The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

JEDBURGH.

The half•yearly meeting was held at Jedburgh
on Thursday ; Mr. Ord in the chair.
The report, which gave it satisfactory statement
of the condition of the Foe, and proposed a dividend
of 3 per cent. (less income-tax), was unanimously
agreed to.

GREAT SOUTHERN OF INDIA.
The report of the directors of this company states
that during the last twelve months they have
been actively engaged in forwarding the works,
and so much progress has been made as to in-
duce an expectation that the first section of the
railway from Negapatam to Trichinopoly may be
opened in the spring of next year. The directors have
already forwarded the permanent-way materials
for 50 miles of line, as well as a considerable portian
of the materials for the rolling stock. They have
contracted for the remainder on favourable terms,
and shipped four locomotive engines. They anti-
cipate, therefore, that the whole of the materials
required for the construction and equipment of the
railway will have arrived in India by the end of
the present year. Having adopted the system of
constructing the railway under the superintendence
of their own officers, the directors are now enabled
to state, as the result of their experience, that the
plan adopted has proved in every way satisfactory,
both as regards economy and the substantial cha-
racter of works, The reports which the directors
continue to receive fully confirm the expectations
originally entertained on the subject of traffic, all
the advantages of which will be secured to the share-
holder immediately on the opening of the first sec-
tion of the line. The cost of that section having
been confined to £500,000, instead of £1,000,000,
as specified in the company's Act of Parliament, it
has become necessary to introduce a bill into Par-
liament for the purpose of enabling the company to
exercise the borrowing powers upon the reduced
capital. The bill also contains power to convert
shares fully paid up into stoek.
The report of Mr. M. Alr. Carr, the chief engineer,
states that the sanctioned line
from Negapatam to
Trichinopoly is 78 miles 42 chains in length, and is
divided into four sections of nearly equal length.
The line runs through paddy-fields for about 40
miles. These are mainly under water during five
months of the year—from September to the end of
January. The remainder of the line runs through
dry cultivation and waste—the former for about
22 miles, the latter 16 miles. Mucb of this is also
under water during the north-east monsoon, or from
the middle of November to the end of January—two
and a half months. In order to raise the line above
the level of floods it is almost entirely on embank-
ments, and the average height of embankment
throughout is about six feet. The only cutting of
consequence is at Tanjore, where a ridge of hard
laterite runs across the course of the line. The
greatest depth of this cutting is 27 feet. The gra-
dients of the line are very light, seldom ex-
ceeding 1 in 500, and never more than lin
240. The line is one on which the heaviest
amount of traffic may be worked with compara-
tively light engines. There are eight stations
intervals
of the line—three eight mileapart, two at
of nine miles each, one 10 miles, one 14 miles, and
one 20 miles. The capital account to the 31st of
December last shows that £185,385 had been re-
ceived, and £120,626 expended, leaving a balance
of £64,759.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN-
COLNSHIRE.

The total expenses of this company's railways,
including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from January 1 to
April I, 1860, amounted to £76,463, as against