The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-30 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS

On Tuesday, the 21st, the shareholders —held their
adjourned general meeting, and also a special meeting. Mr.
Van Dam Van Isselt, in the absence of Mr. Faber Van
Rymsdik, took the chair. The number of shares represented
was between 50,000 and 60,000. Mr. C. Holland said that
the annual general meeting had been adjourned in conse-
quence of the retirement of Mr. Donker Curtius, the then
president. The shareholders deeply regretted that retire-
ment and felt awkwardly placed and had anxiously delibe-
rated how to fulfil the pledge they had given in June, to
select, if possible, a native of Holland to succeed Mr. Cur-
tius. Their efforts, however, had, he regretted to say, been
unsuccessful. The presidency or such a line must be com-
mitted to a man of business, and it was impossible to find a
man willing to make the needful sacrifices. If such a
position had been conceded to a man of high name, he
would have been exposed to all the responsibility of office
without adequate knowledge to protect himself. In this
dilemma, Count Schimmelpennick had exerted himself, but
equally without success. The shareholders had, therefore,
come to the conclusion, that now the junction with Prussia
was completed, the office cf president should no longer
remain in a state of interregnum. more especially
as there was a gentleman present enjoying the
confidence of the English shareholders and of the Dutch
commissaries, and be was happy to propose Mr. Hesleden
as president of the direction, in doing which he was fortified
by the opinion of Count Schimmelpennick and various com-
missaries of the propriety of the nomination. Hereafter he
hoped to find a native of Holland qualified to assist Mr.
Hesleden as vice-president, but at the moment he was not
prepared with the name of a suitable gentleman. Mr. Van Dam
Van Isselt agreed with Mr. Holland that a president with-
out knowledge and experience in railway matters would be
useless, and cordially concurred in the nomination. Mr.
Hesleden was then unanimously elected president, and
briefly returned thanks. Mr. Van Dam Van Isselt con
gratulated Mr. Hesleden upon his appointment, saying that
he enjoyed the confidence both of the English and Dutch ;
and although differences of opinion had arisen, they (the
Dutch) had always appreciated his energy and talent. Mr.
Zillisen was also named vice-president for the current year.
Mr. Van Dam Van Isselt then expressed his regret that at
the meeting of June Mr. Goddefroi had not been re-elected
a commissary. This was a time of general peacemaking,
festivity, and joyonsneas, and on behalf of himself and the
Dutch commissaries, he asked, as a favour, that his old
colleague should be re-elected a commissary. Mr. Holland
then proposed that gentleman's re election, and Mr. Tinne
seconded the proposition—disclaiming all personal feeling in
the part he had taken on a previous occasion. Mr. Thos.
E. Moss then proposed that Mr. Hesleden's salary be fixed
at £l,OOO per annum, which was seconded by Mr. Allcard,
and carried.

The adjourned meeting having been concluded, the
special meeting followed, and was opened by a speech from
T. E. Moss, Esq., who proposed that a sum of 80,000
florins be hold at the disposal of the committee, to be
divided in such way as they might think proper. Mr. G.
E. Taunton, whilst cordially seconding the resolution, could
not omit to mention the high sense entertained by all parties
of the servides of Mr. Beloe, who, front the first, had acted
as secretary to his friends in Liverpool. The directors were
subsequently authorised to apply to the government for
permission to make a small connecting link between the two
lines near Utrecht, by which the direct line from Rotterdam
and Amsterdam would be considerably shortened, and a
large saving effected in working expenses. Thanks having
been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated.

BIKKENHEAD POLICE.-YESTERDAY.
_ _ BEFORE J. S. JACKSON, ESQ.

John Morgan, an engineer, was brought up charged with
stealing a brass gland, belonging to the machinery of the
steamboat the Queen of Beauty, of which Messrs. Colborne,
the Seacombe ferry proprietors, are the owners. The
prisoner was detected while offering to sell the property at
a marine store dealer's in Birkenhead, and, when asked to
account for the possession of it, he said he found it. The
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enquiries, when he ascertained it to be the property of
Messrs. Colborne, Mr. James Luckie, their engineer,
attended, and fully identified the property, and also stated,
that the prisoner was in the owners' employ as a boilermaker,
and on Friday last received 28s for his week's wages, but
did not return to his work on the following day, although he
had not been discharged. The Magistrate said it was one
of those cases now, unfortunately, of very frequent occur-
rence, where a servant was receiving good wages, and yet,
at the same time, be robbing his employers, and he was
determined to send all such cases, if clearly brought home to
the party charged, to the sessions for trial, and accordingly
committed the prisoner for trial at the next Knutsford
sessions.

DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE

DARESBURY PETTY SESSIONS, October 28.—(Before
Thomas Lyon, Esq., Sir R. Brooke, Bart, and P. Whiteway,
Esq.)—William Clarke was summoned by Charlotte Speed,
of Whitley, affiliation. Mr. Cabbe, from Mr. Nickleson's,
Warrington, supported, and Mr. Lowe defended. Order
granted, is 8d per week, with costs.—John Bleeze was sum-
moned for brutally beating a horse at Appleton, on the 2nd of
September last. Fined 20s, and 14s costs—paid.—John
Bleeze and John Heasom were summoned for a breach of the
peace at Appleton. Bleeze to find two sureties in £lO, and
himself in £2O, to keep the peace for three months ; Heasom
paid 2s 6d costs.—Peter Maylam was summoned by Elizabeth
Clare, of Runcorn, affiliation. Order granted, Is 8d per week,
with costs.—Thomas Burrows was summoned for riding in a
cart, without reins, in Walton, on the Chester and Warrington
turnpike road. Fined ss, and 4• costs.—Henry Wilkinson,
Edward Wilkinson, George Shaw, and John Shaw, were
summoned for creating a breach of the peace, by fighting, at
Stockton Heath, Pleaded guilty, and paid costs.