The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY MTh LLIGEA CE.

The Taff Vale Railway shareholders have resolved to
enter into a contract for working the line for a period of
seven years upon the principle of a per centage on the
weekly receipts.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic
of this railway has increased £lOO per week during the
lac, sir mnnflia. and at the apprnattiling meeting the line
will be in a position to pay a dividend at the rate of four
per cent. nn the present market value of the shares. The
tunnel recently formed to the river Mersey has only re-
cently been completed, and yet the goods traffic has in-
creased fully one-third over the same period of last year.

JUNCTION OF THE MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM
AND THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAYS.—
The intended route will branch off from the present Man-
chester and Birmingham Railway, near the iron skew
bridge in F:drfield-street ; then to pass bet Ween Granby
Row (London Road) and the river Medlcck, crossing
lower 'down over Oxford Road. near Oxford load Bridge,
continuing by the end of Messrs. Birley's water-proofing
cloth mill, by ivaythorn, through Hewitt-street, to Knott
Mill, &e.

The North British Railway Company have been-autho-
rised by the shareholders to make an application in the
ensuing session of parliament for powers to form a line
from the southern terminus of the Edinburgh and Dal-
keith Railway to the town of Harwich, and to raise an
additional capital of £400,000. by the creation of 32,000
,hares of £l2. 10s. each. The shareholders have also
permitted the subscription of £25,000. for part of the
stock of the projected Edinburgh and Dundee Railway.
Although the meeting was not quite unanimous, the ma-
jority VV;t sufficiently large to carry with strong feeling
the resolutions proposed on these subjects.

RAILWAY BUSINESS FOR NEXT SESSION.—The new
railways (or extensions, deviations, &c., of existing ones)
for England alone amount to no fewer than 195; those
for Scotland to 7; and those for Ireland 23—making a
total of 235-bills. The capital proposed to be raised for
these railways is enormous. Two of the Oxford lines
alone would cost, according even to present calculation,
4,000,000. The North Kent would cost £2,200,000; the
London and York £5,000,000; the London and Chat-
ham, and North Kent, 1.500,000; the Leed► and West
Riding Junction, £1,200,000; the direct Northern to
York, £4 000,000; the Central Kentish, £1,250,000.
LEEDS AND THIRSK RAILWAY.—At a meeting in
Knareshorough on Thursday, Lord Harewood in the
chair, it was resolved that this line of railway would be
much more beneficial to the inhabitants of that town,
than the Harrogate and Ripon junction.—Lord Harewood
said that he never had the honour of being in the chair at
so large a meeting wl ere there was more unanimity than
had been shows] in the passingof the resolution. lie had
opposed a former scheme for bringing a railway to Knares-
borough, because he thought it would not be of advantage
to that town; but when he heard of the Leeds and Thirsk
Railway, although it passed through seven miles of his
property, he did not oppose it, because he thought it
would promote the good of the districts through which it
passed. He was not a shareholder in the undertaking.
;nd he would not have given it any support had he not
thought it would benefit the town of Knaresbro'.
NORTH UNION RAILWAY.--A special general meeting
of this company was held yesterday, at the Clarendon-
rooms : Theodore Rathbone, Esq., presided. It was re-
solved—That the conditional agreement of the directors
to take a perpetual lease of the Southport and Euxton
Railway, upon a guarantee to the shareholders in that
company of 4 per cent. on a limited outlay and one-half
of the surplus profits, be adopted :—that the conditional
agreement of the directors with the Bibble Navigation
Company for making a branch to the River Ribble from
the North Union line at Preston, at the joint expense of
the two companies, be approved :—that the conditional
arrangement made between the directors and the Liver-
pool and Manchester Railway Company for ass amalga-
mation of the two undertakings, on the basis of each
£lOO Consolidated Stock of the North Union Company,
being considered equivalent to £64 7s. 6d. of the. Liver-
pool and Manchester or amalgamated Stock, be appro-
ved.

EDUCATION IN TIPPERART.—Has the spread of the
current knowledge tended much to improve the moral
condition and the happiness of our people, regarded as
members of private families, not of the great public family?
We are not afraid to give our answer—that we are con-
vinced it has not. In England, we suppose no one will
question that the troubles of the peace, the unhappy, dis.
contented, uneasy spirits, those who find home vapid and
flat, compared with the exctement of the Socialist lecture,
or the Chartist club, are just the class who have read and
and learned a good deal more than the ordinary run of
persons in their rank. And in Ireland, we speak without
fear of contradiction from our own knowledge—that vast
Aceldama, the county of Tipperary, is not inferior in the
ethieation of its inhabitants to any part of the United
Kingdom, or of Scotland. Not merely are ti;e acquisi-
tions of reading, writing, and arithmetic, po seated h; a
far greater propOrtion of the p-pulation than could be
found in any district of England, but besides, a very con-
siderable number of the sons of the humblest farmers are
both expert mathematicians, and well-grounded Greek,
Latin, and sometimes even Hebrew scholars. The coun-
try abounda with pedagogues, of the very lowest class,
and in the direst renury, but often admirable scholars,
and enthmiasts in the pursuit and love both of scientific
and literary pursuits. And yet, the moral sate of that
district remains, alas ! but too fearfully the same. The
Calculus and the Digamma have no tendency to prevent
assassination. The schoolmasters are not only the centres
of knowledge, but often the nucleus around which gather
the demons of incendiarism, burglary, and murder !-
-Dublin University Magazine.