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' A Winter Night's Wake. By Jonathan Freke Slingsby.
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Newman on University Education.
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IV. J. COCKERILL, Secretary.

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The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re-
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Week ending 7th November 2,154
Ditto 14th November.. •• • • 2,043
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9th and 30th November. • • •

Total in November • • ... • 8,747
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EASTERN UNION.
The hilf-yearly meeting of this-company was held yes-
terday,,at Radley's Hotel ; Mr. J. C. Cobbol 'M.P.,
chairman of the company, in the chair.
The SECRETARY having read the advertisement con-
vening the meeting, a report was read, showing that the
total net income for the past half-year was 51,087/. ; and.
the debenture interest, and other charges of a like'cha-
ract3r, 37,8471; The report then roceeded
"After deducting the foregoing froni yetir net income
thera will remain available for dividend 13,239/. 83. This
sum will enable your directors to declare a dividend
-upon the A stock at the rate of 3/-per cent, per annum,
being lie 6d.- per share for the half-year, and of 21: per
cent, per annum upon the B stock,' tieing sa.- per share
fonthe half-year, leaving 1,2501. 134.-to be carried to
the credit of the next. half-year's account. The above
dividends are,double those declared for the correspond-
ing half-year of 1855. Your directors feel, therefore,
tirj are justified in congratulating you upon the steady
and satisfactory improvement which is now taking place
in your affairs. In the last report your directors stated
it wee their intention to convene a special meeting for
the purpose of arranging for the issue of such of the as-
sets in the possession of the company as were neces•
sary for the discharge of the outstanding liabilities ; the
state of the money market, however, precluded your
directors from carrying out this intention, and left
them no alternative but to make temporary finan-
cial arrangements with reference to the outstand-
ing debts—a mode of procedure that, for a considerable
period, has been adopted, and has been found far pre-
ferable for. the ordinary shareholders, to putting out, at
high rates of interest, in perpetuity, or for a long period,
the unissued stocks in their possession. Your directors
will probably call you together some time in the current
half-year for this purpose. It is gratifying to them to
be able to state that the company are in possession of
,ampler assets- for the discharge of every outstanding
claims Your director, ha‘ve to report, and they do so
with regreti‘that a new line has been projected to run
from Pitsei Station, on the London and Tilbury line, to
Colchester. In-conjunction with the Eastern. Counties
Board, your directors will offer the most strenuous op-
position to Parliamentary satiation being obtained to this
project."
The CHAIRMAN said he trusted the shareholders, would
feel that the report which the directors had been enabled
to lay before them was of A gratifying character, inas-
much as it showed a steady progress, and also contained
the gratifying announcement that for a secebd time they
had a double dividend. (gear.) They bad no reason
to doubt, from what they had seen of the traffic of the
line; that that progress would continue, and especially
as they were in the fortunate position of having their
working-expenses limited to 46 per cent" so that any
IPPlvprov-ercient in elm gross -traffic- of lieptfrate
would produce a corresponding improvement in their
income. The directors of the Eastern Counties Com-
pany complained that 46 per cent. was not sufficient for
the working txpenseP, and that the real expense being
50 per cent. entailed on them a loss of 11,320/ a year ;
but he did not see how they could call that a loss,
when it really was that they did not get so much profit
as if their working expenses were less. Meanwhile, if they
could not get 54 per cent, profit, they would take 20 per
cent., but they would not call the difference a loss. At
the time they took the Eastern Union they thought
they had got a good bargain, and they ought not to com-
plain if the expense had increased. With regard to their
own report, he would just touch upon one or two facts
in connection with it. The debenture interest this half-
year was 18,2181. On the last occasion he had had the
satisfaction of stating that they had renewed some of
their debentures at four per cent., and others at four-
and-a-half and five per cent., but he was sorry that he
could not report the same of the past hat' year, as, owing
to the state of the money-market, they could renew none
at less than five per cent, There was also an increase
in the debentures, as compared with last year, owing to
a number having been issued for land claims. The other
items remained pretty much the same. There was one
of them, however, the rent of the Stour Valley Railway
and Navigation, which they would get rid of in 1861, so
far as it was at present charged exclusively on their net
share of revenue. He then cams to the projected Pitsea
line, and be must say a more unwarrantable attack on
established property could not be conceived. Imme-
diately they heard of it the Eastern Union directors
passed a very strong resolution, which they sent to the
Eastern Counties to see if they would join them in any
opposition to it ; and, on the advice of Mr. Bruff, their
talented engineer, it was resolved not only to oppose the line
but to be prepared,if parliament should declare that such an
accommodation was required, to state that they were in a
better position to give it than the proposed company. The
projected line was intended chiefly to form a communi-
cation between the new camp at Colchester, and the
Government arsenals on the banks of the Thames ; but
Mr. Bruff said that, by a short line from Shenfield, the
Eastern Counties could effect the same communication
at one-third of the cost. At the same time the line was
really not wanted at all, as there was already a commu-
nication t-y going round by Stratford, (Hear, hear.) It
was said that the proposed line would give greater ac-
commodation to the eastern districts, and that the
public would benefit by reduced fares; but unless it got
the Colchester traffic it could not live, and yet, between
London and Colchester, it was 12 miles longer than the
existing line.
A SHAREHOLDER—There is no traffic between Pitsea
and Colchester.

The CHAlRMAN.—Certainly not. The next subject was
one which he adverted to with regret, and that was the
retirement of Mr. Bruff, the engineer of the Eastern
Counties. What bad led to that step he was unable to
say, as no engineer's report had been issued that half-
year, by the Eastern Counties Company ; neither was he
in a position to say whether they could hope to retain
Mr. Bruff as tie engineer of their (the Eastern Union)
company. He then came to a most important subject.
The shareholders were, of course, aware of the circum-
stances of the redemption of their preference stock,
namely, that a loan of 200,000/., had been advanced
them by the Eastern Counties Company for that pur-
pose, at the time of the amalgamation. Now, it was
very desirable, for various reasons, to get rid of that
colligation, and therefore the directors would at an early
period call the shareholders together for the purpose of
considering the means of paying that debt to the Eastern
Counties as soon as possible. He concluded by moving
the adoption of the report.
Sir S. BIGNOLD, M.P., seconded the motion.
A SHAREHOLDER asked how it was that the Eastern
Union had been debited with 2,000/. for its share of the
expenses of the agricultural show ?
The CHAIRMAN said the accounts furnished to them by
the Eastern Counties had not at present been sanctioned
by the directors of the Eastern Union.
Mr. SMITH (a shareholder) asked the meaning of the
following paragraph in the auditors' report :—" We have i
had before us reports of the examiners appointed to n-
vestigate the joint traffic accounts, from which it would
appear that objections, involving a considerable sum of
money, have been taken to the accounts rendered by the
Eastern Counties Company. These and unsettled mat-
ters will probably produce a large sum in the shape of
bank revenue earnings, which will hereafter have to be
dealt with."

The CHAIRMAN said that the directors of the Eastern
Un on had for several successive years past objected to
tt e accoonts rendered them by the Eastern Counties.
Choy bad objected to the payments to the Black wall
Company, and to the loss on the Harwieh steamboats,
to the rent of the pepper warehouses at Blackwall and
various other items, being charged against them, and
the matters in dispute would be referred to arbitration,
and they trusted they would be settled to the satisfaction
of the shareholders. (Hear, hear.)
A SHAREHOLDER What is the amount in dispute ?
The CHAIRMAN —We can hardly tell yet, but it is
several thousands.

Another SHAREHOLDER said that he understood that
the gross traffic charged against the Eastern Union and
the Norfolk Companies, from which the 46 per cent.
a•as deducted, was different from that which appeared in
the books of the Eastern Counties Company, and that a
comparison would show that a very large sum should be
divided between the two former companies.
The CHAIRMAN said they had taken txneption to that
return also, and the Norfolk Company was acting in
unison with them.

In answer to another question,
The CliaimaN said that a careful examination had

' been made of the share and transfer lists, and that the
dividend warrants were strictly compared with the
amount of stock on which dividend was payable.
Mr. SMITH hoped one of the auditors might be allowed
to t xplain a little more fully the facts of the dispute with
the Eastern Counties Cernpany,
Mr. W EBB, an auditor, sail that on xernining the
accounts furnisher) by the Eastern Counties Company for
the half year ending Dec., 1855, they found that the com-
ps ly had understated the receipts on the credit side of the
Eastern Union by upwards of 12,0001., and on inquiry it
proved that the season was, that the Eastern Counties
hal assumed to thern4elves the right of judging what
they should take on the receipt side. There were also
objectiors as regarded the debit side. For instance,
there was a charge for interest on new works for which
no accounts were forthcoming, and which it appeared on
inquiry had been set down on estimates merely. There
were other items open to objection, and, on the whole,
be thought there was a sum of nearly 3,000/ on the
I alf-year that ought to come to them from the Eastern
Counties.
Mr. LEGGE congratulated the company on the position
they were in, and thought the Eastern Counties Com-
pany had no reason to grumble with the bargain they
had made. The receipts were increasing, and an in-
crease of another 4,0001. on the half-year would give
them one per cent. more of dividend. (Hear, hear.)
He had much pleasure in supporting the reception of the
report.
Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR said the company only wanted
to be known, and it would be in a better position with
the pnblic. The Eastern Counties thought they could
keep the letter of their agreement, while they violated
the spirit. They said ;hat 46 per cent, was not enough
for working expenses, but that murmuring came with a
very ill grace from them, so far as the Eastern Union
was concerned, for the latter contended they did not
get their fair share of peofit now. One-seventh was not
e.anugh ; they ought'' to litife one-sixth at least. Tithe
working expenses of the--Eastern Counties were 55 per
cent , it was owing to their own mismanagement. From
the way they started their trains ono would actually
think they. wanted to drive traffic off their lines. For'
instance, the train which left London at 7.27 only arrived
at Noce ich 'at 2.5; the Yarmouth train having gone at
1.20, so that persons wishing to go through from London
to Yarmouth could not do so. Another instance was that
of the expiesi train leaving London at 4.27, and arriving
at Norwich at 6 30, when it was made a slow train,
and did not reach Yarmouth till 10 5. The reason was,
that by those means the Eastern Counties hoped to
bring down the Eastern Union, so that when the time
far a readjustment arrived they might say the allow-
ance for working expenses was not enough, and they
must Lave a higher per tentage. (Rear, hear.) He
considered the promotion of the Pitsea line was a good
opportunity for them to insist on baying an explana-
tion from the Eastern Counties, whether they meant
to act fairly and justly by them, for if not it was not
the interest of the Eastern Union to co-operate with
them in this manner. He therefore proposed, as an
amendment, to leave out the words, "and they do so
with regret," in the last paragraph of the report, and
also the last two lines, in order to insert the following :
—" They propose taking the authority of this meeting
to oppose, in conjunction with the Eastern Counties
and the Norfolk Companies, the progress of this bill
in Parliament, should circumstances render such a
course expedient."
Mr. E H. BARLEE seconded the amendment. He
should be very happy if they could go on harmoniously ,
with the Eastern Counties, but if they could not, and
the union was opposed to their interests, he did not
see why they should not have a divorce.

The 'CIIA.IIMAN said there was no great objection to
the amendment, but he thought it was not expedient
to press it at present.
Mr. E. S. CALEY said that what the directors wanted
was power to treat on an independent footing with the
Eastern Counties Board, and that power the sharehol-
ders could give them. At present their position towards
the board wag somewhat like that of a debtor towards a
crettor, but if they paid their debt they could assume
a different attitude. He hoped, therefore, that when a
scheme was laid before them for raising the 200,0001.
they owed the Eastern Counties, they would give it
their best aid. (Hear, hear.)
After some conversation, Mr. Digby Seymour with-
drew
his amendment, and the report was received.
Mr. DIOBY SEYMOUR then moved the following reso-
lution, which was agreed to :—" That the directors take
full power to deal with the bill before Parliament, in
reference to the Pitsea line, as they shall deem expedi-
ent to the interests of the united lines, in the full hope
that the Eastern Counties will act in the true spirit of
their arrangement."
It was then moved and seconded, and carried nnani-
.
monsfy4 that:the dividend recommended by the directors
-stOtirl 0.447:

The CHAIRMAN said much inconvenience way caused
by there being two registers, one of stock and the other
of shares now that was a dividend, and expressed a hope
that all holders of unconverted shares would send them
in for conversion.

After a few words from one of the shareholders, who
said he thought business would be facilitated, and a sav-
ing effected, by removing the company's office to Lon-
don, the four retiring directors, Messrs. E. S. Cayley,
M.P., John Cobbold, James Grayston, and Jahn George
Hart, were re-elected, as was also Jeremiah Head, Esq.,
the retiring auditor, and the business terminated.

NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND TIEREFORD.—At the
meeting of this company, ha I yesterday, a very favuur-
able report was read, showing that the net income of the
company for the half-year was 13,290/ , over 40 miles
of road. The interest of the guarante d stocks at the
rate of 5 and 6 per cent. was deel fired, and a balance of
7,5001. was carried to the next account. The report was
adopted.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles
opened,
1856.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

BILITIS )1.

Aberdeen .......

Belfast and Ballymena • • ............
Belfast and County Down.... • ... • • ..
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • ..
Bristol and Exeter ••
Caledonian.

Chester and Holyhead... ...... •• • •
Cork, Blaekrock, and Passage .• ••
Cork and Bandon .. • • ..............
Dublin and Belfast J unction .... • • ..
Dublin and Drogheda.. •. • • • ••• • • • ..
Dublin and Kingstown... • ...........
Dundee and Arbroath •• . .•••• • • • .
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk anA Enniskillen .• .. • • • • • • • •
East
East Lancashire • • • • ........ • • • • • • • •
Eastern Counties and Norfolk...• 1
Eastern llnion •• • • ••

Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee•. •• •
Exeter and Cred1t0n.........• •• •• •
Furness Railway •

alasgow.And
Great Northern,.... -
Great Southern and Westarn (heliind)
Great Western
Irish South Eastern--;
Lancaster and Carlisle...—. .
Lanciihire and Yorkshire--; ......
Leeditliorthern .•
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport
London and North Western....- •
London and Blackwall
London, Brighton, and south Coast
London and South Western
LondOnderry and Enniskillen
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, Ste.
Mlinchehter, Sheffield And Lincolns hi re
Manchester and-SonthJunction•.....
Maryport and Carlisle • •-•

MidhUld •• •• •-•• • 0, ••-•• •• •• •• •• •
ledland Great Westert (Irish) •• .. .
Monklands •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• .

Newcastle
North,British •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
North Staffordshire •• ••.••••• • • • • •
North-Western ....5r••............
Scottish Central •• •• •• •• „ •• •, .• •• •I
Scottish Midland • • •,;;;;•.• .• •• •••• "
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ..... .
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shropshire Union • • ....••• • • .• • • •• •.
South Devon ••• •• •;••• 1•••• •• •• •• •.
South Eastern•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
South Wales •••• •• •• ••.•• •• •• •• •• ••
South York., Doncaster. and Goole

Ulster. •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• •• •• •••• ••
Waterford And Limerick ..
West Cornwall .. .• ••• .• •• • • •••• • • •
Whitehaven Junction :..............

York and Newctuitle. and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds..

FOREIGN:

Dutch Rhenish •. •• •• .. •• .• •••• ••••
Lyons and Mediterranean •.........
Montereau and Troyes •••• .... .. ••••
Namur and Liege . ..........••
Northern of France •• •••• •••• ••••••

Orleans and Central .....
Paris and Lyons •• •• •• •••• •• .• •• ••
FILMS and Itonen.r •• .• •• ...• •• •• •• ••
Paris and Struburgh •• ••••••• ••
. Rouen and ILsyre!.
Western of Frauds.. •• ..... •• • ..

Receipts.

1857.

1856

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

At the Court at Windsor, the• 7th day of February,
1857, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Conncil,-her Majesty was this day pleased, on a represen-
tation of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Commit..
tee of Council on Education, to-appoint the Rev. T. W.
Sharpe, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge,to be
one of her Majesty's AsSistant Inspectors of Schools.
FOREIGN-OFFICIt, FEB. 26.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
H. Fairfield, as Consul at Port Louis, in the Mauritius,
for the United States of America.

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 25:
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TILE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Colchester—John Gurdon Rebow, of Wive!).
hoe Park, in the County of. Essex, in-therooni of `the
-IlightAitan.---Jelso-Jaraesersicetutnonty called
Lord John James Robert Manners, who has accepted the
office of Stewaid or Bailiff of her Majesty's Manor of
Hemphohne.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 27.
88th Foot.—Lieut.-Gen. R. B. Macpherson, C.B. from
the 73d Foot, to be Colonel, vice Gen. Sir J. A. Wallace,
Bart., K.C.8., deceased.

73d Foot—Major General Chesborongh Grant Falconar
to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-Ge,eral Robart Barclay
Macpherson, C. 8., removed to the 88th Foot.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 26.
Artillery Company of London—Lieutenant William
Mathew Armstrong to bo Captain, vice Middleton, pro-
moted ; Lieut. Edward Kitchen to be Captain, vice Ro-
binson, who resigns the command of the Artillery Division.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Ist Regiment Warwickshire Militia—Thomas Bannister,
Gent., to be Quartermaster from the 3d day of November,
1856.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
John Mltillan, shipowner, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTS.
Wm. Brownsword Chorley, slate and slab merchant,
Hart-street, Bloomsbury, March 10, at half-past eleven,
and April 9, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John-
son, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Chidley, Basing-
hall-street.

John Walker, commission agent, Blackburn, March 12
and April 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee' Manchester ; Shaw, Sutcliffe,
Tattersall, and Handaley, Burnley ; Sale, Worthington,
and Shipman, Manchester.
Edward Williams, glazier, Chester, March 12 and April
9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, offi-
eial assignee, Liverpool ; Dodge, Liverpool ; Brown,
Chester.
Caroline Liddle, common brewer, Great Driffield, York-
shire, March 18, and April 22, at twelve, at the Town-hall,
Kingston-upon-Hull. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ;
England and Saxelbye, Hull.
George Wood, coal merchant, Loughborough, Leicester.
shire, March 10 and April 7, at half-past ten, at the Stiire-
hall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham;
Inglesant, Loughborough.
Joseph West, miller, Beckington, Somersetshire, March
16 and April 20, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Brittain and Son, Bristol.
William Skinner the younger, tailor, Bristol, March 16
and April 20, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; King, Bristol.
David Lloyd, merchant, Cannon-street, March 13, at
two, and April 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ' • Pawle, New-inn.
Arthur Brears Caistor, Radler, Baker-street, Portman-
square, March 10, at half-past two, and April 7, at two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old
Jewry-chambers.
David Cheetham, cotton-spinner, Rochdale, March 12
and April 2, at. half-past one, at the Manchester District
Court. Hernamann, official assignee, Manchester ; Hes-
ton, Rochdale.
Henry Martin Manwaring, grocer, Toxteth-park, near
Liverpool, April 3, ani March 12, at eleven, at the Liver-
pool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool;
Smith, Liverpool.
Thomas Owen, joiner and builder, Liverpool, March 13,
and April 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Birl, official assignee, Liverpool ; Teebay, Liverpool.
William Hadfield, merchant, Cockspur-street, Middle-
sex, March 11 and April 8, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Tatham, Upton, and
Johnson, Austinfriars.

Luke Ward, plumber, Wisbeach St. Peter, Cambridge-
shire, March 13, at half-past twelve, and April 17, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street; Abbott, Jenkins, and Abbott, New-inn.
Thomas Horner, house decorator, Hart-street, Blooms-
bury, March 13, at one, and April 20, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-
chambers; Boydell, Queen-street, Bloomsbury.
William Bayley, jun., carver and gilder, Buttesland-
street, Hoxton, March 13, at half-past one, and April 22,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Taylor, South-street,
Finsbury-square.
David Morriss, grocer, Wisbeach, March 16, at two, and
April 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nichol-
son, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Heilman, Col-
lege-hill; 011ard, llpwell, Cambridgeshire.

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on &turd:

1881,2 DIP,

Notes Issued ••....•. 24,168,680

ENGLAND.
7th and Bth Victoria. cap. 32, for
►y the 21st day of Feb., 1857.
,AILTIIENT.

X
Government debt.... 11,015.100
Other securities .. .. .. 3,459,00
Gold coin and bullion 9,693,680
Silver bu11i0n........ -

£24,168,680

Dated the 26th day of Februi

£24,i68,680
M. MAR :HALL, Chief Cashier.
F. 1857.
;raaTmEta.

Governmentsecurities

(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity) .......... 11,530 213
Other securities...". 17 7.!,5 796
Notes .............. 5.553,525
Gold and silver coin.. 711,010

435,550,544
[. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1857.