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INTELLIGENCE.--This Day,

COURT OF CHANCERY.

GARDNER V. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER
RAILWAY COMPANY—DRAWBRIDGE V. SAME—GARDNER
(No. 2) v. SAME—THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
ASSOCIATION (LIMITED) V. SAME.
The court gave judgment in these four suits. The first
suit was instituted by Mr. Gardner, on behalf of himself
and all the other mortgages of what is known as the
"General Undertaking" of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company, against the company, for the
purpose of realising his and their securities. The second
and third suits are of a similar nature. In thefourth suit the
Imperial Mercantile Credit Association (Limited) seek to
establish an equitable charge to the amount of £135,000
upon the proceeds of the sale of the superfluous lands of
the "Metropolitan Extension" of the railway compiny.
Their lordships were of opinion that in the case of Gard-
ner and Drawbridge the order ought not to apply to the
sale of lands or the surplus rents of the company, and
in the Imperial Mercantile Credit suit there ought to be a
receiverl but perhaps to save expense some officer of the
company would act gratuitously. The costs in the cases
to be costs in the cause.

Mr. Seely, M.P., on Admiralty
Mismanagement.

Mr. Seely, M.P., and Mr. Heneage, M.P., ad-
dressed a meeting of their constituents in Lincoln
on Wednesday night. The latter gentleman, who
was subjected to some interruptions and allusions to
" the Cave," defended his votes daring the last ses-
sion of Parliament, and showed that he had sup-
ported Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill in principle,
although he had voted against it in the detail raised
by Lord Dunkellin's motion. In concluding his
remarks, amidst cheers mingled with groans and
hisses, the hon. gentleman hoped the Liberal party
would again b.2corne united, :Lid that Mr. Gladstone
would remain the leader.
Mr. SEELY, M.P., addressed his auditors in a
speech of great length, stating that he was and ever
bad been an advocate for household suffrage, and
was not the least afraid of the bugbear called the
" working man." Having taken some 'pains to
show that there was not the slightest reason to fear
that under an extended suffrage the working classes
would all vote one way, the hon. gentleman proceeded
to a demonstration of the proposition that there was
abundance of room for improvement in the Legisla-
tion and Government of the country. He confined
his remarks on this head chiefly to Admiralty mis-
management and the shortcomings of Parliament in
dealing with that mismanagement, going over in
his statement much of the ground traversed by him
in his speeches on thesubject during the last session
of Parliament. The following are extracts from his
remarks :—On examination of Royal dockyard ac-
counts, I found that four years, from 1863 to 1866
inclusive, there were £2,000,000 not accounted for.
The Frederick William cost —adding the items which
a private shipbuilder would have to charge—the sum
of £281,691 in repairing. She could have been built

for £134,453, so that the loss on that transaction
was £147,138. (Laughter.) I have picked out five
ships, and the repairs, adding the items I have re-
ferred to, amounted to £230,090, and the vessels
could have been built new for £152,148, so that you
actually repaired five old vessels at a cost of
£79,942, more than you could build them new for.
(Laughter.) Now, the Admiralty have never dis-
puted my figures with regard to the cost of ships,
or, if they have, they have afterwards had to admit
that I was correct. Of course they did not like it.
(Laughter.) Besides this, I pointed out that in one
dockyard an article was produced for 14s. 31:d.--
these figures are taken from their own published
accounts—and that in another yard the same article
cost £1 11s. 91d. I pointed out that in one yard
they made more offal timber than they ought to
have done, according to their own authorities,
which caused a loss to the country of £35,126. I
showed that they manufactured sheet lead at a cost
of 355., when they could have bought it for ss.
(Shame.) One boat cost £35, which ought to have
been only £lO 10s. ; another cost £3O, instead of
£9 16s. ; another £2B, instead of £7 10s. ; and so
on. I pointed out that for some cause or other—l
cannot tell what —a particular firm, Brown, Lennox,
and Co., had since the year 1842 supplied the Go-
vernment with anchors, and that the cost of those
anchors during that period had been about £170,000
more than the market price. I charged this upon
the Government in the session before last, and, as a
matter of course, one of the officials—l think it was
Lord Clarence Paget, now gone to the Medi-
terranean as Admiral of the Fleet—with his
usual audacity, said, " Yes, but we must take
care of the lives of our seamen ; we cannot have
bad anchors." Well, who wants them to have
bad anchors ? We want them to have the very
best anchors possible. But it so happened that
the anchors which were supplied to the navy
by Brown, Lennox, and Co. are anchors of a par-

titular pattern, which was condemned by a com-
mittee appointed by the Admiralty, I think in the
year 1852, as being the wont of seven anchors which
were submitted to the committee. I further pointed
out that there was some iron ballast, familiarly
called pigs—(laughter)—and I think it is probable
that these pigs will give a squeak when Parliament

meets again. (Laughter.) At a most moderate
estimate, there is £150,000 or £lBO,OOO wasted in
this atrocious manner- Of course, some of my
statements have been disputed, but the matter
cannot rest here. I have endeavoured, to the best
of my ability, not to discredit my constituents by
ever making statements that I could not maintain.
(Hear, hear.) I assure you I have no wish
whatever to gain notoriety by making statements
which I cannot substantiate. I simply want " the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,"l

and so long as I am favoured with your confidence,

so long shall I endeavour to elicit the truth in the
House of Commons. (Applause.)
The proceedings closed by the passing of a vote

of confidence in both hon. gentlemen.