The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELIatiEN CB.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND COMPANY.—At the
half-yearly meeting of this company, held at York on
Monday week, a dividend of ten per cent. was declared.
The Directors of the London and York (now the Great
Northern Railway) have appointed Captain Laws, R.N.,
the managing director of their line.
NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAILWA.Y.—A divi-
dend of nine per cent. was declared at the half-yearly
meeting on Monday week.
The Leicester Journal says, it is rumoured that the
railway, from Syston to Melton, will be opened on Friday
next, on the occasion of a dinner to be given at Waltham
to the Marquis of Granby.
TILE DIRECT " MANCHESTER RAILWAYS."—These
two companies have, within the last few days, held
" dissolution" meetings, or meetings intended by those
who originated them to result in dissolution.
THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—
The traffic on this railway has, during the past week,
realised the enormous sum of FORTY-SEVEN THOUSAND
POUNDS.—Railroay Times.—[Of course this would be
only up to an early part of Friday.—Ed. L. S.]

Mr.'llind, one Of the parties injured by the accident on
the Eastern Counties Railway on Saturday week, died op
Friday morning. Mr. Hind was principal in the firm of
Hind and Son, silk fringe manufacturers, Wood-street,
Cheanside, London. _ . .__

LEEDS and Till RSK shares have risen 25a. per share in
the Liverpool market within the last fortnight, in the face
of a call of £2 10s. falling due. Extensions have risen
7s. 6d. per share.—On Thursday Leeds and Thirska had
advanced to £8 10s., £2 in advance of what they were a
fortnight ago, in the Leeds market.
EAST LANCASHIRE AND AIREDALE EXTENSION
(COLNE TO ADDINGHAM) RAILWAY.—At a meeting of

this company on Friday, at Keighley, 3,820 shares Awing
represented, it was resolved that the company should be
dissolved, and that such dissolution should not be an act
of bankruptcy. There were only seventy votes against
dissolution.

The Railway Record says, in the Cambridge University
Law Class List for the Academical year 1845-6, we recog-
nise with much plea,nre, as second in the first class, the
name of a friend and occasional contributor to this journal.
Mr. Thomas Wheeler, of St. John's College, formerly of
Manchester, and well known in connexion with the early
struggles of the Trent Valley (then the Manchester and
Birmingham Extension) Railway.
LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of the Company was held on Tuesday last,
at their offices in Colman-street, for the purpose of de•
claring a dividend on the unprivileged shares. The
balance-sheet showed that, after deducting from the half-
year's rent to the Company for the use of the railway,
and some trifling additional items of income, the half-
year's interest due upon bonds and preference shares, the
property tax. &c., there remained a balance of £g

A dividend of 3s. 3d. per share on the unprivileged was returned. His Lordship in summing up, said, the
shares was proposed and agreed to. indictment could not promote the ends of public justice,
THE LATE COLLISION ON THE EASTERN COUN- and could only have been tried for a private purpose.
TIES RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, at the conclusion of the Courts of Justice were not established for such an object.
adjourned coroner's inquest the foreman announced that After stating the law with regard to conspiracy, he reea-
the jury had unanimously agreed to return the following pitulated the evidence, and left the jury to decide between
special verdict :—" The jury are of opinion that the death the parties. The hearing of this inquiry lasted upwards
of William Hind was occasioned by the reckless driving of five hours.
of William Clare, the driver of the Firefly engine, on the MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.—Considerable sensation
Bth July instant, against whom, therefore, they return a was caused on Saturday morning, by the discovery of the
verdict of ' Manslaughter.' The jury desire also to re- body of Robert Lowthin, the registrar of births, deaths,
cord their deliberate opinion that a degree of culpability and marriages in the Gateshead district, in the river Tyne,
attaches to the managers of the Eastern Counties Rail- at Newcastle; and circumstances have since transpired
way, in not taking due care that their own rules are most which excite strong suspicion of his having been murder-
scrupulously observed, as regards the time of departure ed. It appears that Lowthin had on the Friday received
of one train after another from all the stations ; the exiti- his quarterly salary as registrar, and at eight o'clock that
bition of the signals at all the stations ; the keeping of night he was in the Charles XI 1. public-house, at the end
exact time in the arrival and departure of the trains, and 1 of Tyne Bridge, when the landlord observed that he had
the appointment of only thoroughly competent persons in a watch, and a considerable sum of money in his purse.
all departments." The foreman added, that they exon- He was then in liquor. He was seen again about two
erated the stoker, Quinlan, from all blame. o'clock on Saturday morning, by the aupelintendent of
In the House of Lords on Friday night, the Earl of police in Gateshead, in the company of a notoriously bad
Clarendon reported from the Select Committee appointed character, proceeding towards Newcastle. When his
to con at Bills should be proceeded with this sea- body was found his watch and purse were missing, and
sion leo, had ot, in accordance with Lord Redesdale's the sum of 2s 241 only was found in his pocket.
rase :item of rI c 7th of May, come up from the lower SLEEP.—The poet Young says," Sleep is great Nature's
_lse before tl e 20th of July, that the Committee were second course—The balm of hurt winds." Johnson says,
of opinion that the following Bills ought to be allowed to
It is the parenthesis of human woe." Sleep being thus
pro :eed, the delaynot having been occasioned by the pro- appreciated by mankind, bow desirous ought we to be
moter :—The Liverpool, orruskirk, and Preston ; the that all should tranquilly enjoy " sweet repose," the ge-
Glasgow and Belfast Union ; the Taff Vale ; the Caledo- neral /obstruction to which is through an unhealthy ac-
nian ; the Caledonian and Bovan ; the Manchester and tion of the liver or other viscera. A little attention to
Southampton, and the East and West India Docks. The the " young disease," by having recourse to a mild ape-
noble Lord accordingly moved that the resolution of the tient, often produces the most salutary effect, and for
7t of May, in respect of these Bilis, be dispensed with ; such purpose Frampton's pill of health stands prominent
WI ch was agreed to. in public opinion.