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Contents tbr SEPTEMBER. No. CCCLYII.
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Kr,uznach Spa.
The Ma; '.c
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The Ern vess Joseph Le's kir.tt Court.
The Great Little.
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UNITED KINGDOAI LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
• Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
3, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97, • .e.rge-street, Edinburgh;
12, St. Vincent-place, Caas,row : 4. College-green, Dublin.

LONDON BOARD.
• ^FLUMES GRMIA Ai, Esq., Chairman.
CHAPLEc DOWNES, Esq., Depuiy Chairman.
I. Blair Avarne, Esq. J. G. Henriques, Esq.
L. lhwi, Esq.. Resident. F. Chas. Maitland. Esq.
Charles E. Curie, Esq. William Banton, Esq.
Fairlie, Esq. • F. -Thomson. Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq; Thomas Thorby, Esq.
The bonus a:liled to poi from March, 1834, to the 31st
1947, is as folio•

licks

Time Assured.

£5OOO 13 years 10 mths
.5000 1 year
1000 12 years
1000 7 years
1000 1 year
.500 !12 years
500 % years
500 ! 1 ye it

Stun 4,1,1tql to.
I'olicyinlS4l~

£638 6 8

100 0 0

50 0 0

The Premiums, nevertheless, are on thi
*illy one-half need be paid for the first
iurance is tor Life.

Every Information afforded on appllcat
tor, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. Londm

Stun addedto
Policyln 1848

£787 10 0
112 10 0
157 10 0
157 10 0
22 10 0
78 15 0
45 0 0
11 5 0

ISum payable
at Death.

£6470 16 8
51.2 10 0
1257 10 0
1157 10 0
1022 10 0
628 15 0
545 0 0
511 5 0

re most moderate scale, and
t five years when the In-

tion to the Resident Direc-
m.

DROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (Enrolled under the Friendly
Society's Acts) and BENEVOLENT FUND, 42, Moorgate-street,
London.

Thomas Baring', Esq., M.P.
Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq.

EQUITY AND LAW LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
NO. 26, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London,
And Law Society's Rooms, Manchester.
TICrSTEES.
The Right Hon. Lord Monteagle
The Right Hon. The Lord Chief Baron
The Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge
The lion. Mr. Baron Rolfe
The Hon. Mr. Justice Erie
Nassau W. Senior, Esq., Master in Chancery
Charles Purton Cooper, Esq., Q.C., LL.D., I%R-cll.
George Capron, Esq.
Policies do not become void by the life assured going beyond the
prescribed limits—so far as regards the intetest of third parties—pro.
vided they pay the additional premium, so soon as the fact comes to
their knowledge.
" Free Policies" are issued, at a small increased rate of premium,
which remain in force although the life assured may go to any part
of the world.
The tables are especially favourable to young and middle-aged
lives, and the limits allowed to the assured, without extra charge,
are unusually extensive.
Eighty per ce.t, of the profits are divided at the end of every fifth
year among the assured.
At the first division to the end of 1849, the addition to the amount
assured averaged above 5(3 per cent. on the premiums paid.
The subjoined is a specimen Table of Bonuses added to Policies of
3,0001. each, which had then been in force for periods varying be-
tween tour and dv years :

Age at
Commencement,

Amount
added to Policy.

Cash
Payment.

KAVESEND STAA PACKETS
Fora Cabin and Secon' Class Railway NINEPENCH to
or from Loudon and liravesend.
Aaloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING.
To or from Blackwall.
Fore Cabin • • •• • • • • 6d. Chief Cabin.. •. 9d.
Intermediate Piers ........ 6d.
No other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purtleet Piers.
rho Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting).
FROVI TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.

WEER DAYS. SUNDAYS
ito.+ltr- Greem- Pur- noshr- , " Green- Pun
Pane „ill' ~,, 0. Grays hithe. fleet Time vine. It")-8
hithe. fleet
14,7 --
__ ——_ -- —l —.—
*7
712 —, 86 — —
ts,”i 1 11 1 • '
1.9y4 12
11W 2
1 !
2,—— 4
3 1 6 --
51———— 7
614 71¢
—a I •
78
i IWI

Direct Trains from the Boats }narked t

Omnibuses from Fenehurch-street Station to all par
every quarter of an hour.
t,ROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, ou t
the Trains from the Fenchurch-street Stati,

of London

the arrival o,
lon.

WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS.
Time. Time. Green- Roshr- Time' Pur- Green- Roshr•
El. M. fleet hithe. Grays T 111.—a
. tr 31 fleet hithe. craps ville.
-- -- -- --
II 10
12 10%
1M 11
114 lm
31/1 214
1M —3%
•5M v 5,
74 ' 7M

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Open Deity at Three o'clock.
ONE SHILLING ADMISSION.
Children, Hull-price.
Sundays at Half-past Four. No charge for admission except by
Refreshment Cant —Sixpem:e. Children under Six years of age free.
Director, Mr. T. B. Simpson, Albion,' Great Russell-street, Co-
vent garden.

THIS DAY, Auzust 39,
Immense Success of Deulin's new Fairy Ballet. " The 'Origin of
Harlequin." New
—rmlPingS • from the Antique. Dancq-4 to
Itorini's Band of Fifty Instrumental!sts. Madame Antonio
will make her M.irvellous: Aszent awl Descent On the Rope amid
hurricanes of Chevalier Murtram's gorgeous Fireworks. Chattaway's
celebrated ,Brass nd.

In active oreparat-n, a Grand Chinase Fete.
On Saturd,y, Sro the future, the usual entertainments wlll be pre-
sented, instead -of the But al Fresco, ani the usual ,harge for adults-
siom restored, viz.. 13.

Ladies and gentlemen can here enjoy the health•protnotingelegant
exercise of the graceful how, with the advantage of proper instruc-
tion, gratis ! Shooting three dozen urr.iws, Is. Matches f punier.
Wine, and a Prize'llow are alway. open. 'rickets, 10s. 6d. each, to
be had of Mr. Teetgen, Archery Manufactory, 164, L'ishopsgate•
street.

The Magic Cave—The Shooting Gallery —Burns's Cottage.
with Groups of "Fiqures illustrative of his Works—Summer and
Winter in the Arctic Regions—The Maze—Statuary of the finest
Classical description, &c., Sae.
Be it recollected, on Sundays, admission by Refreshment Ticket,
Sixpence.'

Never were- these delightful grounds in
such high perfection
as at the present moment. Visitors to London should not omit a
stroll 'neath the shade of the lofty trees and amongst the variegated
beds of flowers at Cremorne. Everything has been done to render
this magnificent place of amusement wordiy the most extensive
patronage.

The attention of the French in London is particularly requested to
this metropolitan ducosse.

raTbhliec.grand Bowling Saloon of this establishment is open free to the

inNtee .RTlvheer EMsapmlamnao
tithe. Sycamore, the Largest Tree In the World,

.A Table d'flote on Sundays at Six o'clock—Half-a-Crown.
Cremorne can be reached by road or river for 3d.
A Boat leaves Battersea-bridge every Night after the Fireworks.

EC lII'S SHILLING PENKNIVES.
.These, and the. sixPgN NY TOOTH-BRUSHES will prove
that, whilst he has the most• elegant shop In London, he is deter-
mined to do business on the most reasonable terms. He manu
tures extensivily on his premises, No. 4. Leadenhall-street, LondOn.,
desks, work;boxes, dressing-cases, bagatelle-tables, table and small-
cutlery, razors, razor-strops, brushes, combs, and every thing for the
work-table and dressing toilet. Every article is warranted. He is
thp sole inventor of the Mechian dressing-case, tcepatent castellated
toothbrush, The magic strop and paste, and the peculiar steel razor.
Beware of counterfeits, none being genuine without his name and
address, No. 4, Leatienhall-street, London.

FRA.MPTON'S PILL of HEALTH.
Price Is. l 4 el. per box. •
•
This excellent Family Yill is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for
correcting an disorders of the stomach and bowels, the common
symptoms of which Are costiveness, flatulency, spasms, loss of appe-
tite, sick headache., giddiness. sense of fulness after meals, dizziness
of the eyes, dromsiness,'and pains in the stomach and bowels, : indi-
gestion, producing a torpid state of the liver, and a consequent inac-
tivity of the bowels, causing a disorganisation of every fuiiction of
the frame, wilt, in this mast excellent preparation, by a little perse-
verance, be effectually removed. Two or three doses will convince
the afflicted of its salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain
its strength ; a h, althy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys will
rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, beat, pain,' and jaun-
diced appearance; strength, activity, and renewe t health will be the
quick result of taking this medicine, according to the directions ac-
companying each box.
' As a pleasant, safe, easy apperlent, they unite the recommenda-
tion of a mild operation with 'he most successful effect, and require
no restraint of diet or confinement during their use ; and Ihr elderly
people they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hi-
therto prepared.
Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d.
per box; also Ay the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
langdotn.
Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
name and aJdress of " Themes Prout, 229 Strand, London," on the
Government Stamp.

9d per lb. Eggs 4s 2d to 4s 4d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 14s; Lydney 15$ Od; Smiths' 14e Od ; Culm
13e Od per ton. Tallow 38s Od to 00s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., bs thi per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 4id ; mutton 4id to 6d; veal 4d to
5d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb.
flops 71os to 0103 per cwt. Bangor slates 3! 2s 6d to 3/ 5s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ 5s ; Valonia 151 to 01; French
61; Spanish 91 to 10/ per ton. Fleece Wool 15s to 0)a per &tone.
Recap 32/ t 034/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 13s to 14s; red
ditto 15. to 20s per barrel ; Newfoundland 8,10 s to 9 10s er
ton.. Tiroher—Memel, 80s per ton; red pine, 31 I a; yellow
ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 131 to 18! per 100. tildes—
Market 20a to 32s salted 21s to 32s per cwt ; calf skins
3d to 3d per lb Potatoes, white 3id to 6d ; Minions
Od to Od ; Guano— Peruvian, 111; Ichaboe, 8 193 pef ton :
Tar—Archangel, 19s peeharrel.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
VALE OF• NEATU.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Cirditf yesterdsy—Alr. Meyrick pres:ding.
The report of the directors set forth the satisfactory
progress which had been made in the works since the
last-meeting. The contract for the construction of the
viaduct over the river and caws! at Need), connecting
this hue with the South Wales Railwny, had been let
upon advantap.;eoui terms, and within the original esti-
mates. The whole of the works beneath Neath and
Aberdare were now let, and in an active state of pro-
gress, with every prospect of bAing open for traffic in the
ensuing spring. During the half-year large arrears of
calls (amounting to 36,5811) had been got in, and
amongst other arrears were mttny that had been consi-
dered almost hopeless.
- The CHAIRMAN, in addressing the meeting, spoke in
highly sanguine terms. of the prospect of receiving an
early legitimate dividend. The isum mentioned as re-
quired to complete the line between Neath and Aberdare
would leave a large margin for the purchase of rolling
stock; -in- 'ennelusiori,-the Cheri= said-tfrafire-eauttf
bitt think, that looking to the resources which the
Vale of Veath Railway possessed for traffic, it would
prove one of the best paying lines in the kingdom.
The report was adopted nem, con., certain shares were
ordered to be forfeited and sold, and the usual resolu-
tions were passed.

NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION.
The half-yearly meeting of this company took place
yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street;
Maier W. Beresford in the chair.
The report stated that since the last half-yearly meet-
ing the directors had continued their efforts to collect
the arrears of calls due to the conipany. The result of
the trial of an action brought by the company against
an influential shareholder for the arrears due upon his
shares had set at rest any doubt of the power of the
company to recover legally all arrears of the call. The
directors had consi q'u•ntly given instructions for pro-
ceedings to be immediately taken against all defaulters,
except in cases where there here strong grounds for be-
lieving that such steps would be entirely useles. It
would be observed that during the last session of Par.
!lament a general Act had been passed for facilitating the
abandonment of certain railways and dissolving the cora •
panics. The directors had reason to congratulate their
shareholders upon the course hitherto adopted at the ordi-
nary general meetings,of not prematurely, at great expense
and with a doubtful prospect of success, attempting to
obtain a special Act for this company. The provisions
of the Act were generally applicable to their company,
but the directors were of opinion that some of its c'auses
were of such a character as to demand their especial and
deliberate consideration, and that any hasty adoption of
its powers would be highly inexpedient; and they there•
fere intended to submit a resolution on the subject,
which would enable the directors to take with proper
caution the necessary steps when safe and desirable. The
balance-sheet showed that the receipts had amounted to
221,5811., and the expenditure to 192,2371., leaving a
balance of 29,3441.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
port, said the directors had conducted the affairs of
this company with a view to the strictest economy.
The balance-sheet for the last half-3 ear 'was less than
on any previous hal&year. They were in• this position
at the present moment—they had commenced a certain
portion of works, and spent a certain portion of money
upon them, and they thought that further expenditure
on the works would not he prudent.—(Hear.) It bad been
suggested that they should get an Act sptcially to au-
thorise the company to dissolve and distribute the funds
in band; but the wisdom and propriety of that course
appeared questionable while they expetfed a general
measure to pass which would enable them to t ffect that
object. He then went into the machinery to be made
use of under the Act to carry out the abandonment and
dissolution of railways, and proceeded to show that it
would be inexpedient to apply it to the position of the
Northern Counties Railway, inasmuch as there were
many outstanding transactions in connexion with this
company. Then there was another Consideration, that
of enteeieg into ogreemeratts,:witiitither companies for Jbe
purchase of th. it line; and, looking at all these circum-
stances, the directors thi,ught that they could not on
this side Christznas proceed under the proposed Act. He
concluded by moving the adoption of the report.
Some Oiseustion arose as to Lilo salary of the secre-
tary, and Mr. Smith moved that it bn reduced from
5001. to soul. per annum; but subicquently withdrew his
resolution.

The motion for the adoption of the report was then
carried unanimously, ai also a resolution confirming the
forfeiture of 265 shares, and th it the directors he
rrquested•to ascertain what terms can be made for sale
of the portion f the line already constructed, and,
soon as they may deem it advikable, to call a meeting
under the Act, to sanction the absadonmerit of all the
remaining parts of the railway which the company was
now authorised to conmtruct.

After a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors,
,he meeting separated.

AM[3ERGATE, rrimillAm, AND BOSTON.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Nottingham yesterday; Mr. W. Fletcher Norton Norton,
of Elton Mauer, presulitig.
Atter the SECRETARY heed read the report,
The CHAIRMAN brit-fly proposed its adoption,
Mr. KING asked the precise me.sning of the word "en-
gagements" in the following paragraph:-
I.h reference to the balance-sheet, your directors beg
to state that they do not intend to make any further call
until after February next, prior to which every exertion
will be made to recover the amounts now in arrear, as
also to asceitain the precise sum that may be required
to fulfil the engagements of the company."
He begged to move, in order to put the matter beyond
question, the addition of the follo,+ing clause:—" Both
as regards the completion of the railway and the canal
putcbases, and that they A lgo he prepared to suggest to
the proprietors the means of meeting such engagements."
Ile thought it was quite time the subject should be taken
into considerat;on.
Mr. WILSON, of Grantham, said that he had never
heard that they were bound to take more than one of
the canals, and objected to the amendment being in the
plural form.
Mr. HUGH OXENHAU, of London, moved as an amend-
ment that they should not pay for the canals unless they
were compelled.
Mr. BIRLEY wished to be informed how many of the
directors were canal proprietors.
The CIIAIRMAN replied that some of the directors
were also canal stuireholders.
Mr. KING wished a modifying clause to be inserted in
his resolution, but he ultimately withdrew it altogether.
In answer to Mr. MARTIN, it was stated that the pas-
senger traffic alone was equal to the expenses of the
railway. The total receipts were, on an average, about
240/. per week.

The report was then adopted.
The folLeving out-going directors were then unani-
mously re-elected:—Mr. Robinson, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr.
Durham, and Mr. Thornton. Mr. John Swann was
also re-elected an auditor.
No fewer than 10,582 shares, on which a sum of
330392/. 12s. 6,1. had been paid, were then forf,ited. The
t ,tal sum paid on shares forfeited by the company now
amounts to 38,5331. 2s. 6d.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman,
and the meeting broke up.

LLYN VI VALLEY.
The half-yearly meeting of thin company tool; place
yesterday at the offices, 449, West Strand; Mr. W.
Matthews in the chair

The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that no
material change had taken place in the company's affairs
during the last six months. The South Wales line had
been recently opened from Chepstow to Swansea. but as
no arrangements had been made to accommodate the
mineral traffic, and the connexion of this line was not
completed, no estimate could be formed of the effect
which it was likely to have on their traffic. The antici-
pations of an increase on the revenue had been realised
to a small extent, and though the traffic had not equalled
what the importance of the district had led them to
expect, as a gradual revival of the mineral interests
appeared to be taking place, the railway seemed
likely to progress, so as to give them the increased
revenue which they anticipated. The prours of the half-
year available for dividend amounted to 1,5611., out of
which the directors recommended the payment of a
dividend at tho rate of 4 per cent, per annum on the
paid-up capital, amounting to 1.5091., leaving a balance
of 52/. to be carried to the next account. The cl4ints of
the hollers of the new paid-up stock, under the provi-
sions of the Amalgamation Ac., to be reserved as before.
Th CHAIRMAN, in movin,• the adoption of the repor,,
said that he considered the increase of traffic most satis-
factory, though they had nut yet realised all that they
h
ied v
ad expectreed. During the last half-year they hzd cat -
39,634 rtheir line 239,634 tons of goods, against
200,977 tons in the corresponding half of last year, being
an increase of about 39,000 tons. The money receipts in
the same period have increased from 6,02/. to 7 9391.
After a short discussion the report was adopted, and
the dividend, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, de-
clared.

A spacial meeting was then held, at which a com-
mittee was appointed to tike into consideration the
affairs and prospects of the c ,ropany.
The meeting then separated.

the company, at 50, Old Broad-street. Mr. Aglionby,
M.P., was in the chair.
The SECRETARY read the report as folloivs:
" Mr. Stephenson, the managing director, and Mr.
George Turnbull, the resident engineer-in- :nief, en -
barked for lowa on the 20th of March last, a-riviug t
Calcutta the latter end of April.
•• The•directors have received a very interesting report
from Mr. Turnbull as to the line of railway which, in
nis opinion, should be first constructed; and the directors
have the gratification to state that the report entirely
c mfirnis the views already taken by the board on this
question.
" The board understand that the Government engi-
neer has also made a report to the Government of India
on the same Fuhj,ct, and that the views of this officer and
of Mr. Turnbull, upon all essential matters, are in per-
fect harmony.
" The board further understand that the report of the
Government engineer has been forwarded by the Legis-
lative Council of Lelia to his Excellency the Governor-
Cieneral for sanction. In the meantime Mr. Stephenson
has received, through his Excellency's Secretary, his
Lordship's assurance that his best and constant attention
will be given to the undertaking, and that be entertains
an anxious desire to facilitate, by every means at his
command, the operations ot, the East India Railway
Company, and to secure the successful conduct of an en-
terprise in which both the Government and the share-
holeers have 5o great an interest.'
"Yeadittg his Lordship's decision, the board consider
that it would be premature to print Mr. Turubuli's re-
port, but it is opea for the inspection of any shareholder
who may with to see it.
• " The statements which have appeared in some portion
of the Indian press, and thence copied into the home
journals, announcing the abandonment of the under-
taking, are totally untrue. " •
The directors think it right to correct a misappre-
eertsidwinsittleitir been industriously circulated, to the
ffect 'that the capital of the company is limited to
1,000,000/. sterling; and that, in consequence of such
limitation, and of certain• proposed details of construc-
tion, the experimental line to be laid down by this com-
pany must terminate at such a point as to prevent its
being remunerative.' The line first to be made is to be a fair
experiment, and is to be carried to snail a desirable
point as, in the opinion of the Government of India, will
render it sure cf being so. If the million of capital be
insufficient fur this object, new capital is to be raised
under the guarantee of the East India Company, on pre-
cisely similar terms as the original capital.
" In a return presented to the House of Commons, in
July last, on the subject of Railway Communication in
India,' is a copy et a dispatch addressed by the Court of
Directors of the Supreme Government of India, on the
subject of the contracts between the East India Company
and the railway. companies, and contains, in explanation
of this particular point, the following extract:—
" • Clause 17 provides for the excess of capital which
may be required above the respective sums of 500,000/.
and 1,000,0001., in order to complete the exact length
ot line which may be determined upon. In the first
place, our guarantee extends only to those sums, but as
it is impos.ible exactly to define the cost of the under-
taking beforehand, and more especially as in neither
case is the exact route fixed, and in the case of the East
Indian Railway the point of its termination is not even
fixed, it was necessary that some provision should be
made for any margin either of excess or deficiency ot ca-
pital necessary to complete these experiments. In thecase
of the Great Indian Peninsular Company, the two points
of Bombay and Callyan are determined, but in the case
of the East Iniian Railway, the starting pint (Cal-
cutta) only is fixed. You will not only have to deter-
mine the exact route of this line, but also the point to
which it would be most expedient, with a view to a fair
trial of the experiment, it should be carried, always hav-
ing reference to the sum which is contemplated to he
expended. And you will have to determine, in. the
event of the sum mentioned in the contract (1,000,0001.7
appearing sufficient only to bring the line to some inter-
mediate point, at which it would be Undesirable to stop,
whether you will make your terminus at a nearer or
more distant point, and to that extent increase or
de-
crease the capital as the case may be, and the surplus or
deficiency will be dealt with as provided for in, the 17th
'and 27th clauses of the contract. In the one case, the
capital will be increased on the same terms as the original
capital; in the other case, the excess will be returned to
the shareholders.'

" Upon a requisition from Mr. Turnbull, tho board,
with the sanction of the East India Company, have sent
out by the steamer of the 20th of the present month
three additional engineers, and have authorised the ap-
poitament of a fourth on the spot. The services of these
gentlemen will, therefore, be available at the commence-
went of the eusuing cold season in India.
" The board adopt ibis medium of acknowledging and
communicating to the thareh Iders the liberality of the
ninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in
seducing the passage money of the engineers and ewers
wf.o have •pruceedtd to ludia in the service of the
company.
" The accounts are made up annually, and, conse-
quently, are not Nubmitted at the half-yearly meeting;
but it will be satisfactory to the proprietsry to know
that the interest guaranteed by the East India Company
is now accruing upon the sum of 354,5671. 55., being the
amount paid into the treasury in I,,nclon up to the 30th
June last, and upon 2,4241 is. 8d , the amount paid into
the Governmeut treasury at Madras.
"Pending negotiations for carrying out the details of
the contract in India, tho company's funds in Calcutta
were invested in Government loans. The last mail
brings intelligence of arrangements having been con-
cluded with the Government for the transfer of these
funds to the treasury, in accordance With the terms of
the contract."
The CHAIRMAN said the report so fully explained the
position of the company's affaire, that he had only to
congratulate the proprietors on the prosperous progress
of the undertaking, and the point to which it had now
arrived. He wished, however, to correct a misrepresen-
tation which had been vcry extensively circulated by
the Indian press, and caught up and propagated by a
portion of the press of this country, to the effect that the
capital of the company was limited. This notion was
quite erroneous; it was true that the sum of 1,000,0001.
had been fixed in the case of the Madras Company, and
500,000/. in that of the Bombay Company; but this was
merely for the preliminary operations anu the portion of
the line to be formed in the first instance, &c. The di-
rectors were quite prepared to raise 3,000 Odd, it ne-
cessary, end he had no doubt the money would be
very easily obtained. He submitted that the report
shoal be adopted.
After a few words from Captain BARBER and Captain
ANDERSON, the report was adopted accordingly.
Mr. MCCATTA expressed the entire confidence felt by
himself and the shareholders generally in the present
direction; and moved a vote of thanks to the directors
for the fidelity, zeal, and success with which they had
promoted. the interests of the company, which was
agreed to.

FLEETWOOD, PRESTON, AND WEST RIDING
JUNCTION.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at Preston; Mr. T. B. Addison in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN read the report. which stated, that the
junction of the company's line with that of the Preston
and Wyre Company has b; en completed, and is attended
with a considerable and progressive increase of traffic.
Agreements have been male with neightiouring com-
panies as to the rate of toll, and other arrangements
are in progrPas for extending the market fur Longridge
stone, an article of traffic which alone may be expect d,
before long, to clear the annual payment to the Preston
and Longridge Company. The present liabilities on
capital account may be taken to amount, in the whole,
to 17,156/ ; and to meet them there is owing to the com-
pany for arrears of calls, which may be considered good,
13 2894; surplus laud unsold or not paid for, 1,6501.;
and stock in hand valued at 3,3351. The directors trust
that the shareholders will place it in their power to dis-
charge these liabilities forthwith by paying the calls al-
ready mule, which, unless some unlooked-for default
should be made, will, it is expected, be sufficient to place
the
Longridge, re s t on f
rat:
mai
the company free from debt. The directors have come
to a resolution to relayom
Gthreiffiliianregh f ~
f
Longridge Railway ir
the company's stock in hand. The old rails and sleepers
have now been in use above ten years, and were not
adapted for a traffic worked by locomotive engines.
The report was adopted.
The CHAIRMAN stated that he hoped, on an early oc-
casion, to meet them to declare a dividend.
A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the
meeting terminated.

DUBLIN AND BELPAST JUNCTION.
The half yearly meeting of this company was held at
their offices in Dublin, on Wednesday; Mr. Barlow, the
vice-chairman, pre,iding. The report of the directors
contained the following passages:—
" In submitting to the proprietors the accounts for the
half-year entling the 3Cth June, the directors hare the
satisfaction of being able to announce that there are now
thirty-two miles of railway finished—that portion of the
line from Dundalk to Wellington Inn, tea and a half
miles, harir.g been opened for the conveyance of passen-
prs and merchandise on the 31st of July, and that since
that p-riod the improvement in the traffic has exeeeied
their expectation.. In order to increase it as much as
present circumstances will a!low of, a contract has been
entered into with a respectable coach pr,sprietor, by
which travellers going to and from Bslfsst are expedi-
tiously conveyed beyond Wellington Inn station, rear
Newry, and Portadoim (being the northern terminus of
your railway), by omnibwes, at a moderate charge, . .
The result of the half-year's traffic, ending 30th June,. is
as follows:

Passengers' Ist Class, 8,673; 2d Class,
17,166; 3d Class, 18,801
Merchandise
Mails
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