The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-27 00:00:00

I the isssnal swoons wee delivered, this. weald hi my bo g. gog natasity far the eppeeittes to ateamplia tbm dp iirpok Mien afterwards. lie was set kr remitting the iolfolo of the aides ea timber. bat hi was la favour of m astitis midi a e abotaatial relief is that impost as would s led Misfit to the bumbler dawn of the pee*. Ifs. R. FAI.MRR hoped that is se this a his. es the ewes the MO.inS eagle mot be pressed to a divides. • ph L. BET WORTH supporta the meike, mad hoped tRe ,h,,,, Cease speedily ernes whoa duties weal& be takes eaarb entered lase the esairessaties sad Its oftereheft srtk tea Rt'Mll replied. Be said hi had Abased his wish —test eeerseinisty the feekemt of the low ups this • Ilipertat t gawks. The Mem had exposed Well Jet.attly as favour ef the satire repeal of the hook dal, so d her loatild \amnier move Its total repeal is lima of the priiirat ball esomale. sad implored that he should his he mictendel is coafersiag a Milt MGM gearrea bum& ea ell • , of 11. e people. The is. tue was, by leave, withdraws. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. Mr. RICARDO moved for leave to brim I. a MR he the brier review.. of railway trate°. lie said hit allied ems g o *tare sulkiness to step in sod rectify aa admitted drll let •• maatey. Is some pi .cee trains did net sap at dist Miriam ; is ethers, heavy tolls were emceed, sad large bg..e ‘.l vether, Amoroso i s the li mbs sad lives of pee ps/etc were tritassitted sided the IMO and the object et r. leg,t bill, the detail. of which would hereafter tone tbe ss.j.c . sn eer of mosideratioa, was to remedy these sad ether railway imperfections LW. *me Imo to kin is the RLL HIGHWAYS. - - Lird EMLYN moved for leave to bnag ia. bill to mead we lees Meting to highways I. Beath Was. Mr C LEWIS said the bill which he had had the homey to intnla.• n lived to the whole of Ragland and to South wake. He iris gait* wiling that the bill shield be ia trodeeed. Liege w then Om to introduce the bill. EXTRAMURAL INTERMENTS. Mr LACY, ou rising to move for have to be* is • , ill to promote eitranarel interments, explaised that the objecte of the bCI were to give powers ander tenni lig* a ion to railway goupanies to have 1111 - t. ri" There mist first be the sanetioa of two te ids of the shireholden, and th. n, if they &aid bey a I,,ee of waste lend 20 or 30 sites eat of tows, they * etlit go to the railway eomwiseigaige l asd if they gave waistline wake their resete , y. Then be proposed .:.at they should is halted w to then mita. Sir O. ORET said he did sot collect my clearly the rt of Ilse bill, bet he asderstond that Gas object of it sas that railway eempaaies should also be c-watery mammies. Ile *odd put it to taio boo. gentleman that the report to which he tad alluded bad net yet bees delivered. Tbe @abject meet row, under the considering* of puliament at an early prod, sal be pat it to lila Whether it wee worth whlle to bro i l it forward now. _ . . Lod ASHLRY sai an t he Nkomo of die Board of wetr•wJ preparedd would be laid before parllemmit day or two. Ile. WELD believed the bill would be harmless, and brew that the cemeteries were much welded. Mr LABOL'CBERII olifeseed to • bill being inundated irtula cad •e slimes of obtataing the suasion of t►e loose. Mr AOLIOKBY sepported the bill. Atter some observations hem Mr. Ch•plis, Mr. M. J. C'Corselt, Mr. Spooner, sad /Mr U. Orey, Mr LACY ceaseated to postpone hie motion. }UNCTIONS OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. Mr. MoFFATT stowed Ise einem, Mowing the •amen of the m• mun if her Mejn.y'e Privy Conseil constituting the apposated for the coaseekradea of matters relating to trade sad foreign plantatioes ; the Meeker of the mid items:tut ; the Bomber of members of said sammittee t►at etteetitate • quorum far the despatch of Dewiness ; the mum bee 01 time the committee met is the twelve tomtits ending the +l.• December, ISI9 ; the number of members of mid cm sttee that attended sees meeting. Mr LASOUCHERE Mt obliged to oppose the motion, ireliag that II would he impossible acenrauly to define the ...arose foactioas of each • body es the Board of Trade. With ?evict title other part of the motion, It wonlil be equally dubeolt to live se accurate return of the number if Um sauces. The most important Wainer was often does by a Nag:, member, a•d therefore • return of their Wiliam se • board 'mid give bet • very teammate notion of** animist ot beware dose. TM heard rosily sonaistsd si the peewits% sad ewe-president, but se important eolo Mal qmetions they had the sesimanse of the sac stary sad seder mental of the coloaies. /b. MOFFATT isid that the Esplanades of the right geademo ie sateifectory. ea to remise it annum eirey he geoid press ►u motion. Mottos withdrawn. COMMONS I NCLOSU RE BILL. This bill wee read • third time and pared. PROCESS, Az.,(IRELAND) BILL. his bill passed through committee. NEW BILLS. Sternal bensissibor; breubt is bills widish woe »- natively nee a lint tine ; mass ethics the ideation bill . r e.kt is by Mr. Fox. Du bow a it amid at 12 eslask. giu erprelSO. otTOOING MAIN Welt lade Mails, including Bermuda, Hammel, 14,a4 H , dorm, New OrMaas, sad Ilssioo;imid melodist tt••• Madeira. St. Joaa-divNioaraana, Now Granada, (r Peru.will be niadosp on Marelt 2. to mei.e for Maderia, the Braila, sad Buenos Ayres, will w r.V.e a,. on the 'mauve of March 4. 1 tr , mails for Lobos', Spain, and Gibraltar will be made ar .t Bora 7. Tut made vol Marseilles, to the Mediterranean. ',opt, C.yi-o, lidia, Hoorlioag, Me., will be mad* up art tie of Mardi 7. DA mails for Brisieh North America and the United eful be made ap on the evening at Muth 8. The math los Gibraltar, Malta, Grime, the loalas Islands, Lq;.t. Ceylon, India, and Chins, via Bouthaiwptes, will w caw up as the movable of March 20. 1114111 VAT= AT LOOIDOR 110111301. flu -lilareag, td sks. Yarn. rm. T IA ThA LONDON, WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 27. Howtrea the friends of things as they am may depreact or censure the tory exhibition of Monday mF►t lost in the House of Commons, we certsinly thick the fronds of progress have no jest reason to en n. The attempt made by Mews. Ouperoxit andlh-natt.l to stop the coon of public business 10 Leery respect as factious and as foolish as their worst enemies could wish ; and we, who have no 'amity towards tither, but who ees in their re-anion for party obj,cts nothing that is surprising or nnna tami, can atf.trd to pity the blonder, and to forgive the stupidity wherewith they have signalised the cosonei.c.ment .of their new crusade against the rights and immanitiee of the people. The biil for the repair and restoration of the Irish %Mill* has been well nigh two years before parlia sect and the cluntry. It was read a mooed 111110 in l'la without opposition ; and a second time on Friday lett without a division. Everybody who awed to know anything of its mope or aim was perfectly acquainted long ago with both ; !ad any one who took the trouble of looking iato the reprint in 1830 of Sir W. Sons ttt.t.et bill of 1848, must have men that the riar.utt of the franchise was the Nam, and that the *hoe details of registration and voting were verbs transcripts of the clauses introduced two years Moe. There was no decent pretenoe, therefore, for !Lat'iteting the progress of this too tardily prose.' cited measure. Its principle bad been twice formally fir Led. Its peovisioas might admit of discussion loured= ; but they were thoroughly well known, Palnnasly understood, and generally deemed accept ahe. A tt w and unusual motive for resistance offered tutu 'Thursday last the schism of 1846 still sabered among the occupien of the opposition benches. lbe homilies were as well disposed for mischief as nrat prosperous days ; bat they felt their week nese and shrunk from incurring unnecessary expo ewe. The numerically smaller section bad left them uk • hepere mats. But for their leader their condi tion ni:gi.t be described spessh_le ss . For one tanaot recognise " the ioarticulate sounds" of which alone they seem in genera l t o be capable, as fit to be tlasailled among weapons either of defence or of attack ths wordy war. Great, proportionately, wee the exult shot and irnstrainable the revulsion o, dumb courage, ' ekes:Ley hew to feel that they had onoe more got some braise in the place where brains ought to be. The' trkerttLi or reliability of the acquisition they were in no mood to criticise. They had got what they had bete four Scars in quest of—a man who had been s Ithough but for a few months) a cabinet minia-1 ter and who was not like the superannuated II r.siuss, pat otok. .4 A compact alliance was forthwith efirfacl an. Mr. 1 )ISRA CU, with his usual 104 so t , intimated his frank and cordial V Fu ses to act for common objects on the 1 4 1winc;ples toryism with Mr. GLADSTONE, t Rite no one whol e salport he valued more highly sod ll trusted that past feuds would soon and for eiir be kneed in oblivion. What Mr. GLADISTOXI 1'644 should, or might have felt, thought, or said 4m finding himself than condescendingly dropped Ate cm. of Mr. I /1811ALLI'd skirt pockets, we de not Penrod to say. C f #rtiin it Lespi e 111, h —Ammo that no moue wu the complood, sad the miming goods mound, than as irreeiedble desire arose to make see of them. They were taberedesed and exhibited forthwith, to thaw the weadering world how meth richer the hitherto despised Disraelites had soddenly grows. And as a fit opportunity for this display might not arise for eons weeks or days, it was resolved at a meeting held in it. Jeaseerequare, to seise the first government measure that stood on the list kr Monday night, and make Mr. GLADIPTOI4I sad his adherents help to throw it ander the table for this. weeks. Had it happened to be the Amtrak's Bill, the same theorems and dignified soaves would dashikis have been pursed. It happeath to be the Irish Franehiss Bill, sad therefore th e sew months were drawn oat is lime, aad ordered to take their appointed part is the anbeard of . What toldthey ey do? Tbey had ja the &tali; bow could they Jump book again ? cTd warm looked mid sad grave „. bat deigned not to esposial**. Thq had qaitted his standard t sad though deeertaa Sir Bosses must have hit that his individual pciftine and re-eminenoe, in the eyes of the nation, _wax only eeadwed the mere amepisoomp thereby. Mean; fuse the hoer of testing their fidelity came. The proposal to odious the committee on the Irieb Franchise Bill. for the obvious purpose of defeating it altogether for this year wee received with a bust of inendvioes morn fri es two thirds of the Hesse of Commons. A dividers wee celled for, and bat 111 members weld be induced to reseed their votes in iti favour. But among those 116 weeMr.T3trxerro --- nit and many of his adherents. They had been marched through Coventry. That object had beea gained there still remained another, namely, to try whether the go eramsat might set be actually frightenbd or fooled into acquiesornee in a course which would have placed the bill in jeopardy. Apparently for this purpose Mr. DISRAELI repeated the same motion, in other terms. This was met with a peremptory negative by Lord Joule Roseau.; sad thus be gan the erseeputabla some of mere obstruction by which the entire of one evening was consumed. Mr. Otanerrona's heart failed him, and he left his new amciates to reap the undivided honours a the &Id. On the second division the minority had fallen to 93 ; and on the third to 81. At each sacesseive plunge the strength of the faction grew gradually less and Ilees ; awn towards midnight there was left of the , exultant coalition, which on Thursday sight had mustered two hundred sad fifty strong, a remnant of but seventy to obstruct, by mere doll dint of reckleasnews the business, which a majorityv:r e t3 from 194 to Ida, seven times successively declared themselves ready and anxious to praised with. Toe climax of this affair consists in the fact, that while the sole pretence set up to justify this trilling with the public time and patience, was the allegation that the representatives of Ireland had been taken by sur prise—in every division, a majority of Irish members, sometimes exceeding two t 2 one, voted against the foes of the franchise; and many of them, during the debate, repudiated as an empty sham the demand on their amount for further time. War ministers should, in the erasion of 1849, ori ginate the .Eeeladastical Commission Bill in the Room of Commons, and in the session of 1830 origi nate the very Mae sesame, is the Howe of Lords, is a question only to be solved by turning to their general chilly-shallyieg conduct on church affairs. In neither session has the bill been a labour of love with Lord Joan Russau. sad Sir Owitoa Ow. last year they introduced it into the lower house to stop Mr. Houstates mouth ; and this year they whipped it, without notioe, into the upper house, to intercept his motion on the Ecclesiastical Commission. In that they were, however, disappointed ; but the biabope and the high church peers have turned this piece of ministerial trickery to their own advantage, and to the serious injury of the government measure. And now ministers must either abandon the only part of the bill that really would have been useful, or risk a collision between the two houses about a clause on which the church reformers in the anemone have set their hearts. So in a short time it will be seen whether the views of the bishops or their own opiaions, supported by their own party, have to prevail. Recent legislation has made over two funds to the custody and appropriation of the Ecclesiastical Com missioo. Under the Episcopal Reform Act of 1836, there is a growing surplus, after paying all the sti pends of the bishops as therein flied,-which will soon reach 16,0001. a ear l y and this is known as the Episcopal Fund. Under the Cathedral Reform Act of 1840, there is a surplus which will ultimately be 300,0001. a Year; it is called the Commonlrund, and is applicable to church extension purposes. Originally - there was no distinction between these two funds; but a clause was clan destinely smuggled into a bill whilst passing through parliament, which enabled the commission to mate a I fund in favour of the bishops; and no sooner was it created than the prelates of our couch hippo to =w use it, To what extent this misuse has gone is not posi tively known; for we have accounta up to the end of 1847 only. Oa the second reading of the bill under consideration, the PRIMATE spoke of 9,0001. as the limit of the sum which had been spent on epis copal palaces. Bat herein his Grace was altogether within the mark; fur, by thenprt of Mr. EVELYN DENISON'S ciaimittee, we find fol lowing paymen'is have been made thersont New palace at Ripon £13,880 Alteration of palace for Bishop of Lioecin 6,000 Alteration of palace for Bishop of Gloucester Alteration of palace for Bishop of Worcester 2,815 Alteration of palace for Bishop of Osford Or, up to the end of 1847, nearly 30,000 L, instead of 9,0001. And, in addition, the fund is now charge able with the payment of 3,0001. a year, the interest of the money borrowed to repair Lam bethi Palace and Addington House in the late Primacy, with the interest of a sum mimed to repair the rpm:opal pales!, at Welland Exeter, and with some 300/. or 4001. topay the neat of a fitting residence fur the Bishop of Maft anneE. Nor are these sums, large though they be, all that have been laid out on biehopi palaces of late years. For, no sooner were the episcopal stipends fixed in amount, than old residences were sold, other estates bought, new houses built thereat, and a system of extravagance pursued, that bas seriously damnified the episcopal property of the church, as Riseholm, Danbary, and Stapleton testify. All this expenditure was gone into by Mr. EVELYN Dmitiores committee; and, though it is very true, as stated by the Bishop of LONDON, that committee did not recommend the fusion of the episcopal and com mon funds am a remedy, the committee ' it neverthe less, did what the Bishop conveniently for got to tell the Lards, viz., censure the expenditnre in the faloW ing language : Your committee are compelled to as expression of regret that email lisp contributions tow's& the building and re pairing o f *sea should have been made front this fund, and that more reserve tree not beat made la the disposal of it After so strong an expression of opinion, the go vernment had but one course to pursue; and it was to protect the fund from similar misapplications. Now, as the extravagances practised in building and repairing episcopal palaces dated only from the time when the separation of the funds was surreptitiously made, the most natural and obvious remedy was, of course, to re-unite them. This ministers, by the 12th clause of the bill before the House of Lords, proposed to do. Bat this proposition Lord Fowls and the bishops have defeated. On what ground? That the church needs more bishops; and that the continuance of the episcopal as a separate fund is neoeseary to provide for the endow ment of the new sees. But where is any expression of parliamentary will and determination to endow more bishoprics to be found ? Not certainly in the statute which authorised the formation of the Episcopal Fund. Still lees in the act for establishing the bishopric of Manchester; for all reference to the endowment of more sees was, after grave deliberation, excluded from that act. To say, therefore, that this fund must be kept distinct and separate from the general fund, in caw that new bishopncs may be established, is to carry the proposition foe new sees by a aide wind, after the House of Commons, at the close of the ses sion of 1848, refused to pass a bill containing a refer ence to the possibility of farther creations of that sort. To MUM! the Episcopal Fund on such a ground, and for such a • purpose, is au attempt to settle incidentally and inferentially a question which has as yet never been fairly and broadly presented to parlia ment. Were it, therefore, deemed advisable to add to the number of the English sees, this is not the way to proceed to their augmentation. But when the very meatiest of mach an addition is hateful to a mejo rity of the people of England, alter ministers were obliged, in the of a general election, to withdraw all ethesam to nob em addition from the ptemaido of THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1850. FRANCE. PARIS, Tnissecy, 11 A.R. ey's sitting in the Legislative As menbThirlyhifilrlird Ca te siour Perim. presented the of the commetse anointed to examine the bill deatasdiog feuds to inset the interest coming due in March on the Greek loan. This dottalseat expresses itself rather warmly on the late oondoct of England , relative to Greece, and intimates a hope that the" Cabinet of Leaden will be guided in the matter by esetiments of moderation. Oa the diression of the bin on Petals Instruction, all the articles relative - 1e the commons/ sad sate college — Were adopted id* sot discassioa. Delia is indisposed front a cold, and will use ne able to preside over the National Assembly he emits days. X have rad lotion train you Rome and Naples tinetP o ldeste, severally dated tee 19th instant. WM mission of Ciardisal Du Pont seemed likely , to be oosapisesly fruitless. The Respells= arsq : was to be btormistil by 20,000 men. At Rome an execution had taken plain on the pr ase of a murderer of a Freach soldier. It is said that the eisseqvii note far the signature of the li 3 ll loan is the premise of the Pope at Tsrracisa. The 17th of the Lose had left Rotas for Clefts Vecchia. Oar Paris Woe of 'onto:day evening did not ar rive until itosiodiatoly b ri ne going to poem PARIS, TIMIDAY, 5.30 P.Y. To-do in the Assembly the question woe mach dh in all ha hominy i Lord Pahnerstos, seseiving a ommiderable quantity . of the alpst.ishisli was lavished all the iateeseted umilisrempt Austria and Prissia--great friends of - esiservatives when they contemplate any thing despotic, The &Wes on the second reading of the Education Bid eland to-day, by the vote of the 88th and last clause. It wee then voted, by 436 spinet 206, that the bill should be read a third time. sad the debate ea the third reading was fixed for Monday next PAM. la. IS. Ter Ileasy. 4 de. Um Law 1 i , 44 far Oar 4 par Olus. fr II fashaage as Lams: 6. Islitadl, 1140 -. Mid „ 24 . mow 2108/41.—, . Sy 1141 &ads U4. 1)6. Piedumat I per Outs 68 „ 1 liaaaas.—Parls sad ..—Part. Orhasi. IS 911 a Pada mad Vara, SU ; Ram and Ilavis, NS ; Arlialft add 111rai1Daa 200 ; Was- Mars sad 'Male, US; OM» (Yisisse). 8111; Wawa and Bar damn, —; Northam 442 SO; Slandlara mod Trays', Ur, Pala sad Strasaaard. 641 SS Toms and Maass. 11l 74; Nervalllas Wild bask), 1111 76; Vanallial (UK Osak). 167 ra. _ . MADRID, Fss. V. —Mae per Cate, IS wawa ; Four par OWL, 121 piper ; nye pie Costa., lig paw; Oasipona, 71 paw. Bask all St. Ferdinand. 14. Elebange on Umiak 10.20. gbe court. The Queen and Prime Albert, with the Prince of secerepaned by his Royal Utahans the Duke of Base Colmar, Gotha, took so thing yesterday la as open eanlsis sad foot. Colonel Buckley dad Liset..Cokezel the Bon. Alexander Gordon, the &gastrin is Waiting, attended oa horseback. Her Majesty had a dinner yesterday at Buckingham Palm*. The company included - their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Primer Mary, his Royal Highness the Duke of Saes Cobourg Gotha, his Serene Ingham Prince Frederick of Hesse, the Marquis of Ailesbury, Led, Augustus &Wagon (in wailing on the Ditcher of Cambridge), the Earl aid Counter Grey, Vis count and Viscountess Hardin's, Sir Abithader Woodford, Colonel Wylde, Baron Eassebeek (ia waiting oa s ibs Doke of Cambridge), and Bute d'Apel (In waiting on the Duke of Saxe Cobourg Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prime Albert, with the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, Immured Mr. Moon yesterday by inspecting the flaished es graviag by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A., from Winterhalter's picture ef the Royal Family. Mr. A. Hastier M.P. for ()Wavy, had an inter , view yesterday whh the Right Roan. Labouchere. THE PRESIDENT Or THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS ur Scar:AlD, Sir William Allan, R.A., died at Edinburgh ea Friday eight bat, in his 69th year. THE NAVY ESTI3IATE3.—Iti . tHO of do totes into width the awry Nottastos are divided, there is en increase is time for 1860.61, as compared with time fee 184940; in ilenreses that is a &satiation ; and in one than is no shame. The increase in 1860-61 is 104,6691. ; the total de eranee, 528,6641., leaving a net deereeee of 424,0061. The im ams ea Ill . lllllllllfia . ifftli Banjoes (nada! "hick the _head- money for pirates is included), 14'98,9304. so but for the 103,0001. of head annoy is that Tots, there would ham been *muse in that item, the °sly one for the " effective w eir" in which there is ma Warms. The only other vote Y width *ere is as bermes is that which relates M military pensions sad allot/sates. trader this head we find Captals Nr James Bon's name added to the list of good servies pamions ; some people may think that thus are cillsers wine kook of 11010001, exploits, and absammenses, entitled them to mass before him. In coon pains the Naval astimaint les 181140, and 1860.61, with them of lamer yems, it mast be kept is mind that the upsilon of the Past-ofllos department are sow transferred M a separate mOhmate, sad that the of the convict departnaint hew buss trasslsmed M ntimollanewas esti mates. The imM•emsoll havonot Pa bees delivered. Th• Peat-tieswitterste Ise 186041 is 7'4,!391. • the sum voted foe 184940 was 7411 This is as Lute s, notwithetand• lag the emieasto .60 matelot a vote of 60001. towards dram asvinatien fiydaey, and 1,9984 Ist tka marayance of mails bestrew Idvarpool sad Limplown, neither of which appear ca thomeintates of the paseent year. The =pima 01 lonia) in 1360.61 is to be redwred by 7.3281., r ..spared with that of 1849-60; Ufa expense of the goverment pulpit service is to be Wowed by 23,266!. The wipe of ortillmn employed in the repair of packets is the doayards at looms was 3,4171. Is 184940 ; it is to be 10,0481. in 186041. The stores far the Queen's pilots oast 45,5601. in 1849-60 ; they are to cost 69,6574 do 1850.61, RAILWAY AUDIT ASSOCIATION. Yesterday a meeting of railway shareholders took t ee es dui Lora. Timer s far tke s r:r a pzit es t ab w ln ay ac e . musts. The chair was taken by Major-General Batoos, who having gone into the various reasons whisk justified an ap plication to parliament for • general system of audit, sub mitted the first resolution " That the present= of audit of railway accounts is neither efficient nos sa The notion was paned unanimously. Mr. NASH moved the second resolution " That it is in the highest degree desirable that this grievance which deepl awes private es well as corporate credit should te , ond the only way of doing so is by legislative esictusito-' i firDEY seccadod the motion s which was also agreed to unaniewassly. Mr. BALE them moved "That it is the opinion of this aa that no motional measure on the subjeet of audit e wtiag from any individual body of the railway coat- Purim et Prima , igaorPmeted. is deserving the sanedon of the legislature, en the ground that any spasm of audit to be akiilnt sad independent must he one of gimmal in time to - to all rallies] cunpanks is the United This was seconded by Mr. &Mon, andwesed unanimously. • resolution was also weed, " That a committee be formed to cam out the objects of this emaciation k" and that they doper's* a bill for presentation In this session of par liament, and that the same, with the proposed system of audit shall be submitted to the shareholders for their consi deration i ttimval at a future The C submitted n a u :2l l u . tioo that share holders agree to stabwaribe towards the expense; of the com mittee now emeeklinted. Mr. WOOLIR thought the expense would be a mere and yet give them a vast machinery ; a subscription of dd. per Mk would probably realise 60,0001. The resolution was passed, and the following gentlemen were appointed the sommittm, with power to complete the another of wren: namely, Mr. Wooler, Mr. Castle, Mr. Preston, and Mr. Carvelho. . . A vote of thisks to the gallant chairman terminated the proseedings. The plea of the &socialise is thus stated A railway mach beard to be formed by • committee of shareholders, hen delegates of the several railways, chosen by ballot, no proxies being allowed, a certain number of the general com mittee forming a working board, one or more to retire every three mouths, and to be substituted by other reemben from the general board. The working board to be mated by the *Tug Wises, via.: secretary, asounteets, audit clerks, La. It is smatial, however, that no director, chairman of board of directors, smeary, solicitor, or engineer of say railway be eligible be asset at or vote for the atoll bawd of the shasholdses, Prom a board so constituted there must ensue a mend anti sleieet audit of amouatsof every railway, souriag all the ofehasy et • goverment audit without its isterfasiner, ad this simple distiestioe—of emarstdoe from the slueshellen thearniely. a, sad themselves alone." - °INITIAL SUSAN NAVIOATIOx COMPAXT.—Yes tuday the 60th helf-yeatly meeting of this oseporetten was hold at dui: came, 71. Leastiard-.taws,lohn Wilk* isq., hi the &alt. The direeton' report, and a statement of the astsoutte for the halt.yees main the 31st Dimwit», leas, were read to the meeting. The report Weise bees rani ' isovely ottogla b 7 the proprietors, the anal dividend and Ideas win &Wand, whoa the Nasdaq eeparatad, Wady pilau% with the ciailatias pioverity of as ociefesP Per Amount. Opoing Wpm. 1.4,4,494 r. 41 40 37 80 97 40 if 73 94 40 93 71 93 40 OS 73 . n w PP .. 10 PO a SD 1111:M 15 461 90 4'm 114711%;: m ."' I r." 1" IT± Bl -- Z.: the Manchester Bishopric Bill, this attempt of the How of lords to sany its views by perpetua outage lly; the pisimpal Fw as of K d. is nothing elm mast be aa on li the Co mmailas& It misted to the uttermost. And if the question of more bishops have again to be fought, the sower it is decided the better ; so be it cm this clause, if Dr. &own= pleases. The emend for more buboes is a ory fx. greater power ever the laity by the ft of the churrh of Inglaad. More Whops maw more power for the Mersre4, less religious freedom fee the laity of the church; more persecution of the Jews, leas shwa tics for the people ; greater spiseopal interfsranos in our affairs, len popular control ever thi clergy. Mere bishops will be followed by more deans, mere digaitsrues, mare prebendaries, mere molesiss timl wealth; and by more of every species at church Owe which it hes been the tendency of recent lghr iation to encourao. More bishops will be followed by a revival of oonvoostion ; and, if restored, the length and breadth of the lead will be distracted by theolo gieal strife and priestly straggles. Already the of LONDON is seeking to establish a tribunal of eodeautic, ; now he mks for more bishops. No, no, Dr. Bt.cratisur ; the tint, for more bishops is peeved, and that you will find when the 12th section of the Boolmisetteal Commission Bill comes to be considered by the Home of Commons. lii the realm of Cockayne there ere few pleasanter spots thaa Greenwish Park. It Is hallowed to all of I us by peskiest, and to mod of no by unsietion. Gloriosa are the proven@ from the summit of its hill; sweet on a summer's day are the shadows of its ebeenst trees. Sappy to the Londoner are the real 111100111X11 of hours lounged away p leasantly apes its velvet sward, the dappled deer browsing by his ride, and the En of the gnat Babylon' deadened by the &tense. Yetie.& Greenwich Park le not what it was. There were wont to be a hundred shady little covert. In it which sow hays no existence- a hundred pleas sant places which are altogether lost to oogaisance. From pleasant grassy opts on which boyhood remem bers to have gambolled, one Is now excluded by a wall, a pallisade, or an enclosure. Years ago see might roam throughout, undisturbed by any offidal and unebooksd by any prohibition. Now-a-days it is difficult to frequent an walk in the Park without feel ing under the special o • nof a keeper or a polioe nun ; and it IS really no easy matter to find a way out without encountenng a formidable notice that any " trespasser" in this direction will be obnoxious to the law, or that any one who goes the other way may have a disagreeable rem:mitre with a spring-gun, or receive a preening invitation to stop from a too hospitable man-trap. The truth is, that the pleasant position of Green wich Park, its easy distance from London, and its general convenience as a place of residence, have be come too generally recognised. It is a Rood many years since the advantages of its poutien were discovered by royalty. The oonsequence of that dis covery was the enclosure of the best-wooded portion tithe park as private garden-ground for the Duchess of Baurthwicx and the late Princess SOPHIA. This appropriation was in some degree compensated for by the residence of royalty, and the consequent advantage which accrued to the locality. Bet this was in the days when these realms were go- verned by a sovereign. Our present fate is to be e -1 vetoed by commissioner'. And when, in imitation of royalty, the commissioners want to set up their abodes In the park, and to enclose another of its well-wooded corners for a pleasure-ground, we are not surprised to hear of a rebellion, even though it is a rebellion by all Greenwich, spinet " the Hos pital " itself. The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital have applied for an act of parFament, which was intro duced by Admiral DUNDAB on Monday night, " for the improvement of the hospital and for other pur poses." In anticipation of the passing of this bill a large piece of land at the north-east "ogle of the park has been already staked out for building purposes : end it is understood that it is intended to erect on this site new houses for the Greenwich Hospital Commissioners, consisting of the Paymaster-General, the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, GEORGE TIEINET, Esq., Rear-Admiral Sir H. HART, and Rear-Admiral Sir WATKIN 011 TX PUL. Little less than three acres of greensward are proposed to be thus appropriated. Charming villa residences are designed to be erected : of course at the expense either of the Greenwich pensioners or the nation, and the public are to be robbed of a portion of the park which is oertainly, if not one of the most frequented, not one of the least agreeable of its resorts. Within the last few years there has been a rage for encroachment upon even the comparative little that is left of the Greenwich Park of the days of Queen ELIZABESII. The "ranger's grounds" have almost imperceptibly increased until they have taken in a slice large enough for a nobleman; the "keeper's lodge" has gradually swollen in its rise until it has become quite a prominent object. The expansion of Mr. Commissioner TIERNEY'S garden shows that that gentleman and his family must be ardent floriculturists : at the top: of the hill a whole lawn was enclosed some four or five years back to make a " reservoir" for the hospital ; the " Observatory " has now a little park inside its own walls; at the east side a great space has been railed off with no apparent object but to diminish the public means of recreation; in fact it is estimated that within a very few years nearly an entire third of the park has been, under one plausible pretext or other, entirely filched from do public by these wholesale encroachments. It is high time they were put • atop to, and the in habitants of Greenwich will scarcely Lave a better opportunity of checitnj r such desecrations than at this =meat, when a of commissioners are try ing to effect a mug littlejob for their private accom -1 modatioa and convenience entirely at the cost and expense of the public. The very mention of the word " park " causes an involuntary reference to Whitehall-place. Have the Commimioners of Woods and Forests anything to do with this matter P Yes; we understand they have. . The extent to which they are implicated is a point into which we shall isatitute more minute inquiry. Bat this we may say in passing—that as an expiring act, this attempt to enclose Greenwich Park is worthy of them. Teased of enduing any portion of Greenwich Park an effort ought to be made to improve it. Of its sort then is not a liner park in Europe. In position it is infinitely more beautiful than St. Ger maine, and yet see what the French make of the one and what the English permit to ►e the other! If the people of Greenwich only tarn this opportunity to account, they may secure not only the defeat of the projected job, but, we really believe, the improve ment of the noble demesne adjacent to their town. And in both objects, we need scarcely say, they shall have oar willing assistance and co-operation. KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION. TO THE IDITOR OP THE EXPRESS. ihm,—ln a paragraph in the Express of today, on the subject of the Kidderminster election, is a statement which requires correction. Bo far from a sum of stoney haying been lodged in the Bank of England to defray the expense of the inquiry, Mr. Coppock is the sole surety ; and objections to the r. cognisance entered into by hint are pending before the proper °Meer of the Rouse of Commons. I am, sir, Be., HENRY B. BROWN, Agent for the Bitting Member. 4, Trafalgar-square, 26th Feb., 1860. ROCKIEST= CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.- The position of all parties conneeted with this satablishmeM appears to be summing a more complicated aspect than ever. The ppaarreeunle of the boys on the fountiatiln, who are under Mr. Whiston, as head master, received on the 20th inst. a letter from the chapter clerk, by which they were informed that if their sun did not name their studies over therrior's • gate, the dean and chapter would huht their painful duty to deelare their places ascent, and to Ell them up. On th 23rd last., three days slur, Mr. IC erm hum s& received a letter hem the clerk of the pease fur Bucks, to acquaint him that the Court orAdjouroed Session at Aylesbury bad una nimously reeolval to require him to return to the tiitcharse of his dials. of chaplain of their county prisons, in parson, immediately tar without tail on or before the 11th of March next.—Masiefon• Journal. TES ATITYPTID ASSABAINATION AT FIUSW24O - oniertosate nen Williams Symms, A* mensal of Yr. William Anode' Teo, the high sheriff of Devoe, et Fremingtou.booss, ow Striate*, who was 'hot cm Tuesday night last b an &marls, tontiaues in an Imams condition, end his death is momentarily sapwood. The suspected essesthi, Lillyeerp, still resselas at large • ea emirate dashoirdho of his penes hes bees distributed ill oler the eotatty by the pettee, with a meant fez bh appro. hada. MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. TEN HOURS FACTORY ACT. MANCHESTER, FM. 26. Thetiaitstloa for en eneeded Ten Hours Act is ni with mots sometime now than his hitherto bola tasatheted, bat there is in truth whatever in the state seat or the now aboat say intense mitement on the sub 'lest* these antis* • mega; was held at Oldham, on Hoot. assay 2,000 people bag prevent. Mr. A.14111/11- der yler presided, sad neatens= Inn moved sad serried dedlaratery at the delengastise Mddlaradad et adhere to a tea boars bill. Theo hains* pat it to the saseriag if they were at all &mead to favour an eleven Mere hill, and Meows, they derided manimusly that were not. A petition in lamr of the neeners was so, whisk Mr. Dantsuft is to present to the Hoses of nuns. A letter was read from Mr. W. S. Po:, the other boa. member for the borough (whisk had boas addissastl to Mr. Piste), stating that he was anxious to support any arm sate whisk might be brought ferward to sem* the preens eat, having tor its objet to emirs to Meal* sad pia eon the limitation to Mt bast et. The speaker of the the Ray. 7. A. who not only thasrht ihey should Malt workieg M tee boars, bat that the hour, should be sensted as wen these of hones let out to hire—bees the ties et hobs 4bi *able till their return I H. advissa them. 21 the, addi.l l4 isi tea hour, to agitate for eight. _ • • THE ORM T EXHIBITION OF 1861. • A wean, of the leading commercial and other lahablamate of Maasimster sad its vial Liv took plass lids altarsoos, at ens o'slock, is ths Town Rail, to esamormas a stbuoiptloa on WWI of tits pro lainwtrisi add*. Nos of IBM. Upwards or 600 o bad Isms Waal, but only about id to 40 dames wars prf mat. Mr. JOUN ii, the "taper, pre 5144, aid Wass fag the., reolddiwds said it wet mow Aisle Ohs mash' sew taw dreier woe cost iatrodused to Ss iabablisah, and the amthsittao but sot the ft •=3 Prevlowl7 to tabs may vary Mho storm It was 4 at a unsung fah Ina, however, lo ash hr sa Welter to tha strsaytit the eatauthes. ITe billrealikay Wen sow say has ha shes ah was placed na abaft, *NM would name is ewe- Tleo Mties elo* of MANCHZITILE roes to propose the fint mo ie : net Ms waft desires M egress Its satire madams in the ro* erauskakm, sad Ito fail ssmearrimoe to all the arranganenta wWi ati a have been a M sanosiased by that body tor the arrangement of the great blon It wm hnpersibles to object to the constitution of the Royal Commission; the steps that commission took for avoiding every meant,* which appeared to involve part, or private ant individual interests, were entirely satis history. His lordship concluded by saying that Man chester was deeply interested in the proceedings of the Royal Cemmiselon, and it was the imperative dug of this town to ems forward and show that it was the ardent and determined supporter of a system, the intention, the ten ancy, and the *eels of whisk were only good. (Applause.) Mr. E. J. LANG WORTHY, mayor of Salf rd, seconded the motion, whisk was agreed to unanimously. hlr. T. BAZLBY, Presid e nt o f th e Fester Chamber Commerse prepseedoe the me resitution : Ilmt in the Abase( Mis 1111111111111 it is Insambnit upon Munches. taros Magma maim of meordast= m isdesszy is a this amintry, gresyeb Ibe agsessaf this peeper/ tea by Ilberai sub. aseMtsmsad tbsesatdbmka susk as by their maul. nu% &Poo el deltas. es seseemisa Mesa*, may fa best calcu lates tessera dr sam end emesepeies et thle MemalPt cal the our -711:1,1644.11.LE sermaded the ..Hens whisk was k 1 unaalmosaly. 11z. 0. HEYWOOD moved : net this weetingliedum !emu to pressed without lem ef time to gab elliset Is the opals. exgremed in the forespriag resolu4m, by Maw ea ham sake minuet for subset la ald of ME eat'. Wbides of ISM, and by Me hem : this district at the diesxml a the menadmissiers a the endless pessibie period. Mr. Alderman NEILD seessided the motion. andx premed his opinion that the commission would have to modify their views an regarded the giving away of prizes. He felt cenfident it was unnecessary in kis own trade (ca lioo printing), and those who had witnessed the effect of giving prices by the Royal Agricultural Society condemned the scheme in reference to agriculture. He concluded by reading the following list of subscriptions received up to the present time :—Beeij. Heywood, 2001.; Loyd, Entwine, and Co., 2001.; J. C. Harter, Esq , 2001 .; J. and H. Philipps and Co.. 2001. ; Mayo, of Manch 1061 .; Hoyle and Bona, 1061.; El. Armitage, 1061. ; Hera:ow, esit, and Co., 1061. • A. and 8. Henry, 1001 ; S. Schwabe and Co. 1051. ; E. R. Langworthy (Mayor of Sallord), 1051. ; Thoe. Healey, 1051.; J. P. Westhead and Co. 1061. • Richard Gardner. 1051.; W. Grant and Brothers, 1051, ; 'Edmund Potter and Co., 601. ; Samuel Fletcher, Bon, and Ca 601. ; W. Fair bairn and Son 601. ; Jos. Whitworth, 601. • J. A. Turner J and Co., 601. ; ones, Brothers, and Co., 501. ;'John Hacking, 601. (Applause.) The MAYOR said this was only a beginning of the sub scription, sod he h op ed to me gentlemen present putting down their names. He hoped to see a list including every amount, from ss. upwards. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. 1. A. TURNER moved that the resolutions be ad• vertised in the Manchester newspapers. The following and some few other subscriptions, were afterwards entered on the list :—T. and R. Barnes, 1051 ; Han. Gardner, 601.; Thompson Brothers, and Sons, 1051. ; Vernon and Co., 251.; Jas. Sale, 501. BRADFORD, FIB. 26. TEN HOURS FACTORY ACT. A large meeting of operative. and others was held in the Temperance Hall yesterday (Monday) evening, to con side, the propriety of petitinning parliament to pees forth- with a declaratory act, which shall ensure an uniform and continuous working of ten hours a day, for five days, and eight boom on Saturdays, in all mills and factories. The building we, crowded with t.pelatives. The platform was occupied by a few manufacturers, a large number of the clergy of the neighbourhood, and the Short Time Commit toe, mostly operatives. John Rand, Big , Wm. Band, R-q., W. B. Punter, Esq , Wm. Walker, B q., the Rev. Dr. Burnett, the vicar, and othm of the clergy were the princi pal speakers. On a show of hands Mr. Pollard was elected chair man, and observed that he had hoped the last time he occupied that chair would have been the last in this cause. It was too bad that after their endeavours to pro- cure foe themeelvesthe advantages of restricted factory labour, after overcoming the obstacles thrown in their way, and they had obtained What they believed to be a Ten limns Act, all this should be 'matched from them by a mere legal quibble. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) The Rev. the VICAR, in an energetic speech, proposed the first resolution : That the Ten flours Act having bete duly observed and carried out in this town and neighbourhood, the most salutary effects have re. nutted from It both to the employers and the employed ; and that this meeting rejects every proposal to extend the working in factorim for ell young ponces and women beyond the limila of ten hours for tlre days, and eight on the Barmier, with roper time for meals tor all at the muse tine. _ In the course of his remarks he dwelt principally upon the advanbgse whirls had resulted to the factory operatives, in having ltore to cultivate their minds and their allotment gardens ; and urged the operatives to give tbeir unmistake able opinion in favour of a plain enactment for securing ten hours of continuous work, la•tead of taking it by APO and relays. CHARLES HARDY, Hit, very briefly ascended the reselation. BAND, Eaq., npported it in a lengthy speech, in which he declared his continued adherence to the principle of limiting the hours of labour to ten boon • day. The resolution, en being put to the meeting, was carried nen con. and amidst loud cheers. AU the subirquent reso lutions were also dinned of in the same manner. Mr. ISAAC BOTTOMLEY. • working man, spoke of the advantages his clam had derived from the evening leisure which the restricted bows bad afforded them; and strongly andunned the shift and May system. lie moved : That this rasetiss oonamme, and le entirely opposed to the mode, of vorkieg in fsstaries by Ways and shifts. winch compel young posse and wwa ap r iota nee, early In the morning and to rs aar pad ar napialad anal a late hour in the cecina': thus damning thenhafilmelar the pathemanse at their household duties, and that reseisliis awl moral impecoramat which the Ten Hours Act was Weida to Imre to them. W. E. FOSTER, Esq., a mill-owner ' residing at Raw den, seconded the resolution , his speech being principally in favour of shorter hours of work, as affording time for the discharge of mental, moral, and religiose duties. WILLIAM WALKER, Esq , of the firm of Monts. Wood and Walker, an old coadjutor of Mesas. Oastier, Fielden, and others, is the agitation for a ten hours' restric• tics in mills and factories, s.epported the resolution. He argued at great length in favour of a definite enactment, and 'sprawl great confidence that the government would in terpose to secure the privileges which were clearly intended by the passing of the act, the p - ovisions of which had re cently been brought before the Court of Exchequer. Mr. Councillor RAWSON proposed the next resolution— That two deleptes be selected by the Yorkshire Central Ten Hours' Committee, wto shalt proceed to London to set in unison with dele gates from LanCeablre and other pert. of the country fur the purpose of waiting ups the members of both homes of parliament, to solicit their support to a bill for declaring relays and shafts Mewl, anti St ing the ten hours labour fur all young persona end women between the hours of six in the morning end is the evening, or at hut providing that the ten hours of working shall be continuous, eatept the intervals for meals at the proper per ode of the day. JOHN RAND, Esq., also an old advocate of the ten hours' limitation, seconded the resolution. Mr. JAS. TURNER, a working man, moved the folkaw infibmansektiou : this meeting h firmly mostneed that the Ten Hours Aot, wham hem* observed. ha pawed malt esoduoist to the Interests 11 , E= a ls hirers letbses, and thseeire pledges Welt to the 'mat asks some Mr all mom pemeas sad women the praised effisieney end ininerity of that Just and ilaw. ka J. P. CHOWN seaweed the resolution, which was eupposted by ALFRED "thaws. Esq., and NATHANIEL Fates, a working man. Mr. GEO. GIBSON, en operative, moved : That a memorial be neat to her most gruel= Majesty the Queen, muyingler the due fulalment of the intention el the legislature by a plata fad positive enactmest. The Rev. J. FAWCETT, Incumbent of Low Moor, secositl i and the Rev. J. OUSADLR, Vicar ci so it nfat:LEER, Esq., moved That the thanks of this meeting be glees to Lord Ashley, )LP., and to all other ;militia supporter* of We Tut Hours' Act; aid that his lordship be again requeoled to use his great talents and infiltenoo to obtain a speedy removal of the modes of working by shifts and re. lays, es as to mere to the factory workers allthe benefit' intended by the Ten lime AM. The Rev. Mr. ROSS seconded the motion. i.FCeillTllmoved the adoption of petitions to parlia ment itt favour of a declaratory set. The PAT. Yr. HINDERSON seconded the resolution. A. rote of thanks to the Onairman brouaht the proceed- IMrto a alms a little atm 1011-past tia a'alaak at nit, RAILWAY MEETINGS. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the proprie tors was held at the Ni,. Elms Station. The chair was taken at 12 o'clock by Mr. W. Cuarun, M.P. After the usual preliminaries had been observed, The SECRETARY, at the suggestion of the chairman, read the following report of the committee appointed to in , restiaste the charges 'Oast the directors : ! the otesieltlio_appiese by a reedution of the special the 1 weft,. a Obi 713eg mss, hew, "to inveiglers the ebarges end ellaslabrimaile soder the tategrlty of the directors at the lest /steal maybe e 1 the esersay, and any other chergeseff,et. polity of the diessises whir.' the committee may sec fit to iirs. o rti rsk ie eldimdt impb7 lllll Miles report to the pro. rietres, as The eempillee basing nesteee sessuidagr ai from unions iberebildmM and having carefully Lee aged every ems brought soder Yak Miss. which, ia their )2magc. arse within the amps if ibi lass Ad their review each of the zi....,„„.. 10= bi r rnat. . he 41WireC la of particular mention ; In dein as, .wlllmilasswar to twine their remarks within as • meow ad panallie. w% M ens and isaisece, report u r p t en the charges um c c= • 1 1 • haat rid . will then adve to those which Bret charge to which the oriandttee direct the attention of the . geggeietors, i s that relating to the Mamma of 15,000 of the new slum ef 16414, to the directors and their friends; porno of the portion N M e tt" ea4B.lhili of r 6:reheat aeon whilst th e majority had the amount, or it, advar.ced oat of the funds of the company, depositing • eery as security and paying interest upon the sum advanced. Mb easaseictee es oeoptneon that this tranaired a merry Irr, and Ihnt it would have been far brier if the directors hid the ■ C eptismes aosuoinnd with the real state of the caas• re, that 1046, alone number of thc new sham were r not 74 ra t tiAlad w rngr vini the r I oph them :l n „n lo opportun i ty,he un r:t "c or '' olt who, of proceeding with it application, to parliament for all or way of the attanom fur which these shots were crated; by which pectoesehts the pains would have had no meson to complain that an anima saws lied be l gua r ven to these shares, by the s ot pposl. ties that all had heel, Seam taken up by the proprietor,. it den Winkled* haws the cemmoilee, that the dim. Si aslM Onforiblmb the Aide et this trausectien nadir the ha. east the was' Mean* hi the elmagann sad alsemispitha promentise at the rebates kr Moodia. nes nark Wanes lanway /maths west dMagian& required thee a very large pespeedea. ai reit, at the new shares, should be sulacribed for ; and with this view, altheargh there was an eawillingure amoegst the directors so leases, their liabl Ity, 16,000 satea thanes were even tually take gr: es Tbsessunittee sadder (Let in this traneretion the directors esemeled their powers as trustees—gave 'hemmers, in fact, an us preference over the general body of the share holders—end took a step tending to mislead public opinion m to the value of the charm In question—but that they were influenced by no corrupt motive, and only acted, as they thought, for the benefit of the company. I. The next charge which the committee think it necessary to bring ender the notice of the proprietors Is that of the loan, made out of the foods of the company to some of the dlrecton end ether individuals, sad the rate of Interest paid for such loam. It appears that it has been the practice In the company ever sine: its formation for the Finance Committee to employ the surplus barmen in such • way as would secure the best rate of in:ercst. In the huttar.ce DOW under inquiry they lent money to various partite —directore and others—gee himself a member of the finance committee; that no doubt was a great acemeraudation, for although meet of the loans were granted previously took@ panic, some of them.were allowed to te outataoding during the Wee when it was at its height, and it would bare linen tat more satisfactory If the finance committee had either insisted on the repayment of these loans, or at all events relied the Interest to a rate proportionate to the market value of money. As there appears to be some difficulty In regard to the employment of the netting balances of the company, the committee recommend that, in future, the finance committee act in such matters under legal advice, and especially abstain from lending money either f r o o Z r direato:s or the proprietors otthe eampany. & TM third and rat charge against the director., to which the committee coesider It desirable that the notice of the proprietors should be drawn, is, that a sum of about 6001. was reccieed by the directors beyond the allowance of 2,f 00/. a year voted to them by the shareholdsra, and that such sum was placed under a head in the ledger which made it difilcult to be discovered. The fact being, that the amount was, from the want of proper dlrecti ne, carried by the treasurer to . Petty disburvements. ' It Is alleged, in defame, that the directors received this sum for extra attendances during the pro gress of various bills through parliament, and on that account they coesidered themselves entitled to further remuneration—that they ware not 000nisaat of the circumstance of the entry made in the ledger—and that, on its being pointed out to them by the auditors they felt that the entry was objectionable, and refunded the amount oval drawn. It I. also alleged, that as the extra work was for new Wes, therefore theextra expense was properly charged to the capital account of those lines. The committee have examined Into the truth of the ee allegationg, and find them subetentially cornet. The com mittee mar, however, pronounce their opinion, that the directors ought Let to have received more titan the runt voted to them, and that en appeal ought to have been made to the proprietors, If woes. mazy. for threasedreinuneration. The committeetoink it right tomes. lion, that the chairman and deputy chairman did not receive any part of this sum, a certain amount haring been appropriated, some time pre viously, out of the 2,000 f. a year to the occupants of those two offices, but that, when the question of refunding was raised, that they each contributed en assumed proportion. On the whole, the committee are of opinion that that trareaction was both cureless sad um. MGT h i e committee have now Omani of all the charge. affecting the directors which thee consider neceseary to be brought under the con. Indention of the 'remitters, sad they now pasts on ta those which al hot Mr. Chaplin only. I. The first charge against the chairman Is that he did net pay the deposits upon the new shares which he took, but used the hurls of the onspeny for this purpose. The committee rind, upon inquiry. that the was the case, not only as regards Mr. Chaplin's portion of the 13,000 shares befo re alluded to, but for other those which he took about the lame period, and that, at the time it was done, the thence committee were not aware of the transaction. It appears that Mr. Chaplin had an account opened In I s 13, by lending money to the company, tte whole of which was repaid In May, late, and the so. count closed; in the latter part of the same year it was re opened by certain deposits and calls being placed to its debit; and as no cheques were pared to carry out this arrangement. such Is rated to be the reason for sending In the very erro neous return to the House of Lords, without Mr. Chaplin's name appearing, in which return It would have been much more satisfactory if every loan or advance of money had been entered. The interest upon Mr. Chapihes account, whether m Dr. or Cr., was always arranged by the tinance commitue ; and it la as wed to state that tt is now entirely closed, and the whole amount paid off. There can be no doubt but that such an arrangement m this account of Mr. Ckaptin's was very much to the benefit, se it enabled him to become the possessor of shares of considerable value. It does not swear, however, that Mr. Chaplin ever realised the premiums at which these shares at various times stood, or has at any time been a trafficker In the *titters of the aim. puny, and the committee are of opinion that wrong as an this most decidedly was, Mr. Chaplin made the interesta and prosperity of the coin any his first object, and from a bog and constant conuexion, consldered his own affairs Identified with those of the South Western Company. 2. Ibe next charge against Mr. ChaOn is that of his placing his calls to the debit of the awns account, Wend o: allewingthem to re main in their proper place—" the Arra of Calls, Hoak.' , The cont. mittee tied this to be correct; and that, at the end of 134: • being the y :nod at which the panic raged, the amount at the debit of Mr. Chaplin's account, composed pertly of deposits and partly of calk, I amounted to 0.30114 13e. ed., whilst the market value, at that time, lof the various derriptions of the compa n y' s shares deposited by Mr. Chaplin, as security, was only 76,, Ad. 10e. The committee esst only add to what they have already said respecting this account, that, upon examining the chairman on the point ;and they can see no reason to coubt the correctness of his statement), it appeared that he left the arrangement of his account to Mr. Morgan, the treaattrer, who acted ut*.er the superintendence dth e finance coalmine*: end the committee cannot but feel that the finance conintese failed in their duty, in neglecting to ascertain, from time to time, that this • large advance out of the mods of the company was fully OW/ properly covered. _ . .. . - 37inother charge against Mr. Chaplin is, that he has an interest in the carrying businme of Chaplin and Horne, the carters of the South Western Company and that therefore his Nat at the bturd isabsolutely void. Upon inquiring into this subject, the followng minute, passed by the Taft Committee on the 2Stb of April, 1448, and subssuuently read to, and confirmed by, the court of directors, was produced, and the committee did not think It :memory ~to go farther into the matter : " W. J. Chaplin,Eeq.,ll.P.,havieg sanowted that he has for a length of time ceased to hare any interest in the eetehlishmeat for the delivery and oellecting of goods, Ita,and that his son, Mr.W. A. Chaplin, was emaciated with Mr. Horne In the Maine's, it was rewired—That Mr. William Augustus Chaplin, in conjunction with Mr. Benjamin Home, he accepted as the parties to amine the businees ‘ as heretoforecon. ducted by the firm of Mews. Chaplin and Horne.' The committee haring reported upoa all the chorine affecting the directors, either coltectircy or individually, which they think it newssery to bring specifically before the proprietors, Mere only to add la coaclusion, thst although they here discovered le the course of their inquiries much to blame and to regret ispecielly in the finances dewtmeat, they are unanimously of opinion that nothing has come before them which streets the "integrity" or "probity" of the directors.—Slgned, on behalf of the committee. London, Feb. 23, 100. 11E.NItt CURRIE, Chairman. Mr. CURRIE, on rising to move the reception of the above report, said he had the satisfaction of stating that, in reference to the •11A01111 subjects which had been investi gated, the committee had been perfectly unanimous. (Cheers.) They could Lot expect to please everybody, but they had certainly satisfied themselves; and he hoped that the pro• prietors generally would accept their verdict—(cheers) — and that it would have the effect of restoring harmony to the company. They would cut their own throats by con tinuing to impugn each other's motives. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that the report would plum the company in a bit.er position with the world at large. (Hear, hear ) The =oldie having been seconded, Mr. UPCROFT complained that the committee had not investigated the grounds of the charge that the directors had in their statements maned the public em to the amount et receipts and pigments. In particular he complatned that no notice had been taken of the fact that the sum of 104,9101., formerly stated to bare been received on acaount of the Taw Vele Railway, had now (Alen to 59,4281. He thought the committee ought to recommence its labours. Mr. ROVES, one of the auditors, explained that the larger sum had reference to two railways, toe Taw Vele and. the Exeter and Crediton. It bad been thought expedient,. he sail, to make a division. Mr. MANGLES, M.P., said the committee bad listened. most atten•ively to every charge. He, for one, certainly could not consent to resume the inquiry. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIEMAN said be th. tight it right to state that the directors bad not seen the report until they satinet the station that morning. There were one or two peints to which, as they appeared to abet the directors, he wished to advert. (Rear, boar.) With regard to the sum of 6001., which the dir. Nora m3ltht appearst wetroe her e entitl eTt e o iv rs ed ee lo iv r e, el h Pecsil e liev in cd l it S4 w 6 o ba ul l d e be " fe w un ha ct that directors travelling from Liverpool, Al warmer, and other places lathe north to attend meetings iu the Smith and West of England bad usually received an allowance for ex penses, aid the sum in totesuon was paid at a time when the meetings were unusually numerous. He would be sorry if the meeting were axistei lb reference to the stsada question. lie had withdrawn from all interest, direct and indirect, t the conveyance of goods en that line. (Hear, hear I H. had still an interest in the roods traffic of the London and North Western Caspian having four years ago joined Mr. Borne in a contrast which bad not yet expired ; but in that (th: South-Western 1 Com pany, he had entirely withdrawn in favour cf his eon. (Hear, hear.) lir. SMITH, director, said that en the London and North Western line, in addition to the amount voted by the pro prietors, the directors obtained expanses out of pocket, to oonaectMn with attendances at board meetings. lid believed. that be had been a loser by the performance of his duties ea director. Mr. BAKER thea moved that the report of the committee cljsmut be rpoelvsd and eireoloeid among the proprietors, The Man oar weeded tad agreed 00. '74 ; , g (Z)