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RAIL WAY_'INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Alderman SoLomous demanded a poll, upon which
scrutineers were appointed, and the voting commenced
forthwith, and being concluded in a very short time, th
Chairman decl2red the numbers to be—
For the resolution...
Against it ...

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sQuE-I-E,NsrEriN RAILWAY.
A apecial, n e:ink,,of this eompany took place yebter-
thy at thei3fieg,house Hotel; 'Mr. Jame 3 Macgregor
in the chair.

NEW AND CHEAPF.R EDITION.
Now ready, in 2 vcl,3. post 3v0., 15s. bound,
JAPAN and the JAPANESE

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Comprising the Narrative of
A THEEE YEARS' CAPTIVITY IN JAPAN;
Viritla an Account of British Commercial Intercourse with that
country.
• By Captain GOLOW.NIN.
" No European has been able, from personal observation and ex-
perience, to communicate a tenth part of the intelligence furnished
by tin, writ...r." British Review.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

The ni;:4ing..,Was called for the
.purpose of cocsij°c-
ing the draft o- f- Bilk by4whieh it is intended to iniog.i
the undertakiag the—fteadin(2; -Guildford, and Rvi-
gate Railway Opropany in the tio'aertaking of the Sou:h-
Eastern Railway Company, and to dissolve the former
company.
The Seefetary havkng the notice convening the
meeting.
under the cuti liAiß:ildemrataliioildi of-thteh-e meeting
-Billw which
hawd passed the
was
tocome
House of COmMons, and hadheen read t:. first time in
the Lords. There lied he-en no alteration in the prin-
ciple of the but the -41,0002- per annum, payable
under the existing leaae,was by; this Bill divided into
annuities, payable to those who hold the stock of the
Reading, Guildford, atid_Reigate Company. The ob-
iiencotrodferthteo'Boilvlov‘idastfit9o enlx4pelgro ant;
manage-
ment, and the subject- hid. been before the pro-
prietors. since the year 1846. Ho (gr. Mac-
gregor) wasi covate that the impression upon the
pass-
ing Age 13ill Would,
minds of some of the
.proprie the
separate
a tCeoMpanies
South-Eastern CompatY,, but he would inform them
that the lease was equally valid without this Act of Par-
liamentthe
of
At the presert_time the Reading, Guildford,
and Reigate line was an incomplete and mutilated under-
taking, and the views of the „proprietors since 1846 had
been that kiyinaeatis of, this line the narrow-gauge lines
in the south would acquire means, of communication with
the narrow-gauge linea in the north; and it was a pledge
to Parliament, on the .art _ef the Great Western, in
1846, that:46y .well • I
Oxford to Reading, an 4 Duringstdice, which would- have
made the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, a very valu-
able property. ,The Object had been so frequently dis-
cussed at the meetings.ofo y, lis company gauge from_
that he thought
it unnecessary to do on the present occasion than
propose :that the Bill be approved.
The motion having,
;been seconded by the deputy-
chairman of the company,
Mr.. J. Wit.s:av inquired whether, under the standing
order& of the House 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 SouciTon had no doubt that the number of votes
would guide the. Committee, and not the number of per-
sons present. •
Mr. WILSON begged to dal. from the legal gentle-
man on that point. Ho (Mr. Wilson) protested against
being 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 ho contended they had no right
to ba burdened with a line which entailed upon them a
lugs. of 36„000/. year.—(blear, hear.) And even
though he should stand alone he would oppose such a
measure. . _

-Majority upon the present occasion ... —8
Mr. WILSON disputed that the standing orders had
bell complied with, which required the assent of four-
fifths of the proprietors preterit.
The CHAIRMAN said the return of the vote,. would be
sent to the committee, who would determine upon the
point.
The meeting then separated.

CONVERSIONof the CRYSTAL PALACE into a
CRYSTAL TOWER, 1000 FEET HIGH.

It is proposed to build an enormous tower (a sort of
antithesis to the tower of ancient Babylon) of the ma-
.terials of the glass palace, preserving, as much as is con-
sistent with the new design, all the features of that struc-
ture, with a view of perpetuating the great event of the
year 1851, and forming a depository of every branch of
art and manufacture our own kingdom produces, as well
as a choice collection of exotics from the four quarters
of the globe. The material is all ready at hand, and a
site near might easily be found. The building, from the
peculiarity of its design, forms its own scaffold, and the
ground it would occupy is less than one acre, and, with
the proposed terrace round the building, altogether
under four acres. This economy of ground, when com-
pared with the space the glass palace occupies, is an im-
portant consideration in such a place as I.4ondon, where
land is valuable. Before any remarks on the project are
offered, it will be as well to give an explanation of the
various means proposed to be adopted to render so vast
a structure perfectly safe against the strongest hurri-
canes. In the centre is a largo octagon, composed of
twenty-four columns, which spring from the foundation,
in which they are securely imbedded to the very top- of
the building. Adjoining is a decagon, similarly con-
structed, forming the second tower in the elevation, and
rising to the second gallery of 840 feet. The dodecagon
tower also springs from the foundation, a 0 is carried up
to an altitude of 660 feet. We then see ,a rquare of
columns measuring 120 feet on one side: 'this takewise
rises from the foundation to where the clock is placed,
and is surmounted by four turrets. which lend their aid
in supporting the building, and screen in some measure
from the wind those adventurous visitors who arrive at
this aerial promenade. Another square of larger di-
mensions abuts on all these, and rises to a level of 198
feet, upon which four galleries, each 120 feet in length,
are to be constructed. Similar small turrets are to be
placed at the four corners. In addition to this accumu-
lation of strength in columns and girders, a portion of
the south front of the transept is added to eash side of
the square, forming a cross; not only as an abutment,
but with a view of perpetuating the most elegant part
of the present building, and handing down to posterity
the entrance through which so many thousands passel
The four halls of glass formed by this cross might be
reserved for choice plants. &c,, with appropriate statuary
ornamenting the outside and relieving the general effect.
If we suppose four of the upright columns, with four of
the girders attached, and bolted to firmly-fixed cradles
in the foundation, it will give a notion of a hollow cube
of brick or stone of similar dimensions. Were the
building constructed of such cubes, it would not be so
strong or durable as of the material so opportunely pre-
sented. If we imagine a give-and-take line passing
through the section from the outer colonnade columns
curving up through the towers towards the top of the
octagon, a figure similar to the outline of the Eddystone
Lighthouse will be presented to the mind. The clock is
of proportional size to the tower, being 44 feet in
diameter, with figures 10 feet long; its elevation about
440 feet above the terrace, and many feet above the
the cross of St. Paul's; the gallery over it is somewhat
lower than the Great Pyramid of Egypt; and were St.
Paul's Cathedral placed on the top of St. Peter's, there
would then be room for the Nelson's Column, which
would about reach the Crystal Tower's summit. The
little equarea in the octagon represent four carriages or
ascending rooms, which are to be continually running on,
or rather up, a vertical railway, to the glazed gallery at
the top of the octagon, where the visitors may observe
the view around, sheltered from the wind. There is
also a platform gallery on the very summit, for the more
adventurous. The view from any of the galleries would
be magnificent in the extreme.--Messrs. Fox and lien•
derson have expressed their conviction that the project
could be carried out.—Builder.

The CHAIRMAN said the Hon. Proprietor had left out
of sight the fact that an agreement for the lease of this
line was entered into in 1846, before the line was made,
and upon the faith of that agreement the capital of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Company was sub-
cribed; aed he (the Chairman) would leave it to the
gentlemen to say whether in '1852 they would repudiate
au agreement entered into in 1846. As to the legality
of the agreement there had been ample time and oppor•
unity for testing it; but upon that point he would say
there was not the slightest dopht.
Mr. M'LAREN also opposed the Bill, and complained
that throughout the whole transaction the South-Eastern
proprietors hid been irept..in the dark. There had, he
said, been no fi4or thou -three separate arrangements,
all diteeliee• from each other. The chairman had
stated that the tileit agreement was in 1846, but that
was only for leasing the eight miles of line from Read-
ing to Larking, with.abe option of leaving the rest of
the undertaking,, On the -17 ch March, 1847, a fresh
contract, it -Upeeared," Was catered into, by which they
were to pay si per cent. upon a capital of 600,0001 ; and
by the third arrangement the 600,0001. capital was
increased to 800,0004 .200,000/. being at 4i per
cent., and 600,000/. at Si per cent, making the ave-
rage upon the wh01e4300,000/. 5i per cent. He (Mr
IVPLaren) would undertake to say that there was not a
man p:eaent Who wee- riot-in'the 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, and it was to be put into the form of an'an-
nuity to ride over every other responsibility of the com-
pany, bondholders, and all. For his own part he had
never seen any egreemet.t, nor had h© ever been in-
termed, as a proprietor, of the cquival, nts they were to
receive 14 ttiel'ilicent *Oittiealiatiewertef--'n'tereat on
:he 800,0001. of the Capital et Ree
and Reigate Company. lie believed ' bad shown
a 1 Guildford,
satradent reasons why they Aniutel not s suppe9rtthe Bill.
Mr. I.lien(te director) would
put it to those present
whether it the lteadiug, Guildford
, and R igate lease
had been as profitable .au
bi'' they would ever have
arrangement as it lead, unfor-
tuinstely, proved unprofitable,
heard of seee objections to the lett,m
ir;
lie did not look upon it ,es or antelgamation.
toss, but simply tie, a question a question of profit and
on whether the agreement
was binding upon them ee -
they would refuse to not,r and whether, as honest
men,
upon the ground that it was au
an agreement solely
43 MU unprofitable arrange-
ment.
Mr. M'LAREN considered himself an honest man, but
from the way in which the agreement had been forced
upon them, he did not consider himself bound by it either
morally or legally.—(Hear.)
Mr. RICH—The alteration
which the Hon. Proprietor had
alluded
in the arrangement to
alluded were merely mo-
difications, and each successive
ratified by the South-E4ster modification had been
himself, he would he the 1 a proprietors. As regarded
agreement once made. an person to depart from an
Mr. XPLAREN said the
Hon. Director might bo Principle laid down by the
excellent in his own private
transactions, but, acting as a trustee, he (Mr. IVPLaren)
felt that the proprietors
re
agreement improperly entered not bound to fulfil au
Mr. Alderman SAL
Guildford, and Reigat IONS into.—(Hear, hear.)
(ehairmen of the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate),:aesiete
pur-
sued in this matter. It defended the course he had
Guildford, and neigat rue, he said, that the Read-
ing,an independent undertakin: but it
was projected as
garded as a part of the South -Eastern
it had always been re-
directors of the South-Eastern
had sat at the board.
per cent., but there was Sanctionthis extraordinary
for a guarrntee of 4&from which the embarresseee extraordinary agreement
in-
sisted upon as a primary conditionn mainly arose. It was
first be opened from - Read that the line should
they could open the more peolfictg to Guildford before
Reigate to Dorking. it had
b:ble portion, viz., from
his own diplomacy or wisdom he had
insinuated that, by
dog 51 per cent. for his eerie had succeeded in get-
Salomons) had no mere to do wP."37; but he (Alderman
that room. A very old proprietor ith that than any one in
in the South-Eastern, hove def:eae, and a large holder
self made that arraemeat with'etil (Mr. Maubert), him-
he (Alderman Salomons) ane-ie, the South• Eastern, and
came to the .meeting at vehicle it"°thing about it until he
Upon that being the cite he eanwas brought forward.
legs of his proprietors, who
war three or four meet-
to conclude the bargain as speedily naturally anxious
he (Alderman Salomons) pla as possible; but
as chairman and director, at the his seat, boll
holders 'ither than sanction whet feet of the share-
undue precipitancy
,in making a Might be considered
(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman bargain
regard to the line itt then proceeded Co
gentlemen present that if the South-Esaelf, he could tell
to part with the Reading, Guildford, stern had chosen
he could have sold it twice over between d Reigate line
and they would find notice of a Bin fo 1846 and 1848,
the lino by the South-Western. It vvas thie powers to buy
constructed line within twenty or
thirty most cheaply-
and when a railway communication was miles of London;
Dover to Oxford, and -from Dover rkhctomplete from
through to
Birmingham, they
.might reasonably o
xPect
large 'quantities of goods and merchandise that
would be
booked through for shipment at Folkestone
was, they were "sitting in judgment upon
au Folkestone; but as it
concern. The Hob. Gentleinan contended that ncomplete
the
agreement between. the twO companies was'
honest, open, .and straightforward character. one
of
an
be borne in mind that the Reading, Guildford, t was to
Rei-
gate Company handed, over to the southt
100,0001 in herd cash, whilst the cost of construe . stern
line was not more than about 700,000/.; and hover the
they separate that 100,000/. from their own Cash vyould
event of their repudiating this agreement, to do
Winb.the
he contended, 'would be worse than Mississippi ichi
repudia-
tion, and he (41derman Salomon) should be surprisedif any gentleman could he found to do it.—(ueor)
Mr. GEORGE SMITH opposed the Bill.
Mr. HEATH had no intention to repudiate Lull' agree_meet legally entered into; but if they gave their
sanc-
tion to this Bill it would put an end for ever to ie
question of ~the validity of
.tlio agreement itself', which
ne contended had never been decided upon by any cora_
petent tribunal. P would appear from the statement of
the chairman that the agreement fir the lease was en.
bored into before the bee 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 was made. There was no railway
to lease four or five years ago.
The CU tIRMAN having replied, ho proceeded to put
the resolution approving of tile 811. when
Mr. M`LAREN moved es en amendment, that the
meeting should be eckjoureed for three months, which
wast4en9Pded- by Mr. Josien Weeseet.
Amidst totno cenfusion a allow of hands was taken
npon the amenchnent; which the Chairman declared to
be lost.

Upon putting the original resolution, the Chairmen
stated that, however, it might be determined by a show
of t ands, a poll would ha demanded.
The CIIAIRMAN deolsred the show of hands to be in
favour of the resolution, but that decision was some-
what noisily. `disputed b a hatebar of shareholders who
were oppo6ed to the Bill.

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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the
_dispatch of public
business.
After the auditor.' accounts of the G-reat Central Gas
Consumes' Company had been presvnted,
The Court proceeded to the election of an Tinder-
Marshal of the city of London, when Mr. Edward W.
Brown was chosen by a very large majority.
THE FLEET VALLEY IMPROVEMENT.
Deputy BEDFORD wished to ask the Chairman of the
Fleet Valley Improvement Committee whether he in-
tended shortly to bring up a report as to the progress of
the proposition with reference to the Fleet Valley im-
provement?
Deputy HARRISON replied, that as aeon as the com-
mittee had received ataivers from the railway companies
it was the=ir intention forthwith to report to the Court.
Tho matter then dropped.
After considerable discussion of no public interest the
Court adjourced.

RAGGED SC:1100LS AS THEY WERE
AND AS THEP ARE
I found my first hugged ScLool, in as: obscure place
called West•street, Satfron-liill, pitifully struggling
for life, under every disadvantage. it had no means, it
had no suitable rooms, it derived no power or pro-
tection from being recognised by any aurhority,
it attracted within its wretched walls a fluc-
tuating swarm of feces—young in years, but younth-
fill in nothing else—that scowled. Hope out of
countenance. It was held in a low-roofed den, in a sick-
ening atmosphere, in the midst of taint and dirt, and
pestilence; with all the deadly sins let loose, howling
and shrieking at the doors. Zeal did not supply the
of their office ; the pupils, with an evil sharpness,
place of method and training ; the teachers knew little
found them out, got the better of them, de-
rided them, made blasphemous answers to scrip-
tural questions, sung, fought, danced, robbed
each other; seemed possessed by legions of
devils. The place was stormed and carried, ever and
over again; the lights were blown out, the books strewn
in the gutters, and the female scholars carried off
triumphantly to their old wickedness. With no
bweassidheesd,thenniumeneraonudsblyoyastwtehnodwede,real
strength in it but its purpose,' the school
stood it all out and made its way. Some two years
since., I found it, one of many such, in a large convenient.
loft, in this transition part of FarrinPdon-street—quiet
and orderly, full, lighted with "gas well white-
washed,
neadrntihnogl.--ougaohinlye,
I went the other night to make another
visit to it. I found the school in the same place, still
advancing. It was now an industrial school too; and
enough; some, with painful difficulty; some, sluggishly and
wearily; some, not at all—to read and write and cipher;
aptly esta-
blishedthere were two groups, one of shoemakers, and one (in ti° gallery) of tailors, working with great industry and sa-
tisfaction. Each was taught and superintended by a
regular workman engaged for the purpose, who delivered
out the necessary means and implements. All were em-
ployed in mending, either their own dilapidated clothes
or shoes, or the dilapidated clothes or shoes of some of
the other pupils. They were of all ages, from
young boys to old rcee. They were quiet, and intent
upon their work. Some of them were almost as unused to
it as I should have shown myself to be if I had tried my
hand, but all were deeply interested and profoundly
anxious to do it somehow or other. They presented a very
remarkable instance of the general desire there is, after all,
even in the vagabond breast, to know something useful.
One shock-headed man when he had mended his own
scrap of a coat, drew it on with such an air of satisfaction,
and put himself to so much inconvenience to look at the
elbow he had darned, that I thought a new cost (and the
mind could not imagine a period when that coat. of his
was'new!) would not havepleased him better.—Dickens s
Household Words.