The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1567.

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re lent p: be p.• 'Pt
vs, •pi o received in the rown. which
th.lt owntr appe.leed h.• had great
• ra violin; a apace in whe-h to stand. There
Inußt doe pt including
lial•:s1.-ra .0 .11 denominations. barri.ters, men,
..snocacturers, tradesmen, and a few work-
ing ir r,„ :scattered amongst them were Mr. Bright,
111. P Mr. 1.0 field. M.P.. Mr. Fa welt. M.P.. Mr.
a. M.l' Kinn:4d. M.l'., Mr. Ayrton, M.l'., Mr.
• D; .1' Mr. Barley. 11. P., Mr. M.l'., Mr.
• M.P or John Gray. M.P., Mr. T. R. Potter,
111 V., Mr Cheetham. M.P., and Mr. I owaii, M.P. There
d. leAatea from nearly every county, and arver.d
Cori principal towns,, the larger proportion
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•••;W. Irma the Jiatriet north of the Black Country, wbere
el, 7.7 it ippnai :?eippret Union haa moat actively Lonilucteil
fit'. op, ~‘tion., awn as Mr. Gladatoric entered the room
with enthunwitic cheering.
Mr. Ono 0:1 Wm. in, chairman of the Puke, opened
ions by intemhicing the deputation, and reading
~o.lowang witlrem:

Its oiler 'tin; anderitieal monictit, when it reViNho., of the
e• t'''ttot•ott nr truirientltY hands of the optcolettl,, ..f all pro-
fill • ;3 tlirert u. ir. tellatme of the interact of the hi take
a.% h..tbd only tin• view of n faction. we deem it de•
to •nie I.efore you and amok on behalf the National
• • . ••-•••• it, (hr., httlioiregi lorsinchr . atut we lortirre
St h great majority of your tellow emontryruen.
If 111• 011.thard )olie not,!,. cane-cinema
lino. lid 1, a rtati•Simili, our deep gratitude for the
▪ . i h yon have employed among your flied;
Of .1.-,t ynal•tres, ill the 'arrant. ttttt t cam of stadia-
se. Ind our ntilc 1111 l lied oonlideore b. 3.42a0 the
ar .1 r e oor oarly in the Ilense of Common,. At at time whets
Of tine nwasherA of the liberal party
; pstrllasnvutary allegiance—wit' a men.
▪ rr •4 jndament, mane from went to., count
•,....tt that coonsfrom lehovance. met man, niitype.
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trn, rerama—tiare deserted the people are with you,
▪ pray eon to ti .regard the ft art ional within the
▪ tool to faro your mei to hope ant faith to the great
•i 3 the •expvettnt. lath- it. but fewilde ht allpport
era, i'•• Wilt* of It Wm know that It le not Deveuary to be-
tun kl. your r efforts in the great 0111114• the UMe unerring
fir fi:c. t That ..**”"4l the people to demand reform demanda you
• 1, in eh • Lernirde 44111 at work. 041 oar elite la the un-
• es' ogre., of tndie and jteitive. The• profile will 1.011-
IV • • I, ...Ili* .3 and you will etonthitte to aid them . and
Lit lt.<f I! • ve•t.fr-j taw, earl, me late it will cover you will.
▪ I. 3,1 ie i o• own, 3ail It will give you all pm value tined.
11%. liPitroral of y• .own enlightened conmeaysn.e. and the tweet
erd!.l.tutu ii ul hlriny adil.of to the happiest:4m and well•being of
en"lionl to roar f,lltor couNtrymen.

The inuo4 fnreil•le pursuers in eke above were loudly ap-
e Ludetl.
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Mr. Alderman fli reICIN4IO( (Halifax) presented an I
address from the reformers of that place.
Petitions and :uldressee were then presented, chiefly
eritti.a.t beiug read, from Manchester, Halifax, North
bwiceeteniltire. Preston, Milnrow Harpurhey, Blackburn,
fesininigton, Stockport, Cleckbeatun, Rochdale, Earn-
Worth, ood !lofts". From the elves-deo of the gentlemen
hatolod the documents to Mr. Gladstone it appeared
Milt their chief points were confidence in the right hoe.
gc,tlontan. opposition to the government bill. disgust at
reurgadisin of which certain member of the liberal
Mile of the house had been guilty, and a strong determina-
tion to undertake an extended and vigorous agitation in
edvoceicy of the principles of the Union. should Mr.
/Disraeli's bill osss.
flies-r, i gentlemen having spoken,
Mr. (il.siormust, after the outburst of sheering that
greeted hint had subsided, said:-Whatever pain, what-
ever astonishment, whatever disappointment I may feel
(and I feel ouch) at the present state of affairs within the
trils of parliament as regards the great question of par-
a inientary reform, Ise hardly need to immure you in this
hero that .its portion of any of those feelings has referent*
to my own peoition. Because I must say, that she slen-
der esrvices rendered, in a spirit, I trust, of that honesty
saris austerity which Englishmen above all things value, and
for tie want of which nothing can atone, have brought
forth, end 'tare caused to flow in upon me like a
deluge, expreasions of approval and acknowledgment such
111 I hare heard in this room, and such as every post has
brought me, without fail. from every part of the country,
and which I am hound to say have been as much beyond.
City espeetatiotes as the event* which have happened in the
blouse of Oonmiona have been behind and below them.
(Cheers.) Under these circumstances I remain free to
eater into council here and elsewhere for the promotion of
tbe common miuse,for I feel that we are more than ever
ilia position which depends upon confidences between
lean mar. (Cheers.) If when circumstances threw
M Into a prominent place with respect to the question
reorni the problem presented to me had been
that of satisfying all the opinions and every va-
riety of sentiment entertained among those who had
/honestly united in pursuit of the same object, I
should certainly have declined the task. I know that
in this free country there are many sections in the liberal
party who, while desirous of popular progress, would
differ in the question' of degree and time. In the posi-
tion, therefore, which I came to occupy, it was my duty to
Souk to the union of that party, and nut to scruple to ask
from honest, earnest, eager, and enthusiastic men the sacri-
fice of their own conscientious convictions, with a view to
forming a common stock of strength by which we might
go forward to the achievement of one common object.l'pon
that principle I have acted throughout. I have necemari'y
fallen short in so acting of the wishes and desires that pro-
bably moat or even all of you in this room may individually
entertain, .end may be prepared for the most part to express
ens behalf of those whom you represent. But I have always
proceeded upon the belief that there were among us certain
priertiples common to us all—that we would not consent
Moan illegitimate method even of obtaining progress ; that
we walled straightforward conduct in individuals so we
mould eta ogee otiose all for straightforward legislation; that
We would not ask fur, or accept, boons under false pretences;
that we would not cheat the people of England even for
their own :itly,iutage—(loud cheers)—and ooneequently
Whatever step we took for the attainment of popular en-
franchisement should be equal, plain, simple, and intelli-
gent, canimending itself to all, if nut by precise concurrent*
with particular opinions, at least by fairness, im-
partiality. and justice in its operation. (Cheers.) One of
the speaker. has staked me a question to which I will
address myself. He referred to the state of things in the
Mouse of Cou.mons, to which I will briefly advert. We
lava bud two memorable divisions. The first of these was
en the Nth of April. I am now to speak of what is
termed the liberal party in the House of Commons -for,
gentlemen. there is a liberal party there. (A laugh.) If
yuu will allow sue I will illustrate my idea of that party
by an anioalott. In a Welsh county where hunting was
Cot very touch in use, and where consequently the people
were nut familiar with tee objects which hunting presents
• to them, it so happened that the hounds once went a little
beyond their usual circle, sad a gentleman who was
engaged in the sport lost the ease altogether. Hemet
▪ oountrrenn, and inquired of him, " Have you seen the
40.1 ?” The countryman said, "Oh yes, I seed him ; he
Vs. but a vary little 'an, and he runnel up a tree;' the
Act being that this fox wee a squirrel. (Laughter.) There
is, gentlemen, a liberal party; it in but •' a very little 'un."
(A laugh.) Vet I hope that it will not run up • tree, but
will remain on the ground, and will persist in the couteit
fa which it is engaged, whether it consists of few or of
many, whether thine who have differed come back, ur
whether others differ out of any regard except-
ing the reasonable and just claim of the people
of this country, and those true principles or the
• °Destitution which we are all anxious to support.
• The right ben. gmtleman then proceeded to describe the
eircumstance• under which the two amendments had been
proposed to the house. He confessed that it had at one
time appeared to him impossible tie it any House of Com-
mons with a Wend majority could be found to produce a
sufficient number of men to bring into our electoral law
mew conditions restrictive of the franchise, but he had
been mistaken. But any system founded upon an absurd
preposterous mischievous definition of personal rating he
would wholly disown, refuse, and reject. I take it (con-
tinued Mr. t ;Litigious) that our duty is to use every effort
upon every remaining opportunity to strike at this odious
principle of inequality and injustice, and if we fail—as we
probably shall fail, for indeed the opportunities which
remain to us are but few end slight—to decline to recog-
nise, or hr parties in any manner to any acknowledg-
ment of the bill as a settlement of the question, and
to continue to maintain by every constitutional means in
cur power the printer eizpon which we have acted.
(Cheers.) Really with to this stele of personal
sating, which has become fundamental principle of the
twiteruveTy"cor.nsainterwarshaa beenon sot
thet velar
n l as
sideto
attract
of e
Louse, I believe the diMculties which have been found in
•oilerstamling it within the walls of the House of Com-
muting h .ve been much more perplexing these than in the

.. . • rtft.ruiera in the ,
c ••••• • y 1.., • I .oi . .itoroity w umeeiptanoiug how •
IN••a,r.:l r w''',.•, .Hear, hear..) Th. y have got'

;u • :h.• , • ,„ tt e al total that a e "re
g .im.g 1,. •..w nalet which every wotkitig man way,
if he chooses to fulfil comlitious, obtain the franchise.
What is lan: that I VCry working man may obtain
the irsliChirs. if :le S 1 teMare on which
he ho'sis h;. !.nu-c- 'rm.. his landlord. (Hear.) Can any-
thing be more piepostrioun ? Oh. gentlemen, it is a pain-
ful detail to into. l.ul as it looks upon the surface, it
is w,.t a t.. .!eeprr. It is anise when you know that,
whether tin igr it. or my of them- co opoutol house-
hoiticts t • come upon the franchi.e, this is certain, that
the ni.m who e•.s t. will he these who ought not to
come there. Mei the men wh, are not there ...ill be the
very turn who camlit to c 'Hear. heir.) It is impos-
sible to 'app.*, that the artisan iu most caaee will be in a
condition in which e encounter all the difficulties of
distils bine bus lmdlmd,..,rn.ngememts, making payments
this' was and that way. :mil getting rccmciies as he can.
It is impossible. I say, that any lady of men will attempt
to make such changes and alterathous. The testimony
bone by one of the gentlemen of the deputation is a for-
tiori an argument :e„,..in•t the propceasl plan. Even now
the another of compouiel householders who conic upon the
teen time upon their own claims. is infinitesimatlly email. I
stated the other night in the house, and I repeat it now,
there are probably not more than :SIO in the whole country.
But who will come upon the register? Why, wherever
there is a L milord possessing one or a couple of hundred
houses, who is desirous to be made absolute toaster of the
sante number of votes, that man —by a process which, as our
scale of election expense,' goes. is one of the cheapest in the
world —will have offered to him, through this pretended
enfranchisement, the me..ns of a new and subtle system of
corruption, to Whielt we base hevii strangers, and tenants
, will ha taken to the poll in your towns in a manner hithqrto
unknown. To such a state of thing. it is impossible for
roe to be a party under any conditions whatever. (Cheers.)
I will tell you what were the precise reasons that led me
to the 51. line. Ido not deny that I felt a difficulty with
respect to the lowest rho or margin of householder., who
tremble 04 it acre between pauperism and independence.
In tie! present st..te of education in this country, and in
the circumstances in which we are placed' I do not say
that the evil to to apprehended is one of commanding
magnitude. I ha... so -doubt its influence would he neutral-
ised, hut it would he a real evil. In the second place, I
felt that the principle on which I acted last year was
reasonable. vet . that we in this country are apt to go
forward. even to the beet ends. by reasonable and measured
steps ; and I think thik principle is the best to adhere to,
except under soy extmonlinary and peculiar conditions.
But what was most important was, that our difficulty
last year was not to restrain the impetuosity of those
who 'reused to go to pool the 7/. franchise, but it
WAS to bring up the insufficient zeal of reformers
in the hou.e to that standard. To a certain ex-
tent we succeeded. and I behest, many gentlemen most
honestly and most honourably went forward with us last
year, making sacrifices to their opinions to meet us, as it
was wise in us to make aacrifices to meet them. Of course,
it was my duty, in the position which I occupied, to have
sonic regard to the opinion of those gentlemen, to create
1604 unite that common stock of 'strength without which
tiAlettainblent of our object was impracticable. These
wen.. I think, reaeons which you will recognise as import-
ant in reference to the proposition of that line. (Hear,
bear.) There was mother reason also which operated
with me. I contemplated with an aversion which I cannot
describe the idea of laving a House of Commons.,
in which my publis life has been mossed—which has
always had my veneration and affection as the great
institution through which the liberty and welfare of this
country have been wrought out—inveigled and trapped
into the adoption of even household suffrage, when I knew
that not one in fifty of the member,. of that house really
desired it. (My position is this, as I said, my lirOpOrai of
the liue is gone. (Cheese) IL not see the circumstances
under which lam likely to revive it. I Inuit reserve to
mpolf perfect liberty in regard to that which in my con-
science I believe moat suitable, taking the hest advice and
counsel I can get. I aum thankful to say there is excellent
advice to be bad, because in the find place eo many distin-
guiebed statesmen of thin country with whom I have bad
the honour of acting in office have maintained such per-
fect fidelity to the principles to which they were pledged
by the bill of last year, and have calmly, unostentatiously,
and without perhispt having the reward which lea fallen
to my lot, of being held up as a conspicuous
object to my countrymen, remained firm, faithful,
and sincere, and have shown themselves perfectly
ready to serve in the great cause when it shall be neces-
sary for them to do so. In the second place, I cannot
refrain from recalling to your recollection the gallant and
coun.geous support of great popular leaders in the House
of Commons who have not scrupled if need be to risk the
reputation in which they are held by masses of the people
in order to give valuable counsel and advice, and to make
all their great powers freely available for the public good.
(Hear, hear.) We have had, and shall have, ample oppor-
tunities for counsel. and I ask to reserve to myself the
liberty of adopting any plan which may appear best
adapted to carry out the great object which we have in
view, of having a sensible. libend but above all things
an equal, just, and impartial franchise. (Cheers.) The
immediate object, however, is the mode of dealing with
these inequalities that are to be introduced into the
law with the immediate object of setting land-
lord against tenant and tenant against landlord, and de-
terring the industrious and peace-loving man from the
dangerous enterprise of attempting to get the franchise,
and inducing the weak-minded and subservient man to be-
come the tool of his landlord in the exercise of his
measures for political power. With all these results, and
many more, will theme enactments he attended. To these
eeactments, while they continue to be on the floor of the
House of Commons, I shall continue to offer an unqualified
and unhesitating opposition. (Cheers.) Should, as I have
said, these enactments become law, I shall regard them as
entitled to the authority that belongs to all law, but still
as portions of the law which every good citizen of this
country, in proportion as he is a good citizen and well
judging man, ought to strain every nerve and use every
power he peewees to oppose, for the purpose of bringing
the question to 14 speedy settlement. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. BRIGHT, who was generally called for and applauded,
said—l hope the time will come when I shall be per-
mitted to attend meetings as • listener only. There is
very little required to be said after the speeches which
have been delivered by the deputation, and—what shall I
call it!—the admirable reply of Mr. Gladstone. Mr.
Jones asked, what ought to be done? I have been at many
meetings like this, where the question has been asked, and
we often felt puzzled as to the reply. There are two
things at any rate which can be done. One has not lately
been tried, although if my advice had been taken six
months ago it would have been done. Meetings of course
everywhere. (Loud cheers.) When people give up
public meetings, they must either submit to
the injustice they complain of, or they must con-
spire or use some other mode of obtaining • remedy.
I am for meetings. (Cheers and laughter.) Owing to the
lone disregard of the House of Commons of the plan the
mode of petitioning has very much fallen into disuse. I
have heard in a hundred cues where men have said, " It
is no use petitioning; we have done it for twenty years ;
always with an equal-- that is to say, no result." I am of
opinion that if, through the instrumentality of the
National Reform Union, and of the Reform League—
(theend—there could be sent out to all the agents and
correspondents of both associations throughout Great
Britain - and I suspect that our friends in Ireland
would be willing to co-operate with us—(cheers)—for
dep, nd upon it that Ireland has very little to hope for
from the government which is eo treating the question
of reform—(hear, hear)—in the course of a fortnight or
three weeks there might be such a number of petitions on
the door of the House of Commons as has never been ap-
proached at any former period. (Cheers.) And at this
critical time, when after ull the majority, though consider-
able, is by no means confident or assured—because they
cannot but be conscious that the proposed settlement is no
settlement at all, and that there is a certain weakness in
its position—petitioning might be of great service. I am
not cure that if an extensive system of universal petition-
ing be adopted throughout the country, and honestly and
honourably worked for the next month, that we should
not bring about a very great change in the feeling of par-
liament, and bring thou members who are accessible to
reason to the belief that it is much better now in this
session of 1667 to do what all the working men, and rill the
liberal middle classes • great majority of the middle classes
—want, namely, to settle this question so far as we can
now go upon the principle of household suffrage. (Cheers,
and a remark from Mr. Kei.L, "People wont sign petitions,
Mr. Bright ; we have tried them.') My friend says the
people will not sign petitions. With all due deference to
his opinion, I don't believe it. And I'll tell Dlr. Kell why.
Last session, when there was what I called a conspiracy of
no very honourable charader to overthrow Lord Russell's
bill, what took place at Easter? The people were asked to
petition, and though there was no great effort, yet in a
single fortnight there were more than one thousand peti-
tions. Those petitions were signed by sonic 100,000 or
600,000, although some of them were petitions from
meetings which were only signed by one person —the
mayor er other gentleman—on behalf of the meeting.
Looking at what was done last year, at the reasonableness
of the thing, and at the fact that if men are not to come
into the streets to fight for their liberty, they must
approach parliament by petitions passed at public meet-
ings. If they fail, then the fault will he at the door of
parliament—and not et the door of the people themselves.
(Hear, hear.) If my voice can reach any town or village,
where there may be • reformer earnest and anxious to do
something, let him immediately attempt to obtain the
signatures of his neighbours to • petition. Let those
petitions be brought within the next fortnight to the
House of Commons in such numbers as will convince all
men of the necessity of the change which we wish to pro-
mote. Bear in mind that there are scores of men on the
tory side who are not satisfied with their present position,
but are, I am poidtive, anxioustosettlethe question wisely.
Amongst those who have deserted from our ranks on a late
occasion there are men, I doubt not, as honest upon this
question as any of us in this room, although they have
made • grievous, but I hope only temporary mistake. But
there being in the House of Commons an anxiety to settle
the question, let us by meetings, by petitions, by the
action of the press. and by correspondence with members,
induce the House of Commons to a course which shall pro-

duce a satiate toy settlement. 1 c,nhut conceive it pos-
sible that the liberal em.stititenuies who icturutal the
members that deserted from us the other evening me be
very imich satisfied with the ree.itiou their meinhen, have
taken. (rheen..) I observe that during the Easter reoesa
the constituenei,, were not very delighted with those fine
theories which were put forth by those who voted against
us on the 12th of Aprd, :uel 1 believe now that if
all the gentlemen who voted against us were to
write their letters to the newspapers explainiug their
reasons they would be found to be wholly unsatisfactory
to all the reformers in the boroughs by whom they were
elected. Let re, then, take the methods that are open to
us ; in all past time. in the struggles conducted Ay the
people those methods have been eventually successful. If
they are taken now with that real and unanimity which
chiuncterimes this meeting. and I believe the feelings of all
the people in this °malty who are at all in favour of re-
form (and therm, nine out of ten of the whole popula-
tion), before this session closes we may have the satistac.
tion of seeing enacted upon the statute-book fur all time
a =wine so good, so wile, so satisfying the longing of
the nation, that every one of us who has taken any part in
promoting it shall for the rest of ear lives feel that we
hare helped to do a good work for our own time, and fur
those in this country who are to come after us. (Loud
°been.)
The meeting separated with cheers for .lr. Gladstone.

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HER HAJERTY'S THEATRE.

Bellies La Sunmanditifit was to have been ,7,iven
at this house on Saturday, for the reappearance of Signor
Mongini. and the first appearance in this country of Mdlle.
Mario ; but, owing to the lady's illness. Verdi's I Lombardi
was substituted, Signor Mongini appearing as Oronte, the
part filled by Mr. Holder on the first performance of the
opera a fortnight since. Of the work itself we spoke so
fully on that occasion that little need now be said beyond
recording the confirmed impression of its poverty de-
rived from a second heating. With all the merits of the
present performance of I Lombardi, such music can never
live otherwise than as already indicated, in association
with the ball-mom and the streets, these extremes often
meeting in matters musical.

Dranta.

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE AT THE ADELPHI.

A grand morning performance, organised and
chiefly supported by the Pow* staff of writers soul artists,
for the benefit of the widow and eight children of the
late C. H. Bennett, took place at the Adelphi Theatre on
Saturday morning, and was as successful as it deserved to
be. The pecuniary results of this performance must have
been most gratifying to the actors and managers ; but,
however large the sum realised, a much larger amount
will be required to place this largo family, suddenly de-
prived of their protector, beyond the reach of temporary
want. ,

The performance of Saturday morning, judged merely
as a fashionable entertainment, apart from its praise.
worthy object, was in every respect admirable. It opened
with a burlesque operatic rendering of the most amusing
of all farces, Box and C'x, written by Mr. F. C. Burnand,
and supplied with the most charming and delicate comic
music by Mr. Arthur Sullivan. It would be difficult to
overpraise the humour of this production, or the talent
shown by the three actors. Mr. Quintin, who played Con,
is a genuine comedian ; Mr. G. Du Maurier, the well-
known artist, who played Box, is an excellent tenor
singer, with a great deal of comic power; and Mr. Arthur
Blunt, who played Bouncer, in this ease turned into •
sergeant of yeomanry, with an irrepressible rataplan, is
a moat Minified funny actor. Mr. Tom Taylor's
little drama, A Sheep in Wolfs Clothing, was next
given, with the following cast of character' :

Colonel Percy Kirke, of Kirke's Lambs Mr. Mark lemon
Colonel Lord Churchill, of tho Life
Guards Mr. John Tenniel.
Master Jasper i'arew
Kesler Challzl oy Mr. P. C Burman].
Corporal 1•11114.lf. /of wow, f.o.b. I Mr. Homer Mayhew.
Hackett, • ' 1 Mr. Fleury Sliver.
John Zoyland. s Locksmith
Anne Carew, wl,e of Jasper Carew Miss Kate Terry.
Dame Carew, mother of Jasper Came Mrs. Stoker.
Slhyl, daughter of Jasper Carew
Keziah Maplettlft, servant 141 Anne
(Mrs. Waite.

Miss Kate Terry's embodiment of Anne Carew has
lately been made familiar to playgoers at the Olympic,
and Mr. Mark Lemon, Mr. Burnand, and Mr. Tom Taylor
distinguished themselves In their respective parts--particu-
larly Mr. Lemon, who is an actor of some expe-
rience. The performances concluded with Offenbach's
little musical absurdity, called Les Deus Arengles first
made familiar to the English public, we believe, by M.
Levassor, at the St. James's Theatre), in which Mr. Du
Manrier and Mr. H. Power represented the two French
beggars with great effect. Both are excellent actors and
singers. Mr. Du Maurier was even more successful in his
French than in his English acting. The intervals between
the parts were filled up with some very agreeable part-
singing by a band of amateur singers known as "The
Moray Minstrels," who sang a little too much for so full a
programme, and an address delivered by Mr. Shirley
Brooks.

So exoellent an entertkinment may surely be repeated
during the present season with every chance of success,
and there will be no difficulty in a week or two's time
in; finding a theatre for an evening representation. The
house was crowded with a most distinguished audience.

Lib ilitta WM&

.S.:.:TROPOLITAN COUNTY COURTS.

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Thursday. 16 Yriday, 17.
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L.Ullinti, Camberwell Neweeed. —Tuesday, Nay 14.
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Thursday, 16 Saturday, 1.

EQUITY COURTS.—MAY 11.
(Before the Blaster of the Rolla.)
IN RE THE IMPERI cAA.(..111.AN1!6

In this matte: a petition was presented by a shareholder
in the company, praying for an under to wind it up. It
appeared that the petitioner took his shares in
the company in December, 1564, soon after which
the directors made a very flourishing report as to the state
and prospects of the company, showing that they had
obtained several concessions in Austria and elsewhere,
and that tkey were conductingtheir business inn profitable
manner. In 1867, however, the directors published a
second report of a very different character, showing a dimi-
nution in the amount of shares and in the capital of the
concern. Calls had been subsequently made, and the
petitioner being in arrear with respect to them the com-
pany had brought an action against him for them, which
was to he tried on Tuesday next. The petitioner now
rested his case on the alleged fact of the company being in
reality in such circumstances as to be unable to carry on its
business, and liable therefore to he wound up under the
express provisions of the Companies Act of 1662.
Mr. Roxburgh. Q.C., and Mr. Roberts appeared for the
petitioner; Mr. Jesael, (W., and Mr. Locock Webb for
the company ; and Mr. Fry, for some of the shareholders,
opposed the petition.
Lord Romilly held that the petitioner had not esta-
blished a case for a winding-np order, and made a decla-
ration accordingly. . _
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. Malin.)
RE THE 241:HURBAN HOTEL COMIPANT (1.11(TED).

This was • petition for the compulsory winding up of
the company. The company was registered on the 13th of
January, ISO, the office being at the hotel in the Vale of
Health, Hampstead. It commenced carrying on business
in June, and in April, 1805, Mr. Pulling, an upholsterer
in Holborn, became the proprietor of 200 shares' ancisub-
sequently a director. The company consisted of 5;000
shares, of which 2,499 only were subscribed for, 1,191
being treated as paid op and allotted to Donald Nichol,
who built the hotel upon his privato property and took the
shares in part payment of the purchase money. A billiard
table was paid for in shares, and 1,3414 remained unburned.
The shares were 10f. each, of which 5/. lOs. had been paid.
The petitioner alleged that undue influence was
exercised by parties holding a large majority of
the shams, and that the concern was carried on at
• loss, the hotel being virtually closed and no
bturineas being carried on except at the tap, which was
in a separate builiing. He further stated that the build.
Mg was in • dilapidated condition. that the furniture was
pied up in the rooms, and that there was a mortgage for
5,0001. of which he was at first ignorant. On the other
hand, the directors said that it was a summerhouse of en-
tertainment, and therefore was closed during the winter
months, rind that it had returned, and was still calculated
to return, a remunerative profit.
Mr. ltoxburgh and Mr. Leeson appeared for the peti-
tioner ; Mr. Waller, for the holders of 300 shares, sup-
ported the petition ; Mr. Glasse and Mr. Buchanan op-
posed.
Mr. Nichol (the chairman of the cempany), Mr. Pulling
(the petitioner), and other witnesses were truss-examined in
court upon their affidavits.
The l'ice.(3lancellor directed the petition to stand over
till the 31st of May, in order that a meeting might be held
to reconsider the question of the winding up. In the
mean time no proceedings ware to be taken to enforce a
call, and leave was given to the petitioner to inspect the
books.