The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-11 00:00:00

SPORTING.

RADCLIFFE RACEIL—IEMIDAT.
Hatton Pam emus of 6 sova wit sad 26 Wiled.
The siesed torn Metals.. Oas oda (4 sato.)
Mr. msfai.vo•urts. 3 yt,. Mt we ,• ----.....(T. Dodd) 3
Mr. 6.341.1th's flosaass. I re, to 55........... .... ..... . I
Mr. asides aglow, 4 yes, is 121%
Mr. Mots Lady away, 1 yea Ist
6 tis 4 se Malty, woo area easy by tbrs• boobs.
Two lIA IIFOLD STAMM of 6 sow. sob, sad 30 added.
Tko owed to saes his mks. Ttworipartoso of • mar.
(6 sobs
M.M. G. fistastslialsms mt
ann— .84 Alb ... Mal* I
1
Ptitiossesio Ws
Mr. aurwarts 110 Mb
Mr. lassets N. 1..
6to sea Madams Women. Woo easy by throe tread's.
Wtheom Cue of 1004, .dad to a haiiiisap of 14 ors.
sate, 10 ft, sad 6 may if dedarod. The...end to saes his
auks. Two uflitised a di.. On eats., 11 dealsrod.)
Mt. Malts Cludhasdar 4yr ME Mb. (I. Haw)) 1
Mr. Osaarats lady *4 yrs, rat nb......... --(Abdo* I
Mr. Orabst4 Maio aye, 3•11111 —...........(Miatt 3
Mr. MesOsaisd MO. 4 yrs, hag. ......... ........(Esse 4
Mr. !Madmen Se
Mr. (I.o.4sess II
3 yrs, Ss Mb.. (O«+. 11
sto 4 us nisithsr, 2 r... 1 sot Mads—Safs, 6to agst
Alp, 7 to I sgst Lady Bylda, sad 8 to 1 mist Ostend Salo.
Woo okverly by lal/441 ports of • length ; Lady Hylds bas-
ks' Wads la's by 4 lay*. Ths pap was good thregmbast.
Maws. Pun of 284addsd to • strospstakto of 3 sou.
sash, lb. wood to am hi. stab., oats all* and a ball (7
subs.), was wog la fora heats by Yr. Drbsoa's b f by Jerry,
8 ye, Est 10Ib (Deborah), bootleg Mr. 0 west's Cezueript, 3
yrs, 7.1, Mr. Peatee's Mepulss, 5 yrs,l34 81b, sad four other.,
after airs rase.

LICHFIELD RACES-110011AT.
PHODI7Oa swiss of 10 soca. such sad 20 added. Os{
ails sad a quastor. (12 subs )
Mr. Towlw's Jack Wisp (Whiteloole) 1
Mr. Mixes Modenina... „
Mr. Ooptiald's Late of tladarley
EITAPPOZDeIIiia bruits of 16 woo. as*, 10 ft, awl 6
ealy if declared, with 60 added ; the &woad to ease hieetaks
I Miles. (91 gab., 14 of when desisted.) •
Mr. Oopolaad's Osadleatok, $ yrs, Oat 1310. (.harp) I
Mr. almezeo Doubt. 4 pa, Mt 1110 ........ .....(Vflateboae)
Mr. Hatk..sh Macats,ll yrs, 64 1111.
lads. Pagot ad Dm Jam, 4 yrs Mt 71a. 4
Two INAS OLD STASIS of 10 son. each sad 60 added.
Last half wile. (8 gabs.)
Mr. Thillipes La lobe (Marlow) 1
Mr. towlesi Damper
LIONIIII.LD dratted of 10 sow. each and 26 added. One
Idle and a half.

- - —.
lir. I. Defs Oolowywthos, 11 rs, 7st 713 (Gams) 1
Mr. Yon*, oft It a by Jested, 3 yrs, 7st
Yr. Thomyssa's Atopos 3 yrs, tit Mb 3
Two calm DA.

CRI(`ICHT.

V. TWENTY OF BRAD-
-Sm. 9.
Past laelcp.)
1. Ingle, a b Milyir l4
Bankart, Eq., b Mayas— 0
kw% b 1161yar
M. durst, lA.. b fia3Vogall 3
U. dam. Sag, a aVA b
UL
Load. , Dot out 7
Hepwartl4 ran oat 0
bliarliasen 0
64164.'1

Total lOl

I GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAIL-
WAY (IRRLAND

The half-yearly moral Iseetiog of this company
we. held at the umlauts Dablih, on Mond.; Sir EDWD.
McDornrata, chairman of the complay, presiding.
The following was the lace material portion of the direc-
tam' repair, wbial was of a highly satirfactory character :
The grim trains reeeipts for the half year hero boon
103,403 i. Ns. 34., sad, es compared with 93.7451. 61. for
the previews half year, show sa inaeaes of 6,7631. 10. 3d.
nit totemic arise. shied, is the pawing,: traffic, and is
mainly sitsibataWs to Ms Amiss whish were made eight
swaths ago in Ms fares. The number of poolroom ma-
'eyed has not materially increased, whet compared with
tat tiorreepondiag period of lest year, although
As as»m-
medation and fecilities, mom especially to third elms per-
sonsen, have been greatly eatanded.
" The rewire from cattle ham elm steadily Improved,
but the Roods' traffic don not show so famsratils a result.
The continued Inactive state of the towhee°, of the siountry,
and the violent sompetitisa by anal sod sum- beat oarriags
have operated against it; but this state of things *mot be
of long duration, sad with a bosotilel harvest the directors
look forward with soatfidence to a hive and conaidemblo
increase In this branch of revenue.

" The malt of the entire traffic, however, under all
eroumstanees, very encouraging; and the directors are en-
' &bled, out of the net earnings for the half year, and after the
payment el interest on the Debeatore Debt and Preferential
Stock, to reformatted a dividend of 16e. per share, being at
the rate of three moat. per annum oa the subscribed capi-
tal, leaving a Warta of 4,6301. 45..5d. to be carried to the
neat half-year's amount; and it is ratiatactory to them to
state that eines the making up of the aeoonate to the 30th
June there has been a farther increase in the receipts of up
wards of 3601. per week.
" The direoton are now giving their ancient attention to
the closing of all accounts with their contractors ; and they
fully expect to be able, at their neat half yearly meeting, to
patient a closed capital amoun , se far as regards the main
line from Dublin to Kilberry.~ with their subscriptiee to the
branch from Carlow to Kilkenny, which is intended to be
opened foe public traffic during the month of October nett.
There will then only remain to he completed the tunnel
from Kilharey to the River Lee, a distance of little more
than a seile,".

Sir John Maclshil, the engineer of the company, in his
report, stated : " I sin happy to be enabled to report that
the works on the whole of the line from Dur;in to Cork, sad
on the breach to Carlow, are in a very peclect Eat.. ; the
permanent way is in excellent order, and the embinkments
and raseonry sound and firm. The qaicks are much im-
proved along the line, and in a short time will firm a secure
.od permeate' knee. The station houses are well atteeded
to, the platforms are well gravelled and neatly kept, and the
whole appearance of the lime is most creditable to the officers
and parties employed upon it."
After some dimension the motion for the adoption of the
report was carried, and a dividend of 16e. en each or.ginal
share (or 3 per cent. per menus) was declared.
The meeting war then made specisl, and as forfeiture or
76 shares in urear of cal:s was confirmed.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAT.—Tne following letter
has been addressed to the proprietors of the South Eastern
Railway Company calling the gen• real met tine of shareholders;
" Grad emen,—At the., ecial general meeting of the company
held on the 15th ult the following resolution. were passed :
Pin,—That the holden of the consolidated South Eastern
Railway No. 3 stock, tommonly known, before their conver-
sion into stock, as the No. 3 shares of this compauy, be ad-
mitted to a participation In all dividends to be hereafter de-
clared of profits of the undertaking, including t...c dividend
for the half-yi ar ending on the 31st of July. 18.50. Second,
That the holden of the Consolidated South Eastern Railway
No. 4 stock, oommorly known, before their convinion Into
Meek, ea the No. 4 shun of this company, be admitted to
• partici/onion in all dividends to be II fter de-
sisted of profits of the undertaking, Including the divi-
dend for the hal.. year ending on the 31st of July, 1850.
The directors convened that motion, and proposed the ?c-
-abala. then adopted, under the advice of Sir Fi'sroy
ReSy, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Mr. C. Hogging, and Mr. 11.
A. Merewether' whose opinion woo recited in the directors'
repot to you of the 2nd August last; and, acting under the
same educe, a special general meeting of the company is
called for the 19th instant, to precede the halryearly general
meeting on that day, for the pu'pote of maiming, if the
company see fit, the reviutions, passed on the 15th of Ah-
erne', admitting the holders of the No. 3 end No. 4 shares to
dividend f v the last balf•yeer and to all future dividends.
And the directors will, at the half-yearly general mating,
which will follow the special meeting, propose a evolution
deelaring a dividend on the whole capital stock of the com-
pany, including the No. 3 and 4 stocks, at the rate of 3 per
emu. per annum. The italtyearly accounts and balance-
shut were placed in the heads of the auditors en the 4th
int., and will be circulated with the directors report in a few
days.—(Sigusdl JAIIIIII 111.0011ZOOR. Chairman.
DIRECT MID-KENT RAlLWAY.—Meetings of the
landowners and inhabitants, at which were present the Mar-
quis Camden, Bari Stanhope, Lords Amherst, Mahon,
and other., have been held at Canterbury and Sevenoaks,
with the view of making rreliminazy arrangements for
another epplication to parliament for a direct line through
Mid Kent to Maidstone and through North Kent to Dover.
Resolutions were passed to the effect that there should be a
general conference of the landowners, who should appoint
trustees to he promoters of the measure ea epublic road or
highway. .
ORLEANS, TOURS, AND BORDEAUX RAILWAY.
The French government have amended the original conces-
sions granted to this company. The original lease, which
wen 27 years 278 days, ha been extended to fifty year., to
data as before from the entire completion of the double line
from Orleans to Bord. aux, which will be effected in about
et: years from the present time. The great advantage ari-
sing from this augmented tam is a reduction of 1 1.10 per
mt is the licking fund, and a consequent increase of divi-
dend to that extent. The company u permitted to lay a
single line of rail' en the remaining sections from TOUTS to
Bordeaux, three years being snowed for the addition of the
second line to each respecive section' as may be thought
meat advutageone to the company. The effect of this clause
will be to spread over a period of six years one-half the re-
mising alit, while the last payment may be delayed for
Me years from the present time. The opening of the
notion from Angouleme to Libourne is postponed until the
empletim of the line from Lthourrie to Borates:. By
this concession the company is spared the :loss of working
an isolated portion of the line, which by the new ar-
rangement will not be opened until all the remaining sec-
tions are nearly ready for traffic. The French government,
in agreeing to these modifications, have impanel some new
tor claim on the company. It maybe remembered that the
state undertook the conetreetion of this railway, leaving to
the company only the laying of the rile and the supplying ref
the rolling stock. By the new arrant 'slant, the stations on
the line have been added to the c mpsny's charge. The
maximum of this outlay will be 4,000,0001. (160,0001) Two
years were before allowed for the opening of any renal with
a double line of rails from the date of such section being de-
livered over to the company by the scat, • bet by the new
nocessitio they are obliged to open each section hes trpflis
with a single line within one year of its delisery by the
Board of Public Works. The obligation to all 12,000,000 f.
(480,0001.) within two years, or so show en expenditure
equal to that amount ; the oblect of this clam is to more
the early completion of the line. The company have proved
the expenditure of 3,000,000 f. (120,0001.) foe the current
half year.
HUMS AND LIEGE RAILWAY.—Tus LATE TRUK-
Parton in Bahotom.—The directors of the Namur and
Liege Railway having received leforisation of serious
damage having horn dem te the works on their railway by
the late sudden mad unexampled inundation is Belgium,
made a tour of impectims over their various lines of railway
as the 27th Aaiun, anompanied by the resident engineer
of the coespeay. They discovered that on the Mons and
linage line two breathes had been undo in the embank-
meat at Ham and Vilicauvaidne, one of 230 fat, the
other of 164 feet in length. The height of the em-
bankments at these places was thirteen feet. At
Ole thou are 820 feet of the emb ailment carried
sway. Near Men 492 fat of embankment are more or
ime damaged; ben not a single portion of masonry of
hey Lad has been Injured, hetwithetsadino the hasemee
pub of era'', "ALM took place. The trade on one
bed the line, TiS , from Ham to You, her been entirely
amended en account of then irjurin to the works, which
seemed on the 17th sod 18th August lan. Immediate
manures were takes by the reeiciset engines, to repair the
breaches made in the embarkment., and the utmost energy
continues to be displayed by the otoutractor, es that by
the 10th the Welk will be reamed to Mom, and b
the beginning of October the lima will be completely restored
at a total cost to the company of about 2,0001 sterling. Oa
the Namur sad Liege line very litt:e damage her been done
to lie works. Tao as ely-made embankments near Namur
mad lime have slightlubsided ; but se this offset must
have mearred daring the ensuing winter, the coseolirm-
Sin of time works will be hastened rather than Weeded
by what has now occarnd, and the expense will be
berme by thaw On Monday, the 2nd tea., the
dbmtees, by the resident *Moser, the
eseassehme. the raideat ster, and other officers of the
company, made an experimental trip with a looomotive ear-
rings over the Namur ithe from the Janda' with the
=t We sear Liege (about we mile sad a saunter
M IBeampsay's statics at Liege) to within a quarter of
• mile area the station at Namur, • distance of thirty-fire
mile.. The emeetbsem of the line was the fugal of
gessul eamerk, and the imondfal coder in clash the weeks
pets ally appeared erns Hedy gratifying. With trifling
=kWe doable line of way is 11 throughost the
adiMakee. The temporary Madras ad frame have
CX:e , but all the more important works are
&depress, of the Has, therefore; for internal
leelba, wt meat probably Mks plan about the middle of
OMB° iIaILWAT.-1b directors of this company
booed an article,
_informing the English shareholders
Ong had ineneeded in incorporating clue A slim-
med thus limiting the amount of their enhectirione.
Elho and advantages ponered by the company
stated, a eompriairtg an equal participation
=fin dies B shareholders to the gift of all the
gemexima
urea lead to the extent of five miles on both sides of
the ant settial if the line, amounting to above a neuter of
Melina/ of Mei I interest at 6 per tent on deposit and
lahlls mite lie re is opened for trade; a minimum dividend
at 4,pit mat permateed by the p.ovittea for 25 years after
the line is spewed, whisk is inermed to a pnefermiel divi-
dend of 7 per cent. daring the 25 years, and in all perpetually
Ike:setter by the clue B shareh4ders ; and an Near partici-
ples with the chin B thareh, Idea in the surplus profits
Gag the Weer have received 7 per net. The line is the
&Sae seas to the Canada through British territory, sad
lime =Vol with the boundary as settled by the late
limi