The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

th
way, at the point where that railway formed a junction -wi
the Derby and Nottingham Railway ; and thus, by Ineensd
these and other railways in progress, form al p
line
railway communication between the central towns of Stairaud
Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, Peterboroughtt,
Boston on the east, and Shrewsbury, Chester and BOP"
DoTrth Wales, and Irelan d on the west." the
he remainder of the report was an echo 0.
Chairman's speech.
To questions asked by several members, the Cloirtd
MAN replied that about 5,4001. had been already Ph'at
into the banker's hands on behalf of the 'Compaq, tar
otl-,er k3ar.ies were now waiting the result of the c'the
mitt( s determination to pay in or not ; that, _
guarantee for the moneys already paid in would best
guinea returned and a portion of scrip secured
the Committee of Management were secured in the
same way with general shareholders, and that there so
no intention of amalgamating with another Compaq'
The report was then received and adopted.
The meeting then, after a . somewhat desultory cf°./id:
versation, determined that the Grand Junction and 3 s
lands Union should not be prosecuted in the
session of Parliament. the
Thanks having been given to the Chairman'
meeting broke up.

•
HAVRE RAILWAY COMPANY'
At. the last general meeting of the shareholders o,
this Company, it having been shown that the heavi,erei
penses incurred for the purchase of the land ITV,'
for the con,truction of the line would necessitate it
an extraordinary meeting was held yesterday, to
the views of the board of directors on the subject, s'c.
decide what step it would be advisable to adopt•
-
Laffitte, the president, filled the chair, and wasi.s,'"'t:
ported by Count d'Alton Shee, M. Dailly, Sir J. h—tlic
hope, Mr. Reid, Mr. E. Blount, &c. As soon ss
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meeting had been formally constituted, g De'
M. Thibaudeau, the counsel of the Company'f s
lacour, the secretary, being in delicate health), resu_e,
report, explaining the causes which rendered a 105a:.,1
sc;cessury. As they were enumerated fully in our
of the proceedings of the last general meeting, The re•
cider it unnecessary to repeat them at present. lu ters
port concluded by stating that the board of direl of
proposed to effect a loan of 10,000,000 f., in bonds,
c. ,
I,ooof. each, bearing a yearly interest of five per
the whole to be paid off in 78 years by yearly drseul5,
ti
giving 1,250 e. to each bond that should come out-000f,
the above-mentioned 10,000,000 f., the sum of 8,°°%001,
would be required at present, and the other 2,o°°'oo.
at an after period, should the requirements of the eS•
piny demand it, which, however, was considere
ceedingly unlikely. stios
After the reading of the report, some ~nvers
ensued relative to the terms of the luan, "cot,
shareholders expressing an opinion that five r".
was too high a rate of interest. °1 giber
replied, that under presentticl niber
stances easier terms could not be well obteineule-ondl.
companies had not deemed even more stringent "which
tions unfavourable, and the length of the leisle beer
the Havre Company had obtained enabled thee)
such a charge much better than other con3Peltel e r, tha
In answer to a question from another sharel7asre'
CHAIRMAN explained that the present holders e' 10111 e
would have the preference in obtaining a ParAt,- • se"
loan; that the proportion would be about one ill I,i is
that a letter would be written to each shareholder ji to
few days demanding what portion he should "'lto' be
have, and with an intimation that an answer 015
sent in by the 31st of December. tote,
The question of the loan was then put to the
and adopted unanimously. i to;
Some changes in the statutes were then sr.', /10'
after which the meeting separated.—Galigruoz'
senger of Friday.

RAILWAY SHARE MARIu-'--
LIVERPOOL, DEc. 15. 99cr
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead
shire, and Cheshire, 276 p.—Cambridge and Lincoln, l'
of so"
Chester and Birkenhead, New Shares, 2734 p.-0,1a5g.
Dumfries, 10s. dis.—Grand Junction 933—Ditto, ..0:0-1/
ter Shares, 32 p.—Ditto, 40/. Shares (L.M.),,
Goole and Doncaster, Is. dis.—Huddersfield Cam" —;
way, 4% p.—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 1% dis-1-00
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 34 IN —l'll`l,bY,
York, '7B p.—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grll9- sofll4
6d. p.—Midland, 139—Ditto, 401. Share, 12'A NbeiV,.b
Union (A), 208—North Staffordshire, 465. 3d. P Boa
and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 3 P.ps,
Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Thirds, Half 5139,.
‘,'„;
—Welsh Midland, 12s. 6d. dis.—West Riding IJow„-i. Or'
—Dutchßhcnish,l% p.—Paris and Lyons (Ganner°-'
MANCHESTER, DEc. 15. rid LiV
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Cambridr 9 Dricr
coin, 314—Chester and Birkenhead, 45—Dud1ey,..,,,.1r°°, viclllls
and Shrewsbury, I%—Fleetwood, Preston, and wt 01,
Junction, 225. c.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, Sic.. ni,eflii,
Great Grimsby and Sheffield, B—Huddersfield and 700 s,
Junction, I6—Leicester and Birmingham, 188.—L'an•
Birmingham, Thirds, 40% c.—Ma.uchester and Birirbisir
Quarters, 10%—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 114 93. 6'l'
cheater and Southampton, 2%—North Staffordshire, . pit
—North Union (A), 206 —North Western,
and Mansfield, 24—Oldham District, 872.—Preston Odd,
Extension, I—Trent Valley Continuation and 110IYbe3
c.—West Riding Union, 6.
LEEDS, DEC. 15. d
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are—Sheffield 10, „dor '
Chester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, sN—Leeds and .07* Sof
Extensions, 48—Leeds and Dewsbury, 20% 10f
Shares, 334 p.—Leeds and Thirak, 9%—•locr.th British,
yer,
Carlisle Branch, 13%—Oxford, Worcester,- and
hampton, 12./76—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, SOIL
—Cambridge and Lincoln, 31,6—Direct Northern, 171jvis_,0
575 —N
verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3%—West Riding „bp'
s%—Chelmsford and Bury, 10s. dis.—Grand linion,l:4l/
dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction,
Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 10s.
Western, 24—Wakefield and Bradford, 12s. 6d. w
Wakefield and Harrogate, ss. p.
YORK, DEC. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—ThesaIes are—York and s. North,
land Extension, 24%—Newcastle and Berwick, 101 A---17,
British, New Carlisle Branch, 2—London and York,
Leicester and Bedford, IN—Manchester, Buxton, Ma'
and Midland, 3%—North Staffordshire, 4%.
HFIED, DEC. 15f
STOCIK EXCHANSGE.—EF The sales are Huddersfield 711
Sheffield, 17%—North British, 21%—:Oxford, Whitne-
f,
Cheltenham, 2—South Midland, 414.

M ITT 's ART HOW NEW NOVEL.-The new vovelf
itt,
entitled " The Citizen of Prague," edited by Mar:" •P''°t
3 vols., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Gre%,
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Colburn has also just published the following Novel;
of fiction : -2. The Queen of Denmark, an Ilistoric''Tole
edited by Mrs. Gore, 3 vols.-3. Dunster Castle, author 0'
the Great Rebellion, by J. T. Hewlett, M•A" a pabll
Peter Priggins," &c., 3 vols.-4. Pomfret; Or, fori.,4"
Opinion and Private Judgment, by H. F. ChorleY,:ols.-1
vols.-5. The Attractive Man, by Mrs. Trollops, °l;thor
The Master Passion, by T. C. Grattan, Esq" c'd
"Highways and Byways," &c., 3 vols.-7. Love, 7 o 0
Venice, by Horace Smith, Esq., 3 vols. ; and B',Z.;noef ~
Edition of " The White Slave and the Russian
the author of "Revelations of Russia," 3 vols. Goonlo
THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD col
ELRLNGTON, C.8.-The will of this distinguished °II,
proved on Saturday last, the 6th instant, by his, fr,i,,,iribio
ls
Collier, Esq., of Plymouth, whom he had appal; -"one, WP-e
executor. It was made as far back as the year Ja,"ieovit!v,,
this enterprising officer was embarking for India, and tbete`i
behind him his wife and children to whom i°B„orsoe,a,";
bequeathed the whole of his property, real and tigr-
wheresoever the same might be- the wife to to
interest therein, and at her decease the Wee and Ca"
divided equally between his two daughters LOUist 311,1
therine, absolutely. The personal est i
ate n Eng, ~ff 13 , 06
sworn under 18,000 L He died at an advanced 7efruiit
the 2d of August, four days only after his tetur-o thl
Malta, in the Oriental. He was Colonel, and for eleneta"
commanding the 47th Regiment of Foot; a iga!°rioo°urild
in her Majesty's army, and Companion of the Moetwie r
able Military Order of the Bath. This brave °".l, 1°1?;
most conspicuously distinguished himself through yen
and incessant career of arduous campaigns, ja than
commencement of which his courage nearly cost h the
life. Whilst ensign, in 1793, he was shot thrau„gyeat°
body on the onset before Dunkirk; and again, threitben
afterwards, in 1796, at the Island of St. Vince°,l,".`thisl"!
captain) he received a shot wound through
this only strengthened his intrepid spirit. He WaS foie °'
engaged, and was in active service throughout the "pee
the Burmese war; it may in truth be said, few °dicer; 10
seen harder service, or been more actively engeg,,e
commissions were dated-Ensign, December 4, 1,79,ur,r;,
tenant, April 19, 1794; Captain, June I, 1795; 3111 - J
25, 1808; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 4, 1812; Colonel,
22, 1830 ; Major-General, November 23, 1841. the
NAVAL CoURTS-MARTIAL.- e are haPrdnv fit
the Admiralty are strongly setting their faces ligs- s,
prevalent fever for Naval Wills-martial upon Forsogt4ya
tions. We learn that one ship in which the disease Pre
has been ordered home.-Dublin Evening Ma'

BIRTHS.
,na 0:0
On the 9th ult., at Loudoun House, St. John's-wood,
Ogle, of a.daughter.
esen
On the 10th inst., at Dashwood Cottage, Gl:ev-
d.
lady of J. F. Haffner, Esq., of a son. 91I1#
Esq
•, the 11th inst., the lady of John Gurney, -.." of ' At
ham, near Norwich, of a son.
__. ~
On the 11th inst., at Iford Sussex, the wife of the Br?'
Edward Allfr R, ,

_..tee, Rector of Southease, of a daughter.
~,,sOO,O
On the 12th inst., at the Rye, Peckham, 3irs•
SaOyvor, of a daug
st.,
Mhtes co,'
On the 12th inrs. Madge, of Highbury-grange,
daughter. gelid
a the 12th inst., in Hyde-park-square, the lady of
Robert Pearson, Esq., of a daughter.
• LI
On the 12th inst., at Woolley-green, Hants, ths' C
Simeon of a son.
'
On die 12th inst., at Stockwell, the wife of J. -- R owe]eir
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Liverpool, the lady of Captain GP°
staff officer, of a daughter, still-born.
On the 12th inst., at Iver, Buck., the wife of Johnl3;
Walker, Esq., surgeon, of a son. °
On the 12th inst., in Green- street, Park-lane, the -4di
D. R. Jones, Esq., of a son. • ni'si
On the 13th inst., Mrs. Henry Hersee, jun., of Virg
terrace, Dover-road, of a daughter.

AMRRIED.
On the 11th inst, at St. Nicholas Church, Old ShoreVlol)*
the Rev. John Yarker, S.C.L., to Charlotte, daughter 0'
late Rev. W. Wheeler, D D..
On the 13th inst , at St. Pancras Church, the Rev. " '
Johnstone, to Anna Maria, only daughter of the late SW
Davies, Esq , of Ashford, Middlesex.

DIED. ad
On the 28th of November, at Rome, Elizabeth,.P---,1.
dauzliter of the late Sir J. Birch, Bart., of the Hazlet+,
cashire.
Un the sth inst., Emma, the second daughter of 4=T-TeVri
Tower, Esq., of Elemore Hall, Durham.
Caroline
Ea,'
On the sth inst., at Coblentz, on the Rhine,
youngest daughter of Sir Alexander Ramsay, Bart. d
On the 11th inst., Mr. Joseph Withers, of Edgeware-roa
On the 11th inst., Mr. Joseph Lauriere, St. James's-street,
,
On the 12th inst., in Argyle street, Sarah, the wife of Lieu
tenant-General Sir John Naelcan, K.C.B. r,
On the 12th inst., Anna Maria, eldest daughter of
Galton, Esq., of Brixton.

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