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SOUTII--EASTERN RAILWAY.I
At the THIRTY-FIRST HALF-YEARLY GENERAL .
MEETING, and at the Special' General Meeting of the South-
Eastern Railway Company, held at the Bridge House Hotel, London- •
bridge, on Thursday, the 4th of March, 1852,
JAMES MACGREGOR, Chairman, in the Chair.
The advertisements convening the meetings were read, and the
fellowim; Resolutions were passed :-
1. 'that the Report of the Directors ant Statement of Accounts as
now refvl I,t, this meeting be received and adopte,,L
2. Th it a Dividend (less income-tax) for the half-year ending on
the 31st January last, at the rate of 31. 10s. per cent. per annum, be
now declared on the consolidated stock of this CoMpany, and be
no de payeble on the 230 day of March instant.
3. That it be an instruction to the Directors to take such measures
as the may deem expedient for tee purpcse of enforcing payment
by the Proarie:o:s of the outstanding calls In arrear.
4. That it te an Instruction to, .11c Directors :o offer the shares
purchased by the Company no' converted into consolidated stock,
to the Proprietors pro rata, at 231. per 301. stock.
5. That any portion of the stock not. so taken by the Proprietors
be sold by the Directors by pubic tender.
G. That, 500 copies only be annually painted of the list of Pro-
pr:ctors.

7. That John Morgan, Esq., be re•eected an Auditor of this Com•
parry. _ _

s. That James MacGregor, Esq., be re-electel a Director of this
Company.
_ . . .

9. '1:11at James Renshaw, Esq., Le re-elected a ;Director of this
Company..._.

10. Tliat'llenry Rich, Esq., 31. P., be elected a Director of this
Company, in the place of Captain Daniel Warren, who retires by
rotation.

On the following resolution, viz. :—That the draft Bill now sub-
mitted to the Meeting, entitled, " A Bill for the Amal,tamation of
the undertaking of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Company with the undertaking of the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany, tor the' dissolution of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Railway Company, and for other purposes," be, and the same Is
hereby approved, subject to such alterations as to Parliament shall
seem meet, being submitted to the Proprietors, a poll was demanded
and had, when 63 Proprietors polled in favour of the resolution, and
five Proprietors against it.

JAMES MACOREGOR, Chairman.
That the best thanks of the Proprietors be presented to the Chair.
man and Directors.

G. S. HERBERT, Secretary.
•
South-Eastern Railway Offices, Londo❑ Terminus,
March 4, 1852.

IIHE NEW GRANADA COMPANY.
(Provisionally registered pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria,
IL-.)
Capital 230,0001., in 200,00 u Shares of IL each, to be paid in full on

allotment.

61,010 Shares will be issued to the p blic, the remainder being re-
served for the completion of purchases of property in New Granada.

DIRECTORS.
Charles Johnston, Esq , -4outhwick-crescent, Hyde-park.
Henry C. Lacy, Esq., M.P., Rishmond, Surrey.
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Endsleigh-s reet, Tavlstock-square,
J. Westerman, jun., Esq., Nicholas-lane.
George Copeland Capper, Esq., Leyton, Essex.
Walter Logas, Esq., Qlomlester-terrace, Hyde-park.
Rowand Ronald, Esq., Manchester-square.
Alex. Young, Esq., 11, King William-street.
BANKERS—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co.
SoLiciToas—Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Co.
SECRCTART (pro tem.)—Reglna,d Chauncy, Esq.
Temporary offices of the Company, 17, Buckletsbury.
This Company has been formed for the purpose of carrying out
and promoting certain important undertakings within the Rebublic
of New Granada, and has made arrangements for the purchase of
some most valuable ana extensive mineral districts in the provinces
of Choco, Astioquia, and Barbacoas, containing gold, silver, platina,
cMabar, and other products. . .

I !The basis of the Company's operations is an agreement for the pur-
chase of a freehold property in the province of Choco, upwards of
seventy miles in length, and varying in width from twenty to sixty
miles, compri,ing an area of uawards of one and a half million of
acres, upon which a great number of surface mines are stated to
have been already discovered.
The completion of this purchase is made dependent upon the veri-
fication of the reports laid before the Board, through the te.timony
of approved agents to be sent out on behalf of the Company, the
vendor being entitled in the meantime to call for a payment of
5,0001., upon satisfactory security being lodged with the di-
rectors for its repayment, in case such reports should not be
verified. The balance of the purchase-money is to to paid in shares.

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As soon as the -report of the Company's agents shall have been
received, it will be for the consideration ef the Directors what mines
shall be worked by this Company, and what porti.,:ns of the estate
shall be granted to other parties.
The territory of New Granada has long been known to abound in
the precious metals, and an accumulation of recent testimony shows
that it offers facilities tor the conversion of its rich deposits superior
to those which exist either in California or in Australia.
Santa Martha and Carthagena, the principal seaports, are within
twenty-five days' sail of England ; and the Directors will thus be
enabled to receive early and regular information, and to retain a
proper control over the management of the Company's affairs, the
want of which is so severely felt in undertakings carded on in more
distant regions.
The gold deposits are stated to be much more regular and constant
than in other gold fields, being found principally in rich veins of
black sand and gravel.
The Atrato, Magdalena, and other large rivers run through the
whole tract of country in which the mines are situated, affording
the advantage of water carriege—the most important stations being
approachable by vessels of large burden.
The projected Ship Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, through the territories of the Republic of New Granada,
will greatly enhance the value of the surrounding property, besides
securing the independence of that country by the combined support
of all the great maritime powers. A convention for this purpose
(commonly called the Buivver treaty) was sired at Washington on
19th April, 1850, between Great Britain and the United States, and
has since been ratified in London.
A Concession has already been granted by the Government of
New Granada for the construction of this canal on advantageous
terms, and certain beneficial modifications are now under the consi-
deration of that Government.
A careful s.,rvey and estimate of the expense of constructing the
canal is in course of prepar..tion, uneer the joint superintendence of
the concessionnalres and the directors of this Company.
To carry out a work so important to the interests it the commer-
cial world, a new Company will be formed, and application will be
mane on its behalf for a charter of incorporation. The Directors of
the New Granada Company, in consideration of the value of their
Co operation. have made arrangements with the concessienuaires of
the Canal for recur ng to their shareholders a moiety of all the ad-
vantages which may be derived from the concession,
whetter arising
from the sale of that concession, or from an optional pro rata
partielpation by the individual shareholders of this Company in the
shares of the Company which shall undertake the construction of the
Canal.
The promoters of this undertaking have consented to receive in
cull of all claims for their interest 6,000 paid-up shares, and one-
tenth of the net surplus profit which may remain divisible in each
year, alter paying, a olvidend of ten per cent. to the shareholders.
A working capital of 60,0001. is deemed sufficient for carrying on
a very remunerative business, but in proportion as success attends
the operations of the Company, and further working capital can be
th profitablyopii on o
ry• ei
ttahae
us.htmareehnotl.ders for the time being will have
Applications for prospectuses and shares to be made to the Di-
rectors at the temporary offices of the Company, 17, Bucklersbuty.

TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY OF
UPPER CANADA.
The Directors of this Company, in ac_ordance with the powers
granted to them by Acts of the Parliament of Canada, and by Royal
Charter of Incorporation in this country, are prepared to receive
otters of LOANS at a fixed rate of interest, for periods of five, seven,
and ten years. _

. -
Applteathan to be made at the Offices of the Company, where full
particulars will be obtained.

T. mAcDONALD, Secretary.
65, Moorgate-^treet, London, ➢larch 4, 1852.

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MARCH 5, 1852.

' THE ENGINEERS' DISPUTE.
A meeting was held last evening at St. Martin's-hall,
Long-acre, for the purpose of tffording the council of
the AtnalgsmatPd Society of Engineers an opportunity
of eiplsining their prestat position and proipects, and
considerinfr, the relations of employers and employed,
and the laws effecting labour. Mr. V. Neuic was voted
into the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said this meeting had been convened,
not for any extreme, violent, or impracticable object,
. but- for such ajects and such objects only as all calm,
reasonable, and moderate men might justify and uphold.
—(Hear, hear.) The meeting had been convened for
two purposes; first, to give the united trades of this
• kingdom, so far as they were there represented, the op-
portunity of testifying, by their public empathy, nut
' only in words but in deeds, that they aid approve of
. those deraands which the executive committee of the
Amalgamated Society had made, and that the executive
committee were not, as had been represented, a body of
men dictating to other men what they should do, but
• tho authorised organ of a very large body of skilled arti-
sans, speaking in the name of those artisans and uttering
the sentiments which they individually entertained.—
( Hear.) Important as that object was,the second was, in his
opinion, even more important, viz , to call upon the trades
of this kingdom, upon the working classes as repre-
sented by that organization, with the funds which they
now had at their disposal, which they could command if
they chose, to join with the council of the executive of
the Amalgamated Society in organising a well-digested,
a well-conceived, and well-approved plan for beginning
—and it was the beginning only with which they-could
deal—to place the relations of capital end labour upon a
foundation different from that on which they bad hither-
to stood.—(Cheers.) He need say nothing in defence
of the second object, as a matter of principle, because he
did not know here was anybody who had the audacity
to deny it as a right.—(Hear, bear.) Many had denied
the possibility and practicability of it, and the Weekly
Dispatch—(Hisses)—had published article after article
to prove that the working men were such arrant fools
that no scheme for employing themselves could by pos-
sibility succeed.—(Hear.) If there were any one who
really believed such a plan could not be successful, all
he could say was that that man had very much mistaken
the earnestness, the intelligence, the feeling, and the
principles of the great masses of! the working-classes of
this country. They knew by the experience of what had
been done in France that these associations were practi-
cable; and he would not insult so large an assembly by
admitting for a moment that that which under more
disadvantageous circumstances could ba carried out
by large bodies of working men in France, could not
be carried out under more favourable circumstances
by the active, intelligent, enterprising men he there saw
represented —(Hear, hear, and cheers) The first ob-
ject of the meeting was more likely to be called in
question. In the present state of this contest they were
not standing in the same position as in the commence-
ment of it. The employers had now put forth certain
resolutions, which they called on every man to sign be-
fore he could be admitted into their establishments ;
end he would say those resolutions were of a chatacter
which called for energetic reprobation, from every
man who bad claim to the name of a free man.—(Loud
cheers.) Mr. S. Fielder', one of the greatest manufac-
turers of the north, hart put in print " that it was
scarcely possible to imagine that any man could have
the audacity to propose those resolutions ;" and it
would be too much to find fault with the working men
for expressing their approbation of the sentiments of
that great employer.—(Cheers.) [The Speaker, having
read the document alluded to, continued.] Those were
very comprehensive words, and did nothing less than pro-
fess to re-enact 32 Acts of Parliament, which the Legis-
lature deliberately repealed some 20 years ago. By the
6th Geo. IV. the Legislature had deliberately said that it
should be lawful for the great body of the working people
to meet for the purpose of agreeing to the rates and prices
they would demand, the contracts they would enter
into, the hours they would work, and the time in which
the work should be conducted; and hero were the em-
ployers deliberately coming forward and saying they
would employ no man who would not sign a solemn de-
claration that he would not in any way exercise the
right which the Legislature had said it was wise and
proper they should be allowed to exercise.—(Cheers.)
He called upon the trades unions of England to unite in
expressing the strongest protest against any such attempt
on the part of the employers, in this arbitrary manner, to
interfere with a right which the Legislature had solemnly
sanctioned.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Mr. NEWTON was welcomei with vociferous cheers.
He said the executive of the Amalgamated Society did
not underrate the responsibility which rested with them
in calling this meeting. He hoped the character of the
present meeting wisuldzathsteageelreenity
of their prein-ous proceedings than mitiel'theMi7eratiort
which had hitherto marked their conduct.—(Cheers.)
They were sorry they were placed in their present posi-
tion. They bad not anticipated, when first they made
the request of their employers that they should discon-
tinue practices which they believed to be iejuriotp, that
it would have raised so great an opposition. By a ma-
jority of 9,000 to a minority of less than 20, the Amel-
unmated Society had decided that systematic overtime
and piecework were evils, and ought to be discontinued.
The council—not of their own will, not in any dicta-
torial sense—issued a circular embodying that decision.
It was stated by the employers, and by a great portion
of the press, that the object of the Amalgamated
Society was not only to make the bast terms they
could for their own members, but to dictate to their
employers what should be done with another portion of
their workmen not members of the society—that their
meaning was, that they would not work overtime or
piecework themselves, and no one else should do so.
He disciplined any such intention. What was meant by
the Amalgamated Society and by the executive council,
who represented them at the time, was to express their
desire and intention to cease from working systematic
overtime and piecework.—(Hear, hear.) The public
should bear in mind that systematic overtime was the
term used, not overtime when work was absolutely
necessary—to repair an accident to the machinery, for
instance; but new work, taken on contracts, which
could not be completed without drawing upon the
energies and the industry of the workmen to the ex-
tent of twelve or fourteen hours a day.—(Hear, hear.)
Having briefly sketched the history of the trades societies
from their earliest formation, with the prominent object
of relieving their distressed fellow workmen, up to the
amalgamation into one society of those connected with
the engineers. Mr. Newton proceeded:—On the let of
January the members of the Amalgamated Society car-
ried out the resolution which they had nearly unani-
mously come to. On the 10th of January the employers
closed their establishments. Except in their violence,
the employers seemed to have followed the example of
the workmen. They formed a combination on the mis-
representations of a delegation from Manchester, which
tacked to the resolutions of the Amalgamated Society
two others, foreign to their thoughts and intentions—
the removal of skilled labourers, and the regulation of
the amount of wages. He need not explain the false-
hood of the imputation. No one believed it ; and he
thought he rpoko the sentiments of the employers when
he said they now felt they had been betrayed into a di-
lemma, and of which, he was sure, they must be most
heartily tired.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) On the 10th
of January the employers struck. The workmen did
not strike. They would have continued in their em-
ployment, if they had been allowed to do so. Soon
afterwards the employers issued that celebrated pamphlet
in which they claimed everything as their own—esta-
blishments, conditions, hands, wages. The workmen
only ventured to say the hands were not theirs, the
wages were not theirs, but the property of the work-
men ; and he thought they were right in that as-
sertion.—(Loud cheers.) That pamphlet bad opened
the whole questiou of what were the rights of tabour
and what the rights of capital, and in order to consider
it this meeting had been cony( ned. He believed, if they
took the advice of the chairman, they would secure the
labouring classes the enjoyments of their own industry,
and settle the dispute by placing the men now in idle-
ness in permanent employment, without the aid of their
late employers at all,—(Cheers.) The working classes
had large investments, amounting to many millions; the
trade societies had large investments, amounting to
something like half a million of money. Those invest-
ments were in the hands of various bankersewho, theye_
knew, did not pay interest without deriving benefit. dr.
bankers lent out the money to manufacturers whob e
the
ployed labour, and thus a large profit was made byy
banker and manufacturer and only
to the labourer. It they invested their savings in
of
a small portion came.a
People's Bank, and if by that means associations
working men could be established, those associationslwee
would give employment to the working
not presumed that all the industry a was
h t
consider
w
be employed at once, but they were to d
if by these
practicable at the present time, an of the emouennt.ry could
It was invest-
mentspro-
the whole of those now in idleness could be pro-
fitably employed.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
imear to
posed that a joint-stock bank shoulcibe work-
ingfortmbeedcboafirman,
men—that some gentleman, cerepany—that it
should be placed at the head of that parliament—that it
should be incorporated by Act of
that, gdnta
should be made a legal instrument for investing the sav-
ings of the working classes;
of the same machinery as and
thebuildsoinmgesmociiieltioienss)osffheorueldd,
the accumulated funds (perhaps
of associative workshops,
be applied to the establishmentowould be benefited by full
whereby the different traders
tbt
whether they were an‘xvio,olu,
their labour.—(Loud cheers.)
employment being given
It would he tested to-nigh
Leoaur nde seth,etehrel)
a scheme such as that. If
for the accomplislanent
uhlsdo
they were, and entered
secure a triumph in t
d resolved to extricate h
bhisauc_opbontesitt.ln(
Arnelg
never sign the infamouedtscu-
at all hazards in an honourable'l3a-
amated Socleerst
selves from that
manner, but they
wouldeente
read by their chair
ment which had been
of British t tnae, because it
aimed at the heart freedom.—(Vehement
cheers.) For
d injustice.
eight weeks they had sto be truggled against
what they believed to
,Since the closing of
etabushments, t ey had paid the whole
the employe hers ses. per week, d
of their menthe. an the whole of the
connected
non-society men, vitth the trade, 101. per
Different trade societies bad sent large contri-
week.
s, and the public had liberally subscribed • but
batio
their fends, which were 25,0001, had been reduced to
16,0001. or 17,0001., and there was no knowing how
long
this contest would last. So long as that document
remained on the doors of the rutinufttoturer, the men