The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTLLLIGENCE.

Tht Ely and Peterborough line will be opened in June.
There are 3,400 men employed on the line.
The railway receipts for the last two months of the pre-
sent half year amount to £789,155, being an increase over
the corresponding period of 1845 of £114,294.
It was decided at Croydon assizes last week, that a
director on a railway is responsible although he never
acted.
RAILWAY MISDEMEANOUR.-At Maidstone, James
Bowney, 24, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment
and hard labour, for throwing a stone at a train on the
Rochester Railway.
The London and Yoik railway bill was read a third
time in the House of Commons on Friday; so were the
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, and the Direct Lon-
don and Portsmouth Railway Bill.
The Chamber of Deputies of Bavaria adopted, on the
Bth instant, by a large majority, a bill for the construction
of a railway, at the expense of the state, from Bamberg to
the frontier of the kingdom.
The Admiralty have decided against the plan by which
the promoters of the Mold Junction Railway propose to
cross the River Dee, at or near Queen's Ferry. This re-
solution, we presume, will be fatal to the bill.
At the Chelmsford assizes, last week, a clerk named
Jones recovered from Mr. Watts, a provisional director
of the Irish West Coast Railway, remuneration at the
rate of 7s. per day for his services to the " company."
On Friday evening the London and York Railway Bill
was read a first time in the House of Lords. It only
passed the Commons the same evening, so that parties
can move at " railway" speed at other places than the
" rail."

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Wolverhampton, on
Tuesday, an amendment against the proposed conversion
into a railway of the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal,
which runs from Antherly to Nantwich, was carried by a
large majority.
A verdict was given, last week, in favour of the pro-
prietor of the Surrey and Kent Mercury, at the Maid-
stone assizes, to recover the amount of the bill for adver-
tisements connected with one of the projected Kentish
railways, to which the defendant acted as solicitor.
The total number of labourers and others employed in
constructing the various railways in Perthshire are 2057,
of these 1768 are Scotch, 114 English, and 175 Irish;
1582 are employed on the Scottish Central, 393 on the
Dundee and Perth, and 82 on the Scottish Midland, which
has only recently commenced operations.

As an instance of the facilities for locomotion afforded
by " rail," we may mention that Mr. P. Miles, M.P. for
Bristol, took part in the debate on Monday evening, in
the House of Commons, and was also present the same
evening at the Batchelors' Ball at the Bath Assembly-
rooms, more than 100 miles distant.
WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY.—This company
have again a locus standi in parliament, the committee on
standing orders having reported to the house " That in
the case of the West Riding Union petition, for leave to
present a petition for a bill, the standing order ought to
be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to pre-
sent a petition accordingly."
The Liverpool and Leeds dii ect railway bill has been
withdrawn, and they have abandoned all opposition to
the West Riding Union line. The proprietors of the
former are to be paid £5OOO towards their expenses, and
have allotted to them 12,000 shares in the West Riding
Union. These 12,000 shares are to be delivered at 335.
each—being an allowance of Os. per share, or £5,400 to-
wards the expenses of the Liverpool and Leeds district.
RAILWAY TELEGJI.AP II BETWEEN LONDON AND
LIVERPOOL.—At a meeting of the Trent Valley Railway
Company, at Manchester on Monday last, Mr. Edward
Tootal announced the intention of the directors of the
amalgamated companies to have a telegraph laid down
immediately from London to Liverpool, and from Lon-
don to Manchester, by which communications may be
transmitted from London to Liverpool in three minutes
or less, and an answer received in three minutes more !
FURTHER LIABILITY OF COMMITTEE-MEN.—MORE
" DIRECT" LINES.—At the Maidstone Assizes, on Wed-,
nesday, Mr. M'Dowall, a printer, of Fleet-street, reco-
vered £167 from a gentleman named Dunnington, being
the amount of his bill for printing supplied to the " Lon-
don, Nottingham, and Sheffield Direct Railway." On the
same day, and at the same place, Mr. Finlayson, a sur-
veyor, recovered from Mr. Pilbrow (known for his atmo-

spheric apparatus) £32, the balance of an account for sur-
veying the " Gravesend and London Direct Atmospheric
Railway." In the latter case, the brother of the
speaking of a visit to the offices of the company, said " he
took away one or two of the prospectuses, in order that he
might see whether they cont,dned the names of any
responsible persons from whom he might recover the
money due to him one of these odd days." One of the
witnesses for the defence was Mr. Beaumont, the " Engi-
neer-in-chief of the company." He stated that " about
the beginning of October they were desirous of preparing
to go before parliament. He went to the Hall of Com-
merce, and saw the plaintiff walking about with a level on
his shoulder. (A laugh.) Mr. Chambers-1 suppose
that was to indicate that he wanted a job? (Renewed
laughter.) Witness supposed it was."