Glasgow Courier. — 1863-06-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY COMPANY. —A SNICial general meeting of this company was held in Edinburgh on Thursday—Mr Richard Hodgson in the Chair. The Chairman explained that the shareholders had been called together to give their consent to those bills—the Fek Valley Railway Bill and the fort Carlisle and Silloth and Belfast Bill—which have passed one House of Parliament. Mr Hodg. son entered into some explanation of these bills' as well as others which are in progress, but not yet in a position to be considered by the meeting, but to consider which a meeting would be held that day week. The Chairman concluded by moving the approval of the act authorising the directors to inrtitufe steam passage between Silloth and Belfast. Mr Leishman seconded the motion. A lengthened discussion ensued, in the nom-soot which Mr Arkley moved as an amendment—" That this railway company abandon the scheme of putting steamers on the route from Silloth to Belfast, and also abandon every scheme for making new railways and amalgamations till the dividend on the ordinary stock reaches 4 ler cent." Mr Duncan seconded the motion. The Chairman said the simple reason why they did not use the Portpatrick route was that it was not open to them. By the agreement of the Caledonian, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and South-Western, no traffic could get beyond Gretna to the west competing with their system, except by paying maximum rates. He then took a show of hands for the amendment, when about ten were held up for it, and the great body of the meeting against it. He then put the original motion, when only a few hands were held up to oppose. The Esk Valley Bill was also approved of, aad the meeting then adjourned till to-day.  Charles Stewart, a shoemaker, residing at Brouglity Ferry, while labouring under an attack of delirium tremens, committed suicide by stabbing himself several times in the abdomen with a carpenter's chisel.  In the Parliamentary Committees on Railways on Friday, the New Branches Bill of the Scottish Central was passed, and the clauses of the Edinburgh and Glasgow and Edinburgh and Dunfermline Railway Companies Bills were settled. The expenses of the ordnance survey, from the commencement of the survey of Scotland in 1819 up to the 31st March, 1863, is as follows :—On account of England and Wales, £1,060,928 ; Scotland, £511,173; and Ireland, £1,042,308.  , In 'addition to the two Campbelton smacks which were run down off Stornoway, the Mary Glen, a Rothesav smack, with three men, has also been sent to the bottom by a Wick boat, the master of which is said to have been committed for trial on a charge of culpable homicide. Excisa.—Mr Dugald M.Caig, officer, Glasgow, 19th division, has been appointed officer, Ayr, 2d preventive ride, Ayr collection; Mr Joseph Ramsey, officer. Abergavenny, 2(1 ride, Hereford collection, has been appointed officer, Glasgow 19th division, Glasgow collection. Shortly before three o'olock on Saturday afternoon, fire was discovered to have broken out in the workshops of Mr Daniel Crerar, cabinetmaker, Brothwick Bridge, Arbroath. A quantity of valuable wood and furniture was burned. Includingthe building, the value of the property destroyed may be close upon £lOOO. It is not at present known how the fire originated.