The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-18 00:00:00

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.

The following is the report by the directors :
Ia layiag before the propri.tors the balance-sheet far the
half-year aiding July 31, 1866, the directors Mee agate es
at set • demean es the receipt from passeweseu, sad SIB
ea that from goods, se tempered with the eserespead-
big period of 1864.
Tee comparative statmemn is se Inflows :—Passengers-
-1854, 61,6451. 2s. 6d . ; 1866, 45,0001. 4e. Bd.; decrease,
16,6411. 17e. 10d. Goode-1864, 63,4271. 41. 7d. ; 1866,
58,6831.165. 21. ; ineresse. 6.2661 Its. 7d. norms, Carri-
ages, paresis, sad mails-1864, 6,688.. 7s. 2d. ; 1866, 4,6711.
165.; degrease, 1,0161. 11.. 2d. ; making a total decrease
of 12,8011.17 s 6d.

The proprietors are all aware that the my large decorous
on the passenger MSc receipts is occasioned by the reduc-
tion of fares, rendered necessary by the Caledonian board
eoetianing to ran express trains between Edinburgh sad
Glasgow, over their line of 69 miles, at excessive low rates
—ls. Ant, and 61. third class, for nearly all the half-year.
Such rates do not cover working expense', bat of wane
oblige pent directors to make such correeponding reductions
u will prevent the abstraction of this traffics from your
skeeter line. The result is • large increase in the number
of through possums carried : 191,288 as against 64,100 for
four nestle of Is. and Bd. fares. But the 64.100 gave an ave-
rage receipt of 6s. 11d. each, while the 194,288 give only 111 d.
each. Is the soma way, the i sem aged receipt f rom goods repre-
sents as increase of 36 per cent on the tonnage curled at re-
dound rates, giving very little, if any, additional net
Thus considerations explain the very large increase in the
per mileage ef working expenses, which have risen from an
average of 37 per ant on the receipts to above 60 per coat.
The proprietors will be anxious to know if there is say
prospect of • termination to snub wasteful proceedings--
preeedisge injurious not only to the lines actually throwing
away their reeourese by carrying them on, het to all rail-
way property; bat on this rise directors can give no in
formation. They have repeatedly offered to the Caledonian
board either free eon, 'titles to all places at equal reason-
able rates, to be Seed by the shorter line in all cases,
or a division of traffic to all points by an impartial
arbitration. Neither proposition Piss been agreed to
hitherto, and your board can suggest no other principle
sousistest with your rights and with justice. The net
revenue foe the half-yeas is 22,2261. 6s. 7d., to which your
direetors regommend that there be i doled 6,6(.71.9,. 65.
from the Rest, which, altar deduction of sundry casual
charges, and of a sum of 4,000 L credited to the heavy
expense incurred daring this holly's, in the renewal of the
permanent way, easeunts to 77,1681. Se. ,6d. ; and that,
after providing 6,6001. to meet the possible claim of the
Stirling end Dunfermline Railway Company, a dividend be
declared for the half year at the rate of 2 per cent. per
annum, which unmet' to 22,2231. 161 The anal
balance-sheet of the Btitheg end Dueletutliee Railway
shows • net
Ima of 6,6001. as of 8,0601. 16e. ltd. The additional
above referred to, wilt inset the di &juicy
between this amount and what may be doe for rent and
interest on arrears. The revenue siontianits to Improve.

SIItIGOLID TODACCO.—The quantity of smuggled
%beers Mad *pia Southampton water, mad throw* ever-
' board Woes toe entoppler's host spoken of is the Nagwees
of yesterday, is 130 bass, weighing 'wetly three ton•. The
boat was Mead sem Csdlsadp, opposite Southampton. h
is about 24 lest leo', sad a Sit bottomed as parpom to rim
in shallow aster ; a rentalu emeggler's boat is het. When
she was drives off Rumble Spit by the sort-guard man
them, this lebsulers threw their aim overboard, sad ma
mp flaeralMalla seater oa the 'passim side of Baal&
la atMmsYsfls rem the hest memo at Cadisadi the sma
got in tM End. They this alaadased the beat, end
sersabloi with mull dill tatty through Me muddy her*
sad so May loaded is the shore they wars mosetsd by tike
Clvalra as paled Ihme. flay sated that thrigti
sZedeera by • Mesmer, sad as bids we a wiry
Ids sway they were safisrod to was their way. aid alms
they sompal. Then is reams to MON, that attemgla Mae
bass mad* to Mod asetraboad Masse all ales/ sip Nob
west= mist within the MI wash sr Mee.. • • •

' CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

YZaTRIDAT.

Joh* Mott, 22, wee indidtei for having wilfully sad
Malbrimptly damaged a model of an Indian palace, extibited
a! Hemmen Court Palms.
Heiden* was addsesd, from which it appeared that,
on Monday, the 20th of August, the prisoner, who re • re-
speetable working man, went to the Palace in company with
• somber of other persons, and he wee seen to go up to the
model of an Indies passe that is in ens of the rooms, and
pull off a pima of copper wire that was intended to repre-
sent a portion of 'trailing. The only mischief done con-
'feted in the removal of this piece of wire end it appeared
that amp prisoner was partially intoxicated at the time the
act wee committed, and that he bed been nearly a month in
prison.
ffir Platt urged for the defence that the prisoner really
intended to du any mischief to the model, and that
what he bed dons was merely the act of a drunken foolish
fellow. for which he had been alresdy quite sufficiently
punished.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Moot Jgrisa, 23, was indicted for a robbery, with vio-
loam, upon John Bagley.
Idr. Payne I rammed.
happier' I that the prosecutor was on his way home,
about two o'clock on the morning of August 28, and while
passing along High Street, in the Borough, he was 'mailed
by three men, who p d something round his throat,
which shoat deprived him of the power of resistance, and
while be was in this condition he was robbed of hie watch
and ehaio, that were worth 301. He positively identified
the prisoner so one of the men concerned in the robbery.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and it was stated
that he bed been before sentenced to transportation for
robbery. and that he was at large upon a ticket of leave.
The Recorder said that this description of robbery had
latterly become so frequent, and had caused sr much terror
to the public, that he was determined in every case where'
a prisoner was convicted of it to send the offender out of the
country, and he then ordered the prisoner to lee transported',
for fourteen yeare.

NEW COURT.
BM= itnRILL 01.1/U.ST, BM, Y.C.

Hugh Joseph Smith, 33, clerk, was indicted for embrz-
sling the sum of 2101, toe property of fdr. Jessup, hie
matter. Mr. Pearce prosearted, and Mr. Metallirdeteaded.
The prisoner, whom it will be reoollected was last sesaion
convicted of stealing sots* shares in the Great Laumbourg
Railway, had been clerk to the prosecutor, who is a stock-
broker in Tokenhosse•yard, and in Map, 1864, Mr. Marv,
• gentleman upon the Stock Exchange, paid to prisoner the
sem of 6281. in cheques, and an 1 0 U for a small sum
which Maesop, who had some trawactions with the pri.
Goner, bald of his, the prisoner's. Prisoner outof this sum
only paid 4181. to the prosecutor, keepiog back the Tientsin-
leg cheques and the 10 U. Not long after this priority
abecionded, and then his defalcations became, under the eir-
munataacts, detailed in the report of his trial at the last
sessisa.

TisTeasr, which was but partly gone into, was stopped by
the learned judg., upon an objection taken by Mr. Met-
calfe, who contended that no notice having brill gives by
the prosecutor for the prisoner to produce the cheques be
was charged with having embessled, they were not entitled
to go late that part of the charge, and the I 0 U being
nursed as a cancelled obligation, could not be included in
the indictment.

The prtsoner was ordered to be detained to await tie
decision of the judges upon the point of law raised upon the
last trial.