The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-19 00:00:00

Faris erLy,n(f ilttr') ... —
..- ----
Far s and Lyons (Gan-
n cron's)... ..
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..... ..
Paris &Lyons (Sud Est) 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Comps de L'Est) 2
Do (Avmard's) - -
Paris andSt.Quentin
Rouen and Havre
V oyal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 ......
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & Atlautie
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 4
Tours and Nantes (Mac-
. kenzie's) .... ..... -..... 4
Do. do. (Lefebvre's \ 2
Ditto (O'Neill's) 2
Trinidad

MINES.

Real del Monte Unregd. =
Bolanos Scrip —

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
•••
London Joint Stock
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Do. New
Union of Australia

" That the meeting cannot separate without recording
their entire confidence in the Managing Committee, and
their grateful sense of the service rendered to the Com-
pany by that body, and particularly for the prompt and
decisive steps they have taken relative to the meeting,
and the full and explicit statement of the present posi-
tion of the Company which they have made to the share-
holders."

Mr. BLOUNT said that he had nothing to fear from
what had taken place. He had vouchers showing that
he had expended 6,7671. 4s. 7d. for the Company. He
denied that he made any further claim on them, and he
demanded a copy of Mr. Hawksworth's report, in order
that he might answer it in print.
The CHAIRMAN said that he should certainly have it,

and every facility should be given him to get himself nu,
of (to say the least of it) a difficulty, for he felt bound to
say that through the course he had pursued the present
Company was tripped up by the heels.
Mr. HOLT, a barrister, defended the course pursued by
Mr. Brewer, and asserted that he was as honourable a man
•s ever lived. Ile thought, if personal statements were
to be made against him, he ought in justice to have been
permitted to be present.
The CHAIRMAN, in the course of the meeting, stated
that the iron hand of the Committee of Management
would be put upon all the outstanding accounts, and he
was in hopes that, besides the 11. 103., the shareholders
would receive ss. or 7s. on each share in addition.
Mr. HUMPHREYS, in answer to a question from a Pro-
prietor, stated that preliminary expenses were included
in Mr. Brewer's account, and also 3,0001. for adver-
tising.

The CHAIRMAN said that at the time when the 15,000
shares were set apart for the promoters of the
undertaking, there were no less than 400,000 applica-
tions for shares, and had not the Committee
of Management been waterlogged with keeping
them, the Proprietary would have been in a very dit-
ferent situation to what they were at present.
A PROPRIETOR inquired when the 11, 103. would be
returned to the Proprietors ?

The CHAIRMAN said in a fortnight from that time.
A rote of thanks having been carried to the Chairman,
he meeting separated.

DARING ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT DUNMOW --
On Tuesday afternoon, Charles Horsnell, jun., of Little Eas-
ton, son of the park-keeper to Viscount Maynard, whilst
watching the park grounds and preserves in the avenue lead-
ing from Dunmow and Stortford turnpike-road to Easton
Lodge mansion, observed a man about five feet eight inches
in height, having on a black hat and velveteen jacket,stand-
big in a game preserve where the pheasants are fed ; he im-
mediately made towarils him, and having advanced to within
twenty yards of the stranger, Horsnell, observed the man
point a gun at him and fire. The scattering shot riddled his
(Horsnell's) coat, through two boxes and a book in his
pocket; but the principal part of the ,charge struck a tree,
knocking off the bark to the extent of six inches. Fortu-
nately not a shot entered Horsnell's person, owing to the
pockets of his shooting-jacket being full, which caused them
to stick out from his side. As soon as he had recovered from
the alarm he naturally felt, he pursued the stranger, and after
running about twenty yards shot at him, but his gun missed
fire, and the fellow escaped. Horsnell raised an alarm, and
immertiatelv returned to his father, when search was c ,n-
-tinued in the woods for several hours, but to no avail. No
clue to the offender has at present been discovered.—Essex
Herald

The rumour of yesterday, respecting the nomina-
tion of his Royal highness Prince Albert to the post of
Commander-in-Chief, has obtained increased currency to day
on 'Change, and some have gone so far as to invent an addi-
tion, that it has assumed the shape of a command from a
-very high quarter. Without attaching the least belief to a
statement so improbable in itself, it may not be without
utility to mention that, where believed at all, it was univer-
sally spoken of in terms of strong indignation.—Times City
Article yesterday.
GRZTNA•GREEN.—The services of " mine host of
Gretna Hall" were again called into requisition on Tuesday
last. The' parties to the happy contract appear to haveb9en
the daughter of a celebrated disciple of Esculapius, residing
at the West-end, and a gentleman well known on the Stock
exchange.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Dxc. 17.
STOCK ExcnAxisim.—The _sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 27s p.—Bolton, Wigan. and Liverpool,
103% p. ex n.—Clitheroe Junction, 1% p.—Derby and Crewe,
13/1 p.—East Lancashire, No. 2,2% p.—Grand junction, 234
—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32 p.—Hudderafield Canal and
Railway, 4 p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junc-
tion, 15s. p.—London and Birmingham, 191,1 p.—London and
Manchester, 114 dis.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 1014 p.—Mid-
land, 141—Mold Junction, 15s. dis.—Newcastle and Darling-
ton, 54—North Kent, par—Sheffield and Manchester, 115—
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 6 p.—Ditto, ditto, No. 3 (scrip), 3 p.
—South.Eastern and Dover, 341/2—Ditto, Half Shares, ss. p.
—South Wales, 10s. p.—West Riding Union, 3% p.—White,
haven and Furness, 10s. dis.—Belfast and Ballymena, par.
sr A I\T,

MANCHESTER, DEC. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Boston, Newark, and
Sheffield, VA—Leeds and Think, 914—Manchester, Buxton,
and Matlock, 77s.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 1114—
Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby, DA—Manchester and
Southampton, 2%—Nottingham and Mansfield, 2V2—Shrop-
shire Union, 345. 6d.

SHEFFIELD, DEC. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only sale was—West Riding
Union, 5!. 16s.

BRISTOL, Dec. 17.
STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter.
New, 5!-,4—Bristol and Gloucester, 51—Midland, New, 2514_
Yale of Neath, 3 Vt.

LEEDS, Dxc. 17.
Srocir ExcmucrGE.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds,
Fifth Shares, 10 p.—Leeds and Bradford, 181/2—Ditto, Ex-
tensions, 18—Leeds and Thirsk, 94—North British, New,
53/4—Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 21fi—Oxford. Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 13—West Riding Union, 51/2—Grand
Union, 2s. 6d. dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, ls.
dis.—Leeds and York, ss. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, par—
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 30s.p.—Wake-
field and Harrogate, 2s. 6d. p.
HULL, DEC. 17.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Darwens, 7—North
British, Carlisle, 21. 2s. 2d.—Grand Union, par—Trent Vallay
Continuation, 21/B—Grimsby and Sheffield Quarter Shares,
33/4—Ambergate, 21A—East Lincolnshire, 2—Direct North-
ern, 365.

YORK, DEC. 17. •
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—York and North Mid-
land Extension, 25—Newcastle and Berwick, 11—North
British, 22—Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 2—London and
York, 3%

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHES-
TER RAILWAY.
A meeting of the Shareholders of this undertaking took
place on Wednesday at the London Tavern, for the pur-
pose of receiving a r& port from the Committee of Manage •
ment, and deciding upon the steps it would be advisable
to adopt with reference to the prosecution of the under-
taking in the next session of Parliament, or otherwise.
MATTHEW PIERPOINT, Esq., Chairman of the Com-
mittee of Management, took the chair, shortly after
twelve o'clock.
Among the Directors present, besides the chairman,
we noticed Mr. Fox, of Melbourne; Mr. Moss, the late
Mayor of Derby; Mr. Bridgett, Mr. Pilcher, Mr. Jude-
wick, Mr. Wheatcroft, of Buckland Hollow ; Mr. Sey-
mour, Mr. Fry, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Peel, of Manchester.
After a short discussion, it was determined by a show
of hands, that Mr. Brewer, the late solicitor of the Com-
pany, not being a shareholder, could not be present, and
address the meeting.
Mr. HUMPHREYS, of the firm of Humphreys and Co.,
Chancery-lane, solicitors, read the report of the Com-
mittee of Management, from which it appeared that the
concern, as proposed by the original promoters, was a
complete failure; that the Committee had changed their
late solicitor, Mr. Brewer, and that the line as pro-
posed by their engineer would cost 50,000 L a mile,
it being full of engineering difficulties. The Committee,
therefore, advised the dissolution of the Company, the
winding up of the accounts as quickly as possible, and
the dividing the remaining assets amongst the Pro-
prietors. It appeared also that all the Provisional
Committee had taken one hundred shares, and, with the
exception of five, had paid up the deposits upon them.
It appeared also from the report, that 35,820 shares
had been allotted, that the deposits had been paid on
30,600 shares, producing 80,325/4 that out of that
amount 7,0001. had been paid to Mr. Blount, the engi-
neer. and 5,9111. to Mr. Brewer, the late solicitor of the
concern; that the Company had at interest, at Messrs.
llasterman's, 20,0001., and at the London and Westmin-
ster Bank at interest 40,0001., and 4,3401. not at interest;
that Mr. Blount claimed a further sum of 6,000/, and
Mr. Brewer had sent in bills for professional charges
amounting together to 9.6381., there being a balance still
due to him of 3,747/. 15s. 3d.
The following resolutions were then unanimously
agreed to :
" That the report of the Managing Committee be adopted,
and that they be authorised and empowered to carry out
the views and suggestions embodied in their report, with
reference to the claims of Mr. Brewer and Mr. Blount on
the Company, and the claim of the Company on 0
promoters. And also with reference to the winding u,
of the affairs of the Company in such way as they shall
deem most expedient and conducive to the interests of
the shareholders, under proper legal advice.
" That the Managing Committee be also requested and
empowered to make an immediate return to the share-
holders of IL 10s. per share, and to use the utmost dili
Bence in settling all outstanding claims on the Com-
pany, so as to insure the earliest possible division
amongst the shareholders of the balance which may re,
main on their hands.