The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

laailb3ag intellignut.
CORNWALL

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Saturday at Truro, Mr. M. Williams, M.P. in the chair.
The report stated that the works uf the Royal Albert
Bridge, with favourable weather, may be completed
during the present year; while the other works on the
line are in such a state of forwardness that they may be
proceeded with comparatively at leisure. The under-
taking is now so far advanced as to warrant • hope that
at the next half-yearly meeting the time for opening the
line from Plymouth to Truro may be stated with confi-
dence. OveMg to the unexpected change in monetary
affairs and the greet scarcity of money, the directors had
not up to the 31st of December last been able to obtain
more than £29,666 of the .£300,000 authorized to be
raised on the guaranteed preference shares; but they
have now the pleasure of saying that the whole amount
has been since allotted, and that they hare been obliged
to refuse & considerable number of applications. The
receipts during the past half-year have amounted to
£68,596; the expenditure has been £72,450. The as-
sociated companies having joined the directors in obtain-
ing the needful loans from the hankers of the company
during the time the preference shares remained unissued
the directors thought it right to convey their thanks to
them for their timely iud, and to pay wit of the first
money they received the amounts which had been for-
warded.

...ifie-r-eport of Mr. I. K. Brunel, the engineer, states
that during the last haltyear the first or western span
of the Saltash bridge had been floated into place, landed
on the piers, and the raising oommenced ; this operation
has proceeded under the personal direction and superin-
tendence of Mr. Brereton steadily, and in every respect
satisfactorily. For some time past the bridge has been
lifted and piers built up at the rate of six feet per week,
and at this rate will be up to the level of the tops of the
iron columns, or upwards of two-thirds of ita intended
height, in the course of a fortnight. There is reason to
hope that, with favourable weather, the bridge may be
completed during the present year. Upon the whole of
the rest of the line little beyond the superstructures of
the Liekeard viaduct, the timber viaducts between Ply-
mouth and St. German's and the piling and superstruc-
ture of the St. German's viaduct remains to be com-
pleted. The laying of the permanent way is now about
to be commenced. The capital account to the 31st of
December showed that £1,183,331 had been received,
and £1,154,842 expended, leaving a balance of £28,489.
On the motion of the Chairman, resolutions were
passed adopting the report of the director and engineer;
re-electing Mr. W. M. Tweedy, Mr. W. Caine, and Mr.
G. Smith, the retiring directors; and also Mr. R.
Rogers, the retiring auditor.
The meeting was then made special, and the Bill for
extending the time for the completion of the portion of
the railway between Truro and Falmouth was approved;
and the directors were authorized to make such altera-
tions or modifications therein as they may deem expe-
dient, or as Parliament may require.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RECRIPTEL—The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom published for the week
ending February 27 amounted to 489,610, and for the
corresponding week of 1857 to £401,530, showing a
decrease of £11,920. The gross receipts of the eight rail-
ways having their termini in the metropolis amounted
to £154,651, and for the corresponding week of last year
to £162,T62, showing a decrease of £7,811 The decrease
on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to £1,077;
on the Great Northern to £591; on the Great Western
to £302 ; on the London and North-Western, to £3,724;
on the London and Blackwell to £113; on the London
Brighton, and South-Coast, to £1,052; on the London
and South-Western, to £364; and or thesSouth-Eastern
to £588; total, £7,811. The receipts on the other lines
in the United Kingdom amounted to £r34,959, and for
the corresponding period of 1857 to £239,068, showing •
decrease of £4,109 in the receipts of those lines, which,
added to the decrease on the metropolitan lines, makes
the total decrease £11,920, as compared with the corres-
ponding week of 1857.