Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-18 00:00:00

TOTALS

4,919.
Noes '
Ayes

. 4,919
. 3,871

Majority against the amendment 1,048
The amendment was therefore declared to be lost.
The motion for the adoption of the report was then
pitt,' and carried unanimously.
The Chairman announced that the directors were ad-
vised that the auditors for the- ensuing year must be
elected at this meeting.
Mr. T. G. Taylor moved a resolution to the effect
that a committee of investigation should be appointed,
stating that he should reserve the names for a second
resolution. The first duty of the committee would be to
ascertain how it came to pass that the directors made a
contract with Mr. John Scott Russell, in defiance of the
protest of Mr. Brunel ; why • the ship was taken to
'Weymouth and afterwards to Holyhead, and to ascer-
tain whether these movements were expedient ; to
inquire into the accounts and expenditure, the system
pursued by the directors in distributing the shares,
and the past and future management of the company.
He therefore moved, That a committee be appointed
to investigate the past and present management of the
company, the disastrous condition of the affairs of which
this meeting has so much reason to deplore; that such
committee have access to all the books, papers, and
documents of the company, and be at liberty to examine
all the officers of the company, and any other persons
they may think proper,, and that such committee report
the result of their investigations, with their own sug-
gestions, as to the future management to this meeting,
which, at its rising, do adjourn to the 7th of. February."
Mr. Fife seconded the motion. -
,The motion was put, and carried unanimously and
without comment.
Mr. 'l'. G. Taylor next proposed that the following
gentlemen should form part of the committee—viz.,
Rev. Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Joseph Rodney Crosker, Mr.
Goetez, Mr. T. G. Taylor, and Captain Bowen.

Mr. Magnus, a director, seconded the nomination of
Mr. Taylor.
Mr. Starling proposed as an amendment that the names
of Messrs. Hope, Baker,• Field, llawes, and Hodgson,
be substituted for those proposed by Mr. Taylor.
• Mr. Smith seconded the amendment.

Mr. Field declined to serve. .11e hoped the meeting
would take care to.appoint no one' who could be sup-
posed to be in the least biased in favour of chartering
the ship.
Mr. .11awcs pointed out that they were getting into
further difficulties. There were only 40 shareholders
qualified for the direction; 10 of them were now on the
board, and with only 30 to choose from. They-were
asked to make the election within three weeks. He
agreed with Mr. Taylor, that it would'be a suicidal act
to charter the ship. He protested against the course
now proposed.
Mr. O'Bryne, who represented Mr. Lever, M.P., said
that gentleman had no wish to press any charter.

A DISAPPOINTED Courr.E. A telegraphic message
was received at Ashford. on Saturday evening week, de-
siring the police to search a train from Ramsgate for a
. C. Crittenden, in the .absence
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of Superintendent Dewar, accordingly repaired to the
station, and scrutinised the occupants of the train
in which the fugitives were expected to arrive. Two
parties in a first-class carriage answered the description
given to the constable, and the lady regarding lint in
a flurried and nervous manner, he desired her to alight,
with which request she complied, although letting
fall a few expressions of disappointment, leaving her
disconsolate young sailor, after a tender adieu to con-
tinue
.his journey to' Loden alone. The lady was
afterwards constrained to, accept .the unsentimental
companionship of P. C. Crittenden on her journey back
to Ramsgate by the next down train, where he delivered,
her to her friends who were in waiting to receive her..
She is of youthful and interesting appearance : her
father is a widower in affluent circumstances at Ramsgate,
and as he disapproved of her lover and enacted the part
of " heavy father," it seemed the lady had considered
herself.of an age sufficiently.mature to trust to her own
judgment, and resolved to get married without his cou-
sent.--South Eastern Gazette.