The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY IN TE LLIGE CE.

A man has been killed on the Brighton Railway, near
Gay ward's Heath-station, by an engine passing over his
body while lying, in a drunken state, across the rail.
GERMAN RAILROADS.—It appears from an official
return that, at the end of August last, there bad been
completed in Germany 475 French leagues of railroads,
and that the capital employed amounted to 136,000,000 of
florins (about £10,900,000 sterling).
At the Harve and Rouen meeting the report and ac-
counts were received with every satisfaction. The direc-
tors say they look for the opening of the line in the au-
tumn of 1846. With regard to expense, it is stated that
the costs of the works are within t, e estimates, but this
saving has been nearly balanced by the greater expense of
the land.

The Paris and Rouen Railway shareholders hsve de-
clared a dividend of 24f. 70c. per share, payable on and
after the 7th instant at Messrs. Lafitte, Blount, and Co's.
The gross receipts of traffic for the half-year are stated to
have been 3,855,591 f. The expenditure has been at the
rate of 47-195 per cent. on the receipts. An increase is
exhibited in goods traffic, which it is expected will fur-
ther improve.

RAILWAY PROSPERITY.—MI. Wills, of Liverpool, in
his weekly- Share List, dated on Saturday last, states that
the increase in traffic receipts, since the 30th June, on the
leading lines in that week's Share List, as compared with
the corresponding period of last year, amounts to nearly
£230,000, and affords incontestible evidence of the un-
abated and increasing prosperity of railway property.—
Railw iy Record.

RAILWAY AND COACH FARES.—It was stated by Mr.
Chaplin, the great coach proprietor, before the railway
committee of 1858, that the average rate of coaching fares.
previous to the introduction of railways, was about did.
per mile inside, and 2id. per mile outside. According to
a paper laid before the committee of last session by Mr.
Laing, of the Board of Trade, the average fares of the
leading railway companies were, at the date of his evidence,
about 3d. per mile first class, and 2d. per mile second
class. Including the third class, especially since the re-
cent reduction, the average would be considerably lower
—Railway Record.

THE HUDDERSFIELD AND SHEFFIELD JuNcrioN
ItatusvAv.—This will complete the line for traffic from
Huddersfield and other towns to the north of it. It com-
mences at the intended station of the Leeds and Dews-
bury, and the Huddersfield, Ashton and Manchester
Railway, proceeds along the same tunnel to Bury, Crew,
Smithy Place, Brokenholes, Shipley, Denby Dale, Dun-
kirk, Iloyland Moor, &c. to the Sheffield and Manchester
Railway, near Penistone. Besides opening a line for the
traffic to the south, this project will secure a mt:ch
cheaper supply of coal and lime than heretofore, for the
extensive manufacturing districts surrounding 11 udders;
field.

THE NORTHUMBERLAND RAILWAY.—Mr. Hudson
has addressed a letter to Lord Howick, in reply to one
from his lordship, re'ative to this line. He urges, in re-
ference to his lordship's opposition, that the company
who have carried railway communications as far north as
Newcastle have a good claim to execute the remaining
link between London and Edinburgh, which his lordship
had kept out of view. He denies that the deviations from
the original line were made to deprive Lord Howick's
line of support, and concludes by saying, on the part of
the company with which he is connected, that they have
no apprehensions as to the result when they leave the
merits of the two projects to the judgment of parliament.
BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—A spe-
cial general meeting of this company was held at Bir-
mingham on Thursday„ when it was resolved to apply to
parliament for power to divert the present line at Abbott's
Wood, passing close to the city of Worcester, and north-
wards through the town and salt works of Droitwich, re-
suming the present course of the railway about a mile to
the southward of Stoke ; and an extension line from
Droitwich to Wolverhampton, passing through or near
to the towns of Kidderminster, Stourbridge, and Dudley.
A. resolution was then proposed to raise £500,000 in
10,000 shares of £5O each, guaranteeing 4 per cent of mini-
mum, divided after the works were completed. Mr.
Wotherspoon, of this town, stated that such a guarantee
was uncalled for and unfair to the proprietors of the ex-
isting line, and moved that the provision relative to it be
omitted, which was eventually carried, on the understand-
ing that another special meeting should be called if the
capital could not be raised without the guarantee.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—A very in-
fluential meeting of the shareholders in this company was
held last Monday afternoon, at York, for the purpose of
sanctioning an application to Parliament, in the ensuing
session, for power to enable the company, or some other
company in connexion with them to make the following
lines of railway : namely, a line from the York and North
Midland Railway to Doncaster, one to Harrowgate, ano-
ther from Selby to Goole, and a railway from the York
and North Midland (Scarborough Extension Railway) to
Bridlington and Driffield, and to raise the necessary capi-
tal.—Mr. G. Hudson took the chair. He stated that the-
Goole line would cost XlOO,OOO. The one to Bridlington,
which would be nineteen miles in length, would cost
£BO,OOO. The Whitby and Pickering! had already been
purchased for £BO,OOO, the original cost being £130,000.
The sum required altogether for these lines was £635,000.
There were 190 miles of railway, and the whole would be
constructed at about £lO,OOO per mile. The capital of
the company, with the new creations, was £1,895,000.—
The following resolution was then adopted :—" That, in
order to raise fund for the purposes aforesaid, an addi-
tional capital of £632,500 be raised by the creation of new
shares of £25 each, and that such shares be offered in the
first instance to the proprietors who shall have been re-
gistered in the books of the company on the 22d day of
November next, in the proportion of one new share to
every £5O share, including the Leeds and Selby £5O
shares ; and far every two £25 shares, including the
Leeds and Selby, and York and Scarborough shares of
that amount, and that a deposit of £1 ss. per share be
paid thereon at the bankers of the company, on or before
the sth of December next; that provision be made in the
act or acts for the payment out of the additional capital
, of interest at the rate of X 4 per cent. per annum, to hold-
-1 ers of such new shares for thamount of their subscrip-
. amount
non, till the works he completed, after which the new
shares to form part of the capital stock of this company."