The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-14 00:00:00

THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER
RAILWAY.

The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway COM-
peoy have resolved to issue a circular to their ehareboldens
to correct some misconceptions which they believe to be
current, and which could not otherwise be answered until
the meeting at the end of February. In this they state—
lst. That the 32,000 shares coostitutiog the third prefer-
coos capital, beariog 6 per cent., have, with the exemption
of 1,640 shares, been surrendered to the company by the
holders for conversion into ordinary stock, sod that arrange-
ments have been made for the surrender of these remaining
shares also. The position of the ordinary capital will thus be
improved by the removal of a prior charge u( 48 000/. per en-
uum. 2. That by means of the capital authorised last
session for the general undertskisg, Metropolitan Ritmo.
emu, sod City Junction Line, the amount due on aoknow
ledgments of debt called " Lloyd's Bondi," issued pending
the placing of that aipitxl, has beet reduced to 115,9364,
for the payment of which at maturity provision has
already beset made. 3. That the authorised capital of the
company is, in the judgment of the booed, sufficient
to complete all the complexly 's works, including the
junction with the Metropolitan Railway, and leave
a surplus for additional rolling stock sod siding
accommodation for inereeseel truffle. its, That an
arraneemeet has beet made with the South Western Rail-
way Company by which the traffic of their whole oysters
will obtain scream elver the Metropolitan Ettemsioti lines
to Ludgate-hill station, the Metropolitan Railway at Far-
' ringdoestreet. and the Great Northern sad Midland Rail-
ways at Kitig's-crons. It is further ineotioned that it is
intended the Metropolitan Exteosion lines shall be
opened for traffic across the river to the Ludgathhill
station 00 the 20th iost, when the company's through
and suburban traffic will, for the first time, be admitted
to a city station. Finally. with reference to the represen.
tation that the recent traffic receipts on the Metropolitan
Extensions have been discouraging, the board express an
no;nion that it is without any foundation, and that any
calculations formed on the basis of entangle returns mast be
fallacious, since the Mlitropolitan &termini.s were designed
to conduct traffic between the Gm*, Northeru,
Great Western, sad Metropolitan Railways, the South of
Louilne, the Kest Coot. the !South of E gland, and the
Contitieet, mid until the Mat most important link in this
chain of communication is completed none of it can be
brought upon the linos of the company.

Dospatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
vial-odic. from rim GOVIIIIIOIII of New Lades& Bout&
Au,tralia, apet Yalta.

JUMTIZMi' JCIITIIT..—At the SpahlinG Suasion'',
last week. before the Rev. Edward Moore. chairman. and
Mr. A. Howard, Mr. Thomas Parker. farmer. Whaoloda,
charged Fraud. Revell. aged 62, with ate i!tsg a handful of
wheat ears from his field while the corn sea in @took.
Revell is • man of respectable appearance. and has resided
in the locality .42 years. Respectable witness.. came for-
ward to my that they believed him to I. en honest man.
Convicted-10 days' imprimmeasst.—Liarn'..d.ire Over-
did*.

A Bums Snearnoo.—Mr. Frank Buckland
write. I lately beard of s shepherd who possum •
dumb sheepdog, but. though the poor beset has no votes,
he is vett clever at driving sheep. In order, therefore, to
make up the deficiency of his dog the shepherd 'lambi still
while the dog is driving the sheep, and bark. himself, thus
quite upsetting the tblery that it is •DO good to keep
dog sad hark oneself:
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The Atlantic cable will yet be ao accomplished
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silents in Herring's magnetic brushes and coml o. winch rue now
so perfected that, with almost unta•lvg ccrabiti, they reatoee
cry hair to Its original coheir. and give i •diate KIP, perfect
relief in all ease• of neuralgia, nervous headache, au•l rherima-
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