The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-02 00:00:00

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.

An adjourned meeting of shareholders in the
Eastern Urine, or Class A shareholders of the Great
Eastern Railway, was held yesterday, at ltadley's Hotel, Mr
GODBOLD, LP., in the chair, to consider Captain Gallon's
award defining the fixed annual charges.
The CHAIRMAN briefly recapitulated the eirennistances
under which the A shareholders had obtained an injunc-
tion restraining the Great Eastern from paying the divi-
dend on their ordinary stock without paying the dividend
also on the A stock. Until that injunction was obtained
no steps were taken to obtain the award, and when it was
obtained, in order to dissolve the injuriction, it was made by
Captain Dalton without calling any of the parties
before him, but upon the figures furnished him
by the accountant, and without reference to the oat-
dining of the agreement on which the amalgama-
tion act was based. That agreement stipulated, amongst
other things, that, in calculating the annual fixed charges of
the Eastern Union, interest should be charged, not at the
rate at which the Eastern Union actually paid on their do.
lantern and preferences, but at the average rate at which
the amalgamated company night issue debentures or en-
tireness in future. This Capt.= Gallon had not done. bat
bad charged the sor 54 per cent which the Eastern Union
had paid instead of the 4} which was the avenge at which
Great Eastern securities had since the amalgamation
been issued. Again, Captain Galva had made a permanent
charge of 1,0711. rent of Slourmarket navigation, although
it would fall to 8061. in 1866, and cerise altogether in 1877.
There were other deductions not taken into consideration
by the arbitrator, which if allowed, as they ought to have
been, would have reduced the total charges from 85,8961.,
the amoont of Captain Gallon's award, to below the
72,0001. which it bad been stated in parliament the perms..
neat charges would Lot exceed.
Mr. G. Sign said it was clear such an absurd award could
not stand. What was the lon to the A shareholders by the
miscalculation of interest!

Captain Jnavis-6,3001. a year.
In reply to another question the chairman stated that the
Eutern Counties directors offered every obstruction to the
marrying out of the agreement.
A conversation ensued, and ultim►tely a resolution was
come to authorising the chairman to take such proceedings
as might be necessary to secure the A shareholders their
rights under the agreement of 29th July last.

ROYAL SWILDISH RAILWAY.—The report of the
directors in England to the meeting of shareholder.,
to be held at the London Tavern on the sth
inst., states that the working of the Nora Company Branch
has resulted in a considerable profit instead of a loss, 2.•
hitherto. The branch from Halsaurg to Orebro, by which
the company's line is brought into connection with the go-
vernment trunk line from Gottenbargh to Stockholm, was
completed lest autumn ; and subsequently, in November,
the government main line was finished and opened through-
out for traffic. Since then there has been as aug-
mentation of the traffic, especially in that of passengers,
over the company's line ; but owing to the line
having only been opened at the commencement )of
the winter 'ream, and at a time, too, of unusual depression
of the iron trade of Sweden, the additional traffic derived
from that source has not been so large ea war expected.
The traffic during the peat year has not increased so much
as they had anticipated, but the receipts, especially those
from minerals, are still most seriously interfered with by
the continuance of the American war, and even the mildness
of the weather during the put winter has exercised an in.
jurimui influence. Owing to the want of snow and feat, the
roads to the interior and the outlying districta have been
imputable, and the usual mode of transit during that period
of the year (the sledge), could not be adopted. The work-
ing expenses bare bean further reduced from 79 per cent to
75 per cent of the gross earnings ; these will be reduced
still more during the current year by an arrangement en-
tered into with the government for the joint nee of the sta-
tion at Orebro. As the net revenue for the year amounts
to 3,2751., the directors think that it would be bbeonsistent
with their repeated promises, to longer defer making some
payment to the obligation holders, small as that sum must
necessarily be ; and they have therefore much pleasure in
announcing their Intention to pay Is. per obligation on ac-
count of the arrears of interest due thereon.

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THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—
Tbe directors of this company, which lately received a de.
potation from the Cab and Omnibus Mess &oder Rest
Society, asking for every thud Sunday clear for the men,
have just lamed an order, in which they notify that " any
driver or conductor may be relieved from working on Sunday,
by giving notice of his wish to the foreman not later than
12 a clock at noon ors the Saturday previous, and that direc-
tor,s have been given for arrangements to be made accord-
ingly, and that the director' do not desire any man to work
on Sundays who has a conscientious objection to do so."
The secretary of the Men's Society, in asking us to publish
this fact, writes :—" May we
public, through you, to assist the director' in carrying out
this humane and spirited order by using omnibuses as little
as possible on Sundays?"
MURDER IN LIVERPOOL—OD Thursday night,
about 11 o'clock, police-officer 441 of the Liverpool borough
force, found a woman lying on the foot walk in St. Jobs's-
lane, near Si, Geotge'whnU. At first the offioer thought
the woman was drunk, but upon examining her he found
that she was covered with blood, and took measures to re-
move her to the infirmary. At the infirmary it was found
that the woman had received • fearful stab in the left
breast, and that she was too much exhausted to give any
information as to who had indiAed the injury upon her ; in
fact, she was No much injured that she died in about two
hours after her admittance to the institution. The woman
is not known, and the police are without the slightest due
which would lead to the discovery of the circumstances
attending her murder.
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