The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-27 00:00:00

SHREWSBURY, WOLVERHAMP-
TON, AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
A meeting of Shareholders in the above railway was
held yesterday at No. 12, Argyll-street, Regent-street,
and attended by many gentlemen representing collec-
tively a large amount of shares in the undertaking.
The meeting was summoned in consequence of pro-
ceedings on the part of the Committee of Management,
which have already acquired no little notoriety, and
whose consequence has been to induce a very general
impression that the Directors should be called on to
render to their Shareholders an account of their ad-
ministration.
Several members addressed the meeting, enforcing the
necessity of convening a general meeting of the Share •
holders, and dwelling on the singular conduct and obsti-
nate silence of the Board of Management, whose failures
and negligence had been such as to forfeit all confidence
on the part of the subscribers, but who had never laid
before them either an explanation of the causes of the
defeat their plans had sustained, nor oven the slightest
statement of the amounts which they had already ex-
Fended from the capital deposited. Even this morn-
ing a brief announcement had appeared from the secre-
tary, stating that Mr. Stephenson was re-surveying the
line in preparation for the next session; so that it would
appear that the whole expense had to be incurred over
again, all the doings of the past months being of not the
slightest use, and meanwhile the Board were maintaining
the official staff, legal officers, and multitudinous ex-
penses of a company in action, while the undertaking
would, in fact, be lying in abeyance fur many months to
come. Various resolutions, which appear in our adver-
tising columns, were passed unanimously; and the
general meeting of Shareholders, when the subject
will undergo further consideration, appointed for an
early day.

DEVON AND CORN WALL
WRESTLING.

The natives, on Tuesday, of the above counties, resumed
their play again, at the Brecknock Tavern, Camden
Town. The attendance was not so good as on the pre-
ceding days, but the play far superior ; some of the best
men of the two counties playing during the afternoon,
but in consequence of the unfavourable weather, the
prizes were not played off, the ground being so slippery,
the men could not stand.

The principal bouts came off as follows :—G. Good-
man, a Cornish man (of the Blues), and Snell of Devon
(being two good wrestlers, and played a match a few
months back, which Snell won), had a very hard trial,
but no back ; " time" being called Snell holding the
ring.
J. Dyer, of Cornwall, then entered against Snell, and
after a fall, time being up, Snell was " half-standard,"
and another man entered against Dyer ; George Snell,
who played together well, but no back.
Two young men entered the ring, Hooper, of Devon,
and Francis, of Cornwall; both playing well, and after
a severe struggle, Francis threw his man by the
" hang-heel."
Philip Pile (an old wrestler of Devon, and one who
has carried off good prizes) opposed Francis; when
throwing and play was made on both sides, but the
Devon man was too old a practitioner; he caught his
opponent in the forelock, and threw him, amidst loud
applause, a fair back; and he played his time out with
another, the old man being too much for his opponent.
George Snell and Goodman were the two next
worthy of notice, and a very severe bout it was, Snell
falling, but no back. Goodman's play was admired by
all, but his opponent was too heavy for him, and the
men slipping in consequence of the rain, it was deemed
advisable to defer the playing for the prizes till this day,
if the weather should prove favourable.

A:RUNAWAY STEAM-ENGINE.—On Thursday af-
ternoon, the enginemar. of a locomotive at the terminus
of the Ardrossan Railway, having to leave his engine for
a minute, did so inadvertently when it was on half-cock.
To his horror and amazement, he had scarcely turned
his back upon it, when it started off towards Kilwinning
at a speed which he could not overtake. The gate keeper
at Stevenston, thinking it was a special train, made way
for it, although surprised that the customary signal of the
whistle was omitted to be given ; and away it sped at a
giant pace towards the main line ; upon this it got with-
out delay or obstruction, and turning towards Glasgow,
did not stop till it reached the junction at the Kilmar-
nock branch, when want of steam, happily, compelled it
to pause. Had it met with a train or other obstruction,
the consequences might have been disastrous. Fortu-
nately, however, no worse consequence resulted than a
temporary delay in forwarding the Fleetwood steamer's
passengers from Ardrossan.—Glasgow Saturday Post.

HER ➢iAJESTY'S THEATRE.
It is respectfully announced that
A GRAND MUSICAL FETE,
Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated
FELICIEN DAVID,
Will be executed, for the first time in this country,
THIS EVENING
With the original Melodies and Choruses.
Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of
THE DESERT,

produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the
Conservatoire Royal, Paris.