The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-15 00:00:00

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.

The report of the directors to the half-yearly
meeting on Thursday next has been published. The revenue
account for the half-year coding 81st December last ex-
hibit& the following, namely :—Total receipts. 835,0201.
Its. Bd. ; total expenditure, 408,0001. 16e. 9d.. leaving
427,01 W. se. 11d. ; leo payment' to Northers sad Eastern
and other companies, interest on guaraatesd, pretension
stocks, sad mortgages, incite:lies compensation in respect
of the Lynn and Hunstanton accident, 333,34. V. 18erri
bales" 83,6751. is. 3d. There has been an increase is the
70•1111110 of the past half- ear, as compared with that of
the correepouding period of 1862, of 33,2021.125. 3d., the
whole of which WY seemed in the goods trate earnings ;
the psereager receipts having bees marl the
mine se those for the December half -year of 1862,
when they were largely increased by the passenger traffic to
the briernatiocal Exhibitioa. AS nearly as the directors
can estimate, the ordinary traffic of the Lae has bees aug-
mented to an extent of about LOW/. a week, or at the rate
of 50,0001. per maim ; sad this couclusias is justified by
the experience of the carioca half-year. The genial
revenue account shows that there is a
of 106,5151. Us. 10d. available for dividend for the half.
year ending the 31st December last, which iscludes the
sum of 3,235/. lls. 4d., the surplus after the payment of
the dividend for the half-year ending the 30th Jane last.
This will admit of a dividend for the half-year at the rate of
21. 10a. per cent. per annum being paid oa the ordinary
stocks of the company. This will require 104,4931.
15a. ; leaving 2,0211.155. 10d. to be carried forward to the
next account.

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.

On Friday night, about a quarter past seven,
the express train which left Loodoa at 4.25 p.m. sad
Ipswich at 6.42 p.m., when between Finniagham and
Meths 'tuitions, met with an alarmiag accident red expert.
eased a very narrow escape. The train was going at its
usual rate when the tire of one of the wheels of the break
yaw which was neat to the tender broke, and the van was
thrown off the line, as well as the carriage next to it. the
last carriage (there being bat two on the train) retaining its
place on the metal& L tbs position the train ran for 900
yards, the corneae and van bou•diag over the steepen and
rutting up the line. The peasengers, about 30 i• number,
were, of course, in • state of great alarm, and their screams
are described as frightful, and as having been heard a coast.
disable distance from Shebat. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
The guard, named Brown, stuck to his poet in his vas, aid
it is probable that the train would have best more
quickly stopped had his 'week power been available. The
engine-driver turned off the steam, and the tender-break
was pat on, but it was not before the train, half oa the line
sad ball off, had run upwards of half • mile that it was
brought to • staadstill • short distance from Nellie station.
The ordinary train leaving Ipswich at 6.50 p.m., came up •
few talent.« afterwards, sod the passengers being trans-
ferred, were taken on, the train being shunted ou to the
up line, the down being blocked by the Ushered express.
A staff of men were despatched from Ipswich, and before
Saturday morning the line was quite cleared. The break-
ing of the tire can only be cookectarally attributed to the
sudden chsage is the temperature. The wheels of the
whole train were examined both at London and Ipswich,
sad found perfectly wand, and except upon this hypothesis
the accident is wholly usexpliaddo

LONDON AND BLACKWALL R•ll.wrir.—The re-
port of the directors for the half-year ending Dumber 31,
1863, shows the followiog results :—The total revenue, with
the balance of 669/. 8.. 2d. from the previous account,
amounts to 66,8311. 9a. Bd., and the expeoditare
to 22,6171.6.. ltd., leaving a net profit of 44,234!. 2s. 9d. ;
and after payment of interest on debentures, amounting to
8,4831. 17s. 11d., there is a balance of 35,7301. 4e. 10d.
available for dividend. This balance enahles the directors
to provide for divideod on the 910,0564 fearand-a.lialf per
cent, preference dock, which will amount to 5,6281. 4a. 92.,
and to recommend the payment of a dividend at the rats
of 4 per oeot. per annum upon the 1,450,0504 ordinary stock,
which will amount to 29.1811., leaving 0434 Os. ld. to be
carried forward to the current half.year. There in an M-
amas in the put half ism of 2,8394 in the total receipts, of
1,1251. in the total erpenses, and of 821. in the debenture
interest, leaving • oet increase of 1,632/. is the balance for
dividend. The dividend oa the preference stock amounts to
1,6861. 14e. ltd. more Ursa for the warreepooding half-year
of 1862 ; the dividend ea the °raillery stock is of the same
amount, and thebalance carried forward 1. 9431. Oa. Id.
against 9971. 10e. ltd. in 1862. The receipts on capital
seocmat amount to 2,128,7354 10s.. and the expenditure to
2,137,4441. 4s. 3d., leaving a debit helium* of 8,6881.
14s. sd. Of the amount expended during the past half.
year,42,3904 la. 3d. carries interest under the arrangements
which have bees referred to in previous reports. A bill for
the destruction of a railway in the Isle of Dogs has been
deposited in parliament by this company, and has passed
standing orders.
DEATH sr Dnoirrusu.—An inquest was held on
Saturday evening at the Duke of Hamilton Tavern, New
Had, Hampstead, oa the burly of David Frank Holford,
aged fire years. Os Wednesday afternoon last decreed
was sliding oa one of the Hampatesd ponds, when the ice
gave way, letting him and several others iota the water.
Mr. Nichol, ex.member for Frome, resident at Hampstead,
was oa the spot, and plunged into the water to awe the
deceased, but - usfortueetel: ful