The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

contrast bas never been signed, although he alerts
that it le perfectly binding upon beth parties. The
expense entered into by the railway company foe'
the acoommodatioa of this coal traffic are thus
described by Mr. Prior : "The sidings at Bishopegste
were made on purpose for our accommodation ; the 1
yard at Mile-end ;at Romford alterations have been
made : at Ipswich there has been money expended
for oar accommodation, and at Norwich." This is in
addition to a large coal siding laid on at Petarboroagh,
capable of accommodating 300 waggons.
Mr. Moseley was next examined, and denied having
ever given Mr. Collis (the railway company's roper-
intendent at Peterborough) leave to conduct the
basiness of the coal company.
On the 18th of October Mr. Maynard, the coin-
laity's solicitor, was questioned with regard to the
100.0001. lest to the Eastern Union Company :
Q. Is it • legal eat es the part of the directon 7—A. Cu.
:111114114kgal is resposidble, is the ens, of the loan net beteg
reig art—A. The direcors, as a proteetiog, hare takes
ream the Eastern (Jain Company 200,0001. of their ewe 4
per MUM; preterite's stock; sad, in addition, the peseseal
bond of sack director, incept one, Mr. Minimum.
Q if the act be not legal. are not the dimmers of the
sempany personelly rsopeasible to the shareholding tar tbe
result 7—A. I should say the direeten are liable, eases
%hernial! show they bad the sanction of the skaithelises.
IDii Die 19th el October the ememittee ezerahred
Mr. Mosley with referee= to the allowance ef
1,9001. made to the coal company in 1844. To the
question. " Why wee it retrospeauve P " Mr. Manley
replies :
By the desire of 11r. Weddiegne. Whs. Prier sad Co.
Int seat opal iato the Eastern Cana district, I
Aged a s
eed
of rates, and some time elapsed before I knew they °Wald
to them. Dlr. Chards (being • partner of Prior ea& Co.)
presented to ass Dalai nue, whisk he thought should be
charged to Prior and Co.. net only for tha Mum, bet also
for the past. I submitted this to Mr. Waddieroa, sad he
ultheawly desired me to assent.
With reference to the formationof an " caws'
committee," by which man, of the functions of the
board are exercised, Mr. Owen, the secretary, gave
the subjoined evidence on the 23rd of October:
Q. What is the came reenaittee compered of 7—A.
The ehaineau of the essapeay, sad • nation of nor:Seer%
Ma., Kr. Waddismtsa, Kr. Gooch, Mr. Braff, Mr. Moseley,
Chunk, Ur. Copper, sad Mr. Williams, when here.
Q. Whet do Yee de 7—A. They entertain all questions
MOB/ 111 Welk Meng ohs line ; la same mess they Our,
eat their ressiadmis at ones, is other instances they submit
diem sloths essatiseation of the dinners.
CI Do they ever *WSW the funs ions of the direrean,
by dastimkg_eiatiosmaeters sad other 'ornate of the soar
pasy r—A. Yes, they Lave repeatedly.
Q De then raseistioas Mastics the outlay et say mast-
idiseable sums of measly 7—A. Yee, they as I see they
essseemsmd tsar 60 enaposite carriages. 20 third ociviweik,
;mid ID owes 3r4 eine, be made by Mr. Gooch, the ism-
mselvesapseletandent.
Q. What would sack an outlay mown to t—A. Ake,
30,0001.
• Q. Are set absolute *Am given by the chairmen ?
:411. Yes, sometimes.
Oa the 28th of October, Mr. Quilter (of the firm
:ef Quilter, Ball, and Co., the accountants) appeared
before the committee. In reply to the inquiry,'
*Mat examination do you make of the amounts of
the company ? " this gentleman replies, "We are
•the consulting auditors I believe, and particularly I
'swamies the balance of the ledger; we see to the ap-
;refried= se far as we can, and we see that no 1
ebarge is made to capital that ought *go to revenue; ,
mites we find such charge made to capital, we seek 1
tbe opinion of the board.
' The " minutes" of the *widen= of Mr. Quilter
being brief, and the points raised very important ones, 1
we extract the questions and answers boMy from the 1
Committee's report :
Q Dame that enures apply to the last half yearly seaman t
—A. No. lat meg essoerased them.
Q. Does your art statement apply es all the Ismer half-
;years' snouts ?—.t. Yes.
at
Q. DJ yea really exam* ate bolusski erimpasy t—
.
A. Yee. I believe Mr. Oteible, my panare, less, to whetsA.
I refer you.
Q. Dom die 'lgniters of your firm to the accounts impl
oezamisados of the books of this isompsay t—A. Yes, I
° shissld say it dose.
- Q. Is what manner is the store snout sanitised I—A.
of at all by as.
Q. How aka as seesuat of which the stores asessat forma
a part be sebd to be soften inlets the stores amount has
bees eastaisied 7—A. Woes we discovered that there was
etimsebiss strati is the stens asesaat wik odd la.
4. Were the helmet musk of the stores ledger somas
for the last half yen t—L. Ido set hum.
Q. Did you annuls that the mouse of stores by the
ledger of steak said to bk es baud, is the last balf year's
amount, was the proper mesas whist+ tin stores shook* re-
peeerat, vie.. 61,1621.75. 64. t—A. I
seintained it only by
report from Kr. Crank.
It will be seen by reference to Mr. Crable's evi-
dence given on the 24th et September (end of which
we have already published an abstract) that that
gentleman doss not examine all the books, but only
[ the "primary" books, and that he his not examined
any of the books kept in the countinrhouse of the
stores department. It is in this department that the
Committee report such extensive "frauds" to have
taken place.
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