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Timbre& up of theitastern Counties directory is se
weeplete es that .of the French government when
LOUIS PHILIPPI tied. The :ice-chairman his fol-
lowed the chairman, the directors the vievehairman,
and the solidter the directars. " All, ail are Sca—
the sli hadliar faces." „It redly was high time for
thus to pack up end be eon*. We oty nothing of
tboissolessissi at directors that they allowed them-
selves to be leoptin ignorence by Messrs. Munson sad
WADDINGTON of the state of thor company's affairs
without giving the shareholder* werning. We say
nothing of their soceptance of tbe eblires in the Wis-
hes& fine, alibough Ma Spositaw's, naive apology,
that "be had washed his hap& of the abates, when
they were eta mere bit of premien'," sounds very like,
the excuse of the frill fair oven that the fruit of her
fans pas was " very little." Their clingstaß Mope:un-
til they were defeated in their lett deeperate
persuade the shareholders to declare * diviftsesit
of nothing, stamps theta all as unworthy of heal-
decor. Is will be utter madoew if any cue of them
is recommended or chosen to lit at the new bon*
But, though dispooped Wteke leave of these gentle-
men with a simple sentence of reiligation to* position
where they wird° no more harm, it is impossible to
dismiss the viceelmitman in this easy fashion. After
his display at the weft of Thursday leet Mr. WAD=
DINGTON poi* hags Wmaelf with the itestbat he has
shown mere pluck than his oollsegne, Munson,
.oeungerhe certainly showed at some ki a
nd, though it
▪ dillcolt to find a deseripties epithet for it. 1%7-
Am/enrage it was not, for theca wu eo rinkof
par
sonlinisey : word counts, it cannot be called. Per-
Yea M tits sublime of modest assurance" is4lis &ilk I
oMlea that tomes nearest to the mark. His exordium ,
in Which he deseribedhimaelf as " a man who. though
he may be under a baa now, yet feels that
before be sits down you will thank him for having
risen," was as magnificent es anything in Tatuffe.
And the moral lecture an the dangers of " agitation,"
with which he coscluded, out-surfaced Joseph Surface.
It'reminds one of Mkt of the Nines exhortation to
Maeheatis to " die geom.". If Mrii.Wanntmorox,
like Matcworm, " likes to be despised." the Waits,
yells, and hooting* with which he was Wailed, must
have been " music to his sir."
We pass on to more important matters.
It would give us sincere pleasure could we partici-
pate in the hops expressed by Mr. Ctiu at the elite
of Saturday's meeting, that progress has been made in
bringing the company's property into a good condi-
tion, and that they will soon find themselves
in a very different position from that in
which they have lately been. The commit-
tee of inquiry in general, and Mr. CASH,
and, still more, Mr. Masa in particular, have evinced
an amount of clear sightedness, moderation, and
above all, firmness, that entitles them to a consider-
able degree of confidence; but "let not him who
putts* on cis armour boast as he who pntteth it
off." The work of•bringing the affairs of the Eastern
Counties Railway into a good condition, has yet to be
begun. And it must be kept in mind that though
Messrs. HUDSON and WADDINOTON have displayed
rare and unsurpassed talents for bringing the concern
into utter confusion and dilapidation, they found the
work pretty considerably advanced when they took the
management in band. Eastern Counties Railway
has been a mismanaged concern from the beginning.
Exaggerated expectations, a loose way of doing
business. bungling experiments (ea in. the matter of
the gauge) by inexperienced and unskilful directors,
bed begun what the—cleverness, let as cell it, of the
late chairman and vice-chairmen have completed.
The constitution of the railway had received irtvem
eke before it came into the hands of these

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