The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-02 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1848.

TYE EXP.

the meantime accept the defendant's own recognisance for
his appearance next week, when the case would be finally
dhipeeed of.
LAMBETFL—ROBIIIIier OP PLATIL—IMPOZTANT TO
PAWNBEGILIES.--011 Tuesday Masses. Buries, Buttton,
Mamma, amid Gray, pawnbrokers, in Camberwell and Wal-
[ weeny ewe senneseed to show cause why an order should
Mhe nen to sash and all of them to deliver up to the
emir a of -plate and other property, which had
aiss aka Mr. Jones, • genllenian living at Peck-
ham. Ostia of last month Mr. Jones returned home,
@few an almsese el slit, or nine days, and found that his
servant, ago tton, whom be had left in charge of
house basaseeeded, and that his plate-chest was stripped
nita valuable matents. He at once gave information to
of his sebbery, and got hand-bills printed end
ahvnLted, in whiels be gave a desterimion of his missing pro-
perty, as well as of hie servant, who had absconded, but up to
the present had net been heard of. On the following Sun-
day morning a letter was received by post by for Jones, con-
taining a number of pawnbroker's duplicates the missing
plate, as well's for a vast variety of other property. These du-
plicates were put into the hands of police constable Cotton,
who was employed in endeavouring to apprehend Stratton,
and he called at the shops of each of the defendants, and not
only cautioned them not to part with the property, but to
give any person applying for it into custody. Mr. Jonas, '
finding that the thief, of whom he had received an excellent I
character, on entering his service, was not likely to be taken,
applied at this court and took out SHEIBIOUSeI against
forr the
the de-
(andante, that the magistrate might make tango
rd
property being delivered up to him.—After the evidence had
been gone through, Mr. Humphreys, who attended
defendants, contended that he had no case to answer, inas-
much as it had not been shown by evidence that any portion
of the plate and other property stolen from Mr. Jones was
in the pouession of his clients—Mr. Elliott replied that this
fact would be proved by the production of the property, sad
celled on the defendants to produce it agreeable to the
terms of the summonses.—Mr. Humphreys said that in the
absence of any proof that the property was in their posses-
lion, be should advise his clients to produce nothing.—Mr.
Elliott replied that there could be no doubt whatever, free
the duplicates produced, as well as from what took plass
when the officer called on them, that the property described
was in the possession of the defendants, and as it was neces-
sary for the ends of publio justice that it should be produced,
he should, in the event of a refusal, grant a search warrant
to find the property.—Mr. Humphreys remarked that the
duplicates were merely presumptive evidence, and if tor.
ion
Jones thoughtof his prclieeonts pr to
he must take swear that te oods were in the
mansh thge consequenees.—
Mr. Jones replied that he had not sworn, nor s
would
he
(swear to any such thing, though he had no doubtwhatever
his property was in the hands of the defendants.—
Mr. EUiott again asked the defendants to produce the I
, property, but they, under the advice of Mr. Humphreys,
' refused to do so, upon which the magistrate directed that
search warrants should be made out against the respective
defendants. This was done, and the warrants were placed
in the hands of Saunders, one of the summoning officers,
and Cotton, for execution. These officers made up their
minds to • week's search, as it is no joke to examine the I
stock of four pawnbrokers. Their trouble, howevi r, was
comparatively light, for each of the defendants, on the pro-
sentation of the warrant, delivered up the prop rty, a .d it I
was yesterday produced before Mr. Elliott —The delendants
have
were in attendance, but applied to the magistrate to
the case adjourned for a week, on the ground that their soli-
citor, Mr. Humphreys, could not attend on that day, and also ,
to give them time to make some further inquiries
into a matter which deeply affected themselves and I
their brother tradesmen. One of the defendant also said I
that a part of the property had been pawned by • second
female, who was much younger than Mr. Jones's house-1
keeper was described, and they wished to find out, if pos-1
sible, who this person was.—Mr. Jones remarked that he
had produced the daughter of his late housekeeper oar the I
day before, and she was now in attendance to he seen by the
pawnbrokers; but his own opinion was that she had nothing
to do with the pawning. of the property.—The young woman
alluded to wu here pointed out from a number of others in
the bode of the court by the ehopman of Mr. Burger as the
person who had pawned a portion of the property produced.
She was also identified by the son of one of the other defend-
ants as having pawned other portions of the property with
him ; upon which she wu placed at the bar, and the evi-
dence of the witnesses against her having been taken, she wM
remanded for a week, when the case will be further pso-
ceeded with.
THAMES.—STABRING AMONGST THIETIE.—C. Jones,'
a notorious thief and member of the swell mob, was charged
with feloniously wounding James Grant, with intent to mur-
der or do him grievous bodily harm. The wounded man is
a thief and " nobble r," equally well known to the police as
Jones, and he has received wounds likely to terminate in his
death.—Yesterday morning, soon after one o'clock, the two
men were in a very disorderly flash house, called the Brass
Founders' Arms, in the Whitechapetroad. When Grant
came into the house, at a few minute* after one, the prisoner,
who was already there, commented quarrelling with hiss.
Another man joined in abusing Grant, and offered
to fight him for 101., at the same time putting his
hand in his pocket and taking out some money. Great
rue from his seat and struck the prisoner in the mouth,
and also struck the man who chsllengc d him
The prisoner and Grant fought several rounds for
about five minutes; and the landlord's father, Mr. Bertram
who had often forbidden the prisoner the house, went round
the counter to the front of the bar and endeavoured to force
the prisoner out, but was unable to do est, and he called in •
police-oonstable. The bystanders took Grant away, on which
the prisoner became exceedingly violent. Grant said he knew
what his name was in that house, and that he had better
" hook" it. He WAS proceeding towards the door, but before
he could reach it the prisoner made a rush end struck him
three times on the head over the police-constable's arm, as
he was trying to get him out of the house. Just as police-
man Self had reached the door with Grant, he saw blood on
his neck and s'reaming down his face from his fore-
head, where an incised wound had been inflicted. The
policeman, however, had no idea that the prisoner
had used any sharp instrument, and, having forced Grant
into the treet, he wu endeavouring to get the prisoner out,
when hes was surrounded by a great number of thieves and
blackguards, who interfered with the constable, hustled him,
and said the prisoner had done nothing, and should not go
out. Self, finding he could not remove the prisoner, went
towards the door, and found Grant bleeding copiously from
several frightful wounds about the head and face, and he
said, " I am • murdered man ; I've been stabbed in the
head. For God's sake try and pull the knife out." A man
named Lester saw the blade of • knife sticking in the man's
head, and tried to pull it out with his fingers, but was unable
to do so, and he then attempted to extract it with his teeth,
bat could not succeed. Self then, with great exertion, ex-
tracted the blade of the knife, which appeared to have
broken short off from the handle, and the blood flowed
again in a torrent. The police constable asked
Grant to point out the man who had committed the
act, and he immediately pointed to the proner, and said he
hail done it. Self endeavoured to secure the fellow who
was surrounded by a desperate sang, and they said he should
not go, and attempted to get him out of the house. A stout
man named Charles Cartwright seized the prisoner, and held
him fast until Self sprang his rattle and obtained further as-
sistance, when Jones was 'secured, and, after a severe battle
with his companions, he was lodged in the station-house.
Grant was taken to the London Hospital, where his wounds
were dressed. He was stated to be in imminent danger.
The prisoner denied that he inflicted the:wounds; but there
was no question from the concurrent testimony of all the
witnesses that he stabbed Grant while Self was attempting
to remove him from the house. There was nothing found on
the prisoner but a gambling halfpenny with two heads, luredd
by nobblers'' and swell mob thieves at country fairs an
races.—The prisoner was remanded till Monday next.
WANDSWORTH. PLUNDERING THE LUGGAGS
TRAINS ON THB SOLTB WESTERN RAILWAY. —lt'-
Butcher, • young men of short stature but powerful
frame, who is suspected of having robbed the goods trains ,
lon the South Western Railway, to the amount of some '
hundreds of pounds, was finally examined on a charge of
having plundered the goods trains. The prisoner has only
been discharged from Guildford gaol about two months, hav-
ing been committed there for three months for being found
in a luggage train on the above-mentioned line under cir-
cumstances that left no doubt of his dishonest intention.
Since his liberation the campany had been heavy
losers, and suspicion was directed against the prisoner, who
it was well-known could alight from a train whilst travel-
ling 25 miles an hour ; and the majority of the robberies
had taken place en Putbright common, which is seven miles
below the Woking station, and across which common the
train travels at the above-mentioned rate.—Thomas Bent,
a police-constable who has been selected to do special duty
on the line, stated that. on Saturday, the 19th ult., he
went to Guildford and found the prisoner in custody
of the local police, on • charge of stealing a horse and cart.
From information he received he went to the Swan beer-
shop, and in a shed belongiog to that house he found a beg
containing 491bs. weight of coffee ; and Inspector Bolling-
ton, of the local police, also discovered 10 pot of patent
cocoa. Witness then went back to the prisoner, and told
him that if he was discharged by the local bench he should
take him for stealing the coffee. At two o'clock that after-
noon the pris iner was transferred to his custody. The
prisoner, on the road to the railway station, repeatedly said
the coffee could not be sworn to. Since the prisoner's
remand witness had been to Purbright common, and'
at the bottom of the embankment he had found a number
of coffee berries which corresponded with that he found
at the beer shop, where he also took poesemion of a pair of
hoots belonging to the prisoner which were soiled with the
same coloured clay al o which that part
of the embankment is composed.—James Mills, a
Unstable of Hambleton, about five miles below
Guildford, proved that he apprehended the prisoner'
ea
the 18th ult., at the latter place, on a charge of '
stealing his uncle's horse and cart. The prisoner said he
eoald not restore either, but he had 61. or 61. worth of tea
and coffee, and he would send his uncle 21. worth. Witness
said that perhaps there might be something banging to this,
when the prisoner replied, " It's all right, I had it out of
the rail. I did away with the box and took the outside
wrapping off, and no man can swear to tea or coffee. The
rail used me bad ; and they'd better have given me 21. a
week than let me go and rob them, and they lose a hundred
a week; for I can rob the train when it is going 30 mile an
hour, and no other man in England can do it"—
juletiffmeryo,sll4ckilesed, si,twwcerehouseman in the employ of Messrs.
Evans and Co. of Qquueeanntiettreeie.
otf, procoffveede
anhadva. own 'ottplaste7th
in a chest and barrel, end directed them to Mr. John Emu,
of Dorchester, and forwarded them by the usual alumna.
He identified the broken chest produced by the remains of the I
label and some private marks ; the coffee produced was the
same description as that he had sent.—Mr. Bum proved that
the barrel only came Naito hand.—StephenWest, a porter at
the Woking station, found the chest thrown into a holly
bush on
ginbiht common, with about a handful of coffee
remainin n it.—Harriett Seabrook, the wife of a beer-shop-
keeper at Guildford, proved that the prisoner, whom sl-e had

previously known came to her house on the leek eh., sad
left on the following night .abont sins o'riesk ha returned
the following morning about the same hour, with a bag on
hie smolders, which appeared heavy. She was not aware
t contained ooffee until the neat day, when the primmer
washended.—Bvidence was then given to show that
the prisoner offered the coffee for sale to different fre-
quenter, of the beer hop, ackWalism Persons, rtalf•ser-
eant to the militia, who keeps a chandler's shop, bought
Sibs. of the stolen coffee.—The prisoner was again charged,,
and evidence given for an offence of the same description as
the last, and he was committed for trial.

MONEY MARKET.
WEDNESDAY RYINI3IO.
The absence of any discouraging rumours, or in-
deed of intelligence of any particularity, from Paris
this morning, served to strengthen and improve the
funds. Console were done as high as 831, and
quoted 831 to 84. But these higher rates brought
forward strong sellers, whose operations reduced
prices below 82 at one time, and at the close of busi-
ness they had only recovered to 821 to for money,
and 821 to for amount. As usual, reports were
put forward to account for the fall, and the emu- I
!give transactions by which it was preceded, which
found currency to some extent, although they
could not be traced to any sufficient authority. Thassl
it was asserted that the national guard of Havre
had openly declared for a monarchy, and that the
working class of Paris were in a sort of state of per-
manent insurrection. It need not be said that these
stories of the moment had not the slightest connexion
with the movements of the speculators, the secret of
which was obvious and simple enough. Consols had'
advanced within about two days from 2 to 3 per cent,'
and therefore, in jobbing phrase,, were worth selling,
more especially at an uncertain tme like the present,
when the chapter of accidents may always be counted
on for a lucky turn, sooner or later. Reduced Threes
were 821 to /. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 83
to 1. Long Annuities, 81 to Exchequer Bills,
7a. to 135. premium. India Bonds, 2s. to ss. pre-
mium. Bank Stock, 191 to 5.
Foreign stocks, except Peninsular, screw
mewhat,
in process of recovery to-day. Brazil re donel
at 78, and called 76 to 8. Mexican, 16 to 1. Spa-1
nish Fives, 14 to 15; the Threes, 25 to 6 ; Passive,
31 to 4. Portuguese, 18 to 19. Dutch Two-and-a-
Ralf per Cents., 44 to 5; the Fours, 74 to 6.
I Russian, 97 to 8 ex-dividend.
The London and Westminster Bank proprietary
I held their half-yearly meeting to-day, at which, after
the usual forms of presenting and explaining the
balance sheet, a dividend was declared at the rate of
0 per cent. per annum. It appeared that a loos had
been incurred of 20,0001. by the sale of stock within
the last half year, which, however, was carried
against the profit account, and the dividend paid out
of the remainder, leaving over still about 4,0001. to be
carried to the reserve fund.
It is stated that the French portion of interest upon
the guaranteed Greek loan was not forthcoming to-
day, and consequently not paid. Fears were expressed
lest the Russian portion would be withheld, but this
is scarcely probable.
The more striking. immediate effects upon the prices
of public securities, in this counUy if not elsewhere,
which, apparently at least, have been produced by
the great political convulsion which for the present
has been consummated in Paris, and is working its
way through the provinces, as contrasted with those
which emanated from its scarcely less extraordinary
predecessor of July, 1830, were briefly observed upon
yesterday. The extent of the fall in 1830 was limited
upon Consols to less than 11 per cent., say
from 921 to 911, within a period of eleven days,
reckoning from the 27th of Jul', when the suicidal
ordinances of Charles X. were in course of promul-
gation, and opposition, if not insurrection, was already
known to be organised, to the 7th of August, when for
Ithe first time afterwards the Bourse was re-opened in
'Paris for business, and prices could be quoted. The
French Three per Cent. Itentes within the same
period had actually advanced more than 41 per cent.,
and were higher th.sn before either ordivanees were
known of or insurrection was suspected. On the
27th of July they had fallen to 72 franca 40 cents. ;
on the 7th of August they had risen to 76f. 95c. ; on
the 26th of July they were only 76f. 50c. It would
seem from the difference of action in the case that the
dealers in stocks on this side the water were much
more sagacious in their appreciation of the ultimate
consequences of the political changes of that time
than their fellows on the other side more immediately
affected by them. Hence Consols fell whilst the
Rentz. advanced. It is to be observed, however, that
the French funds had been in course of decline for
some time previously. The Three per Cents, had de-
wended within some weeks from 80L to 72f. 40c. on
the 27th of July ; whereas Consols had fallen only
from about 95 to 921.
But the remarkable difference between a
deco
11 per cent. only in Console in eleven of the first re-
volutionary days of 1830, and a fall of 64 per cent..
in the first seven revolutionary days of 1848, is cer-
tainly calculated to create surprise. It may, how-
ever, be explained in great part, if not altogether, by
the varying conditions of times and circumstances.
Thus in 1830 money was really so abundant, and
credit so recovered from the disasters of 1825.6, as to
permit the government to make some financial opera-
tions by which the Exchequer was economically be-
nefited. Consols had been firmly sustained at and
about 95 during a period antecedent to the troubles in
France. In 1848, however, the country is close upon,
the heels of the most destructive year, financially and
industrially, ever recorded, and although money
or capital, if measured by the overflowing
sack of the Bank of England, would appear to be of
most plethoric habit, yet, as is well known, the position'
of that now well-endowed establishment is far from
being a faithful reflex of the state of the country at
large. Money, or capital, if brought to the test and
measured by the standard of credit, must be pro-
nounced rather in comparative penury. Consols, by
the mere force of that discredit which leads the pra-
dent and the timid to look more to the safety of what
they possess than to putng out to more profitable
mance. at a possible humid calculated on panic-pro-
duced impressions, had only just painfully been car-
ried back eo far ae to 89, from a monetary and com-
mercial crisis which had depressed them 10 per cent.
below that price. They had so recovered from the ac-
cumulation of investments placed in them, as in a strong
box, of the surplus funds and capital which otherwise,
with credit and confidence in a more healthy habit,
would have remained, or have been embarked, in the
' usual channels of industry and enterprise. Even at
189 the position of Consols was still too recently at-
Itained to be firmly assured. It was already threat-
ened by the financial difficulties of the government,
since only too amply developed.
With this undecided, still weak and eirre
situation of the money and stock market, whisk
I dered it so much more readily liable to adverse
pressione, one other cause at least co-operated to
make it still more deeply susceptible to such impres-
sions, under apparently the same circumstances, in
1848 than in 1830. It need not be disguised that
the revolution of 1830, which involved little more
than the change of a dynasty, scarcely more than a
compulsory family arrangement, with royalty and
the monarchy otherwise untouched, excited much less
apprehension among the easy and the wealthy classes
than the revolution of 1848, which deposes a mn-
narchy apparently to substitute a republic.
And yet it is difficult withal to imagine a more
continuous and ruinous deterioration in the values of
public securities arising out of one main political cause,
with, however, its excrescent adjuncts of more do-
mestic concern, than what is exhibited in the first year's
annals of the monarchical revolution of 1830. Take
the demonstration in the following tabular price cm.-
rent of English and French stocks of the same deno-
mination at the dates assigned from July 1830 to
April 1831. It is compiled from the stock lists of the I
time in the daily papers, so far as the materials could
be found, but is necessarily incomplete as to the re-
gularity of the periodical dates, according to which
cleared to be arranged, because the French funds
were not then, as now, a component portion of each
day's publication. It is hard to conceive that a re•
public theoffspring of one revolution could cause more
havoc with public values within the same space of
time than is here seen to have been enacted by, or to
have followed upon, a monarchy the offspring of an-
other revolution :
Prices of French and English Three per Cents. at
the following dates :
1830 July 14 ?tench Banta 76t 50c. Cowls
27 -721.40 e. - 9
Aug. 7 -76 f. 93e.
A - 111
„17 - 761. 73e. - 91
-72 L 90c. - 91
BepA-
- 7
711. 40e.
67i. loc.
oji. 4 - 631. - 67
„11 -64 f. 60c. -
15 - 641. -
- 86
„30 -631.93 e.

PAID,

Doe. 8 —80 f. 50e.
„17 —66 f. OD.
30 elf. 60e.
Dee. 13 —58 f. 70a
•• al —311 f. 75e.
—62 f. 2.5 a
est
Est Jan. 10 Trench Reatce 61f. 9se.
-." „21 GIL 33e.
„ 31 GIL 20a
Feb. 11 —60 f. DD.
21 —57 f. 7
28 351. SOe. ..... 78
jai, 9 —53 f. 30e.
~ 18 —32 f. 40e.
„ 28 —31 f. 30e.
„30 486.900.
April 1 468. 23e.
~ 2
Here the fall stopped, and prices began gradually
to reascend, but were long before their reoovery to:
the starting point of July, 1830. After the revolu-
tion was accomplished the further fall of prices, com-
menced with the September etni:;utes and insurrections
in Paris and the departments, continued for months:
the Belgian imbroglio and petty war, the occupation of
Ancona, and other political events of home or foreign
concern, supervening to exasperate and prolong the
crisis, and to deteriorate the values of public securi-
ties. From July 26, 1830, to April 2, 1831, French
Renter had fallen from 76 to 46.

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ENGLISH FUNDS.
Bask Stock, 191 6 Oomois for Amt., 831 3 i 25 2 I
3 per Ct. Reduced Anne., 83 1124 ll 25
3 per 2
15 CO
Coss. Ana.. V/ 3 4 Ezebend. Bilk, £1,004. 3d.. 14 7
le 13 pi.
New 3t Per Ct. Assn.. MI 3+4 3 Ditto, E5OO, 9 7 pm.
Leos Annuities, Jas. 5. 186 e, 61 Ditto, Small, 15 12 7m.
mu., 30 1e.... Oct. ur, 1855,81 Ditto. Advertised, 612 8 pm.
India Bonds, ELVIN, . ton.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
6Dittro,Cl.2.3unasi7lrs Bonds. HI 71 8 I Diittt4:4 154..cti;rieiroch 1851441 155411+ 14
6 per Ct. Mexicsa. 1846, 169 16 I 3 per CL. Ditto, 2414
4 par CL Portuguese Bonds, 19 ld Ditto, Amt., Merck 16, 26 51 55 45
Ditto, Small, 211 21441,4 Ce. Dutde Lade., 13 guild..
5 per Ct. HAMISJI Bomb, 1822, ESL
97 4 ex dl.. Ditto. Awl.. March 16.45
6 .kieg:l. eusicall4.lll,l3lo3nids, Div. from 4 per Ct.. ditto eirtiliC/1104 75

RAILWAY NEWS.
We had a fair market for shares yesterday, al-
though not so well sustained in the after part of the
day as in the morning. There was a good attendance
of dealers at Lamond's public sale, and purchases
were more freely made, although without any notice-
able advance of prices.
SHARE LIST.—LONDON, Mimic 1.
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RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
BILLS ORDURE° TO BB BROUGHT IN.—YEB. 29.
East Anglian Railirle (Ely and Huntingdon Railway, extension of
time). Caledonian Railway (pure.hase or Ida of Wahine and Con-
ner Railway). Caledonian, Lanauter, and Carlisle and London
and North-Weetem Railways (lease of Scottish Central Railway).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Ramble, Keltyhead, and Glen.
craig Branches, he.) Bills.
MEETING S.—SHROPSHIRE UNION.—NaII-yearly Meet-
ine.—Sbrewebury, Feb. 29.—Mr. J. P.Weethead, M. ~ in the chair.—
The chairman, in commencing the prooeedindo adverted to the loco
the company had suat.ined by the death of Earl l'owis, their late pre-
sident, but congratulatedthe shareholders on having obtained the co-
operation of button, the present Earl Pods, who had cemented to
occupy his father's place. The directors' report stated that the works
were progressing satisfactorily. The line from Wellington to Staf-
ford was in active couree of formation. The remit of the canal work-
ings, from the incorporation of the present company to the 30th of
Jane last, • period of 11 months, exhibited a profit of 7,7511.71. 9d.
The total receipts, including canal payments and profit., amounted to
591,t671. 17e. 7d. ; the balance to hand to 291.5901. 3s. 10d. The
chairman moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by
Mr. Tootal, and carried unanimously The retiring directors, Mr. J.
P. meting, Mr. 0. and. Mr. J. William' were caddied.
The meeting was then made special, to consider a drai.'of the bill
before parliament, which was approved of. A Tote of thanks to the
chairman closed the proceedings.
LANCAtiglaz Ann Iroglagillllic —Half-yearly Meeting.
Manchester, Starch I.—Mr. 11.11ouldsworth in the chair--The re-
port stated that, despite the recent commercial difficulties, the gram
income of the company on the united limes for the last half year,
amounted to 273,2201.; whilst on the same mileage r the
corresponding half year of 1846, it amounted to 260,6671.
In the report predates! to the proprietors in September last, it was
intimated that the accounte of tbe lines in the Bolton district would
be included in the general revenue statement from the lat January,
11M8, and that the balances of the accounts between the commence-
most of the respective agreement., with these companiessed the above
Ye would then be dapoeed of. In carrying this intention into and
Rio neetasary to observe that in consequence of the London and North
Weber coeval., Ming still without legal power to take their proper-
eke of the Preston and Wyre Lase and of the artntranon
the use rel
ief the
eci
the tondo be paid by the East Lancashire Company, for
Bolton line between Man and Manchester. being still undecided, the
balsams ma at a later period be subject to cm rection. In the meantime
It is assumed that the London and North Western Company participate
W the extent of one-third in the Prestos and Wyre lease, and that
the toll to be paid by the East Lancashire Company will he in accord-
ance with the interpretation put upon the agreement by this comer-
pany. Wbea the agreements with the companies in queetion we
submitted for your approval, at the emend meetings of the rah of
beery, 21st of May, and 17th of December, 1643, and the 24th of
11glimary, 1647, it was stated that this company, in acceding to the
lathe tbea recommended, was making, in each Clft, a present merl-
in Ism a grape/live advantage. It wu further remarked, that the
Ina& roue derived fro, euch unions was not to be measured either
by the result of the :Wet few years, or by the ultimate balance of re-
eling, on the lines per se, bandht the undoubted effect peac ar-
m, in promoting a securing traffic over other art of the
y formed an element in the question, and an inducement
WM* th 1291111. From the first, therefore, it was expected that
stiso miler favourable eircumatenom, a definielicY between the net
receipts of the lines in question and the early payments to the
proprietors of those lines would occur, and the commercial depres-
sion of 1847 has not tended to lessen tbe amount. The deficiencies
areas follow : Under the Preston and Wyre, agreement, which took
date from Jan 1, 181700241.; under the North Union agreement,
which took date from May 1,1816, an average deficiency per
annum,
3,6671. ; under the agreement of the Bolton Com r annum,
pany, which too
date from Jan. 1, 1945, In average apparent deficiency pe
16,8471. But in this latter case, the claim to dividend granted to the
Bolton proprietors by this company was given, as stated
at the time, sot only as an equivalent for the especial
income to be derived tam their railway and canal, but also in consi-
deration of a valuable georesty_ consisting of land in Salford, held at
a small chief rent Wirt° PW out of revenue. This land was, at
one period of the urgesavdce, proposed to be deluded, and a cord-
age:ailing reduction offered by the Bents Ooospsny in the term. of
Had the unieseemla Wen serried out in that form,
t:O=ilow reported units the egtoseseut with the Rollin
Ombobil would him bees propsetinstdy lms, but the land would
bsoe roarioni the private property se the dientheision In that oom -
MY. It bee bees determined be bide the Imas, belling it appli-
able to make good the teloponmy Oillettuess bohlwltsl to suck ar-
nthlethents. toolumule of them TiewS. the/ Nassismil that
the nett seine of that be eanbel to espitsi ses , mil that the
smst
moot midst: is. be debited with the mewl blestescie. s
ebeoememaird. esitbittbeeurplus ol entinelt who. enrontlieg to
AM., be 15 *nerd as • roam le met ow iwilsr is&
*may schist sea Ogee Nom until air eselpas Melt be Mow*
to wet thole lOdue. eddltion Neepirli LA this
somayany beams by Ile egenelelles ell an Mien nod
North lloionOomystists to a smokiest& smsust thso imesMsd sod
held by those sumpsiem le lazes, lila bine bow One thst time
sold at venom Mew sal the geommds IMO* Is afar shares,
daffy In lbws -Dor smislisted with die ess=gliliskoni:Nith:
dine of thistles* fendait onlimel pea In noir
MOD with *IMO rim Omar am Ili esotally, pot ma
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