The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

NORFOLK ESTUARY COMPANY.

Yesterday afternoon the twelfth half-yearly meeting
of the shareholders in this company was held at the
Gray's-inn Coffee-house, Holborn, Sir W. B. Foulkes,
Bart., presiding. The advertisement convening the
meeting having been read, it was proposed to affix the
seal of the company to the registry of the shareholders,
when

Mr. PARNELL said he should oppose the completion of
this form until he was assured that the list to be sealed
was a correct one. According to the notice which had
been read, it was proposed that the meeting should be
made special fur the purpose of confirming the forfei-
ture of 490 shares, a course which had been recom-
mended by the directors, because the calls made upon
those shares had not been paid up. Some time ago as
many as 859 shares were forfeited in a similar manner,
a circumstance, he thought, which inflicted deep injury
apon the great body of proprietors.—(Hear, hear.)
Amongst the list of defaulters were many persons who
had means of paying, but who by this means had got
rid of their liabilities. In one case a gentleman who held
a considerable number of shares had been allowed to for-
feit half of them, and to retain the remainder, one Of
the grossest pieces of injustice ever perpetrated in any
company. It had been stated by the directors in 1850
that the affairs of the company could not be carried oil
with any prospect of success unless there were 6,000
paid-up shares. He believed that at the present time
there was nothing like that number.
The CHAIRMAN replied that there were 5,947 paid-UP
shares, being within 53 of the number, and added that
the directors had never allowed a forfeiture of shares,
except in cases where they were sure that legal
proceed-
ings to recover the calla would be productive of loss both
of time and money.
Many of the shareholders complained of the forfeitures
which had been made, and suggested that the resolution
authorising that act should be rescinded, and a long dis-
cussion ensued.
Eventually the following resolution, moved by Mr.
WILSON and seconded by Lord ORFORD, was unani-
mously adopted:—" That this meeting authorises the
fixing to the list of shareholders the seal of the company,
upon the restoration to that list of the names of those
shareholders whose shares were declared forfeited at the
last meeting, but for which they aro still held legally
liable, until those shares have been sold or transferred to
other hands."
The report was then read by Mr. WING, the secretary.
It stated that at the last half-yearly meeting the direc-
tors were enabled to report favourably with regard to
the progress of their works, and regretted that they
could not speak in equally satisfactory terms on the pre-
sent occasion, the works having been entirely stopped
by a decision of the Court of Chancery, to the effect
that their proceedings were at variance with the powers
committed to them by Parliament. The directors had
offered what they considered fair and equitable terms to
the Ean Brink Commissioners, the promoters of the
suit, but they would listen to no. propositions, and the
company would consequently have to go to Parliament
next session for a short Bill conferring upon them new
powers. Sir W. Cubitt, Sir John Rennie, Mr. Borth-
wick, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Stephenson, and Mr. Rendel, and
other eminent engineers, had reported that the manner
in which the works had been carried on was well
adapted to secure the important object the company had
in view, and there could be little doubt, therefore, that
a Bill for fresh powers would be obtained without
difficulty.
The report having been adopted,
The CHAIRMAN announced that, in consequence of
the resolution which had been come to respecting the
forfeiture of shares on a previous occasion, the directors
would not now recommend the forfeiture of 490 addi-
tional shares, as had been intended, but would leave the
matter in abeyance until a competent legal opinion
could be obtained as to the power of rescinding the re-
solution previeu.ly adopted. _ _ _

Some routine business was dispatched, and a vote of
thanks to the chairman and board of directors closed
the proceedings, which were throughout of an unusually
lengthened and inharmonious character.

A GAS MANAGER CAUGHT NAPPING.-00, Tues-
day last, the anniversary of the marriage of the Right Hon.
the Earl and Countess of Seafield, a ball and supper were
given by the noble pair, at Cullen House, to commemmorate
the happy event. Cullen House and premises have been for
a considerable time back lighted with gas from the wurks of
the Cullen Gas Company. But about twelve o'clock the
ball-room was suddenly enveloped in utter darkness—every
light in that spacious apartment, as well as in the numerous
.
apartments Cullen House, being extinguished. Messen-
gers were instantly dispatched to Cullen to ascertain the
cause, when the manager was found snugly esconced in bed,
and the gas at the works completely exhausted. This tem-
porary interruption to the pleasures of the evening was,
however, remedied with as little delay as possible, by the
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THE LONDON GAZETTE, Aug. 31.
ADMIRALTY, AUG. 20.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentlemon Cadet Henry
Day Rybot to be Second Lieutenant.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutlandshire.
George Fludyer, Esq,, to be Deputy Lieutenant,
Aug. 26.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumber-
landshire.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, Aug. 11.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Pa-
latine of Lancashire.
John Rigby, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug. 24.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Surrey.
Royal Surrey )Ailitia—Lieutenant-Colonel William
Holme Sumner L. be Colonel of Ithe Ist Regiment of
the Royal Surrey Militia, vice James Bogle Delap, de-
ceased.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire.
Derby and Chaddesden Troop of Derbyshire Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Cornet John Gilbert Crompton to be
Lieutenant; Robert Edward Eardley Wilmot, Esq., to
be Cornet, vice Crompton, promoted, Aug. 27.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Yorkshire.
East York Militia—Charles Thornton Duesbury to be
Ensign, vice Colin Watson, resigned, Aug. 20; William
Henry Ward to be Ensign, vice John Smith, deceased;
John Milner to be Surgeon, vice Matthew Chalmers,
deceased, Aug. 2'l.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Thomas Lindfield, jun., builder, Stanhope-street,
Hampstead-road.
James Hurn, miller, Gedney-hill, Lincolnshire.
BANKRUPTS.
William Hoare, builder, Manor-place, Walworth-
road, to surrender Sept. 6, at two, and 0ct.15, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basiughall-street; Lee, Regent-square, St. Pancras.
George Battersby, victualler, Turnham-green, Mid-
dlesex, Sept. 13, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 12, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee,
Abcburch-lane; Gammon, Cloak-lane.
Henry Tainsb, dealer in Bibles, Hatton-garden, Sept.
13, at half-past two, and Oct. 19, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-
lane,court, Basin
King William-street; Digby, Circus-place, Fins-
bury-circus.
Thomas Spurging,victualler,Road-side, Mile-end-road,
Camden-
town, Sep
Sept. 13, at two,: and Oct. 12, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
Sambrook-court,
ghall-street; Roberts, Barge-yard-chambers,
Bucklersbury.
Robert Fulkes, ironmonger, Park-street, Camden-
Lombard-Let:3e
Howard James
mills, Staffordshirane
thalf•past one, and Oct. 12, at two, at
the Court of
B a sin Bankruptcy.gh a
R.street;Edwards,
s inorffi official assignee,
Grihbi
Gribble,
eleven, at the Birmingham Oxley, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
and Thomas James, millers, Bushell-
in Sept.t 23, and Oct. 5, at half-past
arci District Court. Whitmore,
Frederick Wale, Birmingham;draper,
official assignee,
L Reece, Birmingham.
8, at ten, at the Birmingham
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Court;,
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Notting-
ham. Bittleston, official ssi Nottingham; Hawker,
Leicester; Hodgson, Birmingham.
Edwin Henry Griffin, merchant, Liverpool, Sept
and October 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool
lDistrict
Ewer,
Liverpool.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ;
Liverpool.
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
John Craven, grocer, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Sept. 9
oficctiBial assignee. Liverpool; Evans, Liverpool.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
and Oct. OR,ichards,
pieman,
New
Cut, Lambeth.
.T. M'Cartney, traveller, Minerva-terrace, Islington.
E. Grant, dairywoman, Bedford-street, Strand.
A. W. Darling, collector of rents, Stabley-street,
Crescent-terrace, Millbank.
J. Sely, clerkdoo
Chelsea.
J. Robson, farm labourer, Addiscomb, Sarrtly.
J. R. Porter, lodging house keeper, Howard-street,
Ef'FiW to attorney
a breewr, St. Pancras.
at-law,
Strand.
E. Drewry, manager at a brewery, Southampton-place,
Camberwell.
C. Somers, Paulton-square, ahelsaa.
17 • Masun,jourueragin optician, Edmunds-place, Alders.
gate-street.