The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-27 00:00:00

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.)

The half-yeerly meeting of the proprietors was
Geld at 1 °Week, at the Loudon Tavern, Mr. Holum
Locs in the chair.

The report having been take! u lea".

The Cismumus, in moving its adoption, said they now
met for the fiat time since the amalgamation, and
it would be well to consider of what the united
l nee consisted. lie this described them in detail
with the aid of a map. Seven companies were em-
braced in the Great Eastern system; in all
there were 644 wiles of ground belonging to the Great
listen proper, and in addition they were working 64
miles, making • total of 708 mdse. The revenue
of the. last half-yesr realised the expectations of
the direstan, and amounted to 801,0001. The total
umber of pemengen carried during the half year
was 5,800,000/. The expenditure during the half year
amounted to 363,0001., leap 430,0001., to be applied first
in the payment of motel dividends of all
kinds, and afterwards dividends on the old shares.
The cost of waking dean the half year was
only a little over 45 per mot., which was very satidactary
hi comparison with previous rake of expediters. During
the half year many badmen hid bees renewed with im-
proved materials, iron and resse being substituted for
wood. This kind of hameeement would con-
bane, and 7,0001. per mum would be set apart
for it. Nine engines had been renewed. After
all this there remained • dividend of 24 per cent. on the
consolidated stock, leaving • balance al 17,0001. That
ram was reserved became it had been arranged
that, provided the Bast Suffolk should turn out
better than had bees supposed, there should be something
to meet its claim on that amount. The quahog had been
under arbitration, and he believed that Captain Galton, the
arbitrator, would give his decision next week. He then re-
ferred to the new arrangements recently made with regard
to fares, and the increased facilities afforded to pas
angers. The suburban traffic within twenty miles
of London amounted, he said, to one- ixth of the whole, and
efforts were being made to foster it. The meters traffics
especially required to be fostered, and during the last six
moths the season and house tickets had been considerably
reduced. Such measures must improve the revenue of the
company, and he anticipated that, large am the growth
of MS° had been for some time past, it would now
Mame in • greater ratio. He then referred to the rela-
tions of the with other companies, and more parti-
cullary the Griot °ethers Compsay, with wham he said,
an agreement hnd been entered into for 14 yews, under
which the Great Northern Company banded over the Rav-
enna and Hitehin lime to the Great Eastern Company for an
annual payment of 16,8001. That sgrmmeat he said, had been
religiously observed by the Great Company ,• bat he
could net my the same for the other side, which, by sub-
sequently taking the Welling and Hertford line had M.
"traded a portion of the Great Postern muffle. This had
been a serene canoe of difference, sad he wee sorry to say it
was not thew only cause of complaint. The thee had
arrived when the agreement, which wee not easoliceed by
=ant, should emu. As regarded extensions, it had
obligatory on the board to promote one or two for
the parries of protection.
After mom diecumion the report was adopted, end the
dividend reoommesded declared.

SOUTH EASYSAN 11.AILWAY.--(1111S DAY.)

The polling for the election of auditor to this
company was finally closed at 12 o'clock ; sad at that hour
the chtuzusaa. Mr. 130 SCHOESTEI4 sanouncod the result ss
follows :

For Mr, Child—Proprietors present 9 representing
100,52n1. stook, 798 votes by Prez] 526. representing
1,367,8101., votes 20,690. Total, 533 proprietors, represent-
/as 2,088,3301. stock, and 21,488 votes.
For Mr. Smith, 45 proiprietove, dog 164,3201.
stock, and 1,693 votes. Majority for Yr. Child, 490 pro-
;wagon, 1,924,0101. stock, and 19,790 votes.
The Cuarattan then declared Mr. Child duly elected to
the office of auditor.

iite7mCnn eligilbrommiosoi NN at tbsahs data the
proceadiop.

MCAT SHIP COMPANY (LIMITED).-(T1118
DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors took
pLoe at one Oeleek, at the London Tavern ; Mr. i3s.assa
in the chair.

It appearad from the report that the working moonlit
exhibits an excess of diabureements over receipts of 13,2471.
14$. 44., but thisamosstisclndesthesum of 10.6851.10 a. Ild.
paid for interest and insane," on the debenture debt,
together with other amps far the whole of the year 1862,
whilst the receipt" sire from May is that year only, but
which exhibit an 'screens. 2,O*L has bees expended for
repairs, be. The balance sheet shows that of the
amount authorised to be raised by debentures, on
the 28th of November last, the sum of 56,7221. 10e.
has been subscribed, and by which the thin mining
mooed mortgage has been absorbed, leaving 9,2771.
still to be raised to complete the loan to 65,0001. •
with which it is proposed to incorporate, on the
31st May next, the present first mortgage of 31,0001.
The loan of 100,0001. thereby created will then become a
Mt end only therms on the ship The directors again
appeal to those • tors who have not yet contributed
to come forward at once, and, by subscribing their quota,
place the compaey in a position "by which their pro:
mty may be restored to at lomat its original value.'
The directors and their friends have already contributed
an amount far beyond their respective proportwm ; and it
must rest therefore with the general body of proprietors to
provide the further amount necessary in order to enable the
shin to resume harlopmpelioiment on a prow footing. Thereport wee a

FISTE.IOADENAILT LONOIMIT. —ln yesterday's
obituary there appears the deaths of five ladies and three
gentlemen, whose united ages amount to 687 years, giving
an average of upwards of 86 years and 10 months. The
eldest was a lady aged 100 jests, and the youngest, also of
the same sex, reached 80 years. Of the gentlemen the
eldest was 87 and the jousted 84 Pan of
Lunt HUNT AT MID-CALDI& !—On Monday last,
Mid-Colder was visited by Mandene Royal Menagerie,
which was attended by a large coneoures of spectators,
eluding moat of the gentry in the Delighbotirhood. Shortly
after arriviog in the village, and while 'lig for exhi-
bition, one of the hoes—rather a ege•
tomer, although only nine or ten months hem
the mann after malaria; iblb snood ill all dials
Com, punned by the keepers, the polies mentables, and a
few amateur lion hunts", bolted into as wan deer, ens rap•
stairs, got into a bedroom, and took ponmewlen ef the bed,
much to the astonishment and tenni. of an old lady, the
sole occupant of the home, which, however, she quickly
vacated in favour of her unwelcome visitor. After con-
si!lerable trouble the royal brute was safely captured by
his keepers, and conveyed in triumph to his den, without
baying injured any one.—Edinburgh Contrast.
A narrow es_ oipe from a serious accident is re-
ported from Baddkwerth. Its a bele rd wares wee
crossing a viaduct 70 feet high, the axle of one of them
broke, by which the train was thrown spinet the parapet
of the bridge, breaking a portion of it away, but luckily
drag so more damage.