The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS
have just resolved to su

The Board of Management

pend all new works in the West

Riding of Yorkshire, which are not likely to be imme-
diately productive. The (X 32) third shares and the
West Riding Union shares are consequently relieved of
Calls ; those of the fifths will not amount to more than
30s. per share.
On Thursday, the bridge of the Great Western Railway
at Hanwell was destroyed by fire, supposed to be the act
of an incendiary. It burst forth before the twelve o'clock
up train from Reading reached it—a most fortunate cir-
cumstance, as the weight of the train would have proba-
bly broken through the smouldering rafters, and a great
loss of life ensued.

THE DERBY DAY.—The Epsom line was so managed,
that hundreds got into the trains at Epsom without pay-
ing; and-on their arrival at London-bridge, after waiting
patiently whilst fewer than half-a-dozen men attempted to
collect tickets and money from 43 carriages (many with
70 people in each), the whole body of passengers opened

thecloOrs on the off-side, and marched up the without
paying or leaving th.ir tickets!
The Manchester aid Southampton, in no wise dis-
heartened at their second failure, have resolved to go be-
fire parliament again next year. Mr. R. Stephenson,
with characteristic frankness, admitted that the responsi-
bility of failure rested with him, and said that he would
repair the error as well as he could, and would himself
bear all the expenses of passing standing orders in the
next session.
The Railway Chronicle, of Saturday, in an article on
the defeat of the narrow gauge party in parliament, states
that it sees " nothing to prevent the broad gauge travel-
ling to the north indefinitely far." The Chronicle is a
strong advocate of narrow gauge interests, and concludes
its remarks as follows :—" The better cause, in the worse
hands, has now lost all chance of success. The cause of
uniform gauge in the north is lost."
The immediate cause of the stoppage of the Croydon
Atmospheric was the condition imposed by the Govern-
ment Inspector of having a second junction at the point
where the Croydon line diverges from the Erig'iton, be-
fore he would sanction the opening of the Epsom. He

deemed this necessary for public safety. But this was
found to be impracticable, unless the Atmospheric was
actually taken up at the point. The direct Ors, therefore,
had only the option of retaining the Atmospheric and
giving up the traffic of the Epsom, or opening the line
under the conditions imposed by the Railway Board.
SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS.—We rejoice to an-
nounce that the committee of the House of Commons
have sanctioned the South Yorkshire Railway, with the
exception of the portions of the line projected between
Worsbro' and Penistone and between Mexbro' and Ro-
therham. But the Committee having also granted the
Barnsley Junction (applied for by the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway), there will now be a continuous line of
rails from Doncaster through Barnsley and Penistone to
Manchester ; and it is left to the railway commissioners to
say upon what terms the South Yorkshire shall run their
trains on the Midland line to Masbro'. These arrange-
ments provide for Doncaster the westerly communication
which it so much requires, and fully open the South York-
shire Coal Field to the Great Northern, Midland, and
Sheffield and Manchester Railways.
FALSE PROPHECIES IN 1834.—A Mr. Cort predicted
in 1834, only thirteen years ago, as follows, in a work he
called Railroad Imposition detected Long before
the Birmingham is ready, such are the improvements now
making in canals, not only may the charge be expected
to be many times less than the railway, but the time now
lost will be considerably saved ; and as a proof of the
impotency of the Manchester and Liverpool to compete
with water lines, it has not been able to obtain at the end
of three years, three months and a half, much above one-
sixth of the whole traffic ; nor even that, without a total
failure as to profit. But granting the Birmingham secured
-e +hn income estimated qt

therefore, for the latter milway in the waggon department,
must be confined to goods requiring extraordinary expe-
dition • and these, comparatively, are very few. The
Great ?Western, though probably it may reach as far as
Bath from B • '' l'Ir" nmle-
way through

what with ft

smoke, and sulphur, that the very mention of a railway
will be worse than ipecacuanha, especially when the only
prospect they can find the least cheering in the midst of
all this derangement of their stomachs, will be a granite
tramway, actually in operation, along side of their own
dose of ipecacuanha, ready to follow up the-black draught,
so as to get rid of every particle of obstruction with which
the bottoms of their,pockets might be otherwise Aided."