The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

Angguus

is about 19,291
manner :

in Liverpo-01, 12,666; in Everton, 977; in
; in West Derby, 885 ; in Tosteth-park,

2605, of whom about 1001

are alsO

The number of names

on the revised lists, last year, was 17,315, so that this gives
an apparent increase of 1976 votes, of which about 400 are
those of freemen. All persons who are entitled to be on
the register should see that their names are really there,
and should take some pains to keep them there, at, athne

en questions of tI

e gr,.._atsst importance are likel,

come before the country, including the new Reform bill,
which may make or mar governments, and may possibly
produce a dissolution ; although parties who compound for
their own -rates are not eligible to be placed on the regis•
ter, parties -whose lancnords compound for them are per•

fecili eligible. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of
persons in Liverpool belonging to these two eltissts whose
names are not on the register, but who may obtain the
right to-vote by sending in their names before the 25th of
August, after which day no claims can be made.
EAST LIIVCASZIRE.—The ordinary half-yearly meeting,
of the proprietors of this railway took place on Wednes-
day, at the Bury station ; Mr. Thomas Dugdale, the chair-
man of the directors presiding.—The chairman, in moving
the adoption of the report, said the directors had come to
the determination, on this occasion, to recommend a divi-
dend after the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, taking £974
from the reserve fund. During the past half-year they had
paid off loans amounting to upwards of £40,000, the prin-
cipal portion bearing interest at 5 per cent., and had re-
borrowed :about that amount at 3- per cent. The work-
ing expenses had been less by ti per cent. than during
the half-Fear ending with the year 1852 ; and this reduc-
tion hail enabled the company to obtain an additional profit
of £10;.103 for the last half-peak, by a total increased ex-
penditure of only £2,150, as compared with the same pe-
riod of 1852. The average weekly increase in the receipts
for the present half-year up to 'August 7, was £s64.—Mr.
Riley, director, seconded the motion, which was carried
without a word of discussion.—A dividend was then de-
clased after the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, for the
past half-year, on the 6 per tent. capital of the company,
tf 6 per cent. per annum, on the amount called up of the
preference fifth shares ; and of three per cent. per annum,
cn the- ordinary stock of the company.
TRAFFIC TO xnE ISLE • ov MAN.—On Saturday week the
liona's Queen, under the temporary command of Mr.
Grier, after having been repaired from the recent accident
to one of her paddles, went round the Floating Light4hip
for the purpose of • testing her machinery, previous to
resuming her place on the station between this port and
Douglas. The trial was in every respect satisfactory. On
Monday she started from the George's Pier, with a large
number of passengers, • the majority of whom were cheap
excursionists. On Tuesday she left Douglas Bay at twenty
minutes past nine o'clock. The morning was serene. The
sea was smooth as glass, and even on rounding Douglas-
head there was not a ripple to be seen. The passengers
were landed on the George's Pier at three o'clock, -the
passage having occywied a trifle more than five hours and
a half. The patent floats with which her paddles are fitted,
and the ease with Which her engines work, cause her to go
so steadily that the vibration usually felt on -point;-g-,0h4,-
steamers is so completely done away with that even the
most delicate in stomach need not be afraid to risk a trip
with her throug,ltrear of being sea-sick. On 'Monday no
fewer than six steamboats, all freighted withpassengers,
arrived at Douglas,—the Mona's Queen, the Ben-my-
Chree, and the King Orry, from Liverpocil; the Cambria,
from Fleetwood-- the Morecambe Bay Queen, from More-
cambe Bay ; and' the Queen, from Dublin,—landing the
largest number-of passengers ever put on 'terra firma at
Douglas in one day. _

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NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—At the half-yearly ge-
neral meeting on Friday, after the usual preliminaries,
the chairman, MajorLGeneral Anson, said he-regarded-the
statement as eminently satisfactory, and stated that the
directors had resolved, with the sanction of the -proprie-
tors, to cease 'charging to revenue the additions to stock
and works required to" ncrease traffic, and that the balance
of this account 'should'ne transferred to the debit of :ca-
pital. ' He contended that it was imposilble to close the
capital account of such-a line at present;- seeing that the
system was not yet developed. The great object of the
directors was to obtain a fixed dividend. Alluding to the
parliamentary contests of the session, he said this com-
pany had no reason to complain of the results, though they
had been attended with great•expense ; but le.complained
of the deciSion of the committees of both houses being
capricious and inconsistent. The amalgamation with •the
Midland -hall,been quashed, because it would place. oo
much power in the hands of the companies. Their fears

totally 'groundless ; but the same thing was .autho-
rised to be done for a limited number of years, by means
of working agreements. He had not entertained any

r, that the amalgamation with the Nord'
,ny would be granted, and that the

oubt, 110
,tafordshire Con
nion with fl

!Midland would be as I
under the sanction of an act 'of parliament. No arrange,
nent had yet been arrived .at with the Great Westerr
Company, and with respect to the Shrewsbury line, In

if it was

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tinder investigative. Ever
:e he had been connected with the company he had

whole MI