The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

investigation only discloses trifle
which will come under t

We shall be of some use to that committee here.
ire shall place our fingers upon the blackest ant

most dishonourable transactioiis."

In reference to the Eastern Counties Railway, a railway
per says :—lt has been stated to us that, as far as the

have yet carried their inqui.
ries, they cannot advise the payment of any dividend for
the last half-year. We give the statement as we heard it,
without vouching for its truth. It will be remembered
that a dividend of ss. 6d. per share was recommended
from the chair.

mittee of t

BAUD BY RAILWAY SERVANTS.—The
magistrates were last week engaged in the investiga-
tion of an extensive fraud on the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Railway Company, by three of the s

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John Hayes, a clerk at the Ne-wcastle station of the Nortli
Shields line, Robert Bowie, a guard on the line, Alexan-
der Alexander, ticket collector at Percy Main, and Robert
Codling, ticket collector at North Shields. It appears
that a number of tickets issued at Newcastle for Percy
Main and North Shields. instead of goir

this wa

York, had been sent back to one of the clerks at New-
castle, and re-issued before being sent to York, so that
oney bad only been received by the company for one
sue, while two or more issues of the same tickets had
ken place. There were three parties to complete one of
ese frauds, a collector, a guard, and a clerk. A police-
in deposed to having found upon the guard £33 in gold,
d at his house a large quantity of silver, making £4ll
£5O in gold was found upon the Percy Main
The prisoners were fully committed.

all ; and
ollector.

The toundatioh stone of the vast clocks atGreat Grimsby,
on the eastern coast, will be laid on the 18th inst., by the
Prince Consort, amidst festivities of no ordinary charac-

Regimental bands, arl
oast Guard service, a

tillery, the force belonging to
tre to be present, and masonic
ons from the town, wits every kind of

i other proces

amusement for the humbler classes, will be specially pro-
vided on land. The Sheernes3 squadron, under Admiral
. .

out in the
the coast 1

gayest colours, and the various yacht clubs of
:lave received an official notification for the at-

corporation of Grimsby will give a ball in the
hich the Earl of Yarborough, as high steward

—the poor of the

11 be erected for all classes of visitors

men employed on the works of the Manchester,
and Lincolnshire line will have a banquet on the
ES AGAINST MR. HUDSON.—The Report
)rs of the York, Newcastle, and B
flgate the Great

THE CHARG

tilway, to in

gland Pur-
;ainst Mr.

chase-account, involving certain
Hudson, the great Railway Owner,
It is a remarkable document and arriv
that Mr. Hudson sold to the Company 3253 shares, not
only at a profit on their cost to him, but also at a price
higher than that prevalent in tt
date of the sale. This was den
son, on Mr. Plew's valuatior

Delusion

t at th

full extent

3, Directo

Tetary, having mac

improvident

y ought to have

gn Mr. H
I to the I(

ny; but it

At any

NudsOn fi;

formed about Xloooof the

COURT

is assembled round her Majesty. The Queen, the Prince,
and the Royal Family, daily take their habitual airings in

Albert have become the pa-

caused to be transmitted, in aid of its funds, th
donation of £lOO, and have also become annual sut
of 1;5.

Icribere

THE CONVICT RUSH