The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-02 00:00:00

KILLARNEY Jr.NCTION RAILWAY.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
at the King's-bridge terminus of the Great Southern and
Western Railway in Dublin, on Wednesday ; Mr. JOHN
PENNIFATIIER in the chair. The following is the direc-
tors report, which was unanimously adopted by the
meeting
" The directors have the pleasure of informing the pro-
prietors that the entire line of railway, 41 miles in length,
was opeued for public traffic on the 18th of July. Up
to that period, from the 25th of May, a portion of the line
had been worked, and the expenses of the temporary
opening and stations borne by the Great Southern and
Western Railway Company, who, by agreement with your
board, took the receipts as payment for these bermes.
Flea July 16 to October 31, up to which date the present
assounts are brought, a fixed mileage rate has been paid
to the Great Southern and Western Railway Company
foe working the line. The receipts from traffic during
that period have been 5,6871. ha. 10d., and the working
expenses 1,8811. 13s. 61. The revenue has been charged
with its proportion of interest and office expenses for „3}
months, and there remains a balance on foot of the revenue
account of 2,2851. 15s. 7d. As, however, the company are
bound, on account of the baronial guarantee, in the first
instance to pay the interest on their debt for the entire
year before they can declare any dividends, your directors
recommend that this balance be carried forward to the next
account. The traffic continues satisfactory, and quite equal
to the expectations of your directors ; and the goods and
cattle traffic on the line is daily increasing. The Magnetic
Telegraph Company have, in pursuance of their agreement
with this company, erected and maintained the telegraph
between Mallow and Killarney, which is constantly worked,
to ensure the safe working of the trains. On the slag
the present month the most dreadful inundation ON
has been ever known occurred is the county of Colt;
but the directors are happy to state that the demean
done to the Killarney line was very trifling, and the maw
river bridges on the line were all proved to have been
cient to carry the water of this unprecedented flood; he
three days the traffic of the line was partially interrupted,
but it has since been regularly carried on. The expense of
repairing the damage caused by the inundation falls on the
contractor, he being obliged by his contract to keep the
works of the line in repair for one year after the opening.
At the rock cutting, near Freemount, it has been deemed
advisable, to ensure safety, to take away a large quantity of
rock which was not included in the original estimate. This
has been executed under the enperintendence of the com-
pany's engineer, and the work is now entirely finished. A
public meeting is to be held at Traits on the 15th of the
next month, Inc the purpose ofgueranteeing a sum for the
construction of the line from Killarney to Tralee ; and if
this principle be carried at that meeting, it will ensure the
formation of that line, which your directors believe would
much tend to the advantage of this company. The com-
pany's hotel at Killarney will be completed early in the
ensuing spring; and your directors are glad to find that in
several instances the hotel-keepers at Killarney, encouraged
by the success of the past summer, are preparing to enlarge
their accommodation for the public."

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SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION.—Sic W. E. forMthr.sliplaiiinCili
C. Hartopp, Bert., the High Sheriff, his fixed Saturday represented the defendant.
next, the 3rd lust , for the election of a representative for This was an action brought to recover 807/., the balance
the southern division of the county of Warwick, a vacancy remaining unpaid of an amount due to the plaintiff for
having occurred by the elevation of the late member, Lord building the St. James's Naval and Military Clab-house.
Brooke, to the peerage, by the title of the Earl of Warwick. A portion of the sum due to the plaintiff had been pant by
The only candidate at present in the field is Mr. Evelyn P. contribution from the other members of the club acd by
Shirley, on the conservative interest, and there appears to the managing committee. Some of the members, amongst
be every probability that he will be returned unopposed. whom was the defendant, had not paid their contribution,
THE STABBING CASE AT DEPTFORD.—Yeeterdsy, which had been fixed at Sot down, or 101. a year, at a gene-
Mr. Payne resumed, at Guy's Hospital, the inquest, which rah meeting of the club, which wits held in January, 1t.51.
had been twice adjourned, on the body of T. Bresnahan, The managing committee had therefore brought the im-
aged 24, who was stabbed by some Russian sailors near sent action, in the name of the plaintiff, in order to try the
Deptford Dockyard early on the morning of Friday week, question of liability. It appeared that in I_Sisl the liabilities
After about half an hours consultation the jury found aof the club amounted to upwards at 18.7801. Before the
verdict of" Manslaughter " against Hearick Gustaff Brunel,
Anders Alkola, and Henri Gustaff Khroushum. learned counsel for the plaintiff had concluded his opening
statement,
GREAT FIRE AT BERLIN.-011 Monday last the Lord Campbell asked whether some arrangement could
equestrian circus of Herr Benz, at Berlin was destroyed by
Mr. U. Hill said the managing committee did not wish
Ere. The structure was formed of wood, and the flames
the defendant to pay more than ON., his share of the con-
having acquired a strong hold of it before water in sufficient
tribution.
not be effected?
quantities could be obtained, its destruction was complete
Lord Campbell said this seemed a fair and reasonable
in km than an hoar.
THE MALVERN HILLS.—The sixteenth purchase
of building land, for distribution amongst the shareholders offer.
Attorney General said his client hail a good defence er.e
to the action, but he was quite willing to do what he had
of the Conservative Land Society, has Just been made, at all along offered to do—viz., pay 601., on coal' that the
West Malvern. It is described by the sorely as " close to committee would give him a guarantee to seleate-hlat from
the picturesque church and parsonage, and commanding a all further liability.
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Wells. West Malvern presents all the attractions of Great tory. and creditable to both parties.
Malvern, with the additional advantage of basing a wes-
terly aspect, and of being conicquently protected from the cart r RUNPItERV.—INSURANOII or PNOTSIRSI Hi
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cutting easterly. winds. The Worcester and Hereford
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