The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-22 00:00:00

CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE.

On Saturday a long and stormy meeting of the share-
holders of the above company was held at the office,
Hungerford-market, to consider the propriety of leasing
to the Central Railway Terminus Company.
The meeting was exceedingly crowded.
Mr. W. Hawes, Chairman of the Directors, having
taken the chair, the report of the Directors was read. It
stated that the Deputy-Chairman had, subject to the
approval of the board, agreed to lease the bridge to the
Central Terminus Company on the following terms—
namely, for 186,000 L, being 160,0001. for the bridge, and
26,0001. for the debt of the company, reserving the right
of the Market Company, and to each proprietor the right
of taking a portion of the shares in the Central Terminus
Company. This offer being approved of by the board,
it was resolved to submit it to a general meeting of
the proprietors. At the previous half-yearly meeting
of the shareholders it met with their unanimous sup-
port. On the 18th instant, a letter was received from a
gentleman connected with a company about to be formed
offering higher terms for the bridge ; but the Directors,
conceiving that .they had already completed, as far as
they could, an advantageous treaty with the other Com-
pany, declined to entertain the proposition until the
determination of the Shareholders on the resolution to
be submitted that day had be. .n taken, and which the
Directors believed would be much to their interest. The
Chairman then moved that the offer of the Central Rail.
way Terminus Company be accepted ; after which Mr.
Stutely, Deputy-Chairman of the Hungerford-market
Company, said that the Terminus Company would have
a very prejudicial effect upon the market, for they in-
tended to make a passage from the bridge to the Adel-
phi, which would seriously injure the market. He also
observed that the subsequent offer by the other Company
was 20,0001. more than the Central Railway Terminus
Company, and would do them no injury whatever. He
moved an amendment, that it was inexpedient to accept
the offer of the Central Railway Terminus Company,
After a lengthened discussion of about three hours, a
show of hands was taken, when the majority was found
in favour of the original motion. A poll was demanded,
proxies being included, when the amendment was de-
clared carried by a majority of about 80. The meeting
then separated.

MR. O'CONNELL AT DARRYNANE.—An English
gentleman, with whom we have conversed, has given us a
very animated account of a day at Darrynane, the great
episode of which was a hunt with those celebrated " little
beagles," which have so often formed the theme, 'and we be-
lieve with justice, of the Agitator's praise. Nothing could
be more complete than the transformation of the " embodied
thunderbolt off Conciliation-hall"—such was thefigure made
use of by our English friend—and the merry hunter of the
Kerry mountains " inhaling the ocean breeze that comes
freighted with health and vigour from the coast of Labra-
dor." In the evening a large party of Englishmen, Irish-
men, Frenchmen, and Italians, Tories, Radicals, Conserva-
tives, and Repeaters, sat down to a board, which, said our
ceiend, " bore all the characteristics of that of an Irish
Prince." "It was," he added, " a real Conciliation-hall,
from which all those topics with which this extraordinary
man sets the world by the ears were carefully excluded.
Every man felt at hone with his neighbour, and, above all,
with his host, and when the old retired for the night. with
that bland and affectionate expression which he throws into
his face at his own fireside, those who would have battled
with him foot to foot on the political or religious arena, could
not restrain the wish that his lot had been cast in those quiet
scenes of domestic life which he seems above all men Irving
most suited to adorn." Sixty strangers were entexi-nined
and slept at Darrynane Abbey on Wednesday night.—Tralee
Chronicle.
LOVE AND MESMERISM, HY HORACE SMITH, ESQ.,
AUTHOR OF 4. BRAMBLETYE HOUSE," &C.—TO Mr. Smith,
for nriuty a long year, we have been indebted for numerous
interesting and valuable works of fr;tion ; and we sincerely
hope that he may yet indulge us with many volumes as full
of interest, as fell of beauty, as those which are now before
us. " Love" is a very charming tale of Venice—of Venice
during the first campaign of Bonaparte in Italy, Amelia
Lamedano, its heroine, is ono of the loveliest and most grace-
ful of all Mr. Smith's creations; and her character is very
finely contrasted by that of her friend Ippolita, the sister of
the hero, Cosmo di Moliniella. The characters are greatly
varied, and ably sustained throughout. " Mesmerism" is a
~Auction of altogether a duferent clws. Bordering on the
i
.. 0,1-natural, it s exceedingly curious in its c'instructi,n,
rxcites an intense and thrilling interest, and, with much of
admirable moral, it throws much light upon the obscure and
as yet little understood subject of animal magnetism.—Naval
and Military Gazette.