The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-09 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
ABERDEEN.

An adjourned special meeting of this company took
place at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars,
yesterday, to receive the report of the committee ap-
pointed at the meeting held on the 25th ult., for in-
vestigating the affairs of the company ; Mr. Perry in
the chair.
In answer to a question from Mr. WiLsote,
The CHAIRMAN said the secretary had received a
letter from Colonel Fraser, intimating his intention
to resign his seat at the board.
The CHAIRMAN then read a letter which he had re-
ceived from Colonel Fraser, protesting against the le-
gality of the meeting of the 25th ult., and also the ap-
pintment of the committee of investigation.
Mr. SPICER (the chairman of the committee) then
read the report, which recommended as indispensable
the raising of a supplemental capital cf 200,0001.,
to meet existing liabilities—such sum to be raised by
an issue of preference stock, at five per cent., con-
y ertiblo into stock of the company at the end of a
fixed term of years, and the committee expressed a
confident exrectation that the increased traffic
of the line would be found sufficient to meet the ad-
6itional charge upon revenue. The committee fur-
ther advised the appointment of a general manager,
an appointment which would enable them to reduce
the number of directors. They recommended that
the vacancy caused by the retirement of Colonel
Fraser should not be filled up. They advised the
directors not to extend the liae beyond Ferry-hill,
until the increased traffic should justify such a
required outlay, and without such measure received
the sanction of the proprietors.
A desultory conversation followed, in the course
of which it was stated that when the line was
twenty miles from Aberdeen the traffic was only
5501. a week, but that since the line had been ex-
tended to Aberdeen, the traffic had increased to
1,1501., exclusive of mails.
The report of the committee was then adopted, and
a resolution Empowering the directors to proceed with
the Bill for raising 200,000/. carried unanimously, it
being an instruction to the directors not to pro-
ceed beyond Ferry-hill without the sanction of a
special meeting.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
business of the day.

THE LATE MR. WORDSWORTH'S UNPUBLISHED
POEM AND BIOGRAPHY.—Mr. Wordsworth has left a poem
consisting of fourteen cantos, descriptive of his life, reflec-
tions, and opinions, with directions that it should be pub-
lished after his decease, together with such biographical no-
tiers as may be requisite to illustrate his writings, under the
editorial care of his nephew, the Rev. Christopher Words-
worth, D. D., Canon of Westminster, whom he has appointed
his literary executor, so far as his biographical memoir is
concerned, with an expression of a desire that his family,
executors, and friends would furnish his biographer with such
materials as may be useful for his assistance in the prepara-
tion of the work. It is a remarkable and touching coinci-
dence that Wordsworth died, not only on Shakspere's birth-
day, but also on the day of his death, Shakspere having died
on his fifty-third birthday, 1616.—Post.
SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE COMPANY.—The directors of
this company are in treaty with the Corporation of the city
of Lyndon for the sale of the bridge.
Yr. Halevy, the celebrated composer, arrived
Yesterday from Paris, to superintesd the production of his
opera La Tempesta, at her Majesty's Theatre. Mr. Scribe is
hourly expected.
GRAND DINNER TO LORD GOUGH AT THE
Mmssiox-Housx.—The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
have issued cards of invitation to a banquet, to be given to
Lord Gough, on the 30th instant. The company will consist
of Peers and Peeresses, of Members of the House of Commons,
of Lord Gough's companions in arms, and the Directors of the
East India Company, and their ladies, &c. The number of
cards issued is about 400.

SOCIETY or FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN DIS-
TitEss.—The anniversary festival of this society took place
last evening at the London Tavern. His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the society, was in the
chair. The majority of the foreign Ministers accredited to
thiS country were present.
TRAFALGAR MODEL.—On Tuesday the admirable
model of the Battle of Trafalgar was visited by his Grace the
Duke of Wellington.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the Week ended blay 5, 1850 -C. and 11. Main Line,
2,099'. 115. 7d.; Mold, 82/. ss. Bd. ; Steam-boats, 17. J.
96. td. ; Total, 2,357/. 6s. 3d.

The sorrow, of which no one speaks to us, -which
gains no change from time, cuts deeper than reiterated blows.
E iza Cook's Journal.