The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

GREAT HUMSLEY RAILROAD

(From the John Bull.)
tors of this undertaking, viewing with some re-
currence of inevitable accidents arising
Iralleled mode of travelling, beg to sub-
icerning public a few regulations which
:hem upon this popular line, and a few
y flatter themselves will greatly con-
practical advantages of the system perfect

liberal and (
n adopted b

'he directors beg to state, that they have engaged an ex-
ienced surgeon to travel with each train upwards and
upon their extensive line; that convenient hearses
attached to each, together with handsome coffins,
sizes of persons, so that immediate accommoda-
afforded to the remains of the nobility and gen-
r be sufferers under any casualty, and likewise
!d vans, furnished with clean dry straw, for the
asengers by the third class carriages, which they
rectually supersede the present mode of leaving
laid on the side of the rail till the arrival of some
mg train.

its arrangement they hope and believe will entirely get
necessity which now exists for passengers to pro-
lves with baskets calculated to contain their re-
of unavoidable but fatal events, against which
'er of science, nor the unquestionable attention
ncerned, nor the evident and undeniable safety
s,elling, can guard. And they are happy to
mvenient receptacles for those who are
escape with life, they have purchased at
stations of their fast trains small pieces
e in the course of being laid out in the
anner as cemeteries, in which arrange-
re has been taken to secure the advan-
md beautiful scenery, to each of which a
dily be appointed at a proportionate
for these chaplaincies, as well as for
ties, to be made to the secretary of the

s' already been said, the neces:.

)-v.iousl

ivonvenient to passengers of
ni provided with the ordinary

ny unforese

lerable diztanc

eh the explobion or collision occurs,
right that passengers should take the
not only their heads and bodies, but

rate limb, tivith small Cards bearing the same num-
a will not only save a, great deal of time to the offi-
ce company in properly collecting the fragments,

prevent th.e recurrence of some un—avoida-

have happened in packing up the remains
s who were not so fortunate as to escape
ifling deprivation of

of a limb or two, or the

.on this subject, the directors think they
heir duty to a discerning public more justly
by thus tendering their best acknowledg-
qina Ktttlewell, of Snigsbury, for her ex-
nd consideration for the hurry of business
:h undertakings, in acce

_eeing with the body
consequence of some little
lauired into), unluckily decapitated
on the 2-Ith of Novem-
,, Mr. Phineas Hogsflesh,
_ale time met with a similar fate.
from the circumstance of the heads
- -1.7 to be censured, when it
Hogsflesh the fact that
3 unlucky enough to be

r passen,

ad two

:ith- himself, no surviving relative
r his head, and the whole family
he sole expense of the company,
ner's inquest, no blame can attach
1 with the establishment for trans-
lead with the body of Mr. Kettle-
aan's amiable widow. The direc-
pleasure in anticipating that, by
;stem of numbering the heads and

1, for the

death of the late Sir Watkins

rge estates were re-valued and an increase of
some places, which did not give universal
k, at the rent audit, the tenants were
h the steward, which they con-
at they might have teetotal drink
er a message was brought them
ld be repaid them, upon which

simultaneously called for wine and spirits:and every
aller got merrily drunk upon his good fortune.—Courier

tf Wales,

We are sorry to say that Captain Robert Peel, of Benebill,
eldest son of Edmund Peel, Esq., broke his leg whilst hunt-
ing with the Atherstone hounds on Wednesday last.—steurd
Gazette.