The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY IN7'I4.I,LiGEACE.

The Direct Northern Railway Bill has passed the Lords
Standing Orders Committee.

The "first sod" of the East Lancashire Extension rail-
way was raised on Saturday week, near Accrington.
The attorney and Solicitor General have given an opi-
nion in favour of the validity of the subscription dee d of
the London and York railway.

Within the last few days some thousands of circulars
are said to have found their way into the hands of allottees
requesting an immediate payment of sums varying from
2s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per share.
The Standing Orders Committee of the House of Lords
have declared the subscription contract under which the
shareholders are held bound in the London and York
Railway to be a valid contract ; and the bill is therefore to
be proceeded with.

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Dutch Rhenish
Railway, held on Thursday, in London, a communica-
tion was made from the directors respecting the progress
and prospects of the company. which was considered so
satisfactory that a vote of confidence was passed to them.

Disturbances have occurred on the Eastern Union Rail-
way, in the neighbourhood of Ipswich. between the
" miners" (who work in the tunnel), and the " navies,"
caused it is believed by the jealousy of the latter at the
higher wages obtained by the " miners."
The movement in favour of winding up abortive rail-
way projects still goes on. This is the great subject now
discussed among all persons connected with the railway
interest, and it is really astonishing to find how universal
has become the desire to see measures adopted which have
this object in view.
FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.—On Tuesday week,
the principal pillar of the stone bridge acro's the Caldew,
near the Long Island, belonging to the Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway, and which leads to the canal basin,
gave way, sinking nearly two feet,—the centre arch and
roadway sinking to the same extent. The bridge will
have to be entirely taken down.
A highly respectable solicitor in town, who successfully
prosecuted the action Nockels v. Crosby, in the Court of
Queen's Bench, and recovered back from the provisional
committee the whole of the deposit which Nockels, the
ailottee, had paid, has now, we are informed, 100 similar
cases against committee men, and entertains the fullest
confidence of tnccess in the whole of the "aces.
A GENTLE HINT TO RAILWAY SOLICITORS.—At the
recent assizes for the county of Kent, held before Lord
Denman. the proprietor of the Kentish 211ercury brought
an action against a Mr. Curling, a solicitor, in London,
for advertising two or three railway notices, &c., i❑ that
paper, the amount of which, £7O 135., was sought to be
recovered. The defendant had paid £5 Ils. 3d. into
court, and denied his further responsibility, as being
merely a solicitor for the different companies. The jury,
however, thought different, and returned a verdict for the
plaintiff for £6l 36. ; thus showing that solicitors to rail.
ways, as well as provisional committees and directors, are
liable for advertisements published by their or !er.
THE NARROWEST LOCOMOTIVE LINE.—Mr. R. Ste-
phenson stated, in his evidence before the Gauge Com-
missioners, that there was a line of railway laid down
between Antwerp and Ghent, on a gauge of 3 feet 9
inches, and that he himself had travelled on an experi-
mental line 10 or 12 miles long, laid down by M. Derei-
der, from Brussels towards Mons. The gradients of this
line were favourable—S, and 10, and 12 feet a mile; but
several unusually shai.p curves occurred. With a small
engine, M. Dereider drove along this line with a load of
40 tons, a•. the rate of 30 miles an hour, very smoothly.
The Union, the same gauge, between Ghent and Antwerp,
a distance of between 50 and 60 miles, is in successful
operation, conveying both goods and passengers.

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.—A circular will be immedi-
ately issued from the Joint-Stock Companies Registra-
tion-office, addressed to the several provisionally regis-
tered railway companies, stating that it is the intention of
her Majesty's government, immediately after Easter, to
propose to parliament a bill to enable any railway com-
pany which at the time of the passing of the bill shall not
have obtained its act of parliament to dissolve itself. By
the bill it is intended to provide for the calling of a meet-
ing of the shareholders, either by the managing body or
by a given number of shareholders, at which meeting it is
intended that the holders of a majority of the shares in
the company, or the holders of three-fifths of the shares
belonging to those present or represented by proxy at the
meeting, shall have the power to determine upon the dis-
solution of the company. Due provision will be made for
a sufficient public notice being given of the time and
place of meeting, and of the mode in which absent share-
holders are to be represented by proxy. Upon the disso-
lution being carried at the meeting the property of the
company is to become forthwith vested in certain persons
to be appointed for the purpose of winding up the concern,
and, after discharging the liabilities, for distributing the
surplus. The actual holders of scrip are to be taken as
shareholders, entitled by themselves or their proxies to
attend the meetings.