The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

Mr. BENTIIAM ititim:lted that such were not the pre-
I by him. What he had said. was,

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that with reference to the negociations of the Birkenhead
and Chester Company with the Chester and Holyhead
Company, a great and grievous error bad been committed.
Mr. BROWNRIGG then alluded to an alleged expression
by Sir Joshua Walmsley, to the effect that there were
parties on the board with whom he could not sit.
Sir J. WA I.MSLEY said he was not aware of having said
anything more than was justified. All that they had done

What he and Mr. Jackson had done in London

was merely in the nature of propositions to he afterwards
submitted to the board for approvgl or rejection. He was
not awar

Air;g offensiv

persor

Mr. BROWNRIGO urged his question, whether the com -
course of their inquiries had found cause
iruputa!ions stated. So far from the Che-
hire Junctionhaving acted against the intere-ts of the
Birmingham and Chester Company, they had done from
first to last quite the contrary to forward their interests,

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to justify a

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Jule., who were most accommoda-

ring, coil had no obPction to the leasing of the line. The
interests of both lines, indeed, were to rye fully respected
reciprocally. It was not owing to any obstacle therefore
thrown in the way by the Cheshire Junction that the
leasing ditl not take place, but to other causes.
Mr. BROWNRIGG said be was quite satisfied with the
explanation given.

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The CHAIRMAN said, that supposing the lease: bad
taken place, the intetests of the Cheshire Junction would
have been fully respected.
Mr. WANKLYN complained, at some length, that his
name bad been used by the chairman, in connection with
a letter he (the chairman) bad received from Mr. Paxton,
to the effect that parties connected with the Cheshire
Junction h9d been bearing the market with the Birken-
head and Chester stock, in order to effect a i.urchase
of that line.

The CHAIRMAN said the letter had ,been read at a
meeting of the Birkenhead and Chester board. What he
heard was, that negociations were going on, not with the
directors, but with certain proprietors. tor the leasing of
the Birkenhead and Chester Railway to the Cheshire
Junction. He had said he thought Mr. Wanklyn was
one of the party, for he had heard so ; but he was sure
he never wanted to charge Mr. Wanklyn personally with
bearing the shares, and that his expression on that occa-

n m-ust have been qualified, and therefore not liable to
: interpretation put upon them by Mr. Wanklyn.

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Mr. PAXTON said be had not mentioned Mr. 'Wank-
lin's name in the letter.
Mr. WANKLYN said he was satisfied with Mr. Paxton's
explanation.
Mr. WGREGOR LAIRD here wished to draw the meet-
into a discussion relative to the purchase and sale of the
land in. Grange-lane ; but the meeting being a special one
to hear the report, declined entertaining the question, the
law-clerk having given it as his opinion, that no
discussion should take place on a question which he found
from a letter just handed to him, was to become
the object of a chancery suit, at the instance of Mr.
Laird. The matter was one for the consideration of the
Directors only.
The business being concluded,
Mr. JACKSON said that at the last meeting he had inti-
mated his intention to resign the office of chairman, but
he now begged permission, under the circumstances, to
withdraw that intention. (Loud cheers.) He defied those