The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

THE GREAT AMIP COMPANY.

It will be remembered that a meeting of share-
holders in this company wee held on the 13th of last month,
to decide upon a noun of action against the board of &-
IMMO, end which, alter coridemble discussion without any
practical result, wee adjourned until the 6th January, dm
days previous to the special meeting summoned by the board,
which had also been adjourned by tidvertiminent from the
16th December to the 11th Jemmy. Accordingly, Mr.
Aldermaa Fiedgoon, who wee the chairman et the previews
niestiary We kr. Ornate masted the poet, in CO
of hie not being she to cony the meeting wholly nwarrlin,
end at errs unwires the adjournment took plain, and
same half-deem ether shareholders, inclodieg Mr. Webber
sad Mr. G. Taylor, who had given notice of tecolaticies to
be moved at the spacial general meeting adverse to the
sitting msnagewent, attended yesterday at the London
Tavern, but were informed, on inquiring, that no
reem had hen esgsgod, and that no arrangements
Ind be mode for their reciptioa. It was es•
that within the last few days Mr.
glui:dwialla had inserted an advertisement la the Daily Nora,
inviting the shareholders who &traded on the 13th alt. to
meet him an the 6th nand of the 6th of the present month,
and that la sonsequence thiee or four gentlemen had aseest-
bW the previous day, but that Mr. Cloodella wee net
prement, and that nothing wee done.
On the present oocasiou the half-down shareholders who
etraded formed themselves Into a sort of friendly confmenin
committee to talk over the position of affairs in a social new
than in a formal Waimea spirit, and in the Genres
of the convereatioa that ensued, Mr. Alderman
Rodger who explained that be had come from
Birmingham to be permit es an eat of courtesy width he
thought due to those who led advent Ids metal he the
adj mu-anent, stated that a emempensisess lied ben opined
by the directors with him elan the mesting in Deonaber, the
result of which wee anoffer from the bond to submit ell the
book,, accounts, ad all matters mermelsii with the
Mont of the oomph', to seemmithe ef hew gthelsems.
Mr. Hope, Mr. ftker, My. Mem, end Mown Be tattheir
intimated that as the board had than coached all that he
maid fairly ask of them ea a bet step, via., a tall inveriga.
Hon, he could sot la justice, supposing the air fairly
carried out, join in any reeeladon of a decidedly condem-
natory character, such as the no continuos vote, which was
involved in Mr. Webber's noticeof motto, until the malt of
the inquiry was ascertained. Mr. Miles had declined to act
on the committee, but anodise gsetloniss wore ready ki pro-
ceed, and it had beat suggested that the investigation
should be commenced so last Tuesday. Oa further eon-
siderstion, however, It was thought that there would sot
be time to go through with an szanthiation so cost
and attritive between that and the 'sooting eh he the
I lth, and that It would be better therelore to doh" It. At
fin tame time Mr. Hodgson added that he should
de 'injunction with Mr. Baker, make eachlnqatriestatiO
be necessary, to enable him better to maintain the wean
when they were called upon to weans the directors' report
at the general meeting, which was to be held as the same
day as the "pedal meeting.
Although there wee some differonoe of ohmic. uto the
policy of meeting the directors' report with a ante wiesle-
non of want of mundane, all appeared to agree that to give
satisfaction to the galena body of shareholders, aid to the
public, It was absolutely asperity that the mansglng director
(Yr. Campbell) shoats retire.