The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE.

YORK AND LONDON RAILWAY.—It was announced
on Thursday that the directors of the Wakefield, Lincoln
and Boston Railway have united with the London and
York Direct Railway.
BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—The first
half-yearly meeting of this company since the completion
of the line was held on Wednesday. A dividend of
£1 is. 6d. was declared.

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY..—
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday. The receipts, with last half-year's balance,
amounted to £23,177, and the expenditure to X 11,572. A
dividend of ss. on the £25 shares, and 2s. 6d. on the
£l2 10s., or half-shares, was declared. The goods traffic
has greatly increased.

The Brighton and Chichester proprietors have agreed
to allow the Brighton Company to take the unappropriated
shares of their undertaking, on the option of leasing the
line wken it is completed, at 41 per cent. The directors
have experienced great opposition from the landowners
on the road, and in the case of the Duke of Norfolk com-
pensation to the amount of £42,000 is to be paid.
DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY.—The Dublin and
Drogheda Railroad Company. at the half-yearly meeting,
announced an increase of £6,000 on the value of their
stock. Sir J. M'Neill stated that Dublin station would
be finished in October. Receipts of the company from
the commencement of the work, £504,777. Balance to
credit in bank, £3,942.
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The meeting of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway was
for the purpose of issuing £30,000 debentures at 4 per
cent to pay off the loan received from the Commissioners
of Public Works on account of the Dalkey branch, which
loan bears interest at the rate of 5 per cent. It was stated
on this occasion that the receipts from the Ist of March
to the 26th of August were this year £28,662, or £4,000
in excess of the amount received at the same period last
year. The revenue of the line steadily increases, and the
Dalkey branch, which is remunerative, is regarded as an
important feeder to the general line. It was suggested in
the course of the proceedings to extend the Dalkey line to
Bray, every confidence being expressed in the economical
working and good order of the atmospheric principle.
PROJECTED RATLWAYS.—The directors of the Midland
Railway have given notice that early in the month of Oc-
tober a special general meeting of the stockholders in that
company will be held, for the purpose of sanctioning an
application to parliament for powers to make the follow-
ing lines of railway:-1. From Nottingham to Newark
and Lincoln. 2. From Swinton to Doncaster, Bawtry,
Gainsborough, Lincoln, Boston, Spalding, and Wisbeach,
joining the Eastern Counties Railway at March, by means
of which 'the communication will be continued to Ely,
Cambridge, Norwich and Yarmouth. It is the intention
of the Y ork and North Midland Railway Company to
make a branch from their line at Burton Salmon to Don-
caster in connexion with this line. 3. From Syston and
Oakham, Stamford and Peterborough.
RAILWAY EXCURSIONS.—Cheap excursion trains con-
tinue to form an important feature of railway traffic—a
new proof of the public usefulness of railways—a new
element in their own revenue—a valuable addition to the
recreations, amusements, and moral culture of the English
people. The Dover excursion trains did not for the first
two weeks meet with adequate success, but the directors
persevered, and now their Saturday trains, not returning
up till Monday night, are crowded with passengers, who
can thus spend part of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in
France, going and returning from London at a single fare.
The number of excursion tickets issued for the six excur-
sions, from the 27th of July to the Ist of September in-
clusive, was 45,532, being an average of 7000 each excur-
sion ; the last excursion consisted of 14,000 persons.—
Railway Chronicle.
LONDON AND CROYDEN RAILWAY.--The half-yearly
meeting
inng of
ntdhoeno ameeting, stated, that, " the accounts present an increase
of the receipts upon Croyden traffic, as compared with
London. The
whichwas wheld,aa a doanpteTdhhuyrsrltahye
last,
the corresponding half-year, of £2,500; upon the toll of
the Brighton Company of £1,200; and upon the toll of
the Dover Company of £2,300 ; and, although the ex-
penses have slightly increased and the dividend is payable
duipvoinsih7le,ofooor nthewat
purposeshares, wnoilwl
afidrmstitpaanrtic
increase,
ipating the sum
as com-
pared with the corresponding half-year, of twenty-five
per cent." The directors recommended, therefore, that
a dividend of 5s upon 40,000 shares be declared, free of
income-tax. In answer to a question, the chairman said
0 to
035
0,
fOO the
an estimate had betbernromkea,d aenodf
athpeotrotlilo containingtn of
hatwotluleld be taken
by it from the projected direct Portsmouth company, and
the amount was caeldcuinlagtefrdomto bneofiriotmo
Sheffield,4:33,ooFATAL RAILWAY ACClDENTS.—Yesterday week, as a
connectingo
ran persons
a monsterck wasptl eo
t chains
ara
nechse- ain of 172 carriages,ort distance, with which anothercan train:sgo
came in slight contact, by which a passenger on the roof
of one of the carriages was thrown off, and breaking his
neck by the fall, died on the spot. The deceased and se-
veral others persisted on starting in riding at the out-
side of the carriages.--On Wednesday evening, at
nine o'clock, after the arrival of the York train at the
Sheffield station on the North Midland line, the engine,
as usual, was detached from the train—and having been
on the turn-table, was on the point of proceeding to the
engine-house, when a railway inspector, named Russell,
attempted to crass just in front of the engine, by which
he was knocked down, and his body was found in a few
minutes nearly severed in two below the shoulders.

Sept. 10, 1811.

NEW RAILWAY.—A prospectus of the Northern Junc-
tion Railway Company has been issued., in which it is pro'
posed to commence a line of railway at the junction of the
Lancaster and Fleetwood line, at the north side of Preston,
and to run to the north side of Blackburn, through
Whalley, Burnley, &c., joining the Leeds Railway near
Todmorden. The prospectus also states that it is in con-
templation to form a junction with the proposed new line'
from Preston to Liverpool, near the Marsh, at Preston-
MANC.IIESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—The sixteenth
half-yearly meeting was held at Manchester, on ThursdaY,
last. Mr. Hawkshaw read the report. An increase of
traffic, to the extent of 15 per cent., had taken place dur-
ing the last six months, compared with the corresponding
six months of 1843. The gross receipts of the last Lao
year were £129,366, the net profit £47,523. It was pro-
posed to pay a dividend of per cent. upon the paid-n?
calls of £lOO shares, and £5O shares, and 2s. on each (31
the quarter shares. There would then be left a surplus
of £72 16s. sd. The report then recommended the
ex-
tension of the line, by branches, locally, into Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire. The Chairman. Mr.
Houldsworth, moved the adoption of the report, and inf.lll_
able speech, recommended the multiplication of the
branch lines, and greater public accommodation, as neces-
sary to prosperity. Mr. Jos. Hegan, of Liverpool, W."-
appointed director. The directors were authorised L°
raise one-half of the capital of one million, to carry on th!
Leeds West Riding Railway. They were also authorised
to purchase the Ashton and Staley-bridge Junction Line"
LEEDS, &C., JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The Leeds ll'
telligencer announces officially that after a careful exanw.
nation of the country, and several meetings, it bas bee!
now determined to bring before parliament in the nest.
session, a combined plan for forming new railways between.
the towns of Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Dewsbury.
and Halifax, in connexion with the Leeds, Manchester,
and Liverpool Railways. This is the result of the union
between the Leeds and Manchester Railway Coral:wlt
and the Leeds and Bradford Short Line CompanY, with
other parties. These arrangements will place in the centre
of the manufacturing districts of the West Riding nevt
lines of railway communication between thirty
miles in length, give increased facilities to the inhabitants
of Yorkshire and Lancashire, materially shorten the route
between the great counties and the great manufacturing
towns therein, and essentially promote the interests snot
convenience of the trade and Population of Liverpool'
Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, DewsburyHalifax, Pudsey, eckmondwike, Birstal, Batley, Cleck°
heaton, and the numerous other manufacturing and mine'
rat districts of which Lancashire and Yorkshire Or
composed. and forty"

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY.

4 to I agst Mr Salvin's The Cure (taken to nearly £300)
9 2 Lord Stanley's Ithuriel (take 5 to 1)
6 1 Duke of Richmond's Red Deer (taken to £150)
8 1 Mr J. Scott's Bay Momus (taken to £100)
8 -- 1 Col Anson's The Princess (g to 1 taken freely)
11 to 1 Mr Irwin's Foig-a-Ballagh (taken)

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Cure was backed to-day in a good quarter at 34 to Ito
Ithuriel and Bay Momus were nearly equal favourla;
the former at 6 to 1 was backed for a score or so; Mointis2,l
hundreds, Ric., by one gent at 7 to 1 to the tune of
.e3O). j'aTe,
night, we believe, he took a point less to some money. vf,,r
rian was first backed at 300 to 20 ; then 400 to 20, 200 to 10,
was laid. Closing prices :

ST. LECER.
• The field agst Scott's lot (offered) ;3 to agst Ithuriel W
Valerian (offered); 6 to 4 offered Ithuriel runs. Offers to re-
turn 1,000 for a soy if Advice wins.
3i to I agst The Cure (taken)
11 2 Ithuriel (offered, 6 taken)
6 1 Bay Momus (offered, 7 taken)
6 I Red Deer (taken, and offered freely)
8 1 Princess (taken, and offered)
10 1 Foig-a-Ballagh (offered)
100 6 Valerian (offered, 20 taken)
25 1 Godfrey (offered, 30 taken)
40 1 Lightning (taken)
500 10 The Devil-to-Pay (taken)
THE YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
Not much done to-day. The following will show the ni°s
recent offers, &c.
d 00)
4 to 1 agst Mickey Free (t) 10 to 1 agst Advice (t an
5 1 Rowena (t) 10 : Poiripee (t)
8 I Artful Dodger 15 1 Rav
(t)
10 1 Ashtead Pet
THE DONCASTER
DER
25 to 1 was laid Lt Eccles agst
ponies (taken) ens Worth
--

:171..—N0t named.

Black Prince; then 20 to 1

Lord G. Bentinck has lent Devil-to. Pay to run for the Lege"
his lordshi,, to receive ha:f the stakes should the horse Win'
old,
Bloodstone, or the horse that run as such at Ascot, was sge
on Wednesday afternoon, at Warwick, fur 205 guineas'
goes into S. Scott's stable at Ascot.
Tins Goonwoon Cur.—ln future there will be no ol
al'oWancer
of weight for running at York, Newton, Chester, Liverpo
Manchester, and Newcastle, or in Scotland or Ireland.
Sir Gilbert Heathcote's Akbar, we are informed, on his
broken.retura
Chapple states that in running for the Racing Stakes he from Goodwood, was found to have two of his ribs
went
as if in pain, but no one suspected the nature or extent i
injury until he reached Epsom. It is supposed to have be
of
the
en
inflicted before the race, but how is a mystery.

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