actal manager
on their behalt', are the proper parties, both in law and
quits, to originate any proceedings against him-elf or
the directors; and submits that all tf.e charges on these
grounds ought to be dismissed with costs. On account-
ing for chi. Ties drawn by him on the cornrany's finds
to the extent of 6,214/, Mr. Shairp contended that it
was done on the authority and general responsibility of
the board, and not at all on his own personal rt,spon-
sibility; and in respect f another sum of 7,823/. for
law and other charges, which the official manager puts
down as improper, he contends that neither he, nor
his co-directors but three, are liable, those charges hav-
ing been incurred after the 15th of December, 1845;
after which date the shareholders deprived them of the
actual control of the funds. Mr. Shairp concludes his
defence by stating that he has paid out of his own pocket
789/. in defending actions on behalf of the company and
for other matters; and that he ought to have the sums
so expended repaid him, excepting so far as relates to
his rateable proportion, to ho paid in conjunction with
the other shareholders in respect of the expenses of
winding up the company.
COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE RAILWAY COMPANY.--
Yesterday the lift of contributories having been settled,
Mr. Duncan, the official manager, attended before his
Honour Sir W. Horne, and took instructions as to the
disposal of a balance of 3,3491. found to be in hand, and
which, it is expected, fifer payic g the prijectors 5001.
each, and the general will be pretty nearly ab-
sorbed, which will not render a call on the contributories
necessary. The scheme WB. fur wonting railways by a
new system of locomotives furnished with reservoirs of
compressed air instead of by steam, but it did not an-
swer.
SOUTH-EASTERN.—OPENING OF THE LINE TD KIL-

KENNY.—The interesting occurrence of the op, fling of
the line to the city of Kilk,nny took plAce on Tuesday.
A special train left the terminus, Kingsbridge. at half-
past twelve p.m. It arrived at Carlow at twenty-two
minutes after one, where it stopped for some time. In
fifteen minutes it reached Bagnalstown. and Kilkenny
in forty-three minutes. At Carlow the company were
welcomed by Mr. Bannim, the Mayor of Kilkenny, and
other members of the corporation. A large number of
the respectable inhabitants of Kilkenny awaited the
arrival of the train. The dinner, which was provided in
the Freemasons'-hall, by Mr. Walsh, of the Club House,
gave general satisfaction, and was upon a most sump-
tuous scale. The chair was then by Mr. Redmond,
chairman of the South-Eastern Company. Among the
company were the Marquis of Ormonde, M.P.; S.
Butler, Major-General 111. Donnell, Lord Walter Butler,
Major Th,unpson, F. Beamish, Esq.. J. Green, E-q.,
J.P.; B. Grogan, Esq., M.P.; John Maher, Esq.; Sir
John Macovil, Mr. Hardy, ditector of the Cashel ine;
Major Williams, 92d; John Sadlier, Esq, M.P.; Sir
Wheeler COD, George Roe, E-q.; P. Mahony, Eaq.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. - (160 miles opened.) Return of
raffle for the week ending Nov. 3:
Passengers, &c.
Goods, &c.

... £2,515 4 €

... 3,721 1F 4

Total .. G 10i
Corresponding week last year ... 5,E05 16 9i

It is understood that the Bank of England have
taken another step in carrying out the salutary plan adopted
during the past year or two of abolishing the receipt of fees
by the clerks, and that henceforth none are to be taken from
the bankers and merchants who are accustomed to send in
what are called dividend • lists. These lists comprise the
dividends to be received by the various firms on behalf of
customers and clients, and two days are always appropriated
for the signing of the warrants in connexion with them be-
fore the general payments are made. Much trouble is saved
by the arrangement, and in consequence it has been custo-
mary for each firm availing themselves of it to give a fee
ranging from half a guinea to five guineas, but the advan-
tage to the public and to the Bank is quite as great as it islto
individuals, since by lessening the confusion and pressure. that
would otherwise ensue on the first days of payment, it faci-
litates the convenience of all parties; and it has, therefore,
been rightly considered that it would be inconsistent with
the spirit in which a large public establishment should be
conducted •o permit it to continue in any way a ground of
exaction. C ,mpensation as in the former cases, is to be
awarded to the clerks, who would otherwise suffer from the
chanife.—T;mes•
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—After Thirteen Years of Suf-
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Pills —Mrs. A one Smith, of Hemel Hempstead, suffered with
wounds in her leg for thirteen years, during which period she
was under some of the cleverest su'geons of the age, both in
town and country, and notwithstandaig all their experience
none of them could heal this dreadful bad leg. Mrs. Smith,
finding all their remedies useless, was persuaded to give Hollo-
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in an incredible short space of time, and she now feels pleasure
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the Royal Polytechnic Institution, at the close of a lecture
on the "Ballad Music of Englane by Mr. Barker; his
audience rose, as if by, magic, and called on him to sing
God save the Queen, ' in which every voice in the theatre
joined, and the chorus had a very striking effect, some Lull-
dred voices mingling to give honour to ner Majesty. This
ebullition evinces a real English unmistakable love of loyalty,
and must be very gratifying to the true lovers of our national
institutions.