The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-19 00:00:00

stippiy oi)e-th;rd of a

West Riding Junction to be man. .. Leeds stock on the completion of the line ,
of shares in the West Riding issued to the public is abou
24.000, of West Yorkshire 26,000.
NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY.—At the half•
yearly meeting of this company a divid.r.,,d five! n.r _ .

West Yoriishire and
and
he number

.red Onth

S,ptember. The receipts for the... balf•yearsnares, ending 30tt,
June last amounted to £45,759 lls., being an increase of
£2,495 -6s. 9d., as compared • • portion of the year 1844, the s having been open at both perk
touched upon the ne-a...#- -- •

ith the corresponding
ame length of railway

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~..-• ~./, points at issue between that company
and the Eastern Counties, and suggested a •mode of ar-
ranging the difficulty, and a res,lution, embodying the
plan fOr the capitalization of the debt of the company was
agreed to.
NORTH WALES RAILWAY MEETING.—The first
generil meeting of this company was held on Thursday,
Sir William Wynn, chairman of the directors, presided.
The district of country which this line is to traverse, is
that from Bangor, in the county of Carnarvori, to Port
D,inllaen, in the same county : the latter is a sea-port,
situate on the coast of Wales, immediately opposite the
port of Wicklow, in Ireland. Th. r.,,,,..,. _,...,_ , •

...........‘ a that
LUC utrectors had become the encouragers ofstereo thels pro oject
for connecting Port Dynllaen by means of a railway, with
the Chester and Holyhead line, and thereby with the
manufacturing districts in the north of England, and the
mineral districts of Wales. The cost of incorporation of
the North Wales company did not exceed £7,500. The
cash account showed that £14.862 had been rec,ived for
deposits, making, with the forfeited shares, the premiums,
and the interest, £16,714, which left a balance of
.E 12.107 The remuneration to the directors was fixed
at £lOOO.
RAILWAY TESTIMONIALS.—The Railway Chronicle,
in an article on this subject, makes the following observa-
tions :—" Talking of testimonials. Is not Mr. Booth, of
the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, one of the men
who, since its infancy, has done most fur the advancement
and security of railway property ? Is he not the author
of come of our most useful inventions? Is he not the
father of some of our soundest maxims of railway policy?
Has he not been the almost sole manager of our oldest,
and, in many points, cur pattern railway? Are we not
all deeply indebted to him for the devotion with which
his great talents and excellent judgment have been ap-
plied to railway interests? Are we to allow his line to
become merged for ever in another,
_so as to lose its
identity and name, and pass from among the things and
names of the railway world, without a becoming record
of the benefits we have received, and the debt we owe?
In these days of railway prosperity we can afford to be
grateful. Shall we deny ourselves the pleasure? We
pause for a reply."
MEETING OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY...—
The half-yearly meeting of this company took place on
Thursday, Mr C. Russell, M.P. in the chair. The total
receipts to the 30th June were £433,296 16s. 2d. ; the
expenditure for the same period was £158,367 3s. 4d. ;
leaving a balance of £274,929 12s. 10d. During the last
half-year two calls had been made upon "--
wbiel- -- "

prietors,
11 entitled them to a dividend uponn anpr ioncreased
capital of £418,056. After defraying the interest on
money borrowed, and the rent of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway, the net income would admit of a dividend of
£4 per cent. being paid on the whole capital called up,
£4,080.656 ; and the directors recommended that such di-
vidend be made payable on the Ist September next. The
amount of the dividend would

cave a balance of zEIG9(

carrie to the next acci:unt. The report then/ 1% ferredbe to the succesP
which bad attended the applications made by the directors
to Parliament during the last session of Parliampro• tll,. rent

given to bilis for making the
following lines :—The Berks and Paws, the Oxford and
Rugby, the Monmouth and Hereford, the Oxford, Woe-
ces er,
, and Wolverhampton, the Wilts, Somerset, ;;nd
Weymouth, and the South Wales Railways. It
purchawas in-
tended to apply to the proprietors to sanction the se
of the three first mentioned railways • the Wilts and
Somerset Thilway, and the Oxford nnri

pton
Railway, would be held by the Greatano Westernorverham Company
permanently under lea-e ; and the South Wales Railway
Company had been assisted only by a contribution from
the Great Western Company, as subscribers to the capital
under the resolution of the last half-year's meeting, but
without any lease or engagement to work it. The
directors also maintained that the bill for securing the
lease and possession of the West London Railway to the
Great Western and the London and Birmingham Railway
companies jointly, in equal moieties, had also been passed
during the last session. Several suggestions were made
by shareholders, amongst others, one by Mr. Lawrence
Heyworth, for carrying the present terminus through the
the heart of the metropolis to Hungerford market or the
neighbourhood. The chairman said the subject was under
consideration. Before separating, the company made
their secretary, Mr. Saunders, a present of 300 of the re-
served one-fifth shares at par, in testimony of the deep
sense entertained of his services.

WERE ORANGE SOCIETIES SUPPRESSED.—The House
of Commons addressed his Majesty ; but unless an ad-
dress to the crown be a legal enforcement, an authority
binding in law, it is untrue to say that the legislature
adopted any measure whatever to enforce his Majesty's
wishes, or render the existence of the Orange system il-
legal. The Standard of that day, remarking upon the
proceedings of the House of Commons, speaks in the
following bold and constitutional language :—" Thank
heaven we have not yet lived to see the day when the
ordinance of an O'Connell house of Commons possesses
the force of law in England, or in any part cf the king's
dominions. Before we sFe that day we shall have
Cracked crowns, and pass them current too."
Indeed, so far from the legislature having interposed any
law or any restraint, the minister of the crown, in the
House of Commons, declared to the Orange body, through
its grand master, the Duke of Cumberland, that it was
not the intention of his Majesty's ministers to take any-
proceedings at all, either on the resolutions of the house,
or the royal answer ; and so the matter of legislative en-
forcement was dropped. Nor was any step taken by any
authority, save that of the Orange Association it,elf, to
abate its existence. Tae Orangemen net in grand lodge,
composed of provincial and district officers from every
county of Ireland, and voluntarily dissolved their asso-
ciation. With what requital let the events of the present
dy atestify.—Dublin Mail.