The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Ulster Railway Company have declared a dividend
of 15s. per share from the balance of net profit, stated at
£8,481, which would leave £693 15s. 3d. to be added to
the reserved funds. The gross receipts of the half-year
from trafic amount to £13,856.

AMERICAN RAILWAYS.—An extraordinary perform
ante, equal to the greatest railway achievements of Great
Britain, is recorded in the American papers. The go-
vernment express, which left Boston for New York with
letters, mails, and passengers, arriving in the Acadia
from England, on the 18th ult., were conveyed the dis-
tance of 238 miles in six hours by railway !
Tug RAILWAY TO THE LAKES—PROGRESS OF THE
ATMOSPHERIC.—The Windermere and Kendal line is
being surveyed with a view to the application of the atmos-
pheric principle of traction by water power. With such
avidity were the shares of this short but excellent line
sought after, that although there were only 5,000 to be
appropriated, the number applied for was very nearly
13,000.
RAILWAY FROM NORWICH TO IPSWICH.—On Friday
week a most important and influential public meeting on
this subject, was held in the Guildhall, Norwich, at which
the Mayor of the city presided. It was resolved, that a
line of railway to Ipswich would be of vital importance to
Norwich and the county of Norfolk, and that it was de-
sirable to further the extension proposed by the Eastern
Union Railway Company.—lpswich Express.
PROJECTED BRANCH RAILWAY FROM THE GRAND
JUNCTION LINE AT MADELEY TO THE POTTERIES.—
We understand that circulars have been sent to influential
persons in the Potteries, inviting them to attend a meet-
ing, before which proposals for the formation of this rail-
way by the Grand Junction Company will be laid. Mean-
while, the parties who contemplate the line from the Pot-
teries to Crewe are proceeding with their surveys, and it
is expected that the plan will shortly be laid before toe
public by an independent company.—North Staffordshire
Mercury.
GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—
We are authorised to state, that the directors of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, at their board meeting
on Monday, unanimously resolved to recommend their
company to subscribe £lOO,OOO to the stock of the above
undertaking. This makes up the capital necessary for
Parliament. The utmost exertions are making by the
engineers to complete their plans, in order to be sub-
mitted to the Board of Trade, and every preparation is
making for the approaching session. We understand that
the returns of traffic, particularly of local traffic, on the
line of the proposed railway, are most favorable.
The Aylesbury Railway Company have declared a divi-
dend of Bs. per share. being at the rate of four per cent.
per annum. The report states that the Birmingham
company scrupulously fulfil their contract by repairing
the permanent way, and have increased the accommodation
on the line by placing on an extra train, at accelerated
speed, to and from Aylesbury. The shareholders appear
inclined to sell the railway to the Birmingham company,
and it is proposed to offer it for the original cost, viz.,
£130,000, Under the new arrangement of lease it is said
the terms payable by the Birmingham company for the
next seven years will not yield the shareholders more than
three per cent en their investment.
IRISH RAILWAYS.—A meeting is to be held at Water-
ford on Monday next, for the purpose of forming a railway
between Tipperary and Waterford. A meeting was also
held in Dublin yesterday, which was attended by Lord
Glengall, the Mayors of Kilkenny and Waterford, and
several o'her influential gentlemen connected with the
south-eastern counties, when it was resolved, not merely
to bring before the public the Limerick and Waterford
line, hut also a junction line between the Limerick and
Waterford railway and Kilkenny, either from Clonmel
or
Carrick. Titus the gentry of Kilkenny will have the
option of running a railway from their city into the Cashel

and Dublin Main Trunk Line, by Abbeyleix or Carlow—
so that in fact the south-east of lreland will have the
advantage of railway communication to the north and
east. A meeting will, we hear, be held at Clonmel in a
short time, for the purpose of combining all the agricul-
tural and mercantile interests of these wealthy portions of
the country in aid of this most interesting and laudable
undertaking.—Dublin Mail.