The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The railway from Lynn to Downham Market and Nar-
borough in Norfolk was opened last week.
At the first ordinary meeting of the Birmingham and
Oxford Railway on Friday it was resolved tgamalgamate
with the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley
Railway.
The half-yearly meeting of the Preston and Wyre was
adjourned until November 25th, in order to give time to
mature the terms for amalgamating with the Manchester
and Leeds. It was stated that the half. yearly dividend
would be 15s. per share.
During the late storm, great damage was done by the
sea to a portion of the railway works at Pencoaen-mawr.
A considerable extent of the well built sea-wall, on the
Bangor side of the cliff, has been destroyed ; and all the
materials, masons' tools, &c., were washed away. It is
said that £2OOO will barely cover the damage.
At the meeting of the West Lancashire, or Liverpool,
Southport, and Preston Railway, at Manchester, on Wed-
nesday, Mr. R. Stephenson and Mr. P. P. Bidder were
authorised to arrange terms with the Liverpool. Crosby,
and Southport Company, as to the price per share the lat-
ter is to give for all the plans, maps, goodwill, &c. of the
former.

The Midland at its special meeting authorised the raising
of the requisite capital (X 2,567,000) for carrying out their
new branches, making their total capital amount to about
£11,000,000. The only call on new shares this year
would be £2 per share. In 1817 there would be calls of
£8 per share. Resolutions were passed to create Midland
shares to replace those of the Birmingham and Bristol
and to include the extension of the Leeds and Bradford
in the lease of the Midland.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND
LEEDS RAILWAY.—An accident, by which two men lost
their lives upon the above railn ay, took place on Thurs-
day, between the Brighouse and Elland stations. It ap-
pears that two plate layers heard a luggage train upon the
up line, and unfortunately stepped on the down line out
of its way. At that instant the express train, which leaves
Manchester at a quarter-past eight came down, and both
the men were killed before they could get out of the way.
The morning was very foggy.
The Gloucester Journal says, "We hear that the Mid-
land Company will shortly arrange for spedial trains, to
carry 150 tons each, to Gloucester at regular intervals,
and that they are under promise to provide slips for shoot-
ing the salt into vessels in the canal. Should these, and
some other appliances for carrying on the salt trade be
properly and quickly carried out, we may be able to anti-
cipate the efforts which are being made at Hull to sup-
plant us, and may be in a condition to put salt on board
ship at Gloucester as cheap, if not cheaper, than at Li-
verpool."

A special meeting of the York and North Midland
unanimously assented to Mr. Hudson's proposal respect-
iny the capital of the East and West Riding shares—the
providing money to pay for the Hull and Selby in 1850,
and the capitalizing a debt between £500,000 and
£600,000, which arrangements have the effect of making
the total capital amount to £4,721,250. And the York
and Newcastle, likewise under Mr. Hudson's presidency,
agreed to capitalize certain extension shares, and to pro-
vide for the purchase of the Great North of England by a
further issue. The total capital, exclusive of the New-
castle and Berwick line, will amount to £6,625,000.
MEDICAL USE OF TILE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The
electric telegraph between Norwich and Shoreditch was,
on Thursday, made the means of communication between
a physician in London and his patient in the former place.
On Wednesday, Dr. L—, a celebrated obstetric phy-
sician, was sent for from London to attend a lady lying
there in a dangerous state. On his return to town, he
left instructions to the medical attendant to convey in-
formation of the state of the patient the next morning, by
means of the telegraph. This was promptly done on
Thursday morning, and the prescription was as promptly
returned. The telegraph completed its communication
by announcing the death of the lady.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.—A special general meet-
ing of the proprietors was held at the Palatine Hotel,
Manchester, on Tuesday, for the purpose of entering
10,640 new sl ares, at £5O each, in this company, to be
exchanged for the existing shares. of the same number
and amount, in the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction
Company. Mr. George Hadfield objected. to the Leeds
company taking £200,000 of stock from the Liverpool
and Bury Company, and granting them no interest upon
that sum, while they were allowing the Huddersfield com-
pany interest. The chair man reminded Mr. Hadfield that
that would be a subject for discussion at the meeting of
the company in November. The resolution was unani-
mously agreed to.
LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY.—
This line is fast rising in public estimation, and we are
glad to find that it is meeting with that support which must
make the application to Parliament in its favour success-
ful. Since the prospectus first appeared, the list of direc-
tors has received the additional names of a number of
gentlemen of wealth and standing, and whose interests are
connected intimately with the line. An arrangement is
also proposed for securing to the promoters of this line the
interest and goodwill of the old " West Lancashire Com-
pany," which, as our readers are probably aware, failed in
the application to Parliament for a bill last year. The line
is very likely to prove of very great advantage to this port,
as well as to the whole of the district through which it
passes, as was abundantly proved before the parliamentary
committee last session