The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-11 00:00:00

DUBLLN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAY.

The stated half-yearly meeting of this company
was held in Dublin on Saturday, Mr.A.B.CaNz chairman.
The directors' report, which embraced the whole year,
conveyed the following, among other items of information
to the shareholders:—The gross number of passengers
Turing the year was 2,479,494, being an increase of 176,404
over the preceding year ; the gross income for the year
from all sources was 52,970/., being an increase of 3,639/.
over that of the previous year. Nor was this additional
traffic accompanied by any material increase of expenditure,
a small increase, which appears under that head in the
accounts being chiefly caused by a payment of arrears of
rent for land occupied by the Dalkey line, and by some
addition to the stock of materials in the engine and car-
riage departments. The report says—" During the last
year the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Company have made
much progress in the construction of their line from Dun-
drum to Bray. In October last, they opened negotiations
with this board for carrying out the arrangernsnts
existing between the companies, with some modi-
fications therein; believing your interests would be pro-
meted by amicable arrangements, we have given our best
attention to this important subject, and expected that at
this meeting we should have been able to bnng the matter
under your consideration; we regret, however, having been
disappointed in this expectation, but expect we shall soon
have an opportunity of submitting, for your consideration,
any arrangements which may be proposed ; and, until then,
we submit it is not expedient to enter into details. The
statement of accounts shows an available balance of
26,0051., including 2,5711. carried forward from last year.
Out of this the board paid in October last a dividend of 5
per cent. for the half-year, amounting to 13,7501. ; and they
now declare a further dividend of 3 per cent., making
together a dividend of 8 per cent. for the year on the paid-
up capital of the company, and leaving a balance of 4,0051.
to be carried to the next account."
A long discussion took place, some of the shareholders
arguing in favour of a larger dividend, inasmuch as the
directors had retained a sum of 4,0001. to be carried to the
next account, for the purpose, as alleged, of keeping a suffi-
cient amount of capital on hands to meet the expenditure
attendant upon the building of a shed at Kingstown, and
other sources of outlay ; while the shareholders seemed to
be of opinion that the net revenue arising from the traffic
should be applied to the payment of a dividend, and that
the erection of the shed at Kingstown should be at
the expense of the capital account, After some explanations
on the point, and on this project of the Dublin and Bray,
and the Dublin and Wicklow Railway, the report was
unanimously adopted and the meeting separated.

THE WAGES QUESTION.—A good deal of nits-
tion is going on among the working ;classes at Bristol and
its neighbourhood, for the purpose of obtaining from the
employers in the different trades, a higher scale of wages.
The movement has been participated in by carpenters,
joiners, masons, shoemakers, plasterers, and other trades;
and it has now extended to the lowest class day labourers.
in many instances the wishes of the men have been acceded
to, in others modified arrangements have been come to be-
tween the parties, while in some cases strikes had been re-
sorted to by the men. Some labourers employed at the ex-
tensive bone crushing and manure factory of the Messrs.
Procter, wbo had been engaged by the firm in consequence
olthe refusal of their old hands to work, were attacked by a
mob of men, who beat and ill-treated them. The assistance
of the police was called in, and two of the ringleaders were
apprehended, taken before the magistrates, and heavily
fined. A letter received at Bristol from itaverfordwest,
states that there has been a partial strike among the
"navvies" engaged in making the railway near that town,
and that Mr. Cornier, the contractor, bag been compelled to
apply to the magistrates. the navvies require 3d. per day
extra.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A lad accident °C-
oined on Tuesday to a poor fellow named Frank, well
known at the Cheltenham station of the Midland Railway.
Frank had met with an accident once before, when he suf-
fered amputation at the thigh ; but his agility in hopping
across the line with his wooden leg was often the subject of
wonder to parties waiting for trains. Yesterday it appears
ho was shunting a train, when ho was caught by one of the
buffers,•and before lie could extricate himself was mutilated
in a shockint manner. Tile body now awaits a coroner's
inquest.—Cheltenham Examiner.
PRINTING IN KALMUCII.—The imperial printing
establishment of Vienna, the polyglot pro auctions of which
attracted so much attintim tiro Lirc3t Exhibition in
Ilyde Park, has jast added t its typoeraphicai resources a
rat of Kalmuck types. By means of these the wide re-
searches of Professor Jul, iii the Kultnuck language will
shortly be glum to the weed, .