The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The long pending affair of a railway from Shrewsbury
to Hereford, is now brought to a close ; Mr. Brassey, the
eminent contractor, has taken the contracts for the works.
A woman last week attempted to cheat the railway by
dressing her dog in child's clothes and carrying it in her
arms. The bark of the animal betrayed the fraud.
The tunnel on the Caledonian line near Glasgow, and
which passes over the the Edinburgh and Glasgow tunnel
and under the Monkland Cane!, within'a few feet of each,
has been completed ; and on Tuesday a locomotive en-
gine passed through it.
RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The receipts upon our main
lines of railway have improved during the last week. The
following statement gives the increase or decrease of re-
ceipts as compared with those for the corresponding period
of 1848. The extraordinary decrease in the receipts of
the York and North Midland, viz., from £10,003 to
£6,859, must, we believe, be imputed to the " cooking "
of the traffic returns :

Increase. Decrease.
461,055
3,144

York, Newcastle, and Berwick
York and North Midland
Lancaster and Carlisle.
London and South -Weste, n
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Eastern Counties
London, Brighton, and South Coast
Midland
London and North-Western
Great Western

4'537 ..
.. 550

.... .. 1,702
.... 1,000 ..
613

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY,—A
meeting of the Liverpool shareholders of this line was
held on Friday, at the Wellington Hotel, to receive a re-
port from Mr. Wylie, who bad been sent as a delegate to
a meeting of delegates at York,—at which directors were
nominated and other business done, preliminary to the
general meeting of shareholders to be held there on Wed-
nesday next. Mr. Mellor was called to the chair. Mr.
Wylie reported that there was a majority in favour of
eight directors of 1,928 shareholders, 977 in favour of
three managing directors, 1,959 in favour of the kind of
audit proposed by the committee of investigation, repre-
senting 154,178 shares, and there were 4,072 shares in
favour of a government audit. The eight directors selected
by the meeting of delegates were, Messrs. Geo. Seeman,
of York, Leechman, of Glasgow, Wharton, of Durham,
M`Laren, of Edinburgh, Kipling and Plews, of Darling-
ton, Hodgson and Hunter, of Newcastle. He (Mr.
Wylie) had opposed the nomination of Mr. Plews, from
his omissions while in the direction with Mr. Hudson.
On the grounds which he had stated, he voted against
Mr. Hudson. The number of votes recorded in his favour
were. 13 out of the 24 present. Mr. Wylie sat down
amidst applause. The report was received, and Mr.
Wylie thanked. A good deal of conversation then ensued.
—Mr. Sidney said they stood in an awkward position with
the Great North of England line, for which they might
be called upon for £2,500,000 before the first of July next.
The bargain was made by Hudson and his lot. It was a
most infamous bargain, and they were now the innocent
victims of it. Terms had been offered to that company,
which they had refused. The Chairman said the matter
could only be settled by the new directors. Some further
remarks were made on this point, leading to no result.—
A general conversation then took place, in the course of
which the conduct of the late board was fiercely attacked,
and Mr. Wylie, Mr. Sidney, and other proprietors present
strongly desired all the shareholders to be present at York
at the meeting on Thursday next.