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London, England, 1862-09-23 00:00:00

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effected since his last half-yearly inspection. Col.
Nedham, in the same order, conveys his thanks to
the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of
the brigade for the manner in which they had car-
ried out their duties.

A large number of mechanics and labourers be-
longing to the departments of Woolwich Arsenal,
engaged in the preparation of the Whitworth bat-
teries, for issue to the Royal Artillery, have been
suspended for some time past in consequence of the
lack of coke to work the machinery, occasioned, it
is stated, by the prevalence of the easterly winds
having delayed the arrival of the supplies demanded
during the past six weeks, Yesterday 400 men
from the Laboratory Department, and others from
the brass gun foundries, were dismissed to their
homes, to be recalled on the machinery being again
set in motion.

THE BRITISH FLEET AT CHRISHANIA.

A commercial letter from Christiania gives the
following gratifying account of the reception just
accorded to the British fleet on its first visit to that
capital:—

Christiania, Norway, Sept. 14.
"This quiet city has lately been in an unusual
state of excitement. A division of the Chtnnel
fleet, under the command of Rear-Admiral Robert
Smart, consisting of the Revenge (flagship),
Emerald, Trafalgar, Galatea, the iron-plated ship
Defence, and the gunboat Trinculo, have been lying
at anchor close to the town for the last eight days.
" The presence of an English squadron in Nor.
wegian waters is an unusual sight, and it has been
most gratifying:to witness the efforts made by the
natives of all classes to show honour to the British
flag. Balls and fetes have followed each other in
rapid succession, and from the King to the working
man there has been but one desire to express
sympathy and respect for the welcome English
guests.
"On Tuesday last his Majesty Charles XV. gave
a grand dinner at the palace to the Admiral and
his captains, and on Thursday likewise a brilliant
fete ch,ampetre, at his charming country residence,
Oscar's Hall, to which not only the Admiral and
his Staff, but all the wardroom officers of the
different ships were invited. During the supper
his Majesty proposed our Queen's health, which
was drunk amidst the most lively cheering, and
later a toast for the gallant British Navy, which
was not less enthusiastically received.
" The city of Christiania, unwilling to be
behindhand in the work of love,' gave a ball and
entertainment in the handsome freemasons'•hall to

NORTH BRITISH.

The report of the directors of this company states that
the revenue of the past half-year bas been seriously affected
Ly the depression of trade, and, in common with other rail-
way companies, the shareholders are called upon to acqui-
esce in a dividend on ordinary stock inferior to any that has
been declared for several years. Special circumstances have
contributed to this result, inasmuch as the opening for pub-
lic traffic of nearly 100 miles of new railway in sections un-
connected with each other has necessitated a larger amount
of train mileage than would otherwise have been required,
and even now, when the whole system is worked in unison,
it is impossible, until experience shall have shown where
reduction can be usefully applied, to adapt precisely the
amount of accommodation required for the traffic. In the
locomotive department the expenditure, including repairs
and renewals, has been during the half-year £32,387, as
compared with £29,870 in the corresponding half of 1861.
The maintenance of the line and stations has cost £23,884,
as compared with £15,050 in the corresponding period, of
which £6,000 is for sleepers alone. In relaying the line
the directors have used sleepers thoroughly creosoted, and
rails hardened by patent process, with fish-joints. The total
working expenses have been £80,998, as against £66,242,
and the whole expenditure £111,778, as compared with
£99,414. The railway mileage on the 31st of July, 1862,
was 292, and on the 31st of July, 1862, 1904 miles, show-
ing an increase of 921 miles. The total revenue from
traffic receipts, exclusive of the Border Union Railway,
has been £161,814, against £163,534 for the corresponding
half of last year, showing a diminution, notwithstanding
increased mileage, on the North British of £1,730. But
to the receipts of £161,814 must be added the Border
Union working expense, 40 per cent. of the gross re-
ceipts, and proportion of net earnings due to the
North British, together £4,725, making £166,539,
rents and transfer fees, £1,046, and surplus
from preceding account, £l,oss—total, £168,640. From
this is deducted £111,778 for expenditure, leaving available
for dividend on preference and ordinary stock £56,862. The
total dividend on the preference stock and shares amounts
to £42,479, leaving £14,383. A dividend at the rate of 1
per cent. per annum on the consolidated stock, including
£221,460. Border Counties shares exchanged, will absorb
£13,712, and leave a surplus of £672. On the Ist of July
the Border Union and Border Counties sections were opened
throughout for general traffic, although the works on each
are still in partial progress, and until the line between the
Riddings and Riccarton junctions be doubled, and the
station accommodation and telegraphic communication be
completed, the traffic will be worked at a disadvantage,
both as to cost and convenience. The directors recommend
a dividend on Border Union ordinary shares at the rate of
per cent. per annum out of the net profits. The capital
account of the North British shows that £5,263,368 had
been expended. The Border Union capital account shows
that £835,955 had been expended and the Border Counties
section £32,988 expended. The expenditure of capital on
the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway, now amalga-
mated with the North British Railway, amounts to
£3,416,299.

the officers and midshipmen, to which Admiral
Smart was invited by a special deputation of the
citizens.

" Upwards of 1,200 persons were present, and

he arrangements for the comfort and convenience

of the guests were excellent. Among the decora-
tions the Queen's cipher and the Union Jack were
conspicuous. Here again Queen Victoria's health
and the prosperity of the British Navy were drunk
amid deafening cheers, for both of which the Ad-
miral returned thanks in a few complimentary and
appropriate words.
" Every care had been taken by the authorities to

make our countrymen's stay agreeable. Special
landing-places were improvised for them, carriages
placed at their disposal, and with respect to the
marines and seamen on leave and on shore the police
made special arrangements to protect them from
robbery and imposition ; in fact, I believe it has
rarely fallen to the lot of our men of war to have
been so much' lionised' and cared for in so short a

time; and it is but right that the British public
should know how popular they are with their Nor-
wegian cousins.

" This is the first time an English fleet has found
its way up to the Norwegian capital, and it is to be
hoped that the reception it has met with will have
proved how thoroughly welcome it was, for nothing
could have been more cordial or spontaneously
friendly.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-.
SHIRE.

The total expenses of this company's railways, including
rents, tolls, duty, &c., from the Ist of July to the 14th of
September, 1862, amounted to £65,461, as against £68,832
for the corresponding period of 1861. The proportion of
the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from
the Ist of July to the 14th of September amounted to
£7,025, as against £7,289 for the corresponding period of
1861, and the expenses to £2,945, as against £3,345.

" The Norwegians hardly look upon the English
as strangers, but rather as old acquaintances of a
kindred race, because the two countries are united
by the most practical links of daily intercourse
through the seafaring habits of both. To whatever
part of the globe they take their vessels they find
the shores discovered by the genius and energy of
British navigators, and they find the peace of the
ocean secured under the shadow of the British flag.

DUTCH RHENISH.
The receipts for the fortnight ending Aug.3l,lB62,amounted
to £11,432, and for the corresponding period of last year to
£10,854, showing an increase of £578. The receipts since
the commencement of the present book year, on tho Ist of
May, including the above, amounted to £78,726, showing an
increase, compared with the corresponding period of last
year, 0f£4,032. The working expenses for the fortnight
amounted to £3,632, or 31.77 per cent, of the receipts, and
for the corresponding period of last year to £3,294, or 3035
per cent,, showing an increase of £33. The working ex-
penses from the Ist of May to the 31st of August last
amounted to £28,145, or 35.74 per cent. The working ex-
penses for the year 1861-62 were 35.45 per cent. of the re-
ceipts.

In every sea they find some port or other where
industry and commerce can take refuge under its

protection, and they appreciate the boon which
enables them and every peaceful foreigner to par-
ticipate in the fruits of British enterprise. The
great expansion of the Norwegian commercial
marine is in great measure owing to the liberal
commercial policy of Great Britain. This is felt ;
and, as trade has become developed, the materials
which have arisen have strengthened the bonds that
thus unite the two countries, and in no part of the
world is the English name more popular, or the
English flag met with more respectful affection,
than in Norway."

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT A 7 THE
MALVERN HILL I?AILTVAY TUNNEL.

MALVERN, MONDAY.
Great consternation was occasioned here this
morning by the rumour that the tunnel through the
Alalvern Hill, made for the Worcester and Hereford
Railway, had fallen in in the course of last night.
The accident was greatly exaggerated, but having
visited the spot to-day, I am enabled to give the
following correct details :
The Malvern tunnel, which is nearly a mile long,
and passes through the centre of the high range of
hills which form so prominent a feature in the
'
Worcestershire landscape, was constructed by
_M:
Liddell, engineer to the Worcester and Hereford
Railway, upon its amalgamation with the West
Midland. Midland. It was the keystone to the completion
of the work, the greater portion of it beingoniletion
through hard cyanite rock. The whole nowboreicl
-
e
arched and bricked inside throughout. O
from 1 he Worcestershire or east side therne;ntering
as con-
structed an air.shaft about 100 yards in the tunnel.
,
arch of
the
This shaft was built throughout of of the
top of it rested on the crown of theped to have
tunnel. The weight of it bn:
been the cause of the accwidaesnst9 The roofing
noticed to be
of the tunnel at this part wasmoifae workmen were
cracking, and a number
and repair it.
placed on that part to
examine
on Saturday night
The men were soengaged
eminside the tunnel for I
upon a scaffoldingobserved a bulging
the purpose, when one ofd
erected
h
immediately gave the
of the brickwork, and immediately
They had not time
alarm to his fellow, when the shaft broke
to get off the scaffolding the tunnel, and descended
through the
completelyarchway of - stopping up the line, and
bodily into it, „l for a short distance with broken
filling the tunnel
earth. Information was at once
masonry and
signal men at each mouth of the
given to theof course all traffic was stopped. Mr.
Winer, and
engineer of the West Midland Railway,
Wilson, engimanager, and otherofficials of
Mr' ilemP' d have been
Midland on the spot all day. A.
West
deal of the rubbish has been good
d workmen, and an opening has been made
layros
thugh, though of course the to nn el is impassable
for trains and probably will be for a day or two
longer. In the meantime the traffic between the
Malvern and the Colwall station, about four miles,
is carried on by means of omnibuses, which convey
passengers and luggage over the Malvern-hills
between the two stations, causing a delay of about
an hour.

It
is a most providential circumstance that the
accident happened when no train was due in the
tunnel, or the loss of life must have been frightful.
The accident is attributed to the bad arrangements
of the original engineering, and the making of an
air-shaft of such ponderosity as the one which has
caused the mishap, The affair has caused quite a
"sensation" among the visitors to this fashionable
place of resort.

SYMPATHY WITH GARlBALDL—,Arrangements
have been made for a great
public demonstration of sym-
pathy with Garibaldi, in Hyde Park, next Sunday after-
noon. Many thousands of persona are expected to In pre-
sent?

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GREAT NORTH OF SCO'.-
The directors state in their report that the rert'iPtetph re-Svenue account for the half year ending the 31st of July
amounted to £49,894, including £1,373 from the preceding
half year. The expenditure amounted to £13,424, leaving
a balance of £31,469. The dividend on the new 41 per cent.
shares amounted to £8,963 ; the proposed dividend on the
preference stock, at the rato of 7 per cent per annum, would
absorb £lO,lBB, and the proposed dividend on the original
stock, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, would require
£9,690, making together £28,846, and leaving a balance of
£2,623. The working expenses, including sates and taxes,
amounted to 37 per cent. of the gross receipts, as compared
with 371 per cent. for the corresponding half of last year.
The efficiency of the rolling stock continued to be fully
maintained: The engines were being re-tired out of r--
venue with Krupp's patent cast-steel tires, at more than
double the cost of the original tires. All other repairs and
renewals were executed of the very best material and worn-
manship. The permanent way was in excellent order. Tho
original Scotch fir fencing, with the exception of the 12
miles between Huntley and Keith, had been recently re-
newed with substantial stone dikes or galvanised cable wire
fencing, with castiron straining pillars, and intermediate
posts of larch. The expenditure on this head, two-thirds
of which were charged to revenue, had been unusually heavy
for the last six months, and it was proposed to spread it
over three years. It was proposed also to spread over the
same period the cost of relaying the south end of the line
with new and heavier rails of superior quality, fish-jointed.
The additional weight of the rails, and the cost of the fish-
plates, bolts, and nuts were charged to capital. Fifteen
miles of the line had been relaid in this manner within the
last two years. Mr.W. Cowan, locomotive superintendent,
states that the Bogie engines continued to give the most
entire satisfaction. They were better adapted for working
round sharp curves, and were much easier on the permanent
way than the old class of engines. The six engines at pre-
sent constructing were being constructed on the same prin-
ciple. The capital account showed that £1,440,082 had been
expended, including £419,948 in subscriptions and disburse-
ments for other companies.