The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-29 00:00:00

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
....

The general half-yearly meeting of the above Company
was held in the Company's offices, in Darlington, on
Thursday last, the 28th inst. George Hutton Wilkin-
son, Esq., chairman of the Board of Directors, presided,
and after briefly opening the meeting, called on Major
Parker, the Secretary, who read the advertisement call-
ing the meeting, and also the report of the Directors to
the Proprietors, with a statement 'Jf the accounts, from
which it appeared that the total receipts were
52,485/. 13s. lld ; and after defraying the expenses of
the half year, left a balance of. 28.8591. 4s. 110., and re.
commended that a dividend after the rate of 6 ptr cent.
per annum should be di-dared. The report also st-ited
that a lease of the
i railway has been ex«..cuted by the
dividend
ishar a,
s,
on 401 shares. Afier a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
parties, by which n future the dividends would be 10
nt)II1r0t. 0L and
sha l;eees,laartiil7 10 a
:, . per
cent. per annum. Resolutions were unaniniou,ly
apbaossv'Cdofif(3l°l.l)pte7shthaere t'ir*t
the meeting separated.

BRISTOL AND EXETER.
BRISTOL, THURSDAY EVENING —This company held
their eighteenth half-yearly meeting yesterday, at their
own offices, Broad .street. Bristol.. Mr. James Gibb',
Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided.
The CHAIRMAN expressed his rugret at the retire-
ment of their late chairman, Mr. Frederick Ricketts; but
he would still remain a nieuill-r of the Board.
Mr. J. B. BADRAM, the Secre,sry, then read Cie re-.
port of the threciors, a,mongq, other loattc,rs,
stated that the amount of rent and :thaw of toll due to
this company by the Great Western Cornpny, fer the
half-year ending the 13th of June last, atth.ttoted. to the,
gross sum of 44,951/. 17s. ; that, considering that this
was the least productive half of the year, the receipta,,el
the company were very satisfactory ; that they had:had

a large and steady increve of b,dh deptVto-,enta of
tr4tfic ; that the Directors felt- the must perrt-ct
fidence in the cow Leto into, z; of t'te ats:loa_oher:x
principle, which the y were about to app' -to the
Soutli Devon Rad wan-- icti-d that the at ley iltt
opening the line was only okt.lrez to eircuusta._ces
connected with the new.system of loc-motton ; that the
Acts for making branches to Yet%it, Tiverturl,Cleayedon,
Cowleybridge, and I.;reditiin had received the toyni
assent ; that the Bill - fur the Cornwall line hdrl been
postponad till mxt.session, upon the recommendation of
the Lords' Committee; but the preamble had beet. pr wed,
and there could be no doubt of its ultitnetie success
that the Directors had made arrangements, by subs:irib-
int.! for 70,000 shares of the North Devon Comp4,,y. by
which to secure a complete railway communicatit
the north of Devon. 15,000 of their ares
qiUre a sum of 375,000/., and the remai fle t , be adotted
to the puhlte ; that the North 1),.% on tit- join the
Brist-I and Ex,ter at Tsunion, Tivortoo, and -;retiiton,
and w form a vert couVeiii,nt mr,de ifcomtuunicatton.
fr ith Cornwall ; tit it Alr. firueel was now eagaged in
>tirv..t tog thr must eigitile lin.: fur a eommuniestion be
tween the city of Weds and the Bristol and Exeter line;
allot which the Directors presumed won!d meet the reason-
able requirement of the districts ct.unected with the
Bristol and Exeter Railway. 'and thzirefo,-.5 recommended
the Proprietors to pass resolutions emputverit4 them to
carry them out. The report them referred to the state
of the Company's expenditure, by which it appeared
that the interest on a portion of the borrowed eapi;al
had been reduced, and still there remained in their
hanker's hands, up to June last, a balance of 39,3011. ss.
10d, exclusive of 2,500 L deposited with the treasurer of
the county of Somerset, the 60,0001. then paid for calls
on 4,000 shares in the S.)uth Devon, and the 4,5001. for
1,500 held in the Cornwall Company. The Directors
recommend also the payment of 1/. 85. per share divi-
dend for the half-year ending next October. The re-
port then went into a detail of the income and expendi-
ture of the Company for the half-year ending June 30,
1845, and also of the goods and passenger traffic of the
same period. When the Secretary had concluded read-
ing the above report,
The CHAIRMAN made a few remarks upon it, and con-
gratulated the Company upon the prosperous state of
their property, which it would be remembered was at
one time at 30 discount.

The report having been approved and adopted, the
meeting next agreed to resolutions founded on the re-
commendation contained in it, after which
The CHAIRMAN proposed that 200 of their reserved
shares should be presented to their secretary, Mr. J. B.
Badham, at par, as
,a t-stiworly of the Proprietors' up-
preoiation of the valuable services he had rendered.

The resolution was put and carried unanimously.

MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON, AND OXFORD.
On WtdaQsday. a invetiny of the promoter:; of this
project was hill at Hail of Coaanerce, Mr. B. Oit
v,ira pro siding.

Mr. PAnsoi•is vxpl,,i,ie3 the object at the line, mid
stated that it would compb:v, the midland direct corn-
muniention h•twc-en the north,rn and southern coun-
ties of England. The p• went ,it.e was proposed to
eff,ct that object, by uniting a line from Rugh)
to Oxford with the South We-tern line at the An-
dov r-road station on the one hivid, and by a branch
line, the Western' U:iion from the Swihrb 41 Strt
v‘ith a station on th, pi- oo ,sed line, at or t;e,o‘
The whole w 010 no, • he-it do..s WOW d
b.• cted with t,ae Ureat ouTo.-t.ot S• !ti
tropton. It unf-rturnio.--4- t•at,petie:i ttAt a fordaniabA,
rival had fore-talled lain the marit,.r—he ine.trit
11,,thell's Bur ,•!, co,opari,on b• it•g its•ll..ned.
elt ,atisiied that the o::e p:•optl. t,y bin ID' ill,.
bly b preferi. 1--3) ?o, 1,,J,
••1 •- •, :•• • e• uk•

hp; Lem side,--ord'irei tei Le taken to the dockyard
Vicz4..43. Cu. linz, l'op'ar, fo receive the necessary
alterati‘,na, and af:er:.ard w.li return to Woolwich to
receive her guns.

`Tie Rarreit:),l:inior trinl-:(!rt-silip dropped down the
froin,Dep urd, till Monday afternoon, to moorings
opp :site the Royiil Arses. and I.esterday the baggage
of the two cointraui,s of tho Royal Artillery under
orO.-,re for Halifwc, Nove Scotim, was put on board.
Maj-r Andersoo', crnj-;toy mid Captain Statiwsy's com-
p my, of the of the Royal Artillery,
were inspectedbyC,,,Jantniittnt cn klui,:iay, and his
LoilNino expreswil nini,;,•ll highly cicased., with their
appearaixe. 'Zoo officers of Major Ander-
...ll's e .ttipany. consisting of Captain be Winton,
with Fri L Lawrcnc.., First Lieutenant Mou--
nra-, a•A S ii Lis-uteri:lnt T. 11 Travers, and the
offic: of 's company, censisting of
sit • , Fr-i Li.-cement Green, Fill Lieuin-
naiit io :I -,:oo:;d I,i,:tiu-nant Barstow, emborked
at F.ix morning at, the Revel Arsenal, and
the Barret:, exoected to sail at an early hour
to-morruiy morniriftr her destination. Tue companies
are 70 strong cael!, and Captain Stanway being the
senior officer on iioar;sl, will assume, the command o. the
whole until their arrival at flaliftx, Nova Scoria, whom
one of the companies wilt procke.,(l to 6t. John's New
Brunswick. first Lieutenant Iron. W. Kent-lady and
Second Lieutenant Winterbotom mbarked at the seine
thee for a passage to Halifax, to join Major Freer's
company, stationed at Halititx since May, 1843, Dr.
Verling accompanies the two companies to Halifax z 1
mMical officer. The two companies to be relieved itt
Nava Scotia and New Brunswick are Captain Mee's and
111i;jor Lock'da both of the Bth battalion ; the former
proteeded to a foreign station on the 7th of July, 1833,
and the latter .en the lGth of April, 1839. The usual
number of . women and children embarked this mornini;
with their husbands, and eighteen still remain. They
will, however, shortly iollow by the Aid of a fund col-
lected for that purpose, so that the steady and indus-
trious will enjoy every comfort at the stations they are
going to.