The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

CAPTAIN JERVIS, M.P., AND THE GREAT
"AIRTIME RAILWAY BOARD.
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The Tittles publishes a long letter from Captain
Jervis, deputy-chairman of the Great Eastern Railway, is
answer to the reply of the digestion de his poaphisd.
The writer says :—" The heads of arraegement with the
Wensum Valley have nothing to do with the case. The
question is, wan an agreement eatared into with that sera
way to edema 73,0001., and give security for 73,0001. el der
beaturee, out of • capital of 293,0001., for a lime from Nor-
wich to Dereilaani." He avers that the statement " that
the deputy-chairman is the only person who has endear
wound to indent the board to adopt the amusement," is
also simply antra', and says :—" What I have maintained
that the agreement having bees duly
see how entered into,
and our seal attached, I did not we
could get out d it, as it was • legal a
meet ; but have emir destined participates is the
responsibility of those who bad entered into It '• Patna(
on to the question of "special rates," he says the company
has over 3,000 " special rates" for traders, and he
there is any other railway so sewed. Then.
speaking of
the "interest is new works," be rye "I minded, that
the total interest wrongly debited amounts to over 54,0001.,
and not, as stated is the ' reply,' to over 17,4641.: bat the
sum is artfully put forward as that complained of by the
auditors, and the fact that tbe auditors' letter referred
only to am hall-year is carefully kept out dsight. The
some mediae are adopted in the 'ripe ' as to the moms of
borrowing pewees, where it is coolly mimed that my
statement that the over-bans was '150,0001.' is cermet,
though it mast he well known to the comet= of the
'reply' that it is swirly double that amount."
W ith mind to "ease," Capt. Jere is gays :—"I deny haviag
supported any particular contract or any firm whatever end
it was because I stood alone I insisted on my protest bee(
taken down in writing. The committee have most carefully
avoided my statement as to the foot that they leek that tee
which they did red advertise. and refused to advertise for
what they did want. That I was justified is making the
protest, moreover, has sines bees proved by to
revert of
our coal inspector et Peterborough, who, cm the ul
1663, officially states, ' that the coals wider the new aim
train are very inferior, and that he would have rejected
them if they had not bees stated is hie instructions," •
portion being entirely na =
l for locomotive 9';
Thee, referring to his charge of particular
having supplied stores, be remarks, ••the reply ' about
as truthful as if • day were selected when no stores had
been supplied, sad that such a day was takes as an ex-
am* of the rest of the year. With respect" to
legal and engineering expenses, he remarks .3
committee of investigation can ally come to the con-
clusion that our not having plead both these depart-
ments on • proper footing, immediately after the anal.
pmatioo, arose simply from private interest having OM..
ridden ;bat of the shareholders. The board 'geode will
prove whether or not I have attempted to mutilate the
subject. I eon only say I believe that if my remeamee-
datioos had bees adopted in the fast instance it would
already have saved the company upwards of 100,0001., and
entirely have avoided the procreated, melees, and expen-
sive parliamentary °meets of the last two emsiom."
The next subjects be refers to are the promisees that
the company should undertake the working of the Tilbury
and Southend Railway, end the bill for laming the Black-
well Railway, respecting which he says, "I assert it will
take the utmost Memos to prevent a loss on the Beek.
wall Railway, • lose which has been estimated, on good
authority, as likely to be about 29,0001. • year; what would
be the result of the taking OVIK el tie Tilbotry asd Southend
Railway ou the tenni propmed would be equally well imown."
He then adverts to the CAMS of the differesesbetween himself
and the board, and says, " I deny that the difference between
myself and the board arose out of certain transeotiona at
the recent election at Harwich, but I assert that certain
transactions at Harwich erase out of differences pre-existing
between myself arid certain members of the board. I did
order certain temporary aloes that were being erected
without any authority to be stopped until they were
authorised ; but so did the chairman. The letter et the
oontioeotal manager, dated July 13, 1865, quoted by the
' reply' committee, alluded to • very different matter."
Tbis is followed by a narrative of these transactions, from
which it appears that as Sunday monde& the 9th ult.,
Captain Jervis wee quietly standing at the door of the
hotel at Harwich, when be saw the secretary of the Great
Eastern Railway Oompasy sad the continental manager,
followed by • staff, amnia' up the steps. He in-
quired what brought them there, when the secretary
heeded him • letter from Mr. Shaw, a director,
requesting him to let Mr. Powers have • few
clerks asci4o or 60 porters to carry out the instruotions of
the board la reference to the corneae', doing its own work
at Harwell. Oapt Jervis ordered the continental manager
to "send back his useless and expensive crew," and wrote
• letter to the chairman, sod the following day requested
the secretary to proceed to Yarmouth to take the chair-
man's inatructious. 'There," be says, "my duty and my
interference ended; but curiously enough. vixen subs*.
quently the business was taken over, it was sot found m-
ensal yto send down a siege porter. and be esseledes
by remarking :—" I believe I shall be able to prove that
the muses of the difference between myself and some of the
board, es alleged, are utterly devoid of truth, but that the
causes of difference are as follows :—My determined °ppm
'Mon to schemes which. it adopted, would, is my humble
opinion, have turned out minous to the Great Eastern
Railway ; my objection to members of the board prating
by the sale or purchase of stores ; and to other irregulari-
ties which. as 1 said before, I mast decline to put in print."

MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDINT.—A FATHER AND
SON DROWNED.—The tug steamer Plying Childers, one of
the paddle steamers baloogiog b the Clyde Shipping Com-
pally, left Oreerrock on Tuesday last, and prooseded down
Meow& in sesrch of Teasels requiring to be towed to •
Clyde port. The crew of the steamer omaisted of seven
men— the master, Joha IrDougal, a pilot, an mentor, a
fireman, aid three deck halide. The Flying Childers pro.
seeded as far as Bellyhalbert Bay, a coashguard station os
the Irish mast, in order to be able to intercept ens ship
coining up Channel. Haim' come to as anchor about a mile
from the shore, Capt. M'Dougsl deeming it advisable to land
foe the purpose of obtaining a better view from the meat
guard station of approaching ships, ordered the lifeboat of
the steamer to he maenad by his son, espied Neil M`Deugal,
sad the pilot, named David M•Larty. The weather was
moderate at the time, but the see was considerably agitated.
°setae M`Doegal, his son, Arzhibald Campbell, engineer,
sad Depict M 'tarty, pilot, then proceeded oo shore, and
after remaining for afewhonn returned to the beach about
10 o'clock p.m., moompaaied by Deese of the coastguard
men, for the pawpaw of rejoining the steamer. The Des
wee still greatly agitated, but no danger wee apprehended.
The four men having left tbe shore in their best, proceeded
ell right for some time. Cordate M'Dougal, who was
seated is the store of the boat, then proposed to cheese
his Dear, and was in the act of &Mg so, when a heavy
wave struck the boat sod cased to espies%
throwing the unfortunate men into the sea. The
night beteg dark, and no boats in the vicinity, their charms
of escape wee at once knows to be very meagre. By
desperate effort, however, Campbell and Mleety managed
to get upon the upturned host, sod thee begat loudly to
call for help. After the boat meshed. Captais M'Doegal
and his eon were observed struggling in the boiling sea for
a short time, and then to disappear, the two meseiemea being
unable to reader them any assistance. The two men saved
clung to the boat for shout an hour in the asoey of despair,
as no answer was being sent to their miss for kelp. At
last a heat was espied coming Meadthem, which proved
to be the coast guard boat—the men on helmok-out barriers
heard their calls for help. Upon being rescued, the engi-
neer became asd remained is that coodities for
Dearly two hours after having been tales es board the
Flying Childers.
Tits LATE SECRETARY OF THE LITTLE NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—It will be remembered that after
the mysterious death of Mr. W. Wholoe, of Lascaster. •
short time ago, assay rumours were correct to the afoot
that he had embezzled or misappropriated large sums of
mosey, ke., belonging to the Little North-Western Rail-
way Company, of which he was the Dteretary. The posi-
tion the demised had occupied in Laceastor, of which Mt,
he was once the mayor, contributed to the seriousness of
the charges. la the report of the directors of the rail-
way named, whisk has jest been Mud, the following
remarks are made relative to the tramactioes of Mr.
Whelan :—" In the month of May, informatics hasher
reached the directors Unveils' doubts upon these n-
tegrity of the late secretary, Mr. William Wheloo y
at once proceeded to Lammister. sad finding their sus-
picions coofirmed by investigations they then entered
into, as well as by his owe admission, they decided at
core to dismiss him from his ogles as seersterS, and to
transfer the offices of the eoo.lacy to Leeds. They have
since gone through Mr. Wbelon s books, and it was a
satisfainiee to them to be able to state that the mane-
rated reports with regard to the late Detesters's defahs-
time have not been oisfirmed by the results of their
investigations. Irregularities of various kinds bamboos
discovered in the company's boats, whic is the
of certain books or papers not yet found, the directors
have not been able hitherto satisfactorily to account for ;
and, pending the final ievestSgatios of those accounts, the
directors resoessmed that the divideed es the B stock,
amounting to no. 6d. per met for the past half-year.
should be retained, being that peaks of guarantee dividend
which, by the company's ant of 1861, would be liable for
my lessee, by defamatioa or otherwise, the oompssy might
at any time gusts's. As at pretreat advised, they have rea-
son to believe they will be able to keep It intact for pay-
meet to the sthreholdets st the sat half-yearly sweeeles.
Peeling the tomptstioe of their levestigatios, they deem It
only prudent to recostesesd its rstentios far the present.
They therefore roes emd that di•idebil at the rate of 5
per wet. per mesa be timieni as the 471.51 ML • eressedie
doted stock, sad that the esst of 1,9131. 1141„ whisk
would otherwise have thigh available for divided ss the
stock, be carried forward ^
PA NNN N T OF VIITSILINARY SURGEONS M CATS=
learectroge.—The Earl of Chicbreter bee resolved a seam
muoicotion• from Mr. Waddiegtos„ by direction of red
George Orey, stating that the LOMB of the Treasury will
'section the paymest to lesesthers. epeeists& seder the
authority of the order of the Lord, of the Privy Ormard, ei
the 11th test, is districts ideated with the eattimeteurese,
of the OWN of 11. Is. for 'soh day they arey
ss-
gagd in the peeformases of the dense required of them hy
the said order, with travelling exposers at a Ms het sc.
needing 3d. a mils each way.—Siessez Advertiser.