The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

IRISH COMPENSATION CASE.-=-A mud cabin having
been purchased to make way for the works of the Navan
branch, the tenants at will made a claim of £2O for their
interest. On the claim coming before the magistrates.
last week, evidence was given that the fee simple of the
cabin was worth £B, but £5 would amply compensate the
parties (who were only tenants at will) for any trouble
they might be put to. The magistrates awarded the
claimants £8 for their interest, thus giving them an
amount equal to the value of the freehold. Some of the
Irish companies are suffering fearful extortions in this way.
AMBERGATE RAILWAY.—We mentioned last week that
something was on the tapis, and we can now say that de-
putations from this company and the Great Northern
met yesterday, and, we believe, came to a good under-
standing to arrange terms. Some parts of the Am'
bergate line will be abandoned, being those which are
most expensive and of bad gradients, going to places.
already served by other railways. By this means the
capital would be reduced from £2O per share to about
£8 per share, and no call made for a very considerable
time. The Great Northern to take the line on lease on
advantageous terms, a guarantee in perpetuity, with the
option of taking Great Northern shares at par when that
line is opened from London to York.—Herapath.
GLIMPSES THROUGH THE PRESENT GLOOM.—The
more general good to be expected from the universal
weakness that seems to have disabled the railway body, ig
one that we had almost ceased to hope for while its powers
continued in full vigour. The debility, we trust, may act
as depletion sometimes will on the human subject—bring
it, namely to a cooler state, and subdue the quarrelsome
tendencies, and over-swelling ambition which have been
distracting it of late years, and which, indeed, are one
cause of its present diseased state. It may, at least, be
expected that we shall have a pause in the career of rivalrY
and strife between neighbours, to which many of the bur-
dens they now find it hard enough to bear are solely due.
That which might have been suggested by wise reflection
and reasonable views, will surely be gathered from the
strict lessons of adversity. We may look to be spared the
annoyance of seeing Parliament, for the next session at
least, converted into an arena for the members of the
railway body to worry each other in. If they have not
been taught by hard experience to repent of this pugnacitl,
they will, at all events, one may presume, be compelled,
by mere want of power, to keep the peace awhile. If not,
the country will most certainly " bind them over." The
motion going on in all quarters against the outlay of rail
way capital already pledged—inconsiderate as it is in many
respects, and in its sweeping design especially—may have
this proportion of good amidst a great deal of error, 66'
it will insure a strict eye being kept upon the rash engage-
ment of new funds in other schemes hereafter. The
anxiety now expressed and felt may insure a hearing, tour
to certain truths as to the wasteful manner in which
" competition " in railway making has been invoked,
which have been vainly urged by sensible persons, while
the mischief was being applauded by men claiming the
title of statesmen. The public will now perhaps consent
to be taught that it is not in any way for the interest of
the country to spend three millions in making two rival
lines for a traffic that could bei,amply served by one at
the cost of one half the money. And it will be pro Per
to point out how much of the outlay, now so loudly com-
plained of, has been promoted solely by the determine'
tion of the public, of Parliament and of the Government
to hear no reason on this point, but to follow, through
thick and thin, the formula and watchwords of certain
would-be philosophers. The times are apt for reading
some lesson on this head,—not that anything new remoial
to be said, but because what has formerly been said and
disregarded may now be listened' to, in the presence m
the events that illustrate its truth but too dearly.—Bail-
way Chronicle.

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