The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-02 00:00:00

LATRIIT SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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WZST'DRAYTON'hiEtTING.--(THIS DAY.)

TRIAL STABS& About one sails.
bora TsaPst. liatt* Eland, litellatae, sad Sister Mary ars

HANDICAP PLATE. Five furlongs.
(kiklea Dust, Troabliwame, Norma, Peignoir, Conn*
Laud of the Weal, Mother Bunch, Walpole, Sylvia,
Blackbird, Gunpowder, Eugenie, Sister /dory, Imogene,
King of Greven and Cramp are here.

TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. About five furious'.
Fisk* eisedir Treater, Alberta, Ozone, Mangan;
and Venturer are kers.
SWEEPSTAKES OF FIVE SOY'S. About five furloegu
Tbreadbers, Cobweb, Scheldt, Eugenie, and Gazzinta
are here.

WELTER OUP. About two miles.
Bete, Copeland, Corinthian Tom, Sequence. old Squire,
Bombay, Speculation, Love•lotter, and Threadbare ere here.

SELLING STAKES. Ralf • mile.
Slender, The* lady Oradea, liataguao, aad Prises.Devoe/ are beta
HURDLE HAUL Two miles.
Wortham, lilargeey, Aim of Hearts, Old Spite, Stiletto,
CAPDfidesmi Bombay. sad Spoov/ation are has.

DERBY METING.-(THIS DAY.)

HARRINGTON 'STA Rick
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Foreign Stamp... _ ... ...

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DERWENT STAKES.
Goklylacks ... ...
Irish Statesman ... ...
4 rut.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.)

The half. early meeting of the proprietors took
place at 1 o'clock, at the Paddington tends= ; Mr.
Ramie= POTTIZ le the chair.

The report, the substance of which appeared in the
Expreu of last Tuesday, having been taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN moved its adoption. He said the most
prominent if sot the most pleasant feature in the ao.
°craft was that out of • pose increase of 136,0001. ila the
receipts only 30,0001. was recommended for dia.
tribution. However, it should be borne in mind
that while the dividend for 1383 was 21. 7s. psi
annum, that for 1301 was V. 2s. Gd. The mune had for
the first time bone the whole of the charges. The board
had, in fact, been( severe against revenue—partly
because additional capital was now asked for. There
was 13,0601. for additional rent chops, several new
lines having been opened, and the two principal ones being
the Teabory and Bewdley Extension and the Wycombe
&tansies, in Buckinghamshire. The locomotive ex-
cels showed an excess of 8,0001., but they were
r train mile than thou of the oorreeponding
period of 1863. A similar remark was applicable to the
carriage and waggon repairs. There had been a
large home, in the carrying charges for the half
year, owing partly to competition, and pertly to
the morally of increasing accommodation. The rates for
the boa trade bad been lowered in coneeq nese* of the
strike, end, though the result was not immediately produc.
tire, the company bad been strengthened in its relations
with the iroomeaters of South Wales. The addition of
1,000,0001. to the capital now proposed was for various
E= The arrangement with the Vale of Heath
would be very beakers' to the Great
Western Company. The Vale of Ninth Railway provided
a narrow gangs communication between Birkenhead and
South Staffordshire and South Wales. The Metropolitan
Railway having harass • portion of the innercinale of railways,
it was found difficult to nee it for the long traffic, and the
arrangement entered into would afford to the Great Western
Company complete rams to the City of London for goods,
minerals, and pamengera. (Cheers.) This agreement would
i save foar miles of cartage, and enable the company to ob-
tain a elms of business from which it was now excluded.
There was no difference of opinion on the board ea to the
desirability of the company becoming joint lemon
with the London and North Western Company of the
Shrewsbury end Welslapool Railway, which would is • few
works be opened for traffic. The Metropolitan Company
would become joint lessees with that company of the Ham-
memmith and City Junction Railway; and he be-
lieved the arrangement was • good one for them-
selves. During last half-year the board had anted
in accordance with the wish of the proprietors that the
law and parliamentary business should be wider the manage-
ment of one edieitor. The board had secured the services
of a gentleman, Mr. Young, who was well adapted for
that department Some portion of the capital of
1,000,0001. whisk it was now proposed to create had been
anent, sad existed is the shape of rolling stock and
additional eidinp. New skidoos were imperatively required
at Slough and Reading, the present station at the latter
place causing • lose of 2,0001. or 3,0001. a year by the inade-
quacy of the accommodation. Considerable additions must
also be made to the workshops at Swiadoe, in ord. that
the prat of the company might be kept in efficient repair.
A further expenditure was raided for station ac-
commodation at Birkenhead, and for lines in
South Wales. Speaking generally, be believed
the outlay for these various purposes would be
returned forty fold. (Hear hear.) Admitting that the
company required mat, he maintained that, surrounded as
they were by speculative competition, some additional
outlay was emential to the interest of the compuy.
and tore, although the board would observe the spirit
of the by-law relating to the expenditureof new eephel,
they would not observe its letter. (Hear, hear.) The
chairman was proceeding to speak of the parliamentary
pro/moose of the present session. and to intimate that the
course punned ia parliament would depend partly on inter-
mediate zirocumdamos, when our report left.

-(THIS DAY.)

2, II A.N.

SHARE LI6TS.-4 TIM DAY.,

Two, o'Orkoi.

The railway market continues inactive, notwith- ,
standing the reduction in the Bank rate of discount,
and prices in most instances are quoted the same
as yesterday. As regards the leading stooks, the
only variations are a decline of per cent.
in Great Northern and in Midland.
London and North Western stook is now
quoted 116} to 3, ex div. ; Great Western,
73 to • Midland, 131 to t, ex div. and
new ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 113 k to L ex
div. ; South Eastern, 83k to Lex dry. ; Great
Eastrn, 45f to 46,k ; Great Northern, 127 to 128,
ex div. ; Caledonian, 131 i to 132} ; London and
South Western, VA to 96i, ex div. ; and Metro-
politan, 1181_, to 117, ex div. and ex new.

Great Western of Canada Railway shares have
declined, and Indian and foreign lines are dull.