The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.—This petit meeting
comes off in March. There will be two days' races, and
seven prizes, including the Grand National Steeple Chase
Handicap, to which there are at present 20 subscribers.
LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1850.—This important
meeting commences July 10. The various plates and
stakes are fast filling.
The CHESTER SPRING MEETING is fixed for Tuesday,
v, --a t.ll-„1..5 aoyo. Upwarcia of 1400 cove.
are given at this meeting.
GROUSE IN PEMBROKESHIRE.—Mr. Barham, of Tre-
coon, has received from the North of England a quantity
of grouse and black game, which he has turned out upon
the mountains in the upper part of that country.
While Mr. F. F. Berkeley was hunting with the East
Kent foxhounds on Wednesday week, and was leaping a
fence, he flushed a woodcock, which he killed with a
skilful stroke of his hunting-whip. He quickly alighted,
secured his bird, remounted his horse, and lost so little
time that he was one of the first at the death.

THE CHASE

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on

Astle
Tabley
Crewe Hall
Beeston
Broomlands
Chohnondeley
Ravensmoor Windmill

To-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 12th, at
Thursday, 13th, at ..
Saturday, 15th, at
Monday, 17th, at ...
Wednesday, 19th, at
Thursday, 20th, at
Saturday, 22nd, at

Each day at half.past ten o'clock

Sir W. W. WYNNE'S hOUNDS will meet on
To-morrow, (Wednesday,) at Baschurch Station
Friday, 14th, at
Saturday, 15th, at .. Greddington
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.

RAILWAY

AFFAIRS.

The East Lancashire Railway Company have agreed to
wark the traffic of the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and
West Yorkshire Company.
The Aberdeen railway is to be completed next month,
when the communication between London and Aber-
deen—a distance of 500 miles—will be complete.
The strike of the engine-drivers and stokers on the
East Lancashire railway still continues. A new set of
men are employed.
On Wednesday last the wires of the Electric Telegraph
between Birmingham and London were broken in two,
in two different places, by the contraction produced by
the frost.
Tel!ord's Menai suspension bridge was eight years in
building, the weight of its iron works, compared with
that of the Britannia Bridge, being as 644 to 10,000 tons,
or in the ratio of 1 to 15.

The express trains of the London and North-Western
railway now take the old route round by Birmingham,
instead of traversing the Trent Valley line. The altera-
tion, besides being a convenience to Birmingham, will
effect a saving of some £5,000 per annum.
The London and North-western Railway Company
have adopted the Guarantee Society as surety for the
fidelity of their clerks and officers, and it is stated that
nearly 300 policies have been required for the officials in
London and at the various stations on the line.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL-
WAY.—During the past week this company have success-
fully launched, broadside, and deposited at the end of
their pier in the Humber, opposite Hull, the great pon-
toon of iron plates, 400 feet long, forming a landing place,
by means of descending platforms from the pier, on to
which out of the railway carriages alongside, passengers
will embark in the steam-boats that are to ferry them in
a few minutes across, with the least possible detention.
The fabric is 50 feet wide, 8 deep, weighs 700 tons, and
was towed to its destination by six steamers. _

FLOATING OF THE SECOND TUBE OF THE BRITANNIA
BRIDGE.—This most stupendous engineering undertaking
was successfully accomplished en Tuesday last, in the
presence of several thousands of spectators. Precisely at
five minutes after eleven o'clock, Captain Claxon an-
nounced that the " tube was free." Directions were
immediately given, by signals from the tube to the various
capstans, to haul out this monster tube ; and, precisely at
fifteen minutes after eleven, the tube was safely
brought out of the dock, resting on the huge pontoons,
into the current of the tide, and floated gradually down
to the recess in the Britannia Rock, and the whole finally
completed exactly at fifteen minutes past twelve, amidst
the tremendous cheering of the populace and the dis-
charge of cannon. The raising of the tube will commence
in about ten days or a fortnight, which will occupy about
a month in completing, and immediately afterwards the
connexion of the tube with the land tubes will be very
speedily accomplished, and we may confidently expect
the opening of the line across direct to Holyhead to take
place early in March next.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident of the most fright-
ful description occurred on Thursday upon the line of
railway between Newark and Lincoln, which was attended
with very sad, although, at present, not fatal results..
When the mail train which passes 'Newark station at 4
a.m., had proceeded about three miles down the line
towards Collingham, upon passing one of the wooden
bridges which, in that neighbourhood, are very numerous,
the brickwork abutments to this particular bridge gave
way under the weight of the engine, and caused the
coupling chains connecting it with the carriages to snap
asunder. The extreme velocity with which the train was
travelling at the time enabled the engine to get clear of
the frightful chasm which was so momentarily made ; but
the violent breaking of the chains causing the carriages
behind to rebound, each was driven with a crash upon the
other, and, after rocking dreadfully for a second or two,
the whole fell into the boiling flood beneath. The vast
sea of water collected in the valley of the Trent—a more
extensive flood than has been known for twenty years
past—was at this particular place very deep ; and to this,
in some measure, may be attributed the fortunate escape
from death of those occupying the various carriages.