The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-10 00:00:00

TOTNESS ELECTION PETITION.

This committee met at 11 o'clock on Wednesday, Mr.
Clive in the chair.

Mr. Austen, op the part of the petitioner, Mr. Baldwin,
took a preliminary objection to the informality of the notice
of election given by the returning officer. Counsel being
heard in support and against the objection, the committee
came to the following resolution, Which declares the election
void :—" Resolved,—That the objection on behalf of Mr.
Baldwin, relative to the informality of the notice given by
the returning officer, is a valid objection, as the committee
conceive that the expression in the act of the 7th and Bth
William 1111., c. 25, four days' notice at least' must be
understood as requiring four clear days, exclusive of the day
of the notice and the day appointed for holding the election."
Counsel on both sides agreed that the only duty which the
committee had to perform was to report to the house that the
last election for the borough of Totness was a void election.
The chairman having assented, the committee separated.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY-HALF-

YEARLY MEETING.

The half-yearly meeting of this undertaking was held on
Tuesday, the 25th ult., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a
highly-satisfactory report presented to the proprietors, an-
nouncing a dividend of 6 per cent. from the profits of the
past year, to be paid to the proprietors in two half-yearly
instalments, the one on Thursday, the 30th April instant,
and•the other on the 29th October next.

The following statement was laid before the meeting,
showing the increase of traffic upon the line during the past
year :—From the conveyance of passengers the company have
derived an increased revenue equal to nearly 23 per cent.,
from parcels above 33 per cent., from goods 841, coals 2;1,
lime 10, and stone nearly 31 percent.. The total receipts of
the year 1839 were £87,421 ls. 9d., being £26,165 9s. above
thp receipt of the previous year ; and in proof of the further
and increasing prosperity of the concern, it was shown, that
up to the 7th March in this year, the revenue has exceeded
that of the same period in 1839 by 2.. Vi per cent.
The directors are rapidly proceeding to carry out the various
improvements which have become necessary to accommodate
their increasing traffic, and particularly the substitution of a
double line of rails in lieu of the preseut single line; and we
baye no doubt that, with the proper and discreet management
which they appear to be pursuing, this undertaking will ulti-
mately become one of the most advantageous and profitable
in the country.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE EXTENSION RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.—The annual meeting of this company was
held at Bristol on Tuesday last, but want of space, and the
late hour at which the details came to hand, compel us to
postpone the publication of the report, &c., till next week.
The report touches principally upon the negociations recently
entered into with the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Company, which negociations, it is stated, are now wholly at
an end. The directors, however, .express a hope of being
able to come to some arrangement with the.Cheltenham and
Great Western Company.—Railwoy Times.
NORTH MIDLAND RAlLWAY.—Between Derby and Ro-
therham, (and on to Sheffield by the Sheffield and Rother-
ham Railway,) the principal operation is laying:the permanent
road. A double line of rails is laid for a considerable dis-
tance north and south of Chesterfield ; this part of the line
will be opened in May. The stations will be completed
shortly, as most of them are now roofed in.—Derby Repor-
ter.