The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

The works of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, from
Grange-lane to the Docks, are proceeding with great
vigour. Upwards of 500 men are employed upon them ;
the line is expected to be opened in seven months.
A NEW RAILWAY.—The Eastern Counties Railway
Company are about erecting large works at Stratford, com-
prising almost a new town. We learn that no fewer than
300 houses are to be at once erected, at a cost of £200,000.
It is also contemplated to erect a church at the same spot,
and provide other institutions for the moral welfare of the
inhabitants.

LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.-At the ap-
proaching half-yearly meeting, resolutions will be sub-
mitted for a conditional contract between the Lancaster
and Carlisle, the London and North-Western, and Cale-
donian Railway Companies, and the Scottish Central, for
a least to the three former companies, of the Scottish Cen-
tral and its branches. •

ELY AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY.—This important
extension of the Eastern Counties Railway was opened on
Thursday for passenger trains. This line branches off
about a mile below the Ely station, and passes Chittisham
M and W' • 'he "

Manea, i.Em„ _..a w hittlesea, running on to t..,, ivon
Western Railway at Peterborough, its entire length being
thirty miles.

FLEETWOOD, PRESTON, AND WEST RIDING RAILWAY.
—The mayor of Preston performed the ceremony of
cuffing the first sod of this railway yesterday, (Monday.)
The corporation and shareholders, with their friends,
walked in procession from the Town-hall to the place se-
lected, which is about half-a-mile from Preston. After
the ceremony, the party partook of a cold collation at the
Bull Hotel.

FINE ARTS AT THE RAILWAY STATION_
pondent of the ilthencEvm, Felix Summerly,
a well-penned letter to Mr. Philip Hardwick, R.A
feet of the London and North Western Railway.

A. corre

ting a plan for decorating the stations with paintings, &c.
thus rendering them a number of National Galleries. He
proposes that when, but when only, a line pays ten per
cent., any surplus should be appropriated in this manner'.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—From official returns it appears
that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards
of 2,730 miles of railway, was £134,816, thus accounted

for :—£71,873 for the conveyance of passengers only,
£33,441 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of
£30,502 for passengers and goods together, not respec-
tively apportioned; being an increase of £16,898 over the
corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was
about 1,920.
DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—The traffic account
One I this line, for the' last quarter, exhibits a

In Octobc

1845 and -1846, the.' re

ceipts were respectively £3,8
in November, £3,059 I is.
December, £2,864 6s. 10d. and £3,35
the first week of January, 1846, the traffic produced
£5BO 18s. 6d., and during the same period of 1847,
£7OB 155., which shows that the progressive increase of
December last still continues and augments.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday, a man named Robert
Green, who had been engaged that day as a labourer on
the Liierpool and Bury Railway, at Elton, was run over
by a waggon which he was driving, and received a severe

2d. and

Ilion of the leg, which caused his death soon after-
. He was employed to drive the waggons along part
of the line; and as there were a number of points at the
snot where the accident occurred, it is supposed that he

was tripped up by some of the rails, and under the
wheels of his wagon. _ _ _ _ _ _

The Stour Valley passed last week into the hands of the
London and North-Western. The terms are two-thirds
of London and North-Western dividend, to commence
when the line is opened; the London and North-Western
to supply the additional capital for the Present lir..

branches ; 4 per cent. to bt
the guarantee comes into operation. Certain sub.
who are not identified with the canal proprietary or the
London and North-Western, murmur dissatisfaction.
They say, even supposing the present London and North-
Western continue paying 10 per. cent. and the guarantee
, commence instanter, it would not raise the Stour Valle
e shares to more than 4} premium.
i:v LT,-

paid on calls till
eholders,

)0L AND BURY RAILWAY. - This immel
'being carried out with great spirit, a

notwit

standing its being the depth of winter, the w

is fast progressing. There can 1.-.) e little doubt but a por-
tion of the line extending from Liverpool to Upholland
will be opened in the early part of next summer. A por-
..• .•

the property of J. H. Blundell, Esq., in tie township of
Pemberton, affords a splendid specimen of the wonderful
freaks of nature, by the exposure of a dislocation of the
coal measures, called by the miners a fault, whereby the
continuity of the coal mines is broken, and one portion,

fathoms below the natural range of coal on the o

FOUR RAILS ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.
The London and North Western opened its annual
mpaign by taking.

2rrying business into its own

g the past week, ar

to carry on the works, as far as it is possible to dc
so, without waiting for an Act of Parliament.
sition from the landowners, as far as Watford, certain, is
likely to occur, and no time will be lost in completing the
four lines to Tring—where the great necessity for them
begins. They will be of immense value to the streams of
traffic likely to be poured in from the counties of Hertford,
Bedford, Buckingham, and Oxford. The tunnels are to

No oppo-

be dOubled. What an instance this ready decision affords
of the Vitality of private enterprise.—Railway Chronicle.

the Court of Exchequer—to wit, that the secretary of a
company provisionally registered, if he be also a promoter
of it, cannot sue any of the members of the provisional
committee for arrears of salary, although his appointment

a finance committE

to whom the plaint

iff's claim, among

certain sum dui
nron rum ppri ;a g 4

The case iu which this deciSion was
Ism 27_ T.nrd enrznn." and the wronnds

The appointment of the

promoters of the scheme, did not conter on him a ri
sue those who sieved it in their individual capacity
only acted, as it were, under the authority of tl
ters themselves, and the plaintiff might he

promo-

[tid to have

for payment of his salary, if any was due."
LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-
TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—We arc much pleased to

Le disputes betw

the directors of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Company being speedily
settled. The Newcastle section of the board having come
to the conclusion that the affairs of the company could
not proceed satisfactorily under the existing disunion, as-

sisteil in getting•up a requisition from the slmrcholders,
for a special general meeting for the purpose of reducing
the number of directors (that being the only legal course
open to them,) and their temporary reduction w►ll be ef-
fected at the approaching meeting on the second of ne:
month, in case they receive tl
ni Pr, of whi eh . ore hot

Jesu:

Anonymous attach
ties who took the

upport of th

mem m tne estimation of the shareholders. The attacks
to which we allude have been circulated, and have also
appeared in Herapath's Journal, and are signed a
Shareholder ;" and, we believe, they must emanate from
din the same disgraceful and un-
The proceed-

the party who indul

gentlemanly course on mina, -
in however, are not likely to misguide the shareholdei
but must recoil on the party under whose sanction th
appear. The Manchester section of the board has al
circular, apparently for the purpose of produdi

Mr. Saunders, the secretary of the Great Western Rail-
way, was presented with a piece of plate, on Wednesday,
by the shareholders.
OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.-It is under-
stood that the holden- of about seven-eighths of the
shares have declared in favour of the offer of the London
and North-Western Company.
Mr. M'Connell, of the Bristol and Birmingham
Railway, has been appointed Locomotive Superintendent
of the London and North-Western Railway, in the room
of Mr. Edward Bury, who has resigned.
The proposed lease of the Exeter and Crediton to the
Bristol and Exeter has been rejected, by a majority of two
to one of the shareholders against the recommendation of
the directors.

Jaw. 19, 1841.

LOCAL MEETINGS.

HEALTH OF TOWNS.—On Tuesday evening last, a
meeting was held at the School Room, in Moortields,to
hear an address from the Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A.,4i0
connexion with the above subject. Sir Arnold Knight
was called to the chair, and several gentlemen, who take a
lively interest in the sanatory measures for the improve-
ment of the town, were present.

MEETING OF BREWERS.—On Saturday a meeting 'of
brewers was held at the Wellington Hotel, Dale-street, to
consider the propriety of raising the price of ale. The
meeting was attended by upwards of forty brewers, and
was adjourned until Wednesday, when, we understand,
the price will be raised, as it has been in other parts of
the provinces, to 6s. per barrel, in consequence of the rise
in the price of malt.

BREAD ASSOCIATION.—A meeting was held at the.
Town-hall, Birkenhead, on Thursday evening, by the
promoters of a scheme for establishing an association, the'
object of which is to reduce the present high price of the
staple food of man. The doors were thrown open at
seven o'clock, and in a few minutes the room was crowded
to excess with working men, principally those who are
employed in the erection of the new docks. Mr. James
Birrel was called to the chair, and a set of rules, in force
in a similar association in Paisley, was read ; the princi-
pal feature in these was, that the association were to pur-
chase flour and appoint a baker, who was to act as a ser-
vant of the committee.

HEALTH OF TOWNS' ASSOCIATION.—The monthly
meeting of the committee was held in the Clarendon-
rooms on Wednesday, Mr. Blackburn in the The
treasurer announced the receipt of a number of new sub-
scriptions and donations, among which was one of £lO
from William Laird, Esq., of Birkenhead, accompanied
with a letter expressive of the strong interest he felt in
the operations of the society, and a hope that a branch
association might be established at Birkenhead.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the meeting of this body, on
Thursday, the following gentlemen were present :
Messrs. Nicol (in the chair,) Molyneux, Middleton, Wood,
Horsfall, Mann, Aikin, Tobin, Kendall, Bold, Sandbach,
and Lockett. —The width of the six new north graving
docks was fixed as follows : two to be seventy feet wide,
two sixty feet, and two forty-five feet.—The Dock Sur-
veyor reported that he intended to lay the sills of the pro-
posed graving dock gates three-and-a-half feet below the
level of the Old Dock, the sills of the inner dock gates six
feet, and the sills of the outer dock gates six feet six
inches below the level of the Old Dock : the sills of the
Prince's Dock, being five feet eleven inches below the
level of the Old Dock. It was orrlcr,,,l

y. v 1,1011
should be made at the north outer basin for introducing a
gate seventy feet wide, in the event of the docks being ex-
tended hereafter to the north, the expense to do so at
present, being only estimated at £2OO, whereas, if not done
now, a far greater sum will be required if the gate should
be found necessary at so►ue future day. The exact situa-
'on of the gate was left for future consideration. Mr.

uggestion as to providing s;ip.
accommodation near the proposed site of the e-at(
was proposed that the double-road bridge at t

lane made a

E! south

entrance of the Prince's Dock was completed on the 27th
of December, and thrown open to the public. The old
bridge occupied two minutes, and required ninety-six
turns turns of the handle, in opening and shutting the
new bridge can be cl- •

Loged and opened in one minute;. and

lorry turns of the handle.—lt was reported
that Gower-street was filled up, levelled, and completed
according to the act of Parliament.—It was decided to
enforce the claim of £4 15s. against the New Brighten
Steam-packet Company, for damage done by one of their
steamers to the river wall stage opposite the Kings
Dock. The Company resisted the claim on the
ground that the steamer was towing a vessel which
was in charge of a pilot.—lt was resolved that double
gates, to open the same way, should be placed at the en-
trance of the north dock No. B.—The marine surveyor
reported, that during the past year 3728 vessels had passed
,wards through tb-

ie roc,..uannel, and 3953 outward:,
making a total of 7681 against 7910 in 1845. Through
the Victoria and Northern channels, 13,354 vessels had
passed inwards, and 14,096 outwards, making a total of
27,450 against 28,861 in 1845 - a -

in "te
traffic, including both channels, of 1640. -Itlecrease was resolvehd
that the printing for the Albert Dock Warehouses shoulsl
be given to Mr. R. H. Sherlock.—The Harbour Masters'
Sub-committee reported that they could not recommend
any increase in the salary (30s. a week), of the master of
Toxteth Dock.—A letter was read from the Dock-Solicitor

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Blundell. The .solicitor held that the Dock Committee
could compel every master porter to charge according to
the rates fixed by them, or dismiss him from his office,
and that the Committee possessed full power to make
what regulations they chose as to the porterage on the
dock quays.—A letter from Bibby and Son, as to Elias
Owen, a master porter, was referred to a sub-committee.
—A letter from William Wilson and Co., requesting to be
allowed the priority of a berth for the Havre steamer, was
referred to the Harbour Masters' Sub-committee.
SELECT VESTRY.—At the usual meeting on Tuesday,
the clerk read the minutes, from which it appeared that
on the 4th of January the number in the WOrkhollSe was
1318, the cost of whose maintenance was 2s. 61d. per
week ; and in the previous week there were 1316, at a
cost of 2s. 81d. per week_ Th,, • -

,Neex. Ihe relief given for the week
ending the Ist January was A 341 cases, at a cost of
£527 3s. 10d. ; and compared with the same period last
year, the number was 1116, and the cost £l6l more, cal-
culating bread at the additional value of £2B 12s. 6d., and.
at £7O Is., or £259 13s. 6d. more than for the corre-
sponding week of last year. On the Bth January, the
number of cases was 4497, relieved with £46 10s. 10d. ;
and compared with the same period last year, the number
was 1217, and £165 7s. ld. more, or; calculating bread
and soup, £268 lls. Bd. more than at the same period
last year.• The number of cases relieved during the
six days formed a grand total of 29,117 persons. It was

the overseers with bread, was desirous of relinquishing
his contract, as owing to the great advance in the price of
flour, and the immense and unexpected influx of Irish
paupers, he was losing by it. The subject was fully dig,.
cussed, the vestry eventually resolving not to interfere in
the matter. After the medical report had been received,
the Rev. Rector Brooks drew the attention of the vestry
to the state of the Industrial Schools, of which he gave a
ount. A letter was received front
secretary to Lord John Russell,
nment had no power to check the
Lion of the Irish into Liverpool. Some of the
vestry suggested that a petition be sent to Parliament,
praying for a Poor-law for Ireland as most likely to meet
the exigencies of the case ; and one of the vestry suggested
that the Irish paupers should be sent by the cheap train,

highly LIN ourable
Mr. S. M. PhilliF

;e towns betwe

lon, as a means of relieving

iverpool from the