The Express. — London, England, 1858-08-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1858. TO 0011111OPORDINTO. aminersos maim ler .11k• lappus,”Amma ftedis gip.. mit is NI Or ea" to t eigned&strial. lir Tee Mot is Or eig el pilleller 11110211111 Orara n nir D MlßLAMi nir A lt 101001 "11 i HIGH WAS= AT LOXDOX BAIDOI. rim lut—akors. ALL ft..—...= nib. Ma. TINIOSSOII..44IMING. I& 0116 UM. LONDON, PRID47, arreCTBT 20. SPORTING A SPECIAL RDITION of the " REPRESS,* sustaining the melte of the day's Races, is peb. limbed °wry evening daring the Sporting Seam, at eta o'clock. Tam are no salient points in the last budget of am from India. And successive mails, for some time to come, are likely to present the same charac- terless appearance. The military mutineers are for the most part cowed and scattered; and the non military insurgents, who rallied round them, are beginning to evince a disposition to make terms. Here sad there armed bodies still keep the deld; and the embers of civil war everywhere glow hotly still beneath the crust of ashes that is beginning to gather over them; but the time when military opera tion were the one thing needful has passed, sad the time for the reconstruction of civil order, and fee the reconsolidation of our Empire has arrived. This work will have to be accomplished by a new Clove:n=lc.. True, this Government is mainly com posed of the old materials. The Minister for India Mill have to operate at horns through the agency of materials selected from the old functionaries of Cannon row and Leadenhall-etreet ; and in Hindoetan the administrative personnel will experience little or no change. But these materials will be wrought , up into different combinations ; offices and function arks will be called by new names ; and :the of India will be subjected to new influences. The Government of India has been effectually revolu tionised ; it is impossible to conjecture beforehand how the still incomplete organisation will answer the purposes of administration. And it will have to deal with an equally novel India. The old Anglo lodine Government' triumphed over antagonistic powers which bad established themselves on the rains of the Mogul Empire, or had resumed • tem porarily inapended vitality in the day of its decline. The reciprocal hostilities of the Nunn, the NA wave-Wu:ail, the Psalm t, and a multitude of other aspirants to and possessors of sovereignty, enabled sod obliged the Company to set its foot in turn upon the necks of each and all of them. But the war out of which we appear to be now on the eve of emerging triumphantly has been waged against a new enemy. The representative, of the King of Dttot, of the NAwAUP WUZEPR, and of the PIISHAA have, indeed, eadeavoured to turn the mutiny or insurrection to their own account. Perhaps they, or their agents, may have had some small share in stirring it up. But they exercised so real intimates over it. The Vag of Dram, the king of 01:DE, and even Nana BAE tp, appear is the confusion bias the ghosted' de inset dynasties mingling with, but scarcely noticed amid the strife of living and breathing men. There are no longer any sovereign princes in India. Like SCINDIA, they owe their crowns more to the good will of the Anglo-Indian Government than of their subjects. The mutineers [might, not for any prises, but, like WALTZB ficorr's Gow Chrom, " for " their aim hand." It is a feature of the woe now ending that has hithertoo beta too little attended to, that we have for the first time had to contend against something like an Indian public opinion. We have not fought against Mahrattas, or kohillas, against a HYDI2 Al.t or a TIPPOO nano, but against • horde of =distinguishable Indians, sympathising with sash ether se such. The recognised princes of /oft —the NIZMI, the sovereigns of Rajpootana, 13014D1A. sad HOLKAIt, have been friendly to Is or nentraL No man of note or name has emerged from the ranks of our opponents I and visibly taken the teal. Yet we have had against us immense muses animated by one I common spirit, and capable of disciplined coca- 4 binations. This is the fruit of our own policy. Too I few to act without native aid in India, we have near warily employed native agency to a large extent. 1 We have trampled down the Princes of India and confounded them with the masses. We Lan conferred no distinctions on the wealthy middle classes who have been growing up. But we have organised and disciplined an enormous satire army recruited almost exclusively from the priest and warrive castes of the Valley of the Ganges. We have educated a numerous class of civil functionaries, composed mainly of the relatives of the soldiery. The only portior sof Indian society animated by a sense of personal influence and cense quenoe have been our soldiers and civil fano. tionariee. United among themselves by disci pline and official relations, these men have be come the exclusive depositaries of a wide sense of clanship —of something approach lag to national feeling. They have been inspired throughout the conflict with • claire to expel us from India, and to usurp the sovereignty from which they sought to cast us down. Mussnlmans and vo taries of the old Hindao faith have co-operated to this end. In India Mahomeilanism and Bladed's& bare for °eateries faded into each other by insen sible degrees ; and the sectaries of both have of late Imbibed many impressions regarding warlike diF civil government, science, and morale, from their European ruler,. A new national character is being formed in India ; the process may be detected in the literary lucubration of young Bengal, and in the aspirations of the participants in the late mutiny. The recent troubles are, in part at least, the consequence of • growing sense of their own importance among the natives—of feeliage and aspirations which will inevitably become men pow erful with every step those who are animated by them make in the higher civilisation. The is the net:emery consequence of the scientific and religious instruction we have been laboariog to impart to the natives of India, and of the practical education we have unconsciously been giving them by employing them se soldiers and eivil servants. Ihe exhortatioss of Manomedan and Hindoo fanatics which have been heard in the mime of the insurrection are little more than echoes of the pant; the animating spirit of that insurrection has been a new plum of social opinion and sentiment en yet but imper- hotly developed under the inflowse of the actual state of society in Ilindostan. This is a power against which we cannot struggle with success, and against which we ought not to struggle if we could ; but which, if we are sufficiently wise and virtuous, ws:niay be instrumental in guiding to glorious isms. This is the task that devolves on the new Government of India : will they prove adequate to it ? ON the enormous outlines' of Private Bill Legis lation enough has already been said. Plain facts and dry details in a matter of this kind are - worth ell the rhetoric is the world. Even Mr. Serjeant WIIANGEAX avows Ms fan that the tribunal cannot be eonsldeeed a cheap " one "; his main object, and the main object of thois who have risen or are rising to wealth on the abases of the system, is to show that by no possibility an it be made much cheaper than it is. This point will be dealt with in its order. Our present business is to show that the tribunal is not only enormously costly, bet exceedingly umutisfactori. The public does not get money's worth for the Tait outlay it is _ . compelled to make. Committees act by no certain rules, and are guided by no fixed principles of decision. They are composed of men whose high principle, strict integrity, and earnest desire to arrive at a correct decision are quite undoubted, but who for the most part come to the work entirely untrained by previous habits, or sustained mental discipline. In many cases, no doubt, this defeat of habit or special education is overcome by superior powers of mind. A teally able men es Chairman soon makes himself felt ; bat ups the present system of hap-hazard, really able seen as chairmen are just one of the chances of a Wiry. Even the ablest men in unfamiliar positions mut necessarily est with only half their powers, especially when they are charged with the function of controlling a close of highly skilled professional agents, whose life has been spent in qualifying themselves for this specific work. The results are what might be expected ; with some rare exceptions investigations before Parliamentary Committees are conducted with a degree of laxity, if not licence, which is unknown before any ether tribunal. Di gressions of all kinds, irrelevant inquiries, extrava gantly prolonged examinations and crom-examina firms, every description of irregularity, aft ha bitually indulged in, to the infinite vexation ni all concerned in the inquiry except those who bars a direst pecuniary interest in its prolongation. Pkeluntur dchiri : the shareholders pay for This gran waste of the public time and money is most observable before Committees of the House of Commons ; for the obvious raison that the changes canoed by dissolutions are constantly introducing to the committee rooms young members quite new to the work. The more fluctuating the tribunal, the greater the abuse; a consideration which clearly points to an absolutely permanent tribunal en the sole effectual remedy for the evil. As Nfr. Ban Scorr (the ablest of our Parliamentary counsel) teld the Commons Committee, in his veil clear and candid evidence : " If you wish to diminish expense yen " must strengthen your tribunal ; you must have " some fixity of procedure in the first place, ma ht " the next place you must, if possible, attain mess " general fixity of principle. Unless you can fix " your rules of proceeding, and unless you can attain " something like general principle in yam. tied "'ions, you cannot save expenses, became' the tribe " not is a lottery to which clients will resort If they " think there is a chance of winning something; if " half-a -doyen ountnittees decide one way and half " a-dozen another, you will never keep people from " litigation." (H. of Com. Bap., Q. 1,397.) This is sound good sense : the public i s general are not probably aware of the utter absence of uni formity which characterises the decisions of Com mittees. Many instances are adduced in the evi dence. Ws select the following from the examination of Mr. Hors SCOTT :—" Take for example the " East Kent Bill of this Session : the East Kent " protected a Line parallel with the Louth Eastern " Line. That Bill was passed distinctly as a nom " peting Bill. In another room at the same time ' there was a Line promoted from Shoreham to Horsham, in connexion with the question of a new sßr list Ween Brighton and London. In one Com- mittee-room the East Bent line, as I have said, • yes puled upon the principle of competition; and " is another room the Shoreham line was rejected, • although it certainly wss the best local line on the • map--rejected, I have no doubt, from the evidence " that was given, because it was a competing line, or • the saaamasement of one. Such cases are con- inntly °warring." In fact, no one point in reference to this matter is more clearly mad; out than the total absence of fixed principle—the utter want of uniformity which chit rectories' the decisions of Committees in the Howe of Commons. The result is, that every point is contested, and no osee is abandoned u hopeless till all the chances of litigation have been tried to the uttermost. The following question and answer place the matter in so clear a point of view that we shall make no apology for reproducing them verbatim. Mr. Hors Scorr is said Mouse of Commons, Q. 1,400)—" Is that want of uniformity so " great as to give rise to uncertainty, and " thereby to induce parties who come before " Committees to contest matters which they would not otherwise do if there were greater uniformity?" Mark the answer. " 'have no doubt about it. INI " often consulted by parties whether they shall " petition or not, and the advice that I give them as " often as not is this : ie **apostate to fordo' " ' what mitt kappa as Parliament. I sits only tell 0 • you what you have a chance of. If you choose • to act on my advice as to your chances, you may " do so; but I cannot tell you, first, whether you " ' will have a locus standi ; or, secondly, whether " any general principle which lies appeared in the • report of Mr. CARDWELL'S Committee, Or any " other public document, will be supported by the • Committee before which you are going.' " It is impossible to conceive a more explicit or a are emphatic exposure of the otter incompetency of Parliamentary Committees for realising the first requisite of all properly constituted tribunals-- fixity of principle and consequent uniformity of decision. There is one point in this remarkable answer of Mr. HOPE Scow, which for the unprofessional public may require explanation. It is that which refers to tho question of locus staisdi—in other words, to the right of being heard before the Committee at all. Many days are wasted every Session in hear ing from cionneel elaborate arguments on the point whether those whom they Tempest are I I ss►titled to be heard at aIL Mr. FILIDIMICI NORTH, r the Chairman of a Committee that at nearly two months last session, gives a graphic account of the proceedings on a question of locus standi, This was the gentleman who had nineteen counsel ee -1 gaged before him for eighteen days on an investiga- Lion that, according to Lis own admission, ought not to have occupied six. Part of the superfluous twelve days was occupied u follows : we give question and answer cerbatime :—. 4 622. CHAIIIMAN : At the commencement of the prooeedings, I believe the " Ann question you had to decide was the locus " steal of the different parties P—Yes. The moment " Mr. Berjeant Wiattonnet had sonoluded his u opining for the promote(' of the bill, up " started, I think it was Mr. DENISON, on the part " of the Cheat Northern Company, and desired to be heard upon tours standi. Ass Wiwi hard at "some length on the point whether he should "be heard at all, and then we ruled that we would " take the question of locus steal upon the flrst " attempt at eross-examination. 623._ Mr. gm= " WORTLEY : And then the guidon of locus studi " was again argued ?—Yee. 624. CHAtutut : How " many petitions were opposed on the ground of "keys 'Sandi ?—There were five arguments. 626. "Do you recollect the time that the Coesmittee we. "occupied upon that question of locus stanch I—lt '‘ was miceiderably more than a whole day ; we had " ous day entirely devoted to the loom Mandl quer.- " fiats. It was one whole day and parts of two " others. 688. You had twenty counsel before you ? " —Nineteen. 689. Each party was represented "by his agent ?—Yes. 690. And with a num " her of witnesses who were ready to give "evidence before the Committee ? Lots of " them. 891. All these parties were maintained " at a considerable expense in that oommitterroom " during the time the question of locus scam & was " being argued ?—No doubt. 692. Wee there any " possibility of avoiding that P—No. 693. It was " not In your power to avoid putting parties to that " enormous expense ?—No, certainly not." Can anything exceed this picture of hopeless, helpless imbecility P This is how the shareholders' money goes ; this is among the reasons why so many once flourishing lines are no longer in a con dition to pay dividends ; this helps to explain how it came to peas that the Great Northern, before a single turf had been turned, was compelled to bur den itself with a cost of more than half a million for preliminary expenses, 26,000 i. of which went, in the mores of two years, in fees to counsel Enough. The present system of emanating the Private Bill burins'''. in Parliament is proved to have every vies (except corruption) that any system of premiere can be charged with. It is appallingly costly; it is excessively dilatory; it is absolutely isesztaln. What is law in Committee-room A is not law in Committee-room B, and a total absence of anything like uniformity of decision tempts sue naive generations of speculators into the ru;nosta lottery of litigation. To all this must be added, that the proems of ipo liation is not single but double. The fate of the modern promoters of industrial enterprise is worse than that of the mariners in classic story. It is not that in evading Scylla they encounter Charybdis, but that they must neosesarily undergo the horrors of both Every Gm, Water, Road, Railway, and Canal scheme must run the gauntlet both of the Commons and the Lords. There is a double set of fees, a double set of agents, a "damnable iteration" of the daily costs of solicitors and counsel, and witnesses. There is another set of arguments on locus staudi, a fresh train of anxieties, and vexation ; the whole, perhaps, crowned by a defeat on some principle of decision preoisely contravening that which ensured nooses before the Committee of the Commons. Be it observed that this evil of the double investigation is one from which Parliamentary litigants can never be relieved till they have secured the establishment of a permanent, • paid, and a non-parliamentary tribunaL But this consideration trenches on another branch of the subject: we have shown the working of the system as it irit remrius to inquire what it ought to be. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. mow 001 owx ooxxxsrowovax.) PARIS, TaranAT IYINISS. The Pays publishes the news which reaches us from London of the bombardment of Djsddah "by the English!" with a note of admiration, and ob serves: This is a °ameliorable mat, end cam at which we have ream to be somewhat surprised. We bad thought that it was amderemod betwesa Prams sad Segiamd that the a Imo of Djeddeh called for an exemplary pet, but that it vas to be Witted by the two goveramests simultaneously. ingismi a as amml, bee lost ma lims, sad, having the means of regremica en the spot, she wee aide Is set balms as ; but we aware help think* that the pasishmeat of the Djaddah aseassiste would have been maim less smsegetio mar less salutary if it had been ialliaisd by the two madams iogetbsr la their joint name. However, we trust that this Irma val have a decisive Imiaimas in the Beet, sad will modify the spirit of hostility Tithe at present animates the greet' , pert of the populatioa. The state of Turhy is, there can be me doubt, depkeable ; sad If we may believe the correapoudisse which we receive this day, it is swap es to threaten the pesos of Europe miry seriously. It is quite evident that the &g -orier* now going on in every quarter of the Turkish m ph* are not referable to canal end transient circumetsaces. The Press. d'Orient, which reaches Paris to-day, is one of the authorities which confirms the gloomy views of the Pays. It affirms that the Christiana of Syria, more especially those of Damascus, Aleppo, and Nazareth, are in a state of terror, and apprehend a Mussulman St. Bartholomew. Two governors, those of Balla and Bsiatre, have, it is said, fought a pitched battle, in consequence of a private quarrel. A telegram, dated Marseille', yesterday, quoted the opinion of the Impartial de Smyrwa that there was no foundation for the panic which had seized upon the Christiana. The number of the journal in question has now arrived, and it endeavours to represent that there is nothing in the present disorders in Turkey differing essentially from the disturbances which sometimes occur in Christian nations. The French press discredits this assertion, which is doubtless, to say the least of it, much too extensive. But it is well to notice that projects for an intervention in the East on a large scale, for the purpose of propagating Western csivilieation, are just now being ventilated in France, and it is expected by many that the Emperor's coming speech at Rennes will in some enigmatic manner refer to them. The Rennes banquet takes place to-morrow (Fri day) morning, at eleven o'clock. The Paris Conference met to-day to sign the pro tooole relative to the Danubian Principalities. It is supposed that a month will elapse before the ratifi cations can be exchanged, and, therefore, beyond what (if anything) the Emperor may choose to dis close at Rennes, nothing can be regularly known by the public sooner. The Conference will meet again 'next week, to settle the proportions in which the different powers interested are to reward Mr. Morse for his telegraphic invention. The Bourse remains without any material change. The Rente fell 15c. for cash, and rose 100. for account, closing at 691 r. 350. and 69fr. 50c. Mobilier coos 12fr. SOc. The principal railway lines left off about firr. 600. higher. Prices were firmer at the close of businem than at .the commencement. The Freneh Academy held its annual meeting to- day, M. Saint-Maro-Girardie, of the Dibats, in the chs;r. The prize offered by the academy for a poem on the Crimean war, for which no award was made last year for want of sufficient merit in the many essays sent in, has been adjudged to M. Jules Dallier*, a member of the university. His number was 42 (so that he had many competitors) end his motto Aperire terrors gentibus. The second laureate for this prise, who obtained an honourable mention, is M. Pecan ha, under librarian of the Corps Legia latif. The Prix Montyon snd rations other prizes were awarded as usual. A story has been going the round of the papers t 3 the effect that some sixty persons were drowned at St. Quentin on the Emperor's fete day. It turns out that during the boat races, a barge, con taining thirty spectators, comprising men, women, and children, capsized, bat that only one young woman was drowned. M. Liadiersa, formerly an aide-de-camp of Louie Philippe, and a deputy, has jut died. His funeral, which took place to-day, was attended by a great many Orlesoiste. 01142' NO.BIIIX B BAILWAY COMPANY. DAYJ The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held this morning at II o'clock, Mr. B. DENISON, M.P., In the chair. On entering the room the chairman and direotore Were meelved with mingled cheers and hires. The report end meows* which were published some time ego, were taken as reed. The Cs eteati-x, in moving the adoption of the report, observed that the receipts had been seriously affected by bad trade and coespetitke. The expenditom had also been seriously increased by competition and the miming of feet trains, and these were the chief cause' of the dividend being lower than It would have been, (Hear, hear.) Nobody regretted competition more then he did , end he would put an end to it en soon as he could ; but he could not see their property invaded without doing something to protect it. They heel nothing to do with the MUM of the quarrel between the London and North Western and the Manchester and Sheffield Companies. Before any agree ment wee entered into with the latter company he eatithed himself that its agreement with the former one was at an end. The directors asked parliament to sanction the agreement of the Manchester and Sheffield Company with the Great Northern Company, end after an investigation, which lasted one-and-twenty days, the committee of the Horse of Commons came to the conclusion that the agreement which had existed between the London and North Western Company and the Manchester and Sheffield Company was ultra sires, and contrary to public policy. Thereupon the agreement sit the Great Northern Company received the sanction of the committee, and the principle of that agreement was ettheequently con firmed by a committee of the House of Lords. It was in accordance, moreover, with a report of Lord Dalhousie in 1846. He believed that the arrangement between the Great Northern and the Manchester and Shef field Companke would ultimately be of great advan tage to the termer, and he trusted that the North Western Company would ere long be reconciled to it. 25,0001. bad been advanced to the Manchester and Sheffield Com pany, as a loan to be repaid as soon as the receipts of that company amounted to 11,0001. per week; end even If it should not be repaid within two or three yeses, they would, in the meantime, have the advantage of an eons to the *ln portant district of Lancashire. A Paoraurron wished to know whether %tweet way tobe paid en the loan? The Caanuther mkt there was no stipulation to that effect. (Haar, hear.) Mr. NICHOLSON mid he could find no cony of the 25,0001. In the accounts, and he wished to know where it was entered. _ ' The Cirailutatt rid pent el it was advanced dace the lealtysties accounts were closed. (Hear, hear.) There wax no 11. ish to conceal anything. In one part of the accounts would be found an item of 19,4831. 11. dd. advanced to other companies ; and a part of the lean vas Included In that ken. The advances were in fog • summon secant. (A volor—" I don't like nwpenes se onints.") Neither did he (the chairman) the twopence so counts ; bat if the money was peid out of capital it moat in the end comeback to capital. Lord Chandoe did not state the ease with regard to competiton as fairly as he Night to have done. The blase of not dd.* the rates rested with the directors of the North Western Company. The directors of the Groat Northern Company proposed to rain the fares in April to 80e., end the rates in proportion ; wherein nothing was done till Jane. What occurred wee just the reverse of what the noble =nuts stated. He wee gaits =ld to put down competiden in every way that he __A Ficipatrros—Go book to the old faro, 40e. to Manchester. The CR1.111004 continued—He abhorred competition—he I knew it we. destructive to railway property, and if he could as his way to a fah' sad ressesable arrengessent he world sank to it. A retorarwron.—What about arbitration P (Chair.) The CHAIRMAN said he regretted that the bill was thrown oat in the House of Lords, bat he hoped that through book- I Ing would be effected through the Laneeddre and Yorkddre Company. The Gladstone award was at an and, and each party would have to keep whatever It earned. The directors had no hostility towards the Midland Compeny, in proof of which he might observe that they had agreed to give that company rusting powers over the Great Northern line from Siren for the sure of 20,0001. a year. As re garded blz.liowatt, he had only to repeat the regret expressed en the report that " cirmunetances had occurred which rendered It desirable to lissome with the atevioes of that gentleman as seeretary.' A l'aor amerce herbs arked what the circumstances were, the CHAIRMAN declined to state them. Mr. Hyenas and the chairman had done nothing to satisfy him that he was not the promoter of the oompeti time to which he had referred, and the deteemtned opponent of any amicable proposal far en arrangement. (Cheers, end cries of " No, no.") From first to last be had exhibited • litigious side. The proprietor* were Denson-ridden, and until that gentians resigned there coed be no bops of ulti mate Fosse ity. 7,0001. half-yearly, or one per est. fa divide.nd, wee being paid in Wens. The salarS of the pe;ncipal oillorrs of that company were most extravagant. The traffic manager, Mr. Seymour Clarke, had 2,600 t. a year, besides travelling sod hotel expeusee— (hen, hear)--end the locomotive manager at Doncaster, Mr. Stu:rock, had 1,1001. a year; Mr. Denies, jun., had remedy received 60 guineas as aaseasor for his father, in addition to kis fun as connaeL As to the auditors, they merely acted as deers to the so emeralds. Mr. MOROAN, one of the auditors, emphatically denied the instil of this assertion. Mr. Krems had no wish to cut any imputation on the auditors, but they did not undersea their duties as the proprietors understood them. At the lest assedeg, the chairmen asked the proprienre to let bygones be bygones. Immediately afterwards be dismissed Mr. Mown; end thus re-opened the Redpeth queens, (Heer, hem.) The responsibility of the Redpath frauds clearly rested, not et Mr. Mowatt, but on the directors, who neglected to take securities Lam Redpath end Reynolds, as they were required to do by the act of parliament, (Hear, hear.) He maintained that the dinners should ha held personally 711ibleier the damages and coats obtained by Mr. Mowatt, should move a resolution to that effect (Cheers.) The real gre and of Mr. Mowatt'e dismissal was that he would ant lead himself to anything Inner. Mr. litzLintos mid that Mr. Seymour Clarke ought to be • very good " clerk " to be worth 2.60 W. a year. He woad engage to obtain the winces of the best dark in England for 1,0001. • year. (Cheers.) He did not concur in Mr. , Hughes's objection to Mr. Siterrock's salary. Competition wee a matter which the prop wtot's had in their own pewee. Teas was competition in the old cosh tins bet then it was one fool against another. Now there were a somber of fook. Many of the proprietors had 'bares in the North Western Company, se well as in that company, and the directors had no right to ruin his property in either. He wes himself • proprietor of Mock in the North Waters oomputy. The CHAULNLN—I thoughts,. Ma. BILLLYOB then moved the following resolution . "That the directors be and are hereby instructed not to enter into any competition, nor in any way to alter the fame below the ordinary rates, without tbe onnotice of • general meeting of the shareholders." (Cheers.) By their arrange. MHO with the Manchester end Bketalid Company they had sustained a loss of 46,0001. in the lest half year. (User ) Mr. V. KNIGHT wished to know whether ft wee Me that the chairmen's son for @Whig at the table and advising him received eke of fifty guineas? The CaalllMAN—l am not answerable for the receipts of my non. (Oh, oh.) It you will put that gumption to the party who paid the fee, prime yon will get the tight ININWiT. ift. T. Inietre—l pat the question to yea us. thehmem The Cmizmals—T I won't answer it. Mr. R7/0/lIIII—Tie secretary has admitted it -rb. CHAULMAN—I don't suppose there is sny doubt about it, but I don't know that it is so. Mr. Huonze-.-Nefther the auditors nor the sommeent Mew alit. The °unman mid, in August hat year 114. Lash (the ompsny's eolintar), who was aocompeuied by the late mone tary, come down to Doncaster to consult him shout like- Chancellor Wood's declaim la takeout* to the preihreneel shareholders. His me being thus, Mr. Leech whited hiss to coon to London to advise the &mem et the ' meeting. He fin* declined to weeds, MR on Itelig li" := he consented, saying that he wash Quem's esnesti,'md it' he west it would not be gratedtemly. If Mr. Knight sup posed that he knew ell the fees that were paid to ids eon as Queen's counsel he was mistaken. The solicitor of the oempsny me always at liberty to employ each counsel as he thought proper without enehm Itini, or any other wenn bee of the Mad. Mr. V. Kumar—What, to attend • meetiog f The Cluanneas—Tee. Mr. V. Kumar inquired whether or not Mr. Draken had 200 gitinum so mffieW from the company in the Chancery Wt. Mr. Liens (the. solicitor) mid not reply et that inemint, hat would be able to do so in a quarter of an hour. 1 Mr. T. KNIGHT moved & vote of thanks to Hr. MOW" wthe Mr. Oekley ie tt d ie seelreat err t: for their niseellens was, he remarked, due to Mr. Mowed; who the nempany faithfully for twelve yearn. Met l'esbat Wilson magratiihned the r easet ee. .= as heath had • Mt =rr i elkdrf ehlei ClM the wee me i likj a = 11111115 .4 C D = =ea gl t tli i !tiot vsellim "We _ :TW arca ity cvelosod the M uses VOSS* M. 0.. towards Mr. Myatt. As reglad Hie it was impotent, that they genii their bra 'Am mum of 140,0001. if the directors had apse Ibile fogy. Why wee ice;' general basaardiell UAW= MI hakes the sher Mr. Mosmer, en auditor, Memel Abet a Ukase sheet wee Fomented by them:Witte* to thehmed. Mr. J. Wilson said at all semis thee me mating of the kind before the meeting. 'lts •brigma bog mitibitid • peat deal at temper In his lidereamis WM them vie wore opposed to him. He was inform.' that hi had themlosed to kick Mr. Walk*, a member of the committee, out of the board-ream ("Be,w hear," and laughter.) Mr. V.KNIGHT complained that the OhOrfhAßd•Wrlfter 211* port of the 0110119111 circulated by the directors among the was always tampered with by some person after Ea Pr ft letcri the ahorthand-writees hands, and gave noti ce of his intentica to moves resolution on the subject. A Pionzurron expressed his diessadWam at the re• marks of the chairman with regard to competition,which was, he said, losseddal to the lawyers, including the chairman's own son, but most injurious to the company. Bo was , lik e • preceding speaker a holder of North-Western shahs, be =tended that the competition now going on was to both oomealer. Another ritOPRITTOR demanded an eXpluatiOß Of the anomalous position of Mr. Dogma, jun. A PROPRIRTOR urged the propriety of adoptive ia l i e z resolution in reference to competition to that woo d to at the North-Western . He m hopot that from this company would meetfrom the Gem can. ponies at the ase,ftg to be bad on 9th dint month. In reply to a proprietor, Mr. Lawn said the cosh el th e recent e• of Mr. Mowatt against the company amouried to sheet • thareed guineas. by added fa mhos lion, that they were larreased by the coare:Eog by Mr. Mower. That 'anthem gave 200 t o Mr. Montague Chambers, HO guineas to Mr. m g 100 guineas to Mr. Denman, and the board was obliged to pay corresponding fem. Mr. II yogis denied that. If Mr. Mower was fool enough to give counsel a thousand guineas, he would not have imitated him. (Hear, hem.) The Pam. matron who introduoed the subject said hitherto he had been indurated by the blandishmtett of the chairman end his colleagues, but he would be is no I r os The remarks of Mr. Baron Bramwell wee a diagram to the dintop pg and if the over without their ex their dirapp r r n ot b i the course pursued towards . Moor; they would not deserve to have an officer worth a Mach of snuff. The Cameras then replied—As to the general distal"- faction expressed with the management, he was long ago elf enough to know that when shareholders did not get good dividends they were apt to be discontented. (Oh, oh!) He had no hedhtfoa in saying that Mr. Seymour Clarke was worth his salary. Mr. Clarke was as honest a man as ever be had to deal with. _ - — Z PsoriaTeroZ-Bojou said of Mr. Mowed. The Cr:Amass—And I say so still. As to Mr. Stu/rook, ha was, in his opinion, the best locomotive mower in the iir44and the shareholders would make a ggrseeaett mistake .4 parted with him. As to his (the 's) em, he begged to toy that he was quits independent of him, end that he would not work for the company without being paid. On the ear of competition, be was sot prepared at pre sent to ve his meant to the proposal of the North Western pany ;he declined to state why. (Oh, oh.) He would only say that he was a trustee of that and not of ay other company. As long as he remained chairman of company, he should refuse to be dictated to on the sub ject. Re reserved to himself an entire discretion as to the course he should pursue, and when a majority of the share. holders expreseed disapproval of his acts he should retire. There seemed to be a disposition to move a vote of want of confidence in the directors. Let those who had such a disposition give notice of sack a motion and he would meet it boldly, but not without securing for all the shareholders an opportunity of forming and expressing en opinion. The report was then received, but not adopted, the discus sion of various questions involved in it being, with the con sent of the chairman, reserved. Mr. BIKINIS moved a resolution to the effect that the di rectors themeelves should pay the damages and costs awarded for the improper dismissal of Mr. Wilma. (Cheers.) Mr. BILLINGS seconded the motion, and an animatel dko =ion upon it was proceeding when our report left. NIL JOSBPII LOOIR, N.P., OH OH.ERBOUBO. (From the Manchester Guardian.) On Tuesday last the foundation stone of some national schools was laid at Bartley, by Joseph Lock e, __ j Eq. M.P., who came direct from Cherbourg (where he Is as prinelpal engineer on the line from that place to Par k ) take part in the ceremony. Mr. Locke bawl laid t he stone, said there was a time when ho could have ad them se fellow-townsmen, but although he oould not address thou In such tame now, yet he could assure them that the re miniscences of hi: early days in Barnsley were Mill en dearing. The rising generation had better hopes and pro pass hold out to them than the past. lie might hold himself es an example so far as worldly prosperity cm as he had only received a rather ordinary edu. action at the Barnsley Grammar School. He would advise tams If they wished to be a nation of freeman not to rely agora government aid, but upon their own exertions. If Miry washed to have their children educated they should keep ftm esetral of that education In their own hands, pay for it, imi sulatain their own independence • so that their children eight say that they were not behold enC to charity for what obeesiirm they had received. At the ohms of the ceremony a dinner was given to the visitors from a distance ; and at which Mr. Locke, in responding te a toss , made some interesting observations with regard to Cher bourg In its relation to England. It was the habit of members of parliament to give their on matters with which they were conversant, and l being an important epoch in our history, and as them was cue Important question which had recently occupied the public mind, and with which he was acquainted, namely the completion of the fort of Cherbourg, be felt no hesitation, as a practical men, in giving his opinion upon it. Baying known France for the last 20 years, and which6ll egil ei l i ri e uri a iMl d w j i u th st would adjuncts, P: eoneider that he was well tilted to speak cm M ta r Joe& Public feeling in France could not be gathered ;Om the tone of the French prose, for, In fact, there might be said to be no French prase, for it was entirely and com pletely under the control of government . Sti ll, to those acquainted with France, it was well known that there had long been a feeling against Englishmen and English by* talkers entertained by the French people, and this night occasionally be seen striking out In -rations ways. The great work of forming the important fort of Chinless Lad been completed, after much labour and time bad bra expended upon It, sad the event was quite of a nailed character. Me believed that the present Emperor had not the slightest intention of wishing Cherbourg to be looked upon ea a menace to England ; but still he must be a doll man indeed who could not sae that Cherbourg plead in the hands of an ambitious ruler would become of the greatest importance. The question was, were the Bmpmet's intentions good or bed P Did he mean pesos or wax P If he meant war, In Cherbourg he had a meet weapon ; bat if he meant peace, and be (Mr. Locke) be that he did, they had not at present to fear. lint so long as human nature remained as it was, Bashed maid not see the establishment of so great a work cid** at ones taking steps to place the country in a state of Mims salSedent to counteract its probable effects. As he bed said before, nobody knew what public opinion in Frees really was, and the time might come when the Bomar bles nit would not be able to control the exuberance of bis Foßitte and war might become inevitable. Mr. Leeks steed, is conclusion, that it was his belief that Louis Napoleon wes favourably inclined towards England, and was for the mho toesitce at the alliance ; but if impelled on to war, as he heti • rit ee, Charhourg would be found a moat powerfal plain d and ft was therefore the duty of our statement° lake Mace to place England in such a state as to be able saw cessfolly to guard against what might become so &mem I neighbour and to be able to maintain our proud rupee em. (LAn oteadatz wee.) e afterwards presented to Mr. Locks bon lbs and children connected with the schools. 41.111 . , MILT MN e LONDON MOBNINO las p ar=ffia .4. l= 4 •4 l :en. mid Mow sod bawd 112 ... b1zrb 12 , 109wd lb an=jetrigolwobb - N"' pips Ys aII a rOINIII/ IS doingstastramalMPX:e, Ii lo W g# MO IMPOIS. l lll it l agSgs = NM Arnivrassimna i r mi.* ...., 14:. , .. r . sii . go, Sr.. NZ iisimmt a wpm. rl 2: amba ra.. bibs klusima tiarire : se I be b elwalliv a lw =WM= . " IIL II." gla la .15,...a. CU Oxpreos. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, ParDAT Mozanco. The Northers Light hea arrived. She left New York on the 7th init. The news of the success obtained in laying down the Atlantic Telegraph Cable had reached New York ; and Mr. Field had telegraphed the fact to the President of the United States. An accident had happened to the bind line of telegraph, at Cape Breton, which had prevented messages from Newfoundland reaching New York. The damage wu likely to be repaired in a day or two. The lamas elections had taken place, and the Lecomptou (pro•slavery) constitution had been re jected. All wu tranquil in Utah. In Missouri national democrats had been elected for some congreseicsal districts. Blair, the first anti-slavery candidate proposed for any slave state, has been defeated. This bee caused an immense Demotion in Washington. In Mexico there had been a complete change in Zulaaga's cabinet. In the New York market cotton wu without change, flour wu flan, wheat was unchanged, and corn steady. Freights were heavy. DUTCH COURT GOSSIP. TEI HAGUE, Aram? 17. Preparation' are beiog made for giving doe honour, on the 4th d Iloptunbor, to tit coming of age of the Prince of Orange. On that day hie royal higluems, who hiejnet left the University of Labo, after conapietlng a ker yams course of study, will become the "child of the Mate," and en titled to an annual allowance of free lodging. sad a hundred thememel farina. ft Ally report wan circulated last week fa the English men, fiat the Kin had intimated his wish sad isolation to resign in favour of his son. There can be so doubt whatever that his Majesty would not he Eery to oacirago his Grown foe that of Raisin ar even at Maple hat him M4.siy is ice prudent a ilennedir "to spoG name with. • wilboo hand," by resosming hi. love ice those things which wealth done con bay. H 4 father, William IL, by his generosity sad extravagance, effsotaany peevented his peens& Majesty from making tlaa desperate attempt of abdicating. He has ban speeding the Yetis, weeks to Wieeteden, whim ha is reported to hays attmetrel bolds of players to the bank, and to have tread &may In the barb of the ampler& A shock of earthquake was Mt in Guadeloupe on Sunday, the 18th Jaly. Slut duck created intense alarm amongst the Inhabitants, who were congregated in due church, and they Immediately rushed to the doors, regardless of meeting their death by suffocation. When the alum hod somewhat subsided, and the doors were cleared, it was found that eight poor women had been trampled under foot, but fortunately none were dangerously Injured. The curd con tinued to perform mass during the entire scene, but hie example of courage was not followed by his dock, THE QUEEN IN GERMANY. Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort, end the Priors. end normal of Prowls attestiPd DiCos Norsk* on Sunday last, not In the ceurch ordinarily treqnented by royal personages, but by her Mtljesty's desire In the garrison chapel which contains the tomb of Frederick the Greet. By order of the Prince of Prussia, the oflictaling minister, after the usual prayer for the King end Queen, offered one for the Queen and Prince Consort. At midday the royal family and their illustrious guests partook of luncheon, at which wee present Prince Angustus of Wertemberg, the Hereditary Prince of Hohenzolista, Pt:n.m Willis= of Baden, and the Count of Flendere. - A correspondent ' , biting from Pandora ea Tuesday, nye : "The regatta which the officers of the garrison had orp• n'ised in celebration of her Majesty's Way at the chateau et Babeleberg, did not take place yesterday on accormt of the rain; but the military review, which came off this meaning, was favoured with magnificent weather. At this mime, in which all the regiments of the Guard, Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery took part, there were present, besides Clam Victoria and the Prbwew at the Royal Family, the Count of Fistidere, ihe Peaces of Baden, of Wartamburg, of Hohenzollern, Lord Malmesbury, end Lord Bloomfield and a in:Went staff of Prussian sad Resign sae peke onkel. "The Qom pared down the l'ner In an open carriage; st the doom of which were the Prince of Prussia and Prism Albert In the grand uniform of field marshals. The beeps saluted her Mejesty throughout the passage with loud hurrahs; and the bends played the English National Anthem. The troops then defiled twice under the command-in-chid of the Prater of Prone; the second time by campmates and squadrons, the latter together with the artillery at a trot. "After the review the august party visited the tomb of Frederick the Great In the person chapel, this being the anniversary day of his death (Aug. 17); and at about 1 o'clock they returned to Babelsberg, where there will be to-night a grand illumination." " After the review, also, a Wje timer took place In the Castle, to which the pendpal officers were forited, as well as the snit of her Majesty and the Prince Consort. "Oa Wednesday the Queen was to pay another visit to Berlin, when ale would honour the opera with her presenc► The opera islictsi for the occasion Is Tenshower, The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton will leave Hariatoa Palms early neat week, for Brodrick GAle, it tie Isla of Area, when tits noble duke totes& to rooms shosillatt puny. Tits link; of Richmond's putt' have had excellent sport clues the cammonesneset of grows shoaling on Ms Scottish moots. The circle assembled than compels" Prince lkbreed of Elms Weimar, the Essi of Munk the Earl of Couatry, Lord A. Genies LOINOOI, Camel 'ebb, Woad 1 1 11spler, sad lb. Cos. The Duchess (Dowager) of Beaufort and the Ladies ficsissesst an at present =king a tour of visits es Scotland. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived at Lansdowne House on Wednesday, from Bowood, Wiltshire. The Marquis and Ma-chionesi of Londonderry are making a tent in Germany, and win neS retain to this noun try until the tatter end of next month. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane ara expend in town in a few days from the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, 'an visiting Lard and Lady Blantyre at Brains Ham, N. 8., have prenr:ded to Inversry Castle, Argyllshire, an a Hatt Id the Duke sad Duchess of Argyll The Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry hee arrived at Genoa Tows,, her seat to the need of Ireland, from Wynyerd Park. The Earl of Cardigan has returned to town fres Deane Petit, Net tbeteptaashin. The Earl and 6mutass of Ellesmere and the youtkful Viarnmit Snaky an making • tour of Matta is tkotlaad. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Cambridge BOILS yesterday. The sable Ileastat rad eisoroalses will lam to a few days for Paris. Lord Willosghby de Brake will lam Royston Lodge, Neabridp, to-day, for Ms mat, Compton Varney, Wandabilk*. Lard sad Lady Cremorne have arrived at Cla sides flo•til from a tour on the Coatings*. SHE NEW BRITANNIA THEATRE HUTU The new structure under our present notice it now rapidly proceeding from the designs of Yam Feb Hill sad Pardee, architects, 1, St. Bwithfterlane, City, The area which It will occupy Le snarly the square of IN feet, sad the new building will have a frontage el 54 folk Higli-beet. This front will be merely faced with sear sad its design le of a highly ornamental character. On 0 11 right and left are lianned two entrances, each of widd tI be 19 feet in width. These give soma to a spacious oder nods, 76 Me and 13 feet wide. At the back of tis I lie the mad port i on) of the front of the edifice is emtrok fa the supply of refreshments, and at each end of the rem made is s meg staircase leading to the galleries. 11110 10 seekers, base bees provided tor the boxes, sad at the beef of the that tier, under the gallery, than will be a WS* sent sakes, 68 fret 17 18 feet. According to the piste pit is 76 feet wide, and 88 feet from its beck wall teed of deetercheetnt The stage is to be 76 feet wid fret deep to the foot-lights, and Its opening at the Cog 84 Let wide by 37 feet high. The plan of the rid tier dhows is elliptical, the coojugste axis d will Moralist with the floor of the stage. The total treat the flew of the pit to its ceiling is intended to be 47 9 blokes The style of the internal decorations is to beal a highly dessadve character, while ample provides l bra rade fee the comfort and convenience of the sale* The vesdlatkes of the boom has, we understand, be era unedited, red is to be effected by opeoinge loft In otessedli the ceiling, in immediate communication width, ado of the roof. and thence w ith the open b arm of burr going from one extremity of the to the ether. When the works are in a more date, we shall give a more detailed deseription of the SS strewth, features of the building, sad *oat also to Ow readers sore illustrations showing its peentiar chararatlim * We may new only add that Mr. Lane, the propridoh_, arranged to open the house h the 30tb October fed* we have no doubt that the energy which the contiaddr Mews. Holland and Hennes, will bring to beard ry oodeion will enable him to do ay.—Budding Yew. Lord and Lady Echo left town hat week ft Scotland. Sir George Grey arrived at Invermark it tlis doss of Bit week. to join Lord Panmare's party, aembla theca for grouse shooting, from Faßodo% Northrunta The Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison ii Chmington Ball, Notts, Let week, to make • arks of dale dude' the shooting seems, in Soothed. Chief Justice Cockburn has been enjoying hissed end line in the treat praerres of Lord ralmadoOr Bradlee.. I 9 Lai hha reta if at &of •ate MO. wu Js from van lip I< Ike ci - 16 b. mu Nod ma' Han mite the dram tee cig bat I taim 13$1 ea T goili Pi smil You asice et: .1 11 caliti Mat end i law( 11 Pie TI V Kr. tor c bore • MI set x sisa ere Goo Goo hid one cal!