The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY MEETINGS.

This meeniod the variou 'Wiens resumed their, sittiags,
and lidos the last day on which these bodies sailmble, •
veil mg. umber of persons Verb down for reading in every
fldimbeslat lever& of were of necessity passed over.
isimisse thus road. wu ma by Dr. ilneklaad "On the
gement 1111011110111 of phosphorus In Kai sad peendo•copro.
litre ;" samba by the Prince of Canino" On the distinction
of the little blue mail-pie of Spain Iron that of Siberia ;" •
third by Mr. J. T. Deluca on tics flutations is the annual
supply and aurae price of sent ia Francs daring the lam
70 yeas, with putioslar renown to the periods 1792, 1814,
1620, and 1548 ;" and • fourth by Mr. (a. a Porter, " A
statement diatom of wages in each yeas from 1842 to 1849."
The following, with reference to the county of Warwick
Asylum for Jovenile Windom was read ley Mr. CIIABLUI
HOLTZ Bucaaatnga, of Athiretetinhsll
Thia'ssyliinf wee eetablisheci at Stretto&on-Dausers; in
the upty of Wiriritk. just 30 yeameitiee, apos • very sins,
SO M. sad asthe subplot's prosimatly Were thapublic;
emsolletelle of this uperiment my prom interesting. and
▪ 1111amiressasst to fauns 'Arts. A .fareahouse was
engaged, which, with some additioul buildings, sallied for
the asylum. A respectable man and his wife Demme master
sod metros. The clergyman of Om pariah, the eiperietend-
cat, and two trademuisters, a shoemaker and tailor, instructed
Me boys in these trades. Some few aeres.of had were
stashed to the *mean, bet they wen NAPOqUaOO7 Ifs off
oo the soil (ei arras eilay) was sot well &doted for saltier,
Mee by Wriest is additional mamma was revered for an
agricalawal" bistreler, whisk the fries& (mild 'fiffsd.
mull Suds* Sias, however. retaisod, 'and it has been muck
egreteell, of lots yaws, that the suldratiom of Mad was not
aseviedont after the engin& plea. This has tweet calculated
by the present mutes sapshle of protluclog a return of Bd.
• day for labeler of melt Wm which is somewhat mem than
is derived from the trilogies and shoes**. ' But Were
msi=yed to the ismounifial tweaks it MA hi understood
ai
bnisatet has- ell bun boys who have emastittod
alltunoi
offs away the whale have bus tried in the
enures egue and maim& The tried
the
freyhua has been entirely voluntary as their , bat
was paresita have embed 'for Wit ad is
geese caw, the lespries lisai hoes made shooter,
the application and case being temidalai Were mutates ;
bat in no mu had Amy imilsemeinia been beldam
than that of industrial edliedyn, and the Main of
procurineone place afterwards.' Weihkelliss theta been any
means of detaining On boys; Mier than that of making
thou servant, !Om efirempent to the muter. Width Nib'
juts ilium to a uortltoptisoammit if' they etionbi abiooadt
,The 'dailies given has leen of a very plain and simple
kind and his been rendered more valuable by ltartwal
cerertfilin Aeronaut of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Tarzana
Powell, who hip boss untendttiog in his labours in. thin
ra tt ilede also as bOUtateretary. The oniusitue
of manasessoat.altists.of ates of the county, thous
at Quarter Sessions. The ob eat of this paper being to show
• somparloon as to expease en this mode of treating

BELGIAN BASTERN JUNCTION. '
Yesterday • general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held at the London Taws, Bishopegate4treet.
The chair was taken by Sir FILIDIRICL Bairn, and* re-
port, of whisk the fannies is an abstract, was read, by the
secretary
The directors had failed in their endeavoan te enter
into an amngemeat with the Belgian government and. the
Namur and Liege Railway Company toe the loan of the
stock en which the can:ion-money stands invested. his
te4l-
giant
result was known towards the latter end of August, 1 8,
and M. Groben, the company'. agent is Brussels, WWI in-
structed to seek en interview with the Minbter of Public
Work. and to lay the project before him of forming a union
of the railway. This was immediately done, the minister
received the communication favourably, and requested that
• written application might be sent to him accompanied by
the necessary plans, sections, estimates, and static
vice. These documents were immediately prepared, and on
I*.tke 23rd of February a memorial embracing all the...details
was transmitted to the minister for his con/aeration. On
2fills of February M. Oreban sought and obtain. d en•
Oboe Interview with the minister, who on this occasion re.
oseeed the project with disfavour, complained of the diehion
amongst the members of the company, of the absence of any
sufficient guarantee for the execution of the proposid works,
and finally read to M. Chiba* a letter which he had re-
solved from Mr. Hopkinson, their late director, in which
that gentlemen opposed the arrangement, and urged the
Belgian government accordance reect y proposition on the.mitt of
the company not in with the stipulations of the
eahier des charges. Shortly after the development of Mr.
Hopkinson's athletes for defeatiog the utterly's operetitos
had become known to the board, Mr. Sewn, one of the
director., and also the secretary, mounded to 4rus-
eels, for the purpose of neutralising any errone-
ous impressions which might have been produced
upon the minister's mind by Mr. Hopkinson's interfer-
ence; and at a subsequent period, as laxly se• the
beginning of August, the president of the company also
visited drussele, had an interview with the minister, and
obtained from him the promise of a definitive answer bea the
6th of this month, as was anted to you in the notice ling
this present meeting. The directors are at alaa to anount
liar the disappointment which they have experienced by the
minister's neglect to redeem his pledge, end they can only
ascribe it to **difficulty of assembling &council of ministers,
owing to the absence of the Prime Minister and the Minister
of Foreiga Affairs, u well as the severe illness of another
minister, who has for some wed.. been at the point of death
from an attack of cholera. With regard to the financial
position of the company, the directors are happy to say tit,t
it is much more encouraging than when they last had the
pleasure of addressing the shareholders. They have received
assurance from M. Gretna, upon which they think full
reliance may be placed, that M. Meisel' will eventually be
able to liquidate the whole of his debt to the company, with
interest. The Belgian funds, too, in which the caution
money is invested, have risen considerably in price, so that
if realised at the present moment, they would produce
26,0001. in lieu of 18.000/., their estimated value st the last
meeting. The delay, therefore, in realising them, will be
amply cempsuated, if the company should now succeed in
the pending negotiation, and be milted to employ their
Ter
capital in the execution of a part o the line. In that event
also, an arrear of twe years' interest will be allowed to them
upon the caution money, amounting to 2,5791.
The statement of account showed the amount of iavest-
meats. balances, interest, and premium was 64,8001. Il• 9d. •
the dishunements amounted to 2,2661. 2a. ld. ; and tai
liabilities to 6324 12s. 10d.
The CHAIRMAN said that after mature deliberation, and
well weighiag all the circumstances connected with the com-
pany's position, the directors had come to a resolution of not
calling the proprietor together in January or July last,
because at those periods negotiations were pending with the
.laa government, the nature of which, if made public,
might peed* have prejudiced the interests of the colispany.
He was anxious frankly and candidly to explain everything
be knew connected with thi it affairs, and he gave it
as his opinion that, inasmuch as their original project
firmed a part of a general scheme for the construction of
railways an Belgium, and could only succeed by its connexion
with two other lines, portions of which had been abandoned,
make each} wou
a line an unwise end imprudent speculation to
as was at first contemplated. A portion
of the work, namely, from Waves to Manage, could be
*pstalittbly completed; bat Nan government refused to allow
them es construct that seetioe, they must—and he was sue-
talked in the opinion by a Belgian lawyer of eminence—
return the guarantee fund, because they; had neglected to
fail a
had son ofeconded i their origninal
an action they covenant. The
brought for Luxembou
dashages far a breath of covenant, and the ease •of the
Eaighne Eastern Junction Company was never stronger.
Me would suggest that a resolution should be move
d,. to the
iciest that the muting was disappointed that the minister
het met given an answer to the quntions, whether they
Weald be allowed to make a section of the line, or whether
the louden money would be returned to be divided amongst
the proprietors? sad that they requested to be favoured
with a reply as soon as possible. He also suggested that two
,o/ the eharskoklen should proceed to Brussels, and commu-
?trate the opinion of the taortins to the Minister of Public
*Works. Another mening 'might then be called to/nein
the mower.' As he higt•been faithfully promised a reply on
the tirdbEe thoturht he was justified in cilium the proprietors
Mgr lbee on the lath.
Yr. ills (a sharelsolder) asked how mach ft would
out to make the line from Wane to Manage
The CHAIIIMAN replied that the funds invested would be
tithe 'efficient for the purpose.
The Stetson...lr then read two letters addressed by the
chairman to the Belgian minister, requestiert • definite
answer on the subject of the company's effete', and was
about to read the opinion of aeon laer with respect to
them, but desisted upon the migrof Mr. G. W. Cun-
liffe, who remerked that it might be isolloodeot to mane
such a document public at present, as they were in the
power if the minister. After a short oonversatioas
Mr. Flaw moved a resolutiok to the effest *at the
chairman be requested to owe,' to the Belgian Minister of
Public Weeks; an expreesion of the disappointment' felt by
the shetehedden at net having received an "sower to the
propositions made on behalf ot deo cowpony, sod that the
be adjourned titariday, the 12th Oeuebia, lei* the
deg
wlebtainiag a reply in the meautime.
Mc. 3VALrina secoadol the neelution, which was sup-
ported by the chairman and adopted.
It was then resolved that the diatonic* of the report
should be postponed till the 12th of October, and the meet-
ing adjourned.

Dlt. TRONAS PRICK AND TOE RCLEOTICRIWIEW.
—Th. Distils%iris public will limn with great regret that Dr.
Thomas Price Nu bees proaosuseed, by mediae' authority,
.is wash a Nate of health as forbids any further motives perdu-
nation is public engsgesseut^, It hat been discovered that
he labours under so" a. diseased denim of the heart as
7atroo"ortlYstiitteirngidittlial isd
r,dtAllise FioTtrr 027
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be weals to' lib le In tosidsetion with
the Mesa liewiam,yettieb, far 2 years. he has ailed with
so mask dirisacy Hie retirement from that post qf useful-
ness walla Medi be a greet low to the cause of well' and re-
ligions liberty. which has never hart amore wsilows'aad but
seldom et' ebb as adveeate.—Patrioe.
PORT AND RARBOOR OF Cif/STEIL AND TIER RIVER
DRE.—An huportant inquiry took plebe at 'theTownliall,
Chester daring .the last work. before two Ad birsky corn-
usbiteaivi. ' The object GO** Inquiry Was to seseetals how
As des &Ivor Dee Company had wanted out its eagagsratial
rd=glif:a.7.l=ter`d,aott..PmthodarofatweasteprAgr*Mtivir,_it
tail fa and Goosdi ravishing navigation. st is con-
tiniadil . sppesones Met the scusgsay hes embanked
largawsistes 'am libiseelitery of the Dios& the [Orifice of
tee swipe= , lesnakelinge wassmaironslT Ilifqorlirct"
ati./iitiodiker Ints rep*, ot, she At
an
ill Led for
in= mach interest by dtpartisa ooncerned ; and as citizens
of cheater entisipata that the Dee Company win be Ma-
; pawl to restore the navigation to its tosser eillatestoy.

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