The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

BRISTOL. AND EXETER RAILWAY.—This important line
is proceeding steadily, though slowly, onwards, and will
shortly be receiving important benefit from the opening of
the Great Western line ; the completion of which must turn
public attention to this railway. Although the shares have
been low, it is our firm belief that the time is not distant
when they will be a favourable investment, and fetch high
premiums.—Bristol Standard.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We are informed that
notwithstanding the fall of the three arches at the terminus
in Temple Meads, the probability is, that the line will be
opened between this city and Bath by the 16th of next
month, as intended by the directors. The falling in of these '
arches was produced by an immense weight placed on them
to test their solidity. They are being rapidly replaced. The
scene at the terminus is one of stirring industry, and when
completed it will be a magnificent piece of architecture. The
style is Elizabethan to accord with the older buildings of
Bristol, and all the internal arrangements promise to be of
the most complete character. There will be a long shed with
a beautifully modelled cast-iron gothic roof of 120 feet span,
supported with 80 hollow pillars of great height, connected
by cast-iron gothic arches, under which the passengers will
proceed to and from the several trains. The ground in Tem-
ple Meads is now almost wholly covered, and the extent of
the terminus, into which the Exeter line will run, and most
probably the line from Gloucester also, may be estimated
from the fact, that nearly twelve acres are occupied by
The appearance of the various portions of the line from this
to Bath is very favourable, the embankments, bridges, &c.,
being in good condition. The oblique bridge across the
Avon at Bath near the old bridge, is being built of trussed
wood like the bridge near the Cotton Works. When we
look to the approaching termination of this magnificent effort
of enterprise and skill, we feel not a little pride in being
fellow citizens of the public-spirited individuals who formed
the plan and carried out the design of this, the noblest work
of the kind in this country. This line of railway, we are
confident, will take the lead of all the other great lines. In
comparing the present amount of traffic, though now but
partially open, with that of the London and Birmingham,
long since in full work, it will be found that the receipts
show that the Great Western has considerably an excess of
passenger traffic. And if we compare the receipt of the
Great Western line partially opened to Steventon or Read-
ing, it is seen that for the first six months after the London
and Birmingham line was opened throughout its length of
112 miles, the comparative return per mile per week of the
Great Western was greater than that of the London and Bir-
mingham line. It must also be borne in mind, and it is no
trifling matter, that the Birmingham line passes through but
few towns, being supported principally by the towns at a dis-
tance and beyond its terminus, while the Great Western
takes Reading, Marlborough, Cheltenham, and Bath, and
will derive much traffic from the populous clothing districts
of Wilts, Gloucestershire, and Somerset.—Bristol Standard.
It is expected the Manchester and Leeds Railway will be
opened throughout the entire length in the month of Novem-
ber next.

RAILWAY FROM LEEDS TO BRADFORD.—There is ano-
ther scheme in embryo to construct a railway from here to
Leeds, and we understand that a survey of the country
through which it is proposed to carry it is now going on.
The line thought of is quite different from those previously
contemplated, and if our information be correct, is in most
respects superior. The gradients are more eligible, the dis-
tance shorter—shorter even than the turnpike road—and
though a tunnel of some length will be required, there is rea-
son to suppose that in making this tunnel an abundant sup-
ply of good water may be obtained for the use of the town.—
Leeds Intelligencer.

MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A viaduct
over the valley of the River Dane, of dimensions nearly as
gigantic as the one over the valleys on each side of the river
Mersey, in this town, is about to be contracted for on the
line of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, between
Wilmslow and Crewe. It will have 24 arches, of 63 feet
span each, at an elevation of about 80 feet, and will be up-
wards of 1700 feet in length. There will be but little dif-
ference between the one here and the one over the Dane, ex-
cept that the former has 26 arches, and the latter 24, with an
altitude of several feet less. We suppose the cost will be
much the same ; the one here being, we believe, £BO,OOO.—
Stockport Advertiser.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—We understand the
negotiation between this Company and the Great Western
for the leasing of the line has every prospect of terminating
mutually advantageous to both parties. It is said thEt a
novel mode will be had recourse to in the disposal of the for-
feited shares. Whatever sum may have been paid on them
they are to be pro raid distributed, as if £4O had been paid
on them, gratuitously among the shareholders who shall have
paid up £5O, the present amount of calls, by the next half-
yearly meeting, on their own proper shares. It is considered
that this will be far preferable to any preference share scheme.
For when shares are offered at a discount the loss goes out of
the punctual shareholder's pocket, and if he cannot or does
not choose to take the discount shares allotted to him, into
that of the speculator, whereas by the proposed plan what
comes out of the punctual shareholder's pocket, in the way
of difference between the amount paid on each share and
£4O, will return to it by the allotment, and there will be no
difficulty in receiving shares that are given to him—Railway
Times.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY
INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
PROMOTIONS.

The Duke of Sutherland has, been pleased to appoint the
Rev. Thomas James Rowsell, B.A. of St. John its College,
Cambridge, and assistant minister of St. Mark's, Kenning-
ton, to be his grace's domestic chaplain.
Rev. B. Young, M.A. to the vicarage of Tuddenham St.
Martin, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. W.
Fonnereau.

Rev. James Cutting Safford, B.A. vicar of Mettingham, to
the perpetual curacy of Ilketshall St. Laurence, Suffolk.
Rev. W. M. Dudley, B.A. of Catherine Hall, Cambridge,
curate of Poole, has been licensed by the Bishop of Winches-
ter, to the curacy of Broughton, Hants.
Rev. Henry Vane, B.D. fellow of Dulwich College, clerk
of the closet to her majesty, and domestic chaplain to Lord
Holland, to be dean of Durham, in the room of the late
bishop of St. David's.

Re;r. E. Baines, fellow of Christ's College, Cam-
bridge, to the rectory of Clipstone, Northamptonshire, vacant
by the death of the Rev. John Hanley.
Rev. James F. Roberts, M.A. of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to the rectory of Llandulas, Denbighshire, vacant by
the death of the Rev. L. Roberts ; patron, the bishop of St.
Asaph.

Rev. G. A. Clarkson, M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge,
to the vicarage of Amberley, with Houghton Chapel, void by
the cession of the Rev. J. C. P. Tuffnell ; patron the bishop
of Chichester.
Rev. C. Burne, B.C.L. has been licensed by the bishop of
Exeter to the perpetual curacy of of the Chapel of St. Luke,
Wear, on the nomination of the Rev. H. Thorp, incumbent
of Topsham, patron thereof.
(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
The Rev. Connop Thirlwall, formerly fellow of Trinity
College, in this university, has been appointed the new bishop
of St. David's.
The Rev. Robert Beauchamp Tower, B.A. domestic chap-
lain to Lord Western, has been instituted to the rectory of
Moreton, Essex, vacant by the appointment of the Rev. H.
Pepys, to the see of Sodor and Man. This living is rightfully
in the patronage of the master and fellows of St. John's Col-
lege, in this university, but it lapsed to the crown by the ele-
vation of Dr_. Pepys tc) the episcopal bench.

The Rev. Robert Llewellyn Caley, of St. John's College,
was omitted in the list of masters of arts created oncoin_
mencement Tuesday.

—YTS. Ackland, Esq. B.A. of St. John's- College, in this
university, has been appointed senior mathematical master of
the Royal Institution school, Liverpool.

The King of Greece has, it is said, lately had a narrow
escape from drowning in the attempt to ford a rivulet.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, we under-
stand, have made arrangements to pass the ensuing winter at
Naples.