The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Railway, has resigned that appointment.
LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.—This railway is to
be called The Great Northern."

There is no truth in the report of the Grand Junction
having come to an understanding about the Trent Valley
line.

At the Blackburn and Preston Railway meeting last
neek, it was shown that the receipts amounted to
£23,250, and the expenditure to £12,778.

'1 he Parliamentary Committee decided on Monday, that
the standing orders of the House bad been complied with
in the application for the Chester and Holyhead Railway
Bill ; ako as regards the Birkenhead Dock Bill.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—At a meeting
,f this company, held in London on Wednesday, they
!onfirmed the purchase of the Chester aad Birkenhead

for that pu

,e would be sought for in the present ses-

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—On the 10th of March
A London train stars from London to Exeter, to traverse

the whole distance, 194 miles, in five hours, or at the rate
of thirty nine miles an hour average speed. During the
time of travelling the speed will be about fifty miles an

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The Seventeenth
half-yearly general meeting of this company was held on
TimrAlay last. at Bristol. The report stated that there

had been a sati,factory increase of traffic during the past
half-year. A dividend of .Z 1 Bs. per share was declared,

Three new railway prospectuses appear in the Cork
paper, of last week. The first, for the formation of a
company for a line to connect Cork, Youghal, Cove, ar►d
Fermoy—capital £500,000, in £5O shares; the second, a
line from Cork to Killarney—capital, X 650,000 ; and the
third, from Cork to Passage miles)—capital, £BOOOO.
NEW RAILWAY.—A prospectus has been issued of an

intended line of railway from the Blackburn, Bolton, and
Darwen line, near Darwen, to join the Preston and Wyre
hie in Preston. The route will be to the west of
Blackburn, by Wheelton, crossing the Blackburn and
Preston line near Hoghton Tower, over the Ribble near
Fishwick Hall, across the Longridge railway to the Pres-
ton terminus of the Wyre line. The Manchester and
Leeds Company are the encouragers of this scheme.
HULL AND SELBY HAILWAY..7 The general half-

yearly meeting of proprietors of this company was held
on Saturday week. The receipts from passengers were
as follow :-15.587 first-el,iss passengers' fare., £3,012
9a. 6d. ; 23,837 second-class passengers' fare-. £3918 13s.
11d. ; 119,496 third-class passengers' fares, £9,046 15s.
3d.; exces4 fares, £5O 3s. 4d. Total number of passen-
gers, 158.920 ; total receipts from the same, £16.025 2s.
The special pleasure trains tended to swell the amount.
There had also been a great addition to the goods traffic.
Out of the balance of £17,581 17s. 5d., the directors
recommended that a dividend should be declared of 355.
a share, beiug at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, to be
payable on March sth. By these means the sum of £3580
17s. sd. would remain applicable to the purposes of a re-
served fund.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of this company was held in Glasgow on
Tuesday. The report vias read, and showed an increase
of the receipts for the past half-year above those of the
corresponding half-year of 1844 of upwards of £4,000
A divi.lend at the rate of five per - t. annum w'

. cen.. per ... ..as
declared, free of income tax. Sir Andrew Agnew moved
the approval of the repo:t, "except in so far as it directly
or indirectly approved of Sabbath trains." Sir Andrew

fifteen voted for the amendment, and twelve against it.
Previous to the division, most of the directors present
and others on the poe side had retired; and Sir Andrew
Agnew, in consequence of the informality of his proxies

instead of special, had withdrawn them all,
except three, which the Secretary declared legal. Sir
Andrew then protested against the running of trains and
ill other work on the line on the Lord's-day, and gave
g his motion at the meeting in August.

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MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COM-
PANY —The general half-yearly meeting of this company
was hell on Friday, at Mancherter, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of confirming the amalgamation
of the Manchester and Birmingham with the London and
Birmingham, the Trent Valley, and the Churnet Valley

Railways. The meeting ultimately adopted the recom-
mendations of the directors. The following is an extract
" The directors have much pleasure

which exhibits an excess upon the previous

in 1844 of £7,927 65. 10d

this, together with the pas-
r receipts, shows a total increase upon the previous
;ear of £5,954 6s. Ild., being an increase on passen-

added to the balance in hand of £3,926 2s. 2d., leaves
£33,861 lts. Bd., out of which the directors recommend
that a dividend of 20s. per share of £4O be paid ; after
which a balat:ce of £3,861 Ils. Bd. will remain (including
interest charged upon Macclesfield Branch, &c.) ; and
the directors propose that a dividend of Is. per share be
paid upon 30,000 quarter shares, £2 upon which were
called previous to the 31st of January. the day on which

the accounts are
meet future cont

closed, thus leaving a balance i❑
ngencies of £2,361 Ils. Bd."

CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL RAILWAY.-011
Tut-sday last a special general meeting of the shareholders

in this railway was held for the purpose of considering
what steps should now be taken, the Board of Trade

i against the line

The re

. -
by stating that the standing orders relative to the depa_
sit of the complied with on the day on
whichth pealandves opinionwere
eellY of the Board of Trade was
made known to the public; and this had rendered it.
Erectors to lay before the proprietors the
s of this and the Cornwall coast line.
s of the committee amounted to un-

possible for t

relative a,

wards of .£9,000, and the assets, including certain
posits, to £27.000. It was resolve.), that every subscriber
might withdraw on condition of forfeiting 7s: per share,
as his portion of the expenses up to that day. The chair-
man proposed that they should make an offer to the coast-
line to abandon their opposition, on condition of their
transferring to them 1,750 shares, and adopting the cen-
tral line from Falmouth to Bodmin. Mr. Tilly,-the- so-
licitor to the company, strongly resisted the proposition,
declaring that the Corni-h people were averse to any
other line than the Central Railway. A stormy discussion
ensued, and Mr. Tilly resigned his office of solicitor to
the company. The chairman, Mr. SilaW, and Mr. Hewitt
were then appointed to wait upon the committee of the
coast line, and endeavour to make terms, it being under-
stood that, if none could be made, the company were to
proceed with the opposition.

PROPOSED RAILWAYS.--The Board of Trade have no-
tified that they have reported to parliament in favour of
the Whitehaven and Furness Junction, the Kendal and
Windermere, the Lowestoft, Aberde,n, Dundee and
Perth (line on the north bank of the Tay), Edinburgh
and Northern, Scottish Midland, Glasgow, Barrhend, and
Neilston ; and against the Glasgow and Ayr —Barthead
and Neilston Branch.

The Bristol and Exeter Railway pays a dividend of
Ss per share free from income-tax. The half-year's
receipts under the arraneement with the Great Western
amount to £45,091, which gave the directors the means
of declaring this dividend. There seems to be every con-
fidence among the proprietary of the prosperity of the
undertaeing. A special meeting is to be held for receiv-
ing the bills presented to Parliament for the various
branches and schemes in progress.

At a meeting of the Chewer and Holyhead shareholders
the nature of the agreement with government tor the con-
veyance of the mails was ex plained to be £30,000 per
annum for a fixed period of five years, subsequent to
further arrangement for a subsequent seven years. Cap-
tain Moorsom has been appointed resident director to
superintend the making of the line, and some of the con-
tracts have already been let below the engineer's figure.
It was also stated that the bill for the purchase of the
Chest

er and Birkenhead Railway was now More parlia.
went, and the rumour of the contract being broken off
contradicted. The declaration by Sir Robert Peel in
favour of Holyhead as a harbour for Irish traffic was
dwelt on with much satisfaction. To carry out the requi-
sites of the line fully, it is proposed to form a single
branch line to Mold, at a cost of £120,000
BRIGHTON, LEWES

AND HASTINGS RAILWAY.—The
calf-yearly meeting of this company was held on Mon-
day, at the London bridge terminus. The report stated,
that, in pursuance of a resolution passed at the last general
meeting, the directors had completed the arrangement
with the Brighton company, who were now reg,stered
proprietors of 3,500 shares. The directors had been
actively engaged in promoting every neces.,ary step to-
wards the vigorous progress of the undertaking, and, on
the 23d of December, they made a call of £5 per share,
payable on the Ist of February. It was satisfactory to
them to be able to congratulate the proprietors on the
promptness with which the call was met, the sum of
£1,440 only remaining unpaid. The report also stated,
that the various schemes suggested by the Southeastern
company with a view to compete for the Hastings and
London traffic, had received the most careful considera-
tion of the directors in respect of the lines proposed
between Tunbridge and Hastings, and also a revival of
the Hedcorn line. The engineer's report stated, that,
between Lewes and Brighton, where the heaviest works
were to be encountered, great progress had been made,
particularly on each side of the Fulmer tunnel, 600 yards
in length. Between Fulmer and Brighton, five occupa-
tion bridges had already been built, and the public read,
bridge, and viaduct over the London road, would soon be
put in hand. The report was adopted.