The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE.

YORE. AND LONDON RAILWAY.—It was announced
on Thursday that the directors of the Wakefield, Lincoln
and Boston Railway have united with the London and
York Direct Railway.
13nis.roi. AND Gr.oucEsrEn.AmwAr.—The first
half-yearly meeting of this company since the completion
of the line was held on Wednesday. A dividend of
t.l 7s. Gd. was declared.
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.—
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday. The receipts, with last half-year's balance,
amounted to £23,177, and the expenditure to 1:11,572. A
dividend of ss. on the £25 shares, and 2s. Gd. on the
£l2 10s., or half-shares, was declared. The goods traffic
has greatly increased.

The Brighton and Chichester proprietors have agreed
to allow the Brighton Company to take the unappropriated
shares of their undertaking, on the option of leasing the
line when it is completed, at 41 per cent. The directors
have experienced great Oppositio❑ from the landowners
on the road, and in the case of the Duke of Norfolk com-
pensation to the amount of L 42,000 is to be paid.

DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY.—The Dublin and
Drogheda Railroad Company. at the half-yearly meeting,
announced an increase of £6,000 on the value of their
stock. Sir J. M'Neill stated that Dublin station would
be finished in October. Receipts of the company from
the commencement of the work, £504,777. Balance to
credit in bank, £3,912.
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The meeting of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway was
for the purpose of issuing £30,000 debentures at 4 per
cent to pay off the loan received from the Commissioners
of Public Works on account of the Dalkey branch, which
loan bears interest at the rate of 5 per cent. It was stated
on this occasion that the receipts from the Ist of March
to the 26th of August were this year £28,662, or £4,000
in excess of the amount received at the same period last
year. The revenue of the line steadily increases, and the
Dalkey branch, which is remunerative, is regarded as an
important feeder to the general line. It was suggested in
the course of the proceedings to extend the Dalkey line to
Bray, every confidence being expressed in the economical
working and good order of the atmospheric principle.

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PROJF.CTED RAILWAYS.—The directors of the Midland
Railway have given notice that early in the month of Oc-
tober a special general meeting of the stockholders in that
company will be held, for the purpose of sanctioning an
application to parliament for vowel s to make the follow-
ing lines of railway :-1. From Nottingham to Newark
and Lincoln. 2. From Swinton to Doncaster, Bawtry,
Gainsborough, Lincoln, Boston. Spalding, and Wisbeach,
joining the Eastern Counties Railway at March, by means
of which the communication will be continued to Ely,
Cambridge, Norwich and Yarmouth. It is the intention
of the York and North Midland Railway Company to
make a branch from their line at Burton Salmon to Don-
caster in connexion with this line. 3. From Syston and
Oakham, Stamford and Peterborough.
RAILWAY EXCURSIONS.—Cheap excursion trains con-
tinue to form an important feature of railway traffic7—a
new proof of the public usefulness of railways—a new
element in their own revenue—a valuable addition to the
recreations, amusements, and moral culture of the English
people. The Dover excursion trains did not for the first
two weeks meet with adequate success, but the directors
persevered, and now their Saturday trains, not returning
up till Monday night, are crowded with passengers, who
can thus spend part of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in
France, going and returning from London at a single fare.
The number of excursion tickets issued for the six excur-
sions, from the 27th of July to the Ist of September in-
clusive, was 45,532, being an average of 7000 each excur-
sion ; the last excursion consisted of 14,000 persons.—
Railway Chronicle.
LONDON AND CROYDEN RAILWAY.—The half-yearly
meeting of the above company was held, on Thursday
last, in London. The report, which was adopted by the
meeting, stated, that, " the accounts present an increase
of the receipts upon Croyden traffic, as compared with
the corresponding half-year, of £2,500; upon the toll of
th.i Blighton Company of £1,200 ; and upon the toll of
the Dover Company of £2,300; and, although the ex-
penses have slightly increased and the dividend is payable
upon 7,000 new shares, now first participating, the sum
divisible for that purpose will admit an increase, as com-
paredcorrespondingrcommended half-Year, of twenty-five
, therefore, that
po r
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n with h thei
directorse
a dividend of 5s upon 40,000 shares be declared, free of
income-tax. In answer to a question, the chairman said
an estimate had been made of the toll that would be taken
by it from the projected direct Portsmouth company, and
the amount was calculated to be from £33,000 to £35,000.
FATAL RAILWAY ACClDENTS.—Yesterday week, as a
monster pleasure-train of 172 carriages, containing 5,560
persons was proceeding from Hull to Sheffield, one of the
‘ednhee sday deceased
evening and, se-
veralat
connecting chains broke, and a portion of the carriages
ran back for a short distance, with which another traits
came in slight contact, by which a pasenger on the roof
of one of the carriages was thrown off, and breaking his
nettherhsefpa
eel lra,sridrsiitaeegdde oso.roi_t
teaors
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in riding at the out-
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ofboy th
nine o'clock, after the arrival of the York train at the
Sheffield station on the North Midland line, the engine,
side
k
as usual, was detached from the train—and having been
on the turn-table, was on the point of proceeding to the
engine-house, when a railway inspector, named Russell,
attempted to cross just in front of the engine, by which
he was knocked down, and his body was found in a few
minutes nearly severed in two below the shoulders.

Sept. 10, 1841.

NEW RAILWAY.—A prospectus of the Northern June.
tion Railway Company has been issued, in which it is Po'
posed to commence a line of railway at the junction of the
Lancaster and Fleetwood line, at the north side of Prestar,
and to run to the north side of Blackburn, through
Whalley, Burnley, &c., joining the Leeds Railway neat
Tod morden. The prospectus also states that it is in con'
temptation to form a junction with the proposed new
from Preston to Liverpool, near the Marsh, at Preston'
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—The sixteenth
half-yearly meeting was held at Manchester, on Thursdal,
last. Mr. Hawkshaw read the report. An increase el
traffic, to the extent of 15 per cent., had taken place dee'
ing the last six months, compared with the correspoodil
six months of 1843. The gross receipts of the last 10'
year were £129,386, the net profit £47,523. It was pro'
posed to pay a dividend of 3; per cent. upon the paid-ar,
calls of £lOO shares, and £5O shares, and 2s. on each 01
the quarter shares. There would then be left a surPlug
of £72 16s. sd. The report then recommended the el"
tension of the line, Ly branches, locally, into Yorksb?e,'
Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire. The Chairman. int'
Houldsworth, moved the adoption of the report, and in„
:
able speech, recommended the multiplication of
branch lines, and greater public accommodation, as nee%
sary to prosperity. Mr. Jos. Regan, of Liverpool,
,wt3i.,
appointed director. The directors were authorised
raise one-half of the capital of one million, to carry on t°l'
Leeds West Riding Railway. They were also authorise°
to purchase the Ashton and Staley-bridge Junction Line'
LEEDS, Ste., JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The Leeds 11.
telligencer announces officially that after a careful exare';
nation of the country, and several meetings, it has beet
now determined to bring before parliament in the nex
session, a combined plan for forming new railways between
the towns of Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Dewsbury'
and Halifax, in connexion with the Leeds, iklanchester,
and Liverpool Railways. This is the result of the union
between the Leeds and Manchester Railway ComP39ll;
and the Leeds and Bradford Short Line Company, c"„
other parties. These arrangements will place in the ceute'w
of the manufacturing districts of the West Riding
lines of railway communication between thirty and forty
miles in length, give increased facilities to the inhabitan7_
of Yorksl ire and Lancashire materially shorten the roUte,
between be great counties and the great manufacturing
towns therein, and essentially promote the interests ari°
convenience of the trade and population of LiverPo°l,
Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, DewsbuT
Halifax, Pudsey, Heckmondwike, Birstal, Batley, Clee.,
heaton, and the numerous other manufacturing and min':
ral districts of which Lancashire and Yorkshire arc
composed.