The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-02-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.---011 monday the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this railway was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, Mr. William Shadbolt in the chair. From the report it appeared that the new works were progressing. Fifty-six new carriages on the line were shortly to be replaced by others of a far better construction. The raising of the remaining £50,000, by the issue of new shares or bonds, was at present delayed. Compared with the former half-year there was a saving in the expenditure of £1,376 12s Bd. The balance of the traffic department was £1,160, a sum too small to warrant a dividend. The passenger traffic showed a decrease of 41,221. and in amount of £1,635, compared with the preceding halfyear, but the Brighton tolls had increased to £987 13s 3d. The directors, however, looked with confidence to the future, when the Croydon, Brighton, and South-eastern lines should. be in a state of completion. The fares had been reduced to 9d. and ficl.f but no opinion could at present be formed of I"; result of the experiment. 'From the balance sheet it appeared that, up to the 31st of December, the total cash in hand of £27351 it-, been £966,239 4s 2d., leaving a balance , , in w Hell The receipts for the half-year were £26,137 sii. 4a.! X 22,524 Ils ; were the items—passengers, 737,916, and payingx96.l itis• Bd. Croydon toll, £2,052 11s. ad. ; ' and Brighton. reduced the expenses, . The interests on bonds anti shares, and having been adoptLd , the balance to £931 9s. 3d. The repoitstion of Mr. Joshua a long discussion took place on the no:: !talon was moved b rece_iv_e_Cllll(l. Field as a new director, when a re but it was evenualifieation, the directorshundred of the old shares as S q . , ration that i extent of one hurideed qualify to the • ianimously ele . Mr. Stringer, to compel the directors to be holders of two itnuaflul ;ad was then.ut (.of the original shares. Mr.r,gr. Entwisle ; and three other Ytuwreithshdroauwldnenacnhdenrutahle elected a director in the room 0. re-elected; after which a vote of thanks was passed to twhoeeredirectors, and the meeting ad.consiae directors who had retired journed. AotiNA.—The following are the particularsd ld-blooded affair, as gathered of this atru.nian, mate of heriMajesty's brigantine from Mr. LewisQt charge the Jane and Sarah arrived at Charybdis, in whose Jane and Sarah was employed by the Co. OUTRAGE AT CncAlaio•runn an co i .—The „i•nuient to coa, Colonel Gregg, Mr. Watt. Royal :--The and several native partisans, to their n ; that on reaching destination, a party of Carial'unomdrtbaißaniooi another ZaP-t,e- -soldiers forced their way on board, and, after ranIniklthe vessel, carried off Colonel Gregg and his party as egsrs, besides securing 14,000 dollars and other goods to a considerable value, the property of the state. On reaching the shore, the unfortunate prisoners were then tied up to a tree and shot, beginning with the natives, each one being tied by the inhuman butchers to the dead body of his companion ! On Colonel Gregg remonstrating, as we were informed, with them, and asking theta if they dared thus to murder a British subject, they only shrugged up their shoulders, and said, they would soon see that ! The party then fired, but the first volley only brought their unfortunate victim on his knees, when some of the soldiers stepped up and consummated their bloody work. The other English passengers had their lives spared, but were detained in custody. Shortly after, a large sail appeared off the coast; man-of-war, the marauderstook to their boats, and disappeared. which suspecting to,be a British