The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-16 00:00:00

IIAILIPAY INTELLIGENCE.

EAST KENT RAlLWAY.—Yesterday a Special
meeting of the proprietors was held at the office of
the company, No. 2, Moorgate street, for the pur-
pose of authorising the board of directors to borrow
not exceeding £233.333 Os 8,1, and also to issue
from time to time, as they may think fit, without
any right to a dividend in preference of the
original shares, or with a right to such preferential
dividend to the extent of £5 per cent. or less, such
of the Dover extension shares as have not already
been issued: Tire salary of the secretary was also
to be raised from £3OO to .£lOO per annum. Sir
J. Tylden, Bart., occupied the chair, and moved
three resolutions, which were adopted nem coil
The traffic returns of railways in the United
Kingdom published for the week ending March 7,
amounted to £109,361, and for the corresponding;
week of 1856, £382,937, showing an increase of
£26,424. The gross receipts of the eight railways
having their termini in the metropolis amounted
for the week ending as above to £171,711, and for
the cotresponding week of last year to £162,208,
showing an increase of £9,503. The increase on
the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to
£2,318 ; on the Great Western to .Cl. 869 ; on the
London and North Western to £2,718; on the
London, Brighton, and South Coast to £516 ; on
the London and South Western, to £932 ; and on
the South Eastern to £lB ; total, £9,504. But
from this must be deducted £l, the decrease on
the London and Blackwell, leaving the increase as
above £9,503. The receipts on the other lines. in
the unite 1 kingdom amounted to £237,650, and for
the corresponding period of 1856 to £220,729,
showing an increase of £16,921 in the receipts of
those lines, which, added to the increase on the
metropolitan lines, makes the total increase £26,421,
as compared with the corresponding week of 1856.
MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK.—Monday : L rndon
and Paris Joint Stock Bank. London, Bristol, and
Exeter, Bristol. Tuesday : Newcastle and Carlisle,
Newcastle on-Tyne. South D.tvon. Plymouth.
Wednesday Derwent Mines Company, London
Illinois Central, New York. Thursday : Great
Western, Pad Cington. Edinburgh, Perth, and
Dundee, Edinburgh. Friday: Chester and Ho ly•
head, London. Calcutta and Burmah Steam
Navigation Company, London. Saturday : Corn-
wall, Truro.

NEWSPAPERS—POSTMASTERS.—We are in possession of
the verity, that there are some postmasters, not one hundred
miles off who will have the presumption and hardihood to
detain and opea newspapers, not for the purpose of
detecting enclosures, but to satiate their thirst with the•
leading and important news of the day. Let them take
car e. —Ang lo Celt.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—We observe thst
this excellent and useful society has just issued a series of
regulations, with respect to the meetings of the society
during the present year. All kinds of manufactured articles
connected with horticulture are to be admitted to the
society's exhibition. The autumnal first exhibition is fixed
for Saturday the 24th inst. Tho prizes in this are from
£4 to 10s. The grand exhibition takes place in June. We
observe that several salutary improvements have been
introduced with the view of extending the usefulness of the
society, and promoting the objects for which it was estab-
lished, a taste for horticulture according to the most
sc'entific principles.
A. LAW FOR AMUSEMENTS.—The Legislature of North
Carolina adjourned on the 7th ult. The literary com-
munity of that State will doubtless be much gratified at its
careful catering for their tastes. It had passed a law that
every lecturer must " settle with the sheriff" to the
amount of 10 dols before he can " speak in public on the
siege." Here is what democracy has done for literature.
A tax is laid on " stage and theatrical companies, rope-
dancers, sleight of hand performers, tumblers, Scc.," 40 dole
for each county. On exhibitors of natural curiosities, not
already mentioned, 20 dols for each county. On singers,
dancers, lecturers, &c., for reward, 10 dole for each
county." A Wilmington paper says :—Here we have
them, circuses and menageries, theatres, ropedancers,
jugglers, tumblers, monkeys, baboons, ourang outangs,
nigger minstrels, double shuffie-cutters, and—lecturers, like
the " four and twenty fiddlers, all in a row," the lecturers
at the foot, and with the minstrels and shuffie.cutters, let off
with a tax of only 10 dols. Great are these democratic
descendants.

THE NEW METHOD OF MOULDING AND CASTING IRON
PIPES.—Some time ago we called the attention of our
readers to a novel and very simple mode of making cast-
iron pipes. The success of the experiments is increasing at
every step in the patentee's progress, and the importance of
the invention alone induces us again to recur to the sub-
ject. In our former notice we mentioned that we had seen
the thirtieth pipe cast from one mould, but we are now in
a position to state that the inventors have since cast the
large number of sixty-two pines from one mould, without a
single failure, and they still hope greatly to exceed this
number, although the above quantity is far beyond their
first expectations. Having formerly described the modus
operandi of moulding and casting, it is unnecessary to
repeat it, but there is one feature in the finished casting to
which, we think, reference ought to be made viz., its great
solidity. The patentees, for their own satisfaction, have
broken up several of the pipes, and find an entire absence of
air and sand holes. This is owing to the nature of the
mould, which being composed principally or fire-clay, and
bard burned, no particles can be washed off with the run of
the fluid metal, as is frequently the case with the ordinary
sand naaalds,—Glasgow Daily Mail.