The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-26 00:00:00

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.

The following appeared in a late edition of The Sun of
last evening :
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held at the London Tavern to-day at noon,
for the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee of
Investigation, and for the election of directors. There
was a numerous attendance. Mr. G. Goodson occupied
the chair. The substance of the report has been already
published.
Mr. C. H. TURNER moved that the report of the com-
mittee be adopted.
Mr. CYPRUS LEGGE seconded the motion.
Mr. SINIPSON, a, director, thought they should let bygones
be bygones. (No, no.) Ho must remind them that it was
the custom of Englishmen to furnish persons charged with
anything with a bill of indictment. That had not been
done in this case. To ask him to resign without placing
before him what he was charged with was not constitu-
tional. Ho impressed upon them to unite together to re-
trieve their position, instead of going into personal con-
tentions. A wise arrangement with other companies would
be very beneficial.
A stormy discussion ensued as to the conduct of the
directors amid occasional cheers and hisses. In the opinion
of one gentleman the directors had spent their time in en-
couraging projects prejudicial to the interests of the share-
holders, and were deserving of twelve months on the

Mr. FILES hoped the report would not be adopted, so far
as it would be a repudiation of the agreement entered into
between the Great Eastern and the Great Western, and
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways. If they
repudiated that agreement they would destroy those bright
hopes which the committee of investigation referred to.
Mr. SHAW supplemented the observations of the previ-
ous speakers.
Mr. HARTRIDGE asked if the directors had any objection
to publish the evidence adduced to the committee.
The CHAIRMAN said the evidence of the committee had
not been laid before them.
After a short pause,
Mr. HARTRIDGE said—l understand the committee are
willing to give us the evidence to-day. That being the case
I am prepared to move that they be elected in place of the
present directors. (Cheers.)
Mr. LOVE, a director, said he had considerable experi-
ence in the affairs of the company. (A voice, In cooking
the accounts, and uproar.) The speaker hoped they would
not allow him to be hounded down by a man who had not
£lO in the company. He proceeded at some length to de-
fend the conduct of the company, amid cries of "time" and
alternate hisses and applause. He hoped, in conclusion,
that the report would be simply received.
Mr. WILKINSON said he entered the room prepared to
adopt the report, but since then certain grave statements
had been made, and he asked the company to pause before
they did anything to prejudice their property by any intem-
perate action. In the present circumstances the election of
the committee to the directorship could not give entire sa-
tisfaction. The shareholders should be acquainted with the
particulars of the evidence.
A SHAREHOLDER said if the directors wished to answer
the allegations brought against them, the meeting should
adjourn for a month. (Hisses, and cries for Turner.)
Mr. TURNER said, with regard to not publishing the evi-
dence, it would be a gratification for him to do it, but the
committee did not feel that they ought to publish the evi-
dence until they knew what effect it might have upon their
property. It was not a wish to screen the directors, but if ,
the shareholders said they wished the committee to gratify
their curiosity, then on the shareholders would rest the re-
sponsibility, and not on the committee. (Applause.) He
was not there to say anything in d4aragement of the pro-
perty of the company. God knew it was bad enough.
(Out with it.) Ho told them the company was in a bad
state—deplorably bad, but not hopelessly. He liked the
principle of the alliance with the Northern Company, but
he hated the terms. Mr. Turner entered into some parti-
culars to show that the Great Eastern would lose con _
siderably if the agreement were carried out.
The CHAIRMAN said that the decision of the board was
that the vacancies should be filled up, and they expected
at the same time the permission would be given to them
to issue a reply to the circular of the committee of inves-
tigation.

A SHAREHOLDER-lf this report is adopted, what is the
use of a reply.
Mr. SHAW—After you have received the report you can
elect the directors and adjourn the meeting. The reason
for the adjournment is that we may have an opportunity
to reply to the committee's statement.
Mr. BEAVIS, a member of the committee, said a more
reckless set of men than the directors he never came in con-
tact with in his life. (Laughter and applause.) If the
meeting had confidence in the committee they should adopt
the report as it was. Somo might say, " Oh, it is one set
of rascals turning out another." (Great laughter, which
was continued for some time.) If Mr. Love had anything
more to do with this company it would not be worth a brass
farthing. (Laughter, hisses, and applause.) He hoped
they would adopt the report in its entirety.
After some discussion,
Mr. TURNOR intimated that he bad been authorised in
behalf of the committee to state that they agreed to the
amendment, if the Chairman assured them that there was
nothing " on the back of it."
The CHAIRMAN said he was quite willing to give the
assurance.

The amendment was then put to the meeting, and una-
nimously approved ef.

The amendment, as carried, was as follows :--‘• That the
report of the commiitee of investigation, under date 19th
inst., be received and entered in the minutes."
A vote of thanks was then awarded to the committee of
investigation.

The meeting thereafter proceeded to the election of
directors, in the course of which

Mr. LEGGE asked Mr. Maynard, the solicitor to the
company, if it was true, as had been alleged, that ques-
tions conducted with the Eastern Union affairs would
place Captain Jervis and Mr. Jocelyn in direct antagonism
to the interests of the Great Eastern Company ?
Mr. MATNARD said such questions did exist, and he
believed very large sums would accrue to the company by
a proper investigation into the affairs.
Mr. LEGGE then moved that in view of the official state-
ment made by Mr. Maynard, Captain Jervis, and Mr.
Jocelyn be censured and no longer retain the confidence of
the shareholders. (Hisses.)
Captain JERVIS repudiated in the most firm and distinct
language every won d said by Mr. Maynard and Mr. Lege.
(Oh, oh, hisses, and cries of "Sit down.") It was not
true that Mr. Jocelyn and himself refused to retire, (Why
do not you retire. Will you retire to-day? Put him out.)
After some explanations Captain Jervis stated that the

reason this attack had been made upon him was because
he had moved at a board meeting that Mr• M-aynardshould
receive a yearly salary from the company instead of fees.
He had no objection to the printing of the evidence.
Mr. JOCELYN said he would take the opportunity of put-
ting in print his reply to the charges made against him.
The motion of Mr. Legg censuring the two directors
"who had set at defiance the resolution of the special
general meeting," was then put to the meeting and carried,
nearly all the gentlemen in• the room holding up their hands
in its favour.

Mr. COBBOLD demanded a poll.
The resolution relieving the committee from the publi-
cation of the evidence was then carried.

The filling up of the vacancies was then proceeded with.
The following were the directors who went out from office:

—Josiah Smith Wells, Esq., J. T. Norris, Esq,
H. Love,
Esq., James Puke, Esq and John Alexander Thompson

Smith.

The following gentlemen were unanimously elected
directors in their stead :—Charles Henry Turner, Esq.,

Litchurch, Derby; George Beavis, Esq., Ottery villa, 11,
London-road, St. John's-wood; George Smith, Esq., 57
Conduit-street ; and Arthur Ballantyne, Esq., 4, Austin-
friars. For the fifth vacancy three candidates were pro-
posed, namely, Viscount Bury, J. Love, Esq., and George
Gamble, Esq. On the vote being taken the latter was
chosen to office by an overwhelming majority.
Mr. COBBOLD, at this stage, intimated that he withdrew
his demand for a poll.
The proceedings, which throughout had been of a very
recriminating and noisy description, were then brought to
a close, the meeting having lasted four hours.

Bank of England Returns,•--Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to t]
cap. 32, for the week ending
VOWS DEI
Notes issued .......X26,907,2151

lie Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1866.
PLIITMENT.

Government Debt 411,015,100
Other Securitici .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin &Bullion 12,:57,215
Silver Bullion ....

£26 907,2151

£26,907,215

BAN K Ll.l 0 D

,PARTMENT.

eroprietors' Capi-
tal .C 14.553.00
[test
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
mission ers of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead VVeightA,n-
nutty)
.. t9,P6i,982
Other Securities„ 19,423,233
Notes ............ 5,93 ',35
Gold and Silver 8.3,545
Coln ...........

counts) 3,439,9i
Other Deposits.— 14,130,091
Seven Day and
other Bina

404,815

£36.037,565

£36,037,565
-. MILLER, Chief Cashier.

Jan. 25, 1865,

SUSPICIOUS CASE.—On Tuesday afternoon the
lower part of the body of a man was found floating
in 'he Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow. The head and
arms were gone, but were afterwards found half a mile
west from the spot where the trunk and legs were seen. A
dreadful gash appeared in the left side of the head, and the
skull was extensively fractured. A girl who happened to
bo standing on the canal bank saw a coasting boat pass,
and heard the steersman say to another man on board, "I
will let you see before we go far." Some distance farther
up the canal, and after a proper lapse of time, a smith heard
cries of distress, and a sound as of a man chopping on wood
with an axe. The body will undergo a post-mortem
examination. The case is being investigated by the autho-
rities.

Another Great Robbery by a Confidential
Clerk.

MANSION-HOUSE-THIS DAY.

This morning John Loosemore, of No. 1, Park.
crescent, Regent's-park, until yesterday a confiden-
tial clerk in the employ of Piere Tinarde and Co.,
provision merchants, of 17, Gracechurch-street, was
placed at the bar before Alderman Carden, charged
with stealing a bill of exchange for £2,500, the pro-
perty of his employer.

The prosecutor said that the prisoner had been in
his service for 13 years as clerk, and in him was re-
posed the utmost confidence ; and also the respon-
sibility of managing his (witness's) London esta-
blishment devolved upon him, he himself being
more frequently in Paris than in London. In
August last he handed the prisoner a bill
of exchange of £2,500, drawn by the Merchants'
Bank of Mauritius on the Merchants' Bark in.
London. It was accepted, and he handed it to the
prisoner to pay it into his account in the Bank of
England, he having endorsed it for that purpose.
Yesterday, on looking into his pass-book, he saw
among the various items this bill of exchange for
£2,500 entered in the prisoner's handwriting,
and not in that of the clerks of the Bank of
England. This excited his suspicion, and he
went to the Bank, and there discovered that the
bill had never been paid in. He taxed the prisunert
who at once admitted stealing the bill, and said he
had converted it to his own use, and lost the whole
of the money in speculation.

A clerk from the Bank of England proved that
the bill had never passed through that establishment,
and also that the entry in the pass-book was
fictitious.

Alderman Carden remanded the prisoner for a
week.

London and St. Katherine's Dock Company.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The ordinary general meeting of the proprietors
was held this day at the Dock House, Tower-hill.
In moving the adoption of the report, which
was of a highly favourabl© character, the Chair-
man alluded to the late great fire that had
taken place in St. Katherine's Dock. He said
he had no doubt that it was the general desire that
he should state the amount of loss the calamity
would occasion the company. (Hear, hear.) He
had the greatest satisfaction in informing them that
the loss would be almost insignificant, as the pre-
mises were well and fully insured. The loss to the
company would not exceed £l,ooo—in fact, he
thought that about £7OO would be the sum.
There would be no loss as far as reinstating
the building was concerned ; the loss would arise
from want of stowage room. Messrs. Cubitt had
undertaken the rebuilding, and the whole was to
be rebuilt within ten weeks. There had been a
rigid inquiry into the casues of the fire by both
their solicitor and the person deputed to attend by
Sir R. Mayne, and he felt gratified to say that there
was no one point in either of these gentlemen's
reports to show tho fire was wilfully done through
malice. The best feeling, he assured the meeting,
existed between the directors and the hands em-
ployed in the docks.

The statement of the chairman appeared to gi7e
great satisfaction.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-THURSDAY.

CHESTER CUP.
33 to 1 agst Blithfield (taken freely)
THE DERBY.
7to 1 agst Rustic (taken and wanted)
11 to 1 agst Student (taken)
100 to 6 agst Janitor (offered, take 20 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Bribery colt (taken)
WATERLOO (COURSING),Ctr.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bartholomew's nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Jardine's nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Spinks's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Brocklebank's nomination (offered,
take 40)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's nomination (taken)

BANK OF FitANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 25.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :
DEBTOR.
Jan. 25.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500, 000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve in landed pro-
perty 4,000,000
Notes in circulation ... 972,811,075
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 136,879,090 54 136,033,195 79
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 3,455,863 75 4,469,584 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

six months
Surplus of receipts not

distributed
Sundries •

7,496,373 38

Jan. 18.

182,500,000 -:

4,000,000 -
970,736,975 -

7,758,618 43

2,074,992 92 2,074,992 92

10,493,046 61 12,827,220 38

Total
CREDITOR.

Jan. 25. Jan. 18.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-

270,465 72

290,403 73

connted, not yet due 381,547,592 99 380,746,508 06
Do. branch banks 359,885,538 362,227,137 —.
Advances on deposit of
bullion 6,058,500
1)o. branch banks 8,631,000
Do. on French Public
Securities 12,186,000
Do.on by branch basnhkasr.e.s 7,128,100
Do.
and debentures 30,075,200
D. branch banks 20,436,880
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-.
vention, June 10,
1857)
Government Stock re-

7,216,700
8,619,000 -

12,658,400
7,413,000 -

31,037,900
20,877,080 -

637,700 -
455,800 -

648,700 -
466,700

60,000,00 -

60,000,000 -

serve
Do. disposable .........
Routes Immobalis6es
(Law, June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches ...
Expenses of manage-
ment ....
5undrie5.................
..................

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
36,449,737 91_ 36,449,737 91

8,398,169 -

8,382,613 -

48,676 57 33,164 95
11,915,515 18 11,654,528 84

Total 1,447,692,548 82 1,449,311,634 A• 2
Cortified by the Senator-Governor of the 13ank of Prance.

(Signed)

ROULAND.

POLLUTION OF RIVERS' COMMISSION.--This com-
mission (so far as the River Thames is concerned) is now
this river will be presented to her Majesty before the meet-
ing of Parliament. The commissioners will then proceed
to the North of England and resume their inquiry there.
THE HEALTH OF MR. J. GIBSON, THE SCULPTOR.
—We have been favoured with the following lettPr
from one of the physicians in attendance on Mr. Gibson:
—"107, Via del Babuino, Rome, Jan. 19—I am happy to
inform you that the state of Mr. Gibson's health is gradu-
ally improving, and that during the last two.days sensation
has been returning in the paralysed arm. He has been fres
from pain during the whole of his illness, and his mental
faculties have bean quite clear. We have now, I think,
reasonable hopes of his recovery."

We are authorised to state that the Anthropolo-
gical Society of London will hold an extraordinary
meeting at St. James's Hall on Thursday, February Ist, at
8 p.m., to read and discuss a paper by Captain Bedford
Pau, R.N., entitled " The Negro at Home and Abroad."
We believe that the paper will have especial reference to
the negro of Jamaica, and the causes of the late insurrec-
tion in that island.

ROBBERY BY A CONFIDENTIAL CLERK.—To-day
an elderly man, named William Chadwick, lately
' a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Taylor, the extensive
mustard and cocoa manufacturers of Whitechapel, was
placed before the magistrate at Worship-street Police
Court, charged with robbing his employers. The prisoner
was looked upon as a man of undoubted honesty, and had
been in the employ of the firm for over seven years, and his
salary at the time of the robbery was £3OO a year. Chad-
wick having taken a day's holiday, his accounts werelooked
into by another clerk, and it was then found that, although
the entries in the book were correct, the totals were falsi-
fied. When the prisoner was accused of robbery, he indig-
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awdhmeintt teodldtakhiinsgdtehfealmcaotnioenys,
alleging the insufficiency of his salary. He was remanded
for a week.