The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-14 00:00:00

MIDLA.ND.

It appears from the statement of :accounts` which is to
be submitted to the proprietortiat the half-yearly meet-
ing to be, held at, Derby to-morrow, that the amount re-
ceived on capital account to the 30th of June, 1848, was,
on shares, 9,894,2741. ; on debentures, 2,860,393/. ; and,
On loan notes, 245,750/. ; total, 12,910,417/. ; since
which there has been received to the 31st of December,
on shares, 630,3281.; on-debentures, 46,200 L, less 12,3501.
paid off; total, 654,1781. ; interest on shares held- in
other companies, 14,191/, ; sale'of materials, 2,1491. ;
making the total receipts on capital account, 113,580,9361.
The amount expended to the 30th of June last was
-13,250,6351., and during the half-year ending the 31st
of December, 791,7051., including 152,837/. for Parlia-
mentary expenses, and 36,0501. ; payments on account
of shares held by the company in other rail Ways, making
the total expenditure 14,042,3494, and leaving a balance
against the company of 461,404/. ,
• • The revenue account for the half-Year'onding the 3j.st
of December shows that 308,4034 had been received for
the conveyance of passengers; 1.0„124/. for. harses,:car-
riages, and dogs; 22,402/. Tor pallets; 61674/. for cattle;
12,7421.-for mails; godds, 1-86,196/.; minerall, 65,801/.;
total traffic receipts on the railway, 613,143/.; 4.shby
canal, 3,6021.; rents, 3,085/.; interest, 6,682/.; transfer
• fees, 3671., making - the total revenue for the half year,
including 1,581 f., the balance from the last account,
628,4601. The expenses were, fdr maintenance of way
and works, 26,9021.; locomotive power, 81,7521.; coach
and waggon repairs, 10,9251.; coaching, account, salaries,
&0., 29,6501.; 'goods' department, ialaries, &c., 32,0121.;
other expenses, rent, &c., 30,027/.; total working ex-
penses, 211,1791.; rates' and taxes, 16,386 L duty for
passengers, 12,4784; debenture interest, 80,192/.; half-
year's dividend on the Sheffield and Rotherham Six per
Cent. Stock, 4,5001.; ditto on the Leicester aid Swan-
nington Eight per Cent. Stock, ~600/.; on the Leeds
and Bradford Ten per Cent: Stuck, 22,500/.; on the
Bristol and Birmingham Six per Cent. Stock, 50,7741.;
the proportion of 50/. shares charg, able to revenue,'
12,500/. ; making the total charge on revenue,
416,1101., and leaving a balance of 212,3501,, from
which is to- be' deducted'lo,oool. as a fund for the re-
newal of the permanent way, leaving a diopcsable balance
of 202;3504 applicable to dividend. . The disposable
'balance for the half-year ended' the 30th of June was
195,460/., out of which a dividend was paid on the con--
solidated stock of the company, at the rate of- 6 per cent.
per annum, amounting to the sum of 193,8791.
The statement shows that white there has been an in-
crease of 6,8901. in the disposable balance of the revenue
account over the preceding half-Year, 'there has, been an
increase in the capital- account curing that period of.
654,178/. - • • •'
OPENING OF THE DUBLIN AND. BELFAST EXTENSION.
—This extension is to be opened to-morrow (Thursday)
froni the junction station at Newfoundlvell, near
Drogheda, to the town of -Dundalk, passing through
Dunleer -and Castle Bellingham; The opening would
have been earlier, but for the unusual floods in the White-
river carrying away the bridge near Dunleer. Toe con-
structive cost, including stations, but exclusive of working
stock, has not exceeded 10,000/. per mile for a single line,
with the land purchascl and the earthworks completed
for a double one.

A memorial to the directors of the London and North-
Western Railway, which was only promulgated at a late
hour on Thursday last, showing the innumerable incon-
veniences of the through traffic on the line being di-
verted from this town and carried by the Trent Valley,
received in a few hours the signatures not only of the
Mayor, the principal merchants, bankers, and manufac-
turers of Birmingham, but also of Wolverhampton,
Walsall, Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth, and the
principal towns of the district. According to the pre-
sent arrangement, the transit from Birmingham by the
express train for London occupies, in general, half an
hour longer than previously, in consequence of the deliy
in the arrival at Rugby of the train from Liverpool and
the North; and likewise a parson taking a day ticket
from Wolverhampton, or any other station between this
town and Stafford, cannot possibly return to his home
the same day if he leaves London by any train later than
two o'clock P.M., but is compelled to remain in Birming-
ham until 20 minutes past 12 at night. The day
tickets, therefore, from those towns become totally un-
available. It also appears that at Walsall and the before-
mentioned localities, letters are obliged to be posted two
hours earlier than before the Trent Valley was opened,
a circumstance seriously detrimental to the mercantile
community. With respect to Warwick, Leamington,
and those neighbourhoods, complaints are being con-
tinually made of the want of communication to the north;
for unless travellers meet the two o'clock train from
London, they also must wait in Birmingham for the
down snail train, which does not leaves this town until
twenty minutes past twelve at night. When it is consi-
dered that the comfort and convenience of a population
of nearly ball a million of souls has been made subser-
vient to that of a comparatively insignificant number, it
is to be hoped that the Board will see the necessity, as
well as the provedeconomy, of bringing back the through
traffic to its original direction through this town.—
Birmingham Gazette.
THE GRAVESEND.—We understand that the Directors
of the South Eastern Railway intend to make an open •
ing trip on the new railway, from the station by the
canal up to Erith, on the 14th instant, but we believe it
is not intended to open the line for public traffic until
the whole of the line ii completed to London, and this,
it is said, will take place early in the mouth of July,—
Maidstone Gazette.

BERKSHIRE ASSIZES.—The Gazette of last night
contains an Order in Council of that day, directing
that the assizes arid session under the commissions of
gaol delivery, and other commissions for the dispatch
or civil and cantinal business, which shall be litlien
in and for the county of Burks next after the date of
this order, shall be held at Abingdon, in the Skill c‘aiinty,
and not at Reading, or any other place within the said
county."