The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

stern Union Railway from Colchester to Ipswich
was opened on Thursday.

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It is stai,ed that £2,00 worth of gunpowder has been
spent in the blasting of one cutting near Kirkstall, on the
Leeds and Bradford Railway.

The opening of the line of railway between Brighton
and Chichester took place on Monday. The line from
Lewes to Hastings will be opened on the 21st inst.
EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY.—Mr. Hudson's anti-
cipations of the traffic on the Eastern Counties Railway
are now certain to be realised. Last week the returns
exceeded £lO,OOO.

MANCHESTER, NIATLOCK, AND BUXTON RAILWAY.
This Company's bill has passed through the Commons,
and is now before the House of Lords, where it is likely
to meet with little, if any, opposition.
The intention of getting across the Thames by means
of Waterloo Bridge is for the present arrested. At the
last meeting of the Waterloo Bridge Company, it was
stated that the bridge had not been purchased by any
railway company, all the schemes having failed.
The Admiralty has again changed its mind as to the
tunnel through Greenwich Park, and suspended its course
until another session, although the Royal Astronomer and

a majority of silvans have reported favourably. The re-
suit will be to give the South-Eastern the alternative line
outside the perk.

INCOME TAX.-IMPORTANT Db.crszoN.—The Com-
missioners for General Purposes, under the Property and
Income Tax Act, for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire,
had under consideration, at their meeting on Thursday,
several appeals by persons against assessments for profits
made from buying and selling railway shares and scrip,
when the commissioners unanimously refused the appeals,
and confirmed the assessments.--Glasgow Herald.

From official returns it appears that the amount of
railway traffic for the last week on nearly 1,800 miles of
railway, was £152,531, thus accounted for :—X88,412 for
the conveyance of passengers only, £35,304 for the car-
riage of goods, and a remainder of £28,315 for passengers
and goods together, not respectively apportimed ; being
an increase over the corresponding week of last year of
£28,461.

AN UNFORTUNATE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.—
The proprietor of a local newspaper, who figured some-
what largely in new railway schemes during the recent
mania, having been a provisional committeeman in many
of them, has had numerous applications made to him for
sums of money, for which the companies have become
liable. The solicitors' 1.-tters, containing applications for
payment, he publishes in his journal, with the following
heading in large type :—"The Money-hunting Vagabcnd's
Gazette; or, Provisional Committeeman's Chronicle."
THE GUAGES.—The report of the Board of Trade, on
the Guage Commissioners report, has been laid before
parliament. It recommends that the Great Western line
should remain as it is, and that its branches to the west
be laid down on the broad guage ; that the South Wales
line from Worcester to Fishguard also be on the broad
guage ; and that the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton, and Oxford and Rugby lines be on the broad
guage, but that over the two last mentioned railways, if
the public requirements render it necessary, narrow guage
rails shall be added. The broad guage may be extended
in any direction a select committee on any particular bill
may consider requisite. With respect to the Birmingham
and Bristol line, the Board of Trade recommend that the
narrow guage, which now extends from Birmingham to
Gloucester, be carried through to Bristol, and there stop,
and that the narrow guage be laid down from Oxford to
Basingstoke.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM, GRAND JUNCTION,
&C., RAILWAYS AMALGAMATION. - The Group to
which the Amalgamation Bill was referred had postponed
their decision, in order to receive from the Board of Trade
a written report on the subject. On Thursday, the
Chairman of the Committee announced that he had re-
ceived a Report from the Board of Trade, stating they
would not recommend a perpetual amalgamation, although
one, for a few years, would be advantageous. On Friday.
the committee suggested that instead of a bill to autho-
r:ze a perpetual amalgamation, it would be better that a
bill should be sanctioned for leasing one of the companies
to the other for a certain term, and in which power should
be given to the Board of trade, in case of any oppressive
conduct on the part of the companies towards the public,
to give them, say a twelvemonths' notice, that the lease
had been broken, and they should again become separate
companies.

PREAMBLES PROVED.—A more direct route to the
Continent, vid Dover, has been affirmatively settled by
the proving of the preamble of the Mid Kent lin- of the
South-Eastern. The preambles also of the following
bills have been declared as proved :—ln the Lords—Yorir
and North Midlind Widening ; Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire; Bedford Ex'ension of the Ely and Huntingd°l;
the Buckinghamshire (Oxford and Bletchley)
la
In t ;shiels
'—
branches of the North British, one to connect G
a he
and Hawick, the second Jedburgb and Kelso. -
Commons—St. Albans, Luton and Dunstable branch of
the London and York, and the Hatfield and Hertford
3, - • ' -3

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hittlienam's
Stations Enlargement.
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anction.—Not proved:—In the Lords—Harwich ant
Eastern Counties Junction. In the Commons—Mid
St. Edmunds,
Kent Atmospheric; Ely and Bury • Ipswich and Bury
sL Tr lgioe
Albans,itfeirLd:,
tLanon, BuryloSn
and Dunstable, branch of
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Lyndon;
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EXTRAORDINARY SPEED AND POWER OF A LoE01‘10"
TIVE.—The dirc'ors of the Great Western, in order t°
test the yower and speed of their leviath,— e (the

enginean
Great Western) prior to being employed on th express
trains, directed that an experimental trip should be made
for that purpose. Accordingly, a few days since., she was
attached to a train consisting of fourteen carriages, laden
with iron, the total weight of which was 140 tons, exelui
'Tie and tender, weighing, with complement °
The engine started frßol_

sive of e

coke and water, abou
Paddington to Swind

55 tons,
1. and fi

tance being 77 miles each way. On the journey it sv,,ats
ascertained that she could, with that extraordinary weigh
travel at an average speed of 55 miles an hour, Sol'ai
idea of her velocity may be formed by the distance ft° .
Swindon to Dideot, onlk 21 miles, having been performed
at that rate, including the time occupied in starting 0%
stopping. On Monday morning she was despatched oq`
the 9.13 a.m. express train from Paddington to Exeter
1931 miles, and performed the journey, exclusive of el;
pages, in 214 minutes (3 hours 34 min.), being an avert.
rate of 551 miles per hour. Her dimensions are as
laws :—Diameter of driving wheels, 8 feet • stroke, .0
inches; cylinder, 18 inches ; length of boiler, betvie`
15 and 16 feet; weight of engine, without water, 36 toasts'
weight of tender, without fuel or water, 10 tons ;
loaded, 56 tons. to
COMMITTEEMEN.—It is of very vital importany-
ascertain who are provisional committeemen. The On 0.
reat
lar definition would probably be—persons who have tor;
their names in the preliminary formation of a cornll,o
and before the charge of Baron Parke in the case of
(1;6.
v. Wilson, tried in the Exchequer on Tuesday, tbisboo-
nition might have been taken as correct, That case,. and
ever, has introduced a new difficulty into this subje,'",exr
created a distinction between directors and committeeheeo
which. as regards third parties, had not previonsi,Y, tbe
supposed to exist. The action was by a creditor. c
oloro.
company, who sped the defendant as a provisional had
mitteeman. The evidence was that the secretarYoual
made a written application to the defendant in the name
form, desiring to know whether he would have ii`sTo this
inserted in the list of the provisional committee. „r, bat,
application the defendant returned no written answ-A toja
after a few days had pissed he called at the office
a°
me
the secretary he would have no objection to b /lira
director. Upon this fifty shares were allotted toe,
common with the other members of the provisionel_Zox
mittee ; but he never paid the deposit on them, norriater-
any notice of the letters that were sent to blot nit
MI6
fered in any way in the affairs of the companY• 16 or
there was a committee of management consisting
andui who
18 persons, of whom the defendant was not cnes;c,_,l the
by their secretary gave all orders, e, Bare°
business of the company. Upon this evidencd
to have
Parke told the jury that the defendant appealt a Pre;;,';
given his consent to become a director,
they scold 11.1"
sional committeeman ; and that before thetF ,
isfirea that De.
and tran "
him liable to the plaintiff, they must besanal
committee-
meant to become a member of the provisiohe
had antll9l:3
or that by consenting to become a director u
ized the secretary to make the contract in tl es"
agent.