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BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE
• ASSOCIATION.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN— Colonel ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
William Bardgett, Esq., 149, Fenchurch-street.
George Bev!ngton, Esq., Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey.
F. I'. Cockerill, Esq., Shadwell, and Twickenham.
George Co,- en, Esq., Shacklewell.
Miles Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street.
John Drewe'..t, Esq., 50, Conlin"
Erasmus Robert Foster, Esq., 1, Princes-street, Bank.
T. S. Girdier, Esq., 7, Tokenhouse-yard.
H. L. Smale, Esq., Doctors'-commons.
STANDING COUNSEL.
11. Bellenden Kerr, Esq., 8, Old-square, Linncoln's Inn.
SOLICITORS.
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BANKERS.
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This Institution was originally established under a different title
in the year 1839, on the plan of admitting the a^sured to participate
in four-fifths only of the profits ; but the Society has since been re-
modeled so as to become a strictly "Mutual Association."
The whole of the funds and property belong to, and are accumu-
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applied in reduction of the current year's premium ; thus constitut-
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of Rates may in the first instance he selected.
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and complete statements of the affairs and funds of the Society are
submitted, and by whom the division of the profits are from time to
time declared.
At the Annual General Meeting held on the 27th April last. a di-
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to all members who had made the requisite numuer of payments on
their respective policies.
By order of the Board of Directors,
E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

London, May 1, 1852.
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officers, by which means the entire disbursements of the Mutual
Association are reduced to a small per centage on the receipts.

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iN SIX LANGIJAGES—FORTIETH ED/TION.
,To_-....mAriciA.... voI.,IfICA•
CON rAINING TIIE REBIRDY POll PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
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AU HON. THE VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, G.C.8., g.r.
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RAILWAY --INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
A:special. meeting:of- this = company took Ace yeiter-
day of thgaridge-hcsyn Hotel; Mr. James Macgregor
in the obair.[

The meeting-Ina-called-for the purpose of
ing the draft of a Bill,- by which it is intended: to merge
the undertaking of the Reading, Guildford and Rei-
gate Railway Company.-in the undertaking of the South-
Eastern Railway Company, and to dissolve the former
comproap ,
The becretary having read the notice convening the
meeting. .•—r • consider-
The paid the , Bill which wasi:to come
undeP thie'coesideration- of the meeting had passed the
House of Commonsoind had been read a first time in
the Lords. There had been no alteration in ''the prin-
ciple of the Bill; but the 41,000 L per annum, payable
under the existing lease, was by this Bill divided into
annuities, payable to, those .who hold the stock of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Company. The ob-
ject of thoßill was to amalgamate the two companies,
in order to uvoikthe vxpense'of a separate manage 7
ment, and the subject had been before ,the pro-
prietors since thfie7 He (Mr. ,• Mae-
gregor) was, aware that the impression upon the
minds of some of the proprietors was that the pass'
ins of, this would Increase the liabilities of the
ScnithEasterti COmpany, but he would inform them
that the leaselwas equally valid without this Act of Par-
lianient.,. At the-present titue the Reading, Guildford,
and Reigate line was an incomplete and mutilated under-
taking, and the views'ofthe proprietors since 1846 had
been that by means of this line the narrow.gauge lines
in the smith would adquire-ineans of communication with
the narrow-gauge lines in the north; and it was a pledge
to Parliament; on the part of the Great Western, in
1846, that they would continue the narrow eauge from
Oxford to Reading, and-BasingatokeywhieMuid hive.
'tniairtlfdraidilig, Guildford, and Reigate, a very valu-
able property. The subject had been so frequently dis-
cususneaccst'sherthecticog. of this company, that he thought
it neeay, to d more on the present occasion than
propose that the,Bil/benpproved.

the
inquired whether, under the standing
- .
ination having
company, been seconded by the deputy-
cohrdMar. otTlft: WtohfietLhlise)olcuse of Lords, it was not necessary that
the Bill should be approved by four-fifths of the pro-
prietors Present? He (Mr. Wilson) apprehended that
on an occasion like this the vote was irrespective of the
amount of stock held by each individual. Mr. Wilson
appealed to the solicitor on' this point.

- The
gSuoilLirecitrencloi :midmniottdeoeu, batndtlinaot
tththeenuuumnabbeerroof
fvpoeters.
would
sons present.
Mr. WILSON begged to (Mfer from the legal gentle-
man on that point. He (lir. Wilson) protested against
bt.ing forced into an alliance with another company,
which was completely foreign to the undertaking for
which they, as South-Eastern proprietors, had subscribed
their capital. They had subscribed for a railway from
London to Dover, and he contended they had no right
to ba burdeupd with a line which entailed upon them a
loss. of 30,0001.
.year.--(llear, hear.) And even
though he'slii,ulcl stand alone he would oppose such a
measure.

The CHAIRMAN said the Hon. Proprietor had left out
of t
of sight the fact that an -agreement for the lease lf
line was entered into in 1846, before the line was made,"
and upon the faith of that agreement the capitalofthe
was
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Companysub-
scribed; and he (the Chairman) would leave it to the
gentlemen to say whether in 1852 they would repudiate
an agreeMent entered into in 1846. As to the legality
of the agreement there had been ample time and
,o-ppor-•
Waits for testing it;,,but upon that point he would say
.
there was not the slightest doubt.
Mr. M`LAREN also opposed the Bill, and complained
that throughout the whole transaction the South-Eastern
proprietors had beenskept in the dark. There had, he
said, been nu feWer than three separate arrangements,
all differing from each other. The chairman had
stated that the first agreement was in 1846, but that
was only for leasing the eight miles of line from Read-
ing to Dorking,
,with, the option of leaving the rest, of
the undertakimg. .Ott- the 17th March, 1847, a fresh
contract, it ...apoeared, was-entered into, by which they
were to pay 51 per cent:upon ncapital f 600,0001.; and
by the third arrangement the 600,0001. capital was
increased to 800,0004, 200,0004 being at 41- per
cent.,
and 600,0004 'at 51 per cent., making: the ave-
rage upon the whole. Boo 0001 51 per cent. He (Mr
&Kaaren) Weider uael4take to say thatwas
man present w '.there not a
h0..4"33, mot 'lathe dark as to the real na-
ture of the Agreements.: At _the last meeting of this
company a fourth alteration was made in the arrange-
ment; they were now to have a rider over their prefer-
ence shares,g - and it was to be put into the form of anlan-
nuity to ride over every other- responsibility of the com-
pany, bondholders, and all. For his own part he had
never seen any agreement, nor had he ever
been in-
formed, as a propriet6r, of the equivalents they were to
receive for the
paymentof that amount of interest on
the 800,000/. of ,the capital of the
and Reigate Company,
sufficient reasons ,Why they should believed he had shown
.He Reading, Guildford,
Mr. RICH (a director) would put
not support the Bill.
whethe; if the Reading; G.-ii put it to those present
had been as profitable an arrangementildford, and Reigate lease
tunately, preyed ' unprofitable, as it had, unfor-
tunately,
of any objections to the '1
they would ever have
HA did not look upon it as ease or amalgamation?
loss, but simply as a (Flew_ a question of profit and
was binding upore,them or not,
whether the ,agreement
'refuse
.to--ratify
_tot, and whether, as honest
men, they would
upon the ground that it ratifY an agreement solely
Was , an unprofitable
e unpro
arrange-
ment.
Mr. Aneeteet censidered himself an honest man, but
from the way its which the agreetnent had been forced
upon them, he did riot consider himself bound by it either
morally or legally:—(l4„..)
Mr. Reca—The alterations
which the Hon. Preprietor pad
ad in the arrangement to '
alluded were merely mo-
difications, and each suenes
ratified by the South-Eastern modification had been
himself, he would be the last proprietors. prietors. As regarded
person to depart from an
agreement once made.- e
Mr. NPLAREN ”id the principle laid down by the
H ha e
Hon. Director might excellent in his own private
transactions, but, acting a 3 a
watrrustee, he (Mr. &Kaaren)
felt that the proprietors
ede
agreement improperly not bound to fulfil an
enter
Mr. Alderman Seaomores hinto.—(Hear, hear.)
Guildford ate
, and Reig). defe(cd airman of the Reading,
sued in this matter.' It was true,a he said ed the course he had pur-
that the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate,
an independent undertakina- Railway was projected as
gerded al a part of the s,ath.bot it had always been re-
directors of the Sonth.Bute -Eastern scheme, and three
was thisetie
They had Parliamentary,aaarn. bad sat at the board.
per cent., but there n for a guarrntee of 4i
from which the embareasme extraordinary agreement
in-
sisted upon as a primary
.eoncin.t Mainly arose. It was
first be opened from Readittion that the line should
they could open thwmore projlg. to Guildford before
Reigate to Dorking.; It had
been
portion, viz., from
his own diplomsey or wisdom he
insinuated that, by
ting 51 per cent. for his company; had succeeded in get-
Salomons) had no more to do :.anY; but he (Alderman
' that room. A very old proprietor,
that than any one in
in the South-Eastern; now deceasedltnr, and a large holder
him-
self made that arrangerneat with (Mr. Maubert),
he (Alderman Salomons) knerreuthe South-Eastern, and
eame to the meetin t which it °tiling about it until he
Upon that being thencese he,eanewdas brought forward.
ings of his proprietors, who a
wed three or four meet-
to conclude the. bargain n
-5 gPeedi? naturally anxious
ho (Alderman Salmons) laceT as possible; bat
as chairman and director, at'
tha his seat, both
holders rather than sanction what- feet of the share-
undue precipitancy in making a might be considered
(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentlezosperity bargain,—
remark—With regard to the line n then proceeded to
gentlemen present that if the South-teit; he could tell
to part with the Reading, Guildford, tern had chosen
he could have sold it twice over between Reigate line
and they would find notice of a Bill
fch, 1846 and 1848,
constructed theSeuth-Western. It was thro powers to buy
line within twenty or thirty hat:ad cheaply-
and when a railway communication e, miles of London;
Dover to Oxford, and from Dover rignotomplete from
Birmingham; •they might reasonably through to
large quantities of goods and merchandise
that
booked- through far shipment at , Folkestonee would be
. . . . , • but •
was, they were sitting in pugment upon a e as it
n incomplete
concern. The Hon. Gentleman contended that the
agreement between the two companies was
one of ee
honest, open, and straightforward character. It
be borne in mind that the Reading, Guildford,
and was to
gate Company 'handed over to the South-Eastern
Rei-
100,000i in herd cash, Whilst the cost of constructingastern
line was not more than. about 700,000/,; and how the
they separate that 100,000/. from their own cash would
event of their repudiating this agreement, to do inh.the
which,
he contended, would be worse than Mississippi iv
repudia-
tion, and he (Alderman-Salomoas) should be
surprised
r
if any gentleman could J 9 found to do it.-(near.)
Mr. GEORGE SMITH opposed the Bill.
Mr. HEATH had no intention to repudiate any agree_
ment legally entered into;' but if they gave their ,
,
a
lac-
tion to this Bill it would put an end for ever to the
question of Mee validity of the agreement itself, which
he contendethhad never been decided upon by any com-
petent tribunal. It would appear from the statement of
the chairman that`the agreement for the lease was en-
tered into before the line was even begun to be made.
The 50th section of the Act gave authority to lease to
the South-Eastern--the fair-meaning of which he took
to be, when the line riai made. There was no railway
to lease four or five years ago.
The CHAIRMAN leaving replied, he proceeded to put
the resolution apprOving of the Bill, when
Mr. DIPLAREN moved, as an amendment, that the
meeting should be adjourned for three months, which
was seconded by Mr. JosrAn WILSON.
Amidst some confusion a show of hands was taken
upon the amendment, which the, Chairman declared to
be lost.
Upon putting the 'original resolution, the Chairman
stated that, ho - ' ht be determined byshow
welter l , tlial g a
of a
a ands, poll would be tietmnded.
The CHAIRMAN declared the Show of bands to be in
favour , of the
,resolution,
number bat- that decision was some-
f what noisily disputed by st ' of shareholders who
were opposed to the Bill.