The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-15 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.

After our report left yesterday,
After much interruption and questions that were cha-
racterised as purposeless,
The CHAIRMAN said if the shareholders had confidence
in the board, and would allow their formal application to
parliament, the directors would pledge themselves to
agree upon no plans, and would engage in no expenditure
without submitting the details to the body of the share-
holders. (No, no.) There would be no diMeulty in
raising the money if the requisite permission were
given ; but he saw no hope of its being raised on easier
terms than seven per cent. There had never been any
intention on the part of the board to proceed in this
matter without having fully brought it before the share-
holders. It was to be regretted that tee course taken by
some of the shareholders was calculated to injure their
interests. (Hear.) There was no reason whatever to look
despondingly at the position of the company, provided its
prestige were kept up. The land belonging to the com-
pany could not be sold, because it was the security for the
debentures.
Upon the CHAIRMAN putting the resolution, two gentle.
men rose to move amendments. They were declared out
of order, and there was an interval of loud uproar. Any
attempt of the chairman to speak, or decide, was greeted
with conflicting shouts, during which the efforts of one or
two gentlemen to protect the chairman from interruption
were useless. As far as could be gathered amidst the din,
Captain Jones wished to move an amendment disapproving
of the application to parliament, and Mr.Purcher another,
adjourning the meeting sine die. Fully twenty minutes of
confusion followed, occasioned by the respective adherents
of Captain Jones and Mr. Puncher clamming precedence,
and accusing each other of " subterfuge," &c. The chair-
man quietly resumed his seat while some 40 or 10 gentle-
men, standing upon their seats, gesticulated and shouted
at each other in the wildest manner. Thrice the chairman
had to resume his seat while the meeting settled its noisy
differences. The motion was at length put amidst an up-
roar that was almost deafening. About 20 hands were
held up for it. The contrary was also put, and as
only about six hands were held up the chairman
declared the motion carried. As soon as the
chairman's decision became known the excitement
increased, and the Babel of sounds was considerably in-
tensified by the hoarseness into which many of the hon.
shareholders had bawled themselves. There being no
abatement, the chairman, directors, and many of the share-
holders abruptly left the room.
Those who remained, having placed Mr. Puncher in the
chair, were harangued by Captain Jones, who still wished
to move the adjournment of the meeting sine die. It
being, however, pointed out to him that this motion wss
singularly inapplicable now, it was abandoned, and the
meeting ultimately contented itself with protesting against
the decision of the chairman and the proposals of the board.

THE MIIRDER NEAR NOTTINGHAM.—At the
Nottingham Assizes, yesterday, before Mr. Justine Smith,
John Watson, 28, cottager, and Mary Watson, 31, his
wife, were charged with the wilful murder of Henry
Raynor, at Carlton, on the 17th November last. Mr.
Bodes, Q.C., and Mr. Bristow' were for the prosecution,
and Mr. Serjeatit O'Brien and Mr. Cave appeared f the.
defence. The prisoners pleaded not guilty.
COLLIRION ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.
Early yesterday morning a serious collision took place
near the Hackney-wick station of the North London }tail-
way, which seriously inconvenienced the traffic. A cattle
train for the Metropolitan-market ran into a train of coal
trucks, which for a time blocked up the road. We have
not heard of any person being hurt. —SAipping Gaxtte.
Yesterday morning the Nottingham Mechanics'
Hall was destroyed by fire. The hall war beautiful and
capacious, and the largest public room in the town.

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