The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-30 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

This day the half-yearly meeting of proprietors
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was held at the Cannon-street Terminus Hotel, Mr. War-
KIN, 11. P., in the chair.
The report having been taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN, in moving it for adoption, said that dur-
ing the half-year 1054 miles of the line had been renewed ,•
352,000 mow sleepers bad been put down, and 11,7401. had
been spent in bailout. Thu renewal cost 30,000/.
The eatm working expenses were 33,000 f. The
traffic receipts were leas by 14000 f. On all
these accounts there was a deduction of 84,6001. from the
profits. They carried 31,000 f. to the suspense account.
Them was, moreover, commercial distress and bad weather
in Canada, which militated against the traffic. He re-
gretted be was not able to give a more favourable account,
bathe should like to know what the directors had failed
to do, or what they neglected to do, to bring about a more
satisfactory result. He believed they had now got rails
that would stand Me severity of the Canadian climate,
and the last amounts received showed that the traffic was
increasing. There was also an increase of the rolling stock,
which was absolutely essential to the development of that
traffic. He could only hope that the company had seen
its worst days.
The motion having been seconded,
Mr. CARE:NM-I and other shareholders expressed a hope
that the Canadian government and people would come in
aid of the company. The Canadian, alone benefitted by
the line, and there was a moral obligation on them to
sadist the company in its diMeulties.
[The meeting was still going on when we went to press.]

THE IRISH CHURCH.—Last night a densely
crowded public meeting of the inhabitants of Deptford was
held at the Literary Institution in that town in support of
Mr. Gladstone's resolutions on the Irish church. The
chair was occupied by Mr. Saunders, and on the platform
were several of the most influential residents of the die-
Mkt. Resolutions in accordance with the objects of the
meeting were adopted.
METROPOLITAN POOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS'
Amu:curios. —last night the usual quarterly neesting wu
held at the Ship Tavern, Charing-cross, when Dr.
Bogert. the president, after • lengthened statement of his
contest with the guardians of the Strand Union and the
Poor-law Board resigned the presidential chair, as, he
said, be was no longer • Poor-law medical officer. He had
incurred the displeasure of the guardians because he had
exposed their treatment of the sick poor, and the hatred of
the permanent staff of Gwydyr-house because be bad
founded the Workhouse Improvements Association, but all
his acts had been dictated by motives of humanity. Dr.
(Adria, of St. George's, Hanover-equare, having
assumed the chair, Dr. Rogers was elected an honorary
member, and on the motion of Dr. B. Clarke, of Upper
Clapton, a special resolution was pared by a;olanlatkw,
warmly acknowledging the rewires of Dr. Rogers,
and re-appointing him president, while expressing
the deep sympathy of his medical brethren in
" his recently unmerited pereeciutien," and their firm oat
viatica that both the press and the public share in their
sentiments. The meeting then proceeded to the conskle
ration of three resolutions, which, after mach discussion,
were agreed to. The first affirmed the wisdom of the
rystem of payment "per cue," fixing the minimum at
is. 6d., exclusive of medicine, but subject to triennial
revision and the equity of the Marylebone scale sanc-
tioned by the Poor-law Board •, the second protested
against tUhre new general order of the Poor-law Board as
being likely to bring medical officers into frequent conflict
with the guardians ; and the third expressed sur.,
after past sanction of the custom, at their dream fetter
respecting the employment by medical damn of legally
unqualified assistants.
LAVECH or HER MAJISTY'S SEW MANLY. —Her
Majesty's ship Manly, constructed by order of the Ad-
miralty for service at Portsmouth Dockyard and the Chan-
nel, has just been launched from the building-yard of
Messrs. J. and G. Rennie, at Greenwich. The whole of
the engines, boilers, paddlewheels, mast, and rigging were
fixed on board before launching, so at the vessel is ready
for immediate use. Her dimensions are at follow
Length between perpendiculars, 100 ft. ; breadth of beam,
17 fa depth of hold, Wt. 3sin. ; and tonnage, 135.
She l's fitted with • pair of single-ended side.
lever, or graishopper engines of 50 hone-power
collectively, calculated expressly for towing about
the large vessels in Portsmouth harbour, with
feathering wheels so constructed as to turn in op-
posite directions at pleasure. The reseal has been
built under the immediate superintendence of Mr. G.
Johnson, of Woolwich Dockyard, and the engines any one
of seven pairs now constructing by Messes. Rennie fee the
Admiralty for the following vessels, via. :—The sptan,
Lapwing, Swallow, Bullfinch Curlew, Grinder, end she
Manly. The Lapwing's engines, though only of 160
nominal horse-power, gave an indicated or actual de-
veloped power of 1,004 herse-powea, or 64 times the
nominal horse-power at the resent trial at the measured
mile outside the Plymouth breakwater.
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