The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN
RAILWAY.

A meeting of shareholders in the above line was held yes-
terday, at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, under
rather singular circumstances. On Friday last, an adver-
tisement appeared in a morning paper, calling a meeting of
shareholders at the above house to take into consideration
the condition of the company in consequence of the peculiar
difficulties in which it was unexpectedly placed, and on
Saturday another advertisement appeared, signed by the
secretary, denouncing the former notice as a stock-jobbing
hoax, and stating that the company were in no difficulties,
the Bill having been read a first time and standing for a
second reading on Monday. Yesterday morning Alderman
Vickers (of Sheffield), the projector of the line, issued a cir-
cuter, calling on the shareholders to asseinble at the ap-
pointed place, as "it is expedient either to drive the oppo-
nents of the line into the pit they have dug for the promoters,
or, if they do not attend, to place such a resolution before the
public as will show this line to be beyond a doubt of first-
rate public and private value." At two o'clock, there being
about twenty shareholders present, E. S. Kennedy, Esq., was
called to the chair.

Mr. VicKEtts said, on Friday last his attention was called
to the advertisement convening this meeting, and he hastened
to the solicitors of the line, begging them not to contradict
it, but 'to let it take place, and see if any one dared to come
forward. He regretted that that course had not been fol-
lowed. On Saturday, he ascertained that no room had been
engaged by their opponents, and therefore he engaged it
himself, determined that, as the meeting had been called, it
should take place.
J. STAICIFORTII, Esq., solicitor to the Goole line, moved,
and Mr.VicKEtts seconded, a resolution—" That this meeting
express its strongest disapprobation of the unworthy means
used by the anonymous writers of the advertisement to depre-
ciate the property of the shareholders in the Cambridge and
Lincoln Railway b such calumnious and foul reports; and
that they deem such conduct most disgraceful and ditionour-
able to the character of Englishmen ; and that this meet-
ing express their strong belief in the excellency of the pro-
jected railway, and recommend it to the continued support
of the shareholders, and the favourable consideration of the
public at large."
The resolution was unanimously carried.
Mr. WALMISLEY then moved, and Captain Cousrxs, for-
merly harbour-master of London, seconded a resolution re-
commending the shareholders to support the extension lines,
the Lincoln, Leeds, and York direct, and the Goole, Don-
caster, Manchester, and Sheffield Junction, as tending with
this line to ensure the public a cheap supply of coals ; which
was alscrcarried.
Thanks being voted Ito the chairman,.. the meeting ad-
journed.

LETTERS OPENING•—On Monday a public meet-
ing (by requisition to the Mayor) was convened at Nottingham, rela-
tive to Sir J. G. Graham's letters opening propensity. Every town
and village ought to protest against this most odious system.
COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The pitmen lately employed
at Mr. Smith's colliery, Longton, have struck for an advance of
wages. Four shillings per day, we are informed, is the rate of wages
sought to be obtained, being an advance of 7d. per day over their
late scale of remuneration. Rumour states that other colliers in the
neighbourhood will soon follow their example.—North Staffordshire
Mercury:

Earl Grey will complete his 81st year on Satur-
day next.

BANKING HOURS.—It is the intention of the banks
in Manchester to close their establishments at three o'clock, and it
has been suggested that this plan might be adopted throughout the
country.

LAUNCH or THE LAHORE.—On Saturday the La-
hore, of Liverpool, was launced from the ship-building yard of Mr.
Peter Cato. at the south-west corner of the Brunswick Dock. Her
length is 119 feet, her breadth 29 feet 6 inches, and her tonnage 575
tons. She will be commanded by Capt. Burt. Mr. Cato owns one
half and Capt. Burt the other half of this fine vessel, which is in-
tended for the East India and China trade. Miss Cato, the daughter
of Mr. Peter Cato, performed the operation of christening. The
launch was a capital one, and, after it had taken place about 100 of
the ladies and gentlemen present were entertained at a Wjefini, over
which Mr. Peter Cato presided.—Liecrpcol Albion.
The idle and injudicious prcsecution in the Royal
Court of Guernsey of the Governor by a jurat is still proceeding,
though the Crown officers refuse to have anything to do with it.
They rightly urged the absurdity of the Court's entering upon a
matter in which their decision, if unfavourable, could not be acted
upon.—Jer•sep Times, March 7.
Mr. Locke has been elected City Pleader by a
majority of twenty votes above Sir Walter Riddell, the only other.
Madge.