The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-13 00:00:00

PREPARATIONS FOR HER MAJESTY'S

VISIT.
Our eirrespondent at Greenock writes as follows:
GREENOCK, Auo. 11.
I have stated that her Majesty would probably
visit some a the lochs concocted with the Clyde. The
latest authoritative accounts respecting the move-
ments of her Majesty confirm this impression. Cap-
tain Robinson, ILN., who, on occasion of the Queen's
last visit to the Clyde, geed as pilot on board the
Fairy, has received instructions to make arrange-
ments at the head of Loch Long, and at different
points along the course of Loch Lomond, in antici-
pation of the royal party's visit to these enchanting
localities.
The programme of her Majesty's route, which is
now fully taken for granted, is as follows :—She is
expected to leave Belfast this evening, and remain in
Loch Ryan over night, or sail up to Arrochar, at the
head of Loch Long, where she will remain until
Monday morning. Carriages will then be in attend-
ance to take her to Tubed, in Loch Lomond, where a
steamer will be in waiting. Sho will sail down the
loch to Belloch, where other carriages will be in rea-
diness to convey the royal party to Dumbarton. There
they will embark and come down to the Tail
of the Bank, where the Victoria and Albert yacht
will receive them for the night; ar.d on Tuesday
morning she will go on board the Fairy, to proceed to
Glasgow. It the tide at Dumbarton should not suit
the embirkation there, it is probable that her Majesty
will retrace her course along Loch Lomond to Tar-
bcrt, and thence by Loch Long to the Tail of the Bank.
All these arrangements, of course, are subjt et to the
state of the weather at the time. If it should be no
better than it has been to-day, her Majesty, albeit
she has been in the Clyde before, will have had no op-
portunity of seeing its manifold beauties. When she
was here two years ago, the atmosphere was thick and
murky, and its obscuration was not a little assisted
' by the smoke that was belched forth from the guns
that saluted all the way, from the Clock Lighthouse
up to the Tel of the Bank.

REPRESENTATION OF SUNDERLAND.—Mr. Hud-
son has " authoritatively" intimated to artain conservative
parties who have volunteered the selective of a fitting condi.
date for the representation, in the event of a vacancy
arising, that his present intention is to retain his seat in par.
Hareem, at all events till the commencement of next sciaion.
So says the IVeekly Chronicle, and private information
leads us to believe that this is the course which Mr. Huthoa
desires to take. The question now is, whether the electors
will allow a man who is stigmatised on every hand with the
foulest epithets, who dares not face parliament or the pub-
lie, who is charged in official documents with acts of fendl
and knavery, and who, conscious of guilt or indifferent to
character, nukes no attempt to clear himself of those
to continue to represent tilt m without uttering a hi=
indignant protest against so gross a betrayal of duty. We
know the idea of many of them is to permit the odour of
his name to stink in the nostrils of his admiren, but it ap-
pears to us that a due regard to the credit a the borough and
its important interests requires some steps to be taken for
the purpose of showing to the country that Mr. Hudson's
constituents do not connive at his conduct.—Newcastle
Guardian.
REPRESENTATION OF KIDDERMINSTER.—A cor-
respondent says : The candidates in the field are Mr. Oh-
borne, on the liberal interest, and Mr. John Best, of the
Oxford Circuit, a conservative, and avowed protectionist.
Numerous other probable candidates are named, but the
probability of their appearance here only exists in the fer-
tile minds of certain parties. For instance, Mr. Cooke,
barrister of the Oxford Circuit, has been proclaimed as
sextons to represent the borough, whereas that gentleman
has no such idea, and has been steadily engaged throughout
the week in reaping a more profitable harvest in the Crown
Court at Gloucester Arius. Kr. °Morse and Mr. Best,
however, are in the field. The former (who it
will be remembered unsuccessfully contested Not-
Viamwith Mr. Feargus O'Connorl. avows him-
-1 thorough free-trader. Mr. Best declares,
'Frets my earliest days I have always advocated, and ever
will advocate, the sound principles of conservatism—by thee,
I mean the fouadation stones of England, the church, the
seats, and the consti.ution.' The borough of Kiddermin-
ster numbers some 480 eleetors, and they are red to he many
of them rather venal. Mr. Gisborne, in addressing them,
said he had heard they were a baddish lot,' but he hoped
th find it otherwise."
CHARGE, OF FORGING A WILL.—The Magistrates
of Croydon, on Saturel%rere engaged for a considerable
time is investigating a agaiast the reputed wife
Jacob King, a man who • at Addisoozabe, on the 25th et
July last, of cholera. It seemed that Mr. King, some hems
before his death,aska for hie cash box ; but the key email
not be found, and the brother of the deceased brake it opts.
One of Mr. King's labourers, Amos Gower, was in the
room at the time rubbing the unfortenate gentlemen with
brandy. Deemed asked him whether he could write, and
an being answered in the affirmative, Mr. King directed
bier te sign the will, which was takes oat of the cash box.
sad he did so, the other subscribing witness being " Dick,"
kis blether. This will weld not be found, and it was SU-
that the reputed Mrs. King had concealed or destroyed
celOa applying at Doctors' Commons it was found that an-
other will, dated September, 1841, had been deposited there.
the wheelies to it being two persons aimed Tomlin std
Cherub and by whisk the whole of Mr. Kiag's property was
thegrotion'wsadad:Car gutrfoithdtheepTeasfhimut"damminoilinreisemptlleriredinth
ssageuidthpithiebai!
A. JUVENILE SVlClDE.—Olatlegby a lad, while
ilibehfweisadiat6assfilintia:l6boOuead.to:and two sureties bathe like amount.
Intelnit• walk, entered "Nanny Rowley's Weed,'• near
imams (*Miry. admit distance from Gateshead, Sonia
ppm tba smut! the body of • youth, with a oat round his
seek. Oa the hawk eta tees above, a handkerehlitrel
'Rade ha, mai • seed e and it was ovideat that the
Mar eaeraded, bad fallen to the greeted theoagle the
el *eased. The body was Manned -as teat of
yews, **son et a woe who weeks at. I_NAYI4Oe4
Dgesossa left hem on Tharsihey, the Sad last., titan his
good wonsiagi sal had-bees mimic my aleues..Azt
wu held ea like body. Verdi*" Foist Dead Ina
eliaegalatios.".-Osieshead Obiwver.

RAILWAY MEETINGS.
GREAT NORTILERN. '
The sixth half-yearly ordinary general meeting of
this company was held on Saturday laso-ylinnown Dant- •
non, M.P., in the chair.
After reading the advertisement eallinras meeting, and •
laging the weal of the company on the register of shares,
The SECRETARY, by desire of the chairman, read the
report of the directors, of which the following is oopy
Since the last half-yeerly ordinary merging of the Gent
Northern Railway Company, held on 23111 February last,
the sanction of parliament has been obtallied to the Amend-•
meet and Deviation Bill :submitted to an extraordinary -
meeting on that day. In accordaneo with the report of the
directors at the meeting of the 23rd Febtuary, the line •
then at work from Peterborough to Lincoln was, on Easter ^
Monday lag, further opened for traffic to Gainsborough;
and, in the first week of September, tales will Commence •
ranning between Lineclashire and Yorkshire by Ret.
ford and Doncaster. At the same period the Great
Northern trains will be enabled to run on to Wake-
field, and also by Methley to Leeds,under agreements with the
icompanies to whom belong the intervening lines, and rail—
way communication will be completed between Peterbo-
rough, by Lincoln, Gainsberough, Retfurd, and Doncaster,
and all parts of Yorkshire; also to the north of England
and Scotland, through Lied., by the Leeds and Think Rail—
way, which has been at work fur some weeks put, joining,
at Think, the York, Newcastle, and Barwick Railway.
The works on the junction line of three to four miles, from
Knotticgley to Burton Salmon, by the York and North Mid-
land Company, are in active progress, and it is expected will
be finished early in spring; and when this junction is ma-
pleted,;the Great Northern trains will run to and from York,
under the agreement with that company. On the conti-
nuous communication opening between Lincolnshire and.
Yorkshire, the directors feel confident that the traffic, hi-
therto only local, and confined to Linculneuire. end conse—
quently of small amount, will steadily and :argely increase.
The revenue statement, annexed, gives the result of traffic
to 30th Jane last.
The report of the engineer, annexed, deseribn fully the-
general state of the works ; and, judging from that rep,rn
the directors have no reason to doubt that the line from
London to Peterborough will be open for traffic in the course
of next autumn. With respect to the partition of the line
from Peterborough north, towards Newark and Rettord, the
directors have to state that the survey and working plane
nave been completed, and that they are about to let the
I works from Corby by Grantham to Heysham, a distance of
fitteen miles, on which the works are heavy, and will re-
' quire nearly double the time to complete that will be neces-
sary for the remainder.
The measure authorised by the resolutions of the extraoe•
dinary general meeting of the 7th June last, of forfi king the
shares on which there was a large amount of calls in forcer,
and laming it. lieu Five per Cent. Preference Scrip Shares of
121. lOs. each to an equal amount of capital, has been at-
tended with complete success, and will, without doubt, sip-
ply the deficiency caused by these arrears, confirming the
directors in their opinion that it will not be necessary to
make any further call on the registered shares during the
present year ; and, by a clause in the " Great Northern
Wilway Acts Amendment Act, 1849," which received the
royal assent on the Ist August, parliament has sanctioned
the issue of theme shares.
The same extraordinary meeting authorised also the eon-
, version of the 40,000 London and York Extension Scrip
shares of 251. each, into the same kind of preference shares of
121. 10s. each ; but it may be remembered there was some
opposition mani:eated, en the ground that it was giving an
undue advantage to the holden of the London and Ye*
extension scrip shares et the cost of the rogietered share-
holders. The result, boa ever, shows that the option then
given to convert those shares has not been generally coati-
elend an advantage, for about 16,000 London and York ex-
tension scrip still remain in the hands of the public. These
are in coulee of being paid off at 20s. each, the balance un-
expended of the deposit, including interest, after payment of
the parliamentary expenses in respect of the extension bills
and acts. About 4,000 of these London and York extension
scrip. under arrangements arising out of the Inaction of the
capitals of the Direct Northern and the London and
York, reverted to and have since been held by the
company, making with the 1.1,000 held by the public,
19,000 disposable as preference shares, under the resolutions of
the extraordinary general meetiog of 7th June last. There
are also about 6,000 unappropriated preference shares re-
maining after the allotment of those issued in Fen of the
shares forfeited 7th June. Thews with the 19,000 above
mentioned, form a total of about 2.5,000 of the five per cent.
perpetual preference shares of 121, 10s. each, which, under
the resolution of the 7th June last, the directors are empow-
ered to dispose of at their discretion. These preference shares
at present bear a premium of about 2.55. on the price 1101.), at
which it was resolved they should be bawd. The directors
intend, therefore, to give to the registered proprietors of this
date, who have paid all calls on their sharer, the option of
taking these 24,000 five per cent. preference shares, of
121. 105. each, upon the payment of 101. 10s. per share.i
The first instalment on account thereof, amounting to 61.105.
to be paid on or before 10th of September next, and if not
then paid, the allotment to be cancelled, and ell right and
title to the shares from that date absolutely to cease ; a fur-
ther payment of 21 101. p r share to be made on or before
31st October, and a final payment of Pl. 10s. per shsre to be
made on er before 31st December. This further allotment
will be immediately made at the rate of one preference share
to eight registered or sixteen A or B thane ; but, to com-
pensate for the fractions withheld at the original allotment, at
Nast one preference share will be allotted to each proprietor.
The first instalment of 51. 10s. being paid, these pre,erences
shares become in all respects entitled to the same privileges
and subject to the same conditions as the original issue, under
the resolutions of the 7th June.
Upon the subject of the balance-sheet and accounts ap-
pended, arid which were sent to the proprietors some days
since, the auditors, Mr. Cattley and Mr. Ceapman, have
made a special report, to which the directors beg to call the
attention of the proprietors.
The following accounts were appended to the report, but
not rend :
CAPITAL ACCOUNT.
Prom depeeits and calls .C3,071,708 0 0
In advance of calls 153,840 10 0
To extension capital, received on 40,000 London and
York exten•ion scrip shares isettedjunder date of
lot December, 1815 lOO,OOO 0 0
Call on 121.105. 5 per cent perpetual
preference sharesof 7th June,
1519 (exchanged for London and
York extemOon scrip) 18,450
shop at 455., and 10 shares at
t10..£ 37,103 10 0
To ditto, Ist ditto ditto ditto et
30s. per share (in lieu of forfeited
shares) on 40,321 shares 100,802 10 0
137,000 0 0
451,750 0 0
1,111 17 4
371 12 i
12 0 0

To loan. on mortgage...
To sUMWINIC account
To tranger fee. ...... ........
To overpaid culls
To original Direct Northern Hallway (pony for
bat ince
To religious instruction fund --amount subscribed by
Mr. Briusey, the contractor, towards this objecC

SOO 0 0

Total T 1,8.3,06110 6
PAYMENT&

By expenses preliminary to it;;:i.i;iiii;f the eels
Of the London and York Railway Company, of the
Direct Northern Railway Company, to With June,
1049 £436,039 11 6
By expenditure sulrequent to the Act, 9 & 10 Vie ,
cap. 71, 46th June, 1846, viz., including adver-
tising, printing, office expenses, travelling ex-
pens's, direction and auditors, salaries, law, par-
W.mmtary, and engines ring expenses, 110681011
1847 (including .C2OO paid on amount for ems-
mining law bills), Admindty charges, land and
compensation (including .C 41,017 Ss. 8d far con-
veyancing, stamps, Ike.), on account of survey of
towns' line, Peterborough to Retford, &e.
Works and materials 1,409,009 16 1
Ma hinery, engines and tenders, carrying stock,
Foss and Witham Navigations (balance of rent
account), police, Interest on capital and advairea,
and on loans, redemption of land tax (85 miles),
stamps for mortgage deeds, bugoanee, stores,
railway rating fund anbecriptlan, East Lincoln-
shire 'Railway Company, advances to complete
works of .... ..... 501,060 1

£4,492,711 8 2
X 201,088 18
4 8 i 360,360 2 6
Balance In'esah 3, 18283 0 1
Securities

£4,833,061 10 6

GENERAL REVE-97CE STATEMENT, coannencing lst of Marek.
Gll
(the partial opening of the East Lincolnshire Roe), ending thin
30th of June, 1849.
DiNTOIL
To maintenance of road (Gritnnbv to Louth)
To locomotive power—Coka, Aorta), wsgoo, stationary
engine, sad adults to superinteedents, officers,
13,637 17 10
and clerks
To coaching and merchandise expenscs and station
miscellaneous
14,144 18 0
To miscellaneous charges clearing house expense, Re. 423 5
6
To compensation for accidents and loom ll4 5 2
Ittalworking charges (to 31 May only)
To rata sod taxes 461 is 5
To government duty on paseenger
traffic
---- 1,94418 7

E 165 16 6

2),255 5 •

31,232 lb 7
To balance (cached to Net Retcnue Account)

161,662 6 4

£61,604 • 2
74 • 0
4 e •

£61,682 $ 2