The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

LONDON AND bOUlii-WESTERN.

The statements of accounts of this company, to be
submitted to the proprietors at the half-yearly meeting
on Thursday next, are on the same plan as those sub-
mitted at the last half-yearly meeting, and which state-
ments were so much complained of by the shareholders
as not giving an account of the total expenditure on the
main and branch lines separately, being contrary to the
usual practice of railway companies. On one side of the
capital account to the 31st of December last, appears
the item of total receipts per last report, 8,593 4041.
16s. 10d., to which is added 41/. ls. 4d. as the difference
between cells paid and bonds paid off, making the total
receipts 8,593,445/. 18s. 2d. The total expenditure on
the main line and thirteen branch lines is lumped in one
sum of 1,493,1211. 15s. under the head of " total pay-
ments as per last report." The sums since paid on ac-
count are given separately for each line and branch,
amounting to 80,814/. 11v. Id., which, with other items
of expenditure during the halt-year, amount to
84,7141.; from this sum is deducted 10.169/. for the sale
of surplus land and sundries formerly purchased for
those lines, thus reducing the expenditure for the half-
year to 74,5451, making the total expenditure
8,567,666/.83., and leaving a balance of 25,7791 10s. The
sum of 80,814/. censists of 2,205/. expended on the main
line, 1611. on the Bishopstoko and Salisbury, 6,0741. on the
Southampton and Dorchester, 541. on the Weybridge and
Chertsey branch, 5861. on the Hampton Court branch,
6,5031. on the Metropolitan Extension, 1,425/. on the
Richmond branch, 30,507/. on the Windsor and Brent-
ford loop line, 1,1151 on the Guildford and Gedaiming,
2,287/ on the Guildford and Farnham, 681. on the Guild-
ford extension, 14,500/ on the Farnham and Alton, in
course or construction; 12,1791.-in respect of the Lon-
don-bridge extension, and 3.149/ on the Basingstoke and
Salisbury line. The amount expended on plant, as per
last report, was 569,3921., to which is added 768/, to
make it up to the estimate of February, 1850-570,1601.
The total share capital. irrespective of preference stock,
is stated to be 7,434,0501, of which 6,698,1281., includ-
ing 400,000/. di:couut on the shares, is entitled to divi-
dend, .438,815/. shares in the hands of the company
287,706. not called up, and 14,4001. non-converted Gos-
port shares. The debenture account shows that 1,115,083/.
had been borrowed up to the 31st of December last, of
which sum 773,378/. was borrowed at 5 per cent.,133,010/.
at 4 per cent., 12,0001. at 41 per cent., 1,111,600/. at 4 per
cent., 63,700/. at 31 per cent., and 21,400/. at 3} per cent.
Of the amounts borrowed at 5 and 4f per cent., about
240,0001. has since been borrowed at 4 per cent. The re-
venue account for the half-year ending the 31st of
Dec , 1851, shows that the receipts amounted to 377.550/,
and the expenditure to 138,0281., including 20,110/, Go-
vernment duty, rates, and taxes, and 1,300/. gratuity to
staff on account of Exhibition traffic, leaving 239,521 Z
' net revenue from the line. From this sum is deducted
47,544/. interest on loans and preference shares, and
10,000/. towards reserve account for plant, leaving
181,976/, to which is added 2,321/, the balance from
the last account, making the sum applicable to dividend
184,297/. The proposed dividend for the half-year, at
the rate of 54 per cent. per annum, will absorb 175,749/.,
leaving to be carried to the next halt year 8,5481. The
arrears of calls on the 501. and 401. shares amount to
9571., and on the third shares to 74,1141, together
75,0721., of which the payment of 73,418/. is optional
with the holders. The report of Messrs. Noyes and
Close, the auditors, states that the accounts have been
carefully examined and audited by them, and that they
are correct. During the half-year an expenditure was
incurred of 11,128/. for additional plant. Of this sum
7671, has been charged to capital account, and
brings the entire outlay under this head to 570,160/.,
an amount which it was proposed in the report
of February, 1850, not to exceed. It states that the
balance of 10,3601. ought, in accordance with the same
report, to have been liquidated out of revenue by half-
yearly instalments, spread over five years, but it has
been considered more advisable to write 10,000/ from
the revenue of the past half-year. The farther balance
of 360/. appears at the debit of " reserve account for
.
plant," and which account will in the first instance b
eade.
also charged with any further outlay under this e
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W.
Payne
the body of Mrs. Anastasia Aulanyor's,
aged :39, who destroyed hersel
under the following cdrcum-
`'latces :—The deceased was the wife of an officer in the East
India Company's service, who some time ago had brought an
action again.t a brother officer for criminal conversation with
his wife, and had recovered 7501 damages. The husband _
had at one time allowed the deceased P. per week, which
was paid by Mr. Peachy, his solicitor. The allowance, how-
ever, after the first payment, was refused by the decease 1,
who wrote an insulting letter to her husband, and went to
reside with her paramour, until he went to India, when she
was left in great distress, and was again forced to apply to
Mr. Peachy to obtain some allowance for her from her hus-
band. On Friday last she called at Mr. Peachy's office, but
not finding him at home, she asked leave to write a letter to
him, and was shown into a room by herself. When the clerk
afterwards went Tutu t!,e room, he found her lying upon the
fl or. .-, medical gentleman was called in, but life was ex-
tinct. In her pocket was found a small bottle which had
contained the essential oil of bitter almonds, with which it is
supposed she must ha. a poisoned herself, but there was no
sine,l of the poison. The jury expressed a wish that &post
mortem examination should take place, and the inquest WU
BEGIN G EXPEDITION.--A
YORK N sire
consequentlyirTe sateE p Ato ARCTIC
adjourned.caTrdisc tsheE Ar
the ap-
, EWCASTLE AND B and his companions has at length been taken, by
the directors of this ' ERWICK.—R appears that
pointment ot Sir Edward Belcher to the command of the
mend a aividend f company have determined to recum-
or the past half-year at the rate of 3 mewed search for Sir John Franklin
Arctic expadition. It is undo stood that the nominations
Ear cent, per annum. have included Captain Kellett as the second in command,
and Captain M'Clintock, and Lieut. Sherard Osborn, late of
,e,anthderPeetrbare-e
YORK AND NORTH MIDLA D —The directors of this tte Pioneer. to one of the steam-tenders.
There has been
company have d d N . ie- already sufficient proof of the ability,
h . f-year at the rateg of
tor', at decide on recommending to the propr
2perctant.perannum.
the ensuing meeting, dividend for the past verance of all these gallant officers, an . . . t
ntment with satisfaction.
every reason to regard their appoin
CALEDONIAN.—It is stated that the directors of this It is to be hoped also that Captain Penny to whom it •
F nklin miLit have taken is
company / :performed the gratifying duty of paying the owing that the course Sir J,hdianve
his allotted portion of the
halt-year's interest due to the guaranteed companies on at last discovered, will a indtrvepeidhiatyv-
the 2d instaat, being the day after it was due, bject in view, if experience such as
ing to 41,200/. The guaranteed dividend for the half-
amount_ great work to bedscbgal;sesince it will appear a lamentable
tiinsihsseioT., as reegarwith, a
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Hackney,
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committed
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ad the exclusion would be most un-
huisiesl ets.v.vce—vCerrne2ansmi,culte:Cfi olt
year OR the Garnkirk amounted to 6,250/. ; oa the just to alsmpeanns whose services can receive no other reward.
Clydesdale, to 9,4501.; on the Greenock, to 11,5001.; on
William Fox, aged 36, by trade a bar-
the Wishaw, to 8,8001,; and on the Barrhes.d, to 5,200/.
The dividend on the preference shares is to be decided
bo--ecr:wbsechrea:brlwrsssaor, A
on at the half- yearly meeting, which will be held next "rA convict,
month.
RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING OR:DEM.—GREAT streetWorship
5o where he was in th Central Criminal Court in
WESTERN.—On Saturday the standing orders were de-
it.m., on Friday last.
ki and larceny, ande same month found guilty,
dared not complied with in the case of this company's I:l,rfsbn:puOrtation, escaped, betwcen steilaetehnced
of sevennydeigurs
Bill, for additional powers for construction of the Ox- übgPoro born
C ea-
The conovuirectcloejaeesa he had
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway; for ex- or, were found the same afternoon under a coal sack in one
tension of powers to purchase lauds and construct the of the coal cellars near the blacksmith's shop, and it is slip-
Birmingham ,and Oxford Junction, and Birmingham'' p:.sed some of his former London associate!), have supplied
Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railways; also for 11.-'w : him with their clothing, which they
might easily carry in
lines and powers to lay broad gauge rails on the S...uth ! with them by wearing tliem over their other clothes when
Staffordshire Railway, between WednesVary and Dudl y. ; they visited the dockyard. A sentry, consisting of one tier.
BASINGSTOKE AND SALISBURY; Ot i Saturday tne , geant, two . corporals, and thirty-one privates, were put on
standing, orders were declared not complied with inthe
o'clock,
duty othneFriday and Saturday nights, from dark until day.
case of this company's Bill for making' a • vict maybe bneexsttill morning,hid under the to position th
iamt the con-
ease
to Salisbury, at a cost of 280,01. -he l however, is that he ing in the yard. 'rhe general
amongst the warner' in
non-compliances were only with refs fence to the point
railway fromT light
f„ the afternoon with has gone out tunrader tile disguise he
as to Whether the subscription cer gact, sign" for had augmed. 9141'34'g re"gui4e