The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACB.

It is in contemplation to run a line of railway from
Londonderry to Coleraine.

STOCKPORT AND ASHTON.—These towns are shortly
to be united by a railroad, in conjunction with the. Man-
chester and Birmingham line.
Arrangements are in progress for extending the New-
castle and North Shields Railway from its present terminus
at Shields to Tynemouth.

GLOUCESTER AND FOREST OF DEAN RAILWAY.—A
line under this title is about to be brought forward in op.
position to the South Wales Railway, and the inhabitants
of the locality give this the preference.
A line of railway is projected from Blackburn to Bolton
The line will pass within a few yards to the east of the
new church at Over Darwen, and proceed along the
Turt on Valley.

A REALLY " MONSTER" TRAIN.—One day last week
no fewer than eight thousand persons passed from .Leeds
and York to Hull, in three excursion trains! Not a sin-
gle accident of any kind occurred.

At the half-yearly meeking of the Sheffield and Mao-
chester Railway Company, held on Wednesday last, a
resolution was agreed to, authorising the directors to ap-
ply to parliament early in the ensuing session for leave to
form a junction with the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—Mr. Brunel and Mr.
Saunders will attend meetings on the subject of this rail-
way at all the chief towns between Chepstow and Melford,
on behalf of the Great Weztern Company, by whom this
line is projected.

The Sheffield and Rotheram Railway, it is stated, will,
from and after the 10th of October inst, be worked under
the control of the Midland Company. The basis of the
arrangement is a perpetual annuity at the rate of 6 per
cent. per annum, to be paid by the latter company.
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The Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings railway sharehold-
ers give the Brighton Company, on condition of taking
3,500 shares, the option of leasing the line within three
calendar months of its completion, at a rent of 42 per cent.
upon the cost of the works.

Friday was the nineteenth anniversary of the opening
of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which is the
oldest of the existing railways, and the first on which lo-
comotive engines were employed for the conveyance of
passengers and goods.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN R AILIVA V .—Apreliminary
prospectus of a railway with this name has recently been
issued. It is stated to be similar to a scheme which has,
at various periods since 1836, been before the public. The
capital is put down at £1,500,000, i❑ £25 shares: with a
deposit of £1 10s. per share.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The Directors
have closed with the government proposition of £35,000
per annum for ten years, for the conveyance of the mails,
and there is nothing to prevent the work being commenced
forthwith. The intermediate line, skirting this city, is,
we understand, the adopted one.—Chester Chronicle.
WEST CORNWALL AILWAY.—A railway with this
title is projected, in connexion with the Hayle Railway.
The capital is £lBO,OOO, in £2O shares, and a return of
upwards of ten per cent, is promised. Capt. W. S.
Moorsom is the Engineer; and at the head of a very in-
fluential Provincial Committee are the names of the local
members of Parliament.

A RAILWAY ON FIRE.—A portion of the Middles-
borough branch of the Stockton► and Darlington Railway
has been on fire ; but the traffic on it has been prosecuted
as usual. A large quantity of small coal had been used in
forming an embankment at the end of the bridge over the
'fees : this has ignited ; and great quantities of water have
been thrown on it, to estinguish it, in vain.

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.—Mr. Locke has re-
signed the situation of engineer to this line. The direc-
tors sent for Mr. Cubitt, the eminent engineer, to under-
take the onerous office vacated by Mr. Locke. They ex-
plained to him the situation in which they were placed by
that gentleman's secession. Afier a full examination Mr.
Cubitt pledged himself to place the Committee of Direc-
tion in a position to meet Parliament in ample time.
----Cbi---XnESTER AND DISS JUNCTION RAILWAY.—A
railway, with this designation, has been brought forward
in the course of the week by the principal parties in the
Norwich and Brandon line. It is intended to run from
the terminus of the Eastern Comities' Railway at Col-
chester, to the terminus of the proposed Diss branch of
the Norwich and Brandon. Of course it is in direct op-
position to the scheme of the Eastern Union Railway for
an extension from Ipswich to Norwich. The capital is to
be £600,000, in £2O shares. Mr. Robert Stephenson and
Mr. Bidder are the engineers.
On Monday week, a highly respectable meeting was
held at Waterford to consider the best means of promot-
Lig a direct line of railway to connect the ports of Lime-
rick and Waterford, through Clonmel and Cahir, to Tip-
perary, where the Limerick branch of the Great Dublin
and Cork main trunk is expected to terminate. The
Mayor took the chair, supported by the Earls Fortescue
and Huntingdon, and before the meeting broke up a sub-
scription of shares was entered into, headed by Earl For-
tescue and his Worship the Mayor, which amounted to
nearly £50,000.

DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Another candidate
appears in the field for the profits of a direct line to York,
claiming a priority of projection. It is proposed to com-
mence near King's-cross, in the New-road, and to pro-
ceed by Chipping, Barnet, Biggleswade, St. Neots, Hun-
tingdon, near Peterborough, and Market Deeping, by
Stamford, to the west of Bourn, east of Grantham, west
of Sleaford, and east of Newark to Lincoln, and thence,
by Gainsborough, Thorne, Snaith, and Selby, to York.
The length is 180 miles, and the prospectus says it will
be twenty miles shorter than any projected line.
CADIZ, SEVILLE, AND XERES RAILWAY.—A line of
railway has recently been surveyed between Cadiz, Ser-
ville, and Xeres, by Mr. Blunt, and will immediately be
brought before the public under the above title. The en-
gineering facilities are stated to be great, and the neces-
sary material abundant along the line, which is about 25
miles in length. Sir John Rennie is spoken of as the
Consulting Engineer, who reports specially upon Mr.
Blunt's line. The traffic in wines alone, independent of
the very large passenger traffic between Seville, Xeres,
and the only port which Spain possesses, promises a very
profitable return on the required capital, which is esti-
mated from £250,000 to 300,000 only.
RAILWAY CARRIERS.—It iS said that most of the
principal railways in the kingdom have come to the de-
termination of acting as their own carriers, and of dis-
carding the middle-men who have hitherto contracted with
the directors to convey goods hnd parcels for the public.
The lines which are said to have arrived at this resolution
are, the Great Western—the Grand Junction—the Bris-
tol and Exeter—the Birmingham and Gloucester—the
Bristol and Gloucester. If the public will derive any ad-
vantage from the change, they will hail it with satisfac-
tion. The pertinacity with which the Liverpool share-
holders on the South Eastern and Dover line forced the
subject upon the directors of that undertaking, and at
length compelled them to adopt it, is said to be the pri-
mary cause of the movement in other companies.
MAIDSTONE BRANCH RAILWAY.—On Tuesday, this
railway—a branch from the Dover line to Maidstone was
thrown open to the public. The distance from London to
Maidstone is 55 miles per rail, the greater portion of
which (46 miles) is travelled on the Dover line. The
new branch line is nine miles in length, and branches
off at Maidstone road station, the name of which is
now changed to Paddock-road-station. The branch
line is a single line of tails, but provision has been
made for the laying down of another line, should the
amount of traffic render this necessary. The establish-
ment of this branch line has been almost forced upon the
inhabitants of Maidstone, as a measure of self-defence.
Formerly Maidstone was the centre to which the vast
quantities of hops and fruit grown on the fertile plains of
Kent were all conveyed, to be thence shipped by the Med-
way Navigation to London : since the opening of the Do-
ver line of railway, the greater part, if not the whole of
this immense traffic, has left Maidstone, and was rapidly
forming central points on different parts of the Dover line ;
and the opening of this branch line is an attempt, in some
measure, to bring back this traffic to Maidstone.
SETTLEMENT OF THE DOVER RAILWAY DISPUTES.—
We are glad to find that a settlement has been made of the
important questions raised by the Liverpool and northern
shareholders. This timely adjustment of differences has
been brought about through the mediation of Mr. Card-
well, the member for Clitheroe. The arrangement ar-
rived at is highly creditable to that gentleman and his
brother directors, as, also, to the Liverpool proprietors,
and will, no doubt, prove extremely satisfactory to the
shareholders in general, as tending, in an eminent degree,
to improve the property and draw out its great resources
for revenue. There is to be an immediate election of two
new directors, both of whom will be nominated by the
northern interest; these two will be to supply existing
vacancies. Other vacancies are expected to occur, and,
as they do, will be filled up in exactly the same spirit. A
committee of three will at once be appointed to inquire
into and arrange the goods traffic of the line ; such com-
mittee to consist of the two directors chosen by the
northern holders and one other, thus giving the former
the majority. An Act of Parliament is to be applied for,
in the next session, to give the shareholders power of ap-
pointing directors, in a manner agreed upon, so as to give
the shareholders a right power over their property. We
believe, that, in the course of a few days, all the share-
holders will receive an official announcement from the
directors of the amicable arrangement which has been ar-
rived at.

The Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester Railway Com-
pany is working successfully, and the whole will be shortly
opened. Arrangements, it appears, have been made with
Lord Francis Egerton, and the Manchester and Birming-
ham Railway Company, for the formation of the South
Junction Railway through Manchester, to connect them-
selves with the Liverpool and Manchester Company, and
the river and canal navigations. Other measures for im-
proving the traffic of the line, in connexion with the Shef-
field and Lincolnshire, and Midland Railways, are also it;
progress, and the shareholders have confirmed them, aura
given the directors full powers to carry them out.
CREWE RAILWAY TRIP. CREWE, SEPT. 28.--A
cheap trip was given, on Wednesday last, to the school
children, their teachers, and friends, from Crewe to Al-
derly Edge and back, by the Manchester and Birming-
ham Company, charging sixpence each to the juveniles
and one shilling to the adults. Above a thousand booked
from the Crewe Station, which,, for this locality, is 3
large number. It is very much wished that .the Grand
Junction Company would give a trip from Crewe to Li-
verpool at a similar charge, which, it is thought, would he
mutually interesting. Perhaps the Liverpool inhabitants
would favour our " new town" with a visit if a cheap
trip were given them at a similar rate. While we are oe
this topic, it might be suggested that, after this had been
granted, the Crewe people would be glad to vi-it Birming-
ham, while, no doubt, the Birmingham people would
favour Crewe with a visit to see our really British colony.
Let these broad hints be " read, marked, and inwardly
digested " by all parties interested.
RAILWAY JOBBING.—There is reason for beliciing
that much improper jobbing exists in the shares of nevi
railway companies previously to their issue, against which
the public should be on their guard. To make this more
intelligible, we will suppose that a prospectus appears of
a particular railway, and the public are invited to subscribe
for shares, but that before the allotment takes place they
are marked on the Steck Exchange at a premium of X 1
or £2 upon £1 called. The actual al:otment is advertised
to take place two or three days after, and the public are
then informed that all who do not get letters of appro..
priation are to consider that no shares are to be had, in
which predicament may be placed a very large proportion
of the applicants. This was no very uncommon case
during the wholesale concoction of joint-stock companies
Whiclitook place in the year 1825, though since that period
until now projectors have been commonly too glad to re-
ceive applications from proper persons, and allowed the
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schemesclivisi oit
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among the most respeotAble and competent. So rapid,
of late, and so eager the demand for shares produced by
the success of those which have preceded them, that the
projectors have the opportunity, if they please, of reap-
ing a large and immediate profit, by throwing overboard
all or the greater part of the applicants and disposing of
shares in the open market to other parties, at a premium.
All such proceedings should be carefully watched, and the
company with which they originate be avoided as of a very
suspicious character. In fact the mania for new schemes
in railways is going on much too rapidly, and, if not
checked, will bring about, in a very short time, some very
serious consequences.—Times.