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London, England, 1855-12-07 00:00:00

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law reports. sad to iM varied sseresatile sad seseerela lalernio
Ike staulaid la the shy, railway. sad etrattary artieles—this paper
is lestupsesel.
SPECIAL CORIDISPONDINTS AT Till SEAT OF MAL
ITS FOSEIGN Nair% IS RIOLIABLII AND IMPARTIAL.
La szelostely early report et Alpe* to the lodise Isse le sap.
pliel tots by= Orsrisad Man, sod it mules
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W arty kit INN& ftrer"aftr sad peelgra set
Weer to ray.
To be ardsseites=bbleserr et seersesa la the !darken; wat
Nr. If be espedemedtttalas the Isparby sealed
yea st NOM. prlse. pabliter trUI, ce famish the
eases of sews spats reedy to supply at We ed. pm queer. paid
a Maass by Pestellies order.

published half-yearly account of the stores depart-
ment is not to be relied upon. In inspecting the
last halt yearly mounts ho found that the amount
of stores which should have been in hand,
according to the balance sheet, differed from
the actual amount in the inventory by up-
wards of 12,0001. On these grounds be pe °-
tested against the accounts and dividend about to he
declared; also because the engineer of the permanent
wa7 had reported to the board that 100,0001. was re-
quired to be paid by revenue, in order to repair the
past deterioration of the permanent way.
On the 20th of September Mc 8. Britten, "ac-
countant to the stores," enumerated stores to the
value of 11,7111., "debits not entered" in the m-
ount ; also issues of stores to the value of 4,7761.
not entered. The amount debited for stores bought
in the five half-years ending June, 1863, we. no lees
than 603,870/., and the stores lamed in the same
period were 467,5831.
On the 21st of September Me. Broadbent, a
,director th Bidets lleautisa may. wee
examined. He slid not see the accounts pre-
sented at the lard half-yearly meeting until the
morning of the meeting. He disapproved of the
dividend. Mr. Broadbent proceeded to point out a
loss which he considered the company had sustained
by the removal of its account to the Union Bank, a
step recommended by Mr. Waddington. Mr. Broad-
bent observes: "Mr. Waddington brought in abater
from the Union Bank of Loudon; the purport was.
the Union Bank to charge one-half per cent. more on
advances than the Bank rate for dismounts, and allow
one-half per cent. lees on commission, and would ad-
vance 100,0001. if waisted." The next two questions
and answers we copy verbatim from the report : " Q.
Have you noun to believe that suit a letter was a
fabrication? A. I have.—Q. Has inquiry bean made
of the Union Bank foe a copy of this letter ?—Yes.
In reply they sent the copy of a letter, stating terms
totally different to those as read by Mr. Waddington,
and much lees advantageous to this company."
Mr. Broadbent proceeded to remark upon the 111-
bury shares transaction. A committee was formed
from the board to represent the company's interest,
consisting of Messrs. Waddington, Smyth, Ander-
son, and Lord A. Paget. Mr. Waddington, how-
ever, induced Mr. Smyth to resign in favour of Mr.
Paterson (the Eastern Counties deputy-chairman).
Mr. Broadbent continues as follows At first the
Tilbury shares were not sought after, but as soon as
it was known that Mr. Pete guaranteed them, they
rose to a premium of 2j to 21. Soon after, the Tll.
bury Company sent 1,091 shares to the Eastern
Counties board, being all they bad left, which 1
take was the property of the shareholders, but
which four of the directors, viz., Waddington,
Lord Paget, Anderson, and Paterson, calling them-
selves a committee, divided amongst themselves,
except 60; which they pre to the secretary, Mr.
Owen, against which I protested; and I told both
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Waddington that they
would have to refund the premium to the share-
holders, and told Mr. Waddington this wee a wrong
transaction."
Questioned as to the stores department, Mr. Broad-
bent declared that the general management of that
department was "as bad as bad °add be." He is
then asked, Has the management of this company
suffered hi cosesquenes of the appointment of Mr.
Waddington as paid chairman ? Me replies " Yes,
greatly ; having almost done away with the useful-
ness of the board. The chairman objected to the
stores investigation with all hie might : so did the
deputy-chairman. It was proposed to go Mum
months backwards, and, seeing that they were fend
in this they said three months would be sufilcisat te
go back. They were answered that this would ds-
feat the object of the inquiry. When carried, the
deputy-chairman said that he should like to be spas
the committee.
The coal traffic, Mr. Broadbent thinks " very
unsatisfactory; we are carrying at rates that memos
in some cases enormous lose." The tares charged in
the Lowestoft district be oonsidererainously low, and,
he fears, not at all remunerative. The committee
ask, "Is the company inconvenienced by the extra-
ordinary efforts it makes sometimes to assist the,
Norfolk and Eastern Counties Coal Company in their
business?" The witness replies :—" Yes; in the anowl
storm of 1864 the coals rose from 245. to 60s. per
ton, and a great demand was made for locomotive
power to bring cads to London for this company. I
am of opinion that the company was made seiner-1
vi rat to the coal company at this time, and that
additional expense we. incurred without any
increased advantage to the Eastern Counties Com-
pany." Mr. Broadbent finally declared that Mr.
Williams purchased several large quantities of timber
for stone of a Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins and
Mr. Williams. it appears, married two sisters. Mr.
Broadbent says this timber was "purchased without
tender, and the whole business was transacted in a
most disgraceful way."

for them than this, that I hest, in 1830, indeed
Mesas. Prior to establish the coal business at Lowe-
toft, making that place the port of importation. I
was at that time chairman of the Norfolk Itailw_ay
Company, to whom Lowestoft Harbour belongs. No
facilities were afforded to Messrs. Prior other than
to the trade in general, nor were they in any way
placed upon a more advantageous footing than other
parties. Of their common with the Eastern Com-
pany sines the amalgamation with the Norfolk and
ll:astern Union Companies I know nothing, nor have
I boon in any way Nearnad in their arrangements.
b. It is true, as stated in the evidence, that the
da works at Birinahsad, in which I am a part-
ner, Are constructing twelve engines for the com-
pany. Bat it was no private order, nor obtained
any influence of mine with the board. We
Irettl e
contract upon public tender as being the
lowest.
6. In hire Jammu my firm tendered with other
matmoters blie invitation for the Hackney
AMier lfrkorbse,' and ours bane:

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, bee. d.
In the contest which has taken place between two
Derbyites in Armagh, the candidate who professed
the more enlightened and independent principles of
the two has been saccessful. Mr. Bond has been re-
turned.

COMMISSION COURT, DUBLIN.—DEC. S.
THE BIBLI STAXING CAW.
The Commission of Oyer and Terminer was opened to-
day by the Right Hon. Mr. :Ostia Crampton and the
Right Hos. Mr. Bann Greene, with the anal formalities ;
and as the same of the Bev. Vladimir retoberise, Ramp
toilet, appeared in the pleader for trial on the charge of
Bible baring at Hfigetews, • good deal of interest Yu felt
by the pablie as the promsdings, sad the Court•bionee in
Green-street was dosing mended hues as early hour is
the emening.
The Grand Juries hen foglireen ewer*
Mr. Judge Crumbed addrented ithe Consty (bald
J• 81 old MIA libtle=ln 'be folthering Omni :
Mr. Pwarea elle di tae Owed JaW of the amity of
Dellin.—The .cinder of dimes is dereensll be peint of
numbs% sad. While, Wes mit smslis thew liar One
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am spermiso enTheuellinefibee eakesie; en Wish Elbe it wy date
to maw Wyse semetwelkdawy eltsawtiens-1 after to thease et
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tionwilen ore wry end, I might addjblerwhemone
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Wend sad antswit =art= el this • end
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view to the alter dentratine of a isible—• gelds& et
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law al ingteme—wil._ thweills• of Ireima—ls • well known prin.
eipie. Ebb deserites Is eaddlillel by IMMlWlWaweeles and mithmitke
am the iretb:=o the gareme We. I sheik robe to twowly
of those an early we, end the e a haeaes.
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reprom. The debylest then bad bees einvistsd ea se
be hameemens ameenws en the Werke of we eirdow ; =gibe
=dthem In mime la meet of jedwient t, wed theft.* el
limek be Iseked relberno le several erne Mika I=
dadeskliederee lines, weeleset osier it to be debated "
le grin egelan glintherin In oseern was not an often gesladrie
bathe lemma st emmes lay"—elny makbast ens mar it
be be debated. dedra4 however. Met it Menthe takes sides
et UM they WI Wm on the yore "generel'—iket they did
net Weal be Maui &pules and dilimmees betessem WNW ash
is pedienter pin. • wed nerd dististlew is deele. rod
email Meommt, wlith has dace hem Mime. the late ere' M
idea I nen is the ere el the " Wag v. Radely,"lallenewith me
Cramer' mina Uwe the pubisetion me cm Wyoming the
autheethity el tbhe geriptene, and swiss
rptmes, that our levier, Jeer
Christ, wee an that wee bM so te a libel; mad Chief
;mike Abbott, wirds Lard Tweeds% la anweeeto a weed=
tram the jury. slated that • work weluag of Clrialseity In
the begurre of the pubittetian was • libel, tAtristisulty
' bang pmt of the law of the lend. The other pages cowered
1 White Chief Wake, and Judge Dest, afterwards the Clad Jellies
of tau Owinen Paw in iagend, added "that the puldiestion
am • libel by the clime law, sad the legteletwe sew
lid sikeed OW law, rat era it ever be so dans,* said he.
"vide the Chelegas rebates Is eineMeed to be the basis of that
lefen" We mg think trod tMt as legislature Italy interfered
w t• thle Wm with thst greet peWWW—that teriptures of
Gad are the bests and fewei of the weapon law of the free
lend. It am% however, be kw understood that the Chrbtlentty
whro=ns the bask of wit common law is not of seem is
eimeener, hat Is • general and common Christi.
oality, In whishalloreemthr Cheiellans that seenwiedg• the divas
emescter err Weft of our Lard Jaws Christ join. The founds.
eon of thesserd es efAlinWS Ihristanity is the revealed Weed of
Ged—the ealphores i end es it eosinw week Gad sad
religion. • sehtieminnewr et lsw, to write or to
speak bisadreaseate egelent the Almighty, dewing His being,
His providers er Wrier. co to see contweedis reproach
snow Weiner Jed Ceda. se all ea .fileg et the Holy Scrip-
me; or wiltelly —immft the 111 to ocatempt or ridicule, are
guilty of an edam •rible at common law by fine sod imprison.
mew. It mediae net, ediew me ei my, In this point of view whether
the book held op le pub le mers-11 such be the feet —be a Hebrew.
Greek, Latta, or thigM ethis—erbetber It be the authorised version
—ea the verses of .he Werth of England Is commonly collect, or the
Dewy version, or sly whet tweaks, If the dew be to hold iip
the volumes to wale eseeretka. The result Is the same in pant of
law. The genW molly of such profane maw et God's Holy Weed
era gaily of as inditallite elime.—• midemessour at mew= law.
I wed not week to we of yew asswedge or the Memeney sad ele.
Mama of each profeesems se I hew described. But riding hew
us
Cadge to interpret and administer the law. sad being so tar a
=rof the laws end exaltation or the make, I twist
ears the widow of the principle to which I have re.
fared, and observe what sawlike's,' conerguesess would molt
from wearing three print:Wes to boatel/ wed at impedes& I would
see, Meg the worded the greet and good Lard Hale, that "to say
Wigan e • chest Is to dissolve all them obligations whereby oar
civil right@ en rieeserved. Chestissity is wrest of the I.we of Eng.
lead, sod therefore to reline* the Mebane religion (mid that, we
all know, Is to be found in the Bibiej is •to week in subversion of the
law Welf." For wader this—hi this wavy the sessiniandies et
justice, dal sad wird. el, is Wed upon the teethe ot the Christian
rellgice, and is the mermen in Wien the Holy Scriptures or the
Waal of God le held. Every Wenn in every maw in this and
every other court, with some identaMe empties" Is mewl, sworn
as the Holy Gapes of Clod to tell the truth be his sedate.
=petty Jury Is sworn in Ulm warier to find • true
woman to the whew ashes them. tver,
jury is likewise sworn an the same lady book to in=
ineent, wording to the truth, without kw favour, or also.
tea. And Imy add, that there are tow panned"' In the realm—
from that filled by ow gree leveslgs Waif down to thst
seemiled by the humbied Willa se atteedsat la the etrata—wbose
Wilke see sot sensed and fortified by the wades of as oath UMW
pa that hey heap,lnd. geutlemes if the veneration of the people
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Wet eateratica be removed, and eratempt and hatred for
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aim liegemes a mere weeny, and the OW WOW et me
gallestene Is entaveried. It will_ Mope. me dean omelnals
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tillaZisZa tremidea. while they digrit the errors et ether wa-
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bins tweeted Waage —sle all still the weed et God. The rest
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have
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parties Aleooolls allldll be isd to the wasidention of those
priedides, end diside bum and Mew that any Waimea of that ho.
Dour and remensels shish the they Scriptures in the coratry.bsve
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of the land, fee which they maybe made answer•bk before a jury of
their country. I Man sise nothing(tether.
The Grand Jury then mired. and at a subsequent hear
returned isto wart with true bills et iadietznent simian
Father Petchnine end John Hamilton.
13/th traverser* then appeared at the bar, and hawing
pleaded "Nat Guilty," the trial was Hied for Friday.

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lowest tender, wee sesepted. The works have
duly exanitedband emitted by the company'. eoginsar
as completed. I weals no way sonserned in origin•
sting these branches. They amid may come into
existence after being authorised by Parliament, and
the Eastern Counties shareholders must have given
sanction to them before the Act of Parliament could
be obtained. It is a mere grateitens pleasantry
therefore of the committee to say that these bewails
yen made "not so much to benefit the Eastern
Mantles Company, as to increase the traffic and
profits of Mews. Peto, Betts, and Brawny."
7. The committee call the attention of the share-
holders to the " injurious effects likely to be pro-
duced by leasing the Tilbury and Southend line to
Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Brassily." I have only to
reply that the Eastern Counties Company having de-
termined, along with the Blackwell Railway Com-
pany, that it was politic to construct that line, we
were invited to become lessees of it, as the founda-
tion upon which alone it could be constructed and
the capital obtained. We consented, and terms
were negotiated, and a bargain struck, to which we
have faithfully adheredever since. It was indispens-
able to us that we should have the power
of fixing the rates into London over the
four miles of existing railway belonging
to the Eastern Counties and Blackwell Railway., er
we
structing 38 ogles of new railway without any en-
trance into London except over such four miles, and
that power was conceded to us by our lease, and is
confirmed by Act of,Parliament previously submitted
to the general meeting of shareholders. When the
line was in course of construction we, knowing that
we had to work it, applied to the Eastern
Counties and Blackwell Companies, as pos.
sassing large locomotive establishments, to con-
' tract to work it for us. The Eastern Counties
Company made to us a tender which we accepted,
and we believe the contract is much more remunera-
tive to that company than stated by the committee.
But even that is no concern of ours. We offered the
work to both companies, and contracted with the
Eastern Counties. We neither did nor could in-
fluence that company to show us any favour. The
contract was the result of fair competition.
8. To the allartion in the evidence that the Nor-
folk line was originally imperfectly constructed and
with improper materials. I give the most formal sad
positive contradiction. The works were all executed
under written contracts and elaborate specificotions,
and they were neither accepted nor paid foe until
they bad been approved by the engineer of the own-
pony. As a further answer to these allegations, and
as evidencing the satisfaction of Mr. Robert Stephen-
son with the manner in which I performed my con-
tracts for railways in the Eastern districts, I ex-
tract the following conclusion from hie certificate
of 29th June, 1848, awarding me the sum of
1,122,2831.: " In thus giving my final decision on
these heavy contracts, I feel it my duty to state that
many large and unforeseen contingencies have
occurred, and have required the greatest energy on
the part of Mr. Peto; and it affords me satisfaction
to add my testimony of the willing, efficient, and un-
flinching manner in which they have been met."
Regretting that these remarks should occupy so
much of your valuable space, I
MORTON
8. PETO.
9, Great Oeorge-etreet, December 8,1855.

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imperfect version of the evidence alleged
to have been gives by me, before the Committee of
Investigation of the Eastern Counties Railway,
havinif been published, I am compelled to trocUs
yea with the real facts of the esee.
I was appointed by Mr. Robert Stephenson (the
worse between the nutern Counties Railway Com-
pew and Mr. J. V. Gooch) to examine and make
thoroughly acquainted with the state of the
gelling stock of the lines. in order to its being main-
tained in a state of efleiency during the term of Mr.
Geoeh's contract. I was therefore requested to attend
upon the committee on the 29th October, and to afford
them all the information in my power; this I did is
an interview lasting one hour and three quarters,
when @objects of great interest and importance wore
itisenesed. I was surmised that a short hand writerl
wee not employed. but that notes of my evidence
were made by or under the dictation of the chairman,
mg dome not, in all cases, in accordance with my
'gift besides omitting in* which, in my gain%
wassesential to elucidating the truth.
I therefore applied far a copy of the notes taken,
is air to their being corrected. My request was,
howtmer, refused; and when I wrote on the follow-
ing day to the committee. the letter (copy of
which is etiolated) "offering to revise the
totes." "and thus to furnish full and accurate
information"--se "my evideoce was so imperfectly
recorded as to be liable to mislead any who might
reed it"—the only reply I received was that the cos.
mitten " considered the evidence so little important'
that they would either " send it for revision; sr,
what appeared to them preferable, expunge k
altogether ;" and stating that my " evidence had at
my request been read over to me before I left the
no% and that I approved it." To this my re
was, " that the committee were at liberty to decide
whether my evidence should be expunged, bat I de-
nied that the notes had been approved by me. The
evidence was not sent for correction. but to my stir-
prise it is published in the incomplete form objected
to by me, as calculated to mislead and to produce a
false impression. Now as the trustworthy character
of the Report must mainly depend upon the truthful-
ness and completeness of the minutes of evidence, it
the statements of other witnesses have been treated as
mine were, and appear in as incomplete and distorted
a form, the Report cannot be worthy of much credence,
or be of any value to the shareholders of the Eastern
Counties Railway.—l ant, Sc.,
GEORGE BERKLEY.
24, Great George-street, Westminster, Deo. 8.

FRENCH NATURALISATION OF FOREIGN-BUILT
VLSELS.—The sanosamessat is the letter of the Paris
sorreepoodeat dike Notional herellipstwer, that the Preach
saesvemeat hen promulgated a decree allowing forego-
beilt vassals to be natsweliesd, and esquire all the advantages
appertaiabeg to the French leg, attracts meek etwatlon
samara our shipping mertheate end baUden, who gene-
rally regard it sa one of the nest important movements for
their isteruts that boa taken plain for many years. Nob
witbsteadieg des admiesisa of all the usatertal for ship.
bandies iota Fresco duty free, there le Do doubt espreesed
that ass seelsoies Intl still be able to Mira eat as geed, it
wet superier. vessels so times iw the shipyards of Frans, at a
Ism Rpm, aetwithstaedbuy the tea per mat. asseseseut
awn tbeit. If this isessdlos so, Frame is so seals is want
of 'hippie( that I am istallmed to think our yards, which for
a brag time it.,. bees almost elseseted, will display es mil-
vity folly road to the dap whoa the mists of dm Cal
TO
trade pad *au wash ea ispotes.—Natisesd (C.S.)
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CELEBRATION OE SEED TIME. —lt opine, We
think, be said that the farmer, wi h gratified greed, solasbly
appropriates to himself the whole of tee profits which the
present prices of meet articles his acres produce roan him,
end otiegily refs'ss to let the labourer enjoy any pert
thereof. Weise have been voluntarily advanced, till in
some districts they ere almost double what they were
in the limn of demean, when the wheat seat
to market did net return to the cultivator the
cost of its growth. In some places, we learn, the masters
are twastantly ending grist to the mill, and supplying their
workmen with good low et what they calculate is the
actual east price to themselves. A. helping bend, we doubt
sot, will be liberally extended by the employers to the es-
plged is the wiener, which appears to be now settiag is,
and musk of sedates will be everted by the payment of
wages from whisk there will be little prospect of profit. And
in one instance at least we find that a new farm festival has
been isstitnted to sheer the labourers before entering os the
seem. A sorrespeadset states that Mr. 8. Worsley, of
Tiptreo SOW Farm, Orest Brasted, having completed kis
wheat seeding under favourable circumstaect a, on Monday
last, gathered all his labourers about him, to the number of
25, at the De Cane Anne Ins, w hen he liberally regaled
them with geed risen. There is something graceful se wed
panful is a thaek•effsring to Providence, gives to the
pen, fee the safe deposit of that which is to ;widow, we
somber *alms Menses,—Chshosford Ciao/seek.