The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

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.E_V.E.NING, SEP lEMBER 3.

very badly, remain in hospital. Th.'? moment - heard
of it he staz ted off for Pindee to offer his services for the
wounded, and he was sent off at once to Jhelum in a
dVr at Government expense. I bad the happiness of
hcar g from him this morning, telling me he would
arrive at Jhe!um at 2 o'clock i'.ir., on the Huh, and was
going day and night, and suffering from terrible heat. I
trust the Lord will protect him, but theEe are terrible
times.

" Ti era was a slight brush at Pindee also on the 7th,
when 68th Native Infantry and 200 of the 14th Native
Infantry stationei there were disarmed. Some of the
Sepoys fired and then took to their heels. Only one
officer was wounded in pursuing them, and they were all
cap!ured.
" The 46th Native Infantry at Sealkote mutinied on
the 9th, and I regret to say, murdered several officers.
They, however, protected the ladies and children, and
some Sahibs saw them safe into the fort. Then the re-
giment took carriages, hugg,ies, &o , and off they started
with their arms down country. Colonel Brown, with all
the available (11.1\I ) 24th which were at Jhelum, has
started for Wuzeralaad to try and intercept these wretches
of the 14th Native Infantry. More of her Majesty's
24th started hit night from Pindee for Jhelum."

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.

The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at
Manchester—Mr. H. W. Wickham, M.P., the
Chairman of the directors, presiding.
An abstract of the half-yearly report and state-
ment of accounts has already appeared in The
Sun.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, was glad to be able to congratulate the
shareholders on the increase of traffic, which had
amounted to 40,665/. on the Lancashire and York-
shire line proper. Of this sum 25,5621. was in
passengers, and 13,5481. in goods. The increase in
goods had not come up to the expectations of the
directors, but was nevertheless considerable; while
the increase in passedgers had been a most notice-
able feature in the traffic since the commencement
of 1856, previous to which there had been no in-
crease in this department ,during several years.
During the last half-year the increase had been
general over the whole of this company's lines, and
very little of it was attiibutable to the Art Trea-
sures Exhibition. The totil increase in working
expenses was 20,4421.—(hear, hoar)—of which
4,0001. was expended in repair and maintenance of
locomotive stock, 2,1131. in the coaching depart-
meat, 5,959/. in the merchandise department,
5,8391. in maintenance of -the line, and 1,5001. in
law expenses incurred in opposing the Blackburn
Company's proposed extension to Manchester, and
the Great Northern Com pany's Doncaater and Wake-
field line, the opposition having bh6h in both cases
successful. The increase in working expenses would
have been much larger hail not the strictest ezono-
my been exercised, and was attributable to the great
increase of traffic. The saving in consumption of
coke, oil, and tallow, as compared with 1852, was
nearly 10,000/., while each locomotive was earning
nearly one-third more than at that period. Since
January, 1854, 481 miles of sidings had been added
at the different stations. The directors had offered
to the Blackburn Company such terms as they con-
sidered highly advantageous to that company, in
order to settle the disputes between them, but the
offer had not been accepted. By ae arrangement
just concluded, this company's payment to the
Sheffield and Barnsley Company would in future
be at the rata of 13,5001. per annum. The ar-
rangements for a lease of the Aire and Calder
Canal by this company and the North Eastern were
on the point of completion, the measure being now
of the more importance to this company, owing to
the unhappy q • errel among some neighbouring
companies. Die directors would have been glad
to defer the question of a new line from o:dham to
Rochdale, but the inhabitants of the district were
vary pressing in the matter, and a survey had been
ordered with a view to the adoption of whatever
routi Seemed most a Ivantageous to the greatest
amount of population. So far as experience had
shown, there was every reason to be satisfied with
the agreement with the East Lancashire Company,
sanctioned at the last half-yearly meeting. It was
proposed in future to hold the -haif-yearly mee'ings
of this company on Ihe third Wednesday in Feb.
and the third Wednesday in August, and to make
the dividends payable on the Ist of March and the
Ist of September. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. STITART seconded the motion.
The motion was carried unanimously ; as were
also a resolution declaring a dividend of 21. 10s. per
1001. stock for the half-year, and the various pre-
ference dividends, all payable on the 15th instant,
and a subsequent resolution, authorising the direc-
tors to oppose all bills in Parliament prejudicial to
the interest of the company.
The proceedings concluded with a ,tote of thanks
to the chairman.