The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

3 be informed wh
rag answered, he

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,sedof very great pers

was received after the shares had declined in value.
Mr. Peat, a shareholder, asked if it was correct tl
44,800 shares were held by 50 shareholders, including
of the committee and the solicitors?
Mr. Alihusen said such was not the fact, but it w
perfectly correct that a large number of shares had be
held by the provisional committee ; the committee had

make various bargains with oth;r railways beh
amalgamation ; among others, the Lancashire:
Yorkshire had received 25,000 shares ; the I
Preston, and West Riding had to get 11,000; t
burn, Darwen, and Bolton also had

The directors went in 'on two

.e necessary to deposit two subsc

racts for one undertaking

After some con

Liverpool, moved

THE WEATHER, &c.—The weather is now delightful
and warm, and everything looks well. Wherever we have k..
trave led of late, the potatoes look healthy and luxuriant, trh
and promise an excellent crop. This has not prevented and other journals, as to the conduct of the c
the most alarming reports from being circulated respect- also as to the disposal ot "
ing them, however, but we do trust that these reports are amalgamated, and that the committee
as greatly exaggerated this, as they were the last, year. report to the directors;" which, after a poll, was
We did not believe in one-half that was said then— to be carried by a majority of 1314 ; the numbers ht.
neither do we now.—Glasgow Constitutional. for, 19,984; against, 18,670.
IRELAND.—CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS.—The country A secretary was then appointed, at a salary of £3OO
people are very much alarmed by the appearance of the per annum, and XICOO voted for the directors' remnne.
potato stalks, which is exactly similar to that which pre- ration.
ceded the-disease in the fibres last year. The Mayo Con- On the motion of Mr. Gray, Mr. Gibb, Mr. Cram, tr
stitution—a respectable journal and well deserving of Mr. Nicol, were appointed a committee of inyestigat:
credit—bas the following :—". The Potato Crop—We It was also resolved, "that it be an instruction to a
have received distressing accounts of the potato crop rectors of the two origirAal companies to ascertai
within the last week from too many and trust-worthy liabilities as speedily as possible; to close there a(
sources to allow us to feel easy about the coming pros- and to furnish tbe committee with a balance sheet
pects of the country. Disease is manifesting itself on vouchers; and that the committee have power
lands where it was either lightly felt, or altogether absent, all further beeio:on.ktesxdaplnvrdaersdiloec:uahmriepsnehrtis:th.oeßiy.:mosight ter
last year. And when we take into consideration the early W. G•/A, Esq., moved that the following gr.
period at which, as compared with the first appearance of appointed directors fur the ensuing year, vi
the blight last year, it is now assailing the growing crop, Hutt, M. P., C. Allhusen. Nicholas Wood
our alarm is increased. It is, however, right to state that W. A. S. Westob,y, T. R.W.France, Henr
all the new potatoes which have been sold in our market ,
during the past week were perfectly sound, and went from and Lot Gardiner, Esqs.
The line, in his cp.
Gd. to 10d. per stone. We may also mention that the James Edgcome, Esq. moved that a,.
greater number of the peasant farmers with whom we have the thanks ot the meeting be voted to the ram►
conversed on the subject are inclined to take a less des- tors for their services.
ponding view than those above them." LAS:. J.
Allhusen
yilanchester and Leeds,
Tita GRAIN Cnoes.—While there is unmistakeable his hope that for the future the procee,,
throughout the went of this kind were not entered into,
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apprehension
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to crop,
the
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yproductive yield fusion would ensue than had been witnessed already.
the poor during the ensuing year, it is highly gratifying Newcastle and Darlington jointly ; and if some an.
still greater cc
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this harvest. Wheat is fast ripening, and where the choice Some private business having been transacted, at
varieties of seeds have been sown, especially red blood,) thanks voted to the chairman, the meeting broke up-

to the char

the shares in the cor

on of the