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The examination of M. Maciejewki was then resumed,
and after some evidence of slight importance had been
taken the further hearing of the case was postponed.
Herr Lewald proposed that certain witnesses should 14
called who heard M. Szcz iniecki say, in February, ISS,
that he considered any attempt at insurrection against
Prussia absurd and impossible, and that he would never
take part in such an attempt.
The Court reserved its decision.

would see they had not fully earned the ad interim divi-
dend in July of Ils per share, or at the rate of 22 per cent.
There was a balance of £3,033 to the debit of the account,
of which £1,200 was for income tax, which they ought to
have deducted rateably from the dividend warrants,
so that the actual deficiency on the half-year end-
ing Juno 30 was £1,825, or about 51 per share. If they
had paid 10s 7d per share instead of 1 is the dividend would
have been at the rate of 5.3 per cent. for the year instead of
51 per cent. The prospects of the ensuing half-year were
not much more favourable than the last. He hoped that
the economy which Mr Clay had recommended would be of
permanent advantage He had reduced the number of per-
sons employed on the lino from 462 to 305—(hear)—and
had also:suggesfed very judicious measures as to the distri-
bution of stores,v hich would lead to some din•.inution of ex-
penditure ; but that could not take effect at ones to the full
extent, because they had engagements to the end of the year
with English workmen, On the other hand, the expense
of maintaining the way would be increased by the substitu-
tion of new sleepers in the place of the decayed sleepers.
The decay had been more rapid than was anticipated. The
dividend foi the year he estimated would be about £5 6s
per cent. (Hear.) With respect to their traffic, there were
clearances of land in the neighbourhood of the railway,
which indicated that agriculture was extending on land ad-
joining or near the railway. They were also succeeding
slowly in diverting the traffic from its original channels.
The planters were so wedded to the old routes that it was
only with the greatest difficulty that any of them could be
prevailed upon to give up those routes. At three places on
their line some very wealthy gentlemen were about forming
business connections with the railway. The places were
Alagoinhas, Matta, and at a place near Bahia. Those
gentlemen were going to build warehouses, and had asked
the company to find the rails and requisite materials for
sidings to those warehouses, and they would find the labour.
He thought, on the whole, that their prospects were good
and favourable.

On the 19:1 M. Bleszynski was examined. He admitted
having purchased and forwarded arms for the insurgents,
but denied having had any hostile intentidn towardsPrusia.
Messrs. ZAblocki and Czapski, accused of having sent
carts full of arms to the frontier, acknowledged that they
did so, but said that they did not know what was in the
carts wbich they found on their estates.
M. Leon do Martwell was next examined. lie asserted
that the papers found upon him, which were stated to be
lost, must be in the possession of the plice. The transla-
tions put in by the prosecution were quite incorrect, and
did not at all agree with the originals.
The Crown Prosecutor (indignantly)—Surely you do
not mean to state that Prussian employes have forged any
documents ?

Herr Elven—l have repeatedly offered to prove that the
police employes in Posen, from the president ,to the lowest
policeman, havie forged documents, but I have never been
allowed to prove this.

The President—l think we may now leave this statject.
Dr Niegolewski—Not at all. Documents may at any

moment be produced which proved that the Posen police
have presented to the Court a forged proclamation as a real
one.

The matter then dropped,
After some further evidence had been taken in the case
of M. de Martwell, who denied having taken any part in the '

insurrection, the Court liberated M, ZAblocki till the let
November, but refused to liberate M. CzApaki.
The proceedings on the 20th began with the examination

of M, J. Rohr, the next of the accused on the list.
M. Rohr deposed as follows—ln 1816 I left Berlin and
proceeded to Lithuania to prepare an insurrection there. I
was arrested and severely examined during two years, at the
end of which time I was sentonced by a military tribunal to
15 years' hard labour in Siberia. The Czar altered the sen-
tence, ordering me first to receive 1,000 blows with a stick,
and if I survived, to work for 12 years in the mines of Sibc.
ria. I survived the torture, and the general in command
was disgraced by the Czar because I had not died under it.
I was then sent in chains to Tobolak, whence I proceeded on
foot with a company of malefacors to Siberia. My journey
lasted more than 11 months, There I remained seven or
eight years, and was pardoned after the treaty of Paris,
since which I worked in the office of Makowski and Co., at
Dantzic,

Mr T. M. IVEGuEfax, M.P., seconded the motion for the
adoption of the report.
A long discussion ensued, in which Mr L. Cooke, Mr
G. Simpson, Mr C. Nicholson, Captain Gossett, Mr Goez,
and other shareholders took part, expressing considerable
dissatisfaction with the present position of the company,
the smallness of the traffic, and the disproportion of the
receipts to the working expenses, whereby the guaranteed
dividend paid by the Brazilian Government was reduced to
something like the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, instead
of being at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum,
Tho CHAIRMAN defend6d the directors, contending that
they had done everything they had promised; they had
constructed the railway for a specified sum and had not ex-
ceeded the estimated cost. It was stated that the sleepers
had decayed more rapidly than was expected and the re-
newal of them formed a large item against revenue. The
maintenance of the way and works would, owing to the na-
ture of the climate and soil, be costly for some years to
come.

After some unimportant evidence, Herr Elven proposed
that the accused be liberated, paying at the same time a
high tribute to his patriotism and the courage with which.
he bore his almost unexampled sufferings.
F. W. Johannson, merchant, of Konigsberg, was next
called. He said he had never sold arms to the Poles, and
that he wished he could have given them more assistance
than he did.

The report was adopted.
On the motion of Mr NronoEsoN, seconded by Mr GOEZ,
resolutions were unanimously passed to the cffect, that a
committee of shareholders be appointed to confer with the
directors on the present position and future prospects of the
undertaking, and propose such measures in conjunction with
the Board as might seem to them desirable in the interests
of the shareholders, and to report their opinions to a future
meeting of the company, and that the committee consist of
Messrs Holloway, G. Simpson, Goa, Morgan, and C.
Nicholson.

After a sharp discussion regarding the manner in which
the prosecution conducted their case, in the course of which
the president admitted that it was not quite clear that the
prosecution were right, the Court liberated Mr. Johannson
temporarily, but refused to liberate M. Rohr, alter which it
adjourned to the 22d.

The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the
chairman and directors.

COPILPO EXTENSION.

The half-yearly meeting of this company (the Pabollon
and Chanareillo, under the law of Chili) was held on Friday
at the offices, 2, New Broad-street—Mr Holland in the
chair.

The report stated that there had been an expenditure on
the capital account, up to the 30th June last, of £200,463,
being an increase of £379. The traffic account for the year
ending the same date showed receipts to the amount of
£16,240, against the sum of £13,090 for the previous year.
The balance to the profit and loss account was now £7,403,
being an increase during the year of £3,406, alter paying
£1.,:193 interest on ebentures, bonds, and loans.

The CHAIR:NU:sr moved the adoption of the report, which
he said showed a satisfactory increase in the receip:s of
nearly £3,200 ; and, dedue in g the increased cost of working,
there had been a positive result of !,2CO better than the
previous year. The increase in the traffic of the line since
the opening in 1559 had been slow, but it had been steady,
and the reports received from the manager led to the belief
that the increase would continue. The manager in Chili
informed the directors that a company whose property was
connected with this line proposed to form a new lino to
mineral districts eastward, and if that were done a great
advantage would accrue to this company, as the extension
would open, it was reported, a rew channel of permanent
income and benefit. The report prezented was :ir encou
raging one. The re was a positive profit of £7,490, which
ought to be in the pockets of the shareholders, and that it was
not was owing to peculiar circumstances. The share capital
of the company was but little over £76,000, while the ex-
penditure had exceeded that amount, and though the direc •
tors had authority to issue debentures to the amount of
£20,000, there remained bonds to the amount of £7,000 yet
to be issued to make up that sum. The profits had there-
fore been used in the place of the unissued debenture bonds,
and as soon as the money could he replaced with that from
the debenture bonds, the earnings would be at the disposal
of the proprietors. Ho concluded by moving the adoption
of the report.
Mr FLETCHER, seconded the motion.

Mr SURGEY expressed an opinion that the unissued
debentures might have been taken up if they had been
brought to the public notice, considering that they bore 7
per cent interest, and were well secured.

After some conversation, the report was approved, and
the direction was advised to press the debentures upon the
public as soon as the money market became easier.

A vuto of thanks to the directors concluded the pro■
ceedingi.

The Great Polish Trial at Berlin.

Last week's session was opened on the 17th, The pro-
ceedings commenced by the reading of certificates from the
president of the Posen police, Herr von Baereusprung and
others relative to M. Rekowaki, all of which testified to
his being a quiet, respectable man, who did not mix in
politics. Some unimportant evidence was then taken in the
case of IC Drodnicki, alter which a witness named Glnz-
kowsk was heard against M. Mittlestadt, whom he accused
of having called upon him for taxes, and threatened him
with punishment by the National Government on his re-
fusing to pay. The documents he put in in proof of these
statements were examined by the experts, who, however,
disagreed in their judgment upon them, the Germans de-
claring they were in M. Mittelstadt's handwriting, and the
Poles that they wore not. The same difference of opinion
was shown in the case of the document attributed to Count
Brinski.

The defence then submitted that Messrs, Rekowski,
Brodnicki, Malezewski, Krasicki, and Kierski be liberated,
and Count Brinski given a fortnight's leave.
The Court refused to liberate any of these gentlemen,
and announced that Messrs. Rekowski and Brinski might
be granted leave if they asked for it in writing.
After some discussion regarding a letter attributed to
General Taczanowski, which, it was alleged, compromised
Dr. Niegolewski, the accused Abbe Cichowski and J. Bana.
szak were examined. It was alleged by the prosecution
that the estate of M. Casimir Chlapowski, son of the well-
known general of that name, was one of the centres of re•
volution in Posen, and that materials of war were manu-
factured there by Banaszak, under the superintendence of
the Abbe Cichowski. The abbe, however, denied having had
anything to do with the matter, and Banaszak said he had
made the arms, &c., at the order of an unknown person
who promised to pay him well for them.
The Court here stopped the proceedings, after refusing to
liberate M. Jackowski.

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On the 18th evidence was taken in the case of the
gentlemen who had taken part in the Skorzencin expedi •
tion, but nothing was elicited against them. Herr Elven here
pointed out that in the charge sheet three persons were ac-
cused of high treason in making an indirect attack on the
integrity of the Prussian State, whereas the criminal code
only regarded acts tending directly to high treason as trea-
sonable.

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The Crown Prosecutor rejoined that this was a slip in the
charge-sheet, inasmuch as he regarded war against Russia
as a direct act of hostility to Prussia in the sense of the
code.

The Abbe Gouski was then examined. lie admitted that
ho had given money to volunteers proceeding to the king..
dom of Poland, but said he had nu intention of assisting in
designs against Prussia. _

The Court now liberated tho Abbe Cichowski and Banas-
zak, on the condition that they appeared again on the Ist
November; but refused to liberate the gentlemen belong-
ing to the Skorz?ncin expedition. Baron Soydewitz and
M. Mrowinski protested against this decision, declaring
that tht-y had always respected the Prussian law and never
violated it.

M. S. Macifjewski was then brought up for examination.
The chief evidence against this gentleman lay in the so called
"Paris papers," regarding the admissibility of which a
lively discussion took place.

Herr Brachvogel protested against the papers being read.
When it was announced that they had been seized by
the French Government and sent to the Plussian Govern-
ment through the Russian Embassy in Paris, the French
Government contradicted this sta+ement in its organ the
Ifoniieur, and the contradiction was confirmed by the
Journal clo Ators-Ovury, It therefore appeared that these