The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.

TAE COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION.
The annual amount of salaries and wages paid by the com-
pany, according to the number of servants employed on the
10th of August, is something more than £10,610. Out of
this sum, the committee which lately sat to examine into the
position of the company, recommend reductions amounting
t0X17,788. We understand, however, that the directors bad
already made or given notice of reductions amounting to be-
tween £5,000 and £6,000. In the locomotive department
the committee propose reductions to the amount' of about
£9,600 a year out of about £19,000; in the coaching and.
stations department they propose reductions to the amount
of £4,690 ; in the secretary's, superintendect'si engineer's,
and audit offices, they propose consolidations and reductions
to a great extent. The directors ask for detailed statements
of the establishment which the committee recommend, and
these details will, no doubt, be furnished by the committee;
after which the directors will consider theM, and will pro-
bably submit them with their own rernarkS to the share-
holders; and, having done this, they will call a special gene-
ral meeting of the shareholders to determine on the whole
matter.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—Great is the change
already effected by the railway in the appearance and condi-
tion of Brighton. With the exception of the coaches run-
ning to the provincial towns, and two or three which are
still kept on the road to London, for the purpose of accom-
modating those places, such as Horsham and East Grinstead,
which lie wide of the railway, coaching is all up ; the only
vehicles to be met with in the streets are, as in London,
cabs, flies, and omnibuses ; and a thriving trade they seem
to carry on. It is stated that the demand for property in
the town was never greater than at present; and it is ex-
pected to be still more next year,
..when the Paris and
Rouen line will be opened.
AMALGAMATION OF BAILWAYS.—A few weeks ago we
suggested the propriety of .amalgamating into one strong
company the Midland Counties, North. Midland, and Bir-
mingham and Derby Railways, and
.we, are happy. to find that
the hint has attracted considerable attention. Since that
time it has been put to us, whether it would not be much
better for the proprietors of these lineq, and much more
conducive to the convenience of the public, that the Midland
Counties and Birmingham and Derby lines should be leased
to the London and Birmingham Company, and the North
Midland to the York and North Midland.: Ve know not
how such a proposition would be ,received by the directors
and shareholders of the companies thus proposed as lessees.
but assuredly the scheme would benefit every other party.
The success of the London and Birmingham and York and
North Midland managements is universally acknowledged.
That something must be done to rescue these three under-
takings from their present position is daily becoming more
apparent; and if the question be only met in good faith, and
with earnestness of purpose, we make no doubt that the best
scheme will speedily be devised. For the sake of the long-
suffering shareholders, we sincerely trust it may.—Railway
Times.