The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-29 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Milo Pas- Mer- Total, Total,
7.I7LWATP. open. sensors. &audios. 1866. 1881.
Week ending Oct. 27. A 6 6 It
Bombay. Barodk.6:Centrid 1. 306 4,655 4,167 8,822 8,687
Week ending Dec. 1. __
Northern of Canada .
Week ending Dee. U.
Ottoman
Week ending Dee. 21
Belfast and N. l'.unti s
Week ending Ike. 'Ct
662 i 11,203 22,628 33,829 34,550
Caledonian
the Erie Railway Company, for the month of November, 1866,
1,417,328 dole. ; ditto, 1166, 1,637,563 dole.

94 555 1,524 2,079 1,457

THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERS EXPLO-
siIiN.--lIANLEY, FRIDAY EVENING.—This afternoon a
public meeting of the inhabitants of North Staffordshire
was held at the Railway Hotel, Stoke-upon-Trent, to de-
vise means for the relief of the sufferers by the colliery
explosion at Talke. The Earl of Lichfield, the lord-lieu-
tenant of the county, who bad convened the meeting, pre-
sided, and in opening the proceedings spoke at some length
in justification of the course he had taken at the Wolver-
hampton meeting in advising that the money raised in
the county should be sent to the Mansion-house fund, to
be divided pro rata between Barnsley and Talke. He had
ascertained. however, that there was a very strong feeling
in North Staffordshire in favour of the whole of the
money raised in and by the district being applied to the
relief of the sufferers by the Talke accident, and that being
the case, he should not of course press his own views upon
the meeting. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot
moved the following resolution : " That this meeting e-
d
sires to record its deep and heartfelt sympathy with the
widows and orphans, and other sufferers through the
recent colliery accidents at Barnsley and Make, and its ad-
miration of the noble qualities displayed by their fellow.
workmen on the occasion." The Earl of Harrowby
seconded the resolution, which was rried, as was
also the following, proposed by Mr. James Bateman,
F. R.S., and second. d by Sir E. Manningham Buller, M.P.:
"That the funds raised in this division of the county be
devoted to the relief of the sufferers by the calamity at
Talks and placed at the disposal of the local committee
already formed." It was also resolved that whatever
surplus shall remain, after satisfying every proper claim
upon the funds for the relief of the widows, dependent
adults, and children, who have become destitute in con-
sequence of the calamity at Talke, shall be applied towards
the establishment of some permanent fund for affording
gelid to sufferers from any further colliery accident in the

county.
PUBLIe COMPANIES IN CHANCERY. —Mr. Halt,
the chief clerk attached to Vice-Chancellor Stuart's court,
sat in chambers yesterday to dispose of vacation summonses
taken out in the several courts. There were as many as 76
applications, and the learned gentleman was occupied
some time. The ease of "Turquand T. Marshall" was a
suit by Mr. Turquand, as official liquidator of a defunct
banking company, to make a deceased director liable for
all the debts of the bank. The defendant was executor of
the late director, and the suit had been some time pending.
On the part of the defendant an application was made for
time to answer. The bill was upwards of 500 folios in length,
the interrogatories exceeded 600, and the answer would be
of oonsiderable length. There had been an administrative
suit, and leave had been obtained to appear. For the
plaintiff a lengthened delay was resisted. It was under-
stood that proceedings had been pending for two years.
The defendant's solicitor said it was a great feat to get an
answer in such a cane filed in six months. The chief clerk
granted time to answer, and an order was accordingly
drawn up for a specified period.
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