The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GRAND CENTRAL JUNCTION RAILWAY.—A scheme
with this title is announced. It is run from Cambridge
to Rugby, via Northampton and Bedford.
ELY AND BEDFORD RAILWAY.—A project with this
title has just appeared. It is under the engineering aus-
pices of Mr. G. W. Buck, who reports that a single line
(forty-three miles) may be made for £270,000. The es-
timate return is 9 per cent.

BELFAST, BALLYMENA, AND CARRICKFERGUS RAIL-
WAY.-A. new Irish Railway with this title has been
brought forward, and promises exceedingly well. It will
be about 35 English miles in length, and it is said can be
completed for £ll,OOO a mile.
It appears by the accounts brought by the last Indian
mail, that, in Bombay, public attention was drawn to a
plan for making a railway to the Thull and Bhore ghauts,
two great passes in the mountains of the neighbouring
Concan country, by which all the trade comes to that
port. The cost is estimated at £35,000, and a large num-
ber of shares were taken there.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER AND GRANDJUNCTION
RAILWAYS.—An amalgamation of these important rail-
way companies has for some time been in agitation
amongst the shareholders, and we understand the ques-
tion has now assumed so serious a shape that the pro-
priety of such a course is under the immediate and grave
consideration of the board of directors of each company.
THE GREAT WESTERN (IRELAND) RAILWAY.—The
prospectus of a proposed railway under this title, appears
in our columns to-day. It is run from Dublin and Cashel
Railway, near Lucan, to Mullingar and Athlone, a dis-
tance of sixiy-eight miles. Sir John Macneill is the en-
gineer, and the provisional committee are highly respec-
table. The capital is to be £750,000 in £5O shares, and
a return of 8 per cent. is expected.—Railway Record.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday the Man-
chester and Birmingham Railway Company conveyed a
great number of persons from Manchester to Alderley
Edge and back, for a small sum, and so great was the
throng that the usual carriages being found insufficient, a
number of waggons were used, having no doors at the
sides and no steps. In getting out of one of these wag-
gons, a poor woman slipped her foot, and the engine hap-
pening to move on at the time, she fell with her head
across the rails, and was killed instantly. The name of
the unfortunate sufferer is Bailey, aged 43 years, the wife
of a small farmer.

COST OF RAILWAYS.--The London and Blackwell
railway cost £326,670 per mile, which is the highest cost
of any railway in the kingdom. The Greenwich comes
next for expensiveness, and cost £264,733. The three
lines which were executed at the lowest cost per mile are
the Arbroath and Forfar, the Aylesbury Junction, and the
Hayle railways, which severally cost £9,120, £8,710, and
£6,949 per mile. The London and Birmingham cost
£53,780 per mile, the Great Western £55,330 per mile,
the Great Western £55,330, and the South Western
£27,750. The Liverpool and Manchester cost £41,320
per mile, the Manchester and Leeds £59,800, and the
London and Brighton £64,370.

NORTH BRITISH RAlLWAY.—lmplements and mate-
rials, consisting of iron rails, waggons, &c., continue to
arrive at Berwick from Stockton and Darlington for this
railway. We hear with extreme regret—and we are sure
our feelings will be participated in by all our fellow-towns-
men,—that that venerable monument of antiquity, our
ancient Castle, is to be levelled with the ground in order
to allow space for the terminus. One cannot look at the
innovations of modern improvements without sentiments
of the deepest regret, when such relics as our time-
honoured castle are seen ruthlessly swept away. We
would fain hope that, if possible, arrangements might be
effected by which this truly venerable representative of
the olden times might be preserved.—Berwick Warder.
LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.—The ad-
journed half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Tuesday. Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the chairman of
the committee appointed at the last meeting to negociate
the terms with the South Eastern Company, read the re-
port of the committee, informing the proprietors that they
had entered into a conditional arrangement the
South Eastern Company, by which that company agreed
to take the Greenwich line on a lease for 999 years, at a
rental of £36,000 for the first year, increasing by £lOOO a
year until the rent reached £45,000 a year. The majority
of the shareholders were in favour of the lease. Mr. Har-
vey stated that in the end by this arrangement the pro-
prietors would receive Ils. Bd. per share dividend in per-
petuity, an advantage which they never could obtain by
retaining the railway in their own hands. The directors
were empowered to take the necessary arrangements for
perfecting the step.
LONDON AMD YORK RAILWAY.—The amalgamation of
this Company with the Boston, Lincoln, and Wakefield
Railway Company was formally ratified on Tuesday. In
compliance with the arrangement entered into on this oc-
casion it has been determined that the trunk line of the
London and York Railway shall pass from Doncaster by
Selby to York, and that a branch shall be made from Don-
caster to Wakefield, and another from Lincoln, on the
banks of the Foss and Witham, to Boston ; and further,
that seven directors of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston
Railway Company shall be forthwith added to the direc-
tors of the London and York, and that seven of the latter
shall retire, and the separate scheme of the Wakefield,
Lincoln, and Boston projectors be merged in the London
and Yorlc. The adhesion of the Boston, Lincoln, and
Wakefield to the London and York is, in fact, the adhe-
sion of the Manchester and Leeds and Hull and Selby
Companies. The public appear to be fully aware of the
importance of securing the assistance of these two power-
ful and wealthy bodies, as in five days since the announce-
ment of their having thrown their interests into the Lon-
don and York, the remainder of the whole capital of
£5,001,000 has been subscribed.
SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting
of this company was held, in London, on Tuesday last.
There was a very numerous attendance of proprietors ;
Mr. W. P. Richards in the chair. The report set forth
the gross revenue of the Southeastern Railway and Folk-
stone harbour for the months of April, May, June, and
July to be £81,482 Os. 9d., which added to a previous
balance of £1,223 10s. 10d., made £82,705 Ils. 7d. The
working expenses had been £40,994 Os. 6d., leaving a nett
profit of £47,711 Ils. Id. " The charge for interest on
loans amounts to £25,113 3s. 6., of which £21,968 2s. 2d.
has been passed to the debit of the revenue and £3,145
Is. 4d., arising on unproductive capital, to the debit of
the capital account. The sums of £21,968 2s. 2d. and
£1,194 13s. 10d. which appear, on the credit side of the
harbour account, as for tonnages and passengers by steam-
packets, but not received) being deducted from the general
balance, leaves a sum of £18,548 15s. Id. divisible
amongst the proprietors, or 6s. per share on the paid-up
and 9d. per share on the shares created in February last,
leaving a balance of £689 15a. Id. There is also a sum of
£11,760 19s. Bd. in the hands of the company upon the
general interest account, and of £455 lls. Id. on the
transfer-fee account, both of which, in consequence of
the completion of the line to Dover, can be carried to the
credit of the dividend account if the proprietors so deter-
mine ; to which may be added £1,567 15s. premium on
the sale of unallotted new shares, or an additional sum of
£13,784 Gs. 4d. for dividend purposes, and which, added
to the dividend before-named £18,548 15s. ld., would
give £32,333 Is. sd, or 10s 6d. per share on the shares
paid up and is. nd. on the last issue, leaving a balance
of £1,095 Ils. sd. Mr. Pritchard of this town, put a
number of questions to the chairman touching the extra-
ordinary expenses attending the working of the line, par-
ticularly in relation to the goods-traffic, the answers to
which were far from satisfactory or explanatary. Mr.
M‘Gregor, of this town, who, with Mr. Pritchard, rep/re-
sented a large body of shareholders, who have held
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