The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS; FIIIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1863.

panne ladies to the hitches, sad before this witness could
obtain porcerion of them the fire broke through the kikhen,
and he was obliged to make his escape. If theme clothes
really were in the position he bad mentioned. fur what pur-
pose could the) have been placed there' how could they
account for the fact in any way coosistently with the plan-
tiff's innocence! With regard to what bad been said about
the shirt that was worn by the plaintiff, he did not know
that it was material what shirt be wore, but the cane on the
part of the defendants was, that os this night Mr. Woolley
had not gone to red at all, and therefore it was more pro.
bible that be should have had a day shirt on than a night
shirt. The learned counsel then proceeded to comment
upon the evidence that had been greys with regard to the
character of the fire. and he said he should show by the
evidence of one witness who was looking attentively at
the fire, that it first appeared at the back, and in
the course of only a - few minutes. it seemed to
spread over the whole house, and the flames were
seen in every room. and every portion of the house seemed
to be on fire. Three other witnesses living in the neighbour-
hood would speak to the same fact, and one witness who was
sitting up attending on a sick relative would prove that so
far from Mr. Woolley having gives an alarm, the first thing
that broke the stillness of the night was the rattle of the
policeman. It would also appear that in is than an hour,
little more than half au hour in fact, the whole of this im-
mense building was consumed, and before six o'clock the
place was a heap of Mee, and had burned itself out.
Those who were well conversant with such matters would
tell them that in all their previous experience they had
never heard of such an instance of destruction of property.
His learned friend had been appealed to by his lordship,
and Baked whether he proposed to give any account as to
the origin of the fire, and they bad heard what explanation
he had given. It was admitted there were only two firm in
the house, and they were at a considerable defame from
each other, and could cot have caused the result that took
place. After the admissions that bad bees made as to the
manner in which the house was prepared by piaci.; the
paper and the cloth from the ceiling to the Boor, bethought
the jury would see that if this paper was set fire to
it would have accounted for the fire appearing *every room
almost at the same moment. Some attempts Md been made
by his learned friend bast imputatioss upon Temple, but
this person had every inducement to support the interest
of Mr. Woolley, as he owed him a considerable sum of
money, and would no doubt have employed him again. He
was boned, however, to speak what be believed in his eon-
science to be the truth, and he would tell them what no.
, curred within his owe knowledge on the night in question.
I He submitted that it was rather an extraordinary proceeding
for Mr. Woolley to have gone downstairs with Crozier on
this night, and that he should have sat upon the steins while
Crozier was, as he mid, fastening up the lower part of the
house. The person he had referred to, Temple, no doubt
was under the impression that after the hoses wee as fire no
attempt was made to save him, and immediately after he
left his room the staircaae fell, and he believed that hie wife
and eon had been destroyed. Hs would, however, tell them
all that occurred on this night, and he should contradict
the evidence that was gives by Mr. Woolley sad Oyestet•
in several particulars. Another fact of considerable sig-
nificance, as it appeared to him, would be the
evidence of • person who ems wail **tainted
with Mr. Woolley and Crozier, who would prove that,
although they had both positively stated that they did Dot
leave the boon altar eleven o'clock, be saw than walking
arm in arm as half-pest three o'clock towards the hones in
a street called Church-street, aad the on.. as the pert of
the defendants was that Mr. 'Woolley had sot 1,..-,:. to 1.,...
at all as thie night., and that the clothes sad the pair of
boots to which he had alluded, were placed in the position
where they were found for some purpose, the nature of
which mold be guessed at by the jury. The leaned soared
thee referred to Mr. Wodby's ortatemant of the abeam-
stances ocenected with the fire, and said that be should
contradict him in several most important consideratioas.
One fact vouched by Mr. Woolley himself is this report
was that nearly throe-quarterof an hour elapsed bakes •
policeman made his appearance, when the fact was that the
roof fell in in less than that period sad the premium were
mainly consumed. It was also fah* that the fire broke out
immediately under the bedrooms of Mr. Woolley and
Crosier, or that they were in the condition of immediate
danger which they repossested, and he urged that
thews statements had bees drawn up with • view
to peewee the public mind with an impression
favourable to himself. It was MA trite that the
fire broke out when they represented, baton the coutrary,
it wt Ant men in all those room that bad bees peeputd
and varnished in the way that had been described. He
seed sot tell them that there wee an impression on the
mind of the Temples that Mr. Woolley had not made any
attempt to alarm them wham the fire happened, and on the
Tuesday after the fire Mr. Woolley wrote a letter to Mrs.
Temple, evidently far the perms of propitiatiag her. The
learned counsel read the letter, which congratulated Mn
Temple upon her escape, and requested that she and her
husband should sot devote any atlantic* to businem
se it would teed to retard their recovery, and co=
other statements as to We eessinet at the time the fire was
discovered, which be mid ho shsald be able to positively
contradict In this latter be also mods ass of the expres-
sion," Thank Clod, my mosses of mind sever left me for
• ooziest i'' so that he mid ha meet have been aware that
whet he was stating wan tales. He would now refer to the
eircumatiumes in which Mr W wee At !lie ........• ~l tie
firs. He should prove that In Mos to the en to
his sister, he had smicated • bill of We upon the w
of the property that was in Ogaden-hares, and it
was admitted that the quantity of furnitire had bees con-
siderably diminished, end yet he had gone on increasing his
insurances, and had bosoms liable to pay still heavier pry
miuma Whitt, thee, woo his position at the time the fire
occurred? They had had the account_ he
. W given of his
own origins) pantile'. He wee undoubtedly• man who
originally was not pared of any mesas whatever ; bat
be had fortunr=ied • lady who wee pcsamsed no
doubt at very . He whited them to
understand &Meetly that L'reMlSYsot deny for a moment
that he had game to peat expense is the " fittings," as they
were termed, of Camden-house. Ho would admit also that
he had foolishly, and he might almost say wickedly, squan-
dered away the whole of his wife's torten, in this manner.
They should recollect that he had no revenue of his owe
to support his expenses with, and that when hie fortune
woe expended Le had no mesas whatever el support.
big his establishment, and it was admitted that he
had for a considerable time been dependent upon
the income of Min tope, his wife's *Mr, • emider.
able portion of whose fortune, he might at the same
time remind them, he had also eqesa&wed away hi the same
meaner. That these fittings had end • pent deal of money
he should not of course attempt to deny, although what
they would hays fetched if they had been palled down and
mold would have been quite another matter. He was, how-
ever, calling their attention loth., poetics ef the Plaletifl,
and to the probability that be should have committed sack
an act as we. imputed to Min. There was • ass who had
spent • large fortune in fitting up a mad pima Us this,
who was talked about by everybody, who was supposed to
be enormously rich, but who, in point of tam, .....I been
living spots ha capital, sod who had spent the whole ef it,
and who at the time this occurrence took pleas was really
unable any longer to keep up that nppesnna he had so
long sustained. It was unnecessary for him to remind them
that many men in similar cirearestanses had destroyed
themselves rather than let their real position be known
to the world, and who could not bear the humiliation of
publishing their condition to the high sad grand people with
whom they had been in the habit of associating ; nod this
was the tinhe had to submit to them to aocoust for
the icy of the connalesion of this set. Upon the
subject of motive. however, he would remind them that he
was not called upon to show any motive ; and if be satisfied
them by maaosable evidesee that Mr. Woolley had wilfully
set fire to this home (and so mean could have done it), if
the Are was wilful, it was their duty to say so by their ver-
dict. The learned ceased then proceeded to recapitulate
the points upon which be mainly relied in support of the de-
fendant's plea that the Ire bed been caused wilfully, and
said that with regard to the snit of clothes, be believed the
jury could come to no other conclusion than that after the
home had been est on fire, Mr. Woolley, who bad not gorse
to bed at all, bad undressed himself io the passage down
stairs, and had left his clothes them and bad then gone into
the garden in his shirt, and in the ooudition in which be was
found by the police.
The following evidence was then adduced for the
defendant :

Temple said—l am a builder and carpenter,
and reside at NottiegbilL 1 but became aoloalated with
Mr. Woolley in 1847, and I have worked for bin ham that
time down to the lire at Camden-boom. I was employed
very extensively, and latterly I had apartments IsQuoden-
house and took charge of it while Mr. Woolley wee away.
I never had any dispute with him, and I consider I was
under obligation, to him. I remember Oohed Waugh
living at Camden-house in 1866. I was at the house fre-
quently in November, 1861, and on the same night the
family left for Brighton I and my wife and son went to live
there. Mr. Woolley CM, to Camdee-house with Crozier
about three weeks before the fire. Dories the interval they
were mostly employed in varnishing sad covering
up the pictures and the carving. The furniture was
generally covered up, but sot the carving on the
walls. I never sew that covered up in the same
way before. Mr. Woolley and Crosier amused to be
on very friendly terms, and they frequently took their
meals together in the housekeeper's room and the library,
and I have seen them walking ars in arm together in the
streets near the house, both by day and night. Mr.
Woolley's sight was defective. The cloth was waled to the
top of the room and bung loosely down to the boor. This
was done in the hall, the ante-room, and the atairesee.
The Waging of the cloth commenced immediately after the
return of Mr. Woolley and Crosier from Brighton.
hton. I us-
derstood from Mr. Woolley that the object op
the cloth wee to keep the dirt hem the pictur=the
carving. Os the day before the fire there were no muds.
to the dieing-nom windows, but ea the night of the hie I
obeervel some tapestry over the dicing room windows, and
some drollest over the hall windows. This must have bees.
pot up on the satorday, and when I saw it it was looped up
on ow side, and but for this every
_particle
of light would have been excluded. I saw Mr. Woolley
put up some of the drugget and calico over the pictures,
but I did not am him put anything spat the windows. ()a
the Friday before the ft* I was is the library and I ob-
served a somber of hooks co the table and beer, standing me
their mile, own. I also noticed ea the Marrows that gaper
was thrown lamely over some of the carving, and a quan-
tity of paper was placed loosely in the middle of one of the
rooms. -It was the ordinary paper used for papering moms
Buse Bruised asked the whams whether paper of this
dareireisa berme freely?
'The Mews said that it ad.

The jury said their experience led them to forma dilly-
, not opinion.
The witness said this paper was very thin and common
paper, with very little colour in it, and it would burn freely.
He then continued-7 believe there were not more than five
or six pieces; at least I did not see any more, nem may
have been as many as forty. 1 went to bed on the n' ht of
the fire about a quarter past 11 o'clock. I had pommel,
been into the green-room and the housekeeper's-room. I
took a ledger in which I bad been writing from the green-
room to the housekeeper's-room, and locked it up in a cup-
' board. I had been writing in the green-room until about
half en hour before I went to bed. I had been Walesg i°
sausages for my supper. (A laugh.) The tannage, were not
cooked ln the house. Crozier came into the room while I
and my wife were having our supper. There was nothing
but dying embers in the grate when we left the green-
, room, and we west up the best staircase, and met Mr.
• Woolley and Crozier, who appeered to be coming from
the bed-room floor. I said to Mr. Woolley, " Good night,
sir." When Crozier came into the green-room he asked
for wood, and said that Mr. Woolley 's fire was nisei out,
land that he wanted the wood, because Mr. Woolley was
going to sit up to work, and he at the same time said he
thought Mr. Woolley wee taking leave of hie NOM, When
I went to bed, everything appeared to be perfectly safe. I
was awoke by the noise of crackling of fire, and when I got
tip I found that the house waa in flames. I celled out to
my wife and moo, and told them to follow me, and I then
went towards the (mud staircase. The place wee fall of
smoke and firs, and when I got a short distance, I heard my
wife say she could not come arm farther, and I heard •
crush, and I saw my wife fall, as I thought,
the RUMS. I was about to go towards them, but
found the smoke and fire prevented me, and I then re-
collected that there was • door near, by which I might get
upon the leads. I crawled on my hands and knees to this
door, and after a good deal of difficulty succeeded in opening
it, and in doing so my bands were severely burned. I hut
to peas Mr. Woolley's room, ad there was no appearance
of a fare in it at this time.

A juror
i' lnquired of the witness whether he saw Mr.
Woo or whether he attempted to give say alum to
hies. e replied that he did not—be wee in great suffer-
ing, ands much bewildered.

The juror remarked that, notwithstanding, he gill! repro-
nested that he had looked into the room, and had ascertained
that time waa no fire there.

The witnese said this was the fact, but he could give no
explanation why) be bad not called out to Mr. Woolley.
He than proceded to state that having got upon the leads,
he succeeded in making hie way into the house of Mr.
Egg, and shortly afterwards be feared that hie wife had
Jumped eat of the window, and had been takes to Mrs.
Stevens's, and that his eon was also there. He mid hi
attention =Ord called to the suirjeot of the fire about
six weeks afterwards, when Mr. Readall, sowicitor to the
Sun ffiraollice, called upon him, 6E4ed him a
statement of the article@ that were represented to have been
destroyed in the Bra The Wham was thee examined at
very oonsidemble length with ref/ream to the different
items contained in the claim, and it will be sufficient to
state that the effect of his evident, wee to show that a
peat Timmy of the articles that were dinned for were not in
the house at all, and that with regard to others for which
large sums wen claimed, they were comparatively of in•
significant value. He also said that during the whole time
be was making his escape from the hoe= in the way he had
described be beard no shriekiag or crying for asistaiwe, end
the first thing he remembered hearing was the sound of the
policeman's rattle.
This witness was then erase-examined very severely by
Mr. Bovill. In answer to the various gnostic= put to him,
be said that the list or ataisinset be referred to might have
wontained altogether as seamy as a theme= ikons. Mr.
Randall, the solicitor to the Elan Fire OE= when =sad
upon him, showed him the list, and he looked over it with
him for about two hours and a halt, and he pre him all
the information he could, and be took the list away with
him. He believed that a gentleman named Freers= called
upon him in reference to the fire about three days after it
happened; bathe had no communication with him, as at that
time he was blind. Mr. Teesdale, the plaintiffs solicitor,
called upon him after Mr. Randall, and he also showed him
a list, and he bad some earrenation with him remised= it.
He informed Mr. ilasdall that Mr. Teesdals had called upo
him ; but be did not tell Mr. Teesdale anything about Mrs.
Randall having bees there.
Mr. Bovill asked the =lases how it happeaal that he
should have informed Mr. Randall that Mr. Teesdale bad
called noon him, and had not informed Mr. Teesdale of Xr.
Randall having don so.
The witness appeared costumed, and hesitated, sad it was
some tie= before le gave as answer. He then said that be
could not tell why be did sot say as to Mr. Teesdale.
Mr. Rosin still preened the question, end the vita= sp•
pawed either unable or unwilling to answer it.
Bares Bramwell told him it was no use detaining the
mart is that manner. Everybodyscald see what his reason
was, sad be bad better avow it. lie thought, no doubt, that
be waste act in the interest of one side ably.
The what= then admitted that this was the rearms.

He was that farther mom mazobted by Mr. &will with
regard to Dia 'vides= respecting the furroture, and shortly
after five o'clock the MO 1M adjourned, the crommandea-
dos of the wham not having bees completed.

fully perjure bawd; and he was hewed to that he
believed all she had mud. lie Sued defendant 90a. and coati,
which were Is.

The enMMl;es bed been adjourned at the defendant's own
salieitatioo. to *sable him to prozors the two witnesses who
aye evidence, and Sir Robert also ordered him to pay be.
for the complainant's two days' loss of time, making in all

The defend►nt paid the money, remarking that there was
perjury somewhere, and he did not intend to let the matter
rest there.
Sir Robert Carden said ha, too, was of opinion that there
was perjury somewhere.

CLERKED WELL

Robert Smith, aged 64, • lodging•hosse keeper and the
proprietor of the " Thieves' &Helm," Fallwood'nrents,
Holborn, was charged before Mr. D'Eyamittrt with making
• daturbance in the polioreourt, and also with violently
assaulting Police-constable Jams, Castell, 129 F, in the
prosecution of his duty.
On Wednesday the prisoner attended at the court as •
witness against two po ice-eargeanta, who were charged with
smaulting • man in his house. Witnesses were called, who
stated that the prisoner's house was known as the "Thieves'
Kitchen ;' that it was the newt of desperate charmers;
that several of them had been eppreheoded in it ; and that
the prisoner himself was • abort time since taken into cus-
tody on scheme of reesiving stolen property, well knowing
that it was stolen. This seemed to very mush annoy the
prisoner ; and be raved and swore in a most desperate
manner, and when told to desist he refused. As he pre-
vented the business of the omit from going on Hr.
D'Eyoconrt ordered him to be removed.
Police-constable Casten, 129 F, rid he was called upon
to assist in removing the primmer from the court. He was
making • great disturbance, and be no sooner took hold of
him than the prisoner struck him • violent blow in the
face. He abio pulled his hair, and mused him gnat pain.
TOO prisoner's conduct lON very disorderly, and he was
obliged to get other sasistance to take him to the polio,-
station.

foilee-constable Christopher Bloomfield, 153 E, said that
be saw the primmer strike the previous witness, and had he
not been seised, he would have struck the other persons
that were maw& . .

---Th;Pri;onerraid that he wee very marry, but he wee
excited at the time, or he should not hen acted ae he had.
He wee an old man, and he hoped the magistrate would
deal lightly with him.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said he could act allow condables to be
struck whilst obeying his radon to keep the court orderly.
He should fine the defendant 20ai or in default of merest
14 days imprisonment in the Home of Correction.
The fine was then paid.

Mr. Cleave DelafornTikreajb;ci, of the Army and Navy
Club, Pall.mall, wascharged before Mr. Arnold with being
drunk and riotous, and assaulting PoWomack Gale, B
▪ in the execution of his duty.
The constable stated that about 0110 o'clock that morning
he was on duty in Knightsbridge, when he saw the pm.
soner, who had been turned out of the Sun Tavern, knocking
violently at the door of it. He (the constable) went op to
him and told him to go away, and get a cab to take him
home. He did not do so. but continued knocking. He said
they bad turned him out, and wanted to know what be bad
done that he should be turned out. Heagain began knock-
ing with his stick, when witness told him that if be did not
cease he should take him to the station. He then became
very violent, and said, " You don't know who I am—l san
• captain in the army." He read* use of very bad lan-
guage, and brandished a stick about threatening to strike
him with it. He did not do so, but gave him • blow with
him fist. He was drunk.

The prsoner said that was not drunk, and that ha did
not recollect striking the Does:able.
Smith 131 B, sad that he sew the assault. Some per-
sons in the crowd observed to him (prisoner), " Why will
you not go borne in a cab r Pri/CIOOT was drunk.
Sergeant of polios, B 14, also said that the prisoner was
the worse for liquor whey lie was charged.
The prisoner at Ant wished to have the are remanded,
in order to produce witnesses, sad was held to bail to pro-
duce thorn, bot.event9allyrloclined to do so.

Mr. Ars'old observed that-he had behaved very disorderly,
and that bad the smash on the constable been a very severe
one he would have sent him to prison without a fine. The
prisoner wu fined 505., which he paid.

SOUTHWARK.
Margaret Moceray, a sled. elderly female, was placed
at the bar, before Mr. Borchers, charged with stealing an
umbrella, value se„ the property of Mr. Win. Smith.
The pprrocsmaecouator Mated that be went that morning into
the Old Justice Tavern, in the Southwark.bridge road, for
the purpose of mom refresheaset, and of leaving his sister
there whilst be made a call twos a customer in the neigh-
bourhood in his calling of a commercial traveller. Previous
to leaving the tavern he deposited his umbrella in a corner
of the bar, but did not leave it is the special charge of his
sister. At the time he left the primmer was standing at the
bar drinking with another women., and on hie return. after
Manacling his business, he maw the prisoner come oat
of the tavern and run away at the top of her speed,
On joining his sister he immediately missed his umbrella,
and at once went in pursuit of the prisoner, whom he over-
took in Lantstreet, and stopped her with the stolen article
in her possession.
The prisoner declared that she bad no intention of
'tailing the umbrella, but bad taken it not knowing to
whom it belonged. She begged for mercy, for the sake of
her five children, the youngest of whom was only sit
weeks old.

Kr. Benham asked the prisoner if she would hare the
one wet to the serious, or that he should dispose of it
The prisoner begged to have it settled here, and entreated
triefyy. as this was her grit offence.
. .

Mr...Bureliam told the prisoner she bad been guilty of a
most impudent robbery, of which he coevicted her sad
sentenced her to towhee days' imprisonment with hard
labour in the House of Correction.
Thomas Polder, aged seven ram was charged with an'
hauling sixpence, the moseys of John Francis.
It appeared that the led had been entrusted with the
money to purchase some bread for the tor, wbo
lodged in his father's house, but instead of oiog so be took
two other little lads to an exhibition of wax work in the
New-cut, paying for their admission with tb• money with
which he bad been entrusted.
Mr. Borehole' said it was impossible be could convict
so young a child of a breach of trust, to which only the
present charge amounted. He must therefore be die-
chsrpd... . . . . .

The father of the lad said that be wee oontiouelly robbing
him, and asked as a favour that the !magistrate would order
him to be flogged.
Mr. Burcham said that even if be bad the power be would
not make say each order. It was the duty of the tether to
administer proper correction to his child. The parties them
left the court.

ALLEGED FRAUDS BY A RELIEF COMMITTEE- ;
MAN AT MANCHESTER.

Yesterday William Stolt, a joiner and packing-
eg c business at the Globe Works,
Konyoe-street, Marieheder, and a member
of one of the load relief committees (St. Michael's), was
charged before the city magistrates with basing during the
last nine months systematically defrauded the COMMltbel
by apply* the (nods placed at its disposal to the payment
of his own workpeople and otherwiee in an improper
manner.
Mr. Gibbet!, who appeared for the promentien, stated
that the prisoner was • member of the Relief Committee of
St. Michael's district. It wee the practice of the committee
to distribute relief by cheques, each representing a certain
amount of money, to persons in distrus, which they were
enabled to get exchanged for provisions at Tutees shops in
the locality. The reenter had represented that the com-
mittee
had deputed him to obtain a large quantity of pro-
visions for a class of recipients who would teal hurt by going
ioto the shops themselves to present their tickets, and
under this pretence be had taken as much u 31. worth of
tickets to a shopkeeper at a time. To one shopkeeper he
had promoted this amount co two cocasiens and obtained
provisions for them. He led also obtained butcher's meat
and each, of Sour in this mapper. Some men in hi employ
had obtained provisions by pmentiog sat tickets, which
there was reason to believe had been given them in part
payment of their wages ; and a few weeks ago when it was
announced that the committee's operations were about to
came the prisoner took • large number of cheques to several
shopkeepers, stating that the committee were desirous of
having &quantity of provisions sent in to them immediately,
as they intended distributing them from the committee-room
through their clerk.
Mr. Jordan, banister, who appeared for the prisoner,
contended that there was se eme. He said the committee
had sent round printed rules to the shopkeepers at the com-
mencement, and one of these rules cautioned shopkeepers
against supplying or cash* any cheques salmi the persons
presenting then: should also present aide booed for the
purpose by the committee, at the same time bearing the
person's name and address ; and upon this pound, the
shopkeepers knowing they were breaking tee rule them-
selves, a charge of obtaining goods under false pretences
could not by sustained against the prisoner. Another ground
of defence was, that the prisoner being • member of the
committee himself wan only dealing with that of which he
was legally possessed, and could not be convicted of stealing
cheques which he himself was • party to the distributing
of. Mr. Jordan ckueted cases in support of his arguments.
The case occupied the court • considerable tints. The
magistrates ultimately committed the prisoner for trial at
the siesions, but admitted him to bail meantime on finding
two sureties of 1501. each, and on entering into hie own
recoguilanam to the mount of 3001.

KENT COAST RAILWAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of the share-
holders of this oompaoy was held yesterday at the Victoria
Station.

The CIWILWAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
which has already been published, said it was a most satis-
factory document, inasmuch as it showed that there had
been an increase in the traffic during the past half-year over
the oorreepoodicg portion of the previous year to the
amount of 4024 This in awl, did not appear a large
amount, but it was most important, as it bndsd to show
that their line was pr eriog favourably. The statics at
Herne Bay was sot oe a most desirable site, but the amount
of traffic, to that plane, isereasieg sail bed does during the
past year, proved, as he had aeticipaled, that these Bay
would eveataelly be ate of the most important sietione oa
their rim. The line would be opened to !baps, on the
?ad September, as originally contemplated, but he was
sorry to say it would not be carried through to Bassegste
until about a moth afterwards, at which time their lease
with this Leedom, Chatham. and Dover Dempsey would
come into fall operation. It was a matter of great import.
ance that the line should be opened speedily, as it would
enable them to obtain a large portico of the up traffic of
this season.
Mr. JUIIIILVG asked whether it was the isteatiou of the
board to use for continental traffic the London, Chatham,
sad Dover Company's eteamboate which were sow lying
idle.
The Cesnmse—That matter bas been and is still under
the serious consideratica of the directors.

MT. Jmernita then wished to know whether any traffic
arrangements would be entered into with the South Eastern
Railway Company. He thought that when their line wee
complete it would be quite strong enough to stand upon its
own foundation.

Mr. Bottom—No each arrangement has at present ham
mitered into. The iateation al lb. boeed i not to acted
their present Maio arraagements to Baraagate sad Margate,
but work that partial of the late cm a &least been.
Mr. Johnson having bees appoietad waretawy, i• teem
of Mr. Hoiroyd, reaped, the proceediap wen bracelet to
a does with the usual compliment to the chairman and
directors.