The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY. AFFAIRS.

There is every likelihood of the extension of the broad
gauge to 'Scotland, the directors of the North British
Railway being it is said, to consider the propriety
of its adoption.
FATAL ''RAILWAY AcCIDENT.—A fatal occurrence hap-
pened on, the Bristol and Birmingham railway, at Norton,
on Tuesday. 'Three men employ ed on the works laid
down, and actually went to sleep, and in that position,
a luggage train coining up, two of them were run over,
and one was killed on the spot. The other is so severely
injured that it is doubtful whether he can -recover.
The Railway calls due, in the present month, amount
to £3,646,362, so far as they have been advertised to the
present time. it must be noticed that of the total of
X3,646;362, a sum of £1,550,000 consists of calls on two
foreign lines, and that as one-half the shares in these
companies are probably held abroad, a deduction of
£775;000 should be made, which would thus render the
total £2,871,362.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, a fatal ac-
cident took place on the London and North-Western
Railway, near Chalk Farm. A man named Dogherty was
in the act of crossing the line, near the Chalk Farm bridge,
when he was suddenly knocked down by an engine coming
through the bridge on the up line. The engine passed over
both thighs, crushing him in a frightful manner, and he
died soon after.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The amount of traffic for the
last week, on upwards of 2730 miles of railway, was
£376,650, thus accounted f0r:—£97,510 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £42,329 for the carriage of goods,
and a remainder of £36,811 for passengers and goods to-
gether, not respectively apportioned; being an increase
of £35.776 over the corresponding week of last year, when
the mileage was about 2292.
On Saturday, at a meeting of the St. Helens' Canal
and Rail Way proprietors, the bill for enabling " the coin.
puny to make branch railways to Warrington and to Black-
brook, and to take a lease of the. Rainford branch of the
London and North Western Railway," was agreed to.
The chairman, Gilbert Greenall, Esq., spoke in high
terms of the prospects of the company, and said that the
line, from being one of the lowest, might become as valua-
ble as any railway in the kingdom.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday night, as
the down train of the Brighton and Portsmouth Railway
was passing Bosham, the carriage got off the line, and the
II coupling-chain; which connects with the passenger-car-
riage breaking, the former was precipitated down the em-
bankment, killing the engineer, and injuring the stoker so
severely that his death was hourly expected. From the
fortunate circumstance of the connecting chain giving way
the passengers escaped unharmed.
THE LANCASHIRE RAILWAY BILLS.—The Committee
of the House of Commons on Group No. 36, to whom
the various Railway Bills in this neighbourhood were re-
ferred, have decided as follows :—Manchester and South-
port Railway7--carried. East Lancashire. Railway—Pres-
ton Extension carried—Southport Branch rejected. Lon-
don and North Western Railway—Ormskirk, Rainford,
and Widnes Branches carried. The Deviations and
Branches about St. Helens and Collins Green rejected.
St. Helens Canal and Railway—Warrington and Black
brook Branches carried. • •

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.—Referring to the
traffic tables of this line for the first four- weeks of May
in 1846 and 1847 respectively, we • find • the total receipts
freni Merchandise, &c., in the forther, amounted to
£52,207; in the present year, to £54,217. • The difference
of Something over £2,000 in faionr of .1847 would seem
to be of little moment, did we overlook the different state
of the times at the several periods compared-7-forgetting
that all kinds of business in the May of 1846 were in high
activity, while the present month • has been a season of
unusual anxiety and. restraint in every branch of trade
and manufacture.

RAILWAY BILLS.—Those .bills now before parliament
will certainly have their progress suspended this session, to
he resumed in the next, at the stage they left off, should
the promoters. think fit. The constitution of the com-
mittee appointed last week, in the House of Lords,
and the understood wishes of the government, leave no
possibility of a rational doubt as to this result. - The com-
mittee are expected to despatch this little business in a
summary way : to meet, decide, and report, will occupy
no more than three days ; and probably next Friday the
recommendations will be discussed in the house, with a de-
cided predisposition to hasten the intended effect.
LIVERPOOL, AND BURY RAILWAY.—This railway is
progressing rapidly in the neighbourhood of Wigan, and
lacing. contracted for in divisions, each portion will soon
be completed so as to form a junction with the other parts
of the line on both sides of the town. The first part of
works approaching the town in the direction from-Liver-
pool is now being carried across the Fourteen Meadows,
towards the Seven Stars Inn, at the bottom of Wallgate.
A bridge is in course of erection across the canal, and
there will also be another bridge across the river Douglas.
A bridge is also in a state of completion over the Liver.-
pool and Preston railway. The line then proceeds in the
direction of the ince road, near the estate of Mr. Ander-
ton, and is then carried on towards Amberswood Comm On.
At a short distance from the Ince road a valuable stone
.quarry has been discovered by Mr. M'Cormick, the con-
tractor, who, of course, will realise a golden harvest from
the bowels of the earth, a great portion of stone having
been used in the construction of the bridges upon that
portion of the line for which he has contracted; and the
delf is now being fillad up in order to carry the railroad
across it. This line, when completed, will shorten the
distance between Wigan and Liverpool, and. also afford
the Means of transit to many populous villages in the dis-
trict through which it runs.