The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY' AFFAIRS.

The London and North-Western Railway will declare a
dividend, at the approaching half-yearly meeting, of seven
per cent. per annum, with a balance of about £16,000 to
the credit of the December or best half-year traffic.
CH ESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending sth August, 1842 (exclusive of mails and
tolls) :—Coaching traffic, £2,462115. lid. ; parcels, &e.,
£4B 16s. 11d. ; goods, cattle, &c., £236 3s. 7d. ; steam
boats, £258 2s. 10d. ; total, £3,005 15s. 3d.
The rumour is confirmed that the house of Baring and
Co. is in treaty for the concession of the Paris and Lyons
railway. The French funds were higher on Wednesday
than on the previous day, owing, it was believed, to the
offer made by Baring and Co. for the above-mentioned
railway, as it was considered to evince a confidence in the
stability of the Republic.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The statement of ac.
counts to the 30th of June last has just been issued by
the Great Western Company, preparatory to their half-
yearly meeting, from which it appears that a dividend of
only two per cent. for the half-year is recommended,
amounting to £156,690, leaving a balance in hand of
£18,020 9s. 10.3., under the head receipts. The amount
on account of capital is £11,914,013 95. 9d.

ACCIDENT AT A TELEGRAPH OFFICE.—As the youth
employed in the telegraph office at Ely was in the
act of working the telegraph in reply to a communication
during the recent thunder storm, he was knocked down by
the electric fluid acting upon the wires, but fortunately
without receiving any inlury beyond the momentary
shock. The wires from the office communicating with
the main wires were severed, and the business of the
office suspended for some hours.
RECOVERY OF RAILWAY CALLS.—At Chester assizes,
on Tuesday, have Justice Mamie, two parties were sued
for the recovery of calls upon shares held by them in the
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway.
The first action was against Mr. Pilcher, who pleaded that
he was a minor. The plaintiffs having proved the posses-
sion of 130 shares, and the call thereupon, the defendant's
father proved that he was not of age till April 7. 1848.
The secretary of the company acknowledged that the cer-
tificate of transfer put in by defendant was in his hand-
writing, and that it showed that defendant was holder of
shares on March 7, 1848. The Judge directed the jury to
find a verdict for the plaintiffs for £3lO 14s. 6d., the
amount of the calls, with leave to move the superior court
to enter the verdict for the defendant if the court should
be of opinion that the defendant had sufficiently proved
his case by the production of the certificate of registry,
and that the contract took place at the time of the transfer
and registration, and not at the time of the making of the
calls. The second case was against Mr. Brownrigg and
Mr. Taylor. The defendants pleaded that they were
never indebted. It appeared that they had a joint interest
in the shares with a Mr. Gordon, who lives in Scotland,
and is without the jurisdiction of the court. The parties
held twenty shares. The plaintiffs were unable to prove
that the second and third calls were trade in accordance
with the statistics. The Judge directed the jury to find
a verdict for the defendant, with liberty to move to enter
the verdict for the plaintiff on the first and fourth and
fifth calls, or for such part thereof as the judge ought to
have directed the jury to find for him.

FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE CHESTER AND HOLY-
HEAD RAILWAY.—The financial position of the Chester
and Holyhead Company, as exhibited in the half-yearly
statement of accounts, is a very gloomy one. The rail-
way was partially opened on the Ist May, 1848, and the
traffic receipts of the line up to the 30th of Juno last,
amounted to £78,786 3s. 7d., and the working charges to
£51,475 10s. Bd., so that the net revenue was, for the
fourteen months, £27,310 12s. Ild. But this profit was
greatly reduced by the loss on the steam-boat traffic for
the eleven months between the Ist of August, 1848, and
the 30th of June last. The receipts were £6,883 Bs. 3d.,
and the expenditure £19,999 ss. ld. The boats were,
'therefore, worked at a loss of £13,115 16s. 10d., and the
net profit upon the combined traffic was £13,115 16s. 10d.
only. The company have raised, under their parliamen-
tary powers, £3,439,364 ss. 3d. ; of this the sum of
£630,000 is Preference-share capital bearing 51 per cent.
interest. In effecting the issue of the balance of the
Preference shares, the company have sustained a loss of
£20,292 12s. 6d. The company have power yet to raise
by shares £525,000, and by loan £307,597 12s. 3d.,
making a total capital of £4,339,332. But in addition to
this amount the capital account is increased by the com-
pany having carried to it the traffic receipts till the com-
plete opening of the line, by sundries amounting to
£28,561, 10s. 3d., and also by interest on loans. The
company have, under powers to raise £1,084,322 by loans,
realised £734,234 at 41 per cent. This requires £33,040
per annum in the shape of interest. Of the remaining
£350,088, the sum of £42,500 has been raised at 5 per
cent. If the £258,000 (making up the £350,088) be
raised also at 5 per cent., an additional £17,504 per annum
will be required under this head. There is, then, the
sum of £34,650 per annum wanted for the 51 per cent.
interest, upon the £630,000 Preference-share capital.
These three sums give a total of 85,194 Preference claims
be'ore anything can be divided by the holders of the
original share capital of £2,100,000. To the profits of
the ordinary traffic upon the line must be added the
£30,000 per annum, to which the company will, on the
completion of the line, be entitled for carrying the mails.
The profit upon the last six months working of the rail-
way was £8,303 12s. 3d. (exclusive of, say, £l,OOO or
£1,500 for toll due from the Shrewsbury and Chester
Company). So that the profits must increase threefold
to pay, with the assistance of the £30,000 per annum un-
der the mail contract, even the interest upon the prefe-
rence capital.—Herald.

RAILWAY TRAVELLING ON SUNDAY.

(From Mr. Stowell's speech last week in Manchester.)

He thought it was not fair for a working man to leave
his home and go away to enjoy the fresh sea breezes,
while his poor wife was toiling at home ; and he believed
that a quiet walk between the hours of divine service, with
his wife on his arm, and the little children pulling at the
skirts of his coat, was, on the whole, a better plan for the
working man ; because it did less to destroy domestic
comfort, and to overturn the sweet quiet and harmony of
the fireside, where, after all, every man would find the
sweetest bond next to heaven. If the master manufac-
turers would give, say, four holidays in the course of the
season, for the express purpose of giving to their sober,
steady, decent workmen, their wives and their children,
a cheap trip to the seaside,—there would be something
large and liberal in it ; and if they did so, the masters
would not be the losers, for, if they made moral character
more at a premium, it would be far better for them than
all their rotten railway shares. We treated our fellow-
creatures, because they were poor and unlearned, as if
they were brute beasts, who only wanted to rest and
recreate their bodies; but what they wanted far more was
to be able to recreate, elevate, and purify their minds, to
the salvation of their immortal souls. Amusement was
not the purpose of the Sabbath. But was it lawful for
railway directors to desecrate the Sabbath in the whole-
sale manner they were doing, in order that they might
make gain ? It was arrant hypocrisy for them to talk of
doing it out of pure philanthropy and kindness to the
poor; let them talk as they would, it was the jingling of
the dividend on shares that was sounding in their ears,
and which caused them thus to desecrate the Sabbath.
Our shops, dyeworks, and factories might as well be
opened for gain on the Sabbath as the railways ; and he
would caution the working men that the tack which the
railway directors were going with respect to the Sunday
cheap trains, was the very tack which would ultimately
rob them of their Sabbath altogether. The very men who
were now pleading that they only advocated work on the
Sabbath for the recreation and repose of the working
class, would, bye-and-bye, turn round and make that
class work for their (the masters') own gain and cupidity.
The entire observance of the Sabbath in England, na-
tionally, would be put in sore jeopardy, and there would

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no saying what would be the result. ~ ba thi
referred to the recent disturbances in France, arl to
profound tranquillity at the same time of Enrisnu' tt
proof of the effect of the different modes of observirlapi
Sabbath which was folloWed in the two countriestioi
said that once let our Sabbath be shaken, our il., 0
religion, and our constitution and institutions wool" ~
be shaken. The running of any trains on Sunday,(,,
cept, as had been raid, for works of necessity and IP, Tej
was a great hardship to the multitude of men engl°.o
on railways ; but to these monstertrains, with theirtdoto
or 6,000 people, demanding every engine to bootedoti,
requisition, every broken-down carriage to be h_.fold
every poor porter to do double, yea, seven or teuri 0
duty, and every engine-driver to be contintai°o
stretch of his skill and ingenuity lest some Wl:plat,
accident should happen—and thus that Sunday.sb°udo of
made the most oppressive, grinding, and agonising direc,
their toil, was a monstrous abuse on the part of tb,e,_,,torf
tors of all the Sunday-travelling lines. If the a" '',ise Of
would keep up these monster trains for the Purheast
putting money in their own pockets, they should et
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act as their own stokers, engineers, and porters. 'lobe
in
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England, scydounrfii
had a specimen or two of this sort of work, they w° to'
the very first to hold up their hands against the ee,.en ,ct.
ing in the most suicidal manner. The historl 01,„'" 1910!
on the integrity, the honesty, and the common /o'o
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lives of
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would never make much progress, for the countil„,t co
they were driving away from their boards.
tinue to go down. They had lost their characteredi,
they would never get it back again by going i'l t grit'
all the u'ilic
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and uproar consequent
seek • enjoyment and recreation at the price of the ter
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and the conscientious convictions of large
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CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE de a
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OuniNATloN.—The Bishop of Sodor and "'„„
Sandal
ordination in the parish church of Lezayal, u"-irtean
last Aug. 5, when Joseph Preston Ward, or 'sod "F
Theological College, was admitted a deacon,
licensed to the chapel at Sulby, in that parish. naterstla
On Sunday last, the Rev. John Casson, -I'7 due
•41 In of
M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, w"" of
into the parish of Carumoney, being the twin° rertol,
the pcbo
vicarages of Carumoney and Baflvlinney, and
of Ballymartin, in the diocese of Connor. Patr°ll' 4
Battersby, Esq., of Oakfield, near Carrickfergus'circalt;
The Berkshire Chronicle states that in some „esac.,"
sent round by the Bishop of Oxford to differentierrisoo`;
was this inquiry :—" Does your officiating c' rriag
preach the gospel, and are his conversation and ab'd,
consistent therewith !" To which a churchwar':'
four miles from Wallingford, wrote in answer(' ,
preaches the gospel, but does not keep a carriage. io taP
The Rev. C. Bridges, rector of Old Newtr.,°,.9'ifill
county, has been presented to the rectory of receal
Weymouth, by the Rev. E. Holland, who has, ~t
purchased the patronage. The loss of this exceheftite
will be as much regretted in Suffolk, as his aPPTIIIt°
at Weymouth is rejoiced in by the inhabitants an
majority of the county clergy.—Bury Rost.

LOCAL MEETINGS.
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WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the ususi
meeting, on Wednesday, Mr. Austin, assistant COet, the
attendedeshilaoevonitenirog,nbeoefn tiwio Rcatoonv
d.
iodpaftrtae. isnloifpoaotr:
Moore
c,t uonl asar smoei: relativeapla chaplain
a.
ritiktteebor:ei
Workhouse, who had been appointed in mistake'm so°
long conversation took place relative to the aPP-1 eer
of Mr. Whitehead to the office of assistant over.lB6oo
West Derby, the sequence of which was the relinliald
of Mr. Walker. The subject, however. dropped
"
any appointment being made.
SELECT VESTRY.—The usual meeting of. thrt,aol7`"
Vestry was held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector %.- Cora'
the chair. On the proceedings of the Workhouse aisrf
mittee, which included a recommendation that the' eel
of the Governor of the Workhouse, which is at Pte se
£3OO a year, should be reduced to £250 a Yetl.,sll
that a new matron should be appointed at ;
of £75 a year, having been read, Mr. Woodruff ,
that so much of the recommendation as referred dis•
Governor's talary be not confirmed. After a 1131'' 3ft'
cussion, which was extremely personal, betwe,e,,notter,
Brown and Mr. Woodruff, the amendment of t",',ife
waostucat
hrrei ed
Board.—A ocfo
aulntihc,a
relativen , a• hitcoh had been rt 'reiac;
house to boa- ,
siting during the prevalence of cholera, was °set Boars
the meeting. It was an official order of the m° addr
Health for the immediate appointment of twentiacer,
tional medical men, as house to house visitors i° d he
pool, in consequence of information which the beartligioa
received within the last few days. A long, dila he
followed, which resulted in the board determining:-
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consultation with Dr. Duncan on the subjer"oo'
Charles
of thearlesF board, in b
F. Carne,
teroom of Mr. co
Water-street, electedwasthenriees.
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BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—On Tuea"
monthly meeting of this body was held at Birl, 'e'n OT,
Mr. Bryans in the chair. An additional policerante
appointed, and Inspector M'Neill promoted t°t'e 113,,e
of full inspector, at a salary of 355. per weear'",. 11°',
minutes of the health committee showed that ""-Sala"
had been requested to abate some nuisances• lthl
attention had been paid to the sewerage of an',frty
property. It was recommended that the sewer a''s ors
mere Pool be covered in. The hackney car fare per
stated to be under revision. It was resolved that
son be allowed to shoot in the park, except authors
the committee. The hearing of the cause as to tbetobef'
of the park land was deferred to the 3rd of Noce eeo•
A fountain had been erected in the park, which wasr re'
sidered beneficial and effective. Mr. J. S. F°siVilo,,#s
signed his situation as collector of rates. Mr. ,sitt'
resigned his situation as treasurer, which the OM corr
received with regret. At a special meeting of tbe
mittee, Mr. Andrew Stewart was recommended as ,00
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surer, and to give a security of £l,OOO. His
to be £250 per annum. The Tobermory, fern' u"; 'fb"
ordered to be sold to Mr. Sanderson for £1,507 toll'
receipts of the ferry for the month ending 31' stat"
1848, were stated to be £1,822 12s. 3d., and for the
month in 1849,£2,261 3s. 11d. r.a0111,,11:
THE BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND v.- 4tv
JUNCTION RAILWAY.--The half-yearly meeting,„;tel<
company was held on Saturday, at Monk's Ferry Pe Of
"to discharge the ordinary business, and :aPor°cerat9',
forfeiture of shares." The attendance was 11,1?- PA'
and Alderman James Bancroft occupied the chair,: ete,"
chairman suggested that on this particular occasion
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proprietor present should sign his name in a boo''slire
W. Jackson, M.P., objected to this. After solneodtb
altercation Mr. Jackson withdrew his opposition,lberr,
names were signed, with one or two exceptions• g
din t 5
port showed that the receipts for the half-yea en pairn
30th of June were £24,341 ; the total dirsbilr, s;hje
£10,505 ; leaving a balance on the balf-year aPPIIIIO 01;',
dividends of £13,836. The report was divided ;1t,te01,.;
heads ; the first treating of the results of the ha oft PA
working of the Chester and Birkenhead portioa
roplet''
line, and the second of the measures taken t° 4.fectil'
the line under contract, and in course of cens,',' gePii
There had been in working the existing line a 003',
crease of income and nett profits over the correTorltal
half-year of 1848. The increase was £4,090; the o°o
expenses had been decreased £1,222 ; so that tber.eni
nett balance of increase of £5,213. In coniPatiequalitis
year just ended with the former year, the result 0-a5. a fishgratifying. The increase was almost entirely ralael‘Par
the goods traffic •, and an arrangement has been ra one
of
the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater wherehl;
the most eligible and central sites on the LiverpeolniA
the river has been placed at the disposal of the c° ,oioll4
thus affording increased facilities in the transrals etbeh
goods across. The landowners along the line O'braPece,
interested had sanctioned the change of level in °effect he
to Helsby, whereby a saving of £30,000 will be e
Interest at the rate of six per cent. per amino! tc°sharyoi
paid, on the 15th instant, on the £22 and £2710'',, otr,§,
and the board recommended that interest, at "li.Or'elt
£4 per cent., should be paid same time on the A,' bevi‘ed
The engineer's report showed that the new line its., sio
Chester and Walton was proceeding with aril' tia'
h ir
would be complete by next spring.—The C the 10
addressing the meeting, said the board regarded hoe
crease of traffic on the Chester and Birkenbesacp I,;a
highly satisfactory. The extension line to the Piceobedt
a few works yet to be completed, and the 13`,,,,r 0040
Commissioners had called upon the company t° be 9 t •
two bridges immediately. With regard to the mg, !,e,
Junction, he had to state that on Monday ere% stolbe
late hour, he received an intimation that certai oa bl
holders had filed a bill against the company, ;aie' it,
next day, he received a subpoena; and, accomPop
dsy..
the solicitor, proceedei to London, to prepare The ref
and take other steps to oppose the a
plication was to stop the works. and to prevent,„B,,teti°l/40
being paid to contractors or others for the com—• g ur be
t
the line between Chester and Walton, and
_Toon er,
the directors to refund all money expendeu,--veloorti
Cheshire Junction portion of the line since I'oo4oo
1848. (Laughter.) On Friday the appljeatiOnloactof
at the Vice-Chancellor's residence, and 01;110 P°4ol
was refused. (Applause.) The company ha' ece`•
n t
to proceed with their works and obtain the 000 ro.
poication• woo 01
funds for the purpose. An order was rnadfththisPto
company to complete the entire scheme, but
vision, that if they thought it necessary theY °' „oca„,,
parliament for the purpose. Their power tot_ora to 'I;
land compulsorily on a portion of the line theYiPietefolieo
ecute, expired on the 26th of June last, end t Pat of
dt -ea ;
would be necessary to go to parliament.Had, tka,
in the suit succeeded in their object, it won_,..asica,A,
only involved the company in difficulty and c°l,nbfroi
jeopardised its very existence ; and it
davit to the Vice-Chancellor that a loss of n chpirio,
£2,500 a month would have been incurred The ortt-,019
concluded by moving the adoption of the rePoiragis%
Jackson seconded the motion, which "5 four retithaS
carried amid considerable applause.—Thereed 0)4
directors were re-elected. A motion waS, agthe Isichr
interest, at the rate of four per cent., for x3l ( 51%
months, should be paid to the holders of the,il t the 0,
shire Junction) shares.—The Chairman sai%tristatooo
per cent. preference interest would cease nest from fraatbeeo
! —lt was next agreed. with but slight opposit!„„ p
gentleman, that 10,024 shares, on which £5 eluded
07
paid, should be forfeited. The meeting con lav
vote of thanks to' the chairman. was shoo
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