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London, England, 1859-08-06 00:00:00

Railways.

Ballymena and Portrush
Bedale and Leyburn
Belfast and Ballymena
Belfast and County Down
Birkd., Lano., & Ches. June
Blyth and Tyne
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Ches.&Holyhead(withMold)
Cockermouth Sr Workington
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Blackroek, & Passage
Deeside
Dublin & Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda
Dub. & Wicklow

Dundalk and Enniskillen .:
Dundee and Arbroath
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun
East Anglian
E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union
East Kent
E. L ancashire(in. Blackburn)
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness

Glasgow SzSouth-Western.

Great Northern
Great North of Scotland

t.Southn. & Westn.(lrlud )1
rent Western

dull and Holderness

Inverness & Aberdeen Junc.
Irish South-Eastern
Killarney Junction
Lancaster and Carlisle (in
Kendal and "Windermere)
Lanc. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn)
Limerick and Foynes
Lianelly
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast.
L'derry and Enniskillen
Gond., Tilbury, & Southend.
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh.
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham
Ma port and Carlisle
Midland
Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind.
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal
Newcastle and Carlisle

Newport,Abcrg.,& Hereford
North British -(in. Dalkeith)
North Devon

North-Eastern....
North London ....

North Staffordshire .

North-Western
N. Yorkshire and Cleveland
Oxford, Worc., & Wolver
Peebles
St. Helen's Canal & Railway
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern
Shrewsbury & Birmingham
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shropshire Union
South Devon
South-Eastern
South Wales
S. Yorkshire and River Dan
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale
Ulster
Ulverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Neath
Warrington and Stockport
Waterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall

W. H artlepool Harbr. &Rail
Whitehaven Junction

Whitehaven & Furness Jun.

W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam...

Austriaii

Belgian Eastern Junction '
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish
Grand Trunk of Canada

diWlndian Peninsula
Great Luxembourg
Great Western of Canada
Lombardo-Venetian
Lyons and Geneva..
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant
Maria Antonia'
Northern of France
Norwegian Trunk
Paris, Lyons, dr Mediterrn
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Strasburg
Royal Danish
Sambre and Meuse
Southern of France
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France... •

1&59.

118
198
44
8
20

171
31
67i
489
19}
111
142

1831
283

734
9
233

115
29&
48

5791
3
171
108
119

1838.

117
1981
94
8
20

401
35
11
31
67k
489

291
22
183 k
283
53i
203.
400

25}
41 •
100
289
2
35

5
287
181
GO

1734
91
28
614 i
177

720
9
233
46i

29
57
3011
171.
108
116

Receipts.

1859.

1,297

668
3,206
1,589
7,272
14,855

426
1,877
2,002
2,565

931
SOS
1,206
1,072
26,273

7,052
28,699

532
37,516
2,791
7,565

1858.

1,288

362
5,353
1,514
7.155
15,133

4,852

• 365
1,171
1,860
2,701

757
1,262
936
26,845

7,453
26,975
239
596
72,424
1,879
;19,533
22,714

362
1,231
630
3,738
552
594
340

,
749
2,569
10,344

992
925
36,361
3,703
1,458
2,328
3,226
1,321
6,412

796
34,532

8,090
3,560
2,312
5,630

38,797
2,789
7,118

4,462

5,338
8,796

.305
1,956
3,171
3,783
1,865
3,371
1,666

-C4O
3,122
25,448
7,5 C)
2,839
8,C47
4,156
1,4,33

434
1,885

336
1,833
542
3,717
414
473
278

931
30,576

za
40,116
1,034
71,165
44,838
42,206

243
1,070
1,282

7,509
2,104
1,550
0,967

708
1,205
14,774

.390
38,957

4,194
9,418
286
41,420
1,021
58,625
42,784
:43,503

686
1,324
13,292
931
35,607

remarkableshedatsatonkde
cAc o mpl i
perilous undertaking has
which is •
A PERILOUS UNDER TjAußstlbNeOe
n the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, are
Prior, in Worcestershire.
. At thatplace, situate
on the line of
chemical works, which form a small town
extensive
here is one of the tallest chimneys in the
being' no less than 312 feet (104 yards) in height.
iiJvnoepurYtoinlnteeixiitseiesni chimney was fixed, some three or four years ago,
a lightning conductor (the chimney having a short time
before been struck with lightning), but the action of the
chemical gtses from the chimney having eaten away
all the projecting portion of the conductor, the pro-
prietor (Mr. Corbett) engaged a person from Sheffield,
Mr. Brown, to undertake the task, which he has
just cleverly accomplished. The proprietor being unwil-
ling to stop the works it was necessary to ascend to the top
of the chimney by the exterior, and accordingly Mr. Brown
prepared 24 ladders, each 21 feet in length, and having
placed one in a position at the foot of the chimney, spliced
the second to it by ropes, at the same time securing it from
motion by pins fixed in the chimney. In this way each of
the 24 ladders was raised. The chief difficulty, however,
was in fixing and ascending the last ladder, their beinga
cornice at the top of the chimney projecting three feet six
inches. However, this difficulty was cleverly overcome
and the ingenious and venturesome contractor having as-
cended it stood in safety on the top and renewed the top of
the lightning conductor. To ascend a chimney of this
height by ladders is a feat never before accomplished.