The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-12 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of the Proprietors of
the above railway was held, yesterday afternoon, at the
Paddington station, Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., in the
chair. There was a very full attendance of Share-
holders. The Chairman, in his opening address, pointed
cut the advantages of the various extensions and
branches which this Company had undertaken, and said
that it was the intention of the Directors, with the sane-

tion of the Proprietors, to go to Parliament upon those
lines of this Company .which the Board of Trade had
reported against, pi-ovided the Directors should not be
satisfied with the reasons to be given by the Bo ►rd of
Trade. This statemert was received with much ap-
plause. The Hon. Gentleman also stated, that on the
10th of March trains would be started to accomplish the
journey to Oxford in an hour and a half, to Cireneeyter
in two hours and a half, to Gloucester and Cheltenham
in three hours, Bristol in three hours and a quarter, and
to Exeter in five hours. _

Mr. Saunders, the Secretary, read the report of the
Directors, which stated that the receipts for six montis,
to the 31st of December last, had been 440,0461. Is. Id.,
presenting an increase of 62,2481. 10s. sd. over the
former corresponding half-year. It comprised, however,
the income from thirty-two miles of railway which were
not opened for traffic in 1843. The separate receipts on
the Great Western R tilway had been 332,891/. 3s. 3r1.,
Bristol and Exeter Railway 9i,595/. I9s. 6 1., on the
Cirencester 1 ne 10,3721. Is. 7d., and on the Oxford
Railway 6,1861 I6s. 9d. The expenditure, the particu
lure of which were furnished in the accounts, showed a
charge of 143,279/. 13s. lid., equal to 321. per cent.
upon the receipts. The balance in hand was 281,766/.
is. 2d., out of which a dividend was to be declared of
8 per cent. per annum. The report and statement of ac-
counts were unanimously adopted, and resolutions em-
powering the Directors to take the necessary Parlia-
mentary measures, with respect to the proposed exten-
sions and branches, were then passed. A dividend of
eight per cent. was declared, after which a resclution
was passed, empowering the Directors to contribute
500,000/. towards the construction of the South Wales
Railway. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and
Directors, and Mr. Saunders, the Secretary, which,
being acknowledged, the meeting separated.

COURSE OF EXCHAI
kinsterdam CF. 12 8
Ditto, at sight l2. 6
Rotterdam 2U. 12 8i
Antwerp
aamburgh M.B. 13 14
Alton& l3 14
Paris,3 days' sight 25 80
Ditto, 3 months 26 0
Marseilles
Bourdeaua
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effee. 6.3 M lO
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36A
Cadiz
tlilbao 36
Barcelona
Seville

I GE.-(YE STERi JA. Y
Gibraltar..
Leghorn ... ......... 31

Genoa
Milan ..... .....
Venice ....

Naples
Palermo. 0z..... 118
T,isbon . ...... . . 53i
Oporto .. ... s3i
Rio Jant-,•,, 231
Bahia .. . 24

Buenos A y .78 -

NewY4). k dyssight
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PRICAS RIILLION, )
Foreig,2 bars. £3 17 9
Portaga ligld Coin 3 17 5
New 1.),‘..; .00ns 0 0
New );,'2its J 4 9i
Silve;. "vs 4 1

REPEAL Or THE WINDOW•TAI.—A meeting of
the ratepayers of St. Pancras• was held at the Vestry-
rooms, Gordon-street, Gordon•square, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the best means to be
adopted tor the purpose of obtaining a total repeal of
the window-tax. Sir Charles Napier, the Member for the
Borough, and several other influential gentlemen, ad-
dressed the meeting, and several resolutions, condemna-
tory of the window-taxi were unanimously passed ; and
a deputation was appointed to co-operate with the other
parochial deputations, in endeavouring to obtain the
repeal of this taX.

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MISPRINTS.— Misprints often strike what are
Wined unlucky blows: Thq omission of a t mak s the mortal
the moral; the putt stati4s praised as the im-
.ttlefal lid& We fetid a Aloft tlii3e dgci a lariientittioil oti " the
frightful increase of morality in the metropolis;" and once
saw the advertisement of a treatiiie on " the blessed immo-
rality of the soul ;" we have met with the. glory of a con-
queror turnpd hit° gory by the dropping of the liquid cons°.
ilatit ; obi loyalty has beefi gilatted by the announcement
of a " moat reasonable attempt on the life of a soVdt-Olgil ;"
but, worst of all, *e lately saw the Duke of Buckingham de-
sCribed,.tfitotigh the dropping of the dog's letter, as " the
t'fitniet's Fiehd.;L=ti.detitith
TttAdfdAt. OedetutEtreE.—tak Mattirday Con-
Whle df the Bailinstrnulla station, received inforniation
that fi,yoting girlolanied Mary Brennan, recovering from a fever, had,
Willie in ii Statd bf iiiiatiitY; the night tiefore; murdered her mother at
Foxborough, about four miles Mini this tdwn. He called on Denis
B. Kelly, Esq., J.P., and, .after communicating the atllieting circum-
stance, was accompanied by that gentleman to his officer, Captain
Colciough. They at once gave directions to the constable to bring
with him Dr..O'Connell (surgeon to the constabulary in the dis-
trict), to ascertain if the girl could be removed to the bride-
well, to await the result of the inquest. They went, and
found the poor creature sitting in one corner of the wretched
cabin, and the remains of her mother on the middle of the
floor. She appeared perfectly deranged, and unconscious of
having committed any crime. She very distinctly said she killed that
" dirty thing" with a crook—" that it was not her mother at all."
A car was procured, and she was taken in it by one of the sub-con-
stables, and lodged in the Bridewell. A coroner's inquest was held
next day. Witnesses proved that the prisoner was of insane mind.
The coroner then addressed the jury briefly, explained the law in rela-
tion to the case, that the prisoner, being decidedly of unsound mind,
in sending her to trial there could be no danger of her life. The jury
returned a verdict accordingly. Her committal was made out by the
coroner, and next morning she was sent to Roscommon Gaol.—Athlone
Sentinel.
CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.—The following is a
list! of Members who claim to be excused from serving on Election
Committees, as being upwards of sixty years of age:—William As-
toll, Esq., Colcn.el Bernie (Iloniton), John Benett, Esq., Thomas-I
Bunbury, Esq., Sir Charles M. Burrell, Hon. Colonel Butler._ *John
Ralph Cartwright, Esq., Aaron Chapman (Whitby),
.E.S,ait_lll-
- Edward Bolton Clive (Hereford), Etti.,_',l:la__7".,_
man Crawford, Esq., William Joseph Denison (11./Tacegurnl7
Howard Douglas Liverpool) illiam Feildon 031
Augustus Elliott Fuller, Esq.:NV'
John Heathcote (Tiverton), Esq.. till Willi
njfaxmedOswrinit
HyoGosiernes,(SEalmop,),s,
oEsesqph.,
Hume, Esq., John Irviost,.Esq.,
Langton, Esq., Sir Charles Lemon, _
Sir Charles Knig ey, am Gore
James Loch, Esq., Lord Chartes
William Ord q.,
Manners,
Oswald (Glasgow), George Palmer (Essex), Esq.,
JamesEdwardw
1111 am Wynne Pondarves, Esq., John
Stewart MarJortbanks, Req.,
Fhilpotts, Esq.,
Colonel Rushbrooke, Th.mas Sheppard. Esq., Sir George Henry
Smyth (Colchester), • Sir George Strickland, Sir Frederick Trench,
Richard Walker, Esq.. Robdrt Wallace, Esq., Sir Thomas Wilde,
Edludod WOdehottas, Esq,. Colonel Wood (Brecknockshire). and the
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