The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

London are plunged into gloom by this vile woman, with
whom they are unfortunately connected by blood or

As I am on the subject of woman's frailty,
I may observe that people here are astonished at the late
Duke of HAMILTON'S will, so far as it leaves the bulk of
his personal property to his daughter, Lady LINCOLN,
who was divorced from the present Duke of NEWCASTLE.
and who is, I believe, living with Lord WALPOLE in
the new Italy. But enough of these matters—l have no taste for

marriage

writing a volume of scandalum magnatum

SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY

MEETING AT CHESTER ON SATURDAY.

On Saturday the extraordinary meeting of this com-
pany, convened by a body of the shareholders, was held at
the Royal Hotel, Chester. The meeting was announced
to take place at twelve o'clock, but before that hour the
large room of the hotel was well filled. At the appointed
hour Mr. Wm. Wardell, chairman of the Board of Direc-

tors, took the chair, and was accompanied by a very large
proportion of the directors. Mr. Butt, Q.C., was pre-
sent, and acted as the chairman's legal adviser. The ad-
vertisement calling the meeting having been read,
The CHAIRMAN stated the circumstances under which
the meeting had been called, and requested that all mani-
festations of feeling should be avoided.
Mr. MUNROE then rose, charging the present directors
with extravagance, and non-performance of their duty to
the shareholders, besides having a leaning to the iniqui.
tous contract with the Great Western Company, by which
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their property would be confiscated, and proposed that
the following directors, viz., Messrs. W. Wardell, Robt.
Roy, T. J. Badger, and E. F. French, should be imme-
diately removed from their office, and their places sup-
plied by Robert Gardner, of Lancashire, Henry Kennedy
and James Durham (London), and Andrew Preston (Not-
tingham). He also moved that Messrs. John Williams,
Richard Ellerton, John Royle, and James Haswell, should
retire, and their places be supplied by George Monro and
Douglas Campbell (Edinburgh), and W. G. Thompson
and Henry Vigors East, (of London).
Mr. KENNEDY, of London, seconded the motion.

Mr. ROY defended the Board from the imputations cast
upon them by Mr. Munroe ; and charged Mr. Glynn, the
Chairman of the London and North-Western Company,
and the Solicitor, with having bought up the shares of the
Company, to the amount of £lO,OOO, and divided them
amongst their servants ' • and stated that the directors had
only used proxies to defend themselves against the Lon-
don and North-Western influence. They were under
contracts to other companies which they could not break ;
and it would be for the benefit of the shareholders if those
contracts were carried out. The question was, whether
they should have the broad guage brought down to Liver-
pool ; and he accused Mr. Munroe and his friends of be-
ing instruments of the London and North-Western Com-

DSTONE,

pany, who had furnished them with free tickets to attend
that meeting. In conclusion, he intimated that he should
not propose an amendment, because the motion before
the meeting was illegal.
A long and personal discussion followed, and at the
close the Chairman refused to put Mr. Munroe's motion.
Great excitement and noise here took place. A resolu-
tion was then proposed, for the adjournment of the meet-
ing until the 20th instant, for the further consideration of
the question, On a division the motion was lost, the
directors and their friends voting in the majority. A poll
cm; then demanded, and the meeting was adjourned to
yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, to receive the report
of the scrutineers.