The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-06 00:00:00

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SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

LLANELLY RAILWAY AND,DOCK
COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.)
A Special General Meeting of the Proprietors in this
Company was held this day at the London Tavern, for
the purpose of receiving the Report of the Committee of
Management, and to elect two new Directors.
..! ROBERT BIDDULPH, Esq., took the Chair, and having
briefly explained the object of the meeting, called on
The SECRETARY, who read the report, from which it
appeared that the Company has completed 12 miles of the
main line towards Llandilo, and in the several branches
14i miles, making altogether 261 miles of railway.
They had also erected cottages and workmen's
houses near the line of railway, with sheds and work-
shops for the locomotive engines and waggons. There
had been 325 new coal waggons completed, and 29
in course of completion—making in the whole, 354.
Also three locomotive engines—two of them in constant
use, and' one nearly ready for service. The bason had
been most materially enlarged, and on the south side, a
stone quay wall with three new shipping stages have
been completed ; whilst on the north side, two additional
stages are in the course of erection. The channel has
been widened, and' the sidings near the dock and termini
at such place and other parts of the line and branches,
have been laid out and nearly. finished. The works and
arrangements are now consolidated], by which a tonnage
to a remunerating extent can be brought down the line,
and shipped at the dock and bason.
The state of the navigation at
.or near the entrance
channel, has been for some time a subject of anxious so-
licitude to the Committee. They have on several occa-
sions made serious representations to the Burry Harbour
Coramiszioners (under whose especial conservancy this
part of the harbour has been placed by Parliament), to
remove the obstructions, and prevent the recurrence of
any impediments to the navigation into or out of the
Company's channel.
Since the Annual General Meeting, the Committee
have entered into several important contracts for the
supply of waggons and haulage power, a summary of
which is as follows :
The entire amount of interest paid on debentures, and
on the balance due for the original purchase,
_ amounting
to the iilarge item of 2,401/. 9s. 3d., has been entirely
charged on the revenue realised in last year's account, as
also the other charges for repairs of permanent way,
rates, taxes, and salaries, which operation falling so
heavily on a small and inadequate return, leaves, this
year, no actual surplus to be disposed of by the Pro-
prietors.
The SECRETARY read a statement of the accounts,
from which it appeared that there was a balance in the
hands of the Treasurers.
Two new Directors were then elected, and the meeting
separated.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
WATERFORD.—(SECOND DAY.)
The Committee met at Eleven o'Clock this morning.
Mr. Cooke, the. Clerk of the Peace for the city of
Waterford, was called, and produced the poll-books,
which were admitted, according to the decision of the
Committee on Saturday.
Mr. AUSTIN then proposed to take, as the first vote,
the name of Maurice Phelan, described as a "master
mariner," whOse vote was tendered at the election for
Barron and Wyse, and rejected upon the ground that the
incorrect.
Mr. was
Mr. Cooke having sworn that the poll-books were in
the same state as when delivered into his custody,
Mr. Edmund Thomas Power was called. He stated
that he acted as Inspector at the last 'election on behalf
of Mr. Wyse. Knew of Maurice Phelan having tendered
his vote for Mr. Wyse, and that an objection was taken to
it by Mr. Lionel Stephens, on behalf of the sitting Members,
and that the vote was rejected.
Mr. Thomas Strange stated, he was inspector for the
Liberal candidates at the election. The assessor was a
Mr. Hassard, a barrister. Objections taken to votes
were heard before him, there being counsel employed on
both sides. The objections taken on the ground that theword
" premises," introduced into the certificates and affida•
vits, was not to be found in the Irish Reform Act, and
that therefore the certificates were vitiated, was held to
be a valid objection.
Mr. AUSTIN then entered on his argument against the
validity of this objection, contending that the use of a
ward not found in the enfranchising clause of the
Referm Act world knot vitiate the certificate, pro-
vided a sufficieut description of the holding or quali-
fication was given. The Learned Gentleman cited a
decision given by Mr. Justice Burton, an Irish Judge, on a
recerence from Mr. Justice Wolfe, that the words "count-
ing-house" used instead of the word " office," was
a sufficient description. He pointed out the exten-
sive disfranchisement that such an objection caused,
contending that this was no less contradictory to the spirit
of the Act and to common sense than it was bad in law.
Mr. COCKBURN commenced his reply in support of
the objection, but had not concluded at four o'clock.
The decision in the vote of Phelan will probably go-
vern the other votes objected to on the same grounds.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING 'PAPERS OF THIS DAY. •
GLOBE.—The effect of the recent atrocious and
cowardly attempt on the life of our beloved Sovereign
is, we regret to say, but too plainly perceptible in her
_Majesty's countenance and demeanour when in pub-
lic. Distinguished as is the Queen for calm forti-
tude, and more than womanly courage, her Majesty
must indeed be more than human, were she alto-
gether superior to those'apprehensions which a second
dastardly attack upon her life would excite in the
F o ttesthE•art. We regret- to state—and we do so
on information derived from those who have fre-
quent opportunities of observation—that in place of
the former cheerful and confident demeanour of the
Queen, when taking her accustomed drives, there is a
manifest perturbation, a hurried and anxious cast of
countenance, which portrays too plainly, that the
calm flow of happy feeling which the presence of
the assembled 'groups of her people formerly cre-
ated, has sustained an interruption ; and that appre-
hension of danger excites almost involuntary vigi-
lence to detect its possible approach. In these feel-
ings of anxiety, lest a recurrence of the attempt of
Monday evening last should be made, it is evident
that Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent also
participate. These indications of alarm were espe-
cially visible in the Queen's manner yesterday on
her Majesty's progress from. Buckingham Palace to
the Chapel Royal. The attendance of two equerries,
one on each side the Royal carriage, in place of one,
as formerly—showed that the remarks we were led
to make on the absence of proper precautions on the
part of those to whom such matters ought to be an
object of incessant care, after the premonition of
danger supplied by the attempt of the Sunday
preceding—had not been made in vain. The Chapel
Royal was yesterday crowded to excess. Not
merely did the entire household attend to join their
Royal Mistress in thanksgiving to Heaven for her re-
newed deliverance from death, hut a very large
number of the nobility were also present. The Bishop
of London preached a most impressive sermon on the
occasion ; in the course of which he alluded to the at-
tempt upon the Queen, and to her merciful deliverance,
which he ascribed to the immediate interposition of the
Deity. The form of thansgiving ordered to be read
chi the occasion was joined in by the assembled
congregation with marked fervour—a feeling which
was too strongly marked to escape observation in
the metropolitan churches, in which it was gene-
rally read. The Ministers of the different deno-
minations of Dissenters also alluded to the event in
their prayers, with marked and emphatic gratitude.
STAI4DAM—The intelligence received by the
Overland Indian Mail is on the whole satisfactory,
although the preponderating good news is in some
measure alloyed by information of an opposite de-
scription. The most gratifying part of the intelli-
gence is the successful attempt by General Pollock
to three .the Khyber Pass—an achievement never
before accomplished in the face of even a numeri-
cally inferior enemy. This exploit possesses ha-
Tileil se importance in whatever light it is regarded.
It at once affords relief to Sir Robert
Sale and his gallant army in Jellalabad,
and it liberates the communication between the
army in Affghanistan and the resources of India,
thus most auspiciously opening the campaign, by
which we trust this disastrous war is to be ended;
but the effect upon opinion must he still more valuable
than any temporary advantage. An Anglo-Indian
army has now achieved what was never before
attempted—what Nadir Shah, at the head of a count-
less host, 125,000 of it cavalry, was fain to abandon
in despair, buying the permission to transport his
multitudes for a vast sum of money. This the gal-
lantry of an Anglo-Indian army has achieved
in the face of a greatly superior number of enemies,
and achieved it with comparative ease, through un-
conquerable gallantry directed by consummate skill.
The effect of this wonderful exploit upon the Affghans
must mon than extinguish all the confidence creat
ed.
by the chance success of their perfidy in the destruc -
tion of General Elphinstone's force ; nor are we to
leave oat of sight the value of such encouragement
to our Indian troops and our _lndian allies. This re-
versed Thennopylw will be as long celebrated in Indian
history as the gfories of Leonidas were in Greece.

Baron Biirante, formerly Ambassador of Trance
tit. Petersburg, is en his way to England on some special
Mission.
Ma. SERGEANT WaANGIIAM.—ANre are happy- to
state that Mr. Sergeant Wtangliam is better, butthe Learned
Count .1 is nut yet sufficiently recovered to attend his profes-
sional duties. •
Between sixty and seventy of the A division of the
bietroplitan police were conveyed in vans from the station in
Gardener's-lane this morning to Ascot, where they will remain
during the races.
THE Bissior or LICHFIELD.---We are happy to
ewe that this excellent Prelate has so much improved in health
that he has been able to leave London.
PERUVIAN Aluxoty.—.A Peruvian mummy has
been broughtvo Liverpool for investigation. It is, unlike the
mummies of F.,zypt, a perfect embalmed, body 'without wrap-
ere, and was discovered at Pisces in . a
chalk tomb, together
with a wooden idol, a comb of poreue quills, and distaff, on
which was a quantity of very fine thread, or cotton, which
tallgied into dosAi4iteravy Gazette.