The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-23 00:00:00

ASTER SP'
10k THII

H. lb.
British Yeoman 11 7
Peter Simple
Vain Hope
Lacy Neale
Sir P. Laurie
Abd-61-Kader ll 0
Chlehmis
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Milk
HardwickDay lO 7 Everisa
Warder lO 6 Bro. .
Awed Tramps lO 6 Sir Altuader 9 0
Hall-and-lialf lO 8
CAI RINGTON COURSING MEETING—Fan:ay.

BITCH PUTTY 6raitsw, 9 dap. WAS won by Mr. Hardy's
Bright-eye, his Young Flexible being drawn.
Dom Pulpy aunts, 14 digs, went won by Mr. W.
Parser's Partisan, Mr. Reed's Pilot running up.
ALL•AORD &Lanus, 14 doh., were won by lb. Inskip's
Jester, Mr. Bmyth's Masker, running up.
SOUTHALL STAMM. 8 dogs, wen won by Mr. Eley's
Emigrant, Mr. Rothwell's Paragon raining up.
HAMMONDS"! HILL STALSS, 8 dogs, NM divided be-
tween Mr. W. Purser's Priam and Mr. John Parser's

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CASDINOTOW SIACU. 4 dogs, were was by Mr. luskip's
Lie, Mr. Wauaa's Sweep rummies up.
(WNW HOUSI HILL STAR'S, 4 derviellff• wee by Mr.
Blueskin, Mr. W. Farm's pe rusks* up.

Ludo= wawa Racas.—Broughtea, the winner of the
Z=VStakes, has been objected to at the ground of
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treisatioa.

LE BULLETIN FRANCAIB.—Thie periodical tract,
banished from Belgium, is now transplanted to a mons essa-
genii soil, and, with its talented authors, has now a bane
in Lesoless. la No. V 111., just published, Y. Briard prays
hie seasenbers not to be astonished that he, a Belgian beak-
ear. lima erne them through • London tLm. "W-
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Ileeeparta sod his gents. English presses, these
whinSlime remain free Ili Bumps, must be employed to
la puhlhi that truth which sea neer be to the taste of
=As sensors." The Bulletin hisirsir is now pub-
ir. Jere.
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wen nasal, neepewwwd, bet wat bekee the nee of
Mann. Green's Mess was entirely destroyed. end • sash
derable MOMS of , both in that Yaw awl the
pielanerallse et in Lisrre
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lashed, wine en ogre* loft at 9.30 a.m. yesterday.

RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.

NUNEATON AND UNMET= AMMON RAILWAY.
—OA /al-any the abrallbs wiles ems assima BM com-
plied with la Yds ease, At OM lossujoreesa af a assayany to
make a Nee her the Units Nertts-Weetent (Trent
Valley) &away to the Mandl OanatAse at Leivester, at a
east, seserding to the ezes estimate, of 146,90 W. The
subeeripOssi contract is by two perms, mily, Ms., b
l y
Mr. Jake Attwood, of Park-lane, La, for WOO
sham, di* amount of sameiptba bibs 60,0001., with
60001. pad op; and by Xr. 1111diati M. Kennedy, of
Notting-big, fee the rue eisonat.
Noma OTAYTOSDONINI RAILWAY. The standing
orders WWI island sot semplied with, for Dowse to make
a railway New Saisdbeisb t• this Laneasbire,
and Cheadle Itallway, war Workout to establish the
mixed gauge therms, end ea the Nora Nb 6ire ; and
for other rupees,.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

Front the report of the directors to the 11th half-
yearly ordinary general meeting of the above company, to
be bald on Friday next, we extract the following passages :
•' In submitting to the proprietors the accounts which
accompany this report fur the half-year ended 31st Decem-
ber, 1851, the directors have the pleasure of calling atten-
tion to the encouraging extent to which the traffic over the
Great Northern Railway has already increased. Indepen-
dent of the extra receipt, during the season of the Great
Exhibition, down to October last, and with only about five
miles of additional line open, the income, from the ordinary
sources of regular traffic, his, fur some time past, exceeded
by above 3,0004 per weak the amount of the corresponding
period of 1851. At the present, usually the dullest *won
ter railway traffic, this increase is steadily main-
tained, the aggregate amount of receipts during
the first six weeks in the current year being
62,4481. as against 44,425!. in the same time lust
year. The coal traffic is now yielding a gross revenue ex-
ceeding 2,0001. a week, and would have been much more
productive but that the South Yorkshire coal owners have
not be^n able to furnish the supplies necessary to meet the
great and constantly increasing demand. They are, how-
ever, engaged in strenuous efforts to extend the supple, by
which they hope, within a reasonable time, to be able to
furnish any quantity that may be inquired. The directors
have been led recently to make arrangements for bringing
coil also from the Durham field, and as fur es this experi-
ment has been tried, it appears likely to be remunerative ;
but the extent to which this can be carried meet, of course,
depend upon the price at which the owners will deliver
their coal. The accounts consist of ' • statement of receipts
and expenditure of capital to the 31st of December,
18d1,' with abstracts in explanation ; and of state-
ments of 'revenue' and net revenue,' with documents
appended, giving details; and they exhibit results as follow :
Orees amount of revenue, 315,6.501. sa. 3d.; working and
other expenses chargeable upon revenue, 147,0441. N. 44. ;
leaving of net disposable revenue, 158,6051. 15e. Ild. From
this amount of disposable revenue are deducted as
per net revenue statement,' guaranteed rents, prefer-
ence dividends, an award to the Eaeteru Counties Rail-
way Company, and the difference between the rents
paid and the net receipt from the Fees and Witham and
the Louth navigation, reducing the 158,6051. 156. ltd. to
93,5711. 18s. 44. Out of this reduced amount the sum of
27,3241. ss. 4d. has been paid (being one-half the interest
fur the half-year which became due Jan. 15, 1852, 3 n the
company's mortgage debt, the other half of such interest
being charged to capital), and the further sum of 2,5001.
is set apart to meet the dividend and interest on calls paid
in advance of the 5 per cent. Redeemable 121. IN. pre-
ference Shares in scrip, with cars thereon )et to be paid, and
the result is a balance available for dividend of 63,7471. 13s.
This will afferd, and the directors accordingly recommend
that there be declared, a dividend on the anginal stock of
the company, after the rate of two and a hall per cent. per
annum, payable on and after the 15th March next, to the
' proprietors registered no the 27th February, which will
leave a surplus of 3,6141. lGs. Pd. to be carried to the next
half-year's account. On the redeemable 121. 10s. five per
cent. preference scrip shares, dividend is due only on the
first call of 31. 10s. from September, and upon the second
tall of 31. for a few days, to 31st December last; and the
amount being under one shilling per shire, the directors
propose to postpone the payment of such dividend,
as well as the interest on calls paid in advance,
till after the next half-yearly meeting, prior to
which the remaining two calls of 31. each will have
been paid, and the scrip sent in for registratiuh. In their
relations with other companies, the directors have to report
that some progress has been made towards more satis-
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factory arrangements. With the Eastern Counti;.
Company they have settled tho basis of an agree-
ment for • term of fourteen years, under provi-
sion. which they trust will prove mutually satisfactory.
With regard to the East Anglian arrangement, diseured
at the las half-yearly meeting, your directors have to re-
port that the East Anglian board, declining from the pres-
sure of circumstance. to continue the legal coldest with the
Eastern Coon ties Company, solicited from the Great Northern
Company a modification of the terms, which aas listened
to; during the negotiations which ensued, the Eastern
Counties Company made an offer to the East Anglian Com-
pany which was received with favour by the shareholders,
and led to a request from the East Anglian Board that the
Great Northern would abandon all arrangements between
the two companies. To this request your directors acceded,
and the matter was finally cloned by the Great Northern
Company agreeing to band over to the Eat Anglian any
balance of receipts, after re-paying themselves all outlay.
Under the recent arrangement with the Eastern Count es
Company above described, the Great Northern Company
have rased to run their trains between Peterborough and
Wishech. The arbitration undertaken by the Right lion. W.
E. Gladstone, between this company and the London and
North Western and Midland Companies is not yetconcluded.
In December hat, the board received a notice from the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company, that the
Great Northern trains would be stopped at Grimsby and
not allowed to proceed to New Holland on tho way to
Hull. This course was deprecated by your directors, as
contravening the agreement between the two companies,
and as most inconvenient to the public ; the Manchester
Company, however, persisting in their threat, your
directors were compelled to resort to the Court of
Chancery, and obtained an injunction, enforcing the ob-
servance of the agreement. Your directors regret having
to add that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company,
also, in January last gave notice of their intention
to stop the trains of the Great Northern Company
from working over the Lancashire and Yorkshire lines
north of Askerne, miler they would consent to pay maxi-
mum parliamentary tolls, upon the ground that en agree-
ment of May, 184/, had not been observed by the Great
Northern. These lines, as the shareholders are aware,
form the approach to York, Leeds, and Wakefield ; the
directors were compelled, in this case, also, to apply to the
Court of Chancery for protection, and the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company not being prepared to argue the case
before the court, were placed under terms by that court to
abstain from interference with the Great Northern trains,
and to adhere to the agreement between the companies
until the case can be fully argued. The agreement, how-
ever, being under the seals of the two compecim, and
having been acted upon for the last four years, your
directors have every confidence in the court enforcing its
provisions. The arrangements with the South Yorkshire
Company, as explained at previous meetings, are now pro-
ceeding, and the bill introduced for carrying them into
effect will be laid before the proprietors at an extraordi-
nary general meeting to he held far the purpo.e, according
to notice given, immediately after the termination of the
present meeting.
The following is the revenue statement for the half year:
PAT111.11211.-To maintenance of road, 12,030/. 17s. ; to
maintenance of station buildings, approaches, and signals,
3,5941. 10s. Id. ; to locomotive power, 64,7671. 2s. 7d ; to
coaching traffic expenses, including compensation,
24,9341. 2e. 9d. ; to merchandise traffic expenses,
18,7001. 14s. 3d. ; to mineral traffic expenses, 6,6661. 13.. 4d.;
to repairs and renewals of carriages and waggons,
9,1931. 6s. ; to general compensation, 851. 91. 10d.; to rents
and iesurance, 1,1741. 13e. 9.1.; to lighting amount,
1,6661. 7s. 10d. ; to clothing account, 2,103 e. 18s. ; to gene-
ral charges, 9,6641. &. ; to law charges, 1,9844 Os. 2d. ; to
rates and taxes, including costs of appeals, 4,4031. 16.. &I.;
to government duty on parmeger traffic, 6,412/. 12s. 10d. ;
to clearing house expenses, 6601. 3e. 10d.; to bad debt ac-
count, 2801. 17s. 7d.; to balance carried to net revenue ac-
count, 168,6061. 16e. Ild. ; total, 316,6601. tis. 3d.
ltacrirrs.-By coaching traffic, Tie.: For the carriage of
806,998 parengers, 183,9791. 9s. 6d. ; parcels, 7,8021. 15s. 6d.;
honer, carriage., and dogs, 6,8791. 14s. 10d.; mails, 3,2291.
4s. 8d;-201,6911. 4s. 6d. Less toll on coaching traffic paid
for running over other companies' lines, 3,4211.16 e. 10d. ;-
198,1691. Be. Bd.-By merchandise traffic, viz.: For the car-
riage of goods and merchandise, 80,6681. 4e. 6d. ; live stock,
8,647/. 3.1. 3d.; coals and minerals, 38,7261. 12s. 6d.;-
128,0411. 2d. Less agents' expense's in the collection,
cartage, and delivery of goods, freight, &c.,12,7601. 7s. 10d. ;
-116,2801. 12e. 4d.-By interest on cash balance, rents, &c.,
1,9531.4 a. id. ; transfer fees, 2471. Total, 316,6401. .is. 3d.