The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

The Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Dissolutielr
Railway Bill was thrown out by a committee Of the
House of Lords on Wednesday. Arify
The key-stone of the last arch of the Wharfdale •
duct, on, the Leeds and Thirsk Line, was placed °/1
Monday. for
The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead R,ailwaYt.
the week ending July 22, was as follows :—Coaell,
traffic, £1,356 17s. 9d._; goods and cattle, £9B 85.

do. excess, £24 19s. 9d: ;—total, £1,480 ss. Bd.
At the special meeting of the Dutch Rhenish the sbe,'l,--e
holders agreed to refer all their differences between '''
board and the Liverpool party to a conference betweel
three of the London directors and three of the LiverP°°
deputation.
During the present session 55' railway ;bills received
txhBe,srBoB74l66a;ssaenndt , t
hteh the
aang gtin•eg23t,eslsca,spsitcr;l
makingamo un tin g' tai'
a to
of £12,104,016, authorised to be raised, in some cases, a.,
additional capital to complete lines in course of construes
tion, and in others for making new railways and branene'
to the extent of 323 miles. ut
The wooden bridge over the Tyne at Warden, about
two miles west of Hexham, and which forms a portion .e_
the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, was destroyed Di
fire on Thursday morning, ignition having been caused,i!
is supposed, by the falling of some hot cinders from O.w
fire of the engine of a luggage train which had passed over
it but a short time previous to the fire having been dis-
covered.
The report presented to the half-yearly meeting of tlle
North Staffordshire proprietors declared a dividend of ts:
per share, from the interest received on capital and 42:
surplus proceeds on the canal. The works appear to hat
been actively carried on, and the passenger traffic ont°7:
portion of the line opened from Stoke tc Norton Bride
is satisfactory and promising. The report and accounts
were adopted unanimously.
traffic for the last week, on 4040 miles of railway,
£223,107, thus accounted f0r:—£120,983 for the convey:
ante of passengers only, £45,560 for the carriage of go ds
From our official returns it appears that the amount of
andge th
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respectively
cotfi
v£e
15y6,a5p6p4nfrot
apportioned;
passengers
bgeeirnsg
£28,591 over the corresponding week of last year, when
perm n°
the mileage was -3158. The average earnings
were £55, whilst in 1847 they were £6l.
OBSTRUCTION.—At the Cambridge Assizes,
named Creek, was indicted for having placed an it Or
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and having ther
obstructed an engine, and endangered the safety of Pe, r,
sons travelling on the line. The jury at once returne4.
that if any life should be lost in consequence optfoiaoginsgtf:ratr'"ier
aanndingcoroedass:toni
obstructions would be guilty of murdeewrpi,seahrnse-oddnfiistt object' ja
the infliction of capital punishment due to this crime.
the present case. though no life was lost, it was imposslu_st
to award any but a severe sentence, and the prisoner 10
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one yea.
JOBBING IN RAILWAY SHARES.—III the late aPPtifi'
tion for the dissolution of the Liverpool and New l,„led
Junction Railway, Mr. Wilson, the secretary, (i,rvgitk'
before the Parliamentary Committee the "jobbing aed
the shares, which excited the indignation of a crow,
room. That in August, 1845, 100 shares were allotte:ets
each provisional committeeman ; that 10,000 sharply
set apart for members of the managing committee e 4 to
tO
2,000 to solicitors; 200 each to local solicitors ; Jhsteo
bankers ; 2,000 to members of parliament ; that the
.„eat„
were then at a high premium ; that the second allntresot
was on 26th of August, 1845, of 4,200 to the comilliti'ooto
management, 1,565 to the provisional committee, l' the
solicitors, 200 to surveyors, 300 to bankers, 3,500 " ntls to
friends of the committee of management," and "6" 10
the general public !"—making in all 23,800 allotted. 0
September there was another allotment to directors• ,era
at a meeting of February, 1847, these allotments
re
ifl
questioned, as refusals of shares to landowners toe/
existence. That in November, 1845, there was a those
allotment to directors (promoters of this bill,) but, d,
allotments of September and November were canceled to
only half to be used. That 23,700 shares were allottd for
officials of the company, and they only registeren the
12,080, leaving above 11,000. sold in scrip. That 9. tbei
directors hold now but 4,796 shares out of 70,00°' Oa
had signed the subscription contract for £695,002i5,000
the amalgamation in 1845, each company took Cot!
c
shares and divided them amongst its company. °li bee'
bill was in contemplation, purchases of shares ha in the
made by directors and solicitors, and were included res in
assents to this bill (now 42,000.) The price of sbe 111„„P
1845 was proved to be 5 to 7 premium, and now be'2o,ouu
Ffrance (the Chairman) admitted that in 1845 ,eat;
shares were allotted among the committee of manage, the
but, on subsequent complaints, half were to remainu'ea W
company until the act passed, and only 250 were les
each at that time.—Railway Times.