The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY I.IsiTELbIuEr.C.R.

The Blackpool branch of the Preston and Wyre railway
will b- opened to-morrow with much rejoicing.
The Court of Excheciner have refused a new trial in the
case of Hutchinson v. East Lancashire Railway, tried at
our• last assizes, when a verdict was given for the company.
Since yesterday week, three accidents, terminating fa-
tally, have happened on the Colchester and Cambridge
lines on the Eastern Counties Railway.
It is stated that Messrs. Stephenson hold 224 orders for
I.,comotive engines in France. and Messrs. Hawthorn 70;
besides which the other English makers have orders for
371, and the French makers for 371. Total, 1,036.
The Great Western Company are building a class of
passenger engines of 25 tons weight, with driving wheels
of 8 feet diameter, which will be equal to 120 tons at 70
miles per hour.
A correspondent of the Mining :Journal cautions all
managing committees of railways of the responsibilities
they wi'l probably incur by pledging themselves to return
any portion of dep• sits to scripholders who were not
subscribers to the undertaking.
A " RUMOUR" is cut rent which will cause both sorrow
and surprise. It is the disappearance. from the railway
world, of a man of eminence and talent. He was a large
speculator.—His liabilities are said to be £376,000.—
Cork Constitution.

At a meeting of the Liverpool and Bury Railway share-
holders on S. aturday, at the Clarendon-rooms, the mai-
Lantation of that inc with the Manchester and Leeds
Company was carried by a majority of 8907 shares and
3917 votes against 4632 shares and 68 votes.
On Wednesday, reso udons were passed by the share-
holders of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great
Grimsby Direct Railway Company for breaking up the
Company, and dividing 245. per share, and for proceedings
against those managing and committee-men who had nut
taken up their shares.
A viaduct on the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Rail-
way, about a mile trout Brighton, has given way in two
places, so that the arches must be rebuilt. The wet wea-
ther is supposed to have weakened the founda'ion. It is
a fortunate circumstance that the defect has thus oppor-
tunely shown itself, for the line was to have been opened
in May. its completion will be deferred for two mouths.

From ufficial returns it appears that the amo'rnt of
traffic tor the last week, on nearly 1 800 miles of railway,
was £128.197, Chas accounted fur:—£73 787 for the con-
ve‘atice of passengers only, £31.797 tar the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £22.613 fur passengers and
goods toge:her, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase over the corresponding week of last year of
£24,(z2. _ _

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE MEN.--In the Exchequer
Court, on NN etltirsdity, Mr. 111artio otortined a rule wsi
for a revr trial in the celebrated case of Vvlalstab v. Spottis-
woode. At the trial the plaint'ff recovered from the or.
fendant, who was one of the provisional committee of the
" Direct Ox ord, Reatihig, arid Brighton
Railway Comp 'try." the full amount of the deposits
(X7B 155.) paid by her on the allotment of 30 shares to
her in th It undertaking.

KINDNESS OF THE GRAND JGNCTION RAILWAY CoM-
PAN e.—A trifling, but, nevertheless, gratifying, act of
kindness and liberality in the company has just been corn
municated to us that dots the management credit. A
short time ago a poor woman left London for Liverpool
with an intention of seeking her husband, who had left her
in a destitute condition. Atter a fruitless search she de-
termined to return to London. On the way it was mani-
fest to hv r fellow-passengers that she exhibited symptoms
of approaching labour. They recommended her not to
proceed ;laccordingly at the next station she was takenlout,
and although a third-class passenger, placed in a closed
carriage of a train returning to Liverpool, one of her fel-
low-travellers being engaged to attend her. The guard
was very kind and attentive, and exhibited much humane
reeling. On Ler arrival in Liverpool, her ca-e coming to
the knowledge of the secretary, he caused her to be placed
in a car, and sent. free of cost, to the Liverpool Lying-in
hospital, at which excellent air ty she was delivered of
a boy, and is doing well. Besides these attentions the
company returned her fare.
ANOTHER. RAILWAY CASE —ln the Vice Chancellor's
Court, on Friday, a demurrer, Wilson a. Stanhope, was
brought on. It referred to a bill tiled by the plaintiff, a
sharenolder, on behalf of the other shareholders of the
London and Manehestery,b,
jr, and
lleedcirtesc theot arlilittietligitdieei favour
Railway
(Remington's line) against the directors and provisional
rdastvtliar,auotrf tohtfiei
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of
Di-
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aihtrati edv eef ofrgue
sntther;:att mrt,
the objects
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r,e,cw hir h y
t anhraindlkeltaincolvieesrteih Manchester
a)iliwisayar(ißd asstercteiko'nss line),
to
pre-
pared for the tival scheme; and alleges further, that this
was done for a personal considetatioo ; and that the de-
posits paid in on the. Remington line were laid out in the
purchase of shares in the other ccmpany, with a view to
keeping up their price in the market, arid adds sortie mi-
nor de!ails hearing upon these charges. The case was
heard on demurrer, on the part of the hon. Mr. Stan-
hope, on- 01 tie deft ndants, on whose behalf the &flint-
rer was argued on a point of ((ray, and on the question
of parties. it wits contended th;.t in case a parttiertddp
to be wound up, it e,uld riot be brought two Lout t, but
in the pi esr nee of all parties concerned. The covet de-
cided that the point in «linty to led, and overt uled the
demurrer on the question of parties, a iihout pr,judice to
any question in the cause, and reserved coats.

A Aril 2R, 1848.

An official return has just been made of the aggregate
amount paid to the account of the Accountant-General
,n Chancery, during the last session of Parliament, on
account of railway companies—from which it appears,
that the amount of deposits paid was £3,444,306 ss. ; of
this sum there was invested in stock £56,200 in the pur-
chase of £56 818 3s. Bd. £3 per cent. consols, and
£812,891 18s. 10d. in £777.100 Exchequer bills —of
which amount £494,400 have been delivered out to par-
ties by order of the court. The whole amount charged
as commission, on the purchase of the above securities,
was £459 Ils. 6d.—of which sum £275 14s. 10d. was re-
ceived by the Accountant-General, and £lB3 16s 7d. by
his broker. The aggregate amount paid to the account
of the Accountan -General in Ireland, and of the Re-
membrancer of the Court of Exchequer, in Scotland--
neither of which were invested in Stock or Exchequer
hills, and, consequently, no commission charged—was,
Ireland, £373,81210x. ; Scotland, £180,763 15s.—making,
with the above, 812.891 18s. 10d. in Eogland : a total of
£1,367,468 3s. 10d. paid as deposits on railway bills in
the last session of Parliament.