The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-06 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1860.

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this attar*, prism this evesitag, whoa the principal
hatare will Is • asiselioa of popular bib insbdiss. Is
order to give fa east to this sows! it: will will he •
anew a 900 to la addition tits voadista :
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sad Mr. nine Itesee•—ta =,..the lest appearance of the
la tier gestlwasa at Wes
Dimas or Cameros — The Bishop of Charter
Weeds to hold bit nazi sediessioe at Chester on Ilooday,
the 21Isd depheaber nest. Candidates are required to trams.
pa ell the nasal papa complete to 'hirles T. W. Parry,
lett Chester, his lordship's secretory (from whoa .11 De-
sessary instructions way be °bode ), on cc Wore Maw
dig, 1910 nib day al August, at the latest.

LONDON AND BOUM WARMAN RAILWAY.

The report of the direotors, to be submitted to
the half-yearly meeting otthe shareholders on the 9th inst.,
has Past been issued. It says :
"The half-yearly aosonata to the 30th June, 1860, now
wilimibled, slew the set 'MMUS for the six :mean, after
iledwarbsint I datereet on imess and all other preferential
relined% be 152,7;21. 17s. did ; add surplus at Deo. 31,
1131* 11, • Os. &L ; balance mailable for dividend,
MON. 7a, 2d. From the above earn the director recom-
mend that a dividend be declared at the rate of 41 per cent.
'bersesses, payable on the 25th day of August, amounting

en 2,198,91111/. of paid-cop capital, to 162,965/. Is. 3d.;
leavlng to be carried over to the next half-year 3,001.
.11e. 11d. The increase In the gross revenue for the half-
year, In compute:in with *the oorreepondiUg period he
1859, is 0,8851. A compargion is thee 144;1110 be-
tween the first half-year of 1859 and the hell-
r year ending June 30, 1800. It le as 'follows:
1569, 338 ; 1800, 39a Miles two, 1869, 1,784,60 ;
1860, 1,863,861; increase, 89,012. Paneengers, 1859,
' 808,0194. ; 1860, 338,2901. ; Increase, 30,2719. Goods, 1859,
190,80 M. ;1000, 130.0111. ' • lacrease, 9,110/. Sundries, 1859,
b 218104181047.7801. ; tkeirease, WM. Total reeeipea,
,10.7,1961. ; 1800, 476,0811. Increase, 38,8861. Week.
big expenses, 1869, 197,6781. • 'lB6O, 215,3221. increase,
17.7441. Taxigke,s 1859, 24,0,161. • 1860, 23,i291. ; in-
crease, 1,2931. Ne 4 sevemee, 180, 215,5821. 100,
216,4501. ' • Mcrae% 19,8481.
"The above gross tralEc,' condense the report, has
been earned over the same member of maws of railwar.-,0
during the Lei two roadie el the corresponding
Po 18611, at an inmspeed expense, it will be seen, of
7,L., which has been caused by the greater number of
miles run by the trains during the half-year vise 61012.
by as Increased expense in the staff in the traffic depart-
ment, and repairs and outlay on the lines and dation'.
It is satisfactory to see that the traffic continues to increase.
The locomotive superintendent's report is annexed. It will
be seen from the accounts of the locomotive departmeat,
which are also appended to the report, that there has been
a saving in the expenses during the last half-year, looking
to the additional number of miles run, the total met per
train mile being 7d.71, as compared with 7d.98 in 1859.
The permanent way has been maintained in good worideg
eider, although the Mug duration of wet weather has been
most unfavourable fur snob work, and has mulled an in-
crease in the expenses. Acting on the resolution of the
proprietors, at their last half-yearly meeting, the directors
have commenced the further renewal of the permanent
way, also putthig an additional number of deepen in the
road, and fish-jointing the mils. A sum of 26,6711. has
been already expended for this object, and the work is still
in p 10,0001., on amount of the above sum, is
charged ageing revenue in these accounts. The Saliebury
and Yeovil Line was opened throughout to Yeovil
on the let day of Jane last. In their report
to the last half-yearly meeting, the directors ex-
pressed a hope that arrangeresota then conditionally made
with the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, for the con-
struction and working of a joint station at Yeovil where the
two systems meet, would receive the sanction of the pro.
prietors and parliament. The proprietors at that meeting
accorded their approval ; parliament has siuce confirmed
the transaction, and arrangements are now in progress for
erecting the joint station. The extension line from Yeovil
to Exeter was opened throughout for traffic on the 19th
July. The line sod works have been moat substantially
constructed throughout, and reflect great credit on the en-1
gineer of the line and the contractor, who have had a severe
season to deal with while completing them. The directors
anticipate a large increase of traffic to the old main
lines of the company from the rich and populous
district through which the extension line passes,
and the local traffic will no doubt be considerable.
The company have agreed to work the Dorset Central Ball-
way, the Out portion of which from Wimborne to Bland-
ford is expected to be opened for traffic during the autumn.
The directors trust it will prove a beneficial feeder to the
Southampton and Dorchester line. Powers have been ob-
tained from parliament for the construction of the junction
line described in the last half-yearly report, between this
company's Noethernhay termini.. at Exeter and the rail-
ways piths Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Comps-
aim at Exeter. Each of thee* companies having met the
board in a conciliatory manner, arrangements have ac-
cordingly been concluded and sanctioned by parliament, by
which adequate station accommodation has been secured to
this company in the Bristol and Exeter Company's (81.
David's) Station at Exeter. Both gauge, will be laid down is
that station, and the readiest means will be thus secured of ill-
terchanging traffic amongst the three systems which will here-
after meet there. Powers have ales been granted for the
laying down of the narrow gauge on the Bristol and Exeter
Railway from the St. David's station to Cowley Bridge, and
front thence over the Exeter and Crediton and the North
Devon and Bideford lines to the North of Devon. The
directors propose the immediate execution of the junction
lined between Northeruhay and St. David's stations in
connexion with the authorised alteration of the latter station,
but they purpose to defer for the present the consideration of
any further works and arrangements until after the judgment
of the proprietors thereon shall have been taken at a future
meeting. The works on the Topsham Branch are nearly
completed, end should those on to Exmouth be rapidly
proceeded with, the whole line from Exeter to Exmouth
may be opened during the autumn. The bill introduced
into parliament for authorising the extension of the
Twickenham and Kingston Branch to the Surrey side of
the Thames, has received the royal went, and the works
will be early proceeded with. The same act (the South
Western Railway (General) Act, 184i0.) also contains
various useful provisions of a general character. The fol-
lowing may be especially mentioned : -It authorises the
raising of further capital for the general purposes of the
company ; it renews and virtually perpetuates the cons.
=1
Bexpiring powers with respect to the holding and
of steam packets, and it confirms cc giros the
necessary authority to complete, with the proper legal
formalities, the company's relations with the Stokes
Bay, the Exmouth, the Wimbledon and Epsom,
and the Lymimtou Railway Companies. An act has
also been passed for completin the transfer of the
Epsom and Leatherhead ing to this company,
or to the Brighton and South Western companiee jointly.
Since the hest half-yearly- meeting the directors have, in
exercise of the powers delegated to them by the pro-
prietors, created • perpetual four-and-a-half per cent. pre-
ferential stock, and are issuing in that shape the capital re-
maining to be issued under the company's acts passed in
and previous to 18.58. The company were authorised by
acts passed in 1859 to create further amouata of share
capital, amounting together to 150,0001., and as the works
and purposes of those acts are now in course of executiou, a
r*solstien will be submitted to the coming meeting for
eashhag the directors to create and dispose of the necessary
capital for meeting the expenditure on them. By the
above-mentioned acts of the present session, further
provisions have been made as to the creation
of capital, and it is proposed to take the authority of the
meeting for exercising the powers given by the South
Western Railway (General) Act, 1860, so far as they relate
to funds necessary for the completion of the Twichoulem
and Kingston Bridge Line and the general purposes of the
company. The directors have much satisfaction in report-
ing that DOM of the invasive schemes which they were in
February last obliged to bring under the notice of the pro-
prietor*, as then ioteniled to be submitted to parliament,
have succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the legislature.
The Fareham and Southampton undertaking did not sur-
vive an early stage of its parliamentary carter ; the Poole
Extension of tho Dorset Central Railway appeared
before committee, and to avoid rejection, was wi.htvni •
and the Andover and Redbridge Extension, southward into
Southampton, and northward to join the Great Western
system, was, after full consideration, rejected in committee
in the House of Commons. The directors anticipate the
cordial support of the proprietors in their determine ion so
to manage the company's existing limes, and so conduct
their working arraagementa, as to prevent the projectors of
these or amass extensions from obtaining any just ground
fee amertine before parliament the necessity for sanctioning
any such competing and invasive measures:"

NORWICH MUSICAL FINTIVAL.—A material alte-
ration is being made to the organ in Bt. Andrew's-hall to
render it more suitable as an accompanying instrument.
The orchestra has also been altered, PO as to afford more
mom for the several performers, and at the same time to
sent a better appearance in the hall ; and the conductor, Mr.
Benedict, has expressed himself highly pleased with the
alteration. At the ball, with which the festival will
close, the company will not appear in fancy dresses, bet
gentlemen entitled to wear uniforms are invited to attend
in them. The price of admission at the evening concerts
to a portion of the side galleries iv to be reduced to
7s. 6d. The suli.committee observe, in • report Just
presented :—" With respect to the Italian vocalists (Titiens
and (liuglini) we have found it impossible, with any chance
of a remunerative festival, to accede to the extravagant de-
mands made by those through whom alone these
can be engaged. But we trust no disappointment :2°s
be
felt by the public on this more when we inform you that we
have engaged Madame Borghidilamo 113211 Signor Beßetti,
both unrivalled be their particular departments ; and when
it is moreover eomidmed Oat our evening concert will be
of • highly divenilled chanter, consisting in part of can-
tats", such as Meg Quern, Unifier, &c., and Amides, in
which English slogan are absolutely required."
CRYSTAL PALM:M.—The Metropolitan Districts of
tbe Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows bold their annual
fete In aid of the Widow and Orphan and Distress Funds
to-morrow. Beyond the usual attraction' the great
!mistime will be displayed, a round of athletic sports pro-
vided, and a great noinmee for dancing. The decorations
worn by damn will also give a pretty effect to the scene
is the pedant. The coo members antes in townto-day
by weenies miss ea fie midis' kw of seaway.