The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

MIDDLEHAM.—The following have left here for Don-
caster :—Gamelad, Freddy, Van Winkle, Middlesboro',
and King of Trumps.

RACING FIXTI
MA:

'RES FOR 1855.
tCH.
Epsom Spring 22
Northampton 27
Croxton Park 29
tIL.

Doncaster 13
Thirsk l5
Warwick Spring 2O

AP:

Newmarket C 9
Cat terick Bridge 11
York Spring 17

Chester Spring 1
Newmarket S S 8
*Shrewsbury 10

Abergavenny • 18
Malton l9
Newmarket F S 23

Ascot 5
Hampton l3
Bibury 2O

Bath l5
Epsom 22
*Manchester 30

Newmarket
Carlisle
Worcester
"Lancaster

Stockbridge 01
Winchester
Newcastle 96

AUG

North Staffordshire 7
Brighton
Brightvu Club lO
*Wolverhampton 13
*Reading l4
SEPTE

Warwick .
Doncaster .
*Leicester .

....11
....19
OCT(

*Chester
"Wrexham
Bedford
Newmarket S 0

NOVE.

*Liverpool

Liverpool ll
*Stamford • 17
Nottingham l9
L Goodwood 31
UST.

*Lewes l6
York l'2
#Egnam 28
*Derby 2B

*Warwick Autumn 12
*Richmond l7
Newmarket H 26
*Worcester 3O
IBER.

I *Shrewsbury 13

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH-EASTERN.

The report of the directors of this company, to be pre-
sented at the half-yearly meeting on Thursday next, just
issued, says :-" The directors have to report, that the
receipts of the South-Eastern Railway Company for the
half-year ending on the 31st January, 1855, have been
467,3901. 15s. ld., including 499/, ss. 10d. received of
the Brighton Company for toll ; and the working ex-
penses and renewals, 192,5311. 16s. sd. The rates, taxes,
and tolls amount to 19,9291. ss. sd. ; the Government
duty to 12,906/. 13s. 6d. ; the rents of the Greenwich
Railway, Deptford Creekbridge and Angerstein-wharf
and branch, to 23,3261. ss. 10d. ; which stuns, in addi-
tion to the interest on the mortgage debt, South-Eastern
Annuities, and Guaranteed Stock of the company,
92,6331. 15s. Gd., make a total deduction from the gross
earnings of 341,373/. is. Bd. The profit and loss ac-
count shows a balance of 6,9031. 158. Gd., after provid-
ing for the last dividend, as well as 11,0241. 3s. 6d., the
net earnings at the credit of steam-boat account ; and is
debited with the sum of 6,063/. 9s. 3d. for Parliamentary
and other expenses ; leaving a balance of 137,782/. 3s.
2d. A dividend of lie. per share, being at the rate of
3/. 6s. Bd. per cent. per annum, will absorb a sum of
123,895/., leaving a balance to be carried over of 13,887/.
3s. 2d. In the balance-sheet there is a sum in suspense
account of 8,842/, lls. Bd., which had been paid on ac-
count of the Croydon accident up to the 31st January
last. Since then a further sum of 3,1231. 11s. 3d. has been
paid on the same account. An arbitration has been
agreed on with the Brighton Company to determine in
what shares and proportions, or whether wholly by one
company or the other, the loss shall eventually be borne.
The total increase in traffic for the last half-year, as com-
pared with the corresponding half-year ending 31st Jan.,
1854, is 11,997/. 7s. sd. The credit side of the revenue
account, as compared with that for the similar period end-
ing January, 1854, shows in increaseof 2,2481.45. 4d. The
working expenses, rates, and Government duty, for the
same period, are increased to the amount of 20,5811.
7s. 9d. The fist item on the credit side of the profit
and loss account is 6,903/. 15s. 6d. against 1,1231.
16s. 9d. ; and the balance of 252,956/. 18e. Bd. less
11,024/, Be. 6d., earned by the steam-boats, making
241,932/. 14s. 9d., is less for this than the comparative
half of last year by the sum of 18,333/. 3s. sd. Against
this amount, the charges for rents, interest, Parlia-
mentary expenses, &c., are increased by 9,3021. lls. 3d.
This includes one-third of the Parliamentary and other
expenses incurred by promoting the Lewisham, Croy-
don, and Bromley Bill of 1853, charged in the manner
sanctioned by the proprietors in March last, and the
sum of 2,566/. 13s. 4d., payments made to the late se-
cretary and engineer. The balance of net revenue, via ,
137,7821. 3s. 2d., is 15,9931. ss. 6d. less than that for
the corresponding half-year of 1854, which is thus ex-
plained :-The revenue account for the half-year ending
on the 31st January, 1855, compared with that for the
corresponding period of last year exhibits an increase in
the receipts, inclusive of the earnings of the steam-ves-
sels applicable to the half-year, of 13,2721.75. 10d. There
is also an increase to the extent of 5,7791. 18s. 9d. in the
amount brought from the last half-year, after payment
of the dividend declared in Sept. ; which sums, less 1951.
17s. 3d. in respect of interest en Canterbury and Whit-
stable securities, credited in the former period, as well
as the sum of 4,9651. 15s. 10d., being the balance on
the steam-boat account to 31st July, 1853, make a total
increase in the revenue of 13,8901. 13s. 6d. On the
other hand there will be seen an increase under the
head of working expenses-on account chiefly of renewals
of the rolling stock, 6,490/. 18s. Bd. ; for the mainte-
nance and renewals of way and works, 9,976/. 3s. sd. ;
for miscellaneous charges (chiefly attributable to the in-
crease in the conveyance of merchandise), 2,7241.
10s. 4d. ; and for rates, taxes, tolls to other com-
panies, and Government duty, 1,339/. 15s. 4d. To
these must be added the larger amount of interest pay-
able on borrowed capital and preference stook of 5,108/.
is. 3d ; the Parliamentary costs (including one-third of
the sum incurred on the Lewisham and Bromley lines),
and the payment made to the company's late secretary
and engineer, amounting together to 5,7911. ls. 11d. ;
making a total of 31,4801. 103. 11d., subject, however,
to a reduction in the charge for the rent of branch lines
of 1,8961. lls. lld. ; thus leaving a total increase in the
expenditure of revenue account of 29,883/. 195., and
show, after the deduction of the sum of 13,8901.135. 6d.,
previously set forth, a diminution in the amount avail-
able for dividend of 35,993/. ss. 6d. The expenditure in I