The shareholders of the Great Eastern Railway have mutinied. Unlike
those patient lambs, the shareholders of the London, Chatham, and Dover, they have a prejudice in favour of dividends, and at the meeting on the 13th inst. shrieked at the directors to resign, which the directors promised to do. The point for the shareholders now is to prevent their re-election, appoint a new hoard, and if they have the legal power, elect a new chairman directly by themselves. He will be a dictator with a consulting committee round him, and nothing but a dictator will restore the finances of this unlucky company. Or suppose they tell the truth for once, confess that private enterprise when applied to giant monopolies fails, beseech Mr. Gladstone to take them over, and let him re-lease their lines to capitalists with brains to comprehend that three sixpences are worth more than a shilling, and courage to apply that recondite principle of finance to railway manage- ment!
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