The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1864;

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Mier further theminsiort, the motion was put and carried
by a hap majority, nine hands only being held up against it.
The MAILMAN then moved that 204,000/. of ordinary
since am:bagged for a like 'mount of Charingcrom ordi-
weibe
r. Timm' seconded the motion.

Mr. Awaits Wald what proportion of this stock was in
taw oastraatar's bawds.

The CnAnnan »plied that the contractor was paid from
time to timer the ewtificatee came in, so much in money
and so much in etcoi, but how much of that stock he had
sold he could not my.
Mr. Any—Bat how much remise registered in his
name _

The CHAINJIA.V—I SW just informed by the accountant
that about 70,0001. of dock is registered is the name of
the contractor.

kr. ;Gill oLHow moo are you going to give for the
Steel-yard?
The CHAIRMAN—That is ander arbitration.

The resolution was put and carried.
Other resolutions were passed authorising the Woe of
700,000/. ofszeraaria lace shares of the South Eastern Com-
pany to be for priference stook of the same value
and amount of Marw.erces Company, and for the
treader of the debt of the latter to the former company
for dealing in the same way with the capital of the Mid
Rent Railway Company, in accordance with the terms of
the amalgamation ; for authorising the directors to enter
into arrangements with the City Terminus Hotel Com-
pany. as explained in the notice coevening the meeting, and
for empowering the directors to do all that may be neces-
sary to gin lent to the several resolutions.

A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded
the proosedings.

SZVILNOAKII, MAIDSTONZ, AND TIINi xlDog RALL-
WAT. —The directors report that the traffic for the past half-
year shows an improvement of 64i per cent. over that of
the corresponding half-year of DIA leaving the sum of
1,7791.9 e. 7d. applicable to payment of detectors interest,
against2s/. 16e. 9d. for the corresponding period of last year.
They have also entered intoan arrangement with the London,
Chatham, and Dover Company by which the immediate
commencement of the line between Seyenoake and Maidstone
is secured. The details of the arrangement are not yet
settled ; when finally concluded, they will be submitted to
the shareholders for their approval. In the amnions the
works will be at once proceeded with. The directors regret
to have to announce that Lord Amherst has retired from the
direction of the company.
Gazer Wasreran RAILWAY.—The directors of
this company will recommend to the proprietors the follow-
ing dividends for the air months ending 31st July, 1864.
Great Western original stock at the rate of 3 per cent. per
annum. Great Western West Midland (Oxford) ordinary
stock at the rate of 24 per cent. per &noon. Greet
Western West Midland (Newport) ordinary stock at the
rate of 14 per cent. per annum. Great Western West Mid-
land (Hereford) ordinary stock at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum. Great Western (South Wales) ordinary stock at
the rate of 34 per cent. per annum.
Karr Coast- RAILWAY.—The directors report
that the working agreement with the London Chatham,
and Dover Railway Compeny came into operation on the
Ist of March last, and that the results have been most satis-
factory. The gross earnings of the company for the four
months, from March Ist to Jane 30th, amounted to
19,5824. 14e. ld. • thus :—For the month of March,
3,0041. 15e. Ild. ; April, 3,2851. 13s. Id. ; May, 5,242/.
7s, 3d. ; June, 8,0491. 17s. 101.—total, 19,58:1. 14s. Id. ;
The earnings for the current half-yew are still more satis-
factory. The amount for July being 12,2681., and for the
three weeks of the present month (A mast) 11,2501. The com-
pletion of the Link line of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company which will connect the system of that
company with the Metropolitan (Underground), Great
Northern. and Midland railways cannot fail to be followed
by moat important advantages to this company.
EOCL/3, TYLDZILLEY, AND WIGAN RAILWAY.—
On Wednesday the London and North-Western Company
new line with much ceremony, connecting their
Manchester and Liverpool at &eke, with the North Union
line (of which they are joist lessees with the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company) at Wigan. Draw a line east to west,
representing the old Manchester and Liverpool, thirty miles
long, mad • line from the mitre of thet at right angles, re-
ling the Great-Northern route through Lancaster sod
and you have the North Union. Then run a line
from sear the Manchester end of the Int mentioned railway
to the North Colon, at about tee miles from the junction,
sad it will give a pretty accurate idea of the connecting
link, thirteen miles in length, opened on Wednesday.
Leaving Roden is a north-westerly direction it passes
through Worsley, the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, Ellen.
brook, Tyldeeley, and Glsowbent. As a prowler line it will,
to some extent, be a competing line with the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire to Wigan and the north, but
its chief value is as • mineral line. It opens
up not only some old coal-fields, but the whole
tract . through which it pares is one continuous coal-
field, a good deal of the ground being underlaid with as yet
ungottee and untouched beds of coal. Among the coalfields
in working are those of the Earl of Ellesmere at Worsley,
of the Astley and Tyldesley Coal and Salt Works Company,
of Green and Holland's, of Messrs. Fletcher, of the Mole Hall
Company, and of the Hiadlew Green Company. The line also
posses many large cotton and silk mills that will furnish
traffic. The villages of Wonky, Tyldesley, Ellenbrook, and
Chowheet will also, no doubt, supply a good deal of pas-
meager traffic. A dinner was glom at Tyldseley to celebrate
the opening. The chairarea of the London and North
Western Company presided.

Thi STRIKE OF THZ Doer LABOURER& --On Wed-
needay Mr. Meantime, the superintendent of the Sunny
Docks, informed the committee that the men mould return
to work upon the following terms, viz.:—The MIS to be
all lon piece work, for which they were to receive 2i. for
landing end lz. 2d. for delivering per standard, canning
of 120 desk The grooer's shop and the loan office to be
abolished. In the evening the committee convened a meet-
ing of the men at the Jolly Caulken, to consider the pro-
pont. when a resolution was plastid to refuse
the offer, and to remain out until the &frame
asked for was given, viz., 2s. 3d. per standard.
However, in spite of this determination on the part of the
Surrey men, the men belonging to the Commercial Docks
begin to go in yesterday morning, and by ten o'clock the
majority of them had resumed work. Ilr.Sallivan, a mem-
ber of the committee, hearing this, west to Mr. Hose,
the superintendent of the Commercial Decks, and
asked him what terms he could offer, in order
that all the men might resume work. Mr. Rose said
he could promise that piece work should be abolished
until the next meeting of the board, and then the
directors would consider the question, and in the
meantime he would pay the men tie. Bd. per day, and
the leading men 7s. Bd. Them terms were accepted by
the committee, and the whole of the men in thorn docks
resumed work at ten o'clock. Mr. Cochrane, the secretary
of the Surrey men, seeing that the commercial men were
determined to resume work, recommended the committee
to persuade the men in the Surrey to resume work also, by
accepting the offer made by the superinteadeot on the pre-
vious day. This was done, and the man in the Surrey
rammed work at one o'clock yesterday alao. It stpacted
by the committee of both docks, who are now unitedtagether
with the men, that the employers will agree to a standard
prioe, and that a good nnetsrstanding will become to between
them.

Hrnxorttoat,t.—A lamentable instance of the
effects of this fatal malady occurred yesterday in the perish
of Ileedon, Middlesex. Mr. Robert Brewster, aged 19, sou
of Mr. Christopher firewater, of Farm, was early
is February last in the act of holding a stick before a yard
dog upon the premises. when the animal, stopple( et it,
@lightly mused the skin of the youth's wrist. Soon after
the dog was shot, and although the young man felt a pre-
sentment that he should ultimately fall a victim to hydro-
phobia, he etudiously avoided all motion of his suspicions
to kis parents, anxious, as he stated during his Buffering',
to prevent uneasie' in their minds on the subject. He
continued in his usual health until Thursday last, when he
felt a painful sensation in the arm and shoulder. la the
evening other symptorss presented themselves. and medical
aid was called in, and subsequently the case was visited by
several medical gentlemen of the nei‘hbourhood. On Mon.
day morning the patient refused all liquids. The symptoms
gradually increased, and he became so violent that it was
found necessary to have recourse to means of restraint. He
foamed at the mouth, his tongue being constantly in rapid
motion, and his pulse et 120. Still, at times he was per.
featly sensible, and appeared comforted in the opportunity
afforded by intervals of the paroxysms to take leave of his
fami'y. He expired yesterday at 6 o'clock in the morning.
fiIIOCKINO ACCID6gT.—On Tuesday Mr. R. D.
Johnson, son of the late Mr. W. Johnson, of Barrow Hall,
near Bury St. Edmund's, was amusing himself with his
brother in a harvest field, when be accidentally received •
wound from a scythe on the inner part of the thigh. He
was taken home and attended by a surgeon, but it was
found impossible to stop the hainorrhage, and the unfortu-
nate man died from the effects of the wound within three
hours.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT LISEEARD.—A
seder accident occurred oa Taesda► night is Captain
Robert Kaapp, of Wheal Lndoott and other mines.
It appears that on Tuesday Oaptaio Knapp and his eldest
son, who is also an serer at Ludort, attended • large vale
of mining materials at Si. Neat. After the sale the father
and son remained in the locality until • late hour,
and in returning homewards Captain Knapp drove a bone
and gig and the son rode on horseback. On reaching
Burnt-boase Captain Knapp Wet the wider road to
Dubwalls, the eon going on the direct road to Liskeard,
whir is stiff and oanow. Mr. Knapp arrived home
before his father, and finale, that the captain did not
arrive when he was expected. Kr. Knepp, I. company with
his brother, went in search of him. Near Burnt-house
they saw • man lying on the road, bat not distinguishing
him in the dark, and emptiness him to be drunk, they pro-
ceeded farther, as far as Bt. Net Village. la the mean-
time the hone and gig were bonen home, and other
panne, went in search of Captain Knapp, and oa Wednesday
wiondag, at as early boor, he was found lying by the side
of deemed at ➢arnt-home in • state of insenaibility, with
his bond and face oat fearfully, so mach so that when oar
repeater left there was no chases of his surviving. He
mar have far out of she gig almost immediately after his
cos left him, and there is • enspiciaa in the garde of some
perms of foal play. Captain Knapp is much respected is
Liskeard ; he has • wile and seer children.— Western
Morning Nom