The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-18 00:00:00

IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY•

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This day twelve shareholders of the company
were summoned to show cause why the all of 101. should 100
not be enforced against them.
Mr. Geo. Lewis (Lewis and Lewis) appeared for five who St.
were members of the Defence Association. 100
Mr. Denton, from the office of Means. Maynard, now
appeared for the liquidators, Mr. Harding and Mr. ss.
Turquend. ht.
Mr. Hale (Young, Jones, and Co.) explained that his 100
house, who bad been solicitor.for the company, had re- 100
I signed being solicitors for the liquidators, and Messes.
toe
100
May nerd now represented them.
Mr. George Lewis said Mr. Hale bad appeared In feat for lion
the Gurneys, and had done so all along. 100
Mr. Hale complained of Mr. Lewis's conduct. 'Co
The Chief Clerk asked the urgency of the application. as 100
on the 29th instant the owe would gobeforeVioe-Chancellor
Kinderaley. 00
Mr. Denton declared that it was urgent, as he believed 20
parties would get rid of their property, and he knew of se.
conveyances to 300,0001. He hoped no " sensational" 94
speech would be made by Mr. Lewis. 9L
Mr. George Lewis thought the statement of making 1111,
away with property was " sensationaL" There was no ;on
affidavit of the allegation. too
The cue was discussed until half-past one o'clock. 10
The Chief Clerk made the usual order to enforce the at
call, and said Mr. Lewis could apply to the judge. St
St
Order accordingly.

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ALARMING FIRE IN THE STRAND. —At 7 o'clock 50
this morning a fire broke out at No. 3, Angel-court, a r°,„
Larrow thoroughfare, nearly facing Somerset House. The a-
building is three stories high, and was let out in at
tenements, occupied by six or seven families. At St.
the time of the outbreak most of the inmates were le
in bed, the neighbours being first alarmed eft
by the screams of children. The flames were soon
seen in the second floor. The first task was the preserva-
tion of !'fe, and the praiseworthy efforts of the neighbours
happily resulted in bringing all out in safety. A number -7
of land steam engines, with Captain Shaw at _
their head, were quick in arriving ; but despite
their exertions the house was nearly destroyed, and that
next door (No. 4) much damaged. The loss to the poor
creatures will be severely felt, the homes of some of the
lodgers being entirely sacrificed, and the children escaping
with merely their night-dresses. The case of a poor man
living on the second floor, where the fire originated,
excited much sympathy ; he has recently lost his wife and
two children, and is now left without a home and with a
Tfamily to support.
HE GAS StPPLY OF LONDON.—A public meet-
ing was held last evening in St. Clement Danes Vestii-
hall, Strand, for the purpose of adopting measures to-
wards securing a reduction in the price of gas in the metro-
polis to two shillings and ninepence per thousand cubic
feet, and also the repeal of the Metropolitan Gas Act
(1860), which is held to have destroyed competition in gas.
Mr. J. Tyler, churchwarden of the parish, occupied the
chair, and in opening the proceedings said that the meet-
ing bad been convened by himself and his fellow-officers
on a requisition signed by some 200 persons. The question
they had to consider touched their pockets, and therefore
must be interesting to them. Every one had a right to
dispose of his warts at his own price, and people had
equally a right to pay at their own price ; but in the
present instance there was a monopoly such as was to
be found in no other branch of trade. He was
aware that some of the gas companies were started with
a view to cheapening the price of gas ; but after a few
years amalgamation took place, and the consumers now had
to pay for the division of London into three districts—a
step taken by the various companies for their own conve-
nience, and which bad by their own confession saved them
an enormous sum of money. Mr. G. Flintoff delivered an
address, illustrated by diagrams, on the general subject,
and a series of reaolutions in favour of the reduction of gas
to 2s. 91. per thousand cubic feet, calling for a repeal of
the Metropolitan Gas Act (1860), and pledging the meet-
ing to support the corporation of London in promoting a
bill to improve the quality of gas, and to reduce the price
from 4s. to Is., were proposed and adopted.
THE CHOLERA IN THE NORTH EASTERN PORTS.
—Between Monday and Tuesday nights there were four
more fatal cases of cholera in North Shields. William
Willis died in Gardiner-street, after an illness of 50
hours ; George Elliott, landlord of the Golden Lion Hotel,
Cburchway, died after 36 hours' illness ; Ellen Sadler
died after an illness of 30 hours, and a young man named
Joseph Wilson, who lived over a butcher and fruiterer's
shop, died after an illness of 12 hours ; and there have
been four more fatal eases at Sunderland. The cholera
has also appeared at Stockton, and in the village of
Wolverstone, near to that town, there have been 21 fatal
cases since the disease appeared there, a few weeks ago.
There has been a fatal case at Newcastle-on• Tyne and
another at South Shields.
AFFRAY WITH SOLDIERS.—A very alarming
affray occurred on Monday evening in Dundalk, between
some soldiers of the 10th Hussars, now quartered there,
and the inhabitants. A Roman catholic clergyman (the
Rev. Mr. Hardy) having met some young women, mem-
bers of hie congregation, walking with some of the
soldiers about 9 o'clock, remonstrated with them on what
he considered their unseemly conduct. Their military
companions resented the rev. gentleman's interference,
and asked him by what right he reprimanded the females.
Some bystanders unfortunately immediately spread a
repos tto the effect that Mr. Hardy had been assaulted by
the soldiers, and a mob collected, who attacked not only
the men in question, but all of the same regiment whom
they found in the streets. Strong pickets of other regi-
ments were sent out from the barracke, under whose pro-
tection the obnoxious Hussars retreated, and in the comae
of a couple of hours the town resumed its usual tranquil-
lity. Two of the soldiers received each injuries that it
was found necessary to place them in the hospital.
ADVERSZ Invanerra.—While unseen by each
other at a Richmond auction-room, husband and wife ran
up an article from five to thirteen dollars. The wife won.
—datcrican paper.