The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

RAILWAY INTLLLIGEACE.

NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.—A deputation
from this company, consisting of Capt. Salmond, chair-
man; E. V. P. Burnell, Esq., vice-chairman; Montagu,:
David Scott, Esq., The Elms, Kingston, a director; Mr.
Gibbs, engineer; Mr. Sanderson, surveyor; Mr. DalDiS•
ten, secretary; Mr. Benn and Mr. Norton, joint solici-
tors; and Mr. Ellicombe, parliamentary agent; had an
interview with Lord Dalhousie at the Board of Trade, on
Tuesday, which we are confidently informed was satisfac-
tory.

THE RAILWAYS TO DERFHAM.—The two projects for
a railway to Dereham are now amalgamated ; and it is stated
that all material opposition on the part of owners of pro-
perty is at an end.
The fire at the New Cross railway station, which oc-
curred when Louis Philippe was present, has been traced
to the spontaneous combustion of some vegetable black in
the paint room.
The verdict of the coroner's jury on Mr. Varnalls,
another of the victims by the collision on the Midland
Cou: ties Railway, was delivered on Wednesday. It was
" accidental death," with a deodand of £l,OOO upon the
engine.

The competition between the Forth and Clyde Canal
Company and the Edinburgh Railway is so strong, that
the canal company are carrying passengers from Glasgow
to Edinburgh with a profit at less than a farthing a mile !
The increase of the traffic has made up for the reduction
in the amount of charge.
A meeting of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
railway company was held at Manchester, on Friday,
James Brancker, Esq., in the chair, at which it was re-
solved to unite and consolidate into one concern that
company with the Manchester and Leeds and Hull ar.d
Selby. Great dissatisfaction was expressed by many
shareholders at the proposed junction, and a committee
was formed to oppose it.
SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER) RAILWAY.
—We learn that Sir John Kirkland, Mr. W. H. Thomas
(deputy chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway),
and Mr. Robert Browne, of Liverpool, have been elected
directors of the London and Dover Railway, in the place
of General Hodgson, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., and Mr. L.
Cubitt, who have resigned ; and that Mr. Francis Mills
has been elected deputy chairman of the board of direc-
tors, in the pace of Mr. W. P. Richards, who has also
refired from the direction.—Somdard.

At a meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway
company, on Tuesday, it was resolved to raise in addition
to the present capital the sum of £281,250. by creating
22,500 new share• of £l2 10s. earh, to be paid at five
calls of £2 10iF,ea, h, in 1815 and 1816 ; the lle. sharts
to be apportioned. amongst the present shareholders. The
Chairman stated in t e course of his remarks that the di-
' rectors intend to proc?ed with the Stirling branch. A
short line to Carnpsie would also be formed. There was
likewi,e a.proposal for a junction with the Ayrshire line.
The new shares are to be distributed in the proportion of
one for every £5O of capital stock held in the company.
SOUTH WESTERN RA ILNITAY.At a special meeting of
this company, on r aturday, it was resolved to proceed with
the follow ng branches :—From Nine Elms terminus to
the vicinity of the Hungerford and Waterloo Bridges and
the Thames, and from Wimbledon to Epsom. From
Weybridge to Staines and Windsnr. From Woking-
common, by Guildford, Godalming, and Chichester, to
Portsmouth and F3reham, including the purchase of
the Guildford Junction Railway. From Hook-pit Farm,
on the main line of railway to Mottisfont on the Salisbury
branch, and from Salisbury to Sherborne and Yeovil, and
t) orchest.er anti Weymouth. From Basingstoke to the
Great Western Railway at Didcot and Swindon.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Wednesday, as two la-
bourers employed on the Souih-Eastern railway were on
their retunt from work-to Dover, and !,ad entered Abbott's
Cliff Tunnel, the up train passed them, and the noise of
the engine preventing their hearing the down train, which
entered the tunnel a few minutes afterwards, they being
on the rail, were knocked down and killed.—On Tues-
day, at King'r-bank, Hoghton• bottoms, on the new line
of railway now constructing between Blackburn and
Pres•ron, a large portion of the upper part of the hill, it is
calculated to the extent of nine or ten tons, gave way,
buryiog the men beneath. One of them must have been
crushel to death against the waggon instantaneously. The
second :was injured to a very dangerous extent. The
third was much less hurt.

NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE STANDING ORDERS.—
Among oilier defaulters the Barnsley and Goole Railway
did not deposit their plans with the Clerk of the Peace,
atWalcefield, on the 30th ultimo, and have cons,quently
tr)t complied with the standing orders of parliament.
The Lincolnshire and Sheffield Junction, from Lincoln
to Sheffield, with a branch to Gainsborough. have also
failed to deposit their plans in accordance with the stand-
ing orders. The latter project was under the guarantee
of the Sheffield and Manchester and Midland Companies.
Thisthange in the position of affairs is of very greet im-
portance to the London and York Railway, as it is now
the only line which forms a direct communication north
and south from London to York, placing all the towns
between the two cities on a main line, at the same time
that it effects the same important object for the whole
tract of country, east and west, from Liverpool to Boston,
which it does, in a continuous and unbroken chain, by its
junctimiwith tde Sheffield and Manchester, Manchester
and Leeds. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, and Newark
and Sheffield hallways. In fact, it most fully occupies a
vast space yet unoccupied by any railway; and places
Sheffield on a main line between Liverpool and Boston,
and between Liverpool and London 11 miles shorter than
the existing route. The plans and books of reference of
the London and York line, notwithstanding its extent of
320 miles, were nearly everywhere the first deposited,
and, so far as their appearance goes, are highly creditable
to the parties engaged upon them.—Standard.

,WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAYS.—Ork-W4'adrieta-
day last a very numerous and influential meeting of the
Leeds and West Riding Junction hallway Company, was
held at the Royal Hotel, Brighouse, near Halifax. Henry
Houldsworth, Esq., chairman of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway Company, was called to the chair, and
addressed the meeting at great length, explanatory of the
objects in view. They had been called together to receive
a report of the proceedings of the managing committee
apointecl at the last meeting held at Bradford, for the
purpose of maturing the plans of the committee and tak-
ing those preliminary steps necessary to enable them to
apply to Parliament ext session. As some misrepresen-
t,,tions had gone abroad, he entered into a brief history
of the origin of the company, and their desire to adopt
the p'an which would be approved by the district as the
best. With this view a negociation was opened with the
Manchester and Leeds company, and it was determined
that the most extensive surveys should be made, in order
to lay down such a system of ways as would be commen-
surate with the wants of the district, in which the traffic
was mare pecul tar than in the district comprised between
Leerr,s, Bradford, 'Halifax, Huddersfield, and Dusbury.
Great advantage would arise by laving down lines which
while they would shorten the di tance between Leeds and
Manchester on one hand, and Halifax and Leeds on the
other. would at the same time provide adequately for the
local traffics. The leading object for providing for the in:
ternal traffic, had been kept in view, and after some
months of extensive surveying, the engineer of the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway company had laid down a line
which was thought to be most likely to effect the object.
Those lines after having been duly considered by the gentle-
men connected with the district, hail been by them ap-
proved as the best calculated to provide for the wants of
the district. The next arrangement that they had to de-
termine upon was, as to the connexion that should exist
between the Manchester and Leeds Railway company and
the West Riding Junction company; and it was seen at
once that the greatest public advautage would result from
the West Riding Junction Lines being worked by the
Manchester and Leeds company ; experience having
shown in all cases that where the lines of independent
companies were united with eachother, great expense was
incurred by both companies, and great inconvenience was
entailed upon the public. It was impossible where the
management was divided to secure that harmony of action
in working the lines upon which the public convenience
depended, whilst unity of arrangement would secure the
most advantageous passage from one point to another.
Acting upon these considerations the West Riding com-
pany had agreed that the Manchester and Leeds company
should work their lines. He then entered into some ex-
planations of the traffic, and the low charges made for
goods and also passengers, the result of the last being
that they were now carrying about a million of passengers
in the half-year, at the rate of l a mile. Ac.commoaa-
lion had been made for third-class passengers, and the
directors had decided, in order to increase it, to add seats
and covers to such carriages. They were also engaged in
revising their rates and renewing their arrangements with
a view ro the bringing out on the Ist of January next what
might be called a new tariff, which he hoped would add
to the convenience of the publio as he trusted it would
*not be ineffectual in promoting the interests of the com-
pany. An officer had also been appointed to superintend
the passenger traffic and obviate all complaints. After
alluding to the fact that a large proportion of the share-
holders of this railway were Lancashire gentlemen, he
expressed his opinion that the connexion of the Manches-
ter and Leeds company with the West Riding Junction
company had secured an advantage to the district which
could not be achieved by the success of those other par-
ties who were candidates for supplying the district with
railways. Mr. Hawkshaw, engineer of the Manchester
and Leeds Railway company then explained in detail the
several proposed lines, the places through which they
would pass, &c. The chairman then said that the ar-
rangement come to was that there was to be independent
company, which had been designated the Leeds and West
Riding Junction company ; that they were to raise, in
conjunction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, a
capital of £1,400,000; and that one half of that capital
(as some proof of the interest which the Manchester and
Leeds company had in the undertaking, and the confi-
dence they felt in its success,) should be raised by them,
and that the other half of that capital should be raised by
shares in the district thiough which the proposed railways
were to pass. Upon that basis they had issued a pros-
pectus, and had allotted shares to the full amount, except
a small portion which had baen retained for proprietors
immediately connected with the district. The conditions
attached to this arrangement were these—that the Man-
chester and Leeds ltailway company, should, in the event
of the Act of Parliament passing, take a lease of the
lines when made—that they should guarantee, when any
portion of those lines was made so as to be workabl ,
interest upon the capital which might be expended by the
Leeds and West Riding company, at 4 per cent, per an-
num for the first five years, and atterwards 4i per cent.
Sonic satisfactory conversation and explanations then took
elaca, and the chairman read a correspondence between
the promoters of the Leeds and West Riding company,
expressive of a desire on the part of the former to amal-
gamate the two schemes into one, and the public advan-
tage of such a union.