The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

At the Blackwall meeting, a dividend was declared of
2s. 6d. per share.
The Grand Junction Company contemplate erecting
180 cottages at Crewe this year. The foundations of 80
were commenced last week.

The Lytham Branch of the Wyre Railway was opened
on Tuesday for the conveyance of passengers be!ween
Preston and Lytham.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Blackburn and Pres-
ton Railway Company, on Thursday, it was agreed to
amalgamate with the East Lancashire.
The deposits for Ireland are found to be just £940,000,
and those for Scotland £2,500,000, which, with the
£11,492,000 for England, make the total closely to ap-
proximate to £15,000,000.
The report of the North British states that several of
the contracts on the main line are all but completed, and
the others in so forward a state as to afford hopes that
the railway will be opened in May.
The West Riding Union Railway Company has been
decided not to have complied with standing orders. A
select committee has, however, yet to adjudicate on the
matter, and the decision may then be reversed.
The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway have
presented their late chairman, Mr. Bosanquet, on his re-
tirement from ten years official servitude, with a massive
sil;er candelabrum.

The number of petitions last session for railway bills
was 217, 67 were 1. , 1-red to the standing orders commit-
tee, and 52 were allowed to proceed. There were 171
railway bills read a second, and 115 a third time.
At the Whitehaven and Furness meeting, it was stated
that nearly the whole of the line was now staked out, and
that the contractors would soon be in active operation.
The receipts to 29th September, 1845, were £14,966 ; the
expenditure. £3,ooB,—balance, £41,958.
The Great Grimsby and Sheffield have abandoned the
intended branch to Horncastle, and also the scheme for a
pier and landing-place at Hull. Resolutions were passed
at their meeting approving -the amalgamation with
Grimsby Dock, Sheffield and Manchester, Huddersfield
and Manchester, and Sheffield and Lincolnshire.
CARRIAGE BY RAILWAY.—The Chairman of the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway meeting, stated that when
that railway and the Grand Junction were opened, a ton
of goods (by carrier) from Manchester to London, cost
£4 10s., but that the cost now of carrying a similar quan-
tity from Manchester, through London, to China, was
only £3 10s.
The Lancaster and Preston Company had a special
meeting on Wednesday, when a report from the directors
was read, which stated the terms (4 an amalgamation with
the Lancaster and Carlisle Company. The meeting unani-
mously refused to sanction the amalgamation, and in the
course of the day the directors, with one exception, re-
signed, as did also the secretary.
A conditional agreement has bean entered into for the
sale, to the London and Birmingham Company, of that
portion of the Trent Valley Line which does not now be-
long either to that company or the Grand Junction. It is
stated the price will be £2B per share, or £33 premium,
cash next April, with interest from the day named in the
agreement. A meeting of the proprietors to confirm the
sale takes place in Manchester on the 9th of Marcia.
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—The operations on this line
are proceeding with unexpected rapidity. In this way the
deductions for lost time have been very small, and the
navies have been generally making their guinea a week
each. The guagers receive ss. per day, wet or dry. About
30 navies from Penrith, who had been discharged from
the Lancaster and Carlisle line, on account of their riots
there, were taken on at Lockerby.—Dumfries Courier.
RAILWAY CASE.—On Saturday John Southgate, of
London, appeared at the Mansion-house to answer a
charge of having promoted a railway called the Grand
Junction, Great Western, and Southwestern Junction
Company, without having previously registered the same,
whereby he had become liable to the penalty of £2O.
Counsel were retained on both eides, numerous points of
law were advanced, and the case lasted till late on Saturday
night. Ultimately in consequence of the intricacy of the
act, it was adjourned for a week
THE SHROPSHIRE MINERAL RAILWAY.—A meeting
of the shareholders of this scheme took plper, Friday.
It was given out in evidence that £37,737 had been re-
ceived, and that no less a sum than £21,321 15s. had been
drawn out to purchase shares at £2 premium—shares, the
holders of which were Directors! The actual deficit in
the accounts of the company at the present moment is
about £3,000, but when this £21,000 is replaced in the
bankers' hands there will then be the £lB,OOO to divide
among the scripholders, should they think it desirable to
dissolve the company.
LIABILITIES OF SHAREBROKERS.—A case of some
importance to the railway public was decided in the Court
of Queen's Bench on Friday. The question debated was
simply this, whether a broker, having purchased a certain
number of shares for a client, and having failed absolutely
to deliver them, was not liable to the client for any da-
mage which ensued. In England the liability of the bro-
ker, under similar circumstances, would never be dispu-
ted. Here, it seems, we must go through the routine
process to determine the law,, and determined it has been
to the cost of Messrs. Curtis and Power, sharebrokers,
who were mulcted to the tune of £523, besides costs.—
Dublin Paper.
MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON, AND POOLE RAIL-
WAY.—(LACY'S LINE.)—The provisional committee of
this defunct scheme have issued a statement, which sets
forth that all the shares, viz., £64,000, were allotted at
one and the same time; that not more than 200 shares
were allotted to any one person, and that none were re-
served under any pretence whatever; that the deposits on
9.020 shares only had been paid, producing the sum of
£23,677 10s., and that the bills already discharged, and
the unsatisfied claims upon the company, amount toge-
ther to £17,345 Os. 3d. ; and that the list of c: efaulters
includes some members of the provisional committee, to
whom shares, amounting in number to 3.841, were at
their win request allotted. A committee has been ap-
pointed to "stir up" the defaulters.