The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

THE CASE OF FORGERY BY A CLERGYMAN.

(FROII OTR CORRESPONDENT)

WORCESTER, TGESDAT MOONING.
The Rev. .1. Nisbett was again brought up before
Mr. Sidebottom, the stipendiary magistrate of this city,
yesterday evening, and underwent a final exsmination, on
the charge of uttering a forged bill of exchange fa
with intent to defraud Mr. W. S. I'. Hughes, solicitor of
this city. The interest taken in the proceedings was rather
on the increase than otherwise, acd the inconvenient room
at the back of the Guildhall, used as the police-court by
Mr. Sidebottom, was crowded to MVP. The hearing was
deferred until past three o'clock, to suit tho convenience of
a witness summoned from London.

Mr. Wright, solicitor of Birmingham, appeared for the
prosecution; and Mr. Elgie, of Worcester, tor the prisoner,
who was accommodated with a seat during the hearing.
Proceedings commenced by Mr. Wright calling Mr.
James P. Newman, who deposed that he was a clerk
in the employ of the South Western Railway Company, at
their station, Nine Elms, Vauxhall, Loudon. He became
superintendent of that station in the year 1850, and con-
tinued so until the month of August, 1851. Ilad continued
in the employ of the company up to the present time in a
different capacity, at the Nine Elms station, in PI, goods
department. Would swear there was not at any time lathe
year 1851 a clerk in the goods department at the Nine Elms
station, Vauxhall, of the name of Richard Mitchell, nor was
there, from the month of September 1817 up to the present
time any person of that name there.
Cross-examined by Mr. Elgie.—Had been acquainted
with all the clerks employed in the goods department at the
Nine Elms station from the year 1847 to the present time.
Had not the payment of the clerks, nor the engagement of
them. Did not keep any record of the clerks engaged. It
is not the practice of the clerks themselves to engage assist-
ants. If a clerk wants a day's holiday he is provided witk
a substitute by the superintendent, which substitute is paid
by the company. There arc books kept by the enmpany
containing the names of all the clerks employed. He (wit-
ness) had not get the books there, nor hod he rowelled
them to see whether the name of Itichard Mitchell was en-
tered as clerk.

Hy Mr. iiTiebottom—Why three things were so clear to
his mind was this, that the pay-sheet, which comes from
the directors once a month for the clerks at a yearly salary,
is handed to each clerk to sign his name every month ea a
receipt for the money ; therefore the list went before every
such clerk and witness's hands too.

Mr. William Henry Thomas, the banker's clerk, was
allowed to amend his former deposition, in which be stated
that the first time he saw the prisoner at the Bank was Ia
1849; be had since ascertained that be first saw bon is
0.-tosser, 18430.
Mr. Wright announced that this closed the evidence Os
the part of the prosecution, and applied to 111144 all witnesses
for the prisoner ordered out of court, but the application
was unnecessary, there being none forthcoming.
The whole of the depositions were then read over. and
the prisoner having been first cautioned in the usual manner
by Mr. Sidebottom, was asked if he had anything to say to
lus defence.
Mr. Elgie rose and said that, perceiving the court had
fully made up its mind how to deal with the case, he should
decline entering upon his defence then.
The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial
at the next assizes for the city of Worcester, for forging and
uttering the bill of exchange for 3001. to Mr. Hughes.
Mr. Elgio then made application to have kis client ad-
mitted to bail, and urged that the case, as presented, was s
simple case of uttering, and that there was nothing in the
circumstances which called for excessive bail; he hoped,
therefore, the court would admit to bail, and would not re-
quire sureties to a heavy amount.
Mr. Sidebottom at first said that be had not fulls. made
up his mind yet on this question ; but upon being Premed
by Mr. Elgic eventually agreed to take bail—the prisoner
in 1,0001., and two sureties in 6001. each, and said he should
require a week's notice.
The prisoner was then removed in custody, and the pro-
secutor and his witnesses were severally bound over to pro.
aecute and give evidence.
This is the only case which has been entered into helot
the magistrates, but it is said that the pnumrr'e Pal*"
afford ample proof of other forgeries of a similar nature.

THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A HMI.
SOLlClTOR.—Yesterday, Wm. Cooper Robinson, the solter
tor charged with having forged the signature of a res ref*:
ble inhabitant of that town to an I. 0. t.. for 1,0001..
who wus remanded on Saturday last, was again brought
before the magistrates at the Mansion houw. It was prised
in evidence that Mr. Prickett, whose DOW had ban, with-
out his knowledge, attached to the I. 0. C., had, as mort
gagee, given the prisoner authority to sell the meaty, the
deeds of which the prisoner had proposed to deposit,'
security for the loan of 1,001., the I. 0. P. being to the
shape of a temporary guarantee, until the deeds could be
obtained from London. Mr. Ilindes, who appro.,' f"
Robinson, having argued at considerable length, that as
I. 0. C. was a document not acknowledged by the law, bet
only permitted as evidence of a debt upon an actual tricot.
lion having been corroboratively proved, and therefore, St
DO money had been obtained in this case, that the chile
would nut lie. The magistrates decided to commit II e es;
goner to the borough sessions, and stated that they mrale
allow bail, himself in 2001., and two sureties in lOW (tch.
TILE LAST OF THE CRYSTAL FALACE.—The Palate
is now a desolate blank, and in a few days every fwd..'
ra
the upper part will be taken away, hundreds of vans 11,44
engaged daily in the transit of the materialA to Sy.kt, b•in
At the close of the week will come the " diggings: a,e
here unthought of treasures are expected to be llama.
flooring will have last to be taken up, and the mod ,%tr:
ordinary prices have been offered for the privilege of seali
ing the ground underneath, where it is expected many n't.
Mlles will be found, as great room was allOrded in the Or
ing of the Great Exhibition tar valuables to pan the.
The model lodging-houses erected by Prince Ante etc
also demolished.

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The practical duties of a newspaper correspondent
are of a very prosaic, unimaginative character. We
cannot imagine the severest service of intelligeace
that eyer dried up the news in "our ordinary sources
of information: breathing the soul of poetry into
him, and inspiring him to recur to fancy for his
tot,. We consider, tlerefore, that tho seminary of
the news imported in the Sentinel last week is per-
fecily authentic; and yet an extraordinary para. I
ro'th it contained called for the exercise of all our
fa•
It appears that on the 15th the British fleet under
Admiral Pandas was lying at Gibraltar. It Con-
sisted of the Britannia (flag), Albion, Trafalgar, Ven-
geance, Itelleiophou, Indefatigable, and the steamers
Terrible, Fury, Spiteful, and Antelope. Our corre-
spondent Laving given this and further information,
proecei6 to say—" The 15th lust. being the anniver-
sary of the birthday of Napoleon Bonaparte, all the
Itr;tisla men of war in the Bay of Gibraltar hoisted
the Freuch ensign at the main, and tired a royal
salute. Thu French war steamer Sesestris was also
dressed with tags on the °evasion."
There is apparently no reason to doubt these facts.
c.,, any naval officer, even so tough an official as
Admiral Dundee, the smallest excuse for tiring off
gunisolder and making a noise, and he a ill be at it,
wrong or right. The Queen's standard is a glorious
pretext for a broadside. We have beside a number
of link civic saints whose birthdays are celebrated
by the cannon's mouth ; and there are almost as
lune feasts of St. Saltpetre" commemorating
battles or nativities of great commanders past (and
to come, if the males of the royal family grow up, as
to our satisfaction there is every prospect of their
as there are in Roman catholic countries
to be celebrated by idleatia. polkas, and mass-going.
But the birthday of Napoleon Bonaparte!" Heard
sot one ever the like of a British fleet hoisting the
Fnreh ensign at the main and firing a royal salute
in honour thereof?
Far should we be from refusing to a worthy enemy
4:: the marks of respect becoming a magnanimous
nation. Still less would we revive the odious, but
natural, animosity which animated the bulk of the
peop:e of England towards the Corsican in the midst
of that glorious career, every step of which was in-
tended to carry him nearer to their destruction. It
must not be forgotten, however, that the great
Emperor was ever the bitter foe of England, even
alien seeking refuge in the Meet of the moat generous
and consisteut of his enemies, and that for nearly a
quarter of a century the wealth, the resources, the
blood, and treasure of this kingdom were taxed to
their utmost to humble the power which he raised to
wish colossal proportions, and to destroy the princi-
ples of which he was the child and prototype. All
oar policy as a state, all oar energies as a nation, all
car forces by sea and by land, were directed to this
sole end: and as dogmatically as the " Corsican usur-
per" had been wont to declare the annihilation of
a kingdom or a dynasty, so did we consistently deny
his imperial rank till, in the very streets of Paris, we
proclaimed it had ceased for ever, and blotted out his
rale and his race from the history of Europe. What-
ever claims the l'resident, his nephew, may possess
to the allegiance of the French people, wo never
can recognise any of them arising out of the defunct
imperial r.:ginor. Without inquiring into the motives
which led the people to accept, or the means by which
be gained, his prominence, we regard the circum-
stance as an isolated fact as little connected with the
victories of Napoleon the Great as with the con-
quests of Alexander. Under no possible circum-
stances, therefore, can we pay any honour to the
deceased Emperor's memcry (General Bonaparte,
as our diplomatists called him some thirty
years ago) as a mark of respect to the
living President. It was, therefore, we humbly
submit. an indiscretion- nay, more, a folly of great
magnitude—in Admiral Hondas to tire a royal salute
on the anniversary of the birth-day of one who has
left no pleasant memories among this people. Why,
even the French man-uf-war only "dressed in flags."
She did not return the English admiral's noisy, un-
called for, and graceless compliment, belched forth
from the broad-ides of five line-of-battle ships and
four steam frigates. If the Frenchman remembered,
he might well have been astonished at the unlooked-
for honour paid within reach of the echoes of Tra-
falgar. The very names of some of the British
vessels must have recalled unpleasant occurrences—
one bearing the name of the II& whisk ersehed
Bonaparte's efforts to establish a VIM sl the r that
of his flight and exile. The salute, we flair,alasdod
in his ears rather as the hectoring of a aussomeid
bully, than as a tribute to the memory of the
departed great. The next news we may expect to
hear is, that Admiral Dundee has given a gunpowder
glorification of the birthdays of Turenne or Louis the
Great, and that the French, not to be behindhand in
courtesy, have rendered similar honours to Marl-
borough
and Nelson. It is high time for the Admi-
ralty to issue regulations to confine within proper
limits this ridiculous penchant of naval officers to
waste her Majesty's munitions of war.

ECONOMY IN ROYAL SALUTES. w Scientific
Punch,—Cireat objecti in is made to the waste of gunpowder
which is made in tiring palates. To save this ompense, sad
at the lame time preserve for illustrious pereenara the
honour of being stunned, let me recommend to the notice
of the Lords of the Admiralty the substance called Quad-
rochloride of Nitrogen, which is one of the most explosive
compounds known. You make it by simply netting a jar of
chlorine to stand inverted is • solution of sal-usnaosiac
Material' cheap enough. A drop of it no bigger then a pea
gore off with • lend bang, sad awry smell quanta of
wou:d make • greater asses than • fetV-presifet ;
which, it bas the advantage at being gemesady
sad much more likely thee respowner te Weir =7,
moreover, of smelling perhaps worn. Of the truth of
these statement' I am ready to *sue— my—DAYX.—The
Laboratory, August, 1842."—ParotelL
POISON Or TOE TOAD AND SAUMANDZIL-8011111
very curious experiments have lately been performed by
JIM Gratiolet and S. Cloex, to demismaralle the imtresre
*Mesa of the west% of the Lemma teed. and that species
of lizard to which the appellation ee fasksmanarg" W beim
given. Traditional repute hoar long attribuSel pleeneree
aunties to the toad, but no well-marked MN ao=
Ming arises from comet with the animal, readsne
became opposed to the traditics. The point, however, Me
bees set at rest by MM. Cireddet end IL Clem, who have
tot only succeeded in killimymeall Min* OM birds by
the pustular contents of the skis of leads mai minanden,
but have obtained the active principle of the pine of the
toad, and demonstrated it to be alkalise le to tonere.
Oat of the tint experiments of MM. Grandee and a. area
on this 'snivel was as follows —A little MMUS ilareehe
war .nonslated with toad poison on the tight Mei Mt, sad
le evil
.rossequesem app sired at fleet to gaper's**. At
the experatins, however, of some days weaksem of the ino-
culated limb was perceptible; symptoms of peeelyMe fol-
lowed, sad did sot altogether dimseaar at OM expiration
of eight months—thus 'bowing tea pilaledilly of local
Polmenri. With the view of determining whether
the poison maintained its efficacy foe a MI 1106014
the 'transits:ltalian procured by diseectiem elan IP grains(
the pawn on the 2.5 th of April, Mil, sod WNW pissed
it stele they ism-elated with • small qualliii, 1111.0.6.a.t1e sago
Vietin Hatch, HU, • goldfinch, whisk erelt
died Thus the penal was demolishment 1117-1
the effect. of long keeping without Waal itspessmy.
an some of the effete. produced by the penenee
la *Lich rendition it is mingled with • Wee anlstlrt
met matter. By proper chemical treellesee Ihe active
• waseiple ha. bees extracted sad enpeekneste have
le,' suds with it demonstrative of the salmis dedence.
Irmezpvrimitetrn are still asatieuing ilisi=!
sad they tiptoe a belief that comillueuble
be throes ea the nature of the riga of Iggraffeamaa
',lva,. wake., of contagious diONSIO, and 111.1•111,111111•11
rsora:ly. Hitherto the mall aseensh of Mil rims sot-
I. veil bss hawed the number mid esimplemeses sneered-
MM (irstiolet and S. Clem stemmed, however,
▪ 11... ..n Iva wring larger quentities, will, as was
a' make known their resilln. It is well deter-
w• howo vie, that the active principle is newly insoluble
an veer, slightly so in ether, snd very soluble in sleohol.
EV I. !veiny t wog HoUTIIIRPTON TO PORTLAND
BIT --1 be members of the Southampton
cPolLeechnie In-
naos', and their friends, about 600 in ns'a I.' went "
ew sin-union trip to Poetised Be.) on Monday last, is the
▪ r Jul der, kindly lent to them by Mr. Willcox, the
number 1.4 the town, and managing threaten of the Perlin-
-141" (2"eoPenv. The Mayor, Sir Alexander Cockburn,
H P. foe Soithasepton, sad several gentlemen and ladies
the party. A portion landed at Portland, sad
t.r uv. Cal hour. inspected the ingenious and munificent
0.,* is proem,' for the Portland breakwater. The
:noted and enjoyed themselves at Weymouth. Any.
Go Lilies to see mechanical skill operating on • great
':e. should so and see the progress of Portland break-
nivel'. About • thmisml74 tons of stone is daily thrown into
the wen to b.rm it. The winost courtesy is shown to visitor',
001,very afhirded to enable them to see the works.
sa Alexander Curkhura intended to proceed to London by
lar 11,41 Weymouth to attend to his professional busineu,
le'on some accident his portmanteau was returned from
15 et mouth to the steamer, end he was ander the necessity
°I e, turning to :Southampton by the J..piter. The company
iri.d at SMlthampto.. Water from their excenion ,yeeter-
d in'eoila. The Channel Wig as smooth as a mill-pond,
d° "thing could he more el:mining than the voyage. The
gut, from Southampton to Purtlead is about sixty
eitio

RAILWAY MEETINGS.
LONDON AND BLACIEWALL RAILWAY.
The half yearly meeting et Os shareholders was
held yesterday at sow, at the LowileaTinges.
street, Mr. J. N. Dan the ehsharsh
The report (a summary of whisk Ins in war
Colman) was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, is sniving he end the
In
▪ position if the estaproy was yew rne se shas in
which it steed et the Sini he hid hit bed the photon of
addressing them. They had bees wooing on in the old
, and, he night add, steadily ant well. =itel
ase had an incre of Mlle end a &ninnies of ea
Every earl had been :oboe to nainein end edgers, the
best Interests of the memsemy ; and they led always honked
forward with that view to than maseiesse which had from
tin to tine bees sanetiosed by the proprietors. They had
hoped that the Hayden -squre Junction, which
would transmit goods to Ind from the North
Western, would have been Gabbed is Jana last,
but owns to cireurasoanees entirely beyond their control,
it had not yet been completed. They were assured, how-
ever, that at would be done by the beginning of October
nett. The works were, notwtthstanding, going on, and he
had little doubt that by the end, if not the beginning of
that month they would be completed. Of course it would
be highly desirable that smelt should be the ease, bemuse
their traffic began to full off at that particular lin • sod if
they could thus obtain anything like a winter traMeit would
be extremely serviceable in keeping up their dividends. The
present was their bad half.year, but the dividend they were
about to declare wee the largest which had yet been paid
from the actual working of the line. It was true that •
larger dividend had been paid last half year, tilt that was
attributable to a sum of 3,0001., the profit which had accrued
from the sale of shares. Resides this there had been a few
items—though they certainly did ant amount to any
large sum that had been deducted from this
half-year's earning, although they properly be-
loosed to the last, the arrangements not having
been completed at the time their hat accounts were
made up. lie need only say, with referent., to another
junction, that with the Eastern Counties, that the works were
progressing in • very favourable manner ; and that so
won as the tenuous was fit to receive the traffic there
could be no doubt that they would obtain a very consider-
able addition to their business. These were both very im.
portant undertakings, and ho hoped that before they met
again they would be completed. A third was the railway
to Tilbury and Gravesend. In their arrangements with
respect to this scheme, they were guarded against any
posaihility of loss ; and they had every reason to hope that
the increase of heroines, it would bring them would be very
great. Other parties who were even more interested in it
than themselves thought very admirably of it, and they
anticipated that though the period allowed was 18 months,
the whole would be finished within a year ; while that part
of the line to Oravesend would probably be opened by the
beginning or cod of May neat. The position of the Lon-
dau and Blaekwalleeropany would then be • very good
one. The directorshad never attempted to conceal from
them their firm belief that as a line of four
miles their railway rover could be • paving con-
cern. All the amusements whleh they had made
with the sanction and support of the shareholders,
ard the alteration they bad made in their Knee', had been
tending to the object they bed in view. It was said that
" hope deferred made the beset sick " (and certainly that
had been the ease with them long enough); but the
attainment of their wishes was at last brought so near,
that they could nowseareely call it "deferred." (Hear.) The
directors had been most zealous to promote the interests of
the company, and he *trusted that their conduct had given
them satisfaction. (Hear, hear.) That it had not given
satisfaction to all, however, no sae meld doubt who had
read the Times of that morning, or the Reiheay Times of
last week. There was in that day's Times a letter, signed
"A l'oor Debtor," impugning the conduct of the board
in having wasted large sums in making the Haydoa.square
branch, and in erecting extensive premiss at their I.'en-
chureh-street station, while they were only paying a divi-
dend of 2.. per share ; and the ' Poor Debtor" insinuated
that the directors were people who were trying to " work"
their proprietors. New really the writer of that letter
ought to have endeavoured to undenend a little about the
matter he was Whinge( before he had thus held up the cam-
pony to public odium. Whether the " Debtor " was
peer in money he amid not say ; but he seemed poor
helligence, and he was certainl very poor
In the first pine, he said that than Haydcm-
num been* would cost half a million, wbeieas its real ex-'
pm would be only 78,0001., and it would not oast the can-
posy a bribing, while it must be the means of putting a
peat dello( money into their pockets. (Hear.) Then as re-
garded the new terminus, it moat be evident to everybody
that their station was scarcely large enough, but the altera-
tions were not going to be made with their money at all;
but with that of another company: and it was obvious that
' that other etnepaay meet Awl it to their interest to under-
take works of that extent. (Hear, hear.) Really, then,
when people wrote letters to the public newspapers, they
ought to take the trouble first to make a little inquiry.
(Cheers.) Their traffic hid increased very moth more, un-
merieelly speaking, than the inneseed profits would at first
sight have led them to believe. This arose from the fact
that last year the receipts from the Deck Company
, had been charged in the gross, and that the expenses
re-
quired to be deducted from the sum put down. Now the
item was a nett not, and they were thus really 3,0.'01.
better this last half-year. With regard to the Dock Com-
pany, it would appear that they had a deficit of some 3001.
or 4001., but they must bear sw and that what they lost
one way they had seised is Mistbac, end the rash bed
shown that they had nosed nine may on the whole.
This was certainly an wipeeliteble lbws. bet they bad new
rase to a beam swisteeeemilissulrith the Desk oteepesy,
who bad made a eassideedie Statism Is Irk alliargli•
With these orkastisse he thought they sight te be satis-
fied, ahlaigh they nen gooty not se meek es they had
gieed 'cede (Neer, Mei) now lewd te sone the
abseils et the isperL
Atter sew disseeden, the report was seeeiagehely re•
wind t end a dividesd of k. prim cos desingd.
Mr. PALLISTER this lerweed be nodes,
which, not • with a ssaeeisr, hit nth* pond.
A vote of than was gives to the akeinnes, and the
meeting broke up.

YORE AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.

The hell yearly meelm4 ',this eompaay was held
at York yowled. . Z. S. Tuomrsom oseopied the
chair. The d dmairaime w" hoe aestesoms.
.

The report, disk has else* swami la cm 'ukasti
bevies bests Ulm se seed,
The CHAIZMAJI resoled to offer seem esmesks la
detailed expleastisa of dm matters therein Waned to.
He Ant Warred to the timbal sssssat, muddy several
items of increased espumillaro, mil that them bums refuted
to an additional outlay to lan If.asfaimskry hseash. epos
which the Board of Teals ki empiesil es ellmellea is the
width of a tubular bridge dime emeltraelaL It Ode case
the directors had sinnund with the matesubes to divide
the cost between the. ; and the outlay i ballillegs wee
SAIL, chiefly for an eagissulted, whisk had leas isaimal
asesesary la cesseganor et; the stalpeay regeledeg ad&
Waal roost. After referring to use or two able atellab
wader this head, the chain= nest directed MINIONI
the skim against the compsay by Messrs. Crumblier.**
essesesters, with respect to whist he seagrattistal
shembeldsse that they sew haw the must. Hs elm
=lthem *se to sissy reepsets the abeam
ie may eat Male Mame at a messesful to
Met they bed amessed dean the last half yew=
lag three sets of parliemsak wbisit wire of
kowtows as repedsd tbe bileemle if thk Oa
tbe whole, he esmideral task yeellisa as sae way
disemzegiag, lamarmit es lbw. ley were est la pe-
skim to pay a bap Mewl, sill *ey had mods sem
'ma= they Imd Ism obis to meet Ammer Emma.
is be arm lbws whisk vet to be
mails hem MO Nellieraess, whisk hs mold
la of se much Laymen., to this l
anew as a mks it
dellealis that the direst's,. obeli salmi to the premetere
ef way possible tril „pewee. Us massirmed
the hall that the Y Nobel, which was Wog
builtjathtly by this sad this T Newcastle, and Berwise
Compaq, was to a awed Metae seri he had as doubt
that, ilea egsasd,, i veil lead mateelelly Is Wrest*
the trees elf the marave% with regard is the smell
seas of the dividerik, be remarked that It was to
be attributable to the Ist that a less babas. bad bests
brought howard hese dm previous belf.year; and they had
abe Is pry a lugs massed el dm East sad West Tusk.
shire Osai, Is whisk tbsyrzEdast ha the tarn-
waft -year of 1851. bad ales beta Wont le
essallesehle smapetitios, whit sailed dm le give
edditleael assemitstlatlea ft Om pals, sal 1p a tralm

weleast is all

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-01/Mirre-ghTerMTB4l.llTeier/ThifisTe tr; knOer,ffireFttitB
emidpts ham tbeillialliare bane were to geed st per
seek the 110101011 oath* present half-year bobs rather mime
ass 4,d001, whisk was derived primed...Ay from the mato
wager traffic. At the same time the gm& *sae
the present half-year, they antlelpsied,immhl be wiggle
Ile observed from the traffic. eitllllllll 1114 Week aid
wan an increase of 6471. over the 11117•111110.11 period of
1151, the total receipts hying, in MI, HAW; and this
you 111411. As reeves& the emmediffin be which this
company was at present salieutud. le *eel& b was not
oily possible, but law/is* prehalle, that sus llMlDgelsest
m ht be made ere loss by width it wield be shipped alto.
epther. After making elate dladeee le the Bull and
lby purchase Immediate. led map dis MOW Means by
which the company might ram Medi be that issegeret, he
stated that the directors had head diet they Wenbe able
to reduce the reserve fund he meiatignies laWassent
way to the extent of 4,0001. a pen sad armismisti by
moving that the report be meshed sad eillerMd.
Mr. T. PRICE wooded the motion.
Mr. ROSS, of Manchester, made some remarks in re-
fireeee to the Hull and Selby parehase shares, sentmeding
that money might be borrowed for the plirplea of sedevieg
' the Csmapiny at • less rate of interest than that ili
the daimon. lie pointed to the moults whiebnCelt
land Company had set with regard to tie Leeds sod lira&
ford share., ureter that the credit of this eseiptey wee
quite m good as that of the Midland. The 3COM Com •
pang bad paid 1,800,000/. in live months; Sal he saw no
ress in why this company should sot pursue the ems policy
with regard to the shares in question.
The CHAIRMAN, in reply, pointed out that the Mid-
land Company stood in a position with regard to the
Leeds and Bradford shares, altogether different from that
which this company occupied in regard to the Hull and
Selby shares.
Mr. CIIARLTON referred to the law charges, and urged
the desirability of a permanent law agent being appointed,
instead of the law business of the company being trans-
acted, as It was at present, by attorneys.
Mr. BARSTOW, of Nunthorpe, inquired is what posi-