The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-30 00:00:00

AFFRAYS WITH POACHERS.

Daring the night of the 21st instant, a murderous
affray took place in the N.ott... Disney woods, hear the
Newark•rnai h4f•way homes, Lincolnshire. Si. lotion
who were out on the watch eneoae•ered a grog of siatein
poacher', and a fearful ti.tht followed. The poachers h►d
assembled from ►II them ighourt•g villages ; and the keepers,
go ring s tics of their intuition, were armed with cutlass*,
▪ othir weapon.. One of the poacher. or dreedfully cut,
and the SAS of on► of the keep( re was als2 severely injured.
Fuer of the poachers were captured and sent to Fencing ham,
and it is undintood that other' are known and are bet, g
hunted out. It is said that the •urueon who attended the
wounded men pronounced that he had never *eta such
awful m tngting, the bodit • of the parties being cut, almbeil,
and bruised in the mss dreadful manner.—Sloatfurd
Alemtry.
At Waddington end other 'irate' in the neighbourhood of
Lincoln, gangs of poachers now venture out in the day.tion,
with doge and muse, annalged in Poch monben that they
defy rupture. Ua the 17:h, upwards of a score, with nine
dor, wets cotars:ng in the Wobliagton low sad on
the previous Sundae • ib sea wen our, some cans ing spades
.0 dt< oat rAbita. Considerable damage is done to the
Nissen, who can do nothing to protect themselves : it would
a. is that only an armed c .•atnhulary con he depended
spin se ant decimal mesas of stopping Ibis increasing law-
leeenese.-1601.

About one o'oliek as the morning of Saturday last, while
Mr. Jam s litthertson, gunektepi r on the Aix rwirney
estates, Cried, Perthshire, slung with two of his assittants,
were making tb. it usual round, about two miles to the
northward of Atercairney Abbey, they heard the report of •
gun. and shortly aPerwards they beard • second shot in the
sums direction. Conviacied that pi mime were at stork,
they rid themselvee of their plaids and pr. pared for • scuffle.
A thirst shot was now tired. The night being close, and the
moon wider *cloud, the keepers dot not see the poulters
u tul they arrived at the spot where the last shot was tired,
she., en a sudden, three men appeared before them armed
with • doulsle-bstreli d gun and bindles ins. Then the
onslaught nommen. rd. Man for man., and the strongest
the wiener. was the ordi r of Vie day. A keen and
hard-fought contest snsard, daring which the keeper arid his
o.en were at cue time likely to have the worst or it—the
poachers twigs an pow. rfol and dt sperate characters. By a
ChaflCe stroke, however, one of the ktegro rs brought one eit
the ',nicht r. to the geogind—a man between sea and 'tees
het high sad powering built, who had, up to this time,
fought equal to bath his accomplices. 'She victor imme-
diately rna to the sseist..nce of Robertson, who wise nearly
evrpowered by the poacher he engaged with, also a stout and
powerful young men, and got him to the !Round, • here he
was held. N14,1111111P, the big poacher, no doubt thinintig that
his periy ~ad the worst ut it. took to his b. els, and was neither
seen nor h and of stir. Both the reenaiaing poechen were
ft cured by the keepers and :Wien to a plum of sstety. The
denb:s-bear,lledgun tweeted e. ( which hadone barrel Veiled)
several broken b udg. on., and •he liata, cape, and bonnets
of the keepers and poachers, were found et wieted about.
The poachers bad one pheuant with them. Mr. Robertson
received • severe rut us the bead, whi..ti bled profusely, and
moo; • raises throughout his petsi.n. Ilia a.ststanta w. re
also cut and bruised, and lost a good deal of bl oil. The
p tethers alto null, rod ly. The am* of the man
who escaped is known. Two of the parties belong hi Cult if,
LA the third to the neighbourhood, end are all well town
to bo coolirmod poacher.. One of tht m, about two years
ago, wee each. %lured for pouteing.and fined in tht ming tied
peusltp art 105 awl 5e1X1154., or three months impiisonmsns.
Mr. II tberts.m, after seeing the poach, re properly stuffed.
ammedi.teiy note oil to citett, to tut, ins he agent en the
• wee of the ease, who asst no time in taking to. MCI may
ate re for having the parties sent to the proper quartet. t be
dealt with es their crises warranted.— I '.r'hsAue Currier.
The particulars of the late affray with pouters in Derby-
shire appesnd us Wednesday lan. dance that time Both,
the keeper, his 'synod of the seli,ll, WOU:4I he fieejined on
the heel. The ramie of the pi:talus rsp'ured us Wilnam
Worrell, It•but Grundy alias Spite, William CAA, John
Chapman (the captsiat td the gang, and who, it is add, had
the sword ethics indicted the Wel won d on the uWorteinaM
nei. per), Joan. Wildsmith, Wiliam Shepherd and John
Shepherd (father and sou), William 114bb, Joseph Huhn,
Lieorge Uinta, ail of II leaser; Juba Metes' John Onnilad,
sad Robert Cutts, ot Cslkret. It appears that Rooth wee
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eurroended by several of the gang sad attempted To keep
them off by pointing the gee, bat the keeper's run eras
s lois by roe of the party, sad llo.illee piece, either by ate:-
dna, or intent ianally in selt-deft nee, west off. An i, quest
was hell ou Tuesday on the body of the keeper, end • v.r-
diet to the 'allowing 'ff. et returned "Trim the deceased
wu killed by a Neosho', but under what CifetSSUlSCti aa-
sot be aseertained."

WINDING-UP JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.

EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION AND 801'THEND
Rat•wAY. --Yeeti May lis lion,ur, Sir W. Hoene, pr ,- '
weeded oath the settlement of tee lists of contribu. oti,,s
henught in by Mr. Ewan, the effieial manager, at d Mr.
Bed, solicitor, and pl iced thereon as liable, with sore is-
C•pti.lllB, the namn ut 21 of 'he members of the eniunittee
,II management, on evi trace being adduced of thrir bribe g
leetasented to act, sad having attended meetinos o' the body.
Into ease of Mr. Headley, of Manor Oaks, Shi Meld, sod
on. or two ',them:span which a lengthened argots. nt was
raised by Mr. Dade), as coons .I tor the official manager, and
Meson. thitilow and Ton, were adjourned. Mr. Under-
wood, one of the provisional conmairee, addressieg his
Honour, said he had paid 3001. towards the liabilities of the
concern to the solicitors, and world like to know wh►t
had become of the money. (Lanoliter.) We H. n.•ur—l
have not got the money, sir, bat perhaps is the coarse of
the procredirga tome clue towards a solution of your illus.
Don may be inecoverrei. (Lsagh•er.)
LoNDOS AND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION 11.111. WAT.
—Yesterday there was a meeting before his Boni ur, Master
Blunt, to sett•le the list of contributories to this co.npeoy,
the liabilities of which amount to 10,0001. Mr. Croysdill,
the t Metal maunder, brought in a class of cues, consisting of
directuts who had signed t►e perliamentare contract to en-
able the cordially to go to p trimmest for 200 shares edh. It
wae contended that as the pritliamenfary cuntrect or died of
settlement was never properly mibecrilsed tor, the ladle. who
had been elected to take this *umber of shares ought not row
to he held liable. Has Honour decided that, w hie et e the
circumstances were outer which the deed was sign, d, the
partite must be held hotele to the extent of the sub cription,
sad placed them on the list. There were, it spinals/I, two
deeds of settlement or anti...airless contract' in thia c:impany
, —one called the "town" acid t►e other the " caui.try"
, deed; and, as the latter was ar, fortheomin,z, • prir.ted c •py
it it we. put in, and secondary veldt net upon the minute
books, share register, lAA bankers' books receittd, to make

the parties liable In default of the solleitees to the official
away; Marra Harelip and Manning. being able to pre-
date the Memel deonmewat.
NORTHERN COAL MINING COMPANT.—Yesterday,
after a pretreated argument at previous roosting', before his
Honour Mester Timmy, by Mr. Galsworthy, lon the part of
Mr. Quilts; the effirdal manager, and Mr. Kenyon, counsel
on behalf of Mr. Bagp, M P. his honour deckled that the
latter gentleman, in view of ail the evident* whammed, must
not be held liable, and struck his name off the list, In reaper
of 260 shares whit' he sold to the division f0r3,9001., and
on which the "Mehl manager sought to He him, in memo,
with other contributories, for payment of a call jest made of
101. per share. The principal argument on behalf dl the
official manager was, that under the deed of settlement, the
directors had no right to purchase shares, the question sr
liabi.ity depending at the construction to be puttee the terms
of that document.