The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-23 00:00:00

WINDING UP JOINT STOCK. COMPANIES.

MADRID AND VALENCIA RAlLWAY.—Yesterday hie
honour, Master Bleat, admitted a claim brought in by Mr.
Beatty, one of the engineers of this company, for 3,463 L,
with the view a enabling the claimant to try ha validity by
en action at common law. Mr. Role, who was the solicitor
to the company, said be believed that there was a balance
due to Mr. Beatty at this moment. Mr. Beatty was examined
upon the subject of his appointment as engineer, and alleged
mat had it not been for his exertions in Madrid it was very
questionable whether the 17,0001. caution money would ever
have been obtained. A bill had been drawn upon him for
2001. by Mr. Chadwick, which had been dishoneured.
BRIGHTON JUNCTION RAlLWAY.—Yesterday •
claim, on the put of the engineer, was brought in before Sir
George Ems by Mr. Lee, the official manager. The scheme
was to connect Brighton with the north and,west of England,
with a capital of 300,0001. in 15,000 shares of 201 each, and
a deposit of 21. `2s. Some of the provisional committee con-
tributed 1501. and others 601. each, and the object to
winding-up the company appean to be to cause those mem
ben who did not so subscribe to pay en enuel proportion in
discharge of ontstanding liabilities. The proceedings were
adjourned, his Honour appearing to be of opinion that in
the present state of the law upon this subject, the particular
use was one in which there woe really no company to
wind up.
DOVER, DEAL, AND CINQUE PORTS RAILWAY.—
Yesterday his Honour Muter Brougham referred the bill of
costs arising out of an appeal on ,the part of MUM Hooks
and Thompson, in respect of their bill of costs for 6,0001., to
the taxing master.
THE iMPLIUAL BANE Or ENClLAND.—Yaritdrday
Mr. &lathy, the official manager of this company's r Haire,
attended in the absence of big honour, Master Ferrer, before
Mr. Whi'ing with Mr. Wetherell, his solicitor, and Mum.
Gregory, Field, Bower, and li.nightley. When all those

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shMe-htilden in the third list of contributories, who, on shares
being allotted them, paid Is. per share, and took up their
scrip, were agreed to be " excluded " from the list, as the
offlaal manager had at present no further evidence to offer
against them. The names, however, of Messrs. Carruthers
and Pershouse were adjourned, it being undersood that
farther effidenoe was capable of being produced against
them and others is a similar position, and whose cases
differed from those of Mr. Aspioall, whose name
had been previously eacluded. An application was
made for e re by the solicitors for the different parties, and
sojourned for the Master's decision. No further evidence •
being offered against Mr. James Woolley, of Manchester,
druggist, holder of 15 sham, and whose name had been I
Woolley,
to the deist of settlement by his father, Office* i;
without authority, it was decided to place the I:
names of the Rev. J. Ainslie, of Ainsworth, and others, on '
the lies, as his executors, subject, so tar as the exclusion of
Mr. Jima Woolley's name is concerned, to the general
question of the liability of re, yet to be determined
on appeal to the Court of Chancery. It is understood that
the case generally of the third clue or shilling shareholders
will be taken upon appeal to the court. No decision has yet
been give° on the cam of Buckley, whose case was taken on
the second list. The official manager, Mr. Boulby, stated
that at present nothing had been done towards getting the
fund that existed in cinnexion with the company into court.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF NI

The interment of the Duke of Newcastle took place en
Tuesday afternoon, in the maneoleurn which he had caused
to be erected In the church act Markham Clinton, distant
from Clumber Park, about six or seven miles. The tenantry,
in number nearly 600, assembled by appointment on horse-
back, at the mansion of the late noble deceased, at ten
o'clock a.m. The duke's tradesmen at Worksop, u well
as a large portion of the respectable inhabitants, had pre-
viously expressed to the Earl of Lincoln their desire toprin
in the proces.ion which should accompany his noble father
to his last earthly resting-place ; but their attentions although
highly appreciated, were respectfully declined on account
of the great number of the tenantry who had expressed a
wish to be participators in the obeequies. A considerable
number of the manages of the neighbouring nobility and
gentry Joined in the mournful cavalcade.
NEW CHURCIIES.—The Incorporated Society for
Promoting the Enlargement, Buddisig, and Repairing of
Churches and Chapels, made grants to seven places, five
being fir the erection of new churches at Hockerill, in the
parish of Bishop Stortford ; Great Marlow, Bucks. ; Hulme
St. Mark, in the parish of Manchester ; Saeyd, in the parish
of Bursletn, Staffordshire; Crocken Hill, in the parish of
Eyedford, near Dartford. The remaining two grants were
for enlarging the church at Sydenhe en, near Thome, Oxford-
shire ; and for re arrenging the interior of the church at
Lthersden, near Tenterden, Kent. Since the previous
meeting of the society it has received the sum of 2,0001.,
being part of the legacy bequeathed to it by the late T. C.
Harrold, Esq. A legacy of 6001. has been announced from
the late John Hasler, Esq., of Regeat-souare, and one of
1001. from Mrs. Kennett, of Brompton. Donations of 1001.
each have been received from Sir R. Fitzwygrain, Bart., and
the Bi-hop of London ; the last mentioned donation being
part of the tithe of • professional income intrus'ed for distri-
bution to his lordship; and • donation of 1051. has been
contributed by the Bishop of Durham.
Tim END OF THE DRVIDS.—Five hundred years
had pulsed since Julius Cnium's first invasion of the island,
when the Romans departed from it for ever. In the course
of that time, although they had been the cause of terrible
fighting and bloodshed, they bad dune much to improve the
condition of the Britons. They bad made great military
I roads; they bad built forts ; they had taught them how to
delta and arm themselves much better than they had ever
, known how to do beiore • they bad refined the whole
British way at living. Agric.la had built a great wall
of earth, seventy miles long, extending from New-
castle to beyond Carlisle, (or the purpose of keeping
out the Picts and Scots; Hadrian bad strengthened it;
Severna, finding it much in wont of repair, had built it
afresh detente. Above all, it was in the Rumen time, and
by means of the Roman ships, that the Christian religion
war first brought into Britain, ai.d its people first taught the
greet lesson that to be good in the sight of God they must
love the it neighbours u thessely!s, and do unto others as
they would be done by. The Druids declared it was very
wicked to believe any such thing, and cursed all the people
who did believe it very heartily. But when the people found
that they were none the better for the blessings of the Druids,
and none the worse for the mines of the Druids, but that
the sun shone and the rain fell without consultiog the Druids
at all, they just be gun to think that the Druids were mere
men and that it signified very little whether they cursed or
blessed. Alter which the pupils of the Druids fell off greatly
in numbers, and the Druids took to other trades.—Dickens's
"Household Words." _ . _

MARINE STATISTICS.—From returns famished by
the marine surveyor of the Liverpool Dorlcoffice, it appears
that the number of vessels assisted by the lifeboats in 1850,
was 20, against 25 in the previous years; that the number of
lives saved in 1850 wes 87, against 38 in 1849 In 1850, 4,729
gallows of oil ana 11,024 wicks were consumed in the several
light-houses, against 4,795 gallons of oil and 11,610 nicks in
the previous year. Toe number of vessels that passed inwards
through the Victoria Channel in 1850 was 13.656, of which
number 7,650 pseud during the time the Risk Channel was
closed; the number of vessels that passed outwards wee
15,007, of which number 3,336 ',need during the time the
Rock Channel was closed ; total, 28,663 pencil through the
Victoria Chancel in 1850, against 29,915 vessels in 1849.
The number of vessels that pseud through the Rock Channel
in 1860 was, inwards, 3,906; outwards, 4,126; total, 8,032,
as compared with 7,648 is 1849.
MURDER IN ST. HELIER.—On Sunday af:emoon,
the 12th inst., a coroner's inquest was held at the general
hospital on the body of Elias Ballot, aged 65 peen, which
was found lying in the harbour of St. Helier (south side, old
pier) about 8 o'clock on the morsing of the said day. The
deceased was a rigger and shipkeeper, and was a native of St.
Martin's parish. Mr. Jam. a Pugeley, stated that he saw
deceased about 11 o'clock on Saturday tight, with a lighted
lantern in him hand, proceeding to the vessel Intrepid, which
was lying towards the top of the pier, and of which he had the
charge. The lantern carried by the deceased was found up-
right about three yards from the body. The jury, having exa-
mined the body, heard several winter's, and it:preen:l •
desire that a post 1140ItIMS examination of the body should
be made. The continuation of the examination of witnesses
MD then adjourned wad Wednesday. On that day the jury
met at ten ocleak, at the D. pity Viscount's-office, when Dr.
Jones gave it as his opinion, alter • postmen's examine-
tion, that death was caused by • blow given from behind with
a sharp but heavy instrument. The jury repaired to the
spot where deceased was bound, and which was designated
to them by t witnesses, when it was ascertained that
the body was at a distance of fifty feet from the Intrepid (the
vessel of which deceased was in charge), thirty-6n feet from
the Pallas, and eleven feet from the quay. Several witnesses
were subsequently hoard. It appeared from the deposition
of deemed 's daughter that her father left home on Saturday
evening, a few minutes before eleven o'clock, with his lighted
lantern, to go to sleep on board toe Intrepid. He won a
cloth cap, which had not been found, and had in his pocket
63. in silver, and about as muck in copper. His pock.rs
were searched on Sunday, but the only thing found on his
person were the keys ot Its veuel. It appeared also in evi-
. dance that part of two sheets of copper were cut off the bows
of the Pallu on the night el Saturday to Sunday, and it is
supposed that the deceased detected the thieves in the set of
stealing the capper, and, in order to wawa punishment, they
reatadtted the horrid deed. The jury unanimously returned
• verdict of " Wiliul murder, by some paean or persons
unknown."—Jersey Supt.
Warr INDIA COTTON.—Several parcels of cotton
have been impAted within theme three or four days from
Demerara, the growth of that island. The vessel Theodosis
has brought 22 bales, the Elisabeth 21 bales, sad the Trou-
badour 10 bales of the article.
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.--
Return et traffic for the week ending January 19,1851:
—P carriages, hones, and mai*
22 3714 I;7' Igrt irchandise, 15,729 J. 14.1 ; aftlos
E 361. 18s. Total, 38,9511. B'. Ild. Corresponding week,
1860, 87,4731. 18s. Id. Aggregate-1850: 112,7054. 12s, 3d.
1861; 119.0261. 12s. Id.

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