The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., has been elected chairman of
the board of directors of the Norfolk Railway Company.
The telegraphic communication between Chester and
Liverpool, via' Birkenhead, will be completed by the Ist
May.
The Great Western and the South Wales boards have
at length come to a new agreement for a lease of the South
Wales lino, upon terms which have been approved unani-
mously by the directors of both companies. The line to
Carmarthen is to be finished at once.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of
this Company was held on Friday, Mr. Duncan in the
chair. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, congratulated the meeting on the fact that during
the last year the revenue had increased 15 per cent, while
the working expenses had only increased 10 per cent., the
increase of revenue having taken place entirely in the
goods department. He hoped that when they got the
Arrangement Bill through the Legislature, they would be
able to surmount all their difficulties, the extent of which
might be judged of from the fact that 76 law suits were
now going on against them. He thought the exertions of
the directors deserved the fullest confidence from the
shareholders, and called upon them for their aid and for-
bearance. Captain Plunkett seconded the adoption of the
resolution, and recommended unanimity among the body
of shareholders; and several other gentlemen having ad-
dressed the meeting in a similar spirit, the report was
adopted.
CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The adjourned gene-
ral meeting of shareholders in this company was held on
Saturday at Monk's Ferry Hotel, to receive the special
report of a committee of shareholders appointed at the
regular half-yearly meeting to aid the directors in their
negotiations with the Great Western Company and the
London and North-western respectively. Much discus-
sion took place, but the general preponderance of opinion
was in favour of the junction with the Great Western and
its allies the Shrewsbury lines, instead of with the London
and North-western, notwithstanding the agreement en-
tered into by the directors with the latter. A resolution
was proposed, and with a slight emendation carried,
approving of the steps taken to prevent this company from
being prejudiced by any changes that may arise from the
alteration of arrangements of companies between Birken-
head and Birmingham, and particularly in aiming at the
maintenance of an independent line from Birkenhead to
the Great Western line, and thereby securing the traffic
which must naturally flow over this line from the south
and south-east of England. A discretion was left with
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KENTUCKY EDITORIALS.—We copy the following from
a Louisville paper—it is speaking of the Warning Bell,
a journal of the same town :—" We will once again revert
to this delectable sheet, and when the article we are pen-
ning is concluded, we will burn the quill we used on the
occasion, throw our inkstand into the street and break it,
wash our hands for fear of contamination, and, finally,
scatter chloride of soda in our sanctum. to counteract the
bad effects that might arise, because we touched or med,
died with awl an infected affair."