The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-13 00:00:00

FrieMS CALLS.

Calls will irs required Its Won yowass ;
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visions of Mr. rdailstone's A.* .1 J 1,. An reftaisting
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dinduetion of dividend to the shareholders. With respect to the lint
of thews auldects, we erandered it err so grave sod important a dm.
rater s• topsail!, as in our own clew, and as we beildre it will de la
that d the thereholare. in recommending • common accountant to
be employed, wbo should be responsible to as, aad awe no in draw.
leg our own concludons, and we have engaged uch palm, um
with him are prosecutiog the inquiry. And in ,comas
the stoat
departruest, team which alone we could expect any immediate teal
from colts upon the shareholder, three of our number proceeded lam
week to cumin. the wora of the company to the east of uir-hes*
On Tuesday evening. Oct. Si, we proweeled to Bradford, wad op we.:
nada, morning examined the line and web of the Bridal
tract, attending from Low Moor and anaemia( the Clooldwarce
broach soda the other lines front lemeheater and Liverpool on the
.Isand Weadeklaml Oedema the east,withthatlinpurtatittown and
bamboo& We subnaquently promoded to name the meats. the Hata contract, which embrace the line from law now
to Halifax and Bowerby.bridge, and whithOthea *melded, wig
make the shortest tine of railway communicatiou between the mow.
and mama larmal, or the important Markt' of Lawman mid
Yorkshire. The result of cur visit to these districts, and dour sh.
uninatlos althea works hi—keeping in dew that the great &lidera,
tea alike day is to save the proprietary as much a pewit. from
additkael ad* end the dimcton from havitnng reaoarse to the
market for low, on what must he unfavonnidsmgm....th4 the
ford moire% ofne advantages so multifarious as tojustify its temp.,
tan at m early • period as the convenience of the dintton and cm.
tractor will allow. We are glad to find that the ohjr et you ban in
dew to the Bradford contract, ohieh forms PO important a link in
ocametiag your linos together, mai, now be attained, and yet a mod,
deride saving to the company's mdtalbe secured. But in the sue Of the
Halifax embed (involving a Jaeger outlay of roomy than the End,
ford contract, and not so inunediately or essentially affecting the poe,
rag intoned of the company) our opinion la, that it Quell: to he pot j.
abeyance and its works suspended, prodded that the directors can
make an arrangement with the contractors to their own rhea:tiro,
and with all other parties inteyeeted in these centrocta, or slated by
their suspension, upon tern* ju-t and equitable. From the hasty
view which we sere able to take of thew works, they n em to be in a
safe condition for ampension lir any length of taw, ore may be no.
sword without material law to the company. Entenoining them
opinions, and haying unanimously adopted thew conclusions, we
think it our duty to acquaint you with t hem without delay. Alberto
to date, in cond.ion, that our visit along the line from MU* to
wakend and Goole inspired ors with feelings of lively satistactioe at
the eat... Ming pro petits of the company; unit that we returned to
Ilmicaster with the aim .ction that'by recrictiog the espencliture of
capital, and nracti.ing the strictest economy on the one hand, and by
alma' minor icel energy to the development of the mai& which
naturally belongs to the chariot on the other, the farce hire and
Yorkshire Railway proprietors may ressonably expect coon to see then
=peaty inereosed vats—Wemash, tro., MAU),
Os were, Joss. Waco, I. C. Harm, Jain lh ,ceovr.
o have not thought It ntoomry to touch upon the Ma
ear the snaking of which parliamentary powers have been obtained,
bet which have not am begun, on we find your views have already
been upland to the shareholdem.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS—Lune AND Tltlaei—
Thealopelalars of share. In this Ime will be glad to hear of the melee
eaSw• accapletion of the 11111110 Let tunnel at Branabope, odd&
constitutes the most important engineering work. on this railway.
thar feed. eurcespondent inhume t. that the iiriftimiy is completed
*Abu, lay than to yards, and that It is expected that the IBM two
tam will be atuithilated lichee the elms of the presort week. The
Sranshope tweet la one of the creaming triumphs or eagirtering
skill. It is 2 ranee 204 yards in lergth l tog 038 yards 61 inches
logger than the Summit Tunnel dr the York hire and Lanessitire
Ownpawy). The height of the tassel from the formation Hee is IS
feet, and Us extreme width 23 feet G incbe. Notwithetanding the
great length of the ttionel It 111 almost one coalitionuo straight line,
there being only two storli curves—one of shout 000 lineal yards at a
radian of 4,trer art, and tie other from SOU to 400 yards, at • radius
of 3,000 feet. The ground was nrst broken on the 16th Oct., 1615,
and the first brick of the tunnel was laid by lir. bray, the contractor,
on the 37th Jule, 1b46.