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the hospital. She then put up with his brutal conduct
without complaining-. --
police,constabie. 134 L; said
.he was on duty on the
previous evening, when he heard cries of murder proceed
from'Windmill-street. He went towards the spot, and
on entering No. 6, he saw the prisoner dragging his
wife a,yros. the room by the hair of her head. . He then
seized up ,a poker and, threatened to smash his brAins
out, ab well as his wife's, if he interfered, lies however,
'wrenched .the poker from, him, and conveyed.him to the
station-house.

of the entire working tore: out common fund, out of-
which the Eastern Union and Norfolk Companies shall
each receive 1-7th, subject to the deduction of 46 per
cent. for working expenses to be allowed to the Eastern
Counties Company, and subject also to a proportionate
deduction of any loss that may arise to the Eastern
Counties Company from the working of the Royston
and -Ritchie, Newmarket and Chesterford, and East
Anglian lines, -the remainder of the proceeds to be re-
tained by the Eastern CoUnties Company. The. work-
ing plant of the Eastern Unipn to be taken and paid for
by the Eastern Counties Company upon a valuation ;
the Norfolk and Eastern Counties Companies to consi-
der all claims upon each other as settled."
The-CHAIRMAN explained the circumstances connected
with the proposal to effect an amalgamation. In reply
to the Eastern Union directors, he had stated that the
Eastern Counties Company were prepared to meet the
other. One condition of the agreement then adopted
was that the Norfolk Company should be made parties
to the union. An interview having been held with the
directors of the Norfolk line, they stated that, agreeing
in the opinion that it was desirable to secure peace
and harmony for ever, they would forego the advan-
tages which were considered as attaching to the ex-
isting agreement up to
.1855. The three companies
met by deputation, and finally arranged the details,
which produced the result now laid before the meet-
ing. The Chairman then entered into a statement with
respect to the receipts of the three railways, from which
it appeared that the united amount of the traffic alto-
gether would, it was estimated, be 1,100,0001. in June,
1854 ; and that if the railways were worked all to-
zether, the shareholders would receive 15s, 5(1, per
share ;if separately, 14s. 11d, per share. He antici-
pated a much larger development of traffic in the dis-
trict than had hitherto taken place, and concluded by
moving "That this meeting approve the proposed ar-
rangement for the amalgamation of this company with
the Norfolk and Eastern Union Companies ; and they
hereby authorise the directors, till the sanction of Par-
liament is obtained, to take the working management of
the lines of all these railways on the terms submitted to
this meeting."
After some discussion, with reference especially to
the working expenses, a shareholder objecting that 46
per cent. was not sufficient, the resolution was unani-
mously agreed to, and the proceedings terminated.

ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.

WOOLWICH, DEC. 20.

A board of officers of the Ordnance corps assembled
in the hall of the gentlemen cadets' barracks, in the
Royal Arsenal, at 11 o'clock a.m. to-day--Lieutenant-
General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.8., Royal En-
gineers, President ' • Lieutenant-General Sir H. Dal-
rymple Ross, K.C.13., Royal Aetillery ; Major-General
Griffith George Lewis, (LB., Royal Engineers ; and
Colonel Thomas Blanchard, C. 8., members—for the pur-
pose of examining the gentlemen cadets of the practical
class as to their qualifications for obtaining commissions
in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. Colonel
James A. Chalmer, Inspector of Artillery ; Lieutenant-
Colonel Wilson, Director of the Laboratory ; Lieute-
nant-Colonel Alexander Tulloh, Inspector, Royal car-
riage department • Lieutenant-Colonel Harding, K.H.,
Superintendent of Royal Military Repository ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel PortFock, inspector of the Royal Military
Academy ; and Captain Eardley Wilmot, Captain of the
Gentleman Cadets, were also present to witness the exa-
mination ; and Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William
Pasley, Y.C.8., Royal Engineers, with a number of
officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers,
were in the hall during the examination.
The examination of the senior division, Practical Class
of Gentlemen Cadets, comprehended a thorough know-
ledge of practical artillery, the initial force of gunpowder
and its effect upon a projectile when fired from a gun,
the laws of windage, the velocity of projectiles, the use
of wads and their various descriptions, the most ap-
proved method of forming a breach, the resistance of
the atmosphere to projectiles when moving with a cer-
tain velocity, the use of lever sheers for raising guns,
the rests for mortar beds, the materials of which the
moulds for bronze guns are composed, the construction
of guns and their three principal points requir-
ing consideration, the proofs they are subjected to
before being admitted into the service, the construction
of gun-carriages, the composition of Congreve rockets,
add the rate of burning of meal powder, fuze composi-
tion, and port-fire composition. The gentlemen cadets
were algo examined in the raising of field works, mili-
tary wining, the pas,age of rivers by trestle bridges,.
rafts, and other means when an enemy disputed the pas-
sage, and the whole was concluded by examining them
as to their knowledge of surveying, when the following
gentlemen cadets were passed as qualified for comini,,-
sions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, on
the list •being approved by the Master-General of the
Ordnance : •

Mr. Combe told the prisoner that he was a brutal
fellow, and deserved to be severely punished. There
was no pretence for such ill-treatment, therefore he
should give him the full penalty of the law by sentencing
him to six months' hard labour.in Wandsworth House
of Correction.

Mr. Combe received 10/. for the poor-box from
"C. V.," which the donor requested the reporter to
acknowledge.

WESTMINSTER.—Mr. Charles F. Higgins, was
charged upon a peace warrant with having threatened
his wife, Mrs. Amelia Vertue Higgins, the daughter of
Sir Richard Joddrell.
The warrant had been granted upon an application
made by the lady on the previous day to Mr. Arnold.
She stated that her husband, who was constantly in
difficulties, and who had only supported her by getting
into debt for two years, was in the habit of treating her
cruelly and threatenino, her. He was discharged from a
debtors' prison in July last year, and was in the habit
of coming to the house where she was being maintained
by her father, and forcing his way at all hours of the
night, while in a state of intoxication, into her bed,
where he pinched her, and forced the bolster and pillows
over her face. She had taken all sorts of precautions
for her safety, but he, had repeatedly threatened her.
He had been for the last nine months in the Queen's
Bench prison, during which she was in no peril ; but as
his last words at parting with her before he went, were,
that he would do for her, she now felt, upon his being
again at large, serious apprehensions for her safety. •
Defendant urged that the threat complained of had,
been made nine months ago and had not been since re-
peated.

Mr. Broderip expressed himself in some difficulty in
that respect. He could not say whether during that
lengthened period defendant might not have reformed,
and inquired whether, under the circumstances, Mrs.
Higgins's solicitor would be content with defendant's
entering into his own recognizances to keep the peace.

The solicitor said he would, if the warrant were sus-
pended, so that it might be again executed if necessity
required.
Mr. Broderip could net doubt that, but intimated
that another warrant could be immediately obtained, if
needed. Having again pointed out the difficulty which
arose in the case,
Ths,solicitor reluctantly consented to defendant's dis-
charge upon his own recognizances. ;

1. The Hon. Cameron Wrottesley.
2. Mr. Lonsdale Augustus Hale.
3. „ Arthur Kennody Hideout.
4. „ Henry William Hart Davis Dumaresq.
6. „ William Henry Watson.
6. ~ Arthur Reid Lempriere. •
7, „ George Longley.
„ Henry Peru. Tillard.
9. „ Edward Chichester Bolton.
10. ~ Oliver Henry Atkins Nicholls.
11. „ Donald George Campbell Maclachlan.
12. „ James Barton.
„ . Charles James Hope Johnstone.
14. „ Robert Horsley Cockerel
15. „ Benjamin Humfrey.
16. , „ Charles Watson Wilson.
17. „ Legh Delves Broughton.
18. „ George Albert Augustus Walker.

MARYLEBONE.—BURGLARY AND EXTENSIVE ROB-
BERY OE JEWELLERY, &c.—Yesterday three determined-
looking fellows, named Frederick Green, Alexander
Green,, and Thomas Burdett, were brought up hand-
cuffed, and placed at the bar before Mr. Broughtnn,
charged with having burglariously entered the pre-
mises of Mr. George Thomson, a pawnbroker, jeweller,
&c., in Harmood-street, Hampstead-road, and stolen
property to the amount of several hundred pounds.
The table in front of the bench was almost covered
with gold and silver watches, jewellery, &c., • forming
only a small portion of the plunder. -
The watches, jewellery, &0., were produced, and iden-
tified by Mr. Thomson, who said that had it not been
for the vigilance of 71 S he might have been plundered
to the extent of 2,0001. Mr. Thomson said he was of
opinion that the property taken away by the prisoners,
and picked up in the road and gardens, and which be
now valued at 1001., was not more than a third of the
property which be had lost. He could not as yet say
to what extent he had been robbed, as he had not had
time for examination.

The following gentlemen cadets of the practical and
theoretical classes were then called forward to the
board-table, and the prizes which had been awarded to
them for merit in particular branches of study were pre-
sented by Lieutenant-General Sir John Fox Burgoyne,
President of the Board.

On being asked what they had to say, the first pri-
soner said, in the most impudent manner, " I'm sorry
I did not get away with the swag." The second said,
" I wish you would give me a clean shirt, old fellow, as
I dirtied mine in getting over the wall ;" and the third
said, " I'm blest if I was in it at all."
They were remanded till Tuesday next.

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK. RAILWAY C.OMPANY.

A meeting of shareholders in the above company was
held on Monday at Guildhall-buildings for the purpose of
considering,. and, if approved of, of ratifying an agree-
ment or, amalgamation with the Eastern Counties Rail-
way Company.
The chair was taken by S. M. PETO, Esq., M.P.,
who, in opening the proceedings, said—Before reading
the resolution which it would be his duty to propose it
would be necessary that he should make a few remarks
upon the business which had called them together. The
last time he had had the pleasure of meeting them in
that. room he had not the slightest idea, nor had he seen
ang prospect, of again meeting them, at least on the
present subject, on so early a day ; but the fact of
the Eastern Union Company having entered into a nego-
tiation with the Eastern Counties, and the receipt of a
communication on the subject from Mr. Waddington
himself, made it appear to his (Mr. Peto's) colleagues
and himself that it was all-important to the interests of
the three companies that all should be parties to the
agreements about to be entered into. That was the
view taken by Mr. Waddington also, because all parties
foresaw that it was only by a combination of all the in-
terests in the district that the wisest results could be
obtained for the public and the best dividends for the
respective shareholders. He had stated to them on the
last occasion they had met together that he never would
be a party to the acceptance from the Eastern Counties
Company of a less dividend than had been paid up to the
'Present time, and he thought he could now put before
the meeting a few figures and facts which would show them
thlt they could never have a worse dividend than they
received at the present moment; besides which, there
was the great fact that, by the 'combination of all the
interests in the district, the greatest possible *Mount of
development would be given to the traffic, the greatest
prospect of: augmentation in the receipts, and the best
hope of a,minimum of working expensee being obtained.
(Hear. The arrangement which' had been acquiesced ,
in by the Eastern Union and the Eastern Ccunties
boards, and their own, was that the gross receipts of
the lilies should be divided into sevenths, of which -five-
sevenths were to go to the Eastern Counties, one-seventh
to the Eastern Union, and one-seventh to the Norfolk.
He found their last receipts from all sources up to June
1„ 1853, to be 137,817/. He- found the increaie of
receipts from the Ist ',July, up to the- present period,
and ,from thence up to the Ist of June, 1854, calcu-
lating the rate of increase at that of the similar
.period thic., year, to he 15,7984, being a total of
153,615/, This, deducting 46 per cent, for working
expenses, left 82,9531. Now, taking the receipts of
the three companies collectively to be 1,100,0001.,
then deducting 46 per cent, for working expenses, and
one-seventh of the loss arising from the East Anglian,
Northern, and Newmarket arrangement, he found the
residue applicable to Norfolk dividend would be 81,9571.,
being within a trifle of the amount they had received
under the old arrangement. (Hear.) In an agreement
of this kind he need hardly, say that it was very import.
ant that all parties should see that their interests were
mutually served, so that when once ratified it might be
carried out with mutual good faith and good feeling.
(Hear.) His belief was that a more equitable agreement
than that now submitted by himself and colleagues had
never been entered into,by any company. Because, iu
the first place, they got results equal to their whole pre-
sent receipts, and under what he did not hesitate to say
were the most advantageous circumstances for Mork-
jug- Besides this, he felt that he should not have
been aeting faithfully in his capacity of chairman
of their company had he permitted any separate
agreement to have been made with the Eastern Union
while they, (the Norfolk) had another agreement with
the Eastern Counties, as in that case there would have
been skrisk_ of having them worked one against the other.
They had, therefore, entered into the present negotia-
tion, and in securing a dividend at least equal to what
elyeahaadt a Prreigshetn he felt that they
t
got no more
ldetrhsanentt
less would not have been worthy their acceptance. The
loss sustained by the agreements with the Great North-
ern could be easily explained, as it was simply a matter of
account. The proportion of that less which fell on the
Norfolk Company was about 401. a week. He did not
hesitate to tell them that in consequence of the
agreement entered into by Mr. Waddington with
the Great Northern, there would be an increase
of five times the receipts, on the whole line. (Hear,
hear.) It was not proper to go into details at present,
but any proprietor calling at the office should have full
information: Another point. to which he must allude
was their dividend. Last year it had been 2i.per cent.
He took it at that, and working out the result as given
by e
the gross receipts and deducting the hit' loss,
1 1
would leave them .return for dividend of 27, 78 ~ or
2i on their capital. He did not think that that total
would represent their earnings when they came to work
conjointly, as he did not hesitate to say that the recent
increase in their traffic had arisen solely from the good
understanding with.the Eastern Counties Company. A
similar understanding with the Eastern Union would,
he had lie' .doubt, produce similar results. (Hear.) If
they made any concession to the Eastern Union Com-
pany in this agreementit was more than counterbalanced
by the effects which would arise from the 'good under-
standing between the three companies. (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was then put ratifying the agreement,
upon which a few' questions were asked, and on being
answered to the .-,.atisfaction of the meeting, the resolu-
tion was carried unanimously. The proceedings termi-
nated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. !

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