The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-20 00:00:00

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SPORTING

A SPECIAL RDITION of the " REPRESS,*
sustaining the melte of the day's Races, is peb.
limbed °wry evening daring the Sporting Seam, at
eta o'clock.

Tam are no salient points in the last budget of
am from India. And successive mails, for some
time to come, are likely to present the same charac-
terless appearance. The military mutineers are for
the most part cowed and scattered; and the non-
military insurgents, who rallied round them, are
beginning to evince a disposition to make terms.
Here sad there armed bodies still keep the deld;
and the embers of civil war everywhere glow hotly
still beneath the crust of ashes that is beginning to
gather over them; but the time when military opera-
tion were the one thing needful has passed, sad
the time for the reconstruction of civil order, and
fee the reconsolidation of our Empire has arrived.

This work will have to be accomplished by a new
Clove:n=lc.. True, this Government is mainly com-
posed of the old materials. The Minister for India
Mill have to operate at horns through the agency of
materials selected from the old functionaries of
Cannon row and Leadenhall-etreet ; and in Hindoetan
the administrative personnel will experience little or

no change. But these materials will be wrought ,
up into different combinations ; offices and function-
arks will be called by new names ; and :the
of India will be subjected to new influences. The
Government of India has been effectually revolu-
tionised ; it is impossible to conjecture beforehand
how the still incomplete organisation will answer the
purposes of administration. And it will have to deal
with an equally novel India. The old Anglo-
lodine Government' triumphed over antagonistic
powers which bad established themselves on the
rains of the Mogul Empire, or had resumed • tem-
porarily inapended vitality in the day of its decline.
The reciprocal hostilities of the Nunn, the NA-
wave-Wu:ail, the Psalm t, and a multitude
of other aspirants to and possessors of sovereignty,
enabled sod obliged the Company to set its foot
in turn upon the necks of each and all of them.
But the war out of which we appear to be
now on the eve of emerging triumphantly
has been waged against a new enemy. The
representative, of the King of Dttot, of the
NAwAUP WUZEPR, and of the PIISHAA have, indeed,
eadeavoured to turn the mutiny or insurrection to
their own account. Perhaps they, or their agents,
may have had some small share in stirring it up.
But they exercised so real intimates over it. The
Vag of Dram, the king of 01:DE, and even Nana
BAE tp, appear is the confusion bias the ghosted' de-
inset dynasties mingling with, but scarcely
noticed amid the strife of living and breathing men.
There are no longer any sovereign princes in India.
Like SCINDIA, they owe their crowns more to the
good will of the Anglo-Indian Government than of
their subjects. The mutineers [might, not for any
prises, but, like WALTZB ficorr's Gow Chrom, " for
" their aim hand." It is a feature of the
woe now ending that has hithertoo beta
too little attended to, that we have for
the first time had to contend against something
like an Indian public opinion. We have not fought
against Mahrattas, or kohillas, against a HYDI2
Al.t or a TIPPOO nano, but against • horde of
=distinguishable Indians, sympathising with sash

ether se such. The recognised princes of /oft
—the NIZMI, the sovereigns of Rajpootana,
13014D1A. sad HOLKAIt, have been friendly to
Is or nentraL No man of note or name has

emerged from the ranks of our opponents I
and visibly taken the teal. Yet we have had
against us immense muses animated by one I
common spirit, and capable of disciplined coca- 4
binations. This is the fruit of our own policy. Too I
few to act without native aid in India, we have near
warily employed native agency to a large extent. 1
We have trampled down the Princes of India
and confounded them with the masses. We
Lan conferred no distinctions on the wealthy
middle classes who have been growing up. But
we have organised and disciplined an enormous
satire army recruited almost exclusively from the
priest and warrive castes of the Valley of the
Ganges. We have educated a numerous class of
civil functionaries, composed mainly of the relatives
of the soldiery. The only portior sof Indian society
animated by a sense of personal influence and cense-
quenoe have been our soldiers and civil fano.
tionariee. United among themselves by disci-
pline and official relations, these men have be-
come the exclusive depositaries of a wide
sense of clanship —of something approach-
lag to national feeling. They have been inspired
throughout the conflict with • claire to expel us
from India, and to usurp the sovereignty from which
they sought to cast us down. Mussnlmans and vo-
taries of the old Hindao faith have co-operated to
this end. In India Mahomeilanism and Bladed's&
bare for °eateries faded into each other by insen-
sible degrees ; and the sectaries of both have of late
Imbibed many impressions regarding warlike diF
civil government, science, and morale, from
their European ruler,. A new national character is
being formed in India ; the process may be detected
in the literary lucubration of young Bengal, and in
the aspirations of the participants in the late
mutiny. The recent troubles are, in part at least,
the consequence of • growing sense of their
own importance among the natives—of feeliage and
aspirations which will inevitably become men pow-
erful with every step those who are animated by
them make in the higher civilisation. The is the
net:emery consequence of the scientific and religious
instruction we have been laboariog to impart to the
natives of India, and of the practical education we
have unconsciously been giving them by employing
them se soldiers and eivil servants. Ihe exhortatioss
of Manomedan and Hindoo fanatics which have been
heard in the mime of the insurrection are little more
than echoes of the pant; the animating spirit of

that insurrection has been a new plum of
social opinion and sentiment en yet but imper-
hotly developed under the inflowse of the actual
state of society in Ilindostan. This is a power
against which we cannot struggle with success, and
against which we ought not to struggle if we could ;
but which, if we are sufficiently wise and virtuous,
ws:niay be instrumental in guiding to glorious
isms. This is the task that devolves on the new
Government of India : will they prove adequate
to it ?

ON the enormous outlines' of Private Bill Legis-
lation enough has already been said. Plain facts
and dry details in a matter of this

kind are - worth ell the rhetoric is the world.

Even Mr. Serjeant WIIANGEAX avows Ms fan
that the tribunal cannot be eonsldeeed a cheap

" one "; his main object, and the main object of thois
who have risen or are rising to wealth on the abases
of the system, is to show that by no possibility an
it be made much cheaper than it is. This point will
be dealt with in its order. Our present business is
to show that the tribunal is not only enormously

costly, bet exceedingly umutisfactori. The public
does not get money's worth for the Tait outlay it is
_ .

compelled to make. Committees act by no certain
rules, and are guided by no fixed principles of
decision. They are composed of men whose high
principle, strict integrity, and earnest desire to arrive
at a correct decision are quite undoubted, but who
for the most part come to the work entirely
untrained by previous habits, or sustained
mental discipline. In many cases, no doubt,
this defeat of habit or special education is
overcome by superior powers of mind. A teally able
men es Chairman soon makes himself felt ; bat
ups the present system of hap-hazard, really able
seen as chairmen are just one of the chances of a
Wiry. Even the ablest men in unfamiliar positions
mut necessarily est with only half their powers,
especially when they are charged with the function
of controlling a close of highly skilled professional
agents, whose life has been spent in qualifying
themselves for this specific work. The results are
what might be expected ; with some rare exceptions
investigations before Parliamentary Committees are
conducted with a degree of laxity, if not licence,
which is unknown before any ether tribunal. Di-
gressions of all kinds, irrelevant inquiries, extrava-
gantly prolonged examinations and crom-examina-
firms, every description of irregularity, aft ha-
bitually indulged in, to the infinite vexation ni all
concerned in the inquiry except those who bars a
direst pecuniary interest in its prolongation.
Pkeluntur dchiri : the shareholders pay for
This gran waste of the public time and money is
most observable before Committees of the House of
Commons ; for the obvious raison that the changes
canoed by dissolutions are constantly introducing to
the committee rooms young members quite new to
the work. The more fluctuating the tribunal, the
greater the abuse; a consideration which clearly
points to an absolutely permanent tribunal en
the sole effectual remedy for the evil. As Nfr. Ban
Scorr (the ablest of our Parliamentary counsel) teld
the Commons Committee, in his veil clear and candid
evidence : " If you wish to diminish expense yen
" must strengthen your tribunal ; you must have
" some fixity of procedure in the first place, ma ht
" the next place you must, if possible, attain mess
" general fixity of principle. Unless you can fix
" your rules of proceeding, and unless you can attain
" something like general principle in yam. tied-
"'ions, you cannot save expenses, became' the tribe-
" not is a lottery to which clients will resort If they
" think there is a chance of winning something; if
" half-a-doyen ountnittees decide one way and half-
" a-dozen another, you will never keep people from
" litigation." (H. of Com. Bap., Q. 1,397.)
This is sound good sense : the public i s general
are not probably aware of the utter absence of uni-
formity which characterises the decisions of Com-
mittees. Many instances are adduced in the evi-
dence. Ws select the following from the examination
of Mr. Hors SCOTT :—" Take for example the
" East Kent Bill of this Session : the East Kent
" protected a Line parallel with the Louth Eastern
" Line. That Bill was passed distinctly as a nom-
" peting Bill. In another room at the same time
' there was a Line promoted from Shoreham to
Horsham, in connexion with the question of a new

sßr list Ween Brighton and London. In one Com-

mittee-room the East Bent line, as I have said,
• yes puled upon the principle of competition; and
" is another room the Shoreham line was rejected,
• although it certainly wss the best local line on the
• map--rejected, I have no doubt, from the evidence
" that was given, because it was a competing line, or
• the saaamasement of one. Such cases are con-

inntly °warring."
In fact, no one point in reference to this matter is

more clearly mad; out than the total absence of fixed
principle—the utter want of uniformity which chit-
rectories' the decisions of Committees in the Howe
of Commons. The result is, that every point is
contested, and no osee is abandoned u hopeless till
all the chances of litigation have been tried to the
uttermost. The following question and answer place
the matter in so clear a point of view that we shall
make no apology for reproducing them verbatim.
Mr. Hors Scorr is said Mouse of Commons,
Q. 1,400)—" Is that want of uniformity so
" great as to give rise to uncertainty, and
" thereby to induce parties who come before
" Committees to contest matters which they would
not otherwise do if there were greater uniformity?"
Mark the answer. " 'have no doubt about it. INI
" often consulted by parties whether they shall
" petition or not, and the advice that I give them as
" often as not is this : ie **apostate to fordo'
" ' what mitt kappa as Parliament. I sits only tell
0 • you what you have a chance of. If you choose
• to act on my advice as to your chances, you may
" do so; but I cannot tell you, first, whether you
" ' will have a locus standi ; or, secondly, whether
" any general principle which lies appeared in the
• report of Mr. CARDWELL'S Committee, Or any
" other public document, will be supported by the
• Committee before which you are going.' "
It is impossible to conceive a more explicit or a
are emphatic exposure of the otter incompetency
of Parliamentary Committees for realising the first
requisite of all properly constituted tribunals--
fixity of principle and consequent uniformity of
decision.

There is one point in this remarkable answer of
Mr. HOPE Scow, which for the unprofessional public
may require explanation. It is that which refers to
tho question of locus staisdi—in other words, to the
right of being heard before the Committee at all.
Many days are wasted every Session in hear-
ing from cionneel elaborate arguments on the
point whether those whom they Tempest are
II ss►titled to be heard at aIL Mr. FILIDIMICI NORTH,
r the Chairman of a Committee that at nearly
two months last session, gives a graphic account of
the proceedings on a question of locus standi, This
was the gentleman who had nineteen counsel ee-
-1 gaged before him for eighteen days on an investiga-
Lion that, according to Lis own admission, ought not
to have occupied six. Part of the superfluous twelve
days was occupied u follows : we give question
and answer cerbatime :—.4 622. CHAIIIMAN : At the

commencement of the prooeedings, I believe the
" Ann question you had to decide was the locus
" steal of the different parties P—Yes. The moment
" Mr. Berjeant Wiattonnet had sonoluded his
u opining for the promote(' of the bill, up
" started, I think it was Mr. DENISON, on the part
" of the Cheat Northern Company, and desired to be
heard upon tours standi. Ass Wiwi hard at
"some length on the point whether he should
"be heard at all, and then we ruled that we would
" take the question of locus steal upon the flrst
" attempt at eross-examination. 623._ Mr. gm=

" WORTLEY : And then the guidon of locus studi
" was again argued ?—Yee. 624. CHAtutut : How
" many petitions were opposed on the ground of
"keys 'Sandi ?—There were five arguments. 626.
"Do you recollect the time that the Coesmittee we.
"occupied upon that question of locus stanch I—lt
'‘ was miceiderably more than a whole day ; we had
" ous day entirely devoted to the loom Mandl quer.-
" fiats. It was one whole day and parts of two
" others. 688. You had twenty counsel before you ?
" —Nineteen. 689. Each party was represented
"by his agent ?—Yes. 690. And with a num-
" her of witnesses who were ready to give
"evidence before the Committee ? Lots of

" them. 891. All these parties were maintained
" at a considerable expense in that oommitterroom
" during the time the question of locus scam & was
" being argued ?—No doubt. 692. Wee there any
" possibility of avoiding that P—No. 693. It was
" not In your power to avoid putting parties to that
" enormous expense ?—No, certainly not."

Can anything exceed this picture of hopeless,
helpless imbecility P This is how the shareholders'
money goes ; this is among the reasons why so
many once flourishing lines are no longer in a con-
dition to pay dividends ; this helps to explain how
it came to peas that the Great Northern, before a
single turf had been turned, was compelled to bur-
den itself with a cost of more than half a million for
preliminary expenses, 26,000 i. of which went, in the
mores of two years, in fees to counsel

Enough. The present system of emanating the
Private Bill burins'''. in Parliament is proved to have
every vies (except corruption) that any system of
premiere can be charged with. It is appallingly
costly; it is excessively dilatory; it is absolutely
isesztaln. What is law in Committee-room A is
not law in Committee-room B, and a total absence

of anything like uniformity of decision tempts sue-
naive generations of speculators into the ru;nosta
lottery of litigation.
To all this must be added, that the proems of ipo-
liation is not single but double. The fate of the
modern promoters of industrial enterprise is worse
than that of the mariners in classic story. It is not
that in evading Scylla they encounter Charybdis, but
that they must neosesarily undergo the horrors of both
Every Gm, Water, Road, Railway, and Canal scheme
must run the gauntlet both of the Commons and
the Lords. There is a double set of fees, a double
set of agents, a "damnable iteration" of the daily
costs of solicitors and counsel, and witnesses. There is
another set of arguments on locus staudi, a fresh train
of

anxieties, and vexation ; the whole,
perhaps, crowned by a defeat on some principle of
decision preoisely contravening that which ensured

nooses before the Committee of the Commons. Be
it observed that this evil of the double investigation
is one from which Parliamentary litigants can never
be relieved till they have secured the establishment
of a permanent, • paid, and a non-parliamentary
tribunaL But this consideration trenches on another
branch of the subject: we have shown the working
of the system as it irit remrius to inquire what it
ought to be.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TaranAT IYINISS.

The Pays publishes the news which reaches us
from London of the bombardment of Djsddah "by
the English!" with a note of admiration, and ob-
serves:

This is a °ameliorable mat, end cam at which we have
ream to be somewhat surprised. We bad thought that it
was amderemod betwesa Prams sad Segiamd that the a Imo
of Djeddeh called for an exemplary pet, but that it
vas to be Witted by the two goveramests simultaneously.
ingismia as amml, bee lost ma lims, sad, having the means
of regremica en the spot, she wee aide Is set balms as ; but
we aware help think* that the pasishmeat of the Djaddah
aseassiste would have been maim less smsegetio mar less
salutary if it had been ialliaisd by the two madams iogetbsr
la their joint name. However, we trust that this Irma val
have a decisive Imiaimas in the Beet, sad will modify the
spirit of hostility Tithe at present animates the greet', pert
of the populatioa. The state of Turhy is, there can be me
doubt, depkeable ; sad If we may believe the correapoudisse
which we receive this day, it is swap es to threaten the pesos
of Europe miry seriously. It is quite evident that the &g-
-orier* now going on in every quarter of the Turkish m-
ph* are not referable to canal end transient circumetsaces.
The Press. d'Orient, which reaches Paris to-day,
is one of the authorities which confirms the gloomy
views of the Pays. It affirms that the Christiana
of Syria, more especially those of Damascus,
Aleppo, and Nazareth, are in a state of terror, and
apprehend a Mussulman St. Bartholomew. Two
governors, those of Balla and Bsiatre, have, it is
said, fought a pitched battle, in consequence of a
private quarrel.
A telegram, dated Marseille', yesterday, quoted
the opinion of the Impartial de Smyrwa that
there was no foundation for the panic which
had seized upon the Christiana. The number of
the journal in question has now arrived, and it
endeavours to represent that there is nothing in
the present disorders in Turkey differing essentially
from the disturbances which sometimes occur in
Christian nations. The French press discredits
this assertion, which is doubtless, to say the least
of it, much too extensive. But it is well to notice
that projects for an intervention in the East on a
large scale, for the purpose of propagating Western
csivilieation, are just now being ventilated in France,
and it is expected by many that the Emperor's
coming speech at Rennes will in some enigmatic
manner refer to them.

The Rennes banquet takes place to-morrow (Fri-
day) morning, at eleven o'clock.
The Paris Conference met to-day to sign the pro-
tooole relative to the Danubian Principalities. It is
supposed that a month will elapse before the ratifi-
cations can be exchanged, and, therefore, beyond
what (if anything) the Emperor may choose to dis-
close at Rennes, nothing can be regularly known by
the public sooner. The Conference will meet again
'next week, to settle the proportions in which the
different powers interested are to reward Mr. Morse
for his telegraphic invention.
The Bourse remains without any material change.
The Rente fell 15c. for cash, and rose 100. for
account, closing at 691 r. 350. and 69fr. 50c. Mobilier
coos 12fr. SOc. The principal railway lines left off
about firr. 600. higher. Prices were firmer at the
close of businem than at .the commencement.
The Freneh Academy held its annual meeting to-
day, M. Saint-Maro-Girardie, of the Dibats, in the
chs;r. The prize offered by the academy for a poem
on the Crimean war, for which no award was made
last year for want of sufficient merit in the many
essays sent in, has been adjudged to M. Jules
Dallier*, a member of the university. His number
was 42 (so that he had many competitors) end his
motto Aperire terrors gentibus. The second laureate
for this prise, who obtained an honourable mention,

is M. Pecan ha, under librarian of the Corps Legia-
latif. The Prix Montyon snd rations other prizes
were awarded as usual.

A story has been going the round of the papers
t 3 the effect that some sixty persons were drowned
at St. Quentin on the Emperor's fete day. It
turns out that during the boat races, a barge, con-
taining thirty spectators, comprising men, women,
and children, capsized, bat that only one young
woman was drowned.

M. Liadiersa, formerly an aide-de-camp of Louie
Philippe, and a deputy, has jut died. His funeral,
which took place to-day, was attended by a great
many Orlesoiste.

01142' NO.BIIIXBBAILWAY COMPANY.
DAYJ

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was
held this morning at II o'clock, Mr. B. DENISON, M.P., In
the chair. On entering the room the chairman and direotore
Were meelved with mingled cheers and hires.
The report end meows* which were published some time
ego, were taken as reed.
The Cs eteati-x, in moving the adoption of the report,
observed that the receipts had been seriously affected by bad
trade and coespetitke. The expenditom had also been seriously
increased by competition and the miming of feet trains,
and these were the chief cause' of the dividend being
lower than It would have been, (Hear, hear.)
Nobody regretted competition more then he did, end he
would put an end to it en soon as he could ; but he could
not see their property invaded without doing something to
protect it. They heel nothing to do with the MUM of the
quarrel between the London and North Western and the
Manchester and Sheffield Companies. Before any agree-
ment wee entered into with the latter company he eatithed
himself that its agreement with the former one was at
an end. The directors asked parliament to sanction the
agreement of the Manchester and Sheffield Company with
the Great Northern Company, end after an investigation,
which lasted one-and-twenty days, the committee of
the Horse of Commons came to the conclusion
that the agreement which had existed between the
London and North Western Company and the Manchester
and Sheffield Company was ultra sires, and contrary to
public policy. Thereupon the agreement sit the Great
Northern Company received the sanction of the committee,
and the principle of that agreement was ettheequently con-
firmed by a committee of the House of Lords. It was in
accordance, moreover, with a report of Lord Dalhousie in
1846. He believed that the arrangement between
the Great Northern and the Manchester and Shef-
field Companke would ultimately be of great advan-
tage to the termer, and he trusted that the North Western
Company would ere long be reconciled to it. 25,0001.
bad been advanced to the Manchester and Sheffield Com-
pany, as a loan to be repaid as soon as the receipts of that
company amounted to 11,0001. per week; end even If it
should not be repaid within two or three yeses, they would,
in the meantime, have the advantage of an eons to the *ln-
portant district of Lancashire.
A Paoraurron wished to know whether %tweet way tobe
paid en the loan?
The Caanuther mkt there was no stipulation to that
effect. (Haar, hear.)
Mr. NICHOLSON mid he could find no cony of the
25,0001. In the accounts, and he wished to know where it was
entered. _

'The Cirailutatt rid pent el it was advanced
dace the lealtysties accounts were closed. (Hear,
hear.) There wax no 11. ish to conceal anything. In
one part of the accounts would be found an item of 19,4831.
11. dd. advanced to other companies ; and a part of the lean
vas Included In that ken. The advances were in fog •
summon secant. (A volor—" I don't like nwpenes se-
onints.") Neither did he (the chairman) the twopence so-
counts ; bat if the money was peid out of capital it moat in the
end comeback to capital. Lord Chandoe did not state the
ease with regard to competiton as fairly as he Night to have
done. The blase of not dd.* the rates rested with the
directors of the North Western Company. The directors of
the Groat Northern Company proposed to rain the fares in
April to 80e., end the rates in proportion ; wherein
nothing was done till Jane. What occurred wee just the
reverse of what the noble =nuts stated. He wee gaits
=ld to put down competiden in every way that he
__A Ficipatrros—Go book to the old faro, 40e. to

Manchester.
The CR1.111004 continued—He abhorred competition—he I
knew it we. destructive to railway property, and if he could
as his way to a fah' sad ressesable arrengessent he world
sank to it.
A retorarwron.—What about arbitration P (Chair.)
The CHAIRMAN said he regretted that the bill was thrown
oat in the House of Lords, bat he hoped that through book- I
Ing would be effected through the Laneeddre and Yorkddre
Company. The Gladstone award was at an and,
and each party would have to keep whatever It earned.
The directors had no hostility towards the Midland Compeny,
in proof of which he might observe that they had agreed to
give that company rusting powers over the Great Northern
line from Siren for the sure of 20,0001. a year. As re-
garded blz.liowatt, he had only to repeat the regret expressed
en the report that " cirmunetances had occurred which
rendered It desirable to lissome with the atevioes of that
gentleman as seeretary.'
A l'aor amerce herbs arked what the circumstances
were, the CHAIRMAN declined to state them.
Mr. Hyenas and the chairman had done nothing to
satisfy him that he was not the promoter of the oompeti-
time to which he had referred, and the deteemtned opponent
of any amicable proposal far en arrangement. (Cheers, end
cries of " No, no.") From first to last be had exhibited •
litigious side. The proprietor* were Denson-ridden, and
until that gentians resigned there coed be no bops of ulti-
mate Fosse ity. 7,0001. half-yearly, or one per est.
fa divide.nd, wee being paid in Wens. The salarS of the
pe;ncipal oillorrs of that company were most extravagant.
The traffic manager, Mr. Seymour Clarke, had 2,600 t. a year,
besides travelling sod hotel expeusee— (hen, hear)--end the
locomotive manager at Doncaster, Mr. Stu:rock, had 1,1001.
a year; Mr. Denies, jun., had remedy received 60 guineas
as aaseasor for his father, in addition to kis fun as connaeL
As to the auditors, they merely acted as deers to the so-
emeralds.
Mr. MOROAN, one of the auditors, emphatically denied
the instil of this assertion.
Mr. Krems had no wish to cut any imputation on the
auditors, but they did not undersea their duties as
the proprietors understood them. At the lest assedeg, the
chairmen asked the proprienre to let bygones be bygones.
Immediately afterwards be dismissed Mr. Mown; end
thus re-opened the Redpeth queens, (Heer, hem.) The
responsibility of the Redpath frauds clearly rested, not et
Mr. Mowatt, but on the directors, who neglected to take
securities Lam Redpath end Reynolds, as they were
required to do by the act of parliament, (Hear, hear.)
He maintained that the dinners should ha held personally
711ibleier the damages and coats obtained by Mr. Mowatt,
should move a resolution to that effect (Cheers.)
The real gre and of Mr. Mowatt'e dismissal was that he
would ant lead himself to anything Inner.
Mr. litzLintos mid that Mr. Seymour Clarke ought to be •
very good " clerk " to be worth 2.60 W. a year. He woad
engage to obtain the winces of the best dark in England
for 1,0001. • year. (Cheers.) He did not concur in Mr.
, Hughes's objection to Mr. Siterrock's salary. Competition
wee a matter which the prop wtot's had in their own pewee.
Teas was competition in the old cosh tins bet then it
was one fool against another. Now there were
a somber of fook. Many of the proprietors had 'bares in the
North Western Company, se well as in that company, and
the directors had no right to ruin his property in either. He
wes himself • proprietor of Mock in the North Waters

oomputy.
The CHAULNLN—I thoughts,.
Ma. BILLLYOB then moved the following resolution .
"That the directors be and are hereby instructed not to
enter into any competition, nor in any way to alter the fame
below the ordinary rates, without tbe onnotice of • general
meeting of the shareholders." (Cheers.) By their arrange.
MHO with the Manchester end Bketalid Company they had
sustained a loss of 46,0001. in the lest half year. (User )
Mr. V. KNIGHT wished to know whether ft wee Me that
the chairmen's son for @Whig at the table and advising
him received eke of fifty guineas?
The CaalllMAN—l am not answerable for the receipts of
my non. (Oh, oh.) It you will put that gumption to the
party who paid the fee, prime yon will get the tight
ININWiT.
ift. T. Inietre—l pat the question to yea us. thehmem
The Cmizmals—T I won't answer it.
Mr. R7/0/lIIII—Tie secretary has admitted it
-rb. CHAULMAN—I don't suppose there is sny doubt about
it, but I don't know that it is so.
Mr. Huonze-.-Nefther the auditors nor the sommeent
Mew alit.
The °unman mid, in August hat year 114. Lash (the
ompsny's eolintar), who was aocompeuied by the late mone-
tary, come down to Doncaster to consult him shout like-
Chancellor Wood's declaim la takeout* to the preihreneel
shareholders. His me being thus, Mr. Leech whited hiss to
coon to London to advise the &mem et the
' meeting. He fin* declined to weeds, MR on Iteligli":=
he consented, saying that he wash Quem's esnesti,'md it'
he west it would not be gratedtemly. If Mr. Knight sup-
posed that he knew ell the fees that were paid to ids eon as
Queen's counsel he was mistaken. The solicitor of the
oempsny me always at liberty to employ each counsel as he
thought proper without enehm Itini, or any other wenn-
bee of the Mad.
Mr. V. Kumar—What, to attend • meetiog f
The Cluanneas—Tee.
Mr. V. Kumar inquired whether or not Mr. Draken had
200 gitinum so mffieW from the company in the Chancery
Wt.
Mr. Liens (the. solicitor) mid not reply et that inemint,
hat would be able to do so in a quarter of an hour.
1 Mr. T. KNIGHT moved & vote of thanks to Hr. MOW"
wthe
Mr. Oekleyiettdie seelreat errt: for their niseellens
was, he remarked, due to Mr. Mowed; who
the nempany faithfully for twelve yearn.
Met l'esbat Wilson magratiihned the r easetee..=
as heath had • Mt
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arca ity cvelosod the Muses VOSS* M. 0..
towards Mr. Myatt. As reglad Hie
it was impotent, that they genii their bra 'Am
mum of 140,0001. if the directors had apse Ibile fogy. Why
wee ice;' general basaardiell UAW= MI hakes the
sher
Mr. Mosmer, en auditor, Memel Abet a Ukase sheet
wee Fomented by them:Witte* to thehmed.
Mr. J. Wilson said at all semis thee me mating of
the kind before the meeting. 'lts •brigma bog mitibitid •
peat deal at temper In his lidereamis WM them vie wore
opposed to him. He was inform.' that hi had themlosed
to kick Mr. Walk*, a member of the committee, out of the
board-ream ("Be,w hear," and laughter.)

Mr. V.KNIGHT complained that the OhOrfhAßd•Wrlfter 211*
port of the 0110119111 circulated by the directors among the
was always tampered with by some person after
EaPrftletcrithe ahorthand-writees hands, and gave notice of his
intentica to moves resolution on the subject.
A Pionzurron expressed his diessadWam at the re•
marks of the chairman with regard to competition,which was,
he said, losseddal to the lawyers, including the chairman's
own son, but most injurious to the company. Bo was, like
• preceding speaker a holder of North-Western shahs,
be =tended that the competition now going on was
to both oomealer.
Another ritOPRITTOR demanded an eXpluatiOß Of the
anomalous position of Mr. Dogma, jun.
A PROPRIRTOR urged the propriety of adoptive ialiez
resolution in reference to competition to that wood
to at the North-Western . Hem hopot that
from this company would meetfrom the Gem can.
ponies at the ase,ftg to be bad on 9th dint month.
In reply to a proprietor, Mr. Lawn said the cosh el the
recent e• of Mr. Mowatt against the company amouried
to sheet • thareed guineas. by added fa mhos-
lion, that they were larreased by the coare:Eog
by Mr. Mower. That 'anthem gave 200 to
Mr. Montague Chambers, HO guineas to Mr. mg
100 guineas to Mr. Denman, and the board was obliged to
pay corresponding fem.
Mr. II yogis denied that. If Mr. Mower was fool
enough to give counsel a thousand guineas, he would not
have imitated him. (Hear, hem.)
The Pam. matron who introduoed the subject said hitherto
he had been indurated by the blandishmtett of the
chairman end his colleagues, but he would be is no
Iros The remarks of Mr. Baron Bramwell wee a
diagram to the dintoppgand if the
over without their ex their dirapprrnotbi
the course pursued towards . Moor; they would not
deserve to have an officer worth a Mach of snuff.
The Cameras then replied—As to the general distal"-
faction expressed with the management, he was long ago
elf enough to know that when shareholders did not get
good dividends they were apt to be discontented. (Oh, oh!)
He had no hedhtfoa in saying that Mr. Seymour Clarke
was worth his salary. Mr. Clarke was as honest a man as
ever be had to deal with. _ -

—Z
PsoriaTeroZ-Bojou said of Mr. Mowed.
The Cr:Amass—And I say so still. As to Mr. Stu/rook,
ha was, in his opinion, the best locomotive mower in the
iir44and the shareholders would make a ggrseeaett mistake
.4parted with him. As to his (the 's) em,
he begged to toy that he was quits independent of him, end
that he would not work for the company without being paid.
On the ear of competition, be was sot prepared at pre-
sent to ve his meant to the proposal of the North
Western pany ;he declined to state why. (Oh, oh.)
He would only say that he was a trustee of that and not of
ay other company. As long as he remained chairman of
company, he should refuse to be dictated to on the sub-
ject. Re reserved to himself an entire discretion as to the
course he should pursue, and when a majority of the share.
holders expreseed disapproval of his acts he should retire.
There seemed to be a disposition to move a vote
of want of confidence in the directors. Let those
who had such a disposition give notice of sack
a motion and he would meet it boldly, but not
without securing for all the shareholders an opportunity of
forming and expressing en opinion.
The report was then received, but not adopted, the discus-
sion of various questions involved in it being, with the con-
sent of the chairman, reserved.
Mr. BIKINIS moved a resolution to the effect that the di-
rectors themeelves should pay the damages and costs awarded
for the improper dismissal of Mr. Wilma. (Cheers.)
Mr. BILLINGS seconded the motion, and an animatel dko
=ion upon it was proceeding when our report left.

NIL JOSBPII LOOIR, N.P., OH OH.ERBOUBO.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)

On Tuesday last the foundation stone of some
national schools was laid at Bartley, by Joseph Locke,
__ j Eq.
M.P., who came direct from Cherbourg (where he Is
as prinelpal engineer on the line from that place to Park)
take part in the ceremony. Mr. Locke bawl laid the stone,
said there was a time when ho could have ad them se
fellow-townsmen, but although he oould not address thou
In such tame now, yet he could assure them that the re-
miniscences of hi: early days in Barnsley were Mill en-
dearing. The rising generation had better hopes and pro-
pass hold out to them than the past. lie might hold
himself es an example so far as worldly prosperity cm
as he had only received a rather ordinary edu.
action at the Barnsley Grammar School. He would advise
tams If they wished to be a nation of freeman not to rely
agora government aid, but upon their own exertions. If
Miry washed to have their children educated they should keep
ftm esetral of that education In their own hands, pay for it,
imi sulatain their own independence • so that their children
eight say that they were not beholdenC to charity for what
obeesiirm they had received.
At the ohms of the ceremony a dinner was given to the
visitors from a distance ; and at which Mr. Locke, in
responding te a toss, made some interesting observations
with regard to Cherbourg In its relation to England. It
was the habit of members of parliament to give their
on matters with which they were conversant, and
l being an important epoch in our history, and as them
was cue Important question which had recently occupied
the public mind, and with which he was acquainted,
namely the completion of the fort of Cherbourg, be felt
no
hesitation,
as a practical men, in giving his opinion
upon it. Baying known France for the last 20 years, and
which6ll egileil
irieuriaiMldwjiuthst
would
adjuncts,
P:
eoneider that he was well tilted to speak cm Mtar
Joe& Public feeling in France could not be gathered ;Om
the tone of the French prose, for, In fact, there might be
said to be no French prase, for it was entirely and com-
pletely under the control of government. Still, to those
acquainted with France, it was well known that there had
long been a feeling against Englishmen and English by*
talkers entertained by the French people, and this night
occasionally be seen striking out In -rations ways. The
great work of forming the important fort of Chinless
Lad been completed, after much labour and time bad bra
expended upon It, sad the event was quite of a nailed
character. Me believed that the present Emperor had not
the slightest intention of wishing Cherbourg to be looked
upon ea a menace to England ; but still he must be a doll
man indeed who could not sae that Cherbourg plead in
the hands of an ambitious ruler would become of the
greatest importance. The question was, were the Bmpmet's
intentions good or bed P Did he mean pesos or wax P If
he meant war, In Cherbourg he had a meet
weapon ; bat if he meant peace, and be (Mr. Locke) be
that he did, they had not at present to fear. lint so
long as human nature remained as it was, Bashed maid
not see the establishment of so great a work cid** at
ones taking steps to place the country in a state of Mims
salSedent to counteract its probable effects. As he bed
said before, nobody knew what public opinion in Frees
really was, and the time might come when the Bomar bles-
nit would not be able to control the exuberance of bis Foßitte
and war might become inevitable. Mr. Leeks steed, is
conclusion, that it was his belief that Louis Napoleon wes
favourably inclined towards England, and was for the mho
toesitce at the alliance ; but if impelled on to war, as he heti
• ritee,Charhourg would be found a moat powerfal plain d
and ft was therefore the duty of our statement°
lake Mace to place England in such a state as to be able saw
cessfolly to guard against what might become so &mem I
neighbour and to be able to maintain our proud rupee em.
(LAn oteadatz wee.)
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lbs and children connected with the schools.

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