The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

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ficulty, however,../..,
will‘ beAL
to find a substitute, if the
Chancellor of the Exchequer should apprehend that
this repeal would cause too great a reduction in the
revenue. There is one source of revenue which
would be most productive, and would not press upon
the people at large—this is a probate duty on real
property. There is a considerable probate duty on
personal property—why should not the duty on these
two descriptions of property be equalised ? if you
were to investigate the subject, you would find it one
of vast importance, and your discussion of the sub-
ject would bring it before the notice of the kingdom.
It will, perhaps, be found, that this equalisation of
the probate duty would not only compensate for the
repeal of the income-tax on trade and professions, but
also admit of the repeal of the duty on cotton and a
reduction of the duty on tea, without detriment to the
revenue, i. e., without decreasing the present revenue.
Yours, &c. A SUBSCRIBER.

DR. GLOVER, IN REPLY TO MR.
LETHEBY, ON THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN
BELANEY'S CASE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR, —The only reply to Mr. Letheby which I think
myself called on to make through the public press, con-
sists in the correction of three misrepresentations of my
statement. In a letter to the Medical Gazette I have re-
plied more fully.
1. Mr. Letheby accuses me of endeavouring to prove
that the taste of prussic acid " must be hot." Now, I
only go the length of supposing this substance, when
swallowed in a poisonous dose, to be capable of giving
rise to a sensation which a person might term " hot," not
being in a condition to " search for choice expressions."
2. He tries to found something upon an inference
which he supposes me to make in Belaney's favour, from
his apparent intention of using the lancet. But I expressly
guard myself from drawing any such
inference;
and content
myself with showing, that as bleeding is, in the opinion of
most authorities, an excellent remedy in such cases, and
in the opinions of others the very best remedy which
can be employed, it does not quite follow, as the Medical
Gazette bath it, that Belaney took out his lancet in
order to kill his wife.
3. He asserts that I dissent in toto from the opinion
given by himself and Dr. Thomson in regard to the
smell of prussic acid remaining for some time in a room
where some of this substance may have been spilt. I
express no such dissent, but endeavour to show the exis-
tence of circumstances which explain the absence of
smell in the case in question.
The position which I hold is so secure, that Mr.
Letheby, like another opponent, in despair of being able
to attack it with success, has fallen on points which Ido
not hold.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT M. GLOVER, M.D.
12, Northumberland-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
November 27.

MR. II URST'S At FAIRS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—A grossly exaggerated statement in reference
to the affairs and pecuniary embarrassments of our pre-
sent Member, Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., having gone
the round of the principal newspapers of the day, copied
from the columns of the Brighton Guardian, which from
the evident vindictive feeling exhibited in the article in
question is calculated, not only unnecessarily to wound
the feelings of Mr. Hurst and his connexions, and in-
flict a deep and lasting injury on the junior members of
his family, but also create an unfavourable impression in
the minds of strangers as to the tradesmen who are al-
luded to in that article—we, the undersigned tradesmen
of the borough of Horsham, with many of whom Mr.
Hurst has for years past been in the habit of principally
dealing, feel it our duty, in justice to Mr. Hurst and
ourselves, thus publicly to deny, so far as our knowledge
and interests are concerned, the truth of the statement
inserted in the Guardian reflecting on the character and
conduct of Mr. Hurst in reference to any debts con-
tracted with ourselves, or of which we have cognizance
with any other tradespeople. Our accounts have been
always fairly and honourably paid at the usual period of
the wear for discharging the same, and we have every
confidence that our claims for the current year will be
discharged in like manner. So far from Mr. Hurst's
" disappearance" from Horsham being sudden and un-
expected to us, it was a matter of common notoriety for
some considerable time previously to his departure.
With regard to the alleged intended sale of his house-
hold furniture, farming stock, &c., the only disposition
of such property advertised is the ordinary sale of
farming stock, &c., by a gentleman quitting his farm
and declining to follow that occupation.
We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
W. Lintott, grocer. W. Aldridge, plumber, gla-
J. Stanford, draper. zier, &c.
C. Knight, grocer. G. Waller, gun maker.
11. Razell, saddler, &c. R. Collins, tailor.
C. Rowland, stone-mason. J. Honywood, builder.
J. Penfold, smith. T. Honywood, builder.
H. Stanford, baker. T. Redford, butcher.
J. Herring, druggist. J. Rowland,
B. Rowland, bricklayers.
J. Potter, baker.
Webber and Taylor, buil- J. Clarke, printer and book.
ders. binder.
G. Rich, upholsterer. S. Stovell, brewer.
11. Mitchell, brewer and coal G. Clark, coachmaker.
merchant.
Horsham, 20th Nov., 184. t

The Earl of Cardigan has ordered seventy poor
families of Deene and l)eenethorpe, to be each supplied
with clothing of the value of fifteen shillings, to shelter
them from the inclemency of the ensuing winter.—
Brighton Gazette.
THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—The festival of Saint
Andrew will be celebrated by this ancient and excellent
Corporation on Saturday next, under circumstances of
more than usual eclat. The chair is to be taken by Lord
Saltoun, an old and zealous supporter of the Hospital,
who during his recent command in China, has added to
his former long and distinguished military career the
merit of having furnished a number of new tails in illus-
tration of the history of the war. The Noble Lord will
come up from his hunting quarters at Coldstream for the
express purpose of the festival, :and return immediately
afterwards, thus making a journey of nearly 700 miles
for the benefit of his poorer countrymen. His Lordship
is to be supported by his brother, the Hon. William
Fraser, for so many years the indefatigable and popular
treasurer of the Corporation, by Sir Henry Pottinger,
by Colonel Burns, the son of poet, by the only son,
the brother and nephew of Mango Park, and by four.
and-thirty stewards, who have volunteered to act on the
occasion. if we add to these inducements the national
music of the pipes, by Mackay, piper to the late Duke of
Sussex, and Macbeth, the Duke of Sutherland's piper, it
will be admitted that the attractions of the day are of no
common order.
ACCIDENT FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE-
ARMS.—On Wednesday afternoon a dreadful accident oc-
curred on board a fishing-smack lying off Billingsgate,
to a lad named John Carrier, aged 16, belonging to the
vessel. The poor fellow, it appears, had been cleaning
a fowling-piece, and had broken a piece of wood
which he used for the purpose in the barrel, in order
to remove which he pound some powder into the
gun, and then foolishly dropped on to it a hot cinder.
The explosion which took place shattered his right hand
to pieces, and dreadfully lacerated the arm. He was
conveyed to Guy's Hospital, and was immediately at-
tended by Mr. Edward Cock, who performed amputation
at the wrist joint. The lad is in a fair way of recovery.
ECLIPSE OF THE 11100 N.—On Sunday evening a
total eclipse of the moon, visible in our locality, having
been announced, multitudes awaited the interesting oc-
currence with eager anticipations of delight. The moon,
which was full th same evening at half-past eleven, rose
from the horizon towards the dusk, in beautiful splen-
dour, and continued up to half-past 8 o'clock to shine in
a cloudless sky. From this period, however, thick clouds
gathered from the west and gradually obscured the
evening luminary from view, and shortly after nine
o'clock when the eclipse began, it was completely lost to
the sight, except for one or two intervals, when its face
was seen, though indistinctly, and the first contact of the
penumbra was, as Sir J. South would say " visible for
the fraction of a second." After this time all further
observation was at an end ; the clouds gathered thicker
than ever, and the rain began to fall, continuing to do so
during night, the sky being enveloped in impenetrable
gloom.—Ediaburgh Paper. •

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of the Proprietors of the above
Railway was held on Wednesday, at the Euston-square
station, for the purpose of considering the further rm-
rantee of the line to extend the "Worcester and Tring
line to Wolverhampton, and on other special business.
Mr. J. C. Glyn was in the chair. There was a very
full attendance of Proprietors.
The notice by which the meeting had been convened
having been read,
The CHAIRMAN said he thought, perhaps, the most
regular order of proceeding would be to take, in the first
instance, the motion of which public notice had been
given in the advertisement, as to the Worcester, Rugby,
and Wolverhampton line ; and subsequently to enter
upon any other matter any Hon. Proprietor might desire
to take up. It was his (the Chairman's) duty to submit
to them a resolution on the subject of the proposed lire
from Oxford to Worcester, joining the London and Bir-
mingham line at Tring, and continuing on from Worces-
ter to Wolverhampton. The proceedings of the late ge-
neral meeting had authorised, to a very considerable
extent, the preliminary measures connected with the line
then under the consideration of their executive body--
viz., the line from Oxford to Worcester, from
Tring to Worcester, and Oxford to Rugby. At the
commencement of the operations of the Committee at
Worcester, to whom the matter was entrusted, they as
well as the Birmingham Company were in communica-
tion with the Severn Commissioners and the canal in-
terests of the district, and it was thought, from the re-
presentations made by those parties, that a sufficient
Parliamentary case existed to prevent, with any proba-
bility of success, the undertaking of a line from Wor-
cester to Wolverhampton. On that ground they (the
Directors of the London and Birmingham Company),
when they last introduced the subject to the Proprietors,
limited their remarks, on the case they set before them,
only to the line between Tring and Worcester, on the
one hand, and Oxford and Rugby on the other. During
the time that had elapsed since the last meeting, further
inquiries had been made, and it had appeared to the
Worcester Committee, after representations made to
them by probably the highest authority in the country
on such a subject, that the case would not be complete
unless the district between Worcester and Wolverhamp_
ton were also comprehended in the scheme. Upon further
inquiry by the London and Birmingham Directors, it cer-
tainly appeared that the Parliamentary case which they
had in the first instance been led to believe would prevent
any railway being constructed in that part of the country,
was not likely to be laid before Parliament in such a way
as to bring about the ends that it had been represented to
them as likely to ensue. Under these circumstances the
Directors now came before the Proprietors to propose that
they should extend their guarantee to the line, between
Worcester and Wolverhampton, in addition to that
which the Directors had already laid before them—that
between Tring and Worcester and Rugby to Oxford.
The addition which this alteration made in the estimate
was calculated at 750,000 Z The capital required for
the original undertaking—that which the Directors had
brought before the Proprietors on the last occasion, was
1,700,0001. The aggregate capital would therefore be
2,500,0004 for the construction of this whole line of
railway. The total amount of revenue to be derived
from the various sources, as shown by the usual traffic
eases in these matters, he had before him in detail, and
the particulars could be given if Honourable Proprietors
wanted them.—(Cries of " No, no.") The estimated
revenue was, in the aggregate, 226,539 i, from which
they took the working expenses of 35 per cent., leaving
a net revenge of 147,250/., thereby putting, he thought,
any opinion of the Proprietors at rest, as to the question
proposed for their consideration—he meant as to the
guarantee of 4 per cent. on the whole. It might very
naturally be asked by Honourable Proprietors present—.
and the question bad been put to him in private—how
the London and Birmingham Company found themselves
in connexion with a project in that part of the country
(Worcester and Wolverhampton). It would appear to
fall naturally into the hands of the Gloucester and Bir-
mingham Company. That, indeed, was the feeling of
the London and Birmingham Directors, who had
acted on that feeling. The Worcester Committee
proposed to the Grand Junction Company that that por-
tion of the line should be made jointly. They went so
far as to direct their solicitor and engineer to attend the
Grand Junction Board to treat on the question. They
(the London and Birmingham Board) thought the matter
was proceeding as such a matter ought to proceed be-
I tweeu two public bodies. It was certainly not for the
meeting to ask what induced the Grand Junction Com-
I many to ejtee their •.. , :t 1145 for ea
ricollec't that suddenly, and without previous intimution, the solicitor was informed that the Grand Junction
board had altered their views, and that they would make
the line themselves. The proceeding on the part of
the Worcester Committee ens this :—They said the)
would not tolerate the entire working of the line by the
Grand Junction Company ; that they would have had
that Company as partners in the undertaking, but that
if the question was to be, which of the two parties
should make the line, they would certainly put them-
selves forward for it. And the result of their putting
themselves forward to make the line had been to engage
with them in that part of the country the strongest
connexion which, probably, was ever collected together.
—(Hear, and cheers.) They had now the co-operation of
Lord Ward and his friends, and any Hon. Proprietor
who was acquainted with that part of the country must
know very well the value of that connexion, and the re-
spectability it must confer on any undertaking, and that,
in fact, whoever was supported by it, went into the dis-
trict with claims superior to any other body. There
was one other point connected with this matter to which
he desired to call the attention of the Proprietors before
he read the resolution with which he should conclude.
The Directors were most anxious, as far as rested with
the London and Birmingham Company, to take no step
that should be considered in the slightest degree aggres-
sive.—(Hear, and cheers.) With this view an intima-
tion had been conveyed to the Grand Junction Railway
Company that shares were reserved for them to take if
they were so disposed. But, as far as the London and
Birmingham Company were concerned, he would go
further than that. The Directors had always, as stated
to the Proprietors at the last meeting, represented
this measure as a measure of protection.—(lTear, hear,
and cheers.) He repeated it, as a measure Of pro-
tection ; and if the Grand Junction Railway Company were so disposed, as far as the London and Birmingham
Company were concerned, and with the assent of the
other parties interested, they were ready to admit them
into the guarantee.—(Hear, and cheers.) He stated this
because he should be sorry to find an imputation go out
of that room that the London and Birmingham Com-
pany had meditated an aggressive act against the Grand
Junction Company.—(Hear.) He now begged to move
the resolution to which he had already referred :
" That this Company do agree to accept a lease in
perpetuity of the projected railway from Mesworth, in
the county of Buckingham, to 'Worcester, with lines to
Rugby and Oxford, and also from Worcester to Dudley
and Oxford, at a rent which shall be equivalent to four
per cent. upon the cost of construction, with an equal
division of surplus profits between this Company and the
Proprietors of the new lines.
" That the Directors be authorised to concur in an
application to Parliament in the ensuing session, for an
Act or Acts to authorise the construction of the before-
mentioned lines of railway, and to take all such other
steps as they may consider expedient for giving effect to
the preceding resolution."
Mr. Cnorean, of Liverpool, seconded the motion.
Mr. Moseev had, at their last meeting, silently as-
sented to the guarantee for the line to Worcester, con-
sidering that no existing interests wers interfered with,
and that the London and Birmingham Company had a
right to give such guarantee ,• but he took it that the Pro-
prietors ought to have some distinct explanation as to the
position of the London and Birmingham and Grand Junc-
tion Companies, in reference to the understanding between
them of the 3d July, before they at once annulled and
destroyed every feature of that contract or treaty which
was made for the material protection of both Companies.
He thought it right that the Proprietors should be made
aware that the guarantee for a line so far north of Bir-
mingham as Wolverhampton was a direct violation of
the spirit of the agreement, which he was willing to
believe there had never been on the part of the London
and Birmingham Directors, any wish to destroy. lie,
therefore, thought he was right, at this stage of the pro-
ceedings, to ask the Chairman, who had spoken of the
willingness on the part of the London and Birmingham
Board to unite with the Grand Junction Board in carry-
ing out the line to Wolverhampton, whether any corre-
spondence or communication had taken place in order to
get rid of the difficulties which existed on the subject,
and whether the reply on the part of the Grand Junc-
tion Company warranted the Proprietors of the London
and Birmingham Company in carrying into effect the
confirmation of the principle of the abandonment of the
spirit of the treaty made in July ?
The CHAIRMAN said the question of his Hon. Friend
was of very great importance. It was a question in
which the London and Birmingham Directors must na-
turally fed a great and deep interest ; but they were in
this difficulty with the question—they were uncertain
whether the Grand Junction Directors did, at this mo-
ment, consider the agreement of the 3d of July as an-
nulled or not.

Several Proprietors, apparently also Grand Junction
shareholders, said " Decidedly not."
A PROPRIETOR begged to refer the Chairman to the
correspondence between the two Boards. It was neces-
sary to read only a single line of that correspondence
to show that it was not annulled.
The CHAIRMAN confessed he was somewhat surprised
at the interruption that had been offered td him. The
Hon. Proprietor had referred him to the printed cor-
respondence.—(Hear, hear.) Now, it was on that cor-
respondence that he (the Chairman) had expressed his
doubt. He would read to the Hon. Proprietor the line
referred to, and the Proprietors would then see if the Di-
rectors were not left in doubt as to the disposition of the
Grand Junction Directors in reference to the agreement
of July. The line referred to was to the following effect:—
" This (the Grand Junction) Board desire to express to

he London and Birmingham Board their opirrirer frilir
can tend to no possible good to treat the agreement
as a subsisting agreement any longer."—(Loud cries of
I
" Hear, hear.") Therefore he had a right to say that
the London and Birmingham Directors were in a case of
doubt as to how they stood—(Cheers)—and therefore it
was that he had said they would not answer the question
of his Hon. Friend in the way he wished ; but if the
Grand Junction Company were anxious to give a
guarantee for the upper part of the line—if they were
desirous of negotiating with them for that, an intimation
had been given that they (the London and Birmingham
Board) were willing to accede to that. They had no
answer to that intimation. Let them remember that in
that room they were London and Birmingham Proprie-
tors. The proprietory had a right to see that the Di-
rectors did not involve the Company in difficulties. In
this spirit the Directors had made the communication to
the Grand Junction Company with respect to their
coming in and guaranteeing for the upper part of the
line. It was for the London and Birmingham Company
to take care the broad guage did not occupy the part of
the country referred to ; therefore the answer that he
gave to his Hon. Friend was this—that they had,
through the medium of one of his colleagues, now
present, opened a negotiation with the Grand Junction
Company, and he (the Chairman) would be glad if he
were shortly able to say that they had come to a proper
conclusion on the subject.
Mr. PEASE suggested that the resolution should be al
lowed to rest until the negotiation with the Grand Junc-
tion Company was closed.
A PROPRIETOR inquired whether there had not been
time for an answer from the Grand Junction Company
to the communication spoken of by the Chairman?
The CHAIRMAN thought there had scarcely been time.
With respect to the suggestion of Mr. Pease, that Hon.
Gentleman not living in the part of the country to which
this discussion had reference, was perhaps not aware of
the fact that the Worcester Committee had been obliged
to occupy this ground at a very late period, and that
great energy and activity on their part were requisite.
He did not hesitate to say that if the meeting had not,
after the explanations the Directors had given, sufficient;
confidence in them to give them the power of the gua-
rantee, the Worcester Committee would, in his opinion,
be placed in such difficulty and doubt as to afford a de-
cided advantage to their rivals, and powerful rivals they
were, in that district.—(Hear.)
After some further observations from several of the
Proprietors,
Mr. MOSELY begged again to ask whether the Direc-
tors were verbally or by writing in possession of any
reply to the proposal made to the Grand Junction Com-
/pany, or if they knev:, anything of the views of that Com-
pany as to the proposed Wolverhampton line ?
The CHAIRMAN did not exactly know whether his
I Hon. Friend alluded to a communication made to him
((the Chairman) by the Chairman of the Grand Junction
Company three or four days ago. If he did, that com-
munication expressed a strong opinion against the Wor-
cester and Wolverhampton line. Subsequent to that a
communication had been made to the Londen and Bir-
mingham Board, which he believed he might say had
led to a proposal from the Grand Junction, one portion
of which proposal consisted of an arrangement as to the
extension of the line from Worcester to Wolverhampton.
On that point the London and Birmingham Board were
quite willing, provided the other parties with whom they
were connected agreed, to meet the Grand Junction
Company's views.
Mr. BASSETT thought that, after what they had heard
from the chair, they might place, or at least they ought
to place, the fullest confidence in their board of Direc-
tors.—(Cheers.) He was sure they had great reason to
do so.---(Cheers.) Seeing the disposition in certain quar-
ters to introduce the broad guage, the adoption of. which
would be most disastrous to the interests of the London
and Birmingham Proprietors, there could not, he
thought, be a doubt respecting the soundness of the
course they were now called upon to pursue.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
A PROPRIETOR said he understood the Grand Junc-
tion, the London and Birmingham, and the Manchester
and Birmingham Companies were the parties who were
to carry out the Trent Valley line. The Birmingham
and Manchester Company had taken 10,000 shares, and
in a circular he had received it was stated that the Lon-
don and Birmingham Company had paid their own de-
posit. He wished to know the number of shares this
Company had in the line ?
The CHAIRMAN said the Manchester and Birming-
ham, the Grand Junction, and the London and Birming-
ham Companies had all an equal interest, 10,000 shares
being allotted to each.
The PROPRIETOR would like to know whether it was
intended to oppose the Churnet Valley line ?
The CHAIRMAN was not prepared to answer the ques-
tion. The London and Birmingham Board were only
one of the bodies representing the interests of the Trent
Valley line.
After a few desultory observations from several of the
Proprietors,
The CHAIRMAN introduced to the notice of the meet-
ing a requisition that the Directors had received from
certain Proprietors resident at Liverpool, relative to the
differences between the London and Birmingham and
the Grand Junction Companies, with respect to the
Churnet Valley line. After glancing at the-termination
of negotiations between the Grand Junction and the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company, which he said
he believed no one could regret so much as the London
and Birmingham Company themselves, he went at some
length into the question between himself and Mr. Moss.
as to the latter gentleman's forgetfulness of his r- -flipt of
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' differences between the two companies (the London and
Birmingham and the Geend Junction). He (the Chair •
man) had sent to Mr. Moss a copy of the letter in question,
as well as of that gentleman's reply to it, end had asked
him to do that which he (the Chairman) had thought he
would take an early opportunity of doing—viz., stating
that there was such a letter in existence. But what
situation was he (the Chairman) now placed in ? The
answer to that request for a simple act of justice to be
done bad led to a voluminous correspondence, and it was
now required that the whole of their private correspon-
dence should be published. He (the Chairman) would
never consent to this. If the publication of private offi-
cial correspondence between two such bodies as the Lon-
don and Birmingham and the Grand Junction Companies
were tolerated, there would be an end of all free and
frank communication between them.—(Hear, hear.)
The Chairman detailed the prompt steps he had taken
in communicating with Mr. Moss upon the subject of
the letter particularly referred to, and concluded by ob-
serving that, notwithstanding this, he had been told
that he was the cause of the differences between the two
Companies. All that he was anxious to prove was that
he wrote to Mr. Moss the letter which that gentleman
had forgotten the receipt of, and that that gentleman
had also written an answer, which he (Mr. Moss) did
not remember having sent. The Chairman then read
the requisition from certain of the Liverpool share-
holders.

The requisitionists stated that they had so recently as
August last heard, with the greatest satisfaction, the an-
nouncement made by the respective Chairmen of the Lon
don and Birmingham and Grand Junction Companie.s, that
an amicable agreement had been entered into on the 3d of
the previous month, for the protection of the property
and interests of both bodies, and that the permanency
of the good working of this vitally important agreement
was guaranteed to the Shareholders by a sound and use-
ful clause, leaving all the differences that might arise
between the parties to be adjusted by the arbitration of
eligible, proper, and disinterested persons to be by the
Companies nominated, and that they (the requisitionists)
had now to express their regret and surprise on learning
from Mr. Moss's statement at the Grand Junction Rail-
way Company's meeting, that this agreement had be-
come a nullity, in consequence of the Directors of the
London and Birmingham Railway declining to adhere to
the arbitration clauses upon the very first occasion for its
requirement, thus rendering this great safeguard inope-
rative. The requisitionists then required that an early
meeting, to take the matter into consideration, should
be convened.
Mr. MOSELY spoke at some length upon the reasons
which had induced the Liverpool Proprietors to send iu
the requisition for a special meeting, to take into consi-
deration the differences between the two Companies re-
specting the Churnet Valley line.
The CHIARMAN thought that, under present circurn-
' stances, it would not be well to enter into any lengthened
discussion on the subject. It was quite clear that if the
Directors of the London and Birmingham Company had
thought that the question raised on the Churnet Valley
line had come under the agreement of the 3d July, they
would have submitted to a reference, but they denied
that cases such as of the Churnet Valley line were
embraced in that agreement. It was not necessary for
them to say anything as to the merits of that line ; but
he would suppose a most eligible offer made to the Lon-
don and Birmingham Company, by which it was clear
their interests would be essentially promoted, but that
unfortunately the project interfered with Grand June-
-1 tion interests. Did the Proprietors of the London and
Birmingham Company consider that their Directors
would in such case have come before them with the
agreement of the 3d July, and bound them for ever to
do that which would sacrifice their interests, and that
not only at the expense of their revenue, but of their re-
ceipts. in Parliamentary opposition—(Loud cries of
" Hear, hear")—that they should be called upon to de-
fend, not their own property, but the property of the
Grand Junction Railway, by the terms of " mutual de-
fence," which would not admit of a moment's discussion ?
To concur in a " mutual defence" they must have mu-
tual interests, and this was not the fact in the case ho
had put.—(Hear, and cheers.)
Mr. E. MOSELY, in an able speech, expressed a wish
that a termination to the differences between the two
Companies might be arrived at.
After some remarks from several of the Proprietors,
The CHAIRMAN thought they might collect from what
had been said what the feelinQ of the Proprietors was.—
(Hear.) He took it to be that they desired peace, but
he did not understand that they desired peace at all cost.
—(Cheers.) With respect to the position of affairs be-
tween the two Companies, he held in his hand a resolu-
tion
pas
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thought t
cussion should close.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Mosr.m. said that as he had originated the dis-
cussion he thought it right to say that he was perfectly
satisfied with the Chairman's explanation.—(Cheers.'
Mr. PEASE also expressed himself satisfied at the
curse proposed by the Directors.
A vote of thanks was then moved to the chairman and
carried by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and the meeting
sc parated.

We are sorry to hear the Earl cf Bessborough is
still confined to his room at his seat, Bessborough-house,
county of Kilkenny, from the effects of his fall from his
horse a month ago.