The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLJGBACB.

A viaduct of,no less than 28 arches will be constructed
over the Tweed at. Berwick, in thelormation of the New-
castle and Berwick railway.
A large viaduct on the Orleans and Vierzon railway
fell last week, whilst undergoing the government proof of
a heavy load.
SUNDAY TDAVELLING.—The directors of the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway have agreed to discontinue
the Sunday passenger traffic after the first of November.
They will, however, convey the mail as usual.
RAILWAY EXPEDITION.—A respectable tradesman in
Spalding closed his shop on Saturday night at ten o'clock,
was in London-all Sunday, and again opened his shop at
the usual hour on Monday morning at Spalding, having
travelled during that period 257 miles, and spent the
whole day in the metropolis.
On Tuesday Mr. Miles, one of the police in the service
of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, in
attempting to _get on a train of loaded earth waggons,
whilst in motion, near Sedgwick, slipped and fell on the
rails, when two of the waggons passed over him and
killed him on the spot.
The r Directors of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company have concluded
with Mr. Brassey., the well-known contractor, for the
completion, within two years from this time, of that por-
tion of their line between Chester and .Warrington, on
terms, that will reduce the cost below the Parliamentary
estimate.
We have just learned that the arrangement of the Lon-
don and North-Western with the Scottish Central is now
completed. The latter are to be guaranteed 6 per cent.
on their present-outlay, or 7 per cent. if they complete
:the line. It will now only be necessary for the former to
complete a similar arrangement with the Caledonian, and
they will have an •unbroken communication, under one
management, from London nearly to Aberdeen.
TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—In order to expedite the
works upon this line, the directors have, it is said, guaran-
teed a bonus of £IOiOOO per month to the contractors for
every month saved in the completion of the railway under
the time originally specified in the contract; and such has
been the impetus given to the works, in consequence, that
it is expected, should the winter prove favourable, that
the line will be opened in January next, instead .of May,
as was intended.—Morning Chronicle.
OPENING OF THE FIRST RAILWAY IN POLAND.—
The line from Warsaw to Petrikau has been opened for
traffic, in the presence of the Viceroy, Brince Paskewitch.
The distance, 191 Polish miles, (109 kilometres), has
been performed in four hours, comprising some delays
occasioned by the festival occasion. This line will be of
great importance to Poland, as it will bring Warsaw with-
in a faw miles of the Prussian Silesia, which is already
traversed by the Breslau-Berlin line, which, again, passes
close to the Austrian frontier.—The Bu;lder.

ImmENsE 'TRAINS.—Two luggage trains passed by the
Rugby station on Saturday on the London and North
Western Railway, one of which consisted of 96 carriages
containing nearly 400 tons of merchandize, &c., impelled
by one of Stephenson's new patent six-wheeled engines
and two others. The other train consisted of 81 car-
riages, and contained 384 tons of goods, drawn by one of
the new patents and two common engines. The length
of the first train was upwards of a quarter of a mile, ex-
tending from the platform to the first bridge.
Competition for railway speed is going on. The Great
Western, it is said, are about to build an engine with eight
wheels, still larger than the " Great Western," but with
the weight mere equally distributed over a greater number
of wheels, so that it will not press on any one point with
so great and incessant weight as their " Great Western,"
and will unite all the improvements which the working of
the latter has pointed out. The engineers of the uniform
gauge are not idle in the work of seeking for greater speed.
Mr. G. Stenhenscn has more than one engine reedy which
are to accoreplish GO miles an hour. The Brighton Com-
pany also have two engines which are to make the journey
of 50 miles within an hour.
NORTH BRUTISH RAILWAY.—A meeting of the share-
holders in this line, resident in Liverpool, was held on
Thursday, in the Cl,lrendon-rooms. Mr. Wotherspoon
was called to the chair, and a resolution was unanimously
passed.expressive oft he meeting's " strong disapprobation
of the course pursued by the directors in dealing with the
Carlisle Extension shares, without again consulting with
the proprietors; and in issuing the quarter shares, and
proposing to allot scrip quarters, in a manner calculated
to give inconvenience, trouble, and cause risk and loss to
the proprietors." After a lengthy address from the
chairman, a resolutiog was also passed against the pro-
posed purchase of or‘malganaation with the Edinburgh
and Perth line.
USE OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The other day
a pheasant which had perched upon the wires of the Lin-
coln and Nottingham railway was killed by electricity.
The railway people:were conveying a message along the
line, which was doubtless the cause of its death. The
telegraph was employed the other day to stop a clandestine
marriage. A young lady and gentleman decamped to-
gether by rail from Nottingham to have the indissoluble
knot tied at Lincoln ; but about an hour after the loving
pair had set off, the lady's mamma, finding her daughter
absent, went to the railway station, and ascertained that
she had left for Lincoln with her lover. The telegraph
was instantly set to work, and when the lady and gentle-
man arrived at Lincoln, a policeman was in attendance to
receive them, and the pair were forthwith taken out of their
carriage, placed in a return train, and sent back to the
mamma, who bad unfortunately found her daughter " was
out."—Lincoln Mercury.

WEST RIDING UNION RAiLwAy.—The first sod of
these important lines was cut on Wednesday by the Right
lion. Charles Wood, Chancellorof the Exchequer. The
schemes embrace a line from Halifax, through Low-
moor and Staningley to Leeds, which may be considered
the main line of the proposed extensions; a branch from
the above line to Bradford; another through Wortley, to
the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester line ; another from
Pudsey, on the above line, to the Leeds, Manchester, and
Dewsbury extension line at Edwalton ; a line ftom Low-
moor to Dewsbury; a branch from this line to the main
one, to shorten the distance to Huddersfield; one from
Pickle-bridge to Brighouse; and a line from Halifax to
Huddersfield. When these lines are completed, there
vrill be a net-work of railways embracing all the towns of
the West Riding, and, with the company's other lines,
will form an extent of territory equalled by few in the
kingdom.
Et ECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.—M. Arago has communi-
cated an important paper to the Paris Academy of Sciences,
on some of the effects of lightning upon the electrical tele-
graphs in the United States of America, observing that
the facts had been communicated to him by M. Eben
Mariam, of Brooklyn, and were entitled to confidence.
On the 29th of April of the present year the lightning fell
on the wire of an electric telegraph at Lancaster, without
melting or breaking it. In the room, hzwever, where the
electric battery, by which the line is worked, is placed, a
noise was heard like that of the discharge of a pistol, and
several sparks were seen. On the 18th of May, a tele-
graph wire was broken by lightning, and several of the posts
supporting the line were split. In this case there was a
report equal to the discharge of two or three muskets. On
the 3tl of June, the wire of the telegraph from Washington
to Baltimore was so broken, that the communications be-
tween the towns were suspended for several hours. On
the following day, during another thunder storm, the
wire was not snapped, but at every stroke of thunder the
hands of the telegraphic instrument moved as if the bat-
tery was at work.