The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Eastern Union Railway from Colchester to Ipswich
was opened on Thursday.

It is stated that £2,000 worth of gunpowder has been
spent in the blasting of one cutting near Kirkstall, on the
Leeds and Bradford Railway.

The opening of the line of railway between Brighton
and Chichester took place on Monday. The line from
Lewes to Hastings will be opened on the 21st inst.
EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY.—Mr. Hudson's anti-
cipations of the traffic on the Eastern Counties Railway
are now certain to be realised. Last week the returns
exceeded £lO,OOO.

MANCHESTER, NI ATLOCK, AND BUXTON RAILWAY.
This Company's bill has passed through the Commons,
and is now before the House of Lords, where it is likely
to meet with little, if any, opposition.
The intention of getting across the Thames by means
of Waterloo Bridge is for the present arrested. At the
last meeting of the Waterloo Bridge Company, it was
stated that the bridge had not been purchased by any
railway company, all the schemes hewing failed.
The Admiralty has again changed its mind as to the
tunnel through Greenwich Park, and suspended its course
until another session, although the Royal Astronomer and
a majority of saran& have reported favourab:y. The re-
sult will be to give the South-Eastern the alternative line
outside the park.

INCOME TAX.—IMPORTANT DECISION.—The Coin-
missioners for General Purposes, under the Property and
Income Tax Act, for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire,•
had under consideration, at their meeting on Thursday,
several appeals by persons against assessments for profits
made from buying and selling railway shares and scrip,
when the commissioners unanimously refused the appeals,
and confirmed the assessments.—Glasgow Herald.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
railway traffic for the last week on nearly 1,800 miles of
railway, was £152,531, thus accounted for :—.£88,412 for
the conveyance of passengers only, £35,304 for the car-
riage of goods, and a remainder of £28,315 for passengers
and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being
an increase over the corresponding week of last year of
£28,461.

AN UNFORTUNATE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.
The proprietor of a local newspaper, who figured some-
what largely in new railway schemes during the recent
mania, having been a provisional committeeman in many
of them, has had numerous applications made to him for
sums of money, for which the companies have become
liable. The solicitors' letters, containing applications for
payment, he publishes in his journal, with the following
heading in large type :—" The Money-hunting Vagabond
Gazette ; or, Provisional Committeeman's Chronicle."

THE GUAGES.—The report of the Board of Trade, on
the Guage Commissioners report, has been laid before
parliament. It recommends that the
essnGosettairebrne:enietodlnVreat rabnyrsoloi,eanide:
should remain as it is, and that its branches to the west
he
be laid down on the broad
tfinowsbdt
irgroedgouru,al aad:g‘st
r‘etnd,
.o;emeraceel that the South Wales
line
iem:el
sggppfeesrut,:obbnianl
tnalbrdVneetidgoltaaurhOcdti that the
over the
ttt aToisOinehrdFmee Rugby lines be on the broad
and ,r'elaer-
ll
in any direction a select committee on any particular blt,
may consider requisite. With respect to the Birmingham
guage
maynbaerroellwxtegnuag.,e,
and Bristol line, the Board of Trade recommend that the
narrow guage, which now extends from Birmingham to
Gloucester, be carried through to Bristol, and there stop,
and that the narrow guage be laid down from Oxford to
Basingstoke.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM, GRAND JUNCTIOS',
&C., RAILWAYS AMALGAMATION. The Group o'd
which the Amalgamation Bill was referred had postpone,.
their decision, in order to receive from the Board of Traci'
a written report on the subject. On Thursday, the
Chairman of the Committee announced that he had ye'
ceived a Report from the Board of Trade, stating o'll
would not recommend a perpetual amalgamation, althoug
one, for a few years, would be advantageous. On Fridl,
the committee suggested that instead of a bill to with, o
rize a perpetual amalgamation, it would be better th%o
bill should be sanctioned for leasing one of the comeanlo
to the other for a certain term, and in which power she;,e
be given to the Board of trade, in case of any oppressil.c
conduct on the part of the companies towards the Pubj;
to give them, say a twelvemonths' notice, that the lease
had been broken, and they should again become sePart't
companies.
he
PREAMBLES PROVED.—A more direct route to t
is,
Continent, via Dover, has been affirmatively settled
the proving of the preamble of the Mid Kent line of L",
South-Eastern. The preambles also of the folloP
bills have been declared as proved :—ln the Lords-I,°r
r,
0,
and North Midland Widening ; Sheffield and Line°'_.
shire ; Bedford Extension of the Ely and Huntingdon'
the Buckinghamshire (Oxford and Bletchley) ; t!o
,5
branches of the North British, one to connect GalasbitVe
and Hayrick, the second Jedburgh and Kelso. In Of
Commons—St. Albans, Luton and Dunstable branch °,
the London and York, and the Hatfield and Hertfor
Junction.—Not proved :—ln the Lords—Harwich
..stla
Eastern Counties Junction. In the Commons--.,'..iti
Kent Atmospheric; Ely and Bury ; Ipswich and
..,..two„
St. Edmunds ; Thetford, Bury St. Edmunds, and re of
market ; St. Albans, Luton, and Dunstable, branch lc;
the London and Birmingham ; Newcastle and Berwit,,
Northampton and Weedon ; North Wales Des'iltL°l•
except as to Llangollen ; London and 13Iackwall Wide 0
ing; Enfield and Edmonton ; West London ; Ea6r
Counties Stations Enlargement.
EXTRAORDINARY SPEED AND POWER OF A LOc' tO
TILE.—The dirctors of the Great Western, in ordelithe
test the power and speed of their leviathan engine reis
Great TVestern) prior to being employed on the e%P
ade
trains, directed that an experimental trip should be eloss
for that purpose. Accordingly, a few days since, sheiadell
attached to a train consisting of fourteen carriages,
with iron, the total weight of which was 140 tons, eat of
sive of engine and tender, weighing, with complein,efroo
coke and water, about 55 tons, The engine started
Paddington to Swindon, and from thence back, the gas
tance being 77 miles each way. On the journeY t
ascertained that she could, with that extraordinary w`solee
traveltieaof h
ateranvealoycy
ei7igemasypebeed
Swindon to Didcot, only 24 miles, having been perf°,,re
at that rate, including the time occupied in startirita
foofrm 55
edmibleyst the distance from
i
stopping. On Monday morning she was despatch.
1931 miles, and performed the journey, exclusive veragt,
the 9.15 a.m.
dimensionsexpreopsefsrdtiriioavuiinnr.gfrowiimheerePlsaddington to ri.5109;
pages, in 214 minutes (3 hours 34 min.), being on 50 104
,sfeet :trri,eol;te#,,eo,
rloawteso:—f sDsiammeitleers
inches ; cylinder, 18 inches ; length of boiler, t00,50'
15 and 16 feet • weight of engine, without water,' 04'
weight of tender, without fuel or water, 10 tons; to
loaded, 56 tons.
rtele po"
COMMITTEEMEN.—It is of very vital imPo po t
ascertain who are provisional committeemen. l'hb„,ese 11;
lar definition would probably be—persons who "-0,pf40
their names in the preliminary formation of 0 ro
of 14,
and before the charge of Bart n Parke in the ctiseo,ls°
v. Wilson, tried in the Exchequer on TuesdaY, e h°o3
cas ' s
nition might have been taken as correct, That bje.lt,ipea
ever, has introduced a new difficulty into this su...,itteet.se°
created a distinction between directors and corT:dy bite
which, as regards third parties, had not prev;.,or of_oe
supposed to exist. The action was by a crea.to'o cloci
company, who sued the defendant as a provisi etorf 401
mitteeman. The evidence was that the see: r tee °e
made a written application to the defendant This fitsis
form, desiring to know whether he would have 'co bot,
inserted in the list of the provisional committee,' over'tol°
application the defendant returned no written an and 0, is
after a few days had passed he called at the nitt_ i°
t_naon'octe'ilroc°c
the secretary he would have no objection to, to lit.''oot,
director. Upon this fifty shares were allott°_onal`tool‘
faenryednointicaen
common with the other members of the pr9vel_sL, vor.ter
mittee ; but he never paid the deposit on tl? Lunar ieee,
there was a committee of management conostsl:7 ono, 0=
yofwtahyei
nletttheersa thatfrairswoefr et
ie sentco
m toph4. iotf
and
evi.l,..nce,t'es
business of the company. Upon this leu`.ed op,oorit,,
by their persons,thei secretary of w ho
m gave tile
Parke told the jury that the defendant aPP
anda!,,ot 3 .
I,le
given his consent to become a director,
t._"ccuitc!).t
sional committeeman ; and that before h ltte
ist be san". rnfolpor
him liable to the plaintiff, they mt Co
lit
meant to become a member of the Pro
rtor he had a of P
or that by consenting to become a director
_D
question,
adllefeonrddaenrts,was
is
ized the secretary to make the contract
agent.