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London, England, 1845-10-18 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Arbroath and Forfar •• • •• •
Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • • • .
Chester and Birkenhead .• • ••• • • •
Dublin and Drogheda• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown.
Dundee and Arbroath . ..............
Durham and Sunderland .............
Edinburgh and Glasgow .... ........
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Glasgow and Greenock..
Grand Junction • • •• • ••• • •
Gravesend and R0che5ter............
Great North of England • • • • • • • • • • • •
Great Western . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Hull and Selby ..... ••••••• • • • • • • •
Liverpool and Manchester • • • •
London and Birmingham . •••• • • - •
London and Blackwall— ... • • •
London and Brighton . • • • • . • • • • • • • • •
London and Croydon . •• • • •
London and Greenwich . • • • .• • • •••
London and South We5tern.........
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ......
Manchester and Birmingham........
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Darlington ..........
Newcastle and Car1i51e..............
Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel!, and Orleans
Paris and Rotten . • •.......
Preston and Wyre..................
Sheffield and Manchester • ..• ........
South Eastern..
Ulster . ............. ..... .
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland . ........

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD.

The half•yearly meeting of the proprietors of thisCompanv
was held on Wednesday, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool,
Mr. W. Jackson, Chairman of the board of Directors, pre-
siding. The report was as follows :—" The Directors, pursu-
ing that course which has before been approved by the pro-
prietors, namely, to extend public accommodation to the
utmost reasonable limit, and to invite the traffic of the great
lines of the country by securing to them liberal terms and
abundant convenience, have concluded an arrangement with
the Grand Junction Railway Company, the terms of which
accord with the principle announced. Without detailing
minutely the terms which have been settled, it may
at present be stated that the Grand Junction will
run all through trains to and from Birkenhead, taking,
at the same time, all local and through traffic which
may be offered on the Birkenhead line; and whilst the
Grand Junction must run as many trains to and from
Birkenhead as they do from Chester, this Company will
continue to work as many trains as the Directors please
for local traffic. Fares and freights will be adjusted on a
basis beneficial for both companies, and the cost of working
Grand Junction trains over the Birkenhead line will be settled
at a fixed rate not exceeding actual cost. A proportion of
all terminal expenses not exceeding actual cost for goods
traffic will be paid by a fixed rate. A joint station will be
formed at Chester, and this Company will afford to the Grand
Junction, and any other Company whose traffic is brought
upon the Birkenhead line, adequate station accommodation
at Birkenhead, at a rent of six per cent. upon the cost. The
agreement with the Grand Junction Company is to continue
for at least seven years. This arrangement, conceived in a
spirit of friendly alliance, involves, necessarily, terms by
which all future hostility between the two Companies may be
avoided. The Directors have thus developed the principle
upon which they are prepared to receive upon their line
the traffic of other railways which their arrangement with
the Grand Junction does not prevent them from doing.
They have now to submit to the proprietors the measures
which they have projected for their sanction. 1. An improve-
ment in the access to Monck's Ferry, by an additional tunnel
and an enlargement of the station accommodation at the ter-
minus. 2. An enlargement of the station accommodation at
Grange-lane and Chester, as well as at Hooton. 3. Widen-
ing the whole length of the railway from Birkenhead to
Chester, sufficient for the broad gauge, if required. 4. A
branch railway from Hooton to the Queen's Ferry, to accom.
modate all the Welsh traffic. 5. A branch railway from
Hooton to Neston and Parkgate. 6. A railway from Grange-
lane to New Brighton and Holylake. The cost, as far as
an approximate estimate will enable the Directors to state
it, will be about 950,0001. for all these measures. The
first, second, and third measures are intended to meet the
demands of a largely increased traffic; the fourth, fifth, and
sixth are for local accommodation." The report was adopted.
MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND GREAT

'GRIMSBY RAILWAY.
A general meeting of the Provisional Committee of this
line took place at the Guildhall, Huddersfield, on Thursday,
which was numerously attended.
The CHAIRMAN (John Sutcliffe, Esq.) in a forcible speech
setting forth the advantages of the proposed line of railway,
(the objects of which are to complete a direct chain of com-
munication between the eastern and western coasts, and by
means of other lines to pass through the town of Doncaster.
forming one grand trunk line from Liverpool to Great
Grimsby), moved that the engineer's report be now read
and, after some discussion as to the mode of appoint-
ing the Executive Committee, the report was adopted.
The report stated that no engineering difficulties existed, and
that the tunnel under the Trent at Batterwick could be
made without difficulty. (An announcement received by the
company with great applause.) lit further stated that expe-
rienced contractors were ready to undertakethe works at con-
siderably less than the proposed estimate.
The report having been unanimously adopted, a long and
desultory conversation ensued as to the practicability of tun-
neling under the Trent. The speakers were Sir John Key,
of London, the Mayor of Doncaster, and Aldermen BiLley, E.
L Hesp. Esq., Sidney Moorhouse, Esq., C. Lockwood, Esq., to
whom the answer of Mr. Billinton, the engineer to the com-
pany, was declared to be perfectly satisfactory, the latter de-
claring that he intended to make at once a three feet drift or
`• man-hole," tunnel under the Trent, to set the question at
rest, and expressed his couvicticn of being enabled to take to
Parliament with him some bricks made of the clay from the
excavation.
An unanimous vote of confidence in the plans of the engi-
neer was passed, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman
the meeting separated.

DARING AND EXTENSIVE CARRIAGE ROBBERY OF
JEWELS AND PLATE.—On Friday morning information was re-
ceived at the principal metropolitan police-office, in Great Scot-
land-yard, of a most daring and extensive robbery of a quantity
cf plate and jewels having been committed by some adroit and
expert thieves, in Little James-street, Gray's Inn-lane, amounting
to between 4001. and 5001., which was immediately forwarded to
all the other police stations throughout the metropolis. In ap•
pears that between six and seven o'clock on Thursday evening, the
carnage of Mr. Townley, residing at 8, Little James-street, Gray's
Inn-lane, was standing at the street- door, waiting to take the
family out of town ; a box of plate and numerous articles of
valuable jewels were put Into the carriage, when it is supposed
that some experienced and adroit thieves observing the box
placed in the carriage, proceeded to the carriage-door on the other
side, and, uilohserved by it, servants cf Mr. Townleyo succeeded
in opeuing it, and abstn.ctid the box with its valuable contents,
With which they succeeded in escaping.
The new pier at 131ackfriars-bridge will be com-
pleted next week ; the length will be sufficient to accommodate six
steam-boats at a time. It is named the " City of London Central
Fier"