The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-11 00:00:00

Debansbire.

Exrrtit.--The Yeovil and Bxeter Railroad.
Now that the fine weather has set in the contractors
in the neighbourhood of Exeter are proceeding
rapidly with their works. The hilly garden adjoin-
ing Northernhay has been partially develled, the
New North Road, at the junction of the Prison
Road, has been cut through, and a temporary bridge
erected, and the work of demolition and construction
is visible at different points through fields and gar-
dens. At Lion's Holt the ancient well-house has
been destroyed, and the road through Berry's dairy
also out through. In the old Tiverton-road the
young elms, which have sheltered many a traveller,
have been levelled, and in the field on the opposite
side of the road shafts are being aunt for the pur-
pose of cutting a tunnel from the eastern side of the
road leading from the Tiverton to the Black-boy turn-
pike gates, to the north-western side of the Tiverton
road near the entrance to Treble's farm. Several
hundred yards of permanent way have been laid
through the fields eastward of the city, a deep
cutting has been completed down to the road where
the tunnel will commence, and men are actively en-
gaged in making and burning brick for the nume-
rous arches which will be required in the neigh.
bourhood.

Hoirrrox. —Fatal Eara Slip—On Wednesday,
the 28th instant, another slip of earth took place in
the tunnel, now in course of oonstruotion for the
Exeter and Yeovil Railway, at the eastani end of
this town, by which a man named Thomas Brown,
aged 28 years, was killed.

CORNWALL RAILWAY. Mr. Fergus reported,
from the committee on Group 4 of Railway Bills,
ti'mt the objects of this Bill are merely to extend the
tine for the oompletion of so much of the Cornwall
Railway as lies between Truro and Falmouth. The
committee were of opinion that the bag provision
they could make for securing the completion of the
line to Falmouth would be the insertion of • clause
restraining the company from applying any portion
of their surplus capital (after completing the line to
Truro) to any other purpose whatever than the con-
struction of the line to Falmouth, and they had ac-
cordingly inserted such clause.

PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN DOCKS.—Mr. Perris
reported from the committee that the objects of this
Bill were to enable the company, for the purpose of
restoring their works, whist' had been seriously in.
jured by a storm, and of bringing the docks into
working condition, to borrow at once the sum of
£24,000 authorized to be borroaed by their Act of
1855; also to create debenture shares or debenture
stook to the amount of £97,600, to be entitled to a
primary dividend not exceeding 5 per oent, per
annum, to pay off, or in lieu of borrowing the sums
which the oompany have been authorized to borrow,
amounting to .674,000, and also further sums
amounting to £23,600 ; also to create and issue, in
lieu of cancelled and unissued shares in their existing
capital, to the amount of £40,000, new privileged
shares, with a preferential dividend not exceeding 6
per cent, per annum, to have priority over the exist.
mug preference shares of the company; to authorize
the South Devon Railway Company to guarantee the
interest or dividends on the above-mentioned sum of
£24,000 to be borrowed, and on the debenture shares
or stook, and privileged shares to be issued under
the Bill. The committee were of opinion, under all
the circumstances, that it was desirable that power
should be gnuited to the South Devon Railway Com•
pany to give the proposed guarantee, and also that
the proposed power of leasing or sale of the docks to
that company should be granted. The committee
had amended the preamble of the Bill by striking
out so muoh u related to the power to the Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies,
and the Plymouth Great Western Dock Company,
to make mutual arrangementa for raising further
funds for the purposes of the Dock Company, and
also the power of leasing and sale to those companies,
and found the same, as amended, to be true.