The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The North British Railway Company have purchased
the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway at a cost of £87,000,
the revenue of which line yields, it is calculated, a divi-
dend of above four per cent. on that amount, and may be
expected to increase.
At a numerously attended public meeting, held in
Wisbech, on Saturday, a committee was formed of pro-
fessional gentlemen, bankers, and others, in the neigh-
bourhood, to consider the subject of a railway communi-
cation between Wisbech and the London and Northern
lines.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.--The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held, on Thursday last, in
London, when a dividend of 4s. on the new, and 3s. on
the old, shares was declared, and powers were taken to
consolidate the stock and dispose of certain first and
second class shares on hand.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—A special
pleasure train lift Wakefield for Hull on Monday week,
consisting of 97 carriages, with the extraordinary, and,
we believe, unprecedented number of 4,000 passengers,
composed of the " Ancient Order of Foresters," other
lodges, and their friends.
The Board of Directors of the Manchester and Leeds
Railway intend to make an application to parliament in
the next session, for power to extend the Oldham and
Stalybridge branches, through Saddleworth and Hudders-
field, to join the main line at Cooper Bridge; and also to
form branches from Dewsbury to Leeds and Bradford.
These new branches, in conjunction with the parent line,
will embrace in one comprehensive railway chain nearly
the whole district of country known as the " manufactur-
ing districts."

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday week a
young man named Robert Wood, one of the firemen em-
ployed on the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, was
accidentally killed near the Fence Houses station. It
appears that the deceased was accompanying a train, when
the engine broke away from the tender, owing to having
been insecurely coupled together; and he was thereby
thrown across the line, and several carriages passed over
him and killed him on the spot, nearly severing his head
from his body.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday a young
woman named Lucy Grant, a passenger from Rugby to
Allesthorpe, on the London and Birmingham lines, fell
from the platform on to the railway just as the train was
being put in motion, and four of the carriages passed over
her before any alarm could be given. On being taken up
it was found that both her legs were broken, the right one
being cut so badly that it was attached to the body by a
single tendon only. She expired in about two hours after
the accident. _

_ ..
on Friday, it was announced, that all the arrangements
Eastern
necessary for perfecting the agreement with the
completed, and the dividend
Counties Railway were nearly
of the companY,
At the meeting of the Northern and Eastern Railway,
declared was £l. 2s. 6d. on the old shares
and 7s. 6d. on the scrip shares, .
mprovement, the
The returns of traffic showed great t_
X 43,264, or an
amount up to the 30th of June being £3,264,
period last year;
less the Prop
in-
crease of £7,716 compared with the
held out of the
thus fully realising the expectations Newport, Cambridge,
capa-
bilities of the line. The line to
terms entered into, be
Brandon, &c., would, underc
Counties Company.
Eastern oun
constructed by the
HAM RAILWAY.—The half-
mr.topany erty tax.
was held on Friday. The
half ear was £241,678, being £17,754
nett profit for the
correspondingy half year of 1843. A divi-
more than the was declared. The report stated
Bend of £5 per cent.
Company pledged
Grand Junction themselves
that the
Shrewsbury shall have a good and sufficient line to
that
ampton, and both companies have agreed in con-
leeV°tivweri}:b the Manchester and Birmingham and Trent
Varney
half-
yearly
companies to make the line between Rugby and
Stafford on fair and equitable terms, which are still under
reNetinAgNopf Bthißs l'e'ol
discussion. The directors had agreed to revise the ar-
rangement of their trains, and also to modify the fares for
the benefit of the public. Resolutions were unanimously
carried empowering the directors to proceed in such man-
ner wilh respect to the proposed Rugby, Tamworth, and
Stafford line as they might deem necessary, and to lease
the proposed Worcester, Banbury, and Rugby line, or
otherwise, as they might think best for the interests of
the company. The same power was given to the direc-
tors respecting the line to Bedford. The Coventry and
Leamington railway will be ready for opening at the lat-
ter end of the sear, and the Peterborough and North-
ampton about March or April next year.

August 13,18-11.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held on Friday. The re-
port announced an increase on the balance of net revenue,
amounting to £10,215, had taken place during the half-
year ending the 30th of June. The amalgamation of the
working stock with the Croydon and Dover companies
had taken effect since the Ist of March last, but the re-
suit had not been sufficiently ascertained. Instead of the
fixed sum paid to the Greenwich Company in lieu of toll,
the company will in future pay for first-class passenger)
4d., for second-class 3d., and for third-class 2d. Mort-
gage bonds at 5 per cent. to the amount of £11,450 have
been renewed at £4 per cent. After considerable dis-
cussion, the report was adopted. The resolutions to
purchase an interest in the railways from Brighton to
Hastings and to Chichester, and settling the terms O
which the new shares for this purpose should be taken bp
the proprietors, were carried. The dividend declarerav'iag'
12s. per share.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY: Vreil"
day week the half-yearly meeting of "this railway was held
at York. The directors' repoV, stated,
amount received
that during the
half-year ending the 30th une, 1844, the
ou account of passengr.,re traffic, parcels, and mails, Noe
£26,362. 19s. 10d.; on account of merchandise traffic,.
£15,528. 14s. 4d. and for rents, £306; making the tots)
receipts £42,19.;. 14s. 2d. ; being an increase of £2,176w
15s. 7d. urton the aggregate receipt for the correspondiog
half-year of 1843. The expenses of working and
taming the line paid during the same period amounted to
£15,679. 18s. 7d. ; and the interest on debentures W
£4,373. Ils. 3d. The account of the income and expendi-
ture of the Leeds and Selby Railway during the half-)eat
shows a balance in favour of the company of .2,102. 17e.
4d. The balance of the corresponding half-year of 1843
'did not reach £7OO. The directors recommend the divi-
dend for the half-year to be £2. 10s. on each £5O share'
and LI. 4s. on each £25 share, which will amount,te
£24,790, to be paid without deducting the income al'
The report was unanimously adopted.
NJIWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.—The firth
half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterds/
week. Arrangements have been made for the purchael
of the Durham Junction railway. The capital require
for making the line from Newcastle to Berwick will be
£700,000, which the directors proposed should be raised
in shares of £25 each, to be offered to the proprietors of
this company. Six per cent. interest from the Ist ger
htooltdheerson
30th
theJu last2neothinst. T
was ordered
irreddteoctboers were empoweredpaidtotheshre
to borrow any sum not exceeding £166,000, and a resolu-
tion was passed that in order to raise the requisite capita}
for forming a line of railway from Newcastle-upon Tyne
to Berwick-upon-Tweed, this company do engage to take
a perpetual lease of such railway, at a rent sufficient 10
pay to the subscribers five per cent. per annum on the
amount of capital invested ; but that the subscribers have
the option at any time within three years after the openieS
of the railway, of determining the lease and retaining the
line freed from such engagement, and that they also he,
allowed five per cent. out of the capital on the amount Or
their calls paid up until the opening of the line.