The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

IN RE J. R. Pima.—This bankrupt again appeared before
Mr. Serjeant Ludlow on Friday. Mr. Rowe, solicitor,
stated that the accounts were still unsatisfactory. ,There
were £26,000 in bil!F, not explained. The bankrupt stated
that £17,000 of them were for bills payable, but they did
not seem to have any connexion with the estate. The
official assignee said he never saw such unsatisfactory ac-
counts. The case was adjourned sine die, with protection
for a month.

IN RE GOULDING.—This bankrupt, late a builder in
this town, applied for a certificate. He was opposed on
the ground of reckless trading. and that he had erected
and obtained mortgages on worthless property. Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow said this appeared to be the case of a
party who, having no capital, or, at all events, a very
small capital, made a number of contracts for land which
he did not pay for ; after putting together a few stones
and other materials on that land, obtained a mortage
upon it, in consequence of the increased value which he
appeared to have given it by so doing. He thought that
was a mode of dealing of which the public had a right to
complain. The result of such a system was the incessant
demand for interest on mortgages, the payment of stamps,
and other liabilities, under which it was impossible almost
for a party to bear up. He could not, therefore, make
his judgment absolute, but must suspend the bankrupt's
certificate for twelve months from the date of his last exa-
mination.

Mr. Barber, the solicitor, who, a few years since, was
sentenced to transportation, with Fletcher and others,
for alleged forgery of testamentary documents, and whose
sentence has been recently reversed, and free pardon
granted him, appeared on Saturday in the precincts of the
Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, Mr. Sergeant
Wilkins having been charged by him to make an applica-
tion to the Court to have Mr. Barber replaced on the rolls.
The novelty of hearing such an application or motion
made attracted a considerable crowd to the Court. In the
course of the day the Attorney-General entered, and had
some conversation with Mr. Wilkins, after which the lat-
ter gentleman withdrew, and it was understood that, on
consulting with Mr. Barber, he agreed to the postpone-
ment of the application until next term, or at least for the
present.

- The proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas on Fri-
day, the 24th ult., afford some evidence of the correctness
of the opinions we have expressed with reference to the
Acts of Parliament lately passed applying to Joint-Stock
Companies. It appears that certain proceedings had been
taken against a shareholder in the Universal Gas-Light

by the Act

sec. 67, not having been given—the lawyers
appearing not to have carefully read, or understood, the
clauses of the Act ; but, with the view of remedying the
defect, counsel for the plaintiff subsequently obtained a
rule against the defendant, calling upon him to show
cause why execution should not issue, under the 66th sec-
tion of the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 7 and 8 Vic., c.
110. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd now contended that such rule
must be set aside, inasmuch that the former application
to the C- which the plainfur was ' was

..,ourt, ‘,. uereatea,
against the defendant as a '• former shareholder," while
the pre.ent was as a shareholder "for the time being."
After argument on the part of counsel in support of the
application, the Court granted a rule absolute for the is-
suing of execution against the defendant, on the ground
that having been a shareholder once, and signed the deed,
by the 3rd and 12th sections of the Joint-Stock Compa-
nies' .Act, he continued a shareholder until he had di-
vested himself of that character by the transfer of his

shares,

RAILWAI

I FFAIRS

The Oswestry extension of the Shrewsbury and Chester
railway has been opened.
The Ardwick extension of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Tailway, uniting the latter line with the Sheffield and the
London and North-Western lines, has just been opened.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended 26th Nov.: Coaching, £705 15s. 7d. ; par-
cels, £BO Ils. 50. ; goods at cattle, £257 39. 2d. ; steam
boats, £lO3 135.: total, £1147 3s. 2d.

In the recent fatal collision case on the Richmond and
Datchet line, the coroner's jury have returned a verdict of
manslaughter against the driver and theman of the Vul-

ture engin,

The London and North-Western Company and the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Company have entered into
mutual traffic arrangements, the effect of which will be to
immediately transfer all the traffic of the latter to the
Leeds and Dewsbury line.

A remarkable tunnel on the Waterford and Dublin
Railway, at Bray, has, advanced so far towards completion
that there is a communication throughout. The work
runs through Kilkenny Point, and for its whole distance
it passes through the hardest granite. It is said that this
is the first tunnel in the United Kingdom entirely through
such difficult material.

CRESTED. AND HOLY HEAD RAILWAY.—The Irish Ad-
vocate gives the average speed of the Dublin and Holy-
head packets. The power of the vessels is 350 horse
each, and the distance 64 miles. The " Banshee" ap-
pears from the statement to be the fastest, having accom-
plished the passage in 3 hours 44 minutes. The average
time taken by the four vessels on the station is about 4
hours 20 minutes,

The gigantic scheme of railway amalgamation has proved
abortive, at least for the present. Tho gitestion on which
the three great companies have split is that of representa-
tion at the Board of Directors, the North-Western claim-

Ke in the concern is nearly, if not quite,
~,,nbined, it shall have a propor-
tionate representation at the board. ; while, '..)y the articles
agreed upon, an equality of representation was the prin-
ciple laid down.

inn that, as its st
equal to the oth

T two

From official returns it appears that the amount of rail-
way traffic for the last week, on 4,205 miles of railway,
was £183,068, thus accounted for :—£81,166 for the con-
veyance of passengers only, £55,351 for the carriage of

goods, and a remainder of £46,551 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £23,122 over the corresponding week of last
year, when the mileage was £8,317. The average earn-
ings per mile were £43, whilst in 1847 they were £4B.

WONDERS OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The New
York correspondent of the Morning He, aid, in his letter
received by the last mail, mentions some facts, showing

of a particular district, in the presidential election, ;;;e
received in New York in a few hours, after passing a dis-
tance nearly equal to a voyage across the. Atlantic to Li-

numberless interruptions. The electric telegraph, he
adds, may in truth be termed " The nerves of the Ameri-
can republic."

DESTRUCTION OF LARKS BY THE ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPH WIRE.—One frosty morning last week, the plate
layers upon the Whitehaven Junction Railway found no
less than seven y larks lyinz dead beneath the telearanh

r
wires between Workinitoii and Mary Port. The same
day Mr. Poster, inspector of the line, found seventeen
larks between Harrington and Workington. The heads
of many of the birds were cut off, and their bodies other-
wise mangled. Seabirds and different kinds of game
have also occasionally been found dead, having probably
come in contact with the invisible wires at night when in
full flight.—Carlisle Journal.

THE EUSTON STATION. The station at London,
which has been recently completed, at a cost of
about £150,000, is situated between Seymour-street and
)Vhittlebury-street, and comprises an area of about 2,100

feet in lengili by 560 feet in breadth. On either ;ile'is-;
platform : the one on the east side, or the arrival platform

is 1100 feet in length and about 40 feet in width; and the
departure platform is about 800 feet in length. In this
space
.on the various lines there are 60 turn tables, and

over this are about 700 feet by 350 feet of glass roofing.
There are also 16,000 feet of drains and sewerage. On
the west side, adjoining Codrington-street, a number of
coach factories have been erected, the urea occupied by
these being 300 feet by 400 feet. A smithy, with every

convenience for the manuNcturing of vehicle,'is attached.
In the course of the past week the waste materials which
were not required by the contractors were sold, and rea-
lised nearly £l,OOO.

LIABILITY o PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN,---Mr.
olicitor to a defunct scheme, called the

Blandy, the
•`Oxford..Th

Company," had brought an action against Mr. De Burgh,
the chairman of the provisional committee, for work and
labour done. A verdict had been found for the plaintiff;
. .

Act, which requires, in order to give au• opportunity for
aeration, -a solicitor's bill-to be delivered a month before
action tb the party to be charged therewith, or left at his
counting-house: office of nosiness

~,,ening-nouse, or last
known place of abode: It was not denied that the bill
had been so left at the company's offices in Moorgate-
street, but it was urged that the "company" was then
defunct, although a plate bearing the name of the com-
pany on it was still affixed to the door. The rule nisi any

argued on Saturday last, when the court differing in
opinion, it fell to the ground, and the verdict accordingly
stands.

DEPOSIT OP PLANS.—Thursday was the last day for
the reception of plans and sections for new lines, &c. The
number of plans and sections lodged in connection with
railways up to the close of the offices was twenty-nine.
two only being for new lines, namely, the Brentwood,
Southall, and- Pinner Railway, and the Faversham to
Chilham Railway, and twenty-seven for branches, exten-
sions, or deviations. Besides these, but not requiring the
deposit of either
for upwards of t

Tans or sections

there are.appliedi

eight.in Scotland; six'cases of relinquishment or aban.:
donment of portions of lines; five for extensions of time
for making railway or purchases of land; and a great many

plications is that of future economy in constructive works,
lid. for internal mutual arrangement. Including all
asses of applications, there are about 110 applications
ores this year
t session of parliament

for rail

140 in th

n invention

GREAT BRITANNIA. TUBULAR BRIDGE.—The works
of this great structure, which are of twice the stupendous
character of those over the river Conway, have been put
in full operation this week, and are already in an advan-
ced state. The platform for this purpose across the
Menai Straits alone is half a mile long, and four large
tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly comple-
ted. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have to be
floated half a mile along the straits, and then raised 106
feet home. The end tubes are also much advanced. The
scaffold or platform on which they are being put together
is 100 feet high, 230 feet long, and 60 feet broad, capable
of sustaining a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The
cast-iron work of the bridge weighs upwards of 2,000 tons,
and the chains used for raising it will alone weigh 100
tons. It will be floated on eight pontoons. Two of them
are of iron, of 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep,
and capable of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier,
rising out of the water from the Britannia rock, after
which the bridge is named, is to be 230 feet high. There
are two other piers of the same elevation, and the entire
length of the tube-bridge across the straits will be 1,420
feet, or one-third nearly of a mile.

RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.—Captain Huish, the general
manager of the London and Nerth Western Railways has
published a letter on railway management, in reply to a
letter recently written by Mr. Whitehead, late Secretary
of the South Eastern Railway Company,—whose object
was to show that the present rates for the carriage of
goods by railways is too low, and entail loss on the com-
panies—sinking a considerable portion of the profit derived
from passengers ; and he contends that the North Western
Company are losing much by the goods traffic, and that
either the rates are too low. or the passenger fares too
high. Captain Huish examines Mr. Whitehead's data
and assertions, and supplies some statistical facts. He
states that the total receipts from for the year ending
30th June last, were £2,140,035 ; namely

and mails, £1,417,659 ; goods and coals, £722,376. _
total cost of working the railway in every department was
only £751,172. It thus appears that the merchandise
receipts about covered the entire expenses of the line,
leaving the passenger traffic net ! " The goods train earns
as much per mile run as its vaunted competitor the pas-
senger train. The total weight of passenger travelling for
the year was 399,956 tons, about equal to the merchan-
dise conveyed in eleven weeks; so that a run of 238,732
miles was sufficient to convey a weight of goods which it
required 4.220,078 miles to transmit when converted into
passengers."
LIGHT LOCOMOTIVE,—

passengers
The

Messrs. England's new engine
cs had several triaic lien. Ali

ua ieei O 111CLEC,
carrying wheels 3 feet diameter ; fire box, 3 feet diameter ;
boiler, 2 feet diameter, with sixty tubes 11 feet 4 inches
long, 1 inches diameter. The tender is placed upon the
same frame ; the extreme length of which is about 20 feet,
and the weight, we are informed, is about 9 tons. The
whole of the working parts are in sight, and within the
immediate control of the driver while at work. From nu-
merous trials, during which a distance of nearly 1,000
miles has been performed, we have ascertained, that for
express purposes, with one or two carriages, a speed of 60

miles p

hour is well maintained ; and that a tiain of five
carriages, with passengers equal to 20 tons, is run at 40
miles per hour. With this load she ascended the heavy
incline at New Cross-1 in 100 for three miles—at the
rate of 20 miles per hour; and upon the level line, one
mile was passed in 80 seconds, being at the rate of 45
miles per hour, with a load of 20 tons—the consumption
of coke not exceeding 6 lbs. per mile. This performance,
we believe, is unparalleled in the histoi y of the locomotive
eligine. The fact that a load of 20 tons was propelled at
the rate of 45 miles per hour, with 6 lbs, of coke per mile,
while the quantity required for any of the heavy engines
to perform the same wo"k, would not be less than 25 lbs,
per mile, shows, we think, the mistake of making loco-

Motive engines of enormous weight—engines which spend
two-thirds of their immense power in propelling their own
weight. During the experiments, we were highly pleased
with the very safe and steady working of the engine.
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—On Saturday night week, an
experiment was made on the Great Western Railway, to
test the power of a new species of light produced by elec-
tricity, particularly with the view to its being used by
railway trains. The light is produced by an apparatus
invented by M. Le Mott, a French gentleman, who has
been for several years employed in electrical experiments
in Russia, and whose discoveries in that department are

o'clock a truck, containing a wooden square box, about
the size of a sentry-box, and having a galvanic battery of
some sixty or seventy small jars deposited around it, was
attached to the last carriage of the train then about to
proceed from Paddington. The light was produced inside
the box, and the rays, condensed and heightened by a
powerful reflector, were emitted by an aperture contrived
for the purpose. The light was produced before the train
left Paddington, when a dazzling blaze filled the whole of

...Famous station, casting the numerous gas-lamps
there completely into the shade. As the train proceeded
on its way, the reflector left a long train of clear bright
light for the distance of a mite and more behind it, in
-1, a manner as to - it --fteri-- -

.d render it ut, iy impossible that any
train coming up behind should run into it, except as the
effect of deliberate intention. The reflector, as seen from
the carriage, was very beautiful, the prismatic colours
being distinctly and vividly delineated along the cuter
edg3 of the circle of radiation; and as these fell upon the
dense column of smoke ascending from the engine, the
effect was singular and striking. The night was dark,
but clear, and so far favourable to the experiment ; and
objects, such as a bridge, wore rendered distinctly visible
—•1 TT

as tar as Mough, On arriving at which station the truck
was detached from the train, and continued there for
about half an hour, till the up-train arrived, with which
it returned to, town. While at Slough the light was

turned in the direction of 'Windsor Castle, as it the
expectation of M. Le Mott, who accompanied the expe-
riment, that it would be seen from thence. While there,
a gentleman stationed himself at the distance of 200 yards
or so from the apparatus, and read a newspaper by the
light produced, which he found he could do with perfect
ease. The apparatus then returned to town in the same
manner, the light being continuously intense during the
whole of the journey and return ; and it was stated by the
ingenious inventor that there could be no difficulty in
keeping it up for the whole night. The experiment af-
forded great satisfaction to all who witnessed it, the only
drawback being that the apparatus, having been in the

conside

motion
with ea

. .
;rably from the jolting inseparable from railway.
~a defeet'which the inventor considered might be
se overcome in any future experiment. This is

:o railway purpc

and if

ktind practicable, there can be no doubt that it will~add
greatly to the safety of night travelling by railway.

POLITICAL

SCELLANY.

ituminautm un-. LUC IN es 'Luling will take place on
Monday next, and the polling on the Thursday and Fri-
day following.

HONORS OF WHIG REFORMS.—Captain Kenderdine,
of Stafford, has been fined one hundred pounds for re-
-4.1. 14. c 4_,

DENISON'S CAN

(SING TOUR.-

s..-
Denison

deeds on Tuesday,
On Wednesday
; on Thursday, Brad-

where his reception was-most flattering
the hop'. gentleman visited Barnsley
ford; Friday, Wakefield

himself

NISON'S

)PINIONS

Mr. Denison decl:
posed to Rornish endowment, but favourabl

give any opinion on_ the navigation la.

I, and is an a

renchmen

and economy

- .
THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.—On Wednesday Sir Cullin
Eardlcy and Mr. Denison met at the Doncaster Statior

gentleman, who accompanied Sir Culling to Don-
caster; introduced -him to. Mr. Denison,- and a cordial

then ent

the hands took - place. The three gentlemen
vied the same first-class carriage for Wakefield,

and left
Who out of Bedlam would have dreamed that the mt
der of Rossi, the_besieging of the Pope in his Palace., a

perhaps his expulsion from-his capit4 were all the work
of England ?• " Yet that is the
.explanation which the
(Romish) Dublin Freeman. offers to. its readers. If the
Khan of Tartary had to fly, England would by the same
profound philosophers be pronounced th© cause‘
Sourx DEVON ELECTION.—Mr. Kekewich has resigned
all pretensions tfs.--

election, for the

)uttt "'even at the comic
d to be vacated by Lor

t)ourtenay. in a printed circular,- he states,—" I find
that in conse6ienee of the opinion which I entertain with

regard to some provision. for the Roman Catholic clergy
in Ireland, the number of requisitionists is not sufficient
to induce me -to disturb the peace of the county, and I
therefore shall not offer myself as a candidate." Sir
Ralph Lopez !conservative) has been brought forward.
He was formerly member for Westbury. and is a sound