The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTE'LLIGEN'CE.

Preambles proved in Lords last week.—Eastern Coun-
ties station enlargement ; Huddersfield and Sheffield ;
Manchester and Leeds amalgamation ; Grand Junction—
Huyton and Aston, and other branches ; Ipswich and
Bury St. Edmunds (Norwich extension).
The number of bills which have passed the Standing
Orders of the House of Lords is 38. Twenty-one bills
went through a select committee on merits ; and, in the
cases of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction and Bir-
mingham extension, their lordships decided that the
Standing Orders had not been complied with.
Bills lost in Lords.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Mid-
land Junction; Midland and Eastern Counties (Cam-
bridge and Weedon).
The number of railway bills read a second time in the
House of Commons was four; a third time, 17 ; and the
reports of 12 agreed to.
Bill lost in Commons.—Lancaster and Preston Junction.
At a meeting of the Preston and Wyre Railway Com-
pany last week, it was resolved to amalgamate with the
Manchester and Leeds Company.

GRAND UNlON.—Forgeries Of scrip are said to have
been discovered in this line, and the directors are calling
in the certificates to be stamped.
PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS.—On Thursday last,
no fewer than siztv-seven railway bills received the royal
assent. Among these were the Amalgamation Bill of the
London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Man-
chester and Birmingham Companies ; the bills for various
branches of established Companies; and those for several
Irish lines.

Middlesborough, the railway between which and Redcar
was lately opened, presents a striking proof of what
enterprise can effect. Six years ago it had but one house ;
now it has its well-built houses, its large iron foundry,
its potteries and other manufact, ries, and its docks. The
number of its inhabitants is estimated at about 9000, a
great part of whom have left other towns on the York-
shire coast.

At a meeting of the scripholders in the Birkenhead and
Holyhead Junction Railway, held on Friday, at the
Clarendon-rooms, a committee was appointed to com-
municate with the directors on the affairs of the company,

and report thereon, to another meeting of shareholders.
In case the committee cannot obtain the information
sought, the holders of 1735 shares agreed to give one

billing per share to carry out whatever might be necessary

RAILWAYS' AND CANALS' AMALGAMATION.—The
second report of the committee on this subject has just
appeared. It impresses "upon the attention of the Com-
mittees to whom Bills, whether for the amalgamation of
canals with railways, or the conversion of Canals into rail-
ways, may be referred, that a most searching inquiry
should be instituted into the merits of each case ; arid that
their sanction should be given only in those instances in
which it shall have been clearly proved that the amalgama-
tion can be effected without prejudice to the public."
RAILWAY La*.—A cute came on, on Monday week,
at chambers, before Mr. Justice Wightman, of consider-
able interest. A director of the Shropshire Mineral
Railway Company had pleaded to a claim that another
director had been proceeded against at the same time, for
the same cause of action. Mr. Justice Wightman laughed
at the plea, though supported by its author, Mr. Gibbons,
and gave to Mr. A. A. Fry, the counsel on the opposite
side, an order to have the costs under such a plea, what-
ever the event of the tat' might be.
RAILWAY AMUSEMENT.—The youngsters who haunt
about the railway crossings in and near Canterbury amuse
themselves, when the policeman's back is turned, with
laying small articles on the iron to be crushed by the
train passing over. Pins placed lengthways are thus
curiously flattened to an extreme degree of thinness, and
bear a premium in the charity school exchange far above
the original value. A juvenile speculator having sub-
mitted a fourpenny piece to the process, found that he
could pass it for sixpence : elated with the discovery, he
placed another, which he had received in change for the
r first, on the newly-discovered mint, but to his astonish-
ment the wheels of the carriage carried it entirely away,
and he thus remained minus twopence by this luckless
exercise of his ingenuity.—Dover Telegraph.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

BEDFORD ASSIZES.-TUESDAY, JULY 14

COULTAS V. BOWES, CLERK

•
This was an action of trespass, in which the plaintiff
charged the defendant, who is a beneficed clergyman and
magistrate of the county, with criminal conversation with
his wife in November last. both she and the plaintiff
being then, and having been for many years before, in
the defendant's service. The case came on at the last
spring assizes, when, after a protracted trial of two days'
duration, a verdict was obtained by the plaintiff, with
£250 damages. Subsequently to that event the Court of
Common Pleas was moved for a new trial, and the rule
having been made absolute, the parties now came down
again in pursuance of that rule.
On Thursday, after a protracted discussion, the jury,
being unable to agree, were discharged, and the question
wii again have to come sub ludic".