The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

CREDIT FONCIER OF ENGLAND.

A meeting of shareholders desirous of aiding a
searching investigation into the affairs of this company
and of the previous undertaking, the Credit Mobilier and
Credit Towner Company (limited), with a view of pro-
curing restitution of a large amount of money believed to
be recoverable by the shareholders, was held yesterday at
the London Tavern. Mr. H. J. Hamm a solicitor, of
Bristol, at whose instance the meeting lied been called,
and who it was said is the holder of 400 shares, was voted
to the chair.

Mr. NIXON moved the appointment of a committee to
consult with the directors as to the wisest steps to be
taken.
Mr. LEICIING seconded this.
A Saansatounta believed it had been stated at the late
meeting that the old directors were prepared to retire,
but he would rather hold them to their responsibility until
the result of the investigation should be known.
The Citunstais was also against allowing the directors
to retire until a thorough investigation into the company's
affairs had taken place.
Mr. Rowena. proposed to add to the resolution the
words "and to inquire into the past and present proceed-
ings of the management."
This was agreed to, and the committee appointed, ,
The Chairman (Mr. Brown), Mr. Rowsell, Mr. Nixon, Mr.
Gordon, and Mr. Roger Fenton.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro-
ceedings.

THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS.—Mr. Justice Black-
burn is still the vacation judge at chambers. Mr. Justice
Hannen will be "due" a week after the last commission
day_at Liverpool, on Tuesday next.
FATAL CASE OF PAROCHIAL NEGLECT.—Mr.
Humphreys, coroner, yesterday held an inquest, at the
Royal Oak tavern, alway-street, St. Luke's, relative to
the death through want of Henry Houseman, aged 50
years. Elizabeth Houseman, deceased's daughter, said
her father was a porter, and, being out of work and
suffering from heart-disease and cough, be applied for
parish relief. Three months ago he got an order to pick
oakum in the atone-yard, and he was paid 7d. a day and There
were a loaf of bread for the work which he did. ere
were six persons in the family. Two of the boys earned
about es. or 4s. 6d. a week at cork-cutting, and witness
made Is. • week making braces. Altogether there
was Ifs. 6d. for the family to live on. The deceased
was so feeble and ill that he used to take three
hours to crawl home at night from the stone-yard,
about half a mile off. He went away at 6 in the
morning, and returned, or rather left the workhouse,
at sin the evening. He asked for nourishment,
and he was told he should go into the house. There used
to be llb. of meat on Sundays forthe whole of the family,
and ;lb. once in the week. On Thursday he became so ill
that the parish doctor came and said he wanted nourish-
ment, and told him to go to the relieving officer. She
went at five o'clock and waited till seven. She told a
young man that her father was dying and wanted nourish-
ment. He said she should wait. She did wait, and then
a gentleman came and said the relieving officer had 150
people to see, and she would have to wait till nine o'clock,
and had better come next morning. She therefore went
away, and returned in the morning, when the relieving
officer gave her 2s. and a loaf of bread. He died on
Saturday. The jury returned • verdict " That deceaseddied from exhaustion, from poverty of diet and privation,
and disease of the heart ; that when the deceased's
daughter applied at the workhouse for nourishment in
accordance with the doctor's suggestion, it ought to have
been immediately (riven, and that the parish doctor ought
to have power to give orders for necessary nourishment in
such cases."

CONDEMNED CONVICTS AT NOTTINGHAM
AND bfanisrons.—A memorial praying for a commutation
of the sentence of death paned upon Lucy Buxton for the
murder of her child, has been forwarded to the Home
Secretary, but we believe no answer has yet been received.
Therefore, in all probability, the law will be carried out to
its fullest extent, and according to the new act, next
Friday. The preparations for the erection of the gallows
have been commenced at Nottingham. Well, who was
convicted of the murder of Mr. Walsh, at Dover, will, in
the ordinary course of events, be executed on Thunday
week. His demeanour continues to he quiet and self-
possessed, and he pays great attention to the ministrations
of the clinniodia. Instead of having the impression, as has
been areerted, that the last sentence of the law will not be
carried out, he has, from the first, seemed resigned to his
fate. and occupies his time in reading, or writing letters
to his friends. He was engaged to a young woman
at Dover, and many of his letters are addressed to her.
Lan week be sent a letter to Mr. Cox, the superintendent
of the Harbour-station, asking his forgiveness for the
sorrow he had caused him, and requenis .g the address
of Mn. Walsh. Mr. Cox replied in the mod kind terms,
and the prisoner then wrote to Mrs. Walsh asking her
forgiveness for the grievous wrong he had done her.
Mrs. Walsh at once replied as requested. The father
and mother of the prisoner have not yet vinted him, as
they are both quite prostrated by their heavy 'action,
but some of the prisoner's relatives have intimated their
intention of seeing him d flying the present weak.
According to the late act of parliament, to provide
against any magician that the law has not been strictly
carried oat, the coroner of the district is, within 24
boars of the mention, to hold an inquest, and the jury is
to be sandal as to the identity of the body, and that
lomat of death was deli executed.
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