The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

It appears from the accounts of this company to the
31st of l)ecember, 18.50, that the amount received on capital
account to that date was 8,329,1011., including 2,013,036/.
received on debentures. and the amount expended
8,393,6951., leaving a balance against the company of
61,591/. The amount expended on the 242 miles of the
main line ;mil branch lines open for traffic was 6,477,327/.,
including 78,583/. expended on them during the past half
year. 11w engines and carriages are stated to hate
cost 5,51,1561, including 4,082/. expended on them
during the past half year. The amount expended
on lines in which the company have an interest
appears to be 268,9131., including 50,000/. to the
South Western Steam Packet Company. tinder the head of
lines suspended 1,087,9981. appears to have been expended.
This sum includes an item fur interest of 211,6671. The
payments on capital account during the past six months
amount to 118,4181., from which is deducted 10,293/. for
rails sold during the half-year, making the net amount ex-
pended 106,125/. The total share capital, irrespective of
preference stock, is stated to be 7,431,0.501., of which
6,623,888/. is entitled to dividend; 460,1211., shares in the
hands of the company ; 335,11.10/., amount uncalled on 501.
and 401. shares; andl4,loof. oil non-converted Gosport shares.
The debenture bonds outstanding to the 31st Dec. amount to
2,013,0381., of which 870,127/. is borrowed at 5 per cent.;
213,0101. at 41 per cent.; 62,0001. at 41 per cent.; 611,8001.
at 31 per cent.; 42,0001. at 31 percent. ; and 181.1001. at 3
per cent. The burrowed money on the 31st of December
last was 60,500/. less than on the 30th of June, 1840. The
revenue account fur the half-year ending the 31st Dec. last
showed that 308,436/. had been received, and 127,226/. ex-
pended, including 9,4641. for rates and taxes, and 8,1221.
government duty, leaving a balance of 181,2101., from
e.hich is deducted 46,8434 for interest on debentures and
preference stock, leaving 134,3671. ; to this sum is added
1,869/. surplus from last dividend, making the net sum ap-
plicable to dividend of 136,136/., deducting 132,4771., the
amount of a 2 per cent. dividend for the half-year, would
leave 3,753/. to the credit of the next account. The
working expenses appear to be 41.66 per cent, of the
gross receipts, including 4.76 per cent. for rates and
tuxes and government duty. The calls in smear
on the new 501. and 401. share* amount to 13,8981., and
on the third shares to 151,9511.—together 105,819/.—of
which 122,9031. is stated to be optional, leaving 42,9451.
non-optional. With reference to the directors' estimate of
the probable cost of completing the various linos and works
of the company, they consider that the detailed calculations
have been framed with great care, and they have not found
during the course of their audits for the year just ended
that the payments have exceeded what has been anticipated
to any very material extent. The estimates were based on
a future contemplated outlay of 840,8501., reducible by the
sums to he realised from surplus property sold. The
amount received from this source during the year 1850
was 17,6531., which sum has been carried to the credit of
the rails and chairs acenunt, and of the various lines pre-
viowsly charged with the cost of the pmpertv disposed of.
The total sum expended during the year le/0 amounted
to 280,2311., of which 172,1091. was expended to the 30th
of June.

ANTICIPATED IfESIGNATION OF Tilt: LORD ADVO-
CATE.—We understand that since the Lord Advocate's re-
moval to Edinburgh, the dangerous symptoms of his ma-
lady have not in any degree diminished, and an immediate
resignation of his important office is exceedingly probable.
—Daily Mail. . .

SUNDAY TRADING.—The bill now in the House of
Commons, brought forward by Mr. W. Williams to prevent
unnecessary trading on Sunday within the metropolitan po-
lice district and the City of London, Wilt printed on Satur-
day. According to the bill Sunday trading is to cease by 9
o'clock on Sunday, and goods exposed to sale may be seized.
It is proposed that the measure shall come into operation on
the Ist Nov. next.
NEW BILL RELtTING To Hoes.—Yesterday
was issued a bill to regulate the collection of hope and the
payment of duty thereon.
OPENING OP THE WESTERN AREA OF ST. PAL'L'S
CHURCHTAUD TO THI PUBLlC.—Yesterday morning tho
area in front of St. Paul's Cathedral at the top of Ludgate-
hill was opened to the public by order of the Dean and
Chapter. Many persons availed themselves of the privi-
lege of walking within the enclosure, and of inspecting at
leisure the elaborate details of the noble structure. Three
gates are thrown open for the ingress and egress of visitors, '
and two policemen barn been appointed to keep order. The
narrow end of the wedge has thus been inserted through the
agency of Mr. Barber, of St. Paul's-churchyard, and it is
to be hoped that eventually the whole of the area, as pro-
by that gentleman, will be opened to the public,
pro-
nosed
ecut.,tr ia n and pedestrian.
THE PACKETS TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—
The Hellespont, belonging to the General Screw Steam-ship
Navigation Company, 560 tons burden, commanded by
Captain Watts, arrived at Plymouth op Thursday morning,
at us o'clock, took her station at Millbag-pier, and sailed on
Saturday, at noon, with the mails for the Cape de Verde
Island:, sierra Leone, and the Cape of Good Hope • she
also carried out a valuable cargo, five passengers, and eleven
thousand pounds in specie. It is reported that the enter-
prising company to whom this ship belongs, have had the
keels of seven screw steam-vessels laid down for this line ;
the tonnage of each is to he from 1,200 to 1,600 tons. The
Bosphorus, the first steamer from Plymouth to the Cape, is
expected at Plymouth, on her return voyage, about the first
day of March.
m.Three of lut•o otfiaepl appear
a were A RIOT took place on Saturday night in Athol-
Street, Liverpool, between a body of navvies and six police-
dpoenligceerucousurtly wounded,iretztoundezd,
and
dn were uo
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the
against six of the rioters who had since been appreh

SOUTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ELECTION.

TILE OFFICIAL DECLARATION.
NEWARK, MONDAY EVINING.

The official return of the numbers polled on
Friday and Saturday, for the two eandiduten for the repre-
. _ .

sentation of South Nutt', was made at the hustings in front
of the Guildhall, in this town, to-day at 11 o'clock. It was
as followft :

MR. DARROW. LORD Nr.WARD.
Ilingham
I.kt.t Leake
Lowaham
Newark 304 269

southwell
Buttuwou-Trent

1,193

1,182

Majority for Mr. Barrow ll
anouncement was received with loud cheers.

Idr. Barrow, the successful candidate, and Lord Newark
then addressed the electors, and the proceedings terminated
at 1 o'clock.

REPRESENTATION OF BEDFORDSHIRE.

BEDFORD, MoxnAT Evrsixo.
This morning, at an early hour, the town was in a
state of most unusual excitement, and it appeared as if about
to he the scene of an old-fashioned election, rather than of
one of those quiet affairs in connexion with the county re-
presentation which have been witnessed here of late years.
By ten o'clock there were large arrivals from the county,
and the space in front of the Shire l(all was quite filled, as
well as the hall itself. The sheriff opened the proceedings,
but not a word of his remarks was heard: the demand for

adjournment was almost universal. The proclamation for
silence had not the slightest effect; so the sheriff, after the
writ had been read, adjourned the meeting to the open
square, where some waggons were placed. Each candidate
was loudly cheered as he appeared.
The lion. GEO. RICE TREVOR, M.P., having re-
minded the electors of the cause of their meeting together
that day, said he was sum they would join with him in do-
ing justice to the character and qualities of their late
excellent representative, Lord Alford. (Hear.) In his
death all elass.es had lost a friend—one who had earned for
himself the title of an honest country gentleman—and one
who had the prosperity of all classes in the country at heart.
Ile was snatched away at a time when fortune showered on
him a large inheritance which, had he been spared, would
have been employed for the benefit of all around him.
(Cheers.) This was the first opportunity he (Mr. Trevor)
had ever embraced of addressing the freeholders at a Bed-
ford election, hut he felt it was a duty he owed to take a part
at this time, feeling it was no ordinary time when they were
called upon to appoint a _successor to the late excellent
nobleman: that dots' he felt he should best perform if ho
proposod to them Colonel Richard Thomas Gilpin. (('beers,
and " No, no.'') They had all an opportunity of knowing
what the candidate was, for he had passed his life amongst
them and was personally known to the great body of
the electors. (Cheers, and cries of " No.") Well, he
might not be so well known to some gentlemen in the
waggon opposite, for they were comparatively strangers to
the county. (Laughter, and cries of" We wou t him.")
his opinion was that nothing but a return to protective policy
fur every class would produce the effect the agriculturists
desired, and to that he considered them entitled. The
desired—(a Voice, "a cheap loaf")—that was all very well,
but they must have wages to buy it. Their object was to
prevent the English farmer being driven to unequal eons-
petiti,n with the threigner. (('heers and hisses.) As a
representative who has sympathies with the suffering claw,
he knew no one whom he should so confidently propose as
the gentleman whose name he had already submitted to

theni. ((Loud chee•rs.)
Mr. LIM/SELL, of Biggleswade, hanker, Peconded the
nomination in a speech of considerable length. Be bore
testimony to the high character and goal qualities of the
gallant colonel, who, he said, was no now seeking the gra-
tification of personal ambition, but obeying an Invitation
emanating front the most influential in the county.
.......—....

Mr. eaATTimoRE, the free trade farmer, the-n
rose
and proposed John Boughton, Eq., as a tit person to re-
present the county. Ile commented at some length on the
Imperfections of our representative system, und the inequa-
lity of taxation. He proposed now to the fanners of Bed-
fordshire a man of their own class, which was what

they had never keel in parliament. He contended that such
practical men were required in the House of Commons;
and then pointed out the insecurity of the tenant fanners'
position, and contended that the only mown why agriapd-
tore did not Nourish like other trades was, because it was
on the w g basis. Upon the subject of t,-cant-right ho
entered ut length, showing that the farmer was not in a
right position, and that upm this, as well as other subjects,
it was necessary for them to have men of their own class to
represent them. It was because he believed Mr. Houghton
would better represent the middle and industrious classes
than would Cul. Gilpiu that he proposed him. (Cheers.)
Mr. WILLIS, of Luton' straw manufacturer, in second-
ing the nomination of Mr.lloughton, said they had not the
landed interest of the county at their back; it was entire
a contest of the people against the aristocracy, and thW
would never cease until victory crowned their efforts.
(Cheers.) No county was more thoroughly under the power
of au oligarchy than Bedfordshin.s but the time was not far
distaut when the people would speak out upon it ; and on
all great occasions when they had spoken out they were not
powerless. (Hear' hear.) Ile contended that the
who nominates' Colonel Gilpiu, so far from being the friends
of the en alitution, were violating the spirit of it; but in
future it would not be left to the Duke of Bedford and Earl
De Grey to say who should represent the county.
Having pointed out the necessity for radical reform, he
contended that, to effect it, the people should stud to
parliament suelt men as Mr. Houghton.
Colonel GILI'IN having paid a tribute to the late
representative, said, he came forevant in obedi-
ence to requisitions from almost every parish in
the county, and signed by persons of many opinions.
Ile made some observations about the malt tax, but would
nut directly pledge himself upon it. He next proceeded to
show that the farmer was most unfairly pressed with the
property tax, being made to pay upon his positive losses.
He was at a loss to know how the minister could wok for a
renewal of that tax, and hoped the house would not grant
it. (hear.) They were told that no Class except farmers
were now suffering ' • but he heard from a large contractor
that he could get 100 good labourers at low wages any
morning and in Mr. Houghton's own county the wages
round Aylesbury were shout M. per week. In reply to
some questions, the colonel declined to pledge himself
to vote for the extension of the suffrage as desired
by gentlemen opposite, and he was met by a cry
that he wanted to keep down the people. 1k denied,
however, that he had such intentions, and said it was the
country gentlemen who caused an inquiry into the condi-
tion a the factory children, and not the Manchester
school ; so that the country would judge who eared most for
the people. With regard to the reduction of taxation, hn
would vote for such us was consistent with the security of
our institutions. He expressed himself as a warm friend of
the established church, and decidedly opposed to the late
proceeding of the I'ope, and attached to that constitution
which had long been the admiration of the world. (Cheers.)
Mr. HOUGHTON earns terward, nnd was received with
loud cheers from his friends, but hisses from the protec-
tionists, who kept up a running tire throughout his speech.
In apologising 'lncoming fur-wane as ri candidate, he said every
honest Mall had a right to the highest honours of his coun-
try, and he repudiated the charge that by 'AI doing he had
been guilty of an aggression, as he haul been meow.' by
Mr. Trevor. Ile considered it an insult to the great in-
terest of which he was a member—the tenant farmers of
' England—that every kind of candidate but one of their 01171
class was found for them. Feeling that he hail ventured to
appear in this county to give the farmers an opportunity of
electing one of their class if they thought proper—(mnd
noise).—be would explain why he had met with opposition
from some of the formers—because he had abandoned the
fiats of protection. (Cheers and Weals) If any one still
told them it would ever be re-enacted he bamboozled them.
' If they now thought that they would ever get it back ho
would tell them how to go to work. Let them open a shop in
Manchester and call it the Bread Tux Committee ' • let them
hold large meeting", get the Free Trade-hall well filled with
people, and get petitions signed by 50,000 names. Let
them do the same thing at Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, the
West Riding; and as the present members would not
present such petitions, let them find others who would,
and then, perhaps, they might get the tax again. But
what good could they do with a small room in Bond-
street, hole-and-corner meetings,and petitions that were put
under the table of the house as soon as they were pre-
sented 1 (Laughter and cheers.) As far as his interest and
property were concerned, he did not wish for the repeal of
the corn laws ; but he looked at the masses of the people.
The landlords knew as well he did the impossibility of
ever reimposing the tax ; and when they saw things so dead
against them, so men and Englishmen, he said, let them
turn their attention to something else, and see if they could
not get other measures of practical relief from the House
of Commons. If they were to have cheap corn, they must
have cheap taxation ; they must have the laws affeeting the
landed interest altered. These were practical questions
that must be brought forward and receive a practical
and constitutional solution. Ile upbraided the farmers
with their supineness in allowiug the present surplus in the
Chancellor of the Exchequer's hands to slip away and be
' expended for sanitary purposes. He coincided with Colonel
Gilpin in the unjust operation of the income tax. Ile con-
tended for the expediency of reducing the present qua-
lification for a vote m an occupying tenant, as
in the ease of Ireland. He explained his views upon
' church rates and a variety of other subjects, and concluded
a very lengthened address by expressing a hope that the
' verdict of the constituency would be given in his favour.
The HIGH SHERIFF then took the show of hands, and
not being satisfied with his first estimate of the strength of
Colonel Gilpin's party, he called for a second display
• thereof, after ivhich, without taking •scrond demonstration
of Mr. Houghton's supporters, he decided, though with
• strong doubts as to the accuracy of his estimate, that the
show of hands was in favour of Colonel Gilpin.
Then commenced a scene of the greatest exeit
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