The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-25 00:00:00

11111 E ELEVEN HOURS' ROUTE to PARIS, LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.'
sub only two boars tose (shy tba MATLI EMITEAN RAIL-
la Ay. ria hetterstor e Dower. , The half-yearly report of the directors, to be submitted to
Is N'Illd: ,rEct‘t, EXPREaS PRRTICE DAILY. the proprietors on the 3rd of September, states that the total
10'01" ExPalt" le-wee the l'°""tha Prat"' Ter- amount of share and loan capital chargeable on revenue for
minas EvEitY )ttsietiatl rad GCRRY kYVVINti, mulling Pais
the half-year, excluding leased lines, is 11,949,049 d, includ-
la 11 bourn
tu-n Tiebnaelantes to Pats awl hack, avaitable meta th ao b ing 1,310,160/. paid on the fifths. The expenditure on
september. • capitol account during the past half-year amounted to
To .lull! lIAIL TRAIN. *IA Dv er, le ter. be 1,1341.1011 161,3191., against which has been placed a credit of 30,0001.,
1e,gp0.,.. .0 "X' Pm, n• 1004 Pain "9 the fel being the proccedsof sales ofehares in the Liverpool, Crosby,
nuentag, aal ream( id honest.: 9. :Aid Southport. With regard to the closing of the capital
_
account, the directors have no reason to believe that the
estimated amount of 12,000,0001. applicable to the present
line and work. will be exceeded. Ihe usual formal notice
has Isen given to the railway commissioners for the open-
ing of that portion of the N 1 cat Riding Union line which
extends from Sowteny-bridge to a point near Halifax, and
winch will complete the last of the hues in course of con-
struction. The arrears on calls amouutill on the 30th of
June last to 102,0911. The total receipt:of the company on
revenue account, including the receipts of the Sheffield and
Wakefield, the North Union, and the l're,ton and Wyre,
11 am nutted to 383,752/. The receipts which exclusively
belong to this company amounted to 373,329/., and
at the corn sponding period of 1830 to 3114,210/. The
working cope:eel amounted to 152,674., and for the cm..
responding period of 11430 to 116,102/. The balance of
revenue account fur the past half-yearn pplicableto dividend
and interest amounts to 224,6111. The directors recom-
mend a dividend at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum less
faunae-tax, leasing a balance of 10,952/. to be carried for-
ward to the next account after deducting the necessary
emerve for the fifth proprietors. A oventkinas has been
inued by the Court of Queen's Bench to compel the com-
pany to construct the hne between Bowling and Leeds, being
a distance of eight miles, and a Matillt4lllllB has also been
inueal from the same Court to Comp. 1 the eimstruction of
the branch line from Salt, eta to be to lludelerslield, being
a distance of live mitts. The directors have strenuously
opposed these attempts to 'Whet upon the company a
further outlay of capital which must he totally unpro-
ductive. The general manager's retina states that the
nib .age worked by the competty in 24: mile., the loco-
motive power being supplied by this eon:many, and on
23:11 miles of which they receive the revenue. The
increase in the receipts as compared with the correspond.
ing period of 11430 amounts to 17; lair cent., and in the
working expenses to 41 per cent. The average tlistanc,
travelled by each passenger has been 11( miles, mei the
amount received Is. lid. per passenger. The merchandise
has Imam conveyed an average distance of 31: miles, and
the amount received per ton has been 6.. 4d. Each ton of
minerals has been moseyed an average distance of 121
mile., and the amount received has train Is. 241 d. The
manager states that a very considerable proportion of the
regular rummer traffic to both the east suit west roasts has
been diverted by the Great Exhibition. 'I he capital ac-
' count shuns that 111,,14,5h6/. had been received to the 30th
j of June, unit 1.1,919,4.f71., expended, leaving a balance of
19-i,Tial. The revenue account for the halt-year cui.int:
• the 30th of Juno thaws that 306,389/. had hewn received,
and 170,77fi1. expended, including 6,3131. for rates and
taxes, and 4,8001. for government duty, leaving a balance
sit 225,0111. To this sum is added the balance Iron the last
account, and interest of eJivenue balances, making a dis-
posable butanes, of '231,50'd/., out of which 114,7131. u sh,
thlrtl.ll fur interest on loans and guaranteed 'harm, kgying
63,7931. for general dividend.
The report concludes as follows .
° A lengthy correspondence has takes place with the
Commissioners of Railways in re ferei me to the extent to which
the remissiou of duty *hail apply in the CAWS .of pannegers
by excuraiou trains. Your director, feel bound to disoent
from the views of the Railway Cennenissioner., as calculated
to iuterk re in a great measure .rith that extended system
of accommodation which this company has ever !wen ready
to abed to all clout, of the community. The effect of the
euninsiwionere inn rpretation is to curtail the priviligea:for-
merly enjoyed by first and second class passengers, to whom
(though, in in the fast of third chaos passeupen, the fires
may sot exceed Id. per mile) the remiscion of duty does not
apply. The accidents and risks to which those Masse aof the
conipauy's servants 54 I'll are employed in the daily eondset
of the traffic are council, leave suggested to your directurs
the establishment of a fund by meant of which the advan-
tage, of an insurance in ease of death, and a limitt 4 weekly
allowance in ease of injuries sustained whilst in the dis-
charge of duty, may be placed within their reach, Jan pay-
ment of a weekly premium of moderate amount. TL, table
of premiums ha* been coustruettei, atter cuaeluiling terms
with the Railway l'..e-engers' Assuraoce Company, on the
b isis of a portion ut the hinds Deice grunted by the proarie-
tors and your directors conceive that no argument will he
required on their part to induce you to vote u sum of ant
emeeding WU/. per annum bi assist in alleviating the Kiva-
thin and distress which so oftea billow upon the death oe
dimblement at accruals of this denomination. '

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Annang, W ILLI PIGG./TS, Manunelurer to Ow
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WILLIAM s pr. tll. Eon..trew, Lawton.
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EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

Tuts DAY.

The ortlinnry holt-yearly meeting of this company
was held this day, at our o'clock, at the London Tavern,
Itishopspte•striit, David Waddington, M.l'., taking
the chair for the first time as the chairman of the company.
The adn•rticement called the meeting having been read,'
Mr. lIELPii took some übjeetions to the motion for
patting the nal of the company to the register of pro-
prietors to the appointment of Lord Alfred Paget and Mr.
Ciril Vane to directors, as Imbecontrary to an understand-
ing to the effect that no new ifirector should he iii future
app.intril without consulting the shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN said at the proper time he should be
wady to meet that objection ; but as it had nothing to do
wit'i the question of waling the registry or proprietors, he
must decline to enter upon it at present.

The Report, C.ich has alrea-ly been published in the
Eipros, was, by the consent of the meeting, taken as
r
And the CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the meeting.
IL admitted there had been a falling off in the receipts
shich was to he clip:cull from the competition of the
be. at Northern Company. Up to last year the
Great Northern were feeders to tho F.astern Coun-
t-es at Petertureugli, but when they opened to
Linda" all the traffic brought by them to the Eastern
Counties line passed over their own. The same in regard
to Hertford, Ware, Royston, Banbridge, and other
pl:uxl.; their traffic being earried at lower fares, the Eastern
Counties were obliged to reduce also, and the receipts hail been
tA.estere depreciated in two way:, by the abstraction of
traffic and IA reduction of fines. But he felt they hail
now passtsl the period when further loss could lee
• viactiel. There bail been • reduction in the loco-
mtive expenses of VA. or 3d. per running mile. Mr.
•sh. the locomotive superintendent (to whose ability and
/cal he paid a bigh eimtpliment). was engaged in making
alteratimis %Welt he believed would still further
odor, the working expenses. lle then entered
into ,'flows details in re ference to the additions
Llso le made in the waggon stuck and other particular:, as
tif!iing hi. view that the working espouses would be
Ouch less in future than in past years. With regard to the
*natal account, he was iu favour of closing it as far
possible; but it was impossible, in • concern
Lin the Eastern Counties, to close it altogether, inasmuch VA
the n. we re new works WY( s.ary from time to time, to :IC.
reenneslate the traffi,, as at the present moment in regard
ti the .nlarkinent of the stition at Ware, which it would
1., eiest untair to charge against the current revenue.

OXFORD, WORCEiTER, AND WOLVER-
HAMPTON RAILWAY. - THE BROAD AND
NARROW (URIE INTERESTS.

lite committee of shareholders appointed at the
special meeting of this company held in London on the 15th
July last. fur the purpose of con‘iderinif the proposal of the
Great Wt,tl.lll Company hwr a loan tor te.r9 year, of this
undertaking, upon certain terms which we apecified at the
time, have just drawn up their report, which will be pre-
sented at the hall-y‘arly and special meeting of the cont.
patty on Wednesday next. The report is a very import-
ant and very lengthy one. It iv signed by (cur of the six
gentlemen appointed on the committee, viz., Messrs.
Walker, Lattrence, Brett, and Ugh:lli, the other two,
Messrs. l'ape'l and Greitwool, having declined to act. The
report goes ai length into the filial/MLA and general position
'of the coa.pany, and the circumstance, under which
the committee was appointed ; the proposition of the
London and North-Western and Midland Companies to
b-ase the line for twenty-one )ears, and the &testes& of
turd Crauworth that suer an agreement was illegal. The
report exprisses the unanimous opinion of the committee to
be against the proposed lease by the Great Western Com-
pany, chiefly on account of ita leaving the original share-
holders without a fair chance of a return fur the capital
invested by them. After maturely considering the whole
beatings of the caw, they had come to the unanimous
opinion " that the Great Western Company's proptoition
ought not to receive the satiation of the proprietors:" they
then conveyed an expression of this opinion to their own
directors, and to the director. of the Gnat We stern Corn.
_ . .. . luny, and at the aanw time they indicated to the latter, in
THE RORRFRIEM ON Tiii: tiorrii WESTERN RAIL- general term., what modification of the proposed agreement
they would be prepared to recommend the shareholder, to
mar.--The final examination of the persons concerned M
adept. To this intimation the committee received a reply
the rethheries on the South Western Railway is expected to
from the Great Western Company, that " they would con-
taw Once to-morrow. Primplin, the tailor, convicted at
sent to no alteration of the pdaniary terms of the
Wierleater for the gold dust robbery un that line, has
arrangement m tele with the directors ;" and upon this
mole a full coriferaiem, and the persons eoneemed in these
. the committee opened communications with the narrow
I ate n-ive robberie• ate nusr known to the police. It ap
gauge interests. T hen communications with these interests
la en that this esentesoion w:-... anticipated, for as soon a.
Vys the report) " have been met with c indour and car-
Valentin was convicted, most of his aceomplices decamped ;
Witty. and so soon as this compandy shall be disenga.ed
but unteta they leave the county, they.w ill be almost sure
from the negotiation now under mini consideration an arrange.
S, la. apprelienthel. When the robberies commenced, theheifer in its terms, both as regards the
s `nth W,t1.11% Company enzasted the most active of the incot substantially
expeueliture necessary to be immediately incurred, and the
1... tropolitan police to make hop 6 iflO4 who reported that
ti,,. T„iiin,,,i,.. i,,„k on, in tin, son-n', ma,. lii e humane to be derived Iry this company, may be forthwith
. concluded with them'' With regard to the legal dim-
thatsvence of this report, the railway company demanded
culties in the way of cfrcetina an arrangement with any
the dock company should share the hos. The latter 1
other than the Great Western Company the report states
refiratel. and the result shows they were tight, as all the
that the committee believe WI the authority of very 4.l3li-
rotthwrivo have le en proved to have bees committed on the
tent counsel who have been comulted, that with certain
railway. The railway company have refused to convict'.
1 modifications recouttnenthil toy the committee and which the
Sail* fii, West India Company for the loss of the 3,1100 f.
other parties arc willing to adopt, a •• mrlectly binding and
worth of Kuhl dust, although the latter paid extra fur its ,
ronveyance, and were supplied by the railway vointinny valid agreement " may b.` coneluded. The conimittee do
not consider themselves at liberty to explain in detail the
with carriages obviously unfit for the safe conveyance of
specie. Items of the arrangement which they believe they could,
with further powers, effect • but the nature of these
A vis tIE PARLIAM TENT.—hcre were only 1 '
-°6 te fli i$ PUekntly ludic:tied in the report, which states
public Uhl pealed in the late session, being the smallest . that: " Whilst the company would have forthwith
•ruled passed for some years. At the commencement of .to complete their railway us far north 5d Tipton
t i session an act to shorten such matters took effect, and . in such manner as waive all proper facilities for conducting
• phraseology of the statutes is different from those passed the narrow gauge traffic oser it, they would retain the am-
ill the pret.ding year. ! pled right to provide and ;effort steelier facilities for the
1 MewEMENTS tli lIElt MAJEATI's SIIIES, AUG. U. ' wide gauge traffic of the Great Western Company or other
—la ridrale:r : Jeaus.-19th, In lash 'n: 'yam Regent,' parties ; and all the rights and privileges of the Great
L ands ~, Awl...a, phaeton, Blame, Arrogant, Leuven- Western Comparea. would to saved by caveats clauses in the
kr: 11e; ate. Trafalgarmain aut Lisbon on the little, and contract. And further, that whilst under the proposed an
tfis on on the 11th, and sailed for the 'Mediterranean *augment with the Great Western ColUllally no advan-
en the 17th. tags would result to the ordinary share capital of this coin-
DEVIII 1W MAMA LANtiLaNDS.—On the 22nd pany until after the gross receipts far traffic had exceeded
inaant. Major La lands, who hail many years been on the 142,000/., your committee are assured that by other ar-
r.tered full ray
1 of the 13th 'Veteran Battalion, died in
t""w agtal al Years. Ile entered the army in February, gross receipts
17.11. b came si'lieutenent in 1841, a captain an 1803, and a
in war in 1512. The late Major Lan lauds served with the rat:acme nts which are open to the company, supposing thie
under then; to reach that men, the ordinary
share capital would, after aatis:ying the prelerence charges,
receive at least 2 yet. cent. per annum out of it, and be ens
71th regiment in the Peninsular; tail n.,,,„,,,,,,d the gold titled to further advantages contingent on the amount of
further gears receipts. So also the arrangement. aIIIOIV.I
04,1.11 and ow clasp for the aseaults and captures of Ciudad
to would be neither exclusive in their character our oflonger
It.hleu and Badajos, and the silver OCIo medal and one
clasp to
Busaco. duration beyond 21 years than the proprietors might approve.
LEM-GENERAL SIR C. J. NAPIER, G.C.B._
executing
without expressing any °pintail as to the expedtency of
: meeting that part of the company's main line between
lslltt United Service Gazette statte that Sir Charles J.
aped 6 expected at Portsmouth on Monday next (t..4.,_, L 1 ipton and Wolverhampton, nor overlooking that it may
j 1 be found both the duty and iuteteat of the company to corn
U. r, floe
tics troops
__ ps composing the garrison. and to inspect plete it, your committee cannot but feel that it mast be a
it,
Enterer mtli tary_ School at Aindesea Barracks. ' great relief to the company its with power reserved to axe
NUMBS:
R Or GENERAL OFFICERS IN 1828 AND
cute it at their option, they were placed under nu obligation
i‘ "t, It
„.
~
no appears by a tabular statement in page 34 of the !todo so during the present pressure oa the company's re-
'al i army and ordnance expenditure that the number i sources; but such an option appears only compatible with
ar. generalii,...!tik,.... was, in 18'28, 45f, at a cost ~f I 16;5001. ;: an arrangement with the narrow gauge companies and the
Pew .", /71, at a cost of 58,0601. Decrease since adoption for a time at Weak of the Stour Valley line north
t st omit. and 185 officers. of Tipton.
ANrw T -
__,. • HU K.—A number of pickckets, who "In the event of an agreement with the narrow gauge
" sow carrying ou an active business in List epee'. have companies, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
tl:'Pt'd rather a singular nosh) of effecting their object. line would be contacted with the Buckinghamshire Com-
-1;111u y see a couple of ladies walking or standing togc- ',any's railway at Woolvereot or Oxford, and the expense
'l'll .
,c of them steps up to knock away from the dress of of an application to parliament, as well as of executing the
„It'll 1 a large bee. Ile lady is naturally alarmed at new works, would be willingly undertaken by that con:k-
-m..l"g, the bee to near her, and in the confusion of the pony or its allies. As regards the success of such a proceed-
_ , ,te ht C..,),
wro becomes a prey to the designing pickpocket, mg, your committee cannot doubt the favourable decision of
''. tor tie
1,,•
_.., , ow purpose carries with him a box of bees ready to parliament, inasmuch as the arrangements with which it
_ ,re,
_el when opportunity serves. Of course we need would be connected would not deprive the Great Western
i',,
~,tl.yoleftre that the bee ta placed on the dress of the Ludy Company or the public of any right or privilege which par-
i,i. ~,, he thieves, and that his companion takes care to liament may have hitherto intended to grant them, but
,'' ' pocket whilst the other is tl b •in pro- acing all these would secure an additional convenience to
feting the appareu y usj.•
4/ lady from the sting of the insect.—Liverpool the public by making this company's property more avail-
eressy, able to them as well as more profitable to its owners."

I 11, tliairotan pruct:llina with his aultlrebs when we
11. la It. lifer.