The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

railway " calls
will amount to upwards of £2,209,000.
The first sod of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston
Railway was cut on Tuesday last, by Mr. Jos. Kendrick,
of Liverpool. in a field belonging to Mr. Baker, farmer,

for March

opposite the Sefton Arms, Aintree race-course
MIDLAND RAILWAY—LoANs.—This Company adver-
tise that they are prepared to give 5 per cent. for loans.
This is an advance on what they offered last week of year. It is thong
per cent. the iilant—probably the centipede or the wire-worm : be
THE ADMIRALTY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.—The Lords it what it may, the crop is suffering very much. In parts
. of the county Meath, and also in portions of Louth which
of the Admiralty have at length directed the extension of
the South-Western Railway subterranean electric tele- I visited within the last few days, I saw a great many in-
cranh to the Admiralty at Whitehall. It will branch off different looking fields, and only a few of what may be

in the Strand near the Company's present offices. called good ones. I consider, when we have a .chiinge
It was understood on Wednesday afternoon that the from the present scorching arid weather, that the wheat
London and North-Western and the Great Western crop will prove better than farmers imagine."
Railway Companies had respectively obtained the full EMIGRATION.—The following vessels are already en-
sum they desire upon the debentures recently advertised. tered at this port to convey passengers to North America,
—Times. this spring in consecutive order :—Anna Maria, Dolphin,
WIIITEHAVEN JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On Thursday ' . and Heather Bell, for New York; Jane Black, Primrose,
last, this important line of railway was opened with great • Celeste, Bryan Abbs, and Jessie,' for Quebec. Such is
rejoicings all along the line, after which the Earl of Lons- the avidity of small farmers, agriculturists, and mechanics,
dale entertained 170 guests to a sumptuous dinner at to quit the land. of their birth, in consequence of the Gala-
Whitehaven Castle. There was a grand ball at the
' -Bank in the evening, mitous famine, that berths have been secured in all the
Savings'
ships that sail from this port. For Quebec—The Jessie,
The Great Western Railway has made a very good re-. 700 passengers ; Jane Black, 500 ; Primrose, 350 ; Bryan
gulation in respect to passengers' luggage. In addition Abbs, 200 ; Celeste, 200. For New York—Eleutheria,
to the label showing the destination of the luggage, a ticket 190 ; Dolphin, 100 ; Anna Maria, 100. The. Heather
with the initial letter of the passenger's . name is also Bell, also for New York, with 104 passengers, is nearly
pasted on it, and.the luggage is sorted alphabetically, so ..full, and to meet the wishes of hundreds applying for
that wllO, a, passenger goes to, Paddington, supposing his . berths at the ship agents' office, it is intended to fit out
name is Brown, he has only to go AO a bin marked B, and other vessels for the same destination. For the last fort-
find hIS luggage at once.
MANCIIESTER,IIRFFIRLD, AND LINCOT,NSHIRE RAIL- IAnight 400 have left.the city, by. canal, to emigate, vid. Li-
verpool for New York and Quebec.—merick Chronzcle.
WAY.=The extraordinary meeting of this company, for
the appointment of two additional directors, was held on • The Cork Examiner says :—" From the melancholy
accounts which we receive, day after day, from gentlemen
Wednesday, at the London Road Station, Manchester. of undoubted accuracy and intelligence, of the general
Mr. Coates and Mr. C. Holland, the two gentlemen neglect of this proPitioui season for the cultivation of the
nominated at a former meeting, were elected. The busi-
nesS did not excite much interest, and the company not land—of the . extensive tracts of . country that are still
untouched by plough, spade, or harrow—of the stupid
having thought it desirable to go to the usual expense of apathy and sullen despair that seem to hang, like a dark
.issuing passes along the line fur distant shareholders, the cloud over the' minds, of all classes—landlords, middle-
attendance was small. men,and farmers—we are reluctantly compelled to believe
, is but theprecursor .Tzt EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—SUNDAY that the present season
TRAVELLING.—The result of the state of the vote on the terrible, more appalling, more destructive to human life.
Sabbath trains question, at the recent meeting of the No later.than yesterday we were informed by two gentle-
°shareholders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, was men—one from the east and the other from the
officially tleclared by the chairman last week at the ad- this county-=that threnghout extensive districts, throne
journed meeting in Glasgow, when it was found that there which they, had 'just Passed,. there val.
was a majority .of 152 in favour of the resolution of the cultivationubservable ; and that -
directors to discontinue Sunday trains. Mr. M'Neill, any other year, to be seen on every 1

rce a trace ot
where a plough was, in

there i 3 not

however, has intimated that he- will submit the case to i•more tnalkone now in a whole district. There is, to be
another special meeting of the shareholders, and that a sure, a kind of dismal, ruinous activity in road-making ;
requisition for that vairpose will he gbt up as soon as pos- but on the land, in which hes the hope or the despair of
-Edinkurflh Afilrertiser. Ireland, there J 43 utter idleness and inactivity."