The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-14 00:00:00

THE CALEDORIAN RAILWAY.

An extraordinary general meeting of this cont.
pany was held at Glasgow yesterday ; Colonel SALIRLD.
the chairman, presided. About 1,000 shareholders wart
present.
The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was called to receive
the report of the committee appointed at the meeting
on the 20th ult., to consider the question of dealing with
the accounts of the company in future, and to propose a
partial or total retirement of the directors He regretted
that the committee had ignored the most important Imes
tion submitted to them, that of dealing with the amount',
and he hoped that the meeting would filially settle that
matter. He was sorry that six directors had that day
resigned, because be would give a pledge not to use the
proxies in electing new directors in the room of those re•
tiring by the recommendation of the committee.
Mr. JAMICH Margit, chairman of the Shareholders' Com.
mittee, moved the adoption of a resolution recommending
that the committee be instructed to frame a scheme foe
the reconstruction of the board, and that the scheme be
considered at a meeting to be held on the 26th inst. ; the
committee to have power to issue proxies.
Mr. JOHN Murree, of Edinburgh, moved an amend.
went to the effect that the committee had not carried oat
the terms of their remit, and had punned an unwarranted
dictatorial count) as to retirement and election of the
directors, and therefore that their report be not approved.
The motion of Mr. Hosier was carried by a large ma.
jority.
The CHAIRMAN moved that the recommendation of the
directors in the circular of the 6th of February with ref*.
recce to the mode of dealing with the accounts be
adopted.
This resolution was negatived.
. . .

Several other resolutions were proposed but not mit.
Among them one asked the chairman to resign, 'mother
that be should be superseded in the chair by Mr. Hosier.
Colonel Wax, time of the directors who resigned on the
question of using proxies, charged the chairman with
breach of faith in that matter, which the chairman denied.
The meeting throughout was very noisy, and much feel-
ing was shown against and in favour of the directors.
The Chairman and Mr. Miller demanded a poll on their
motions, which was granted. The result will be announced
on Tuesday next.
A protest was entered by Mr. Montt against the direo-
tors using proxies, which were alleged to bass been ob-
tained by misrepresentation.

THE COURT-MARTIAL AT PORTSMOUTH.—The
court-martial yesterday found both charges againat
Lientenant Oxley proved, and, believing him to have acted
only upon error in judgment, adjudged him to be repri-
manded.

nu Pans Paosscunoss ix DUBLlN.—Lennox
was acquitted yesterday of the charge of shooting at Berg..
Kelly. Tho ease of Mr. Pigott, proprietor of the Ira/imam.
was called on. Mr. Pigott surrendered, and his counsel
objected to his being arraigned on an indictment found by
the flaunty grand jury, when he was in custody of the city
sheriff, ten days' notice not having been given of the M-
I tended change of venue. The court deferred judgment on
the point.

Tho moat recent improvement at the now palate
of Westminster is the completion of the members' private
entrance. The arcade leading from the houses of perils.
meet to Westminster-bridge is lighted inside by erns,
mental gas burners, in unison with those inside the house,
and they are suspended from the centres of the various
arches. The stained windows of this arcade are also eom.
plated, and have a good effect in the Speaker's courtysed
contiguous to the Speaker's official residence. The tee.
'elated pavement of this arcade will be completed by the
Easter recess. In New Palace-yard, parallel with Bridge.
street, and by the sides of the principal entrance to West.
minster-hall, turf has been temporarily pleated, bet thaw
spaces are to be in the riming ornamentally laid out with
flowers, dc. In addition to the statues of William the
Conqueror and King John, already placed in front of thia
arcade, four other royal statues will be added shortly.
THE MEMBERS TOR CAMDRI DOE AND EDUCATTON.,
—At the forty-second anniversary dinner el the Oreebridge
Philo-Union, the borough members, Messrs. Powell and
Cont, were present, and spoke upon the importance of
education. They both desired to see a better caltivatien
of the Eoglish language, and hoped that during the coming
anion of parliament the question of education would
occupy a prominent place. Dr. Abdy responded on behalf
of the university, and defended it Dom the attacks then
had been made upon it. that it did not fulfil the expects.
tions required of it. The university wee progressing with
the age and gradually introducing sew studies. The
names Milton, Bacon, Locke, ant in modern days of
Whewe , were sufficient to stamp Cambridge University
es a seat of education.
SHOCKING DEATH.—At an early „hour yesterday-
morning some human remains were found upon the Great
Western Railway, about a mile on the Birmingham side
of Bilston. They were evidently those of an apnea-
torsi lateen,. The trunk wee cut in two and
the body was otherwise cut up. It is supposed that
the deceased was killed at a little before mid-
night es Wednesday by the train out of BinaLeghem
at IL3O. At half.psst 10 the poor fellow had asked to be
allowed to sleep in an outhouse of a cottage net far from
the railway, but was refused permission, end on the pm.
vines night he was locked up by the polies at Wlll'lll=ll.
three miles away, on the charge of begging. At Within.
ball he said that be had come from 011odeell, •emir,
, village five miles from Wolverhampton, on the Shrews-
, bury gide. This is all that is at present known of the
demised.
DEATHS me Paniox.—Two inquests were held
yesterday at the House of Correction, Coldbethdlelds, nn
the bodies of prisoners who had died from an affection el
the lungs, brought on by the *old atmosphere in which
they lived. The complaint wee well knows, and vas
called the prison disease. The medical vitriol (Dr.
Smiles) said that numerate parsons died bra the warn
complaint, and that the prima satinet* wars taable
to remedy the evil. It append that, lobes thin S.
the prisoners were well treated, eadtir= we uses
as of them loon as they were ada
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