The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY 11\i't ELIAUEACE.

It is stated that the London and York Railway Com-
pany will commence operations, by making the loop from
Peterborough to Lincoln.
Metjor-General Pasley inspected the North British line
on Wednesday. It will he opened for public traffic as soon
as the authorisation of the Board of Trade is received.
A new Narrow Gauge Engine has been tried on the
Sheffield and Manchester, named the Goliab, whose power
is able to draw 1,000 tons at a speed of 20 miles per hour
on a level.

The Morning Chronicle states that the number of fish-
mongers in Birmingham has, since the opening of the va-
rious railways which now centre in that town (between
1829 and 1845), inceased from 10 to 40 ; and the quantity
of fish consumed. from 400 to 3,000 tons annually.

The proposed Great Central Station of the London and
Birmingham, in Birmingham, will be upwards of 300
yards from east to west, and its average breadth 70 yards.
It will occupy five acres. There will be two sets of good
stations ; and the estimated expense is £350,000.
The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway have
signified their readiness to convey labourers a distance of
five miles alone. their Una far la_ /mot., night and morning.
which will enable them to live at a distance from their
work without much expense or inconvenience.
From the speed at which the experimental trip was
made a few days since on the Great Western Railway, it
will be practicable, when the line of railway is open, for a
person to leave London, dine and transact business in
Edinburgh, and return to the great metropolis on the
same day between the hours of six and ten o'clock.
SABBATH RAILWAY DESECRATION.—Mr. Peter Dick-
son, on retiring from the direction of the Newcastle and
Cart'sle Railway Company, says, " Another reason which
has induced me to retire from the direction is the con-
tinuance and frequency of the cheap Sunday trains, a prac-
tice against which I have always protested, but which I
ace no reason to hope will be speedily discontinued."
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—From official returns it appears
that the amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly
1.800 miles of railway, was £170,396. thus accounted for :
—X1,7,707 for the conveyanceof passengers only. £30.026
for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £32,663 for
passengers and good? together, not respectively appor-
tioned ; being an increase over the corresponding week of
last year of £45,282.

THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM, &C., AMALGAMA-
TION.—On Tuesday last, the chairman of the committee
of the House of Commons, alter a clause had been in-
serted empowering the board of trade to interfere if the
amalgamation should prove disadvantageous to the pub-
lic, announced that the committee had decided that the
preambles of the various bills for amalgamating the Lon-
don and Birmingham, Manchester and Birmingham,
Manchester and Liverpool, and Grand Junction Railway
Companies were proved.
CAPITAL FOR RAILW AYS.—A correspondent of a rail-
way paper observes •—" During the French war, a period
of 22 years, the English people lent the Government 6011
millions, being at the average rate of 271 millions an-
nually—a sum which, if judiciously expended, would be
sufficient to construct not only all the necessary railways
for the United Kingdom, but for the whole of Europe.
More than this, they raised in the year 1815, by tires and
loans, 170 millions, a sum much greater tha❑ all the rail-
ways likely to be sanctioned by Parliament this session
would amount to, requiring five years at least to construct
them."

The Great Western Railway Company met with a se-
vere reverse on Thursday, the Select Committee of the
House of Commons having, after a long inquiry, de-
clared that the preambles of the Exeter, Yeovil and Dor-
chester, and the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Dili;
(narrow gauge) were proved, and that the preamble of the
Exeter Great Western Bill (broad gauge) promoted by
the Great Western Company, was not proved. The re-
sult of this decision is, that there will be direct railway
communication on the narrow gauge princ.ple, in con-
nection with the South Western Company, between
London and Exeter, via Basingstoke, Salisbury, and Yeo-
vil or, in other woods, by the old mail coach road.

PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS.—The Railway Chro-
nicle, in giving an ace cunt of the progress of railway bills
last week, says—" At the rate at which bills have been
disposed of this last week, we may almost expect to have
a total clearance of the whole multitude be'ore parliament
is up, unless, indeed, a dissolution should intervene, with
its blight." The following is a summary of the week's
work:—ln the Lords—proved: Direct London and
Portsmouth ; North Stafford ; Stamford and Spalding.
Not proved : Guldford, Chichester' Portsmouth, and
Fareham.—ln the Commons—proved: Alston and New-
castle; Birmingham and Bristol; Brighton and Croydon
Consolidation ; East and West India Docks and Bir-
mingham Junction ; Eastern Counties Stations Enlarge-
ment ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, except as to
Beaminster Branch ; Gravesend and Rochester Canal
Purchase; G!asuow and Belfast Union ; Great Leinster
and Munster; Great North of England Purchase; Lon-
don and Birmingham, (Aylesbury Purchase,l (Amalga-
mation,) (Nuneaton, Ccventry and Nuneaton Branches);
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil; Midland, (Oakham Ca-
nal Purchase,) (Leicester and Swannington Vesting);
Midland Great Western, Mullingar to Athlone ; Swansea
Vale. Not proved : Ayrshire and Galloway ; Bristol,
Birmingham, Asbchurch, &c. ; Chichester, Fareham,
and Portsmouth (not to be proceeded with) ; Exeter
Great Western ; Irish Great Western ; Leicester and
Birmingham (Baxter's line) ; Monkland and Kirkintil-
loch ; Newcastle and Carlisle (Bellingham Branch) ;
Newcastle and Direct Glasgow ; South-Eastern (Chislet
to Margate).