The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE.

The North British Railway Company have purchased
the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway at a cost of £87,000,
the revenue of which line yields, it is calculated, a divi-
dend of above four per cent. on that amount, and may be
expected to increase.

At a numerously gioded public meeting, held in
Wisbech, on Saturday; a committee was formed of pro-
fessional gentlemen, bankers, and others, in the neigh-
bourhood, to consider the subject of a railway communi-
cation between Wisbech and the London and Northern
lines.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.-- The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held, on Thursday last, in
London, when a dividend of 4s. on the new, and 3s. on
the old, shares was declared, and powers were taken to
consolidate the stock and dispose of certain first and
second class shares on hand.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—A special
pleasure train left Wakefield for Hull on Monday week,
consisting of 97 carriages, with the extraordinary, and,
we believe, unprecedented number of 4,000 passengers,
composed of the " Ancient Order of Foresters," other
lodges, and their friends.
The Board of Directors of the Manchester and Leeds
Railway intend to make an application to parliament in
the next session, for power to extend the Oldham and
Stalybridge branches, through Saddleworth and Hudders-
field, to join the main line at Cooper Bridge ; and also to
form branches from Dewsbury to Leeds and Bradford.
These new branches, in conjunction with the parent line,
will embrace in one comprehensive railway chain nearly
the whole district of country known as the "manufactur-
ing districts."

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday week a
young man named Robert Wood, one of the firemen em-
ployed on the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, was
accidentally killed near the Fence Houses station. It
appears that the deceased was accompanying a train, when
the engine broke away from the tender, owing to leaving
been insecurely coupled together; and he was thereby
thrown across the line, and several carriages passed over
him and killed him on the spot, nearly severing his head
from his body.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday a young
woman named Lucy Grant, a passenger from Rugby to
Allesthorpe, on the London and Birmingham lines, fell
from the platform on to the railway just as the train was
being put in motion, and four of the carriages passed over
her before any alarm could be given. On being taken up
it was found that both her legs were broken, the right one
being cut so badly that it was attached to the body by a
single tendon only. She expired in about two hours after
the accident.
At the meeting of the Northern and Eastern Railway,
on Friday, it was announced, that all the arrangements
necessary for perfecting the agreement with the Eastern
Counties Railway were nearly completed, and the dividend
declared was £l. 2s. Gd. on the old shares of the company,
and 7s. Gd. on the scrip shares, less the property tax.
Yed.—tTh he The returns of traffic showed great improvement, the
amount up to the 30th of June being £43,264, or an in-
cthreoassefoollf3£
expectationsr7e,a7llis6inegomthpearedwit
bilities of the line. The line to Newport, Cambridge,
At
stated divi-
Brandon, &c., would, under the terms entered into, be
themselves
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ev
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constructed by the Eastern Counties Company,
an
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Toe fphoeelurBti
r4oeo3dpf.ol ras thet
cape_ye a year ;
half-
yearly meeting of thismcaokmeptdahnehecya,llwinaes held on Friday. The
nett profit for the half year was £241,678, being £17.754
with
tlafhreeydes
LONDON AND BIRMINGIIAMpanRyAIvedAg
that Shrewsbury shall have a good and ffi •
su clent line to
Wolverhampton, and both companies have
cert with the Manchester and Birmingham
dnithatemore
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agreed in con-
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Grand
rhapenedr correspondingcjeunn cent.
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Valley companies to
Stafford on fair and equitable terms, between Rugby and
discussion. The directors had which are still under
ar-
rangement of their trains, and agreed to revise the
the benefit of the public. Re
oalso to modify the fares for
carried empowering the directorssßesolutions were unanimously
man-
ner with respect to the to proceed in such
Stafford line as they mightproposed Rugby, Tamwortb, and
the proposed Worcester, deem necessary, and to lease
otherwise, as they • , Banbury, and Rugby line, or
might think b
the best for the interests of
company. The
line same power was given to the direc-
tors respecting the
Leamington railway will be ready •
for opening at the eat-
' of the
ter year,
am Peterborough and the and North-
i pton about March or April next year,

August 13,1844.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The ha..-yearlf-- -
meeting of this company was held on Friday. The re-
port announced an increase on the balance of net
the
year ending the 30th of June. The amalgamation of r:!.
working stock with the Croydon and Dover companies
had taken effect since the Ist of March last, but the re-
sult had not been sufficiently ascertained. Instead of tF,
fixed sum paid to the Greenwich Company in lieu oft1:1
the company will in future pay for first-class pagserigert,
4d., for second-class 3d. and for third-class 2d. AL'
gage bonds at 5 per cent., to the amount of £41,450 /3!1.,
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been renewed at £4 per cent. After considerable at
cussion, the report was adopted. The resolutions to
purchase an interest in the railways from Brighton 07,
Hastings and to Chichester, and settling the tore" bf
which the new shares for this purpose should be takell__:,
the proprietors, were carried. The dividend declared"
12s. per share.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND BAILWAY.--0111t5
day week the half-yearly meeting of this railway was al
at York. The directors' report stated, that during.
half-year ending the 30th June, 1844, the amount rece;
ou account of passengers' traffic, parcels, and mails, Ac?
£26,362. 19s. 10d. ; on account of trierchand,se tralg
£15,528. 14s. 4d. ; and for rents, £306; making the 076.
receipts £42,197. 14s. 2d. ; being an increase of .f2,ling
15s. 7d. upon the aggregate receipt for the corresr bp.
half-year of 1843. The expenses of working ancil to
taming the line paid during the same period amounted
to
£15,679. 18s. 7d. ; and the interest on debenttrresdi,
£4,373. lls. 3d. The account of the income and ellitel.lesi
ture of the Leeds and Selby Railway during the hal";76.
shows a balance in favour of the company of £2,102.403
4d. The balance of the corresponding half-year
.I;,ri,
did not reach £7OO. The directors recommend the ate,
dend for the half-year to be £2. 10s. on each £5O suB'iti
and £l. 4s. on each £25 share, which will amount,
£24,790, to be paid without deducting the income
The report was unanimously adopted.
rrhee ft)
NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.---. 7,60/
half-yearly meeting of this company was held Yeel_jo
week. Arrangements have been made for the pure.rel
of the Durham Junction railway. The capital retefil
for making the line from Newcastle to Berwick vil;ej
£700,000, which the directors proposed should be rol'a
in shares of £25 each, to be offered to the proprietors ei
to borrow any sum not exceeding £166,000, and
this company. Six per cent. interest from the Ist inv.
to the 30th June last was ordered to be paid to the sLar-ea
holders on the 20th inst. The directors were collo" ••
tion was passed that in order to raise the requisite caLi 6
for forming a line of railway from Newcastle-upon lac
to Berwick-upon-Tweed, this company do engage to Prtfi
a perpetual lease of such railway, at a rent sufficietn,ii
pay to the subscribers five per cent. per annum osrff
amount of capital invested ; but that the subscribers.oo%
the option at any time within three years after the offerlitm
of the railway, of determining the lease and retaining bo
line freed from such engagement, and that they also
of
allowed five per cent. out of the capital on the amonn'
their calls paid up until the opening of the line. .
a resoltai