The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times notices that the Queen goes to the Alps for the first time. For the first time she will see the transcen• dent beauties of the Lake of the Four Cantons, the Righi and Pilatus, with the distant mountain ranges which shut in the view ; for the first time she will explore those shores where every turn disc loses something grand and rare, unparalleled, at least, in these regions of the globe. How much the Queen feels the charm of mountain scenery those who have read her " Journals in the Highlands " need not be told. Her surprise and delight at the objects which she met in those northern tours are expressed with the utmost simplicity and sincerity. If, then, the brown hills of Scotland affected her with such emotion, what must be her pleasure in looking for the first time on the mighty masses of the Alps, with their clothing of snow and glacier, their waterfalls, their pine forests, 'and all those natural features which once seen are never forgotten ! We sincerely hope that the Queen will have strength and spirits to see a good deal of Switzerland. As the " Countess of Kent travels for the benefit of her health, and for that reason dispenses with the courtesies which foreign authorities would offer, we hope that English tourists will respect the privacy of the royal party. Loya:ty is no doubt a very excellent sentiment, but it can be cherished without invading its exalted object at every turn of her daily walks ; nor has it, indeed, any real connection with that vulgar curiosity which makes a well-dressed English mob rush after a Prince as if he were some extraordinary animal, exhibited for the first time. It is not unnecessary to make these remarks, since the fact that the Queen is at Lucerne, and that only well-to-do English people are likely to be found there, may be no protection to her ; for, unhappily, respectable people are the greatest offenders in this respect. The Queen has gone on a tour which we all hope will be a pleasant one ; let all assist in making it so, by abstaining from importunate loyalty. Sovereigns seldom have the opportunity of laying aside their majesty with their crown and robes ; on these rare occasions,then, let them have the agreeable freedom of a lower station. The Star fears for her Majesty's comfort and privacy in Switzerland. Royalty has to pay a heavy penalty for its greatness. " The giants," says Thackeray, " are always lonely." Perhaps so of the giants of intellect, and in their intellect ; but the giants of rank are seldom let alone. We fear that from all quarters this season there will be a rush upon Lucerne. There will be a gathering compared with which the famous assembly immortalised by Sehiller's verse and Rossini's music would seem small indeed. In the height of the ordinary season Lucerne is always crowded to excess, and English people make up the bulk of the crowd. This year, who can doubt that a wild additional eagerness to pour into the town will spring up, has already sprung up, from the fact that the Queen has chosen it for the scene of her holiday ? When the Prince and Princess of Wales were at Wiesbaden last year, a regular stampede of English tourists from all parts of Germany was made towards the favoured spot. The Lucerne hotel-keepers, not ignorant otherwise of the art of charging, may reap a double harvest this year. The Queen's face will bring grace to them indeed. We can only again express a hope that the Queen may not be mobbed, however Lucerne may be ; that she may be allowed sometimes the charm of loneliness, or at least of retirement ; that she may not be condemned to keep within the limits of her own grounds, to save herself from unofficial and amateur trains-attendant ; that the divinity which hedges a king and was declared to be fence strong enough to keep treason from more than peeping in, may be found equally strong in this case to protect against the prying,s and the persecutions of demonstrative curiosity. The Times remarks that Mr. Gladstone has hit the righl style when he boldly challenges his opponents to explain to the electors how the national expenditure has increased three millions during the very little more than two years of a Conservative Government. Mr. Hunt, of course, will lose no time in supplying these gentlemen with as many items and figures as can be easily remembered in the face of a British constituency, and delivered with some chance of being understood and remembered. Of course, it may be asked what the leader of the Opposition was about when he allowed it ; and it certainly is the fact that much of the increase had the hearty concurrence of Parliament, either as necessary or justified by the general rise in prices ; but Mr. Gladstone has only availed himself of the usual elec. tioneering license in throwing his antagonists upon their defence. The Post attaches peculiar importance to Mr. Glad stone's speech, as being an announcement of the Liberal platform, addressed not only to his constituents hut to the country. " Justice to Ireland "is the main point in that policy. The gist of Mr. Gladstone's address is that he and his party will sedulously devote themselves to the sacred duty of doing for Ireland what, as be expresses it, we would expect that Ireland, if our positions were reversed, would do for us. If generosity of sentiment could be accepted as a pledge of flame generosity of action, the Irish people ought forthwith to hail Mr. Gladstone as their greatest champion ; but although our experience of man- kind, and especially of politicians, sh mid lead us to pause until words have been followed by deeds, we may still applaud the justly Liberal policy which Mr. Gladstone has enunciated, and trust that, when the opportunity presents itself, he and those with whom he acts will do everything that in them lies to carry that policy to a triumphant conclusion. The Herald says that Mr. Gladstone is aniious that the electors should question his opponents upon the point. Let them do it by all means. There is a very easy answer, an answer given to Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Childers, and the Marquis of Hartington in the House of Commons, and to which they did not dare to offer any rejoinder. This in crease of expenditure was necessitated in the largest part by the scandalous mismanagement and paltry parsimony of Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues. To enable the Minister to bring forward his scheme of reducing the debt, and so sacrifice several branches of revenue raised without any burden to the community, or any disturbance of trade, the army and navy were starved ; we had neither guns, ships, nor men. When the Conservative Government came into office it had to repair the effects of this disgraceful maladministration ; it had further to expend large sums of money in the supply of the weapons and the ammunition which the lessons of the war of 1866 permitted no delay in providing ; it has, with the consent of Parliament, increased the pay of the troops, and provided the vessels and guns which are absolutely necessary to enable us to maintain our position as a naval Power. The Daily News, in criticising Mr. Gladstone's address, draws particular attention to the Reform Bill, which it considers little more than a " rough sketch." The Standard comments upon Mr. Gladstone's career and his late address. It is the boast of a certain section of the Liberal party that they have " educated " their leader, and there is some truth in the boast. When Mr. Gladstone, in 1859, finally made his election, and threw in his lot for ever with the Whig-Radical Coalition against the party in whose ranks he was born and brought up, he still retained some Conservative opinions, some traces of his early training under Sir Robert Peel, and of his long and intimate connection with the University of Oxford. He was counted by the more moderate section of the Liberals as one of themselves ; he was believed by the public to be one of the least Radical members in Lord Palmerston's Cabinet. But it very soon became evident that this was not to be his permanent position. He was an ambitious man, and ill-disposed to accept contentedly a subordinate situation. He aspired to leadership ; and it was plain that he could not attain his object through a connection with the " Left Centre." The Whig element was predominant in that section ; and the Whigs, in the first place, did not like him, and in the next place had men of their own whom they preferred to him. He has been gradually making friends with the extreme Radicals, and the last barrier between them, the Church, has been cast away. The tone of Mr. Gladstone's speech through. out is venomous in its malice towards opponents ; disin genuous in its statements ; unscrupulous in its suppressions of fact ; shallow, uncandid, unsound, from first to last. The Telegraph has a leader mainly relating to that part of Mr. Gladstone's speech which refers to the Irish Church. Not even now can Mr. Gladstone conceal from himself the great difficulties of his task. When the country endorses his policy, and sends him up a House of Com mons of his own, if we may use the expression, his hardest work will only have begun. Even when the principle of disestablishment is granted, the details are full of the most complicated considerations, and nice, knotty, delicate points of adjustment. If we leave any thing—churches or glebes—to the Episcopal Protes tants of Ireland, we must ddine what an Episco pal Protestant is—no very easy task. We must disentangle State and private endowments, sometimes curiously dovetailed in many parishes. We must take care that no honest life interest suffers injustice. We must do this, not on a clear road, but on a path bristling with the embittered opposition of Tory foes, fighting fiercely for chat they call their faith. Ent the highest praise we could give Mr. Gladstone is the expression of our belief titht he is equal to the task. lie has undertaken the work, and he will "put it through." TilE PRINCL'ES Louis OF ITEssE.—The accouche ment her Royal llig,huess the Princess Alice, Princess Louis of Hesse, is expected in November. Tier Royal highness has, on precious occasion , ;, availed herself of the services of Dr. Priestley ; but, in cons!deration of the increasing engagements of that physician, she has con siderately allowed his plac2 to be filled this year by Dr. Brodie, who will be enabled to stay during the month with less sacrifice.—BriCsh Medical Journal. A BRUSH WITH PIRATR. The China Mail gives a description of a rear pattle with pirates. The gunboat Algerine, Lieutenant Doraville commander, was the victor. One junk bad already been captured. At daylight on Sunday, the 31st May, the gunboat again set out, this time directing her course from Stanley to the west coast. Dodging into Macao for fur ther information and fresh water, she afterwards made direct for Namos, and it was on her return from that place (between Namoa and St. John's) that she met her opponentsin the shape of a large fleet of eight heavily-armed piratical craft. This was on Wednesday the 3rd, about three o'clock in the afternoon. On hailing the junks, and asking " whither bound and where from r Lieutenant Dom ville received the reply " From Macao to Hainan ;" but, on being asked for their papers, they refused point blank, defied the gunboat, and threatened to blow the diminutive " Fan-kwwei " out of the water. This was, however, a task not quite so easy of accomplishment ; and the little gunboat at once sent a " feeler" in the shape of a shot between two of the pirates' 'junks. Thus challenged, the pirates, now in ful line, immediately opened a brisk fire upon the gunboat, which was returned by the Algerine in a general sort of way, with shot and shell, for about four hours, at the end of which time the little gunboat was as far from being blown off the scene as ever. All this time the gunboat was rolling heavily, but, in spite of this , her g unnery told with considerable effect upon the sails and hulls of the opposing junks. One of the latter, while trying to skulk in towards the land, was cut off and boarded ; her papers were found in a measure correct, but as she had been also engaged, her guns were tumbled overboard, and her captain taken prisoner on board the gunboat. The Algerine next gave chase to the remainder of the fleet, which in the interim had sheered off to the westward, and came up to them about dusk, when it appears one of the briskest engagements with Chinese on record ensued. Having hailed the pirates with the same result as before, Lieutenant Doraville and his men began work in earnest at close quarters ; the Algerine's fire was quickly returned, the result of which was that some sails were cut and the fore-rigging was considerably damaged, and this lasted for about an hour and a half. During the early part of this scrimmage the pirates are said to have manoeuvred their craft with considerable skill, but the volleys of grape and canister from the big gun of the Algerine at point blank range appear to have been too much for them. As darkness was now coming on, and they were getting into shallow water, while at the same time the Chinese were beginning to show signs of having had quite enough of it, the chase was given up. The junk which had been crippled at the commencement of the action was now found to be trying to get off to seaward ; but the gunboat, too quick for her, immediately gave chase and succeeded in capturing her about two hours after dark. She was found to be well armed, with eight guns and 21 of a crew, besides the captain previously captured, and to have on board a miscellaneous cargo of about $7,000 in value. At mid night she arrived in tow of the gunboat. The pri soners are a sorry-looking set of fellows, as they now appear on board bound to various places on deck, andtwo of them are severely wounded by the bursting of shells. They will most probably be forwarded to the Chinese authorities. It is said that the Chinese have never been seen to stick to their guns so pluckily as they did on the present occa sion, they having fought well, and never whispered of surrendering. Considering the long odds between the com batants, the result is, to say the least, most satisfactory, and reflects no small credit upon the lieutenant commanding and the officers and men of the Algerine. That no casualty occurred on board the gunboat is owing to the fact that the pirates fired at much too high a range, and consequently damaged the rigging only. It is calculated that the Chinese must have numbered over 800 men and about 130 guns, while the Algerine, with her " Big Ben " and two small guns, has a complement of only eighteen or twenty, all told. LAW AND POLICE. HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY tOMPANY.—At the Wells Assizes an action has been brought by Mr. Thatcher, a commercial traveller, against the Cambrian Railway Company for injuries sustained by him through the negligence of the company. The plaintiff was a pas senger on the defendants' line in May last, and when at Welchpool a serious collision occurred, in which he sustained injuries. The company admitted that they had been guilty of negligence, and the only question was as to the amount of compensation, which it was ultimately agreed should be £1,750. MURDER OF A WIFE.—At the same assizes William Hayward was indicted for the wilful murdtr of Ann Hay ward on the 7th of May last. On the day in question the prisoner, the deceased, and her brother had taken break fast, when the latter went out of the house, but in a short time was called back by the accused. Best (the brother) was alarmed, and going inside the house he saw his sister sitting on a chair, quite dead ; her dress was oa fire, smoking. He immediately gave an alarm, and several persons came to the house. Upon a hasty examination it appeared that the poor woman had been shot. One of the persons said, " Well, William, you have done it now." He :replied, " Yes, it can't be helped." There was a gun in the room which had been recently discharged, and there was a strong smell of powder in the room. Best said to the prisoner, "You rogue, you have shot my sister !" The prisoner replied, " Have I? " The gun had been unloaded some ten days previously ; there were caps and powder and shot in a drawer in the pantry. It was proved most conclusively that the prisoner was of unsound mind, and such being the case he was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. STRANGE CASES OF PERJURY. —At the same assizes, three young men, named Payne, Hooper, and Woodland, were indicted for perjury. The prosecutor, Mr. Hawkins, was a gentleman who devotes much of his time to scientific researches, and had a boy named Bowden in his employ, whom he dismissed. Soon afterwards the boy's mother took out. a summons against the prisoner for immoral conduct, which was dis missed without Mr. Hawkins being called on for his defence. The prosecutor then summoned Bowden for attempting to extort money. That charge was dismissed, but directly after Bowden and Payne, one of the Prisoners in the present case, took out separate sum monses for indecent assaults against Mr. Hawkins, but at the bearing Payne was committed forperjury, and the other prisoner, who had given evidence for Payne, was also indicted. After the case had proceeded some way, Mr. Trevor, the clerk of the county magistrates for the division of Bridgwater, was called to produce the information and depositions of Payne which contained the alleged perjury, when it appeared from the evidence of Mr. Trevor that the deposition of Payne bad never been read over to him by the magistrates or their clerk before lie signed it. The learned judge thereupon decided that the indictments could not be sustained, and the prisoners were acquitted. Mr. Justice Mellor expressed his surprise at the care lessness of the magistrates, and remarked that the case did not fail on its merits, but on technical objections. ACTION AGAINST THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—At the Manchester Assizes an action was brought against the above-named company for injuries sustained by a collision on their line. The plaintiff was a passenger by the defendants' train from Hindley Green to Wigan on the 14th of December last, and after proceeding until within 300 or 400 yards of Wigan Station the train ran into a luggage train, and the consequence was that the plaintiff bad his head severely cut, his knees contused, and suffered other injuries of a general character. The jury gave £455 damages. ATTEMPTING TO AD3IINISTER POISON.—At the same assizes, Robert Wilkinson was indicted for attempting to administer poison to a man named Wolfenden. The prisoner's mother held a policy of assurance on the life of the prosecutor, and on the day in question the accused waited for Wolfenden till he left work, and then accom .panied him to a public-house, where they partook of ale. , The prisoner offered to pay for a glass for Wolfenden, and went out of the room, but almost immediately reappeared with a glass of ale, but Wolfenden noticed something floating on the top, and refused to drink it. It was ascertained by an analytical test that the ale contained sufficient opium to cause death. The prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour. ALLEGED MURDER BY A SOLDIER. — At the Westminster Police-court, John Bowler, a private in the Grenadier Guards, was charged with causing the death of William Pemberton, a comrade. The parties were in the canteen, and after having some high words the deceased made use of an offensive epithet, when the accused knocked him down and kicked him with sufficient violence to cause death. It was elicited that the cause of the quarrel was the deceased kissing a woman in the canteen. The accused was remanded on a charge of wilful murder. IMPORTANT ACTION FOR LIBEL—The action for libel raised by Sir Joseph M`Kenna against Mr. Usborne, a large shareholder in the National Bank, has been com menced at Cork. Mr. Sullivan, Q.C., in opening the case, said that Mr. Usborne had urged Sir J. M'Kenna to ad vance him £lO,OOO of the bank money, to be applied in enhancing the shares of the hank in the market; and on S:r J. M`Kenna refusing to sanction this proposition, Mr. Usborne addressed a letter to the directors of the bank, stating that Sir Joseph M`Kenna's name appeared as director in connection with certain disreputable schemes. The case has not concluded. The Liverpool Town Council have resolved to increase the salary of Major Grcig, the head constAble, from MO to Xl,OOO per annum. SUMMER ASSIZES. TIO'ME CIRCUIT.— GUILDFORD, Aug. 6. (Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Special Jury)] HARDING V. VALENTINE AND ANOTHER—IMPORTANT CASE-POSTING ALLEGED DEFAULTERS. This was an action of libel of rather an unusal character, the ground for the plaintiff instituting the proceedings being that the defendants had posted him as a defaulter at the last Epsom races. Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. Garth, Q.C., and Mr. Hill appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr Hawkins, Q.C., and the Hon. Mr. Thesiger were counsel for the de- fendants. Sergeant Ballantine, in opening the case for the plaintiff, said it was one of considerable iwportance, not only so far as he was concerned, but to the pub lic generally. The plaintiff was originally a surgeon in the navy, but he had married a lady of consider- able fortune, and since then he had entirely given up his professional pursuits, and lived upon his means, passing a good deal of his time with his family at Paris. He was, like many other gentlemen, very fond of the turf, and was the owner of several racehorses, al- though they did not run in his name ; but, as the jury were aware, this was a very commonpractice, and was considered perfectly legitimate by the rules of the turf, and the name in which the horses of the plaintiff were entered was Temple. The defend- ants carried on a very extensive business in what was called, in betting language, commission or betting agents, and their practice was to take money and to make bets with the public at large. They had an agent in Paris named Barnes, and he believed there was no doubt they carried on their operations in connection with the turf to a very large extent. The plaintiff, while in Paris, became acquainted with Barnes, the agent of the defendants, and made several bets with him on their account, but not to any large amount ; and there was a sort of running account between them relating to their respective winnings and losings, and in the spring of the present year there was a small balance due to the defendants by the plaintiff. The amount of the balance was really very trifling, and the plaintiff had on several occasions expresse 1 his readiness to pay it ; but notwithstanding this, the defendants seemed to have made it the ground for the extraordinary pro ceeding that was subsequently adopted by them. A short time previous to the Derby race of the pre sent year being run it would be remembered that a mare called Lady Elizabeth was in the ascendant, and it was generally supposed a certainty that she would win the race, and he believed that the de fendants stood to lose a very large sum of money if this should turn out to be the case, and he was afraid that this had something to do with the pro ceedings that they had taken in reference to the plaintiff. It appeared that Mr. Harding had made some bets with Mr. Barnes, the agent for the de fendants in Paris, one of which was 100 to 25 against Lady Elizabeth, and he had also backed another horse called Speculum for a place at 2 to 1 ; and the result of these bets, if they had both come off, would have been that he would have won £l5O, but as it turned out by backing Speculum he would have been the winner of a balance of £25. The Derby day arrived, and the dAendants,without any warning or notice whatever, and solely because the plaintiff did not make his appearance in the betting ring, posted him as a defaulter in reference to the small balance of account to which he had referred, an at the same time gave notice that all bets made with him would be cancelled. The plaintiff did go to the Derby, but he did not go to the betting-ring, and he was entirely ignorant of the proceedings that had taken place until he was informed of it by a friend, and the consequences were really very serious to him. Ile was a member of the Junior United Service and several other clubs, and he was really ashamed to show himself at any of them ; and in addition to this, according to one of the rules of the turf, a person who had been declared a defaulter could not run his horses at some of the meetings, and was liable to be warned off the course. The plaintiff felt that he had no alternative but to bring this action, but he thought it right to state that the only object he had in view was to vindicate his cha racter and reputation, and he did not for a moment desire to put any money into his pocket. lie be lieved he should be able to show in the course of the ease that the plaintiff had had a communication with one of the defendants, Mr. Valentine, upon the matter, and that this gentleman had expressed his regret for what had taken place, and had pro mised to make an apology, which was all that the plaintiff required ; but this promise had never been carried out, and the plaintiff was therefore com pelled to proceed with the present action. Alr. F. Harding, the plaintiff, was then examined, his evidence being merely a repetition of the open ing statement of the learned counsel. Ile said that the total balance due to the defendants upon the bets that had been made previously to those upon the Derby was not more than £5 or £6, and he said that he met Mr. Valentine, one of the defendants, in Paris, and offered to pay him, and he told him he had not got his book with him, and he did not know the exact amount, and he had better let the matter stand over. The plaintiff stated that he was possessed of ample property, and was the owner of several racehorses, one of which was the horse called Fitz-Ivan, and he observed that he was in confederacy in racing pursuits with Pane.; Murat. Ile said that he went to the Derby tLat year solely for pleasure, and did not go into the betting ring, and he never received the slightest notice or warn ing that the defendants intended to post him as a defaulter, and he did not know of it until ten or twelve days afterwards, when he was informed of the fact by a friend. The effect of his being posted as a defaulter would be that he could not run a horse at Ascot or Goodwood, and lie was liable to be warned off at Ascot by Lord Colville, and by the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood. Baron Martin—What is the man's name who would warn you off at Ascot ? The plaintiff said, Lord Colville. He went on to state that he was a member of the Junior United Service and several other clubs, and he found the cold shoulder shown to him very soon after he had been posted as a defaulter in the manner described. The plaintiff went on to state that some time after the occurrence he met Mr. Valentine at. Amiens, in company with a gentleman named Gideon, and he told him then that he did not want money, but all he required was to clear his character, and he should be satisfied if the defendant inserted a state ment in the sporting papers admitting that he was in error. At this time the present action had been commenced ; and upon Mr. Varentine saying that he did not want to have any law, witness promised to stay the action if he would do what he requested. The defendant promised he would do so ; and a friend of witness, Mr. Pickford, of the Grenadier Guards, communicated with him upon the subject. Nothing, however, came of this, and the action pro ceeded. Mr. Hawkins said he should postpone any cross examination of the plaintiff for the present. Mr. W. 11. Pickford, assistant-surgeon, was then called to speak to the communications that took place between him and the defendant, Mr. Valen tine. The learned counsel here held a short conference together, awl with their respective clients. Mr. Hawkins then addressed his lordship, and said that he would consent to a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40i. damages; but with a view to setbothpartie3 right before the public he would like at the same time to be permitted to make a short statement with re ference to the circumstances under which the defen dants had published the libel complained of. The plaintiff was posted as a defaulter on the morning of the Derby day ; and it was only right to state that by one of the rules of the turf the defendants would, in strictness, have been justified in taking that course, as he was not present ; but on their part, he was ready to admit that they were mis taken in the view they had taken of the matter, and that in a moment of irritation they had adopted a proceeding in which they were not legally justified. This being so, they desired through him to express their great regret at what had happened, and to withdraw all imputations upon the character of the Plaintiff. He thought he ought, at the same time, to say that there was no doubt that the defendants carried on their business in the most honourable manner, and that enormous sums of money passed through their hands. They were losers by the last hear.) Ile did not propose to follow the tight Derby of a very large sum—over £20,000, and honourable gentleman through all his blunders every claim upon them was paid in the most hon- and mistakes; but he must protest against ourable manner. the unjustifiable insinuation which he pro- Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he was perfectly ceeded to make when he said it would have satisfied with what had been said by his learned been easy for the telegraph companies to have friend. Mr. Harding's object in bringing the kept down their expenditure for the year, with the action was not to obtain money, but to clear his i view of making their profits appear larger. He (the character. It was now admitted that there was not chairman) had felt most indignant at this, and he the least ground for the imputation that had been must say he thought it was a scandalous thing that cast upon him of being a defaulter, and he might a member should be alloy ed to use his privilege to say that he was, in point of fact, a man of fortune. insult a body of gentlemen in this fashion, by in- Baron Martin said he was of opinion that the sinuating that they would falsify their accounts for matter had ended in a most satisfactory manner. the purpose of cheating the Government. The hon. It was clear that the defendants were not justified gentleman concluded by moving the adoption of the in what they had done. Perhaps under tLe cir- report and accounts presented. cumstances there might be some excuse, but it Mr. MICKLETII WAITE, deputy chairman,seconded was clear that there was no legal justification for the motion, which was carried unaninraisly. their conduct. The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend be A verdict for 40s. was then recorded, and his declared of £5 per cent.. free of income tax, for lordship certified that it was a fit case to be triei by the half-year ending 30th June, and. a dividend at a special jury. the same rate of Bs. per share upon the new £lO This concluded the business, and Baron Martin shares of the company upon which £8 has been thanked the special jurymen for their punctual at- paid up. tendance, observing that not a moment had been A Proprietor referred to the existence of a small lost during the assizes by special jurymen not being debenture debt, and said he thought Government a attendance. I ought to provide the means of paying the interest upon this if they took away the means of earning it. There was also no clause in the Act to protect them from loss in being sued by other companies for non-performance of agreements. A court of equity might relieve them, under the circumstances, from specific performance of contract, but not from damages incurred through breach of contract. The Chairman said that it had been decided at the meeting before last that they should get rid of their debenture debt, and this had accord ingly been done, with the exception of the small amount of £7,550, which fell due within the next twelve months, and would also be paid off. With respect to the other point, the Govern ment had already made terms and agreements with the various companies, and all that was to be done was to hand over the concern to them to carry out all contracts made in the same manner as before. The matter should, however, be laid before the legal advisers of the company, and if it was possible to get a clause of that nature inserted in the act, it should be done. Of course, if the money bill did not pass is the next Parliament, the whole agree ment, as stated in the report, would be void. The motion was then agreed to, and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELE GRAPH COMPANY. The forty-fifth half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday in the offices, Telegraph-street, Aloorgate-street, at two o'clock. The lion. R. Grimstone, chairman of the company, presided. The report stated the receipts for the half year ending 30th June at £172,828 against £167,461 for the half-year ending June, 1867, and the net balance at £71,245, a. 3 compared with £68,995. The CHAIRMAN said that since their last meeting in that room, some six months ago, he could assure them that the directors of this company had passed a very anxious time. As they were aware, a bill had been before Parliament to enable the Post master-General to acquire the telegraphs of the kingdom, and that bill contained provisions most inimical to their interests. He was not going to consider the question whether it was just to in terfere with private enterprise, nor whether it was a right thing that the Government should have what was virtually a monopoly of the telegraphs, because Parliament had decided that question, and he should therefore confine himself to a few words of expla- separated. nation as to the price they were to get for their pro perty. In the first instance, the promoters of the measure urged that they ought to be satisfied with the market price of their shares, and ten per cent. additional for compulsory purchase, and, on the broad principle that a thing was worth what it would fetch. such an offer might at the first blush RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. With a view of making the public aware, at the earliest period practicable, of the dividend likely to be declared by this company at the ensuing general meeting, Mr. S. Reay, the secretary, states that the accounts, though not yet finally audited or approved by the Board of Directors, show a balance sufficient to admit of a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. appear reasonable, but in reality it was not so. In order to have a market price, there must first be a market, and there were numbers of shares in that city in which there were no dealings whatever, and for which therefore there was properly no market price. Take, for instance, a share in the New River Company, which returned its fortunate possessor £l,OOO a year; there were no dealings in such shares, and if they came to be sold, the price must, of course, be ruled by the necessity of the seller. In their own stock the dealings were few and far between. Not three per cent. changed hands in the course of a year, and when a transaction took place, it was generally a sale by executors, in consequence of a death, and therefore the price of their shares in the market was purely nominal. If their dividends were honestly earned, £l7O, or thereabouts, could not be the right price of their shares ; and if they had accepted such an offer, it would have been tantamount to admitting that their ac counts were not correct. If they were correct, £l7O was not a right price ; if they they were not correct, how was it that he and other directors held in their hands close upon £140,000 of undivided profits ? (hear, hear.) That was more than sufficient to pay a whole year's dividend in advance, and therefore he was perfectly justified in telling the Chancellor of the Exchequer that their dividends at 10 per cent. was as safe as his own at 3 per cent. Under these circumstances it was not likely they should accept the offer of 10 per cent. over and above the market price, and they were requested by the Post-office authorities to make some .coun ter offer, which they dil. They stated that the only true way of arriving at the value of their shares was to take a certain number of years' purchase, and they proposed to act on the precedent Government had itself set in the case of the Irish railways, when they offered 25 per cent. purchase. Well, the Government was not disposed to treat them as liberally as they had done the Irish railways, and the negotiation appeared to fall through ; but on the morning of the 26th June he received a letter from Mr. Scudamore, submit ting a proposal for the acquisition of their pro perty, at twenty years' purchase of the present net profits, and on the 30th of the same month he re plied to that proposal, accepting it in the name of his brother directors. The Act for that purpose accordingly passed both Houses, and received the royal assent. He hoped that no gentleman would think it necessary to discuss the terms on the present occasion, whether they were satis fied with them or not, as they would have to call a special meeting, at which they would have to say whether those terms were to be ac cepted or not, and anything said by any one now, whether on one side of the table or the other, would be premature, and might be used against him before the arbitrator. He hoped, therefore, that no one would try to dig a pitfall for himself to tumble into. (Hear, hear.) In the, discussion that took place in the House of Commons, those terms were designated as extravagant and improvident by the member for the City, Mr. Goschen ; but when a gentleman deserted trade for politics, his figures very often gave way to fastion, and Mr. Goschen's real objection to the bill was that it was brought in by Mr. Hunt, and not by himself. Mr. Goschen be gan by stating that Mr. Scudamore was over-san guine in his estimate of 6,000,000 messages a year, and went into some figures to show that the number in 1867 was only 5,500,000. Now they had not got the full returns from the different telegraph compa nies to show the receipts of 1867, but they had those of 1866, and in that year, exclusive of press messages, of which there was an enormous number, the messages amounted to 6,170,000. (Hear, hear.) Their own returns for last year showed an increase of 200,000, and the returns from other companies shored the usual average increase upon the pre vious year. There was, therefore, every reason to suppose that the messages of 1867 out-topped those of 1866 ; but he could explain the source of the miscalculation. Mr. Goschen had taken the gross money receipts of the various companies, and then divided them by ls. 11d., which he was pleased to assume as the average price of a message. But the true average price happened to be ls. 51., so that the right hon. gentleman made a miscalculation of 6d. upon ev er y m essage ; but how he had arrived at a total of £5,500,000 he believed even Mr. Bidder himself could not explain. The right hon. gentleman next proceeded to value their property in the same arbitrary way, assuming £l5O as the market price of their shares, whereas he ha 'l thought every man was aware that, up to the 24th May last, the real market price was £172 10s. The difference between tho;e two prices, calculated on the price of their stock, was £270,000 ; and with 10 per cent. additional for com?ulsory purchase, £297,000, so that the valuation was less by this amount than Mr. S3ll tonore's original proposal, which they had refused without hesitation, and which everybody stated to be grossly inade quate. (Hear, hear.) The right lion. gentleman then asked, in a triumphant tone, who ever heard of giving twenty years' purchase for au un dertaking which was making a net profit of 13 or 14 per cent. ? Well, they did not want to part with their. undertaking. All that they asked was to be left alone. But that was the price of fered them by those who were forcing them to sell. (Hear, hear.) Ile would ask the right hon. gentleman in return, who ever heard of compelling people to sell their property, and then to take a great deal less than it was worth? (Hear, LANCASHIRE AN YORKSHIRE. At a meeting of the directors of this company held yesterday it was decided to recommend to the proprietors at their next meeting to declare a divi dend for the half-year at the rate of 6i per cent. per annum, less income-tax. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. The directors of this company have agreed to recommend a dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 5i per cent. per annum for the past half year, carrying forward a balance of £2,300. KENT COAST. The report of the directors of this company states that on the 9th of June last, the Lords Justices gave judgment on the appeal of the company, con firming the decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, by which the agreement with this company was held to be invalid. When the Working Union Bill pro moted by the South-Elstern, London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London, Chatham, and Dover Companies was before Parliament a clause was agreed to and inserted in the bill which provided for a settlement by arbitration of the question of the future working of the line by the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, either in the event of the agreement of April, 1862, being upheld or being set aside. The withdrawal of that Bill, however, put an end to this agreement. When the question of the provisional working of the line by the London, Chat ham, and Dover Company was referred to Captain O'Brien by the Court he was directed to make his award without reference to the agreement of April, 1862. That agreement provided that the Kent Coast Company should take 50 per cent. of the gross re ceipts arising from traffic to, from, and on the line up to £45,300 per annum, and 25 per cent. of any further receipts. The award made by Captain O'Brien on the limited reference yielded only about £20,000 per annum to the company. This sum, although more than sufficient to pay the debenture interest, was obviously a very inadequate return for the great advantages resulting to the London, Chatham, and Dover Company from the construc tion of the Kent Coast line, and the directors were satisfied that more equitable terms would be ob tained by arbitration or otherwise. The best inte rests of the company required the speedy release of their affairs from the control of the court. This could only be effected by the creation of debenture stock, and by either applying it in exchange for debentures of the company or offering it to the pub lic. The capital account showed that £968,322 had been expended. CRYSTAL PALACE AND SOUTII LONDON JUNCTION. The directors' report states that they were com pelled to withdraw their bill for improving the com munication between this company's line and the city. The capital of the company was raised under a prospectus, wherein it was stated that an arrange ment had been made with the London, Chatham, and Dover Company for working the line on certain advantageous terms. Though that arrargement was publicly represented as an accomplished f act, the formalities required to render it legally binding were never completed; the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, however, entered upon and still retain possession of the line, alleging that they are working it "by request of and at the cost of" this company. This statement, which has appeared in the last two reports issued by that company, is not in accordance with the facts of the cas:,, and a suit has been instituted by a debenture holder, with the full concurrence of the board, which will determine the occupation, and decide what payment this company shall receive for the use of their line. On the occasion of the Amalgamation Bill being before Parliament the promoters agrccd to a clause providing for a reference to arbitration of the whole question between this company and the Dover Com pany. The bill passed the House of Commons, and was approved at a special general meeting of the debenture and shareholders of the London, Chat ham, and Dover Company, but was withdrawn in the House of Lords. The shareholders of both companies having thus formally recorded their opinion that this is a fit case for arbitration, no difficulty ought now to exist in arriving at a speedy settlement. Although the circumstances under which the traffic of the line is worked remain un altered, the directors have much satisfaction in stating that the weekly returns prepared by the London, Chatham, and Dover Company indicate a very considerable growth in the receipts. The mileage proportion of receipts attributed to this company for the 26 weeks ending the 28th of June last is £6,505, against £4,88) fur the corresponding period of last year, being au increase of 33 per cent. The directors do not admit the correctness of these returns, or of the principle on which they are calculated. That the increase will continue to he progressive may reasonably be expected from the vast amount of building now going on at Up per Norwood and other places contiguous to the line, and from the conveyance of goods and coals— a source of income which for the present remains undeveloped. The directors express their regret at the great incoaveniene3 which the debenture holders are suffering from the non-receipt of inte rest for so long a period. The capital account to the 3)th of June last shows that £861,368 had been I expended. WATERLOO AND WHITEHALL. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street--Mr. J. Parson in the chair. The report expressed the regret of the directors that public confidence in railway enterprise had not yet been sufficiently restored to enable them to raise the additional capital requisite for carrying the undertaking into effect. They had, therefore, carefully abstained from the expenditure of any further capital, except such as was unavoidtble for the payment of land and other matters, amounting in all to £2,750. They had procured from Parlia ment an extension of time for the completion of the undertaking. The directors had recently received a communication from one of their principal credi tors, pressing them at once to take steps for wind ing up its affairs, unless they could satisfy him of their ability to carry the undertaking into effect. On the other hand, they had reason to believe that another of their largest creditors would be prepared to aid iu the latter object; and they were in nego -1 tiation with both to arrive at some satisfactory ar rangement. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that, notwithstanding the financial diffi culties at present surrounding the undertaking, he had still faith in its ultimate success, if the share holders would have a little more patience; so that with an improved condition of the money-market and a return of public confidence they might be able to obtain the additional capital required for the completion of the works. Negotiations were now pending with the principal cre ditor of the company, who was pressing the directors to wind-up the undertaking, and he be lieved that there would be no difficulty in obtain ing from that gentleman an extension of time to enable the directors to see if it was not possible for the company to obtain the capital they required. Mr. BURKE seconded the motion, which was agreed to. Mr. HARVEY moied, and Mr. MASTERMAN Se conded, a resolution declaring it inexpedient to wind-up the company without another effort to sustain it, which was carried, and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. TEM E VALLEY. An extraordinary general meeting of Phis com pany was held at Worcester ; Mr. S. 11. Dodson in the chair. A report stated the intention of the directors to proceed with the line, making certain deviations at Worcester and Newnham, by which the share ca pital would be reduced from £350,000 to £150,000. The CHAIRMAN stated the circumstances under which the proposed capital was reduced. They were advised by a responsible contractor that they could get their railway made complete as to sta tions, rails, and everything, land included, for £120,000. At present it was intended only to lay down a single line. lie moved the adoption of the report. The report was unanimously adopted. - Mr. J. MoortE moved—" That the directors be empowered to take all necessary steps that they may deem advisable to give effect to the report and for securing the commencement of the works as soon as possible." Ile especially called upon the farmers to support the undertaking, which would give them great advantages in moving their produce and bringing them into direct railway communica tion with the rest of the world. Mr. W. MooRE also pointed out that the line would form an important link in the railway com munication of the district, and in the direct route from London to Wales. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro ceedings. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on thin company's lines amounted for the second week in July to $85,427, and for the corresponding wetl last year to $95,888, showing a decrease of $10,461. - £1,000,000, wider the power of the recent Act 18G8, and with the sanction of the Secretary of State for India. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks o the chairman. LIABILITY al , ' .101 NT STOCK COMPANY MANAGERS. (From the Anglo • American 7'inzes.) It seems to be impossible for the promoters and directors of Finance and Joint-Stock Companies to do anything in an open and intelligible way, except pocket coin and. leave " stuff" to the defrauded shareholders. The only case of punishment over taking any member of a body to whom Englaud owes a commercial name that would Le offensive to a Turk, and to whom Englishmen for it have paid scores of millions squandered, was Mr. James Freeling Wilkinson. By some slight of hand, aided by au influential newspaper, he got out of gaol—nobody knows why. VI ilkinson has been in the habit of making hay while the sun shone. lie made whole stacks during the mania at an expense of two solid millions of gold to the unfortunate shareholders of the Joint Stock Discount Company. The management was iniquitous, involving an awful amount of ruin, but Mr. Wilkinson can think only of his own cast) —there is no thought now of the horrors he spread abroad while he lived at Brighton like a Pasha of Many tails. No doubt the contrast between that and a convict's cell came forcibly home, and we could feel compassion for him were he not in our mind's eye face to face with his crowd of victims. Among the Parliamentary papers just issued is a petition to the House of Commons from this gentleman pray ing for relief. He recounts his own early history, which is doubtless very interesting , but what is more to the point the history and pro gress of the company. He has been totally ruined by the confinement and degradation, and so re duced in circumstances as to be dependent on the casual aid of his family and strangers for the means of subsistence ; he seems bitterly to regret " that he is without any remedy against anybody for compensation." Has Mr. Wilkinson the small amount of imagination necessary to picture to him self a family ruined through his instrumentality pleading in the same strain ? Does he suppose that two millions of pounds sterling can thus be lost without bringing awful suffering iu its train, but he forsooth, the prime author of the catastrophe , is alone to be heard appealing for national help• Lord Romilly has ordered the liquidator to con tinue the action against Messrs. Capper, Escombet and Lawson, to recovei the £4,000 ; and in it° course further evidence may appear to exculpate him, or to show the substantial justice of his sen tence. In, the former case he will be entitled to compensation, for in whatever light his doings may be regarded he will have been innocent of the pa" titular crime for which he has been punished, and such an end will be in keeping with the who le course of the commercial crash. -- The Credit Foncier of England held its meeting,' and as usual there was much talk and little action. It appears to usas a rule that the great , st asses among the shareholders are those most ready to speak, and to our mind it accounts for the loud braying when Os donkeys come together. It may be taken as prim a facie evidence that a man is an ass to be in such 6 company, but we have all our little weaknesses, an d high dividends make a wisp which will coax mall a donkey along, and one we confess, if not with shame, at least with sorrow, to have led us on itt 3 sharp trot. But to return to our subject. rrhe chairman, a newly-elected director, who took Ine seat with clean hands, was able to talk plainly, having nothing to conceal. Ile showed the nature of th e transactions, and the motives that influenced the di rectors. He strongly condemned awarding comtni P sions to the managers in proportion to success, as t h° temptation thus held out was too strong for huma n nature. When this century commenced a starving child who stole a loaf was hanged, and that iv° the fate of a mother who purloined a piece of Wet to keep her children alive. But it appears that 3 body of directors, one a right honourable and sotne of them legislators, are to stand excused for trans actions with the funds of others they would ha turned from if dealing with their own money, b e ; cause the commission offered was enormous, and a portion of it went into their own Pock e therefore beyond human resistance. In plain 1 0 ' gunge they were bribed. "Nor was the transactieri confined simply to this. Had they taken despera te hazards, and made a fair division of the plunder"" although they could not be excused as men of bus ; n ess—the affairs would not have had their 1171 que stionable character. But they left the " to those whose money they squandered, u", 4 took the coin themselves. They swallow ed oyster, and, with a great parade, a 614° 1 ; of bells and sounding of gongs, with e flare of gas, and a display of plated wa re, the (g handed the shells to the company. But ev en thm al' unsatisfactory banquet has of late been denied t,„ poor shareholders, and the principal performer e, seated himself from the last meeting. Nothing re, mained for his capacious maw — the oysters svell'o all gone and the shells were there in a heap--s e n c retired, leaving the new man to tell the conWe.,7,/ what was in them. The patient and long-endure: f g animal appears to have been pressed too far, for its ev' ee are back, itlooks vicious and seems inclined to wiling but whether a little (director) patting and tick en, may not mollify the beast remains to b e see n Messrs. D. and S. Woolf, 17, King-street, Chesl ; side, announce a meeting of those shareholders 'e sirous to investigate the affairs of the cornP, 3 %i when we suppose they will follow the exam P 1 their French prototype, in at least so far as t o in , the directors refund the sums to which they heir ia themselves as commission on profits never, do truth earned. Some day or another we wil 'ho our best to explain the work, for do in g Ns'f Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., received a s alad, £3,000 a year, and over £72,000 in conatnisOde , why he was smiled on by foreign princes, an 3 t at corated by kings. If the shareholders who i nce al the call of the Messrs. Woolf (Wolf !)—by the W o o , an ominous name for the " lamb" Grant—ar e : :the tent to accept the chairman's explanations Oa t b, poor directors were tempted beyond their streng t it , and there to let the matter rest—we will regret do Not that we care whether these gentlemen du ° ^ a iti not retain all they got, but because the days win °g o o come when other directors will be sorely tempte d ' 0 611 the example of the Credit Foncier will not in s co w a case strengthen their resistance. Success O A t ba rages—and punishment deters ; and we rega r 'l n te• action of the shareholders as having a publie2. t rest simply from this stand-point. The crime, if one, lies in the misrepresentation which mat-Walt the early reports of the company, and did marke d the to demoralize the investing public. It led co nv dreds on to ruin who never held a share in the joi, pany, and produced even more unsc rupulous „ t or 3 tutors. We doubt not that many of t he dire_v cot were themselves deceived, although the staewc3oo of the chairman is against this. But let he bo d be fairly tried, and if it appears that they as , 3 t beif acted in a _bona fide way for the interests 01 • a tO employers and of the shoals whom they enticearto the numerous undertakings they floated and Tod —then let them keep their commission, 11 b n their work has ended so disastrously to e ' themselves. OUDE AND ROIIILKUND. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, Mr. W. Dent in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as real The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, explained that in consequence of the delay in receiving the engineer's report from India, and the desire of the directors to have the negotiations concluded with respect to the Nulhatee line, the meeting had been held much later than usual. lie was glad to tell them that of the 100,000 new shares for raising the £1,000,000 of additional capital, 87,800 shares had been taken up in the first in stance by the proprietors, leaving 12,200 shares, which the directors had, with the exception of a small number, readily placed. The report of the chief engineer entered into details, but very little work bad been done beyond the line from Cawnpore to Lucknow, which was open for traffic. 'The extension from Lucknow to Byram Ghat and thence through Jaunporo to Benares with a branch from Fizabad to Ogde had been carefully surveyed. On reference to the revenue accounts of the Cawnpore and Lucknow line the passenger re ceipts showed a progressive increase up to April last, when the Government ordered a reduction in the third-class fares from three annas five pice per mile to two annas five pice per mile, which caused a considerable falling off in the receipts. The goods traffic continued to increase. It was believed the company would soon be allowed to go back to the old fares. As regarded the construction of the Nulhatee line it bad proved so far successful, but it was deemed necessary to constructtheLucknow and Cawnpore line on a 5i ft. gauge. :The Government had appointed a commission to report on the sys tem of construction and working adopted by the company on the two lines. The report of that commission was not so conclusive as could be wished. He might say they had come to the con clusion that a more substantial line would be pre ferable, and stronger rails than those adopted of 361 b. to the yard. The steel carriages had been found heavier than was expected, and the steel axles were too weak to be relied on, so that they had to get heavier axles and wheels of the ordinary kind. The steel axles would be no loss, as they could be converted into tools to be used in the workshops. They had purchased 40 sets of wheels and axles at £25 per set from the East Indian Rail way Company, and about £2,800 would pay for the wheels and axles required, and which they could obtain from the East Indian Railway Company. In respect of the Nulhatee line, the company had made a proposal to the Secretary of State, who, he believed, had referred the matter to the local Go vernment. They found that the Government of Bengal bad urged on the supreme Government the importance of the Nulhatee line. It was estimated that the cost of restoring the ordinary road on which the 1 ulhatee line was laid to its former con dition would be £lO,OOO, or say equal to £5OO a year; the annual maintenance of the ordinary road when restored would be £2,100 a year, mak- ing an annual charge of £2,600 a year. The Nul hatee line and plant had cost £50,000, and the interest at 5 per cent. would be £2,500 a year. The company proposed to the Government that if they would permit the £2,500 a year to be paid to the coral any out of local resources, they would under take to maintain and work the Nulhatze line, which was 27 miles in length, as a railway at their own risk. Ile thought the arrangement would be mu tually advantageous to the Government, to the company, and to the district through which the line passed, and he hoped some arrangement would be made for maintaining the line as originally intended. Mr. J. A. TOBIN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. 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