The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The London and North Western Railway meeting was
held in London on Friday. The report, and the £3 10s.
dividend, were agreed to • and the decrease in the passen-
ger traffic was stated at £22,189.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and Southwes-
tern Railway Company was held in London, on Saturday,
when a dividend of three-and-a-quarter per cent. per
annum, or 16s. 3d. on £5O, was declared.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended August 12, 1849 :—Coaching, £2,091 14s. 7d.;
parcels, &c., £44 19s. 11d. ; goods, cattle, &c., £214 14s.
2d. ; steam-boats, £l5B 2s. 6d. ; total, £2,509 11s. 2d.;
exclusive of mails and toll.
SABBATH TRAINS ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLAS-
GOW RAILWAY.—It is a matter of just and sincere regret
that this question should be again agitated. So uncalled
for and injudicious a movement ought to be severely re-
probated. The shareholders, it is to be hoped, will meet
the demand to open the line on the Sabbath with the re-
solution " to let well alone," and maintain the present
system which reflects so much credit upon their judgment,
and which, while it is in no sense adverse to their pecu-
niary interests, must unquestionably be regarded as a high
tribute to the religious character and institutions of Scot-
land.—Edinburgh Post.
SUNDAY RAILWAY WORE.—At the Bath police-court
on Wednesday, Levi Weston, a labourer in the luggrge
department of the Great Western Railway, was summoned
for having exercised his ordinary calling on the Lord's
Day. Considerable discussion arose as to the construc-
tion of the act of parliament and whether the defendant,
who was engaged in removing a loaded luggage waggon,
was not doing something entirely unconnected with the
running of the passenger trains, though he would have
been employed even if he had not been removing the
luggage, because it was his duty to attend the mail and
parliamentary trains. The mayor and magistrates ad-
journed the decision, but the former said he felt it to be
his duty, not as a magistrate, but as a citizen, to say in
the face of the public that he wished and hoped it might
turn out that the carriage of luggage on the Lord's Day
was entirely unlawful.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The half-yearly general
meeting was held at Bristol on Thursday. The room was
crowded some time before the hour appointed for com-
mencing the proceedings ; and at one o'clock Mr, Russell,
the chairman of the company, Mr. Saunders, the secre-
tary, and many of the directors, entered,Nand were re-
ceived with some hisses, which were drowned in cries of
" Shame" and cheers. In answer to a question, the chair-
man replied that it was perfectly true that Mr. Stevens
had received £45,000 of the company's money, or there-
about, which was intended to pay for the purchase of land,
but which Mr. Stevens had applied to other purposes.
The directors entertained a confident belief that the whole,
or, at all events, by far the greatest part, of the money
misappropriated by Mr. Stevens would be recovered for
the company. After the report had been read and some
discussion had taken place, the chairman then moved that
a dividend for the half-year ending the 30th of June be
paid after the Ist of September next, at the rate of 4 per
cent per annum, which was agreed to. Af-er the payment
of the dividend, a balance of £lB,OOO was left of the
profits of the half-year. After a vote of thanks to the
chairman, directors, &c., the meeting broke up.
DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—A special meeting of
the Liverpool shareholders, in the Dutch Rhenish Rail-
way, was held on Tuesday afternoon, in the Cotton Sales-
room. Charles Holland, Esq., was called to the chair.
The conduct of the directors was freely discussed, and the
general tone of the meeting may be gathered from the re-
solutions adopted. It was resolved, on the motion of
Mr. Elias J. Mozley, seconded by J. Moss, Esq., " That
the report be adopted, and that the refusal of the head
direction to recognise the Committee of Inquiry, ap-
pointed by the shareholders at the late meeting in Am-
sterdam, and to respect the decision of the shareholders
taken at a general meeting, is a flagrant violation of the
statutes, and as such, calls for the severest condemnation
on the part of this meeting." The next resolution, which
was moved by Mr. J. J. Bennett, secondel by Mr, John
Hall, and supported by W. Chaplin, Esq., M.P., Mr. M.
Agrell, and Mr. Thomas Bouch. is as fellows :—" That at
the approaching meeting at Amsterdam, the shareholders
be recommended to dismiss from such office such mem-
bers of the head direction as may not have previously re-
signed or joined the shareholders, and to appoint others ;
and to proceed, with the advice and assistance of the
shareholders' legal adviser, Mr. D. Curtius, to determine
as to the alteration of the statutes that may be deemed
necessary to secure the permanent interests of the com-
pany ; and that the shareholders undertake, in their indi-
vidual capacity, to contribute, rateably, towards the ex-
penses already incurred in carrying out the objects of this
meeting; and that the thanks of this meeting be presented
to A. Kooy, Esq., for the honourable mennar in which he
has met the wishes of the shareholders, Ly placing his re-
signation, as director, in their hands, not deeming it pro.
per to hold the office of director after the strong expres-
sion of the shareholders of a want of confidence in the
majority of the head direction."—On the motion of Mr.
Robertson Gladstone, seconded by Mr. Mozley, it was
resolved—" That the present commit: ee be empowered to
nominate a deputation to proceed to l'olland, and to at-
tend the meeting, on the 7th of Sept( tuber, to carry out
these resolutions, and to engage a Lentleman to assist
them, if necessary."