The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE.

It is intended to alter into the narrow the present wide
gauge between Gloucester and Bristol.
The formation of three distinct electric telegraph com-
panies is projected.
It is stated that " in future no subordinate is to be
taken into the Grand Junction Railway service whose
ttature does not reach five feet eight inches."
A Railway Club House is about to be established,
where persons of all ranks connected with railways may
meet for the interchange of information.
The Grand Junction have very judiciously determined
that after the 15'h of this month a conipaitment of a first
class carti.ge will be reserved for ladies le yelling alone.
There is some talk of leasing the North Union line to
the Grand Junction at 10 per cent. for stock A, and 7 per
cent. for sti ck B. and of the Preston and Wyre to the
Manchester and Leeds.
Sunderland has got Mr. Hudson as its representative.
and, what is perhaps of no less import-
ancend a
to 4 a consequence,it.thirclass carriages running to Newcastle at
9,1.. and to Shields at 4d.
THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.—It is probable, if
the experiments now taking place on the Exeter line
should be perfectly successful, that the atmospheric prin.
cipla may be adopted op all the pew lines of railway. in
cou4szion.With ths.Maacheateraad.Leado. , .

In the construction of railways, the importance of the
religious instruction of the labourers seems to be gene-
rally felt and acknowledged. The Leeds and BrAf,:rd
Railway Company have recently voted £2OO to the
" missionaries" who have been ministering to the spiri-
tual wants of the navigators and their families.
The reduction of fares on the Manchest, r an I Leeds
has increased the number of travellers twenty-six per
cent. during the last. halt-year. The charge for a late
excursion from Nottingham, through Liverpool, to the
Menai straits. upwards of 500 miles, was only 14s Pas-
roomers are now carried on the Liverpool and Manchester
between the latter place and Patiicroft, the first class at
Id. and the second class at 1:d. per mile.
AMALGAMATION OF REMINGTON'S AND RASTRICK'S
DIRECT MANCHESTER RAILWAYS.—We have heard.
from a quarter on which we can rely, that deputations
have been appointed to arrange a meeting for an amalga-
mation of these two companies. If each partyis deter-
mined to proceed with his project, amalgamation is the
proper course. It has also been stated, that, if the above
two companies unite, the Leicester and Bedford will fol-
low in the wake, and that this will lead to an arrangement
with the London and York —Hero/Pi/h.
A HINT FOR THE COASTING TRADE.—A. correspon-
dent of the Hull Packet points out that a new feature in
the transit of goods is now taking place between London
and the outpor s; goods which used to be borne coastwise
are now carried by railway. 140 che-ts of tea were sent
hence on Tuesday last, in bond, and would reach London
by return of post.
The shareholders of the Direct Northern line have
ag eed to re-organise their company, and again to appear
before Parliament. Mr. Miller, the new engineer, pro-
poses a railway which will be ten miles shorter than the
London and York. The capital of the new company is
to be £4 000,000, divided into 160.000 shares of £25 each.
The contest of the last session cost about 304. per share.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND JUNC-
TtoN RAILWAY.—This Company and the North Derby-
shire Union Company have now been formally amal-
gamated. The first rneetiog of the Provisional Direc-
tors took place on Tuesday last, when Wilson Overend,
Esq.. the active and intelligent magistrate of this district
was unanimously elected Chairman of the Consolidated
Committee.
AMALGAMATION OF LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAYS.—
The Leeds In elligencer says, " We learn, from un-
doubted authority, that the Great Grimsby, the Sheffield
and Lincolnshire, and the East Lincolnshire railways, on
Thursday last amalgamated, at par with the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway; the last-mentioned railway pay-
ing 5 per cent. on all calls upon the three railways until
they are made, which will he within two years."
COMPARATIVE COST OF RAILWAYS IN GREAT BRI-
TAIN AND IRELAND.—On examining the return of the
number of new railways for which arts were obtained last
session, it appears that the difference in the cost of con-
struction is very considerahly in favour of Ireland. For
example : acts were obtained for the construction of
1895/ miles in England and Wales, at an estimated ex-
pense of £28.342,047. being at the rate of £14,561 parr
mile. Scotland obtained acts for 4384 miles, and the
estimated expense of £6,549 500, being an average cost
of £14,913 per mile. Ireland obtained acts for 6141
miles of new railway, and the estimated expense is
£7,598,035, which gives an average of only £11,790 per
mile. Capitalists, who desire permanent investment,
should not overlook the important fact of cheavess in
the construction of our Irish railways.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On Wednesday, a
special general meeting of this company was held at the
Cotton Sales' Room, in the Exchange-buildings, for the
purpose of rais'ng further capital,consolidating the paid-up
shares, and on other special affairs. The meeting was
most numerously attended. Mr: Charles Lawrence pre-
sided. Mr. Booth read the report. The directors con-
gratulated the proprietors on the successful issue of their
application to Parliament for an Act to consolidate the
Rdron and Leigh, Liverpool and Manchester;and Grand
Junction Railways ; and they announced their intention
to recommend Junction Stock to the favour of the raetlic,
by abolishing all charges on the registering of transfers,
or on the issue of endorsement of certificates. They
propose, for the future, to discontinue the payment of
intermediate quarterly dividends, and immediately to
issue new quarter shares, to be allotted in the pro-
portion of one new 'quarter to the holder of each £lOO
Grand Junction share, or of shares amounting in the ag-
gregate to .£ICO With a view to proportion the respective
capitals of the Grand Junction and Manchester Compa-
nies, a surplus balance of £29,613 will he carried to the
credit of the amalgamated company. Tt,e directors pro-
posed a bonus of ..t2 per share to the holders of the 22,033
Grand Junction shares, and to the holders of the 22,033
eighths shares a bonus of Is. fir each one-eighth share,
making together .E. 45.167, and leaving a balance of .£306
to the debit of profit and loss account. It was also
stated, that the contiug"nt claim to a residue of back
interest on the Liverpool and Manchester old •hares,
must be considered to cease and determine ; as, in
future, there will be but one common turd appli-
calle to the purposes and for the benefit of the pro-
prietors indiscriminafrly, of the Amalgamated Grand
Junction Company. The Chairman, having thanked the
proprietors for electing him as president, announced, that
the directors had entered into a satisfactory ari augment
with the Birkenhead, Lancashire. and Cheshire, and also
with 'he Birkenh ad and Manchester compani-s. Fle
then moved that this company subscribe £277.780 to-
wards the capital authorised to be raised by the Trent
Valley Railway Act, and that such sum be raised by the
creation of 13,889 new shares in the Grand Junction
Railway, of the v lue of £2O each. The next resolution
consolidated into stock the shares of the company. The
third created for general puruoses 21,787 new shares of
£25 each. The res-ilutions were passed. It was agreed that
in future the dividends be p gable arty, and that
the remuneration of the directors hence'orwaret be £l.BOO
per annum. It was further agreed, that the directors
should endow the new church at Crewe, to such an
amount as would satisfy the bishop. (the minimum being
stated at £1,000.) and to give to the clergyman such ad-
ditional sum as would make the salary £2llO per annum ;
and the directors were authorized to consider the best
form of presenting John Moss, Esq., the late chairman,
with some testimonial, either in the shape of a full. length
Portrait of himself, or otherwise, for his valuable services.
The meeting then separated.

A novel but excellent drinking•cup, manufactured from
Mackin's waterproof fabrick, is advertised in our paper
to-day.—lt is perfectly pliable and an excellent thing for
a pic-nic party._

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DRAPERY.-It will be seen by an advertisement in
another pare, that the valuable and well-assorted stock of
Messrs. Martindale. Brothers, of Ranekgh street, has
been purchased by Mr. John Briscoe, at such prices as
must offer to purchasers decided advantages.
An exceedingly light and ingenious scalp, which, unlike
ordinary wigs. is manufactured without a stitch, has been
invented by Mr. Fox, of Bold• street, and bids fair to
surpass anything that has preceded it. It will, no doubt,
be exten4vely used. .

Intelligent as most certain!y the community now are,
comparatively with the state of society io former times,
still there appears to have been one essential ove►looked
in the search for intelligence and happiness How often
do medical men recommend exercise to their pa•ients for
Indigesoion, Liver Complaints. Costiveness, Sick Head-
aches, &c. Females leading an inactive life, and thou-
sands of both sexes are, through their sundry avocations,
debarred from that exercise in a pure atmosphese which
is essential to health ; to all such, therefore, we wooli
recommend the occasional use of that excellent Family
Medicine, " Frampton's Pill of Health," which, as a re-
storative, a gentle aperient, and a promoter of a healthy
action of the system, stands unequalled in public estima-
tion. •

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIA-
TION AND BENEVOLENT FUND.—It will be perceived by
our advertising columns that our esteemed townsman,
Mr. John Jones, who conducted the Exchange News-
rooms so many years, has been appointed agent to this
excellent assi.ciation. On its first formation some five
years ago, when a deputation of the managers visited Li-
verpool, we took occasion to point out the benefits likely
to be derived from such an association. Of course we
could only speak of what correct principles, carried nut by
superior judgment and supported by influence, might ac-
complish. The society was then comparatively untried,
and our antcupations in perspective. But now the case is
d fferent. The transactions of the society have long
ceased to be mere matters of supposition or anticipation,
and have become subjects for the historian. The table itt
Hercules and the Waggoner was perhaps never more for-
cibly illustrated than in the rise and pr.( gress of this .4,-
ciety, found, d in 1840, by a few individuals employed in
mercantile and banking pursuits, for their mutual benefit.
The little band who first rallied round the standard felt
that while they were scrupul-usiy attending to the inter•
eats of their employers there was still a duty they owed to
themselves ; and that instead of trusting to the uncertain
resources of eleemosinary charity, there was a mode by
which those contingencies, to which all are liable, might
be met by their own individual prudence. The plan of
mutual assurance was broached, and the principals, to
mark the sense in which they estimated uhe exeitions of
their clerks to become independent, magnificently sub-
scribed upwards of £lO,OOO to form a benevolent fund to
meet those cases which were not embraced by the benefit
department, thus affording to all who enrol themselves
members advantages of. the most superior kind. Such
has been the success of the benefit or assurance depart-
ment, that since its formation, five years ago, only one
m i death has occurred, and the whole of the preums re-
ceived, minus some £3OO for management, expenses, and
the XlOO paid on the death alluded to, have.been invested
in goverrinient securities in the names of some of the first
commercial men in London as ti asters. To mark the
sense of approbation :end confidepc,-, bestowed upon this
society by cl,rks and principals, many hundreds have al-
ready joined its ranks; and at the elec'ion of two addi-
tional widows t,f clerks, as annuitants of £l5 each, in May
last, the liberal sum of £lOOO was subs,ribed at the din-
ner the same evening. We are informed that very shortly
a deputation will vis t us again, and we sincerely hope t.hat
in the meantime the prudent and careful will lose no time
in making themselies acquainted, through Mr Jones,
with the rules, &c., that when the deputation arrive- they
may have the pleasure of reporting that there is a Inrge
number in this town who are determined to proyide against
a rainy day. and avail thttenselves of those leg•titnat, means
which this association, affords. The Batik of England,
and a vast majority of the joint-stock banks, have unhe.
sitatingly afforded their support and patrou!tge, and we
most heartily tender our beet wishes for its prosperity.

Same dav, at Christ's Church, by the Rev. F. Ould,
Mr. John Knowles, merchant, of Dundalk, Ireland, to
Mary, third daughter of the late R. Holliday. Esq., of
Woodplumpton.
Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Abraham
Thomas to Emma, eldest daughter of Mr. Morris, coach-
proprietor, Oldhall-street.
Same day, at Blackburn, H. J. Hollinshead, Esq., of
Lincoln's-inn, to Margaret, eldest daughter of J. Neville,
Esq.. Beard wood, near Blackburn.
On the 12th inst., at Walton•on-the-Hill, by the Rev.
G. R. Moncrieff, Leo Schuster, Esq., of Manchester, to
Mary, second daughter of J. Howard, Esq., of Brook-
house, Walton.
On the 13th inst., at St. Anne's Church, Mr. Henry
M'Coy, stationer, to Miss Mary Elen Abbott, youngest
daughter of the late John Abbott, E•q., both of this town.
On the 13th instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the
Rev. James North, Mr. Arthur Grindrod, auctioneer,
second son of the late Mr. Arthur Grindrod, stone ma•
son, of this town, to Elizabeth Harrison Milne, only
daughter of the late Mr. Jiiseph Milers, of L-ndon, and
niece. to Mr. Edmund Platt, of the Blind Asylum.