The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

LANGHAM HOTEL (LIMITED).

A meeting of this company was held on Tuesday
at the hotel, Langham-place ; the Earl of Shrews-
bury and Talbot in the chair.
The report stated that the receipts to June 30th,
1866, amounted to £67,755, and the trading account,
after payment of expenses, showed a profit of
£19,858. Of this profit £7,665 had been paid to
debenture and preference shareholders, and deduct-
ing that and the further amount of £1,200 due to
preference shareholers, a balance of £10,934 re-
mained. The directors advised that the whole of
the £10,994 be carried forward to the next account.
The CHAIRMAN having moved the adoption of the
report,
Sir J. CAR3IICHAEL seconded the motion.
Mr. BATIIOE moved an amendment, to the effect
that a committee be appointed to investigate the
affairs of the company, and that the meeting be ad-
journed to the 4th of August.

A PROPRIETOR seconded the amendment.

Mr. G. BURKE believed that great dissatisfaction
existed among the shareholders. He, thought that
the accounts must be either right or wrong, and
contended that the ordinary shareholders were as
much entitled to the dividend earned as those who
held preference shares.

After further discussion, in which several share-
holders took part,
The CHAIRMAN explained that the directors
wished to husband the company's resources, and not
to declare a dividend when they were not in a posi-
tion to pay it.

The amendment was rejected, and the report was
adopted.

Mr. HALL and Mr. MORGAN proposed resolutions
for paying a dividend of 5 per cent. on the ordi-
nary shares, but they were subsequently withdrawn.
-The retiring directors and auditors were re-elected,
and the proceedings terminated.

THE BROKEN WINDOWS OF THE ATHENXITM.—
The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Beales to
the committee of the Athenaeum :—" Mr. Edmond Beales
presents his compliments to the committee of the
Athenaeum, and begs to express his sincere regret that any
damage should have been done to their club-house on
Monday last. Mr. Beales has been credibly informed that
the popular leaders on that occasion mistook the Athenaeum
for the Carlton. Mr. Beales requests that the committee
of the Athenaeum will inform him of the amount expended
by them in repairing the damage, with a view to his
bringing the matter before the Council of the National
Reform League."

M. LOUIS BLANC ON THE HYDE PARK RIOTS.—
On this subject M. Louis Blanc writes from London
to the Temps as follows :—" The English journals have
greatly exaggerated the disorders which took place. Be-
sides, everything is judged by comparison. In England
the least infringement on the liberty of the citizen acquires
enormous proportions. What elsewhere is considered as a
simple act of authority is here looked upon as a monstrous
abuse of power. Only about 30 citizens have to be struck
or wounded for the public to feel the same indignation as
the news of a fearful massacre would excite in other coun-
tries." M. Louis Blanc attests that the sabres of the Life
Guards remained as guileless of blood as after a review.
They neither menaced nor frigh,tened any one, and yet
the simple fact that they were sent to Hyde Park with the
object of intimidating the people has been made the sub-
ject of the most vehement accusations against the English
Ministry."

•
THE MURDER OF A CHILD IN SEVEN DIALS.—
There now seems to be very little doubt that the
poor little boy found dead in the Seven Dials, under cir-
cumstances described yesterday, has been murdered by his
father, who is a tailor by trade, and about 31 years of age.
He is known among his associates as " Mad Dick." He has
been separated from his wife for some time, and the boy
had been brought up by his grandmother, a poor old woman
living in Eagle-street, Holborn. The child, being an un-
usually intelligent and nice-looking boy, was a great favau-
rite with the grandmother and an aunt who lived in the
same room, but they could rarely obtain anything from
either of his parents towards the support of the poor
little fellow. Indeed, it now appears that the mother has
been living with another man as his wife, and the father
also had formed an illicit connection with another woman.
The poor boy had consequently become a source of trouble
to both of them, although the merest trifle was required for
his maintenance. On Sunday evening about eight o'clock
the father (Jeffrey) ' called at the lodging of the grand-
mother, in Eagle-street, and said he had come for his boy.
The grandmother asked him what he wanted with the
child, who had just been put to bed ; but he became very
violent, ordered the child to dress himself, and swore that
"he would do for her (the grandmother) and the child too,"
if she did not mind. The old woman and the child's aunt
both had some misgivings about giving up the child, and
ono of them eonsulted a neighbour and a policeman upon
the subject, but they were told that a father had a right to
demand possession of his child, and they reluctantly con-
sented to part with it. It appears that Jeffrey then went
to his sister in White Lion-street, St. Giles's, taking the
child with him, and asked for a. bed. He was accommodated
with one, and went to bed with the boy; but at two o'clock
in the morning he rose, and, making some remark, took the
child away. The sister expressed a hops that he was not
going to harm the child, but he made no reply. Ho could
not have walked many yards away, for Neal's-passage,
where the body of the deceased was found, is close at band.
Horrible as it seems, it is apparent, from the condition
of the body, that the cruel father tied its hands
behind, and literally enacted the part of execu-
tioner of his own child—holding its legs, and
forcing down its body to complete the strangulation.
The man is described as about five feet five inches in
height, sallow complexion, dark hair, whiskers, and beard,
chin shaved, small moustache, short in stature, of rather
smart appearance, and walks erect. It is stated that
when he took away the child from his sister's he took a
piece of candle and some lucifers with him, and was heard
to tell the boy that "he was going a long journey, anal
woulduever return."