Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

towing rates had

Coal Company, £lO9 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company, £97 16s. 3d.; London and North-
western Company, £179 10s. 3d., and a further item of
£2B, making a total of £414, which .the defendant said
had been received and not properly accounted for by the
plaintiff ; and added that, with the connivance of the
plaintiff, the sum of £2B had been taken from the rates
to pay the rent of another overseer named Croft. After
the plaintiff's case had been partially heard, Mr. Monk
said the whole of the money had been accounted for,
and it was then agreed to withdraw a juror ; and five
other actions arising out of the same transaction, it was

-There being no more causes ready for
ship proceeded with the trial of prisoners

BURGLARY IN LIVERPOOL.
Edward Osborne was charged with having committed
a burglary at the house of Mr. Benjamin Ainsworth,
the Atlantic Hotel, in Regent-road, and having stolen
a watch and chain, the property of John Hale, a bar-.
man at the hotel. Mr. Raffles prosecuted. It appeared
that on the evening of Sunday, the 27th of May last, the
inmates of the house went to bed about turply..,,i.pir

The prosecutor, the barman, lei
unlocked, nd before gettim
watch and chain on tl

nis bed-room door
into bed he placed his
About four o'clock in
the morning he was aroused by a noise on the stairs,
and, on getting up, he found that his watch and chain
were missing. The missing property was traced to the
prisoner, who had offered to pledge them with a pawn-
broker in Highfield-street. The prisoner was found
guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. •

Thomas Jones and Julia Lyons were found guilty of
a burglary at the house of Mr. William Hetherington,
Daulby-street, in January, 1858. The prisoners were
foul guilty. There was a previous conviction against
the prisoner Jones, and he was sentenced to penal
servitude for four years. _ The female prisoner was

ordered to be imprisoned for fifteen calendar months,

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THE LIVERPOOL GAS COMPANY,

Yesterday the annual meeting of this company was
held in the offices, Newington ; Mr. Hardman Earle
presiding. There were also present Messrs. John
Stewart, Joseph Cooper, Charles Mozley, George H.
Lawrence, W. R. Sandbach, Radley, Booth, Cooke,
Morris, Barton, Chas. W. Reid, Steele, King, Millard
Hatton, Atkin, Berry, It. Houghton, John Perrins.
Arrowsmith, Gill

Crosbie, Gerrard, &c.
The SECRETARY read the following

ANNUAL REPORT

" In pursuance of the resolution of the proprietors
passed at their meeting in August last, the directors

sold on the 15th September Yost 436 'shitieOF£TO:
each, which realised £22,106, of which sum £11,206
consisted of premiums ; and in pursuance of the reso-
lution of the proprietors passed at their meeting in
February last, the directors sold, on the 18th day of
March last, further five hundred £25 shares, which
•ealised £25,696, of w1,4-' 1.196 consisted -

—tun 11.5, " of ph._
ums, making an aggregate of premiums derived from
the two sales of £24,402 available capital for the pur-
poses of the company, without any dividend being pay-
able thereon. The shares last sold have been fully paid
up, and a resolution will be submitted to the proprietors
for converting the same into consolidated stock.

" The accounts which will be submitted to the pro-
prietors show that the profits of the company for the
year ending 30th June, 1859, fall short of the amount
requisite to pay the usual dividends by the sum of
..£5,599 1 ls. ld., a result attributable to the three fol-
lowing causes, viz., the increased price of cannel, the
last reduction in the price of gas operating upon an en-
tire year's sale, and the new capital upon which divi-
dend is now payable.

"It will b,

;sary to take the above slur.

£5,599 1

I fund, in order to
wends, leaving a balance in such fund o

from ti

sum of £9,402 E
half-year ending the 30th June last, which the
recommend to be paid, are a dividend of £5 per cel

company, and 12s. 6d
£25 shares, which wen

)elieve that ere long tl

-mentioned (sill be fully made $

by the enlarged consumption of gas.
" The directors beg to inform the proprietors that th
four following gentlemen retire by rotation from th(
board of directors, but are eligible for re-election, viz, :
Mr. Mozley, Mr. Reade, Mr. Wm. Robertson Sandbach,
and Mr. Thompson ; and that Mr. Wm. Drury Chidson,
one of the auditors, retires by rotation, but is eligible
for re-election.