The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-16 00:00:00

THE BU.N, LONDON, THURSDAY' EVENING) FEBRUARY 16, 1854.

Union Vailway, 3,1271. ss. 9d.; estimated dividend
from the following lines, 45,7401., less 2,432/. Bs. 2d.
overestimated last year; total, 43,307/. lls. 10d., viz.,
Lancashire and Carlisle, 14,0001,; Chester and Holy-
head, 12,000?.; South Staffordshire, 2,8501.; Manches-
ter and South Junction, 4,0001.; North London,
10,000/.; Caledonian, 1,8201.; Scottish Midland, 1,0701.;
total receipts, 1,468,304/. 7s. 9d. The expenditure
during the half-year amounted to 822,935/. ls. ld., of
which the working charges amounted to 503,089/. 2s.
3d. This amount for working charges is comprised
under the following; items : Maintenance of way, &c.,
56,5787. ls. lid.; locomotive power, 159,424/. 15s. 10d.;
coaching expenses, 74,811/. 85. Bd.; repairs and re-
newals, 16,5361. 11s. 2d,; police zrexpenses, &c.,
93,273/. 18s. 4d.; merchandise traffic expenses,
105,953/, 16s, Bd.; repairs and renewals of waggons,
27,406/. 18s. 11d. ; compensation for losses and acci-
dents, 10,572/. 12s. ld. ; general charges, 23,2481. 19s.
Bd. ; law expenses, 4,8191. ls. 7d. ; schools at Wolver-
ton and Crewe, 462/. 17s. 5d.-total, 554,238/. 3s. sd.
Parish rates and taxes, 24,2291. 11d. ; duty on passenger
traffic, 26,920/. Os. 3d. ; interest on loans and debenture
stock, 186,123/. 7s. Bd. ; chief rents, 4,838/. 9s. sd. ;
voted to General Anson, 1,050/. ; Peterborough joint
station, 4,6691. 17s. 2d. ; Parliamentary and legal ex-
penses, 25,000/. • Preston and Wyre Railway (estimated
deficiency), 5,000/. ; Buckinghamshire Railway (guaran-
teed dividend and working expenses, 30,957/. 6s. 6d. ;
less received for traffic, 18,675/. Os. 3d.), 12,882/. 6s.
ld. ; Shropshire Union deficiency, 15,987/. Os. 6d. ; pro-
portion of guaranteed toll to North and South-west
Junction Railway (for the year), 1,125/. ' • proportion of
deficiency on Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Rail-
way, 1,152/. 4s. 3d. ; proportion of deficiency on Leeds
and Liverpool Canal lease, 1,209/. 6s. 7d. ; Stour Valley
Railway, estimated dividend, 9,509/. Os. ; total expenses,
822,935/. ls. ld. ; leaving a balance on the revenue ac-
count of 645,3691. 6s. Bd. ; less for renewals of rails,
42,636/. 13s. 4d. ; net balance, 602,732/. 13s. 4d.
CAPITAL ACCOUNT.-The statement of the joint stock
capital shows that, on the 30th June, 1853, the conso-
lidated stock was 18,095,962/, 10s. ; addition to capital
per 9 and 10 Victoria, c. 204, 964,759/. 10s. ; making a
total of 19,060,722/. credited to December 31, 1853.
Calls in course of payment on this stock, 57,538/. 3s.
6d. ; stock and shares of the Huddersfield and Man-
chester, and Leeds and Dewsbury lines, 1,149,099/. ;
total capital entitled to full dividend, 20,209,821/. Lon-
don and Birmingham shares, 1,295,340/. ; and Manches-
ter and Birmingham shares, 692,120/., entitled to full
dividend, less 5 per cent., on amount not called. Lon-
don and North-Western, 12/. 10s. shares, 3,054,600/,
entitled to 4 per cent., on amount called, and when the
whole is paid up to full dividend. Coventry and Nun-
eaton stock, 270,000/., entitled to 5 per cent. dividend,
and half surplus profits beyond that rate. Total joint-
stock capital on which dividend is payable, 25,521,881/.
6s. ; amount credited to the 31st Dec., 1853, 21,789,773/.
6s. 2d., making, with additional to capital, 472,288/.
10s. ; total capital received, 21,317,484/. 16s. 2d..; total
calls in course of payment, 147,383/. 13s. 10d. ; calls
which may be made, 3,584,724/. The general statement
of the capital account shows that the total amount of the
stock in land and works, &c., carrying stock and interest
of the company in other lines, was, on the 30th of June,
1853, 29,849,161/. ; amount added during the half year,
913,350/. 19s. ; making a total on the 31st of December,
1853, of 30,762,512/. 7s. 11d. The amount of capital
raised by stock and shares on the 31st December, was
21.317,481/. 16s. 2d. ; by calls paid in advance,
369,881/. 17s. 6d. ; by loans on debentures, 9,379,163/.
2s. 10d. ; by debenture stock, 396,530/. ; total,
31,463,059/. 16s, 6d.-leaving a balance of 700,517/.
Bs. 7d. The interest and dividend of the total amount
is charged to revenue.
The amount added to capital during the half year was,
by stack and shares, 46,592/. is. 3d. ; by calls paid in
advance, 315,874/. 6s. Bd. ; by debenture stock, 77,200/.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LINCOLN SPRING MEETING.-WEDNESDAY.

HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 5 sovs each, with 30 added.

Two miles. Over six flights of hurdles.
Mr. Choyce's Spring, 6 yrs, lOst 4th (A. Taylor) 1
Mr. .T. Trafford's g by Dormouse, 5 yrs, 9st (W.White) 2
Mr. Megson's Songster, 5 yrs, 9st, (D. Wynne) 3
Mr. Barling's Beresford(lateWhipper Snapper, 9st 71b)
(Planner) 4
The following also ran :—Mr. C. Boyce's Alp, lOst
31b (Weaver); Mr. Tilbury's Tomboy, aged, 1 Ost (Tacker);
Mr. C. Boyce's Tictress, 9st 121 b (C. Boyce) ; Mr. At-
kinson's Blue Bonnet, aged, 9st 101 b (J. Noble) ; Mr.
Littledale's Squire of Malton, aged, 9st 81b (Green); Mr.
Poole's President, 6st 51b (Poole); Mr. J. Gilby's Wild•
goose (h b)`aged, 9st 31b (G. Allen); Mr. Gent.'s Friend-
less Boy, 5 yrs, 9st (H. Lamplugh); Captain Curzon's
Psyche, aged, 9st (Skeene.)
Betting-7 to 2 agst Victresi and Songster, 3to 1
agst Squire of Malton, 8 to 1 each agst Spring, Tomboy,
and Dormouse g. Won by two lengths ; a length be-
tween the second and third, two lengths separating the
third and fourth; Blue Bonnet was fifth, Squire of Mal-
ton sixth, Friendless Boy seventh, and Psyche eighth.
Contrary to the wish of his present owner, Mr. Barnett,
who bought the horse after running at the recent Derby
meeting, John Bright was struck out by his nominator,
Mr. Harrison, at 10 minutes past 1.
THE LINCOLN SPRING HANDICAP STAKES of 5 sous each,
with 100 added for three-yr-olds and upwards ; cer-
tain winners extra. One mile and a half.
Mr. Dawson's Georgey, 4 yrs, 7st (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. Bell's Lord-Lieutenant, 4 yrs, 7st (H. Grey) 2
Mr. I'Anson's Jack-the-Giant-Killer, 4 yrs, 7st 71b

(Charlton) 3
The following also ran :—Mr. J. Dawson's Jack
Leeming, 6 yrs Bst Blb (Barker) ; Mr. H. Lister's Wind-
sucker, 5 yrs, Bst (Kendall) ; Mr. T. Ward's Scarcity, 6
yrs (Land, jun.) ; Mr. Walker's Cabin Boy, 4 yrs, 7st
(Mault) ; Mr. Clark's Salopian, 5 yrs, 7st (J. Bailey) ;
Mr. T. Megson's Roebuck, 3 yrs, sst 71b (T. Cliff) ;
Mr. Reeves's Lioness, 3 yrs, sst (Cresswell).
Betting-2 to 1 agst Roebuck, 4to 1 agst Lord-
Lieutenant, 5 to 1 each agst Georgey and Jack Leeming.
Georgey lay off to the distance, whence he gradually
drew to the front ' • at the Stand he came with a rush,
and won cleverly by a length ; same distance between
second and third • Jack Learning was an indifferent
fourth, Roebuck fifth, and Windsucker sixth. At start-
ing Lord-Lieutenant ran against some person, fell on
his nose, and lost several lengths of ground.
HUNTER'S STAKES, a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with
25 added. Weight for age, &c. Two miles.
Mr. C. Bevill's Garforth, aged, 12st 21b (Owner) 1
Mr. Littledale's Squire of Malton, 12st 21b (Boynton) 2
Captain Hayworth's Smuggler Bill, aged, 12st 51b

(Owner) 3
Mr. D. Blyth's Florist, 4 yrs, list 71b (Owner) 4
Mr. F. Newman's The. Prince, 12st 71b

(S. Darling, jun.) 5
etting-2 to 1 on Garforth, 4 to 1 agst Florist.
Won by ten lengths ; neck between second and third
and between third and fourth. The Prince beaten off.
The GREAT NORTHERN SELLING STAKES of 3 sous. each,

with 30 added. One mile.

Mr. Ilarrison'sYulluaCZar,

.(T. Cliffe) 1
Mr. Barling's Sam, 4 yrs (301.), 7st 41b (J. Bailey) 2
Mr. C. J. Pickering's Friendless Boy, 5 yrs (30/ ), 7st
131 b (Maclean) 3
Betting-4 to lon Julius Casar. Won by two lengths ;
head between second and third.

This was an impromptu affair, and was the only blot
on the meeting.

BROMLEY STEEPLECHASES.-WEDNESDAY.

The FREE HANDICAP was won by Mr. Harris's Rein-
deer, beating Simon the Cellarer and Dodger.
The SWEEPSTAKES of 3 Boys. each, with 20 added (re-
opened by consent of the stewards), was won by Rein-
deer, beating Nom de Guerre, Sorceress, and Vanish.
The SCURRY, substituted for the advertised Sweep-
stakes of 3 Fovs. each, with 20 added, was won by the
Dodger, beating Sorceress and Simon the Cellarer.

THE NEW REFORM BILL.

The follo;,cing is an abstract of the provisions of the Minis-
terial measure of Parliamentary Reform, introduced by Lord
John Russell on Monday night
NEW FRANCHISES COMMON TO COUNTIES AND

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.

At the last meeting of this society, Mr. James Ste-
phenson, president, took the chair.
In the discussion upon Mr. Pigott Smith's paper,
"On the use of the Macadamising System for the Streets
of Large Towns," numerous details' were given of the
comparative pieces of the materials in the country and
in the metropolis—the method of laying them down—
the successive employment of set paving stones, in large
thoroughfares, then in less frequented streets, and ulti-
mately breaking them up for macadamizing ; thus
giving the materials an almost unlimited duration. The
use of the grit, as collected by the sweeping machines,
was admitted to be advantageous for binding the metal-
ling quickly, and preventing the abrasion of the angles
of the stones. It was, however, shown that the traffic
of country towns was so vastly inferior in amount and
weight to that of the metropolis, especially since the in-
troduction of the heavy railway and other vans, travel-
ling at considerable speed, upon comparatively narrow
wheels, that a system of forming streets, or roads, which
would endure well in one case, was not applicable for
another, and hence the present bad condition of Parlia-
ment-street and other streets which had been macada-
mized, and which, it was contended, could only be
maintained, even in their present state, at a cost greatly
exceeding that of the paved streets of the City.
The paper read was a "Description of the Navigation
and Drainage Works recently executed on the Tidal
Portion of the River Lee," by Mr. N. Beardinure, M.
Inst. C. E. The first part contained a general descrip-
tion of the ancient navigation of the River Lee, and of
the gradual improvements introduced into the class of
barges frequenting it, and the burdens carried by them.
Allusion was made to the difficulties and continual de-
lays which had prevailed up to a very recent period in
the tidal portion forming the junction with Bow Creek
and the Thames, at Limehouse, difficulties which were
aggravated by the navigation being the common supply
for five tidal miles The new works consisted
of stop-gates across the main channel of the Lee,
near Old Ford Lock, established for preventing
the water from being drawn down by the tidal mills
to the eastward ; also a lock for a similar purpose,
and to pass barges, on St. Thomas's Creek, near
Bow-bridge ; and a new overfall to pass surplus water
to the three mills. Three large new flood-gates, each '
eighteen feet in width, were constructed near four mills,
with a new tidal lock, adjacent to the spot, iu order to
pass vessels in Bow Creek ; the ancient system being to
pass craft by a single pair of gates, only available by
drawing down the head water, and frequently during
neap tides the water did not rise high enough to enable
the gates to he opened at all. The remaining new works
consisted of a lock at the east end of the Limehouse Cut,
to retain the water when, in consequence of floods, the
Bromley flood-gates were required to be opened ; the
lock being of such a width as to allow vessels of twenty-
one feet beam to enter the cut ; the former lock being
only capable of admitting barges of 13 feet 6 inches
beam. In consequence of the treacherous nature of the
material at the Bromley end of the Limehouse Cut, it
was necessary to re-excavate the cut, to give flatter
slopes, and also to build retaining walls of Kentish rag
for the towing-path. The paper concluded by alluding
to other considerable works which had been recently
f executed at the lower end of the navigation, where it
V formed a junction with the Regent's Canal Basin, thus
, giving access to Armstrong's hydraulic coal lifts and
cranes, with the dock conveniences and the wider locks,
recently executed by Mr. W. Radford for the Regent's
Canal Company.
At the monthly ballot the following candidates were
duly elected :—Messrs. J. Dees and T. Higinbotha in,
as members ; Messrs. G. Aickin, J. Church, D. K.
Clark, A. W. Morant, and M. K. Smart, as associates.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM HOUSE, FEB. 15.

ENTERED INWARDS.—Tho Navarinoj from Antwerp
Copernicus, Rotterdam; Emma, Nakskow ; Lion, Grave.
lines ; Thea, ditto ; Lionne, ditto ; Anna, Dordt. _

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Horatio, for
Havannali ' • Navarino, Hobart Tuwn ; Nuevo Rosario,
Bilboa ; Lord Nelson, Gibraltar ; Harming, Harbur,3; ;
Celeritas, Monte Video and Buenos Ayro3.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.-1-The Olive, Ghent;
Luck's-all, Antwerp; Friends, ditto; Heroine, Algoa
Bay ; Nimrod, Sydney.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 13.

The Acadia, arrived at this port from New Orleans, on
the 23d ult., in lat. 45, long 30, lost rudder, stancheons,
rail, &c , split covering board, broke everything adrift on
deck, stove in the windows and doors of tho deck-houses,
and washed off the hatch houses and forward skylight.
The Cambria steamer, arrived at this port from New
York, sailed 31st ult., with 38,000 dollars in specie.
The Lord Ashburton has been towed round from Queens.
town waterlogged, and the Oliver Lang, from Bantry.
The Marmion, hence to Now York, towed into Greenock
for new !east, does not make any water.
Sailed for Liverpool, the Christi ,n, from Palermo, Jan.
31; the Speedwell, from Barcelona, Jan. 27; and the Julia,
from Santander, Feb. 7.

ANTWERP, Feb. 15.—The Amsterdam (Dutch koff), from
Bordeaux and Yarmouth to Amsterdam, has been fallen
in with in the North Sea, dismasted and abandoned, and
been towed into Texel, crew saved. The Ariel, from
Kertch to this port, has arrived at Constantineple, after
being ashore in the Sea of Azoff, and would discharge ; her
keel was said to be broken. The Pierre et Josephine,
from Ibraila, to England, has also arrived at Constantinople,
after striking, and would sell her cargo, which was much
damaged. Amongst the wreckage found upon the coast of
Charente Inferieures was a board, marked " Ernest and
Dunkirk." (Mem.—The Ernest Leldrn, sailed from New-
castle in December last, for Bordeaux.)
SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 31.—The Pandem, arrived at this
port from Hong Kong. reports that the Asa Thor (A.meri-
can brig), from Hong Kong to Ascension, was run ashore
at Guam, Aug. 3, having sprung a leak at sea, and would
be a total wreck—crew saved. (Mem.—The Asa, Thor ar-
rived at Melbourne on the 17th, from Canton.)
TRINIDAD, Jan. 19.—The Anna Robertson, arrived here.
reports having passed, Dec 11, in lat. 45 N., long. 13 W.,
the Brown (brig), abandoned with both anchors at her
bows, and bowsprit standing, quarter part of the deck
gone, and stem frame out.
ANTIGUA, Jan. 28.—Tho barque Ouzel Gallery, of Dub-
lin, having discovered her leaks, has commenced taking in
cargo, and is likely to sail in about a fortnight. The Tad-
more, of Grangemouth, from M-ailmein to Quebec, sprung
a leak at sea, bore up on the 15th Jan., lat. 12 N., long.
28, for the West Indies, and put into English Harbour, on
the 20th, and has been ordered to discharge her cargo, to
discover the leak. The wreck of the schooner Tusket, of
Yarmouth, N.S., from Liverpool, N.S., to the West In-
dies, was fallen in with, Dec. 25, in lat. 40, long. 62, and
the only survivor of the crew taken off, by the Charles
arrived here, from Liverpool, N.S. Tho Tusket bad cap-
sized on the 234 December. Several pieces of white pine
timber and deals have drifted on shore on this island
within these few days, and a part of the bulwarks of a
vessel, painted blue inside, but scratched (as with a nail)
with the words, &c., " Ship Typhoon, 13th Aug. 1853, lat.
13 30, long. 25 26."
STANLEY (Falkland Isles), Dec. 31.- --The Amelia Thomp-
son, from London to San Francisco, got on shore in Berkely
Sound, but came off, and has put into this port to-day,
and will have to discharge.
GASPE, Dec. 29.—The G. D. T., from Montreal to Lon-
don, which was beached at Force about Dec. 8, was driven
up close under a store, during a hurricane on the 24th ;
lost foretopmaet, and damaged her cutwator seriously, and
cut in two one side, to her main-rigging.
The Sabine et Franois (Belg. barque), from Iquique to
Falmouth, which foundered off the Quintero reefs previous
to Nov. 14, has been raised, and towed into this port by
the Firefly (s.s.)