The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

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All unguaranteed-railivay shares in thel:ingdom, except
the London and North-Western, are at a discount, which
in most cases is very serious.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week. ended May 19th. 1849:—Coaching traffic, £990
58. Ils.; parcels, £4O 12s. 10d ; goods and cattle, £173
3s. Ild.; steam boats, £145 75.: total, £1349 93. 81.—
exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Company,
and payment for conveyance of mails.

On Tuesday last, two trains of waggons, laden with coal
and coke, met near the Clifton Junction, on the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire railway. One of them was passing
at a speed of between 20 and 30 miles an hour along the
main line of rails at the time that the other was coining
on to the same line from a sliding, the man in charge of

the points having signalled to the speeded train thai the
line was clear. The trains came in collision, killing one
of the stokers, breaking the legs of an engineer, and
smashing a tender and some of the waggons to pieces.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.—A special meeting of
the shareholders of this company was held on Thursday,
Sir John Simpson in the chair. The principal business
was to elect directors in the room of Mr. George Hudson,
Mr. "lc;-' - Mr. Ric"--1--- "-- Plews. The

Alcholson, . .....ardson, and Mr.
following gentlemen were appointed :—William Craw-
shay, Esq., London ; James Meek, Esq., Lord Mayor of
York; H. S. Thompson, Esq., Moat Hall, Yorshire;
and J. Rowntree, Esq. A. committee of investigation was
then ordered; and the following gentlemen named :

York ; George Kenman, Esq., of Glasgow ; Michael
Stokes and Johr Brook, Esqrs. of Halifax, with power
to add one to the number. The meeting then adjourned.
Not more than 150 shareholders were present.
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.—The opening
new station at EuQton-square took
The building extends 220 f

alade ye-terda

depth, and was designed by Mr. P. C. Ha

appears that no expense has been spared to make it con-
venient, spacious, and ornamental. The cost is said to

sary offices for carrying on the business of this great
establishment, including a large room, 75 feet in length
lw 45 feet in width_ far the inirnnPn of hnlainr, the

yearly and special meetings of the proprietors. Several
of the new offices are already occupied, and when all the

will be taken down. According to a report just pre-
sented to the directors by Captain Huish and the resident
engineers, it appears that by reserving an annual sum of
£20,700 at 41 per cent., with compound interest, the
permanent way of the London and North Western, 438
miles in length, may be renewed as occasion may require.

RAILWAYS ECLIPSED.—Another motive power will be
in operation soon. Electricity will yet be applied to that

• years we have no. doubt of its being at work
novery to which we rap, hnwpt-or. .14! to h

to common roads

The it

The dis-

ter seems to work in this

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take the reins or the rudder—tsitch your thumb, tress
your toe, or do some other insignificant action, after the
manner of freemasonry—and you are off at an unimagi-

nable degree of speed. The result in the water is not yet
stated, perhaps not yet tried ; but any power- which can
-nove wheels on land, can move them on water ; and
iff - locomotion, if ti-- --• ' ' •

~vices tbr ...tie vehicle keeps afloat—which
we shall secure, in our case, by the virtues of guttai percha
or cork mattresses. With these views before us, it is
highl . - _

probabl

nal build and equipment of his vehicle, which may_ar -may
not be expensive, will be enabled, by and by, to leave the
North bridge, Edinburgh, at half-past one, make a short
call at York, and dine with his friend at Hyde-park-cor-
ner,f London, on the same afternoon—precisely at five.
We know not what is coming. Railways may be on their
last legs.—Tait's Magazine. [Seeing is believing.]

THE DEC'

LINE IN RAILWAY PROPERTY AND
MR. HUDSON.

e unfortunate .11:

son has

.hus far been doomed

to endure rather more than his own share of obloqu

Railway property is in disfavour just now ; and " the king
has done it all," is the ejaculation of every speculator, as

he contemplates his diminishing divii

dends al

ciation of his property

Not a word about past profi

sale of new halves., quarters, guaranteed or preference
shares, by the enormous issue of which half the mischief

411 these things are fo

gotten