The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

A respectably dressed man—was killed at the St. Helen's
Junction on Friday night by a train coming up unper-
ceived by him.

The officers of the East Lancashire Railway have pre.
sented Mr. Hacking, the late manager, with an elegant
silver claret jug, in testimony of their opinion of his ser-
vices.

On Friday afternoon a plat 3 layer on the Preston and
Wyre railway, named Hayes, was killed by the express
train coming up as he was endeavouring to escape from a
luggage train on the other rails
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[Jondon and Northwestern are now paying at the
rate of only 31 per cent. for money borrowed for the
renewal of debentures. This must, of course, operate
beneficially on future dividends.

The Sheffield proprietors in the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Company have formed a committee,
with a view of communicating with other proprietors, and
obtaining an investigation into the affairs of the company
and a modification of the present board of directors.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—At the meeting on
Thursday a dividend for the half year ending 31st Decem-
ber, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, was declared,
leav:ng a balance of £39,703. The directors' report was
adopted without any dissentients.

The London mailt rain on the Caledonian Railway came
into collision with the goods train at Abington, 40 miles
south of Glasgow, on Thursday morning. Seven of the
passengers by the train were more or less injured, and one
passenger had his thigh-bone broken. The train was
delayed for several hours.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Northwestern Com-
pany, held at Skipton, on Wednesday, a proposition of
the directors for laying a second line of rails from Skipton
to Clapham, the estimated cost of which is £50,000, was,
after some opposition, adopted ; and the directors autho-
rised to borrow any sum not exceeding £lOO,OOO, the
preferential stock of the company not having been fully
taken up by the proprietors. The receipts of the line
from working have amounted to £7,363 15s. 3d., and the
expenditure to £4,678 12s. 4d., leaving a balance of
£2,685 2s. lid. to the credit of the company.
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.—The adjourned
special meeting, for the purpose of electing a new board of
directors, was held on Tuesday ; Mr. Hope Johnstone
presided. Captain Plunkett, in a lengthened speech, pro-
posed the following gentlemen as directors :—The Hon.
Edward Plunkett ; John Coplin, jun., Hackney ; James
Baird, Glasgow ; Thomas Faucett ; Thomas M`Micking,
Edinbe-gh ; Douglas Campbell, Edinburgh ; Richard
Potter, London; William Thompson, Glasgow; John
Duncan, Aberdeen. After a long and warm discussion,
principally upon the merits of the individuals proposed,
the Chairman announced the result to be, that the list
proposed by the London central committee had been
carried.

TEE GREAT TUBULAR BRIDGE OVER THE MENAI.—
Wednesday last, the second tube was lowered to its per-
manent seat on the Carnarvonshite side, in the presence
of its distinguished founder, Robert Stephenson, M.P.
So successfully was every part brought to bear on lower-
ing the tube on the rock tower, that an extension of three-
sixteenths of on inch took place, denoting great rigidity.
The gale of Wednesday, and again on Saturday, when the
wind was west and by south, or at right angles with the
bridge, did not affect the structure in the least, though a
pressure of seventeen and a half pounds to the square foot
was ascertained. The only unfinished operations con-
nected with this bridge are the filling up of the gap on the
near side, and the grand junction nith the Carnarvonshire
tower, for which a period of three weeks will suffice—two
other weeks will suffice for laing the rails—from which
it will be seen that the line will be in readiness for open-
ing within a period of five weeks from this date.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. THE
DIVIDEND.—The statement of accountsfor the six months
ending 31st December last was completed on Wednesday.
After deducting £167,000 charged against revenue for in-
terest, there remains a net profit of £533,000 on the traffic
of the half-year. A dividend, after the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum, would amount to £534,000, or £l,OOO more
than the entire net profit for the half-year. II a dividend
at the rate of 5/ per cent. per annum be declared, the ba-