The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

BAIL WA Y INTELLIGENCE.

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ST. ANDREW'S.
The report of the directors of this company
states that £21,000 had been raised on the original
stock, and .£5,300 on debentures,—total, £26,300.
The amount expended on the railway was £26,119,
leaving a balance 'of £lBl. The revenue account
for the half-year ending January 31 last showed
that the receipts amOunted to £1,792, and the ex-
penditure to £598, leaving a balance of £1,194.
Out of this £568 was deducted for the Edinburgh,
Perth, and Dundee Railway Company for mileage
of trains, £lO5 for interest on debentures, and
£463 for the 41 per cent, dividend guaranteed to
the shareholders, leaving a surplus, after meeting
all demands, of £5B, of which £29 will be paid
over to the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Com-
pany, and the other £29 be credited to the
sinking fund which now amounts to £442. The
receipts for the past half year show an increase of
£26 over those of the corresponding period of the
preceding year.

CAPE TOWN.
The second half yearly report of the directors of
this railway and dock company states that since the
last meeting important and satisfactory amend-
ments have been made in the contract between the
company and the Colonial Government. The agree-
ment for the construction of the railway from Capo
Town to Wellington has been concluded. The con-
tractor, by his agreement, undertakes to complete
the whole of the works, exclusive of rolling stock,
for the sum of £400,000, which also includes the
amount required to pay the interest to the
shareholders at £6 per cent. during construction,
as authorised by the Colonial Government. The con-
tractor is bound to construct the works to the satis-
faction of the engineer of the company and of the
engineer of the Colonial Government, and, in case
of reference, subject to the approval of Mr. Hawk-
shaw, whom the company and the Government
have selected as the standing referee. The works
are to be commenced within the time agreed upon
between the company and the Government, and
completed within two years and a half from the sth
of October last, or six months within the time
required by the contract with the Colonial
authorities.

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Official reports to the Board of Trade on certain
accidents which occurred on railways during
the last eight months of the year 1858 (Part
V.) were published on Saturday. The ac-
accidents are far too numerous to be dealt
with, except cursorily and incidentally. The
The following companies are inculpated by the re-
port, so far as the accidents were the result of care-
lessness, negligence, or want of efficient arrange-
ments—viz., the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company (defective
engine, &c.), the Bristol and Exeter (want of foot-r
bridge at a level crossing and defective minor ar-
rangements), the Chester and liolyhead, the Dee-
side, the Eastern Counties (gross and culpable care-
lessness of a driver of train) ; same line (neglect of
signalman) ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Great West-
ern (excessive speed over a curve of small radius ; Lin-
eonshire and Yorkshire (bad boiler), the Londonderry
and Coleraine, the North Western, the South Western
(guards riding outside break-carriages—a practice,
strongly reprehended); same line (want of break
power); the Midland (neglect to signal, the fellow
quietly eating his breakfast instead of minding his
duty), the Monklands, the North British, the
North-Eastern, the North London (defective
system of signalling), the North Union, the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; the
Rhymney, the South-Eastern, and the Waterford
and Tramore. Judging from these reports, defec-
tive arrangements of all sorts—or, in other words,
faults or omission—would appear to be rather the
general rule than the exception on the railways of
the united kingdom.