The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-16 00:00:00

BRITISH.

!Aberdeen
Ballast and Ballymena
Birkenhead, Lane., & Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, &W t.York
'Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Chester and Holy head
Dublin and Belfast Junction ?
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee,Perth,Aberdeen June
Danda.k and Enniskillen .....
East Anglian
East Lancashire
Eastern Counties and Norfolk
Eastern Union
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee';
Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr '
Glasgow, Paisley,and Greenock
Great Northern& E. Lincohnh
, Great Southern andWestern(l)
Great Western*
Lancaster and Carlisle
I Lancashire and Yorkshire
Leeds and Think
Liverpool,Crosby, & Southport
London and North Western
London and Blackwall
London, Brighton, and 8. Coast
London and South Western
Londonderry and Enniskillen
Manchester, Sluff., & Lincoln
Midland
• Midland Great Western.(l)
Monklands
INewcastve and Carlisle
North British
Scottish Central
32 "Scottish to idlaud_

IShrewsbury and Cheater
'Shropshire Union
South Devon

1,346
- I 434
1,243 1,491
6,625' 7,838
1,863 1,674
754 -

South Eastern

!Taff Vale
I paw

Waterford and Limerick .

Wat Cornwall 7:

237
193 275

Whitehaven Junction
York, Newcastle, Berwick
,York and North Midland

- '
11,716 12,264
6,139, 6.302

FOREIGN.

' ?scalene anci Boalosne
DittePteßienish
, Montereau and Troyes
11!orthem of Frans,.

1,200, Ll:4

700: 768
2,8021 2,691
4,6541
1,9531
Exeter.

1071
72
82
86
59i

Orleans to Boner,/ (CNA. ). • • •
Orleans to Bordeaux
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rosen
' Rouen and Hans

• Includes the trait) on the Bristol and

•
BIIONTON, LEWES, aND TONBILIDOE WILLB.--Yester
dim upwards of 500 out of the 1,800 shareholders liable as
contributories to pay off the outstanding claims of this con-
cern amounting, to upwards of 5,0001., were summoned be-
fore the blaster in Chancery, Sir William Horne, to show
cause why they should not be held liable as contributories.
The court was insufferably full. It was contended on the
part of several shareholders that the allotment of shares was
illegal, the shares Laving been allotted by one or two only
out of the seven persons constituting the committee :or that
purpose, to entry of whose appointment appeared on the
books; that the shares were allotted prvipitately after the
panic, and by two persons only, who had neither of them
taken their qualification as direeton, nor paid the deposit on
their shame. Helder, the secretary, was called to show that
these persona were delegated by the larger body to allot.
The Maskr decidvd that the allotment was good, that ell
who were simple allottoss were liable, and that the company
Ma judicially within the jurisdiction of the act.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gitie h.r._ _ _

SHIPWB.ECK AND LOBS OF LIFB.—It ham bees
ascertained that another fatal wreck has resulted from the
recent disastrous gales. The stns. k Catherine, of Port
Madoc, David Evans, bound from Newport to Honduras,
left Milford Haven on the 4th inst., in company with several
other vessels tall of which, with theexception of the Catherine,
have since been beard of). During tee night of the 6th it
blew almost a hurricane, and the Catherine weskit sight of.
It is supposed that she must have drifted on to the Patches,
near Aberystwith, as several picots of wreck, two Webb
bibles, with the captain's name inscribed in one, and •
hymn book oontuning the name of the mate, have been
washed ashore. The captain has left a recently•married
wife ; the mate I wife and five children.