The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-16 00:00:00

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the said Railways, wlvirves, piers, lending places, and Works,
and to enable such new Company to levy other and additional
tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish ex-
emptions from the payment of any such tolls, rates, anti duties,
and also other rights and privileges.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act, to confer

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on the said new Conmany further and more efficient powers
than those at present possessed by the said Shrewsbury and
Chester Railway Company, in reference to the construction,
maintenance, regulation, and management of the several un-
dertakings of the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Com-
pany, and also to fix, regulate, ascertain, and determine, the
share capital and borrowing powers of the said new Company ;
and to regulate, confirm, and determine, the rights of the dif-

to authorize the conversion and consolidation of all or any part
of the shares of the capital of the Company into a general ca-
pital stock, and to•fix and regulate the scale of voting in respect
of such shares or stock, and also to authorize the closing of the
register of transfers of shares at and for such period prior to any
Special or Extraordinary Meeting of the Company, as the
Company or the Directors thereof shall think fit, or as may be
provided in and by the said intended Act.
And it is also intended by the said Act to enable the said
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, or the said
new Company to be incorporatei in their stead as aforesaid, to
borrow money, and to convert the money borrowed, -or which
may be borrowed by them, into capital, by the creation and
issue of shares or stock bearing a guaranteed or preferable
dividend of such amount, not exceeding three-and-a-half per
centum per annum, and with such special privileges as shall be
fixed by the said Bill.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable
the said -Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, or the
Company to be incorporated in their stead as aforesaid, to run
over and use with their own engines, carriages, and waggons,
or with engines, catriages, and waggons coming to or from
the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway or any of their
branches or stations, tine several lines of Railway following :
(that is to say) the Warrington and Altrincham Junction Rail-
way, and the Chester and Holyhead Railway, from its point of
junction with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway at or near
Saltney, in the Parishof
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in the County of
the City of Chester, to the terminus of the said Chester and
Holyhead Railway at Holyhead; and also the whole stations,
sidings, watering places, wharves, landing stages, and other
works belonging to or connected with the said Warrington and
Altrincham Junction .Railway, and Chester and Holyhead Rail.
way respectively ; and to alter and limit the tolls, rates, and
duties, authorized to be levied under the Acts relating to the
said Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway Company,
and Chester and Holyhead Railway Company respectively, so
far as the same would be leviable in respect of such engines,
carriages, and waggons, passing on and along the said iNar-
rington and Altrincham Junction and Chester and Holyhead
Railways respectively ; And it is also proposed by the said in-
tended Act to enable and require the Shrewsbury and Chester
Railway Company, or the Company to be incorporated in their
stead as aforesaid. and the said Warrington and Altrincham
Junction Railway Company, and the said Chester and Holyhead
Railway Company, to book through all passengers and other
traffic passing to, from, or beyond the Shrewsbury and Chester
Railway, from, to, or beyond any point or place on the said
Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway, or the said
Chester and Holyhead Railway, and to receive, forward, and
convey, to their or its destination, all passengers and other
traffic so booked, by the first practicable train conveying the
like ,
description of traffic, along the route over which the same

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Is to be fOrwarded, and, to vary or extingu;sh all rights or
privileges, if any, which could or might interfere with the ob-
jects aforesaid, or any of them.
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And it is atm; proposed by the said intended Act to authorise
the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, or the new
Company to be incorporated in their stead as aforesaid, and the
Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway Company, to
make, and enter into, and carry into effect such contracts and
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as may be or may have been mutually agreed
upon by or on behalf of the said Companies. with reference to
the conduct, management, and direction of the traffic upon their
respective Railways or any part thereof, and the division and
apportionment of such traffic, and the tolls, rates, and charge'
arising therefrom between the said two Companies; and
enable the said two Companies to appoint Committees c
Joint Committee for carrying into effect any such contrac'
arrangements, anti to exercise, by means of such Come'
or Joint Committee, or otherwise, such of the rights
and privileges, whether with reference to thr.
rates, t-
rates, and duties, or otherwise_

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nd the Shrewsbury and Birmi
ally to communicate the powe

over and using the lines of

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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that for

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, it does not appear to have been
accompanied with any very audible sound of its own
generally ; but a loud noise is said to have been heard in
Wales and elsewhere. So difficult is it to determine the
directions of an earthquake, unless instruments have
been in readiness with which to ascertain it, that opposite
statements have been received on this point—here, it has
been described as moving East and West; elsewhere, as
North and South. If, as we believe it to be, this earth-
quake was a wave, proceeding from remote and deep

subterranean action, it certainly would pursue a deter-
minate course; but it is possible for local circumstances
to change its apparent direction. The geological nature
of the situation, too, seems to have produced an influence,
(and this we are prepared to admit as an undisputed fact)
for parties residing i❑ those localitimavhich have a light,
dry, sandy soil, seem to have felt the shock most sensibly.
With regard to the extent of country over which the
vibrations have been felt, we are scarcely yet prepared to
pronounce positively ; but as far as present accounts go,
the shock has visited Dublin and its vicinity, Carlow,
Conway. Holyhead, and Mould. It was felt at Seaforth,
Waterloo, and other bathing places sn the Lancashire
coast (particularly Southport, Lytham, and Fleetwood);
at Manchester, Bolton, Bury. Ramsbottom, and even in
some parts of the midland counties. Several persons in
Wolverhampton and neighbourhood felt a tremor or

shaking of the earth ; and it awoke a lady and gentleman
near to Nantwich, who have communicated to us the
fact. Birkenhead and Chester experienced it. Besides
creating considerable alarm in Harrogate, Manchester,
Chester, Congleton, Birmingham, Worcester, Shrews-
bury, and Warrington, it was sensibly felt at Bangor, and
along the Welsh coast, at the Isle of Man, and parti-
cularly in Ireland. At Dublin the greatest excitement
was occasioned, as it was generally feared that there
would be a recurrence of the phenomenon. It was also
felt at Bray, Kingstown, Kilruddery, Dalkey, Glengarry,
Howth, Clontarf, Glasnevin, Carlow, Drogheda, Phibs-
borough, Monkstown, Kilbride, Ranelagh, and other
places. The foreman of the engineer department of the
Dublin and Kingstown Railway was aroused by the
noise. and, fearing that some explosion had occurred
among the engines, started out of bed, and ran, half-
dressed, followed by his wife, who was terr:fied almost
out of her senses, to the supposed scene of destruction.
A correspondent, writing of the shock as experienced at
Wicklow, says, "We can think of nothing else this
morning. The house rocked in a most fearful manner,
the bed pitched like a ship at sea, the clock stopped on
the mantel-piece, jugs and basins danced a fearful jig."
The shock was felt in Ireland about a quarter of an hour
after it had been experienced in this district. The
vibration was also felt at West Bromwich, Oldbury,
Tipton, . Wednesbury, Hales Owen, Wolverhampton,
Brewood, Tettenhall, and Ironbridge.
The duration of the phenomenon is variously stated,
from five to thirty seconds ; but it is impossible for the
ordinary observer to determine this point with certainty.
The last time that we were visited by an earthquake was
on the 17th March, 1843, about 1 a.m.

BIRKENHEAD COUNTY COURT.—On Friday last an
action was brought by Mr. Charles Seed!Jim, formerly the
landlord of the Waterloo Hotel, Birkenhead, to recover
the sum of £l4 193 9d from Mr. Robert Hughes, estate
of Birkenhead, for refreshments supplied at the

election of commissioners for that township in 1847. O❑
the occasion in question a very severe contest ensued be•
lie two parties into which the township was then
alleged on the part of the plaintiff that
an active member of the committee,

and as such gave orders for refreshments to be supplied
to voters. On the ocher band, it was proved that Mr.
Hughes refused to be upon the committee, and never gave
orders at all except a few to his own tenants, and they
were in writing. An order in writing for two t
nroduced in the handwriting of the defendant