The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-25 00:00:00

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THE
colts, Bat 101 b; Pat 51b velisap,sad allseeinell:V: 1;' Ati464 ';
713
El&rf
One mile arid treeinarters.
Doke of St. Anima Itrindlsk
Ely Raved hie stake, imel mind 50 eon.
LATEST BETTING ON THE 00IIESE.
DERBY.
MO to N sift The Duke (wanted).
BETTING AT lODNIGHT.
81. LIBEL
to 1 apt Blair Athol (t Bto 1 sot Bumph (t and
sod oen
sto 2 Generalan Pal (t 100 to Ciaresionkt and
and MB
EWE HANDICAP SCIIATCHINGIL—CaIIer Os was drunk
out of the Ebor Handicap about 4 p.m. on Mooday Met
the Tartar and Donnybrook at 8 p.m. on Tuesday; and
the Clown at 2.15 p.m. on the day of the mos.

Or. Adam) V.O.

OZZAT YOSISILIIIIBuXIIII.--Gleseni Peal and Buaph
are accatched.

PLYMOUTH RACES—WzDusDAT.

THZ UCII7Bm Vicru•usie PLATT of 50 soya. each,
added to • ew•ept•k•e of 5 Nora e•ok ; wdihl fo eV.
Two miler._ _

Yr. T. P;res Moose, by Mountain Deer—ConstanoJA=.
Sot) 1
Mr. Porte'. Mountain Doe, nayrs. 84 96 (Lally) I
No bitting. Woo by two Isattlu.
--

TM NuaaQT PLATTI (Handicap), of 50 ion. Threa•
Tanen of a mile.)
Mr. J. Wait:cal f by Nomadism/As—BMW!' Q 114441., Tat 21b
(Dowling) I
Captain Kings Balls of Yen. 84 Mb (J. Moan) 2
No betting. Won by half a length.
His MAJzsres VA= (Handicap), value 100 pine's;
wieners extra. About 3 milea.
Prirce D. tieltykoWs Doasbe, by Weatherblt—ltemedy,
4 yrs, last slb gi Laud) 11
General 801 l s Hartley, 3 yrs. lest 2lb Mann)
Mr. C. Cannon's Danntis. a Pa, last Mb el Camerool
The foUosing also ran :—Rappet, Allow Ms, Sphere Kitty.
and Burgess.
Betting: 2 to 1 apt Rappel, 5 to 2 agst Burgin, 3 to 1
apt Douche. Won in a canter by eight lengths ; two
between 'wood and third; a neck between third
length.
ourte.

Tax COUNTY Dircessur Puri of 25 ion., added to s
sweepstakes al 5 son. grab ; wish' for ego. Once round
ant! a distamos.

Mr. T. Parr's Moose, 4 yrs, 104121 b
Prince p.,3oltykoirs .Nebn,thaftasmar. 6 pu, 710,,
(Mr. tioobelit
Mr.;Brayky's Wee Angie, 3 ,n, lot 13lb (Capt. Holloway) -3
Pearl Diver and Mountain Roe alio ran. _ _

Betting : Even on Noon, 2 to 1 apt Ni
Woa by half a length ; e bad third.

lIAMMEBSNITE SID &TT.
The halt-yearly meeting d this railway we held
yeeeeday at the oSem of the emay, Bedford-aleesk
Stroud, but there not befog •se
numbs of
the proprietors present, the Leda not be adopted, sad
the pressedings were practise 4 aoudad bibs deshwestion
of s divideod spas the sums reesivedoeastea: as the
preform:at shares ; Yr. T. Z. Foam thechair.
The following is the report whish won in the
mom :

Tar DITOBIrOBT AND Brom:mom Pun of 3 sosa
each, with 30 added. Heats. One mile.
M. E Brayley ed Bodsledgh. by Gamine dl Veni—
re:am, 2 yrs. let Mb
Mr. Walker's Avonclide, 2 trey fat 121 b
(LS
..0."719 12
General Holloware longlioto, 3 yea. Tat 121 b t) 3
Belle cd the Yale sato ran.
Betting : Even on Avoncliffe, 2 to 1 opt Endaleigh, 3 to 1
eget Belle of the Vale. Won by Are Leith' ; • bad third.
The winner was not sold.

" Your directors have the satisfaction to mod that you
railway is now in productive openitioe. The male line to
Hantmarmnith wee opened on the 18th Jane, and the Keda-
sington branch on the be July. From these dates trains in
both directions reepectively have been running every half
boar each week-day, and mare frequently on San-
days. It will be the can of your directors to see
that more trains are provided as the train iscressea.
Year directors anticipated that the copping would have
taken Pen at an earlier period, but thi anticipation was
not realised in consequenoe of certain requirements of the
Great Western Railway Company, both with reference to
the sipait at the line, and to the erection at Hammersmith
of inapparent, to supply the trains with pa. Daring the
small umber of days m Jun, when the has between Pad-
dington and Haairtierimith only was ape, 9&4U puma-

THE MILITAM STAE Irti won ia a meter by Beet
Men (owner), besting five ethos. Betting :sto 4 eget Beet
Nan.

.
re; ware conveyed, yielding a net income to this anon
paarr
of MI 17a. 9d. Out of this sum the directors ham repaid
to capital dm proportion of certain charges for interest on
debestness, ofce explains, to., for the time the line was at
work ; and from the resides they props, to pay interest at
the procribed rate of 5 per ant. per maim oa the soma
received as deposit on the preference shams of the 14th
April, 1864. After these Nevem' payments there
will remain a balance of ear. au. 2d., which
your directors recommend should be carried to
the revenue account for the carnet hell-year.
It would be premature to judge oonelnsively of the ultimate
prospects of the line from so brief an experience ; but coo-
Waring the recent opening, that the route mud natismarily
have been only very partially known, and that even now
arrangements are only medially befog matured for develop-
ing and accommodating the trams, the directors think the
promias so far is highly encouraging. A steady inseam has
taken place since 36th of June. Year directors have been
urgent in petering the Great Western Oompeny to make
through booking arrangements with other company ; and
dam the let of August passengers have been ended vie the
Kensington Breach to and from the Crystal Palace. When
facilities are further afforded far honking to the Victoria
Station end other places on the Brighten nd also to
the Clapham Junction for Wimbledon and other diatrista
on the South Western Railway, your directors are
persuaded that the result. cannot fed to be satisfactory.
At a meeting of representatives of the Great Western and I
the Metropolitan Companies, and of this cornmay, on the
26th of May kat, final arrangemeate were made foe the
immediate opening of the Hammersmith line by the Great
Western Company, and for the settlement of any points
whisk might anis on the formal agreements ; sad a memo-
tandem to that effect was signed by the respective chairmen
of the three companies. The drafts of these formal agree-
ments are now with the Great Western and Metropolitan
Compeniee for their approval. Your directors regret that
notwithstanding all their efforts they were unsuccessful in
their application to parliament for antholity to extend this
railway to Richmond. They, however, succeeded in ob-
teining running powers over the lion which is to be con-
structed by the London and South Western Company, aid
which is, in fact, an almost similar line to that promoted
by this company. These powers are secured by dames in
the London and South Western Cowpoke' act.
Your directors believe that eventually a very
large amount of traffic over your railway may
be expected from this extension. This /romping being in a
measure debarred Eros having WI independent extension,
liammenmith will in some respects be the limit of the rail-
way ; and it has in consequence bean found indapeosable to
order the enlargement of the station there, to provide more
aiding" and establiah • depot for coals, do. ; in fact, to make
it • complete terminal station. For this purpose% became
=to purchme additional property, which ham been
cre advantageou terms. The plans of the proposed
sew oration will be laid out in such • manner as to enable
the company at no distant periid to moon at an enhanced
prim a considerable portion of the property thus obtained.
It has also been considered desirable to erect • small station
wise the junction with the Great Western Railway at
Greeo-lace-bridge, and another at the junction with the
West Loudon Railway near the Norland-road. le the latter
cue the directors received • memorial signed by
between three and four hundred ishabitants of
the neighbourhood, !pray* for the soooauscdstka.
In all Wee addition, the engineer has bee. instructed to
curtail the outlay as much as possible ; and your directors
anticipate that the cost will not exceed the available
resources of the company after reads; the value, which is
daily increasing, of the company's surplus property. Mr.
Room, the late secretary, ham retired from the service of the
company, and Mr. A. L. Jenkins, formerly of the Great
Northern Railway, has been appointed asexidszy. The
office, of the company are now at 27, Bedfordatrest,
Covent-gardsa, London. The Rev. E. C. Taylor being about
to go abroad, it will be necessary for the shareholders
to appoint another auditor in his place. Ia accordmice with
the wishes expressed at the last half-yearly meeting, Colonel
Ward has been appointed a director.'
After some discussion the romantics for the eleebustioe
of the dividend was agreed to, and • vote of thanks to
the chairman concluded the proceedings.

GREAT YARMOUTH RACES.—WZDNICBDAY.
Gain YARROW= NUR HARDICIar. T.Y.O.
Ratlike'
Teams
Black Drowsed
Soma IL.
Imams' nausea. PURR. Half ands.
Bold Houghton
Rierater
Xsrullo
Five raa.
VicroaLa Gam= 9raua T.Y.C
Eleanor
=vista
Three ma.
Karat :50 sm. Gam am&
Rejected
Jaw laic*
Oolootaciar. Tianume Humus Pima Hali-frolle.
Jails
Parmelee
Thew
Maga 4
Poor ran.

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(More Barjead Guam)

• gip 'wt.
rendeadTed ini=eirge of lderMitbli4anigrer°kbig judicial t
charging him with hav olden Shy egp, value three-hi:l
psnoe, the properly of Ellis
Mr. 'lilacs prosecuted; Mx. Metcalfe defended the
prisoner.
This we occupied a considerable time, and,grent interest,
oa account of the highly respectable character of the
defendant, who wee employed in the Royal Snail Arms
Factory at Enfield, and obtained from the *Memo of that
government establishment the highest character for honesty
and sobriety. The prosecutor is • grocer and shopkeeper,
carrying on budwee at Enfield-waah, and the charge spinet
the primmer was, that on &tardy, tbe 6th of August, be
went to the promontor's shop and purchased some bacon,
bat while in the shop he took two sip from a beaks;
which he put late his pocket and lett without paying for.
This occurred abont 11 o'clock in the morning, bat
at half-past eight in the evening the prosecutor gave
him into coAody. A empant of police went to
the prisoner's home to take him Into custody, and found
two eggs lying on the dresser. The imp were not pro.
dosed before the =galas* sad no attempt was made to
identify them as being of the same description as those in
the prosecutor's shop, from which they were alleged to have
been stolen.

Thethe;er to this charge was that it been founded from
Madinah* motives oa the part of the prosecutor and it
arose la this my. The prisoner had be commissioned by
a Mr. Hawkins to sell a horse, which he had placed at grass
et Halliard Highway, and this hens was subsequently sold
to the prosecutor. The prisoner looked after the horse for
some eight or nine days after the prosecutor had purchased
it, and he claimed payment from the prosecutor for his ear-
vices, but be had never been able to get paid, and several
altercations had mien about it, and several people living at
Enfield had reproached the prosecutor for not paying the
prisoner for the KT7IOIO he bad performed. Than observe.
Mom it was urged had incensed the prosecutor, who had
trumped up this charge againet the prisoner.
Mr. Metcalfe addressed the jury for the prisoner in
a long and argumentative speech, in which be contended
that it was utterly improbable that a man who had re-
ceived the highest cluiracMr for honesty and integrity
from Mr. Barnes, the prindpal meager of Me go-
vernment factory at Enfield-lock, and from Mr. Smiley, the
general dark of the works, also on that estsbliehment,
should be so absurd as to eacrillos that good character for
such a paltry consideration as two asp of a quality end
sine that 16 or 20 of them could be purchased for a shilling.
The prisoner had worked for many gas-fitters and bassists
in Lcndoo for some years past, and was selected to go to
pleas of trod where a greet deal of property was exposed,
and while he was in the employ of Mr. Gordon, of Great
Winchester-Meet, City, he was usually 11011 k to the Bask of
England to solder down the cases of bullies intended for
exportation to the British colonies He prayed the jury on
such miserable evidence as this not to destroy the character
of • MIA who had hitherto been distinguished for his ho-
nasty and integrity, and whom the authorities of the Boyal
Small Arms Factory were ready to take back immediately
into their employ if he should be acquitted of this charge.
Several Miasmas were called, who gave the priaoncr the
highest character for horology and sobriety.
&drat °melee summoned up the evidence, and
The jury retuned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Mr. Ribtoe applied to the court that the =pima of the
prossoutioe should be allowed, as the usual notice had not
been given.
Mr. &demi Genies declined to make any order formats.
The prisoner who received the congratulations of hie
frieods, then left the court.

WINTIRN AND BWTPOID RAILWAY.-
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yester-
day at the offices, Gnome Oeorgentreet, Westminster; Mr.
P. Davey in the chair. Mr. C. Eley jos. (the secretary),
reed the report. It stated that there had been no further
expenditure oa capital account dories the half peer, and
that theccet oftthe boundary wall by the Duke of Nartbum-
berlard'a property, now in progress, would probably com-
plete that account. The directors bad Yearley bees ..-
gaged in arranging such facilities for coals to be seat by
rail, via Brentford, aa they believed would largely increase
that baffle. Already donut the past meth the quantity
had been 5,980 tens against 1,631 toes in the some mouth
of lest year. The traffic return furnished by the Great
Western pee a tollage for the half-year of 4,2484, against
4,2361. for the correspooding six mouths of led year. The
arbitration with the Great Western relative to the claim of
this eempany to in the books in order to a verification
of the accounts still remained unsettled, although it had
been for eon* months before the umpire appointed
by the arbitrators. The balance at the -.bloom'
of the shareholders was _2,13'364, which would ad-
mit of dividends of 5 per cent, per annum
on each class of preference duce, and of 2i per cent on
the ordinary shares. The Chairman moved the adoption of
the report, and dwelt at some length upon its main fea-
tures. Be added that the company had recently bees
nought into oompetition with the North-Western, which
sow rem into the coal fields of South Was, sad brought
the post to Fulham basin. To counteract the effects of this
competition the Cheat Western had united with the Brent.
ford Company in affording greatly increased facilities for the
coal traffic ;cad this, coupled with the high sea rates
which had recently prevailed, had led to • greatly increased
anal teenage on their line. Considering the millions of
bricks that would be required far thsiThipassFaibinkmsoil
and other public works, the directors had also been culti-
vating the brick traffic from the neighbourhood of Slough.
They had lowered their rates from la. to 6.1. a ton, and the
result had been a largely augmented traffic. Mr. Darwin
seconded the motion, and urged upon the Great Weaken
Company the importance of conducting their line upon
purely commercial rather than on what be designated
• genteel " prieciples. After acme further diamiesios the
report was unanimouely adopted, and a eon of thank@ to
the chairman and directors brought the meeting to a close.
CRYSTAL PALACE AND SOCTH LONDON JENVTION
RAILWAL—The fourth haltyearly meeting of the company
was held yesterday at the Victoria station, Sir Clank P.
Roney in the chair. The chairman, in moving the adoption
of the report, describedreport, the pail boo of the bee at the pre-
sent time, and melded that every effort would be made to
snare the opening of it on the let of May next. During the
ball-year the expenditure had been at the rate of 9,0004
per week. In the last amnion they obtained powers to con-
struct a junction between the Greenwich entombs of the
London, Chatham, and Dover line and the Crystal Palace
line, the works of which would be at man commenced.
This would give direct communication between Greenwich
and the Palace. Sir Charles Rich seconded the adoption of
the report, which was nnanimoualr agreed to without dis-
cussion.

Henry HuttAings, easistent to Mr. Dip, pawnbroker, of
Oxfordatmet, who, in consequence of hie insolent conduct
in the witnees-boz on Monday last, was ordered into custody,
wee brought up from the Howe of Detention in which be
had been oonfined sear since.

aaid be bed broeght all this upon
Wawa, as every opportuany bad been given to him to
mime ledge his fault, and he kad refund to do so. He bad
been impnsoned, but be wee now discharged.
The prisoner seemed very thankful for his deUverasos,
and in place of haughtiness the moat complete humility
was exhibited.

WOKINGIAAW, AND WOKING RAILWAY.
—The directors' report states that the payment& oe capital
account during the pest half-leer amounted to 1154 far
unsettled land claims. Thedebentures amounted to 87,2504,
of which the sum of 4,rz01. was at 5 per cast., 8,1404 at
41 per cent., and 73,560/. at 4 par conk During the half-
year debentures for 23,4901. had been renewed at 41 per
oat., and 1,0001. at 41 per cent. Although the goods traffic
had slightly increased, in comparisoo with the corresponding
period of last year, there wu a dee-nose of 80.71, in the gross
receipts foe pasengers. This might be partially amounted
for by the lamentable accident at Schur during the bet
Ascot Bum, as the receipts fori ttlee
4priacipal day showed a
considerable falling off u coal with hut year. The
receipts foe passeagen amoun to 8,6901., against 9,4984,
showing • decrease of 8054, end for goods to 2,8414,
against 2,777!. for the same half of 1863, &bowie( an
Morose of 644, which, deducted from the decrease on pee-
angers. lei t the total decrees, 7414, as compared with the
corresponding half of 1663. Although then was' otheidar.
able diatiaation in the Ascot trifle, the other trifle was
then in any other half year rime the opening of the
firirVerThe London and South Western Company had A-
toned an act for making •Hu from Cbertasy to Virginia
Water ; the interests of this cowpony wen secured by the
Monti= of dames therein for that parpoae. The Sunning-
dale and Camtnidge Town Railway bad aim° received the
sanction of lent. From those railways the directors
anticipated Mal. results to the property of the com-
pany. The balance now studios to the credit of profit and
loss amounted to 3,4921., out of which the directors recoup
rosnOed the followingdividende to the 30th of Jane hut :-
5 per cent. per imam as the preference ebane, amounting,
lees income-tax, to 1,2164, and Is. 6d. per share, ut
cent. per annum,' on the ordinary therm, ethowethsl4 ISM
immune tax, to 2,1724, carrying forward 1041, to the next
half-year. The capital account showed that 314,1184 bed
bees expended, leaving a hulance el n7l in head. The
revenue amount far the ball-year Ma's the 30th of Joao
showed that 11,758!. bad baaa raralred aid 6.322 L sar,
pealed. War* a Wow al 6.4144