The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-24 00:00:00

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

The report of the directors to the half-yearly
meeting on Thursday next, states that the revenue account
for the half-year exhibits a decrease of 11,1771. 7s. 2d. ; the
receipts being 638,729 f. 171. 118. as against 649,9071. 80. 1.1.
for the corrtaponding period of 1860. The falling off in the
receipts is mainly in the cattle traffic, occasioned by the
deficiency of food and the inability of the dealers to keep up
their stock during the winter and spring months. To the
last very unfavourable harvest and its consequences is to be
ascribed the absence of the reasomilile increase of the traffic
of this railway, which is mainly supported from agricultural
products. The expenditure ou the capital account this half.
year in respect of new works and iutseasol accommodation
to stations, amounts to 8,535/. Iles 5,1. A sum of 61,058,.
Ti. 4d. has been charged to this aocount iD respect of eegines,
carriages, and break vans, added to the rolling stock,
exclusive 7gtreulflrther addition of 50,961/. 15s. 2d.; which
will be charged to the capital account in the ensuing half.year,
having been ordered in anticipetrun of the exhibition of
1862 ; also a sum of 2,9001. Is. 10.1. for new cart and waggon
stock—nothing having been charged to that account since
the year 1853. The result of the undertakiog es re-
prds the Eastern Counties Company is—that there is a net
sum applicable as revenue, after deductin,, the working ex-
uses, which amount to 330,5'161. Ils. 10d. as will be seen
byreference to revenue account B, of 198,133 f. 4s. 2d. ;
lees iuterest on guanottees and loans, 146,3701. 4s. Bd. ;
balance, 51,762!. 194. tid. ; add sum carried over after pay
ing December dividend, 1860, 5,620/. Is. ; total, 57,383/.
Oa. ; deduct on account of tleferrell permanent way se-
. count. as per statement, 3,001)1 ; leaving, 54,3831.05. 6d.
available for dividend, out of which the director' have de-
dared a dividend of 16s. 3d. per amt. for the ball -year,
being after the rate of V. 12a. 6d. per cent. per annum on
the ordinary sham capital of the company, which will
absorb 47,3914/. lls. Gel., leaving a balance of 6,9841. 9s. to
be carried forward to the succeeding half-year. The work-
ing expenses for the half-year are 49!. 18a. per cent., as
against 471. 10e. per cent. for the corresponding periuel of
1860. The directors have the satisfaction to state that the
permanent way and works continue to be maintained
in the most efficient manner. The expenditure on this
account out of revenue has been during the past half
Tar 47,1851. 2s. Id., being as incense/ over the correspond.
log period of 18000 l 3,0101. 18e. 9d. The portion of the

line between Stratford and Colchester, having bee; laid
upwards of twenty years, is now being completely renewed,
as account of which 34,0001. has been expended during the
half-you, of which sum the 'Bretton think that 18,006/. is
a proper charge to be borne by the revenue of the half-
year, the remaining sum of 15,9951., together with the
sem expected to be spent on that account during the conti-
nuance of the summer, will leave a like sum of about
18,0001. to be charged in the next biali-year's account.
The strictest attention is paid to the maintenance of the
phint is the locomotive department in a state of efficiency.
The directors have the satisfaction to state that the pro-
jects brought forward in parliament for the construction of
BINS from Ilford by way of Dunmow to Bury St. Edmund's,
and from Bury to Thetford, and from thence to Swaffbam
and Lynn, with a view to effect a junction with the Cheat
Northern Railway at Spalding, were successfully opposed
on the part of this company ; nod that the company were
equally successful in misting the attempt to connect the
Bedford and Cambridge line with the Colne Valley Railway,
on the part of which latter company an application was
brought forward to extend that hoe to Cambridge on the
one side, and to the Camp at Colchester on the other. This
oomFany was also successful in obtaining the sanction of
parliament to the bill introdiseed by them for extending
the existing railway at §udbury to Bory St. Edmund's and
to Cambridge : the bill for which projects received the sanc-
tion of the proprietors at the meeting bald on June 30, 1961.
Parliament has given its suistioe to the proposed new
line from Bishops Stortford to Braintree, and to the bill
for the completion of the Ware, 'Wham, and Bootingford
Railway. The directors, Chemises, are sanguine in their
expectation that no further attempts will he made to inter-
fere with the district travensi by the limes of the assn.
elated e companies, as they willllo, sufficiently nommtuo-
dated. A proposal has bees brought ander the notice of the
directors, which appears to them calculated to produce im-
portant advantages to the auociated companies. It is pro-
posed to construct a line of railway for the carriage of coals
from the northern coal fields Li London, by a junction with
the Eastern Counties system in the neighbourhood March.
The directors think it right to remind the shareholders that
a line rid Cambridge offers the best route to the 'north-
eastern districts, the whole, with a slight ex •
option, forming a dead level from Darlington to London.
The promoters of the proposed scheme consider that as it
will not be necessary that the trains should travel at a
greater spied than from twelve to fifteen miles per hour,
coals and minerals can be conveyed with profit at a very
small rate, so as to compete with the sea-borne coal. The
total quantity of coal brought to London from the northern
districts amounts annually to about four millions of tops,
and if one-fourth of this quantity were conveyed by the pro-
posed route, a return of upwards of fire per cent. would be
secured to the thareholders upon the capital required to be
outlaid. As it is proposed not to approach env town so
near as to enhance the value of the land required for the
railway, it is estimated that the entire cost will not ex-
ceed ten thousand pounds per mile, including rolliag
stock, and as the distance to be travelled upon the new
line would be about 95 miles, a capital of 1,0014000/.
would be sufficient for the purpose ; and it may be observed
that besides the carriage of coal from the north, the line
would afford other sources of revenue. The proposed route
to London will embram the use of 88 miles of the system of
the aseociated companies, and the tolls it is estimated will
produce an annual receipt of from 40,0901. to 50,0001.,
without imposing on the associated companies any outlay
to accommodate this traffic. Under these circumstances

the directors have felt it to be their duty to give this mea-
sure their cordial support, and in due time will request the
went of the proprietors to their seeking parlhi-
military powers for the associated companies to
subscribe such a sum toward. the undertaking
as may hereafter be recommended by the directors
and approved by a meeting of the shareholders. The bill
for carrying out the am4munation of the associated com-
panies will be submitted to parliament next session. The
directors are cooperating with the Norfolk and Eastern
Union Companies in the necessary arrangements for this
important measure upon the most friendly footing, and with
every prospect of an sinkable settlement of the terms upon
which' the amalgamation is to be effected. The directors
entertain a hope that at thetermination of this half•year the
pressure in the agricultural districts will have ceased. cud
that it may reasonably be anticipated that the traffic will
show more elasticity. It is satisfactory to know that the
period is drawing nigh when there will be a fusion of
interests by the amalgamation, and that the entire concern
may then be conducted with greater benefit to the proprie.
tors and more advantage to the public.

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN CAMBRIDGE-

SHIRE.

The inquest on the body of Thomas Harvey, the
Ditton murderer, was opened yesterday morning at the
Plough, at llitton, before Mr. Barlow, the coroner for
the county. In the course of the morning numbers of
people visited the plume where the body was found. Here
(about 200 yards from his mother's Louse) stands a hand-
some elm tree, end to abough of this the body was hanging
at a height of feet from the ground. Beneath the tree
was the hammer with which the murder was committed,
a labourer's ordinary knife open, with a blade about four
inches long, the blade nearly covered with blood ; also a
piece of the suicides scarf, about 6 or 8 inches long.
The murderer had evidently ascended the tree and put en
end to his existence with the remaining piece of his scarf.
The piece of the scarf with which be hanged himself was
only sufficient to give hun a fall of about a foot, and his
death agony must consequently have been a must protracted
one ; indeed, the body, which was lying in an outhouse at
the Plough, gave 'efficient stride's*, of this. One of the
most extraordinary parts of the matter is that about •
dozen men were at work close under the tree (but it, an ad-
joining field) for several days, and • straw stack was built
up close to and nearly the height of the body without the
latter being seen.
The jury returned a verdict of " Fele de se,"
Mrs. Witte is mending slowly. She is sensible at times,
and being informed that the murderer was found dead, ex-
pressed herself to the effect that her mind was eased of fear
of his return. The poor woman is frightfully die3gursod,
however; one cut from the sharp end of the hammer has
severed both lips and gums, and knocked nearly all her
teeth out.

POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANIL—We are enabled
to state that the r%sulations for the maaegerseat of these
valuable institutions have been prepared and will shortly
be published, and that 300 Post-of ces will be opened for
receipt of deposits on Monday, the lath of September. A
list of these offices will soon be made public.
THE LIBERAL PARTY IN SOUTH LANCAAHIRIL-•-•
A numerously-attended meeting at the meet influential
among the liberal politicians of South Lancashire was
being timid Yesterday afternoon, at the Clarence Hotel,Man-
cheater. 'the meeting was summoned by a private circular,
and reporters were not admitted ; but it is understood the
object was to consider how best to provide for a vigilant
rod thorough-going attention to the electoral register of
the constituency, in the interests of the liberal party. It
is alleged that the conservative ascendancy in South Lan-
cashire during a few years past is, in a great measure, if
not entirely, owing to a less effective organimation on the
part of the liberals than was in existence from 1844 to 1837.
PAPAL Aranerrtna.—At Ponta Landoll°, a village
in the Neapolitan states, the Papal brigands received n
small detachment of Italian troops with cheep and shouts
of welcome, and then sus rounded and massacred them to a
num, with horrible fortune and mtVilatious. They tore
out the eves of the soldiers, and, it is said, by the express
orders of an archbishop, and under his very eyes, cut through
the right aria of each Italian moldier at the wrist, " for
having carroil a sword against the Holy Father. This
village was stormisi lry a few companies of Berwiglieri, and
burned to the ground ; but all the women, old men, and
children were spared by the troops. When the Bersaglieri
entered the villam to demand submission the rebels
threw the mutilated limbs of the massacred soldiers from
the windows.
STOCKPORT, DISLEY, ANT) WHALEY BRIDGE RAIL-
trAT.—The liale.vearly meeting of the shareholders in tb's
company was held yesterday, at their offices M Leadenhalb
street; Mr. It. Notnian, chairman of the company, presiding.
The report re"omnirriling a dividend at the site of 4.1 per
mud. per annum on the preference shares, and 1 per cent.
on the original shares, for the half-year ending 30th June
last, has already appeared in our columns. Several ques-
tions having been asked and satisfactorily answered by the
chairman, the dividend as recommended in the resort was
adopted. There being no other business, the meeting eon-
! eluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors.

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RAILWAY TRAPTIII—The tnittic receipts of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom for the week ending August
17, amounted to 591,4301., and for the corresponding week
of last year to 588,896/. ; showing no increase of '.1,7.24f.
The gross receipts on the eight railway■ having their
termini is the metropolis amounted to 270,4524, umd for
the corresponding week of 1860 to 275,1461., showing en
increase of OW. The increase on the Eastern Comities
railway amounted to 610/. ; on the Great Northern t 0754/. ;
on the Great Western to 1,0441. ; on the London and
Blackwell to 20/. ; on the London, Brighton,
and Smith Coast to 3,591/.; and on the Lon-
don sad South Western to I,osol.—total. 7,06141.
But from this must be deducted 2,071 W., the decrease on the
London and North Western ; and &W. on the
South Eastern. together 2,703/., leaving the increase
as above, 4,106'. The receipts on the other lines in
the United Kingdom mounted to 311,978/., and for
the correspondiug week of last year to 213,7501., showing
a decrease of 1,7721., which, deducted from the increase
on the metropolitan lines, leaves the total increase
2,534/. as compared with the corresponding week of 1860.
lleapatchem wore received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office fruit the Governor of Malta. Despatches were
sent to the Governors of the Settlements on the %Vest Const
of Africa, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonien
Islands, and to the Governors of the North American
Provinces.

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