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LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWA Y. • to the Company's name, that he might commence pro-
The Direesevs were determined to
ceedings thereon.
A general meeting of the Shareholders and others in- defend the action, and he was sure Oat the shareholders
tereNted in the above line was held yesterday, at one would not flinch from supporting them.—(Cheers.)
o'clock, in the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for The advertising expenses had been but trifling, and. in
the purpose of laying before the meeting the terms of that department there were but few accounts remain
due. The law expenses were put down at 5, . 0m1.,g
amalgamation entered into with the Yorkshire and Glas- that being the amount advanced for making up the
mow Union Railway, as also to exhibit the general state registry-books, in accordance with the standin,,,e orders.
of the Company. They had, since the terms of amalgamation had been
The chair was taken by Mr. Beresford, M.P. agreed on, stopped the serving of notices, which would
The advertisement calling the meeting having been considerably abridge the expenses. The other parties
would serve them, and that Company would share the ex-
read, penses with them. The traffic tables might be thought
The CHAIRMAN said that the Board of Directors to cost a high price, but they had employed the eminent
had agreed to issue that advertisement, for the pur- traffic-taker, Mr. Humphrey Brown, and his services,
pose of letting the shareholders know the exact however high they might seem charged, were worth the
money.—(Hear, hear.) The traffic to be realised was,
p.)sit.ion of the Company. They were prepared to give
he was informed by Mr. Brown, most satisfactory.—
the fullest information on every matter relative to the
(Hear, hear.) The rent, salaries, &c., had all
amalgamation with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union. been paid up to the latest moment, and they were aware,
It was one which the Committee considered to be most from the financial statement, in what position the Com-
advantageous for the Leeds and Carlisle, at the same pany stood with regard to Exchequer-bills.
time that it was equally advantageous to the other Com- Mr. CARLISLE was exceedingly glad to hear the ex-
pany. He would not, however, then take up the time of Planation given by the Chairman. It might have ap-
the meeting with any lengthened observations, rather geared to others as extraordinary as it did to himself,
choosing to reserve them until a later stage of the pro that the expenses should hove been so extremely mode-
ceedings, when gentlemen might ask any questions, and
rate, and, like himself, too, some members might have
he would give them all the information in his power. suspected that the answer would have been far from
satisfactory. He was glad that it was not so ; he was
But he would beg to say this to the members present. that
he was glad to stand there as the head of that Board, and doubly glad that he had put the question,
to lay everything in the most open manner before t. meeting knew the exact position in which they for now the
le in stood.
He was also extremely glad to see gentlemen connected Mr. BOYD (as we understood) asked what was the
with the press present, for, as he before said, they were position of the amalgamating Company ?
anxious to conceal nothing. They were in a prosperous The CHAIRMAN had gone down last week into York-
condition; the conduct of the Directors had been honest shire to confer with the Board of Directors of the other
and open, and he was sure that many would from their Company, and a more agreeable set of persons he had
confidence in them become future shareholders. He
not often met with.—(Hear.) Himself and five gentle-
would now request that the report be read ; the financial men had gone down, and they had formed a
accounts would be afterwards given them, and he (the joint board for the first time, and at that board
Chairman) would then be happy to give as satisfactory he had the honour of being chosen chairman. He es-
answers as he could to the questions which might be put teemed it not only an honour to himself to be so chosen,
to him.—(Hear, hear.) but he considered it an honour also to the shareholders
Mr. WEBB, the Secretary, then read the report as of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway.—(Cheers.) At
follows : that meeting he asked several questions, which were as
I readily answered. He found that their expenses were ex-
tremely small when it was considered what they had done;
indeed, he was of opinion that 10,000/. would cover all.—
(Hear, hear.) They were supported by a large and ex-
tensive proprietary, many of whom were in the direc-
tory. He might mention Mr. Wyvil, of Constable
Burton ; Mr. Paulett, nephew of Lord Paulett, of Bolton-
hall ; Mr. Anderson, also a great proprietor in the line,
and many gentlemen of smaller properties, who would
be equally affected. Then they had upon the provisional
committee Lord Beaumont, through whose lands the
line passed to the extent of a mile and a half ; Lord
Wharncliffe, lately Mr. Stewart Wortley, whose
property was affected to the extent of six
miles. He (the Chairman) was very well
acquainted with the local advantages to the line
in Yorkshire, and he did not hesitate to say that the
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway Company was
in a mot prosperous condition, and the joint influ-
ence of the commercial interest of London and the landed
interest of Yorkshire stood so strong before the country
as to defy all opposition.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BOYD asked what was the amount of deposit
paid up?
The CHAIRMAN said that they had paid up on 14,000
fifty-pound shares, which was about equal to 40,000
shares of the Leeds and Carlisle.
A SHAREHOLDER wished to know what number of
shares they had issued in all?
The CHAIRMAN did not know how many.
A SHAREHOLDER—Had they paid enough to bring
their scheme before Parliament ?
The CHAIRMAN—Yes, quite enough. The fact was,
that the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union had registered
previous to the 10 per cent. being required by the
standing orders; and the consequence was, that they
only paid 5 per cent. on their capital; consequently,
when they amalgamated, the Leeds and Carlisle would
only pay half of the amount which otherwise they would
be required to do, while the;Yorkshire and Glasgow Union
paid the other half, or all that they had lodged. Again,
when they would require to go before the House of
Lords, the Leeds and Carlisle had their deposits ready,
and the other Company would lodge an additional 5 per
cent., which theywere quite ready to do.—(Hear, hear.)
That was the reason why the scrip of the Leeds and
Carlisle was stamped.
The report was then unanimously adopted.
Mr. W. J. HARRISON moved a resolution of confi-
dence in the Directors, which being seconded by Mr.
GIDEON COLQUHOUN, was carried.
The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks, and promised
that the exertions of the Directors should not be slack-
ened until the Company was completely successful.
Thanks were then, on the motion of Mr. HANNING,
seconded by Mr. UNDERWOOD, given to the Chairman.
and the meeting separated.

" Your Committee of Management have much
pleasure in laying before you a general statement of
their proceedings, and of the position of this Company ;
under any circumstances your Committee would have
deemed it their duty to have reported to you at an early
period the steps that have been taken for prosecuting
the object which you charged them with ; but, in the
present case, that duty becomes a gratification, because
your Committee is enabled to make such a statement of
the affairs of this Company as they feel convinced will
meet your cordial approval.
" Notwithstanding the inauspicious moment at which
this Company was brought out, a very great number of
shares were paid upon by parties of the highest respecta-
bility, connected by commerce, or by ownership, with
the important districts which your line was designed to
benefit. In the allotment, the Committee were desirous
of conciliating the local interests, and they considered
applications from such quarters as having a priority of
claim ; whilst they deemed it desirable to allot generally
to such as gave assurances that they would hold at least
two-thirds of the shares allotted to them. Your Com-
mittee4ilso conceived that their Scotch applicants should
be favourably regarded, especially those of Edinburgh
and Glasgow, inasmuch, as the success of your
Bill would be identical with the interest of
those important cities. The total amount of deposits
received is 102,909/. 17s. 6d. The Committee of Ma-
nagement have the pleasure of informing their share-
holders that ninety-one members of the Provisional
Committee of this Company have paid the deposit on
the total number of the shares allotted to them.
" The line adopted by your Committee commenced at
a junction with the Leeds and Thirsk' line, at Hors-
forth Wood, four miles Borth of Leeds, and passing
Rawden, Yeadon, and Guiseley, to Ilkley, it continued
up Wharfe Dale to Hawes, and thence through Ap-
pleby to its junction with the Lanc?.ster and Carlisle'
line, at Clifton, 19 miles south of Carlisle ; thus forming
the most direct route from London and Leeds to Car-
lisle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. The length of this line
is 8 t miles, and presents practicable working gradients
although to obtain these some heavy works are requisite,
especially at Stakefells. These, however, your Com-
mittee hope to considerably reduce and amend.
" In all the proceedings of your Committee it has
been their policy to cultivate a friendly understanding
with those companies with which your line is connected,
and this spirit has been responded to generally ; the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company,' with which
your line is more directly connected, having offered every
facility both for a junction and running on the line on
fair and reasonable terms; whilst the `Caledonian
Directoro have expressed to your Committee, that
they view any direct communication from Leeds and the
centre of Yorlashire, to Carlisle, as important to the
interests of that Company.
" In prosecuting your Bill through Parliament you
would have to contend as your strongest opponent with
the Yorkshire and Glasgow Railway Company,' whose
interests were, in many respects, identical with those of
this Company, and whose line, from Clifton to Hawes
(about 30 miles) ran parallel to your own; thence it
passed down the valley of the Yure, through Askrigg,
Leyburn, and Bedale, to Thirsk, on the Great North of
England Railway,' and (by a branch of seven miles) to
Wath (near Ripon) forming a junction with the
Leeds and Thirsk' line. This line had the ad-
vantage over your own, in points of practicability
and cheapness of construction, the whole being
laid down without a tunnel, or any expensive
work. This Company, as well as the 'Leeds and Car-
lisle,' is supported by strong local influence, and affords
a complete line of communication between London,
Theds, Carlisle, and Scotland, and by far the shortest
and most direct route from Scotland to the important
port of Hull. After mature consideration, your Com-
mittee considered it to be for the interest of this Com-
p,-or p,y to enter into an amalgamation with the Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union Railway Company,' as thereby
heavy Parliamentary expense will be avoided, and by
this union an important national scheme carried out.
" Your Committee were gratified to find that such
disp.asition was cordially responded to by the Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union Railway Company,' which agreed
to enter into an amalgamation on terms of perfect
equality. Your Committee have the satisfaction of in-
forming you that the following terms have been entered
into accordingly, viz.:—
" lit. That an amalgamation be formed between the
Leeds and Carlisle' and the Yorkshire and Glasgow
LTuion Railway Companies' on terms of perfect equality.
" 23. That the affairs of the amalgamation Com-
pany be managed by a Direction chosen in equal num-
bers from the Committees of Management of both Com-
panies.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

OLD COURT.
Joseph Heaviside surrendered to answer an indict-
ment charging him with the offence of misdemeanour.
Mr. Payne conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson,
with Mr. Baldwin, appeared for the defendant.
From the statement of the Learned Counsel for the
prosecu'ion, and the evidence that was adduced, it ap-
peared that the defendant was the mate of a vessel called

the Nunez, and the offence with which he was charged
was having committed a series of assaults upon a led
named John Huggard, who was an apprentice on board
the vessel. According to the statement of the prosecutor,
a rather weakly but intelligent boy, he sailed from
Shields on a voyage to Alexandria with coals, and when
they were near Gibraltar the defendant beat him severely
with a rope's-end, and when they were in the harbour of
Alexandria, and the coals were being discharged, he was
set to " trim" the lighter, that is, shovel the coals level
as they were discharged from the vessel, and because
he was not strong enough to do it, he said the mate
pelted him with large pieces of coal, which made wounds
on both his legs, and that the captain put bluestone into
the wounds, and he also said that after this, and while
his legs wire very bad, the mate used to jeer him, and
tell him to go aft and " get his bluestone." He likewise
said, that because he could not learn the compass the
defendant used sometimes to give him a couple of dozen
blows on his hand with a shoe, which made his hands
very sore, and caused lumps to come upon his wrists.
In cross-examination, the boy admitted that he might
have d—d the black cook, and that he had said he should

like to leave the ship. He likewise said, that on the occa-
sion when he was struck with the rope, he had been
ordered to see that the cook did not waste the water
when he served it out, and that he neglected to do so,
and told the mate that he had " turned in" instead.

" 3d. That as one of the two lines running parallel
to each other from Clifton to Hawes, viz.:—that of the
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway,' was found
to present on comparison better gradients and to be less
expenive in construction, that line be adopted, and the
othrr abandoned.

Mr. Brown, the medical superintendent at Stangate
Creek, proved that on the arrival of the vessel in England
he examined the person of the witness, and found some
sores about his ankles, but in answer to a question from
the Court, he said he did not think they could have been
occasioned in the way stated by the boy, but they
seemed to him more like the injury that would be oc-
casioned by the :friction of a shoe upon a tender ski❑
irritated by salt water.
Mr. CLauxsoN, in addressing the jury for the de-
fendant, argued that it was a most trumpery charge ;
that with regard to the story about throwing the coals it
had been negatived by the evidence of the surgeon, and
as to, beating with the rope, the defendant was perfectly
justified in inflicting it, by reas;,n of the complainant's
neglect of his duty in not reporting to him, upon so im-
portant a subject to a ship at sea, as the waste of the
water that was on board.

" 4th. That the amlgamated Company do proceed in
the cnsuing session for a Bill to construct the main line
down the valley of the Yure to Wath, near Ripon, on
the Leeds and Thirsk Railway' (with a short branch
to Thirsk, on the Great North of England Railway'),
thereby opening a direct communication from Glasgow
and Carlisle to Leeds, York, and Hull, and through
them to the south. That the line from near Hawes to
dA, by the Valley of the %Vharfe, be sent in as a
pr,-),e,t only this session, in order to obtain possession
of the ground, should the traffic demand at a future
tiale two lines of communication between the north and
south of England.
" sth. That the stock of the amalgamated Company
he contributed in equal proportions, and that each Com-
p tny pay their own expenses up to the day of amalga-
inutlon.

The RECORDER having summed up, the jury, after
deliberating a short time, returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.

Mr. PAYNE applied to have the defendant held to
bail, to answer any indictment that might be preferred
against him. He had committed a great many other
assaults upon the boy besides those which formed the
subject of the present indictment.
Mr. CLARKSON objected to this, as the vessel was about
to sail. He said the captain of the Nunez was ready to
cancel the boy's indentures, and that would effectively
prevent the parties from coming into collision in future.
The mother of the complainant having consented to
this course, the indentures were cancelled, and the de-
fendant was then discharged.

It has been already proved to the satisfaction of
your Committee that the local traffic on the Yorkshire
and Glasgow' line, independent of the through traffic,
will be fully sufficient to reumerate the outlay of capi-
tal. 'rile important item of lime alone will yield a con-
siderable revenue, as the line passes through the finest
fieLis of limestone in Yorkshire, and the inexhaustible
supply which these yield, gives an ample security that
the ,1( wand will he extensive and continuous; whilst the
cpiantity of coal which will be necessary for burning the
will give a remunerative back carriage, and vastly
it,crea e the present large consumption in the district.
" It has been a strong inducement to your Committee
to sanction the formation of that portion of your line first
which traverses the lime district, because from the ab-
sence of difficult or expensive work, this line would not
"eznpy much time in construction, and because the local
traffic already alluded to would yield an immediate
reiurn, and at the same time a line would be secured,
which will afford a much shorter route to Scotland than
any
now existing or projected, and the shortest possible
route to Hull fro& the north and north-west.
" The following is the Financial Statement of this
Company, to December 31st, 1845:
r.
BY a-Positn;:. £102,949 17 6
To Engineering, on Account
„ Advertising
„ Law Expenses • •• • •• •
„ Traffic Tables ••• ••• •• •
~ Rent, Salaries, Trades.rn—ans.;.l3ill
g. Office Expenses &es.'
Travelling,
35,000/. Exchequer-bills (average)
tt 255. prem.
„ Bank Security
„ Balance in hands of Company's
Bankers, in London and the
Country

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE.
A man named Robert Thompson, who was known in
the neighbourhood of Stag-alley, Bartholomew-lane, at
'he time of the railway fever, was brought before the
Lord Mayor yesterday in the custody of a policeman,
charged with having stolen a banker's receipt fur money
on account of a railway company.
Mr. James llitehin, of Non ington-terrace, Brunswick-
place, Dover-road, stated that he was a gentleman out
of business, and that w Om best of his rronllpeti,,., of,
the 17th September last, at about one o'clock, the pri-
soner came to him at the Hall of Commerce, to which he
was a subscriber, and had him called out. The prisoner
said that he came from Mr. Gibbons, who was known to
witness, for the banker's receipt for the d posits on 40
shares in the British and Irish Union Railway. The de-
posits were 31. per share, amounting he the whole to 1201.
Witness, believing that the prisoner was duly authorised
to receive the document, went to Mr. Brown, of Thread-
needle-street, procured the receipt, and handed it to the
prisoner, who in waited for him outside the Ball of Cos
merce, and stated, upon being put in possession of it, that
he had to go as far as Westminster, and would return in
an hour or an hour and a half. Witness waited in
anxious expectation until five o'clock, but the prisoner
never returned, and witness then went to the house of
Mr. Gibbons, of Collet-place, at the East-end, oil and
colour manufacturer, to ascertain what could be the cause
of the delay. Mr. Gibbons said that he had neither
given the prisoner authority to get the banker's receipt,
nor even seen the prisoner at all upon the subject. The
Prisoner disappeared altogether for some time, but wit-
ness determined to punish so flagrant a violation of
until
honesty
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give a banker's receipt
plieation or order from r. Gibbons ? Witness (as our
reporter understood the witness)—No Mr. Gibbons
was to sign the deed upon prodyoucuingidtben. retceip.t.
N requirea Ineavneyr
'The LORD MAYOR—And
authority from Mr. Gibbons ? Witnesso—
thought that any was at all necessary.
The LORD MAYOR—And you have lost 1201. by the
disappearance of the receipt ? Witness—That was the
deposit-money I paid ; but my loss in the affair was
260/. That was the amount of the value of the shares.
They were bought in against me at Liverpool at 31.
premium, and I have spent 101. more in my endeavours to
bring the prisoner to justice.An attorney who attended for the prisoner, and who
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complaint as a mere joke, said
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to ask of the witness, if the Lord Ma; or considered that
the case required any inquiry at all.
The LORD MAYOR having intimated that he looked
upon the charge as being one of rather a serious kind,

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