The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Bishop-Auckland and Weardale Railway is ex-
pected to be opened on Wednesday next for general traf-
fic.

• RAILWAY BETWEEN BERWICK AND EDINBURGH.—
The requisite notices of an intention to apply to parlia-
ment during the ensuing session for a bill for this under-
taking, have been posted on the church-doors of the dif-
ferent parishes through which the railway is intended to
pass.

A correspondent states that the Caledonian Railway
(from Lancaster through Kendal to Carlisle,) is now fixed
and certain. " A meeting of the subscribers (he adds)
will be held in Kendal on Monday next, to take proceed-
ings for the formation of a Company. The requisite funds
(£800,000) are guaranteed, £500.000 by the united Rail.
way Companies, and the rest by the public."
OPENING. OF THE RAILWAY FROM LONDON TO
HERTFORD AND WARE.—Tuesday witnessed the com-
pletion and opening to the public of the railway to Ware
and Hertford, the line having been officially reported by
Major-General Pasley as in a perfectly consolidated and
fit state for working. The first train started from the
Shoreditch station at eight o'clock, reaching Ware, a
distance of 24 miles and a half, and Hertford, a distance
of 26 miles, in the space of little more than an hour.
RAILWAY FROM LANCASTER TO CARLISE.—The
subscription list for this great undertaking is rapidly
filling up; but a few shares yet remain undisposed of,
which we trust will be taken immediately, as the requisite
notices for applying to parliament must be given in the
course of a few days, and no movement in that direction
can be made until the full amount required is obtained.
The sum already raised in Carlisle exceeds £20,000. The
subscription at Penrith, which has been very liberal, is
not to be taken as part of the £25,000 required from Car-
lisle. It was erroneously stated by a contemporary last
week, that Lancaster would contribute £25,000. That
town has already paid £200,000 towards bringing the
railway to its present terminus, and cannot be expected I,
to contribute more. That the requisite sum will be '
raised we have no doubt ; and all we urge is despatch.—
Carlisle Journal.

BOLTON AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—A special meeting
of this company was held at Bolton on Saturday week, to
consider the propriety of uniting with the North Union
Company. A resolution was passed to amalgamate the
companies, on the understanding that the dividend to be
paid to the proprietors of the North Union Company
upon their paid-up capital of £477,539, shall be twice as
much per centum per annum as the dividend to the pro-
prietors of the Bolton and Preston Company upon their
paid-up capital of £262,002, until such respective divi-
dends shall amount to £6 per cent. per annum on the
paid-up capital of the North Union Company, and £3
per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the Bolton
and Preston Company ; and that, when the net profits of
the consolidated company shall exceed the amount of £6
per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the North
Union Company, and £3 per cent. per annum on the
paid-up capital of the Bolton and Preston Company,—
then such surplus of net profits shall be divided pro rata,
at an equal rate per cent. per annum, upon the said two
several sums of paid-up capital of £177,539 and £262,002.

The case Ranger v. the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, the judgment in which we reported last week,
involved upon the question of amount almost as important
results as were embraced in the great case of Small and
Attwood. We are able to lay before our readers some of
its statistics. The first bill was 812 folios ; the amended
bill 1157. The first supplemental suit bill 341 folios ;
the second supplemental bill 525 folios. The first an-
swer 1,299 folios ; the second 132 folios ; the third 212
folios. The documents admitted upwards of 800 folios.
The plaintiff's evidence 1685 folios. The defendant's 405
folios. Total of folios upwards of 6736, for which an
office copy charge was paid of 10d. per folio, besides volu-
minous affidavits ! Shorthand notes on collateral argu-
ments 2,200 folios. Observations, 39 briefs. The total
brief, embracing these copies, for counsel, would be
nearly 960 brief sheets. Sir W. Follett's fee was 300
guineas, and 100 additional, with sundry other fees,
making £5OO. Mr. Stuart had 220 guineas, and 100 ad-
dittonal ; Mr. Richards 220 guineas ; Mr. Stevens 150
guineas, and 50 additional. In the early stage of the
cause the counsel had fees as follows—first counsel 150
guineas ; second ditto, 125 guineas ; third ditto, £BO ;
besides numerous other smaller fees; making a total in
counsel's fees alone of nearly £2,000. The Vice-
Chancellor has already ordered the plaintiff to pay a great
part of the costs of these matters ! The case was five
years in progress, and the same solicitors were for the
company that were engaged in Small and Attwood—
namely, Messrs. Swain, Stevens and Co. Frederick-
place, London. The shorthand writers' hills amounted
to nearly £lOO ! Thus it will be seen that going to " law"
is a rather expensive amusement.

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS AT TODMORDEN RAILWAY
STATION.—On Wednesday last an affray of a very serious
character took place at the Railway Station, between the
company's servants and a dozen labourers in the employ
of Mr. Wm. Greenwood, of Stones. The dispute origi-
nated some time since in consequence of the company's
appropriating certain portions of land to their ow❑ use,
which Mr. Greenwood, the owner of the property, main-
tains they never bargained for. A few weeks since he
employed a number of men to fill up a goit or sluice which
he said the railway company had made in his land without
any authority. The work of destruction was no sooner
commenced than the railway company set on a number of
men to counteract their proceedings ; and for upwards of
a day whatever was done by one party was immediately
undone by the other. Having played at this game till
they were weary, both parties agreed to have a meeting in
a fortnight from that time to make some satisfactory
agreement. On Wednesday morning, the time appointed
having gone by, Mr. Greenwood again engaged a number
of men to demolish the property. They first broke through
the arch, and filled up the goit or sluice above mentioned,
and were proceeding to pull down a strong burr wall, when
one of the company's servants pushed a large stone from
the top of the wall which severely injured a person named
James Harrod, one of Mr. Greenwood's men, and it was
almost miraculous that no lives were lost by so dangerous
an expedient. This aggression, however, was but the
harbinger of violence and general hostility. The scuffle
that ensued was terrific in the extreme : all attempts at
description would be fruitless. It is sufficient to say that
the affray was continued till Heap the constable was
obliged to interfere; he, with the assistance of the com-
pany's servants, went boldly to work, and in the course
of half-an-hour, in spite of picks, crow-bars, spades, &c.,
they succeeded in capturing eleven of Mr. Greenwood's
party.