The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-16 00:00:00

MADRAS RAILWAY COIRPANY.-(YRIS DAY.)

This &Venom the ImMyesty paw( meeting of the
proprietor d the &bon nem, was held at the Loodon
Tavern, General DOlllersa is the dear.
The following me reed sad sepia • "Da leg
do haif-yoar have bow vlser=s;olll6/10101
She several Woe in cocartructioa. Several asetion
of Uri maim or south •weeli Us bon bees opesed, asa the
remainder brought near te Th• have =bit:
Bsagalore has ve seas forward.
has ben ma& ea the or oath-wed liss, sad
i 4 srst sestlon of 17 smut h new a set to open for tide
The morrow of the Sallie cm theopsed portion of tho south-
west lose has oadessied estiefookey, its develosseatts the
aew:yopesed maims Md been more immediate tea
was to he expeviod. The toad, bee been seeded with
its usual regulanty. and The provides and desetch
of materials, plant, mad Mssto It hes be. oa
ateaddy ; freight for abed 17 000 ton having bees Was '
up cluing the six moods The shipasie have automated
to opined' d 1110.060 tees, in 410 ships is awns
years. Of then ship boa tees hen ben lost,
only on of week was leaded by the econany.
During the sax months emerseed is this report, the western
Somas of the steasd of the or south-oastfine. has beam advanced hem aoriattom at 1111
solo, from Madras, to L boor, 113 idea em the ldiat
Jaaisry Vaaitaibeib, 123 saes es Us Ist ?draw ;
and to tnpatore, 137 ea the IMrd of Ma • 11,9
is-
asa.ed trade bee mend asomerry addition
to t! e sidings, piatformo, he., of the elatiese. sad
the come( a some sow eats The hider
openiihr ef the lien. to Seism bas wing tabs
_pled WA
trams with materials are sow nersires to 36 sees Iwyesd
Tnpat..re, in that direseros, ad the envied= ado pit-
man :at way, which is all that mean to do over the
inter au,liate distance, is ping tepidly forward.
Beyond is the Gisavory division, very little
minting to be doe is earthwork or e.i.y at
the date of the chief peer's rapport la Ansa.
Os the Paulghant divines all the works wen so wall ad-
vanced as to promise compietiom about the mai of the year,
with the exception of the heavy earthwork is District M.
la the Beypoor Diem the &boniest@ sad pier el the
Yanamoor.bridge wen within 4 fest of the spesstag, and
werexpected to be completed about this time, so se to
atm of the girders for the Thoola-bridge being forwarded
through ley rail from Beypoor, its piers bang ready to receive
them. The terminal Imildinp at !Smear wise
artmoced to cause so delay in opening the line when ready.
Them statements go to confirm the anticipations expound
in the last report that by the end of this year very little
would remain to he done for the completion of this railway
between Madras and Beypoor ; and in corroboratioa it may
be mentioned :hat the probable amount that would still be
requ.nyl to complete the wend districts was estimated not
to *toted 300,000 f. from the Ist of August led. It oar
explained an lid report that the dagalore bread Be.
been divided into four districts for esaggeashiceo.
OD the fort twelve miles of district 1, coseirteralie
has been made in the earthwork. The moos worklf=
pneniaariv bid On the remaining sight Idles the
pound had not been handed over by de genemeoust
authorities at the date of the did eagiasor's roped,
but he was led to expect immediate pommels.
The final sanction of the government having been obtained
or the 24th of November last for the contraction of the
lonc•projectal branch line to the salt dents. at Marina
sod to the eatablishoseat of a goods states in the same
central locality, the necessary work. are now actively la
progress. The greater part of the earthwork of this short
luau ham been completed, and considerable progress has
bees made in the masonry, which is of a light demerits.
At Arcomm, the point of departure of the Bellarv, or
sorth.west line from the south-west line, the dation ituld-
inr are so far advanced, sad tbe first 17 miles of the Ist
distort to Nanny is sear completion, that it was Waned
to open them for taut in the tones of this meth. As
Nu will give a castilmons railway commiainelos for
warty 110 suites, from Madras towards ()lidera, a 110.611,
able trod is looked for ups the opening. Om the 2ad
district the earthwork was well adenoma, with the net
Sion of one heavy embookaseat, when mei time bad bees
lost from the failure of the endeavours of that cwt to
settle for the land with the Ziember 1 whose Unitary
it lies. Great prorrna hem been reads with the memory.
The chief engineer's report conclude* in theme terms :
Reviewing generally the state of openitioas on this has
I should say that on the lint division vary satisfactory pro-
gram lad been made. The work is in every respect good,
sad where interruption ham occurred it has been from games
beyond our control. On the snood division I think the
sate of things as to advaerement less sathdactory. Meek
time has been lest, especially at the Chivas. Bridge, from
the supposition, which has sine turned oat to have bees
',Totem", that no good building Moos was to be food is
the neighbourhood. It is, however, satisfactory to be
able to state that everything poeibla Is being dose to
Moire better progress for the future. The ram aisdag
divisions call for no particular remark. Operation apes
them an in states of advisement about proportionate
to their proximity to Madras, so that the nearer district*
will precede in completion those more remote. Thin
being the order in which optimisation would follow V
governed solely by the carrying up of materials, it
is to be hoped and expected that the oorapistion of works
and transport of materials will be made so to keep paw
that neither shall retard or be retarded by the other. The
length of the south-wart line open, which at the In
riming of the year wag 96 miles, bad reached 137 la May.
During them six months, therefore, the Whop ono ems
Stressed by nearly one half. Under these cirsounstamos,
and the simultaneous lowering of the goods tad
rate., a considerable falling off an the rate of trade
per mile for the wee to he &snapshot, bet
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aiff..ernce in this respect between this mediate previous half.
year I. Ws than mold ban been espooted. whilst tho
receipts per mile for those tat six mouths of the
year exceed ten for the commanding period of the last
year he 14 per cent. The remarkable Morose in the nem-
ben a peamagen and the rearipta notioed In the last re-
port, aoatisues. la the Ist dam, thin is a notable in-
eras • is the 2nd, a &cream in numbers but as Selene is
receipts ; the post lamas being in the third class se hers
tame. The total stinker of pwgers carried in the efi
months was 430,224, issieg nearly 100,000 is excess ef the
sorbets is the half•year unmedistely preceding, and Ilien
Woo the amber carried is the corremnoding period of
MVO. The noulta as regards receipts have been la like
inanner satisdactory ; the total for the six months ex
by 2fit per coot. those of the previous six mouths, ant
per cant the corresponding half of Iruo. The increase I.
the mods tn.:** has also bees very considerable, but how
far it is to be attrilieted to the mdoctioes I. the rates re-
ferred to in the lad roma, sad bow for to the ottoman of
the I. ne and the natant development of cede, it la difficult
to say. The variation ef the memo sal crops have also
such iallassoe. Sit the satideekwy fact remains, that the
amount of gond@ carried in this half-year exceeded that of
the eßresouding half-yeses of IMO by 621 pet coot, and
the receipts by 54.1 per asst. those a that period.
Tte 'midi of goods atria in the six monde her
non from 21,1416 tots is 161$, to 34,461 this yaw, sad
the receipts from 0,823 L to 10,7641. lbws is ales
au increase of 11 per mal in the tonnage, and 10 per sod
in the roccipta over those of the six months iranedistaly
preceslinz ; bat for ireful tom
0;
theTmast in de ainif goer!
aVitie:re psi larsdtill the article Oil sate fares writs-
portant feature, mestituting as it does our chief frs.i&t
westward, or up country, from Madras. The bulk ci
trait. runs naturally in the other direction. The
steady sod Lure serene in the omen" d salt
conveyed is theodwo highly satisfactory in the latereate
ef the railway n. at is in there of humanity.
The receipts from the carriage of permanent way materials
eir ousted to 11 per seat of the grim receipts. The pass
receipts of the W'.l ear have exceeded those of the -
i,ssu; sit months by 3. 7611. , and those of the re
half of Ide, by 11,314 f.. or 461 per emit. The Morns, is
the working charges as due partly to the warm of the
addition' me employed an the locomotive department, but
principal/7 to the gnat Scream in the train =Malta with
the oramermest ..creased ecnomption of fuel. sad to Se
incteend price. It is obvious, shoo, that in earning a &ea
moist of rename with low rates and fares the wnehtng
=panes and be Wavier than with higher rates of cheeps :
the proportion of do welds; expense to the reoeiple will
vary inversely as the res. Is favour of the redwood tariff
under which the line is sow experimentally worklag, it Is
to Is observed that It is serving, at all event the imper-
ialist purpose of popularising the railway, at Melting the
Natives the uses and advantages of this mode of con-
veyance, soil of effe.ding the transfer to the railway of
the tranic which still ..dhered to the old roads of the emintry.
linen isformation lately received, there is mama to hops
that on the western pin of the line consideroble economy
in the cost of fuel may be effected, by the substitution of
wood for coal in the locomotive encase, and the question is
sow wider cousideration by the company's Akers.
Befereece 1W been mole in previous reporS to the sabiect
of the re-adjustment the sharps brought against remise
for renewal of experimental steepen, apes which the board
were le corvespowlen e with thegoverement. The principle
of that adjneunent haves( now base dually speed epos,
lararnetions have bees given for carrying it into Mod awl
kunemittiag without delay the revised revenue account* to
this enuatry. These the board hope to nests" In time for
pulliestion with the other amonate, deg with the next
anoint most. The effect on the aossmat will be to reduce
onasidenthly the chi ;es limiest mews for maintenances
of way. The traffic department bee loan coaducted with
the usual moron, sad el teary by Mr. neither, whose
sour. in ,idatitiiiing native labels fa the situation of
Ovation masters, ieru.nis, and is abeam of paeral su • •
ten.leuee, deserve. quell masa. The ranks stock has
been well Ina downed. sod the nemiromeate of the trade
abundantly au opted . Tea additional hossodin engine hems
wen sent out, nevi two moss are reedy atirmest The
greater part. the -"lints of carriage and wimps hue work re-
{erred to In the last report has Wee been forwarded toMarirea
The Inemnouve soperhateedeat report@ fairserably of hie
novels in the train* of men and lads ea eagine drive%
Anima. fitters sad raechanica mmorally, as well as et the
Doodahs of this. who have kw r. trained and an stn.
ployed is the department. The SUMS received to this time
ft the emnpany's Ir. per cent. denature Inas
Amu summand,. 703,7001 of the millioo authorised to be
there talied Application median to be remind fee the
basses to he Woe& A armed eon or M. per
awe we. made si the red of ha month as the shone of
the 4th re-eion Capital. Payment' inki of
W hat mil .4 may be nada by the ehcidesA
few peoprietom having hitherto Woloarkad to register Wean
abates to We ad sad 4th Refossiosa. • wink they