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The Week
Pearson , whose efforts in connexion with the central terminusare well knownbrought forward another project , having for its object the relief of the Metropolitan Company from an irksome difficulty , and the completion of the vast undertaking contemplated by them . It appears that the conipany have in hand resources wherewith to accomplish so much of their scheme as respects the formation of the line from Paddington to King ' s Cross , and a little beybnfcl , but , for want of more money , they have not yet ventured to commence their works . Mr . Charles
Pearson proposes to start an independent company to form a line from King ' s Cross to Farringdon Street , leaving the Metropolitan to carry out the rest of the works . The proposal was well received -by the shareholders . At the half-yearly meeting of the Eastern Counties Railway , yesterday , the dividend at the rate of £ 2 7 s . 6 d per cent , per annum was declared . The half-yearly report and accounts were unanimously adopted , and the whole proceedings passed off with a greater amount of good feeling than has been exhibited for some years past at the general
meetings of the proprietors of this undertaking . At the meeting of the Great Northern , a good deal of discussion took place relative to the discharge of Mr . Mowatt , the late secretary , and the action he brought against the directors . Nothing , however , resulted from ity ' and ultimately the report of the directors was adopted . The South-Eastern dividend will be 9 s . on each £ 30 stock , which , with 14 s . paid last half-year , makes the annual disbursement £ 316 s . 8 d per cent . The Mid Kent , by accumulated savings , and by extracting a larger amount than
anticipated by the South-Eastern from gross receipts , is enabled to make its first appear ance on the dividends list , with 30 s . for the past half-year . The North and South-Western Junction pays 2 s . per £ 10 share for the past six months . The Ambergate continues its payment of 2 s . M . per share . The South Wales pays 30 $ . for the half-year , and carries over £ 1 , 235 . ' The Taff Yale is reduced from £ 4 to £ 3 15 s . for the past six months . The Maryport and Carlisle is unable to pay more than £ 2 for the half-year , in comparison with £ 2 10 s . for the same period in 1857 . The Newcastle and Carlisle intermediate dividend is £ 2 Is . Qd . ior the
halfyear . Holders of preference shares will be entitled to the extra dividend of 7 s . Gd . per share when the next preference dividend is payable . The ¥ orth British furnishes its customary £ 1 7 s . Qd . for the six months , and leaves £ 500 on hand . —t— -The Central Criminal Court commenced sitting on Monday , when Charles Alexander Borromeo , # & as Tucker , was indicted for bigamy , in having intermarried with Miss Mary Anne Frogett , his first wife , Caroline Tucker , being then alive . The prisoner applied for a postponement of his trial until next sessions , hut this
was refused . Evidence was then given , which proved the case against the prisoner , and he was found guilty . He was subsequently found guilty of marrying a Miss Murray , there being , it was said , several other cases against him , and sentenced to four years penal servitude . It is stated that he had also married several other ladies , and on the following day he was again called up , when the Common Serjeant said , that from facts that had since come to his knowledge he was afraid that his conduct had been very bad indeed , and that the sentence he had passed
upon him was very lenient . He should not alter the sentence , but the prisoner would still have to undergo the remainder of the sentence of a year ' s imprisonment and hard labour to which he was sentenced at the last sessions , for obtaining money from the Morning Star , under the false pretence of furnishing reports o £ an Italian Conference , which had not taken place , and that the sentence of penal servitude would not commence until the expiration of the former one . Harry Bunbury , son of the late General Bunbury , was on Wednesday found guilty of forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £ 100 , with intent to defraud Henry
Hobson , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . John Jervis , formerly clerk in the banking-house of Scott and Go ., was found guilty of embezzling three several sums of money , the property of Messrs . Scott . The prisoner had carried on his practices with much art , and the evidence fully bore out the several charges . He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude . Michael Murphy , a man with a wooden leg , who got his living by going about to public-houses playing on the fiddle , was charged with manslaughter in killing Eliza Simpson . " It appeared that prisoner was seen to kick the woman Simpson with his wooden leg about the head and face , after he had knocked her down , * he also knocked her eye
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The Week
Pearson , whose efforts in connexion with the central terminusare well knownbrought forward another project , having for its object the relief of the Metropolitan Company from an irksome difficulty , and the completion of the vast undertaking contemplated by them . It appears that the conipany have in hand resources wherewith to accomplish so much of their scheme as respects the formation of the line from Paddington to King ' s Cross , and a little beybnfcl , but , for want of more money , they have not yet ventured to commence their works . Mr . Charles
Pearson proposes to start an independent company to form a line from King ' s Cross to Farringdon Street , leaving the Metropolitan to carry out the rest of the works . The proposal was well received -by the shareholders . At the half-yearly meeting of the Eastern Counties Railway , yesterday , the dividend at the rate of £ 2 7 s . 6 d per cent , per annum was declared . The half-yearly report and accounts were unanimously adopted , and the whole proceedings passed off with a greater amount of good feeling than has been exhibited for some years past at the general
meetings of the proprietors of this undertaking . At the meeting of the Great Northern , a good deal of discussion took place relative to the discharge of Mr . Mowatt , the late secretary , and the action he brought against the directors . Nothing , however , resulted from ity ' and ultimately the report of the directors was adopted . The South-Eastern dividend will be 9 s . on each £ 30 stock , which , with 14 s . paid last half-year , makes the annual disbursement £ 316 s . 8 d per cent . The Mid Kent , by accumulated savings , and by extracting a larger amount than
anticipated by the South-Eastern from gross receipts , is enabled to make its first appear ance on the dividends list , with 30 s . for the past half-year . The North and South-Western Junction pays 2 s . per £ 10 share for the past six months . The Ambergate continues its payment of 2 s . M . per share . The South Wales pays 30 $ . for the half-year , and carries over £ 1 , 235 . ' The Taff Yale is reduced from £ 4 to £ 3 15 s . for the past six months . The Maryport and Carlisle is unable to pay more than £ 2 for the half-year , in comparison with £ 2 10 s . for the same period in 1857 . The Newcastle and Carlisle intermediate dividend is £ 2 Is . Qd . ior the
halfyear . Holders of preference shares will be entitled to the extra dividend of 7 s . Gd . per share when the next preference dividend is payable . The ¥ orth British furnishes its customary £ 1 7 s . Qd . for the six months , and leaves £ 500 on hand . —t— -The Central Criminal Court commenced sitting on Monday , when Charles Alexander Borromeo , # & as Tucker , was indicted for bigamy , in having intermarried with Miss Mary Anne Frogett , his first wife , Caroline Tucker , being then alive . The prisoner applied for a postponement of his trial until next sessions , hut this
was refused . Evidence was then given , which proved the case against the prisoner , and he was found guilty . He was subsequently found guilty of marrying a Miss Murray , there being , it was said , several other cases against him , and sentenced to four years penal servitude . It is stated that he had also married several other ladies , and on the following day he was again called up , when the Common Serjeant said , that from facts that had since come to his knowledge he was afraid that his conduct had been very bad indeed , and that the sentence he had passed
upon him was very lenient . He should not alter the sentence , but the prisoner would still have to undergo the remainder of the sentence of a year ' s imprisonment and hard labour to which he was sentenced at the last sessions , for obtaining money from the Morning Star , under the false pretence of furnishing reports o £ an Italian Conference , which had not taken place , and that the sentence of penal servitude would not commence until the expiration of the former one . Harry Bunbury , son of the late General Bunbury , was on Wednesday found guilty of forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £ 100 , with intent to defraud Henry
Hobson , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . John Jervis , formerly clerk in the banking-house of Scott and Go ., was found guilty of embezzling three several sums of money , the property of Messrs . Scott . The prisoner had carried on his practices with much art , and the evidence fully bore out the several charges . He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude . Michael Murphy , a man with a wooden leg , who got his living by going about to public-houses playing on the fiddle , was charged with manslaughter in killing Eliza Simpson . " It appeared that prisoner was seen to kick the woman Simpson with his wooden leg about the head and face , after he had knocked her down , * he also knocked her eye