The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-04 00:00:00

WINDING-UP JOINT STOCK. COMPANIF.S.

RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER RAILWAY.
—Oa Monday his Honour Muter Richards allowed the
claim of Messrs. Hall and Smith, the euliciton to the com-
pany, amounting to 6001. Mr. Wryghte, the official minager,
report the meets of the company to censf.t of about 3,0001.
in the bands of the aecounten•-fren-rat, and the liabilities to
be discharged at about 7,0001. 'here is a claim on the pat
of the Northamptonshire linking Company 'of 3,3001.
About 20,000 shales in the corapany were allotted, and
40,000 i. received as deposits; 6,6 0 .res were bought up
by the •'ireetors at a premium in the market, and 9,000 onsets
were reserved, it is nilstred, far landowners. Ths 40,0005
were spent in Parliamentary preimioaries," and the l• d
rendered accounts of the company exhibited a Wehrle of 21
MERIONETHSHIRE SLATE COMPARY.—Yeaterday
the lists of contributories to this oompany were brought in
before Sir W. HOMO by Mr. Ernest, the official manager,
bat hie honour refused to pr ,coed with the affairs in the
absence of Mr. West, the secretary of the company, who had
not arrived from Newport. It is utiderstool that Mr. Condon,
the solicitor to the company, tae given up the books and

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BAUNVEN IRON COMPANY.—On Moud*y his honour
Master litodersley, in settling the list of ematrba•ories,
struck therefrom the rrinet of outain parties whom shares
had been forfeited by the directors, and bad not been psid
upon. The cell of 11. per shire to defray liabilities is in
come of payment.

A FAMILY CASE AWAY ON LAZE SUPERIOIL—A
Mr. Griswold, wife, and smell child, with a boy about 17,
the elm of a lir. liaverstraw, ret out • few weeks sines in
skiff from Eagle lisrbour to re ash Eagle river, elms 10
miles distant up the o-ut Mr. Wetherell was engaged build-
ing a government bghthouse on the point projecting nut Into
the harbour from the main had, and saw the company as
they rounded the riot on their perilous voyage. I. was
blowing quite strongly off land, and fears were entertained
that a shin of the wind would beach them on a bold and
bad shore. Determined to have plenty of leeway, the little
craft was observed to put out some distance into the lake,
and was soon lost sight of It never reached its destination.
Dols and weeks pa-sed, nothing war heard of the eaten-
tnrere. The coast b tween the two pointe was daily tra-
versed, and pica a of the wreck supposes to be found, but no
tidings of the sufferers. At leurat all hope was Given up,
and their friends mourned them so dead. Bet the wetted
proved otherwise. Atter three weeks' absence this little
crew were all found safe at the Sent. They had been
picked up two weeks before by • ceasing schooner on
the Canada shore, whither they had been seven days drifting.
The distance across the lake at that point must be from 260
to 300 miles. It appears that the boat got too far from
shore, and the wind increasing drov t them into the like.
Night came on, end the wind not abating the boat wee put
iniharge of the lad, who was a half-breed and well setret‘intrd
with the lake. He got up a Dort of sail and put before the
wind for the Canada snore. Seven days and n;ghts they
spent on this lonely tea without seeing a veva, without
shelter, and without ford. The wind changed . I times
and kept them for dns out of sight of land. When found,
they had entirely surrendered theavolvesto their tat?. How
they lived so long under such exposure and with° tt fosJ, is
a most unparalleled mystery. Their discovery wee a men
saddest by the schooner, which happened to be coasting
along the Canada store. Altogether, this is one tithe most
remarkable incidents that has ever °extend in these 'bk..—
noted as they see for adventures, shipwrecks, and c
Amstrad' an Paper.
REMARKABLE PuENontssos.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, about two o'clock, a brillitint purplish meter, ail'
yellowish red tail, crowed the firmament from nor' h to south,
passing over this city, a few degrees outward of the zenith.
About midway in its progress ft shot out horissntally, and
nearly at a right angle to the line of its wake, a small fl.ry
ball, which disappeared in a north-euterly direetion.—AAer-
dun Herald.