The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

EASTERN LouNnia RAILWAY.

Mr. Diem, late Whiter ef the &stare Counties
Rodlway, ese eildramed n lons. ie tat sharetoldereof that
emielitt7. be Imply to tbose is dm report of the
dbeseses penalise he W y's as relative to the
tool tersessilleee sale dleatilia betters the board red Me-
sta The hitherteg sea Iheaereast 'lota by Mr. Dieu to
as Amps lhaesie hale appelest I—
"Ti. Meet koetsustiell, the, that I revival
nod.jpay seft awsy °nem and that I did
ei bee milli Illsm to other peepoess. The shame
is mesh Threemeitet beht of the covenmy was tope, by
their gime to beektee engem the, he, sad twiny
Millne at a time, the Melee he TEM I sever saw, and
sever touched ; sad. Wised, the and eerie et Widnes
'between ma slid the sompsay was, that envies were paid
to my beakers whitest my seeing them, or crowd to my
teeters whoa I did he thee, oat west to my sosegat as
wait. Dacia. a toe haemeaelp 1•111 sad left se nest as
150,0001. wan theehaid by the steamy direst in my sawed
the aka quo kw trhishl twirl B.w nor weasel I Influent,
aide Newel kr lb. company of *piano sans, which had
required mbe pofd liners I received them. I 'an at the
pent mosesat seder such advances I have taken bonds
from the eempeayoled a/se shore is time otweserydalleally
to them instead .1 emit. Out nt the *solo teat to my
amount large puns hass been paid away. &wee others
resod and remain in my hand., wider spends cirounstaticei
applicable to mob., and which are credited to the c .npaoy'•
amount. When found the directors intending to d flints
the wheat of the company's liabilities to me, I gags
than sods, that I would pay swine" more for them. I
lied this right of set-off. I will maintain it 1 and I iglu
the. the bat charge of the director, in then report, is sa-
lieneet.

" Aseaher sharp is the directors' report, and stated to be
derived trona that or the accountant, ir, that certain pay-
meals reported t have been mad* by se, had not been
made. Toe charge is set sweet, and I read it new lor
As first Masi* this language. What I did del ma glad oa
the company's account that I did, instead or Otis, in the
Mast troubled at it. Monies were paid to ay account by
the isompsay, as claisord by certain parties, and rep vied
as claims. Atter this payment to my ace nat, I arranged
with thews parties, by negotiations and arbitration'', to take
less sank and I paid sack lees rums, and the balm es,
which were agonise saved to the oompAny, remain as their
tweak with as.

" The animist dictating the treatment towards one who
has sacrificed his count atone, and hot mush bas-nees by ►is
entire devotion to the company's aff.irs, Cod to assisting the
directors through their duties and ditileulties, may be drawn
from the third and last accuse• ire, that same heel been charged
by me and paid twice over. Out of many hundred items of
amount exceeding 200,0001., and extending OV.Ir four years,
it appears teat by some tuadverenoiend carelessness on the
part of the company as well as myes.f, two sums of SOU and
3.501. have been paid t ice to me. These small plum. vets in
trassamions of such maguitt.de, number, and complexity,
are magnified by t►e directors' report into the wholesale,
unjust, and untrue shame of deliberately charging end re-
ceiving monies twice over. The word chliberattly" does
not appear in the report, but no man reading the par►
graph of charges against me, can doubt, that it wishes to
produoe In you, to sty prejudice a belief that what has arisen
from Menvertenhe, and in reference to two unimportant
sums, was the result of design and system, and applietble to
numoreue and large amounts. I knew nothing whatever of
three two di obis payments until reeeatly brought forward by
the aceountant, as a mault of his investigations. I, at once.
upon examination, ascertained and admitted the errors.
They ought not, eit►er on my pert, or the company's, to
have token place. I an only regret them. The company
will, of course, have credit for the payments is account.
" It is suggested in the report that I have made claims
against the capon, on the grcund that I have been thug-
pointed in not having clone of business. lam not so
irratioaal. I make 'lslam on the ground of a contemn with
me ►asing twin broken by the comp ivy, and en these claims
I take my stand, ready to submit mem to a/bit:a:ion or say
other 'mailable mode of • bust went."