The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

RAIL TVA Y INTELLIGENCE.

The Wharfedale railway proprietors have refused to
lease the line to the Leeds and Ttirsk company.

The directors of the Worcester, Tenbu:y, &c., Railway
have passed a resolution expelling Captain Richardson
from the office of chairman.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway directors have
declined to lease the Preston and Wyre line on the terms
offered by the latter company, who will hold a special
meeting on the subject on the 25th instant.
On Saturday week, Mr. Samuel Birchenough, of Sand.
bach, was killed on the North-Western line. He was
crossing the line at the Nantwich station, and was knocked
down by an engine, and run over.
The case of Wonteer v. Sharp, the decision of which
was by many considered as diametrically opposed to that
in the celebrated suit of Woolmer v. Toby, is to be re-
opened.
A special meeting of the Manchester and Lincoln Union
and Chesterfield and Gainsborough branch authorised the
directors to divide the capital into 43,210 shares of
£8 2s. each, and to give notice to the Sheffield snd Lin-
colnshire that the provisional agreement between them
ought to be put into effect.
The Great Western held, on Friday, a special meeting
to conclude its agreement with the South Wales. The
terms were unanimously assented to. Some remarks on
10 per cent. dividends were dropped by Mr. Heyworth.
In like manner, the South Wales met, and on their part
confirmed the agreement.
CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—We understand
that Mr. Joseph Mallaby has resigned the clerkship of the
above company, and that Mr. J. B. Lloyd. a solicitor re-
siding in Liverpool...ix aunninted-in_hissoom. It ist,said
that Mr. Mallaby was required by the directors of the
Cheshire Junction to resign his appointment as their law-
clerk, or to give up the clerkship of the Chester and Bir-
kenhead Company; both of which he has hitherto held,
as a friendly alliance was supposed to exist between the
promoters of the two railways. Mr. M. as above intima-
ted, has decided to abide by his "first love."
CAUTION TO SPECULATORS.—The directors of the
Metropolitan Junction Railways Company have lately is-
sued a circular advising the dissolution of the company,
and asking the shoreholders who have paid, as deposit on
each £25 share £2 12s. 6d., to receive back 10s. per share.
They say, that " every attempt to raise a contribution
from the Provisional Committee has hitherto failed, many
of them being absent on the Continent or elsewhere."
From the appended statement of accounts, out of £19.897
subscribed, we find that £12,990 has been absorbed by
solicitors, engineers, and surveyors, referencing and sa-
laries ; and this by a company who never even incurred
the expense of going before the Standing Orders' Com-
mittee.

SHAREBROKERS AND THEIR PRINCIPALS.—In the
Court of Exchequer, on Monday, a somewhat novel case
was brought forward. It was that of Briggs v. Hayes.
An action had been brought by the plaintiff, who is a
stockbroker, for money paid upon differences upon the
sale and purchase of railway shares and scrip. The par-
ticulars fvrnished stated the names of the railway under-
takings in which the scrip and shares were bought and
sold by the plaintiffs, also the time each purchase and sale
was effected ; but the defendant submitted that be should
be supplied with the names of the sellers and purchasers,
and the amendment required was, that they should be set
out in the particulars. There was no fraud imputed, but
it was contended that it was essential, for the ends of jus-
tice, that the bill already furnished should be amended in
this respect.
Within the last few weeks several forged railway ad-
vertisements have found their way into the newspapers,
having evidently been concocted for stock-jobbing pur-
poses. We were last week made the victims of a similar
fraud. Our readers will no doubt have observed an ad-
vertisement respecting the Chester and Manchester •Di-
rect Railway, purporting to have been issued from the
office of 'Messrs. Higson and Robinson, of Manchester.
This is the forgery to which we refer. The person who
perpetrated it forged the names of three persons. Thls
sort of forgeries must emanate from parties who, from
appearance, are of the better class of society ; and the
means which such persons have at their command for
successfully operating in the way we have described,
render it the more eifficult to trace the offenders. In the
present case, Messrs. Higson and Robinson have offered
a reward of £2O for the apprehension of those concerned.
—Railway Times.

A TERRIBLE POSITION.—As a train was proceeding
through the tunnel on the Leicester and Swannington
Railway, on Thursday, in the direction of the latter place,
one of the chains which connect the carriages broke, and
left a number of the carriages behind. Another train
left the Leic,.ster station about a quarter of an hour after
that which stopped in the tunnel had started thence, so
that the passengers in the latter expected every minute to
have a collision with that which was following them.

Their agitatio❑ and feeling of approaching danger were
heightened by their hearing the noise of an engine draw-
ing near, while they were unable to judge whether it was
in the front or rear of them. In a few minutes their
state of awful uncertair,ty gave way to a sense of security,
for the engine which had gone on returned to take the
train forwards. Had the delay existed five minutes
longer, the collision between the following train and the
carriages would have been terrible, and the sacrifice of
life certain.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD. A special general
meeting of the shareholders was held in this town on
Wednesday. The chair was occupied by Wm. Jackson,
Esq., Chairman of the Directors. The Chairman ob-
served, that at the last meeting a resolution was framed
authorising -the directors to carry out certain 'measures,
powers being given to a portion of that body to carry
them out, and at that time he ( the chairman ) had it in
contemplation to take the steps he was about to do.
Those measures related to the extension line to the docks,
the arrangements with the Cheshire Junction Company,
and with the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater. He
considered there were parties rather personally opposed to
him who bad the power of carrying out such arrange-
ments, who represented different interests, and that the
welfare of the company would be best consulted by his re-
tirement. Their interests at present would be best man-
aged by those parties who had the power to carry out
certain measures which be could not do, and which, if
carried, would be fur the advantage of the company: A
resolution was then submitted by the Chairman, giving
sanction to the directors to borrow to the extent of
£lO 0,000 on security of the tolls. The motion was car-
ried unanimously. Mr. J. S. Jackson stated that he
should follow the course pursued by his brother, and
withdraw from the direction of the company.
SINGULAR SUCCESSION OF ACCIDENTS ON THE NORTH-

WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Saturday last, a series of ac-
cidents occurred upon this line, attended with serious
consequences to carriages and passengers. The train
which left Birmingham at one o'clock for Manchester,
was stopped a few miles from Stafford, the rails being
found blocked up by a luggage train hexing run into a
ballast train. But for the partial clearing•of the fog, ano-
ther collision must have occurred here. It suss two hours
before the line was cleared. Ten miles further on, a de-
tention ensued of two .boure ..ancto halfrfrozn a luggage