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

RAILWAY INTELLIGEA CE. ,

YORK 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.
BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.--The first
half-yearly meeting of this company since the completion
of the line was held on Wednesday. A dividend of
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 £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 wken it is completed, at 4 per cent. The directors
have experienced great opposition from the landowners
on the road, and in the case of the Duke of Norfolk com-
pensation to the amount of £42,000is 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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PROJECTED 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 nowe, 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 Wisbeacb,
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 traffic—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 rart 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
tht Brighton 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-
pared with the corresponding half-year, of twenty-five
per cent." The directors recommended, therefore, that
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
the amount was calculated to be from £33,000 to £35,000.
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by it from the projected direct Portsmouth company,
FATAL RAILWAY ACClDENTS.—Yesterday week, 8S g
and
persons was proceeding from Hull to Sheffield, one of the
connecting chains broke, and a portion of the carriages
monster pleasure train of 172 carriages, containing
e 5 ,rsoCoof
came in slight contact, by which a
neck by the fall, died on the spot. The deceased and se-
veral others persisted on starting in riding at the out-
ors aifdne onebaocfokf forattil
the
nine o'clock, after the arrival of the York train at the
Sheffield station on the North Midland line, •
the engine,
as usual, was detached from the train—and h • been
on
having
on the turn-table, was on the point of proceeding to the
engine-house, when a railway inspector, named Russell,
attempted to cress 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.
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passenger
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Sept. 10, 1844.

NEW RAILWAY.—A prospectus of the Northern Junc-
tion Railway Company has been issued, in which it is pro-
posed to commence a line of railway at the junction of the
Lancaster and Fleetwood line, at the north side of Preston,.
and to run to the north side of Blackburn, through
Whalley, Burnley, &c., joining the Leeds Railway near
Todmorden. The prospectus also states that it is in con-
templation to form a junction with the proposed new line.
from Preston to Liverpool, near the Marsh, at Preston.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—The sixteenth
half-yearly meeting was held at Manchester, on Thursday
last. Mr. flawkshaw read the report. An increase of
traffic, to the extent of 15 per cent., had taken place (15°
ing the last six months, compared with the corresponding.
six months of 1843. The gross receipts of the last halt
year were £129,386, the net profit £47,523. It was pro-
posed to pay a dividend of 31 per cent. upon the paid-uP
calls of £lOO shares, and £5O shares, and 2s. on each of
the quarter shares. There would then be left a surplus
of £72 16s. sd. The report then recommended the
ex-
tension of the line, by branches, locally, into Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire. The Chairman. Alr'
Houldsworth, moved the adoption of the report, and in tall
able speech, recommended the multiplication of t°6
branch lines, and greater public accommodation, as neces-
sary to prosperity. Mr. Jos. Regan, of Liverpool, was
appointed director. The directors were authorised to
raise one-half of the capital of one million, to carry on.the.
Leeds West Riding Railway. They were also authorised
to purchase the Ashton and Staley-bridge Junction Line'
LEEDS, &c., JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The Leeds, In."
telligencer announces officially that after a careful exami-
nation of the country, and several meetings, it has been
now determined to bring before parliament in the nest
session, a combined plan for forming new railways between
the towns of Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Dewsbury.
and Halifax, in connexion with the Leeds, Mancbescer,
and Liverpool Railways. This is the result of the union
between the Leeds and Manchester Railway CompanY:
and the Leeds and Bradford Short Line Company, wit'
other parties. These arrangements will place in the centre
of the manufacturing districts of the West Riding new
lines of railway communication between thirty and forty
miles in length, give increased facilities to the inhabitants
of Yorkshire and Lancashire, materially shorten the route
between the great counties and the great manufacture
towns therein, and essentially promote the interests an&
convenience of the trade and population of Liverpool,
Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, DevrsburY,
Halifax, Pudsey, Heckmondwike, Birstal, Batley, CiSck-
heaton, and the numerous other manufacturing and 'l
Cline-
Keaton,
districts of which Lancashire and Yorkshire ar
composed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY.

4 to 1 agst Mr Salvin's The Cure (taken to nearly .E 300)
g 2 Lord Stanley's Ithuriel (take 5 to 1)
6 I Duke of Richmond's Red Deer (taken to £150),
8 1 Mr J. Scott's Bay Momus (taken to £m)
8 1 Col Anson's The Princess (9 to 1 taken freely)
11 to 1 Mr Irwin's Foig-a-Ballagh (taken)

I\IANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Cure was backed to-day in a good quarter at 3i
X5O. Ithuriel and Bay Momus were nearly equal favourites:
the former at 6 to 1 was backed for a score or so; MoniuLsai t
hundreds, &c., by one gent at 7 to I to the tune of .e3O). Sale_
night, we believe, he took a point less to some money. ~c
rian was first backed at 30e to 20 ; then 400 to 20, 200 to 10,
v`
was laid. Closing prices : to I to:

ST.• LEGER.
The field agst Scott's lot (offered) : 3 to I agst Ithuriel
Va' erian (offend) ; 6 to 4 offered Ithuriel runs. Offers W
re-
turn 1,000 for a soy if Advice wins.
3} to 1 agst The Cure (taken)
11 2 Ithuriel (offered, 6 taken)
6 1 Bay Momus (offered, 7 taken)
6 I Red Deer (taken, and offered freely)
8 1 Princess (taken, and offered)
10 1 Foig-a-Ballagh (offered)
PIO 6 Valerian (offered, 20 taken)
25 1 Godfrey (offered, 30 taken)
40 1 Lightning (taken)
500 10 The Devil•to-Pay (taken)
THE YO RKSHIRE HANDICAP.
Not much done to-day. The following mill show the 1105
recent offers, &c. :-
4to I agst Mickey Free (t) In to I agst Advice (t and ofg
5 1 Rowena (t) 10 1 Pompee (t)
8 1 Artful Dodger 15 1 Ravensworth
10 1 Ashtead Pet
THE DONCASTER
DER
25 to 1 was laid at Eccles agst
ponies (taken).

!I/P.—Not named

BY.
Black Prince; then 20 to I

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Manchester, and Newcastle, or in Scotland or Ireland.
Sir Gilbert tleathcote's Akbar, we are informed, on his return
from Goodwocd, was found to have two of his ribs broken:
Chapple states that in running for the Racing Stakes lie v.'en!
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