The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-24 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

THE SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NA-

TIONAL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.
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Although the peat year hes hogs, foe lend sad
bathing modals% ate of amperatine insodce, year direr
las Ma thaws is meths' the progress they has ban
emend to make is what Ms beta theirnomad eigeth the
1•1118/11, the gaiety's aerial sad the sealiadta of its
gash.
Lad per the kluge eg nth is bud amenied 100,0061.,
ad it wee set gay to god potheable tapaysiont for a
largo es assns; bet the refuges of the nth of karat
wade this huh plies, templed with the rho is the take of
mosey, has lad the dearth offset of mann ear capital
withts has
yeasseable Ihnite.
Oar saw smagesieste have hoes small is mast, sad
tastily of a sem elterester, while, setwithstandhig
the ameady ssfswuthle stats of public drain, the alas
of lad beive eamidstaWy mauled shoos ot the maim
year. Is nigh thu kith sell mesas& to 64,4401. ; la
the Testis* essilthel lite solos has seileaded 70,0001.;
gad, teacart the bulk of them Ma bees sales of betiding
lets la the "Massy aims of au balms.
The uf edges lends for ethers es gemsboks
( Ss s
shime=net) ha hogs kith ems mall
spriletAbltasemy le observe diet Ss ameba* of
Maness sistioses at a mob whim Nib tins the rules
'agates. Its Instektssis whir* Maas due in the led
twelve maths samated a abseil 11,00111.. while the thew
as - huge isathed MOM This teak h imbibes
attributable Is the thruster of the pnpsay es wbisit the
&dames are aide.
The sew ale, whisk 1. led year's report the Dinetten
tatinased their latendes to propose, was sialed by the
mambas, end addled by the registrar; and. by tholl age•
latices, the Bard mow has the power to Tea the tae of
interest for Maness epee shares; but so alaredes bus yet
beta made. The rate of karat at seek admen simake
at Ave per asst., pa sass., payable arsteding lathe rola ;
bets gessidersbk samat of nosey, sot s. ampleyed, Ns
boss lest at six sad siva per ant., to said poems is
betiding hoes. co estates, pereitsad thrsegli the beta-
malady of the assiate. sad thus the seelety pertidpatee is
the admages whish espial fining tam the inerseeed
also of sithey.
It le Tentarksble that is a year of so mesh dighnity and
pressers, the receipts from .embers °sly, have seseented to
Dearly 220,0001., a fact principally attributable to the te-
merity the society k enabled to offer, the facilities which
hare bassgloss few withdrawals, ate the publicity epos
whisk the Simian have frees the Ant With as the best
'wastes kr the essildsaa whisk it has bets their endea-
vour to wit

The—direetere retiring by rotation w:
Mr. P. Crate Mr. G. Plainer, Mr. G. G. Meek, Mr.
Jobe Barrio, lir. A. J. Larking, Sir Joshes Wellesley,
M.P.. Mr. B. Awls', Mr. W. Cheapen% Mr. F. G. Cash,
Mr. C. W. Antler', sad the roles provide that they are eli-
gible for re elestioe.—By order of the board,
W.B. Wsurrzwomax, Swaim.
14, Moorgato-etreet, Leaden, Deo 6,1866.

RAILWAY MANAGEMENT AND POLICY.

On Friday evening a dinner was given at the
Clarence Hotel, Manchester, is boons of Hr. C.W.Rborall,
the general manager of the Rut Lancashire Railway, on the
coession of his leaving that district to assume the manage-
meat of the South Resters Railway. A large number of
railway directors sad ensue from ail puts of the kingdom
were present.
Captain Holes, the mural meaner of the Leeds. sad
Nutt Weirton Railway, plodded, and in peguisr the
health of Mr. Rbonll, adverted at soap length to theit
tioo sad polity of the management of railways. He ss
However singular it might seem that so gisantic an Petit
meat and so wide.spread a system se that of the railway
Pupae of Gnat Britain should be in its present state of
depression sad pliant, while the railway system of every
other country, derived from this country, was extesding
sad improving. the mama of this were pal_ peels to enemas.
In a greet eiththereial Pantry like this, teeming with
tor/ mid othrthwing with the eased isonass of its
' the railway system, starting late esithethe
fall and far exceeding the thothigthlime
of fie asesse, elated a spirit of ezeitsmesst. of
speculatism„ sad of almost wild delirium of est
which we mere sow only tee ready to regret, but wl:ittt
the dote, as ese was powerful enough to withstand. Per.
liatheste *bide ought to have stemmed the popular mei.
Pees, first bounded ea the oommenial 'steeple* of this
senstry to a fax greater sad more rapid utopian of rail
ways the* was prudent or ex eat; and thee, having
*Weed competition as the only moos of the
poseediags tithes* great empentioss, ste is odd,
" Having pasted osespetides, we ma impel yes simrs
soder a sort of penal power, to assist each other to Peek
seek ether's heads." (Cheers end laughter.) It weep
this that the older corporation lifted up their voice, sod
=
the doctrine that emapetition in railways wasesp.
at a later period, sad that where timeline paid five
per lest., it did sot follow as as inevitable summon that
Wells.* through the same district would pay twe-emed-a
be=itent. each. Parliament dung the railway system
epos the *pastry, without any oonsideration
whatever, and left to midway mangers and directors
the unhappy task of eadsonseing to pick out of
this tangled mem, sad to weave into something
Mhos a system, the difficult and almost inestrieable
kiss into whisk they had tied them. (Hear, beer.)
Set it was sot ia Englishmen to sit down
sesteated, with their OW folded ; and es it wee useless to
regret the pest, let them consider how to retrieve the grand
cardinal serer whisk bad been made in this Pantry, to
flacila the wreck of this noble property, and reinstate it
on something like a pbstastial basis. He, for one, bad no
Petted= or despair whatever of the railway system of
Great Britain, II placed under proper mesagement and
judidou guidance. (Hear, hear.) Bat ester we steered
• totally differut wares from that so fruitlessly pursued for
years past, be leered we had not sees the end of the
chief. To none railway property from its premst wadi-
tioa be looked to ermines and publicity, fee he thought
the mon public the populism were to the shareholders
the greater the element of security in railway property—
(beer, bur)—but above all to the returning good man of
directors and meager*, Is coseentrating their energies
rather for good than evil, sad directing their slims rather
to beselt and moseiliate sash other than to Patel+ seend
advantage. (Hear, beer.) Railway managers had b too
apt to inept this policy ; bat he confessed that, railway
saner, those puts to which he looked bock with the
=satisfaction' win thew in which he had endeavessell
y, sad he hoped te seine *Pest euseessfully, to hau
OWN all the eartemaillsg lettersets, end bring one great
Eof faiths Isis profitable and anodised Plies.
.) Howeiret mesh boards of directors might exert
vat to media and regulate railway undertakinp,
it was is a ply oa the temper moderation,
moil spirit trr:Prilay managers carried out their
ask other that the prosperity of the
smiling system mustdopesd. (Cheer' ) Under ths einem.
etanese of his present pty#ticat in the railway world, the
railway manager mast be a sort of resents of his kind.
He suet of nun be a mu of general education and en•
lasged views, and he mast have address and manner,
kisses' he had to meet Pay clue sad description of men,
from the ppm the peasant. Unless he bad a large below-
ledge of human life, he would not be able to cope with the
difficult positions in which he was frequently placed ; and
be must have a of mind that would look over ma
things, and take libmsl and enoprehensive views. He
mast have kindly views of neighboatiag interests as well
as his own • and he mast have long and earnestly studied
his profs:Asa, both is its an
and is its
commercial pert. It was a very difficult and very
large study ; sad he believed the public at large
were but little aware, when they travelled smoothly done a
has of railway, of how mesh thought, attention, and
end how many aching bestir, bad keen given to the
ef that scoommodation which they enjoyed. The
Moser of a pest trunk line must be aware of all the
aillasalli chasing commercial and political cirounietapee
of the pastry, sad aught to he continually studying them.
He must have an iron coostitation, bnitb, and activity, for
it wee se light task that milieu managers undertook.
iliseplees nights tend sazious days, dry weather and wet,
Rst asd mew, shade and assakine, all ware the same to the
isilway man • there be must be. No petsuit required more
imperatively that a man must have the power of regulating
his temper; and be would beseech the railway manager
sever to leas sight of the cUines of his subordinates. (Hear,
Mu.) Hs most be a man of regularity and pan*
taality, is the strictest sense; and y, the
finall pre
qualities on which he pined the greatest value were
trathheisees and integrity. He believed immesse mischief
bed bees dose to the railway interest, set by the went of
summon volgar truth as between at
and man, bat by the
&bassos of that delicate pereeptioa of trattifslnese, that
horror of deceit, that repudiation of all chicanery sod
that obsess* of =phisg approaching to triekery es the
oart of railway manager% which was ee mach to be desired.
He would not merely plass the value of iotegrity es the
ground that it was the best policy, but on the higher monad
that they were to endeseesr to raise Ike morel character of
the system with whisk they were easseated, and to remise,
if pmeible, three hundred villains of property, employing
Plys, a some hundreds of thoassula of men; sad they teouM
A do it by elevating their own soaduct. (Cheers.)
ass Hinuati, responded, sad Mud other tomes r
Fos afterwards bean/ed.
to

The mention of Abraham Baer fee the testaee of
hie telletr.swest, Naomi Hterwell, at esstbeetptes,
lad to WU pieee N ifiesitedel a the 6th of seat meet&