The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-16 00:00:00

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGI&

I'RATES.

He could assure the shareholders - any .
that sort was carefully watched by the board, and way Company issued previous to
,
that the constant tendency of their operations was the proprietors, to be held at Derby on Tuesday
to charge new expenditure to revenue rather than next, is as follows : . A meeting of magistrates for the county ol
to capital. Respecting the first item there was a " The directors have again the satisfaction of re- Middlesex took place yesterday at the Sessions-
charge for the Nine Elms yards and goods sheds, porting to you an increase in all descriptions of house, Clerkenwell-green, for the despatch of the
amounting to 15,648, caused by removing the loco- traffic upon the railway for the past half year ; the usual county business. Mr. Henry Pownall presided.
motive department from one side of the station to receipts, compared with those of the corresponding The following magistrates were present :—Mr.
the other, and turnin the old locomotive shops and period of 1866, show the following result, viz : William Kemshead, Sir A. Spearman, Dr. Jervis,
g
worksmen's places into goods sheds. Then came An increase from coaching of £25,816 ; from cattle Captain Morley, Mr. Charles White, Mr. 11. H.
£1,230 for hydraulic machinery and weighing ma- of £7,349 ; from merchandise of £2,840 ; from Harwood, Mr. Halswell, Mr. B. 11. Adams, Mr.
chines ; new sidings, £92 ; new signals, £582, and so minerals of £24,677 ; total increase, £60,682. The 1 Antrobus, Mr. T. E. Baker, Mr. Stutfield, Mr. B.
forth. As to those new signals, he felt bound to gross amount of the traffic for the half year is Sharp, Mr. B. J. Armstrong, and Capt. D. O'Brien.
remark that during the last half year the company £1,365,853, to which has been added the sum of CORONERS' FEES.
bad expended £5,600 upon what was called the £74,787, taken from the balance due to revenue The report of the committee for accounts and
" block system." It was perhaps a very proper title, from the amounts received from the Great general purposes stated that they had examined the
because it did sometimes effectually block up their Western Railway Company under Mr. Phi accounts and vouchers delivered in at the present
line—(a laugh)—but they were, in fact, in a very son's award, and from the English and Scotch session by the coroners for the county and by the
difficult and delicate position. The Board of Trade, traffic obtained under the decision of the corouer r the city and liberty o
ref Westminster, of
fortunately or unfortunately for them, had recom- Court of Chancery, which amounts have not been disbursements made by themrespectively on the
mended, or at all events spoke favourably of that included in the weekly traffic returns. The holding of inqueats, and it recommended that orders
system, and the shareholders would doubtless under- working expenses of the half year have again ex- on the county treasurer should be made for payment
stand that if the company went before a jury in a ceeded those of the corresponding period of 1866. of such accounts, viz. :—To Mr. John Humphreys,
compensation case, and it could be shown that the The excess has arisen party from the payment out coroner for the eastern district of the county, on
company had neglected anything the Board of Trade of revenue for the reconstruction of the Apperley taking 152 inquisitions from the 21th June to the
had been pleased to recommend, the consequences viaduct ; for the repairs to other works damaged by Ist August, 1867, £282 2s. 6d. ; Mr. Edwin Lan-
would be something serious. (Hear.) They had the floods which occurred during the autumn of kester, coroner for the central district of the county,
thus been put to an expense for what they really last year, from the increased expense incurred in on taking coroner for
from ice
24th June to
did not believe was necessary, because they feared, working the traffic over the lines of other corn- the Ist August, 1867, £304 9s. •; Mr. James Bird,
first, the direct consequences of disobedience to their palsies, during the interruption occasioned bye he
tcoking 12or the
extern district
25th of the
June county
the, on
lawful masters, the Board of Trade; and, secondly, fall of the viaduct referred to, and by the geat a inquisons from e to 2d
Mr. Charles St. Clair
the indirect consequences if they got before a jury landslip at Bugsworth which
afters onet
had been Bedford, coroner for the city and liberty of sing August, 1867, £74 ss. 6d. ;
`Vest-
without having attended to that board's recommen- of the new line to Manchester
dations. Then for new works at Nine Elms there opened for goods traffic. And to the above causes 'Bluster, on taking 52 inquisitions from the Ist June
was £26,126 14s. lid.; that was entirely for ma- may be added the continued abalancedvance in the cost
for of to
After some the 31st Ju few r, 1867, 1100 on 17comparing the sums
s.
chinery for the locomotive department. It might , labour and materials. The availableemarks
be thought a large item, but he assured the meeting dividend is £500,033 153. 11d., of which the sum in the accounts of Messrs. Humphreys and Lankes-
that there was no railway company whose works \of £6,550 16s. 3d. is the balance brought forward ter, with the number of inquisitions held by each,
W
had cost so little as those of the South-estern. from the account of the previous half year ; and the the amounts were ordered to be paid.
Machinery must economise labour, and he was sure directors are enabled to recommend the declaration TRANSPORTATION OF CRIIIINALS.
that outlay must in the end prove remunerative. of the following dividends (less incame-tax), pay- Mr. J. F. SANDFORD, pursuant to notice, drew
For Clapham Junction there was an item of £4,036 able on the 2nd day of Sept. next :—£2 15s. upon the attention of the court to the great importance of
each Consolidated stock ;£2 Is. 3d. upon each £lOO resuming the transportation of criminals. He said
103. 101.; that was a sum paid to the contractor for
100
the p line on the north side of their line at the Consolidated Birmingham and Derby
Stock ; 3 his
dea objvouect in
some future bringing this
time subject forward
such WAS to
junction, and would enable the South-Western to on each £lOO Consolidated Preferential Stock .£
; 3on enr at to obtain an
work their line at great advantage for the future. each £lOO Consolidated ErewashlValley Stock ; £2 opinion from the court concerning the failure of the
The last item he would refer to was the new station ss. upon each £lOO Consolidated 4i per Cet. Pre- system of penal servitude o
the Home as would justify Secretary on
them in
at Leatherhead, where they had striven very hard ferential Stock ; £2 upon each £lOO Leicester and drawing up a
with their neighbours, the Brighton Company, to Hitchin Preferential Stock ;£2 53. upon each £lOO the subject. ILI order to show how penal servitude
have but one station between them ; but in vain. Consolidated Irredeemable 11- per Cent. Preferen- acted, he would quote from the judicial statistics
113 supposed they feared they would lose some por- tial Stock ; £2 10s. upon each £lOO B 5 per Cent. published for the use of the members of the Houses
tion of the traffic, and therefore when they refused Preference Stock ;£2 Ma upon each £lOO B 5 per of Parliament, from which it appeared there were,
there was no help for it. The station was on an Cent. Preference Stock ; 4s. 11 id. upon each £9 in 1866, 113,000 criminals at large in England and
embankment and very expensive, but the board con- share, at £5 108. per cent. per annum ; 6s. per Wales ; and to keep this criminal population in
sidered that was fairly a matter for capital. (Hear.) share upon each £lB 5 per Cent. Preference order
iitminals required
at large were ou a force of 23,728 policketce. Some of
Then with regard to the revenue account, that had share, being half year on £l2 per share, at 5 per
the crt on ti of l
not been so satisfactory as could have been wished, cent. per annum ; 4s. 11d. per share upon each some of them whose time had expired, and the rest
but under all circumstances he did not think that was £lB Inconvertible 5 Per Cent. Preference share, who were well known thievera He was of opinion
much to be wondered at. He knew very well that he being half year on £8 per share, and 166 that when a criminal had committed certain
had not so much money as he had four years ago, and days on £2 per share, at 5 per cent. per annum ; offences, such as garotting and other brutal assaults,
he dare say that was the case with many others—(a ls. 3d. per share upon each £22 5 per Cent. Pre- and was such a charazter, and there were many such,
, as required several constables to look after him,
laugh)—at all events the public had not so much ference shares, being 101 days on £4 10s. per share,
money to spend in travelling, but he was happy to at 5 per cent. per annum—leaving a balance of such a
beanomn should be sent to a place where there
say the goods had shown a slight increase as against £4,702 9s. 11d. to be carried to the account of the would
the small falling off iu passengers. As regarded . current half year. The dividend recommended is less! when such a ruffian was let loose upon society on a
payments, it would probably be recollected that than that declared for the corresponding half of ticket of leave ; and in some instances, to his own
when he was unwell last year, and Mr. Castleman 1866; this diminution has been occasioned chiefly , knowledge, it bad taken nine policemen to recapture
took the chair, that gentleman stated it was the by the continued large outlay on new lines and works a powerful ruffian. of that type. He further said
intention of the directors to investigate, and, if not yet productive, the amount under this head the gaols were getting overcrowded, and it would
possible, reduce the expenditure. Following up that duringthe half year having reached about £5,000,000. I soon require two millions to find extra gaol accom-
intimation, he was happy to say that, very much to 1 The Rowsley and Buxton Extension to New Mills 1 rnodation in the country.
the credit of the company's officers, the reduction I was reopened in February last, the traffic is progres- Capt. MORLEY thanked Mr. Stanford for bring-
then contemplated had been very nearly realised. i ing satisfactorily, and on the completion of the coin_ ing the question forward. He thought that tram-
(Cheers.) There had been a diminution of no less ! pany's merchandise and mineral station in Mulches- 1I portal
should be resumed, and that a memorial
than £1,415 and £4,989 in the locomotive and car- ter a large increase of traffic will no doubt accrue. I should be drawn up by the members of that court,
riage departments. In the traffic department there The Furness and Midland Railway was opened in and a deputation from it to wait upon the Home
bad been a reduction of £2,906, altogether making Juno last. The line has been constructed at the joint Secretary with such memorial.
a total of about
£12,3-10, added to which the saving expense of the Furness and Midland ComPanies, After with
such frotn members attacking the
as represented by the superintendent of the steam- and connects the new port of Barrow, the extensive statement made by Mr. Stanford,
ship department would be found to work out so I ironworks at that place and at Carnforth, as well as The CHAIRMAN said he more than doubted the
nearly to the anticipated saving that the difference the lake and haematite districts of Westmoreland and correctness of the statemeasntt ma
hi knowledge
de, that reforma-
was not important. It was about £16,000 for the Cumberland, advantageously with the Midland sys- tories had done no good, o s own
half-year, and he hoped the reduction for the whole tern ; and already a considerable traffic has been there were several criminals who had been convicted
year might be £30,000. Without, therefore, as- exchanged. Mr. Kirtley reports—' That the rolling four and five times, and at last, before it became
sinning to themselves the faculty of prophets, the stock is in good working order, and that during too late, had entered a reformatory, and were now
board inight congratulate the shareholders that the the half-year ending June 30, 1867, the mileage per- earning honest and respectable
result ,bey proposed to themselves had, thanks in formed livings. lie re-
by trains has been as follows : —With pas- marked at some length on the great injustice it
. .
some measure to their officers, been most satisfac- senger trains, 9,630,965 miles ; with goods and nii- trould be to any community
torily reali:!ed. (llear, hear.) lie felt bound to say 1 neral trains, 3,-562,25'7 wiles ;total, 6,193,222 mil's. to thrust 2,oo+criminals on them annually,
pile tat
that in ail dtp.irtments their administrative staff Compared with the corresponding period last year difficulty which would arife in getting
in any part of the world
any plac.: at
had most cheerfully put their shoulders to the wheel, this shows an increase of 3-'5 799 miles. The re- all to receive our criminal population. Ile hoped
and to their co-operation the satisfactory result to ne,vais of locomotive stock for half year have been and trusted that the„ ourt would let the matter
which he had alluded was in a great measure to be 8 engines, 48 carriages, 11 break vans, 6 horse boxes, stand where it was. h respect to criminals who
attribute'd. He was bound to say, however, that and `2B waggons.'
waggons.' Mr. Crossley reports—" That the had used personal violence, he was strongly of opi-
the saving effected had been almost neutralised by
railways and works under his care have been kept in Mon that severe chastisement should follow it—
some extraordinary expenses, such for instance as
ht such chastisement
those for the Kensington Station. The Weymouth good repair, and that 28i miles of single line have (hear, 'bear )—and he thou ht
and Dorchester tolls had almost been swallowed been relaid during the half year, the whole cost of would sufficiently k
heeep
discus s thoseion offenders inn dment check.
up in a similar manner. He congratulated the which has been charged to revenue. That with After some further an ame was
proprietors on the very small items for cora- respect to the railways in course of construction, uroposed, " That Mr. J. F. Stanford having drawn
peusation, amounting in all to £2,535, only
the Duffield and Wirksworth line will soon be the attention of the court to the great importance
£5OO of which was for accidents on the line.
Shareholders would know by experience how very ready for traffic, and the works upon the Shef- of resuming the transportation of criminals, a mm-
se the public were upon a railway company field and Chesterfield, the Cudworth and Barns- mittee be appointed to consider the whole subject,
when one of them lost his portmanteau. ley, the Derby and Melbourne, the Thornburg and report thereon to the court on the next court
A SIIAREHoLDER—Yes, and when he had not and Bath lines, and the Newark branch are pro- day." The amendment having been seconded, was
lest his portmanteau. (A laugh.) eeeding favourably. That considerable progress has I carried by a majority of 7to 4, and the following
The CLIAIR)IIIi—Just so ; but the result vas cer- been made in staking out the line of the Settle and I gentlemen chosen 'to act on the committee : Me,:9.m.