The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY FARES AND COMPETITION.
A meeting of directors and other representatives
of railway companies was held yesterday at the
Euston Hotel, Mr. H. S. Thompson, chairman of
the North Eastern Railway Company, in the chair.
The following companies were thus represented :
London and North-Western, by the Marquis of
Chandos, chairman ; Mr. Total, and Mr. Stewart.
Midland, by Mr. Beale, chairman ; Mr. Hutchin-
son, deputy-chairman ; Mr. Allport and Mr. New-
combe.

North Eastern, by Mr. Thompson, chairman ;
and Mr. Leeman, deputy-chairman.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, by Mr. Stuart, vice-
chairman ; the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Wilson,
Mr. Anderton, and Mr. Hargreavc.

Great Western, by Mr. Williams and Captain
Bulkeley.

Great Northern, by Mr. Denison, M.P., chair-
man ; Mr. Walker, and Mr. Seymour Clarke.
East Lancashire, by Mr. Dugdale, chairman ;
and Mr. Riley, deputy-chairman.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, by Mr.
Gamble and Mr. Lees.

North British, by Mr. Hodgson, chairman, and
Mr. Rowbotham.
Lancaster and Carlisle, by Colonel Maclean and
Mr. Bolden.
Glasgow and South Western, by Mr. Orr and
Mr. Playfair.
Oxford, -Worcester, and Wolverhampton, by Mr.
Fenton, chairman ; Mr. Watkin, and Mr. Sherriff.
South Yorkshire, by the Right Hon. John Par-
ker.

Stockton and Darlington, by Mr. Meynell, chair-
man.
Shrewsbury and Hereford, by Mr. Williams.
Birkenhead, by Mr. Salisbury, M.P.
St. Helen's, by Mr. Holland, vice-chairman, and
Mr. Sinclair.

Carlisle and Silloth, by Mr. Irving.
The CHAIRMAN stated that he had received as-
sents to the resolutions passed at last meeting from
18 companies, representing an amount of capital
exceeding .£150,000,000.
The following resolutions were then moved :

" 1. That the rates and fares on the several railways of
the kingdom should be so fixed as to realise the largest
amount of net profits, duo regard being had to the interests
of the public."

Carried (one company dissenting).

" 2. That where any two or more companies interested
in any particular traffic fail to agree among themselves as
to the rates and fares to be charged, the points in dispute
shall be referred to arbitration."

Carried (four companies dissenting).
" 3. That where two or more routes exist between any
two points, the rates, fares, and charges between such
points shall be equal."
Carried (nine companies not voting).
" 4. That this meeting strongly recommends the settle-
ment of all differences between railway companies by arbi-
tration, instead of by recourse to law or to excessive and
ruinous competition, and that powers be sought for from
Parliament in the ensuing session to enable any two or
more railway companies to settle all disputes by arbitration."
This resolution was carried unanimously.

" 5. That a committee, consisting of the chairman (or
other directors) of the assenting companies, with the addi-
tion of the Mayor of Liverpool, the Right Hon. J. Parker,
Mr. Leeman, and Mr. Wilson, be now appointed to prepare
a Bill for presentation to Parliament, with power to add to
their number, and to appoint an executive sub-committee."
This was also carried unanimously.
It was then agreed that the meeting be adjourned
to Thursday, the 7th of October next, at the Euston
Hotel, at 10 o'clock.

On the motion of the Marquis of Chandos,
seconded by Mr. Williams, and supported • by Mr.
Denison and Mr. Beale, he following resolution
was carried unanimously :
" That the best thanks of this meeting and of the pro-
prietors of the railway property here represented are
eminently due to the chairman for the great exertions he
has used in originating and personally promoting the objects
of this meeting, and for his conduct in the chair,"
The meeting then adjourned.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—PORT TALBOT, SEPT. 7.
A very distressing accident occurred here on Sunday last.
Mr. Illcott, the owner of the Snowdrift, loading here for
Cadiz, observing from the deck of his vessel that his son, a
lad of 11 years of age, had fallen out of his boat into the float,
immediately leaped overboard and swam towards him, and
succeeded in reaching the little boy, but while in the act of
seizing him he sunk himself with his son. Several boats
were immediately launched to render assistance, and an oar
was thrown, which the little boy succeeded in catching, and
was thereby saved, but his father sank to rise no more. His
body was recovered an hour afterwards. He was the son of
the Rev. Dr. Ilcott, of Liverpool, who with a large body of
master mariners and others attended the funeral of the un-
fortunate gentleman this evening to the parish church of
Aberavon.
SINGULAR DEATH.—An inquest Was held on
Moseley-road, Newton, near
Tuesday at the New Inn,
Hyde, on the body of a man named William Wright, a
piecer, at Newton, known by the soubriquet of " Billy Mo-
tion," who died on Saturday from the effects of injury
received under the following circumstances :—A warrant
being out against him for neglect of his wife and family, he
had been sleeping on a large haystack in Newton, when he
fell down a hole left in the middle of the stack for ventila-
tion, (made by putting a bag of hay upright and drawing it
up the aperture as the has- is stacked). Finding himselfor
incapable of climbing up the funnel-shaped aperture,exnausted for
want of air the poor fellow became so weak
and
make his way
that he was only able very slowly to
horizontally through the stack, by pulling out hay withhis
hands, and throwing it behind him. his occupied him
from the time of his fall till Wednes y—near y three days
with great difficulty crept
—and when he crawled out, hel
to the steps of a house, in Newton, said he had come to
die there. He was taken intob
~the house, but gradually
sank, and on Friday night c was removed to the work-
house. A verdict of accidental death was returned.—
..Vane/tester Guardian.
FORGETFUL FARMERS.—The, Dumfries Courier
states that the other Sunday, while
.some persons were pass-
ing to church near a farm in the parish of Dryfesdale, they
were
surprised to observe the farmer at work, mowing grass
on a meadow, while two of his sons were each engaged with
a horse working among turnips in a field adjacent. On being
asked the cause of their working on Sunday the farmer and
his sons declared that they had not been keeping a reckoning
of the days of the week, and were not aware that it was the--
Sabbath:day, their farm not being within " sound of
been
•
church-going bell." On learning the mistakethat had been
made, the scythe was thrown down and the horses were
unyoked) while labour wat buspe4cled till =other day.