The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-15 00:00:00

HAYLE RAILWAY COMPANY.
The general and special meeting of the Shareholders
of th's railway was held yesterday, in their offices,
Ord Broad-street-buildings, at half-past two o'clock.
The time advertised for the meeting was two o'clock, but,
owing to the non-attendance of Proprietors, business
was not commenced until the former hour. Abel Lewis
Gower, Esq., the Chairman of Directors, presided.
The Secretary, Mr. FLEMING, having read the adver-
tisement calling the meeting, the minutes of the two pre-
vious meetings were read, and confirmed.
The CIMIRMAN said that the report the Directors had
to lay before the Shareholders was little different to
what had previously been submitted to them, unless it
were the regret that the West Cornwall Railway had
not received the sanction of Parliament in the last
session ; but they trusted that in the year to come
they would be more successful. He had to state
that a resolution would be submitted to the meeting,
trusting that they would allow the Directors to enter
into uegotiations with the West Cornwall Company for
the sale of the Hayle Railway. They had been invited
to do so by the firmer Company, contingent, however,
upon the West Cornwall obtaining the sanction of the
Legislature in the next session. Ile therefore, before
submitting any of the resolutions, would propose that
the meeting. receive and adopt the report, with the ex-
ception of such parts as would be effected by the reso-
lutions about to be proposed to them.
The report was then read, received, and adopted.
Mr. VIGUELLES then rose to move that the Directors
be empowered and requested to enter into negotiations
with the cerninittee of management of the West C rn-
wail lit r, having for their object the sale of the Hayle
Railway. As ene of !fa promoters of the West
Cornwall line, he could aesure the Proprietors present
that this Company had lost their Bill, simply fri,m the
manlier in which they attempted to run over the Hayle
line. He was convinced there was a traffic sufficient in
the West Cornwall districts to pay the capital which
might be invested in a railway. He knew, also,
that a line from Truro to Penzance must
run over their (the Hayle) railway ; but having
satisfied the propri, tors of the latter line by purchasing
their shares, he could conceive of no opposition, provided
the West Cornwall altered their line, and that he be-
lieved was the present intention.
An lion. PROPRIETOR seconded the resolution, which
was unanimously carried.
Mr. BAGITELS proposed that James Austin, Esq., and
Henry John Wenthrope, Esq., the retiring Directors,
be re-elected ; and John M'Donald, Esq., in lieu of Mr.
Moat, resigned.
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Mr. M• DONALD said, that as the auditors had had great
troubl.: with the accounts of the Coa.pany, and as they
had rece-ived as yet no remuneration, he proposed that a
sun. of ten guineas each be placed at their disposal, as
a remuneration for their services during the last three

After thanks had been voted to the Chairman any
Director:, the meeting adjourned.

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAG uE, Auu. 10.—His Majesty the King arrived here
yesterday afternoon from his visit to England. The Cycloop
steame-, which landed hi. ‘;aje.ty yesterday morning at ten
o'clock, i‘erfo •med the voyage from Woolwich in sixteen And a
half hours.

AMSTERDAM, Ave. 10. A ceounts from Utrecht, Gro-
ningen, Bois-le-Due, and other places, bring very unfavour-
able reports respecting the potatoe crop. Some accounts say it
is a kind of epidemic disease, which continues to spread, and to
appear in different places which had hitherto been free. One
account from Bois. le-Due says that the disease is none other
than a vast quantity of insects invisible by the naked eye, or
rather appearing like a brown dust covering all the leaves and
items. An experienced farmer states that he has observed this
pheeemenon nut orily on his potatfies, but en the leaves of many
large trees, especially the oak and Cvnadian pines and poplars,
all which look sickly.
AMSTERDAM, A tic. It —The fiandelsblad of this day has
an article headed " Vigilance," in which it says :
" There are reports in circulation of events said to have
taken place out of Europe which seriously affect the honour
and the interest of the Netherlands. Though these report;
happily need confirmation, we think it the more necessary to
call attention to them, as in the rairlst of civilised Europe an
event has made a great noise in which the honour and interest
of the Netherlands are also implicated, and for which the
Netherlands Government, far fron requiring reparation and
satisfaction, has been content with t e most worthless evasions.
We therefore consider it as our duty to notice some reports of
such events, to warn the Government not to suffer itself to be
imposed upon by any evasions or sophistries, when the honour
and the interest of the country are Concerned. The reports
to which we allude relate to the conclusion of alliances and the
establishment of factories by European Governments in parts
of the Indian Archipelago, where the flag of the Netherlands is
recognised by the native princes and people as that of the
sovereign power. These reports state that some Englishmen
from Singapore are engaged in settling as merchants on the
north-west coast of Borneo ; that the French Government has
'taken possession of the Soho Islands, situated near the north-
east coast of Borneo; and that the King of Denmark, to
indemnify himself for the loss of the establishment in the Gulf
of Bengal, which he has sold to Great Britain, means to found
other settlements and forts on the coast of the island of Bahia.
There is no doubt that all this is at variance with the rights and
claims to those islands acquired by the Netherlands in the
seventeenth century, when the Dutch East India
Company, by its moral superiority and its conquests,
was ever,} where celebrated arid respected in the islands and
continent of India. Since that time up to this day the nations
of that vast archipelago have always considered it an honoor
to look on the Dutch flag as that of Jan Company, under the
protection of which they think themselves safe, and are fend
of calling themselves Children of the Company.
" It is needless to prove how the rights and claims of the
Netherlands are founded—whether on treaties er otber acts of
submission ; they must be raised in the eyes of all European
powers. According, also, to the opinions of the most eminent
British statesmen, they are also guaranteed by treaties between
the Netherlands and other European powers. It is, therefore,
the Auty of our Government to preserve to the nation the pos-
sessive rights and claims which it has once required, and, in
doing this, it must not delay till it receives from Java a con-
firmation of these reports, when it may be too late to repair all
mischief. Let the Government act with dignity, and maintain
the honour and interest of the nation."
DUTCH FUNDS.—Amsrismum, Aco. 11.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...—. .• •• •• 64 64
bitto, 3 per Cent • • •••• • • ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent—. .. • . • . 100 101 N
. Ditto, 3% per Cent.. ...... ........
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • . 169% 1703,4
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.......... 100% 100
Exchange on London, at sight .....• •• 12 22
Two m0nth5......... ••• • • • 12 17
On Hamburgh, at sight .. • • 35 81%
Two months••• •• •• ••
On Paris ........•• •• •• • . 57 62
Two months. . • .. ••• • • • 57 56
Dutch Papers. Aug. 12.
AC,altlAS FUNDS.—VIENNA, Atm. 6
• r Cent. Aletalliques— .• •• •••• •• 114
4 i,•.1.• Cent. ditto.. •• •••••••••• 101 N
per Cent. ditto
Loan, 15:34 •
;into, 1639

159
12914
1632

Ralik Shares • - •
.Isterliazy's Loan

RAILWAYS,
h. Northern, or Ferdinand .
..••• • • • •

•• 211%
•• 13814
.. 157 N
.. 126

tuy,

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L.l"rEtt-!'.,ORTERS.

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LONS-
DALE, TIER MAJESTY'S POST-MASTER
• GENERAL.
The p.tition of the undersigned sub-sorters in the

General Post-office,
Humbly showeth—That your petitioners are d=esirous
4,t* avai,ing themselves of your Lordship's kind permis-
sion to :express their grievances, with unfeigned deference
to the constituted authorities of the office.
That your petitioners would humbly call your Lord-
attention to the inequality of their present scale
.it sal pry, and to its inadequacy as a remuneration for
their services.
That your petitioners were promoted to their present
t,tfiee from that of the lettcruiarrii-s for their good
conduct and aptuuss at performing the duty which has
now become both onerous and responsible, and they
r.-fer your Lordship with becoming pride to the fact that
they have never, in any one inst ince, forfeited that good
character, inasmuch as a criminal prosecution has never
been instituted against any one of their la, dv.
That your petitioners would cautiously avoid making
an invidious comparison with other officers of the esta-
blishment, but they cannot refrain from pointing out to
your Lordship's notice the similarity of some of their
duties to those of the clerks, and the arduousness of
other duties in connexion with the letter-carriers.

That when the present scale of salary was made in the
year 1836 by your Lordship's predecessor, and the then
s,cretary, Sir Francis Freeling, it was an arrangement
'.l;:ch met with their sanction that there should be four
• ,ses, at SOL, 90/.,100/., andllo/. per annum, and that any
i=;(.-rease in the sub-sorters should be equally
• don each class. Thus all had a prospect of
ultimately rising to the senior class. But in con-
*equence of the number being increased from forty
to one hundred and nineteen, thirty of whom are on
Vie three higher classes, seventy-four on the 801. class,
: nd fifteen who act as letter-carriers on the lowest class.
;;,, that as there is little disparity in the ages of \ our
,bl,i petitioners, they are precluded from ever rising
*!Pive their present class alter passing many years of very
fictive Service. _ _

Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Lord-
i;lip to place them on a scale of salary according to their
sorvitude ; so that each one may have the prospect of
rising to a senior class everyifi ve years.
1 hat v‘qtr petitioners' duties have increased two-fold
si:ice 1836. and that the physical labours which now
dcvolvt• upon them are much heavier oil account of the
it“:!rea.,ed I acilities .4iven to the public, and the vast ex-
t.( o' the London newspaper pre.-;s; the arduous duty
or,orr:n::..,hieh falls principallr on your petitioners.
) our petitioners htunl;ly but earnestly seek
• ;,,-).;oration of their excessive toil, of the injurious
ia,,ture of which your Lirdship may he hest apprised
the fact that many of your hurnble petitioners are
-.oaring under serious bodily injur3- which they have
• ceiv,d in performance of their duty, which can
ver be pt,cuniardy cotunen,ated, but which your
7 .edship may alleviate-. As a painful proof that ill
f cts aris.3 from their lahiurs, they beg to refer your
the bills of mortality for the last two years,
, present sanitary state of the office.
r petitioners humbly wish your Lordship to
• tf„,, when they are disabled by sickness or other
con,i,lers.ble portion of the salary is de
darted. This your Lordship will please t,) consider
otten retards their recovery and embarrasses them in
tl'eir circumstances ; they, therefore, pray your Lord-
4hip to place them in the same position as other officers
or-filer the Crown, and that your petitioners may have
1.1,e privilege of fourteen days in the year, without de-
d !awns, of which your Lordship will please to deem
ti cm, not unvVrth.y, after twelve months of hard service
a confin • --and destructive atmosphere.
That eu4titttioners respectfully affirm that it is im-
ptissibl.-.; fi'ealie such evils under a continuation of such
etrcum is, 'they therefore liumbly pray your Lord-
ship toittrito them—first, ,an Saequate salary equal to
eir years 'of servitude, respoidniAlity, and trust; se-
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condly, a modification of their duties, which at present
exceeds their energies, and destroys both body and
mind; and lastly, that all extra duties performed by
your humble petitioners be remunerated on the same
principle as that allowed to other officers of the estab-
lishment.

That your petitioners do most earnestly implore your
Lordship to take such steps as in your Lordship's wis-
dom may seem fit to meliorate their condition—to give
happiness and contentment to their homes, and enable
your petitioner, to maintain their families in comfurt
and respectability.

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And your petitioners, as in duty bound,
August 5, 1845. will ever pray, &c.

NEW CLAISiS MADE BY FREE-
TRADERS IN SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
We understand that no fewer than 2,659 uew claims
have been made by the free-traders to be placed on the
register of county voters, for the southern division of
this county —claims which will be investigated at the re-
vising barristers' courts, to be held next month. In a
recent number we stated the amount of new claims to he
shout 2,500, hut that was only an estimate, and the fol-
lowing table will show, with tolerable accuracy, the real
nuinhers in each of the polling districts within the divi-
sion. It is believed that these new claims are wholiy
independent and irrespective of the claims because of a
ruisdescription, a removal, or a change of gullification,
which are now termed reclaims, and a list of which is
also added. But these make little or no ditn-rence to the
register, while the establishment of 2 000 new claims
would give that additional strength to the free-trade
p4rty in the division, and wtitild doubtless enable them
'o sccare the return of both its meintmrs

Free-Traie
Polling Places. New Claims. Re-Claims.
Ashton-under-Lyne.... 158 lO
Bolton B7 62
Bury
Liverpool
Manchester 1,064 591
Newton
Oldham
Ormskirk ..
Rochdale 176 no account.
St. Helen's 4l 95
Southport
Wigan 65 2l

Totals 9,659 ........1.884

•
What is the total number of new claims made by mo-
nopolists we hare nut heard ; but we believe it is alto-
gether insignificant in point of numbers ; and there can
ne no doubt that, both as to objections and claims, the
free traders will have another prodigious gain on the
,Ipprofiching registraton—one that will ensure to Sunth
Lancashire a free trade representation.—Manchester
Guardian.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CH 4IVCERY, Auwist 14
The Lord Chancellor sat in his private room connected with
his Court, at Westminster, to-day, for the purpose of hearing
any matters that pressed. His Lordship was attended by several
itcntlemen of the bar, among whom we noticed Ur. Wake-
field, Mr. Swat,ston, Mr. J ,m,s Parker, Alr. lLndail.
Follett, s ul 3lr. Peersdo, ff.