The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—We are glad to hear, be-
cause it proves they attend to something more than their own
places and patronage, that a special committee of the direc-
tors has been appointed by themselves, to see if any, and
what reductions can be made in the expenditure of the com-
pany. This is the more praiseworthy, as it is, we under-
stand, a voluntary act of the directors. In using the pruning
knife, however, we hope they will apply it to the thousands
first, and not, like some companies, attend only to the pounds.
Extravagance is one thing, meanness another. A great com-
pany should be equally removed from both. We hear the
new shares are already at a premium of 255. a share. It ap-
pears, therefore, that the judgment of the directors, in fixing
on 35 per cent. discount instead of 50 was correct.
NEW RAILWAY.—The Leeds Intelligencer mentions that
a survey is now making for an intended new line of railway
from the port of Middlesbrough, to join the Great North of
England Railway, a little to the north of Mount Pleasant,
near Northallerton ; thus connecting that new, important,
and flourishing seaport, by an uninterrupted line of railway,
with York, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and
London.

IRISH RAILWAYS.—Mr. Standish O'Brien gave notice
that he should move, on Thursday night, for an address to
the Crown, to carry out the recommendations of the Irish
railway commission. We hope, as it was not brought on
that night, that this job is dropped.
LABOUCHERE'S BlLL.—This bill has been postponed un-
til Monday next. We must, however, warn the companies
not to relax in their exertions, under the idea that the bill
will be postponed sine die. There is more reason to fear at
present that it may be slipped through, under the cover of
the present political excitement.
PROJECTED RAILWAY TO SALISBURY.—The following is
from the Hampshire Independent:—" It is confidently re-
ported that the proprietors of the South Western Railway
have taken up the subject of a railway to Salisbury, from a
conviction of the necessity of so doing to protect their own
interests against the Great Western line. We understand
that it has been resolved to form a branch from Salisbury, to
join the branch here between Southampton and Winchester,
at Bishopstoke, and thus form a direct railway communica-
tion between these three important towns, and also between
Salisbury and the metropolis. The share list is said to be
already filled, without any assistance from Salisbury!' _

OPENING OF RAILWAYS.—The Gloucestershire Chronicle
say that " Whit Monday, the last day of this month, will be
a marked one in the annals of railway travelling in the West
of England, if the information we have just received be cor-
rect. It is positively announced that the Cheltenham and
Great Western Union is to be opened as far as Cirencester;
the Great Western to be further opened as far as Chippen-
ham, leaving only twelve miles of this magnificent under-
taking to complete; and the Bristol and Exeter as far as
Bridgewater, all on Whit Monday.
THE MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—The
works on this railway, beyond Stockport, are progressing
rapidly, and there is no doubt that the whole line to Crewe
will be ready for public traffic early in the next year. The
distance to London by this line will be 12i miles less than
by the Grand Junction. We understand that the following
are the stations at present proposed to be made :
Manchester to Rushford ............ 2 miles
Rushford to Stockport
Stockport to Cheadle Hulme
Cheadle Hulme to Handforth
Handforth to Wilmslow ...
Wilmslow to Chorley
Chorley to Chelford
Chelford to Holmes Chapel.
Holmes Chapel to Sandbach
Sandbach to Crewe

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-Staffordshire Gazette.
EFFECTS OF THE RAILWAYS.—Worksop and the neigh-
bourhood is likely to be benefited to a certain extent by the
opening of the main lines of railways. There are at the
present time no less than 22 coaches and mails passing
through the town, to and fro, every day. Some few years
ago, it was with the greatest difficulty that a coach could be
maintained on the road between Worksop and Sheffield, and
now there are three running daily.—Derby Mercury.
HINT TO RAILWAY SECRETARIES.—When you have
occasion to communicate to. the lords of trade and planta-
tions the smashing to death of two or three of her Majesty's
liege subjects, and the grievous maiming for life of a dozen
or so more, don't say, " I have the pleasure," or " the
honour," to inform you, &c. It looks funny—as if you
were clerk of the shambles to some GREAT SLAUGHTER
COMPANY.

The newest sobriquet the whig ministry have acquired, is
that of the " corn doctors ; " verily they have proved them-
selves quacks !

SUICIDE OF A WOMAN IN A WATER-TANK.-011 Fri-
day, a most determined act of self destruction was commit-
ted by a married woman named Hannah Limted, residing at
20, Marsham• street, Westminster. About eight o'clock a
lodger named Mary Pearson, went to the water-tank to draw
some water for breakfast, when perceiving a chair placed
elose to it, and suspecting something wrong, she got upon it
and looked into the water-tank, and there saw the deceased
sitting at the bottom of the tank, the water barely covering
her head. When got out, she was quite cold and lifeless.
It is conjectured the unfortunate woman got up about six
o'clock, went into the back kitchen, and got into the tank,
and deliberately sat there until she was suffocated.