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deal gthesitskion, the witness stated that Livia wee tint I
first time she had ever been beaten by her husband.
The defence was that in a moment of irritation the
prisoner tLrew the stool at his wife, but with no intention
of inflicting injury, and no one could regret more than he
what had occurred.
Mr. D'Eynoourt remarked that this was another of the
effects of the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors, and
sentenced the pi lamer to six weeks imprisonment with
hard labour in the House of Correction.

another constable, came to his assistance, when the pri-
soner came up and stabbed the latter. Witmer saw
tie a stone in a handkerchief and strike Houghton on the
head with it cutting him fearfully. After some trouble
Brown and the other two were secured. The two latter
were fined 51. and H. respectively, but the prisoner was
committed for trial.
Thomas Houghton, 115 L, eaM that he went to last
wituess'a assistance, when the prisoner came up and at-
tempted to rescue the others. While struggling he re-
ceived a blow on the head from something sharp, and
found he had received a severe cut. Witneu then went
to the surgery of Mr. Blades, the divisional surgeon, who
'trapped up the wound, and on his return he saw Brown
in custody.
Hobert Hardringlum, 163 L, said he saw the prisoner
strike Houghton with a stone in his handkerchief, and
ran away. He however followed him, and took him into
custod
Dr. Blades, of the Kennin4ton-park-road, said that
Houghton came to him on the night in question with a
wound on his head. It was nearly down to the bone, and
about an inch long. He should think it was inflicted by
some blunt instrument, such as a large stone.
Mr. Lilley made an eloquent appeal to the jury, and
The Assistant Chairman summed up the whole of the
evidence in a careful manner.
The jury consulted for a short time, and returned •
Iterdict of Guilty.
Mr. Adams sentenced him to 12 months' bard labour.
dim ravers, 36, was indicted for administering a noxious
drug to Lucy Chalk, and robbing her of a dress, bonnet,
shawl, pair of boots, and • carpet bag. The proeecutrix, •
very respectable woman, rending at Hackney, said
that on Monday, the 30th of July, about two o'clock in
the afternoon, she met the prisoner In a refreshment house
near London Bridge, and they got into conversation,
after which they left the house together, and walked
over the bridge towards the railway terminus. The pri-
soner then asked her to enter the London-bridge Tavern
with her, and there called for some rum. After drinking
a glass of it she became suddenly insensible, and recollected
nothing until she found herself in bed in a strange house,
very ill, and stripped of her dress, boots, bonnet, and
shawl, and missed her carpet bag and a purse containing
• trifle in silver. The people were very kind to her,
and
I as soon as she recovered a constable was sent for and she
gave a description of the prisoner, and was afterwards sent
home.
Jane Foley, • lodger, nodding at 29, Surrey-row, Black.
friars-road, "aid that while her landlady was out the pri-
soner drove up in a cab about 3 o'clock in the afternoon
in question and told her that she had her sister very ill in
the cab, and she wanted her put to bed for a short time.
The prosecutrix was then lifted out of the cab, brought
into the house, and put into the landlady's bed. Shortly
afterwards the prisoner came out of the room and told her
she was going to fetch a doctor for her sister, and she left
the house, but never returned. Witness shortly afterwards
went into the bedroom and found the prosecutrix very
sick. She bathed her temples, and when she recovered
found her nearly stripped.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and she was sen-
Inced to twelve months' bard labour.

TH3 CHOLSILL

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WESTMINSTER.
Charles and Rebecca Lilley, man and wife, were charged,
the former with assaulting the police, and the latter with
attempting to ramie.
Sergeant Whicher, 7 B, said on Tuesday night he was in
Winchester-street, Pimlico, and found the man on a door-
step. He told him to go away, upon which defendant
called him an " Old —." Police-constable Patrick
O'Connor, 56 B, then came to his assistance, and defendant
kicked and struck him as he attempted to remove him.
They fell, and prisoner's face was cut. Further struggles
took place, and they were down together four or five
times. Police-constable Sutton, 162 B, then came up, and
they got part of the way to the station when the female
held him tightly b 7 the collar, and upon his pushing her
away, struck him in the face. She was taken into custody
outside the station.
O'Connor corroborated the sergeant, and in reply to
questions from the defendant and magistrate, denied
striking him in the face, as he alleged.
The male defendant did not deny being intoxicated, but
denied committing an assault, or using bad language. He
called
Harry Hoye, of 75, Cumberland-street, who proved that
prisoner was not in Winchester-street, but on his doorstep.
O'Connor picked him up, called him a struck him
violently in the eye, and threw him in the road, using
further violence afterwards.
Anotherwitnees proved that it was in Cumberland-street,
A woman called to the police to spring their rattles.
Sergeant Whirler persisted that it was in Winchester.
street, and the prisoner went thence to Cumberland-street.
Hoye swore positively that they got out of a cab and sat
down on his door-step.
Mr. Selfe—Whicher, I am sorry to see yon mixed up in
this dierraceful affair. O'Connor I shall report to the
commissioner as a person guilty of violence, bad language,
and falsehood, and one that should be dismissed the force.
Ido not wish to include you in it, Sutton. The prisoners
are discharged.

SOUTHWARK.
The owner of five small rooms in White Hart Inn-yard,
High.etrest, was summoned before Mr. Woolrych, by Mr.
Bngton, sanitary inspector to the St. Saviour's District
Bad of Works, for leaving all of them in such • filthy
and dilapidated condition as to be injurious to the health
of the neighbourhood.
Mr. Errington said that the rooms in question were in-
habited by 36 persons. The ceiling. and walls were not
only filthy, but broken. There was only one water-closet
for the whole, and that was without water, and very foul.
He served notices on the occupiers and the owner, but
nothing had been done.
A solicitor, who attended for the owner, said that they
intended to close up the premises shortly, as they were
ooming down.
Mr. Woolrych told him that people were living in them,
and he made an order for the performance of the work in
14 days.
The owner of 10, Orange-court was charged with a
similar offence.
Mr. Errington said that this house was in a very filthy
state indeed. The privy wee filthy in the extreme, and at
the door was a pool of stagnant water, owing to the yard
being badly paved. A trap was required in the yard.
Mr. Woolrych ordered the house to be thoroughly
cleansed, and everything done that was required by the
vestry, within seven days. In both cases his worship
ordered the wets to be paid. Should not the work be per-
formed within the time specified, the vestry would wider.
take it, and proceed against the suitors for the cost ex-
pended by them.

Arthur Godfrey. • good-looking man, about 24 years of
age, attired in a nearly new clerical suit, having the ap-
pearance of a high church minister, was brought before
Mr. Woolryeh, charged with being found in No. 5, Grange-
terrace, Bermondsey, with intent to commit a felony ; also
with having in his possession a number of housebreaking
implements, constructed upon modern improvements,
among which were a formidable " jemmy," that could be
folded up and put in a side pocket ; a surgical instrument
ease, fitted up with various skeleton keys ; a email curiously
constructed dark lantern, and some lumfer matches.
Mr. Walter Slott, army accoutrement maker 5, Grange-
terrace, said that on Sunday evening last he and his family
went to church as usual, leaving the door locked on the
latch. About half-past seven he was called out of church,
and from what he beard of a neighbour, he proceed
ed
home, and on putting his key in, he found that
it would not turn. He was about to go through his
next neighbour's house, when he heard the bolt put back.
He accordingly turned back, when his door was opened, and
he saw the prisoner in the passage. He caught hold of
him, and asked him what he wanted there. He replied
that Mr. Jones, a gentleman of the chapel, had sent him
there by mistake, and he was sorry for it. Witness told
him he must detain him until a police-constable could be
sent for, as he had no doubt he was a thief. Witness
asked him what he had taken, he replied that he had
taken some money from a purse in the front bedroom, and
he handed him a sovereign, half-a-crown, a shilling, and
a penny. Several of his neighbours came to his assistance,
and the prisoner was banded over to the custody of a con-
stable. Witness then found that every room bad been
entered, and some of the drawers ransacked ; and the
money found on the prisoner was taken from one of the
drawers in the front bedroom.
The prisoner was remanded In order that inquiries
might be made about him.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A PARISH CONTRAC-
TOL —At the Mer7lebone police court yesterday, George
Curnock, the principal contractor for the scavengering of
the parish of St. Pancras, was charged with uttering
number of forged bills of exchange. Mr. William Aspinall' ,
a stone merchant, of 280, High-street, Camden town said
he had known the prisoner about fourteen years, as being
a contractor, holding a good position in the parish. On
the Bth March last, Mr. Anderton, one of the prisoner's
clerks, came to him and asked him to discount a bill for
198/. Ild., purported to having been accepted by Mr.
Thomas Curnock. After some persuasion he consented
to discount the bill, and (less the usual percentage for
discount) gave a cheque on the London and Westminster
Bank, payable to Mr. George Curnock. Feeling some-
what suspicious, he followed the clerk to the door of his
master's office, where he met the prisoner, who in answer
to his inquiries said it was all right, and that he had
drawn the bill on his brother Thomas for some clung he
bad sold him. The bill, which was due on the 11th of
June, was dishonoured, and on the following day the pri-
soner came into his office, and on learning that the bill was
locked up in the desk he expressed his satisfaction, and
hoped it would remain there until he got some money from
the parish, when he would take it up. At that time he
(witness), feeling ill, left town for about ten days, and on
returning found that the prisoner had become a bankrupt.
He (witness) was chairman at the first meeting of the
prisoner's creditors, and had the prisoner called into the
room, when he confessed that the whole of the signa-
tures to the bills of exchange produced were forged. The
prisoner's brother sat at the table during the meeting, and
at the same time other creditors said they held similar
forged acceptances for sums varying from 4001. to 5001.
He (witnevs) knew that at the present time there were
forged bills of exchange out, signed by the prisoner,
amounting to upwards of 5,0001. Some other evidence
having been given the prisoner was remanded for a week.
THE MANCHESTER STAMP-OFFICE ROBBERY.-

The two men, Charles Batt and Charles Leeson (other-
wise Gleason), were brought before the magistrates at
Manchester, yesterday, for further examination. A wit-
ness named Richard Shaw, a tailor, who had made clothes
for Leeson, was the principal witness, and proved that
Leeson was from home on the day of the robbery,
that he was subsequently in pmmion of • (Feat number
of stamps, which tie enclosed in a tin canister to bury
thew. Roth prisoners were committed to the assizes, bad

being refused:
THE. COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE ON THE
RiTElL—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Richards, deputy coro-
ner, opened an investigation at the Town of Ramsgate Ta-
vern, Wapping, into the circumstances of a collision
between the Woolwich steamboat Doris, and a lug boat,
by which George Row, aged 45 years, and another man lost
their lives. Samuel Hill, a custom-house officer, said that
he witnessed the collision, which took place between one
and two o'clock last Monday afternoon. He saw the
steamer Doris coming up the middle of the river abreast
of Hermitage tier, and a lag boat coining down with the
tide, also in midstream. The deceased, Gearge Roe, was
rowing; another man was sitting in the stern, but his view
ahead was intercepted by packages of Geneva, which the
boat was carrying down the river as stores for a ship. De-
ceased pulled his left car to avoid the steamer when he
became aware of her proximity. The steamer did not after
her course. The boat was struck on the side by the stern
of the steamer, which nearly cut it in two, and remained
embedded in it for a few seconds. The two men were
pitched overboard and were drowned. The boat got clear
of the steamer's stern, anddrifted under the paddle', which
were by that time reversed, and was capsized. In wit-
ness's opinion the steamer was in fault. He was sure that
the river was clear at the time, and that the Doris could
have shifted her course. Mr. Fry, solicitor for the Wool-
wich Steamboat Company, applied for an adjournment of
the case, in order that he might procure additional evi-
dence, and the court was adjourned accordingly. The
deceased George Roe was a lighterman ; he has left a
widow and four children unprovided for. The body of his
companion has not been found.
CRYSTAL PALACZ. Chrz SHILLINO DAY.—

WZDNIDEWAT, Sgrr. s.—Adrajaions on payment, 6,224 ;
ditto by Nassau tidbits. 3,148. Total visitors, 9,372.

Du .101ABRY'S DILICIOUS RBTALSNTA AP.ABIC.A.
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debility, constipation, titanium palp Lotion, nervous, mut,
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21,1888.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially
since. abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself
entirety to Du bury's Food. and hie Holiness cannot probe
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THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1866.

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera esul diarrhoea registered on Tuesday:
Cholera. Diarrhoea.
West districts
Nor* (Weida 3
Central districts
Fiat districts vs
Month districts 9

Total in Ueda&
The return for the mdsdistrict of St. George 8100
ms-
bury wee not received in time for publication.

The London Hospital books yesterday showed for the
first time since the 17th of July, that no oases of cholera
had been admitted during the previous twenty-four hours.
Four persons suffering from choleraic, diarrhoia had, how-
ever, been brought in. On Tuesday, six oases of cholera,
and 4of the milder form of disease were admitted. The
deaths on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively were two.
The reooveries yesterday were twelve, seven from cholera
and five from die:home. There remains in the hospital
46 cholera and 41 diarrhoea patients ; total, 87. The
number of out-patients is 83.
No deaths have occurred in the cholera hospital, Wap-
ping, during the week, and the admissions are now very
few. The number of sick in the wards has fallen to 22.
Nearly the whole of these patients were yerterday reported
to be doing well. The diminution in the pressure on this
hospital isconridered to be avery ratisfactoryprocithatthe
severity of the epidemic has been mitigated in a remark-
able degree throughout the whole of the district included
in the Stepney Union.

THE MANSION HOUSE BELIEF COMMITTEE.
Yesterday • special meeting of this committee was con-
vened at the Mansion-hoess by the Lord Mayor to confer
with the chairmen of the various local committees in the
east of London, who had been specially invited to meet
them in reference to the distribution of the money which
the committee has set apart with a view to aid the re-
covery of convalescent patients. The Lord Mayor °templed
the chair, and addressing the delegates, explained that the
committee which he had the honour to represent had bad
the subject of dealing with convalescents from cholera,
which was a pressing one, under consideration for some
time, and had set apart the sum of 2,0001. for that express
purpose. That being so they had thought it desirable to
invite the attendance and co-operation of the chairmen of
local committees in its distribution. They were induced
to believe that by means of the public bounty, they and
the Bishop of London's committee together had been the
means of arresting the spread of the epidemic, and so
averting what ought otherwise have become • great
national calamity. The disease having now mate-
rially subsided the caw of the convalescents pressed
i for mmediate action, and the committee wanted
to know from the local authorities the number of persons
in their various localities ooming within that category, and
to discuss with them the best means of sustaining and
strengethening the many unhappy creatives who had suf-
fered from this severe visitation, and restoring them to
their homes and families, or to such of their families as
were spared to them. The committee had a certain sum
of money entrusted to their care by the public for that and
kindred purposes, and the great object they had in view
was to apply it strictly for those purposes, taking care, at
the same time, in the exercise of what they believed to be
• wise discretion, that they did not add pauperism to
paupe.rism—(hear, hear)—desuing, on the other hand, as
the wiser course to eaglet those who were disposed to assist
themselves. They had considered the matter in
all its different phases. Some gentlemen had
thought it desirable to erect convalescent hospitals. That
might well be • question for future consideration, but the
committee were unanimously of opinion that they had first
to deal with the present, and having, as they believed,
under God's Providence, been instrumental in mitigating,
if not entirely abating the disease, they must hope, with
the co-operation of local committees, to whom the public
at large owed the deepest gratitude for the services they
had rendered in the emergency, to appropriate the money
in such a way ',snot only to afford satisfaction to the sub-
scribers, but confer listing good on the poor.
The committee afterwards mad* • number of grants for
assisting convalesoents, leaving in every instance the money
to be dispensed for that purpose at the discretion of the
local committees, who are composed of ministers of reli-
gion and other principal inhabitants of the infected dia-
. . .

The LORD MAYOR intimated that the next object of
the committee was to provide for the maintenance of the
orphans, for which purpose they had set apart 5,0001., and
to that end they would hold another conference with the
local committees on an early day. They had only one
object in view, he said, and that was to do the greatest
possible good with the money which the public had so
generously placed at their disposal, and to do it promptly,
adding that nothing could be more gratifying than the
cordial manner in which the local committees, one and all,
had cooperated with them.
The local authorities then took their leave.
Sir Moitmutrr WELLS, referring to the ravages of the
disease in the district of Limehonse, with a population of
26,977, said it appeared from a return sent to him that
from the week ending July 14 to that ending Sept. 1
there had been 182 deaths from cholera and 98 from
diarrhoia. or 280 in all; in other words in six weeks a
hundredth part of the population of Limehouse had
died of the pestilence.
Dr. ANDREW CLERK physiclan'to the London Hospital,
referred, from his own knowledge, to the great good which
Mrs. Gladstone was doing for convalescent children. At
one time, he said, the hospital was nearly choked with
convalescent children. They had no home to go to, and no
clothes to put on, and the hospital was fast becoming a
sort of poorhouse; but Mrs. Gladstone stepped in and
removed 28 of these children to the House of Charity in
Greek-street, Soho, and afterwards took a temporary
home at Brighton. He had that morning paid a visit to
the House of Charity, and was extremely pleased with
all he saw. The children were happy-looking and joyous,
and altogether the institution was being conducted in •
systematic and business-like manner.
While the subject of affording means to enable conva-
lescents to go into the country for the benefit of fresh eir
was under consideration, • member of the committee re-
lated a circumstance which had come wider his own obser-
vations daring the epidemic, to show how the poorest
poor are wedded to their own homes and modes of life,
wretched though these often are in the last degree. One
Saturday, while the cholera was prevalent, he visited •
poor widow who had been taken with the disease in a
room she occupied with her children in one of the
poorest parts of Spitalfields. He called again on the
following Monday and found she was dead and buried,
and that her youngest child, who had caught the epi-
demic, had been taken to the hospital. She had died,
leaving nine orphans. He went to see after the family,
and found that four of them had been taken to the work-
house, one (the youngest) was in the hospital, and the re-
maining four, three of whom were girls 18, 17, and 16
years of age, and one a boy of 13, were living in what he
called • piggery belonging to a railway, and in which there
was not a single pane of glass. One lived by making
braid, and the three others by making Incffer-match
boxes, at which they earned 20. a gross, and they could
make perhaps three gross • day. None of them could
read or write. They were utterly and absolutely ignorant.
They could not sew, and none of the girls had even a
shift. He offered to clothe them decently and give them
a dinner every day, provided they would do a little sewing
in return, but every one of them refused, saying they
would rather live as they were. That, said the member
of the committee who related the story, was more deplor-
able to his mind than the prevailing distress.

NARROW ESCAPE OF • Plc-Nic PARTY FROM
DBOWNING.—A boat accident, which was nearly fatal to
nine persons, occurred upon the Thames in the vicinity of
Windsor on Monday afternoon. Riding-master Boswell,
of the Royal Horse Guards, accompanied by Mrs. Boswell,
Mr. and Mrs. Devereux, of Eton, with Mr. Howard Deve-
rent, ?bliss Blanche Devereux, Miss Amy Devereux, and
Muter Bertie Devereuz, hired a boat at Tollada's Boat
for the purposeof proceeding up the river to Monkey
Island, where the party bad made arrangements for a pic-
nic. A boatman named Wells was in attendance, while
Riding-muter Boswell was steering. They had proceeded
up the Thames some distance from Windsor, and bad
reached the backwater of an sit near Monkey Wand, when
the boat, which was a large one, struck upon • stake in
the middle of the river, where there was a great depth of
water, and immediately commenced filling. With admi-
rable presence of mind, Riding-master Boswell sprung
from the boat, and, seizing it by the head, held
it in its position, fixed as it was to the stake, and
thus preventing the frail craft from being swept with its
human freight to destruction by the current, which at
this spot was very strung. In • few seconds the boat was
filled with water to the gunwale, and it became necessary
to remove the ladies, who were immersed to their waists.
Mr. Howard Devereux threw himself out of the boat, and
carried his sister Amy safely to the shore, Miss Blanche
being removed by the Riding Master and her mother, who
had waded up, to theirneckstoa willow bed,tho three being
nearly swept away and drowned by the stream. Mr. Deve-
reux, who could not swim, continued to make to the
bank, and the only persons) then left in the boat were
M. Boswell and Mrs. Devereuz, the former lady coura-
geously refusing to leave the sinking craft while her
friend remained in it. Strange to say, the boatman re-
fused to assist in rescuing the ladies from the danger,
giving as a reason the fact of his doctor having
ordered him not to go into the water. Mr.
Howard Devereuz, though exhausted from over-exer-
tion, swam ashore in order to get assistance, as
it was every moment expected that the boat and the ladies
would be swept away. Running along the bank in • dis-
tracted manner in search of assistance he encountered two
gentlemen (?), to whom he appealed for help, and who re-
fused it. He, however, made his way in the direction of
Monkey Island, and got possession of a punt and the as-
sistance of • man with • boat. Both returned with all
speed to the spot wheried
Mrs. Detvhe accidenret had happened, and
I the perilous position which they had cupier, intinused
from
as they were for about three-quarters of as hour...Riding-
master Boswell having held the boat in its position, the
courageous officer all the while having the water up to his
neck. The whole party were at once conveyed to Monkey
Island, and restorative' used to recover Mrs. Howard
Devereux, who bad succumbed to exhaustion and exposure
to the sold and water.

! Tki?- ACC:MST/2;11N THE GREAT EASTERN

RAILWAY.

ELY. WED/MOAT.
The inquiry into the circumstances attendant
upon the late accident on the Great Eastern Railway
between Chittisham and Ely stations (on the Peterborough
branch) was resumed this afternoon at the Shire-ball,
before Mr. Wm. Marshall, the coroner. The interest of
the public in the proceedings had not abated, the
body of the court and the gallery being densely crowded.
There were present on the part of the company Mr.
Robertson, the superintendent of the line; Mr. Johnson,
locomotive engineer ; Mr. Davis, engineer of permanent
way; Mr. Sproul, the district superintendent; Mr.
Attock, carriage superiltendent ; Mr. Mao:alien, of the
locomotive department at Cambridge ; and Mr. Slaw, law
clerk of the company, to watch the proceedings.
In the morning Captain Tyler, of the Royal Engineers,
attended at the company's station end there took the
evidence of Fuller, the guard, and Shepherd, the fireman.
The inquiry was a private one, and, this over, the in-
spector, accompanied by the officials of the company,
again proceeded to the scene of the accident to ex-
amine into the working of the signals, for Fuller, the
guard, stated to the inspector that the auxiliary on the
day of the accident was shut, or down, against the train,
and that Brown, the driver, " whistled it off," thus flatly
contradicting the evidence of Clark, the signal man, who
stated to the.coroner at the first sitting of the Inquest that
the auxiliary is invariably kept at " all right." More on
this point will be found below.
The Jury assembled at half•past one, and the proceed-
ings commenced about two.
The Ordnance map, and elaborate plena of the rails,
signals, and premises generally, contiguous to the scene of
the accident, were put in—the latter prepared for the
information of the coroner and jury, at the instance of the
company.
Captain Tyler, the government inspector, was present
during the whole of the proceedings.
The Coroner, at the close of the examination of the
witnesses, proceeded to a most elaborate resume of the
evidence, and at the close of a most clear exposition,
observed that on the first sitting the question was whether
the accident bad been caused by over-speed, but the evi-
dence of the government inspector had clearly settled
that question, as he was of opinion that the train might—
everything else being in proper condition—have travelled
with safety at a faster rate than it was travel lin at the
the period of the accident. It appeared to him that the
accident was entirely caused by the defect in the rails.
The signals had been shown to be all right. However,
if they thought that the accident was occasioned_ by
any nee!' of the driver, it would be teir
duty, painful as it might be, as the poor fellow was in his
grave, to return a verdict of manslaughter against him.
It appeared to him that they had three alternatives as to
the verdict they would return—either manslaughter
against William Brown ; an open verdict, by which blame
could be attached to no particular person ; or thirdly, that
it was simply and purely an recident.
The jury retired, and after an absence of about twenty
minutes, returned into court, and delivered the following
verdict :—" Accidental death, caused by the train running
off the raiL We are of opinion from the evidence of
Captain Tyler, that a break van should be attached to the
last carriage of every passenger train."

ENGLISH JOINT STOCK BARK (LIMITED).

A meeting of the shareholders in the English
Joint Stock Bank was held yesterdayat the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street. The meeting had been called by
Messrs. Kemp and Chatter's, the official liquidators in
compliance with the terms of the Companies Act, 1862,
to hear any objections which shareholders might have to
urge against a call which they announced their intention
of making. Mr. Kean, occupied the chair, and there was
a good attendance of shareholders. The notice calling the
meeting having been read,
Mr. Mssrctsa said before the business of the meeting
further, he thought it necessary that the share-
Cireersdellhould have some explicit information of the
reasons which had rendered a call necessary, beyond
the purely technical ones given by the legal adviser in
the circular. He had very good reason to believe that the
assets of the bank were amply sufficient to pay all liabili-
ties without calling upon the shareholders to pay any more
money out of pocket. For himself he felt—and he had
no doubt that the majority of the shareholders would feel
with him—that if there was to be • call of 41. per share,
or perhaps in the long run 81. per share, they had better
pay it to resuscitate the company than throw it into the
hole of liquidation. (Hear, bear.) Let the liquidator
then give the meeting something more than a technical
explanation why they wanted to make a call. He believed
that those who were able to pay. would rather pay money
I to set the bank upon its legs again, and he was firmly per-
suaded that if they all put their shoulders to the wheel
and gave a hoist together they would be able to lift the
bank out of the nick which it was in and see it once more
a ring and flourishing concern.
Or. CHANDLNS reminded the chairman that when last
they met be asked what would be the amount of a call if
any were made, and wasanswered that certainly not more
than 21. per share would be needed to pay everything,
taking assets into consideration. He wished to know whe-
the call of 41. per share which they proposed to make that
day would be • final call, or if a further call would be
neesseary.
Mr. Kilt?, in reply to questions, said he was glad to be
able to assure the shareholders, in reference to the ream,
tion of the assets of the bank, that nothing had occurred
since the liquidators were appointed by the court to cause
him to alter the opinion he expressed at a previous meet-
ing in reference to them. Ho then referred to the decision
of the Lord Chancellor, in the case of Overend, Gurney,
and Co., brought before his lordship by Kr. Henry Grup
sell, and said that, in the face of that decision, the liqui-
deters felt that, to do the shareholders who were not cre-
ditors justice, they ought not to pay out a large sum of
money by way of a dividend of Bs. in the pound, as they
proposed doing in the next few days, when they felt
morally certain that some of it would never come back.
Very many of the creditors who would participate in the
dividend were shareholders also ; and it was but fair, in the
interest of those shareholders who were not creditors, that
they, as liquidators, should not part with money to creditors
who might give them an immensity of trouble in enforcing
payment of a call, should it be neceserry to make one
afterwards. The feeling was that creditors should be
paid, and if shareholders knew of the many letters which
the liquidators had received, urging the necessity of a call,
and saying that the money loaned or deposited with the
bank had been upon the faith of the share list and security
of the uncalled capital, they would raise no further objec-
tions to the course proposed. With reference to the loans,
the bank had sonic 31 branches, and there was some diffi.
I culty in enforcing payment of theft loans at the pre-
sent moment. Having regard to the largeness of the
amount in the eructate, it would be worse than
madness to attempt an immediate realisation of the
assets, because such a course could not result other-
wise than in a great positive loss, whereas, if
a little time were given, it was most proba-
ble that the whole would be got in. He felt certain
that no shareholder would entertain the opinion that the
call would be made unless an imperative necessity de-
manded it, in the interest of all parties. (Cheers.) The
balance now at the bank was 72,000/., and it was the in.
tention of the liquidators not to press the call upon those
shareholders who loyally and frankly admitted their lia-
bility, and their inability to pay at the present moment,
but on the contrary, to give every reasonable time for pay-
ment. (Cheers.) He could not lay down any specific rule
on the matter, further than to say that the ease of each
individual shareholder would be dealt with as it arose,
upon its merits. (Cheers.) The country branches had
been closed and virtually the expenses attendant upon
them ceased the day the bank stopped. He could not at
that moment say off hand the precise amount paid for
each of the country branches, the money was paid by the
directors, long before the liquidators were appointed, but
any information which shareholders required would be
most cheerfully given upon application being made either
to himself or his colleagues at the bank. (Hear,
hear.) As to the liability of the directors to recoup
the 13,0001. spent in the shares of the bank, he
would only state broadly that there was scarcely
a matter involving a liability of any one connected
with the bank or its transactions but what the
facts had been examined, and they were still under inves-
tigation. The shareholders might rely upon it that what-
ever duty might devolve upon them in reference to trans-
actions which had been called in question, neither himself
nor his colleagues would shrink from discharging it how-
ever onerous or personally distasteful it might be. (Loud
cheers.) There were 18,000 shares which had been settled
upon the list of contributories, and there were about
2,000 which were the subject of special inquiry, but the
meeting might rely upon it that the gentlemen holding
than 2,000 shares would not be 'Bowed to go off scot
free ; but until the legal difficulties were settled they must
be left out of consideration. The call ought to realise about
40,0002., bat there were some shareholders who
really could not pay. The objects of the liquidators
lin making the call were twofold ; firstly, to secure
the money to pay creditors; and secondly, to be
certain that the dividend they were about to pay did not
go into the pockets of those shareholders who would not
ultimately pay their calls. The breed issue was this, that if
they, as liquidators, did not take steps to pay the creditor
of the bank the creditors would take step to pay them-
selves, and, moreover, the meeting would see that the
course of bringing every one to book would be much 113111.
plifled after the creditors had been paid, and thus rendered
unable to interfere.
After some further discuaslan, Mr. Kemp announced
that the liquidators bad that day made a call of 41. per
share, payable on the 10th of September, and that the call
would be set against the dividend and the balance handed
over.
The proceedings then terminated.

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