The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

SPO .R TING INTELLIGENCE

HEREFORD GRAND STEEPLE CHASE,
THURSDAY, FEB. 12.
The Handicap of 25 soya, each, with 100 added, was
won by Mr. Preston's Brunette, beating Cracksman and
Little Tommy.
A Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, 3 miles, was won be Mr
G. Moseley's Jerry. beating Gipsy Queen and the Mer-
chant.

Id another strirt a nv.oe,
the Yiva:z

ses will come on at the ensuing assizes at 1..;;erpool.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAl•.—Atgthe half-
yearly meeting, on We .nestlay, it was stated that one•
third of the earth-wilks were completed. Six hundred
and forty-one are employell, he,idrs 195 in Anglesta.
Arrangements have been made t:) have a joint-station at
Chester. A hathour of rriagp, endosing a space of
•ItA) acres, appeared at the end of the railway.
which ti e
Sportsman. I chairman slit) tentr.d one des/ rim! Li7!crPoq 13"

chahman said he frit ror.fitient no ot

nun would go throi
duets consideratly higher that; the monument and shatts
below St. Cathedral. Ile add( d that the plan of
the engineer to cross the Menai Straits would b,+ a monu-
ment of his talent and ingenuity.

Wales, a- the of

The London and Birmingham meeting, on Frivato de-
clared a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum, clear of pro'
.perty tax. The gross receipts on the half-year anitunce
to £542,702; the expenditure to £222,529; the u
ire
£320,173, applicable to the dividends, and tillage rest
for the next half-year.
recTehipetsbaalna
to 4th January, 1846, to be £2,296,395, and the tra
account of the Cambridge and Colchester lines to be
dncdeissbhueresteomfenthtse
fEora Eastern r Countiesucting th eshEnTinedithe:
£173,166; also the balance up to 4th January (after pal;
ing dividends up to 4th July, 1845, and income. tax) to bye
£64,467. At the meetirg a dividend was declared of 9
per share on the capital stock, at the average value of
£l4 16s. per share. The increase of traffic, arising
Eli'
cipally from the opening of the line to Cambridge,
and Brandon, was stated to be great.
one, interesting
T li The
and,re or report ofth teh e
whole,Brighton
satisfactory;Company
g that tba
experiments in cheap fares they have so boldly made,. o',!.
der circumstances by nd means the most favourabl.n."'..
their introduction, have been carried out so far wit°
profitable result. The available balance is £76,051,1_6:
of which a dividend was declared of 355. a share. I°e
.
total half-yearly gross receipts, to December 31,
£l4-1,325. against £128,665. in 1844: the same ProPuti
tionate advance will not, however, be found in the ee.,,
balance; the rate of working expenses having increased,
as the report states, 151 per cent. While the receipts for
passengers have increased 104 per cent., the number
pisroavnin
car-
ried has increased 181—very nearly double. It is there-
fore easy to account for the rise in the scale of working
expenses. The total nett income is, meanwhile, £lB4od
(or 34 per cent.) more than in the corresponding Perl
of 1844.
How THE HOLYHEAD RAILWAY WILL CROSS Tag
MENAI STRAITS.—Mr. Robert Stephenson's erninenl
is too well established to leave a doubt on the mind
any one that he would discover a solution of the Prob.
:i
lem, w:
and that what be should resolve upon he would
efficiently execute. This problem is, however, the An 1t
arduous he has yet attempted, and the expedient be Du
adopted is a bold one. Already he has carried out tbe
use of iron in railway bridges to a great, r extent thc?,
most other engineers; and for this purpose he is to adopt
the favourite material, and is about to lay across
h
Menai Straits AN IRON BEAM 450 feel long, supporte
on stone pillars at both ends. This proposal is bold ;
but the method proposed for executing it is ingenious
and satisfactory. This great iron beam, 459 feet long, it
to be 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide, with a hollow in the
centre, and this hollow is to be so large, that the railway
train shall pass along in the heart or centre of the beam.
This beam will be laid across the Menai Straits 00e
and joining the railway on one side of the straits, ana
the other end joining the railway at the other side of the
straits ; so that passengers coming along the line will be
whirled through the heart of the beam without any 1',51.;
ceptible difference between this and any part of the .1,
which may happen to be covered in or arched over.
is, in short, to be an iron tunnel, hung up in the air,
across an arm of the sea.—Railway Chronicle.
ST. HELENS CANAL AND RAILWAY.—On Satardala
the half-yearly general meeting of this company was he).
at the Clarendon•rooms. The revenue account showed
surplus for the half-year of £3,359 2s. 3d., after Pre"-
ding for the guaranteed dividend of £5 per cent. on the
amount paid up on the preference shares. There west
£517 15s. 4d. left on the same account to June last, bu
as there were still debts owing for work done in the fel'
mation of the line, which there were no means of linT;
dating under the acts, except from surplus income, tu
directors did not recommend any dividend until authority
was obtained to raise a further sum of money, when these
debts might be provided for. The traffic for the whole
of 1845 left a clear surplus, after meeting every charge °a
the revenue account, of £5,207 16s. 7d. The canal ie.;
come for the half-year had been .£8 353, and the railway
£7,947. The canal expenditure had been £2,960
and the railway expenditure £4,686. The total surplus
from both concerns was £8,653, from which, after de-
ducting interest and guaranteed dividend, &c., there we
lett a nett surplus, as stated in the report, of £3,8761
The report of Mr. Renck], the engineer, was then re'
It stated the grounds which had induced him to reoo°'
mend to them the construction of a coal-dock at Garstoo'
and a railway between the St. Helens coal-field and !lie
said dock, by a line along the banks of the canal, eeT;
municating in its course with the Grand Junction Ile:,
way, at Warrington. The Chairman stated that the se—s
of £400,000 was proposed to be raised. The report I/0
adopted, and the direct, rs were empowered to apply „-
parliament to make the lines, &c. mentioned. The
holders are to be called together again, to have the clan
of the bill submitted to them in detail. Mr. Whitley'
solicitor to the company, stated that the Grand JuncL",,"e0
were on very good terms with their company. Of coot's
the Grand Junction would rather that the St. liele,'t
Company should not make their proposed lines than t'ib-e
they did ; but he thought such an arrangement might of
come to as would prevent all opposition an the Pattsi,
either company. The Grand Junction crossed the.
~,e
Helens line two or three times, and the projected hr'"'
of the former at Runcorn would he very injurious tb.et
present dock of this company there. The new dock ,"t
Garston, however, would obviate all difficulty on the
head. The heads of Mr. Rendel's report are to.be eiof
culated amongst the proprietors, together with a Plan
the proposed lines, prior to the next meeting.
the halo
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY..-0O Friday.
yearly meeting was held in the Cotton Sales 'Room, an
was numerously attended. Charles Lawrence.
Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided.
Booth, the secretary, read the report. which cornmeq-a
by congratulating the shareholders on the amalgairstio,_
with the Liverpool and Manchester, and subseouent7,
with the London and Birmingham Company, and thrall',
that company with the Manchester and Birmirlhanir
which means the directors were enabled to carry 11.e.r
goods and passengers, at a cheaper rate, and with gre'he
punctuality and expedition. The report then•notiefsi'd
alterations now making at the Liverpool terminus, all
w are in progress. It goes on to say—" The diri:e
tors will now refer to the new measures which, with
approbation of the proprietors, they intend to apply f°r„,nit
stlp rrpcons caoa;rin ne --•
Broo;

is the line from Huyton to Aston, near

tened between nine and ten miles. From this line
will be a branch to Warrington, affording to that townn ft
improved communication with Liverpool. Arlllievo
also being made for a line from Warrington to h.eelu
top
and Parkside, to shorten the distance from Warl.gdoor
and the sou!h to Bolton, via Kenyon, and to I".l%iii
Preston, and the north via Parkside. The next pront.
a short line from Huyton Quarry to Prescot Of
Helens. for the accommodation of those towns, an-jets
the collieries in the vicinity ; and they propose to widdi,
o
a the
tvfieroonmf southuf
or
strHihdeuery,
the Huyton
London
net
aodd
ov
npiEel Edge-hill, gnnesd- especiallyi
forui ll
ramb vi
tb neb
hi
eoet u
traffic.it rae rawacni
el
They
haonient
ol
ywtoandhayea
from the main line to Wolverhampton, where it 15 f
posed to arrange a central station, for the joint use 0 the
veral lines of nilway now proposine to connect with. of
Grand Juncion at that town. The estimated coo'ot
these undertakings is £1,300,000. It had tren thf.l
expedient to subscribe one-fourth part of the caPith3nort
the Liverpool and Preston, Manchester and Sont`7l3b;
Railway, amounting to £400,000. By the accounts aced
mitred, the traffic of the Grand Junction Amalga'bef,
Company, during the half year to the 31st Decen'eto
exhibits a considerable increase over the aggregate ester
of the Grand Junction and Liverpool and Wirt' re'
lines, in the corresponding 6 months of 1844. 1.,..h3e10.4;
ceipts for the last six months amounted to £435,11 agile'
2d., and the disbursements to £180,499 lie. /d.
as the nett proceeds of the half year £254,761 05'010
To this amount must he added the amalgamated gip, re',
fund of £28,615 19s. ld., as shown in the directolloi
port of the 10th of September last ; also the slagsll;
£1,574 19s. 2d., being balance of Liverpool and ease.,
chester reserve fund. after payment of sundry elP,jiet,
and small charges. The directors recommended °, to'
dend of 5 ner rent_ tv;thnot aprltirtion for 10(1

amounting, as per statement below, to £218,7689ci
and leaving a disposable balance of £67.197 7,;.8: 0'
of which the income tax, amounting to £6,389 1i:1,-; SC;
has to he mid. The chairman in mnging that ." th-
Mention tobicb
rerns in' and
tiestr.

ccunts and report be approved, called
fact that both boards had given up c(

io
posed to take a large interest in the Wo teat 0
Shrewsbury line. They had not given up the 'floret.,,
of supp?rtingi., hut they had declined to buy a",,Y,,s EtiA,

Lumley to more auvai,..,
poses. The Derby and Crewe, which now wa4 ratio d
mated with the North Staffordshire tine, wctld ei-na vis
to have their support, as well as that of the I,^o,`res
Birmingham. but without their taking any 51 a-a Drip
est
them. With the North Union an arrangement Iliale,
made, which it would be necessary in a short t it To
submit to the proprietors for their sanction• bn
not yet in a fit state to lay before them. With redo
their present state of affairs. he would allude tc) es lie
•• . -
-e tnat Treet'i'v

wouldmovedßtohht alaivteertihneeins a
et:he
ieoonnGtdsreadna
and
dh Junctiontempoott
itont
I.‘tio
pirc:Pr3o,l„:lYettle,;l,,o:°olo.;:cf
tohfaltvtahreryiribgetounr,iroltbe
jdecatnedd ctoirctuhlaattepdaritnorthteheur'eupacp' • r c
tit.•
recommended an extens'on from Ashton 1(),1 effecol4
The report stated that this alteration would '4"111,
saving of nine or ten miles,. whereas the Fav"„, .Tve°
only be about five miles, and that would be nelOta fioetv
bad gradients, of which there were 34 miles A'''l` to beil
4in 100. It also would be particularly injurioos tbe
navigation of the Mersey, and driving polce,
of the river might affect the tidal tower of a P°o,-00101'
every body knew was a ticklish one. Its COst.ci 0..n0 pe
enormous ; something like a ; upon w,1).11,0vv,r
to pay 5 per cent , they must have a traffic
week—a traffic which it was almost iropcBs' orrity'
anticipate. The scheme was. in fact, only rr 06
out of opposition to the Birkenhead Corn psnY"it t
from any expected benefit to- be derived frorlyeielliipe,
moved as an amendment, " That it is not e%F,,,5e,1
apply far an f lip nrolu,„ife.,"

1.. _a act or parliament to make Inv r: usis...,p, ,
from Aston to Huyton." Mr. Joseph "'CV' er°
Ti,e
of ge0,03
Warrington, seconded the Amendment.—
explained that the proposed I,ne was a meOure pri,ll'
_..ting• ...4-.11,

t•-•••••,oc.1.11 LW, int Ay I.
to prevent their being injured by 4 1 comrt 1,10
who might get a bill on the con- of the.rou'o-t e%r'ettf
be:nz a nearcr one to London. They flit i "
would pay of itself, but the protection ?td I.!ht
that, the cost. Witt
and the Lord Cr
cs e its: tidal twn

'spect to

they knew ;hat they hall lot
aa;:tler large compao e4l to ou Iv ,
s p greol
hfar.) AAf.r a few 3?
w,,rds from dlr.
~ot elfj,
Caps cgainst the arnetithr.ent, it wog IDe
chair and rtegativtl by an Troi",r,` ",001'0
mover and secinder voting for it. Ti,e
moved that a dividend of five. per cei.t. be Pa,
16th instant, whicb concluded the mecti°g*