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N°. 18,537.] LONDON, THURSDAY VENING SU N FEBRUARY
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Gilbert was charged with_forgery upon the
London Joint Stock Bank.
Mr. Tilson appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Humphreys for the prisoner.
Mr. Tilson said that a gentleman named Orr had
in a business transaction given his acceptance for
1101. to the prisoner, and that on the day that bill
was due a forged bill, the exact counterpart of it, was
also presented for payment at the London Joint-
Stock Bank.
Mr. W. C. Boone, clerk in the London Joint-
Stock Bank, said—On the 4th of Febrtary this bill
(the forgery) was presented by the Union Bank, and
paid to them in their usual change. The bill pur-
ports to be dated the Ist of December, 1851, and to
be drawn by John Gilbert and Co. and accepted " at
the London Joint-Stock Bunk, W. S. Orr and C 0.,"
payable two months after date.
Mr. George Davis, commission agent, Railway-
place, Fenchurch-street, said—l know the prisoner.
I received from him, on the 9th of December, this
(the forged) bill. He asked me to discount it that
day. I did so. I gave him a cheque for 1071. 10s.
on the Union Bank of London. On the 3d of Feb.,
the day before the bill was due, he came to my pri-
vate residence with 1101. in bank notes to pay the bill
on the following day. I told him I would do so. I
afterwards saw him at three o'clock on the 4th of
February. He called to know if I had taken the bill
up. I told him he had better go with me down to
the Union Bank. I had left the money there in the
morning. He went with me to the Union Bank, and
the clerk who has charge of the bills there stated to
me in the prisoner's presence that the bill bad been
paid by the Joint Stock Bank, and he handed me the
money I had left with him to take it up, which money
I then gave to the prisoner.
Mr. IV. S. Orr, of Amen-corner, Paternoster-row,
bookseller and publisher, said—l am acquainted with
the prisoner. Previously to the month of May he
put up a hydraulic press for me ; it was to be a long
credit ; I understood it to be nine months. He asked
me to give him my acceptance of a shorter date. The
understanding was, that when the bill became due he
was to renew the whole or any part of it, as I might
request. When the bill became due I asked him to
renew about 100/. of it. On the morning of the 2?(1
of December I received from him by post his draft
for 1101. It was entered on the back, and I returned
it by post accepted by me the same day. This
(pointing to the genuine bill) is the bill. I only gave
him one acceptance for 110/. This (pointing to the
forged bill) is not my acceptance, nor was it written
by my authority. I never authorised any one to ac-
cept a bill for me.
Cross-examined by Mr. Humphreys—The original
bill was a six months' bill, drawn in May and due in
December, for 1801 3.. 3d. T:iere had been previ-
ous transactions between us. He had put up a steam-
engine for me. I had not been acquainted with him
long, but I am bound to say that up to the present
transaction his conduct had been most exemplary. He
was a most intelligent and able engineer. For the
1101. renewal I received a cheque for 105/. The other
Si. was deducted in consequence of a running account
bet ween us. I have been in communication with the
bankers since, and I know now that the money for the
1101. bill was paid into the London and Joint-Stock
Bank to my account, in the name of Gilbert. It is so
stated in the bank-book. I did not discover that the
110/. had been paid in until last Saturday evening,
and then I found it had been paid in on the 4th inst.
Mr. C. H. H. Wessell, clerk at the Union Bank,
said—The bill produced (the forged acceptance) is
the one for which our bank obtained payment from
the London Joint Stock Bank. The bill was paid
into our bank by Mr. Davis, of Railway-place, Fen-
church-street.
Mr. Humphreys submitted that, although there was
no possibility of denying that there had been great
irregularity upon the part of the unfortunate gentle-
man at the bar in the transaction, there could not have
been the least intenefon of fraud, as the prisoner had
paid in the money to stop the bill at the Union
Bank, before it could have reached the Joint Stock
Bank.

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Mr. Tilson said it was the determination of the
establishment he represented to prosecute, and that
there could be no doubt of the commission of the act
with which the prisoner was charged.
Alderman CUISITT did not believe that the prisoner
had any intention to defraud the Bank, but the ma-
gi,trate had no alternative in the case. It was well
known that extensive frauds had frequently had their
commencement in similar transactions, and it was his
duty to send the case before another tribunal.
The prisoner, upon being asked whether it was his
wish to say anything, replied I am quite innocent of
any fraudulent intention whatever.—Committed for
trial.

GUILDRALL.
William Southwell, mate of the brig Petrel, was
brought up for further examination before Alderman
Humphery and Sir Peter Laurie, on the charge of
assaulting James Harman Crisp, a cab driver, by
casting him wilfully into the River Thames.
This case was remanded from last week for the
attendance of the
principal witness for the prosecu-
tion, who, the Court was given to understand, had
been suborned by the prisoner and his friends, but
having been summoned, he now appeared and was
re-examined.

Police-constable Coombs, L 94, said he k :new the
prisoner herself had been convicted and sent to prison
prisoner to be the wife of a swell mobsms n. The
for three months.

The prisoner was remanded till Wednesda,y next.
SOUTHWARK.
Yesterday Daniel Sullivan, a rough, powerful
looking fellow, was placed at the bar for re-e xamina-
tion, charged with a violent attack on Mr. George
Harris, and robbing him of a valuable gold watch.
The complainant said that he lived on his property,
and that on Saturday night last he went with his
brother to a house in
George-street, Southwark, to
witness a " set-to " between two pugilists. In the
course of the evening, complainant having Lad occa-
sion to proceed to a yard at the rear of the house,
was accompanied by the prisoner to shove him the
way, as he was a stranger. When they got to to the
bottom of the yard the prisoner seized the complain-
ant's watch-obain, drew the watch itself out of his
waistcoat pocket, and by a violent tug broke the chain
and got possession of the watch. Complainant col-
lared him, but he was immediately knocked down by
his assailant, who escaped, but was subsequontly taken
into custody in about two hours afterwards at a house
in Lombard-street, Mint.

The prisoner attempted to prove an alibi by assert-
ing that be was in the City at the time of the alleged
robbery (half-past nine o'clock).
stainiSreedrmgetahadanettinltVhcieurriiegribewts'as no
ontheM division stated, that having
subject, ha had foundationascer-
tained for the alibi at-
tempted to be set up. He was committed.
LAMBETH.
THE ENGINEERS' STRIKfi A. ITS CONSEQUENCES.
—Last evening as the sifting magistrate, Mr. Elliott,
having disposed of the
wahso
two men presented
themselves before him and requested some pecuniary
was boofutthe to
business
leave the e
of bench,
en
the ch,
day,
assistance on behalf of themselves and a number of
their fellow-workmen, and their families, who were
at present suffering great privations.
From the statements of the applicants, who gave
their names as Nicholas Murray and John' Cassy, it
appeared that they had been deputed by a vast body
of unskilled labourers in the iron trade, now suffering
through the pending claims of the operative engi-
neers, by which many thousands of men with their
families have been thrown out of employment with-
out the means of subsistence, to collect subscriptions
on their behalf.
Mr. ELLIOTT briefly replied that he did not wish
to interfere between master and workmen, and could,
therefore, afford them no relief. The applicants,
however, thanked him for the kindness and patience
with which his worship bad heard them, and then
withdrew.

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ELECTION OF
attheshareholdersNineof
Elmsthe
above DIRECTORS. 4
Thecom adjournedpanywanas
yesterday,meeting of
the
station, for the purpose of receiving the report of the
scrutineers appointed at the previous meeting to take
the votes on the election of three directors in the
place of Mr. Lacey, M.P., Mr. Scott, M.P., and Mr.
Reed, who had offered themselves for re-election. Mr.
Smith (the deputy-chairman of the London and
North- Western Railway Company) presided.
The three candidates nominated in opposition to
Mr. Mr. Mortimer (stock-
the retiring candidates are Mr. Sergeant Gazelee,
bro Helps (barrister), and
Helps
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business
said he regretted to hear that objections had be
en
made by both the scrutineers to the votes that had
of the day,
been taken. The objections in question were of a
technical character, and it therefore had been thought
right by the board to obtain the assistance of a gen-
tleman of legal eminence (Mr. Lloyd) for the pur-
pose
of guiding him (the Chairman) in his decision
.
respecting the votes that had been
objected to. Per-
haPs the most convenient mode of proceeding would
be, for the secretary to read the number of votes re-
corded for the respective candidates, though any of
such votes would of course be subject to being struck
off if the objections to them were found to be valid.
To this it was observed that the scrutineers—one of
whom,
Viz., the gentleman chosen by the directors,
was stated to hold an appointment under the com-
pany's solicitor—had not made any report. It was
stated that the scrutineer on the part of the new can-
didates made objections to certain votes, but that the
directors' scrutineer was of opinion that such objec-
tions were not within the province of scrutineers ;
that the first-mentioned scrutineer desired to call in
counsel to decide whether such objections were or
were hot within the scope of the scrutineers' duty,
but that the directors' scrutineer refused to agree to
such a course, and that it was only the latter scruti-
neer who had looked at the number of votes recorded.
The scrutineer on the part of the directors affirmed
that he did not refuse to consent to the appointment
of an assessor; but that the scrutineer on the part of
the new candidates declined to state what the points
behalf of Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, Mr. Helps,
were that he should submit to the decision of an
assessor.
The CHAIRMAN said if the scrutineer appointed on
Mortimer had refused to go into the votes, it was his
(the scrutineer s)
fault, and that as the scrutineers
he should be guided in his (the Chairman's)
had not been able to agree upon the appointment of
and Mr.
an assessor, it was his (the Chairman's) duty to ap-
point an assessor. his advice
He had done so, and by
decision
upon the validity of questioned votes.
Sergeant GAZELER Objected to the appointment of
an assessor by the Chairman as an act of injustice. The
board bad exerted themselves in every possible way to
secure the re-election of the three old members ; they
had thrown the whole of their own votes into the
scale in their favour ; the three solicitors of the com-
pany had voted for then;
citors had fixed and now one of those soli-
ofon an assessor by whom the fate
the election was for the present to be decided. He
would propose that the who
should be referred
t 3 Mr. Justice Patteson, who had just retired from
the bench, and that all parties should be bound by his
decision. He thought that Mr. Justice Patteson
would not refuse to decide on the matter, but to pro-
vide against his refusal, he
would be bound by the
decision of any counsel he
(Mr. Justice Patteson \
e might appoint. If the direc-
tors would not listen to so just a proposition, he
thought no reasonable man could quarrel with any
shareholder who might feel inclined to carry the
(Mr. Sergeant Gazelee)
question to the last court in the kingdom.
The CHAIRMAN said they
must o on with the
business of the meeting. g
The statement of the
number of votes was then
read as follows :
Votes for Mr. Reed .'14,673
Mr. Scott .• . •••
Mr. Lacy ..
... 14,607
ff
,1 Mr. Mortimer 14,100
..: . 13,486
If Sergeant Gazele® •••
13 428
Mr. Helps
ff
• •
Mr. Sergeant GAZELER then .. 12,999
that all th e
disputed votes be referred
to moved"uhsel that he might name.
The motion was seconded, and
consultation, after some little
the decision of Mr.
y
Justice Patteson, or an

issued, which will require 13,6411. 7s. 6d., leaving a
balance, after deducting income-tax, of 1,394/. 16s, Id.,
to be carried to the revenue of the current half-year.
The dividend for the year 1851 will therefore be
4s. 6d. a share, as compared with 2s. for the year
1850.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.
On Tuesday the half-yearly meeting of this Qom-
pany was held at the D Grey Rooms, York, when
the chair was taken by Mr. H. S. Thompson.
The report of the directors was, with the exception
of the recommendation respecting the proposed York
Hotel, adopted.
The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend, after
the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the Consolidated
—Curried.
e company be paid on the 25th February.

II The meeting was then made special for the purpose
of considering the propriety of applying to Parlia-
ment in the next session for power to construct the
works and effect the objects mentioned in the three
following Bills—viz., a Bill to enable the company to
make a railway to the Victoria Dock at Bull ; a Bill
to enable the Lancashire and Yorkshire and this com-
pany to enter into arrangements as to the working
and management of portions of their railways ; and a
Bill for amalgamating the East and West Yorkshire
Junction Railway Company and this company, and
for vesting the undertaking of the former company in
that of the latter,
These Bills were severally approved, with little or
no discussion ; and thanks having been voted to the
Chairman, the meeting separated.

WHITEHAVEN JUNCTION.
The fourteenth half•yearly general meeting of the
shareholders in the Whitehaven Junction Railway
was held on Saturday last, in the Savings' Bank, Low-
ther-street, Whitehaven, the Earl of Lonsdale, chair-
man of the board of directors, presiding.
It appears from the report that the receipts of the
company for the half-year have amounted to 5,907/.
Os. Eid., and the expenditure 2,9511. 6s. 3d.
The balance in the profit and loss account available
for a dividend is 1,1131.25. Gd., and it was proposed
to divide 4s. per share, which would leave a sum of
1131. 2s. 6d. to be carried to the credit of the next
account.

The report was adopted and carried.
A dividend of 4s. per share (less income-tax) was
declared for the half-year ending 31st December, 1851.

AIRDRIE AND BATHGATE.

The usual half-yearly meeting of this company was
held on Tuesday, in the Star Hotel. Mr. P. Black-
burne in the chair.

A report for the previous half-year (there not
having been then a quorum present) was submitted,
from which it appeared that the balance in hand at
that date was 6,7711., and that the sum of 1,1961. was
recommended to be paid to the shareholders as in-
terest, at the rate of 4 per cent. In the last half-
yearly report the directors also recommended an ap-
plication for the dissolution of the company.
The report was approved of, Mr. LAMOND, for
himself and Mr. J. Ewing, dissenting and protesting.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Watkins) then read the re-
port for the half-year just ended, which showed that
the balance in hand was 6,8801., from which it was
recommended to make a payment of 1,1961. to the
shareholders as interest.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report,
which, having been seconded,
Mr. J. EwiNu, seconded by Mr. LAmoND, moved
as an amendment, that the report be not approved of;
but on it being put to the vote the amendment was
negatived.

William Joyce, in answer to the Alderman, said
he understood the cabman had settled the matter out
of court, and was to receive 51. by way of compensa-
tion for the injury he had sustained. Witness
accordingly went out to drink with the captain of the
brig, who then gave him (witness) a sovereign for
himself to induce him to keep out of the way. Not
feeling in a state to give evidence after what be had
drank, he took the sovereign and went away. It was
the captain who stood treat.
Alderman HUMPHERY remarked that on the last
occasion tho captain swore that he had not treated the
witness to any drink, neither had he been instrumen-
tal in preventing his appearance in court.
The captain here stated he was not sworn on the
day of the remand, for he never touched the book.
Alderman HUMPEIERY said if he did not touch the
book when the oath was administered, that trick was
too common to save him from an indictment for
perjury if he swore falsely. He then ordered the
captain into the witness-box.

:Benjamin Thaxter, the captain of the brig, having
been sworn, admitted that he treated the witness
Joyce to a pint of beer, and also that he gave him a
sovereign, but explained that it was at the urgent ad-
vice of the witness's friends and the concurrence of
the prisoner, whose money it was. He gave nothing
out of his own pocket, but paid the money on the
prisoner's account out of what was due to him. He
further added that the witness then said, the c,
old cabman might go and be d—d for what he
cared."

On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the retiring
directors were re-elected.
LAMOND called attention to a clause in a Bill
now being promoted by the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway Company, which, if passed, would relieve
them of the whole of their obligations to this com-
pany ; and moved, that the directors be instructed to
petition against the insertion of the clause, and that
the necessary steps be taken to have it expunged.
Mr. EWING seconded the motion.
The CHAIRMAN, on the ground that no notice had
been given of the motion, declined to put it to the
meeting, against which Mr. Lamond protested for
himself and others.

Alderman HUMPHERY said the captain had now
contradicted on oath all that he had previously stated,
and the only excuse he made for telling all these lies
was that he was not sworn.

SPECIAL MEETING.
The shareholders then resolved themselves into a
special meeting, for the purpose of considering and
determining whether application should be made to
the Railway Commissioners for power to abandon the
railway.

The witness Joyce here said that when he received
the sovereign, Alexander Reed, the pugilist, and a
man know as a hanger-on, were with him, and said
they were to have .ss. each out of the money. Joyce
said he did not want it, as he was sure he should be
obliged to come up here again ; he, however, gave
them is. each, and spent the rest.
The captain again asserted the money was not his
own.
Sir P. LAURIE said it did not signify whether the
money belonged to the captain or any one else, as he
was the party who gave the money to the witness to
defeat the ends of justice. The unfortunate cabman
had had a very narrow escape, and if the case had
rested with him instead of Alderman Ilumphery, he
would have indicted the captain with the prisoner.
Alderman HUMPHERY said that was his opinion on
the last examination, but the absence of the witness
Joyce rendered it absolutely necessary to remand the
case. It was a very serious matter and no man under
such circumstances would have trifled with the law in
the manner the captain had done if be were innocent
of any share in the transaction. He should, therefore,
latTtehre's
case recog
was nizatnhcenes
r❑in em 4aonl.de to appear.
commit the prisoner for trial, and indict the captain
at the Old Bailey. He would, however, take the
ions to be prepared, and
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was
were atthpiepllewaSrittnuersdaseys, for the
and the cabin-bob,
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trial.
Jane at
brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having
railway shares of ge valuestolen a banker's book containing
of
N 0.21
__ of 2,8001., the property of
Captain Stanton,l Henrietta-street, Caven-
dishon Tuesdaye evenin
into an omnibus in Parliament-street, g he got
The complainant said,
square.
banker's book in his pocket, which
containedet.lle had his
1001. Midland railway shares, and twe
nt twenty
40/,
land shares, besides a small glass. The mid..
prisoner sat
next to him in the omnibus. At Regent-circus three
persons got cut of the omnibus, and complainant then
missed his book. He called to the conductor, and
told him of his loss. A constable was called, and the
prisoner given into custody. The book was not found.
When the prisoner was taken into custody she
Protested she was a respectable married woman with
four children, living in the Albany-rood, Camberwell.

The-CHAIRMAN moved that application be made in
the usual,way to the Commissioners for the purpose of
dissolving the company ; which motion having been
seconded,

Mr. LAMOND, seconded by Mr. EWING, moved that
no such application be made.
Scrutineers were then appointed to ascertain the
number of shareholders who had signified their ap-
proval of the proposal, and those who had disapproved
of it, when it was found that 11,310 were favour-
able, and 530 adverse to the winding up of the
company.
The CHAIRMAN then declared that three-fifths of
the shareholders had given their assent to the appli-
cation.
The meeting afterwards adjourned.

The CHAIRMAN said the board had no objection to
the proposition of Mr. Sergeant
Gazelee, but, of
ur
cose, the candidates must first assent to the propo-
siti
Mron.
.-
of the three retiring
directory,
election) objected.
Mr. Reed said he objected because the course taken
by the scrutineer on behalf of Mr. Sergeant Gazelee,
disfranchise many of the voters
i Ac
andY andcandidates Alr
R E
Bfbo r (two r re-election)
Mr. Mortimer, and Mr. Help.
s, was
calculated to
inquired the number of share-
was o
Idler; s IwiEhLorhsanderveotiendq.

which The Directors said the numbers Were
Mr. Sergeant GAzaLEE.—We havennot known.
126 votes.
A long desultory discussion ensued,
Majority of
Ser-
geant Gazelee stated that Mr. Chaplin)int hvvhi
of the company, had paid-up calls.to e chairman
the extent of
28,0001. so late as the 2d instant to enable him to
vote, and that he had given 640 votes in
the retiring directors ; that the directors favour of
given 1,400 votes against the new alone had
candidates
that if those, as well as the votes of the officersesand
the company, were struck off, there would be
a of
very
large majority against the re-election of the old
directors.
Mr. MORTIMER said the charge against the scruti-
neer on the part of himself, Mr. Sergeant Gazelee,
and Mr. Helps, of a desire to disfranchise
share-
holders, came with a bad grace from Mr. Reed, inas-
much as the other side had absolutely obected to
votes because the word "undertaking," instead of
"company," had been used in the proxy papers.
Much more discussion ensued, and the three new
candidates ultimately consented, so far as they are
concerned, to abide by the decision of the Chairman,
as guided by the counsel appointed by the directors.
The meeting was then adjourned till the 25th inst.

EASTERN UNION.
A meeting of shareholders of the above company
was held on Tuesday at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, for the purpose of having laid before them
the report of the committee of proprietors appointed
in August last to confer with the directors concerning,
and to investigate, the affairs of the undertaking. Mr.
Holt was in the chair. The advertisement by which
the meeting had been convened having been read,
Mr. STURGB (of Birmingham), one of the com-
mittee, presented the report, the reading of which
occupied nearly two hours. It contained a review of
such of the past transactions of the company as were
necessary to a clear understanding of the causes
which have led to its present unhappy position, and
which require to be considered in devising means
to extricate the company from its present difficul-
ties ; the proceedings of the committee, showing the
inquiries they have made into several matters, with
their remarks thereon ; the present state of the en-
gagements and obligations of the company, and the
measures available towards meeting the same, and
what further amount is required to rescue the com-
pany from the wasteful consequences of law
proceedings by which the directors are harassed;
remarks on a Bill now before Parliament for raising
money and altering the present existing rights
of preference shareholders, and a consideration
whether it would not be for the advantage of the
company that the number of the directors be reduced,
and especially to provide that all general half-yearly
and special general meetings be held in London. The
report referred to the origin of the company, pointing
out the sort of "family party" by whom a line of a
few miles in length had been bound up with various
other schemes; and touched upon some apparently
objectionable share matters, with which it would seem
several of the negotiations of the directors had been
connected. It was also stated that one of the direc•
tors had transferred upwards of two hundred shares,
subject to considerable calls, to a person who is not
to be found. The committee had submitted nume-
rous questions to the directors, who, by the advice
of counsel, declined to give " categorical" answers
to them ; but at an interview between the board
and the committee answers of a general character,
but not at all of a satisfactory character, had been
verbally returned to some of such questions. The
debts of the company were estimated by the report
at 348,3611. On the credit side was the sum of
84,7351., leaving a balance of 263,526/. against the
company. In addition to this there is the sum of
40,0001: arrears of interest on the ten per cent.ptree-
ference shares, making the total balance against h
company 394,3611.
It is very probable that much of the case which
appears to be made out of illegal courses pursued by
the directors will come before the Committee on the
' Bill which the company have in Parliament.
Mr. SMITH thought the time had arrived for the
shareholders to take the management of the company's
affairs into their own hands, and he had n. o doubt if
mi be
they would pull together the
company ght got
out of its difficulties. He suggested that a comooumfldeitatebh
eee
of preference and originshareholders—threethrsehe
—should be appointed to consider whaterthe
company
done under the circumstances in which
was placed.
the
terms Eastern
from Mr. HARDING as to
After some observations
the advantages of coming to terimswith
the
Counties Company, and .ofascertaining
upon which they were willing to treat for an amal-
gamation, a motion for the reception of the report of
the committee was carried.
Mr. MARRIOTT said he represented a distinct body
of shareholders,
who had held meetings on the sub-
ject, and had appointed a committee having sinai-
lar objects in view to those entertained by the other
shareholders. The motion he had to propose was to
the effect "that the most probable mode of speedily
extricating this company from its embarrassments is
to promote an amalgamation of all the rail-
ways east of the Great Northern Company; and that
Messrs. J3rowne, Underwood, Holt Hardy, Fisher,

LONDON AND BLACK WALL.
We find by the report to be presented at the thirty-
first half-yearly general meeting of proprietors, to be
held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on
Tuesday, the 24th day of February, 1852, at twelve
o'clock, that the directors recommend the declaration
of a dividend 2s. 6d. a share upon the 109,131 shares

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