The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-12 00:00:00

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THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.

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property, but was not bad friends with her. ,
(Letters from the mother were read, reproaching
her for spending too much money.) Explained that . At the tenth half-yearly general meeting of the
she had been in the habit of • g a revolver proprietors of the Great Eastern Company, to be held at
because somebody had once threat.ned to kill her. aha tug oboe Tmlir,eziesteozThursdawy, the report of the dirty.
hich the following is an
Had practised shooting at pigeons with a pistol. I extract :
(The judge said this was not a feraining amuse- I "In the hot half-yearly report it was intimated to
ment.) Had left Caen after her husband's, the nrePtieters that the directors And been requested
bankruptcy, because it was very herd to live poor it_ ,nyite the 00-oPeeetion ef Mr. Laing, M.P., and
in rebruaryeerleart leheet' litedthetkehelf-Yeerly for the
held
in a place where one had been known as rich. tul
' Admitted having once written to an English pose of attending to thej
faunae of the unilsituk.lbge. Px:
company that a scientific friend of here had in- g was unfortunately unable it el• mere thant float •
vented a compass which would point to gold and portion of the debenture capital on the plan of providing a
ezien the
I 52 years. When the
_ issue of debenture
_r
silver instead of the North Pole, and offering winking fund of half per cent. forth. redemption of the
to recover a vessel which went down on the debti
by M . Wag, proved to be
English coast sixty Tears ago with twenty-nine cedy partially sueseast was demised advisable to solicit
: millions of dollars. Had practised magnetism at an interview with the la holders of ordinary and pre-
' Caen, and. had been consulted about searching for forme stock. This toolrpleoe on the 16th of March of
the directors as to the
y best course to by panned, The
Some treasure in the forest of Creveneur. At this meeting a committee was appoieted to confer with
Denied that after the bankruptcy she had ender OOmthe
directors met frequently, and the
voured to secrete 7,000 francs' worth of ailk. Had holders moat handsomely pemposia to take
' said of the man who accused her of it, "Oh ! lam ere:est= stock in lieu of sash for their dividends
not the daughter of a Gorman for nothing, and I for four years. This weal bays raised about 1,500,000/.
will plunge a dagger in his !mark It war not true An ruination was made toparliament to raise 1,500,0004
that ahe was the daughter of, a Corsican, but she (Sures :4 d and debenture t° ttitektimafh the the etileinchdeehee*
pricier' are aware that this bill woe rejected by the Lot
had said that. (The prisonet's husband, who was
present, here said something, and the judge committee of the Rouse al Commons. The director had
ordered him out of court. But on M. Lachaud reason to believe that one of the causes of the rejection of
' saying that the husband and the. mother had' this bill war the fact that the committee considered the
come in order to negative the report that "mum sought to be raised 'as not drip enough to relieve
her !elation", and bill ion the hesitation of the public' to take the
1 the company from its difficnities failure of this the prisoner was abandoned by
1 that he would undertake that be would not disturb y's debentures, and consequently, when, on the
holders.
the proceedings again, the judge allowed • • . to !eat risly 80,000/. of the ordinary debenture. became due,
remain.) Admitted that in order v rat the the would not renew them The company having
wine, she had said there was 'poison ..-..t 'TR..... for s receiver
seizure by creditors of about twen, ' .41.* ' ..of Xs means
sdebentuse providing
ilcl
a capital to take them upoltlf
reef the tolls applied
linete,thwtelicC:Ltte court granted
It was wrong to have said eo-L-it w - • The on the tad July ; but the court authorised the receiver to
wine was thrown out in colleague . : ahe pas the interest on the comp ray's debentures as is beie
had said. when she came to P • . :„„ , .r due. Under these circumstances the directors convened a
ardpiadJulyaalanaharinact. At tha isfarameetiet:nagppreii..
1866, ahe had brought 1,200 f. with' but ad meeting of the whole body of the preference proprietors,
had the misfortune to lose a pureewith •1 • or• • soltiownsee hweeldreenad3
(The Judge—There is not a word of this in e 1 'Aden to parliament for the raising of three millions of
i instruction.) Had told the Fontainebleau Jud ' bebenture stock upon terms of awarding a greater control
Instruction of the lose. Admitted • t rer the affair sof the company to the preference pro-
i while possessing only 300 f., she had . 'eters. The bill was accordingly re.committed, and the
porliament, and awaits the
ts are happy to inform the proprietors that it has
traded to pay 75,000 f. fur an hotel, but tee.. pained both houses of
was at the instigation of an agent d'affaires, w Tema wont. A copy of the bill was lent to every pro-
had since been convicted of swindling. Admit motor of the company. The 3,000,0001. authorised to be
having attempted various other apecidations. W.
m its rift:es. The debts to be paid are to be proved
I created by this act will be sufficient to relieve the company
first introduced to Madame Mertens as a perso .
who wanted a_partner. She was a very ligh the% Cart Chancery, under the Priviak" of 4" act•
gs cannot it, the company without the
woman. After M. Mertens' death she married nation of three-fourths in value of the two classes of
Englishman named Kelly, but left him at the pegiptesee stocks, guaranteed andunguarenteed, at sepe -
th such 000uld no
church door ; and got divorced from him in Bel- rots t tumid eetinp
nsent w t prevent the payment convened specially for the purpose ; but as
•
glum two years later, on the ground of informality. e
of th preference dividends,
The prisoner p,000,000/. in ri to all roceeded to allege that she had acted but the p ority
preference holder without dividend. fee some
as a procuress for Madame Mertens, and had re- yetis, d feel satisfied this consent will be given.
oeived large sums of money from her lovers. In Althou at first sight it may appear that the charge in
particular she said that a certain Count Leo, respect of the newdebenture stock, amounting to 165,0001.
who lived at the Grand Hotel, had pace a year including the redemptionfund, will bean additional
given her I,ooof. by mistake, and
___i_ i burden on the undertaking, the case IA not so, for in point
afterwards ' of fact interest upon the company', debts has been already
told her she might keep it. It was very angreeenn, represented in the stomata by temporary loans, which at
1 she was aware, to have played the part that she did, the rate of interest paid thereon would represent nearly
i but she did it for the sake of her children, and a million of the amount now authorised to be raised. If
' counting upon the ignorance of her children
and ttialtirtrenTehrteteh:itervOiene be
male
4i:lK:rate undo-
friends in the country of what she did in Paris. Additional Powers provision
of the p t •0 , but a sill;
She had received money shaniefnlly r the sake proportion only of the new capital will become an addi-
of her children. Bad as her conduct been in bond charge against the general undertaking. The bill
that respect it afforded no proof whate that ahe tivss=entot
Itt
with anPeywfuerertheter cathpeitalprefeeirierdituehrew, eahendiderepro-
was likely to commit a murder. She persisted in
Williams vides that when the separate meeting' of the preference
the sthrY of her Williams. She said
the""-"°""' holders shall cease—that is to say, when the
had garotted one tight is Rue ordinary stock receives three per cent, per annum
de la Tour d'Auvergne, an that, aided by —the preference proprietors are to possess larger
three other men, he dragged her into a powers of voting than those accorded to them
house and interrogated her about Madame Mer- by thea Additional
venuPee‘orfer:heAet of
the
preeeattleseteoeiteheei
tens. He said to her he knew Mr. Kelly, that he nrecery, the directoeresmsucoyeertrecre gable
obtaining
wanted to marry again, and that the divorce was the appointment of the company's own officers as receivers
Although
Iffll ethha
not good in England. Kelly, he said, had 3,0001. in the suit, thus obviating the payment of the usual five
ue e
on the part of creditors ; no inter-
sto protect the property of the company from
p
a year. (The judge said it had been ascertained per cent. commission. The directors have taken the noes.
that Kelly had only 8001.) Madame Mertens had sassy st
gone to Fontainebleau for no other purpose than asp und preference
ference can therefore take place in the working of the line.
to meet Williams. The reasons given for her going The debenture interest will continue to be regularly mid,
iri letters to a lover of hers named Paul were - the &WHY of the tenet, as we
se the *Mb et en
true. Williams had whistled when near_ the • • -
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Franchart restaurant, and she had left Madame
Mertens with him. She strenuously *Med all the
forgeries, and said none of the clerkierthe Comp-
toir d'Escompte could identify her. iShe said the
waiter at Fontainebleau was mistaken in saying she
had a 100 fr. note about her when siterifitid the bill.
She had only the 40frs. she got froni the jeweller
for her brooch.

leased lines."

She answered all the questions with extraor-
dinary coolness and great ingenuity, expressing
herself like a well-educated woman.

tip to the present time two death• have taken
place from the railway accident at Bray. Three persons—a
man named Donelly, and two women named Jordan and
Williams—lie in • most critical state. At the inquest
held on Saturday on the body of Mr. Murphy, the ooroner's
jury found that the accident occurred from some defect in
the perm ament way, but that they had not sufficient evi-
dence to enable them to say what the defect was.

At Tralee assizes, on Saturday, Captain Moriarty
was convicted of treason felony, and sentenced to ten years'
penal servitude ; Noonan was sentenced to ten years,
sad two others to five years each.

Tag ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY. —The annual
general meeting of the fellows of the Royal Botanical So-
ciety took place in the Botanic Museum of the society, on
Saturday, in the gardens, Regent's.park ; Sir W. Stirling,
Bart., presided, and a considerable number of fellows and
members of the society were present. Mr. J. D. Sowerby,
the secretary, presented and read the annual report,
which stated that, notwithstanding the severe cold
weather in the early part of the last winter, which tended
greatly to injure the more tender shrubs and even several
trees, the milder spring and frequent rains had to a great
eztent restored them, and generally the plants in the va-
rious departments of the gardens look as healthy as ever,
and the professors and students had been well supplied
with specimens for study. But the weather, which in some
respects was favourable to the growth of plants, had
much interfered with the attendance of visitors on exhibi-
tion days. The collection of tropical economic plants is
yearly extending and becoming of greater interest.
Specimens of most of the East and West Indian fruit trees
are now in "vigorous growth ;" one of the latest additions
to the collection, more especially worthy of being men-
tioned is the mangrove, a well-known tree in tropical
countries, where it thrives on the sea shore, growing partly
in the water, and by raising the ground, gradually drives
the sea back, and extending after the manner of the banyan
tree, covers vast tracts of salt mm eh in the vicinity of the
ocean. Its peculiar habits have heretofore prevented the
importation of living specimens, but after several failures
Mr. Silver has succeeded in obtaining for the society young
plants in a healthy state, by packing them in a case so con-
structed as to keep the soil in the peculiar position suited
to their growth, and sanguine hopes were entertained that'
eventually they would succeed in the cultivation of this
curious plant. The number of students attending for
morning study had been 16.1, including nine ladies, besides
those who attended Professor Bentley'slectures and demon-
strations. The total receipts during the year had amounted
to 8,1471. 10s. Rd., and the payments to 7,1311. 10.. 4d.
The report having been unanimously adopted, the Earl
De la Warr was elected president for the ensuing year, and
a ballot having taken place for the election of council and
other officers, a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the
proceedings.
THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE UNDERGROCND RAIL-
wAT. —On Saturday Dr. Lankester held an inquest on the
body of Sarah Dobner. aged 56, who died at the Bishop's-
road station of the Metropolitan Railway, on Tuesday.
The deceased, while riding on the Metropolitan Line from
King's-cross to Paddington, had complained of great
difliculty of breathing, and while waiting for a Great
Western train at Paddington she (lied. Mr. Anderson, one
of the surgeons at St. Mary's Hospital, who made the
post mortem examination, said the deceased was labouring
under disease of the bronchial gland, and undoubtedly the
suffocating air of the Underground Railway had accele-
rated death. The coroner said he had himself experienced
the depressing effect of the railway, and avoided it as
much as possible. The tunnels and stations should be
well ventilated, but be supposed that would not be done
until some shocking loss of life from suffocation had oc-
curred. The jury returned a verdict of " Death from
natural causes, accelerated by the suffocating atmosphere
of the Underground Railway."
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wasting, so , asthma, fevers, conampttoe, low spirits. 60,0110
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