The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

.RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

The number of railway plans Deposited with the Board
of Trade last week amounted to 291.
Mr. Watson, the locomotive engineer on the Chester
and Birkenhead line, has resigned the situation, in conse-
quence of having been appointed to the same situation on
the East Lancashire line.

The meetings of the Birmingham and Oxford and Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley, on Friday, at
Birmingham, severally confirmed the agreements entered
into with the Great Western by their directors for the sale
of both lines to the latter company.
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, an ac-
tion was brought by a man named Wareham, against the
servants of the Great Western Railway Company, for
false imprisonment, arising out of the celebrated robberies
nn that tine. The jury, on a majority of the counts, gave
him a farthing damages.
On Thursday, at meetings of the shareholders of the
Birkenhead and Chester Railway, and Cheshire Junction
Railway, the amalgamation of the two companies was
agreed to, on the terms which we announced a week or
two since. Mr. Bentham spoke against the measure • but
when the question was put to the vote, only four hands
were held up against it.
The Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal
have assented to the lease of the London and North-
Western, expressing at the same time their wish that the
proposed dividend of seven-tenths of the larger company's
dividend should be considered as a fixed seven per cent.
dividend instead, and that the new branches should be in-
cluded in the agreement.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.—On the Ist of Ja-
nuary no goods trains are to run on the London and
North-Western during the day, arrangements being in
progress for conducting most if not the whole of the traf-
fic during the night. To facilitate this object, and enable
the directors to run additional trains during the day, the
company intend to take the carrying business into its own
hands after that date.
The Great Western held a special meeting on Friday,
to consider the leasing of the Birmingham and Oxford
and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley, and
to sanction parliamentary proceedings for powers to
make a number of other new lines. Mr. Williams, M.P.
for Coventry, pointed out the expediency of a truce
between the Company and its rivals the London and
North-Western and South-Western. The proposal for
leasing was carried by an overwhelming majority.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN.—fn the cause, Lee
v. Nicholson, the jury have returned a verdict for the
defendant. The plaintiff is a surveyor, and the defendant
provisional committeeman of the Southern Counties
Union. The action was brought to recover compensa-
tion for services and labour. The plaintiff was employed
by the committee, and in order to fix the defendant's
liability, it was shown that he assented to be named on
the provisional committee ; and a letter was put in con-
taining his assent thereto, in which he describes himself
as a " promoter" of the scheme ; and he subsequently,
as a provisional committeeman, applied for shares, which
were allotted to him. Mr. Justice Cresswell said he
would be guided by the recent decision of the Court of
Exchequer, and ruled that there was no evidence of the
defendant's liability.