The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-31 00:00:00

SEETAPORE.

N. H. R. says—" I have as yet seen no account
in the papers of the mutiny of the 41st Regiment at
this station, excepting the report -that the major-'
and several officers hail fallen ; and the following
pariicu'ars, which I will condense from two letters
received front an officer of that regiment and his
wife, may be interesting to those who may have
had friends or relatives at that station. The mutiny
hr. ke (-utt on the 3d June. A Sepoy came in the
morning of that day to acquaint .my friend of the
determination of the soldiers to mutiny; bui., stated
that they would not harm their officers if' they
would leave the place. The regiment was divided,
a part being st atiened about a wile and a half from
the others, and as more plunder was to be had in
the town itself the mutineers first attacked it. The
Colonel, although warned by a friendly Sepoy,
would not believe that the regiment intended
to mutiny, and conducted two of the disappointed
companies to the treasury, andthere hO and anot er
officer were shot. The sergeant-major was also
killed, and one other officer wounded. The officers
had received orders, of course, to remain with their
men, but on hearing the firing in the town the men
at once disbanded themselves, rushing there to join
in the plunder. A few faithful Sepoys now implored
the offieers to escape, and, seeing 'the bungalows
and lines in -a blaze, they left about noon in their
buggies. The party consisted of 12 officers, 6 ladies,
and as many children, with a number of the wives
and children of civilians—about 50 in all. Dur-
ing their journey they had to avoid the high road,
and were obliged to go over ravines, ploughed fields,
and places where no wheeled carriage could
ever before have passed. The party halted for an
hour only and were pursued by the mutineers,
after they had satiated themselves by murdering
about 50 people in the town, men, women, and
children ; but fortunately they reached Lucknow,
a distance of 50 mile, in safety, escorted by 20
Sepoys who remained faithful to them. The 'party
were two days and a night on the road, and the
heat was intense. They lost all they possessed,
and escaped with only the things they had on.
The station was burnt to the ground.

"My friend,- with his wife and family, were,
when he wrote, staying with a-civilian at Lucktioy,
entirely dependent upon the kindness of a stranger
not only for-food, but for clothing. May the
Almighty protect and guird them from the perils
of the siege 1"

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AIL WAY IN r ELLIO ENOE.

GREAT NORTIIEUN.

[The following appeard in our late edition of Saturday
evening :—]

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this
company was held this morning, at the London Tavern,
Bishop-gate-street, W. E. Denison, chairman of the
board, in the chair. Then was a very full attendance
of shareholders. The chairman and directors, on enter-
ing the room, were received with a volley of hisses and
cheers, and the meeting throughout was of a very stormy
character.

The SECRETARY having read the notice convening the
meeting,

The CHAIRMAN said that the act of Parliament made it
clmput-ory on the chairman, the first thing at the half
yearly meeting, to affix the seal of the company to the
register of shareholders. He had no option in the matter,
and he therefore affixed the seal and signed his name to
the register of stock, amounting to 8,414,0721. 10s., and
the number of sha►eholders 6,130, as reported by Mr.

Mr, J:WILsoN—Can you do it without the authority
of the meeting?
_. .

Mr. LEECH (solicitor to the company)—Yee, the act
requires that it should be first done.

Mr. WILSON said the act only stated that the seal
should be affixed at each ordinary half-yearly meeting.
Nothing whatever was said about the chairman, and
he maintained that the consent of the meeting was ne-
cessary first to be obtained before the seal was affixed.
(The Chairman in the meantime affixed the seal to
the register.) The Chairman having affixed the seal to
the register, Mr. Wilson protested, and called on the
professional gentlemen present to state to the meet-
ing if the act gave the chairman power to affix the
seal against the consent of the shareholders. (Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said he saw no use in consuming their
time in a discussion of that nature. He had put the seal
to the register, and they could not reject it. (Uproar.)
Ile had acted in what he had done under professional
advice, and he should stand by it whether right or
wrong. (Oh, oh.) The act stated that at every halt,
yearly meeting the seal should be affixed, and he had
been Lifortned that it was a ministerial act only, and
necessary to constitute the meeting. (Hear, hear, and
No, no ) It was waste of time to discuss it, and those
who objected to it could protest and welcome. (Uproar )
Mr. WILSON protested against the proceeding, and
appealed to the meeting to express their opinion on that
point, when nearly every one in the room held up their
hands in approval of Mr. Wilson's prJtest.

Mr. HUGHES said that it it was a ministerial act the
ehairma,‘ was right in doing it.

A SHAREHOLDER.—Wbat is the effect of your affixing
the seal ?
Tne CHAIRMAN.—That's a legal question I can't an-
swer (Upr. ar.)
A SHAREHOLDER said the chairman ought to be in
posseesion of that opinion. The act involved an im-
portaLt question affecting the interestof the shareholders.
Mr. 'METCALFE. w are we to know that the regis•
ter is comet ? (Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN—I have stated to you Mr. Grindling's
report. (Oh, ob.)
_ _ _

Mr. METCALFE.—What do we care for that. Will
you vouch for the truth of Mr. Grindling's statement ?
The CHAIRMAN.—I don't know. (Confusion.)
Mr. METCALFE —And you don't care. (Laughter.)
Mr. BILLINGS asked the chairman if he caul./ give
the meeting the details of the various stuck to which he
had affixed the seal.
Ti.e CHAIRMAN—No.

Mr. BILLINGS asked how it was possible, without
that information, the shareholders could know whether
all the stock was legal, or that the creation of fraudu-
lent stock was not going on. (Hear, hear.) He c)n-
tended that the shareholders should have the information
he asked for. (Hear hear, and confusion.)
The CHAIRMAN said he was ready to proceed.
A SHAREHOLDER—On what. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BILLINGS—Answer my question. (Bear, hear,
and cheers )
The CHAIRMAN—I shall answer no more questions
about the register to which I have put the seal. (Oh,
oh, and cheers.)

The greatest confusion prevailed during the above dis-
cussion, or rather continual questioning, three or four
shareholders speaking at a time. _ _

Mr. STAINSBURY said it was not a waste of time in
one sense in discussing this question of affixing the seal
to the regi ter, because it showed the chairman that he
had fairly lost the confidence of the shareholders. (Hear.)
Tilers was a time when the Chairman cool I have affixed
the seal to the register or any other document, the con-
fidence of the proprietors being with him; but what had
occurred within the last five months ought to have shown
him that that confidence was now entirely gone, (Loud
cheers.) No time could be considered as wasted that
might tend to relieve them of their pre,,ent Chairman,
and to redeem, save, and rescue this vast property from
the present disastrous management. (Renewed cheers.)
He did not charge the Caairinan with personal culpabi-
lity in connection with the frauds, but he considered him
guilty of the grossest mural dereliction of duty it was
possii,le for any man to be guilty of. • (Cheers )
Mr. HUGHES said that as there was nothing before the

meeting he wa4 prepared tl move a vote of censure
He had heard it was the intention of the Chairman to
move the adjournment of the meeting, and he asked if
that wag true.

The CHAIRMAN—Yes. I have virtually done so.

Mr. HUGHES said he would advise the chairman not
to propose the adjournment of the meeting because it,
would prevent any shareholder from moving an amend-
ment on it—(hear, hear)—although notice of two or
three had been given to impugn the character of the
chairman. (Hear, hear.) He asked the chairman if he
would venture out of respect to his own character to put
a motion for adjournment to the meeting wh'eh would
prevent the shareholders frprn expressing their opiLion
on his conduct. (Hear, hear.) It would be better to
adjourn the consideration of the dividend, and let Clem
take the other part of the report into con ideration,
but for God's sake don't adjourn' the meeting. (Cheers.)
Mr. J. WILSON—Fur God's sake let him. (near, and
loud laughter.)
Mr. MALINS expressed a hope that the chairman would
not propose the adjournment of the meeting. (Hear.)
He hoped they would go on and discuss the report, be-
cause although they had met with a heay., loss the pro-
perty was sound. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUGHES suggested that he should be all,)wed to
move a vote of censure, and the directors move the ad-
journment of the meeting thereon.
The CHAIRMAN said he was asked by Mr. Hughes if
he intended to move the adjournment of the meeting,
and he answered that he did, and if Mr. Hughes had
been content with a plain simple answer to a plain
question, and had sat down, he (the Chairman) should
have made such observations thereon as occurred to him,
and then it would have been competent for Mr. Hughes
to have replied to them, but that gentleman having got
an answer to his question from him—(the Chairman)—
as a matter of courtesy, had thought proper to make
some remarks thereon. The practical question for
their consideration would be the adjournment of the
meeting as he had given notice. In that he intended to
persevere, and would give his reasons for so doing when
it would be for the shareholders to resist the naniou or
not, just as they liked. (Hear.) Mr. Hughes was right
in his statement that an amendment could not be moved
on the motion for adjournment. (Hear.)
Mr. HUGHES—I rise to order.
The CHAIRMAN—You are out cf order in rising to

Order, because I think I am in order.
Mr. HUGHES said it was an universal thing to
I tell a person that he was out of order in rising
to a point of order. He wanted to ask the legal adviser
of the company this question. (C infusion.)
The CHAIRMAN--I shan't allow him to answer any
question. (Renewed uproar.)
Mr. HUGHES—Then I ask you
The CHAIRMAN—I shall not, nor will I allow him to
answer questions likely to interrupt the proceedings, if
I can help it. (Flear, hear, and uproar.)
Mr. HUGHES—If it is legal now to move an amend-
ment for the adjournment of the meeting, I appeal to
the meeting if the amendments should not be taken in
their order of notice. (Hear, hear.) .If so the motion
of censure should be taken first. (Hear, and uproar.)
The CHAIRMAN—Certainly not, and I will anticipate
the answer to your question by now moving the adjourn.
rnent. I will now do it without making any observa-
tions, but I will not be stopped in moving it. (Uproar.)
Mr. HEATH objected to the chairman moving the ad-
journment of the meeting. Mr. Malin's was iii the pos-
'sessiin of the chair, and was about to move a resolu-
tion, when he was interrupted by some hon. pr price.
tor introducing some observations.
The CHAIRMAN said such was not the case. So long
as be was chairman nothing should deter him from doing
his duty. (Uproar, and cries of " You shan't be
Hon. proprietor:, would lot make him quail by the ob-
servations they had made. He had not the honour of
knowitip,, that gentleman (Slr. Stsinsbury).
Mr. STAINSBURY—I aid thankful for it. (Laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN said be could not say he was very
sorry for it. (Laughter.)
Mr.WILSON—He knows Mr. Josiah Wilson very well.
(Hear, and laughter )
The CHAIRMAN—Yes, be knows more of him than be
approves. Mr. Wilson had been driven to the painful
necessity of taking him (the chairman) into a court of
justice to admit that he did not slander his cherac er. It
was the chairman's duty to open the proceedings, and
by it he would stand and not give way on the point.
Mr. BILLINGS—You have opened tbe pioceedinity, and
now you want to abruptly close them. (Uproar.)
Mr. WiLsorr-Suppose we show the chairman that we
will not pass the adjournment for the present. (Uproar.)
Tne CHAIRMAN said he had one other proposition to
make to the meeting, viz., that he would either move
the adj.iurcinent at f nee without observations, divide
the meeting, and go to the poll at once—(oh, ob)—or
preface it with some observations that bad occurred to
him.

Several shareholders rose and addressed the chairman
in an rscited and energetic manner. As soon as silence
was obtained,
The CHAIRMAN said that he was not to be driven from
his intention, if he remained there for a tnontb. lOh,
oh, and hisses:) He contended that, notwith!;tannipg
the difference .ot opinion that prevailed with reference
to the right of the preference shareholders, he was cer-
tain that everybody in the room must rejoice at the
progressive prospvrity of the railway. (Hear, hear, and
cries of " No, no,") Wny they_ could lilt dispute the
fact—(cries of "Yes, we can")—that the traffic on the
line increased, and but for those unfortunate frauds a
better dividend would hare been offered than bad even
been paid at this period of the year. He asserted, and
in that he waa confirmed by Mr. Malins, that the rail-
way was in a healthy and sound condition, and if they
would,endeavour to avoid such unfortunate squabbles,
as they now witness,ed, he WM certain their property
would rise in value in the market, as he was sure they
ought to stand Jaigher,than they unfortunately now did.
With respect to the parties who had hal money lodged

in this railway fora considerable number of years, and
who did not intend to sel out. it weuld not male a
great difference in end excpt tie I of a portion
of their dividend ; but as the value of the property re-
mained just as good as ever, he hoped they would firmly
stand by it, because he was sure it was very nearly, if
not quite, the best railway properte in the kingdom.
(Hear, hear.) The parties for whom he and the directors
felt the greatest sympathy were those wiio relied prin-
cipally on the dividends in which their property was
einbalked, viz., widows, and many persons who were
depending for !newsy on trustees, who could not sell out
the stock, aed had no means of raising money for them.
(Hear, hear.) He seriously commiserated their unfor-
tunate position, but he confessed he cenld not help it.
(Cries c,f" You could have helped it.") He begged
and entreated every person connected with the railway
to look calmly, and, if they could, dispassionately on
this painful subject. After referring to the remarks that
had been made on the directors both at meetings that
had been held in connection with the company, and by
the press, though he admitted they had a right to coin'
merit on the cenduct of the director?, and he timed no
fault with lion. gentlemen who gratified themselves by
pitching into hies. (Hear.) They were welcome to do
it for a month, and he should stand just a- unmoved a 3
he was at present, and he told the meeting that as soon
as a majority of the 'shareholders wished it he would re'
tire, but not before that. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman
then entered into a detailed statement of the Itedpath
frauds, the meetings that had been held in consequence,
and the proceedings in Parliament, and in reference to the
decision of Sir W. Page Wood, said it was the intention
of the directors to appeal against it, and he moved the
aeij ,urornerit of the meeting to such time, but not more
than 10 days after the decision of the appeal in Chancery.
Mr. WinsoN—That will be for seven year's. (Hear.)
Mr. Paoyee ( lirector) seconded the motion.
A lengthened discussion, in which much personal feel-
ing was mardfeeted, then took place, having reference
to the preceieings in Perliareeet and in the "V:ce-
Chancellor's Curt. Some amusement was created
in c insequence of Mr. Valet tine Knight calling
Mr. Denison, Q C. (the chairman's son) the " Young
May Moon," in reply to which, Mr. Deeison, in his
speech, charged Mr. Knight with " squirting out venom-
ous observations." Tee meeting called upon the learned
gentleman to withdraw his offnsive oh, ervatione, and
amidst much confu-ion and laughter we understood both
hon. gentlemen withdre s any offensive expressions
they might have used to each other.
In the diFcussion that ensued it was urged that the
directors onght not to use proxies given in favour of the
report in support of the adiournmenr, because many did
not receive the notice of aoj 'urement till it was too late
to send er cancel their proxies, and Mr. Malins sug-
gested a kind of c ,inprorniee, by the shareholders taking
a dividend of 1/ in-tead of 21., which would enable the
directors to py the preference shareholders in full.
The CHAIRMAN, in reedy, read the terms of the
proxies, which he said gave the directors authority t°
use them for an adjournment.
When the chairman was about to put the motion se'
veral shareholders attempted to address the meeting, one
of them, Mr. Heath, protested against the law proceed'
ings, and asked if the decision in the Vice-Chancellors
Court had been in favour of the directors, they would
have appealed, on which the chairman, who was much
excited, exclaimed "Do you think I'm such a d—d fool
as to answer such a question." Tnis was met with
loud cries of order, and that a religious man
and a magistrate ought to be ashamed of using such ex-
pressions, and he was ceded on to retract. Tue utmost
confusion prevailed, amidst which the Chairman put the,
question, when the amendment for the adjournment wag
ltnt on a show of hands ; but this result was reversed oa
a p ,11, in which the directors used their proxies. a
A report from ac micnittee of investigation, appointee
in March last, was presented, but its consideration Wag
deferred.
The meeting shortly after separated.