The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY

The yrnas of the Co •kermtuth and Workington Rail-
way are gtated to be ac ively and favourable adva,cing.
The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole report that their
contractor is proceeding in the most satisfactory manner.
It is said that Mr. Austin has realiz,d £45,000 this
session from his services as an advocate before the rail-
way con.mi tees. _ _

Tt.e directors of the Scottish Grand Junction say that
they will wait the event of the money.market before they
will ttteak ground, make a call, or take a single step.

The prol7lietorsof the Eastern Counties receive for the
present half year a share, being three times the amount
received this time last sear. _ _

WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY.—On Wednesday,
the committee of the Hno se of Lords declared that the
preamble of the West Riding Union Railway Bill bad
been pmv, d.
PROCEEDINGS IN COMMITTEE OF LORD.S.—St. Alban's,
Luton, and Dunstable—preamble not proved. West
Riding Union—preamble proved. Huddersfield and
:Manchester (Oldham Branch)—preamble proved. Hert-
ford and Hatfield—preamble not proved.
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—The
r:ceipts upon this line (formed by the amal2amation of the
London and Birmingham Grand Junction and Liverpool
and Manchester Railways), amounted during the week
ended ISt August to the amazing sum of £46,270 4s. Id.

The Brighton Company declared on Thursday the
largest dividend it has yet been able to do for the summer
half-year, namely, 24A. 6(1. per share. This is 4s. 61.
more than the dividend of the corresponding half-year of
1845. A portion of this increase (about 2s ) however,
must be fairly ascribed to the profit on Hastings shares.
A heavy warning to engineers not to undertake works
which they cannot fairly accomplish has been administered
by the law this week. Mr. Giles, the engineer, has been
asse-sed in a penalty of not less than £4,500 for the itn-
perf.-ctions of his plans of the Dudley, Madely. and Iron-
bridge Railway.
The_case of the Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, and
-Birkenhead Junction Company was opened in the House
of Lords on Friday. The line is seven and a half miles in
length, extending from Oldham to join the Manchester
and Birmingham near Manchester. Estimated cost,
£-180,000. Favourable evidence was given on Friday and
Saturday.

nCTRAORDINARY TRAINS.—Such was the excitement
prevalent in Oldham on Monday week, on the subject of
the free-trade celebration at Manchester, that the trains
passing between Oldham and Manchester, in the morning
and evening, were of immense length, no fewer than two
and three thousand persons being conveyed in some in-
stances by single trains.
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.—On Friday last, the
great amalgamated companies banded together as the
London and North Western held their first half-yearly
meeting under the new constitution. A dividend of 4 per
cent. is to be paid on the capital of the Manchester acd
Birmingham, and one of £5 per £lOO share on the re-
maining capital. A surplus fund of £102,600 remains
for the nest half-year's account. The state of affairs is
pronounced prosperous, and a wise forethought of the
future is manifested.
LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, 4 ND PRESTON.—The case of
this line commenced on Friday in the Lords. Evidence
was given in support of the line by the Earls of Skelmers-
dale and Si. Germans, Sir Wm. Fielder', M.P., Mr. John
Bramley-Moore, and several other witnesses. On Satur-
day the evidence was touctibl the utility of the line from
Ormskirk to Southport ; but to this branch the committee
objected, and it was withdrawn. The preamble of the
bill was then declared proved.
The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury have announced a
dividend of £2 18s. per share, and the Chester and Bir-
kenhead of 13s. per £5O share, 6s Gd. per £25, and Is.
10d. per £2O, clear of income-tax. The trdffic on the
latter line shows a gratifying increase of 20 per cent. above
the corresponding period of 1845, and of nearly 40 per
cent. over the traffic of 1844. It has still a large advance
to make to actual prosperity. The directors state they
offered to sell the line to the newly-c, nstituted Birken•
head, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Company, but
that the offer was not accepted.
ADVANTAGES OF RAILWAYS. A somewhat novel
instance of this was afforded on Saturday last, at Rugby,
where a large body of Irish labourers arrived in five
trucks, which they had engaged at Liverpool. Toev
made one stoppage at Birmingham, where they refreshed
themselves with some water ; after which, as one of them
very naively said, " they came Mont like a bird." At
Rugby the trucks were detached, when it was found that
each contained fifty-seven men, and that the expense per
man did not exceed 45., whilst the distance was 128
miles !

The first general meeting of the shareholders of the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junc-
tion Railway was held at Manchester on Saturday last.
This important undertaking is now fairly launched lot the
public favour, a large measure of which it will doubtless
from its intrinsic merits, receive. The works will be
commenced with all practicable despatch, and as there is
a large sum of money in hand, no calls will be made on
the shareholders I,r a considerable period of time.
Arrangements of a highly beneficial charater have been
made with the Newcastle and Darlington, the Manchester

and Leeds, and the East Lancashire Companies. The
shares are daily increasing in value, and are eagerly
sought after by the most sagacious capitalists throughout
the country.
OPENING OF THE NOTTINGHAM, NEWARK, AND
LINCOLN RAILWAY.--This railway was opened for
traffic on Monday last, though the buildings at the
various stations are yet in an unfinished state. At noon
the opening train left Lincoln for Nottingham, and per-
formed the distance of 33} miles in rather more than an
hour and a half. At Nottingham a lunch, of which six
or seven hundred persons partook, was served up in the
engine-house; and after a number of appropriate toasts
had been drunk, the train returned to Lincoln, where it
arrived in an hour and ten minutes. Shortly after its
arrival a serious accident occurred from the bursting of
an iron cannon which was used to fire salutes. One of
the gunners placed a quantity of wet sand in the gun,
with the view of producing a louder report, and it conse-
quently burst, shattered his leg and the hand of another
man, and severely injured a boy,
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD ttAILWAY.—The Second
halt'-yea►ly wetting of this company was held on Wed-
needay, at the offices 61, Moorgvte-street, W. R. Collett,
Esq., M.P., in the chair. The report stated that 2,627,188
cubic yards of earthenwork had been executed ; and the
masonry, tunnels, &c.. had advanced in a corresponding
ratio. The number of workmen employed was 12.388.
At the Menai Straits the tubular bridge was to be adopted.
The first Lao wiles of the line out of Chester would be
opened in October next, simultaneously with the North
Wales Mineral Railway. The opening as far a 4 Conway
was contemplated for the atuumn of next year, when the
mails for Ireland would be conveyed be that route. The
amount to be expended by the Government on the port of
liolyhead this year was £150,000. of which this company
would provide £37,500. The directors stated that the
funds at their disposal, and the tenders received for loans,
rendered it unnecessary to make t
the present year. The chief tor

us,ion was the

expediency of establishing steam vessels netween rimy.
head and Kingstown, which the chairman said should have
the consideration of the directors. The report waA then
adopted ; Mr. Lambert %vac :e ected a director ; a vote of
thanks was pas,rd to the BoaLd of Management, and the
-meeting adjourned.