The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-07 00:00:00

ASCOT RACE S.

(THIS DAY.)-BV EXPRESS.

The St. James's Palace Stakes.

ijriel ...
Companion

The New Stakes.

Blarney
William the Conqueror
Penang ... ... .

... 1
... 2

... 1

... 2
... 3

Won by a neck.
THE EMPEROR'S PLATE.
ERRATII3I.—In our Third Edition we stated that Col-
lingwood ran third for this race; it should have been
Cossack third, and Collingwood fourth.

DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE,

AND WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
of this undertaking was held this afternoon at their
offices in Basinghall-street ; Mr. J. M. Matthews in
the chair.

The report of the directors was read by Mr. Mac-
kenzie, from which we make the following extract :
" Since the last meeting in December the board have
been using their best exertions to obtain payment of the
call of 1/. per share, and have applied the moneys when
received in liquidation of the debts created by the former
board previously and subsequently to the passing of the
Act of Incorporation.
" The board have been most reluctantly compelled to
commence several actions for the recovery of the call,
and in some instances the parties have gone to trial, and
resorted to every delay and expense which the forms of
law allowed to defeat the claims ; but in each case these
attempts have been defeated, and the judges at Nisi
Prins and in Banco hair declared that the call was pro-
perly and legally made and must be enforced; however,
an some instances the defendants have subsequently and
almost instantly after the finaldeeision become bankrupt
or insolvent, and one of them, Francis Deflinne, of Man-
chester, is now incurring the penalty of his vexatious
opposition by the refusal of his certificate for twelve
months; and another, Henry Tomlinson, of Ashburne,
is suffering imprisonment for his vexatious defence to,
the action against him.
" The half-yearly account which has been sent to:the
shareholders will show a considerable diminution in the
debts and claims on the company, and the board think it
right to observe that though the sum of 340 L appears to
have been expended in law costs, they confidently expect
that the greater part thereof will be reimbursed to the
company.
" Since the last meeting the action brought by Mr.
Jeremiah Smith, solicitor, of Bugeley, against one of the
late directors, for his claim of 2,8001., has been tried,
and a verdict given in favour of the defendant; and the
other action commenced by Mr. Smith against the corn-
parry, for the same amount, has been abandoned, with
costs.

" The board has teen anxious to diminish the neces-
sary expenses of management, and with this view the
offices have been removed from Cornhill to this place,
and the services of the clerk have been dispensed with,
by which a con,iderable annual saving has been effected,
the sole expenses of the company now being—rent,
cleaning, &c., 471. ss. ; secretary, 2001.; boy, 131 ;
making a reduction of expenditure to the amount of
148/ 17s. per annum.
" The board assure the shareholders of their unre-
mitting exertions to carry out fully what has been so
satisfactorily begun, and they confidently hope that at
the next half-) early general meeting they will be en-
abled to announce the extinction of the debts created pre-
viously to their entering upon office, and to Lay betore
the shareholders a proposal for their consideration acd
decision, to render the Act of Incorporation advantageous
to the locality where the railway i, ti be made, of great
convenience to the agricultural and commercial interests,
and profitable to those who may continue to hold their
interest in this small but important undertaking."
The CHAIRMAN said there was not a sufficient num-
ber of shareholders present to constitute a meeting, '
therefore the adoption of the report must be adjourned
till the next meeting.
The meeting accordingly adjourned.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
DEFECTS IN LEASES BILL.

Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the
De' ects in .Leases Bill.

After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, the Bill
was read a second time.
BANKRUPTCY LAWS CONSOLIDATION BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM moved the third reading of this
Bil', end in doing so expressed his objection to any
prop sal that might be made for the diminution of the
sal, ry of the Chi f Commissioner. He thought that
noth ng could tend more to create a zeal in the execu-
t on of their duty on the part of officers than the pros-
ct c f iramotion, and he should be sorry to see this
stimulus taken away from the junior Commissioners
in Bankrupty. He was aware that his own
recorded opinions as to the propriety •of the
Jorcotion of pusne judges might seem to militate
against this view, of the question, but the cases were
entirely different. The Puisne Judges would owe their
promotion to the Governmens, and it might appear to
be holding cut a temptation to them, seeing that they
had to decide in cases in which the Government was a
party; besides, they performed a high executive duty,
and the case was entirely different from that of the
Commissioners of Bankruptcy.
After a few' words from Lord CAMPBELL, the
Bill was read a third time.
On the motion that the Bill do pass,
Lord BROUHAM congratulated their Lordships on
the Bill having arrived at this its last stage in their
Lordships' House. He would take that opportunity of
alluding to a petition which had been forwarded to him,
signed by eighty-seven attorneys of Manchester, against
the Bill, for the purpose of stating that nine-tenths of
the okeetions made to that Bill in that petition had been
met by the amendments which had been introduced into
the measure; for example, the objection that the Bill
pr..pised to inflict the punishment of imprisonment with-
out giving the accused the benefit of trial by jury
was eptircly obviated. Again, the petition asked that
some c'assification oh bankrupts should be made; that
was done t,y the 8.11. Bankrupts were divided into
three classes—the meritorious, the careless, and the
fraudulent, and their certificates were awarded accord-
ing to this slassifica ion, and the allowance was also
grante 1 in ace rdance with it. The Bill would go
down to the other Howie as a digest and code of
the laws relating to bankrupts, which was the most
difficult portion of the general law of debtor and cre-
ditor, and he hoped that that system of digest and code
would soon be extended so as to embrace the whole of
the civil law. Before he sat down he could not but ex-
pre s a hope that as their Lordships had given
their support to this Bill, so they would also
give tht.ir support to another Bill which he
had introduced, which wai a similar digest and code of
the whole of the criminal law. He hoped the Learned
Judges would give their attention to the subject
for the Fu pose of assisting their Lordships ; but
if those Learned persons should, not think proper
to do so, he hop d they would not complain if their
Lordships should pr ,ceed without waiting for their
assistance—that assistance would be thankfully received.
Ample time had been afforded them to state any objec-
tions they might entertain, and it was no fault of their
Lordships if only two of them had availed themselves of
the opportunity.
After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL in defence
of the Judges, the Bill was read a third time.
Earl NELSON presented several petitions in favour of
the Bill for the Protection of Women.
Petitions with a similar prayer were presented by the
Marquis of WasalairiaTEa and the -Manny of LONDON.
Lord SONDES presented a petition praying for
agricultural protection.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN BILL.
The Bishops of LONDON and OXFORD presented peti-
tions in favour of this Bill.
On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD this Bill
passed through Committee.
On the bringing up of the report, the Bishop of
OXFORD moved the omission of the 2d clause, which
was agreed to.
The report was then received, the Bill ordered to be
reprinted, and the third reading fixed for this day week.