The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

RAMP!' AY AMIRS.

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The proprietors of the Hull and Selby met to pass their
half-yearly Report, recommending dividends of £2 9s Gd
per £5O share, and £1 4s 9d per £25 share, being at the
rate of £9 18s per cent.
Arrangements are- being made to start an express train
between London and Edinburgh and Glasgow. The train
will commence running on the lst. of March, starting from
London and Glasgow at nine o'clock in the
.morning, to
reach each terminus at ten o'clock at night.
The prospects of the Blackwall give satisfactory pro-
mise. After declaring a dividend of 3s. per share, clear
of income-tax, the Report states that satisfactory arrange-
ments had been agreed upon with the Eastern Counties,
and East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junc-
tion Companies, for the use of the line.

.'t'he flo%ains-iof the Conway Tube to its destined posi-
tion has not yet taken place. The Charter Courant
declares that it could not be attempted during the present
spring tides. The ground under the pontoons not being
sufficiently levelled, no effort could he made to accomplish
the experiment. The officers of the Great Britain and
about forty, sailors from the Sailors' Horne, Liverpool,-
are employed on the necessary preparations.
A New Locomotive called " Ltblache," in honour of
the great buffo, and constructed by Messrs. Wilson, of
Leeds, has lately been performing some very remarkable
Bats of power on the Midland Railway. It has been
running between Rugby and Leicester with three car-
riages
at an average speed of 75 miles per hour. The
same engine has taken a load of 400 tons at an average
speed of 30 miles per hour, which is even a still more
remarkable felt.

From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,518 miles of
railway, was £148,553, thus accounted for :—X68,079 for
the conveyance of passengers only, £43,698 for the car-
riage of goods, and a remainder of £36,776 for passen-
gers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ;
being an increase of £26,288 over the corresponding week
of last year, when the mileage was 2,711. The average
earnings per mile last week were £42, whilst in 1847 they
wore £45. •

ANIBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON RAILWAY
COMPANY.—At the half-yearly meeting of this company,
held at Nottingham on Friday, a report was presented,
which stated that the directors have concentrated their
efforts to complete the line from Nottingham to Grantham
—which they hope to open in the spring of 1849. The
Railway Commissioners have granted an extension of two
years for the completion of the line. The report was
adopted, and a committee of five shareholders and five
directors appointed to investigate the affairs of the
Company.
ACCIDENT UPON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—On
Thursday evening last, the mail train from Edinburgh to
London, met with a serious accident. The late floods
had undermined an embankment, seventeen miles north
of Carlisle, and when the train arrived at that point the
embankment fell in, and many parties in the train were
severely injured. The guard was picked up much hurt.,
and has since. died. The stoker also lies in a dangerous
state. having had his arm broken, and been otherwise se-
verely injured. Of course the trains upon the Caledonian
line were delayed for a considerable time. • •
THE. EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY.—The financial
statement shows a revenue of £323,856 for the half-year
January 4, against working expenses amounted to
£131,381; the balance being £192,475. The interest to
be paid on the Extension -Stock, 1 and 2, amounts to
£48,000, and that to the Northern and Eastern Railway
Company, £32,702; constituting, with an arrear of £196,
after paying the July dividend, a total of £80,897, which,
deducted from the above balance, leaves a sum of £111,577
applicable for a dividend. Upon the £258,986 Consoli-
dated Stock, this would amount to about Bs. 6d. per
shar3.
SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.-At the
half yearly meeting held on Tuesday at Chester the di-
rectors recommended the discontinuance for the present
of the allowance of interest on calls. They had reduced
the expense& of the office establishment by removal to
Chester. The question of taking legal proceedings against
defaulters was under the consideration of the board, and
the meeting recommended that stringent measures should
be adopted to seeurerthe payment of all calls. The 'ope-
rations were confined to the works at the Shrewsbury
station, including the bridge over the Severn and the
portion of the line adjoining thereto.
EXPRESS FROM LONDON TO EDINBURGH AND GLAS-
GOW.—This sliecial express, which was arranged by Messrs.
W. H. Smith and Sons, newsvenders, Strand, left Lon-
don at 5 35 a.m. with the newspapers of the day, con-
taining Lord John Russell's financial statement and the
debates in Parliament of the preceding evening, and
reached Glasgow at 3 57 p.m., completing the journey of
4721 in the incredibly short space of 10h. 22m. The
detentions amounted to fifty minutes, including eight
minutes occupied in passing from Gateshead to the New-
castle station at Berwick, thus reducing the actual railway
travelling to 9h. 32m., being at the rate of 50 miles an
hour ! Not the least amusing circumstance connected
with this express is that it arrived in Edinburgh an hour
and a half, and in Glasgow two hours, before the mails
which left London the preceeding evening. The total
number of miles run by Messrs. Smith's expresses on
that day was 6851
SHREWSBURY AND, CHESTER RAILWAY.—At, the half-
yearly meeting held on Tuesday at Chester. it was stated,
that the opening of the line to Shrewsbury, and of the
branch to Oswestry, may be expected to take place early
in the autumn of the present year. A considerable in-
crease is expected to take place in the traffic on the open-
ing of the line throughout. That of £577,100 called up
there was an arrear dile, on the 31st of December, of
£39,774. This arrear was now reduced to £22,481. The
company have borrowed £249,800. It was stated that it
would be n.eeessary to raise £BO,OOO, besides the calls al-
ready made before the Ist day of August. The revenue
for the half year amounted to £14,510, and after making
all necessary deductions there remained a balance suffi-
cient for a dividend, which the directors recommend, of
10s, per share on the original £2O shares—£l6 paid ; and
4, per share on the £lO shares:—.£B paid. The Chair-
.
, Chair-
man stated, that they were under no guarantee or oblige-
, tion to any other company, and they trusted te,t4eir QVlna
resources. '