The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

governor of the gaol for his com:oittal thereto until.
that day. of the day on
An inquest was held in the course
the body of the deceased, and a veru.let of man-
slaughter was returned against the pris quer, who
was committed for trial at the next Exeter PilizeS.

BAILIVAI' IN7ELLIGfiNCE.

GREAT WESTERN OP CANADA.
The report of the directors of this company states that
the receipts on capital account during the last half-year
amounted to £5,202 17s 9d, making the total receipts on the
31st of January, 1861, £5,218,300 ss. The expenditure
now amounts to £5,091,662 12s 6d. This includ es the extr a
cost of renewing wooden bridges in stone ana iron, and the
expenditure incurred in fish jointing 8i miles of rails re-
newed during the half-year. There are still 902 miles of
the main line to fish-joint, and the expense of this as it is
hereafter incurred will be charged to capital. It also in-
cludes a sum of £14,615 Os 4d, which it will be observed has
now been charged to capital as loss on value of rails At
stock. These rails form the residue of those purchased
when the road was first made ; a very largo proportion of
them were used by the contractors id the construction of the
line, and also in completing its ballasting during several
years after the railway was opened. The roils in this way
became much damaged in value; but the stock has now
been estimated by Mr. Reid, at its present market price in.
Canada much below the figure at which the rails were ori-
ginally purchased, with the duty and other charges upon
them. The rails which have hitherto been supplied for the
maintenance of the road out of this stock have only been.
charged to revenue at their proper value. The sum or
£8,219 3s 7d advanced for the Port Huron and Milwaukee
Railway in 1858, hitherto included in the balance• sheet
under the head of sundry accounts due to the company, has
also now been charged to capital. The balance at the cre-
dit of capital account is therefore £198,637 12s 6d. With
reference to the charges against capital, it is stated thet4
during the last two years five additional locomotive engines
with their tenders have been built at the company's work-
shops, and paid for out of the revenue, as well as, in accord-
ance with the last report, the cost of fishing-jointing 961
miles of road, amounting in all to £11,762 3d. The revenue
account for the half-year ending Jan. 31, 1862, shows
the following results :—Gross receipts, £265,951 lls 1101;
working expenses, including maintenance, taxes, insurance
and rent of suspension bridge, £125,424 17s 10d ; balance,
£140,526 14s ld. From which there has to be deducted
Interest on Government loan, £17,498 ss; interest on com-
pany's bonds, £37,725 9s 3d ; renewals of rails, sleepers,
bridges, ecc., X 27,442 15s 4d; Flamborough accident account,
£BB2 lls 8d; balance of bad debt account, £3,700 5s Gd;
total, £87,249 6s 9d. Leaving the balance from the half-
year's working of £53,277 7s 4d, out of which the direotors
recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 3 p!ir
cent. per annum, which will absorb £50,142 14s 3d, leaving
£3,134 13s ld. To this has been added the surplus from last
half-year, £18,373 Os Gd; balance, £21,507 13s 7d. From
this balance the directors have written off the sum of £7,453
7s ld, being one-third of the arrears of interest, amounting
to £22,360 is 4d, hitherto standing in the balance-sheet
against the Detroit and Milwaukee Company, leaving to be
carried forward to next half-year's account the sum of
£14,054 Gs 6d. The working expenses of the last half-year
are at the rate of 47.16 per cent., and for the whole year 54i
per cent. The receipts of the Detroit and Milwaukee line
have very satisfactorily increased during the winter, and
the traffic brought upon the Great Western Railway by that
line is estimated to amount during the past half-year to
£25,508 lOs 9d, as against £23,675 19s id, for the correspond-
ing six months of 1860. The result of the working of the
Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad during the year 1861 was
that, within £2,500, it earned sufficient to have provided
(but for the debts specially ordered by the court to be paid)
for the payment of interest upon the whole of the bonded
debt of that company. The anticipations respecting the
importance of the earth-oil district as a source of fresh
traffic seem likely to be realised, and the plank road to
Wyoming station from Bear Creek being found totally
inadequate to accommodate the business, the directors
requested the sanction of the proprietors to an outlay
of about £lO,OOO, which would be sufficient, as they are
informed, to provide a rough rail or tramway sufficient
to meet the present requirements of the district and prevezt
the trade taking another channel. The directors have much
satisfaction in stating that an agreement was entered into
by them with the directors of the Grand Trunk Railway
Company on Jan. 31, subject to the sanction of the pro-
prietors of both companies, for securing the advantages of
economy and unity of interest to both concerns, by plating
the whole under one management, with a fusion of all re-•
ceipts. This agreement, however, requires that in the first
instance permissive powers be given by the Canadian Legis.•
lature, and it is expected that the bill now before it for that
purpose will be in committee by the middle of May. Sosoon
as the fate of the bill is decided a special meeting of the pro-
prietors will be convened. Some of the details of the ar-
rangements are not yet quite complete. The directors,
therefore, trust the proprietors will permit them to abstain.
from entering at present into farther particulars upon this
most important matter until such special meeting is called.
for its consideration, when they will, of course, be prepared
to afford every information on the subject. By a memoran-
dum just received from Canada, Messrs. Brydges, Watkins
and Carter have proposed to refer the terms upon which the
Buffalo and Lake Huron Company may join the federation
of the Grand Trunk and Great Western Railways to the
decision of the chairmen of the London boards of those
three companies for settlement. Immediately after the
London meeting in December Mr. Brydges laidhis resigna-
tion before the directors, intimating at the same time his
willingness to remain in their service till a successor could
quite conveniently be appointed. Mr. Brydges was shortly
afterwards engaged by the Grand Trunk Railway Company
as their manager. Under these circumstances, when the
agreement before referred to was entered into with that
company, it became obviously undesirable to appoint any
successor to Mr. Brydges if that arrangement were to be
carried out. Pending, therefore, the decision of the pro-
prietors upon the agreement proposed, the directors have
retained the servias- of Mr. Brydges in the position he has
,itherto occupied.

COUN7RY MARAL:4

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NEWARK—APRIL 30.
There was a fair amount of wheat and barley at market
to-day ; business dull, and late prices were reauced from
is to 2s per qr. Other articles a trifle dearer.
White wheat new, 60s to 63s Barley, grinding.. `29s to 31e
Red do. sss to 51s Oats, old, .. Ots to 35;
Old white 6os to 63s New do 23, to 27s
Red do.. 46s to 56s Beans. 45s to 47s
Barley, malting.— I .328 to 39s Beans, new 44s ',Q ..-e,
Peas, ....48s to 54s

PLYMOUTH—APRIL 29.
The market was fairly attended, with a tolerable dematka
for wheat and flour at about the last week's rates. White
wheat, 628 to 66s ; red, 63s to 64s per qr ; French do., 60s
to 62s ; American, 58s to 63s •; Spanish, 74s to 76s ; Rua-
sian, 60s to 625. B.arley at previous rates-34s to 38s per
qr for malting ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, 22s to2Bs; and
beans, —s to —s ; flour, 43s to 44s 6d.

EDINBURGH GRAIN-APRIL 30.

Wheat on the top is Od down .average Os 8d down,
Barley on the top is Od up, average is 3d up.
Oats on the top is 3d up. average Os 2d up.
Beans on the top 3s Od up. ..average Os 9d down.

Total Supply and Sales.
Wheat 946 qrs Sold 446 qrs
8ar1ey........ 296 qrs Sold 273 qrs
Oats 1042 qrs Sold 815 qrs
Beans 286 qrs Sold 94 qrs

CORK—APRIL 30.
The following were the quotations this morning :—.R€d
wheat, 22s 9d to 24s 6d ; white, 26s 6d to --s Od; barley 20s
Od to —s Od ; oats, lOs Od to 16s Od.

lELD-APRIL 29.

dy of fat beasts to-clay, and
I supply, at high prices. Fat
~ and sales heavy
Veal , 6d to 63/4d
Pork
Rough fat, 4s 3d per stone.
calf skins, 5d to 6d.