The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Blackburn and Preston Railway is expected to be
opened about the Ist May.
The first sod of the Taw-Vale Railway was raised last
week by Mr. Thorn, one of the directors.
A portion of the Whitehaven Junction Railway, extend-
ing from Maryport to Workington, was opened on Mon-
day last, for the conveyance of goods and passengers,
On Monday evening last, a porter at the Chester station
of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, named Richards,
whilst fastening two of the carriages, was severely crushed
by the unexpected movement of them.
The Lytham Branch of the Preston and Wyre Railway
Company will be opened on the 16th of February. The
Blackpool branch, it is expected, will be ready for open-
ing in the early part of May.
On Tuesday morning last, as a luggage train on the
South Eastern Railway was crossing a bridge near Tun-
bridge the bridge gave way, and the engine, tender, and
two waggons were precipitated into the river. One young
man was killed and another dangerously injured.
A DEFAULTER.—We find that the brokers of the Leeds
Stock Exchange are following the example of the London
brokers, in posting the names of defaulters: The first
name so posted is that of " Thos. Hebdin, Esq., Justice
of the Peace, Redhall Court, Leeds."
Such has been the wetness of the weather during the
last few days, that there have been no fewer than from
thirty to forty slips, some of rather an extensive kind, on
each side of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, be-
tween Guide-bridge and Fairfield, a distance of two miles.
Amongst the various relics of antiquity which have been
discovered on the Lancaster and Carlisle line of railway,
one of the very rare coins of Queen Elizabeth, a silver
groat, was dug up on Friday week, from amidst the ma-
jectic ruins of Penrith Castle, once the residence of the
Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard the Third.
A joint-stock bank at Newcastle-upon-Tyne stopped
payment last week. Its liabilities are about £400,000,
which consist principally of bills in the hands of other
bankers. There are about 100 proprietors. The bank
held a considerable amount of railway deposits, for which
a peremptory demand was made.
EXPRESS TRAINS.--A n'emorial has been numerously
signed praying the London and Birmingham and Grand
Junction Railway Companies to run an express train be-
tween London and Liverpool at, six o'clock every morning,
in order that the morning papers may arrive here shortly
after twelve o'clock at noon, instead of being delayed as
at present till after three.

Jan. 27, 1846.

General Pasley, on Saturday, made his examination as
to the cause of the late accident on the Midland Railway►
at Chesterfield, and has expressed himself fully satisfied
that the whole and sole blame rested with the engine-
driver:

The amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1,800
miles of railway, was £113,142, thus accounted for:
£54,663 for the conveyance of passengers only, £27,242
for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £32,237 for
passengers and goods together, not respectively accounted
for ; being an increase over the corresponding week of last
year of £12,244.

THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY AND
THE CANALS.-11 e hear that the award of the arbitrators
for arranging the terms of the proposed amalgamation of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the Forth and
Clyde Canal, and the purchase of the Union Canal, has
been declared by Mr. Gregson ; but the particulars have
not yet been made known.—Scottish Railway Gazette.
A vast field of coal, occupying more than 10,000 acres?
and averaging 20 feet thick or workable coal, has beat
brought to light on the Midland and Thirsk Junction, by
the traverse of this line through the Howden Clough and
Cockersdale Valleys. There are at present 6,000 tonS
carted weekly ; but when the line is completed, it is be-
lieved the average weekly supply will not be less than
20.000 tons.

The last week was remarkable for the number of amal-
gamations which have taken place among railway pro-
jects. In some instances no fewer than from three to
five competing schemes have amalgamated. It is sup-
posed that not more than from 150 to 180 projects will go
into a committee of the House of Commons, and that
not more than 100 will receive the sanction of the legis-
lature.

The Committee of the London Stock Exchange haYe
passed a resolution requiring the members to furnish the
names of all the clients that are defaulters, in order that
the clerk may enter them in a book which is to be open for
tee inspection of the members of the house only. 'v
suspect that this resolution has been passed rather late in
the day for some of the members, although it may yet
have the effect of giving the police less trouble in Capel-
court.

GUAGE EXPERIMENTS.—The editor of Herepalh'S
Journal, in a long article upon this subject, condemns the
recent experiments as altogether trifling, and as affording
no test of the merits o the two guages, and, after takings
review of the result of the recent trials, noticing the dif-
ference in the gradients, and making allowances for the
side wind at the narrow guage experiments, says, so far
the experiments examined in their naked truth are all in
favour of the narrow guage, and advises the Great Wes-
tern Company at once to order their engineer to change
the guage to the narrow.
The sanction of a special meeting of the South Western
Railway Company has just been given to a large group of
extensions, by which it is proposed to accommodate the
whole country lying between their present line and the
Land's End. There is first to be a line rrom Basingstoke
to Salisbury, costing £700,000 another from Salisbury
to Yeovil, costing £900,000 ; and then on to Exeter, at a
further cost of £l.300,000; and so by the Cornwall and
Devon Central to Falmouth and Penzance, at no less an
outlay than £3,000,000.
At the Newcastle and Darlington meeting, a 9 per cent.
dividend was declared. Resolutions were adopted for ex"
tending railway communication in connexion with the
company's line to Boroughbridge and Beadle, and froze
Thirak to Melton, and other places in the intermediate
neighbourhood ; and for making and purchasing docks at
Jarrow Lake, Monkwearmouth and Sunderland ; and for
carrying forward a line through the Auckland district.
To carry these various objects into execution, it was de-
termined to create an additional capital of £1,000,000. by
the issue of LI shares upon every £25 share held by the
company. _ _ _

MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Monday, the half-yearly
meeting of this company was held at the Derby Station.
The chair was taken by Mr. Hudson, M.P. The report
of the directors stated that there was a net balance of
£197,897 7s. 3d„ which enabled the proprietors to divide
upon each, £lOO of consolidated stock. £3 13s. 9d.: upon
each £10) of preferential stock, £3 13s. 9d.: upon each
£lOO of Birmingham and Derby consolidated stock,
£3; reserving upwards of £14,000 towards the next half'
yearly account. The increase over the corresponding
half-year of 1844 was as follows :—Passengers, £47.344 ;
goods, £11,800; minerals, £5,756; parcels, £19,104;
cattle, £12,627 ; total increase on the half-year, £86,631.
The increase in the expenditure in the locomotive depart-
ment was attributable to the great increase in traffic, se-
venty-two engines being required daily to work the line.
LIVERPOOL, PRESTON, AND NORTH UNION JUNC'
TION RAILWAY.—A meeting of the subscribers to thin
projected line was held at Preston on Wednesday, the
Mayor in the chair. From the non-deposit of the plane
the scheme has failed, and the Committee are about to
proceed against the Engineers, Messrs. Gandell and
Burton, for breach of contract; while the Engineers, on
the other hand, claim £2,310, in addition to £2,300 which
they have already received. It appears that the total re-
ceipts have been £25,368, and the balance at the credit of
the Company is now £19,046. Of 13,360 shares allotted,
the deposit of £2. 2s. was paid on 12,000. The meeting
passed a resolution for the repayment of 21s. per share,
reserving the balance (about 9s. per share) "in order to
carry out the proceedings against the Engineers." An
amendment that 30s. be repaid, had only four supporters,
in a very numerous meeting.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON RAILWAY.--D
appears from the report of the directors, that the loco-
motive engines for this railway will be ready in March,
but the line was opened on the 19th instant, and is mean-
while worked by horse-power. The Leith branch is ex-
pected to be opened by the Ist of May. The tunnel is
proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily, 340 yards being nor
formed. There were 340 men employed on the works,
under the able superintendent, Mr. Patterson. Toe
chairman explained the circumstances in which the cora-
pany had purchased the Excise-office in Drummond place-
After noticing various points in the report, be entereu
into a lengthened and interesting explanation of the ne-
gotiations of the company with the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Railway Company, and the unfavourable issue of that
attempt to amalgamate the companies. The chairman
also recapitulated the terms of agreement with the Edin-
burgh and Northern Company. The meeting was per-
fectly unanimous.—Scottish Railway Gazette.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.—The half yearly meet'
ing was held at York, on Friday week. The report?
which was a very satisfactory one, recommended a divi-
dend of £lO per cent. per annum, which dividend will
amount to £60,382 ]os., and after paying the same, and
£23,000 for the half-year's rent of the Hull and Selby
line, due on the Ist instant, a surplus of £19,363 16s. 2d•
will remain to the credit of the company. The report
having been unanimously adopted, and the dividend de-
clared as recommended, the Chairman then proceeded to
develop his plans of extension, which comprised 71 mile
of new railway, consisting of a communication with Pock'
lington, Market Weighton, Driffield, Beverley, and other
portions of the East Riding ; 17 miles in the proposed
lines to Leeds, serving the towns of Tadcastet, Aberfordt
&c. • 11 miles extension from the Whitby and Pickeringßaifway to Danby Dale ; also double lines from Milford
to York. The directors proposed a creation of new es'
pital to the amount of £1,250,000, for part of which they
proposed to create 37,950 shares, which would be appro-
priated in the proportion of one new £25 share for eyed,
£5O share, and one new £25 share for every two £7.''
shares. The York and North Midland Company pro'
posed to subscribe £lOO,OOO to the Axholme line,
£40,000 to the Melton and Driffield Railway, and
£200,000 to the Eastern Counties Extension. All the
projects were unanimously adopted.
ENERGY AND HONESTY THE ROAD TO WEALTH AO
INFLUENCE.—The Railway Chronicle of Saturday thus
speaks of the indefatigable energy of Mr. Hudson—the
railway king:—" When Mr. Hudson was elected rneo3.
ber for Sunderland, it was eagerly asserted by his enerniee
and timidly surmised by his adherents, that the energiee
hitherto devoted to his railways would be directed frame
that useful channel into the wild courses of politics. S/11.6,
then expressed just the opposite conviction. Some lar„,
there are whose talents to do increase directly as the
amount of their work, and who, with moderate employ'
ment, would go to sleep. Mr. udson is one of those men
to whom the existence of difficulties and the array of for:
midable duties merely serves to awaken to a keener seat
of his responsibilities, and a more distinct consciousnes'
of ability to cope with them. Already chairman of orte
line from the north to the south of England, he undertakeo
the formation of a second, parallel to his own ! On the ere
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of a great parliamentary struggle, we find him addressing
his railway constituents, presiding at three great meeting
in one day, making at each two or three long speeche.,,'
disposing of a million of annual revenue, buying up rat',
ways and docks in his own name, and handing them oit.
as free gifts to one or another of his favoured cornparill;
in the midst of a commercial panic raising a few
and applying for leave to make a few hundred miles of rel.,
way as coolly, hnd even as it seems to us, with more e 0.7,
fidence than in time of prosperous or over-promising e,:,
culation ! When we advocated honesty, openness and 11
berality as the soundest policy for railway-men, we stu"t
were not mistaken. Such a week's work as we preo,!A
to-day indicates neither diminished energy nor imPan
influence !"
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THE LATE RAILWAY ROBBERIES.—DanieI Garreo
whose conviction for robberies on railways must be fr,e,,,
in the memory of our readers, made a lengthened confect,
sion of his guilt while in the transport before she selltee
The following extract discloses facts certain to receive 41
attention of directors :—" When I was living in idlettp
close to the railway station, I used to go on to the 131:01
form to see the trains come in ; and there it was I 1,,4
iota conversation with the people of the railway' fg,
joined a connexion. My first parcel was a carpet 70
which was taken on the arrival of a train as if I weua,
passenger; but that mode of acting became dangellet
as, on several occasions, the owners intercepted l_ito
property, and, but for the timely assistance of a COnlje,
derate, I should not have escaped so easily. Other to
thods were hit upon, which, if made known, may Ptel
such practices in future. We found it best to wore If
dark. Sometimes a passenger would be watched, an, d
any parcel of his promised well, he would be dougaij
through to the train, and, when he had passed on, rice,
the confederate we managed matters easily; for, 11,40
practicable,, he would put the luggage in a wrong 10"46,
or with a wrong ticket on it, or boldly give it to a 0;01
derate as his luggage to go with him in the train inehatt
of in the luggage van ; a confederate would ride a e,itll‘
or long trip, and then claim the particular article, or?tbs
away with it, with or without the cognisance 01 it
guard, depending on his being in the secret or title
to
was by going as a short passenger that we were au', tbe.l
effect these things ; or else would, on the arrival O,A
train, boldly seize anything, and if stopped, it coal
attributed to mistake. It was at the junction 11,0'
pecia:ly that we were able to work as well without i
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sistance of the railway man as with it. The pase_„e atS!
were gone out into the refreshment-rooms, and the"' P.,
another by which we could start off to another planeosf'
these various ways the game was played ; first ortethef,i
then another on one line, then changed about to anyfla•
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