The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-22 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for IRELAND said that
as the proceedings on this bill came to an abrupt close at
the morning sitting yesterday, on the motion that the
chairman should leave the chair being agreed to, be would
now move that the house should to-morrow resolve itself
into a committee of the whole house to consider the further
progress of the bill. The hon. and learned gentleman said
that this was a course of practice which was sustained by
authority and precedent.
Mr. LONGFIELD objected to the motion on the ground
that there was no nt for reviving a bill when it had
been once dropped by the chairman being ordered to leave
the chair. In all such asses the bill was at an end, and
could sot be promeded with further.
Mr. BUTT in supporting the motion, contended that
when the chairman left the chair without making any
report it was perfectly competent for the house to recommit
the bill, and referred to three cases in which a motion pre-
cisely similar to the present one had been agreed to under
the manse circumstances.
Mr. WHITESIDE said the motion that the chairman
should leave the chair was analagous to the " prowlers
question ;" and when the latter was carried it was possible,
but certainly most unusual, to revive the bill during the
same session. He thought that if the question was to be
debated notice ought to have been given of the motion.
Mr. GEORGE opposed the motion.
The SPEAKER said that it was beyond the power of a
committee, by an arbitrary vote, to extinguish a bill and
take it out of the province and power of the house to
proceed with it further. He had not the smallest
doubt, having looked into the precedent', that where there
was no report from the committee, it was entirely in the
power of the bona@ to order the committee to meet again
and further consider the bill. (Hear.)
After a few words from Mr. Whiteside, Mr. Vance, and
Mr. Roebuci, the motion was agreed to.
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JOINT STOCK COMPANIES (VOTING PAPERS) BILL.
The house west tato osannittew apes this bill, and was
left sitting.

CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.)

To-day the 18th general meeting of the propric-
tar • way held at the London Tavern ; Mr. FARQUHAR in the
chair.

The report which has already been published, having been
taken u
The CHAIRMAN briefly move.l its adoption, and eon.
xratnlated the ehareholders on the satisfactory state and
prospect* of the company. The -Ale of guinea tickets wag
satiafeetory, and tended to confirm the directors io the
belief that the pries and mode of issuing these tickets we.
wiceptable to the public. During the ten years that
the Palace was open to the public it was visited
by 15,266,882 peLions. The refreshment department under
the new contractors. Messrs. Bertram and Roberts, ha l
given satisfaction. Tbecollectiou of pictures, for which they
were indebted to Mr. Price, proved a great attraction.
((leer.) At the next general meeting be hoped that only
5C31. of the mortgage debentures would remain.
The motion having been seconded was adopted mar&
roorisly. The retinng directors were re-elected, and •
spec id vote of thanks was given to Mr. Price.
OoL Tot:ma's wog motioo with regard to Sunday ad.
missions was rejected, and the meeting separated.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

(THIS DAY.)

This day an adjourned special general meeting
arra held at the Bridge House Hotel, for the purpose of non.
sidering the following bills now pealing in parliament :
A bill for the anuilgamation of the M id• Ken t Rail way Com-
pany and their undertaking, railway, and property, with the
South Eastern Company and their undertaking. railway, and
property, and for othor purposes. A bill for making railways
Eaverstook.hill, Hampstead, to the Charing-crose Rail.
way to Hungerford, and to the cite of the authorised Thames
Embankment (north side), with branches to the London and
North Westeni and Metropolitan Railways, and for mak-
ing new streets from Tottenham-coat-road to the Strand
and the river Thames, near the Chariog•crosa Railway, with
a subway for foot pariengers under the Strand, and for °that

purposes.
The CHAIR/UN having moved that the unction of the
meeting be given to the first bill, the beads of which were
read,
Mr. BILL mid that they had agreed to pay 220,0001. for
the purchase of the Midaent line. He objected to pay
40,000/. premium for a hoe by which they were losing from
year to year. He wished to Meow whether awe was any
surplus applicable to the payment of this 40,001., and if
not, where it wee to softie from!
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Mr. Cocza CHILD believed the purchase of the Mid-Kent
was one of the worst bargains that ever we. made.
Several proprietors equated that the chairman would not
answer Mr. Beira question.
The Camistas believed that the agreement wss a fair one.
The resolution woe then put and carried, Mr. Bell and
Mr. Child dissenting from and protesting against the
resolution.

A poll iris taken, which resulted in favour of the
resolution.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMPANY.-( THIS DAY.)

This afternoon the 28th annual meeting of the
above company was held at the offices in New Broad-street;
Diver? in the chair.

The report which we have already published, was adopted,
and the dividend nommen:ode& viz., seven per ant. per
annum, or 355, per share, payable oa the lath of July, and
the Midi of January neat, was agreed to. The retiring
direoton and ►uditon were reelected, and votes of tharks
were moved to the chairman , d;reetots, and managers,

Courrocariox.—(Tnia Dar.)—This morning the
Lower House met sod the debate au Essays and Reviewing
resumed. The Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, who has
receutly mails hioaslf couspicuous amongst bra 1 church.
men by his pamphlet " Subscription no Security," came
down for the first time to convocation this morning, for the
purpose of supporting Dean Stanley, Canon Selwyn, DOR
Goodwin. sad others who are resisting the confirmation of
the resolution of the Upper House condemning the book.
ROYAL WEIeTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL-.
The manual general meeting of the governors sod friends of
this charity was held yesterday at the hospital, King
Williametreet, Charier cross : the Marquis of Westminster
in the chair. Mr. Fowler, the secretary, read the report,
which stated that the number of patients tinder the Care te
the surgeons daring 1863, had exceeded by Dearly 700 the
Dumber is 1862. The expeose of supporting the hospital
during the past year bad been 9.731. 7s. 80., while the re-
ceipts wens only 7691. 17s. 10td., leaving a &Acidic, ci
2231. 9s. 10d. The invested fund now amounted to 5,8301.
16a. Bd., the interest on which oily is permitted to be appro.
priated to the general purposes of the hospiteL The Dural=
of beds in the wards was 32, which were sleep
fully occupied, but without additional pecuniary support
the committee will be compelled to lessen this member foe
the future. The medical report stated that daring the Fad
year 8,138 persons had mewed treatu.eat at the ticepLt
Us 8 having been admitted as in.potients, and 7,800 tze
as oetvatimita. La additiou, 460 minor operatives bad been
performed as the eyes from accidents occurring to certain
clams of persona. Sipes the foundation of the hospital is
1816, 164,453 poor persona had availed themselves of its
benefits. On the motion of the chairman the reports were
&deiced.
UOELISION ON THR NORTH BRITISH RAILWAT.-.
As widest, arising from causes very similar to them muter
which the Egham accident arose, though happily unattended
with such fearful results, occurred, on Monday afternoon, at
the Edinburgh terminus of the North British Railway.
to the train which leaves Dumber at five minutes before
three o'clock, sad is due in Edinburgh at 20 minutes pest
4. Between 4 and half-peat 4 o'clock local trains leave the
Edisburgb station in rapid succession at intervals of shoat
five minutes, and a number of trains also arrive clogs upon
each other about that time, so that the extremely
limited accommodation at the station renders the
utmost caution necessary on the part of all the
o6lcisl in carrying out the amalgamate for the
safe arrival and departure of the numerous trains
A passenger train from Mueselburgh arrives daily at 3.53
• one from Dalkeith is due at 4.11. nod a third reaches
the statism from Dnabar at 4.20. In addition to these
passenger terries, in order to aooommodrAe the trek from
Leith to Glasgow, a special gs train was yeetimicY
despatched at 4.11 p.m. from Latoodh to Edinburgh by Porto-
bello, intended to arrive at Edinburgh hawser the passenger
train from Dalkeith and the one from Dunbar. The goalie
train, aeiordise to the arrangemeet, actually did follow the
Dalkeith train from Portobello to Edinburgh, reaching
the station about seven minutes before the Dunbar
train was dna. Owing, however, to the numerous traits
leaving Edinburgh about that time, and the limited
aocommodarioa at the station, some delay nomured in getting
the goods train taken to a siding. While Strain was than
detained at the east end of the statism, eserly apposite
Thybrough's brewery, the psepeepr train from Dauber
mitered the station and came into collisoe with the goods
trait. Fortuaately, the speed of the train was greedy
checked ; but a °outside/able number of the pasessagers were
severely at sad bruised by the collision. One of the
of she goods train was pushed off the rails by the
It is said that the Areal to stop was made I. due time; and
if so, the eagles-driver must either have failed to observe
It or miloalealatoil the distance.
The transportation train of the army of the
Poker weedd make a line of waggons sixty-two and a half
kegth.—Neer York paper.