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( From the Times of this day.)
An hon. member asked the other day what was
to become of the Italian soldiers in our Foreign
Brigade on the cessation of the war. Were they
to descend the Alps in force, and sweep the penin-
sula, or were they to be sown over it, like another
cast of dragons' teeth, to produce another orop of
revolution and war 3 The queatisa- was founded on
an instinctive feeling that an actual soldier, the man
who had served a campaign or two and crossed
bayonets with a veritable foe, was a rather for-
midable reality, not likely to vanish or be forgotten
like a theatrical pageant or an idle rumour; not
likely, either, to hide his light under a bushel, or
to be quickly swamped and assimilated to a rotten
system. Certainly the presence of a number of
veterans in Italy, retaining the manly port and
generous tone of the soldier, and able to speak of
deadly collisions, of hairbreadth 'scapes, of mutual
succour in moments of peril, of desperate enter-
prise, and sturdy endurance, could not but tell.
It would be as salt on the otherwise corrupt ele-
ments of civil society. Many a State ere this has
risen to arms and vindicated its independence en-
tirely through the presence of old soldiers. Switz-
erland maintained her liberties through centuries
of surrounding war and aggressive ambition,
chiefly by the aid of the so-called mercenaries, who,
after serving in foreign armies, gave their unbought
services in defence of their own homes. The
question as to the future destination of a supposed
Italian Brigade was a significant one ; but it is
still more significant in its reference, not to our
Italian Brigade, but to our Italian ally. The as-
sistance of a Sardinian army in the great battle of
European independence is one of its most remark-
able incidents. That the King of Sardinia should
send 15,000 Pierlmontese and Genoese to encounter
;he greatest military Power of the age, when Aus-
tria is content to filch a prey, if it can, by the oc-
cupation of the Principalities, and Prussia still
stretches her lubber length from the Niemen to
the Moselle—telluris inutile pondus —is a living
reply to ten thousand complaints of decaying hero-
ism and extinct romance. There is not a State in
Europe, however small, however remote from the
present scene of the conflict, that is not interested
'n the result; but Sardiuia alone of the lesser
States has the soul, the prescience, and the loyalty
to step forward, and stand side by side with Eng-
land and France against the common foe.
That chivalry has now been proved and re-
warded. A Russian army, computed at 60,000
strong, has descended from the heights, and at-
tempted to surprise the French and Sardinians
oosted on the Tchernaya, with the same result as
when :the enemy suddenly presented themselves
through the fog on the morning of November 5.
They have been beaten, and driven back with great
slaughter, and Russia has been taught that there
are other antagonists ready to spring up and fit to
cope with her besides those whom she first defied,
and who she possibly had good reason to believe
would always stand alone. The battle of the
Tchernaya now tells her what she has to expect
even from those smaller States, as one by one they
rouse themselves and throw themselves into the
struggle. Sardinia has won the first laurels, and
how does she now stand ? Though less in number
and in power, she now becomes equal in fame to
her great allies. They are bound to support her as
their comrade iu arms. In those changes which
invariably follow a lengthened conflict, doubtless
the State that took her share in the cost, and shed
her blood for the cause, will have due regard. But
that is a distant - and uncertain consideration.
What immediately tells is, that. the., character of
the Sardinian army is now established by the
strongest test, and upon the noblest arena. Even
if it has no more to do, and were to return home with
this single achievement, it will henceforth be no
mere show of uniforms, no mere armed police such
as the armies of the other smaller states very gene-
rally are, but a body of proved soldiers. Every
Sardinian from the Crimea will be pointed at
throughout all Italy as the roan who has not only
seen battles, as he may have done, unhappily, on
his own soil, but in a distant region, in conflict
with Europe's most terrible foe. He will be a man
to be honoured, to be known, to be relied upon, to
be taken into counsel, and, should the occasion
ever arise, to be associated in plan and in deed.
When other States promise and deceive, vacillate
and palter, betray the present and take refuge in
the future, and try by every artifice to retain
honour without its cost, every Italian will see in
Sardinia a State which stakes everything when it
pledges its word, and that does not assert more in
the council that it is prepared to maintain in the
field.

No doubt the Sardinian element will henceforth
be formidable in Italy. No doubt there are Powers
in that country to whom a true soldier of the Ita-
lian language and blood will present a grave con-
trast to bravos, inquisitors, gaolers, executioners,
;ind even to those troops who are unable to prevent
the fairest regions of Italy from being infested by
banditti up to the city gates and the castle walls.
Should experienced officers be wanted to organise
and train forces.for any State, for any enterprise,
for any cause, no doubt the Sardinian will be em-
ployed. In the new pages of Italian history and
glory that may soon be unfolded many a Sardinian
name will he Forauent. It has been. observed
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that even in that.miscellaneous assemblage which
Sir De Lacy Evans took to Spain, and with which
he rendered so much service to the constitutional
cause with so, little encouragement, there ,was
hardly an bfficer whO has not since attained. dis-
tinction in another sphere. Many who are now
in the Crimea saw their first service as. volunteers
in the Spanish Legion. We venture to anticipate
much more .for the Sardinian, even if, what is
most to be desired, he should never serve in any
other army than his own. We venture to pre-
dict that some day he will find his country ris-
ing by her superior courage and enterprise,
as those qualities once raised Sweden into influ-
ence and Prussia into being. He will find that
those qualities are not so common or so cheap
in this world but that they are sometimes in
request, and have their proper opportunity and,
value. Meanwhile, Sardinia takes - her stand at
once among the noblest nations of Europe. She
has the good fortune to incur the special indigna-
tion of Russia, which would fain cross Europe and
scale the Alps to be revenged on her forward anta-
gonist, but whom she has met nearer home. Rus-
sia counted on her as one to be depended upon in
the grand conspiracy against the freedom of States.
Sardinia, of course, it was assumed, must be ready
for the regime of the Cossacks. She would be un-
grateful if she was not. Sardinia has repudiated all
obligations that can interpose between 'her and
honour. She has cut the knot with the sword,
and now triunipha:ntly answers the -attkinii)t to
couvromiikecher independence with...thct *Wager
. of
battle in the lists of the Crimea.

( Prom the Daily News of this day.)
The prayer of our soldiers is heard. Liprandi's
divisions have shown themselves in the.field to re-
learn in three hours the lesson of Inkerman,
which they had taken nine months to forget.- The
victory on the Tchernaya, reported by General
Simpson in another column, was swift and signal,
and, considering the strength of the enemy, may
be said to have been purchased cheaply.
Since the middle of July certain signs have be.
trayed the intentibn of Prince Gortschakoff to de-
part from the defensive system he so long main-
tained, strike some great coup, dispirit the Allies,
and delay, if not avert; the assault. Thus the
sick and disabled were removed from the north of
Sebastopol into the interior, and the hospitals pre-
pared for a sudden accession of wounded. General'
Paniutine's corps, or the principal part of it, was
also brought down from the South of Russia, and,
to mark more distinctly the high issue to be tried,
the machinery of superstition was employed to an
extent unprecedented in this war. The aged Arch-
bishop Innocent was brought from Kherson to
bless the troops, and the white-bearded metropo-
litan Philarete from Kieft' to prophesy their success.
The " sacred image of Mitophan," brought from
its shrine, was solemnly committed to the army,
and the miraculous efficacy of its presence asserted
in orders of the day. The time, the place, the
manner of the coming stroke were, however, a
secret.

The exterior Russian army, when the last de-
tailed accounts were received, held a strong posi-
tion on the Mackenzie heights, its line extending
from Aitodor to Albat, with advanced posts on the
range of heights overhangingUrkusta and the valley
of Baidar. A portion of this delightful vale and
the line of. the Tchernaya have been held by the
Sardinian Contingent, the Turkish army from the
Danube, and a mixed divisionof French troops,
computed in the last week of July to number in
all 30,000 men. It was here the fatal blow was to
fall. With what was deemed excess of caution, the
Piedmontese and Turks entertained themselves
with adding new tabias to the redoubts first thrown
up in the new position, but wisdom appears to have
justified her children. On Thursday last, at day-
break, the Russian field army, which had long de-
fied reconnaissance, disclosed its front. According
to its wont, it advanced in masses. The generals
compute that it numbered 60,000, the strength
which Lord Raglan attributed to the army opposed
to him at Inkerman. But how different the re-
sult : then a day's fighting and a victory bought
with enormous loss ; now a decisive result in three
hours, and " the loss on the side of the Allies very

The question will arise—What impelled a Gene-
ral of Liprandi's mark to an undertaking so advon-
throne; and Insecure ? Perhaps necessity. Having
lately given considerable space to a Russian com-
munication, cslebrating the abundance and health-
fulness which reign within Sebastopol, we may now
state, from information of higher auhtenticity, that
the garrison of Sebastopol is upon short rations,
and that it suffers greatly from " sickness. We do
not underrate the patience and heroic endurance of
the Russian soldiers, but it is not unreasonable to
believe that where great privations have been en-
dured for a year without the stimulus of present or
prospective success, irritation_ and impatience will
prevail. Such a disposition revealing itself among
the defenders cf Sebastopol would weigh with the
Russian Commander-in-Chief, and might induce
him to venture an attack upon the untried Sardi-
nians or the.disesteemed Turks. It will, -we believe,
be found that General Liprandi's attack expresses
less the enterprise than the straitened situation of
the Russians in the Crimea.
We can afford to wait for the further details of
this battle ; but appearances conspire to foretel that
they will be eclipsed—say, rather, outshone—by
feats more critical and more glorious. Generals
Simpson and Pelissier have resolved to improve
the time ; and a despatch from the British head-
quarters, dated on the evening of this victory, in-
forms the public that their resolution was to open,
on the following (yesterday, Friday) morning, the
fire of all their batteries against the fortress.
We are then in the midst of great events. The
grandest artillery contest ever known is at this mo-
ment fully raging. Describing the last fire directed
against Sebastopol, Prince Gortschakoff found
words too weak until he almost became profane.
But the "feu d'enfer" of his despatch was weak,
scattered, and remote, compared with that which
the English and French, from stronger, nearer, and
more numerous batteries, now concentrate on the
place. Truly, if it had been possible for General
Liprandi to avert such a catastrophe, his attack
was not a minute too soon.
One of the chief points of interest in this vic-
tory is the share which the Italian Contingent has
borne in it. Italy, crushed by foreign oppression,
as in Lombardy—debased by internal bad Go-
vernment, as in Naples—and allowed to breathe
" freely only in Piedmont, comes forward to prove
that the grand national spirit which lifted it up to'
the head of the world in ancient times—which in-
, spired its poets, from Virgil down to Filicaia—is
not extinct. • The Sardinians—we have General
Pelissier's word for it—behaved in a manner which
sustains their old reputation. These Sardinians
are the descendants of the men who, formerly, by
dint of physical, moral, and mental strength, held
at the sword's point the Crimea against all corners.
They were then, it is true, acting selfishly. Their
objert was to crush Venice, and absorb the whole
trade of the world into their hands. They did not
succeed then in holding secure possession of their
conquests, because they did not deserve to do so ;
but they come forward now to wrest the Crimea
from the hands of a power as unscrupulous as their
ancestral Genoa, but possessing none of those great
aspirations after beauty, that lofty feeling of ho-
nour and dignity, that grand confidence in man-
hood, of which the remembrance will never pass
out of history, and which to this day conserves to
Genoa its name of the " Superb." It is a grand
thing to see one of the most important portions of
Italy coming forward to take a glorious position in
a struggle that is to check the progress of a tor-
rent of barbarism which threatens to overwhelm
Europe. We may not look as enthusiastically as
M. Comte to the advent of the establishment of a
great Occidental republic, and we may be excused
from doubting whether such an institution would
work very well. But we will not allow ourselves
to be shaken in the opinion that this return of one
of the great Italian powers to a ditinguished posi-
tion in the active life of Europe is a great guarantee
for the preservation of civilisation against the at-
tacks of barbarism. The victory on the Tcher-
naya is a great event ; and let us not forget that
one of its most cheering features is the proof it
gives of the great vitality of Italy.

The Bank of London announce the commencement of
business on Wednesday next in the City and at the West-
end. The Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle-street, in
which the wool sales recently took place, has been me-
tamorphosed in, the course of a.few weeks, and in an
architectural point of view may be considered the most
elegant bank in London.,
FA.TAD AOCIDICNT IN THE NEW KENT ROAD.—yes.
terday morning a little girl, named Emma Welch, about
five years old, the daughter of a metropolitan police-con-
stable, residing in Union-place, Harper-street, accompi-
pied by some other children, got into the front garden
of a house in the New Kent-road, where • there was a
large quantity of timber in a pile. The children were
playing about, when one of the pieces of timber fell
and struck the poor girl Welch on the bead, crushing
her skull in a most dreadful manner. The little suf-
ferer was, taken to Mr. Howell's surgery, near the plane
, where the accident occurred, but she expired while that
_paen tau ozgainiag the is4tuies. -

The following is a copy of the Limited Liability Act
AN ACT FOR LIMITING THE LIABILITY OF MEMBERS
OF CERTAIN JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—(I4TH AUG.,
1855.)
Whereas it is expedient to enable members of joint-
stock companies to limit the liability for the debts and
•engagements of ouch companies to which they are now
subject : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows

I. .Any joint-stock company to be formed-under the
act of the Bth year of her Majesty, chapter 110 (Other
than an assurance company), with a capital to be divid;
ed into shares of a nominal value not less than 101.
each, may obtain a certificate of complete registration
with limited liability upon complying with the condi-
tions following, in addition to doing all other matters
and things now required in order to obtain a certificate
of complete regiitration • that is to say,
(1.) The promoters shall state on their returns to the
Office for Provisional Registration that such com-
pany is proposed to be formed with limited lia-
bility :
(2.) The word "limited" shall be the last word of. the
name of the company :
(3) The deed of Settlement shall contain a statement
to the effect that •the company is formed with
limited liability.
(4.) The deed of settlement shall be executed byshare-
- holders, not less than 25 in number, holding
shares to the amount in the aggregate of at least
three-fourth's of the nomlind capital 'of =the com-
pany, and there shall have bees paid up by-each
of such shareholders on account of his shares not
less than 201. per centum.
(5.) The paytheiit of the above. percentage shall be
acknowledged in, or endorsed on, the deed of set-
tlement, and the fact of the same' having been
bona fide so paid shall be verified by a declaration
of the promoters, or•any two of them, made in
pursuance of the act made in the 6th year of the
reign of his late Majesty King William IV., cap.
62.
And upon such conditions being complied with, and
such other matters and things done, the registrar of
joint stock companies shall grant a certificate of com•
plete registration with limited liability to such company.
IL Any joint-stock company, except as aforesaid,
now or hereafter completely registered under the said
act of the Bth year of her Majesty, may obtain a certi-
ficate of complete registration with limited liability, in
manner and subject to the condition following ; that is to
say.

The directors of such company may, with the consent
of at least three-fourths in number and value of its
shareholders who may be present, personally or by proxy,
at any general meeting summoned for that purpose,
make such alteration in the name, nominal value of
shares, and deed of settlement of the company as may be
necessary for enabling it to comply with the conditions
herein-before mentioned with respect to joint-stock com-
panies seeking to obtain certificates of complete regis-
tration with limited liability ; and upon compliance with
such conditions the registrar, after the affairs of the
company shall at the expense of the company have been
audited by some person appointed by the Board of Trade,
and on certificate from the same board that the com-
plete solvency thereof has been established on such audit
to its satisfaction, shall grant to such company, by its
new name, a certificate of complete registration with
limited liability, and thereupon all privileges and obli-
gations hereby attached to companies with limited lia-
bility, their shareholders, directors, and officers, shall
attach to the c nnpany named in such certificate, its
shareholders, directors, and officers.
111. Any joint-stock company, except as aforesaid,
constituted under any private act of Parliament, whereof
it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board of
Trade, after the affairs of the company shall, at the ex-
pense of the company, have been audited by some per-
son appointed by the Board of Trade, that the said com-
pany is perfectly solvent, and that not less than 20 per
centum of 3-4ths of the nominal capital of such company
has been paid up, may obtain a certificate of complete
registration with limited liability, in manner and subject
to the condition following; that is to say,
The directors of such company may, with the consent
of at least 3-4ths in number and value of its shareholders
who may be present, personally or by proxy, at any
general meeting summoned for that purpose, make such
alteration in the name and nominal value of shares as
may be necessary for enabling it to comply with the con-
dition in that behalf herein-before mentioned with re-
spect to joint-stock companies seeking to obtain certifi-
cates of complete registration with limited liability ; and
upon compliance with such condition the registrar, on
receipt of a certificate of the solvency of the com-
pany, and of the payment of capital as before-mentioned,
shall grant to such company, by its new name, a certi-
ficate of complete registration with limited liability ; and
thereupon all privileges and obligations hereby attached
to companies with limited liability, their shareholders,
directors and officers, shall attach to the company named
in such certificate, its shareholders, directors, and
officers.
IV. Every company that has obtained a certificate of
complete registration with limited liability shall paint or
affix, and shall keep painted or affixed, its name on the
outside of every office or place in which the business of
the company is carried on, in a conspicuous position, in
letters easily legible, and shall have its name engraven
in legible characters on its seal, and shall have its name
mentioned in legible characters in all notices, advertise.
ments, and other official publications of such company,
and in all bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques,
orders for money, bills of parcels, invoices, receipts,
letters, and other writings used in the transaction of the
business of the company.
V. If such company do not paint or affix, and keep
painted or affixed, its name, in the manner aforesaid,
each of the directors thereof shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding 51. for not so painting or affixing its name,
and for every day during which such name is not so kept
painted or affixed ; and if any director or other officer of
the company, or any person on its behalf, use any seal
purporting to be a seal of the company whereon its name
is not so engrave!' as aforesaid, or issue or authorise the
issue of any notice, advertisement, or other official publi-
cation of such company, or of any bill of exchange, pro-
missory note, cheque, order for money, bill of parcels, in-
voice, receipt, letter, and other writing used in the trans-
action of the business of the company, wherein its name is
not mentioned in the manner aforesaid, he shall be liable
to a penalty of 50/., and shall further be personally liable
to the holder of any such bill of exchange, promissory
note, cheque, or order for money, for the amount thereof,
unless the same shall be duly paid by the company.
VI. No increase to be made in the nominal capital of
any company that has obtained a certificate of complete
registration with limited liability shall be advertised or
otherwise treated as part of the capital of such company
until it has been registered with the registrar of joint-
stock companies ; and no such registration shall be made
unless a deed is produced to the registrar, executed by
shareholders holding shares of the nominal value of not
less than 10/. to the amount in the aggregate of at least
three-fourths of the proposed increased capital of the
company, nor unless it is proved to the registrar, by
such acknowledgment And declaration as hereinafter men-
tioned, that upon each of such shares there has been
paid up by the holder thereof an amount of not less than
201. per centum ; and if any such increase of capital as
aforesaid be advertised or otherwise treated as part of
the capital of the company before the same has been so
registered, every director of such company shall incur a
penalty of 50/. ; and the payment of the above per cent-
age shall be acknowledged in or endorsed on the deed
so produced ; and the fact of the same having been bona
fide so paid shall be verified by a declaration of the
directors, or any two of them, made in pursuance of the
said act made in the sixth year of the reign of his late
Majesty King William IV., chap. 62.
VII. The members of a joint-stock company which
has so obtained a certificate of complete registration with
limited liability, after such certificate is granted, not-
withstanding the provisions contained in the said act of
the Bth year of her present Majesty, shall not be liable,
under any judgment, decree, or order which shall be ob-
tained against such company, or for any debt or engage-
ment of such company, further or otherwise than is here-
inafter provided.
VIII. If any execution, sequestration, or other pro-
cess in the nature of execution, either at law or in equity,
shall have been issued against the property or effects of
the company, and if there cannot be found sufficient
whereon to levy or enforce such execution, sequestra-
tion, or other process, then each execution, sequestra-
tion, or other process may be issued against any of the
shareholders to the extent of the portions of their shares
respectively in the capital of the company not then paid
up, but no shareholder shall be liable to pay in satisfac-
tion of any one or more such execution, sequestration,
or other process a greater sum than shall be equal to the
portion of his shares not paid up. Provided always
that no such execution shall issue against any share-
holder except upon an order of the court, or of a judge
' of the court, in which the action, suit, or other proceed-
ing shall have been brought or instituted, and such court
or judge may order execution to issue accordingly, with
the reasonable costs of such application, and execution
to be taxed by a master of the said court ; and for the
purpose of ascertaining the names of the shareholders,
and the amount of capital remaining to be paid upon
their respective shares, it shall be lawful for any person
entitled to any such execution, at all reasonable times,
to inspect the register of shareholders without fee.
IX. If the directors of any such company shall declare
and pay any dividend when the company is known by
them to be insolvent, or any dividend the payment of
which would to their knowledge render it insolvent, they
shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of
'the company then existing, and for all that shall be
thereafter contracted, so long as they shall respectively
continue in office ; provided that the amount for which
they shall be so liable shall not exceed the arnoatboat
such dividend, and that if any of the directors
shall
bb.
absent at the time of making the dividend, oz•
ject -thereto, and shall file their objection in writing with
the clerk of the company, they
shall be exempted from
the said liability.
X. No note or obligation given by any shareholder
' to the company whereof he is a shareholder, whether
. .

secured by any pledge or otherwise, shall be considered
as payment of any money due from him on any share
held by him, and no loan of money shall be made by any
such company to any shareholder therein ; and if any
such loan shall he made to a shareholder, the directors
who shall make it, or who shall assent thereto, shall be
jointly and severally liable to the extent of such loan,
and interest for all the debts of the company contracted
before the repayment of the sum so lent.
XI. Where any company completely registered under
the said act of the Bth year of her present Majesty, or
any company constituted under any act of Parliament,
shall obtain a certificate of complete registration with
limited liability, the grant of such certificate shall not
prejudice or affect any right which previously to the
grant of such certificate has accrued to any creditor or
other person against the company in its corporate capa-
city, or against any person then being or having been a
member of such company, but every such creditor or
other person shall be entitled to all such remedies against
the company in its corporate capacity, and against every
person then l?eing or having been a member of such
company, as he would have been entitled to in case such
certificate had not been obtained.
XII. No alteration made by 'virtue of this act in the
name of any company shall prejudice or affect any right
which previously to such alteration has accrued to such
company as Igainst any other company or person, or
which has accrued to any other company or person as

against such

)mpany, but every such company as against

any other company or person, and every other company
or person as against such company and the members
thereof, shall be entitled to all such remedies as they or
he would have been entitled to if no such alteration
had been made ; and no such alteration shall abate or
render defective any legal proceeding pending at the time
when such alteration is made.
XIII. In the case of any company which has obtained
a certificate of limited liability, whenever, on taking the
yearly accounts of such company, or by any report of
the auditors thereof, it appears that three-fourths of the
subscribed capital stock of the company has been lost

or, has becom
the ineolvenc;
the trading ai
with cease, o
winding up i
pany Rhali fo
of such comp
either by peti
cise of the p&
other lawful c
XIV. In cc

unavailable in the course of Trade, from
of shareh.olders, or from any other cause,
id business of such company shall forth-
shall be carried on for the sole purpose of
3 affairs ; and the directors of sub com-
thwith take proper steps for the dissolution
Lny, and for the winding up of its affairs,
tion to the Court of Chancery, or by exer-
wars of the deed of settlement, or by such
Durse as they may think most fit.
'Res where a certificate of registration with

limited liability has been obtained, when one auditor only
.hall have been appointed under the 38th section of the
act, of the Bth of Victoria, chapter 110, that single
auditor, and when two or more such auditors shall have
been so approved, then one of such auditors shall be
subject to the approval of the Board of Trade ; and
such board, in case the auditor submitted to them for
approval shall for any reason appear unfit or objection-
able, shall appoint another in his place.
XV. Every pecuniary penalty imposed i❑ pursuance
of this act shall be deemed a debt due to the Crown,
and shall be recoverable accordingly.
XVI. This act shall, so far as is consistent with the
contents and subject matter thereof, be taken as part of
and construed with the said act of the Bth year of her
present Majesty, chap. 110, and the act of the 11th year
of her Majesty, chap. 78, and all the provisions of the
said acts, save in so far as they are varied by this act,
shall apply to persons and companies applying for or
obtaining a certificate of complete registration with
limited liability.
XVII. The provisions of the act of the Bth year of
her present Majesty, chapter 111, and of the Joint-
stock Companies Winding-up Act, 1848, and of the
Joint-stock Companies Winding-up Amendment, 1349,
shall apply to persons and companies obtaining a certi-
ficate of complete registration with limited liability, sub-
ject only to such variations as may be occasioned by the
provision of this act.
XVIII. This act shall not apply to Scotland.
XIX. This act may be cited for all purposes as " The
Limited Liability Act, 1855,"