The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY NEWS.

The market for shares and scrips was altogether
dull and depressed yesterday.
There was rather more firmness of prices in the Liverpool
share market yesterday, arid the quant9y of stock offered
for sale was certainly very inconsiderable. On the other
hand, buyers too were very reluctant to come forward, and
the result wan a most limited business. Edinburgh and
Glasgow continued in good demand, and were done at 76.
London and North Western and Midland stocks Sera, with.
out any change. North Staffordshire" ith better than
yesterday.
In the Manchester market business was dull, but prices
ware maintained at last quotations. Eut Lancashire new
scrip was done at 11 pm.; London and North Western new
quarters at 12 pm. ; Manchester and Birmingham C quar-
ter', 61 pm.; Manchester and Sheffield (No. 1 quarters), 31
pm. ; Preston and Wyre, 31 ; and West Ridinga, 1 9-16 pm.
There was no improvement in the Birmingham market;
all descriptions of scrip wore a downward aspect. Stour V2'-
1,7.'6611 inclined downwards, there being sales at 21 pm.; in
Birmingham and Oxford Junctions, at 86 pm. ; North Staf-
ford., at 3 pm.; Shrewsbury and Birmingham "A's " at
18s. 9d pm.; " B's," at 65.. d. pm. ; and Shropshire Unions
at I dia. In stock', North British shares were done at
1 pm.
At Leeds, there was not a very large business doing, but
prices in mast instances improved a shade, with buyers at the
close. Ambergetes sold at ss. dis., and New Thinks at Its.
dis., and North British Thirds were done at 525. pm,
At Bristol the market had in nowise recovered from the
recent depression. Midland New 101. shares, 51 6 pm. ;
Midland 601. shares, 31 31, 31. Ils. 3d. pm. ; Birmingham
and Oxford Junctions, 81 pm. ; Bristol and Exeter old
shares, par. ; new ditto, 2 pm. ; 'Eastern Counties, 211 ;
Great Western,New, 41 pm. ; Leicester and Bedford, 1 dis.;
Newcastle and Berwick, 321.
RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
BUSINESS DISPOSED OF PT EXAMINERS YESTERDAY.
Before Mr. smith, Room 2"

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UNOTPCSlM.—(2oo)iitieft. Countiesßailway (Cambridge, Roys-
ton, and Warn lino, with a branch to the River Cam, and the a
brawl to the 10lalaB and flit ilbilt Railway). (201) Eastern Cow:dies
Railway ( b Ikased, with a branch to Royston, and two
branches la llMlSfimma•). (202) London and Blarkwall Railway
prernment, mei beneilee to St. Katherine's and London Docks.
(203) bat lisebdire Railway (Louth Navigation Purchase).
Parotid peed; tam, standing eiders compliod with. Adjourned
04110.—(154) Midland Railway (Sheffield. Barnsley, Doncaster, and
Goole). Qua further heard, certain allegations sustained, further
hearing adjourned to this day.
OPPoll..—(l97)—Windsor, Staines, and South Western Railway
(Richmond to Windsor, ta.) Postponed. (1%) Windsor, Staines,
and South Western Railway (Staines to Ascot and Wokingham, Sc.)
Postponed.
Before Mr. May, Room 23.
Urnernsen.—(loo) London and Knuth Western Railway (widening
thereof between Vandmiorth and Nine Mins ; and enlargement of
the York-road station, and amendment of the London and South
western Railway sets). (In Manchester and Southport Railway
and brznehes. Formal proofs taken, standing onlers complied with.
Adjourned Cares..—(lll3) frnnirail and Devon Central anti Plym'uth
Railway and branches. Cast farther heard, several miuce allegations I

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MEETING THIS DAY.
Bordeauz, Totdouse, and Cette (Espeletes; ; London TMwrn j Put
I, p.m.

MEETINGS.—LIVRRPOOL, MANCHESTER. AND NEW-
eA.TLEICTION.—HaIAyearIy Meelioy and Extraorlinory Cetera
Meet R. \V. Mance in the chair.—This was altogether
one of the mast extraordinary meetings ever held. It commenced at 11
o'clock in the morning, and did not close till after 9 o'clock In the
evening. It was opened by Mr. T. It Wilson }Trance, coalman of
the board, at whose roll a report from the directors Iris read, which
stated They have the satisfartion now of reporting that, out of the
capital (of 10,000 char.) there have been regieered 34,605 by the
holders—at the original Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junc-
tion Company, 34,906 sham of the Lancashire and North Yorkshire
Company; and with respect to the residue of G'2l eh..., the drtrtora
have come to the resolution of placing the original allot.. upon
the register. The registration is, therefore, now complete, but under
theprovisions of the Company's Claw.' Consolidation Act, will recile
to have the oral of the company affixed thereto, by virtue of a resolu-
tion of the proprietors. In consequence of the arrangements made in
parliament with the Northern Countica Union Railway COMMIT; and
retitled by the proprietors in July last, instruction wer • givea by the
director, to Mr. R. Stephenson, to take the necessary steps far procuring
parliamentary sarertiou to an amended lineof rail way downWensle ydale,
between Castle lotion and Burton Onortable, to be made by Loth com-
panies, and to be for the trolllc of both companies; and, sulocquently,
on the report of Mr. Stephenson, your directors decided on, and are
now, applying to parliament, for a further new line, about eleven
miles in length, between the Cowton station of the Yurk and Neer-
moll. Railway, and the line of the Northern Counties Union Rail-
way, at Newton-in.the-Willows, in the county of York, the effect of
which will be, if authoria d, to render twelve miles of the Northern
Counties Union line available for the traffic of this company, to leeen
thee:at of the works, by rendering the junction with the 'lichee ad
branch of the York and Newcastle Railway unnecessary, and to
improve the gradients. Your directors are in negotiation with the
Northern Counties Union Railway Company for an amalgamation of
this company therewith. Your directors are promoting a third bill
in parliament, in order that the arrangement eroding with the Man-
carter and Leeds Company, may be &Lilted. The object of this bill
is,
is, to obtain pewees to makes railway, about s.th of a mile long, at
Burnley, between the Fad Lancashire and Manchester and Leeds
Railway.% to facilitate the conduct of the traffic to and
from the Manchester and Leeds Railway. Ily a further
arrangement with the East Insoashire Railway Compeny,
they are to beat one-half the cost of this undertaking.
To this report a statement of accounts was appended. The Chairman
moved that the report and balance-sheet he approved, but Mr. Leman,
attorney, suggested that a oommittee of inquiry had been appointed
at the last half-yearly meeting to inquire into the accounts and re-
port to the "extraordinary" meeting about to be held, and that, con-
elegantly if they now approved of the balance-sheet they would
anticipate the himlness of the other meeting. Ultimately the report
only was "readved and approved," and the "general half-yearly"
meeting adjoinnied till the close of the other. The business of
the 'etdibirgirry" meeting then commenced, and the report
of the maingillss of Investigation was read. It stated that:
"In parsons" ei • remota ion passed at a general meeting of the
shareholders, hold ma Yo 15th of July last, empowering the under-
dined as a committee be 'lnquire into the acceunts of the Lancashire
and North Yorkshire, and the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-npon-Tyne Junction Railway COMlaTliell, and the various
transactions relating to the charges made in the railway )(Kernels as
to the conduct of the &rectors, and also as to the disposal of the
shares of the now amalgamated company, and to report thereon to
the proprietors,' with respect to the Lancsahire and North Yorkshire
Comp..., It was ascertained that In or about the mouth of June,
litts, two projee. were started for opening a railway orammunkation
through the Wenalcy and Where Dales. One was pramistel by
Moran. Aback and Bennetts, solicitors, sod lies
'Carpet and Carr, elicitor. These were ed.
and a joint ponied= was ladled under the titbit the temteddes
and North Yorkshire Railway Company, the OtMelbp.l.k. 101,000 t.
in 45,000 shares of 201. each, with a list of M directors,
12 of whom formed a committee rolled the ingssitim Dlrecthry, and
5 of thee a oommittee called the Managing Ostinittee. Under
their auspices an immense number of applications were made
for darn, the allotment of which took plane on the oth of Oc-
tober, 1845, and was conduct.' upon the proteinie generally adopted
in sock matters. Each director had the option of taking 200
shares, and each of the committee of management 300 shares, the
elicitors 300 net, and the engineers 200 each. 39,988 shares were
allotted to the public in lots ranging from 10 to 50. There are few
CIPCS where any individual unioonected with the management re-
ceived more than 00 shares. The directors, solicitor., and engineers,
bankers and secretary, took up and paid deposits upon 13,020 shared
of which 3835 shares hare been disposed of. Me remaining shores
appear to be still held by the same parties- Several of the gentlemen
in the original prospectus never took any shares, having only lent the
sanction of their names to the project. Attention WWI particularly ell-
rect.' to the allotment of 10000 shares made to the thM.....er and
Leeds Railway Company,which ereregularle taken cop anion the 20th
January last 21,0004 was paid, being the deposit on their shares, to-
with interest from the lath day of Oct., 1845, the mine system
retro; been adopted with other parties who neglected to pay their
dogcarts at the appointed time. Interest wa charged to them up to
the day of paymeat, but with very few exceptions the deposits
were punctually pail. With respect to the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle-upon• Tyne Junction railway company,
this project was started about the same time as the other
ecenpany, and for a similar olieet. The propectus was issued
In flu's', 1845, with a capital of 2,000,0004, in 60,0(10 dram,
of 251. each. There were GO Crovieronal directors, 20 of whom were
appointed a committee of management. The application. fur pbares
were very numerous, and in the following month 41,700 shard were
allottel, but a few days afterwarda this allotment was revised, in caw-
quene^ of a pending negotiation with another railway company, and
reduced to 23,800. This number was again increased ley subsequent
allotments, in the months of September, November, and December
following, to 34,610 shares. In the month oflan. lad a further allot.
ment I,ls made of 2,145 shares, but of thou 1,113 were not taken up,
which made the total number of shares allotted and paid upon, 35,640.
Of these 5140 were. the 21st 51arehlost returned to the Company at NI.
(although the shn ma were then at a premium) by Meows. Allhusen,
Weatoby, nod Hal, in order that the issue of shares might be re-
duced to 35,000—in conformity with the terms of the agreement far
the samlipmabon Of the two companies. Of the 35,000 sham a
lop region was appropriated to the directors and officers of the
ms/my, v the exception of twelve of the former, who declined
sagoring coqßiot of the &rectors had the option of taking 100
alms, me 'see of the committee of management WO ahones,
whisk molar was afterwards, in' the month of Novem-
ber, azientiod to an additional 500. each. A few of the com-
mitce did not avail theme.es flatly of this privilege.
The total number taken up by the daretors, elicits., and engineers,
ans 21,01% Of these 10,7C3 appear to have been disposed or. The
directors, bovine a birth opinion of the services of Mr. Allhaen,
placed a large number of shares at his disposal. Be availed himself

of then prleibms lathe extant of 2,410 Ames, in addition to those pre-
Motels, allotted to him an a direct, r, bet of these he euharquently
returned 110, whsle formed pert of the 6i" given ha, k to the diem-
tore, as before menCoent. It is but jostle e to that gentleman to add,
that he did bred ny of his nhares, when he might
have obtained teegh premeums by so doing, and that he
now remains registered tie 2,690 shares. The retire nlicemeut to
the public was 11,8'0 aborts, mod the reinuining 41,000 were
heal na reserve, with the intention of apportioning them afterwards
atnunget mum rival companies, for the purpose of mewing their
co.opcmtion, or at least e.f disarming their opposition to the projected
• lin co( r.diwar. Some ccntracts appear to have been entered into
with some of these companies, and others only negoti ited for. Ulti-
mately the whole of thew therm reverted to• the company. 10,010
shares were placed at the disposal of two of the directors, to enable
them to treet with another company for the abandonment of
at, oppoition pre,ect. These sham were sealed op and
lodged with the Northumberland and Denham IF,striet
Banking ('omnany, for safe custody only, and on the
treaty going off, they were returned to the doectors, cancellml,
nod destroyed. In n pril to the newspaper charm, it wee aver-
Mime], that the dred of contract had been subscribed by tome of the
directors and their friend., for more shame than they really IV,
Reuel. They did this for no temonal advantage, but to make tip the
necessary number of subscribers required by the standirg orders of
the hoe,. of parlicand—a practice Cenucedly celoptnl in podia-
mentary vroceedings. If this Lad not been dune, the act could not
have been ohm ned that session. This committee cannot asoid notice-
Ind the Pri:O{LS amount claimed as law charges fur
getting tip the companies, and obtaining the act of p
hareem, amounting to the large urn of 41,2011. 13e. 4d. ;ar- i
ii
the pro;erthen of that amount being for the Lancaeltire
and North Torb,hire, 26,0".51. 9s. del,, and that of the Linr
pool and 14, weastle Junction 10.1431. As, however, 21,1451. lea. ad.
of the se SUM* still remains unpaid, they foogest the propriety of the
rat billa of costa being submitted to the rev pettier oalicitorri, In order
to give them an opportunity of making ensue arrangment for re-
cloning the balances unsettled ; or, in the event of this net being
meet d upon, that the hillohnuld be ree ised by some competent p tool.
Ante the reading of this report, air. Lemma tolled for the bards of
the Newcastle company; and on their hi ins produced, proceeded
to put a series of questions on to the allotment of shams: in answer to
which the minutes of the diffment meetings of the allotment commit-
tee were read, and the particulars of the large amounts of shares
allotted to the directors themselene, and tie engineers and rolietore,
• ith 2,01 e) to ta• die hied in hundreds amongst members of earlianient
—whiiet only about 6,000 were reserved fur the public, were removed
sith ethane of laughter, and cries of "Oh, oh," by the meeting.
l'ltitame!y, on a motion of the directors being put, to
the effect, that the report of the committee of inerstiration
be received, it eras met by an amendment "that it be n-fernd back to
the committee," and another meeting called in a month. Mr. Lee-
man contending, amidst loud cherrs, that the contain-diem in that
meeting had elicited much more information than the committee's
report:di-anted. lie said the Nee/emetic section of the bard hurl come
unne•l with great numbers of proxies for use in the sub ..pent We:-
nem of the meeting, which, he was sure, if this meeting could be ad-
journed, toe ateent shareholder., teaming threep•er which had now
taken place, would not trust In Ruch hem's. This statement was
loudly cheered, and amoral gentlemen present, oho had
before sent in their proxies to Mr. Westoby, one of the'
director', also preen; demanded them heck again. The amend-
went was carries, by a large majority one show of hands, hot Mr.
Wect"by and the Newcastle seettore of the hoard demanded a poll. Mr.
Weatoby &thrum, miklat reins of o shame," that he hod 20,01,0
proxies in his pocket which he should use to defeat the adjournment
Mr. Leettion then sugrorsted that, to nave time, the proxies should be
allowei without examination, said the =Orley be given in favour of
the original motion, leaving the Nets to prschtee their Mt
afterwards upon the minds of roarehoble rs out of doors. eseoght
down the bi,ineas to mar flee o'clock. when the real obje d of the
meeting only commenced, which woo a motion by Mr. Gray. seconded
by Mr. We-lobe, to oust (mm the hoard the north Torkstore section,
including Mr. Denny Hould,worth, Mr. Harper, Mr. St. John Yatea,
Mr. Lot Gardiner, and Mr. Thome. ISillam. The neurons allegel fur
this motion were that Mr. Harper was obnoxious to Or. Bodeen,
who.* countenance NV3., of Importance to the compar.y, and that so
lung as these gentknten continued at tie' board the inter/Yids of the
Lest. Company would hare too much predominance.—Mr. Henry
llotda..werth 1110,011 RR ate amendment the adjournment of the meet-
these, de., with an instruction to the directom to call another meet-
ing in u month tee co:older this question—Mr. Leman amended the
motion, and it was contended on the part of the open it that It
would be an net of suicide to ectrance front the Leeds interest',
that company baring power to feed or starve their line
when made. The amendment was curried by a large show of hands,
at half-past seven o'clock, but a poll was demanded, and while the
nerutiny of proxies tools place, the directors retired too private room.
About brine o'clock they returned, and sumounced that all their differ-
ences bail Leen adjusted, be an atrreement drawn up in throe words
"That 110 bolus.* against which any two of the existing bevel shall
object, shall be proceeded with. That the cement parliamentary
applicatioes be curried forward, and the ama!galuation sib the
Northern Countini Union Railway Company be supported. Alt dis-
t:tee, R., farm passible, tote avoided, and the meetings of theelirectors
leept by mutol assent) to be held alternately in Manchester seal
mecuatle. The transfer office to be in London. That on the
amalgamation with the Northern Counties Union being effected, •
board of &rectors be appointed by the united shareholders. That
transfers fc received at the Manchester and Newcastle others.. This
agreement wan signed by t'ie eleven threctore present (Mr. Weed
having le:t the meting) and the two sections of the hoard leasing
shaken hands, the original tootion and amendment were withdrawn ;
the Oimmitaro of lnvoCnation were thaM,ed for their aervires, and a
reward of 1 -41. recommended to be given theta (besides expenees) for
their SITC:C.S; the three, belle (tor amalgamation and temichest were
agreed to; and the adjourned holism, of the first meeting was then
resumed and the aceoonts order direct:me approved of.
LANeASTEit ANTI CARLISLE. ihrlf-yearly Meeting,
Feb. S.— E. W. llanell, E.g., in the chair ; 11. F.. Bolden, Faq, the
Secretary, r all tier report, which cmontenced by congratulating the
shareholders on the eonepletion of the line. The directors, it elated,
bad every reason to believe that the cost of the line would net e xcer
th • eid:rnate of 1,200,000/., butte anz all the stations, except the
splendid general one nem constructing at Carli-le. Negat
wet Lo day until train, had been placed on the line node the Mt Fe-
bruary hot. Tee retort also stated that the directors had under their
favourable consoler:diem • proponition on •he part of theCalmlonian
Company for effecting the open leg of that Noe by the tat of No-em-
ber next. After an addrou from the elnerman, the report woe
unanimously adopted, and a resolution was carried, empowering the
the thrones, in e onjunctien with the tondo,* and North-Western and
the Caledonian liar., to lease in perpetuity the Scottish Central Rail-
way. A resolution was also passed to the effect that wh-n the divi-
dends did not exceed 5 per cent. the dividend on the new shares in
the Lancaster and Carlisle Company Mould be proportioned only to
the amount paid rep; bat when the di. idend exceeded 5 pro rent. it
would he on the full amount of the new shares, less interest at fire
par cent., on such proportion as thou d hr unpaid.
GROAT Nunro tee ENGLAND. —I/air-yearly Meeting,
Feb. 2.—Fdward Oxley, Fag., in the ebair.—This hue being now I
leased to, and forming part of the York and Newcantle Railway, the
bovines of the meeting was confined to Vie declaration of the half.
year's dividend, vie. St. for the Mg. sharro, If. to. for the 40!. ,:arcs,
Ile. for the 301. sharer, and he. 64. for the ISI. eharcs, all payable on
the 12th inst.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.—Nourn BRITISH —A
meeting of eharehohlt Ts in this company was held at York on Monday
last, for the purpose of aseertninice of those intereetml with respect
to the proymillue. meetly made by Mr. Ilisbion for the leasing of
their Bye. The ettendenee was very numerous, owing, no doubt, to
the fact of the York and North Midland, the York and Newcastle,
and the Newcastle and Berwick meetings being held the fame day.
Thomas Price, E.g., of (lementhorpe, presided, end after the orient
and objects of the meeting had been mated, he adverted to hi, late
orbit to Ediohurgh, whither be went in aconsionee with the wishes of
the York ettereholders ariompanied by Mr. Animism, of Newcastle.
They went over the line soon after the Lte catastrophe,
and, so far as a cursory ethmination enabled him to speak,
be thought there had been very much misermnagement —in I
fart there mild be no question of it. Cmvi Maw attached both to the
director, and the engineer, for not having taken more pains in con-
structing the line, and particularly the bridge which bad fallen. He
considered, however, that, on the whole, the North British was a very
good line, and it wan imnortant for the shareholders not to miss their
way; and. as North Briton shareholders, he thowglit they had a rigid
to make a bargain coneistint with their own intereets in that capacity,
althoagh many of those then present (like himself) were no doubt
proprietor. in the York and Newcastle and the Newcastle and Berwick
Oarnpaniee. At the meeting to which he was Pent as a deputation
loot year, there wan evidently • disposition on the part of the director,
to accede to Mr. Iludmaes terms, to the Sth and 7th of which he (the
chairman) stated some objections, and then invited the ottention
of the meeting to the legitimate aubject before them.—Mr. It. S.
Wilkinson (of Landon) ohjected to the promsition, because he
held that it was not fair to place one Lind of shares in
a better position than another. If the company no ale a bargain, they
meet bargain foe the whole family to he treated alike. —Mr. Brearey
Ind node it his haloes to pry ak to many gentlemen on the eubjeet
of the director,' report, and he bad warmly out with a single in-
stance in which that gentleman had not expressed his decided appro.
b lion of that report, and of what the directors had done. Ile was
of opinion that the directors bad done wi-ely in refthine Mr. Iludeon'a
offer at preaent ; but, at the same time, he, for one. was not inclined
to demand the last penny from that gentleman, but would wish to
leave him some little profit for workine the line. Ile moved the
following reeolution —•• That this meeting sanctions the conduct
pursued by the directors of the North British ithilway, hi having
declined the terms offered by Mr. Hodson to lease the North British
line; but ths meeting Is of opio fan that an opening has been made for
the directory to enter Into (rah negotiations mein different terms, which
this meeting think/. the directors ought to crab-ire, and to endeavour to
effect • tense and amalgamation upon better terms, especially for the
half and Carbele Extension shlues."—Mr. Watson seconded the ee-
-1 solution. The subject was now placed in a good position, and now
was the time that an arrangement ought to be made. A diriension
followed relative to the looney of gritting out the latter part of the
resolution, in the course of which the chairman and other gentlemen
' adv.ted that the resolution should be passed entire. They did not ore
it would fetter the directors at all, because no motion adopted by this
mediae could hind the proprietors at large. The resolution was then
put, and carried almost unanimously.
EASTERN COUNTIEL—Yenta rday afternoon a deputation
of Smithfield salesmen and London butchers, headed by Mr. Deputy
Melte, waited upon the traffic committee of the directors of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company for the purpose of drawing their
attention to the losses incurred by the metropolitan butchers by the
present mode of conveyintylive cattle on the above line. The party
were courteously received the director,. Mr. Deputy Dicks cog.
grated that the same prOteCtiOn should be afforded to oxen as Whams
—via., that they should have separate eornpartnienta for each. lie
aim recommended that until the carriages were so altered, a frame-
work of wood or ot iron should be of ised to the flooring,
rising about one ineh, to give the cattle a footing, as, after
• few hours' confinement, the bottom of the truck was in
such • state as to make it diMeiet for them to stand the con-
euntions in railway carriages. The Deputy Chairman misfired the
deputation that the directors were mad anxious to remedy any evil
attending the than -It of cattle on the line if it was pereible. What
had been stated *heath receive their best attention. With a view of
obvieting the delay mentioned as to the arrival of cattle for the London
market, the company had already advertised an • rrangement for the
running of cattle trains from Peterborough, March, Whittler', ,v
and Brandon, on a Fridav:instead of Saturday. Cattle also would be
sent from Norwich on a Priday; but provision would be made for a
limited number of trucks leaving on a Saturday. A satisfactory
arrangement having been then made respecting the proposed altera-
tion of the trucks, sn as to render the Cattle more Ware from 'Diary,
the deputation withdrew.
TRENT VALLEY.—The works on this line are fast ad•
ranchos towards completion. The tunnel is driven through, and
nearly all bricked, and In a few days will be finkbed. AU the cut-
ting. are done, se are also all the bruiser., and the whole of the line
will be completed in a few weeks; but as it will be necereary to let
the works oonsolidete, the Ist of May baa been named by the directors
for opening.
ATCOFORD AND LINIERICX.—The Treasury have avrecd
to advance this company sufficient capital for the constructiou of the
line. . .

DusrnALK AND ENNIAKILLEN.—The works on this line
are In such a forward date that it will be opened for passenger+ in
November next.

LONDONDERRY AND ENN:SILILLEN.—This line, between
Strabane and Derry, is nearly completed, and will be opened in •
kw dap.
0 ERN.IN RAILWAYS.—The Deutsche :Wye/seine Zeituna
of the 270 ult. cootained a reeks of the elatistics of German railways
of which we element our readees with an abridgment: —At the com-
mencement of the present year, the entire length of all the German
rails a) 4 which are reto4rly open to Circulation was 392 geographical
German mike, of which 28 ere tram-lines, 173 belong to various govern-
ments, and 419 to private companies. Out of the 173 miles of state
lines, Austria pessmes 611 ; Baden, 331 ; Bavaria, 311; Brunswick,
; Honorer, 123; Hesse- t, nearly 61; Wurtemberg,
rather more than 3 ; and Frankfort, somewhat more than The
private lines are posuumed by 29 companies. The longest I. the Lower
Silesian one, which Is 31.41 geographical miles, and rune from Berlin
to Buslaw, with a branch line to Ilennendort The nest In length Is
the Emperor Ferdinand North Railway (40.92 miles), extending from
l'imula to Brom, threats, Leipnik, and btockeran. The Berlin
and Hamburg nue is :6.50 miles ; the Upper Sile2bm
(from Brealaw to 51ralowits.,1, 36.93 miles; the Bodweis
Lints and Ginunden Korae line, 26.13 mites ; the Berlin and Stettin,
1 with • branch line from the letter to Starved, 22.83 miles ; the Bcrlin
and Colbert, 20.51 ; the Berlin. Potsdam, and Magdeburg, 19.63
mils; the Vienna toad ftlnargnita, with branch lines from Miins to
lI laiaenbois, and from Ylthhe to Bruck, on the Leith; 16.11 miles ;
the Maga, burg and Leipmic, 16.1 miles ; the laimic an.l Urns len,
15.14 ; the .11 na and Kiel, 14.29 miles ; the Faso-F,ricarian
(from Lc Irk to B. khenback, with a branch lino to Zwickau), 14.13

mile. ; the Rhenish (from COlOplit to Ale-la-Chapelle and the Helga,'
frontier), 11.57 miles; the Thuringian (mom Weissanf.n. to Wrimar)
11.50 miles ; the Salo-Si esisn (from Dresden to Lobo n), 10.43 miles
the Lower Silesian (from Giogan to Regan), 9.67 mLL.w ; the iteeekei;
and Preiburgh. 8.9 c. miles ; the Cologne and Minden (Irons lieut. to
Duisbuir, e. 54 mile. ; the blagdeburgh and Ilalber-tmlt. 7.81 miles;
the Taunus (from Frankfort to Mains and Wiest:why), 5.83 rinks; tea
Lewisburg and Neumunater, 4.41 miles; the Dusael.lort and Ether.
feld, 3.57 miles! the Anhelt anti Bernburg, 2.33 mile.; the Cosel end
Ratibor, 4.25 miles ; the Bonn and Cologne, 3.93 miles; the meek.
atidt and Elinstiorn, 2 22 miles, the Iloinburg and Be; gedurf, fay
mate.; and the Nuremis rg and Furth, 0.01 mile. twenty sot et the
38 states of (Wraith, have railways at grant. There are only two
railways which are completely finished, and
.prsaided throughout
tt it entire length with double Ines—the Lens,e and Bresden and
the Magdeburg and Leipsie. The number of undies on the G, tens
lines open to eireulation are IG, of which arc on the I.lsenish Rail.
war; 2 on the Wirteniberg; 4 on the Routh Austrian :between Grits
sari eilley); 3 oo the North Austrian (between Manna and Prague) •
1 on the Bavarian state line (at Krissigen), and 1 between Lei jr.IC 214
Menden. The lowest is on the Rhenish, st liiinigsdorf, bets."'
Cologne and Ale.la-Chapelle, being 5,160 feet.
CosT OP CONSTRUCTING tLiVitte IN FRA Nep.._Tba
financial reports presented to the French government by the eo i.
neer, charged with the mn‘truction of the three railsa)e in ths
centre of France, give the following estimate of the expellee. The
section between Vierron and the confluence of the Allier and the
Loire, the length of which is 37,190 metros, will evt 5,1100,0n0c of
173,913 f. per kilometre. The action mom Cksranis to Chatsun
o: the frnath of 5.1,691 metre, will ecet 8,243,0 4f., bring 131,57 X
per kilometre. The section from Chatemiroux to Limogrv, the length
of which is 70,419 =trek will mat 15,nutifia0L. or 131.284 Kr kik..
metre. These three realer will therefore cost 28.860,00 inclunn
the cempensalion for mark work. of art, guard bottle', fie.