The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

e of the passengers were
engine-man'and fireman are much hurt ;

he engine was limas:

but the carriages sustain ed little iniu.
delay a train, with the passengers, &c.
line, and arrived here at two o'clock the following morning
SPEED ON THE NARROW GAUGE.—The special train
employed to carry down the visitors invited to " open '
the docks, &c., at Birkenhead, left Ev

and after soin

occ., was got upon the

;ton-squre at six,

on Monday

train consisted offive pa

lv of the ocoinothie and

r. The engine,
cylinders, long

Stephens

-wheels of seven feet diameter, p,

0 miles as nearly as

from whic

must be deducted, in-
stoppages, of about 30

in all, at various stations, a 'fa

to more

a hour, caused by the working

)f the journey, which rendered it necessary

reported to hay

:en place from

unning

various parts of the line ; from Wolverhampton to the
journey's end it had to fight with a violent wind, for
which an allowance of 2 to 5 miles per hour, if not more,
should be made for the performance from that point.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN (LIVERPOOL TERMI-
NUS

bantic alterations at this
ent in 1846, are making rapid prog
s of the Edgehill tunnel have been taken away
to enlarge the station, and the rock which was
I perforated by the tunnel is being excavated for a consi-
derable distance on either side. Hotham-street, which
passed over that portion of the tunnel now taken away, is
to be carried over the station yard on an iron viaduct of
enormous dimensions, the girders and columns of which
L3O tons. The tunnel is now reduced in length
le mile, on an incline of 1 in 98. Althot
.t is no lono

ation, sanctioned
About

by Par
200 yard

'able, 1: in 75 bein
by ordinary locomotives, at a speed of
on the Shan incline of 8 miles, on the L

North-Western trc

are taken

means of the

expensive mode of working there is, unfortunately, no
remedy, for no outlet has been provided in the tunnel for
the escape of the steam froth the engines, which conse-
quently falls upon the rails, rendering them too wet and
slippery for the engine wheels to bite. At the top of the
tensive preparations are also in progress for the
!ommodation of the daily increasing traffic. The
being widened for several miles, to admit of a third

incline e

line of rails, which must, sooner or later, be carried on
the whole way to Birmingham and London. Several
handsome new stations are also building on this part of
the line. These works, will, no doubt, cost a large sum
of money, several hundred thousand pounds probably, but
they are absolutely required by the circumstances of this
railway and indeed, they have been too long delayed •

he pu

I gainers
Safety

3N, incr

punctuality and

Railway ChronicleP

COURT AND FASHION.

Maiest

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ly and the Court, remain at Windsor Castle

Her Majesty will hold Drawing Rooms, at St. James's
dace, on Thursday the 15th April, and Thursday the
th of May, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day.
On Thursday Lord John Russell arrived on a visit to
T Majest

RIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Lord
Alfred Paget, fourth surviving son of the Marquis of An-
slesey, to'Miss Cecilia Wyndham, second daughter of the
Countess of Listowel, was solemnized at St. James's
Church, London, on Thursday last. After the ceremony
the Countess of Listowel gave a superb dejeuner at King-
ston House, in celebration of the happy event. The
bride's jointure is said to amount to nearly £lOO,OOO.
The illness of the Duke of Portland, father of Lord
Bettinck, is believed to be a fatal one—no very
le surprise, seeing that his Grace is in his 79th

year. His death would make no change in the political
position or title of the protectionist leader, the heir to the
Dukedom being the Marquis of Titchfield, now forty-
seven years old, but quite unknown to fame as a party
man. Gossip assigns Lord George the inheritance of
most of the unentailed Ayrshire property of his father
consequent on his relinquishment of the turf and his de-
votion to politics.

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goyernment education scheme

- At Gateshead on Tuesday, Mr. Hutt, M.P.
the general election in July as fixed and certain
The decline in the wheat markets of the French de-
partments still continues.
DEATH FROM ANGER.—Two. little children, las
in Merthyr, quarrelling for an orange, one, a girl, became
so excited, that she fell into a fit and shortly expired.
As Mr. Frewen has made known his intention to reti

, spoke of

from

Sussex, I

ie representation of East
iounced his intention of comi

the y

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