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THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY EVEfittitur, AUGUST 17, 1861

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING (THIS DAY).

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
was held this morning at the King's-cross Station for the
reception of the directors' report.
The usual routine business having been transacted,

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoptionnf the directors'
report, remarked that the receipts for the half-year had been
seriously affected by the failure of the last harvest and the
general contraction of the commerce of the country. The
hon. gentleman then proceeded to refer in detail to the•
different subjects mentioned in the report, which showed
that the sum of £56,960 17s 10d had been disbursed on capi-
tal account ; but of this amount £5,000 was in part pay-
ment of the company's subscription of £225,000 to the Gar-
ston and Liverpool line, and £8,082 lOs had been applied
in paying off mortgages on the Witham Navigation, which
the company had power to re-issue. The actual outlay
for the improvement and extension of the Great Northern
Railway was £43,878 7s 10d. The total receipts and
payments on capital account, to the 30th of June, were
as follows :—Receipts to 30th June, 1861, £11,990,711;
expenditure, £11,682,803 3s sd; balance, £307,907 16s 7d;
The following is an abstract of the revenue account for the
half-yearending3oth June, 1861 :—Gross receipts, £650,789
28 lld ; gross expenditure, £363,776 6s 9d. Balance of re-
ceipts over expenditure, £287,02116s 2d ; balance from pre-
ViOU3 half-year £965 13s 10d; due from Eastern Counties
Company, as per net revenue account, No. 3, £8,400.
Total revenue, £296,387 10s. Fixed charges, in-
cluding mortgage and debenture stock interest, and
preference dividends, £206,294 3s 3d. Balance
available for dividend on the original and A and B stocks,
£90,093 6s. Decrease, £18,993 18s Id. The balance
afforded dividend at the rate of £3 15s per cent per annum
on the original stock, giving for the half-year £1 17s 6d
per cent on the original stock, £3 per cent on the B stock,
and 15s per cent. on the A stock ; and the directors recom-
mended that a dividend at these rates be declared. The
balance to be carried to the next half-year's account
amounted to £154 lOs 3d. After some discussion the re••
port was adopted.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—{This Day.)

SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Potter and a Jury.)

ATTORNEYS' BILLS.-SINGULAR DEFENCE.-REECE AND

OTHERS V. WOODMAN.

This was an action to recover £l9 4s. 10d., balance of a
bill of costs.

Mr. Gates appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr. Miller (Mil-
ler, Son, and Day), of Philpot-lane, for defendant.
Mr. Gates, in opening the case, said that all the work
charged for had been done, and ho believed the defence
would be that plaintiffs agreed to do it for costs out of
pocket. Now plaintiffs were a firm of the greatest respec-
tability, old, and well established, and they never did busi-
ness upon such terms.

Witnesses were called, and deposed to no such agreement
having been come to.

Mr. Miller said he would prove by his witnesses that
such was the understanding, and he apprehended the jury
would have no difficulty about the easa.
After witnesses had been ca led for defendant, and had
deposed to such an understanding as that mentioned in the
defence,

The learned Secondary summed up, and pointed out to
the jury that it was their duty to decide in such a conflict
of testimony.
The jury found for the plaintiff for the full amount.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)