The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

RAILTVAY INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND.

A meeting was held at Southwell on Friday to
protest against the proposed abandonment of this
company's authorised line between Mansfield and
Southwell. Mr. R. Milward presided. The meet-
ing was addressed by 11• Ir. W. H. Barrow, M.P.,
Mr. T. B. T. Hildyard, M.P., and other gentlemen,
and letters were read from Mr. Hodgkinson, M.P.,
and the Speaker of the house of Commons, op-
posing the course which the directors at present
propose to adopt with regard to the line. It was
resolved that a strong remonstrance should be made
to the directors against the contemplated postpone-
ment and abandonment, and that any application
to Parliament with that object should be strenu-
ously opposed.

DUDE AND ROUILKUND (LIMITED).
The report of the directors states that they are
informed by the chief engineer that the permanent
way answers very well in every respect. The
engines are also reported to have worked most satis-
factorily ; the carriages and waggons were found to
require certain alterations, and, as the assistance for
carrying out these alterations had to be procured
from Calcutta, it was considered expedient, to pre-
vent delay in opening the line, to borrow vehicles
from the East Indian Railway, who on application
readily and most obligingly lent them. The total
receipts on capital account amounted to £399,626,
and the total expenditure to £372,924, leaving in
hand on the 20th of June, 1867, a balance of £26,702.
The whole of the expenditure incurred up to the
31st of December, 1866, was allowed by the Secre-
tary of State to be included in the guarantee, with
the exception of £50,000 on account of the Nulhatee
line ; that sum had now been formed into a separate
stock, called the Null:late° Railway Stock, and has
been allotted to the shareholders according to their
holdings on the 7th of August, 1867, at the rate of
10s. for each share. In respect to the further ope-
rations of the company, the Secretary of State
having expressed a desire that it should be left to
the Government of India to decide the order in
which the works should be carried on, the Board
at once stated their views to the agent, that no
time might be lost in communicating them to
the Government. The estimates called for have
been received for 230 miles of the system,
comprising the extension of the Luckuow and
Cawnpore branch to Byram Ghate, the Benares
portion of the main line be-
branch, and the
tween them with the short branch to Fyz-tbal.
The Board have received the authority of the
Secretary of State to issue further capital to the ex-
tent of £1,000,000, which will in due course be
offered to the proprietors rateably according to their
interest or holding in the company's stock or shares.
The directors report the retirement from the Board
of the Marquis of Tweeddale, their late chairman.
Considering the extensive operations to be shortly
carried on, consequent upon the attainment of the
Government guarantee, it was obvious to the board
that it would be practically impossible for one offi •
cer to conduct efficiently the duties of the two de-
partments of agent and chief engineer, and they
resolved, therefore, upon separating the appoint-
ments at once. For the office of agent the board
have been fortunate in obtaining the eerTiou of