The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

RAILTVAY E CE.

The Nor'h Union Station is to be greatly enlargel.
When completed it will be one of the best in the king-
dom.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, Mr. Rey-
nell, advertising agent, recovered £568 from Mr. Lewis,
provisional committee-man of the Central Kent Railway,
for advertisements.
There were no tewer than five accidents last week on
the works of the Caledonian Railway. two of which were
fatal. The sufferers were William Bonscer and Robert
Carlisle, both labiurers.
In the Nisi Prius Court on Thursday, the case of Gar-
wood v. Moore came on for hearing, and was, in its most
important features, similar to the case given elsewhere. In
this case the plaintiff bad paid to the Directors of the
Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
£lO5 as deposit on an allotment of shares in that Compa-
ny, the capital of which was represented in the prospectus
as £300,000, but it turned out that only £lO,OOO of that
sum were subscribed for. The defendant was one of the
Provisional Committee-men of the Company. The only
point to which the Lord Chief Baron thought it necessary
to call the attention of the jury was, whether the defend-
ant; by consenting to act as a Provisional Committee..
man, engaged to pay the preliminary expenses of the pro-
jectrd railway. The jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff. . -

Ax " ALLorrEE."—A person named Wyse applied to
the Lnndan Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Monday, to be
discharged on sureties till his bearing. The Chief Com-
missioner said he doubted whether bail should be taken in
such a case. He saw, from the schedule, that the debts
without consideration were upwards of £12,000, and the
consideration debts only £53. What are these debts ?
asked the learned Commissioner, " without consideration?"
Insolvent.—They are railway liabilities, sir. Chief Com-
mission r —How did you incur so large an amount? In-
s ilvent.—l wrote for letters of allotment, which I received
CV C Ir-

diet ~ommissioner.—Pray what are you osolvent.—
A clerk in the General Registrar's-office, Somerset-house.
Chief Commissioner.—Why, in the name of common
sense, did you dabble in such matters? Insolvent.---I saw
so many apply, that I thought I would have some myself.
Chief Comxnissioner.—That is. you saw so many mad men
that you w,,uld be mad too. The irisolvent made no an-

swer. urnet Uommtsstoner.—
sh.rres? It was st ited that the: e were no s'lares obtained,
only lob rs of allotment in various railways, which had
been filed in court. The court accepted the proposed bail.

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PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS LAST WEEK.

Preambles proved in Lords' Committees.—Edinburgh
arid Northern (Dunfermline division); Strathearn devia-
tion; Great Western and Uxbridge; Norfolk (Yarmouth

Donne, and Callander ,• Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock
Pollock anti- Govett -hranehee) 36:Tow Strettivern
Caledolian (Mid Lothian branches); Lesmaha-
Row, Daherf, and Coatbridge Mineral Junction; Grand
Junction Winton and Warrington branch); the same
(II uyton. A-hton, and other branches); Yorkitire and
tilmq,,w Union.
In a " select committee on merits," the following bills

were declared to have passed, and ordered to be reported
—The Midland (Nottingham and M ansfield branch);
London and Birmingham (Camden and Euston Stations
enlargement); .Midland (Clay Cross to Newark) ; Wil-
sontown, Morningsido, and Coltness (Bathgate branch) ;
ditto (Caledonian branch); ,•ditto (improvement and
branches); Slamannan (Bathgate and Jawcraig branches).
Standing Orders complied with in LordS.—St.'Helen's
Canal and Railway; Birmingham, Lichfield. and Man-
chester ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole (Methley,
Askern, and Oakenshaw branches; Gloucester and Dean
Forest Railway ; Wisbaw and Coltness(Greenhiltbranch)
kit etwood, Preston, and, West Biding Junction; Hud-
rkr,field and Manchester Railway and Canal ; Hudders-
field Diversion and Cooper Bridge branch ; Sheffield,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Dukinfiad, Wors-
borough, and other branches); Dublin, Belfast, and Cole-
raine Junction ' • Eastern Counties (Manchester and Lin-
coln Extension).
Bills rejected by Lord's Commillees.—Swinton and
Lincoln ; Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds; Buckingham-
shire (Trigg to Banbury). •
Bills passed committees of the Commons.—Exeter.
Yeovil, and Dorchester : Board of Trade to determine at
whose expense the double guage should be laid down and
maintained; London and Richmond (Kew Branch);
Btistol and Birmingham (Gloucester and Stonehouse
junction) ; South Devon (excepting branch from Plymouth
to
andaLisrtyo,cka)n;dGreatG s
Manchester and Bolton. and Bury Canal and Railway,
and Manchester and Leeds Railway amalgamation; Noith
Manchester b
andy and
LeedsSheffic
amalgamationl d ; . Liverpool
;
Kent (South-Eastern line); London, Salisbury, and Yen-
it ; Lancaster and Carlisle (extension to the Caledonian);
Caledonian (Carlisle division); Cockermouth and Work-
ington; Bristol and Gloucester, and Birmingham and
Gloucester; Blacknurtr. Preston, and East Lancashire
Junction; Caledoniar, (purchase of Gamirk, Edinburgh
and Glasgow); and. Clydesdale Junction; Pollock and
Gavan arnalgamatirrn ; London and Birmingham and Canal
t r angerneut M anchester, Huddersfield,, sad Cl loam.