A meeting of the Improved Saloon Palace Coach Combination (Limited), was held at the Offices of the Company on Thursday last, when Lord BURLINGTON ARCADIA (in the absence of the Duke of UTOPIA) was called upon to preside. The noble Chairman said he was delighted to see so many benevolent-looking shareholders present. He admitted that he felt a little nervous, as no doubt the Board of Directors (of whom he had the honour to be one) had acted to a great extent upon their own responsibility in conducting the business of the Company. Encouraged by the comments of the Press, the Board considered they owed a duty to the Public second only in importance to the duty they owed to the shareholders. Nowadays, great trading communities had no right to act selfishly--they must think not only of those who owned the capital, but also of that vast majority whose comfort it should be their pleasure to enhance. The paper to which he specially referred suggested that various improvements should be made. All the Saloon Palace cars of the Company, it was proposed, should be repainted in various colours, to facilitate identification; but this would cost money--(_loud cheers_)--and he was happy to say they had money to spend. They had spent it. (_Murmurs._) He was sure that they would be pleased when they learned the manner in which that money had been spent. Instead of being hoarded up to swell the dividend--(_groans._)--it had been absorbed in improvements which would confer great benefits upon the community. (_Uproar._) A SHAREHOLDER. What have we to do with the community? The CHAIRMAN explained that as the greater included the lesser, the community must include the Shareholders. ("_No, no!_") He was sorry to hear those sounds of dissent, but what had been done could not be undone. (_Loud and prolonged groaning_). He trusted that he would be treated with courtesy. ("_Hear, hear!_") He had come to the meeting at considerable inconvenience. (_Cheers._) As a matter of fact, he had little stake in the Company, as some time since he had disposed of the vast bulk of his shares. (_Groans._) However, he would continue. As they knew, the vehicles were now fitted with warm bottles in winter and air-cushions in summer. Every passenger had a velvet upholstered arm-chair. Flowers were supplied in great profusion in the interior of the vehicles, and costly shrubs arranged on the platform supporting the cushioned garden-seats of the exterior. As the additional weight to be drawn in consequence of these improvements was considerable, it had been considered advisable to increase the number of horses to each vehicle from two to six. (_Groans._) New routes had been selected--for instance, special services of carriages had been arranged up and down the Belgrave Road, the Mall, Hammersmith, the Upham Park Road, Chiswick, and round Brompton Square. Then he might say---- A SHAREHOLDER. We know all this, but how about the dividend? (_Cheers._)