The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEA CE.

The North British Railway Company have purchased
the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway at a cost of £87,000,
the revenue of which line yields, it is calculated, a divi-
dend of above four per cent. on that amount, and may be
expected to increase.
At a numerously attended public meeting, held in
Wisbech, on Saturday, a committee was formed of pro-
fessional gentlemen, bankers, and others, in the neigh-
bourhood, to consider the subject of a railway communi-
cation between Wisbech and the London and Northern
lines.

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EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.--The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held, on Thursday last, in
London, when a dividend of 4s. on the new, and 3s. on
the old, shares was declared, and powers were taken to
consolidate the stock and dispose of certain first and
second class shares on hand.

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—A special
pleasure train left Wakefield for Hull on Monday week,
consisting of 97 carriages, with the extraordinary, and,
we b:lieve, unprecedented number of 4,000 passengers,
composed of the " Ancient Order of Foresters," other
lodges, and their friends.
The Board of Directors of the Manchester and Leeds
Railway intend to make an application to parliament in
the next session, for power to extend the Oldham and
Stalybridge branches, through Saddleworth and Hudders-
field, to join the main line at Cooper Bridge ; and also to
form branches from Dewsbury to Leeds and Bradford.
These new branches, in conjunction with the parent line,
will embrace in one comprehensive railway chain nearly
the whole district of country known as the " manufactur-
ing districts."

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday week a
young man named Robert Wood, one of the firemen em-
ployed on the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, was
accidentally killed near the Fence Houses station. It
appears that the deceased was accompanying a train, when
the engine broke away from the tender, owing to having
been insecurely coupled together; and he was thereby
thrown across the line, and several carriages passed over
him and killed him on the spilt, nearly severing his head
from his body.

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FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday a young
woman named Lucy Grant, a passenger from Rugby tl
Allesthorpe, on the London and Birmingham lines, fell
from the platform on to the railway just as the train was
being put in motion, and four of the carriages passed over
her before any alarm could be given. On being taken up
it was found that both her legs were broken, the right one
being cut so badly that it was attached to the body by a
single tendon only. She expired in about two hours after
the accident.
At the meeting of the Northern and Eastern Railway,
haveliichare still under
on Friday, it was announced, that all the arrangements
necessary for perfecting the agreement with the Eastern
Counties Railway were nearly completed, and the dividend
year of 1843. A '.
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and 7s. 6d, on the scrip shares, less the property tax.
The report
The returns of traffic showed great improvement, the
declared was £l.2s. 6d. on the old shar,6e7sBo,fbtehiengcoxmlp7ay4,
line to Newport, Cambridge,
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Brandon, &c., would, under the terms entered into, be
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constructed by the Eastern Counties Company.
agreed in con-
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—The
and Trent
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discussion. The directors had agreed to revise the ar-
rangement of their trains,also
and
the benefit of the public. Resolctions were unanimously
to modify the fares for
carried empowering the direct
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ner with respect to the • ors to proceed in such
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line as they might
tposed Rugby, Tamworth, and
the proposed Worcester, deem necessary, and to lease
otherwise, as they might think
Banbury, and Rugby line, or
the company. The ''
think best for the interests of
respecting the l' same power was given to the direc-
torsLeamingt ' Leamington railwayine to Bedford. The Coventry and
will be
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August 13, NIL

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held on Friday. The re-
port announced an increase on the balance of net revenue,
amounting to £10,215, had taken place during the half.
year ending the 30th of June. The amalgamation of the
working stock with the Croydon and Dover companied
had taken effect since the Ist of March last, but the re.
suit had not been sufficiently ascertained. Instead of thd
fixed sum paid to the Greenwich Company in lieu of toll,
the company will in future pay for first-class passengers
4d., for second-class 3d., and for third-class 2d. Mort-
gage bonds at 5 per cent. to the amount of £11,450 have
been renewed at £4 per cent. After considerable dis-
cussion, the report was adopted. The resolutions to
purchase an interest in the railways from Brighton to
Hastings and to Chichester, and settling the terms 072
which the new shares for this purpose should be taken by
the proprietors, were carried. The dividend declared wee
12s. per share.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Mon-
day week the half-yearly meeting of this railway was held
at York. The directors' report stated, that during.the
half-year ending the 30th June, 1844, the amount received
ou account of passengers' traffic, parcels, and mails, we°
£26,362. ]9s. 10d.; on account of merchand.se traffic,
£15,528. 14s. 4d. ; and for rents, £306; making the totes
receipts £42,197. 14s. 2d.; being an increase bf £2,176•
15s. 7d. upon the aggregate receipt for the corresponding
half-year of 1843. The expenses of working and main'
taining the line paid during the same period amounted to
£15,679. 18s. 7d. ; and the interest on debentures to
£4,373. lls. 3d. The account of the income and expelldS'
ture of the Leeds and Selby Railway during the half-year
shows a balance in favour of the company of £2,102. 17s•
4d. The balance of the corresponding half-year of 1843
did not reach £7OO. The directors recommend the
divi-
dend for the half-year to be £2. 10s. on each £5O sharer
and £l. 4s. on each £25 share, which will amount to
£24,790, to be paid without deducting the income tal•
The report was unanimously adopted.
NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.—The fifth
half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday
week. Arrangements have been made for the purchast
of the Durham Junction railway. The capital required
for making the line from Newcastle to Berwick will be
£700,000, which the directors proposed should be raised
in shares of £25 each, to be offered to the proprietors a
this company. Six per cent. interest from the Ist Mei
to the 30th June last was ordered to be paid to the share.-
holders on the 20th inst. The directors were empowered
to borrow any sum not exceeding £166,000, and a resolu--
tion was passed that in order to raise the requisite capitla
for forming a line of railway from Newcastle-upon Tyne
to Berwick-upon-Tweed, this company do engage W
a perpetual lease of such railway, at a rent sufficient to
pay to the subscribers five per cent. per annum on the
amount of capital invested • but that the subscribers have
the option at any time within three years after the opening
of the railway, of determining the lease and retaining the
line freed from such engagement, and that they also /30
allowed five per cent. out of the capital on the amount Of
their calls paid up until the opening of the line. take