The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND FIOLVA

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The half-yearly meeting of Chi map= was
held yesterday at Worcester, when the Mims
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mat wish WI weird thaw to &doe • Y clindied we
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woes/ gwresteed sleek. The widened the esearay with
the Gnat Weeeer• ware add taserkieterp. It wee duly last
wed MiMcOuse Wades redned labia a boss
Oahed r Weleirbenplea by this s rode. The delenteene had ail Ma red* wawa e_s dim Whi at 6
sent.wok ides Ile mossy preagem sal kiir at 4 b per
rellessee ao a rawark whisk had bees made ia
W Ilkilwr Thew, to the ellen that the
mean of the fiber en the seem/ guereaeser irk=
emurp rpwegept eta diddled we the ilskinel EOM, the
damn dated dist the armee weld enorat (wham the
LlSdividend wee paid) be MAIL, awl net
;O 0 Misti boa repoineask end that a prepedie•
W been sob brasigiaighleg dose anage.
reasons Se the omen& arneimeat
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ealEmehedOmprep, he sited dm 'gamy Ind beau
Isregaddrig wont elziakand Om reeks hid hem
steppd is the wind risme The Abeam of then
ffmllocif Md. thadass, (with the apprebadea of taw
pregelnere) din if the Newport. Abecgaveativ aid Hero
dad Campy would ache 16,011 d. neck Ode
would raiihrigke to provers • chain Bice' l'he
agrament also weal ea le sire that ads aaspeny were to
week the percept *IMO, and the Newpeet and
Almegmenny Compemy the traffic for the
deet year at 60 owl aptness et 66 per
seek ea the year, eaddo per mat afterwerds to the end
of aas 431 years. I f the proprietor, thought fit to elm-
the Ole anengenent he thoeght the result would be that
they wsuM cheek a large some= of Maine from the Booth
, Wes !lonia As to g mean which hod bona circuited
to Weenier, that this rotopsny wee likely to go
peeMmeent again for the Mat .Western line, he soisMean-
May ten them that in the present state of the company's
&mem they were not in a poeitiun to fight the battle over
ipon. But the time would come when the &neva
Valley and the Worcester and Hereford Railways were
that it might be expedient and desirable to apply
IS pulitiegat again tar • Mid-Western ; but meta then
he MI Item limb it would be expedient to incur so Isar an
€1111•11•111•11 Maid be required for this purpose. Au ands-
Ctrsetup me Cliebeethem proposedto snake a line of
s *OW that town to join this company's line at Chip-
piss Norton, and tide company had agreed to work it at 40
per east. This routo would save the Cheltenham people
en their journey to London 34 miles. Ho teletext
W shareholders would approve of this arrangement
He had been irked when the original sliureholdtm might
expect • dividend, and he hesitated to set himself up as a
milt: but from calculations which he had made with Mr.
their trill& manager, he thought that when they
had OM. a week traffic, and their working e
won 1141111114 to 40 per cent., they might pay sll their
dad chaise, and (of they could extinguish the arrears of
dividends), the original ehareholders might come
Weirellimmi. Last wock the receive had been 4,700 r, and
the wild* expiner• 4JI percent. He moved the adoption
of the eort.
)sir. UARTILIDO It then moved an amendment for adopting
eel y so much of the report as referred to the declaration of the
dividimda, and adjourning the meeting to the 24th of August
at the London Tavern.

/dr. 'Nutter. complained of the mnlinuaooe of the practice
Le= the London traffic round by way of Bletehley, and
the establishment of amicable relanona with tho
Ore/ Western Company.
Other proprietor. having addressed the meeting,
The Cu Aluetit said the Great Western had treated their
alliance with worn, sad njeited all overtures of friendship.
At kingth Mr. liarteolge withdrew hie amendment, ►nd
the report was adopted, the dividends declared, and authority
gime to medulla the proposed agreement with the Wor-
cester and Hereford Company.

A special alerting was them held, at which an agreement
with the Severn Valley Company was authorised, this com-
pany to work the Severn line at AO per tent., and to pay 10
par moth on twine brought to them.
After the sum' vote of thanks the proceedings terminated.

DEATH OF MR. MUNTZ, M.P.—We regret to atate
that Mr. Munte, M.P. for Birmingham, died at his residence,
Umberilade Hall, Warwickshire, last night.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Candice arrived at Southampton yesterday. She proceeds to
India the middle of text month, and it is expected that she
will take out a large number of Indian officers., whose fur-
loughs are cut short through the Bengal troubles.
The brig Minorca, front Alexandria for Antwerp,
la the Scheldt the captain desired to be reported par steamer
Bum Osy, F. Peirce, from Antwerp, July 29.
An ancient custom of the inhabitants living on
the banks of the 3loelle is to piece abuts& of ripe grapes in
the hands of the statue of their patron mint, St. Lenient, on
he Fir day, the 10th August. Site 1846 the peasants have
experienced difficulty in finding rife grapes for that parptes •
bat they now hope to be able es it 1811, 1834, and is ISM,
to place a bottle of new wins is the hands of the mist.
Tnims WOMEN STRUCK By LIGHTNING IN
Antatorisemots.—A sadden death from lightning occurred
at Kirktce Farm, Fraserhorgh, on Monday last, between
three and four o'clock. The thunder and lightning for a
time wen tremendous, and the lightning emit dead on the
spot one of the women at work at Mr. Burnett's turnip Bed,
sad severely injiurd other two, who are reported to be
&IMy ill.—Aberdeen /or, sal.
AMMY Or PAPRR.—n was stated in May
last that the paper masufartnnwe of Westphalia and the
}Umiak provinces iu Pro/Waked agreed to Increase the price
of paper 10, 13, or 20 per cent., mooed* to quality. The
paper mitaufacturers of Northern Germany, at 'meeting held
at &ettia, and those of &whirls Germany, at me held at
Fesablort, have sauce resolved to adopt the maw augments-
lice, sad UM meson has camel general diseatisfactios in
Gerinasy, in which, trues the immense Bomber of books,
newspapers, sad periodicals publithed, the demand for
le tie very greet. Although paper hes increased In value in
all Ewa" owing to the scarcity of reps, the step taus
by the German paper-makers is regarded as unjust, insomuch
setrgy ham load been doubly protected, Ord by a tai of
floe 80 to 100 per coat. end Werra on all rags everted ; and
ant, by as. of about 30 per mat on ell paper imported. The
hookiellem and publishes of Germany, sot fewer than 860 in
'amber, ham energetically protested against the thereon of
pries adapted by the peper-makera, and all on the different
gerwasseate of Gormley to take of tit exaggerated protec-
tion which the pap-Ware enjoy, so as to allow • large im-
prelim of the article front abroad. In the meantime they
berg resolved tc COll6lll their connareption of paper to the
arrow's Units, and foe that purpose will abbe delay alto-
gether the publicatu.n of new works, or will oily stn ks of
wadi edition; of them.

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