The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-05 00:00:00

COMPLAIN? AGAINST A JOINT STOCK

COMPANY.

Yesterday, at the Mansion-house, the British and
American Telegraph Company (Limited) were summoned
before the Lord Mayor to sneerer a summons that bad been
issued against them at the iaatanoe of Mr. Chaffers, a
solicitor, under the 32nd section of the Joint Stock Com-
panies Act, and which charged them with having, con-
trary to the provisions of that section, refined to give him
• copy of • portion of the register of shareholders in the
scraci, whereby they had incurred • penalty of forty
• for each refusal.
Mr. P. Wood, the barrister, attended to =newt the
complaint; and Mr. Vernon, from the °Mos of News.
Aahurst Morrie, and Co., appeared for the company.
Mr. Wood, in opening the came, said that by the 32nd
&action of the Joint Stock Companies Act every company
was bound to keep • register of the shareholders, and any
shareholder was entitled to have a copy of this register
upon paying a certain fee ; and the offence alleged against
the defendants was that they had refused to furnish such
copy. The object of the legislates*, no doubt, was to pro.
toot shareholders in public companies, and enable them to
obtain say information they Might require with regard
to the shareholders and the number of shares held by
there ; and it was very essential, for the prevention of
frauds such as had on some occasions been committed,
tint such information should be afforded to those who
required it. He was not instructed to impute any oorrupt
motive to the company who were now summoned, but
they bad contemned the law, and he should therefore ask
that the provisions of the act of parliament under which
the proceedinp were taken might be enforced spinal
them.
The information of the complainant was then read. It
was to the effect that on the loth September he applied at
the offices of the company for permission to see the register
of shareholders, and while be was taking • note of • por-
tion of it be was informed by the engineer and one of the
clerks that this could not be permitted. He then asked
for • copy of a portion of the registert and was informed
that the secretary was out of town, and • copy could not
be given without his sanction. He applied on the two fol-
lowing days for the copy, but he said lie was unable to ob-
tain it. Last Monday he applied for the present sum-
mons. The complainant, in answer to a gueetion put to
him, said that be was by profession • solicitor, but he bad
not taken out his certificate for the present year.
The Lord Mayor put some questions to the compialneat,
in answer to which he stated that he would not undertake
to swear that the clerk refused to five him • copy of the
portion of the register that be required, but he told him
he could not let him have it without the authority of the
secretary who was out of town, and be promised to com-
municate with him immediately. He was put off from
day to day, and could not obtain the information be re-
quired, but after the summons was issued • copy of the
portion of the register that he wanted was sent to him.
Mr. Vernon, in reply to the case for the complainant,
said that the ecunpany he represented had not the least
desire to withhold inforniationfrom their shareholders, but
the fact was that when the application was made for the
loopy of the register by the complainant, the secretary hap-
pened to be out of town, and the clerks did not feel them-
'selves justified in furnishing the required information
without his sanction, but the oomplainant was told that
he would be immediately written to, and if he gave the
directions to do so the copy would be at once supplied to
him. A letter was accordingly written to the secretary,
who communicated with Mr. Chaffers and informed him
that the information he required would be supplied to him
as soon as possible, and if the company had been aware
what he really wanted it would have been supplied to
him. It appeared that in the first instance be said he
only wanted -• small portion of the register, and afterwards
he said he should require • copy of the entire register, mid
the moment the secretary returned that portion which be
at first required was sent to him. Mr. Vernon added
that the company had no object in withholding the infor-
mation, and r here was no ground whatever for the com-
plainant instituting the present proceedings.
The Lord Mayor said it appeared to him that nothing
had been established by the complainant that would come
within the meaning of the act of parliament. He did not
see that any refusal to furnish the information had been
established spins* the company, and he should therefore
dismiss the mammas.

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Yesterday the mornwg sitting opened with a
discussion upon church ceremonial, oommenoed by Arch-
deacon Hone, the tone of whose paper was adverse to
ritualism, maintaining that if the hark and the Prayer-
book were adhered to, nothing which could bakedca by
any fair interpretation of words " histrionic, or could
Wm the congregation into mere " spectators of a scene,"
would ever take piece in the service of the church. The
church nowhere recognised a eurpliced choir ; nor, although
the 18th moon justified bowing at the name of Jesus
during the reading of the creed, yet there was no authority
for other borings or for any genuflections. He said
that there was no compulsion of the Lord's table
to be placed in the place where it was now found
in the churches, for it might be brought out
into the church, and placed with ita ends east and west,
and it was never mentioned as an " altar." Nor was there
any authority for the use of any covering but that of " a
fair white cloth," or for any article being placed upon the
table in addition to the vessels required for use.
The Rev. T. W. Penny read a paper from the opposite
point of view, main that the ceremonial of 1549 and
nos that of 1849, was the egal inheritance of the church.
He maintained that ceremonial was making progress, but
advocated three things as deskabk to secure the progress
required--a fixedug:t standard ce maxsiroadum, a strongerr ;um-
biaatia
*. whys. Ths address, Masa of the more support from
sped les quoted as indicating the prnshabilit7 of man sup-
port hid ne hand hem thee spissepate.
• .R. Bri t
4oke.kkebs Bor. T. Bernard, and lt d •
sec
'/Aichdeacon D/21180N ins next sniiitneol, aid kik"! 4104.
saibusiao444 cheered. He never' lead_al this k
duestioarktlikent Snaking of the result of a stateenum
neeriamendorkieb bad made a theadreados upon him.
He imp* el the Ithe Lord M People went to
Mem for they would go to Mm even as be supposed demi-
talissnwould go to the Earl of Deeby-both ritual and -
deal deputations—and they said they
hat
=dltplitses and took the steps t asked,
of Neglasel would be destroyed sad the state would ,
be in great perplexity. (Laughter.) He (Archdeacon
Dembion) recommended Lord Derby whey such deputations
west M'lbei Ito do buck to Lord 111Mbemwe'll Emery. Lord
Mahan* used to say, " Well, gentlemen, I had jest the
opposite 'thing said to me yesterday ; sad I say he ;
you What I said to them ; ' Why don't you let it
alone/1'" (Loud cheering.) He (Archdeacon Denison)
thought thrived more practical wild** la these few •
dr=than anything that had been said about ritualism
the hid eighteen months. (Applause.) He bad
said kin convocation, and he said it there, and he Mould
say II to Lord Derby if he would hear him—and he did
not sus whether he heard him or not—ilangliter)—be maid
it to the eammissioners sad be said it to parlisineat
" Why can't you let it alone?" (Loud chami) He
aver mid tarsmas no connexion between sad
He never said anything so silly and shallow.
Ifilitti said so -be should not damn *sant Were
thautthere. He was not a practical ritualist, still he wore •
asaar, a hood, and a stole—(applanes)--ad satins •
plea ritualism (Applause.) He tried to dameryttelakin
ty and order—(applause)—and be had been taught
over ice he boy the same, doetrfa of tim Rag
Ilksharist as now—(applause)-- • and (matiened the •
amend& madman) I will never teach eaSelkes." (Laud
applsime.) If anyone wanted to know what ea
Marks was, they would find It hs-• the ap-
to the ritual report. (Loud applause.)
rat an old-fashimal aurehmea, sad oaring for tke
" law of liberty," whit* some persons did not, its' said, to
reply to the question " Why do you erye m fa-leaving it
akar that inasmuch as it was of valuused to express
doctrine, they could not put doctrine dbwee- ,
elesseing.) No, not all the parliaments that ever had
lived, or could live—(rapturous chsers)—nor all meet- •
lags ; nor Stud be said it with all reversal') all bishops ;
nor all commusimm (Applause.) I say they cannot put
down doctrine—kontinued applansed—and they &heel.
(Enthusiasm.) Therefore, thee. waa malt* to be gained •
by potties it down, but sverythiog.,to be lost. And if he
milli turn from the excitement of speaking to quote
fees the Holy Book, hewhicrid well their at ties
they warp all (seat-
,to theanuclarn the read tie result et deliberatioos
in *a y days of . "If tHedoatrine be of
aoißelk Peir NI it doom-bid if it be of men, it will
letet WC Let it alone ; let theme men alone, and
the see t the issue will be. Then, for the make of
the " law ef Ullemy," for the sake of equal justice, he
wished that for the moment the commisaioners, when
they were next summoned, would determineto say—
" Thank you, but I would rather stay at home ; we have
made a area mess of it hitherto, and we may do so •
again." (Laughter.) He spoke in the presence of many
commissioners, and he said they were required to report
upon things essential, but they reported upon things non-
Nankai. (Applanso.) They bad found out an extra-
ordinary creature. It was an aggrieved parishioner—
(laaghter)—the most monstrous and ghastly thing he bad
ever seen—kontinsed laughter and applause)—but he
would rather see it in its full proportions. At present
it was a Carbons with only one head, but it
should have three. (Continued laughter and applause.)
Thee. should be three 'Aggrieved parishioners, the first
because of the use of ritual, the second because
311trea non-use of ritual, and the third because the law
el .the church of England is disobeyed. (Amaze's)
Now, he did not know whether the report meant
to have all the three beads of the Cerberus. If
they met again—bathe hoped that, for their own
comfort sad for theirs, they would stop at benne—
be trusted they would take care to rectify that little mis-
take about " sesentials," which he did not believe they
ay one of them saw before they put their hand to the
paper: (Applause.) And they would just be good enough to
explain to the public what they meant by an " aggrieved
parishinosr," for no one knew what they meant. (Ap-
plause. ) It was with great sorrow and regret their meaning
*would be misapprehended, and the creature stand as a
°warns with one head, whereas they (the readers of the
"exult believed that be had three heads. neaps (oa-
th* an. archdeacon) that it will go forth from this
asseing that all we want is to be let alone ' • that we don't
" want any more report.—(laughter)-end that we won't
have any legislation. (Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.)
Tbe subject was then discussed by the Rev. T. J.
h."the Rev. Waltham Howe, the Rev. Dr. Little-
1111e Rev. R. A. Hellier (of e. Lawrence, Norwich),
the Rev. Dr. Howson, Dean of Chester, the Jay. T. P.
Lowder, Pal Nelson, and Lord Dartmouth.
At the conclusion of the morning sitting, the right rev.
President resigned his position as the acting chairman of
the sittings, being compelled to leave the town.
Most of the speakers upon the papers diseased were on
the ritualistic side, and so far as the demonstrations can
be used as a guide, that partyuhad the sympathies of the
majority of the coagreas, t the Dean of Chester wished
the gentlemen of tie press to note his statement, that
the other side win the most numerous, although not
the roast demosstrative. This statement was met with
cries of " No. no," replied to by others of " Yes, yes," and 4
ouch expeserions were frequently used by the congress, as
the views of the two sides were prominently put forward
by the speakers. The sitting was altogether of a more de.
mcostrative character than any that preceded it.
In the afternoon sitting, " Hindrances to Church Pro-
ms* was diseased in papers read by Archdeacon Bicker.
sloth and Mr. J. Peamon,Q.C., respectively, and addresses
by Mr. J. M. Clabon, Archdeacon dela, and others.
The evening sitting was devoted to "Church Music" and
to " The Musical Training of the Clergy," the first intro-
duced by the Rev. T. Helmets and illustrated by a choir,
and the letter by the Rev. Sir P. ()aoley.
It has been resolved that the next meeting of the con-
gram should, subject to the approbation of the bishop, be
aid London, at the instituaa of the Church Institute.

MS SUPPOIIID FENIAN OUTRAGI IN HOLBORN.
DaAYH Or MCDONNILL.—The official announcement yes-

terday morning was that McDonnell had passed a very
had night, and soon after tea in the morning he changed
decidedly for the worse, becoming rapidly weaker, and
continuing to do so until death took place at 2.45 p.m.
His condition wee reported at Windsor at eleven a.m.
to the surgeons of the 2nd Life Guards who have through.
out shown the greatest interest in hi ro
s case. They have
not of mime professionally interfered with Mr. Edward
Shoppee, the house surgeon at the hospital, whose 'Men-
tion and ewe have been of the most anxious kind. Shortly
after one o'clock Colonel Marshall arrived at the hospital,
and remained with the poor fellow till he died. McDon-
nell was conscious to the last, and his mother was present
at his death. The British Medical Journal, referring to
the ease of the unfortunate man, and of course before his
death, says :—" By Mr. Shoppee, the house sur-
geon, we are informed that the bullet had entered
the chest at the cartilage of the fifth rib in
front, had penetrated the lung, escaped at the in-
ferior angle of the blade-boss on the SUM side, and was
found resting upon the clothing at that part. The bullet
is 000ioal, about four lines in diameter, and weighs two
drachms. No bleeding frees the lungs occurred till 24
hours afterwards, when the patient began to be troubled
with eough, and the sputum was tinged with blood.
This condition continues. There is now a considerable
quantity of fluid in the cavity of the right chest, supposed
to be blood, and some signs of pleurisy have supervened,
from the state of the patient, who is kept perfectly
quiet, no theroogh examination of the chest has been
made."

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