The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-07 00:00:00

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MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANY.
—On Friday, at twelve o'clock, the half-yearly general meet-
ing of this company took place at their offices, London-road,
Manchester. Thomas Ashton, Esq., of Hyde, chairman of
the board of directors, in the chair. After the report of the
directors had been read, a long discussion took place in refer-
ence to the delaration by the Manchester and Leeds Com-
pany of their inability to carry out the agreement some time
ago entered into between the two companies respecting the
proposed tunnel junction at Hunt's Bank. In the course of
the discussion, Mr. Thomas Greig read copies of letters which
had passed between the respective hoards of directors during
the time the negotiations on the subject were going forward,
and strongly censured the directors of the Manchester and
Leeds Company, by whom, he said, the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Company had been grossly deceived.—ln answer
to a question from Mr. David Price, it was stated by Mr.
Newbery that the project of a tunnel junction was not dropped,
but it was in the hands of the committee of shareholders al).-
pointed on the 2d of September last, and by the decision of
that committee, to be sanctioned afterwards by a general
meeting of shareholders, would the directors be guided.—
(Hear, hear.) The report of the directors was unanimously
adopted, and a dividend of £1 per share was declared, such
dividend to be payable to the proprietors, free from income-
tax, on or after Saturday, the 18th inst.—ln reference to the
dividend, Mr. Newbery said he thought it right to explain
that a small proportion only of the profits, out of which it
-'is declared, had been realised within the last six months,
remainder being an accumulation of profits, arising from
'us working on partial openings of the line. He made
'went in order that the shareholders might not feel
at the uext half-yearly meeting, the dividend
was something less than the present. Thanks
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BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The thirteenth half-
yearly meeting of this company was held at Bristol on
Thursday last. The following are extracts from the report,
which was agreed to and gave great satisfaction :—" Your
directors have much pleasure in reporting to you the present
state of your undertaking. The amount of fixed rent and
share of toll which the Great Western Railway Company
have stated to be due to this company, for the half-year
ended on the 13th of December last, is ag follows, viz.:—
Fixed rent, from the 14th June, 1842, to 30th
June, 1842, from Bristol to Bridgewater.. £1,397 5 2
Ditto, from Ist July to 13th December, 1842,

from Bristol to Taunton.,
Share of toll on passengers
On merchandise

19,328 15 4
4,453 9 3
304 1 9

£25,413 21 6
Making your present income from the line to Taunton about
£51.000 a-year ; but your directors consider you to be en-
titled to a sum of between X4OO and X5OO more, for fixed rent
for the half-yeaa ? and have no doubt of obtaining a satis-
factory arrangement of this question with the lessees. By
the Engineer's Report, it will he seen that the additional
distance of nearly nine miles from Taunton to Beambridge
will be ready to open for public traffic earlier than the agree-
ment with the Great Western Company requires; whereby
the sum of £2,500 out of the £7,500 conditionally received,
will be absolutely secured; besides an additional rent of
£lOOO a-year for opening that place, over and above the
other mileage, rent. and toll. You will find by this report,
that the whole line to Exeter will be ready to open in the
course of next year: consequently long before the stipulated
period. Three contracts, comprising more than five miles of
the line between Cullompton and Exeter, are advertised to
be let on the 17th instant; and the remaining portion, in-
cluding the station at Exeter, will soon be likewise put under
contract. Your directors recommend to you to declare a
dividend of .:61 Bs. per share, for the half-year ending on the
6th of April next, payable after the 30th of the same month,
free of income tax."

DARTMOUTI3.—There is now growing at Brookhill, the
residence of A. H. Holdsworth, Esq., at the entrance of the
river Dart, a mimosa, of most delicate foliage, and covered
with a profusion of yellow flowers. It is 20 feet high, was
raised about 12 years since, from a seed brought from the
Cape of Good Hope, and during the whole time it has with-
stood the rigour of our climate, which indeed is scarcely felt
warm and sheltered spot.—Exeter Gazette.

DINARY SHOT OF WOOD PIGEONS.—Mr. James
Corlass, a gamekeeper to P. Ainsworth, Esq., a few daS ago
killed and gathered seventeen of this feathered tribe at one
shot, which weighed from twenty to twenty-nye ounces each ;
and, singular to state, in consequence of a dislocated shoul-
der of the keeper, his gun was only very slightly charged.
This immense slanghter was accomplished by the following
stratagem :—Mr. Corlass is in the habit of laying food for
the pheasants in the wood, in a long and narrow train, which
had evidently been discovered by these plundering wood-
pigeons, and they had from time to time levied large contri-
butions upon their golden-feathered neighbours. The keeper
secreted himself in a small wooden hnt, near to this inviting
train, and when the number of birds appeared sufficiently
close and clustered. "bang" went the gun, and seventeen
were numbered amongst the dead; besides others wounded and
lost in the valley beneath, which is thickly covered with
brushwood and densely-studded whins. —Bolton Chronicle.

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H. m . H. m . F. I.
Tuesday. 7 217 234 14 5 Perpetna.
Wedoes. 3 254 315 13 0 M ars rises Ih. 20m. morn
Thursday 9 340 4 7 11 7 Jupiter rises 6h 41rn morn
Friday.. 10 443 522 io Spturn rises 411 38m morn
Saturday I 6 9 653 JO II Venus rises 411 51m morn
srm clay.. ;2 738 814 1 i g 2nd Sunday in Lent.
Monday. 13 10 24 10 .3 13 11 Mars rises 1h 12m morn.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING
(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

AFRICA

Brutus, C Balberney, - 333 Africa, H Smith &Co
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Gondola, T Warnock, • 10 Barbados, Claypole
Agnes, G Green, 267 Kingston, Jamaica, J Poole & Co
SOUTH AMERICA.
Nightingale, T Hunter, 263 Pernambuco,
Good Intent, —. 592 Pernambuco,

J liolliwell
Eshelby & Co

UNITED STATES.
Sheridan, J Cornish, 102 New York, Brown, Shipley 8z Co
Rockshire, E W Jackson, 563 Mobile, T Froste
Jupiter, L Rose 412 Mobile and New Orleans, Bell & Co
,
Anne Armstrong, R Bolton, 781 New Orleans, Bolds & Starkey
_ -

_.
BRITISH AMERICA. .-
George Glen, R M'Bride, 227 Montreal, Eshelby & Co
Calliope, P Harvey, 671 St. John, N.B, Rankin &Co
True Blue, J Tomlinson, . 233 Pictou and Tatmagouche,

Cannon, Miller & Co
Leo, Murphy, 25a Quebec, W Quayle
Charlotte, J Farrie, 37g Quebec, T Hudson
364ArQicuheabteacnd Quebec, .1 Poole Alcyone, M Johnstone. 391
Ie Hudson
Co
Acadia, J Younger,
Mary Ann Henry, Clark, 491 Halifax, M•Calmont Brs &Co

EUROPE

Us Naples, J Moss & Co
152 Ostend, Brugues & Ghent,
Bahr, Behrend & Co
98 Wismar, J Rae
101 Gibraltar, Cotesworth
Jacobstadt, Bahr, Behrend & Co
8 Antwerp, Crain, Smith &Co
118444 IB%imireuitra& Strong
Alexandretta,
A Wilkin & Preston
H Smith 282 Trieste,h & Co
_ .

Lowther, W Hunter,
Roscoe, G Ellis,
Alert, C E Idman,
Catherine, P Williams,
Larch, A Stewart,
Sancho Panza, W Sadler,

, --.........—
Ann & Elizabeth, E Roberts, 124 Genoa, Cram &Co
Lucy, T Woodcock, og Barcelona, Bahr, Behrend & Co

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,

ON THE IST 01, MARCH, 1842

'From the United Service Journal.)

Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which
the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.]

Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park , 3gth—Madras; Canterbury.
and Ditto—Windsor I 40th Foot—Bombay ; Chatham
Royal 11. Guards—Regent's Park 4 ist—Madras ; Chatham
Ist Dragn Gds.—Canada; York I 42d—Cephalonia; laid of Wight
2d—Nottingham 43d—Canada; Enniskillen
3d—Birmingham 44th—Bengal; Chatham
4th—Dublin 45th—Cork
sth—Dublin 46th—Barbadoes ; Templemore
6th—Glasgow 47th—Berbice ; Castlebar
7 th— Woolwich ; C. Good Hope 48th—Gibraltar; Guernsey
Ist Dragoons—Manchester
50th—Ben
Wales;wick
; 4gth—China ; Chatham
2d—Exeter gal ; Chatham
ad—Bengal; Maidstone 51st—N.
Athlone
4th—Brightun
6th—Piershill 52d—Edinburgh
7th Hussars—Canterbury. 54th— Belfast
s—New South
ii.
Bth—Hounslow 55th—China; Chatham
gth Lancers—Bengal ; Maidst. 56th—Birr
10th Hussars—Ba lincollig 57th—Madras ; Chatham
1i th Hussars, York 58th—Chatham
lath Lancers— oundalk sgth—Barbadoes ; Jersey
13th Light Dragoons—lpswich 60th(lst battalou.)— Manchester
14th—Bombay; Maidstone (2d batt.)—Jamaica; Newry
lath Hussars—Madras; M'stone 61st—Neweastle-on-Tyne
16th Lancers—Bengal; M'stone 626—Bengal; Chatham
17th Lancers—Leeds
63d—Madras ; Chatham
Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.) 64th—Halifax ; Tralee
St. George's Barracks. 65th—Manchester
(2d batt.)—St. John's Wood. 66th—Glasgow
(3d batt.)—Tower 67th—Plymouth
Coldstream Guards—(lst batt.) 68th—Canada; Perth
MI indsor. 6gth—Dublin
(2d battt) Portman.st. Barracks 70th—Canada; Waterford
Scotch Fusileer Grds—(lst batt) 71st—Canada; Isle of Wight
Wellington Barracks. 726—801t0n
(2d batt.)—Winchester 736—Newport
Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar 74th—Canada; Cashel
(2d batt.)—Canada; Charles F.
75th—C. of G, Hope; Chatham
2d Foot—Bombay; Chatham 76th—Fermoy.
3d—Bengal; Chatham 77th—Jamaica; Tilbury Fort
4th—Madras; Chatham 78th—Bombay; Chatham
sth—Gibraltar; Cork.
79th—Gibraltar; Aberdeen
6th—Portsmenth
80th—N. S. Wales; Chatham
7th—Gibraltar; Brecon. 81st—Antigua; Athlone
Bth—Dublin
82d—Jamaica; Boyle
gth—Bengal ; Chatham 836—Canada ; Armagh
10th—Bengal; Sheerness 84th—Madras ; Chatham
1 ith—Weedon.
12th—Mauritius; Isle of Wi 85th—Canada; Nenagh.
lath—Bengal; Chatham ght. 86th—Bombay; Chatham
lath—Canada; Londonderry 87th—Mauritius; Paisley
15th—Chester
88th—Malta; Stirling.
89th—Canada; Naas
16th—Portsmouth
9921d—
s t—Cape
dtSets ; .1.1
17th—Aden ; Chatham 90th—Ceylon ; Dublin
18th—China ; Chatham
20th—Bermuda ; Isle of Wight
19th—Malta; Brighton Deltmenade;el.W.
936—Canada • Carlisle
94th—Madras; Canterbury
23d—Canada;
t_—Cßenada la
Isle Canterburo w.i ye
11 t
95th—Ceylon; Sheerness
22d—Bombay; Chatham
96th—N S Wales ; Canterbur
24th-Davenportt 97th—Cr : ' - • Isle of

iiith—Corfu; Wight
98th—China ; Gosport
99th—N. S. Wales; Chatham
Rifle Brigade (Ist batt)—Malta
(2d batt.)—Halifax. N.S.
Ist W. Ind. Refit.—llemerara, &c
2nd—Jamaica
3d—Sierra Leone

26th—China; Chatham
27th—C. Good Hope ; Mullingarj
28th—Bombay; Chatham

Ceylon Rifles—Ceylon
Cape Mounted Riflemen--Cape

of Good Hope.

R. canadian Rifle Reg.—Canada
Royal Newfd. Veteran Company
—Newfoundland
Royal Malta Foneibles—Malta
St. Helena Regt,—St. Helena.