The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

CUBERT UNITED SILVER•LEAD MINES.

An ordinary general meeting of the shareholders
in these mines, wu held yesterday at the office King Wil
liam-street, Mr. BYRON in the chair.
A report from the committee of management was read
and confirmed, from which it appeared that the present as-
sets of the company, exclusive of the machinery and new
engine and boiler, and the whole mining plant, all of which
had ' hand,

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been paid for, was—cash balance in . _, 1,471/.171.3d.; Mr. Tuckerman's work (as we have already inti-
The half-yearly meeting of this company is sp. on, Im taw, at 141. 10s , 4271. 10. ; and sundries, GO/ ; mated) is of a higher character, and, without die- the Great Northern Company run
pointed to he held at Plymouth this day. The following total, 1,959/. 7s. 3d. Their committee regarded this state and is it not strange that
are the principal clauses of the report of the directors; of their finances as satisfactory, and intimated that it would paraging the ” Southey" of Messrs. Austin and uo trains from King's-cross to these outskirts between n•
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The revenue for the half-year ending 30th June, en ible them to avoid making a further call. A suggestion Ralph, we must give the preference to the " Southey" in the morning and six (6) in the evening ? M ny return to
amounts to 61,076/ 2s. o)d., and the expenditure to made at the previous meeting that an underground captain of the American. He has an ingenuous, sympathetic,
25,k991. 17s. 34., leaving a balance of 22,1761. 51. Gd. should be engaged, had induced the committee to send a meditative and his •
mint); - came to King's cross yesterday evening from C"lney Hatch,
here 1 found that most of then passengen look sect'
class
After paying the interest on debentures, fixed dividends, deputation of their body to examine the mines, and the w
ment, employing artistic colour, and so remind yon
tickets ; but on the train arrivig, there were many first,
or half shares, there will, as it shows in the report, remain delay thus occuaioned had been the causa of the present London in the evening by the last 8 o'clock train, en which!
a disposable balance of 10,0191. Gs. 2d. for payment of divi- meeting tieing postponed beyond the usual period of twofew second (comparatively speaking), and the remainder
deed, rite. months from the last. The report of that deputation was book to the
of paintings on Ivory. We cordially recommend his
thoughtful, and especially to the senti- nearly full third-class carriages, into which second-clan
I. The traffic of the six months ending the 30th of June, appended, but the committee recommended the appoint- mental. But we must notice one error staring us in passengers were literally packed, in a suffocating
atmos-
-1853, again exhibits a very considerable increase as corn- ment of a general resident manager, considering that tke
„ • of of all, in this miseralsle plight the train was delayed about
pared with that of the corresponding period of last year, of interests of the proprietors suffered from their local ' •women and children in a fainting ste.e ; but, worst
told . . c , Y half a mile from King's.crou station, for 20 minutes, for the
which the aggregate receipts were 46,4371. 2s. 54., while agents being connected with many other mines. the face at
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those of the accounts which aro now submitted to the The captains of the mines, Messrs. Trceweek and Cl •nto Glasgow tradesman ?" purpose of collecting the tickets.
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shareholders amount to 51,0764 2s. ON. Tho balance of report that the operations in the mine since May have teen Cannot this be remedied by some better arrangements
the half-year's account does not, however, correspond with progressing steadily, and without accident. The engine-
-1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
the favourable increase of receipts; and the dirt eton regret . shaft has been change .1 from the downright to the under- rectors have declared an intermediate dividend of 2/. per
NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAT.—The di- en the part of the Great Northern Railway Company ?
that they are, therefore, not able to recommend a larger lay, and the shaft is uow sinking on the Course of tho lode, 100/. share. Luucan-terrace, Aug Li. " ISLINGTON."