The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

of the prisoner) and Sarah Everest (her mother),
Taken heft.- s. Mr. Henry on the 20th day of January last.
of
ciEctoliitebecthhiAstu:-I Grant
If stated—Onhome to to go to teaFriadat !Mrs°. °lll3ulrrsteldl'sy, in
Lock's-gelds, god as I was in the shop, about half-part 3
o'clock in the aftemoon, I saw James Grant, a
ofpoliwce-con-
sbtecabkleoned to me He had the P.een p2a%ying, Pushis•
aggilrme laesto"med,
but againat the consent azad wishes of my mother, for about
o "d
timnnit_cHemththee to n
en asked
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sixto s
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u, ;Len
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id It came
h him,ouant tir married
ears and 7
him. I said, "I'm too young." I 13--o on board a ste -
months old only. He persuaded me to a Vauxhall. There
boat with him from Westminster-bridge to .
.azne tion• He
he gave me something to drink, and I bet road.
I took me to a house in Gaywood-street, :Arm-
He kept me there and at other lodgings for :28019 5^
him 11'
months, and at the end of that time I was married to ..e
, w
the church of the parish of Christchurch, in .
county of Surrey. During the two months, and fre-
quently since I have been married, I have asked him
'et me go home to mymother, but he has always threatened
' beat m brains out if I did. During the time
saberkteTnhme elunteawrilmy eermeryisdamyy.
hlehisrsOentietven
Grantter noeatull°,°
—Sarahsdaughter,
w m E 1 sbv yeyr
years
syt too
fr ma
geer
on the
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ofCmunarancht,
last,dece andand
.
on the 31st day of October last she went to tea at Mrs. Mur-
rell's and did not return again, and I did not tee her again
until'yesterday wse
hen she nt for me, and I found her at
Grant's lodgings. About a fortnight before she left me I
found out that Grant and my daughter were too intimate,
and I forbade his coming to the house, and tried all I could to
keep my daughter out of his way, and it was quite against
nay consent and wish that she went to live with him and that
she got married to him. At the time my daughter left I
lived at the same place where I now reside. My daughter
will be entitled to 50.9/. when she becomes of age.—Mrs.
Everest now deposed to the truth of her daughter's state-
ment. Her daughter next got into the witness-box and said
that she did not wish to proceed further in the matter, and
that if the prisoner was agreeable to return and live with her
she had no objection. Mr. Roberts, who attended on behalf
of the prisoner, hoped that after this declaration the charge
would not be proceeded with. Mts. Everest, however, de-
clared her determination to prosecute the prisoner, and this
being the case, Mr. Elliott observed that the mother, and not
the daughter, was the prosecutor, and therefore it must be
proceeded with. The prisoner was ultimately remanded.
THAMES.—lmeon•ra:vg TO BUILDERS.—A case of con-
siderable interest, not only to builders and the district sur-
veys:Ts appointed under the 7th and Bth Vic. cap. 84, was
heard at this court. It arose out of a claim for 301. made be
hfr. Joe eph Henry Good, jun., district surveyor for Bow and
Poplar, being on account of alleged additions made to three
houses ere.'
at Ferry-road, Isle of Dogs, by Mr. John
Parry, an extensive builder, of Bethnal-green. The discus-
sion, which occup:ed a considerable time, may be thus narra-
tively summed up. Mr. Parry, in June or July last, built
the three houses in question, which were surveyed, and the
fees paid as for fouth-class houses. As the erections arose,
kitchens and washbouses were added, which went on part
passu with the main portion of the building. For these
additions Mr. Good claimed 10s. as his additional fee on
each house. The claim was resisted by Mr. Parry, on
the ground that he was exempted by a passage in
one of the schedules of the Act, which runs as
follows : " For every such attached or detached build-
ing, distinctly rated (except any such attached or
detached building, built at the same time as the building to
which it belonged, was carried up and covered over in '2l
days after such building shall have been covered in within
the meaning of the act), such fee, Ste." Mr. Parry relied
upon the passage in the parenthesis, and called one of his
foremen to prove that the parts upon which the addi-
tional foes were claimed went on in equal progression with the
bodies of the building.
i This witness, however, gave his evi-
dence in so loose and inconclusive a manner that nothing to
the purpose could be elicited from him. Whilst he swore on
the one band that the whole of the buildings, adjuncts, and
all, were covered in within 21 days of each other, he in the
same breath stated that the main building was roofed in in
July, whilst the outhouses were not covered its until Septem-
ber.—Mr. Parry seemed surprised at this testimony, and
said that if time were allowed, be could prove his case by
the man who slated the premises this day.—Mr. Wood said
he had no witnesses, and could only refer to the memoranda
made in his nett-honk as he visited the premises from time
to time.—Mr. Broderip, considering the question as one of
great interest, more especially to builders, allowed the de-
fendant the time he required for the production of his
witnesses.

MONEY MARKET.
MU:CD/a EVIIIING.
From the improved appearance of the market this
afternoon it would seem probable that the account, now close
at hand, is not likely to be so favourable to the speculators for 1;
the fall as was for some time expected. The rise in Consols,
which is equal to 5 per cent, upon the prices of Saturday, 5
might, however, be the result of some of the continental
advises coming rather better in money and stocks. Until 2i
nearly the close of business Consols remained as they opened, 2!
955 to I for both this account and money, but they left off 11
with an improvement to 941 buyers; for next account they
were quoted 911 buyers ; Reduced Threes, 931 to 1; Three- 5
and-a-Quarter per Cents., 951 to 1. The government broker at
took 15,0001. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. for the savings 4(
banks, and 3,0001. Threes Reduced for life annuities. The
purchases on these recounts have been continued for several
weeks past at about the same rates of amount on each ld
day of the week but Saturday, when it is not the custom
for the official broker to transact that sort of business. A
considerable quantity of stock must therefore, in the aggre- 1
gate, have been taken off the market, which has been of ma-
terial
service in supporting the prices of the funds under the
pressure at some periods of discouraging circumstances and
prospects. Exchequer Bills advanced to 90. to 12s. pre- 4
mium. Long Annuities, 91 to 15-16. India Stock, 236 to 1
3. India Bonds, 17s. to 20e. prem. Bank Stock, 20.5 to 6.
The transitions in foreign stocks continue to be of the
same unimportant character. Chilian Bonds stand at 91 to
6. Mexican, 211 to 21. Spanish Fives, 251 to 5; the
Threes, 365 to 75. Portuguese, 36 to 8, nominally.
The Lisbon correspondence, in the Daily News of yesterday
morning, in which full details were exclusively given of the
great act of financial spoliation promulgated by the
Portuguese government, (for they were partially only
published afterwards in second editions of the other
Journal%) attracted much attention hi the City, and
created no small astonishment even in quarters. not
without experience of the reckless dealings and bad faith of
Portuguese financiers. It seems incredible that in these
days a government should be found so imbecile as to con-
ceive that paper money could be equalised with coin and
bullion in current value by tyrannical decrees, and threats
of brute force. The Bank of Lisbon and the Confiancos
Association, being both insolvent institution., as represented
by the inability of the latter to fulfil its engagements, and
in the other case by the discount to which bank paper had
fallen, say to less than four-fifths of its nominal value, the
decrees for rendering that paper a legal tender in all transac-
tions at its full figuratively expressed worth, are equivalent to
a declaration that the Bank and its colleague shall pay
some 15s. or 16s. in the pound only upon their present
issues and just debts. The prohibition, with the pains and
penalties attaching, against " establishing one price (of com-
modities), for payments in notes, and another for coin," is
neither more nor less than an extravagant absurdity, which
it passes the power of the most ab.oluto g svcrnment to en-
force. All arbitrary as the ruler of Buenos Ayres may be, and
an utterer of depreciated paper money to no inconsiderable
amount, even he never imagined the gross folly of attempt-
ing to make his paper dollars pass for the full equivalent of a
hard dollar, and to compel his people to replete prices upon
the one standard of value in each case. His paper dollars
have fallen to, and are current at, some threepence
sterling each, whilst the hard dollar exchanges currently,
without let or hindrance from him, for nearly a score of its
nominal representative in paper. The retrospective action
given to the conditions of this Portuguese decree for im-
posing a vicious, damaged currency on the people, by which
alllexisdng contracts and agreements hued on payments in
hard money are declared null and void, is not the least ini-
quitous characteristic of this State paper act of spoliation.
So far as British interests are involved involved they must
be to a large extent—there can be no fear of exemplary satis-
faction being required and enforced eventually. But action
in the case should nevertheless be prompt and decisive in the
matter by this government, or the present ruin of many
individuals can never be sufficiently compensated by any
future redress.
The late treaty of commerce between Holland and I
Belgium appears to be exciting. great dissatisfaction among
the states of the Zollverein, in Prussia more especially.
Petitions numerously signed from most of the large manu-
facturing towns, each as Dusseldorff, Aix-la-Chapelle, &c.,
bad been addressed to the minister of finance at Berlin, in
which the superior advantages accorded to Belgian coin
merce were signalised, and the consequent prejudice to the
interests of the Zollverein, Among the articles which under
the treaty are admitted at lower rates of duty from Belgium
into Holland, than from the Zollverein, are mentioned
cotton and woollen fabrics, metallurgic products, &c. The
petitioners pray that the government will use all its influence
to bring Holland, either by means of negotiation, or by
reprisals, to place the Zellverein on the same footing of
advantages with Belgium.

ENGLISH FENDS.
3 per Ct. Red. Anus., 931 South Sea Stock New Anne., 931
3 per Cent. Consols, Anns., 944 41 Consols for Amt., 941
New 31 per Ct. Anus., 951 4 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 14d.,
Long Ann., exp. sth Jan., 1860, 11 912
9 15.18 Ditto Z5OO, 9 12
India Stock, 2578 Do., Small, 9 12
Ditto Bonds, 10001., 18
FORBID S FUNDS.
6 per Ct. Milian Bonds, 95 4 per Ct. Portuguese Acct., 374 61
1 per Ct. Grenada lids. Def., 31 $ per Ct. Spanish Bonds, for Ace.,
5 per Ct. Mexican Ace., Nov. 30, Nov. 30, 37
211 1 4 per Ct. Dotch Certs., 911 1
4 per Cl, Portuguese Bonds, 374 Ditto Met., Nov. 30, 914
EXCHANGES AND STOCKS ABROAD.
PARIII, Nov. 21.—Three per Cents., el 30 Piesve per Cents.. 116 40;
Do., per Cents., Ill; Belgian per Cents., 1640, 994;
Do., pive per Dents., 1542, 1011; Naples Reales, 102 ; Roman Loan,
991. Exchsnge on London, (30 days), paper, 25 4s; ditto, (90 days)
paper, 25 3.5: cash, 28 324.
Hamm Nov. 16.—Three per Cents., 311; Four per Cents., 204 ;.
Five per Cents., 211 ; Passives, 61. Coupons, 194 Exchange on Lon-
don, 364 ; discount, 6 per tent.
Muses° Nov. 20.—Austrian Five per Cents., 109; Bank Shares,
1,570; Rasa= English Lean, Three per Gents., 100; Ditto, Five per
Cents. Hamburg Certificates, 1014 1011 ; Ditto, 151 Series Inserip-
, tions, 1024•, DitW, Hope and Co., 3rd and 4Stiegiits, 874 47. th Series, 974 98 ; New
Four pet Cents., Hope and Co., 88; Ditto,Dutch
Actual Debt, Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58. Polish New Four
per Cent. 1844, 78. Danish English Loan, 611 844. Spanish
New Five per Cents., 181; Ditto, Three per Cents., 301.-
1 Exchanges on London : Hamburg, Nov. 20, 13 74 ; Ditto, three
• months, 13 51 ; St. Petersburg, Nov. 10, three months, 381 11 ;
Christiania, Nov. 13, three months, 994 • Stockholm, Nov. 18, 46
45 44 ; Vienna, Nov. 12, three months, 9'51 ; Lelpsie, Nov. 18, three
months, 8 231.
71... 17 —AL Sieltuld Sch. Three.and-s-Half per_ Cents.,

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RAILWAY A B 111.
Yesterday's share market may be reported as fair,
without fluctuations in prices of sny moment. In
North Staffordshire. there was some impi•ovement. Cale-
donians, and Shrewshury and Birmingham' were in better
demand. Some of the French lines were rathei higher also.
The Liverpool market had rather a drooping appearance,
and the old stocks were again lower. The speculativo ones
were also easier, except Dewsbury (blue), which were:very
scarce.
At Manchester Lair:nese was limited, and mice! generally
lower. Leeds and Dewsbury: formed an exeCption. The
demand was greater than the supply in the market, The
quotations in consequence advanced .11,gittly.
Tho market at Birmingham was dull throughout ; but
prices were, upon the whole, pretty well sustauvxl. The
abrewsbury and Birmingham, class A., opened at 2t:.. and
gii,:xn and Dudley, and Birmingham and Oxford
left oti" at 23.. 9d. prem. The Stour Valleys keep steady' :
mbar nest will not end in a rati-
bitiutncßtilorminsnhave recestf'd a little the opinion being, that the
'ire on the 4th of Da,'
ts.
and the trans-
ficstion
.of the sale which the rectors have effected with the
the
itedshar;e
almarthokugeth
Great West:."2-
that were effected, and no maternal advance was noted.
wpairiceresrteidat'firm in all sales
actions were wedsre
The Bristol market was remarkably flat, and but few bar-
gains were done in any description of stock or scrip. York
and North Midlands were done at a decline of 6 upon Satur-
day's quotatioras, and there were sellers of North Staffords at
a like reduction . but buyers wanted lower rates.
The business 'of last week closed languidly at Hull. A
still more limited ,:msineas was transacted on Saturday than
on Friday,and quotations receded slightly. Preference shares
in the York and New.` were done at 55 p. ; East Lanca-
shire shares at 41.115. 35.7• p.; North British (quarter.) at 615.
There was a steady inc,-ease of business during the week
at Glasgow, at improved prices. The Paisley and Renfrew
Railway, the shares of whic:: were some time ago as low as
265., has been purchased by th..l Paisley, Barrhead and Hur-
lett at 111. 2s. 6il. a share.
At Edinburgh New Caledonians :old on Saturday at 475. ;
Dundee and Perth at 2•1/. ; Do. (new.) at 91; Edinburgh
Car-
and Glasgow (quarters) at 19; Glasgow, Duatfries, and Car-
lisle at 495. 6d. ; North Britiah at 381.
RAILWAY SHARE LISTS.-Lo now. Nov. 23.
Bata.-The quotations of lines in Roman characters denote setae
transactions: those of lines in Italics sellers' prices.
TAID. PAIU.
20 Aberdeen 181 15 Lynn and Denham._
24 Andtergale - Leeds. i
42s Blew. Wol. 4' [Wiry 55 54p. IS Do. 4 share,
I. Birtningh. # Gloater. 129 130 2 Do. 1 shares...... .....
174 Do. New (ins. 71d.) 30 32 5 Do. Fifths
2 Birm.& Oxford June. 81 64 Do. Sixteenths
75 Bristol and Exeter ... 814 2 12s Do. Extension
5 Do. New 3 apt 40 Manchester & Birm...
30 Bristol and Glatfer 20 5
Do. 22p. 5 JAi. 5 shares A...
Buckinghainshire .ld. D B
3384 s s Montan 2l 31 4 1 Do. Do. C
24 Do. 4 'alerts 25 5 141Manch., Be:. # Mat
274 Chester and Holyhead 251 0 Manch. 4 Senthamp.
2 Chumet and Blj the- 11 1011 Midland
5 Oornwalt l4 24 Do. New
2 Do. 4 shares 24 D 1
d. 1 Do. New
Direct Northern 11 100 Do. Wm. & Derby
12 Dublin 4. Belfest.Mt 8 6d. 20 Newcastle & Berwick.
14 Eastern Counties 22* 3 25 Do. North Shields.
121 Do. New 14 I 51). 5 Newm. and Chestd....
6, Do. P. 5 perCt.No.l r. 25 North British
61 Do. Do. 2i. 11 Do.: shares.
2 Do. Trk. Extension I S Do. Fifths
14 East Lancashire
DD
I shares.
3 Do. New 9; 1 i Do. Extension ....... '
24 Do. New (late Pr. 4 Norfolk
(Metz.) (111 Do.; shares
14 East Linaiushire l5 3 6 Do. Extension .1
35 Eastern Union 5l 30 Northern & Eastern. 1
50 Edinburgh &Glasgow 755 45 Do.Serip(iss.bdis.)!
Do. ares
1 .21 124 Do. 1 shares.
104 sh
1 De. 5 shares 119 19 1 Do. New ...
1 Minh. and .Northern 2 9p. 42e North Staffordshire..
12 Ely & Huntingdon ...;13 121 3 worth wales
Exeter Fine., Dorclql IP. 7 ;Oaf., Waster., & WoL
50 Glasgow, Mint.* 40,09 73 3 'Portsmouth Direct
12stGoole, Done. & Sheff.l9iP. Preston end Wyre
07 ,Gt. So. & West (Del' 5 45 Do. 3i shares
l Gt. North of England. 253 . 100 Sheffirid et Manch-
5 Do..,Yrse 54 asp. 16 Do. Lineal,,. A 5....
15 Do. New lB 40p I2+ Central
1.; Do. New 151 I.9ip 24 Soattish Midland
55 Great Western 125 3 'Shrewsbury & Bina..
to Do. 4 shares 26 28P. 42*Shropshire Union... .
10 Do. 1 shares lB 35 (South Devon
24 Do. Fifths. 304 235 S. Easter** Dore?
2 Do. New 6n.a 765 20 D0.N.(i55.321.)N0.1
13 Huddersfield,. Manch 43 51p. 12 Do, N, (23/,e,,,gd,)21
3 Do. Ertenston
50 Hull and Selby 1 2) Do. N. (do. 151.) 41
25 Do. 1 shares. 52 5 {South Wales
124 Do. shares 25 & 1 11 'WaterfordNilkenyl
1 i Ipsw. Dary sc. Emu 13 4
Do. 44s West RWiing Union- I
24d0. Norwich._ 31 21 3 15 Wilts,tiom.,& Weymt
RI tanWagtf & Carlisle 604 25 York and Newcastle..
5 Do. New 51 04P. 5 Do. New
50 Leeds*. Bradford .. 4 see. 2 Do. Preference
174 Leeds and Thirsk l5l 4 50 York and North
5 Do. Now 55 25 Do. 5 shares ...... ...
12 Dews., Alma, 3,431 9; 40 Do. Selby -
Leeds,2
i. 0.0. Br. sh.(Blue) ;2 20 Do. Extension -
2 Do.do.F.xteseGreen) 4; 2 Do. Pref.rrnee
22s Leicester' Bedford... Id. 5 Do.E.&W.IIiag.EX
Us Leices.*Biewitighant FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
2a UV. Man.. 9.: N. June...2l 4 16 Boulogne and Amiens
lei London et Blackwell bB4 2 Bard Mul. Oette Cast
3 Do. New 4 24 Demerara
74 Do. Extension 4 Dendre Valley
50 Load. Brighton, S.Co. 59 85 is Direct BontbsfMadi
40 Do. Do. Fifths... 474 ft 8 Mitch lihenish
9 Do.Do.Guarn. sp. c 10 5s East Indian
121 London Bt. Greenwich 9 5s Gt.Southn.of Madre
191 Do. Preference 223 5s Great West. Bengal.
I London &N. Western 195 44 4 5 (It. Nor. France Cone 1091101
2 Do.} shares 23 2; 41 Lotman ala Sambre. 11
2 Do. hew shares- 15 4 4 Luzern
2 Do. Fifths. l9l 8 Namarbalniere i
124 Do. Eighths kna 10 Orleans and 1 teraonl2 21p.
5 Do. N. 4 :h. {"" S Oticans & Bordeaux. 7 S
8 Do. 40/.31i., /,. OM. 3 Paris St ins, Coast 4 i i
115 London &FL Western,os 34 20 Paris andollmm (4
40 Do. New Cons. belts:9 11p. 29 Paris and Rouen 33 345
2
224 Do. New 1285 S Paris .s.Vtraab. Cos s/ 15 Id.
18 Do. New 14.54p. 20 Rouen and Barre.- 25 5
24 London Lc York 125 5 10 Sambre and Metue....oi S
2 Do. 4 shares l2 I I Strashattro 4 8a1e..!.3 9
Lon., 8a1i..., & Yeovilll4 I 5 Taws* Nantesattet,l 04(1..
15 Lynn and Ely IC 6 West Flanders 134 301.
LITULPOOL, Nov. 23.--Sales:-Chester, Birkenhead (20/. eh.), 4 p.-
Dublin, Drogheda, 121 d.-E. Counties (York Ext.),_ if P.-Glasgow.
L
Paisley, Greenock (1 eh.), 84.-uteaater, Preston, 84 1.-Dandon, N.
Western, 1941.-Ditto (New 1 eh.), 131, 4 p.-Ditto ( sh.), 101 p,-
Ditto () sh., G. J.), 21 p.-Manchester, Birmingham, ,44.-31Alund,
125 (ex new).-Ditto (New sh.), 4; p. -N. British (1 eh.), 51s. 3d. p.
-S. Eastern (New sh., No. 4), 1 ls. 3d. p.-York, Newcastle, 39 (ex
new).-Ditto (Pref. ah.), 55, 5 p.-Clytles•lale Janet., 14 E. Lan-
cashire (No. 2, New sh.), 41 p. (ex odd. sh.).-IltulderaeK R. & C.,
al p.-Ditto (kiln. sh.), li p.-Louts, Dewsbury, 145, 14, 135, I p.-
Ditto (Branches, blue), 9 p.-Ditto (Ext., green), 14, 2 p.-Leeds,
Think, 21 d.-Ditto (New sh.) 1 d.-Liverpool, Bury, 35 p.-Oxford,
',Worcester, Wolcerbamptem,4d.-Birkenhesd, Lancashire, Cheshire
Junes. 11, 6s. 3d. p.-Birm. am, Oxford Janet., 61, 1 p.-Barton,
Stamford, Birmingham, 1 p.-Uverpoot, Manchester, Newcastle
Juliet., 3e. N. d.-London, York, 5 d.-Newry, Warrenpoint, 14 p.-
N. Staffordshire, 31, 5 p.-N. V, cetera, 4, Bs. 9.1., 4 p.-Shropshire
Union, B. & C., 4 a.-Shenteld, Linoolnshire, 5 d.-Dotch Rhenish,
15 (1.-Goole, Doncaster, 5 p.-Manchester, Midland, Winisby'
Its. 3d. d. •
MEETINGS THIS DAY.
Cambrian Grand Junction, 2, Adelaide-place, 12 noon.-Direct Slid-
field and Macclesfield, 62, Mark-lane, II a.m.
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16 154
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LONDON.—ASTURIAW MINING COMPANY: PROPoSED
RAlLWAT.—Yegcrday a special meeting of this company was held at
the office in Auetinfriars, for the purpose of receiving the late favour-
able report on the company's quicksilver mine in the Asturias, and
also on the present state of the iron works. The chair was taken by
G. Colquhoun, when the report alluded to was read to the 111dt-
lag, from which it appeared that a most famurable change had taken
place in the cinnabar mine. At present they have 250 tons raised to
the surface, which are valued at 9,4001.; there is ore in the mine
to be extracted estimated at 15,0001. more. The none cost the
company altogether 2,700/. The imn works are now in a reiv for-
ward state, and in about a month the Meet furnace will be finished,
when profits may be looked fur. The report from the collieries is
also very favourable. It is the confident expectation of the directors
that before the next annual meeting in June they will be enabled to
divide a profit of 20 per cent. on the paid-up capital. The chairman
alluded to the efforts of Mr. Iluahenthal to raise a company in the
Asturias for making a railway from Mitres to the port of Alviles,
on the Bay of Biscay, and the advantages being so great would induce
the directors to recommend an appropriation of shares in this com-
pany towards suck a railway —A Director said, if they only had n
railway to the coaA, they could supply Algiers for the French govern-
meet, and also the Spanish government, he-ides the ports of the
Mediterranean. The proposed railway would be contiguous to their
lime and ironstone.—The Chairman said there was a determination on
the part of the inhabitants to make a railway, from a conviction of
its being a profitable one; the distance would be shoot 30 miles. After
sane discussion the report was adopted ; a resolution was also passel
approving of the arrangement with Mr. Eushenthal, and leaving the
unappropriated tares to the future discretion of the directors (3,000
of which were to be awarded to the railway projectors). A reaolution
was also passed for making another call of 2/. per share in two instal-
ments, between this and next June. A rote of thanks was then passed
to the Chairman and Directors, and the meeting adjourned.
PROVINCIAL.— EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAT.—An
extraordinary general meeting of this company was held yester-
day, at Bury, to obtain authority for the directors to IWO..
ceed foe new trenches and rake additional espial. There wry
an average attendance of shareholders present. Mr. John Grimily
presided, and a series of resolutions were proposed autho-
rising application to parliament for power to construct a branch
from Accrington to Clitheree ; a branch from Whalley to
Burnley; a branch to unite with the Fleetwood, Preston, and nest
Riding line near Mitten; a branch from Ormskirk to Southport ; an
extension of the Onnekirk said Preston lines into Preston, a nth inde-
pendent station ; a line for better connecting this line with the Man-
chester and Leeds at Burnley; a deviation at Lomb, Hailingden, and
Rawtenstall, with a short cool branch at the latter place ; an extension
through Whitetield, Prestwick, and Broaglaton into Manchester, so
as to render it unnecessary to pans over the Bolton and Mancheiger
lino ; and to raise new capital for these purposes, to oppose rival lines,
and enter into all neceasary agreements. Before these resolutions
were submitted, Mr. liichthon, the managing director, explained
that there was an absolute nmesaity for making the two most expen-
sive of these extensioni. (those into Manchester and Preston) in con-
sequence of the want of station accommodation the London and North
Western and Leeds Companies were able to supply, and the cod of tall
over the lines of those companies, taking into ouusideration the amount
the East Lancashire would have to pay for this accommodation, and
for the tolls, the directors would be amply warranted in laying out
capital in these extensions, and would be able to secure out of it an
ample return upon such capital. The total new capital eought to be
raised was 850,0001. It was proposed to raise this new capital by the
issue of 30,000 new shares of 251. (25e. deposit) ; such shares to be
distributed pro rata, two shunt to the bolder of every five of the
present shares, the issue, of mune, to depend upon, and
be restricted by, the success of the new schemes in parlia-
ment. He gave a flattering account of the traffic, so far
developed, in proportion to the cost, as compared with the
traffic on the alder lines of the country. The resolutions were all
carried, there being two dissentients, however, to the extensions into
Manchester and Preston. In answer to • queetien, it was stated that
the new extension lOW Manchester would be from within half-a-milc
of Bury, and would be eight miles long; but the necessity for the pre-
sent line would not be altogether superseded.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.—ShouId the weather prove
favourable, it is fully expected that this railway will be ready for in-
spection by the government inspector, on Thursday next, the 26th
inst., and, if so, it will be opened for public traffic on Tuesday,
December 1.
WRITEHAVEN JUNCTION.—The rails on this line are
now laid down within a few yards of the Whitehaven terminus, near
Harrington, and the line will be open throuthout for the conveyance
of torts traffic, if not for passengers, early in December.
WIIITEMAVEN AND FURNESS.—Last week Mr. Robert
Stephenson, chief engineer of the line, inspected the works on this
railway. He also examined the proposed tunnel for connecting this
line with the Whitehaven Junction, and he entirely approved of the
whole of the works. The time allowed for the completion of the
,air. nn.l It La nvneptell the work will ha