The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-31 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloelt.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY
COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.)
The first ordinary meeting of the Shareholders in the
South 'Wales Railway was held this afternoon, at the Great
Western Railway Station, Paddington ; Mr. . Russell, M.P.,
Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair. The meet-
ing was made special for the purpose of giving authority
to the Directors with respect to au agreements with
other Companies, and application to Parliament, which they
might think it expedient to make in the ensuing session,
and generally for other matters,
The common seal of the Company having been formally
affixed to the registry of shareholders, and it having been
announced that the whole of the capital had been sub-
scribed,
The CHAIRMAN said the Directors bad great
pleasure in meeting their proprietory, and they
congratulated them on the success which had
hitherto attended their operations and proceedings in Par-
liament. The great difficulty they had met with proceeded
from the obstacles which had been thrown in their way of
crossing the Severn. It was impossible for the Committee
of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons to
resist the authority vested in the Board of Admiralty
by law,..but both Committees did all they could for them.
They gave them their line complete, with the exception
of that portion of it which embraced the passage of the
Severn, which had been reserved for the next session.
The question was certainly a most important one, and it
had since occupied the deliberate and serious consideration of
the Directors, who still continued of opinion that the place
they hadi selected, for crossing the Severn was in
all respects the most advisable. They believed, in
fact, that it would not only be beneficial to themselves,
but it would tend greatly to improve the navigation
of the Severn itself ; but it was not for them to impugn
either the judgment or the authority of the Board of Admi-
ralty. They had, however, lately been in communication with
that Board, and they weretnot without hopes that some plan
might yet be devised by which they would be enabled to
carry out the project in the mode and manner they bad
originally wished. It was, nevertheless, desirable that they
should not enter more largely into a discussion of that
question then, and they had therefore not required their
engineer to make any special report upon the subject. Since
their Act had been obtained their engineer had been em-
ployed in revising the surveys, and he had the authority of
Mr. Brucel for stating that they were nearly completed.
Immediately that theyiwere so the shareholders might
rely upon it that the Directors would enter into
contracts and proceed with the works with the utmost
possible diligence and rapidity. The attention of the Direc-
tors had, of course, been called to the numerous projects for
new lines, which form almost a net-work over the
whole of the Principality of 'Wales. It could
not be expected that any very considerable portion
of these lines would be entertained, much less passed,
by the Legislature. From many of them they had selected
such as they thought were likely to prove advantageous to
the South Wales Railway, and to these they were willing to
give their entire, their friendly support and co-operation.
The Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester, and the Hereford
and Shrewsbury lines were likely to be of great importance
to the South Wales Railway Company, in so far as they
would tend to convey their traffic to the north,
and they had accordingly entered into an understanding
with them. Previous to their going before Parliament they
entered into an agreement for the purchase of the Forest of
Dean Railway, contingent upon their own Act passing. Their
Act had of course passed, and the agreement had become binding
upon themselves. It was, he might add, their intention to
enlarge and improve it, and then they anticipated it would
have the effect of bringing a large and important mineral
traffic upon their main line. They had thought it ex-
tremely desirable that they should encourage and support a
line of railway running up the Vale of Neath, and it was pos-
sible and far horn improbable that a line of railway would also
be formed from the top of the Vale of Neath to join the
Hereford,; Worcester, and Gloucester, passing by Merthyr
Tydvil, and Abergavenny in order to afford railway accom-
modation to a large and no less important mineral
and manufacturing district.—(Hear, hear.) If this Neath
Company should be able to make an arrangement with the
Hereford. and Gloucester Company, the South Wales Com-
pany would also be disposed to give it its utmost support.
He believed these were the only line with which they had
formed any connexion, and in the present state of the
money and railway market they thought it advisable not to
encumber themselves with any fresh or extraordinary under-
' takings.
The report, which was simply an echo of the Chairman's
speech, and contained no statement of the accounts, was then
read, and afterwards adoFted.
The present Directors were then confirmed and their salary
fixed at 1,8001., and Messrs. Dobree and Gower having been
appointed auditors, with an allowance of 251. each, the secre-
tary's salary was fixed at 7001. per annum.
The purchase of the Forest of Dean Railway was confirmed,
and the Directors empowered to take what steps they might
deem necessary in the ensuing session of Parliament for the
general interest of the Company.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting
terminated. •

NE W MARKET RACES.
THIS DAY.-(BY EXPRESS.)

The Nursery Stakes.
Lord G. Bentinck's Green Pea
Mr. Godwin's Dexterous
A dead heat, which was not decided when our Ex-

press left.

COURSE OF EXCHJ
Amsterdam CF. 12101
Ditto, at eight l2 7
Rotterdam 2U. 12 11
Antwerp 26 15
Eiatabttrgh M.B. 13131
A-Ilona —

,NGE--(THIS DAY.)
Gibra1tar..............
Leghorn . . 30 75
Genoa
Milan ......
Venice
Naples ........ 391
Palermo, per oz ll9l
Lisbon s3*
Oporto.. s3*
Rio Janeiro .. 24
Bahia . .....
Buenos Ayres
NewTork,2ldysaight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, ran OZ.
Foreign Gold,bars i 3 17 9
Portue.,.l Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 0 0
Silver in Bars 0 4 Hi

Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 26 5
Marseilles 26 10
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine 1221
Petersbnrgh, 3Us —
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fib.
Trieste, ditto
Madrid •3O
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

BANK OF ENGLAND.

(From this Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act ith and Bth of Victoria.
cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 25th day 01
October, 1845,

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes Issued 27,415,690

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and bul-
lion 11,758,159
Bilverbullion 1,657,531

£27,415,690
N. 11.]
Dated the 30th day of Octot

£27,415,690
[ARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
ler, 1845.
;PARTMXNT.

BANKING DI
X.
Proprietors' capita 1,14,553,000
Rest
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings-
banks, Commis-
sioners of National

Government secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 12,931,115
Notes ........ 5,389,575
Gold and silver
coin 585,573

Debt, and divi-
dend account%) 4,323,662
Other deposits 8,930,134
Seven day and other
bills

£32,109,401

L 32,109,401
.RSTIALL, Chief Wilier.
ber,1845.

M. MA.
Dated the 30th day of Octot

THE LONDON GAZETTE
EVENINci.)

OCT.-
(-
FOREGN OFfICE, M, 134.
It is hereby notified, that a strict and rigoroug blockade o;
the port of Buceo was established and maintained by her
Majesty's naval forces on the east coast of South America,
under the command of Rear-Admiral Inglefielcl, acting in con-
junction with the naval forces of the King of the French,
under the command of Rear-Admiral Leine, on the Ist of
August last ; but that neutral vessels were, nevertheless, per-
mitted to quit the said port until the 12th day of the same
month of August. It is also hereby further notified, that a
strict and rigorous blockade has been established and main-
tained by the same British and French naval forces, of all the
other ports of the Oriental Republic occupied by troops
under the command of General Oribe ; and that all the mea-
sures authorised by the law of nations, and the respective
treaties between her Majesty and other Powers, will be
adopted and executed with respect to all vessels attempting
to violate the said blockade,
WAR-OFFICE, Ocr. 31,
4th Light Dragoons—Lieut. W. K. Fraser, to be Captain,
by puchase, vice Cumming, who retires ; Cornet A. Grant to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fraser ; E, Tredcroft, Gent.,
to be Cornet, vice Grant, Oct. 31,
Ist Regiment of Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant M. Thomp-
son to be Quartermaster, vice C. Dieters, who retires upon
half-pay, Oct. 31.
16th Foot—T. Lyons, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Peacocke, promoted, Oct. 31.
64th Foot—A. P. Bowlby, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase. vice De Courcy, Oct. 31.
65th Foot—W. K. Park, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
Oct. 31.
84th Foot—J. E. Leahy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Arbuckle, promoted, Oct. 31.
ME3lonANDust.—The commission of Surgeon R. Wood, of
the 62d Foot, has been ante-dated to the 3d July, 1843.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, •Ocr. 30.
Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant J. W. Gordon
to be Second Captain, vice Bennett, deceased; Second Lieu-
tenant F. W. King to be First Lieutenant, vice Gordon,
July 12.
MEMORANDUM.—The dates of the promotion of the under-
mentioned officers have been altered as follow :—Second
Captain W. G. flamley ; First Lieutenant H. W. Montagu,
May 1; Second Captain A. Beatty ; First Lieutenant V. T.
Alairis, May 22.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.
Second Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry—
The Most Noble the Marquis of Chandos to be Captain ;
Cornet It. Walford to be Lieutenant ; Williams Loveridge,
Gent., to be Cornet, Sept. 27.
WHITEHALL, Ocr. 29.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Milligan Ship-
man, of Manchester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in
the High Court of Chancery.

BANKRUPTS.

William Cooper, brewer, Lower Shadwell, to surrender
Nov. 10, at half-past eleven, and Dec. 12, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Corn-
hill ; Lawrance and _Hews, Bucklersbury.
Henry Fitzgerald, coal merchant, Bond-street, Commer-
cial-road, Lambeth, Nov. 7, at half-past eleven, and Dec. 9,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquaml, official
n asaigee, Old Jewry-chambers illudmarsh, Creme; it, Jewiu-
etrOot*
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