The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Railway Returns for the past week are in general
rather better than those of the preceding, but the difference
is not material. The return for the Birmingham line, how-
ever, forms an exception, there being a decrease on the week
of £771.

At a yearly meeting of the Llanelly Railway and Dock
Company last week, the gross return for the year eliding
April, 1843, was found to be £7,954., being upwards of
£2,000 over the preceding year. An increase of 41,000 tons
had been made upon the new line during the year. The ac-
count of capital showed an expenditure of £4,500 since the
last annual meeting.

The Dundee and Abroath Railway Company declared a
dividend of tour per cent. at the annual general meeting held
on the 7th instant., to be paid out of net profits, stated at
£4,058, the small balance of which would he carried to the
reserve fund. This fund with the addition of the £5B, would
amount to £3,967, but have to he subsequently reduced by
the payment of interest to £3,173. Although the revenue of
the railway has fallen off compared with last year £843, the
reduction made in the expenditure has exceeded that amount
by some £1,400. The capital account is to be fixed and closed
at £155,000, making every allowance for outstanding claims;
and the directors express a hope that the expenses of the
line may be further reduced in the engine department.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND SCOTLAND.
—The subject of the most direct and economical junction
railway to connect London with Glasgow and Edinburgh,
now forms the subject of much speculation among railway
projectors in the north ; one line recommended is from New-
castle-upon-Tyne along the coast to Edinburgh, and from
thence to Glasgow, the other by way of Darlington and Car-
lisle. This latter is the line recommended by Mr. Fulton,
in his report to the Lords of the Treasury on the subject of
railway communication between England and Scotland, and
could be completed at a comparatively small cost, provided
the gradients range from 1 in 5(1 to 1 in 80, a short distance
each side the summit level. The district of country which
this line would open to the facilities of railway communication
is very extensive, and, in a mineral point of view, equal to
any of the same extent of service in the kingdom, wnile, at
present, it has no means of trannsit but the old turnpike-
roads, and those few. This line is seriously worthy the con-
sideration of the capitalist, and particularly the railway com-
panies in the north of England.
The following are the receipts of Railways for the past
week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
returns are made :

Birmingham and Derby
Eastern Counties.
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Grand Junction..
Great North of England
Great Western
Hull and Selby
Liverpool and Manchester...
Birmingham
Brighton
Croydon
Greenwich
Blackwall
South Wester❑
Manchester and Birmingham
Manchester and Leeds ....
Midland Counties
North Midland..
Paris and Rouen
South Eastern

7,290
1,419
15,179
1,262
4,846
17,252
3,480

1,706
1,220
6,562

3,588
5,449
2,776
4,311
3,345
2,282

BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—On Friday a special meeting was
held at the London Tavern, Mr. J. Harman in the chair, to
elect ten persons to act as the future directors. The meet-
ing was one of the largest of the season, and the proceedings
excited considerable interest. Mr. Bennett, of Brighton,
moved that the appointment of the new directors should he
well considered, and the names, addresses, and number of
shares held by each candidate sent to every shareholder
previous to the election, and that the meeting be adjourned
to seine future day. The motion having been seconded by
Mr. Hallett, of Brighton, a long and desultory discussion
ensued upon the terms of the proposition. Ultimately, the
following gentleman were nominated :—Mr. Parsons, Mr.
Rowland llill, Mr. G. Henderson, Captain Kelly, Mr. Nash,
lion. Captain Hotbam, Captain Heaviside, Mr. Solly Flood,
Sir James Duke, Sir .1, Simpson, Mr. V. Lee. Mr. Cowley,
Mr. J. Entwistle, Mr. Watson, Mr. Cattley, Mr. Manfield,
Mr. J. Thompson, and others. A. proposal for proceeding
to the poll, taken as an amendment, was carried by a majority,
Mr. Earle, the representative of the Liverpool shareholders,
making use of a large number of proxies. Considerable dis-
enssion ensued ; until, at length, while the poll proceeded,
exception was taken to the Liverpool proxies, on account of
their not being stamped. It was then agreed that the ob-
jeetion should be referred to the decision of counsel; the
votes to remain under the seal of the scrutineers until the
adjourned meeting on Monday (yestcaday.)

TILE KING OF HANOVER AND JOSEPH HUMS.—We did
think that the member for Montrose, Kilkenny, Middlesex,
and a variety of other places, did know that 3 and 2 made
ft—we did think that, in spite of the difficulties which he
seems to find in e4ercising the faculty of ratiocination and
other higher functions of humanity, he had still, when among
threes and fours, a certain mechanical aptitude for arriving
with some accuracy at the " sum tottle of the whole." But
to believe, or to expect others to believe, that an annuity of
£3,000 for 45 years is equivalent TO " a grant of £500,000,"
seems to mark a mind tottering on its very feeble basis. If
tie public made the enormous exertion necessary to raise at
the present moment £lOO,OOO, and invested it in the 3 per
cents., the interest would more than pay the annuity de-
manded, and at the end of 15 years the public would have its
principal back again. And Mr. Flume asks us whether we
are "prepared to grant.f.:soo,ooo on such slender grounds?"
And this from a gentleman who flat ers himself that, it there
is a thingi❑ which he really shines, it is his arithmetic. Sir
Robert Peel suggests that he may have inadvertently multi-
Flied his result by 15. Perhaps he has. But to think that
we should have been believing this man's calculations so

many years!
ExTENsty FAILUB.E.—We regret to announce the sus-
pension
of paymeots by Ow, long established and respectable
firm of Messrs. Horton', Davies, and Co., iron merchants of
this city, sad having extensive iron works at Ebbw-vale nod
Sirliowy, in South Wales. We understand that the total
amount of debts is stated at £300,000, the assets at £400,000,
including„ of course, the works and stock. Among the cre-
ditors are about 300 private persons, whose debts are esti-
mated at I:135,00. From the high estimation in which the
firm was held they were entrusted with the deposits of seve-
ral benefit societies,upon which they allowed interest. Upon
this class of creditors, as well as upon the numerous work-
People employed by the firm, and the tradesmen in the lo-
cality of their vast manufacturing establishments, the pres-
sure, it is feared, will tall severely. It has been erroneously
stated in the Gloi,.e that the West of England and South
Wales District Bank were creditors for £84,000; and we
deem it important to state that the fact is that that banking
company are creditors for only £51,000, anti hold securities
under which, whatever be the winding up of the concerns of
the firm, the loss to the bank can only be of comparatively
small amount. The failure was mentioned on Thursday in
the Court of Bankruptcy in this city, in which a proceeding
of an important character, for carrying on the works, took
place. It was then stated that the continuance of the works

would not only avert much local calamity, but improve the
amount of assets by £20,000. Most anxious must every one
be that results so truly desirable for all parties be realised.—
Bristol Journal.

INFANTlClDE.—Considerable excitement has existed in
the town of Crewkerne for some time past, in consequence
of a rumour that prevailed that a girl named INlartha Clark,
who lived as servant to a Mr. Alven, a person cf independent
property, and the son of a gentleman formerly a banker of

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the town, had given With to a child, of which he was the

father. that he had acted as accoucheur, and that he had de:
strot-ed it. So long ago as the 19th of May last, the girl had
made disclosures which led to the apprehension of both
prisoners, and several investigations had taken place before
she magistrates, who, from tune to time, remanded the
ensurers. On Sunday last, however, the body was found
in the garden of the male prisoner, and an inquest was held
on it the following day, when the jury found their verdict
" That the body now found is the body of a human
being, an infant ; but how or by whom placed there is not
kno.vn." The prisoners were again brought before the ma-
gistrates on Thursday lest, when the case was fully gone into.
Mr. I,angworthy stated the nature of the charge against the
prisoners, and called a great many witnesses. From their tes-
ninony it appeared that in consequence of certain informa-
tion a search was made, on Sunday last in Alven's garden,
when the body of all infant in a state of decomposition was
found. Mr. Bowdaget the surgeon, stated that be found
round the child's body a havband ; that the infant was full
grown, and that in his opinions the child had beers born alive.
Ile further said that from the extent of the decomposition
tire child must have heels born five or six months ago. After
several other witnesses had been examined, the prisoner,
Alven, was asked if he had any thing to address to the
court, when he replied " I am innocent of the charge, gen-
tlemen." [Trona this the female prisoner instantly ex-
claimed, " lie is not innocent, gentlemen." Great impres-
sion was made in the court by this unexpected announce-
ment, and it was some time before silence could be ob-
tained. When order was restored, the chairman, address-
ing the female prisoner, observed, that if site wished to
address the court, now was the time to do so, but it was his
duty to tell her that syhat she said would be taken down,
and used at a future day. The prisoner replied that she
wished to tell every thing, and proceeded to make a full
confession, from which it appeared that Alven was the father
of her child, and he had acted as accoucheur, that he had
twisted a hayband round the infant's neck,
and had then
thrown it amongst some reeds, that she had never seen the
child, but heard it cry, that Alven had never told her what
he had done with it, but her suspicions were that he had
brined the body in the garden. The whole of the confession
was delivered with much simplicity of mariner, and the pri-
s-ner, when questioned on particular portions of it, did not
vary in her statements. It was afterwards signed by her.
Mr. Langworthyas
cliled on the court to commit Alven
principal in the murder, and Clarke as an accessory after the
tact. The magistrates withdrew for a short time, and on their
return committed both prisoners for trial at the next a,sizes,
Alven as principal, and Choke as an accessory after the fact.
Application was made by
Alven's solicitors to the magistrates
to take bail for his appearance, and bail to a large amount
was offered, but the magistrates refused to entertain it.
The prisoners were shortly after conveyed to Wilton Gaol.—
Sherborne Mercury.