The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

August 6, 1844.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

A railway from Lynn to Leicester is, announced in
Connection with the proposed Churnet Valley line.
Meetings have been held in the course of the week in
favou,- of the London and York Railway at Peterborough,
tad in eas-eur of the Eastern Union Railway at Ipswich.
On Friday a. ,
. t.;: '
influential preliminary meeting /Pas held
la Athlone for t
purpose of taking effective steps to
farm a railroad nnhlill to Athlone and Longford.
from 1--
, of railway from Newcastle-
A prospectus for a new line. ~ the course of a
:Pan-Tyne to Berwick will be 155.... ed in
nduct the route
few days, the object of which is to ess-
gad Belford,
hearer to the towns of Morpeth, Alnitick,
than the line previously announced.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.-BetWeen 11 andl2 o'clock on Sunday night,rw.
Smith, the driver, was killed near IverslYsislge, nee James
:araYton, where the body now lies. It is soppose thlt
the unfortunate man was going along the luggage to speak
It° the guard.
Tal NEW RAILWAY TO PRESTON.-Sif John Mc.
Neil has been appointed engineer of this intended line.
The present intention of the promoters is to join the
North Union railway at Farington opposite to the junction
of the Blackburn and Preston line. From Blackburn and
the East of Lancashire to Liverpool this will be a saving
in distance of fourteen or sixteen miles.
usu The Leeds and Selby Company have declared their
al dividend of £2 10s. per cent. The York and
North Midland having given the necessary notice that
they will at the expiration of six months be prepared to
pay the Purchase-money_ for the Leeds and Selby line, it
ill thought there will be only one more meetinrior to a
dissolution of the company taking place. g p
During two days of last week, the transit of all goods
whatever from Leeds to Manchester and Liverpool, by
railway, was suspended, owing to some misunderstanding
-betwixt the North Midland Company and the Leeds and
Manchester Company. One large mercantile establish-
np.lmtisietrenitfeeds has taken legal advice on the matter, as to
.1h Ponsible for the loss sustained by goods missing
„,. Itstess,...
an n, s .e. ON THE BANKS OF THE TH.AMES.-
xarre House of Commons, on Tuesday night, the
- h Lm°f Lincoln brought forward a Bill "to empower
to erf
-ajestrs Commissioners of Woods and Forests
form a lerrac embankment, with convenient
yorsfi:atrsh:sengrtarTshfore the üblic, on the Middlesex shore
bridgesa,,ataes' betweenP Westminster and BIack-
•rnOJECTED RAILWAY TO SOUTHPORT.-There is
tow every prospect of there being shortly constructed a
railway line commencing at the Euxton Station, on the
North Union Railway, at its junction with the Bolton
and Preston Line, and passing through ortrTartEffelets.-
ton, Mawdesley, Rufford, and r
e brolLl nla4; miles.gh l The
Southport, being a distance
principal landowners appear favourableoa
to the undertaking,
and surveys are now being made.
NORTH UNION RAILWAY.-We take the following ex-
tract from the report presented at the half-yearly meeting
'Am Thursday last :-The gross receipts from the united
railways during the last six months are £38,212 17s. I Id.,
'and the total expenses amount to £21,979135. 9d., leaving
-a nett profit of £16,233 4s. 2d. Out of this sum the di-
rectors are enabled to declare a dividend at the rate of
.41 12s. 6d. per cent. for the six months on the stock A.,
.and of £1 6s. 3d. per cent. on the stock B.; amounting
.to £15,966 18s. 7d., and leaving a small surplus of
£266 ss. 7d. to go to the credit of present half-year.
PROPOSED RAILWAY FROM SHIPLEY TO BLACKBURN.
--On Monday last, a meeting of gentlemen resident in
Skipton was held for the purpose of supporting such
aline
of the said Railway as would prove most advantazeous to
.the towns of Bingley, Keighley, Skipton, Colne, and
BuraleY• It appeared to be the unanimous opinion of the
thenetvlearnueeynopfresent, that a line to run from Shipley, along
the Aire, via Bingley, Keighley, Cross Hills, Xildwick, Skipton, Broughton, and thence by Thornton,
andKelbrook, and Foulridge, to Colne, and on to Burnley
tenstßailia,ctkoburn With a branch from Accrington to Raw-
the most deisoirinabtlehe. Manchester and Bury Line, would be
ar
ST. HELENS AND RUNCORN GAP RAILWAY.-The
proprietors of this line held their annual meeting on
Tureesday last, in the Clarendon-rooms, in this town ;P.
tCheiernall' Esq"
IVI.P"
in the chair. The directors, in report, regretted to announce a decrease in the in-
e_ :time for the last twelve months, attributable to the sus-
pensi•
on of of' the coal trade in the early part of the present
preceding decrease of income, as compared with the
£497 ss. Bd. was £BB9. The expenditure had been
£396 13s • less; and the deficiency for the past year
t 0
00wtehye . Pour pounds per cent. interest had been paid
bondholders. The trade on the line was now,
recei however recovering, and in a cheering state. The total
obit P" of the year were £11,039 :Is. ld.; the total
I.3a.rit7e_!, £11,435 16s. Bd. ; leaving a total loss of £396
ing (held :Under the authority of a special general meet-
Canaltw o are tooltn
4 January last) an arrangement with the Sankey
Pany had been finally concluded, whereby the
Chair__ be united. In reply to Mr. Elias Mozely, the
half-year ."an said he had no doubt but the deficiency of this,
taaitntehdethwould be made up in the next. He then ex-
e state of the simple contract debts, and added,
The r e Doosrbte
rwy a,
cent. Passenger traffic had this year increased ten per
elected; and
wards,
and p sraedtiorpintegd. Messrs. Greenall, Ed-
directors, were then re-
of Mr. GC Mr. Thomas Parr was elected in the place
business. Crossfield, deceased. This closed the
-BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY COMPADY.-
244CrileT:hos'iiarYA:Ne then
adjourned
Jackson, E: Was held at the Clarendon-rooms-Wm•
on three ini
Port in Whiel?'„in the chair. Mr. Mallaby read the re-
poru2e directors congratulated the proprietors
Val railway, of °'
measures, affecting the prosperity of
tat Purchas ,°'g Passed the legislature,-the act of
railwa
eructing r° C
roe 0,
hMeonk's Ferry ; that for constructing the
Wasthe
prospePrPitroaching to comth Chester to Holyhead ; and that for con-
_so. e docks
the a at Birkenhead. The tunnel was
vas the
pletion; and
not only
.less Present receY °f the line rendered more secure, but
ney'etiditure 'Pts had been carried at a considerably
obi 41n,rf the fa.;er.ld sanctioned the policy observed of
' euroParecihe
1843, ° tths Passenger traffic for the past
3as., stood thus ;......,with the corresponding period of
£ll
axn9d9i£5749255645.,75di; '
.iBT: Passengers,p 126,055. amount,
1265, 0.15°:d v:
'Rig an i ssengers, 99,782, amount,
conveying The ncrease of 26,273 passengers,
were
_ g ,de line and fora'
Passen, TeeeiPts for the six months for
in 4-13,'°75 3s. 9d -`'ers, for parcels mails and rents,
• hilst there was expended in work-
£s4lse interest £7732 9s. Bd., leaving a
balance, includin
endla e 64%
'ref of 8783. 2s• sd•, from last half year, of
The directors recommended that a clivi-
£2s share , 6d,
e 0 snares for interest on sse•a3lils.
new £5 i but, as there
to be per £5O share, and 4s. 3d. per
each of the
udnupeaiodn,
the amount
an _ t declare on those shareosnwould be 3s 3d. per share,
ifde
dh . the same be payable on Tuesday, the 18th inst.
,a. ividend would take £4406 ss. Od., thereby leaving
r:_nelance of XlOO9 lls. 6d. applicable to payment of the
ae yee tax and for general purposes. The Chairman re-
kt marked the th '
Lae , ei ll r Id be benefitted by the
r sma me wou .
...from Chester to Wrexham, which had just received
,tle ,
royat ascent, and would open out a traffic from the
mineral districts. The directors had no reason to doubt
the fulfilment of the contract with the Chester and Holy-
head line. The net receipts of their line produced within
a fraction of three per cent. upon the paid up capital.
When the tunnel was completed, he expected they would
be able to charge each passenger fourpence additional for
the increased accommodation afforded, and this, with the
increase of goods traffic, he expected would realise a
further sum of one per cent. The directors, on the whole,
111(1much be pleasedwith, and nothing to be dissatis-
to
'led with ; and it also gave them great pleasure in being
eltabled to state that the whole of these improvements
:rid be effected without calling upon the shareholders for
bydittill°onal Pecuniary assistance. Funds had been raised
eluded sale of their surplus land. The chairman con-
adoptedb. Y proposing that the report be received and
carried ns h'lr• White seconded the motion, which was
tnan saisroously. In reply to Mr. Trotman, the chair-
3etober, ,e„:Pected the tunnel would be opened early in Alr. woo/jam-Los eividend recommended was agreed to, and
elected direct'ojack"n, and Mr. Chr. Bentham were re-
RE rs• The meeting then seearated.
unnual cGRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.-The
1,4,,
._
_g, neral naeeting of the proprietors of this corn_
Place on Thursday last, in the Cotton S l
chair,rnma this town
.John . a es-
rePort 1 s'id tha Moss, Esq., in the chair. The
/t Iv_ , that h everything was so fully stated in the
euld e he
nred make no lengthened observations.
'bad be gran. •
tow al. 1 nng to them as it was to him, that they
continuance:lie breathing time, and a prospect of its
lilere reluctantl-e alluded to the increase of
.fares they
-51anchester Y obliged to make on the opening of the.
ssienceaties, andand Birmingham line, which reduced their
an i„"e" illustrn which also a high scale was adopted-
exti.:B.crease
of tell), of the effect of competing lines, viz.,
were
accoMmod rges on the public, with little or no
o, n", recoveat'"• After a year of struggle, they
their eslis increaser,g from their position as to receipts
ca
twasighbour
a, traffic, and were in negotiation with
safe! Bseagers : `," a general reduction of charges, both
•estr,! o. if, 111.t' goods, to such extent as they might
.• b- t° them u
ertY to r t elr 10
h "ever tpertinent d traffic did not se-
rease
tered „in_ etraee th.i ., the board would be at
peen ea,`!' by coo,' r.s!ePs• Had they not been inter-
Nice.. area 0,, _ petition their line might now have
-cirea'' but tVA little ' .
contdoistaaces ruarraent more than two-thirds the present
test for she , and hadth.,,.;_ placed them under different
of be helvesnaeetin„ s 2
Bad now only to do the best they
, tter ace wa_ slid tbe public. At the last quer-
serinina corrinied 3 Called
Separa S' and soh, 'Mon f on to consider the question
aa,
mat a station •e part or Passengers at the Liverpool
".,1 late with otis The tines bad urged the necessity of a
lieeide on the be oche
Preaaisnra had been too much occupied
then *ould leavestt
keuurse tge tuatters, to enable them to
Mel; 7")ald fo th He matter •Pursue ; but if the proprie-
r wits in !II
f_e nterests of all moot e hands of the directors,
14
:, POrt. T, Parties er what should be dead the
e 0
n_ ne receipt- '' .---
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. H .
.c6O 429 • ' 'or tb ain uish then read d
Thin 11 ' 12s. 2d c six months just ended had
of
"nse
arts quense of •, althoo
deeds
the interest was £l,OOO
of 1811 °stint ess A toe diyid er„ -Oy tt, -eeued that l
0 _ends being paid.quarter
Batlpses Wera,ue Burn of s f the corresponding period.
cr
11„- 'd• on th` 84,309 3s -..1v,336 9s. 6d. The working
a" added t e °Peration • 5d., leaving a profit of £111,120
econat he sur,i Bof the half-year, to which must
°the • The • '' us of £l2 62
1121 r_ , interest 8 Is. Id. fromrethwee
alanscti
ii7°rlcs am° on loans
118
ben unted to
£2'607 pipended on C
d..,141 ssl g, deducted gave 4s. for the half-year,
hoard
of
• 10d. The shareholders received a quarterly
the 8 eCOnitnendeci Per share on the 15th May, and the
runt 'icul quart dividend of the same amount for
divide
irons quarter'Payable on the 15th August. The
cif s..
warmedar forward, after paying the
"IldaY travelmou to £10,876 ss. 10d. The amount
ling 78. sd. per £lOO share. Tile