The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-10 00:00:00

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.

The Right Hon. Sir ions JERVIS, Lord Chief Justice, and
Mr. Justice Ext,E.
Buckinghamshire, Monday, March W. at Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire, Thursday, March 13, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire, Mond ty, March 17, at Huntingdon.
Cambridgeshire, Wednesday, March 19, at the County
Courts.
Norfolk, Tuesday, March 25, at the Castle of Norwich.
City of Norwich, the same day, at the. Guildhall of the said

city. 4_
Suffolk, Tuesday, April 1, at Bury StiEdmund's.
WESTERN CIRO:HT.
Tile Right Hon. Sir FREDERICK Pow:R:lc, Lord Chief Baron,
and Mr. Baron MARTIN.

Southampton, Saturday, March. 1, at the Castle of Win.

chester.
Wiltshire, Saturday, March 8, at New Sarum.
Dorsetshire, Thursday, March 13, at,Dorchester.
Devonshire, Tuesday, March 18, at the Castle of Exeter.
City of Exeter, the same day, at the Guildhall of the said city.
Cornwall, Tuesday, March 25, at Boeftnin.
Somersetshire, Tuesday, April 1, at the Castle of Taunton.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.
Rutlandshire, Thursday, Feb. 27, at Oakham.
Northamptonshire, Friday, Feb. 23qtt Northampton.
Lincolnshire, Wednesday, March 5, at the Castle of Lincoln.
City of Lincoln, the same day, at the city of Lincoln.
Nottinghamshire Tuesday, March 11, at Nottingham.
Town of Nottingham,l the same day, at the town of Not-
tingham.
Derbyshire, Thursday, March 13, at Derby.
Leicestershire, Wednesday, March 19, at the Castle of Lei-
cester.
Borough of Leicester, the same day, :at the borough of Lei-

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cester. .
Warwickshire (Coventry Division), Friday, March 21, at the
city of Coventry.
Warwickshire (Warwick Division), Saturday, March 22, at
Warwick.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Mr. Justice PArrEsoN and Mr. Justice TALFOURD.
Berkshire, Wednesday, Feb. 26, at Abingdon.
Oxfordshire, Saturday, March 1, at Oxford.
Worcestershire, Wednesday, March 5, at Worcester.
City of Worcester, the same day, at the city of Worcester.
Staffordshire, Tuesday, March 11, at Stafford.
Salop, Wednesday, March 19, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire, Saturday, March 22, at Hereford.
Monmouthshire, Wednesday, March 26, at Monmouth.
Gloucestershire, Saturday, March 29, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester, the same day, at the city of Gloucester.

CIRCUIT OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES AND
COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER.
Mr. Justice 111AuLE and Mr. Justice W 'LUAUS.
SOUTH WALES.
Glamorganshire, Thursday, Feb. 27, at Swansea.
Pembrokeshire, Friday, March 7, at Haverfordwest.
Town and County of Haverfurdwest, the some day, at the
town of Haverfordwest.
Cardiganshire, Wednesday, March 12, at Cardigan.
Carmarthenshire, Saturday, March 15, at Carmarthen.
County of the Borough of Carmarthen, the same day, at the
borough of Carmarthen.
Brecknockshire, Friday, March 21, at Brecon.
Radnorshire, Wednesday, March 26, at Presteign.
NORTH WALES.
Montgomeryshire, Monday, March lu, at Welchpool.
Merionethshire, Thursday, March 13, at Bala.
Carnarvonshire, Saturday, March 15, at Carnarvoc.
Anglesey, Wednesday, March 19, at Beaumaris.
Denbighshire, Saturday, March 22, at Ruthin.
Flintshire, Wednesday, March 26, at Mold.
Cheshire, Saturday, March 29, at Chester.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL and tin Baron PLATT.
North Lancashire, Monday, Feb. 17, at Lancaster.
\ Vestmoreland, Thursday, Feb. 20, at Appleby.
Cumberland, Saturday, Feb. 22, at Carlisle.
Northumberland, Wednesday, Feb. 26, at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the same day, at the Guild-
hall of the said town.
Durham, Monday, March 3, at Durham.
Yorkshire, Saturday, March 8, at the Castle of York.
City of York, the same day, at the Guildhall of the said city.
South Lancashire, Saturday, March 22, at Liverpool.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Feb 7.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
P. H. Abbott, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street,
City, merchant, Feb. 28, at twelve—G. Langford, South-
ampton, grocer, Feb. 28, at twelve—A, Sm.th, Maryle-
hone-street, Regent-Bcreet, wire rope manufacturer,
March 1, at eleven—R. Noble. Leadenhall-street, City,
tailor, March 6, at two—H. W. Hemsworth, Primrose-
street, Bishopsgate-street, wine merchant, March 4, at
eleven—H. Crack'., Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, grocer.
March 4, at half-past eleven—T. Woodroffe, Webb's
County-terrace, New Kent-road, druggist, March 4, at
twelve—W. Pike, Reading, tobacconist, Feb. 28, at one.
In the Country.
W. Miller and A. Miller, Liverpool and Bootle, wine
merchants. at the Court, Liverpool, Feb. 28, at eleven—
S. Vick, Brecon, victualler, at the Court, Bristol, March
6, at eleven—J. B. Sparke, Torquay, Devonshire, at the
Court, Exeter, March 6, at one—J. Barnard, Bideford,
Devonshire, painter, at the Court, Exeter, March 6, at
one—M. D. Robinson, Dudley, Worcestershire, confec-
tioner, at the Court, Birmingham, March 13, at twelve--
J. March, Rotherham, Yorkshire, grocer, at the Council-
hall, Sheffield, March 1, at ten—J. Rodgers, Sheffield,
nanker, at the Council-hall, Sheffield, March 1, at
Pleven—John Brewin,
Sheffield, banker, at the Council-
hall, Sheffield, March 1, at eleven—J. Yeomans, Sheffield,
merchant, at the Council-hall, Sheffield, March 1, at teu
—G. W. Hinchcliffe, Sheffield, manufacturer, at the
Council-hall, Sheffi-ld, March 1, at ten.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
R. Fairley, Sunderland, chemist and druggist, Is. 6d.,
on Saturday, Feb. 6, or any following Saturday, between
ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.

S. Brown, Sunderland, brewer, 4d., on new proofs
..illy, on Saturday, Feb. 8, or tsny subsequent Saturday,
Iftvrpen ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker,
Newcastle-uponfryne.

J. Simpson, Manchester, grocer, 2s. 3id., on Tuesday,
Feb. 18, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and
~ne, at the office of Mr. Putt, Manchester.
J. F. Taylor, Bakewell, Derby, 2s. 34d., on Tuesday,
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W. N. Procter, Manchester, cotton dealer, and P. S.
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Hyatt, New Stone, Staffordshire, farmer, 7 1-16 d., on
Tuesday, Feb. 18, or any subsequent Tuesday, between
eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
W. Greenup, sen., Eccleston, Lancashire, ss. 70., on
Thursday, Feb. 6, or any Subsequent Thursday, be
ween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Cazenove,
Liverpool.
Julius otherwise Jules George Geyelin, Liverpool,
file worker, Gs. 3d., on Thursday, Feb. 6, or any sub.
iequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Caz qiove, Liverpool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basirighall-street.
H. Johnson, Bishopsgste-street Without, teadealer,
Eeb. 28, at half-past eleven—.A. Provost, Peterborough,
linendraper, March 6,
at half-past eleven—J. Barber,
Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, builder, Feb. 28, at one--
H. M. East, Mark-lane, commission agent, Feb. 28. at
twelve—S. Vick, Brecon, Breconshire, victualler, March
5, at twelve.

In the Country.
J. Priestly, Radcliffe, Lancashire, cotton spinner,
March 4, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Jol-
ley and W. Jackson, Wigan, Lancashire, acetic acid
manufacturers, March 4, at twelve, at the Court, Man-
chester.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
W. Simpson, Manchester, starch manufacturer, a cer-
tificate of the second class—F. Young, Basinghall-
street, woollen warehouseman—W. Gibbs, Throgmorton-
street, stockbroker, a certificate of the second class—J.
Urry, Landport, Hampshire, brewer, a certificate of the
second olass—R. Allison and T. Allison, Dean-street,
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Seho, pianoforte manufacturers—W. King,
Gravesend,
draper, a certificate of the second class—A. Miller, Ems.
worth, Southampton, ropemaker, a certificate of the
second class—H. Higgins, Bliston, Staffordshire, grocer,
a certificate of the second class.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

Thomas J. Page, Brighton, grocer.
James Harrison, Great Driffield, Yorkshire, gunsmith.
Samuel Brett, Glemsford, Suffolk, farmer.
Peter Smith, Church Fenton, Yorkshire, farmer.
Richard Houlding, Tollesbunt D'Arcy, Essex, horse
dealer.
John Robson Bedelo, Yorkshire, farmer.
John Edwards, Shoothill, Salop, farm labourer.
George Hutchinson, Maunly-upon-S wale, Yorkshire,

cord wainer.
William A. Ottway, Maldol], Essex, veterinary surgeon.
Elizabeth Morton, Miserdine, Gloucestershire,
Robert L. Nicholson, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire.
Jonathan G. Gunton, Fitzroy-street, Cambridge.
William Mynott, Fitzroy-street, Cambridge, shoe-
maker.
James Mort, Limekiln-lane, Tranmere, Chester.
Margaret Parkes, Rhyl, Flintshire, licensed victualler.
Jahn Gibson, Laxlield, Suffolk, bricklayer.
William Nickells, Colne Engnins El-sex; Gardner.
Williain Woodward, Wivenhoe, Essex, mariner.
Nathan Funnell, Little Clacton, Essex, farmer.
William Morris, Southgate-street, Gloucestershire, up-
holsterer.
Thomas Smith, Barton-street, Gloucestershire, pallier.
William Bateman, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk,
John B. Simpson, Wheelgate, Yorkshire, chemist.
Edward Pettite, Bradford St. George, Suffolk, brick-
layer. baker.
George Cowling, Suffolk-parade, Cheltenham, Wouees-
tershire, bookseller.
John Rowlinson, Wicken, Cambridgeshire, butcher.
J 91113 ITQUeI, Lammag.atreet, Cermarthensiaire, victualler,

J. E. Humphreys and 13. Ackerley. Liverpool. mer-
chants—J. Hardham and J. Walton, Tottington Higher
End, Lancashire, stone merchants—P. Wilians and 0.
Willans, jun , Leeds, cloth manufacturers—R. Briggs and
G. Ilimpson, L-eds, whit-smiths—J. Soarkes and W.
R-alett, Short-street, Newington, house agents—D.
Koehle and W. Denton, Q wen-street. Cte.lsea, brick-
layers—P. Warren and W Simpson, Stratford-1-- Bow,
paper maker,—W. Bainbridge and D. C. Noel, Upper
and Lower Tooting, surgeons—T. Swan and T. Swan,
sun., Morpeth, Northumb-rland, tanners—Sarah Ann
Hargrave and R .)bert B dilly, Moorgate-street, City,
umbrella manufacturers—T. Ritchie and A. Hewitt
Chancery-lane, law stationers—J. Cogan, R. Cogan, and
J. Shepherd, Gla.;gow and Manchester, manufacturers—
S. Kenapson and I. Kempson, Birmingham, millers—J.
Drake and F. Topham, Biegley, Yorkshire, worsted spin-
ners—F. Tooth and H. R. Tickell, Mark-lane, Cit.,
hop merchants—W. H. Miller and W. W. Mansfield, In-
grarn-eourt, Fenchurch-street, City, wine merchants—
S. Courtauld, A. Taylor, G. Courtauld, Catherine Tay-
lor, P. A. Taylor, and John M. Courtauld (so far as re-
gards A. Taylor), Carey-lane, City, Hocking, Braintree,
and Halstead, Essex, silk manufacturers—W. Close and
R. Higgin, Stockton-upon-Tees, hay dealers—T. R.
Golding and H. H. Golding, Liverpool, corn and flour
dealers—W. Kidston, J. Jones, and T. Kidaton (so tar
as regards W. Kulston), Sidney-street, Mile-end, general
fixture dealers—W. F. Hepton and W. Hepton, Leeds,
plumbers—J. Hill and T. Hill, Bradford, Yorkshire.
joiners and builders—J. Nash and J. H. Nash, Chipping
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, attorneys and sulicitors—
G. Birch and T. ,Morrill, Birmingham, jewellers—J.
Carter and B. ll,mve, Hililax, Yorkshire, cotton warp
manufacturers—J. A. Tuiiier, J. Dirstang,. and R. F.
North, Kirkdale, Lancashire, cotton spinners.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
George S. Hoseason, Glasgow, merchants, to meet
within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 12, and March
10, at two.

James Forlong Matbie, Glasgow, iron founder, to
meet within Comrie's Royal Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 13,
and March 6, at one.

Alexander Brown, Glasgow, cotton spinner, to meet
within the Stock Exchange, Glasgow, Feb. 14, and
March 7, at two.

Alexander Graham, Bars, near Cumnock, contractor,
to meet within the Black Bull Inn, Cumnock, Feb. 13.
and March 6, at one.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.

The authorities of the above company have just issued
the report of the committee of shareholders appointed at
the general meeting in August, 1850, " with the view of
taking into consideration with the directors, and reporting
of the meeting in February, 1851, their opinion as to the
future management of the affairs of the company ; and
also whether, in the event of no Parliamentary enact-
ment of such provisions by any general law, any and
which of the provisions of the Audit Bill laid before
Parliament last sessisn by the representatives of the
different bodies of shareholders can be properly and use-
fully adopted by this company and its directors." The
following is the report:—
"Your committee have to report that they have carefully
considered, at several meetings, the important matters re-
ferred to them, and they have come unanimously to certain
conclusions.

" Before, however, stating those conclusions, and in ex-
planation of them, your committee have to report that the
company's Act of incorporation of 1846 (the Amalgamation
Act, as it has generally been termed) provided for the ma-
nagement of the undertaking until the meeting in February,
1851, by continuing in office, as local committees in London,
Liverpool, and Manchester, the three then existing boards of
directors—namely, the London and Birmingham board, of
22 ; the Grand junction board, of 16; the Manchester and
Birmingham board, of 11; in all 49 members : a central go-
verning board of 18 being selected out of these 49 committee-
men and constituted the directors of the whole undertaking.l
"The Act further provided for the dissolution of these
three committees at the February meeting, 1851, vesting all
the executive power and duties connected with the manage-
ment of the entire undertaking thenceforward in the board
of 18 directors, but with authority to them to appoint such
sub-committees of their body as should be found needful,
and with authority also to the proprietors to increase the
number of directors from 1 to any other number which they
should think fit.

"According to the best consideration which your com-
mittee have been able to give to the subject, and to the con-
current testimony of the directors and officers of the com-
pany, the supervision by local directors, as regards ordinary
details, thus combined by the Amalgamation Act, until
February, 1551, with the other principle of general super-
vision and control by a central board of directors, with paid
officers, each responsible for, and periodically reporting, the
progress of his business in his own department, has worked
conveniently for the public, and with advantage to the
proprietors, and accordingly your i ommittee recommend its
continuance. Having rtgard, however, to the vast extent
of the undertai, g, and the consequent amount of labour
necessarily cast upon the local committees as well as the
board, it seems impossible that this system of management
can be maintained by a board and by committees of their
body limited altogether to 18 gentlemen, however well
qualified for, and devoted -to, the duties reasonably to be
expected from them.

"In supp rt of. this view, your committee think that the
proprietors need only be reminded that (as was reported to
your committee by the officers of the compan3 ), committees
are appointed for the working and management of the Lon-
don and North- Western undertaking proper, comprising 557
miles of railway and canal, with an estimated gross revenue
of about 2,400,000/. per annum, and a capital expenditure of
29,000,0001., including 4,000,000/. contributed to 16 other
undertakings (which comprise in the aggregate a further ex-
tent of 973 miles of railway and canal, with a capital expen-
diture of 21,500,0001.), the working and management of which
demand the time and attention of the members of the direc-

tion ; the Acts of Parliament making it necessary that the
persons appointed to represent this company on the different
boards, shall be London and North-Western directors.
"This being a general description of the extent of the un-
dertaking to be managed, and 18 gentlemen appearing to
your committee to be obviously insufficient to perform that
duty, the next question was, what additional number was
requisite? On the one band it seemed clear that a very
large body of gentlemen, meeting for deliberation as a central
or governing authority, would not be likely to perform that
duty efficiently; and that, on the other hand, the number of
gentlemen to form, at each of the important termini of the
line and elsewhere, the needful committees, must not be a
small number.
" Under all these circumstances your committee have, after
much consideration, come to the unanimous conclusion, and
accordingly they now recommend, that at the meeting in
February, 1851, it should be determined that the number of
directors be increased to 30.

" Should the meeting think it right to adopt this recom-
mendation (which it is satisfactory to your committee to be
able to state accords with the opinion of the board of direct•
tors), provision will the❑ have to be made for the immediate
election of 15 new directors, that is to say, 12 being the num•
ber by which it is proposed that the board shall be increased,
and three in lieu of that number of the present board of 18
who go out of office under the provisions of the Amalgama-
tion Act.
" And with reference to the future, your committee have
decided to recommend that of the 30 directors who will con-
stitute the board, six shall annually retire, and that those re-
tirements shall be according to seniority, subject, however, to
a power for the directors to substitute, by ballot, for some
three of those who would otherwise thus retire, any three of
the whole board.

" With regard to the second part of the reference to them
—the question of the adoption of certain of the provisions of
the Shareholders Audit Bill of last session—your committee
beg to recommend for practical adoption the following clauses
of that Bill, subject to the modifications stated with refer-
ence to each of them, namely—
" I. So much of clause 2 as provided for the appointment,
at the second half-yearly meeting:in each year, of five share-
holders to act for the then ensuing year as an audit com-
mittee, whose duty it shall be to meet in the month of
January in each year, in order to recommend to the ensuing
half-yearly meeting in February the persons in their opinion
suitable to be appointed as auditors in the place of those
who at that meeting go out of office; and with a provision
that no person shall be qualified to be elected or to act as a
member of such audit committee, unless he be at the time of
his election, and has been for the six calendar months then
next immediately preceding, and continue during his year
of office, the proprietor of such a number of shares or amount
of stock in the undertaking as would qualify him to be a
director, or if he be in the employment of the company, or
the partner (in private trade) of any of the directors of or
persons employed by the company, or the relative by blood
(in the first degree) or the clerk of any such director or per-
son, or if he hold any other office or place of trust or profit
under the company, or be interested in any contract with
the company ; and that no member of such committee shall
be capable of accepting any other office or place of trust or
profit under the company, or of being interested in any con-
tract with the company, during the time he shall be a mem-
ber of such committee. _ _

" 2. So much of clause 5 as provided that no person shall
be capable of being elected auditor who is then, or within six
calendar months then next preceding has been, in the em-
ployment of the company or the partner (in private trade)
of any of the directors of or persons employed by the com-
pany, or the relative by blood (in the first degree), or the
clerk of any such director or person, or if he hold any other
office or place of trust or profit under the company, or be in-
terested in any contract with the company ; and that no
auditor shall be capable of accepting any other office or place
of trust or profit under this company, or of being interested
in any contract with the company, during the time he shall
be auditor.

" 3. The whole of clause 9, providing that the auditors
shall, for the purposes of each half-yearly audit, from time
to time, employ some well-known public accountant, who
is in their opinion well acquainted with railway accounts
and affairs, and wholly unconnected with and independent
of the directors of, or any person employed by, the com-
pany, to assist the auditors in the matter of the audit; and
that such public accountant shall be paid by the company
such competent salary or allowance as the auditors, subject
to the confirmation of the general meeting, shall consider
proportioned to his duties in each case, on each occasion of
audit. And, since the effect of this provision will be greatly
to reduce the labours of the auditors appointed by thc.com-
pany, your committee beg to recommend that, in any future
election, their services be acknowledged by a payment of
100/. per annum each, with a free pass over all parts of the
company's lines, and available at all times during the year.
" 4. So much of clause 13 as would secure the deposit by
the directors, for the information of the proprietors, within
the first seven days of each year, at such places as the audi-
tors shall suggest, of a list of such of the proprietors (with
their places of residence) as are eligible for election as direc-
tors; such list also to be printed, and sold at a reasonable
Kies to any proprietor applying for the same.
44 5. So much of:clause 15 as provides that, seven days
_Note cub meeting for the election of clirecton pr auditor,

'• 6. So much of clause 16 as provides that the register of
shareholders, as well as stockholders, with the number and
description of shares or amount of stock to which each is
entitled, &tall be made up once a month, and be at all rea-
sfonable times open to the proprietors, so far as regards the
directors, auditors, and members of the audit committee from
time to time in office.

"7. So much of clause 17 as provides that neither the di-
rectors, nor any other person, at the expense of the com-
pany, shall issue or distribute any appointment, or form of
appointment, of a proxy in anticipation of, or for use at, any
general meeting of the company, unless by the authority of
some previous general meeting, or by resolution of four-fifths
of the board specially summoned.
" And S. So much of clause 20 as would have provided
that the power of re-electing directors at any meeting, at
which such directors go out of office, shall never be exercised
in favour of more than four of such retiring directors.
" Your committee are aware that the whole retiring direc-
tors are legally eligible for re-election, but they recommend
to the proprietors that in future elections the foregoing rules
be observed.

" Your committee are unwilling to conclude their report
without adding their unanimous declaration that, in the
course of the inquiries and investigation which they have
had occasion to make for the due discharge of the duties
which they undertook on behalf of the proprietors, they
have had every facility and.assistance afforded to them by
the directors and officers of ihe company."