The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

LANCAMIRE ARD cornPaOY
pose, with the sanction ar Parliament, to increase t
et
rates for express train and first-class passengers to 6,1• Pro
mile, for second-class to 4d.' and for third-class to2d.i.
mile, the Parliamentary of ld.-per-mile class excePtebato
SOUTH-WasTtax RAILWAY.—Mr. Chaplin, 6" os
man, has recently paid up his £48,000, for which he_..m.t
in arrear with his comp y, an together with £4,000 Weir,
thereon, and Mr. Reed his £lO,OOO arrears ; 13t1 sor
Chadwick, we believe, still stands indebted to the c°
pany to a large amount. 11 Orr
At a meeting of the Scottish Central Railway' —°_,,„Ls
hold at Perth, on Tuesday last, a motion by the Mara.;:.l
of Breadalbane for a committee to inquire into the "a,
of the line was carried by 4938 votes, and £363,450 st,°„47
against 3886 votes, and £260,450 stock ; majority, ,Icta
votes, and £103,000 stock. The directors, being
signally defeated, immediately resigned.•
The officers of the London and North-Western I'4'
1'
way have raised £lOOO as a testimonial to Mr. Doc
1.4 ,8
the resident engineer of the Southern Division
of
line. £5BO of London and North-Western stock otts
has been purchased, and he has been presented witied
purse ,of 60 guineas. Mrs. Dockray has been Pre,se_ll4lo
with a handsome service of plate and with her llitsu'w

likeneas.
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SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—III a six MO total
return from the various lines of the kingdom, the tb°6o
number of passengers carried was 31,000,000, of wiafs,
about three millions and a half travelled by the first etla
12,000,000 by the second. and the remainder am fees of
to nearly 16,000,000, by the third. As to the and
this mode of travelling, it must now be surely D,eYt' of
question, even in the minds of the most timid• ring
a grand total of 57,960,784 passengers conveyed durn,lsool
period of twelve months, 21 only were killed, of w. 11,0.
12 met their deaths by their own carelessness or Inist'or
duct, leaving but nine bona fide casualties upon
58,000,000 ventures, and giving the odds of more t°

6,000,000 to I'in safety of travellers' safety. n en.
MR. HUDSON AGAIN.—This gentleman has been en.
deavouring to whitewash himself by a letter in the
which, unfortunately for his kingship, has called f,
two leaders from the Thunderer in reply, sinking his
jesty only still deeper in the mud : es
" In one place we find him confessing that what he did rat
wrong, not morally, but legally; in another, not legall)e.'iiist
perhaps morally; in another, that others would have dontiog'
the same in his place. Then follows a slippery transactO
which was clearly in his interest had all the esclandre not
place."

W,

t, tba.t.'g

e would particularly call attention to the point ti
one single material fact which was urged against big, "10*
committee of investigation does M o
r. Hudson attempt to, the
lidate. Whether you read his own letter or the report _1.1:i;
committee, you will equally find that he falsified the accoyo
paid dividends out of capital : by his jugglery procure Id Id
such shares as be desired should be allocated to him ; o,f the
own iron to the company; made illegal uses of the naule:'tteif
association, and engaged them in speculations withoutact
consent :—all these facts are found admitted in the Newllitie
manifesto, just as they are set forth in the accusation
committee. There is a difference in the lights and shado" '
none in the material objects. . . . • duct

Let it not be forgotten that every part of this man's co7irl
was but a link in the chain of policy so nefarious, that, to did
it out with success, he was driven to the desperate esPes
of falsifying the books of the company. Now he c003,..ee
ward, holds up each link in succession, and asks us if. ",ni,eo,
discern in it either crack or flaw. Mr. Hudson is inis'",,ost
Now that he has escaped the legal consequences of Ws 'foe
reckless and unprincipled management, his policy was We be
courted silence and obscurity. Whatever brings his 11°,,eilo
fore the public tells against him. He would have donect 10
even according to his own miserable notions of advanta,, tjF
have retired into an obscurity which might at least have
den his shame from public observation."