The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-08 00:00:00

CHARING-CROSS.

The report of the directors of this company states
that s:nce the last meeting the works connected
with the' bridge at Charing-cross have made satis-
factory prOgress. The necessary foundations and
piers at the Surrey side will be sufficiently ad
vanced to ens •le three spans of the bridge at that
i.
point to be plact.'d in position. The company has
obtained actual po,,session of sufficient property to
enable the contractor'to proceed with the southern
abutment and part of t.
he viaduct ; and the nego-
tiations for the purchase of the whole of the land
up to the immediate vicin. ty of the Blackfriars-
t the company will
road are so far advanced the
very shortly be in possession of the principal pro-
perty required for the purposes of the railway
between these points. The. total expenditure
during the half-year has been £68,956, of
which £55,887 has been paid for land
and compensation. The directors have given
notice of an intended application in the ensu:ing
session of Parliament for a bill to enable the
railway to be extended into the city, to a ter-
minus opposite London-stone and Walbrook, in
Cannon-street. As at present laid out, the station
accommodation of the railway will be at Lon-
don-bridge, at the crossings of the great
thoroughfares lee,ding to Southwark-bridge, Black-
friars-bridge, and Waterloo-bridge, and at Char-
ing-cross. The railway, as at, present laid out,
approaches very near to the river Thames, in
the immediate neighbourhood of London-bridge.
At the crossing of the Borough market it is only
200 yards distant from the Routh bank of the river;
and on the north or city side. of the Thames the new
broad thoroughfare of Cannon-street is situated only
300 yards from the river. It is accordingly proposed
to form a branch line out of the Charing-cross Rail-
way, a little to the westward of Wellington-street,
Borough, and carry it across the Thames by a bridge
to a City Terminus in Cannon-street ; the whole
length of the proposed line being only 900 yards.
The terminus in Cannon-street will be 150 yards
from the Mansion-house, 250 yards from the statue
in King William-street, and 560 yards from St.
Paul's. The estimated cost of the proposed railway.
is £525,000 ; and it is submitted that the expendi-
ture of such additional amount will be amply justi-
, fled by the large additional traffic which may with
confidence be expected from its construction.
Tne capital account shows that £195,903 had been
received, and £127,581 expended, leaving a balance
of £58,322.

SOME RSET CENTRAL.
The report of the directors states the total receipts
on revenue account for the half-year ending the 31st
of December last to have been £4,059, and the dis-
posable balance £3,491, which admits of the usual
dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, less
income-tax, leaving a balance of £BOB to the credit
of the current half-year, The directors recommend
the working of the. line upon the narrow gauge
exclusively, and an application is to be made to Par-
liament in the present session for powei to abandon
the broad gauge. The lease of the line to the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company expires on
the 28th of August next, and measures have been
taken to work it independently when that time
arrives. A subscription of £30,000 has been made
to the share capital of the Dorset Central Railway,
oc,er which this company has obtained running
powein and it is expected that the section of that
line from Bruton to Temple Coombe will be ready
for traffic in the autumn of this year. The exten-
sion to Bruton is to be completed in the course of
the summer. The ca;lite account shows a total
expenditure of £320,236, being an excess over the
receipts of £9,589.

NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROS-
TREVOR.
The report of the directors of this company states
that the traffic receipts for the six months eliding
the 31st December last amounted to £3,073 against
£2,479 for the corresponding half of 1859, and
against £2,360 for the same half of 1858 ; the work-
ing expenses were £l,OBB, £1,230, and £756 re-
spectively. The balance to the credit of revenue
was £1,586, out of which had to be paid on the 6
per cent. preference shares £387, leaving £3,199
applicable to dividend. The directors recommended
a dividend of 3s. per share for the past half-year,
leaving a balance of £454. The junction works were
not quite finished, but were expected to be so in the
course of next month. To meet the very large in-
crease in the traffic, consequent upon the opening of
the junction line, it would be requisite m,..terially
to add to the rolling stock. The revenue account
showed that £3,283 had been received and £1,654
expended, leaving a balance of £1,629.