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

Jan. 27, 184 G.

General Pasley, on Saturday, made his examination as
to the cause of the late accident on the Midland Railway.
at Chesterfield, and has expressed himself fully satisfied
that the whole and sole blame rested with the engine-
driver:

The amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1,800
miles of railway, was £113,142, thus accounted for :--
£54,663 for the conveyance of passengers only, £27,242
for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £32,237 for
passengers and goods together, not respectively accounted
for ; being an increase over the corresponding week of last
year of £12,244.
THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY AND
THE CANALS.-4% e hear that the award of the arbitrators
for arranging the terms of the proposed amalgamation of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the Forth and
Clyde Canal, and the purchase of the Union Canal, has
been declared by Mr. Gregson ; but the particulars have
not yet been made known.—Scottish Railway Gazette.
A vast field of coal, occupying more than 10,000 acres,
and averaging 20 feet thick of workable coal, has been
brought to light on the Midland and Thirsk Junction, by
the traverse of this line through the Howden Clough and
Cockersdale Valleys. There are at present 6,000 tons
carted weekly; but when the line is completed, it is be-
lieved the average weekly supply will not be less than
20.000 tons.

The last week was remarkable for the number of amal-
gamations which have taken place among railway pro-
jects. In some instances no fewer than from three to
five competing schemes have amalgamated. It is sup-
posed that not more than from 150 to 180 projects will go
into a committee of the House of Commons, and that
not more than 100 will receive the sanction of the legis-
lature.

The Committee of the London Stock Exchange have
passed a resolution requiring the members to furnish the
names of all the clients that are defaulters, in order that
the clerk may enter them in a book which is to be open for
tee inspection of the members of the house only. We
suspect that this resolution has been passed rather late in
the day for some of the members, although it may yet
have the effect of giving the police less trouble in Capel-
court.

GUAGE EXPERIMENTS.—The editor of Herepalh',
Journal, in a long article upon this subject, condemns the
recent experime.nts as altogether trifling, and as affording
no test of the merits o the two guages, and, after takings
review of the result of the recent trials, noticing the dif-
ference in the gradients, and making allowances for the
side wind at the narrow guage experiments, says, so far
the experiments examined in their naked truth are all in
favour of the narrow guage, and advises the Great Wes-
tern Company at once to• order their engine
the guage to the narrow

to change

The sanction of a special meeting of the South Western
Railway Company has just been given to a large group of
extensions, by which it is proposed to accommodate the
whole country lying between their present line and the
Land's End. There is first to be a line from Basingstoke
to Salisbury, costing £700,000 another from Salisbury
to Yeovil, costing .X 900,000 ; and then on to Exeter, at a
further cost of £1,300,000 ; and so by the Cornwall and
Devon Central to Falmouth and Penzance, at no less an
outlay than £3,000,000..

At Newcastle and Darlington meeting, a 9 per cent.
dividend was declared. Resolutions were adopted for ex-
tending railway communication in connexion with the
company's line to Boroughbridge and Beadle, and from
Thirsk to Alaßon, and other places in the intermediate
neighbourhood ; and for making and purChasing docks at
Jarrow Lake, Monkwearmouth and Sunderland ; and for
carrying forward a line through the Auckland district.
To carry these various objects into execution, it was do-
'f £1,000,000. by
held by the

termined to create an addition
the issue of 11 shares upon e

company

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MIDLAND RAILWA

e half-yearly
erbv Station.

The report
balance of

91.8 to divide
upon