The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-08 00:00:00

MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTHER

A cam of murder by a mother of ber new-born
iefant child, at Chultaucus-Hardy, near Manchester, hu
just come to eke knowledge of the authorities, the circuit-
stenw of which en of a most horrifying character. Tin
mother, whose name is Mary Ana Page, is a servant out of
piece, and had obtained lodgiags at the hum of a person
named Phelps, where elle delivered herself duriag the night
of Teteday of a and child, and deprived it of life by piers-
lag its skinks and temp's with the points of a pair of ecisson,
which rite had borrowed from the son ahem landlady. The
landlady appears to have inspected that she was with child
end attempting to sou& the birth, and the came watch
she kept upia the unfortnnate woman led to the discovery
of the truth, but not in time to prevent the crime.
An inquest was held on Thanday, and the jury found a
verdict of " Wilful Murder " against Mary Ann Page.
The coroner yesterday made eat his warrant for her com-
mittal to the next Niue at Liverpool, and eke will be re-
moved to Birkdalo gaol se soon u she is in a fit date.

RAILWAY MEETINGS.

MIDLAND.

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Yesterday the ordinary half-yearly general meeting
of time company was held at the station at Derby, J. Ettie,
Km., M.P., in the chair.
rM. Bell read the report, of which the following is a copy.
After • period of extracrlinary anxiety and excitement as
to railway affairs, your directors again appear before you to
report the pros/ryes of your ontittrtaktna during the Ant fox
months of the present year. The total maims from traffic,
doling Met time, have been, 546,0871.75. 4d. There has been
an Marrow, from—

_ __ _
litlesieteludlike lobby Neal), of . ..... .... 837,9611
al .... 6,790
Pro* al ... .... 130
CanisCanisat .... .... 1, 1,019
Mails, at llO
Barb carriages, sad doge, of lllO
Midas a told thus under Moe Des& of £07,1105
Fres Ws has Übe dedocad admires* in the mount
recadvek tram panstageas, or

Leavings nett 'Erase eh the half-year, of
AltMwsh there has beat an abe•.rsction of traffic between
London, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and Hull, by the opening of
the Great Northern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire Rallways—yet, as the &Ili ig off in passenger re•
ceipte is pretty general over the whole line, it must clearly
be attributed to general sawn; and your directors, there-
fore, look with confidence to am improvement wit► the n-
utria of better times,

The disposable balance, es will be seen on rtforonos to the
statement of accounts, after the deduction of all the &ben.
tura interest, fixed payments to othtr companies, and
10,0001. for the renewal oi permanent way, is 114,6824. 2s. 10 1 ,
which will enable the proprietor to declare a dividend after
the rata of

El. pa cent. per annum upon each 1001 Midland Consoli-
dated Buick.
11. 12,. 6d. per cent. per annum upon each 1001. Cason-
dated Birmingham and Derby Stock
61. per ant. per annum upon each 1001. Midland Prefe-
rential Stook.
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11:iii.parsnare upon the 601. Erewuh Valley shares.
No further charge towards the interest on the 601.
shares hes this half year been placed to the debit of
the , as co additional portion of the Nottingham
and Mansfield, or of the Erewsah Valley lines
has been opened; and the opening of the Leicester and
fiwennington throughout teak place only on the Ist August.
As, however, it appears to be the general desire that Cie
capital account should not be burthened with further pay.
nernts of interest, the board purpose to treat everything
from the let of July last as productive: although the Lei- I
nester and Swanningtort wee opened only on the let of 1
August, the Nottingham and Mena& Id will not be opened
before October next, and the Erewuh Valley Extension
cannot be ready till next spring. In future no interest will
be charged to capital. and the directors, after discharging the
already contracted, pledge themselves not to make
any important addition to capital, or to commence any new
lines, without an express vote of the pvprietors. The
director, have agreed to work the Ambergate, Matlock, and
Buxton line, between Ambergate and Rowley, this coin
pany finding the whole of the plant, on terms which the
directors think equitable. The North Staffordshire Company
are in treaty with the directors for the use of the Midland
stations at Derhy and Burton.upon-Trent. The railway
commissioners have sanctioned the running of this com-
pany's trains over the S iuth Yorkshire Railway be-
tween Swinton and Doncaster. An agreement hoe
been entered into with the North IVestera Company,
for the use of the Midland station at Skipton,
The directors have greet plumee in informing the pro-
prietors that, alter mature consideration, a traffic arrange-
ment has been en.ered into between the Midland and the
Landon and North-Western Cum; anise, which will be mu-
tually advantageous, by giving the two companies a one-
moony of interest. The report of the Committee of Investi-
gation having been received and adopted at the late special
general meeting, the director' deem it necessary to refer to it
on one or two points. Tony have to remind the proprietors
that the Leeds and Bradford Lease, which has giv, n rile to
much discussion, was the unenimose act of the whole board.
approved and adopted by the shareholders. The opinion of
your directors that it was a measure of round policy to ac-
quire possession of this line remains unchanged, and though
the terms are no doubt too high, yet looking at the circum-
stances c f the time, and considering that the position of ell
the parties to the bargain was well known, and that a
better arrangement could not then he made, the board
do not think blame can be feir!y imput,d to any individual
Your directors have anticipated the ri commendation of the
committee, by hiking more stringent measures for enforcing
the payment of of calls. The amount at present in
arrow. is 278,0321. 10t As to a more ifficient system of
audit, any measure calculated to give increased security to
sharer older'', short of government interference, will have the
support of the board. It is intended that depute' ions from
'he different railway companits shall meet in the autumn,
for the purpose of agreeing on some satis'actory plan. The
proprietors have the power under the act of parliament to
increase the number of dirteon to 20 ; there are now 16.
As the committee of investigation make various euggestione,
in reference to the direction, the board leave it with the
shartholders to deal with them as they think proper. The
suggestion of the committee of investigation, teat the ma-
nagement in future should be conducted by the division of
the board into sub-committees, has the entire approval of the
directors. They propose to divide theca/eters into commit-
tees for trent, locomotion, permanent way and works, and
finance. The directors recommend the proprietors to con-
firm the forfeiture of 32 601. shares, upon which there are
arrears of calls amounting to 8961. ; these shares have ben
sold, but the purchasers have neglected to register the trans-
n, end the present proprietors, who are responsible, have
agreed to pay the arrears on the shares being forfeited and
r.-allotted to them.
STATEMENT or TRIO CAPITAL WRICII TITZ rOXIANT to earowakeo

' TO CUFF 0111 PL) TIES •17TMOILITT OP DIFPULPIT Am OF
IPMILIAIMIT :
Capital In Sham Loan.
Midland Consolidation Aet
Nottingham and Lincoln Brandt 400.000 115,000 0 0
tiscreidand retrrborough Branch 7000 310,000 0 0
100,000 and RotherWm Branch
30,000 0 0
Vino OW° 60,000 20,000 0 0
Ditto ditto .... , 43,000
?rewash Valley Railway par-
elms 190,000 63,000 0 0
Bristol and Glouceoter and Bit

1 799,902 13 0 630,999 0 0
Klairtgresimrtea and Italopences
Brock
leiceitsr sad etinutaligtos par
chaos 140,000 0 0
Igandeld sad Pinitoa Act
Illpkty ameba 93,000 0 0 31,000 0 0

Total 0,806,1101 15 0 2,923,932
1111701FOXID TO RAM lIT MAIM Oi LOAM.
animal& Valley Branch Aet 90,000
Erewalt Valley Estensioo Act 250,000
Nottingham sad Marital Brea& ............. -...
Birmbsghata Extension BO,OOO
Leicester sad !laminae= Railway Altaratka
(lay Cross and Newark 580,000
gyatca and Pstarboroagb Deviation
Authorizing Midland Railway Company to pons
°cabmen Cabal 26,000
Parelhamor 4abby-de-la-ZoucliC.ma aad kr osaking
Smash from lturtoanaTmit to NIMPUOII 768,010
Mansheater, Matlock, and Buxton Railway 285 000
&Mk Devon Railway 50,000
ealmrlption to this Trent Valley Midlands, South
Illahraddre and Trent Valley Midlands 72;00
Pkassoks sad Kaaborouph 34,400
ltsmasid sad
Mind Pinzton 75,000
Ikea VW, son
Nottlopiant sad Lincoln Ratenaion .. 23,025
=Peterborough Deviation sad Approaches
and Stonettotwo llO,OOO
Power to miss for purchase of Coventry, Nuneaton
awl Leicester 380,000
lokoster and 9wannin6tca Railway Altamaha .....

£5,977,415 0 0

IYT.

By Pharr ........_....«.«».«....... 0,066,002 13 0
By Shares
By Loons
ar Los
61,903,423931 0 0
r ..... .977, 0 0

TOW. £17,706,139 13 0
The following supplemental report was Moo read.
"The following resolution -as parsed at the last half-
yearly meeting, via., that the directors be authorized to take
the necessery steps for extending the line at Birmingham to
the b eel of the London and North Western !Wiwi, and
to proceed with the works for enlarging the Masboroagh,
Normanton, and Burton staious. The time has now
IS MO when the directors think toe exten•ion line at Bir-
mingham ought to be commenced, to enable tee company
to e,•motunictte with the Birm a. ham and Bristol line
without the intervention of V 4, 1,1, and to enable the pas-
senger traits of this company to run to the station of the
Loudon and North Western company in the centre of the
town when ready.
" Mr. Barlow estimates the cost of the land at 4 0001., and
the works at 36,0001, making a total of 40,000!. Your ,
directors recommend t':at you should give them power to
commence these works, nod the- an account be opened
to be called the B rtningham :tension account,
to which this sum 'hal be exclueively devoted.
The enditor• thiok it ridht to r-p•rt to the rhareoeid
that in coasegneecv of the length of time occupied by the
recent investidatun, it has ruin quite tnapostbio fully to
examine the accounts of tee lat htelt.)...r. Tatty have,
sulu'ltrsti"wi'llatehrely
ecavote'iTed theny'sb aookZeenanmilhet of
et, the
v•p arimed°9l the usual examiscior. of the vowAxn unr,',l after the present
meeting."