The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

—On M,

meeting of this company wa
The chair was taken by Mr. H
of the directors stated that there
£197,897 7s. 3d„ which enabled the propr
upon each, £lOO of consolidated stock, £3 13s. 9
each £lOO of preferential stock, £3 13s. 9
£lOO of Birmingham and Derby c
£3; reserving upwards of £14,000 toss
yearly account. The increa:
half-year of 1844 was as follnv _ _ _
goods, £11,800; minerals, £5,756
cattle, £12,627; total increase on
The increase in the expenditure
ment was attributable to th

n, M.P.

Insolidated stock,
Lrds the next half-

over the corr
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ponding
s, £47,344 ;
5, £19,104;

parcel
half-yea

£86,631

the locomotive depart-

great increa

two engines tieing req
LIVERPOOL, PRESTON, AND NORTH UNION JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.—A meeting of the subscribers to this
projected line was held at Preston on Wednesday, the
Mayor in the chair. From the non-deposit of the plans
the scheme has failed, and the Committee are about to
proceed against the Engineers, Messrs. Gandell and
Burton, for breach of corvract ; while the Engineers, on
the other hand, claim £2,310, in addition to £2,300 which
they have already received. It appears that the total re-
ceipts hare been £25,368, and the balance at the credit of
the Company is now £19,046. Of 13.360 shares allotted,
the deposit of £2. 2s. was paid on 12,000. The meeting
passed a resolution for the repayment of 21s. per share,
reserving the balance (about 9s. per share) "in order to
carry out the proceedings against the Engineers." An
amendment that 30s. be repaid, had only four supporters,
in a very numerous meeting.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON RAILWAY.--It
appears from the report of the directors, that the loco-
motive engines for this railway will be ready in March,
but the line was opened on the 19th instant, and is mean-
' while worked by horse-power. The Leith branch is e)-
pected to be opened by the Ist of May. The tunnel is
proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily, 340 yards being now
formed. There were 310 men employed on the works,
under the able superintendent, Air. Patterson. The
chairman explained the circumstances in which the com-
pany had purchased the Excise-office in Drummond place.
After noticing various points in the report, he entered
into a lengthened and interesting explanation of the ne-
gotiations of the company with the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Railway Company, and the unfavourable issue of that
attempt to amalgamate the companies. The chairman
also recapitulated the terms of agreement with the Edin-
burgh and Northern Company. The meeting was per-
fectly unanimous.—Scottish Railway Gazelle.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.—The half yearly meet'
ing was held at York, on Friday week. The report,
which was a very satisfactory one, recommended a divi-
admenodunot of t
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£23,000 for the half-year's rent of the Hull and Selby
line, due on the Ist instant, a surplus of £19,363 16s. 2d.
will remain to the credit of the company. The report
having been unanimously adopted, and the dividend de-
clared as recommended, the Chairman then proceeded to
develop his plans of extension, which comprised 71 miles
of new railway, consisting of a communication with Pock-
lington, Market Weighton, Driffield, Beverley, and other
portions of the East Riding ; 17 miles in the proposed
lines to Leeds, serving the towns of Tadcaster, Aberfordr
&c. ; 11 miles extension from the Whitby and Pickering
Railway to Danby Dale ; also double lines from Milford.,
to York. The directors proposed a creation of new ca-
pital to the amount of £1,250,000, for part of which they
proposed to create 37,950 shares, which would be appro-
priated in the proportion of one new £25 share for ever),
£5O share, and one new £25 share for every two £25
shares. The York and North Midland Company pro-
posed to subscribe £lOO,OOO to the Axholme line,
£40,000 to the Mallon and Driffield Railway, and
£200,000 to the Eastern Counties Extension. All the
projects were unanimously adopted.
ENERGY AND HONESTY THE ROAD TO WEALTH AND
INFLUENCE.—The Railway Chronicle of Saturdiy thus
speaks of the indefatigable energy of Mr. Hudson—the
railway king :—" When Mr. Hudson was elected mem-
ber for Sunderland, it was eagerly asserted by his enemies
and timidly surmised by his adherents, that the energies
hitherto devoted to his railways would be directed from
that useful channel into the wild courses of politics. We
then expressed just the opposite conviction. Some men
there are whose talents to do increase directly as the
amount of their work, and who, with moderate employ'
ment, would go to sleep. Mr. Hudson is one of those men
to whom the existence of difficulties and the array of for-
midable duties merely serves to awaken to a keener sense
of his responsibilities, and a more distinct consciousness
of ability to cope with them. Already chairman of one
line from the north to the south of England, he undertakes
the formation of a second, parallel to his own ! On the eve
of a great parliamentary struggle, we find him addressing
his railway constituents, presiding at three great meetings
in one day, making at each two or three tong speeche.st
disposing of a million of annual revenue, buying up rail'
ways and docks in his own name, and handing them over.
as free gifts to one or another of his favoured companies'
in the midst of a commercial panic raising a few millicTs
and applying for leave to make a few hundred miles of ran.
way as coolly, and even as it seems to us, with more c 0.13,
,
fidence than in time of prosperous or over-promising el&
culatiorr ! When we advocated honesty, openness and
berality as the soundest policy for railway-men, we sure ft
were not mistaken. Such a week's work as we preir%
to-day indicates neither diminished energy nor implore
influence !"

THE LATE RAILWAY ROBBERIES.—DanieI Garrett'
whose conviction for robberies on railways must be fresh
in the memory of our readers, made a lengthened confer'
mon of his guilt while in the transport before she
The following extract discloses facts certain to receive the
attention of directors :—" When I was living in idleue:,
close to the railway station, I used to go on to the Plat!
form to see the trains come in ; and there it was I
Inta conversation with the people of the railway,
joined a connexion. My first parcel was a carpet us°"
which was taken on the arrival of a train as if I was
passenger; but that mode of acting became dangeroult
as, on several occasions, the owners intercepted tbz.e,,,
property, and, but for the timely assistance of a cort.l'.,
derate, I should not have escaped so easily. Other 01.'4
thods were hit upon, which, if made known, may prey
such practices in future. We found it best to work if
dark. Sometimes a passenger would be watched, Wei
any parcel of his promised well, he would be dodge
cv
through to the train, and, when he had passed on, re
the confederate we managed matters easily ; for, "`e,
practicable, he would put the luggage in a wrong Ina fe,
or with a wrong ticket on it, or boldly give it to a ectol
derate as his luggage to go with him in the train insnrt
of in the luggage van; a confederate would ride a 01)14
or long trip, and then claim the particular article, or Wshe
away with it, with or without the cognisance of t p
guard, depending on his being in the secret or not; to
was by going as a short passenger that we were abl.ethe
effect these things ; or else would, on the arrival
train, boldly seize anything, and if stopped, it coul'4•
attributed to mistake. It was at the junction lines
acl,
pecialy that we were able to work as well without the ero
sistance of the railway man as with it. The passell,o9
were gone out into the refreshment. rooms, and there Iv
another by which we could start off to another pittee'volt
these various ways the game was played ; first one fret;
then another on one line, then changed about to ano.',,
intending to change about from lin:: to line in succes2w