The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-28 00:00:00

IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE TAW VALE RAILWAY COMPANY. REJECTION OF THE AGREEMENT WITH THE BRISTOL AND EXETER DIRECTORS. A special general meeting of the registered pro prietors of this company took place on Saturday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the pro priety of adopting or rejecting a provisional agree ment, bearing date the sth of the present month, for the sale of the railway, docks, and works to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. The meeting was attended by a large and influential number of the proprietors. Emanuel Cooper, Esq., took the chair shortly after one o'clock. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement calling the meeting, The CHAIRMAN observed that their first business was to lay before the shareholders the report of the directors. The SECRETARY then read the following report : " Your directors have much pleasure in being able to report to the shareholders that the Bill for the Exten sion of the;Taw Vale Railway from Barnstaple to Credi ton passed both Houses of Parliament, and received the royal assent on the 7th August last. The Bill had to compete with the Bideford and Ta vistock and the North Devon Companies, both of whom failed in passing the Committees of the House of Com raons on standing orders. " The North Devon scheme was brought forward by the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Railway Companies. " The Bill was strongly opposed by the North Devon Company both previously and subsequently to their failure in the House of Commons, and the influence of its supporters was used against it by petitions, witnesses, and otherwise, after the Bill had succeeded in passing both Houses on standing orders. Overtures were made to your directors by the Parliamentary Committee of the Bristol and Exeter Company to enter into a provisional agreement, subject to the passing of the Act, for leasing or selling the use to them, or for an amalgamation of the two companies. These negotiations were broken off, because the Bristol and Exeter directors declined to use their influ ence to have the opposition to the Taw Vale Bill discon tinued. " Some weeks afterwards the negotiations were re sumed, when the Bristol and Exeter directors agreed to use their influence to have .the opposition to this Bill withdrawn, and their negotiation terminated in a memo randum, dated 26th May last, which will be laid before you subsequent to this memorandum. Your directors regretted to find that the opposition to this Bill was con tinued with much vigour, and that, with some exceptions, they could not calculate upon the cordial support of the Bristol and Exeter directors, for although the agreement was adopted by the Bristol and Exeter board, some of their most influential members were so wedded to the North Devon scheme that they, as members of that Committee, voted for the opposition being continued against the Taw Vale Bill; and other members of the North Devon Committee, viewing the conduct of the Bristol and Exeter directors, in privately arranging with a line which competed with their own, and which, if successful, they calculated would prevent their scheme from being car ried into effect in a future session of Parliament, as a breach of faith, were much exasperated, and, conse quently, the future opposition was conducted with in creased energy and much asperity ; the eflct, there fore, of the arrangement with the Bristol and Exeter Company upon our Parliamentary progress, was, on the whole, otherwise than favourable ; but your committee are happy to inform yo u th a t, a fter a protracted opposi tionin the Commons Committee on Merits, the Com mittee were unanimously of opinion that the preamble of our Bill was proved. Lord Morpeth, in giving this opinion, used the following terms:—' The Committee have come to the decision that the preamble of the Bill has been proved with reference to its own merits as a local, independent line.' "After the Bill had passed. the House of Commons, your directors considered it expedient to call publ meetings at several places on the line of the railway, which were largely attended by the country gentry, landowners and inhabitants of the districts, and they are happy to state that resolutions, expressive of a warm in terest in the Bill, were unanimously adopted, and peti tions to the House of Lords were numerously signel in its favour. " There were four petitions against the Bill in the House of Lords which your directors succeeded in ar ranging, and the Bill, therefore, passed through the House of Lords without opposition. "Your directors have proceeded to embody, in a more extendei form, the proposed arrangements with the Bristol and Exeter Company, the draft of which, dated the sth instant, signed by some of the Bristol and Exe ter directors, and by two members of your Board, will be laid before you, and, in terms of the advertisement, submitted for your adoption or rejection. "Your directors regret that the terms of this draft agreement, although they are the best they could obtain after protracted discussions, do not, in their opinion, carry out either the letter or spirit of the agreement entered into in May ; the differences are set out in cer tain resolutions transmitted to the Bristol and Exeter Beard, which, with the resolution of that Board, will be laid before you. " Your directors, notwithstanding these important differences in opinion "between the Bristol and Exeter directors and themselves, did not feel justified in breaking off the negotiation. The whole fact will be laid before the shareholders, that their decision may be taken thereon. " Your directors have ordered the needful surveys, preparatory to contract of the line from Barnstaple to Crediton, to be proceed with. They have also directed the resurvey of the Bideford branch, which was lost on standing orders last year, and the survey of a connecting line of about six miles to South Molton which was in cluded in the PA butrliamentary contract,l fur want of time not finished with last session. " Your directors have much satisfaction in stating that the works between Fremington and Barnstaple are satisfactorily progressing, and that the information they continue to rLceive, confirms them in the opinion that the railway and docks will not only be beneficial to the country but profitable to the shareholders." The reading of the report was frequently interrupted by the cheering of the proprietors. The CHAIRMAN said the report stated the opinion of the directors, and rendered it unnecessary for him to say a word with respect to it, further than put it for the adoption of the meeting ; after which they would pro ceed to the more immediate business of the day, namely, the consideration of the Bristol and Exeter agreement. Mr. JOHN BROWN, the Deputy-Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Company, wished to ask one or two questions of the chairman before the report was adopted, because, unless he did so, the report might cause an unfair im pression to go abroad with respect to the Bristol and Exeter Directors, which he was sure was not the wish of the Taw Vale directors. He wished to know whether the Bristol and Exeter directors, after they had entered into the arrangement with the Taw Vale Company, had not carried out those arrangements with good faith, and whether they had not assisted the Taw Vale Company, as much as they could at their interview with Earl Fortescue, to induce him to withdraw his opposition to their Bill in Parliament. The CHAIRMAN said that although the directors of the Taw Vale Company had the greatest confidence in Mr. Brown, the Deputy-Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Company, they could not shut their eyes to the coarse that had been pursued by that company towards the Taw Vale Company. That company had actually subscribed, or was to subscribe, a large sum to the North Devon Company ; and at a meeting of that com pany, resolutions had been come to to oppose the Taw Vale Company , in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) The di rectors of the Taw Vale Company had certainly calcu lated, that on entering into the agreement with the Bristol and Exeter Company, they would have received their active exertions to remove that opposition; but such had not been the case.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the proceedings before Lord Fortescue, the directors of the Taw Vale Company had waited upon his Lordship, he being the:only:opponent of their line, and, after a long interview, and on its being stated to him that the Taw Vale Company were about to enter into an agreement with the Bristol and Exeter Company, and that the pro bability was that the North Devon line would not be proceeded with, his Lordship stated, that if he was satisfied upon that point, he would withdraw his opposi tion. It was stated at that meeting that the signature of the Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Company could be obtained,to that effect ; but, upon application being made to the Bristol and Exeter Company, much hesita tion was displayed to assist the Taw Vale Company. — (Hear, hear.) Other interviews took place with Lord Fortescue, and upon its being pressed on some of the di rectors of the Bristol and Exeter Company, that they ought to do all in their power to remove all opposition to the Taw Vale Railway Company, and that if they did not do so it would be a breach of good faith, Mr. Brown stated that he would do nothing to compromise his board ; Mr. Rawson, who was there, observing that that was not his way of doing business, and that he did not like it. Mr. BROWN said that he felt at the time great hesita tion as to giving: any pledge on the part of his board, and he felt the same hesitation then ; but there was no hesitation shown on the part of the Bristol and Exeter Company to do all in their power to enable Lord Fur tescue to withdraw his oppositior. Mr. WATsols observed that all communications on the part of the Bristol and Exeter Company had been con ducted in good faith. The Taw Vale proprietors had been• told that nothing would be done with them till some decided opinion had been come to with respect to the North Devon. Mr. THORNE thought it was apparent from all that had taken place, that the Bristol and Exeter Company had determined upon opposing the Taw Vale Bill, after they had entered into an agreement with that Company. —(hear, hear.) The great object the Taw Vale Com pany had in view, in entering into an agreement ~•;ith the Bristol and Exeter Company, was that all opposition to their Bill should be withdrawn ; and he would put it to the meeting whether the c nduct of the Bristol and Exeter had not been decidedly the contrary to that which might have been expected.—(Hear, hear.) Upon the interview with Lord Fortescue, lie (Mr. Thorne) did all he could to draw from Mr. Brown an answer to the question, whether the directors of the Bristol and Exeter line intended to subscribe to the North Devon, and he could not get a direct answer from him.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the Bristol and Exeter directors were very much in error, and totally forgetful of what they had { lone, in stating that they had kept good faith with the Taw Vale directors.—(hear, hear.) Mr. FRIPP said that it was quite clear, when the ar ngement was entered into with the Taw Vale di j a, the Bristol and Exeter directors co u ld not - 4 !) A-1411We far the withdrawal of the North Devon Line ; all do was to answer for the withdrawal of the Oppositioo of the Taw Vale Company. The directors of f Bkiefa and Exeter board had done all they cou ld • - f TIIE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBE - 11, 28, 1846. for the Taw Vale Company, and he unhesitatingly as serted that nothing had occurred upon which their con duct could be fairly impeached. Mr. WILKINSON, the solicitor of the Taw Vale Com pany, wished to know from Mr. Fripps, whether, after the 26th of May last, when he signed the agreement with the Taw Vale Company, he did not vote on the North Devon scheme against the Taw Vale Company ? (Great cheering.) Mr. FMPP (pith some warmth) said that that was neither the time nor place to answer such a question. Mr. WILKINSON would leave it to the meeting to form its own inference upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN then put the question, that the report of the directors be received and adopted • and, the motion having been seconded , he declared it to be carried unanimously. He then called upon the secretary to read the following agreements " BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY COMPANY, AND TAW VALE RAILWAY AND DOCK COMPANY. " COPY AGREEMENT BEFORE THE TAW VALE RAILWAY EXTENSION ACT WAS PASSED. "London, 26th May, 1846. " Memorandum for a provisional agreement between the Parliamentary Committee of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Board of Directors and the Directors of the I proposed Taw Vale Railway and Dock, and Taw Vale Railway Extension Company,contingent upon the passing of an Act in the present session of Parliament authoris ing the construction thereof. " The works to be constructed to the satisfaction of the engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. " The line and works to be taken to when complete by the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, with all rights and privileges conferred by the Acts of Parliament or otherwise upon the Taw Vale Company. " Interest to be allowed on the deposits and calls of the Taw Vale Company at four per cent. per annum from the time of payment until six months after the opening of the line for public traffic, such interest to be charged to capital, after which a dividend to be paid half-yearly by the Bristol and Exeter Company of four per cent. subject to an increase in the following rates. On paid-up capital-4i per cent. when the Bristol and Exeter proprietors receive 9 per cent. 5 per cent. when 10 per cent. 6 ditto when 11 " 7 ditto when 12 and so forth. " During the construction of the works, the board of directors to consist of eleven members, of whom six shall be appointed by the Bristol and Exeter Company, and the remaining five by the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock and the Taw Vale Railway Extension Company. JAMES GIBBS, Chairman. EMAN. COOPER, Deputy JNO. BROWN, Chairman of the Taw W3f. WATSON, Vale Extension Railway CHAS. B. FRIPP, Company. Wr. RAWSON, GEORGE HARRIS, J. B. BADHAM, Secretary. JOHN WHEELTON, JOHN SHARLAND, WM. CORY, J. G. FRITH, GEO. HENRY HAR RIS, Secretary. " COPY AGREEMENT. " After the Taw Vale Railway Extension Act was passed, and made when the directors of that company met the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company, 4th and sth September, 1846, to carry the minutes of 26th May into effect. "An Agreement between the Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company of the one part, and the Bristol and Railway Company of the other part. " Whereas an Act was passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled ' An Act for making a Railway from Penhill in the Parish of Fiemington, in the County of Devon, to the Tewn of Barnstaple, and for coneructing a Dock in the said parish of Fremington, to be calted the Taw Vale Railway and Dock.' " And whereas another Act was passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled An Act to amend the Act relating to the Taw Vale Railway and Dock.' " And whereas the several works by the said first mentioned Act authorised are in course of construction. " And whereas another Act has been passed in the present session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for amending the Acts relating to the Taw Vale Railway and Dock, and for making an Extension therefrom to the Exeter and Crediton Railway in the county of " And whereas the directors acting under the autho rity of the said Acts have entered into a treaty with the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company for the sale of the railway dock and works authorised to be constructed by the said Acts. " Now therefore the undersigned on the part of their respective boards, to negotiate and conclude an agree ment in this behab; subject only to confirmation by the proprietors of each company, have this day met and . _ mutually agreed as follows: " Ist. That the directors of the Taw Vale Railway and Deck Company shall, with all convenient dispatch, construct and finish the railways, dock, and works authorised by the said Acts, so as that the same shall be finished and ready for general traffic on or before the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty nine. _ _ _ " 2nd. That the said railways, dock, and works with all requisite stations, offices, warehouses, goods and passenger sheds, engine -houses, and other buildings, fences, roads, spare lines, turntables, water reservoirs, cranes, weighing machines, and appurtenances shall ba constructed and finished in all things to the satisfaction of the engineer for the time being of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. . . . " 3rd. That if the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company decide that a continuous double line of rails be laid down for the opening of the line for general traffic, instead of waiting for the decision of the Raid of Trade, referred to in the fifth section of the Taw Vale Extension Act passed this session as aforesaid, then such continuous double line of rails shall be laid down accordingly. " 4th. That when the said railways, dock, and works with the requisite stations, erections, buildings, conve niences and appurtenances are completed to the satisfac tion of the engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, they shall take possession thereof, and be liable for all future repair, save and except that during three years from the time of the opening the said railways, dock, and works, or any part thereof, for general traffic and use, all re-construction and repair arising from slips or subsidence of earth or from defective construction of the said railways, dock, and works, and the procuring and laying all additional materials and ballast , shall be done and performed by the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company, or by the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, as part of the capital account for constructing the works of the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company. " sth. That the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company shall provide all requisite plant of every description ne cessary to conduct and work the said railways and dock at their own charges in all things. " 6th. That the said railways, dock and works, with all tolls, rights and privileges, shall be, on the comple tion of the works as aforesaid, conveyed or transferred to the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company as their own property, absolutely and for ever ; and that the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company, shall unite in making the necessary application to Parliament for an Act during the next session to carry this agreement into effect. " 7th. That the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Com pany shall undertake the duties and responsibilities im posed upon the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company, under the aforesaid Acts of Parliament, from the time of the said railways, dock, and works, being open for general use and traffic, except as to the repairs during three years from that time, as provided for by the fourth article. Bth. That during the construction of the works the , said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company shall pay their proprietors interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum on the payments made and to be made by 7 them from the respective times of payment th ereo f, in cluding interest at the rate aforesaid on the capital stock mentioned in the twentieth clause of the said 'raw Vale Railway Extension Act. And further the said interest shall be so paid up to the expiration of six calendar months from the time that the said railways, dock, and works shall be opened for general use and traffic, and be charged and added to the capital account as part of the cost of construction. " 9th. That from and after the expiration of the said six months the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Com pany shall pay the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company a dividend of four per cent. per annum upon the full amount of the capital paid up to the share holders thereof for or in respect of the construction of the said railways, dock, and works, including the capital stock mentioned in the last article, the same to be payable half-yearly, with the following augmentations from time to time, that is to say:— " When and so long as the Bristol and Exeter Rail way proprietors obtain 9 per cent. from their line with its branches and extensions, then the dividend payable under this agreement shall be 4} per cent. And when and so long as the dividend so obtained by the Bristol and Exeter Railway proprietors shall be 10 per cent. then the dividends payable under this agreement shall be augmented and be 5 per cent. And when and as long as the said Bristol and Exeter Railway proprietors receive 10 per cent. as last aforesaid, then in case the said Bris tol and Exeter Railway Company create any new stock or the purposes of their railways, then the proprietors of the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company shall, in addition to the said augmented dividend of 5 per cent., be entitled to participate in such new stock in proportion to the amount which the B stock then issued bears to the whole amount of the stock of the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. " 10th. That the capital stock of the Taw Vale Com pany shall be represented by a new stock in the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to be created within six months after the opening of the line, which stock shall be called 13 stock and shall Lave secured to it all the ad vantages defined in the last article. And that such new stock shall have the same representative power by voting at the Bristol and Exeter Railway meetings, as if the holders thereof held a corresponding investment in Bristol and Exeter stock, to that paid up on the new or B stock aforesaid. " I 1 th. Provided always that nothing herein con tiined shall prevent or restrain the proprietors of the Bristol and .Exeter Railway C, anpany from disposing of their railway, and branches and extensions, including the said Taw Vale Railways and Dock, to any other railway company on such terms and under such arran,e ments as they thillk proper ; but in the event of their sodoing, in consideration of any fixed annual payment to be secured to the said Bristol and Exeter Railway pro prietors, not exceeding ten per cent., then the dividend receivab!c by the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company shall he assumed and taken at the maximum of ten per cent., although it may not have attained the same. And the rate of five per cent. hereinbefore mentioned to be thereupon payable to the proprietors of the Taw Vale Railway and I)4ek Company shall be accordingly deemed and taken as payable to them. And further, that in the event of the said fixed annual payment secured to :the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company being eleven per cent., twelve per cent., and so on progressively, the dividend payable to the proprietors of the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company shall be six per cent., seven per cent., and so on progressively ; and such rates of dividend respectively shall be secured to them accordingly by the company in whom the said Bristol and Exeter Railway, with its branches and ex tensions aforesaid, shall become vested. But if the Bristol and Exeter Company amalgamate with any company not paying ten per cent., and the consideration agreed to be accepted and taken by the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, for disposing of their said railway with its branches and extensions aforesaid, shall be stock in the company contracting to take the same, then the proprietors of the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company shall have, and be entitled to, a fixed' rent of 4i per cent., until the company with which the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company becomes amalga mated pay a dividend of ten per cent., and then the Taw Vale proprietors shall be entitled to a dividend of five per cent., and shall also have and be entitled to share in all new stock created by the company with which the Bristol and Exeter Railway becomes so amalgamated, after such ten per cent. dividend shall have been attained in the proportion which the Taw Vale stock, or the B stock to be issued as aforesaid, shall bear to the whole stock of the company with which such amalgamation as aforesaid may take plate. " 12th. That for all moneys paid by the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, under this agreement, until they are in possession of the said railways, dock, and works, they shall have a lien thereon and a right thereto. " 13th. That, during the construction of the said rail ways, dock, and works, the number of the directors of the said companies shall be increased to eleven, under the powers of the thirty-sixth section of the said Taw Vale Extension Railway Act, passed this session, and that the following be six of such directors. viz., James Gibbs, John Browne, Patrick Miller, William Watson, Charles Bowles Fripp, and William Rawson, together with five other qualified proprietors to be nominated and appointed by the Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company. " 14th. That in the event of the death or resignation of either of them, the said James Gibbs, John Browne, Patrick Miller, William Watson, Charles Bowles Fripp, or William Rawson, before the said railways, dock, and works are completed and opened for general use and traffic, the vacancy shall be supplied by such other qualified proprietor as shall be nominated for that pur pose by the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and be proposed by either of the others of the said James Gibbs, John Browne, Patrick Miller, William Watson ' Charles Bowles Fripp, and William Rawson, and so from time to time with regard to the death or resignation of the director or directors introduced or added under this article. " 15th. That in the event of the death or resignation of either of the five directors nominated and appointed by the Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company under the thirteenth article before the said railways, dock, and works are completed and opened for general use and traffic, the vacancy shall be supplied by such other quali fied proprietor as shall be nominated for that purpose by such five directors as aforesaid or a majority of them, and so from time to time with regard to the death or re signation of the director or directors introduced or added under this article. " 16th. That such deed and Act of Parliament as are necessary to carry the above agreements into full and fair effect shall be settled on behalf of the said Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company by Mr. Josiah Wilkinson, and on behalf of the said Bristol and Exeter Railway Company by Mr. Charles Savery of Bristol; and in case they differ thereon then the same shall be settled between the parties by Mr. Robert John Hall who is finally to decide thereon in all respects. " Witness our hands this fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. "On behalf of the Taw "On behalf of the Bristol Vale Railway and Dock and Exeter Rail way Company. EMAN. COOPER, Company. JNO. BROWNE, GEORGE HARRIS, WM. WATSON, GEO. HENRY HARRIS, WM. RAWSON, Secretary. CHAS. BOWLES FRIPP, J. B. BADITA3I, Secretary. The SECRETARY then read certain resolutions of the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company of the 9th of September, at variance with these agreements; a letter of the 18th of September from Mr. Badham, the secretary of the Bristol and Exeter Company, with reference to them ; and also the following resolutions which were come to on the 22d of September by the directors of the Taw Vale Company:— " Resolved, That the draft agreement of the sth inst. is not in accordance with the letter and spirit of the pro visional agreement entered into by the Parliamentary Committee of the Bristol and Exeter Company and the directors of this company in May last. " Because, Ist. The B stock of the Bristol and Exeter Company, proposed to be issued by this company, is deprived of its rights of participating in its proportion of all new creations of stock; this right being restricted until the Bristol and Exeter proprietors receive a divi dend of ten per cent., although no such restriction was mentioned when the agreement iu May was entered into or contemplated by the directors of this company. " 2d. Because the introduction of new branches into the draft agreement of the sth inst., the stock of which is to receive a dividend greater than the dividend to ba paid to this company is an infraction of the agreement, inas much as the agreement of May was entered into with and upon tho statistics of the main line only, and inas much as the introduction of these new branches into the agreement will materially lessen the dividend which the proprietors of this company are entitled to. " 3rd. Because the representations and statistics of the Parliamentary Committee of the Bristol and Exeter Company, submitted in:May- to the directors of the com pany, showed that the minimum dividend, which would be paid to the proprietors of this company, would be 4i per,cent., with a probable early advance to 5,6, or more, per cent., independent of the advantage of the par ticipation in new stock; whereas the draft agreement of the sth instant, presents little prospect of more than 4 or 4fr per cent. at any period, and limits the dividend to 5 per cent., with great uncertainty of any participa tion in new stock. " 4th. Because the dividend which in the provisional agreement of May was to rise proportionably wish the dividend paid by the Bristol and Exeter Company to the proprietors of their stock to 6,7, 8, or more per cent., is in the draft agreement of the sth instant limited to 5 per cent., the proposed equivalent for this reduction, being in fact only part of a right, the whole of which the pro prietors of this company are justly entitled to. _ _ " sth. Because the issue of the B stock is, under the draft agreement of the sth instant, delayed till six months after the opening of the line, which delay was not mentioned in May, and will be highly injurious to the proprietors of Taw Vale stock, inasmuch as they are during this period deprived of all the rights and pri vileges which under the amalgamation they are enti tkd to. " 6. Because, instead of appointing a board of directors of the united companies, which board was by the agree ment of May to be regulated as to the respective num bers appointed by each company as such boards are usually constituted, and the powers of which were to be limited to superintending the construction of the works, the draft agreement of the sth instant displaced five members of the Taw Vale board, and gives to the Bristol and Exeter board the appointment of a majority of the Taw Vale board, the effect of which will be to place in the hands of the Bristol and Exeter board, the sole and uncontrolled power of dictating the terms of the deed proposed to be entered into, and the terms of the Act to be applied:for; then, although nomi nally, these important matters involving diverse in terests of the two companies, are to be arranged by the Bristol and Exeter and Taw Vale boards. The Bristol and Exeter directors will have the whole power, and the interest of the Taw Vale proprietors will be at their ab solute and uncontrolled disposal. 7th. Because the d ra ft agreemen t o f t h e st h i nstant gives to the Bristol and Exeter Company the power to lease or amalgamate with any other company without consulting the Taw Vale Directors, and upon terms which prejudicially limit and restrict the rights of the proprietors of this company. " Bth. Because the Bristol and Exeter directors will not engage to adopt the Bideford and South Molton branches, although the Taw Vale Company are bound, in good faith, to the inhabitants of those districts to apply to Parliament for powers to construct them. " That these resolutions be forwarded to the Bristol and Exeter directors, and that they and the letter of the Bristol and Exeter Company of the 18th instant, be laid before the proprietors on the 26th instant. The CHAIIt3IAN believed that now the whole of the facts with regard to the proposals of the Bristol and Exeter Company, and the Taw Vale Company were be fore the proprietors. The Taw Vale Company abided by the agreement of the 26th of May, but the Bristol and Exeter directors appeared to him to abide by nothing but their own construction of it.—(Hear, hear.) Having stated thus much, he had nothing more to do than to say that he should be happy to hear any obser vations that proprietors might think proper to make, and put any resolutions to the meeting which they might think it necessary to propose.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WILLIAMS, as a large shareh o ld er o f t h e Taw Vale Company, thought it behoved the mee ti ng to con sider well before they decided upon adopting the agree ment of the sth of September, as by adopting it they sold themselves at once and for ever to the Bristol and Exeter Company.—(Hear, hear.) ye knew that the present company had been proposed in the utmost good faith.—(Hear, hear.) H He had no doubt that it would meet the wants, in a great measure, of the districts through which it passed, and that it would ensure a good return to the proprietors.—(Hear, hear.) He felt certain that a traffic would take place upon the line that would ensure six per cent. to the shareholders.—(Hear, hear.) The proprietors bad nothing at all ti do with the question whether good faith had been kept by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter line with the directors of the Taw Vale Corepany.—(Hear, hear.) . The question fur them was, whether the agreement of the sth of September was one calculated for the interest of the proprietary.—(Hear, hear.) His humb'e opinion was, that it was not ; and that, therefore, they ought not to sanction it.—(Hear, hear.) The agreement, it was true, had not the sanction of the directors, but if it had had, he should have considered it to be his duty to have opposed it.—(Hear, hear.) He considered that the directors were entitled to the best thanks of the proprie tors for their great exertions in their behalf in Parlia ment, where they had succeeded in carrying their Bill, notwithstanding they had been opposed by a great company, whom they thought their friends.—(flear, hear.) All that had been stated by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company about the proprietors of the Taw Vale Company getting 6 per cent., o r 7 o r 8 per cent., in his opinion went into thin air. —(Hear, hear.) Added to this, the Bristol and Exeter Company offered them no means of making their railway—(Hear, hear)—and as they were to make the railway with their own resources, he thought they might as well do so at once and have nothing to do with the Bristol and Exeter Company.—(Hear, hear.) In the agreement of the sth of September there were about 14 or 15 clauses, and 12 of them were decidedly in favour of the Bristol and Exeter Company.(llear ' hear.) It was all very well for the Bristol and Exeter Company to say they were going to sell themselves to a great com pany—that they were to get 9 per cent.—and then the Taw Vale would get 5 or more ; that might be all very well, but he thought if once they entered into the agree ment of the sth of September, the conduct of the direc tors of the Bristol and Exeter Company would be like that of a representative of a borough that was now in schedule A, who, when remonstrated with for not pro tecting the rights of his constituents, said—" I bought you, and I have now a right to sell you."—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Williams concluded by moving the following resolution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting the provisional agreement of the sth of September, between the directors of this company and the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company, is not beneficial to the proprietors of this company, and ought to be rejected."—(Cheers.) Mr. STUTELEY seconded the motion. He, like Mr. Williams, would have opposed the adoption of this agreement, even if it had been supported by the direc tors, because it was all on one side.—(Hear, hear.) No doubt the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company had acted rightly in endeavouring to make a good bar gain for their proprietors, but it was the duty and inte rest of the shareholders of the Taw Vale Company equally to take care of their own interests, and at once say they would have nothing to do with the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company, or their one-sided proposition.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. MAUBERT supported the resolution. 'He con sidered that the second agreement was a complete doing away with the first.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FRIPP admitted that if the proprietors of the Taw Vale Company thought the agreement of the sth of September was against their interests, it was their duty to reject it.—(Hear, hear.) It was, however, his belief that the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Com pany only carried out the provisions of the first agree ment in the second.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") There were some points in the agreement which, on the first blush, might appear unfair, but he thought, upon considera tion, they would be found not to be so. The directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company thought they had offered extremely fair terms to the Taw "'tale Com pany; he considered that securing to them four per cent., and giving them the chance of the profits of an other line, was a most fair proposition.—(Cries of " Oh, oh!") The directors of the Bristol and Exeter Com pany were desirous of leaving the whole question of the adoption or rejection of the agreement with the Taw Vale proprietors. Mr. J. BROWN defended the course he had pursued when with Lord Fortescue. It was at the present meeting that he had first heard of bad faith on the part of the Bristol and Exeter directors.—(Hear, hear.) He did not rise to oppose the motion, but he thought it was too bad for the Taw Vale directors to make the insinuations and charges they had done against the Bristol and Exeter directors. Hitherto he believed the directors of both companies had acted with good feeling towards each other, and it was for the proprietors of the Taw Vale Company to pursue any course they thought proper.—(Hear, hear.) He begged most distinctly to state that it was in consequence of the resolutions that had been agreed on with them before Parliament that Lord Fortescue had withdrawn his opposition. He could assure the meeting that whatever might be said of them, the directors of the Exeter and Bristol Company, in all they had done, had been actuated by the most honourable feelings. Mr. THORNE denied that the offer made to the Taw Vale directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company was a liberal one, or such as they had a right to expect. — (Hear, hear.) It was unnecessary for him to say one word with respect to the probable traffic on the line of the Taw Vale Railway; it was enough for him to state that all parties in the districts through which the rail way was proposed to pass were unanimously in its favour, and were ready to assist them to the utmost of their power. They were also equally unanimous in objecting to the agreement proposed by the Bristol and Exeter Company.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Newton Feßowes had stated his opinion to be that the Taw Vale line would pay an excellent per centage if even there was not a single passenger carried on it.—(Hear, hear.) As for Limself, he (Mr. Thorne) firmly believed that the line would neither be a four, five, or six per cent. line— (Hear, hear)—for he had no doubt that before three years had elapsed it would be a seven or eight per cent. line.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WILKINSON, the solicitor of the Taw Vale Company, having been present during the whole of the discussion that had taken place between the Bristol and Exeter directors and those of the Taw Vale Company, felt it incumbent upon him to say a few words to the meeting, particularly as some of the observations that had been made seemed to reflect on the gentleman with whom he was acting. Ho would not attempt to im pugn the fair dealing of the Bristol and Exeter board, but he thought it would be in the recollection of the gentlemen connected with the Bristol and Exeter Company, that the reasons adduced by the directors of the Taw Vale Company for objecting to the agreement had been urged and argued at considerable length. When the agreement of the sth of Sep tember was under discussion, ' there was an evident disinclination on the part of the directors of the Taw Vale Company to consent to the agreement. Those objections were urged upon them, and it was stated over and over again that what was known of the feeling of the proprietors precluded any hope of the di rectors of the Taw Vale Company carrying the agree ment at a meeting of the shareholders.—(Hear, hear.) Moreover, when the agreement was about to be signed, and when the language was, that the gentlemen who signed it authorised it on the part of their respective boards, the Chairman of the Taw Vale Company re fused to sign it, and it was altered, so that it might be considered at a future period.—(Hear, hear.) It was not signed as a concluded agreement, but as the minutes of the result of a conference, and the result of the terms the Bristol and Exeter Company were willing to agree to.—(Hear, hear.) Now if there was any imputation attempted to be made that the Taw Vale directors had acted unfairly, he thought he had displaced it. He could not but confess that there had been for some time in the minds of the directors of the Taw Vale Company a feeling that they had not been fairly used in the House of Commons by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Company.—(Hear, hear.) And under that feeling, and a desire on the part of the Taw Vale directors to do all they could for their proprietors, they had deter mined to submit the agreement to the proprietors—. (Hear, hear)----their negotiations with the Bristol and Exeter Company having been made upon the faith that when that line was free they were to pay to the Taw Vale proprietors 9 per cent. He would leave it to the shareholders to say whether the agreement of the sth of September would have that effect.—(Hear, hear.) Now he (Mr. Wilkinson) had been into Deionshire, and he could vouch that it was the opinion,of all parties on the line that it would turn out to be a most excel lent one.—(Hear, hear.) Some of the parties on the line had so excellent an opinion of it that they would rather take shares in it for the purchase of their land than money—(Hear, hear)—and others preferred shares for their timber to the payment for it in cash.—(Hear, hear.) All this, he thought, showed that it Would in a very short time turn out to be a far better than a 4 per cent line.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution to the meet ing, and declared it to be carried unanimously. Mr. J. BROWN would not demand a poll upon the re solution, but begged to state that he dissented from it. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to the question of a proprie tor, said, that the directors would consider themselves at liberty to treat with any company for the lease or sale of their line, and if such a proposition was made to them they would call a meeting of the proprietors as they had done that day, for the purpose of obtaining their sanction or disapproval of such a proposition.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. MAIIBERT wished to know whether the directors had fixed any time for the registration of the scrip ? The CAAIRMAN said, that with a view to the present meeting they had fixed last Saturday, but they had con tinued the receipt of scrip up to the present moment. — (Hear, hear.) He had put the seal to the list of pro prietors that day, in order that the votes, if necessary, might be taken in the proper form.—(Hear, hear.) They still, however, continued to receive scrip, it not being competent to them to refrain from doing so, even if they wished it, which he could assure the proprietors the directors did not.—(Hear, hear.) Thanks were then voted to the chairman for his able conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated. We have seldom witnessed such unanimity amongst a large body of shareholders as appeared to prevail on this occasion, and although it was the first Special Ge neral Meeting since the passing of the Act, such was the confidence the proprietors seemed to place in the directors, that not one word was said about the ex penses of carrying the Bill, or upon any financial matters. THE 'BURNEY DIARY AND LETTERS.-NO expla nation appears to have been given as to the cause of the de lay in the publication of the sixth volume of Madame D'Arblay's Diary, which must therefore remain, we suppose, a literary mystery. This new volume will be read with as much zest as any of the preceding. 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Caution — Messrs. S. and B. Solonsons, opticians, are not in any way connected with a person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood. To prevent mistakes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at 111Deigerle-street, ricCgdilly, opposite the York Hotel. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S STATUE. On Friday and Saturday a number of persons visited Mr. Wyatt's studio to inspect this extraordinary statue previous to its being placed on its pedestal. The time appointed for the removal is Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, whenl4o dray horses will be employed in trans ferring it to the portico at Hyde Park-corner. The Duke visited Mr. Wyatt's studio a few days ago, for the purpose of inspecting an equestrian statue of the Queen, now in the hands of that distinguished artiat, when he also inspected his own statue. He expressed his ad miration of that of her Majesty, but delicacy prevented him saying anything of his own. The statue is forty tons in weight. What the amount of labour is which has been expended on it may be inferred from the fact, that nearly six years have elapsed since the artist re ceived his commission for its execution. It is a magnificent production of human ingenuity. Its ex traordinary dimensions have an overpowering effect, but it will appear considerably reduced in size when it is placed on its pedestal, which is to be eighty feet high. Mr. Wyatt has no apprehensions of any difficulty occurring on Tues day in carrying the statue along the streets or in raising it to the elevated place destined for its reception. It will be recollected that much discussion took place in the House of Commons, previous to its prorogation, upon the pro priety of selecting this position for the colossal statue, the chief objection being, that it was contrary to every principle of good taste and every rule of architectural de sign, to place one of the largest figures ever cast upon'one of the smallest arches ever constructed. The site, how ever, was clung to with great tenacity by the committee who have superintended the work, and the Government gave their consent to the statue being placed upon this arch for a limited period, in order that the best opinions might be taken upon the advantages of the situation. The committee appear to be perfectly confident of ap probation from every quarter. All the necessary ar rangements have been perfected with admirable preci sion. On Saturday se'nnight the great statue was placed upon the vehicle intended to convey it to Hyde Park corner. This machine is a most ponderous affair, and weighs no less than twenty-three tons. The procession, it is thought, will pass through the Harrow-road, the Edgware, and Hyde Park. It is worthy of observation, as showing the veneration with which the Duke is re garded by the soldiers who fought under him, that great numbers have applied to Mr. Wyatt to ascertain if they would be allowed to form part of the procession on Tuesday. The group is understood to represent the Noble Duke as he appeared at the battle of Waterloo, mounted on his favourite horse Copenhagen, and in the act of direct ing some important movement. The costume is that of a field-marshal, but the warrior also wears his custom ary short clerk, which the artist has skilfully draped. I❑ order that the legs of the horse should be capable of bearing the great weight they now sustain, it was found necessary to cast them in solid. The other portions of the work vary from one to three inches in thickness, with strong ribs internally, to give additional strength. Some of the dimensions are as follow:—The height ap proaches 30 feet; girth, round the horse, 23 feet 8 inches; arm of ditto, 5 feet 4 inches; from the horse's hock to the ground, 6 feet; and from the horse's nose to the tail, 26 feet. The head of the horse measures six feet, and the knee joints of the animal are as large in circumference as the body of an ordinary man. Tim eyes of the horse are burnished, as are also the spurs, reins, and metal appointments, &c. The estimated cost is about 30,0001. THE HOUNSLOW MILITARY TRAGEDY. The worst fears for the fate of the witnesses examined at the inquest held upon poor White, late private of the 7th Hussars, are, we regret, likely to be realised. We understand one witness, who, in consequence of his superior attainments and conduct, had been elected pre sident of his room, and whose advice was followed and example imitated by his comrades, was, after giving his evidence, removed from the room and placed in another, over which a corporal swayed authority. Another, who is most respectably connected, and whose conduct as a soldier is beyond even the breath of censure, having, after he gave his evidence like a soldier and a man of honour, interested himself in raising a subscrip tion towards the erection of a monument to White's memory, was ordered to attend the colonel's quarters. He did so, when the following dialogue ensued Colonel—l understand that the men are raising a sub scription to build a monument to White. Is such the fact? Soldier—Yes, sir. Colonel—l am also informed that you are making yourself conspicuous in collecting that fund. Is that so? Soldier—Yes, sir. Colonel—Are you aware that by so doing you are guilty of a breach of discipline, and expose yourself to punishment? Soldier—No, indeed, sir, I am not; and this is the first time that I have been told so. Colonel—You do put yourself in that position by such conduct? Soldier—l hope not, sir; indeed, I can scarcely believe it, for I cannot conceive what crime there is in raising a monument to a deceased comrade. Colonel—Well, well, you will see it. You may retire. The soldier accordingly obeyed the mandate to real e, as he did the order to attend, but the interview with his colonel neither lessened his zeal in collecting subscrip tions towards the monument, nor their amount. The one continued as fervent- as ever, and the other con tinued to be raised without the slightest diminution. Poor " holloa," Mathewson, whose back was torn to pieces by the sanguinary lash because, without know ing whom he was addressing at the time, for he did net see him, he cried out " holloa " to a question from the sergeant, appears to be an unfortunate man. He is now a prisoner in Hounslow barracks awaiting his trial by court-martial. It appears that last Sunday he was on duty at Hampton Court, when his mother, accompanied by his brother-in-law—just discharged from a Lancer regiment, and whom he had not seen for nine years— visited him. He asked his sergeant, who was corporal over him when he was a prisoner, previous to his late punishment at the ladder, to allow another soldier who had agreed so to do to mount guard for him, as he wished to spend a few hours with his family. This favour the sergeant peremptorily refused, although he had allowed a similar and a greater liberty to another soldier. After that the sergeant followed him to " Trophy-gate," where he mounted guard, and where, according to his (the ser geant's) statement, he abused and threatened him. The sergeant accordingly reported Mathewson, and put him under arrest. The colonel, upon the sergeant's report, ordered a district court-martial to be held upon Mathew son for the undermentioned charges, tig - contained in a copy handed him, and of which the subjoined is also a copy : " Charges preferred against Private Thomas Mathew- son, No. 995, 7th Hussars. " For insubordination on or about the 20th of Sep tember, 1847, when on sentry at the Cavalry barracks, Hampton Court, in using threatening, disgusting, and abusive language to Sergeant Major Robert O'Donnell, of the 7th Hussars, his superior officer, by saying, 'you -, I will break both your - heads, or words to that effect. Former convictions will be brought in evidence upon trial. "'SERGEANT LAURENCE, 7th Hussars. " Head-quarters, Hounslow, 25th September, 1846." Such is Sergeant O'Donnell's eharge, tho truth o which Mathewson denies. The court-martial was not held yesterday, but it will take place on Tuesday, and that, too, under the officers of the 12th Lancers, who have relieved the 7th Hussars. This is so much in favour of the prisoner, for both General Comyns, the colonel, and Li eu t enan t-C o l one l Stowel, of the Lancers, are as much opposed as the officers of the 7th are favourable to flogging; and the further delay to Tuesday is also in favour of Mathew son, for had he been tried yesterday, young officers would have composed the court-martial, whereas he will be tried on Tuesday by veterans, whose humanity and bravery are equally acknowledged, both by the men of the 12th Lancers and the public. In fact, even the privates of the regiment deem themselves insulted by having so unpleasant a duty imposed upon their officers, whom they look upon as kind mentors, interested in their welfare. Even now the Colonel of the Lancers allows Mathewson's friends to visit him ; and Sergeant- Major Mahon, who accompanies those visitors to the guard-house, orders the men on duty to retire, so that any private conversation that the prisoner may desire to have with those friends shall not be interrupted. This kindness Mathewson gratefully acknowledges, and it leads him to hope to find justice and mercy at the hands of the gallant officers who will be his judges. His heart broken mother had an interview with him yesterday, and immediately afterwards wrote to Mr. Wakley, who has pledged himself to throw the shield of his protection over him and every other witness examined at the in quest. It now remains for the public to do their duty, by, iri the first instance, furnishing Mathewson with proper legal assistance, of which he will be allowed to avail himself, and that they should do this very day. [The above appeared in the Sunday Times of yesterday.] Another account states that Mathewson declares that, contrary to military discipline, the sergeant was unac companied, the regulations requiring that he should, when visiting a sentry, be accompanied by two privates, which not being the case, Mathewson will lose the benefit he would otherwise have of two witnesses of his own rank. He also complains of a district court-martial being ordered instead of a general court-martial, as at the latter he would have had the advantage of legal as sistance in his defence. THE LATE CASE OF FATAL MILITARY FLOGGING AT HOUNSLOW.-At an inquest held recently, by Mr. Wakley, M.P., coroner, he made some remarks on the frequency of cases of death arising from the effects of in juries to the skin, and said that since the late inquest at Hounslow, on private Frederick John White, of the 7th Queen's wn Hussars, who died from the effects of the inquest flogging he had received, his attention had been more averaged five each week. Until that such c ases scalds, ,which but he the found w p particularly c c u o l u a r a l n y drawn e deied y totu burns such c a a n s d e s evi dence given by Mr. Erasmus Wilson bad proved that the same fatal effects might arise from other injuri es t o the skin. That fact had just been confirmed in a very ex t ra ordinary manner. Mr. Hawes, M.P., the Und er - Secretary for the Colonies, had a day or t wo s i nce com municated to him, that by a report just received from Dr. Motherwell, the superintendent of convicts in Van Diemen's Land, as to their condition, it appeared, by a discovery he had made, that two very important effects were produced on the convicts by resorting to corporal punishment, viz., inflammation of the chest and disease of the heart, the very causes of private White's death, but which were ascribed by four out of the five surgeons examined to sudden change of temperature, Mr. Wilson being the only one who ascribed it to the injury to the skin occasioned by the flogging the deceased had re ceived. Mr. Healing, Mr. Chard, Mr. Henderson, and Mr. Stocker, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon on Saturday at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were received on Saturday at the Colonial-Office. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, September 26. IMPORTANT DECISION AFFECTING ARTICLED CLERKS. —On Saturday Mr. Ashurst, solicitor, of Cheapside, at tended before Mr. Commissioner Shepherd, and com plained that, in a matter of bankruptcy in which he Wb concerned, his articled clerk, a gentleman of family and station, was not allowed to be heard. Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD said the question of respectability did not affect the matter in dispute. It was desirable that uniformity of practice should be ob served in all the Courts, and that there should be no encroachments upon the privileges of the bar. Mr. Ashurst said, the encroachments were upon the attorneys who had practised for many years in this Court. The judges allowed clerks to attend sum monses, and without replying upon his Honour, he would suggest that an articled clerk was in a very different posi tion from a mere clerk, inasmuch as the Court might require that he should register himself, and would al ways have a controlling power over his admission, if he misconducted himself. The attorneys had never ex perienced any interference or difficulty until the gentle men of the bar exhibited so much anxiety for the half guinea side motions. Mr. STURGEON remarked that after that observation it would be unfair to barristers to allow attorneys' clerks to practise, unless barristers' clerks were also permitted to plead. He had no doubt his clerks would be enabitd to make many side motions, if allowed to do so.' The Learned COMMISSIONER decided that he could not disturb the present practice of the Court, and Mr. Ashurst's clerk was therefore not heard. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. _ _ __ (Before Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Baron PLATT.) MURDER.--THE LATE SALE OF POISONOUS BERRIES. —John Hilliard, a country-looking fellow, was indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Parker, by administer ing certain noxious and poisonous berries called the deadly nightshade, he representing the same to be whole some food, &c. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. BODKIN stated the case on the part of the prose cution. The prisoner stood charged with the crime of wilful murder; but he would at the outset admit that the evidence was not sufficient to support that serious charge; but still it would, in his opinion, be sufficient to warrant the jury on finding him guilty of the minor •ffeuce of manslaughter. The prisoner was a countryman, and had for many years been in the habit of collecting herbs, berries, &c., and afterwards selling them in the public streets. On the 15th of August he was in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, where he offered certain berries for sale, which he re presented as sweet and wholesome ; and among other persons who were induced to purchase some of them of him was a Mrs. Parker, whose husband kept a beer shop in Whitechapel. He told her they were very sweet and nice, and would make an excellent pie or pudding. She bought some, and, it being the anniver sary of her wedding, made them up into a tart, of which she and her husband partook. Soon after having eaten it, they were both taken very seri ously ill. Medical assistance was immediately called in, and every attention possible was paid to both of them. Notwithstanding which, the husband died on the following day; the wife remained in a very dangerous state, but ultimately recovered. The Learned Counsel was about to call his witnesses on the part of the prosecution, when he was interrupted by Mr. CLARKSON (who appeared as counsel for the prisoner) who said that the Learned Gentleman need not. call any witnesses to prove the statement which he had made to the jury, as he (Mr. Clarkson) was not in structed to dispute or deny any one of the facts of the case ; but his defence would be that the prisoner was ignorant that the berries were of a poisonous nature at the time he sold them. Mr. Baron PLATT, in summing up the evidence, told the jury that they might altogether dismiss from their minds that part of the indictment which charged the prisoner with murder ; the only question for their con sideration was, whether the offence of which he had been guilty did or did not amount to manslaugther; the Learned Judge then commented on the facts of the case, and having done so, left it to the jury. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilt yof manslaugter. Mr. Baron PLATT, on passing sentence, said it was necessary to protect the public from the carelessness as well as the wickedness of mankind. After some general observations, he sentenced the prisoner to be confined six months in the House of Correction, and there kept to hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Samuel Allen was indicted for stealing a chronometer watch, value 401., the property of J. H. Markham, Esq., on or about July, 1836. The witness referred to in the previous statement hav ing arrived, Mr. DOANE stated the case to the jury at considerable length. The prosecutor deposed that he is a captain in the army. The watch in question cost him 45 guineas. It was safe shortly before it was missed. He made the loss known to his brother officers, who knew nothing about it. Inquiry was set on foot, and suspicion fell on the prisoner. John P. Burke, a beer-shopkeeper at Kensington— Knows the prisoner. He married his sister. The wife of the prisoner gave him a watch, or offered it, for safe custody. It was a very small gold watch. This (pro duced in a bag) is the same. The witness was subjected to a severe cross-examina tion. He had had the watch by him a good while, and knew from the prisoner that he knew all about it. Witness did not know to whom it belonged. He said he picked it up. When the wife of the prisoner was applied to she said she had a silver watch, and a metal one, but never had a gold one. The policeman who apprehended the prisoner at the beer-shop of his brother-in-law at Kensington, stated that when he did so he told him on what ground. The prisoner said " Oh, very well ; I'll go with you." He denied the robbery, and defied proof. A great number of witnesses were examined in the case, which certainly was a most entricate one. Mr. BALLANTINE, with confident energy, addressed the jury, and remarked upon the length of time which had elapsed since the watch was missed, a proof that, if ill obtained, it might have been disposed of years ago. Other persons had access to the barracks, and it might have passed through forty hands before it reached the prisoner. Ho commented severely on Burke, who had nearly tried to ruin a relative, who had long been an honest and good soldier. _ _ The jury — , almost under the direction of the Court, returned a verdict of Acquittal. The witness and relative (Burke) will not easily forget the remarks made on his conduct as informer. DISCHARGE 1W PROCLAMATION.—.-The grand jury having returned, ignored bills preferred against the fol lowing prisoners ; they were discharged by proclama tion, viz. :—Maria Cook, aged 23; Catherine Plumridge, 31 ; and Alice M`Lean, 20. This is rather a singular instance, there being only three ignored bills out of 240, inasmuch as it sometimes happens that they form one sixth of the calendar. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A real Irishman of the name of John Burke appeared before Alderman Gibbs to give evidence against a fellow named Richard Carter, who looked like a coal-whipper, on a charge of robbery. The complainant walked into Court in a state of evident excitement, with his hair standing on end, his large neck and chest bare, and his eyes staring. He did net seem to understand much about the business upon which his presence was required. Charles Everett, brother to a licensed victualler, at No. 31, Tower-street, stated that on Thursday evening the complainant, who had been hopping in Kent, walked into the house with four sovereigns, the fruit of his hard labour, stitched up in the waistband of his breeches. Witness persuaded him to leave the money in care of the house, and next morning the prisoner, who had been hanging after the poor man, applied for it, but witness, of course, refused to let any one have it but the owner, to whem the sovereigns were returned with a caution as to the person who had so unwarrantably applied for them. As the . complainant seemed to be rather unacquainted with London life, witness determined to watch him to the steamer in which he was about to depart for Ireland, and had not gone far when he observed the complainant and the prisoner go into a public-house, where the former laid down upon the table the four sovereigns, and the prisoner took up three of them, stating that he would take the owner to Dublin, and keep his money safe for him. The complainant contented himself by pocketing the odd sovereign, and the prisoner then en deavoured to get away by stratagem, and certainly would have escaped if proper means had not been taken to secure him. In the station-house the prisoner denied that he had the money, but afterwards delivered it up, not, however, without a threat to mark and do for the witness when ho should get out of " quod." John Burke was then called, and confirmed the state ment of Mr. Everett. The prisoner said he had offered to take care of the money for the prosecut o r, a nd i n t en d e d t o return it to him when he got to Ireland. Alderman GIBBS said the complainant was very nearly losing his m one y, an d h e oug ht to be very much obliged to Mr. Everett for the trouble he had taken. As for the prisoner, he should send him for three months to hard labour in Bridewell ; and ho should send an 'officer to the Dnblin steam-packet with the complainant, for fear he should find any one else by the way who would offer to take care of his money for him. The complainant expressed his grateful acknowledg ments for the kindness of Mr. Everett and of the magistrate. RAI LWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 26. STOCK EXCHANGE..—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Exten 810n, 1 5-16 p. —Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 8 1 ,4 p.—lludders field and Manchester Railway and Canal, % c. p.—Hudderstield and Sheffield Junction, 434 p. —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and. Preston, 3% p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Southport. dis.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters (B), 7% p.—llitto, ditto (C), 7% p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 114 p.—Manchester and Southampton, 18s. 6d. dis. —Northi Staffordshire, 2 5-16 p.—Preston and Wyre, 30%—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, % dis. —Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 9-16 dis.—West Riding Union, 2 p. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 26. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There is a continued depression in the share trade, and prices keep declining all round. The advancing price of corn, the failure of the potato crop, and] the uneasy state of political matters abroad, are the chief causes which affect the markets pre judicially, and we do not see ally prospect of speedy Improvement. Local stocks are very dull—ending Dewsburys„ 7 / 8 p. ; Huddersfield and Manchesters, 18s. 6d. p. ; Huddersfield and Sheffields, 5 p. ; West Ridings, 4/. per share ; Thirsks, 5/. 10s. dis. ; Gritnsbys, dis. East Lancashires are in tolerable donand, but many have been thrown on the market, which causes them to end a shade lower. Leeds, Wakefield, and Midlands arc not better in price, although an anticipation exists of a favourable arrangement with a neighbouring company. Bradfords are firm at 44M . The sales are—East Lan cashire, 8/. ss. Gd. c. p.—Leeds and Bradford, 44 ,j c. p. —Leeds and Dewsbury, 1 c. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, c. dis.—London and Brighton, 5914—Manchester and Leeds Extension, 1% p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 6tl. p.—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 11% p. — Clltheroe Junction, 18s. 6d. dis.—East and West Yorkshire, 255. dis. s . — Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 295. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 105. dia.—Leicester and Bedford, I Is. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4/. ISs. p.—Midland and Thirsk Junction, 16s. Gd. dis.- - North Staffordshire, 2 p. — North-Western, par—Sheffield, Rother ham, and Goole, ls.s.—West Riding Union, 41. Os. 6d. BULL, SEPTEMBER 26. STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are—North British, Carlisle, Us.— Anffiergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 40s. 6d.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 10s. 6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4p. —North Western, 2s. p.—North Staffordshire, 21. 6s. 6d. p.—West Riding Union, 43 .—Qraad Vaton, 12e. 9d.—Leicester and Bedford, ils. 6d. SHEFFIELD, SXPTEXWMI 26. SToCK EXCIANOX.-The sales are -Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Extensions, 134 dic-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16s. dis.-Ditto, Docks, 2% dis.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 108. 6d. dis.-Manchester and Lincoln Union, 1 dis.-Shotilell and Lincoln, y dig. NE WCAS'TLE-UPO N-T E, SzTTraioalt 26. STOCK EXCUANGE.-The sales aro-Caledonian Extension, 173. dis.-Durham and Sunderland, 2934-Liverpool, Ormekirk, and Pres ton, 41. N. 6d.-Newcastle and Berwick (North Shields), 1134 p. YORK, SEPTEMBER 26. STOCK Exonawor.-The sales are -Leicester and Bedford, 103. 6d. -London and York, 11. 185. 6d.-Ditto, Half Shares, 11. Ils.-Maiton and Drifileld Junction, 21. 1 35.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 334-=North British, Carlisle Extension, 3/. 16s. 6d.-North Staffordshire, 41. 3s. 6d-West Riding Union, 41. Is. 6d.-York and Newcastle, New, 10%. EDINBURGH, SEPTEMBER 26. STOCK ExcHArroz.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 141. 7s. 6d.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 4/. N.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15/. 105.-Armagh and Portrush, 12s. 6d.-Ayr and Gallo way, 11. N. 6d.-Belfast and County Down, Bs.-British and Irish Union, 2/. 35.-Caledonian, 151. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 11. 7s. Caledonian Extension, 11. 14s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 11. U.-Clydesdale Junction, 2 81.-Cornwall and Devon Central, IL 83. -Deeside Railway, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 11. 145.-Dundee and Arbroath, 371.-Ditto, New, 24/. 108.-Dundee and Perth, 251. 7s. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 135.-East of Fife, 19s. 6d.-Edin burgh and Bathgate, 21.31 15s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 731.- Ditto, Half Shares, 18/. 10s.-Ditto, Quarters, !V.-Ditto, ditto, New, 181.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 171. !N.-Ditto, Pre ference, 201. IN.-Edinburgh and Northern, 101.-Ditto, Newport, 21. 11s.-Edinburgh and Perth, 11. IN.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 1/. 18s.-Glasgow and -Ayrshire, G9l. 55.-Ditto, New Stock, 361.- Ditto, Quarter Shares, 171. 155.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 2/. 9s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. 113.-Glasgow and Dun; dee Junction, 1/. 13s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 391. 10s.-Glas gow General Terminus, 91.-Glasgow and Greenock, 16/. 10x.-Ditto, New Stock, 8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 135.-Glasgow, Kilmar nock, and Ardrossan, 11. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesma hagow, 2/. 195.-Granton Junction, IN.-Great North of Scotland, 14s. 6d.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 93.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, IL 3s. 6d.-London and York, 2/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Half Shares, 11. 155.-Midland and Eastern Counties, IN.-Newcastle and Berwick, 27/. IN.-North British, 361. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 151. 7s. 6d.- Ditto, Quarters, cum new, 41.-Ditto, New Quarters, Scrip, 11. 4s. 6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. N.-North Staffordshire, 51. 17s. 6d.- North Wales Mineral, 181.-Ditto, New, 9/. 12s. 6d.-Scottish Cen tral, 191. 10s.-Ditto, New, 9/. 12s. 6d.-Scottish Central and Cale donian Junction, 1/. IN.-Scottish Grand Junction, 124. -Scottish Midland, 81. 103.-Scottish Southern, 11. 175.-Shrewsbury and Here ford, Bs. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 5/. N.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 11. ls.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 165.-Stratherh Junction, 21.-Wishaw and Coltness, 47/. 10s. GLASGOW, SEPTEMBER 26. STOCK EXCITANGE. -The sales are-Caledonian and Dumbarton shit. Eztrnsion, 265. Gd.-Clydpaciale Junction, 27% - Cornwall and Devon Central, 295. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 13a. &J.-Glasgow. Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, 5% p.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 285.-Great North of India, 44. 6 d. - Manchester and Southampton, 225.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 20s. 6d. WORKS by ROBERT J. cuLvml WELL, M.D. If.R.C.S. &c. One Shilling each, by post One and Sixpence 1. ON SINGLE and MARRIED LIFE. 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