On Thursday, the Duke of Sussex reviewed the Artillery Company
for the first time since his appointment to the post of Captain- Ge- neral. After the review, the Duke dined with the Company at their hall.
Seven columns of the Morning Chronicle of Thursday are occu- pied with a report of the proceedings of a meeting of the pro- prietors of the Southampton Railway stock ; Mr. John Easthope in the chair. The Reports of the Directors, and of Mr. Locke, the engineer of the company, were read ; numerous statements were made, tending to keep up the spirits of the shareholders, or at any rate having a tendency. to help the stock in the market. The Report was unani- mously approved of. On reference to the City article of the Chronicle on the same day, we find Southampton Railway Stock quoted at 16 to 15 discount : so we suppose that the public do not think so favourably of the undertaking as the proprietors.
An extraordinary general meeting of the proprietors of the Greenwich Railway took place on Wednesday, at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee. In the accounts of the finances, it was stated that the costs of the company, in law expenditure alone, amounted to 17,733/. 1Ss. ; and numerous charges of a similar nature had been unavoidably incurred in the defence of the property. The receipts amounted to 20,337/. ; out of which they bad paid for different purposes 14,9324, leaving a balance of 6,004/.
By some mismanagement, on Sunday night, one of the engines on the London and Birmingham Railroad got off the road at the Harrow station, and the whole train was delayed two hours. The passengers grumbled, but nobody was hurt.
Mr. Stead was introduced to the Marylebone Vestry on Saturday, to state his plan for paving Oxford Street with wood. He said that the method had been approved of by Sir George Rennie, Mr. G. Rennie, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Braithwaite, and other engineers, and that they had expressed their surprise it had not been adopted in London. It had been found to answer exceedingly well in St. Petersburg and New York. and possessed great advantages over the usual mode of paving, inasmuch as the cost would be less, the durability greater, and it would be unaccompanied by the noise which the present system is of necessity subject to. The plan had been seen in operation in the Netherlands by Mr. Rennie, who highly approved of it. Mr. Stead was requested to furnish the Vestry with a written statement of his plan; which he consented to do, and the Vestry adjourned.—Standard.
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