The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTBLLIGENCR.

TlllB DAY.

Avrawrr AT Bytom Br AN 0,710111 Atnow.—This
=whine • relPeetablparmaid f=ee, of ladylike apps.,
mos, named Cothorim Madam, who wee slated to loi the
widow el as elbow is the army, was .harped wink attempt-
ins to thaw koreeN i.e. the name, ham Walodols-hridre•
A. Ism*. ihlre la promisee, deposed that Am* shoe
itias o'dost yeseenday alarmed ke was dais ups the
Beatty fine at Wateriesebeldge. and saw the phrase die-
embark Irma cue of this O. sea bate ninth IMMO
almonds the pier. sod permed op the steps of the
Midge, Shortly aftsevordo wllasm maim saw the primer
worm *Pea the pi«, end oho this esemod la •
eery suited state. Thiess wthehed kat, sad saw
her Wasp wider the skeins width ono orate/ ea the
.ad of the " dummy" barge, far the_parpoes of preventing
poems ffollies lab the rim. appeared as if about
throwiag hermit off the hugs, sad wither idled an to
the Mar master, at • female was gang ft Irma
boreal. Witaws, who is very mall of MoISe, ma to the
prisoner sad ammonled la eateinag hold of her head es she
was atm% throwiag horesit MT. The primal Wag over the
barge, sad would ham droned wlmem rOs valor with
her nos matkied kis melthassa. The pri-
soner was then taken M the waiting rams et the Ow, and
she frequeetly said she would drown horerlf. eke said she
had kin her pane, apatalniog nprerds of 71., and she bed
not • farthing is the world. lien per wee safe
whammies was at .Lsoles-hoidgethation ; sad lade ea the
blot, a tell man sot Soma by the side of her, sod wee very
fidgetty near her. fike stated that she was the widow of an
carer who was hided ia Jodie.
Tim primmer, who cried bitterly darter the examined=
of the Mutant:li, to reply to the charge, said her excited kit
lags emeequeat upon the loss of her money, whisk left her
entirely destitute, mused her to attempt her life.
Mr. Jardine said he meld not release the prisoner noires
she had some friends to mkt charge of her. As the had none,
he remanded her until Friday amt.
The kill 000? was then removed, &lutist is a fainting con-
dition, lad Mr. Jardine directed that inqairies should be
side respatiag the alleged robbay of the prisoner's money.

R, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-
SHIRE RAILWAY.

The adjourned meeting of this company, to receive
the report of the investigation committee, and to complete
the remaining business of the half-yearly meeting, wee held
yesterd iy at the Corn Ezehange, Manchester. The proceed
Lop commenced at one o'clock. The Earl of Yansogocon
presided.
The report of the committee of investigation haring been
issued some days ago, is accordance with the chairman's
eagaestion, the meeting determined to consider the report as
received, without the formal reed,ng of it. [An abstract of
it has already erpeared in the Express ]
Mr. FOSBERRY, the chairman of the committee of favor
tigation,_ moved the reception sad adoption of the report.
Mr. L. 81bIPSON seeunded the motion.
Mr. MORTON said it was a painful duty he had to per-
form, because be believed the share:widen were not in a con-
dition to sanction the report of the investigation committee.
He regretted they tad not had the morel courage with re
spent to the Humber Ferry purchase, to call thugs by their
right names. (Bear, bear.) View it la what light they
pleased it was not a respectable transaction. (Hear.) The
secretary thought it was a purchase—and r:,ihtly thought 10
—which could only be made is the capacity mute... It was
tot the amount of money, it was not a sum of 11,0001., out of
a capital of millions to which he objected; but were men
who had made a profit in that way fit to be trusted as
directors? (No, no.) Would they continue engineers or
solicitors who had so acted / (No, no.) To the honour of
the secretary he declined to have anything to do with this
dirty j b. (Applause.) One of the gentlemen concerned in
the purchase was Mr. Fowler, the engineer. (Hisses.) An-
other was Mr. RI ison, a director. (Hisses.)
Mr. FOSBERRY—No; he has re.igned. (Cries of
"Oh!")
Mr. MORTON thought this was significant on the part of
a gentleman who complained that he had (sly been ' too
honest." Atter commenting on the conduct of the other
parties to the Humber Ferry purchase, the speaker went
on to complain that the committee had not gun* far
enough. Mr. Weimer had said it was no use going back to
musty reccrila of the past, and raking up the past deeds of
the directors. He thought the duty of a committee should
be limited to the future preepects of the company ; but in
his (the spesker's) opinion, the report was not satistaidury in
that respect. He wanted to know what their future divi-
dend was likely to be. He thought the Sheffield station and
the Whaley branch, and the Barnsley branch should have
been stepped. (Hear, hear.) It was surprising to him that
the committee should not hays called in as independent en-
gineer to advise them as to future works; it was hardly
likely Mr. Fowler would condemn his own former specula.
lions. He saw but little chance of stopping their expenditure
and closing the capital account, so long as those two
expensive establishments, the engineers' and the lawyers',
were removed. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) Ile re-
gretted to find, also, in the report, scarcely a seutence as to
the working expenses. They left him no criterion at all by
which to calculate the value of his shares. He deprecated
the so— • ',meat by the hoard of offers from some of the
'e Mt

officials, mod from Mi. Pato, to lease the working of the line.
(One of the directors said no such offer bad been made or
'curtained) He moved as an amendatint—'• That the
report of the investigating cammittee be referred to five
shareholder,, viz.—Meters. S. Lem, W. P. Bradshaw,
C. Comer, Morton, end Fisher (with power to
add to their number), to consider what claims
the shareholders had maiost any former or present direc-
tors ; and the aforesaid shareholders were authorised to
pumas the inquiry as to the amount of capital and the
mode of raising it, required to complete the railway and
do
cks, sad to the pfoOpeCti WI company SS
traffic receipts, working expenses, and existing
traffic ; sad that the said committee are hereby authorised
to employ each assietance as may be necessary, at the cast of
the company.
Mr. HARRISON BLAIR seconded the amendment.
Mr. MAXWELL did not see that any good could be de-
rived from a farther investigation. He should therefore
snore a second amendment to the effect "that no fur-
ther investigation be instituted, but that in relation
to so much of the report as related to the
purchase of the Humber and other ferries by certain init.
Moulds, directors of the then Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway Company, for the sum of 10,3001., and the subs..
quent sale for 21,6301. of the /Orlies so purchased, these
transactions appeared to this meeting to be transactious
highly discreditable to the parties engaged in them, as weU as
ill.gal and unjust. And that this meeting instruct the
directors of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Railway Company to make immediate application to the
parties Gamed in that transaction for the repayment of the
sum with interest, and, if necessary, to take legal steps for
its recovery."

Mr. BRERETON seconded the amendment.
Mr. GREEN fudy agreed with the proposition in the
second amendment, but he doubted il it would be so effec-
tual as the tint amendment

31117F15SiiiRitirdefended the committee's report, and
said they had been restricted in their duties. It was not
true that they had not investigated the probable future ex-
penditure of the company, and pointed to the balance sheet
in the
Mr. WILtON, of Sheffield, complained that the directors
had never done their ditty to the company. He wished to
know what was the avenge width of land charged to the
company ? It was 39 yards in width for 161 miles, leaving
• surplus of 130 wee for Madam He had no kith in a
report which took such • charge as just for granted.

Mr. CHARLES COMER said the Manchester warehouses
c: way immediately alter completed, sad a large sum had
mW to Mr. Hadfield for their repair. He wished to
know if the oomaittes bad comdered that ?

Mr. HINDS defended the Humber Ferry transaction,
and saki if the whole of the evidence had Men published, it
would have been found as straightforward and honest a
transaction as any ever known. The parties who bought
tee ferry hid no power to use the funds of the comparey
I them funds were locked by the standing orders of perils.
meat, and Usey purchased the property at their own risk.
(" What risk?) At that time there was • compet
ing company, and they purchased it to keep it from falling
loin hostile bends. It was an important element in
tha meow of the bill. Gentlemen forgot when
they eampl ,ined of these parties making mat. per mot that
the company made a thousand per dent. by it according to
the extravagant rates paid for railway property of that day.
He would ask how them gentlemen present who pocketed •
thousand per cent. by their share sales of that day would sow
reconcile it to their croarcunces U they condemned a party
who charged them after making a purchase at great risk,
only cent. per cent. He retorted the charge of dishonesty
oa Mr. Green—a man who had so other feeling
at heart than the obstructing and injuries( of
the oompany. (Hear, hear.) He would ask when them
promedings were to end if men, who held largely In other
soespaaies, were to MIN here with • small holding merely
to give them a loose sheath as more paid agitaton. (Ap-
plause and disapprobation.)
Mr. GREEN denied that he held in any other line. In
1847 de did hold is an opposing company, but their bill He
that company had been defeated. (Hess, hear.)
Mr. GAINSIORD then same forward to address the
meeting, bat we, not able to obtain a howling. He said he
was quite nosy SO retire if the mm wished It, but he
should do so la the oesseiessnear that 1e geoid have fully
visdiested himself MIS the Margo made against him If he
had been penalised to des.
A SHABSZOLDIIII.--Whe
_paid the legal espenase of
lbi &et treader of the Humber Ferries ?
Mt. OAINSFOIID said when en individual stood is his
situation, it was very unbeeemisg that he should be Mtn-
rapted in the mum of his ashram by that met of inter-
patellas'.
A BRAREHOLDIR—WiII you answer that question?