The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

Tat I xximelis; -IMMOAWAY' Ittlitititiji. luutfEiT 22, 1850.

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et neaten tyranny. The ant phi is Mr. Qhfookils jual-
Seaton el Ws Wag the geed, diners flan me
n. ea the
lateemailete diatious balers time, vrtaoh, he ern. busing
danger, net only to thensielvea, but to el other enhis
upon the lies. The mower to this b. that the pude
driven cannot get their era** up to the terminal stations
le time, unless they annul Wore time si earnie kW'
mediate stations; that the goods drivers constantly arrived
at each 'taints before time; ;hat nen arrival, were
known to the authorities; that the driven
eiders not to arrive beton time, earl that, is fast, the
plums was reeogaised by the anthaelties. I might eau.
aerate many ether eases of dam, the iallietion of whisk
has bees equally saki.% with those I have described, but
I thick I have meld quite suite est to o-ertarn wifely
the first position taken up by Mr. Gooch. His next state-
ment* that all the cases when a great deal of Arley bee
talus pleas is the arrival of the trains, have arisen Irons
tricks having been played with the amino, and be leaves it
to be inferred that such alleged tricks have been p'ay.d by
the old drivers. Dcnying fa the most positive manner on
my own pan and on behalf of the not of the men, that any
nafair procreediag has takes plant by us is reference to the
workiag of the enables, I will show you how totally un-
tainted Mr. Gooeb's statement is as to the ease s of the
recent late arrivals of the pomenger trains. The brat feet I
have testate is, that already have some of the 77 able end
'Saint new kende burnt, as we auderstand, six, on seven of
the sampan 's ruing*. It is poggible we may be mistaken
fa tne slumbers of the eng nee, bat I believe there is so
doubt that as many as I have stated have beea beret within
the the last four or Ave days The numbers of the burst
engines. u we bays hatrihem given to at, are No. ha, 59,
197, 141, 131, 41, and the " Cambridge." Barely neither
the directors gee Mr. Gooch will .ay that any of theta
have igen burnt in conlequeaco of say of the old drivers
putting tallow or oil lath the tendon og grit Into the silo
bous, a statement which, as I have be fore said, is wally
devoid of truth. The great cease of delay in the arrival of
the trains has arisen, not from the priming of the eosin*,
that is, the throwing of the water out of the boiler into
the cylinders, and from thence late the West pipe, which
would be the off ct of plan, grimace oil ia the tender, nor
by the beating of the axles, which would very probably take
lases If grit were plaited in the axle boas. I repeat that
the delays have rot arises from either of thetas cause., but,
as is notoriously the ease, from a want of steam ; and that
seek want of steam has arises from no trick played by the
'old men—from ao defect la the matitisery—but fro.d the
utter incompetency of sho new men. I: any facts were re.
quintet to prove this, they would be found in the frequent
• sticking," as we term it, of the Woolwich train at the
Stratford unation, when, ; will recollect, the pauengers
the other day had to get out of the carriage* and assist in
paid, the train to the top of the incline; and in the in-
ability of one of the new drivers to keep stem with the
Wiebeach express trait:, consisting of four carriages
only. However, I need not say any mon on this
total. The facts are befen engineering men, and
the rbi-• who will judge ben.. en Mr. Gooch and
soarer Tim But to come to toe other portion of our disproof
of Mr. Gush's amertion, that all the sew buds are drivers
who have come to him with good testimonials—that is, that
they are good drivers, of sober habits, end orderly conduct.
Thu is a question of considerable delicacy to our elves
bemuse it must at all times be ezesaliagly unpleasant fur
workmen to make charges against oath other ; but the pe-
culiar circumstances under which we are placed, gut! one
emphatic contradiction that Mr. Gooch has Nivea to the
statement we have made respecting tne characters of the new
driven, lostiiy, wsole they demsed, all the proofs we can urge
in support of our statement. And here I invite our late em-
ploy. cc to appoint a committee of disinterested and competent
persons from amongst the shareholders to inverieate the
Oar's we have made, and still mike, that many of the new
men engaged to work the line have been discharged from
other railway companies for incompetency and drunkenness;
sal l emits this investigation, not art • question b twit n
directors and shareholders, but so a question involving the
char-ever, and thereto,. in a great measure the v. ry exist-
ence of the whole body of my brother drivers and tart men,
whore long, and I hope I may say faithful, ureic ,a to vie
company entitle them to ask for such an inquiry. The last
and most material point is Mr. G ioch's assertion that "he
never had an intention to reduce were or to inereare the
day's work of any_ man." I regret that I am bound to say
that in this case Mr. Gooch has not stated the feet. You have
all heard both Wm. Hewitt and George Cann, two very old
driven, state what Mr. Gooch himself said upon the 'stint.
To Cann he said, that he did not intend tope, the W1;011 be
Wino) was receiving (vas., 7e. 6d. per day); that he wouldhave vary few at 75., sad that he would not pee any fireman
4s. per day. To Hewitt he said, that be (Hewitt) must
remove his family to Norwich, in order to ran the Norwich
'emu to Lends and back in one day ; and that he would
recede • dare wagee for the work ; ant when Hewitt renion•
strated, Mr. Gonna said that he (Hewitt) would sot be the
only person that would h.ve to do the same work fur the
same pay, as be intended to have the trains alter. d to run
from L ectlia to Norwich and back dal,. Such, fellow-
workmen are the emple facts of the dist.ute between
Gooch ooeth and oar elves. I could, if it were actuary,
creepy your time for the next hoar in furnishing you
with other facia in proof of what I have stated to you.
but I thick I have sill enough in jlllllitiC4,ioll of all :4at
we have advanced, and I now think we may rebel; appeal
to the public, who I am sure will judge rightly between ug.
(Loud cheers.)
The following reselution was then unanimuuly curl 1 :
" That we, the 'seamen and firemen, lately in the ein-
pl.yase nt of the Eastern Comities Railway C .mnany, leave
learned with repot that statemems have b en pub jetted in
the atonic' papers of this day, on behalf of Mr. Girth,
purporting to be a true expLnsiou of the grievances of
which we complain ; and with reference to such statements
we have is the most cordial manner to say that we et ite
with our chairman in giving to them the most &tiled and
unqualified contradiction."
Some instances of very late arrivals of trains and other
imsularities were &dere& and an• meeting broke up.

VERDICT OF MANOLAtIiIITER AtiAINST AN OVER-
Loons& OF A Corrox MILL.—On Friday last an adjourned
inquest was held from the previous Wednesday. at Roch-
dale, on the body of lilsabeth Close, who, it was alleged,
bad been killed oy being thrown down afl ght of steps in
the sill of Mr. Howard, of Cheetham-street, by the over
Samuel Ilraiey. The accused was present during
the proceediop. From the evidence of several witness
it appeared that on Tuesday afternoon deceased was at her
work in the roving room. Healey, who was the over.
looker, complained that oectased could not keep her frames
; he told her to go home, and she replied she would
fl'st see Mr. John Pilitog, the manager, ar d who is also
one of the firm. She was at her work, and reltuiag to
leave, Healey dragged her up the alley to the landing of
the s•airs. Hers he stru:gled with her from Ave to tea
miauter ; be broke her hands from the ben iron, and threw
her down steps—twelve in number. She was removed
home between three and four o'clock in the afternoon ;
Mr. Bower., surgeon, was in alendanor, bat she died soon
after five o'clock on Tu *day evening. Deceased
had worked at the mill nearly six year,. The ov.rloAter
had only been overlooker about six weeks. It app. seed
by the evidenee of the unfortunate young woman's
lather, James Clegg, painter, Mount Pleasant, and also
by the evidence of her stepmother, that dune g the last
fortnight she had often complained of the coo-
duet of the overlooker, who had threatened to dis-
charge her; and that she had never been complained
of about her work until the present overlook., came
to the mill. The overlooker had net used any violence to
the younz woman before Tuesday last—Mr. B mars, sur-
geon, who hail made a post shortens examination of the body,
gave it u his opinion detested had died from tt e wound at
the back other head, which might be caused through having
been pulled down the steps, as stated above.—Mary T
a young woman, 26 years of age, stated that she worked in
the low. r room at Mr. Howard's sill, working near the
door, and saw deceased tell at the bottom of the s. road
flight of steps. The left site of her head came in contact
with the wall. She was unable to speak, and was vita
helpless. From the evidence of this witness, it appears the
deceased must have fallen or teen thrown down two flights
of steps ; the one GOA was ten, and the other either nine
or eleven steps. There were four overlookers at the mill,
and the prisoner was more strict with the bands than the
inners. Witness had worked et Mr. Howard's upwards of
two years. Ann Burns merely corroborated the evidence of
other witnesses.—Mr. John Pilling, manager of the mill,
having bees sworn, stated that deceased, Elisabeth Clegg,
came to him about half-past two o'clock on Tuesday after-
noon last ; he was Ia the factery yard, and she told him that
Samuel Healey, the overlock-r, had turned her away from
her work; he ordered her to return to her work again, and
told her he would come to her in the mid in a few minute
After she left him to go to her employment again, he (wit-
her) went into the shed to look at some looms, and in a
short :inks afterwards he saw persons carrying the deceased
out of the factory. They took her to the house of Thomas
Battiest, a divans. of about fourteen yards. Samuel Hea-
ley, the prisoner, was following the party to Bedtimes
house. Witness went to see what was the matter; he found
the deceased quite insensible. He afterwards went into
the mill, where he found the overlooks, (Healey), and
upon inquiring what had been the matter, he told his
the deceased ba I been spoiling her work, and he had
ordered her to leave. She told him (Healey) she was
there before he came, and she would not go away. Wit-
ness said that Healey told him he pot hold of her to put her
out of the frame gate; she got hold of the fly and resisted ;
be loosed her hand, but after that she went further, and got
hold of the frame end ; hs got her to the door at the landing
of the stairs, where she got hold of the bell iron, and after-
wards the !intro( the door; he made her let go, and she hit
(struck) him in the fees. after which he let her go and she
fell down the steps. Witness also said that Healey told him
deceased had s:ruck him with a wheel four or five pound• in
weight —By the coroner: Overlookers have power to Ms-
sharp or take on new hands when the bands spoil worn
they have no right to use any vh•lence to the hands; but if
she had spoiled her work, as stated, it was the duty of the
overloeker to have stopped her frame, if she would not leave
without, The overlook,' ought not to have acted as stated
above. The deceased had worked at the mill nearly live
years.—The jury unsalted a few mieutes, and returned e
verdict of " Manslaughter" against EleaF_y.
RURAL FETE AT CHARLTOIII.—Mr. George Hall
Graham, architect, has for sever4l year. past given an annual
WO to the children attending the Sunday school held in
Salem Chapel, Woolwich, on the beautiful grounds of
Hanging Wood, the property of Sir Thos. Meryon Wilson,
Bart. of Charlton, who kindly allows the grounds to be
opened gratuitously on these 0011alliMil. The annual qt. for
1860 wee hold on Tu,sday last, and the day being remark.
ably fine the children, upwards of 400 in number, aeumbled
pi proueded to the ground with their respective teachers.
Two buds were in attendance, and a spotless tent erected,
where about 000 parsons partook of tea. The children, under
their teachers, sung several hymns, and were then ad-
dressed by the Rev. Dr. Jenkyn, of Coward College. Toe
Hey. Dr. Carlisle, of Salem Chapel, Woolwich, on behalf of
Mr. Graham, presented a beautifully hound volume to each
of the female swam

RAILWAY MEETINGS.

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The Midis in passengers has fallen of nondierably, both
'a somber and ammult. The number of pamengers con-
veyed during the Minima ending the 30th of Jane lut was
104,641, and the amount 7,4681, and for t%• corresponding
period of 1819, 114,872 passengers, and 8,6201 receipts, show-
ier a decrease of 1,0321. In the merchandise trifle there
was an i •ereses of 16,162 tone, and in the receipts, 1,4161.
The goods trams on the Huntingdon line continues to be
worked by horses, and • o.niage for passengers is worked in
the same manner. The Eastern Counties Canpany eontinne
to run two trains daily with anginas over the line,
The capital amount to the 30:b of June shows that
1,316,1631. had been received, and 1,316,9”1. xpended,
leaving • balance of 2081. Ti. revenue awns; for the
haltyear ending the 30th of June states that 18,8291. had
been received, sad 11,8161. ezpended, leaving a balance of
7 0141.

The CHAIRMAN, on moving the adoption of the report,
regretted the falling-off in the passenger traffic, arising from
Ma distressed state of the district. He was sorry to inform
them that etegneetions had been throw. in the way of their
traffic by the Euless Gaieties C,•mpany, who had refused
to book their penmen aid goods traffic, although the di-
rectors had t ffsred to pep the money in advance as security
to that company. He smoldered that the opening of the
Great Northern line wee • fortunate einem:gams for
them, as it would give them facilities whisk were
withheld by the Enure Counties Company. He
then alluded to the proceedings in Chancery as to whether
I the simple content creditors took providence of the
Inedhollers. Tkiit court weal have o decide whether
the bondholders cool I claim the stock and plant of the
railway, or whether their claim was not confined to a prior
claim on the lotto oily, and also whether the other creditors
of the company had a claim oe the plant A receiver had
been appointed with the view of preventing the different
creditors from tearing the property to pieces. The directors
were anxious to preserve the rights of every creditor, and to
give a preference to none of them. Their oily object wee
to save the company [ems the fangs of the low, and to place
the property in a sound condition by means of some kind of
mutual concession. The directors were of opinion that this
might be effected by extending the period of the bonds to
six years, and by reducing the rate of interest to 4 per cent ,
on condition that all arrears of interest should be paid off,
and the interest in future be paid punctually, reducing the
bend debt to 350,0001,, and paying off nine-tenths of the
contract debts, and that no further simple contract debts
should be incurred in future ; the preference dividends of 7
per met. to be reduced to 6 per cent. • and that the shut-
holders ghoul t agn• to take up 20,000 of those preference
these, the calls on which not to exceed 3/. 10s. per share,
toerend over the of at three year*. Taking the net income
of the compels, at 16,0001. • y, ar, there would be 10,0001. to
pay the interest on the bond*, leaving 6,0001. to pay the gua-
rantee of 5 per mot. per annum on the preference shores
and on the calls already made—say to the amount of 77,0001
Several if the old shareholders in Hull, London, and other
places, considered the plan a good one, and were of opinion
that it could be carried out emcees/011r. He r. grin, d that
the bondholders' a•mmittee had not given their assent to the
scheme, but he understood they had • counter prop ,siiion to
submit, which, as far as he could judge, wee not predicable,
and w.inld involve • larger income to meet the liabilities.
Mr. RUSSELL said he represented the committee of
bondholders, and the n entered at considerable lent h into
the question. He complained that the plc n proposed by the
directors had not been submitted to the committee in the
first instance. The difficulty was, that the company were
overburdened with debt, and they were obliged to provide
amity to satisfy certain claims; they had also to complete the
bridge at Wisbesch end to tone the junction at Huntingdon
with the Great Northern Railway. The plan prop .aed by the
committee was to place all the creditors nn the same b.ot-
lug The bond debt amounted to 290,0001, and the 'debt
of the simple contract :medians to 30 0001. The 7 per
tent preference shares were consider-u by commereial men
to be worth nothing, beceuse they ceuld not claim a
farthing ucti! after those creditors were paid, and there wan
no inducement to take them up. The committee proposed
teat the debts due to the bond and contract creditors should
bs converted into 6 per cent. preference shares, and to
rale. • further SUM of 24,0001. on the came class of shares
to complete the junction line; so that all the creditors
would be placed on • level, which he thought was the
most equitable plan they could devise. He dtd not ap-
prove the plan proposed by the directors of paying off
50 per cent. of the contract debts, and but only 10 per
cent. of the bond debt. By the plan proposed by the com-
mittee only 24 0001. would be required, id ile by the direc-
tors' pldn 77,0001. would have to be relied. Both proposi.
lions were capable of modification, and he hoped on further
contiderati in they would be enabled to adopt some plan be-
neficial to all parties. He contended that the bondholders
and preference abarehol•lers were the only interested parties
in the company, and that the chief management should be
placed in their hands, and that only one director representing
the original shareholders should have a seat at the proposed
mew bleed until such time as the profits of the line were
sufficient t 3 pay more than 5 pvr cent. on the preference
shares proposed to be created. When the net earnings
exceeded that unmet the old directors were again to t,ke
office.

The CHAIRMAN entered into a comparison of the two
plans, and stated that what he proposed was to reduce the
tnterest on the bonds to 4 per cent., and the amount of debt
from 350,0001. to 230.0001. He bad no doubt that with
interest of 4 per cent. paid punctually on the bonds the
holders might go into the market and sell at pie. He showed
the impracticability of converting the bond debt into pre-
(none, shares, and objected to the plan of placing the
direction entirely in the bands of the preference sharshalden.
There wool.) be an end to the law suits by paying off the
contract eviditors, al proposed by the directors.
A li.zug eon aaaaa tion ensued, in the course of which it was
stated that the restriction to the mment of the interest
warrants would be shortly rt movsd, and the parties would
receive that. money. The financial scheme would not be
pot to the vote at this meeting, but would have further con-
sideration.
The report was then adopted.
A discussioa on the propriety of having the solici'ors'
bills taxed lasted a considerable time, in which Mr. Kit.
tarick, Mr. Winning, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Ashton took
part. At length it was agreed that the solicitors' unsettled
bills should be suhteitted to the auditors in the first instance,
and afterwards to one of the Masters of the Court of Exche-
quer, who decision should be final. After a promige that
every facility should be afforded to the auditors in their
examination of the accounts, the prooesdings concluding
with a vets of thanks to the chairman and directors.

WILTS, SOMERSET. AND WEYMOUTH
RAILWAY.

Yesterday the half.yearly ordinary meeting of the
shareholders in the above company was held at the White
Lion Hotel, Bath. Sir J. Awdry, chairman of the Board
of Directors, presided. The attendance was scanty, con.
prising but few shareholders beyond the directors present.
The CHAIRIIAN said their business to-day, since the
sale of their line to the Great Western Company, was little
more than formal, and he might almost say the same of the
attendance, without any discourtesy to those who had ho
noured the directors with their presence. He had now to
rcport, on the Dart of the director, that the deeds entered
into between the two companies in conacquence of the
agreement entered into on the 31st Dee., 1849, for the sale
of the undertaking to the Great Western Company, bad,
sinew their last meeting, been completed, the seals of the two
companies hod been affixed to them, and the deeds ex-
changed. The undertaking had now passed out of their
bands altogether—it had been sold, by the express consent
of the shareholders, to the Great Western Company—and
consequently they had no power over the works, and bad
only the 4 per cent. guaranteed on their stock to look to.
Ater the business of the present ordinary meeting was over,
ea extraordinary meeting would be held, fur the purpose of
comdierieg and determining the propriety of holding the
future ordinary general meetings of this company is the
months of Jan. and July, instead of Feb. and Aug., as here-
tofore. This would be more convenient, as the former months
were those in which they would receive their dividends, and
in future their meetings would be little more than formal.
Two members of the board of directors, Mr. Blade and Mr.
Felting, had become disqualified by the sale of their shares,
but the board was only acquainted with this fact, as regarded
one of these gentlemen, until they taw the register of the
shareholders, to which the seal had been affixed this day.
In the room of Mr. Slade, Mr. Ltiabourne 8. P. Lam-
bourne, of Timehury, had been elected provisionally by the
directors, and the present meeting was called upon to lane-
, ti ao that choice. He (the chairman) did not know that
he had anything further to communicate, but if any proprie-
tor present wished further Information, the directors were
now ready to afford it, provided it was of a kind within their
competence to do so. Otherwise be would put the report he
had thus verhallv given, to a show of bands.
A SHAREHOLDER asked how long these meetings
were to continue, sines they had sold their line, and the
deeds were exchanged ?
The CHAIRMAN replied, so long es the company had a
distinct wwporate existence ; it was the duty of the Great
Western directors to declare • dividend to their own share-
holders; but a certain dividend was guaranteed to this com-
pany, which they as a company must meet to naive; and
it was necessary they should keep themselves alive as a body
for that purpose. They moot make their claim on the Great
Western as a company, and as a company declare their
dividend.
A SHAREHOLDER *Lid his impression was, that they
having mid their property to the Great Western Hallway

Compaq fir rrtels psnedioal payments, fits Great Western
anon, wield =eke those mussed, on well es Mar own.
Tb CHAIRMAN said: If .ay Web alteuld ono aria,,
this saispany la Its corporate asperity, must matte its plain
as the Groat Western: so Individual shareholder could do
ou. it wee highly seeesoary, therefore, for thin to keep
thoseinine alive se a senpany.
Tho emmotaisan who had asked the question expressed
Wiwi, satisfied, sad the report wu adopted ucaolsoissly.
The mantis, having resolved Itself Into au extraordinary
saws! antra& t 4 sapintioe: of tM dineton for altering
the Una of the erilissry emend werrlags ist future, was
.creed to, aged the preseediage toradmeted.

Wen LONDON RAILVIAT.—YestrrdAy the ball-
petty meeting of this eompan_y we. WO at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate.etreet. 5T17111111 BM; Req.. took
the Our. Mr. Tarquand, the secretary, read the report
" The mocha against the Load.* sad North Waters Com-
pany sleet for trial, and the jury were chosen in the mouth
etieue Let, sad the directors hoped it would hays bees
Villa before the Curt of Common Pleas rose for the vacs
doe, but the number of speeLsl tory canon in smear was
sub, that the Amin did not even reach the list of new
caws s; your directors, however, feel coafident that it will
Irene on for trial in December next, and they still entertain
the lama opinion as to the result which they expressed to the
shintholders at the lest halt yearly meeting. The trams on
the land shows a total Inert... of 3,600 tons over the tee-
thes half-year. In the traffic from the railway there has
bon an increase of 4,300 tons, but to the railway there has
been a decrease of 2,600 tons. The directors have been
applied to by the ' Inca Hall Coal Company' to afford them
facilities in the transit of coal on the canal, by the formation
of a stage, for the purpose of enabling the railway trucks to
disehuge coals at once into the barges—the direeton, feeling
that the additional traffic, which would be thereby brought on
the canal must be considerable, have acceded to the applies-
lion. The requisite outlay i. estimatid at about lON. The
eirectors regret that it is not in their power to report more
favourably upon the circumstances cone acted with the state '
of the account. of Mr. Thompems, the late secretary of the
estimpsay. The repeated assurances gives by Mr. Thomp-
son, previous to the last half-yearly meeting. induced the
directors to express a hope that the company would not ulti-
mately suffer less on his account. The directors were in-
formed shortly after that meelicg that Mr. Thompson had
' left this country, and without giving them any means of '
communicating with him until within the last month, when
a letter was received from him dated from the United State..
The directors have lost no time in opening a communication,
cad have addressed a letter to him, urging upon bim the ne-
cessity of relieving himself from his present position with
the e mpaoy. Tee directors report that they have sp.
pointed Mr. William Turquaod the secretary to the com-
pany, in the room of Mr. Thmopion ; and they further re-
port, that they have made arrangements by which the an-
anal exminditun of the company is considerably reduced."
The Recounts subjoined to the report showed the following
results: Receipts up to December 31. 1849, 289,7811.95. 34d.;
to June 80, 1860, 3501 18.. 2d.; balsam brought forward in
ledger, doe to creditors, 151. 15e. 6d.; total receipts,
290.1481. 2s. 100. Expenditure to December 31, 1849,
287,6991 10s. Ild.; to June 30, 3251.45. 3d.; total expendi-
ture, 288,0241. lb. 2d. ; balances carried forward in
' ledger, 8621. 15a. 40.; cash in bad, 1,2601. 12e. 4d.
Mr. Rigby made several absentia.= in respect to the items
of the balance sheet, end protested against passing then as
counts, which would be passing over the 8001. due to them by
their Late secretary. (Hear.)—Mr. Ainsworth (a director)
said he thought the better plan is that cue would be to fol-
low the same coarse as et the ltd meeting, of a :opting the
report only exclusive of the accounts. —The Secretary said in
reply to a q'testion, that 3801. of the amount of Mr. Thorop•
soo's deficiencies had been recovered, and a correspondence
had taken place, which it was hoped would lead to some fur-
ther recovery of money.—Mr. White argued that some
friendly arrangement should take place between this com-
pany and the London and North Western Company, with a
view to divert put of the contemplated me ffie to the exhibi-
tion of 18.51 to the West London Railway.—Mr. Rigby
urged the directors to bring the eve of this company before
the houses of perliamet t, with a view to get just:es done to
their claims.—The Chairman said the great e. mpanies had
flatly refused to work the line according to the agreement,
and therefore the directors hod token counsel's opinion.
(li.ur.) The report of the directors was then adopted, ex-
elusive of the accounts. After a vote of thinks to the chair-
man and directors, the meeting adjourned:

HALF-YEARLY ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT

hOIiTHERN.
The auditors of this company hare reported to the
chairman and directors that the books and acc3unts up to
the 30th of Jun* lot are correct, and is every reepeot to
their entire satisfsction.

The capital account to the 29th of Jute, 1850, shows an
array of ri ceipm as follows : —From dep.sits end 11 calls,
4.731,0191. 1.5 x.; from paid in &dear ce of cells, 35991. ;
from extension capital account, 72,3761. 14.. ; from cal's and
instalments of prelefenee capital, 798,1071 ; from loan. on
mortgage, 1,077,7901. These, with sou.e minor items, make
up a total of receipts of 6,7231,4071. 18. 6.1.
The same account shows the I olowmg amount of pay-
metes :—The total wens,. preliminary to tho passiog,
of the act were—of the London and Y fk Comp .my;
311.2121. 17s. 114 ; of the Direct N Ithern, 436,2231. 4.. 61.
in 01413612231.25. Si. The expenditure subs, quent to the
Blow of the accounts presented to the half-yearly general
meeting in February last was 5,070,9311. Bs. 7,.. Ot this sum
2,914,6421.1 e. 31. was for works and met, dal*. The charges
for land and compensation, amounted to 1,168,9971.10'. 74. ;
the advertising, printing, postage, and parcels, amounted to
8,6811 12s. 2d.; the office expense', rent, etc , to 6.5461.60. 5d
the travelling expenses, to 2,65.11.8.. 7d.; the directors and
auditors cost 8,6321. 85. 4d.; the ailed, s amounted to
. .

17,8131. 1.. 2d ; the law and sag ;nee zing expenses in parlia-
ment to 129,9991. 18s. 61.; the interest paid on capital and
advances on loans was 307.6621 3s. 9d. In all the expendi-
ture of the company, previous to the commencement of the
half year which ended on the 29th of June last, was
5,406,1571 111. ; the expenditure of the last halt year has
been 916,8061. Os Bd., of thiswum 143 8591. 18.. 9d. went
for land and compensation; 410,0761. I:'s. Id. for work. acd
materials; 129,7191 Bs. 44. fur interest on capital ard ad-
vances; the advertising, &c., azoount for the halt-year,
amounts to 9221. 71. 2i.; the taco expenses. 4tc., to
1,0151, ls. Id.; the travelling expense a to 3191. 18. 10d. ;
the dire-tors and auditon to 1,0251. • the salaries to
1,9851. 161. 71 The total expenditure of company since
the commencement has been 6,892.9631. Ili. Ed.
. . . . . .

The balance left is 330,4441. 6.. 10.1. Of tbia balance
there is 232,1631. 14s. 84. in cub, and 98,2801. 12s. 2d. in-

vested in shares in other lines.
The revenue statement foe the half-vrar ended the 29th
of June last shows a return from vaflic of 65,0131. 6s 61. ;
from interest on nun balance of 191. 115. 3d ; 'rum fines of
31 17s. 8.1 ; in all, 68.0661 16s. 51. The total expenditure
for the balf.year is 43.8731. 16s. 71. ; of this, 40,1121. 19s. 3d.
has Men incurred for " working charges."

There are some open claims on th; etAapany for station
te-tmosodation at Peterbor4unb, Rrtford, and edinsford.

,
During the half-year the engines of the company ran with
pas-finger trains 383,139 miles ; with irneds tratnr, 167.048 ;
piloting, &c., 40,2,4 ; b 'Heating, &r., 18,621 • in all, 609.093
miler. There were consumed 192,02ewm. of mkt =_-35.31b5.
per mile run ; of which the east was 8,0621. 6s. 1,1 =3-174.
p.r mile run. Tao total working charge of 40,1121. 19s. 3d.
is equal to 58 95 per cent. on the gross earnings, and to
Is. M. per mile nn the total 609,093 miles run.
The account of the loadyke and Witham Navigation for
the half-year ended the 29 h of June last shows a loss on the
half-year of 3,3741. 101. sd. The recoipts amount to
8,0091. 41. 10d. ; the expenditure to 11,3831. 15s. 35.
The net revenue account of the Great N rth, re Railway
Company to the 29th of June 1840. is in subtitles as fel-
lows : Tna company is credited for balance of traffic account
to the 31st of December, 1549. the sum of 15,6341. 184. 7d. ;
for balance of traffic account to the 29th of June 1850, the
sum of 24,19..1. 18s. 10d.: in all 39,8271. "The sets-off
against thisore : Dividend of 6 per cent. on perpetual prefer-
eats 121. 10' shares, 10,0001 ; guaranteed rent on paella-
' raintary capital of 600,0001. due to the East Lincolnshire
Railway Company for half-year ending 30th June, 18,0001.;
interest on bonded debt of the East Lincolnshire Company,
6531. ss. 2d. •, adverse balance of Foes and Witham Navi-
gation., 3,3741. : in all, 31,9261. 15.. 7d.
This leaves a balance of 7,9001. le. 101. on the half year in
favour of the company.
We may observe, in winclusion, that we have been much
struck with the neatness and clearness of these accounts,
and with the admirable form adopted of making them out.