The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL *STAND'A'RD.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Notice has been given of an intended railway from the
Birkenhead line to Parkgate.
It is calculated that upwards of £260,000 are paid
weekly to railway labourers in England.
Tire Bedford Branch of the London and North-Western
Railway was opened on Tuesday.
It is said that Major-General Pasley has ceased to ,be
the government inspector of railways, and that Captain
Coddington, deputy inspector, will probably succeed him.
The opening of the-Penmaen Bach tunnel, on the-Ches-
ter and Holyhead Railway, was celebrated last week at
Conway with great rejoicings.
A Fox: OUTDONE.—A fox, in attempting to cross the
Whitstable Railway when the last train was coming to this
city on Saturday night, was run down, and its head com-
pletely severed from its body.—Kentish paper.
No passengers whatever are conveyed on the Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway on Sundays, nor any work done
beyond what the post-office can compel by act of parlia-
ment, viz., the carrying of the royal mail bags.
A Goon RESOLVE.—The Great Western have given
notice of their intention to apply to Parliament for powers
to erect bridges over the line where the public roadways
cross on a level.
The junction tunnel between the Midland and the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway is now open for the goods
traffic only, and the average number of waggons of goods
daily are from thirty to forty.
The works on the Trent Valley line have been pushed
forward with almost unparralleled rapidity ; and there is
every probability that the line will be ready for opening
by the middle of March next.
EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—AMODrSt the powers
to be applied for by the London and North Western Rail-
way Company, of which notice is given for next session,
there is power to enter into agreement with the East Lan-
cashire Conipany, for the working of all or any portion of
that railway.
On Friday morning last, the early railway train be-
tween Kendal and Lancaster ran over and killed a fine
black cat, which was crossing the line with a mouse, and
was too intent upon her prey to notice the approach of
the engine. The cat was afterwards found completely cut
in two, with the mouse firmly fixed between her teeth.
The first general meeting of the shareholders of the
Paris and Strasburg Railway took place in Paris last
week, and went off satisfactorily. A very full account and
report of the state of the works was given, from which it
appears that the first 120 to 140 miles from Paris are ex-
pected to be opened in the spring or autumn of 1848.
SHEFFIELD CAN AL.—On Monday, the 9th instant, a
special general meeting of the Sheffield Canal Company
was held in the Town-hall, at which it was agreed to sell
the canal and property connected with it, to the Sheffield
and Lincolnshire Railway Company, for a perpetual an-
nuity of ss. on each share of the canal.

Mr, John Platford. who, owing to ill health, was
obliged to give up the managership of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway, has been succeeded by Mr. Eborall,
jun., assistant-general goods manager at the Birmingham
Station of the London and North Western Railway. Mr.
Hargreave has been appointed superintendent at the
Sheffield terminus, and Mr. Burney goods agent.
On Thursday, a workman left the Chesterfield station
in a railway carriage, taking his day dinner with him, but
on reaching his dstination, he left it in the carriage.
Having communicated his loss to the station clerk, the
telegraph was set to work, and an answer quickly ob-
tained that the dinner was found, and would be sent by
the next train. . .

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The Norfolk Railway Company are about to erect a
slaughter-house at their Trowse station, about a mile from
the Norwich cattle market, for the purpose of slaying the
bullocks there, and taking the slain meat, instead of the
live bullocks, to the London market. This (says a corre-
spondent) is to obviate the complaints so constantly made,
of the beasts being bruised so much upon the rail in their
journey.
RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE TWEED.—The con-
tract for building the bridge over the Tweed, in connec-
tion with the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, has just
been let to 'Messrs. M.Kay and Blackstock for £lBO,OOO.
The bridge will be a light and elegant structure ; its height
is 120 feet, the arches are twenty-seven in number, and
we need scarcely say that it will be one of the noblest ar-
chitectural objects in the kingdom.
SALE OF THE PAISLEY AND RENFREW RAILWAY.—
On Tuesday last, a competition took place at Renfrew
between the Caledonian and Ayrshire Railway Companies,
which are respectively promoting the Glasgow and Neil-
son Direct, and the Paisley and Hurlet Branch Railways,
for the t'aisley and Renfrew line, which, ultimately, was
sold to the Ayrshire Company, who guarantee 6 per cent.
per annum, and which has raised the shares to £1 2s. 6d.
premium on the original stock.
THE NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION.—An undertaking
formed by amalgamation of the Leeds and Carlisle, the
York and G!asgow Union, and the York and Carlisle
companies, having obtained an Act for the formation of
two lines, which expressly provides that the two lines
shall be proceeded with simultaneously, lately decided to
proceed with the line up Wensleydale and postpone the
making of the other from Auckland to Tebay. The
shareholders resident at Barnard Castle are very indignant
and threrten law proceedings.
The Railway Times, in giving the paragraph from the
Sunday Times relative to the attempted bribery of a rail-
way official, appends " fudge " at the end, whilst the
Railway Record says that Mr. C. A. Saunders, Secretary
of the Great Western Railway, is the official referred to.
The Railway Chronicle says that the idea of Mr. Saun-
der's retirement from the Great Western Railway Com-
pany has been mooted, and that a sum has been talked of
as a proper consideration for his past services, and that
the report has originated from that circumstance.
The adjourned meeting of the Manchester, Midland,
and Great Grimsby Company was held on Thursday, at
Rotherham. The result was, that the old company is
dissolved—but the report presented by .the directors was
so satisfactory, that it was determined to adopt their re-
port, and to carry out the suggestions of the directors, by
applying to Parliament for a line to connect Rotherham
with Doncaster, which has become necessary through the
contemplated changes in the London and York scheme
between Retford and Doncaster. The shares represented
at the meeting amounted to 10,455.
LIABILITIES OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN.—
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, rules nisi
were granted in two cases. in which verdicts had been
given against Provisional Committee-men. The one was
in the case of Parratt v. King. in connection with the
Tonbridge and Rye Harbour Direct Railway; and the
other was that of Shaw v. Clarkson, in the London, Ports-
mouth, and Chichester Railway. In the Secondaries
Court, Mr. Barnett, a printer, got a verdict for £ll2
against Mr. Newle, one of the Provisional Directors of
the Jamaica Southern and Eastern Railway.
VERDICTS AGAINST THE NORTH WESTERN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.—TWO writs of inquiry were heard on
Wednesday, at Warwick. before the sheriffs of the county,
to assess damages in actions brought against the North
Western Railway, for compensation for injuries received
by a collision at Coventry, on the 2nd of June, 1845.
Juigment had been allowed to go by default in both
cases; the plaintiff, being Mr. Haywood, an attorney, of
Birmingham, and his wife. The first action was for the
injuries sustained by Mrs. Haywood. The collision oc-
curred whilst the train was waiting at the Coventry sta-
tion, and it was caused by the negligence of the man who
had the charge of the points. There were two collisions,
from the effects of which the carriage in which Mrs. Hay-
wood was, bounded twice into the air, and she was thrown
with great violence from side to side of the carriage; her
face was lacerated and she received a severe concussion of
the brain, from the effects of which she has not vet re-
covered. .31r. Sergeant Allen addressed the jury for the
plaintiff, who claimed £5OO damages. Mr. Macaulay ap-
peared for the company. and called for the production
of the correspondence between the plaintiff and defen-
dants, in order to show that the company had manifested
a disposition to meet the injury in a spirit of fair and ho-
-1 pourable cempensation. Tne jury gave their verdict for
the plaintiff for £300; costs, 40s.—In a second case, in
which Mr. Haywood alone was plain iff, to recover ex-
penses to which he had necessarily been put by the illness
of his wife, such as medical attendance, travelling, &c., a
verdict was taken for the plaintiff, by consent, for £7O;
costs, 40s.