The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY 4. CANAL INTELLIGENCE,

A rule nisi has been granted, calling upon the Birmingham
and Derby Railway Company to show why they charge more
for carrying passengers part of the journey than the whole.
Of course the decision will be equally applicable to the Mid-
land Counties' Company.—Doncaster Chronicle.

IMPORTANT RAILWAY DECISION.—A case of some im.
portar•.ce to railway travellers has just been decided by the
sheriff of Ayrshire. The Glasgow and Ayr Railway Com-
pany, in conformity with the practice followed on other lines,
issued tickets to passengers at intermediate stations, with
the proviso, that there be room in the carriages on the arri-
val of the trains. This conditional booking is intimated to
the public by forming one of the bye-laws of the company,
which are affixed to all the stations ; but in a railway train
the accommodation provided is generally so ample, that a
passenger, in ordinary circumstances, is never disappointed.
In the case now alluded to, however, an individual had pur-
chased a ticket at Irvine station for Ayr, on the closing day
of the Eglington Park race meeting. On that occasion the
carriages, though more numerous than usual, were much
crowded, and the pursuer could not find the requisite accom-
modation. He declined either to take back his money, or to
wait for the succeeding train, but hired a carriage to convey
him to Ayr. An action was then raised against the company
for the ex pences thus incurred; bnt the sheriff, after a full
investigation, decerned against him with costs, thus giving
full effect to the railway company's bye-law, intimated to
the public in the above manner.—Glasgow Citizen.

TILE MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—
WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSIONS.—During the present week,
this railway has been greatly in requisition, not only by vast
numbers of persons comma from Stockport, Macclesfield,
and other parts of Cheshire to Manchester Races, but also as
a means of enabling those whose enjoyment was sought at a
distance from the race course, to make the trip to Alderley
Edge, and to other localities, at a cheap rate. As a speci-
men of the numbers thus conveyed by this railway, we will
take the passenger traffic of Thursday last, with which we
have been furnished by the manager, Captain Cleather.
There was a special train from Manchester to the Alderley
Station, at ten a.m. on that day, which conveyed, in 36 se-
cond class carriages and waggons, no fewer than two thou-
sand Sunday scholars, their teachers and friends ; 731 more
scholars and teachers proceeded by the other trains during
the day, making together 2,731, or 5,462 out sad back, Add
to this the general traffic during the day, 3,888, gives a total
number of passengers on this line, during one day, of 9,350.
But the Manchester terminus and station of the line is com-
mon to it and the Manchester and Sheffield Railway; and
the passengers from and to the station on the latter line
during the same day were 1,556, making a total of 10,906
passengers on these railways on Thursday last, of whom
10,657 went from and arrived at the London Road Station;
the others starting front and stopping at intermediate sta-
tions. The special train which returned from Alderley to
manchestey in the evening was perhaps one of the largest
ever seen in Manchester. It consisted of 62 first, second,
and third class carriages and waggons, and brought no fewer
than three thousand passengers I—Manchester Guardian.
GRAND JUNCTION CANAL COMPANY.—The half-yearly
meeting took place on Tuesday, the 6th instant, Mr. Poyn•
der in the chair. From the report submitted, it appeared
that the net tonnages for the six months to the 31st Dec.
last, amounted to £60,277 10s. 1 Id., being an increase over
the previous six months of £5765 198.5 d., and £1960 Hs. 10d.
less than the corresponding period of the preceding year.
The claims of the company on the London and Birmingham
Railway Company had been amicably settled ; the latter
agreeing to convey to the canal company the newly-made
culvert from the railway to the Triug cummit canal level, to
appropriate to their use all the water which may flow along
the railway cutting, and pay the sum of £5200. The com-
mittee continued to be satisfied with the working of the new
system, by which so great a saving had been effected in the
ordinary expenses of the canal, and proposed a dividend of
£3 10s. per share, amounting to £40,092 10s., payable on
the Sth of July next, which, after the payment of the income
tax, amounting to £1032 3s. 4d., would leave a balance of
£12,317 16s. 10d., to be carried to the account for new
works. The report was received, and a dividend of £3 10s.
per share declared, as recommended by the committee, and
to be paid on the Bth July next. A discussion took place on
the motion of Dr. Waterfield that £2OO, being about 4d. per
share, should be set apart as a subscription for re-building
the parish church of Braunston, but the motion was lost by a
majority. After the usual appointment of the committees
for the current year, the meeting separated.

An auctioneer of Exeter announces that he is instructed
by the executors of the late Rev. Edward Leigh, of Pad-
dington, to offer for sale, by tender, the satin cap worn by
the unfortunate King Charles 1., at his execution, on the 30th
January. 1648, together with the certificates and engravings
accompanying it, as proots of its being genuine.

NARROW ESCAPE.—About 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon
last, while 12 men were at work in a coal pit, the property of
Mr. William Davies, at Llansamlet, the sides of the pit sud-
denly collapsed. shutting up the men in the bowels of the
earth ! Fortunately, the men were aware of an old passage
from the pit they were in to another, and succeeded, after
encountering many obstacles, in reaching the latter, and
thence were conveyed to the surface in perfect safety.—
Welshman.