The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

4 Ulu 3nttiif grttta EQUITY COURTS.—Nev. 26. (Before the Right Hon. the Master of the Rolle.) lli RE THI CILNTRAL DARJEELING TEA COMPANY (LIMITED). Judgment was this morning pronounced in this matter the hearing of which was reported in our oolumns of yes terday. It will be remembered that the matter came on to be heard upon a summons sid,Ournecl from chambers, sad the qmations gro zied were these:-1. Whether there was remonable for holding that a proposal made lay the directors to the company to compromise a certain claim against them by a Captain Cornish was valid ; and 1 Whether, if it was, a call to be made to meet the claim would be also valid. Caplain Cornish's claim was for the purchase money of some large estates in India, which, it was said, he had con tracted to sell to the company as agent for his son. Cap tain Cornish was one of the directorsof the company. He had neither executed the deed of conveyance nor received the consideration for it, which was payable partly in money and partly in shares. It appeared that a resolu tion bad been passed at a meeting of the com pany that the claim should be compromised, and the c pany having been ordered to be wound up a proposal in accordance with the resolution was carried into chambers, and approved of by the chief clerk. In support of the aummons, which was brought by way of appeal from the chief clerk's certificate, it was said that Captain Cornish had not the interest in the property which by his contract be purported to be selling ; that he was, in fact, the abso lute owner of the property ; and that, being a director of the company, he could not sell his own property to it. On the other hand, it was insisted that the company had adopted and acquiesced in the compromise. Mr. Jessel, Q.C., and Mr. W. D. Bruce appeared in sup port of the summons, which was taken out on behalf of twenty-seven of the principal shareholders in the company. Sir Roundell Palmer, q.c., and Mr. Warner appeared for Captain Cornish; and Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., and Mr. Freeman for the official liquidator of the company. Lord Romilly said he thought the proposed compromise could not be supported. What he ha d to consider ) ma, first, whether there really was a serious ques tion existing between Captain Cornish and the company ; and, secondly, whether that question was the subject of the compromise. The facts of the case were these :—On the 17th November, 1863, when the company was only pro jected, a meeting of she intended directors of it was held, at which Captain Cornish was present. It was then arranged that an estate of his should be bought for the company. Accordingly a letter was on the next day sent to him, stating that the proposed purchase money was 7,u001. —that was to say, 4,0001. in crab and the remainder in shares of the company. The prospectuses were then issued, but they said nothing as to Captain Cornish having any interest in the estate. It was, however, obviously a very important matter for the consideration of the share holders, whether the original contract with Captain Corniah was binding on them. It further appeared that there were two other estates which the company could not emceed in obtaining ; and the result was that counsel's opinion was taken, and it was resolved that the company should be wound up. A winding-up order was made on the 19th of November, 1864. It was then proposed that Captain Cornish's claim—in respect of his purchase money—should be compromised by payment of a sum of 1,500/. A further opinion of counsel was taken, but no mention was made in the case then laid before Mr. Selwyn as to any question affecting the validity of the original contract. The matter of the compromise then came before the chief clerk, who approved of it, and sent out the usual circulars to the shareholders in respect of his certificate. Those circulars made no allusion to the precise nature of the compromise—a customary omission 3W such cases, hot one which his lordship deprecated, and had since the hearing of this very case instructed Lis chief clerk to guard against in future. He had directed the chief clerk to settle all such circulars, and to see that they gave the shareholders the fullest information. Now, it was manifest that the question of the validity of the original contract between Captain Cornish and the com pany never had been entertained by the shareholders. But at was a question which his lordship thought they ought to have an opportunity of considering. The terms of the proposed compromise did not in themselves touch the question of the validity of the original contract ; but they did substantially involve it. His lordship, therefore, without expressing any opinion on the contract itself, thought that the proposal to make the compromise was invalid ; and that the Intended call in respect of it must be suspended. Those observations showed that there really was a substantial question as to the compromise sub- Eating between Captain Cornish and the company. All parties must be allowed their costa. RE ME CONTRACT CORPORATIoN COMPANY (I.lstirw). HEaliS CASE. This was an application on behalf of a Mr. Head, a soli citor, and a shareholder in the company, to have his name taken oil the list of contributories in respect of 13 shares. sad to have that of a Mr. Cox, the local solicitor of the company, placed on the list in hie stead. In support of the application it was said that Mr. Head had sold and transferred his shares to Mr. Cox ; but it was admitted that the transfer was not registered. The sale was effected 18 months prior to an order for winding up the company. It was argued that Mr. Cox was in fact the owner of the shares. The chief clerk had declined to remove the name of Mr. Head from the list. Mr. Lags:ill:ly, Q.C., and Mr. Tounge appeared for Mr. Head; and Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., for the official licuidator. Lord Romilly held that the chief clerk was right. Mr. Head had taken no steps to get Mr. Cox substituted ia his place. His remedies were against him ; but as he had so far done nothing, the directors could not uow be or dered to alter the register of shares. KERBY r. MEMPSON. Mr. Crouch appeared for the plaintiff in this suit. He said that George Steel, of Woodstock-street, Oxfora-street. corn-chandler, by his will, gave all his real and personal estate upon trust, after the payment of his debt, and lega cies, for such persons as should be entitled to receive the same for the benefit of the Seymour Want of Middlesex Hospital ; but his will was that if auy portion of his es tate would not pass under the bequest to the Seymour Ward of Middlesex Hospital, then his estate was to be applied in payment of his debts and legacies in such a manner that the greatest benefit might accrue to the cha rity. The residurry legatee bad filed this bill for the administration of the estate, and a decree was asked for, leaving the rights of the hospital to be determined at a future stage. Mr. Karslake appeared for the defendant. Lord Windily toads the decree as prayed by the bill. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kindersley). MACKENNA ,*. ranias. This hill was filed by Dr. Mackenua against the widow and representative of the late Dr. Parkes, Cuigeon, of Great Marlborough-street, with whom for sonic time pre viously to and at the time of his death he was in part nership. The defendant was the actreas known to the public as Miss Amy Sedgwick. Dr. Parkes was the owner of s well.estaMisheil and extensive business, and being desirous, owing to his state a f health, of having less labour on his hands. he took Dr. Mackenna into partner ship. In consideration of tie payment of I,_ - d/.. Dr. Mackenna was to have an equal share of the business. which was estimated at tho time to produce LIM/. a year. Of the purchase-money (i 4)!. was paid down and the remainder was s ecured by two bills. Dr. Parkes was to continue his attention to business for three years for the purpose of gi vim: his prattler a proper introduction to his patients. but was to have certain opportunities of bein; ali ment if his health required it. 1' nfortunately, owin4 to Dr. Parkes' state of health, Dr. Mac-kerma was not introduced. to more teen II er 16 out of 300 or 400 patients. In August, M:: months after the partnership was ente-ed into, Dr. Parkes was obliged to absent himself altogether from the business and iu December he died. At the time of entering into the partnership Dr. Parties was, and had been for sonic time previously, suffering under a very serious disease, known as Bright's disease, the nature of which was stated to be such that, though it rendered life extremely precari , us, s person afflicted with it may live for several years. In Dr. Parkes' case, however, the danger was considerably increased in consequence of his being subject to gout. The present bill sought to have the part nership account,: taken in the usual way, to have is portion ell the OW, already paid returned, and to restrain pro ceeding. at law upon the bills. The question turned chiefly upon whetherthe state of Dr. Parke's health was known to Dr. Mackaima at the time of the agreement between them. It was stated that the business had not produced more than half the estimated amount. Mr. Glasse and Mr. Lindley appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Lally and Mr. W. W. Cooper for the defendant. The Vice-Chancellor, after carefully going through the evidence, came to the conclusion that Dr. Mackeuna was not aware of the condition of Dr. Parkes' health when he agreed to the partnership. It was clear that Dr. Mackenna had not got that benefit from the arrangement which it was the intentimi of both parties that he should get, and he was therefore entitled to came to the court for relief. There most be a declaration that the plaintiff was entitled to have reaiitt •d or repaid a reasonable portion of the 1,250 r. the account must be taken, and the plaintiff must be debited with the 6004. remaining unpaid, but credited with the amount to he remitted. The justice of the case required that costs should not be given on either side. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Nov. 26. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Mellor and Lush). DOULTON, M.P., r. Mr. Field, Q.C., said he moved on behalf of Mr. Dont ton, DI.P. for Lambeth, for a rule calling on the Doily Tdegrop4 to show cause why a criminal information should not be tiled against the printer of the paper for a libel. Mr. Doulton, on whose behalf he moved, had been for some years M.P. for the borough of Lambeth, and also a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works. He was re turned for lanibeth as a supporter of the late Lord Palmersten's government, and be continued to support that and the subsequent government, with the exception of voting for the List Reform Bill. That gentlei ' nan with sway others, conscientiously objected to certain portions el that bill, and for what they did in consequence they had received the name of AdulLimitea. For any strictures en his public character he did not and would not complain, however severe, unless they imputed to bim dishonesty of conduct likely to affect his private character. Believing, therefore. that the article complained of wont beyond the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1866• former aud attacked thelatter, he feltbonnd to come forward and ask their lordships to grant this nilo. The article, which was a very long one, appeared on the 20th November, and comme:,e.l by referring to a speech delivered by 3lr. T. Hughes, the other M.Y. for Lambeth, on the previous evening, at the Walworth Institution, which meeting Mr. Doulton did not attend, because it was c alled by Mr. T. Hughes without any reference to him (Mr. Doulton). The article, after praising Mr. T. Hughes for his political honesty, proceeded to animadvert in very severe terms on Mr. Doulton for his conduct in parliament. The learned counsel then read the article at length, and the following are some of the passages complained of by Mr. Doulton : " Representative' has come to mean in certain mouths a sem.torial personage who on false pretences embezzles a seat with hypocritical addresses, in order that hq may mis represent his electors on the flimsy plea of independence." " rhose who mouth the word ` independent while they swindle the people, to give them a stage for their political knavery to strut upon, would do well to note two passages in the address [Mr. Hughes's] deliveVeil on Monday night at the Waiworth Institution. " Dare any of the spurious independence of the time say such things in such a position ? Their own measures and scales are vile, with too much self-interest—fraudulent , with too many hidden make-weights to allow it. They have to stop at home, like Mr. Co Doulton Ho , because ons the new fashioned honesty of the present use of mm 'mum muster there, but is found out and called a sham in less delicate assemblies." " lie represents his potteries, and not the borough, and his proper place is among them." " If the borough possessed a dock for political swindlers his proper place would be easier to point out, and he would then have a good right to be heard." "This new Judas of the modern potter's field crept into the confidence of Lambeth in the days of Palmerstoniaa promises and petty performances—picked the pockets of the Lambeth men of their votes—embezzled the seat for the borough, and then made it a sort of branch establishment for his own private opinions and ends." " The wiliest thing that man has ever done since be filched the appendage of M.P. has been to give up saying one word to palliate his condition." The Lord Chief Justice said it was a discussion of Mr. Doulton's public conduct, and did n ot attack his private character. Mr. Field said it imputed improper conduct to Mr. Doulton, who bad retired from his pottery business, in order the better to discharge his parliamentary duties. The Lord Chief Justice said the article meant that Mr. Doulton came in on certain expressed principles, which the electors really assumed to be held by him, but instead of that he voted against the Reform Hill of the late govern. ment. and had thereby violated his pledges to the electors. The court would be lowering the character of its gum wary jurisdiction in matters of libel if they granted a rule on this article. Mr. Field submitted that the article charged Mr. Doul ton with acting for his olvate ends. The Lord Chief Justice said that meant politically. Public men must not be so thin skinned. All came now a days for their share df 'Public censure or praise. The court could not entertain the application. Application refused. This was the last day of term. The court will sit to-day at Nisi Prinz. BAIL COURT.—Nov. 26. (Sittings in Ban na —(Before Justioeltlackburne and Shee.) maim() DANK COMPANY (LIMITED) r. BAILEY. This was an action brought by an official liquidator, under a windiug up order in Chancery, to recover a certain amount of calls on shares in the bank belonging to the de fendant. The defendant obtained an order of Mr. Justice Shee to administer certain interrogations to the directors, but they declined to do so, and thereupon the defendant obtained an order of Mr. Justice Blackburn, to stay pro ceedings, until such interrogations were answered, and the consequence was the official liquidator could not proceed with the action. A rule had been obtained calling upon four of the directors to show cause why an attachment should not issue for contempt. Mr. Powell, Q.C. supported the rule. Mr. Milwanl, Q .C., and Mr. Charles Russell, showed cause against the rule. The court ultimately made the rule absolute against the three directors who hail been personally served with the rule. This being the last day of term, the court disposed of a number of motions, but they were of no general interest. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Nov. 26. Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lon.' Chief Baron Kelly, and Barons 13rarOwell, Channel!, and Pigott.) At the sitting of the court the Lord Chief Baron gave notice that they would sit on Saturday, the Bth December, for the purpose of delivering judgments. THONIPSON r. THr. NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY COMPANY. In this case a writ of the court had been served at Edin burgh upon the secretary of the North British Railway Com pany for a claim in respect of the construction of a mineral station at Harwich in Roxburghshire, and Mr. Gallwey, on behalf of the defendants, hail obtained a rule to set the service aside, on the ground that the suit should have been brought iu Scotland, where both parties reside, and the work was executed. Mr. H. T. Atkinson now showed cause against the rule. The court expressed a strong opinion is favour of setting aside the service. Mr. Atkinson hoped that if the rule was made absolute it would be without costa. In the first instance the de fendants had taken out a summons at Chambers to set aside the service, but although the plaintiff attended the defendants were not represented, and the next the plain tiff heard of the matter was when an application was mails to the court. The learned counsel said that as the de fendants had a station at Carlisle and Edinburgh it was thought the service was perfectly regular. Mr. Uallwey said the defendants were advised that the pro Fer course was to move the court to set aside the service. The Lord Chief Baron said they mast make the rule absolute, but without costs, as the case might have been disposedof at Chambers. Rule absolute accordingly. This being the last day of term, a considerable number of motions Ares made ; but they were either motions of course or involved only points of practice or technical questions, of no general interest. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Nov. 26. (Before Mr. Comminioner Holroyd.) IN RE. H. L. T. N. VON LINTER. The bankrupt was described as • mine proprietor and mining en4ineer, of Oakley-square, Regent's-park, and formerly of Dublin, and elsewhere. He ascribes his failure to expenses incurred in obtaining a concession from the RU315:311 government for the establishment of an Anglo- Russian bank in the empire of Russia, and the delay in making the same avtilable, owing to the financial and political difficulties here and on the continent. Ilia lia bilities amount to 10,9:v21. The assets are returned at up wards of 1,7001., consisting of debts and interest in various mining leases. Oa the application of Mr. Aldridge, for the official assignee, au adjournment of the examination sitting was ordered, to give opportunity for inquiring into the secu rities said to be held by creditors. bentures issued to the parties to their manifest injury. From what has been said, you will see that the directors, with their secretary and solicitors, have met the share holders from time to time, and the shareholders at such meetings have legally sanctioned all the acts of the direc tors, though upon those occasions they carefully excluded the debenture holdersdebenture holder had access to those meetings, no debenture hoLder has any power to look at or into the accounts ; and when the concern is on the verge of bankruptcy, if not actually insolvent, the deben ture holders are asked, to-day, to meet the directors as the representatives of the shareholders, to find another million and a half of capital—or, what is the same thing, to allow that amount of capital a priority over their existing mort gages. And for what is this capital wanted? Have we any statement in figures? Have we anything before us, except a vague proposal to pay us past and accruing inte rest out of freshly borrowed crpital, and in paying land claims, for which the money has already been raised under the various acts of parliament? One section of deben tures amounting to 356,300/. (the eastern section) is not even to have the fair advantage from this extra capital, if it should ever be raised. The imam of these debentures will remain a stigma on the compepy as long as it exists, all the formalities of the law have been set at deflanoe,and not one share has ever been paid upon. Whatever were the acts of parliament they have all been violated, and violated with the full knowledge of the board of directors, as the following minutes will show:—" At a meeting 'of the finance committee, held 21st April, 1864, resent Lord Harris, Mr. G. Cobb, Mr. W. Gladstone, Mr. G. P. Holroyd, as to issuing debentures for the eastern section, resolved that the issue be authorised." To issue these debentures the necessary legal document was prepared by the solicitors of company, the accounts necessaryfor the purpose were prepared by the accountant under the direction of the secretary, and the falsities were sworn to as truths before the magistrates at the Southwark or Lambeth police-court. (Cries of " Hear, hear," and " Shame.") After such proceedingslhow can the deben ture holders of this section be expected to suspend all actions at law for their overdue interest for twelve months, and fortheir principal for five years from the 31st December, 1867? (Hear, hear.) Until a full and particular account of every item upon which this money (1,500,000(.) is to be expended is laid before us, we hope that every debenture holder will withhold his assent ; and unless that statement is satisfactory, we trust the debenture holders will never consent to any proposition so destructive to their interest and so damaging to every debenture issued by the various other railway companies of the kingdom. (Hear, hest) All our attempts to look at the accounts are strenuously opposed. Applications have been repeatedly made through the Court of Chancery, and I believe I commit no breach of faith by saying that at last an order has been made that full and proper answers as to the mortgages of the surplus lands be put in before next Wednesday, or the consequences will be such as I dare not speak of. Why these denials? —why this secrecy! (Hear, hear.) What inference can be drawn but that the present directors will brave all dangers rather than let the debenture holders have the full and entire knowledge of all the past acts of the company ? I have forgotten to draw attention to the variations between the proposals now before us and the parliamentary notice as advertised in the newspapers, more particularly as to the purchase of houses and lands in the neighbour hood of this station. Under this notice, in general terms, any amount of money may be borrowed, any amount of stock may be created, " for completing the lines already authorised by parliament." There is neither limit nor amount ; and though these questions are more strictly for the shareholders', still that part of the notice "to autho rise the company to apply to the purposes of this bill their existing funds and any moneys which they still have the power to raise "is applicable to debenture holders. (Hear.) I am urged by several influential bondholders to allude to one other point, and do so under great pressure and with great reluctance, because it is of a personal nature and most painful to dwell upon. I allude to the secretary. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") Of course it is conced-d that the acts of the secretary are those of the directors, and that the directors are responsible for such acts so long as they are within the four corners of the act of parliament ; but if he passes those bounds and forgets the rules of commercial propriety, and infringes those higher laws not made by man, then I say we can have no confidence in him, and that every day he continues to sit at that board, the acts of the directors are tinctured with the stains of former transactions. (Hear, hear.) Before I sit down I have to draw the attention of the meeting to the most serious thing I have yet spoken of ; serious iu its effects, serious in its complications, and serious in its consequences ; and I believe when I have 'lone that the best thing for this meeting to do is simply to adjourn—answers and ex pLuiations at the moment will only hurl us into con fusion. The knowledge of the facts I only made out within the last few hours from the printed reports. On page 25 of the printed accounts ending June 31, 1865, metropolitan extensions (not City lines), the debentures issued are set down as 1,640,3ffe/., while the authorized parliamentary issue is only 1,-133,000/., showing an excess of 213,31.1 e/. Again, in the succeeding half-year ending Dec. 31, 18115, page 27, the amount issued is 1,673,:i58/., the authorized parliamentary issue being only as before, 1,433,0001., showing an excess of 240,5218/. Again on June 30, this year, page 29, the amount issued is I,firel,/483/., the authorized issue as before being only 1,433,000!., show ing the excess reduced to 123,e133/. The accounts of the directors to June 30 show an excess of issue of 121,833/. ; the report of the committee of investigation at the Bailie date states the excess, page 37, as only 9,295 i. Do the debentures still exist, or what has become of them ? I have thought it right to bring these matters before the meeting. It is for you, the debenture holders, to deal with them. (Cheers.) Mr. 1101)11RINSON explained that the discrepancy between the two debenture accounts of 114(1 and Paili pointed out by the last speaker arose from the fact that in the account of the former year the whole of the common fund deben ture was charged in the item of 1,673,000/., while in the latter case the proportionate amount only was charged. Mr. lionesne said that the explanation did not meet the case. The debenture account to which he referred was less in 196ri than the previous year, because it had been drawn in, and it could only have been drawn in by taking up debentures of which they knew nothing. They ought to have all the books sent to the Court of Chan cery and a thorough examination made of them. Mr. BILLING said that having, up to the present, always stood up for the hoard, he was sorry to nay that he must go against them on the present occasion. because their pro posal was subversive of all common law rights of property, and if carried int., effect would quite destroy confidence and be a grievous injury to the commercial morality of the country. (Cheers.) He did not think that parliament itself would venture to sanction such a proposal ; and if it did, the only effect would be that people would refuse for the future to lend upon railway debentures, inasmuch as they would regard such securities with the greatest suspicion. Hitherto debentures had always been consi dered a first mortgage, and the proposal of the directors was exactly the same as if the mortgagor of a house went to the mortgagee and said to him, lam in difficulties ; will you allow me to make another mortgage of the house mortgaged to you, and place you in the pos ition of second mortgagee ? ' (Hear, hear, and cries of Good.") Such a proposition would be made to no one but a fool. (Hear, hear.) He admitted that money must be found to pay the land claims and prevent the actual stoppage of the railway, and suggested that the beat way of meeting the difficulty would be to raise a second preference loan, the interest of which should be paid out of the half-yearly profits after the interest on existing debentures had been paid, such loan to be redeemable by instalments out of surplus profits by giving a six months' notice. He urged upon them not to consent to so great a wrong being done as the destruction of the sacred rights of property. (Cheers.) Mr. Peier pointed out that no trustee in the room could possibly consent to the proposition of the directors. The trust deeds under which they acted would prevent them. An act of parliament might indeed be obtained to destroy a common law right, but until it had been no trustee could possibly consent to such a course. (Hear, bear.) They were deeply indebted to Mr. Hodgson, who had obtained for them a great deal of valuable informa tion, and he begged to move that the committee of deben ture holders be authorised to confer with the directors on their proposal that they should investigate the accounts and report to the debenture holders the exact position of the company's affairs on a future day, and the result of the conference. The motion was seconded by Mr. Few, who said be was a large trustee, and quite coincided with the senti ments of the last speaker. Mr. Scorr, who spoke amid great interruption, com plained that the debenture committee had come to the meeting without any definite proposal, and asked what other mode than that suggested by the directors could be adopted. Several SHAREIIOLDERN—SeII the line. Mr. Scum said it would be a very difficult matter to sell the line. and, moreover, if they did, it would require 9,000,000!. to pay off the liabilities upon it. To make any such attempt would involve them in endless litigation. As the debenture committee were not prepared to propose anything practical, he thought the best coune would be to assent to the proposition of the directors. Mr. SASirDA, who spoke at considerable length, ex pressed his opinion that in the end the debenture holders would be perfectly safe, notwithstanding the grass mis management of the line. He agreed entirely with the ob servations of Mr. Billings, that the proposition of the directors was subversive of the rights of private property, and also with the remark of the last speaker, that no trustee could consent to such a course. He was convinced that until the directors hail given the fullest information to the debenture holders they would not have advanced one iota towards the settlement of this question. He suggested as apraeticable plan that the debenture holders should consent to some reduction of interest, taking the difference in deferred coupons, which might be paid out of the surplus revenue as it accrued. No one could doubt that a very large sum of money over the working expenses of the line would eventually be earned, and in a few years he had no doubt that the whole of the money due to the debenture holders would be paid. Mr. PFLL pointed out that if what he termed the illegal agreements with other lines, by which a large portion of the receipts were diverted from their proper application, were put an end to, revenue to the amount of 55,000/. a year would become applicable to the payment of deben ture interest As an instance, be quoted the oass el the Kent Coast line, which, by virtue of an agreement with this company, obtained not only the revenue earned upon that portion el their line over which the Litiodco, Chatham, and Dover Company ran, but actually a portion of the re ceipts earned between Victoria and Ludgate-hill. Ilr. tlanaleos took the same line of argument, and re ferred to the case of the western extension, in consequence of which, by an agreement dated in 1861, a large amount of this company's revenue was diverted from its objects. He could not understand how the legal advisee of the company had ever been induced to obtain the sanc tion of the company to such agreements—agreements for leases and so on—by which this company's revenues were diverted, and he informed the meeting that when the mat ter was brought before the Vivi-Chancellor, he (the Vice- Chancellor) said at once that the money so diverted must be properly applied. The hon. proprietor also read clauses from the acts of parliament authorising those agree by which it appeared that the money to be paid to those companies was to be paid out of the net profits of the un dertaking—and he therefore contended that until the de benture holders on the general undertaking were paid the payments he had referred to were illegal. Mr. BAITER said he never acted as the legal adviser of this company till the last two months, and therefore was in no way concerned in the previous transactions. It seemed to him that the interests of the debenture holders, so far as regarded the loss of the leases and so on, could not be in abler hands than those of the lawyers advising the deben ture committee. The great question now before holders was, how the present state of confusion could be put an end to and the line carried on ; because it was quite patent that until this was done the debenture holders could neither hope to obtain principal nor interest. (Renewed cries of " Sell the line.") He had been in the habit of attending business meetings in the City of London for upwards of 26 years, and had always found that in times of real difficulty and danger business men looked their difficulties boldly in the face, encountered, and generally overcame them. (Hear, hear.) What he would suggest was that three of the de benture committee, together with three of the debenture holders, who were not represented by the Com mittee, should be appointed to confer with the directors as to the beet course which could be adopted not only to conserve their own interests, but to improve the condition of the company itself. (Loud cries of " Put the resolution.") Some time was occupied in consultation between the directors and their legal advisers, during which there was a scene of great noise and confusion. As soon as the chair man could obtain a hearing he stated that the meeting having been called simply for conference, the directors did not contemplate the passing of any resolutions. He would, however, read the resolution as it had been amended and handed to Lim. It was to this effect, that the committee of debenture holders be authorised to confer with the di rectors, and to request authority to investigate the accounts and report the result to the debenture holders at a future meeting. Of course the directors had no feeling in the matter, because, although undoubtedly there had been a great deal of mismanagement and irregularity, the board were certainly not made acquainted with the real facts of the case. Mr. Hodgson had referred to the statement made by Sir Morton Peto at Bristol, that in 1863 Lloyd's bonds to the amount of 1,500,000/. lard been given on the general undertaking. He bad no knowledge of the source from which Sir Morton Peto had obtained that informa tion, nor did he wish to contradict it, because he dared say the statement was susceptible of some explanation, but he had requested the secretary to make out a list of Lloyd's bonds due at that time, and he found that they did not amount to more than 320,426/. Mr. N. Pima expressed his belief that the legislature would never sanction raising 1,500,000/. in the mode pro posed by the directors, and called attention to the speech made in the House of Lords in August last by Lord Redes dale, on the occasion of the application of the company to raise a million, in which Lord Redesdale said that it was impossible their lordships could listen to an applica tion the effect of which would be to divert from its pro per object money intended to be devoted to the payment of interest upon debentures. If another fund were created, Lord Redesdale added, an additional burden must be thrown upon the company. He (Mr. Price) contended that, if the directors had taken the speech of Lord Redes dale into serious consideration, they never would have made the present proposition. He also stated that it was not at all likely that the public would allow their money to be expended by the mysterious influences alluded to by Mr. Suigey as pervading the Victoria station. (There were again loud cries of " Put the resolution," and there was an evident reluctance on the part of the chairman to do so, and for nearly half-an-hour the room presented a scene of the wildest confusion.) Mr. HILLIARD, one of the directors, attempted to make some explanation, but the impatience of the meeting was such that he could not obtain a bearing. He expressed a hope that it would be recorded that when a director was on his lege to make an explanation in the face of such a resolution he was not permitted to do so. As the noble chairman still hesitated to put the resolu tion, the cry, became pretty geuerid to have another chair man, and Mr. Hodgson was requested to put the resolu tion. By this time the room hail become nearly dark, shareholders were shouting and gesticulating in every quarter, and the sirongest expressions were used against the directors and officers while on the other hand some two or three shareholders were frantically protesting against the resolution being put. In the midst of this some person at the further end of the room took upon himself to put the resolution, and a large number of hands was held up in its favour. The confusion, however, still continued. At length, The CHAIRMAN rose, and after some time succeeded In obtaining a hearing. He said the difficulty the directors felt was this ; they hail with great time and labour forme,' a scheme which they considered would be beneficial to the debenture holden and shareholders, they had invited them to a conference upon it, but they certa'nly had not con templated the passing of any resolution at that meeting — (cries of " shame, shame," "disgraceful," &c.)—atill, if the meeting were determined to pass the resolution, he would put it. (Hear, hear.) A short consultation took place between Mr. Hodgson on one side of the table, and the chairman and sonic of the directors on the other, and the result apparently was that some alteration was made in the wording of the reso lution, which was read by the noble chairman in the fol ios ing form :—" The debenture hollers dissenting from the directors' scheme request that the committee," &c. This elicited marked disapprobation, and in the course of the confusion which ensued, Mr. PRICE rose and stated that his resolution as finally amended and settled between himself and the seconder, was—" That this meeting. while disapproving of the pro posal of the directors, authorises the committee of deben ture holders to confer with the directors and to request from them authority to investigate the accounts and report the result to the debenture holders at a future meeting." The CH.urWAN then put the resolution as read by Mr. Price, and almost every hand in the room was held up in its favour, only three hands being held up against it, which excited the laughter and derisive cheers of the majority. A vote of thanks was given to the noble chairman, and the meeting separated. EARLY CLosING AssocisrioN. —An entertainment I for the benefit of this body was given in the Polygraphic- I hall, King William-street, on Friday evening last, by the Fore-street Dramatic Society. The programme included ! Jerrold's Sutqked Mixer, and a inure serious piece by an amateur, as well as a selection of vocal and instrumental music, and was executed without professional assistance, in the presence of a crowded and respectable audience, who testitied their hearty enjoyment of the performance. THE FEN lAN MOVEM ENT. —Tho police have ap prehended another person, believed to be a Fenian emissary, in Belfast. The suspected stranger in this instance, like his supposed colleague in Dublin, has a respectable appearance, and is understood to have admitted being lately in the American navy. The grounds for his arrrest have not transpires!. The person taken in Belfast had just landed from the Glasgow steamer, and gave the name of DPNally. The Dublin police now walk two and two in the suburbs at night, as they did last winter, armed, the detectives having revolvers. It is probable that fresh ar rests may be made in the Irish capital. lil`Gillvray, as he called himself, who was arrested iu Dublin after getting cash for the •• American draft" fur :Wt., has been sent direct to dlountjoy l'rison. The cask of bullets found in Limerick was discovered in the house of one artisan, who has been arrested, and some pikes at the residence of another. The men in custody there are named Brazil (a clerk in the establish ment of the city high sheriff) ; Molony, a cabinetmaker ; two brothers Daly, lath-splitters ; Downs, a labourer ; Brennan, last-maker; Blaney, shoemaker; O'Connor, dealer; Kelly, gasfitter. On the facts becoming known, much excitement prevailed in Limerick. The Enfield rifles seized at Cork were perfectly new, and are described as about half a foot longer than those in use in the army. They had muzzle-stoppers, charge-screw, and an extra supply of nipples and nipple-covers, besides several moulds for casting conical bullets. The bayonets belonging to them are of the ring -lock pattern. The two boxes were described in the steamer's manifest as containing American leather and oil-cloth. Two arrests have also been made of persons arriving at Drogheda by steamer from Liver. I pool. The Dublin Express states that the government' has issued orders for the stationing of 12 gunboats off the Irish coast. Strict directions have been given that all fishing-boats and vessels of any kind in which Fenian emissaries or arms and ammunition might be imported are t( be subjected to a rigid search. The utmost vigilance is exerted in all the porta, and we believe that the arrange ments made by the government for obtaining immediate information of any inurement that may be on foot are such as may be relied upon. The Freeman's Journal states that all the troops comprising the Dublin garrison were , kept under arms during Saturday night. Detachments of , cavalry patrolled the outlying districts of the city until daylight lest any effort should be made to interfere with the gas. The utmost tranquillity prevailed during the Inight, and after patrol duty the troops all returned to I 1 their respective quarters. [Advertisement. J—HoLLowAy's PlLLS.—Remedy and lterlmen.—The most anima subject on which man can medi tate Is the maintenance of good health in himself and In the dear ones around him. Whenever or wherever illness usalla us, It always sends before It unmistakeable symptoms of it approach : subdue these by Holloway's corrective and purifying medicine, aided by a plain, simple , digestible diet, and th e a tt ac k , d epr i ve d of ha powerful allies within the body, passes harmlessly by. Pahl, discomfort, and danger, ere alike averted, and when epidemka rage whole households are spared a mournful limitation. Disease Is always occurring at an hours of the der at all seasons of the year ; prudence therefore ghee the warning to keep this remedy reedy to lemovh deleMtre mikes. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOYLE RAILWAY. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the debenture holders in this undertaking was held at the Victoria Sta. tion, for the purpose of enabling them to confer with the directors respecting the proposition made to issue, if par liament so sanction, new capital to the extent of 1,500,0001., bearing a preference over the debentures. The proceedings were of • very stormy character, and the meeting was densely crowded. Lord HARRIS, having taken the chair, endeavoured to open the business, but there was an immediate cry for en adjournment to a larger room. His lordship explained that the Vice-Chancellor had refused to allow the sum ex pended in obtaining St. James's-hall for the last two meet ings, and there was no alternative but to make use of the accommodation they had got. Strong dissatisfaction was expressed at the want of spaoe, and Mr. Hodgson, the chairman of the debenture holders' committee, offered to pay for a room at the Grosvenor Hotel, but it was found that all the rooms were engaged. After nearly an hour had been spent in fruitless endeavours to obtain more ac commodation, and telegrams had been sent to St. James's hall-and Exeter-hall, it was announced from the chair that , unless the meeting were adjourned altogether they must 'goon in the room in which they were. This course having ; been reluctantly assented to, The CHAIRMAN explained that the plan which, after the fullestconaideration, and a thorough understanding of the position of the company, the &meters had published, ap peared to them the only one which could be adopted to renovate the company. Their first object, of course, was that the line should not be stopped, but should continue to earn as much as possible ; the next was to get rid of the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs, and, if possible, to bring about a better state of things. On the present occasion the directors rather desired to hear the opinions of the debenture holders on the proposals which had been made than to give utterance to anything themselves. The plan that had been submitted to them had the united I approval both of himself and his colleagues, but there were naturally a great many points connec ted with it which must interest the debenture holders as well as the shareholders, and upon such points the directors would be glad to confer with them. He hoped, therefore, that that conference would be carried on in a business-like manner, and that such subjects only would be considered as imme diately bore upon the proposals of the board, and that some mode would be agreed upon which would tend to improve the position of the company. (Hear, hear.) He would not detain them longer, but should be glad to an swer inquiries, or make such explanations as might be re quired by the debenture holders. (Hear.) Mr. Honceow, as chairman of the committee of deben ture holden, next addressed the meeting. He said— I In speaking to the proposition which is new laid before the meeting, I must at the outset express my regret, and in which I believe the directors will yet concur, that the subject matter had not been previously discussed in con ference before it was brought before the debenture holders. The scheme upon a smaller scale to raiseone mil lion, now one million and a half, having been rejected by the House of Lords, and the debenture stock having been negatived by at least one member of the present executive, there was no difficulty in doing so, for the directors have been in communication with the committee. and a meeting could have been held at which it might have been possible to have arranged a scheme for the shareholders to have con tributed a fair proportion of capital instead of reviving plans already negatived. It has been asserted that our security is ample—so much the better ; but if it is but scanty, so much the more necessary that it should be care fully guarded. (Hear, hear.) At this moment the deben ture holders have no accounts before them but those of the committee of investigation, who now have taken the place of the old directors and become directors themselves ; and the only policy yet indicated for the future appears to be a desire to follow former precedents by raising more money. Before this is done let us see what has become of the large sums raised ; let us see whetherthose large minis have been properly applied to the purposes of the undertaking, and let the debenture holders have that information given to them without which it will be impossible to arrive at the just position of things. Our committee have endeavoured to get at the expenditure of the common fund, and wrote to the directors. The reply was that the debenture holders had no business to ask such questions. We wrote again, claiming as debenture holders on the common fund a right to have such information, and received to this second ap plication a mere for mal acknowledgment of the letter. I speak of this to ahow that the deb.uture holders have no information, and can get none, and therefore I sin compelled to glean such facts as I can from the printed half-yearly reports which have within the last few days come into my hands ; and atter a careful perusal I can only say that such a sanguine series of delutdve hopes and fallacious expecta tions were never brought together. Theme reports printed in this station, and circulated every half-year to every share holder (but not to any debenture holder), would have opened the eyes of the shareholders if carefully read, ea they ought to have been, unless the readers were wilfully blind to the consequences. (Hear, hear.) Taking the report of February, 1855—Lord Sondes in the chair, Lord Harris deputy-chairman, and the directors then present, with their solicitors. their secretary and manager, sur rounded by their shareholders-1 find at page 2'l that Mr. Holroyd is reported thus :—" With regard to Lloyd's Bonds, I repeat that this company never raised money upon Lloyd's Bonds ; that it was not legal to do so ; but that when the contractors had in anticipation of the capital sanctioned by the shareholders, for which they were applying to parliament —when the contractors had consented to advance money pending the authority of parliament being ob tained, so as to prevent the stoppage of the works—they had given the contractors an acknowledgment of the debts so incurred, which it was only just they should have, and that acknowledgment had been called a Lloyd's Bond." From the statement lately made at Bristol by Sir Morton Peto, this was no temporary arrangement, for he proven that on the lith Dec., 1853, the main line owed upwards of a million and a quarter upon Lloyd's Bonds ; and if you refer to the company s reports published up to 31st December, 1853 (same year), you will find the sum put down as due to sundry creditors only 225,329/. lie. 1(1., and upon the sail page is printed, " Examined and approvtd, .J. E. Colman and George Eley, auditors." On the saute page he further wide, "They had arrived at a point when they could pay all rent charges, and interest on debentures end first preference stock." On the next page, a shareholder asks, " Whet debenture interest had the company paid in the last Kix months ?" The secretary (Mr. Johnson) : " The debenture interest was 31,520/. lds. 9d. during the half-year, and had been paid out of the earnings of the half-year (ending December, 18411)." The directors, their solrcitors, their staff, and a large body of shareholders hear this statement, and see it again when printed, and from that report, printed in the company's works, the debentures are figured thus: Authorised Wue f 3, nerel rndertaktog .el c15.71)9 „ Metropolitsn katendont 1.43.1.000 Common Fund And Stock of Commit Fund £4,01.800 The interest on this sum at rO per cent. amounts in the half-year to 111,9451. I will not stop upon this point until we reach the next half-year. On pace 29 Mr. Forbes says : " The common fund was established for the purpose of building stations and pmv , ding workshops, machinery, &.c., for purposes common to all the lines of the company. It amounted to 1,000,000 f., all placed at 5 pet cent." Has WA million been so applied ? (Hear.) I now come again to Mr. Holroy.l, who add "The arrangements the directors had made with regard to the issue of the ordinary stock were these :—They felt it would be desirable to avoid issuing that stock to the pubitc at the present time, as the value of that stock would increase every week, and if they could not defer it for the present, they would have to make a large sacrifice. Several large shareholders and others had, therefore, taken a portion of the stock at a certain price, the directors having the power to redeem it at the same price some 12 months from the present time. and they were indebted to these geutleinen who came forward to assist them." What comment can be made upon this THE POLICE COURTS. WESTMINSTER :. Mr. William Courtney Brutton, a solicitor, of 23,Itegent street, St. James's, was charged with feloniously interniar rying with Ellen Bertha Trimble, his first wife being then and still alive. He was committed for trial, two sureties in IGO!. and himself in jk.V. being taken ftr his appearance. - - THE FATAL UuNoLINE CATASTROPHE IN SLOANE STREET.—Ls,t evening Mr. C. St. Clare Bedford held an inquiry at Jt. tkor ,, e's Hospital relative to the death of Sylvia Bennett, aged 15 years, who was burnt to death under the eirenuistarLes related yesterday. Charlotte Bell, a widow, said she kept a family lodging-house at oil, Sloane-street, Chelsea, and that the deceased was in her service. On Thursday last about 12 o'clock she was I statement? (Hear, hear.) The stock is unissued to the cleaning up a bedroom on the third floor, when she cud- I public, it is some way hypothecated to certain indi denl3 ran down st..irs screaming into the kitchen enve- victuals devoid of all responsibility, and upon this very loped in flames. She then ran to the street door all in • I imaginary stock the full amount of debentures is issued blaze. Witness afterwards went up into the room. There to the debenture holders, without even the substance of was a fire there, but no guard on the grate. The hearth- I a shilling being paid by the shareholders. Who made rug was folded up. and there were some cinders in the the sacrifice? (Hear, hear.) Who were the victims? pin. The deceased wore a cotton dress. Evidence was (Hear, hear.) In the next half-year ending June, given that deceased, while in the hospital, said she was 181;5, the meeting held the 24th August, Lord dusting the mantelpiece and turned round towards the Sondes in the chair, Lord Harris, deputy-chair dust.pan, when her clothes must have caught fire. A man, Mr. Hedgcock said he should like to know verdict of " Accidental death " was recorded. how much had been paid for debenture interest, and the MYBfEltiot.'s DEATH OF Two CHILDREN.—Yester- position of the second preference shareholders on the main day an inquest was opened at Whitnash, near Lea- . line? Mr. Johnson, the secretary, in reply to the gime mington, on the bodies of Alfred and Theodore Lane, tiers, said the net balance of profit for the half-year was the children of Mr. Edward Pyne Lane, an extensive 40,9841. 16• 6.1., of which 10,182/. 19s. 4d. was applicable farmer at Whitnash. The deceased were twins, and only to debenture interest, but did not cover the entire charge. about five weeks old. On Thursday night last they were The secretary, with his knowledge, and the directors sitting put to bed in a cot, in a room occupied by two servants, by, allowed a deficiency in debenture interest on the main and when the latter retired to rest about 10 o'clock they line of 34,282/. to pass as if the sum was too trifling to be appeared to be sleeping comfortably and naturally. The noticed, and omit altogether to state that the Metropolitan servants were not disturbed by the children during the Extension debentures of 1,646,268/., as well as the coin night, as they usually had been, and the next morning soon fund stock 750,000 f. (together 2,396,368/.) has only a both the deceased were found dead in bed. credit of 23,751/. towards its interest at 5i per cent. of Dr. Horniblow, of Leamington, who had made post mortem 65,900/. Lord Harris, when the hon. proprietor talked of examinations of the bodies, stated that he found the the line being completed from Victoria to Dover, he must appearances identical in both cases. The lungs and brains remem b er that all the works were not finished, although of each were highly congested, and he was of opinion death they had the capital for completing them, and the expenses had in all probability taken place within two hours of the which the same gentlemen referred to—interest on deben time deceased last had fool. Death had arisen from the tures, rolling stock, and other things of that kind—would functions of the lungs having been suddenly arrested, but not continue when the line was in full work. They had he could not say what had been the cause. In his opinion it the capital, why bed it not been applied, or what had be had not arisen from convulsions, and there were no come of it ? In the next half-year's report, last February, external marks of violence, but death was compatible with Lord Sondes in the chair, Lord Hams deputy chairman, suffocation from some cause or other, or might have much discussion occurs as to tho future profits, and on page resulted from narcotic poison. The post martens appear- 10 the manager, Mr. Forbes, says, "I will say we were never armee were inconsistent with death from natural causes. so nearly able to fix the period of the termination of our The inquest was then adjourned for a week to allow of fur- trouble—(cries of " Oh, oh") PS we are at this moment;" and ther evidence being adduced, and in order that the con- " the directorshave taken greatpains io all their calculations tents of the stomachs of the deceased might be analysed. to ascertain, as nearly as men can, whattbe future will give." Du BARRY'S DELICIOUS REVALENYA ARABICA (Hemmed cries of " Oh, oh.") At this time the concern Fool, cures dyspepsia, indigestion, cough. s'tun's, consumption, was in the most frightful state of embarasement, and the constipation, diarrhoea, palpitation, nervous, bilious, position of the company must have been fully known to all liver, and stomach complaints. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July the executive—(hear, hear)—and with that knowledge the 1866.—The health o the Holy Father is excellent, esperunv company continued to take money from the public on de fame, abandoning all other remedies, he has eonnned bentures as late as the 26th Jane--(hear, hear)—and hear)--and even en ti re ly to Du Harry's Food, and his Holiness aumot praise this excellent t o ed too Mehly."—Gaaette du Midi De Barry and up to the last moment of the half-year, debentures sent in C , ., No. Ty, Resentutreet, London, W. le Dna, at la. led.; for renewal were not renewed byendorsement aa they should 111 s. is Id. tla have been, bat they were caned ad aa paid off, and no dF Spurting *ntelligi TAITERSALL'B.—IIonw With characteristic pertinacity, turf sp , reluctant to bid farewell to the sport fairly played out. To-day, ocntrary to er, was a numerous gathering at Albertpte of business by no means to be despised% The Croydon Metropolitan Steeplechase el able interest, and from first to last extensii were made. For this event Astrolabe, i f r eely supported at the clubs in the cuorui4. first favourite, and after the current odds been absorbed, 100 W 15 was laid. Globule , held a firm petition, and was supported • confidence at 8 to 1, while at a point in ei Meanwood secured numerous friends. 1 formed also the channel of other beta, coupled being backed at 4 to 1, and the thre 2to 1. Daisy was also in great demand, advanced from 100 to 7 to 10 to 1 take some magnitude being effected at the int•._ final odds. Hornet came in for a moderate favour at 100 to 7, and a few small outlays were Reporter and Sprite at the prices named. inquiries after LS.D. and Arlescott, but on each side prevented any business being y _ offers against outsiders went unregara e d. having apparently made up theirminds that (a foul. named in the quotation' must be - net. The betting on the Derby showed as the favourites are concerned, The !tab heading the list, the last-named receif support which, if continued a few dal necessity bring him on a par with Mr. P was quietly backed at 500 to 30. A big 3,000 to 90 against The Palmer, arid 2,1 against Vauban. The 'saute owner - Scipio backed his pair coupled to win with this " sensation" wager, speculation closed. For the Two Thousand Guineas, on the field without a response, but r of Plaudit for this race and The Rake effected. In the course of the afternoon the ~. mittee of Tatteisall's respecting the bets posted on the notice board, and side by , objection against Soiled Dove. These lows :—" The committee decide that tt nington Stakes should go to Landlord. Paints, OUSELEY HIGGINS." " Mr. T. Colby objects to Soiled won at Warwick on the ground of inn The specific objection against Soile Bove, that she Is a three-year old, old as represented, and if this be pros most complicated state of things, as this filly will have to be returned. I tion of what the result is likely o' . the race at Warwick, we may mem quarters there were offers of even some, who came in second, got the the prices were as follows. DELAND METROPOLITAN SEEXPLECHASE 100 to 15 agst Baron Finot's Astrolabe, 6 yr. Bto 1 Mr. T. V. Moran's Globule, • 9to 1 Mr. T. Ilidson's Meanw , - 10 to 1 Mr. W. R. H. Powell' , 100 to 7 Mr. Lynton's Hornet, , 100 to 7 Mr. 100 to Caahman's L.S.D., t 100 to Mr. Summe rs's Arleecoti t 100 to 5' 100 to 6 Lord Coventry's Balder, 100 to 6 Lord Poulett'i Reporte 100 to 5 Mr. F. G. Hobson's (ufE 100 to 4 Mr. Oeorge's Sprite, TWO THOUSAND GU 9 to 2 on the Flek DERBY. 800 to 100 egg Mr. F. Pryor's The Baki 500 to 50 Major 13won's Plaudit • 500 to 30 Sir Count F. de L Howle y's agrange'r 3000 to 90 Joe. The 2000 to 50 Duke of Beaufort's Vr 10000 to 150 Mr. J. Stephenson, (coupled A) 1000 to 25 Plaudit for the Two The Rake / cart he Derby Oft% tw o mei 40* I' CchOTIM, )1 .• Ism 44 CROYDON STEEPLEi Hogszs ARRIVED.-Binite, Pineal Wade, Ace of Trumps, Hornet, N Hungerford, Redwing, Marengo, Jack o' Newbury, Lady Douglas, Glyc Astrolabe, Comberton, Garus, The Gu wood, Rishopton, Patience, and Harol *— and Burbidge's are trained in the neighbourhood, ma s , others are expected in the mominr Dar, Ate* Jul Balk 114. MARICE! LONDON WEEKLY DOCK import 80056—W. L Ws. &tom . 1,678 Do bra &bop 1,150 Mauritius hags Eaat India legs; Mom baskets, Ke I/ Manila bag'. Havana bores; 764 ForeignMuscovado casks' 600 Brazil packages Beet Root ........casks Do. bags 926 Conran—W. L packages Do. .... brla it bags Ceylon casks 1,611 Do. ....brls. & bags 1,150 Mocha packages 145 Other R. India package* 1,875 Brazil a Costa Rica bags 591 COCOA bags -An 603 Foreign N,Ol Rot Do. hhds. I Ries, Rut India —.tons; 1,1527 BAUM'S fiene. 23 TALLOW.—MONDAY FM:CI little fluctuation in the tallow There has been some improvemt has been freely met by holders, still on the way has discounagi market. The total shipments oor are n 7,644, against 81,947 last passage 11,72.4 against 11,870 closes steady. Spot, 44a. 3d.; all t. 445. to 445. 3d.; January to March, March, 445. 91. to 45a. ; October t town tallow, 435. 3d. net cash. Ode No 'sheep offering. South Amer yellow, 445. to 445. 61. Cocoani to 60s. 6d. ; Ceylon, 495. to 4 :As., mixed kinds to fine. Palm 445. erd. Palm nut oil, 425. to (ie r adom. lare =kilos 1 7; Sydsey, * Logos, - 1 / 4 4 Waist /jolty. Smith soil Chi;rles.) COTTON.—Ltvtarom., No tinues steady, without change Sales to-day 10,000 bales, inclu( export. 2,000 American, 14d. 1311. to 17d. ; 100 Maranham. 1 and Bahia, 1011 to 15(i. ; 700 200 Smyrna, Sd. to 13(1. ; 6,' Madre, Nd. to 11d. ; llengal, China, 1041. markd Friafr 300 ho! , 60016!" COALS.—LotmoN, Nov. 26. 18s. 3d. ; Holywell Main, 17s. ' ley, 17s. Oil. ; 'North Pelson Gs 14s. Gd. ; West Hartley, Its. End Acorn Close, 21s. 3d. ; Ede End Braddylls Hetton, 22.. ; 204. Gd. ; Walls End Haswell, Zia.; Wall End Pittington, Helton, Tla. ; Walls End Tuust Cassop, Va. ; Walls End Hartl Kelloe, 21s. 6d. ; Walls End Walls End Original Hartlepool Hartlepool, 21a. 6d.—Ships at End 1 En! CALCUTTA AND CHINA Nov. 26.—The Masa& arrived delayed by strong head winds. ' at 11.30 a.m. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATH& Tool, 51 ; '1 End 8.6 Id, 78. -itiAßanA , hob( , t« We° BIRTHS. ALLEN—November ?.:4, at Cavenalkh.mail.pnrk. Natll6l4 the wife of J. U. Allen, Jun., of a draught. r. Poe. BLOXIIAM.-I . 4orember 24. ut Ohl Cavetali4h.strert , square, the wife of H. Mosby% of a den:Ater. J am , FARM ER.—.Noverniwr 23, at of St. Ja" the wife of E. Farmer, Eas., of a dausiarr. urgo LAM BERT.—Norember 2.'1, at Burpate, of Captain E. H. G. Lambert, R.74...4 a son WEDlMlND.—Nureinher 23. at t handos.villa, 1 4,2 " ton, Mrs. J. C. Wedekind, of a sou Kent,Ladl T YARDLEY.—November 21, at Iliollow . p ark, of a son. O" 3IARRIAGIM. ABCREIVON—wIi MT.MORE .v .—Nermber !I, at robelidrs Church, Liverpool, by the Rev. W. M. Folhos, formerly of Berlin, to Elizabeth lawmerr• W. T. Whittemore, Mount ernon, Princes - po r k of New York A. Hit JACKSON —NIINCITIN.—November V, at St. W 7 Gloucester, by tho Rev. H. C. Mluchin, the her. .... • Y or ieshir Jackson, M.A., of Nonn an hy Hall. N.R. o f Old e. Charlotte, daughter of C. Minchin, R . Manchester. LOO P BYLES—RUSSICLL.—November 24, at Christ Church, gate, by the her. Il4chsrd Russell. rect..r of Bucks, Walter Barnard Bytes, F.sq., of Uncoln'obut at-law, eldest son of the lion. Mr. Justice Bytes. 0 2 0 third daughter of Francis WilUant Russell, EA. , xi -11 lamtcastervate. DEATHS. k lA° HODWlON.—November 23, in Loudon, Mr. aged 57. J. 7* PlCKTHOR77.—November 23, at Aberdeen. Comtaandal thorn, L. N. RENTON.—November 23, at Montt:l3ton Boom. 15 . 11°P.-- Renton, flaq 'moist 1 . TULLOCll.—November 23, at Dawsontroaßa We Marla, relict of Lieut.-General J. - ....— I _ __ .. lie_ Printed sad Pubtalled by Wrisinit KM W.W . 1 . : ii P Lemberiteereet, ha the City of Landes. Prrn3ooool 011 e. la Leashardatreet, in the Precinct 01 /111111 Air. NOVIELSIII 1 , 18111. ---_,. Ileum it: NEI V▪ iwillatme i i „..._ , • I ant4ith iiss7 expeeut,.• ~__ at, and i i i'' "on ..- led vie .611 1.1 ..-. O evoked - esigi O h : tensive imola i .. Ib l's who lied rwwitwas tod a yt e l D I obute, ' 1 Many 1 with sotr i tt the n excess of thempAa CZ These eh r „cz beta, el t . t ai rs i.. tedlr pea* ' three otojekestp ... mar, wand, and ....,.. term ken, tramasst67, l Wit+ intermediate sitig D ---_ moderate' *we •- d lays were va i i -, named. 1 1sare lisli um. nasal but the limit a s i the C 1624 6 wing dom. 16-, In uwegmrded, 1;C Is that oneof thin" g i n se returned the ei et m •ed ne -- take andchMirsaill D .. mit ° stria,„„, tw higli .1•1/0 4 aa u m i: lays ys f bulge ' mat : • Prfor's reek D oe : = ,ild t : i: ;•a by a ntbi l him aie d ldem on eDffebousipid oto : :rit ile 4 os l 6 l tho ev*: itt:aossive: : : : : pig bet ms bosigi der,' slave eas, 9 to 2 sem - me for the Deeby I N ] 11 ) e decision of the ea. 41 bets on Wand it - bee i *sem COB nodal an a: gems or .-- 13 alt GM GM d, and not a Maio Ink proved it will halo ' Whl deli as s all beta to* sma A souse slight id"; aka i be in comet* va O to W ention that is mug - 1 money that vow. ,e stakes. At Weft Di LECHASE CPlOllOl , _ (Ss 'gibe, 6 yrs, slit , t; - 'auk , get M. q 0. ownt.d. MK Milli a Hin I's Daley, aged, maims P t, 6 Yre, Dat 445 :4", " . 1) ., 5 7TI, Mu lib y 4 r - .cott, aged. ~, a , C Idet , aged. net sib A film , rter. aged, nie ( t ) tint s Patience, spa, ma g sit lov . aged. ltst 716 (q al it'INZAB. id ",02/) Make ,e) • nit ,h be ige's Dragon (t) b e he Palmer k t, 1 Vauban V 111 n's atadbroks sad Ida ea Sal Co Mound Odra a J. Derby (1, Bm M , LECHASES. - temple, Flyas ,, W, Dar. . N milltla go, Gortolne, l snins ae, 1 Glycine, L.S.D., Ettlia esti se Guide, Globule, NM Harold. J. Nighapd neighbourhood, sad ael ng. ~...., 'TS. . u II r R ET URNS.-Nov. IL m , Dared Pr.Btecti a 11 - - at ,- 4,531 1 34,0464 b,71 - 1,673 I 9,726 1 IA ' E 5,277 i 97,334 1.111 3,001 , 160,506 , 111,111 - : MI I • 3,055 r WO , RIX 111 - 1,915 36,214. 441 776 25,944 I that IF 698 30,603 lUM • 103 6M , • i 313 2,216 I 1136 A 112 1,013 1 1 116 - - - 1.011 13,646 i 13.3 71 3,1.5 46,144 Mil Z 54 I 1.1119 , 1.81 C 2,032 i 40,440 1 41,61 - 3,920 ARO : alk • aa I 11,14) iad I,em- 04156 ,IS 363 Keol I xis 149 9314 , ka loc.-There has bat ✓ market for some all neat in the demand, 1,11 re, but the large steal - iraged specuLitacs a a . off to close of air ''- e I year. There am • e '0 last year. The Enka 't i all the year and Daman ? larch, 443. 3d. to *lt, i 1 iber to December, gat 1 Ode sat beef, 44a. te Oa - merican, 455. to 4 ii; tout oil firm ; Cociiiu, 495. Cal. ; Sidaey, ds. e to oil, fine Lanes, 11 ‘ 11 434.-(From the Maki ov. 26.-The swat se 1 in prices from Didlf hi I 'ding 3,000 speculates mi .. to ltkl. ' • 300 Pens** 15d. to 151 d. ; 60016. 0 'OO Egyptian, 13d. to 181 ; 1,100 Surat, 70. to It ~ Scinde, kc., Id. 0 ; ;.-Davison's West lisrdeb . 9d. ; La.nbert's Wedge. :as, 13a, ; Walker Diana 3d.; Wylam, 171.; WA, 'den Main, 21 4 3d.; Tim • Walls End Enwrap*. , 235. ; Walls End Het* . n, We. ; Walls End .stall, 2. CA. ; Wills 15 .1 artlepool, Vs. ; Walt li. East Hartlepool, 51._ 3L; , 31,23 's. • Wall, End 801 11 market,'•2 ; sold, 78. ------ a Matt-S.-MAM MA • ed at 9.30 a.m., bode b . . The mails leave for 10 : 411 ------ ES, AND DEATHS -- MS. 'end k1a.m...1-parit, N 0604114 fa Ilaught. r. 11,1 Cava,' I.h.strcet, 0 1 • 016 ' ), of a dam:Ater "" ......1 '3VeB,IIA-VIDA, St. / 0111" ' a danghti . r. lannte, lonlnthrld:c. *. IN., .if a bin. ... 0 , lliniitloSNllll., Lern-roo°, iislieliw•park, Kent, TAO Tig" (AGM. t St W WI -N ea•cmber 11, a v. W. 51. 1,0.0, E. Aseell aheth lawrrnre. ~....„,,g 1 erns, Princes ....- - de 1 4 nher 22, at st. VITT_ ....A. C. Nlluchin, the her. *.. , 7,. Mims. N. R. Yoricehlre. Minchln, Esq., of Old 17••••• OO P re c ' ?A, at Cbrist Charch, L asset. tor of Ksq., of Lincoln's -kin , Sir. Justice Ryles. 0 11 : I Tri li ALo ant bDedsrd. it oeen, :slel meo l r , . mosame r• :::: l4.o ' .o. all° =Wig t on Souse, Ber r -....ar, JO DWI.= .phice, _Bair- DDere .1• 1111 ......, 2___.....-•••' ° ' c3' • • _........ _--------:-. 3/ 6 I luau inia Haist,• d • ao of Lancial. 11417.0.