The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

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There were no lives lost.
ust, 1845, the shares of the Great Western Corn-
stood at £152 premium. They are now at some £47
There have been, however, new issues, and
e (say £l5) must he added to show
Taking these circumstances into
account, the diminished value of the pro?erty is no less
than £9O a share ! Now, to what must we attribute this
fearful fall? We have no hesitation in answering, to the
foolish, we might almost say insane, quarrel with the Lon-
don and Birmingham.—Railway Times.

prewitta

premiums on

atice value

During the year 1841, the number of first-class pas-
sengers carried by the London and Birmingham Company
was 311,777, and for the year 1845 the number amounted
to 383,884. The second-class passengers for 1841 were
386,106, but fur the year 1845 they numbered 726,332.
For the year 1841 the third-class passengers were 69,713,
but for 1845 they were 330,258. While the first-class
passengers increased nearly about 25 per cent., the
second•class increased nearly 100 per cent., and the third-
class nearly 500 per cent.
ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Thurs-
day week the train due at 6.40 p.m. ran off the line about
a quarter of a mile on the Rugby side of Ullesthorpe ; it
again got on the rails at the crossings at Ullesthorpe,
but, some of the wagons having got injured, tore up the
rails for a distance of more than half a mile, which caused
about thirty wagons to be thrown off, and completely ob-
structed both lines of rail. The damage the Midland
Company will sustain must amount to some thousands—
upwards of 20 wagons are a complete wreck, and goods
to an immense value completely damaged, consisting of
hops, tea, fruit, hogsheads of gin, wine, brandy, &c.
PRESTON AND WYRE.—The adjourned half-yearly
meeting of this company was held at Fleetwood on Wed-
nesday. At the meeting in April, Mr. Cottam was ap-
pointed to audit the accounts, and from his statement it
appeared that now, after deducting from income all the
expenses belonging to the half-year ending 31st August,
a lellance of £lO,OOO remains sufficient to pay a dividend
of 14s. 2d. per share on the old shares; and on the half-
shares A, of ls, 5d., being after the rate of £5 13s. 2d.
per annum. and a dividend of that amount was declared.
—The directors were empowered to raise further capital
for a branch line from Lytham to Blackpool.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.—A special general meet-
ing of the shareholders in this line was held at Manches-
ter, on Wednesday. The number of directors was in.
creased to thirty-six, and power was given to create new
shares in the company, in compliance with the provisions
and powers of the several acts incorporating the company
of proprietors of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal
Navigation and Railway, and the Liverpool and Buy
Railway, respectively, with this company. Discretionary
powers were also conferred upon the directors to enter
into arrangements with any other railway company which
they might deem beneficial.

EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE.-Avery extraor-
dinary event has just taken place in the works connected
with the Scottish Central Railway. It was necessary to
erect an embankment fifty feet high in a field near Allan
Bridge, where the railway was to pass. The works ac-
cordingly commenced, and many thousand loads of earth
were piled in the requisite place, and the work was leftlfor
the purpose of acquiring solidity, hut upon visiting it again
it was found to have disappeared, with the exception of a
few feet. On inquiry it was found that the field had ori-
ginally been a hog, and the weight of the soil necessary
to form the embankment had broken through the external
solid earth.

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND
GLASGOW.—On Friday night an occurrence of a very
serious character took place on this railway. The half-
past eight o'clock train from Edinburgh having reached
the \Vinchburgh cut, the engine suddenly came into vio-
lent collision with a mass of rock which had slipped down
the southern embankment and fallen upon the line. The
effect was to throw the engine across both rails, and pro-
duce a fearful concussion of the carriages. The engine
was dashed to pieces, and several of the carriages damaged;
but we are happy to say that none of the passen.ters suffered
it-jury. The driver and stoker were thrown off the engine,
and escaped with some slight bruises.

LABOUR REQUIRED NOR RAILWAYS.-At the meeting
of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, on
Wednesday last, Mr. Houldsworth, the chairman, calcu-
culated that the railways for which legislative sanction
had already been granted, and which are not formed. will
require the employment of 500,000 men for ten years,
supposing that this number could be withdrawn from the
general labour market of the country, which is the maxi-
mum that can be withdrawn. He estimated the maximum
cost of the railways now in the course of formation, or for
which acts have been got,in Great Britain, at £200,000,000,
of which £160,000,000 will have to be expended on
those in England, and of this £160,000,000, the sum of
£120,060,000 will be spent for labour. - . .

Not one of the least.interesting features of the electric
telegraph, in the case of accident, is its power to explain
delay and appease suspense, even should a catastrophe
occur at 100 or 200 mike away. Take an instance :
" Train off the line at Rugby (said A. B. at Newcastle,
wl.o had gone to fetch the mail the other day), and won't
arrive till one." It is useful, too, for convivialities. Two
of the legal profession meeting accidentally at Leicester,
one invited the other to dinner; but the invited excused
himself, saying, " I've to see Hudson, at York, to-day."
" Oh," said the other, " Hudson mayn't be at Lome ;
but, stay, we'll ask the telegraph I" The lawyers linked
arms, ascertained, by a whisper from York. that Mr.
Hudson " was not at home," having been suddenly sum-
moned to London, and made themselves at home in Lei-
cester.—Railway Chronicle.
EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—This company has
given notice of the following lines :—A branch railway
from the main line at Accrington to Clitheroe, and from
near Whalley to Padiham, with a branch to unite with
the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding line, near the
village of Mitton. A branch from the main line at Orms-
kirk to Southport ; and an extension of the Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, and the Blackburn and Preston
lines of the East Lancashire Railway into Preston, with
an independent station accommodation !here. A line for

the better connecting the East Lancashire and Manclesl
ter and Leeds Railway in the town of BLrnley. Certain
deviations in the line of the East Lancashire Railway at
Lomb, Haslingion, and Rawtenstall, with a short coal
branch at the latter place. An extension of the East
Lancashire Railway from a point south of the town of
Bury, through Whitfield.
LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMNIITTF. MEN.--

IMPORTANT DECISION.—In the Court of Exchequer, on
WedneAay, the chief Baron delivered judgment in the
cases of Reynell v. Lewis, and Wyld v. Hopkins, both
actions against provisional railway committee men, in
which verdicts were given for the plaintiffs, the applica-
tion for the court being for new triats. His lordship held
that the mere fact of a man being a member of a provi-
sional committee was not sufficient of itself to render him
liable for the Jebts of the company, as it amounted to no

more than a promise of co-operation. Such a promise
did not constitute an agreement to share in the profit or
loss of the undertaking, whatever that might be; which
was the real essence of partnership. He could not be re-
sponsible as a mere member of the committee. If, how-
ever, the provisional committee appointed an acting com-
mittee to act on their behalf, and be their agent, then the
members of the provisional committee would clearly be
liable for the acts of the acting committee. As to soli-
citors, there were various questions which must be deter.
mined by the circumstances of each case, the particular
terms of the prospectus, and the reasonable inferences to
be drawn therefrom. A new trial was granted in both
cases.

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS,

A Protestant Association is about to be formed at
Cambridge. A preliminary meeting has been held, of
which a full report is given in the Cambridge Advertiser.

The Senatus Academicus of the University of St. An-
drews have conferred the degree of LL.D. on Lord
Campbell, 'ormerly an alumnus of that University.

The Rev. W. Sinclair, of Leeds, bas declined the
vicarage of Bradford ; being the second time the reverend
gentleman has refused promotion.
The Rev. George Cuthbert, curate of Christ Church,
has been presented to the district of Duckenfield, near
Ashton-under-Lyne, by the Bishop of Chester.
_

The Rev. Thoicas froughton, M.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of
Haverthwaite, Lancashire, Patron, the incumbent of
Colton.

The Exeter Protestant Committee have passed a vote
of confidence in Sir J. Duckworth, and of no confidence
in Mr. Divett, the latter member having supported the
MHynooth Endowment Bill.

The Venerable Archdeacon Shirley has been appointed
the new Bishop of Sodor and Man. The Archdeacon is
a member of New College, Oxford, and had previously
been appointed Bampton Lecturer for that University for
1817. The venerable Archdeacon is a sterling Protestant,
and therefore warmly attached to the church. His pre-
sent charge is the Arcndeaconry of Derby.

Mr. Bales, a contra-tenor singer of Carlisle Cathedral,
has been appointed, from out of thirteen competitors, to
the choir of Durham Cathedral, at a salary of £lOO per
annum, with prospective increase. NI essrs. Wylie and
Norman, of Carlisle Cathedral, have also been appointed
to the choirs of Exeter and Rochester respectively.
The question of the Welsh bishoprics is satisfactorily

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