The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-10 00:00:00

The CHAIRMAN said, that the line between Warwick
and Leamington would be open in the spring of 1845 ;
and that alluded to by the Hon. Proprietor in the
autumn of the same year.

A motion was proposed and carried unanimously,
declaring a dividend of five per cent. on the loot shares,
and of 17s. in the pound upon the 321. shares for the
half-year.
The next resolution proposed was, one granting power
to the Directors to appropriate such a portion of the
available capital of the Company for the completion of
the Chester and Holyhead line of railway, not exceeding
one million sterling, and to take such steps as might be
required
_for the interests of the body of the Share-
holders.

The fourth resolution empowered the Directors, in
nearly similar words, to expend a sum of 100,000/. in
finishing the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. _.
The following gentlemen having fulfilled the term of
their office as Directors of the Company, were re-elected :
—Mr. Cropper, Mr. Carr Glyn, Mr. Theodore William
Rathbone, MrYoung, and Mr. Tooke.
Mr. Ramsden proposed, Mr. Holecombe seconded, and
Mr. Baxendale supported a motion, declaratory of the
high opinion entertained by the Shareholders and
Directors of the eminent services rendered by Mr.
Creed, as Secretary of the London and Birmingham
Railway, to the Company, and appointing a Committee
to afford to him some testimonial from the Company
that would indicate their high sense and appreciation of
those services, after which,

A vote of thanks was was passed to the Chairman for
his courteous demeanour on the present and all former
occasions, when he came in contact with the Share-
holders. After which the meeting separated.

SALISBURY TOWN COUNCIL.
SALISBURY, FRIDAY.—A well-attended meeting
took place at the Rose and Crown Inn, last evening,
which was literally crammed to excess, to consider
the most efficient and proper means to secure the
return of John Lambert, Esq., as Town Councillor
for the Ward of St. Thomas, vacated by the lamented
and sudden death of T. N. Chubb, Esq., one of the

freemen of this city.
The address of Mr. Lambert was then read, and re-

ceived with evident marks of approbation, when some

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gentleman present rose and proposed a gentleman
named Fulford, a linendraper of the High-street,
who is the opponent of Mr. Lambert, on the Con-
servative interest, as a fit and proper person for their
support; whereupon a third party proposed that a
deputation should be dispatched to Mr. Fulford to
request that he would be pleased tohonourthe meet-

ing- with his presence, and to state his political senti-
ments, and his opinion of the manner in which their

municipal elections had been and ought to be con-
ducted; and finally, if returned, whether he would vote
that the business of the city may be conducted with
open doors, or in the dark, as at present. This proposi-
tion, however, was overruled, on the ground that it
would be a waste of time, it being evident that Mr.
Fulford would go the whole hog for the Tories,
although Mr. F. had issued no address. Several

gentlemen then addressed the meeting as to the im-
portance they should attach to the present occasion—
the best methods to be employed—so that " not
a stone may be left unturned " to serve
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le cause of gr. Lambert, and concluded with im-

pressive appeals for them to be ready at their post of
duty. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lambert's arrival was
announced, and received with very great applause.
Mr. LAMBERT then rose, and said he was sorry he
could not address them at any length, as he had
another engagement to attend to; however, by their
kind permission while there, he would do himself the
honour of saying a few words on a subject -which
they were pretty well aware of, he alluded to the va-
cancy which had occurred in their municipal corpora-
tion.—(Cheers.) Now he was quite satisfied that if
they properly exerted themselves, and their friends
proved true, then the result of the election would be
what they desired, and what their adversaries antici-
pated.—(Hear, hear.) At the same time, were they
not thus to exert themselves, then they might depend
that success would attend the wily efforts of their op-

ponents. By the very numerous and respectable as-
semblage then present, it was quite evident that they
were now in such a position as to be enabled to pro-
perly test what their real strength was, and which
it would be very satisfactory for them to ar-
rive at.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) That is, they
would by this test know who their real friends were,
and who in heart were their opponents ; and they

would further know whether in the Ward of SL

Thomas they were in a majority or minority. He
would therefore exhort them to diligence and perse•

verance, and he would also exhort diem to encourage

a conciliatory spirit and unanimity one with another,
and they may rely that truth and justice must be the
stars for them to sail by. And they may
also rely that if they suffered themselves to be
diverted from those paths, just in proportion would

their cause suffer- by it.—(Cheers.) An petty ani-
mosity should be entirely done away with, and it was
to their interest, equally as much as it was their
duty, to make as many friends as they possibly could.
And they must bear in mind that a faithful discharge
of their political duty was as much a part of the
Christian code, as that of loving their enemies. And
if they were not prepared to love their political
enemies, then they were not fit to carry on their
cause ; and this was the test by which they must
alone hope to carry the day.—(Hear, hear.) And
if they could not love their political enemies, then he
would tell them that they could not expect to suc-
ceed ; but if so, then there was something in their
enemies' hearts which would at length yield to kind
reasoning ; and this they must do by continuing to
bring before them truth, which must prevail! Truth
was of a very slow progress,
and so was Christianity,
which had now been in the world 1,800 years : and
the triumph of their cause may also be very slow,
but at the same time it was certain.—(Cheers.) He
had now much stronger hopes of success in the forth-
coming contest than •he had on the last occasion ; and
he would only tell them this, that if they did not
carry their point this time it would not be the fault
of their enemies but of themselves.—(Mr. Lambert
here directed the attention of the meeting to an
anonymous letter, which he said he received subse-
quently to the late municipal election contest for St.
Martin's Ward, when Mr. Kelsey, the Tory candi-
date, defeated him by only sixteen votes, and when a
majority of at least forty votes was expected.) Mr.
Lambert also said he had abundant proof in his pos-
session that this criticism on the late election was in
the hand-writing of a gentleman of independent for-
tune and of undoubted respectability, who had always
hitherto acted with the Conservative party, and who
voted against him on that last occasion. The follow-
ing is a copy of this anonymous epistle :
" Salisbury, Jan. 10, 1844.
" GLonicoua. TRIUMPH.

" Such was the heading of a handbill announcing the
close of the poll at the election of a town-councillor for
the Ward of St. Martin, the result of which was much
as it was expected it would be, except that the majority
for Mr. E. E. P. Kelsey was about sixteen less than
even his own party thought it would be—indeed, some
of that party imagined that Mr. Lambert would not p•? 11
twenty votes. However, no one expected that Mr.
Lambert would succeed on that occasion ; but it was a
good beginning, and promises a better result in future.
" It is to be hoped the electors will not hereafter be
dictated to by half a dozen ultra-Tories, who have the
last few years carried everything their own way in Sa-
lisbury, disbursed the borough funds just as they
pleased, and distributed the city charities, and most of
the subordinate offices, amongst their own party.
" The election busy-bodies were going about last
week, saying, ' You must not vote for a Catholic,'
(Roman Catholic, no doubt, they meant); ' you, must
support the Church,' and such twaddle ; as if the Pro-
testant Church would be at alt endangered by a Roman
Catholic becoming a town-councillor. Some few of the
electors were led away by such an argument, but many
were too sensible to be misled : they know
are knolvall
that
byli lawoma
n
eligible Catholics,
for Dissenters,seats
n th e
to Quakers,wn-unc
eoil as well as in
Par-
liament ; and it is but just that all sects and classes
should be represented in offices of town and state.
" In Salisbury, I am happy to say, there is a great
deal of talent and ability amongst the Liberal party,
and it is a pity they have not come forward during the
last four years for the different offices. They should
recollect the maxim of Nothing venture, nothing
have.' They should consider what has been gained by
their party in the kingdom during the last fifteen or
twenty years:'
Now the Conservative party denied the existence of
such correspondence, and said that if such did'exist
the author was not a Conservative gentleman (as he
had stated in his printed address). But the evidence
which he (Mr. L) could submit, to substantiate his
assertion, would convince the most sceptical party,
and he was perfectly willing to refer it to the most
ultra-Tory. He could offer evidence to show that
the stamp on the paper of this anonymous letter cor-
responded with another sheet of paper on which the
author wrote him a letter in his own name previously;
that precisely the same abreviations were employed
in these two letters, and on close comparison had
found that the author wrote on both occasions
with the same " black lines," though the first letter
he had received from him was nine months ago.
Still he owed this gentleman no and his
letter was a proof that they had conducted them-
selves in a proper manner.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
And if there was one among them thatof the
had not
causeacted
whichproperly, h
e espoused, e was altogether
a should
be disregarded as such.o nwort
—(Cheers.) And the same remark he may apply to
the anonymous writer, or any other of his party. All
he could say was, that had any of his (Mr. Lambert's)
party written and published such a letter, he ought
to be viewed by them in a very suspicious manner.
As he had told them on a former occasion, so he would
now repeat, that he was prepared to fight their battles
perseverance, they
Some person had made a
remark by saying, " Get a majority
aggoati an manajdoraigtyai.t (teilhbeer by
s.)din t of
in your munici-
pal affairs, and then you,, may leave your other
matters to the boys ! There was great
truth in this, for he had heard that certain
underlings, good men at heart, had been
heard to cgticcss that, in their hearts they
—but were compelled to
were on their side—(Cheers)