The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-28 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.

The report of the directors of this company, to be
submitted at the approaching half-yearly general meeting
of per pristors, chows that the total amount of thus and
mortgage capital chargeable to remise on 31st December
last, is ca follows, excluding leased lines:—Ordinary
tel, 8,481,2741.; g teed 'spite 6 per sent., 794,0401.;
ditto,4r cent., 268,8161. ; loses, 3,186,3181.; together
112720. The gr expenditure on mortal mommit
daring the half-year has amounted to 266,3601. 113 e. 64., of
whisk the fdliwiag constitote the main items t—lienebse-
ter and Leeds mein line and breathes, 26,1024; Planehes-
Mr, Bohm, and Bury line. 10,7891.; Liverpool and Bury
Hue, 169,3741.; Manchester and Southport line, 13,6161.;
West Biding Coke lines, 26,6201. ; working stock, 12,8741.
The condoned demand fir thereased station accommoda-
tive consequent open ea increasing geode traffic, hes *cm-
ekeitd the outlay on the math line the Manchester and
Bolton, sad the West Riding Dabs Hiss. The expenditure
oa the Liverpool sad Buy Ine elthily arises la the deck
branch and the works to eseamion therewith. It alto la-
alsdee aeon M 139,8144, which Ude eompeay hie to pay to
the Beet Lemmatise Company, beteg the amount of their
outlay es the Do* Brinell lead. Tb. expenditure on
winkles stock bee plead a further awake" of carriages and
waggons at the disposal of the trees derartaint. The leas
statement idiom that en amount of 438,2601. hes bees bor-
rowed or renewed during the half year ; that en mount of
248,9261. hes been paid ogre transferred during the same
period ; sad that the compeers total mortgage debt
umlauted, on the 31st December lost, to 3,186,3181. Not-
withstanding the 'televise/ of the money market, your
&rioters have bees enabled to renew sad borrow on favour-
able terms. The receipts of the eemmay daring the lest
half-year, including ell the lines worked by or for the
ecompaim, have been 679.7281. ls. 94.; the toted disburee-
meats forth' half-moron re eeeee merest have beea239,2051.;
balsa, 340,6221.; sod from this sum is deducted 25,0001.
for renters' of permanent way. The remainder, with a
Wane* of interest on cub balsam, is 326,449/., applicable
to the payment of i t sad dividend end other dud
sharp,. It is recommended that a dividend at the rat, of
41. 6s. Ter cent, par annum, lees theme tax, be declared,
leaving a surplus of 4,6111. ISt. 01. to be carried byword to
neat amount. The revenue from periscope trifle has con-
tinued during the half-year to show favourably ; and now
that the competitios for the Southport traffic hes mated,
further improvement is looked for. The traffic of the Liver-
. pool,Cresby,and Boutbpott Reilway,w id+ slam the worldy
of the line hes been under the direction of this compary,
shows astisfactlry results, notwithstanding the competitioe
which has eiontinued through the whole of the half-year ;
and your directors see no reason to modify the opinion they
have already expressed at to the value of this property toyour
railway. The superintendents of the different departmenu of
rollieg stock report its mash ctory candition, and that the re-
newed which is is entinome operation le gradually Triples-
tag the old stock with ore much more efficient and better
adapted for **work it has to perform During the last
halt year the renewal of rail wriest has ban debited with
10,6001, the cost of relaying raves ml.. r.f single Hoe. Mr.
Hawkebaw having made hie customary annual impeetioe of
the railway, reports favourably as to the state of the perms-
Rent way sad works. The working among/meat. with the
Blackburn Comp ray are no. in course of being setiebeterily
carried out. Tee mjsry which the directors of that oom-
pithy went their has suffered, In eoesequenes of
Laseashire end Yorkshire arrangements with other amps-
Wes le being inquired into, with a view to as amicable
adjustmeet. The following directors retire time office on
this occasion, and being sligibt.e, they are recommended by
their mileageas tor re-election, via.:—Merry Henry Wick-
ham Wickham, M P., William Mershon, Jahn Hargreaves,
James Holum. and Richard Atkisson. Colonel Seethes",
oes of the auditors, retires also on this occasion, and offers
himself for re election.

MID-DAY ROUSE ROBBERY, NEAR

SEIBFFIELD.

During Monday last, a robbery of a daring and
eatteord'n Ty character wee c'mmitted at the boas, of Mr.
Her AVek, Greer, at Cl'lthaait a smell virago a few miles
east of Sheffield, Mr. Rudnick left home for Rotherham
market about nine o'cl ck on Moaday morning, hada( up
the house, se Mts. Hardwick was (ran home, and leaving
no
one about the rremiser ezeept a boy, eleven year t f age,
wto wee atteadirg to the catty. Oa reteroing between
lee and sin o'clock in the evening, Mr. Hardwick found
the front door open, entrance having evidently bees
elected by breaking one of the panes of glue be the doge,
and 'bootie, the inside fasteniege. Perativieg that
the lower rooms hti been ransacked, Mr. Hardwick
gave an alum, end in a few minutes wee juiced by several
of hie neighbour. Ae eseminstice was made of the hoe.,
which it was found had been thoroughly mucked, desks,
drawers, lc., keying been rewired open is every room, end
their spostents strewed about the floors. The cooly thin
mined, however, was a roam bar, containing 301. is gold,
which hod been taunt Isom a dust in one of the bedrooms,
mad which was the whole of the mossy Mr. Hardwick had
left la the house. The robbers were evidently determined
M tab. acthieg impalas of beteg identified, for, though
they bed fossil a quantity of silver spouse and plate, they
bad taken eons of it away. The Mum bevies/ been
examined without the youth tusking his appears's.*
• smith was irstitated foe him, sad remelted la Mr.
Parkin, a neigtbres log farmer, lading him in the eowbeses,
bin beads being tied behind him, and hie feet coupled
i together with two Mum of rape, while • third pis* of rooe
wee passed ruled his body, end bound him tightly
with his huh to the stall, in au alright fruition. His
mouth was pegged with a piece of tunic, and the poor
little fellow had -ritualised in this palatal p shims so It RI SO
to be completely esheosted. Mr. Parkin at first thought
he was dead, and ran rut of the cowbouse • remain,.
" Thmy have murdered the lad." The youth was imme-
diately released by his muter, mid carried into the toss.
when, reatentives 'strips bees administered, he TOCOVift4
in • about time. He stated that a short time after his
mast:r l.ft, two men went to him I. the stowhoute, pre.
seated a pistol to his bead, and threatmed to kill him if he
made the sligbtret noise. They then took the pieces of rope
from their 'mimeo, fastened him to the stall, sad left him,
and he saw no sou of them. The toy did rot know who
the sea were, and it to feared that there is little clues of
their being apprehended. Mr. Hardwick's bows is in the
ocuktrta of the village, ea whet is known at Otithweite
Commas, but there are several other homes witbis • very
short distance.—Mmechester Guardian.