The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY MEETING.

EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND JUNCTION.

A meeting of the shareholders in this company was
held en Thursday in Edinburgh, to receive • report as to the
bygone proceedings and present state of the affairs, and to
give directions for • further division of the fends. Captain
B of Ury, ocepied the chair.
Mr. WASITIR, the agent, stated, that at the last meeting
of the shareholders' committee, a report was submitted by
the agents on tho company's aliens up to the 15 h October
last, which the committee dirt eted to be laid before the pre
sent niceties as substantially their report. This docu-
ment (which was read at length by the agent), stated
that the sum of 25e. was returned on 4,010 shares,
which not only exhausted all the realised funds, but
left a small deficiency, besides a claim of 1051.
due to Mr. Miller, the consulting engineer. The only
smog from which further toads could be reined was the
claim of fts. par shin against the many allottees who bad out
' paid the deposit en their shares. It was en all bands agreed,
than flemenis sown nothing considerable could be realised,
ormdansrdingly, though more dm three years had elapsed,
only • comparatively small sum bad been obtained. Of
the X 6,000 original chores, the deposit was unpaid on
20,125, and as it was evident that nothing could otherwise
be got, legal proceedings were resorted to against defaulters
(two of whom were members of the provisional onansittee) ;
but with so little success that no payment on 12,000 shares
bad been received, and all of those shereXwere still (suntan&
ing and unsettled. According to the accounts, It appeared
that about 1,0261. had been recovered dace April 1846, be-
sides about 301. previously recovered end then divided ; but
that there was a balance of oily 4451. in the hands of the
wont* betosigiag to the shareheden, and this was subject to
the expense which might be incurred after the report was pre.
pared. The committee recommended that, in addition to
the 25e. already paid, • further sum of 2s. be immediately
retuned on each of the 4,010 shares, and that it be left to
the option of each shareholder, either to accept of this sum
as a final dividend, and be relieved of all further liability,
or to accept of the dividend, and continue entitled to the
advantages 'and subject to the liability of the future pro.
endings.
The CHAIRMAN then moved that the meeting approve
of the proceed/up of the shareholders' committee, and re.
sane to return an additional 2s. to the 4,010 shareholders,
la terms of their recommendation. The matter, he said,
was now brought into a very small compass, and he for one
would est:Moly agree to take the 2s. as a final dividend.
The probability wee that there would be mend to the litiga-
tion ; and even although they were stiocesefal they would
perosps get nothing from the greater part of the shone's.
Ater some discussion the resolution was usanimonsly
adopted, and • committee was appointed to advise with tie
agents in carrying on the proceedings against the defaulters.
A vote of thinks was then passed to the shareholders'
committee and to the chairman, after which the meeting
I separated.
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&max Cot:wins RAILWAT.—Aa improved system
of oommunication in conjunction with the Midland Railway
has, by order of the directors, come into operation upon
this company's line, u regards transit net and west dating
the present month. Reduced charges have been mane for
season tickets between London, Ilford, Tottenham and in-
termediate stations, sad an alteration is the general rates
and charges, which Ism for some time engaged the considera-
tion of to. new directors, is to ooraeinto operation with the
beginning of December.

Mr. Albert Smith has been preparing at Cairo an
eetertainnient of an entirely novel character, to be celled
" The Overland Mail," which will be presented to the sight-
seeing world in the course of the sassing Name.
A five act tragedy, b 7 Mr. F. O. Tothline, secre-
tary of the Shakespeare Sodety, sad author of several works
en dramatis art and literature, is in rehearsal, and will
shortly be produced at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
A New Eugland oewspaper announces the death of
the beet English melodist *roar time—Mr. Maria. E. Hem.
This took plan on the 21st of last month, in his 66th year, at
Bence, in which city Mr. Horn fixed his residence two
years ago. One so gifted as he (says the Arhownesi) ought
not to have bees driven upon absenteeism. For gifted he
wig with that rarest of rare things-a vela of tree melody.
His wee neither Italian, French, aor Genus, but freshly,
gracefully English. The three most popular belied, of their
time, " Cherry npe," " I've been roaming," sad " The
deep, deep sea," bearing no family likeness sae to the other,
have all natural, charming tunas, not handled by receipt or
°assert, bet sash finished with certain nice and delicate
touches beyond the reeds of the mere manufacturer. Had
Mr. Horn premed a larger amount of *lmes he might
have booms the opera composer of England ; but the *Buz
of foreign etude took away from him hie °mambos In
the theatre, while the failure of his voles interrupted his
career as a stager. laves Of /OW sissies ego he gave in
London a performance aea *rater*, which Wed, owing to
the total want of due prevention. Bat his name will be
remembered by the map of which mention ha been made,
and by ow or two besides.
FATAL AOCIMINT AT WARREN'S BLACIDIO MARV-
IACTORT.—On Friday, Mr. Brdbx:l held an thquest at Cha-
ring-aces Hospital, as to the death of Charlie Brooks, aged
20, who was killed, under the follow: es eircutastances at
Warren's Waking rnasefestory (now EnYtell't), 30, Strand.
The deceased was engaged in winding up be windlass of •
crane need to raise about seven or eight-hunt:red weight of
" block "to the top of the warehouse, and when the hogs-
head gets through the trap-door, the flap falls down and
dome. The weight mast necessarily be raised some three
feet, la order that it should get slier of the opening, and to
put it down and let the hogshead rest epos it, the ones usu-
ally let the beadle of the windlass run rowed. In dither this
the deceased, who was waking the windlass, let the handle
slip from his hands, and he was struck en the right eye
while it wee revolving. The eye wee totally destroyed, and
the Pones of the socket dreadfully fractured. He was taken
in an insensible state to Charing. erase Hospital, where he
west on well for a few days, bat the inflammation of the
perm of the eye exceeded to the brae, end he died from the
effects of the *jerks ea Thursday. The jury relawned_a
verdict of " Aeddeatal death."
TattelthattlhO AT • RAILWAY STATION.—At the
Presort petty maims, on the 6th inst., James Brindle, a
labouring man, was charged with tnestaseleg on the premiss
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, at the
Raeford station, and refusing to quit when desired to do so.
Mr. R. B. B Cobbett, who appeared for the company, stated
that the defendant was charged under the 3rd and 4th
Victoria, a. 97, a. 16, with persisting in remaining on the
company's station after being requested to quit it, and with
resisting tha company's °Seer on his attempting to ninon
him. That as each cues were of frequent occurrence on
that pert of the line, and caused great inconvenience and
danger to the public, it was necessary that the law should be
strictly enforced, in order to prevent a repetition of the ef-
fete*. The ease having been fully proved, the chairman
(the Est. Mr. Beams) observed that this was a most serba
offence, and that had the defendant been In a different
station is life, the bench would have inflicted the highest
sully, but believing him to he an ignorant and uneducated
man he should be fined 40s, and costs, and Is default ,
palliest be Imprisoned for six week&

OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM
DUNGARVON.—Coecannen.
When Sir M'chael O'Lnghlen was raised to the
bench, Mr. John Power, of Garteen, a catholic com-
moner of large estates, beat Mr. Galway, at the poll
on Feb. 16, 1837, by 283 to 164. Mr. Power pre-
ferred to figure on the turf to toiling in St. &spheres,
and as be was step-son to Mr. Sheil, he felt that he
was not far removed from a great orator, and con-
tentedly retired to private life, after a temporary en-
joyment of parliamentary honoure.
The next whig candidate was oce whose recent and
regretted demise pains us while we mention his name.
This =as the Honourable Cornelius O'Callaghan, son
of Lord Lismote. He was one of the most honest of
the Irish whigs, and was really anxious to serve the
country. His abilities were considerable, and he
would have been eminent in politics, but for the phy-
sical difficulty of speckle g, his tongue having been too
large for hismouth,ard his articulation being indistinct.
Mr. O'Callaghan sat for DiusgFvan from 1867 to
1841. At the general election in the latter year he
ceased to be member for the borough, and the reasons
given by. kis near relatives for his loss of the seat are
very curious.
According to their amount, it would appear that
Mr. Sheil was anxious to represent a borough, and
desirous to give up the county of Tipperary, for
which be had been returned in 1832. He said that
he found it too expensive, perhaps too trouble-
some, and the whig orator thought at his time of life
he might retire into a borough member "enteritis
stipendiis." Fur it must be admitted that an Irish
county member has no sinecure of his seat, especially)
during the meeting of parliament. Mr. Shed
suggested that Lord Lismore's family should con-
'fe l the seat for Tipperary county, and as the
O'Callaghan' were extremely popular there
[ could be little doubt about their 01e05... But
to this suggestion the O'Callaghan family demurred,
and quietly r,marked that though Mr. Shell might at
comparatively little pecuniary expense be M.P. far
Tipperary, still that the O'Callaghan., with their
large patrimonial property, would be sure to be
harmed by claims of all kinds, and that a
quantity of money would be spent from
tune to time by Lord Lismore and his /312
upon the county. Therefore Lord Lismore proposed
that Mr. Shell should not retire from Tipperary, and
offered to contribute largely to the expense of
the liberal constituency. The noble lord caloulated
that, by subscribing 1,0001. for election expenses, he
would be able to effect the return of Mr. Shell,
while if his son stood, four or five times that amount
would be necessary to meet the constant claims on
the family. Mr. Shell, however, was probably
anxious that he should be relieved from the dunning of
a legion of plaoe-b:ggars dodging after him from club to
club, and therefore coveted a quiet seat for a borough.
Whilg matters were pending, and there being some
' uncertainty on the subject, the O'Callaghan family
were surprised to read Mr. Sheit's address
to the Dungarvan constituency, and they found)
that he was actually a candidate for the seat, and
some members of the O'Callaghan family were mach
annoyed by the circumstance.
Mr. Shell was easily returned for Dungarvan, as
there was no excitement at this time in the country.
CfConnell soon stirred up his lieges again, and the re-
p os' year of 1843, with its ruinous results to Irish
liberalism, was the consequence. Mr. Sheil voted with
O'Connell, in 1834, for diosolving the legislative anion.
Bat times had changed, and Mr. Shell took counsel
with the whigs and coquetted with the agitator. He
lucerne volantary counsel on behalf of the prose•
crated agitators, in 1844. But as the general I
[ election of 1847 came on, there was proof
given that Mr. Shell would not have a quiet ,1
re-election of it. The repeal camp was rent in
twain by Old Ireland and Young Ireland. Ms.'
Meagher had made his celebrated " sword speech,"
and a largo number of the repealer. had
disclaimed abhorrence of "the sword" while they
professed the same feeling for a whig placeman. The
O'Connellite party temporised, not being willing to
act harshly towards Mr. Shell. They said that they
could not see a candidate anywhere eligible to be pet
up in of position to the brilliant whig orwer.
Ne:son at Copenhagen put the telescope to his blind
eye, and declared his inability to see the Admiral's
stool to cease firing, and a temporary ophthalmia
seized the O'Connellites whenever they looked to
Dungarvan. But all would not do. The popular
party resolved that a candidate should be foiled, and
after waiting fur some time to see whether another
candidate would appear, Mr. John Francis Maguire
started as repeal candidate for Dungarvan.
Mr. Maguire was a member of the Irish bar—the
proprietor of an influential p)pular newspaper—the
Cork Examiner—a journal which zealously advocated
repeal fur many years, and was avowedly. a catholic
organ. He had commercial cionnexions in the city
of Cork, and, as a very efficient and fluent popular
speaker, had obtained considerable personal poptila-
rity with the masses of the repeal party. With some
p olitical allies and personal friends, he started for
Dungarvan two or three days previous to the time of
nomination.

Mr. Shell bad hoped to tide over the difficulty, and
he expected that he would not have been earaestly
opposed. While sitting in his hotel he heard some
noise outside the window,and found that a petite comedie
was being acted under his arpartment. A noisy
crowd were screaming with laughter as three
speakers kept up a concerted dialogue. One
of them had a large brick of bread stuck
up on tae top of a pole, and he was asked, " What's
that on the pole, Tom ? " "Why, you fool, don't you
see that it's a brick of bread." " Troth, 'tis not," in-
terposed a third ; " that's a splendid phantom." Mr.
Shell had old recollections of the stage, and be was
se tickled with the humour that he involuntarily
clapped his hands, and cried, "Capital electioneering
—capital electioneering."
The day of election came, and it was a remarkable
sight to see the old popular leader—the comrade of
O'Connell, the meet brilliant, if not the most formid-
able, of Irish ex-demagogues, a man whose name had
been for thirty years prominent—opposed upon a
hustinp, not by a conservative, a tory, but
by a young repeal barrister. The hustings
address of Mr. Shell was looked for with
anxiety, but never did the most prejudiced tory ex-
perience so contumacious a reception as was given to
the once popular tribune. Scarcely was he al-
lowed to articulate a word, his voice being drowned
in an uproar of noise. On the other hand, an en-
thusiastic reception was accorded to Mr. Maguire,who
delivered a most animated and highly effective die-
°ours* to the electors, in which he read out portion.
of Mr. Shell's speech for repeal in 1834: as each pas-
sage was read by Mr. Maguire, the brilliant ex-re-
peeler would exclaim, "A shot—Sir—s clean shot,
by Jove."
At the poll Mr. Shell was returned
by a majority of sixteen, the numbers having
been 161 to 136, and it was generally be-
lieved, even by Mr. Shell's friends, if Mr.
Maguire had started a week sooner, that he would
have been elected. Recollecing the official and ter-
ritorial influences used for Mr. She% and the vigour
of the contest he had to encounter, we are justified in
pronouncing_ Dangarvan to be en independent
What the result may be at the next
election, we cannot, of course, say, for it is
rumoured that Mr. Maguire will again aspire to the
representation of Dungarvan on popular principles.