The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-03 00:00:00

GLASGOW AND AYR RAILWAY.

This company held their meeting on Tuesday, at Glasgow,
and the proceedings appear to have been highly satisfactory-
The whole line froin;;Paisley to Ayr, will be opened during
the present summer, and to Kilwinning by the middle of
March. The joint line to Paisley, is expected to be opened
on the Ist of June. Only about two years have been taken
to construct the entire'line, an instance of activity highly
creditable to all parties, when the difficulties of some parts of
the works arc examined. It must also be gratifying to the
shareholders to learn, that they will not be troubled for
seventh call, until the line is completed, and their whole pro-
perty comes into profitable operation. The engineer's report
gives an interesting picture of the state of the works, but it
is so long that we are unable to give it. The celebrated
Mairburn Meadow, which some time ago got into great,-Po-
toriety, for having an appetite to swallow up all that coutd be
laid on it, appears now likely to be satiated.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND'MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.—HALF-YEARLY MEET.
ING.
The half-yearly general meeting of this Company was held
on Thursday last, at the Albion Hotel, Manchester. The
Right Hon. Lord Wharncliffe in the chair.
The report of the directors entered into an explanation of
the causes which had prevented the Company from proceed-
ing in the execution of any considerable portion of the works'
although nearly three years have now elapsed since the pass-
ing of the act. Four reasons are given for this want of
progress, one, however, of which is. sufficient, viz. the diffi-
culty of getting in the amount of the various calls for money
which have been made upon the proprietors.
To remedy this, it is stated, that proceedings of a com-
pulsory nature had been instituted against several of the
shareholders, and with some success. The directors have
also arranged a mode of relieving those shareholders who
have sold their shares, but not secured registration by the
purchasers, on the principle of such parties receiving back
their shares upon a legal title being given them by the Coin-
puny, and paying up the calls in arrear.
The report then alludes to certain misunderstandings which
had arisen between the board and their former engineer ill
chief, Mr. Vignoles, and which led to the resignation of that
gentleman, and to the appointment of Mr. Locke, the engi-
neer of the Grand Junction and other lines, as his successor.
Upon this appointment they take the opportunity of congra-
tulating the proprietdrs as being one eminently calculated to
secure the confidence of the public.
But in order more fully to effect this object, and to d°
away with the misapprehensions which they have found to
exist as to the engineering difficulties of this railway, the
directors deemed it advisable, on the retirement of the late
engineer, to employ Mr. Nicholas Wood, of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, to examine the line, and give his opinion of its merits,
in an engineering point of view.
This opinion they are happy to assure the proprietors 111
highly satisfactory, confirming the opinion they have frog
the first entertained, that the line has been laid out by Sr:
Vignolles with skill and judgment, and that it is a good
practical one for locomotive power; and with the excepti°ll,
of the Tunnel and- Viaducts, which are questions only 0
time and expense, its difficulties are of less consideration
than those of most others of similar magnitude.
The Report of Mr. Locke, therecently appointed engineer'
is equally satisfactory, and we are glad to find that it is the
intention of the Company to proceed at once with the lettieg
of the contract between Manchester and Glossop-dale, OP
pending for the present the remainder of the line, excepting
the Tunnel, in order, at as early a period as possible, to
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afford to the public the accommodation of a railway throne
the densely-populated district between the two places.
We have not space to give a report of the proceeding*
which were rather lengthy, and consisted principally of e
discussion as to a number of shares purchased by a Director
of the Company, and which that gentleman refuses to re'
gister. We are glad, however, to notice that the director;
have acceded to the often urged claims of the Manchester
shareholders to be represented at the board, and trust that
the effect of this concession will be to inspire a little o°6-
dence and spirit into the undertaking.

WEEKLY RETURNS OF RA
(From the Railway 211

ILWAYATRAFFIC'
fagazinej

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NAME. Passen- Cash. P• mile'P• mile Passe
gers. pr.wk.'p. day. pew
i X.
Birmingham — 11077 98i 14 ----"
South Western — . 6751 694 10 -----
Great Western -.-- 2230 724 ' 104 -----
Greenwich 3529 24694 859 226 321
Manchester& Leeds 10702 607 45 i 63 15-
‘,9
Firming. &Derby — 713 181 2
York &N. Midland 1602 3273 22/ 3+
101
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Croydon
Midland Counties 24401 234 15 2 .isil
Eastern Counties 3755 218 Glasgow & Ayr 13061 51 5 1
Ulster..
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THE MONK'S FERRY.—In consequence of the detersjo
nation of Mr. Price to enforce his right of ferry frou3.o
Cheshire shore, and to prohibit any infringement of hislny
vilege, the boats belonging to the Monk's Ferry Conn-be
have now ceased to ply across the river. We presume have
directors saw no hope of reversing the decisions which tilt
been given against them, but as an immense males, 'of
have been made before the present handsome erections co..re
be completed, we trust the Company will be enabled to ttot
them to some account—not only beneficial to themselves Phi
advantageous to the valuable and improving property "'
which they are surrounded.
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NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—We understand, that b. - t
increasing demands have been lately-made upon the Mort
Hospital for the admission of accidents. Last week no .;a.
than 33 cases were admitted, 16 of whiCh'ivere aceicitat
The hospital contains 85 beds ; yet, so numerous and a.
were the applications for admission, that,,although the sf:r.
mOdation was temporarily increased- to- gg- beds, nuon.
were sent away unrelieved. Within a-short time, five 501
sons, severely. burnt, were.taken to,the hospital. One
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soon after admission, three. are recovbrine undone, a nrosno
was refused for want of room. - On• Thursday, a workrus..4
the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, had his legs secee,
crushed by a loaded waggon pdssing over theM ; he wastolr
moved to the Northern Hospital_: one leg Was anwittl
and, we understand he is doing well.

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