The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

GREAT wissrnur RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon the ordinary half-yearly weetiog
of shareholders was held at the Paddington Steam ; the
Earl of Sutton. awl presiding.
The report states that a compariwea of the roams %peanuts
daring the poet six swaths with time of the mums period u
IWO that the lacrworod veceipts ea pis Great Wasters
sonowated, psamagers sad weßs,to 13,0221. ; au
inewerala, and live dock. to 4&13110f. • aid on parcels _ail
other Meow. to 3,a111/. ; tota aeriase, 67.7143/., mod the
Memo.' chore, 19,030 f. Oa thir Slirstrobary railways
the iaerewied receipts aid mails amounted to
1,1011. ; of good.. m live cock. to 34641. • aidaparyels awl other intionwo, to MM!. ; total inervamd re.
7,6401. ; awl the hoovered chores ware 14,151 f.
Tb. inereseed receipts on both Mass for the haltyear
amouut..l to 73,42".5., and the 'seaweed charges tioStAbiti
leer iag a net balance for the barysar, bet.g Masao, prodt,
of 42,W.f. The inermas of expenditure arises prhamjall
under l
two heeds oaf chair, via. the renewal sad ',pair co-
mae sad loam stuck se the seatheru divides of the due,
h.• 11 cocevils that of IMO by 13,10101., sad the outlay for
re laying Owed IT nods. of psrmaaeat way I. the northern
division. a. well as that for 111111VW gauge pleat, amounting
{.tether t.. 10,2701., as the Moment exposes' connected
with the Shrewsbury liars. Thom two brioches of .apeni•
ditto< represent to a greet extort onbetantial improvements
to dths property of the oneopaey, and augment in the
wrymite by Zl,•Mer. the revenue dishureentsets of the
half year. Adverting to the peelers] revenue account, the
direelon mu the attention of the pmprieton to the three
points :—hotly, that the tolls for the se of the Brent•
ford Railway aid decks are iodide,' in it the actual
to snage evolved daring the half•year having been
52,654 Wes of goods (exclusive of coals, de/.
which exceeds the minimum quantity of porde
wipeistal to be paid for seder the lewe secondly,
that the Kneast sad Avaa Csaal has for the drat time
yielded to this sompaay tipped', instead of leaving a
ileficieacy ; awl histiv, that held sum reserved out .4
the Seth Wales divtasada, la a( the report ap-
proved at the meeting osi the 17th of Asyut. 11334, had en•
eroded th.mtimated loot es the hose to that period, for
wluch ouch re...restate was ordered to be wads. That low
Ow*, by the Reath Wales seems* his hies
wot..a .iff each hoLyear is mina as metertaieed ; so that
it when au equitable ad deal adisetwent
ma be mole of all amulet. between the two easapswies, the
satire divides& hologiag to and receivable by this coon.
pony for heath Wale,- stock will be boa& to the
credit of the wawa revenue The diming reoworowid
that a dividend, at the rate 3 per cent. per maim. should
now be it...t,n.i .wt of the disroabte belabor of 129.004.
4.. mil.. to ie petelde ...it the lot of I.eptember to the pro-
poet...a of Greet Wi,dera Croudidated stock eat Wind-
sor chore.. loavino the siim o.f %Arr. te. 114. to be carried
forward to the nett half ...ear. During the present .salsa
rarlutmeat th, o.OIV till promoted by the company has
the Ra tirld• mokent--_,,.., fur nokiag a short
berm h hoe end elute, near to Yeovil. where
the Mouth We.tern Ea ter Railway crows over
the Creat We•ten. Weymouth line. (irdrra have been
slowly given to proceed with the work., as the means of
those two syre,... of nolway, and pro .hog ac•
r00m...100m for the path, similar to that afforded (or the
taterelina4e at Posingotoke Them are several memoir's
whi-h bare been cu' resfully promoted by other partial
before parliament, caleulatcd to confer advantage. of a pri••
=eye diameter upon thi. companv. The metropolitan
way Pompey hare not oily obtained farther powers

for completing their line into the City, but also • power to
extend that railway up to the mw meat market which the
Corporation of London are authorised to constroct in
SmithliekL The directors have coasidered it ei great bn-
Fortes°e to seam • poetics of the basement under that
intended 'tractors, with a good road of acres& to it ;
which will not only enable them to bring from the country
direct into the market, at the lead expense and with the
utmost dmpatch, all deseriptima of saleable provinima,
but will also form a general depot in the heart of the City
for all merchandise peeing over their lines of nil.
way. The manual swing of expense to this company in
the transport of goods, Lc., between Paddington and the
City will amount to a omaiderable sum, irrespectively of
the many other advantages to be derived from those mes-
terei. The arrangements between the Corporation of Lon-
don and the Metropolitan Railway Compaay under the
powers of these two sets of parliament will be submitted
em soon an they are sufficiently matured for the approval of
the proprietors. The City Corporation have subscribed the
corn of 200,0001. towards the construction of the Metropo-
litan Railway, and the directors wish to record the fact
that the board consented to take for this company :400
additional shares of 104 each, out of a larger number
taken by others for the same purpose. at the time
when it became necessary to make up the entire capital
in that undertaking, as a condition precedent to the Cor-
poration of London being required to pay on their sub-
aeriptioa. The works of the Metropolitan Railway are
inactive operation, alai the directors anticipate • cowl-
durable accession of traffic at no very distant period
from their completion. The London, Chatham, and
Dover Company have obtained an act for bringing
a railway through very populous districts, south of
the river Thames, into connexim with the metropolitan
line in the neighbourhood of Farringdon-market and Vic.
toriaetreet in the City. Under the same act powers have
been conferred upon this company and the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover Company to agree with the Victoria Station
and Railway Company for the joint lam and occupation
of • portion of their passenger station in Pimlico. The
terms of agreement have been settled between the com-
panies, subject to confirmation by the proprietors. Not
only will the Great Western Railway be brought by means
of theft- undertakings into active and direct °mum:mica-
tion with • large population (from which Paddington is
locally remote), but it will also possess the meats of cm-
freebie with both the Bi:ghton and Dover lines, for the
interchange of continental and all other traffic pawing to
sod from either of them. The amalgamation of the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway with the Worcester
and Hereford and the Newport and Abergavenny Railway
companies, under the title of the West Midland Railway, has
been • subject of much consideration by the directors,
holding, as this company does, so large • stake in the ordi-
nary capital of the former company, besides being deeply
interested in the traffic of the district. The directors felt
hound to roast that amalgamation, until they were assured
by the chairman of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Company that, by laying down the narrow gauge
on the (heat Western line between Reading and London,
gat good would remit to both companies ; rind that, in it;
iipinion, it would be difficult to overestimate the amount of
trsffic which would Bow off the Oxford and Worcester lines
from South Wales for London when the Worcester and
Hereford link shall be completed. Facility clauses for the
interchange of traffic were subsequently Introduced into
the West Midland Amalgamation Bill, and it becomes
now • matter of importance to consider by what means
the extensive traffic which should flow from that source
can be beet conducted. The extension of railways
throughout England and Wales on the narrow page
system has made it more and MOM apparent that for the
convenient interchange of traffic it is desirable that a con-
Urinous lire of narrow pugs rails should exist from the
north to firentford and Paddingten, instead of coming, as
they do now, at Reading. Toearry out such arrangements
a large expenditure would necessarily be incurred, and an
application to parliament required for powers to increase
the capital of the company. Previously, however, to making
any application to parliament, the board propose to submit
the whole quedion of laying down such narrow gauge rails
for the consideration and decision of the shareholders at a
special general meeting, to be hereafter summoned for the
purpose, before which time the various bearings of the case,
involving the mount of outlay and means of raising the
capital, shall be embodied in • report to be circulated among
the shareholders • month previously to their being con-
vened for • decision on such questions. The directors re-
commend to the proprietors the approval of agreements for
working the Birkenhead, the East Somerset, and the Llan-
gollen Railways, as being conducive to the welfare of the
general undertaking.
The •HAIIIMAN adverting in the first instance to the para-
graph in which the increased receipt& were referred to, said
it was a matter of great satisfaction to the board
that such result had been developed. The third
claw traffic had been alluded to at previous meetings
sod he had now to state that increased third-class accom-
modation had been afforded, and from this source consider-
able improvements had taken place in the receipts. In June,
114.59, the numbered first-class passengers was 439,157, and in
June, 1(810, 446,335; in the second-class the number in
1859 was 1,432,166, and in 1860, 1,500,000; and in the
third in 181$ the number was 834,000; in 1e:10,1619,000; and
in 11460, 953,000, showing a very considerable increase
in the third clam traffic. Improvements had been made is
mound class amigos with • view to the comfort of
passengers. The company had obtained their bill this
session for making a branch line and station at
Yeovil, where the South Western Exeter Railway ammo
over the Great Western Weymouth line, and arrange-
ments hail been made for the interchange of traffic.
It had been a disadvantage to this convene,
that those residing in suburban districts on the line
were cut off from communication with the City and West-
end ; but the arrangements with the Metropolitan Railway
and the Victoria-station and Pimlico Railway, would place
them in • portion of equality with any other railway
in this revert. After referring briedy to the other sub-
jects! mentioned in the report, he concloded by moving its
utopias.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

bf A NSION-HOUSE
Dr. Gourley, a physi,bui, a eery gentlemanly-looking
man, 60, residing at Wilton-home, C..park, and also
at 14, Ileorritreet, FAbriburgh, was brought up on re.
mewl, for the third time, charged with appropriat-
ing to his own time and parposee a .nm .1 2,400 f.
and upwards, which he held as a trustee under the
will of the late Yr. Samuel Bigg, Policitor, of the city of
Canterbury, with the intent to defraud one Henry Warffiam
and Elizabeth his wife, the latter of whom was one of the
residuary legatees under the will.
DI. cone was priceeding when our report left.]

CLERK EN-WELL.
DARII6 ROBBERY OP TWO Coat.
A &rattily-attired 'out" man, who gave the IMMO of
Rogord Baelaireer, ileseribm/ himself as a oedema, was
placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncoart, charged with
stealing two valuable cows, the property of Mr. Richard
Castle, a geutleman residing at Churcb-end, Willesden.
From the 'viand it appeared that on the afternoon if
Wedeeeday, the 9th instead, a servant of the complainant
placed tllicows in question is a field belonging to the
omplainsat, sad fastened the gate. The next morning the
servant found the cows were gone, and they were traced
to the New Cattle Market. On the oilht of the robbery
the prisoner was sum in the Euston.rvied, at about a
quarter to 12, by a drover of the name of Burridge, and
r him to take the cows to Duilley'm at
the !!i7eCatteriegaZiket. The complainant, having identified
the cows, coonntaicated with Pohce-oonstahle Hudson,
445 A, who watched and saw the prisoner come up soil
claim them, and offer them for sale. He asked the prisoner
how he became possessed of them, when he said he purchased
them a week previously in Surrey—oue of them from hie
mole, and the other from a roan he did sot know, and that
he had gives IX for the pair. The prisoner was thee token
to the polies-Mello°, when be said he wee very sorry, bat
that he had bees driven to do it through want. The pri-
soner has been twice convicted offelony and is mow a
deserter from the 'my.
The primmer said be wae vary wry but he would plead
guilty, sod hoped the novelists would settle the case at
race, as it would save trouble aad sae.
Mr. IrEyncoort tally aoasmiged the prisoner to the
sermons for trial and refired ball.

SHAIIII la7Sr&—Tlll7B MAW.

Two o'Cluxot.
The rawer share market to-day is better. A
recover, varying from to per cent. has taken
place in most of the principal stocks. London
and North Western stock is now quoted 101*
to 102; Greet Western, 711 to 72; Midland,
lato 1,0 ex div. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1 to ,ex div. ; South Eastern, 84 to 891 ;
Eastern unties, 54 to 56 ; and Great Northern,