The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-01 00:00:00

r of increase or diereses in the number or salaries of Whore
and servants ; and also that nuts should be adopted to ob-
tain the abolition of the Map duties on proviso. With re.
spset to flaanclal arrangeasaht for the future, se difieulty
is apprehended in amnia, than oat fa a manner mister-
toey and bsnelkdal to the company, ea even its present
revenue affords soot ample swath, 6r the present debt and
future raquirements of tee spoinpsay.
The report is signed T. S. GLADSTONE, C. F. Baez,
RICHAILD WITHenS, and WILLLIt WILLIAMS. —3oth
lan., 1850.

EAST LANCASHIRE.

The mini half-yearly meeting of the Rast-Lancashlre
Railway Company was held at Be,ry on Wednesday. There
was a large attendance of proprietors. Joax 01133/IDT, Req..
in the chair.

The report stated, that after raising the nun of $04.0001
by the creation a stew Asps alder the pfOrilioll4 of the
act of 1849, and borrowing the mum of 101,0801., dm loan
authorised by that act, the company will require
73,7821. 12s. 1141. for the oomplwion of the railway now
open, with the works under woman, sad to furnish the re-
Tusks supply of rolling stork.
For the purpose of providing for the balsam of
73,7821. 12s. 1141., and also for the eum of 202,1461.3.. 10d.
the residue of the 'mortgage debt of 288,3761, capitalind
by the prderante shares created la July, 1848, it will be
weransi is apply to parliament in the session of 1861, for
ortikodts so revive the borrowiag powers eapitalimed by the
skirts, as otherwise that mortgage debt would
Visit; redeemed, ea it falls duet from she itpsde mow

of she eampany, to provide tie
of the works not yet commenced, is the t of the share-
holders hereafter determining to execute all or any part of
those works; and by this coons the directors coefilently
antirip de that under no circumstances will it be necessary
to create any further share capital than that proposed to be
sanctioned at the present meeting.
The director, propos to raise additional share capital of
301,0001. by pref. shares, in a mode detailed in the report.
The directors proposed a dividend for the past half-year, on
the ordinary chars capital of the company, at the rate of 2
per cent. per annum, free from income tax; and to retain
the sum of 45,8861. 61. 10f ti. in the reserved fund. The
dividend to he paid on the 21st day of Feb. from the fol-
lowing aurae:
Nett balance of profit for the half year,
after deducting all sums chargeable to
revenue £l4 718 17 al

Amount to be then from the rererved tend,
in the hinds of the oonspeny on the 30ta
June, 1849

£20,363 10 0

The directors bare considered themvelvn auiffed 1 re.
oomreending the appropriation of the sum of 5,6341. 12a.61d.
p►rt of the reserved fund, in aid of the dividend of the
lialt•year, from the circumstance that there is capitol at
present unproductive, amounting to upwards of 260,0001.,
upon which dividend is now payable.
The report having been proposed for adoption,
Mr. OREIG moved an amendment that as the report
of thy directors end auditors embraced matters in which
the interest of the company was deeply involved, that the
meeting be adjourned till the Ist March, and that a coin.
mittee of 0011 siltation should be appointed, to which the
differences between the two should an the meantime be es-
ker( d, to repart to the meeting the appointment of new
directors to be postponed to the mid meeting, and the com-
mittee to recommend proper persons.
Mr. ROSSON seconded the amendment.
Atter much disemaion,
Mr. BLACI►LOCK moved:

" That the accounts and report be reeeived and adopted,
with the exception of such portions as referred to the
amount of new capital required, and the manner of raising
it; that the auditors' report be also received and adopted,
with the exception of inch portions as are at issue with the
report of the directors, relating to the proportion of new
capital to be raised, and the manner of raring it, and also
the appointment of directors; and failing this, that the
matter be referred to a committee of shareholders to be ap.
pointed at the present meeting."
The CHAIRMAN said he would alter the original mo
tion an/ propose
" That the report of the directors, except the clauses re-
lating to original capital and the drprecierion fund now
read, be adopted, and the accounts now read be ap-
proved of."
Mr. RYLEY seconded the motion, and it was carried.
Mr. Greix's motion was then put and rejected.
Mr. KATE proposed that the matters exc. pled in the last
resolution be referred to a committee, and that Mr. Oreig,
Captain Harrison, Mr. Binyon, and the auditors, with power
to add to their number, be requested to wait upon the com-
mittee.
The motion was seconded and carried.

The CHAIRMAN then moved a divi,:end of . per ant.
on the Quarter Shares of 1817; of 8 per cent. on the Prefer-
ence Sunk ; and of 2 per cent. per annum on the general
stock of the company.
Cantata ILtßalt-SON seconded the motion, and it was
coifed.

We retinas direeton and auditors were reappointed, and
after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting ope-
rated.

COCHNINOVFN AND WOILLINOTON.--The Uhl* halt
yearly meeting of shareholders was held on Tuesday at
Ceekermeuth, when a dividend of 411,_per share errs declared.
TM. CHAIiiKAN OF THE Surrit-Wisratut RAILWAY.—
Mr. Chaplin, the chairman, has recently paid up his
48,0001., for which he was in arrest with his company, to.
gether with 4,0001. interest thereon; and Mr. Reed his
10,0001. arrears.—fferapoth's Journal._

LLANZLLY DOCK AND KAILWAY--Thil meetiart, yester-
day, was stated by the secretary to be private, and no re-
porters were admitted.

IRELAND.

Dt`BLIN, JAN. 31.
ANOTHER APPALLING WORKHOUSE
CATASTROPHE.

Another horrible sacrifice of human life has oc-
curred in one of the workhouses of the south-west of
Ireland. At Kilrtish, a short time since, some thirty
or forty outdoor paupers were drowned ; at Killarney,
as many more were killed by the filling in of a burn-
ing workhouse ; and now, at Limerick, we have
seven-and-twenty of the wretched inmates suffocated
by fire, and the lives of as many more despaired of.
The following parUculars are from the Limerick
Chronicle, received this morning :

It is our painful duty to record the particulars of a fatal
and melancholy annuity which took place lest night at
Clan-street auxiliary workhouse, by which 27 human beings
lost their lives, and it were seriously injured. Between II
and 9 o'clock, shortly after the inmates (400 females) had
retired to rest, on the lofts of the store yet apart for sleeping
apartments, a false alarm of fire was given by one of the wo-
men, whether with as bole intention of causing annoyance,
or ny design, is unknown ; but so electric wee the panic
created, that almost instantaneously the females on the
first loft leaped from thi it beds, and, in the darkness,
rushed in a body to the stair-case, or ladder, leading
from that portion of the building to the ground floor.
The 'Memnon' efforts of all to gain access to the ladder,
upon which several had crowded together, necessarily
caused a crush and confusion, until ultimately the
paupers on the other lofie congregated in the narrow passage,
when the ladder broke, end numbers were precipitated to the
ground, arum a height of cot more than 10 `set. The scene
that ensued is almost indescribable—the shrieks from below
induced those above to press more eagerly towards the stair-
case, and se they came to the verge of the passage, down
they fell in crowds over each other. For some time all re-
monstrant,e was unavailing to dissuade the paupers from
rushing headlong to ruin, and before the eurprising nerve
and exertion of the matron, Mrs. Sleetnan, and assistant
master, Mr O'Shaughnepay, bad effect, twenty-seven females
were kil.ed, or rather suffocated, from falling on the top of
each other. The occurrence having bec me known outside,
numbers of citizens proceeded to Mx auxiliary establish.
meat to render assistance. The Roman catholic clergy
congregated also, as there could not have been less
than twenty present. The city police, with the mayor,
were also in prompt attendance, and all united in re-
lieving the sufferers, and extricating the dead bodies from
beneath the hall-suffocated group that lay struggling
on the ground. The scene was truly appalling, as the
relatives and friends of those who were located in the work-
house, crowded before the premises, and as each dead body,
or dying sufferer, was brought out on a door for conveyance
to Barrington's hospital, the progress of the carriers was
violently stayed to catch a glimpse for recognition. At ten'
o'clock the number of dead bodies tamely, d into Barrington's I
Hospital was 27, and a more heart-rending spectacle never I
presented itself ; there lay, side by side, the livid remains of I
there unfortunate creatures who a few hours before wire in
the prime of life. The susjority were young and well-
lookieg females,—indeed, some had the smile of innocence
on their youthfu countenanose. The number received into the
hospital seriously aniseed was 2s, and of these then are three
not expeored to recover. No blame is Kindled to the officers
of the institution, as the melancholy occurrence originated
with the poop. n theme. kis. The catholic clergy were up
all night administering the rites or religion to the patients

The Limerick and Clore Examiner brings a brief
sketch of the inquest, which was ht Id yesterday, but
the evidence, as ftr as yet published, throws no light
upon the circumstance. That journal says:

We uadentand a verdict has just-been veterand by the
coroner'. jury, cresur ng the act of the majority of the
Limerick guardiai,e, who approved et the recummeildation

of the committee to take therClue-eir;Wiii;tklios.e, ems -
suing the committee also by whom the recommendation was