The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The report of the Caledonian directors, to be PreseP'tJ
at the meeting in Edinburgh, on Thursday next, "regrew
to announce that the balance is insufficient for thefPott
ment of a dividend on the ordinary share capitsl
company." bine('
It is pretty extensively understood that a en° ;nte,
move will be made next session by the great rafivalLet•
rests, in part to repair the madness of '45 and '46/ 11,rt
ting powers to charge higher fares. The Goverame_ole
considered not to be averse, provided reductions are"'
in the charges for the conveyance of the mails. t Pr°.
HerapalleB Railway Journal, alluding to the vas. oat
fits of Mr. Hudson, gives a list of items culled mere')9o4
of the five reports already published on the I(°r i,Tbelf
Berwick and York and North Midland Railways' et
are not pretended to comprise the whole. The am libas
is the trifling sum of £593,695, of which .£168,75
already been repaid. If such be the opportunities of g ,el
can we wonder at the desire and anxiety evinced t°
teo
into directions ? There is not here included the al
received from the Bank of England, nor the orirm,
Newcastle and the Scarborough surplus shares given
together about £70,000.
I'vett
,
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A special gen-- the
ing was held on Thursday, at Paddington, to conei"', ae
expediency of appointing two or three shareholders
recommended in the report of the auditors, to confer s'oal•
the directors with regard to the management of the c
pany's affairs ; and also for electing four proprietors,
s't,
be directors of the company. There was a very largStbe,
tendance of shareholders. Mr. L. Heyworth move
following resolution :—" That Mr. T. S. Gladstons,:
Liverpool, Mr. R. Withers, of Liverpool, and gr.
Sage, of Bristol, be a committee for the purpose of ion
Sage,
ferring with the board of directors from time W 6001
the exercise of their powers with regard to the Der'
expenditure of the company, the outlay of cap/Wl°. te.
lines and works, and the regulations for establishing °their
serve fund ; and that they be authorised to report sso
opinions to the proprietors upon the several mat tb
tor:
referred to them for consultation with the dire,colai
thereon ; the board being requested to give every regorroy
and proper facility to the said committee for the Per'„tioe
ance of their duties." After a long discussion, the re"
was unanimously agreed to.
e 5
COLLISION ON THE LYTHAM RAILWAY.--Q" rril
-
day night, an accident of a very fearful description, sof
which might have been attended with immense ,1°50500
life, occurred on the above railway. The last tra'n lion
Lytham, owing to some delay, did not leave the st'int.o.
for the last twenty minutes after the time, and baA",ok
ceeded as far as the Moss-side station, when a collision
place. It may be necessary to state that there is
single line of rail. By some mismanagement, a tra
gnl
nearly empty carriages was coming from Fleetwood tiori
instead of the engine driver remaining at the kllLeil
till the Lytham train had passed, he recklessly Pr°o4l
up the line to the point we have named, when the Of
the down trains came into collision. The driver °to,
Lytham train had eased his speed to stop at the sta
and fortunately the steam of the other engine vinn,°„tbe
exhausted, so that the speed was not very great be the
engines met ; but sufficiently great to cause the ill3°)to
number of passengers in the Lytham train nearly
be more or less injured. Broken noses, cut facee,b'itii
legs and arms, were the natural consequence. One%
tleman in the coupee had his head forced throw,;
window ; another had his clothes torn ; one or two fainjoes
and all were more or less injured. One of the e133:0g,
being thrown off the line, prevented the train proeell)e
so that the passengers bad to shift for themselves._.Ji
seats in one of the second-class carriages were 'Lytle
smashed to pieces, but the passengers in the cart
escaped with very few bruises.

RAILWAY RECEIPTS.

The following are the receipts of railways for the pas!
that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
are made:—

Week
ending

1849.
Amount.

ISept.ls