The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-03 00:00:00

•ogatories no reply was given, and the annoyance was
Aggravated by the grins and chuckling of the hours at their
After some time consumed in this manner, a gen-

io so. t

) London might
I,;ndmost train; and that those
safely brought back from
ouncement induced a large
train, and wade
the, mud and clay, which was up to their knees,
ch was to take them bac
sion of this di
the foremost train began to advance
e minutes became again stationary, and after some

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tuber to

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dvanced

) yards, to

About half a

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propne

Further delay Mr. Hall, who struggled most manfully through
a perfect quagmire of clay, informed the whole of the anxious
Igineer, Mr. Braithwait, would not hold
circumstances for the further

y that the

niSelf responsible-under the

progress of the train, and therefore it would return to Lon-
don with the company. It did accordingly return, and after
some further delay, the various visiters and proprietors
reached the Shoreditch station by six o'clock. Without
giving any opinion with whom the blame rests for this dis
appointment, because at the meeting of the proprietors that
subject will be fully discussed, and from the feeling excited
by this failure a very strong degree of exasperation exists,
we must say that very great blame attaches somewhere, and
that the proprietors and those invited were treated in a man-
ner which deserves the severest reprehension.
SHEFFIELD,'ASHTON-UNDER.LYNE, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held on Tuesday last, at the Albion Hotel, Manchester;
John Parker, Esq., in the chair.—Tbe Chairman said that
the directory had no longer such difficulties to contend with
as they had for a time experienced. Since the last meeting,
they had realised a large sum by the re-issue of the forfeited
shares; besides which they had obtained £50,000 from the
Exchequer Loan Commissioners, and £52,000 from the public
on mortgage security. The company were obliged to go to
Parliament for an extension of the time for purchasing land,
and in this bill power would heobtained to raise a further capital
of £600,000, and to limit the number of directors to ten.—Mr.
James Perry, of Dublin, read the report of the directors.
Since the partial opening of the line, in November, 1841,
the gross receipt, principally for passengers, had been, to the
31st December last, £14,065 Os. 2d. ; which, when the ex-
penses were deducted, would leave a balance in favour of the
company of £3,914 ss. 11d. Since the first opening to
Godley, down to the present day, involving a period of six-
teen months, although the number of passengers conveyed
amounted to 512,276, being 43,275 of the first class, 79,102
i,f the second class, and 389,899 of the third class, not a
single accident had occurred by which injury had been sus-
tained by any one passenger. Since the last half-yearly

meeting contracts on very advantegeous terms had been eni-
tered into for the construction of the Diming Vale Viaduct,
the intervening portion of the line from thence to the western
face of the Su mtnit Tunnel, and also another portion near the
town of Sheffield, and the works comprised in these con-
tracts were progressing with activity. The operations

the tunnel were extended. so as to insure the complt
,n, by the end of the year 1844 of the whole of that stt

Should no

unforeseen difficulty arise, the directors entertained a well-
grounded expectation that the whole of the railway would be
ready for the conveyance of passengers and goods early in
1845. They were happy in being further enabled to state,
that the.letting, of the late contracts fully justified the opinion

they had always entertained, that the works would be finished
within the sum mentioned in the published estimates by Mr.
Locke. The projected branch railways to Ashton'-under-
Lyne and Stalybridge, and also to form a junction with the
lv—th °-"--- -• had been postponed
measures not having

or the present, in consequence of th,
net with th-, support which the directors anticipated.
:oncluding their report, the directors assured the proprietors
hat it was their firm determination to conduct the affairs of
company with a dne regard to economy and efficiency in
The engineer's report was next read, and
he progress of the works
report was unanimously
kppleby, James Perry, J.
'y were re-elected without
Tr. Jnhn Chapman, a vote
to the chairman for his
dings ther, terminated.

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day, at Windsor

series of rows, f

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broken, and

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s. The property of the
the forms and benches

The police, who were ordered to-1;;

after the first outbrea