The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

The Chester and Holyhead report most satisfactory
progress. The line to Conway will he opened in-August,
by the close of the year to Bangor, and in 1849 the *hole
length of the line will•be finished. The directors had been
able to borrow £612,000 at 44 per cent.
The Liverpool and Bury Railway will, it is expected, be
opened at a very early date, as far as Wigan. The per-
manent rails are laid for a considerable distance on the
Upholland side, to near the Hare and Hounds, Billinge-
road.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A serious accident, but unat-
tended with loss of life, occurred on the Carlisle Railway
on Tuesday. It appears that the mail train frOm Lances"
er put up at Shap for water, and while remaining there,
an engine and tender, which were on their way to Pen-
rith, to fetch a cattle train, ran into the mail train, shat-
tering the earriages, which were thrown off the line, and
severely injuring several of the passengers.
WIND v. STEAM.—On Monday evening, at Heaton
Norris, a detached wagon was caught by the wind, and
west at a rapid and accelerated speed down the incline
towards Manchester. Young Steam, seeing this, em-
ployed his full power, commenced a chase to recover the
waggon so surreptitiously abducted, propelling his train
before him ; kut Old Boreas was victorious, having reached
the winning-post at Levenshulme in gallant style, dis-
tancing his grunting antagonist.

• The names of "P. Ricketts-and T. James, Moorgate-
street, City, merchants," appeared in the Gazette of
Tuesday week. Mr. Ricketts was a director of the Great
Western Railway, and, at one time, c' airman of the
Bristol and Exeter. During the mania he figured as
provisional committee-man in a vast number of schemes.
The immediate cause of failure is said to be an enormous
loss in French railway shares ; and it is feared that other
houses will be involved. The liabilities are said to amount
to nearly half a million !

The town councils of Newcastle and Gateshead have
respectively resolved to petition parliament in favour of
the projected extension of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway
to the Tyne. A strong party in the Newcastle council
was in favour of the Newcastle and York line through the
Team Valley, but was outvoted, the numbers being re-
spectively 19 for the Leeds and Thirsk and 15 for the
Newcastle and York project. The Gateshead Council
were nearly unanimous, there being but two in favour of
Mr. Hudson's line.

With greatly increased public accommodation and re-
duced fares, the London and Northwestern still preserve
their 10 per cent dividend. At the meeting, on Friday,
dividends of £5 per share of £lOO on the London and
North-Western stock, and £4 lOs per share on the Man-
chester and Birmingham stock, were declared. We rejoice
to observe that this company is now convinced of the true
value of a goods traffic managed by themselves, and that
the chairman announced that quadruple lines would be
laid to Tring, and that the measure was in aitualprogress.
TRAFFIC AT THE PRESTON RAILWAY STATION.-1
There are, daily ( Sundays partially excepted), 41 passen-
ger trains in and out, making altogether 82 ; 10 luggage,
trains in and out, making 20 ; and 15 coal trains in and
out, making 30 ; which altogether give a total of 132
trains arriving at or passing the Preston station daily-
The weight of coals brought daily, amounts to from 1,800
to 2,000 tons, and it has been ascertained that of this
quantity, at least 1,000 tons are daily consumed in Pres-
ton, the remainder being sent forward to the north, or br
the Preston and Wyre
-Pn--r-A.---trucimmacrr:,----crir----crie afternoon of Tl nn• last, two men were killed and anotherdangeroB sIY
hurt, on that portion of the East Lancashire Iran-
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way now being forn.

that
this part of the intended railway is a cutting about ten
yards deep, through a stratum of marl ; the men were
undermining a portion of the cutting, when a large,
quantity of the earth fell (it is supposed in consequence
of the thaw) and completely buried the three .men ' • they
were extricated as soon as possible, when two of thenit
were found to be quite dead and the third with his legg.
andarnis broken and otherwise hurt.

MANCHESTER, SIIEFIPIELD AND LINCOLNSRIRE RAIL'
WAY.—A meeting of tee proprietors of this company waif
held on Thursday to receive the report of the committee
lately appointed, with the view of getting a more efficient
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uoara or airectors. Mr. Charles Holl-midOCCuPieciihe
chair, and stated that, after considerable difficulty, the
committee had succeeded in obtaining five gentlemen of
experience to act as directors, and even the present direc-
tors had agreed to submit the new list at the general
meeting on the 17th instant. He said the committee were
still more convinced of the great capabilities of the line',
when properly developed. In reply to a director, the
chairman said, he expected there would be no need of
proxies for the meeting on the 17th, but it would be ail
well to have them there.

A court-martial has dismissed Commander Cragg from
the Sphynx, that vessel having been run ashore in conse-
quence of the lead not being attended to. His name is to
be placed at the bottom of the list of commanders.

A RARE BIRD.—A- few days since ;gamelleeper, at
Littlecott, near Hungerford, Wiltshire, shot a large golden
eagle, a bird almost unknown in the southern counties.
The eagle had glutted itself on a dead deer, and was un-
able to fly away on the approach of the keeper, who fired
six times before he killed it.—Berkshire Chronicle.

MURDER AT NEWBOROUGH.—A shocking murder waS
committed on Sunday night, at Newborough, near Hex-
ham, on the line of railway between Newcastle-upon-Tyne
and Carlisle. It appears that a labourer named Proud.
living at Newborough, havinc, had a child baptised, re-
paired, as is usual in this locality, to a public-house,to
celebrate the event with some friends. While there a dis-
pute 'arose with another man, named Welsh, who was
drinking in the house when the party entered, but no par-
ticular notice was taken of the deceased. Proud and
his friends left the house on
whomnthei the
dhisopnauetewa;das, andre_
,were followed by Welsh,
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sseizeeddPr aonudd and cut hishutty
f throat with a knife in so dreadful
a manner, that the poor they
Welsh ran off, and drank a quantity of whisky at the
public-house he had shortly before left. He was soon
after apprehended. The inquest was held on Tuesday'
when a verdict of wilful murder was returned against
Welsh.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE. -On Saturday night last,
about nine o'clock, an outrage and attempt at murder;
happily of exceeding rarity in this country, was committed
on the road between Ulverstone and Dalton, on the per-
son of a man named Thomas, in the employ of Messrs-
Davis, ironmasters. It appears that as Thomas was re-
turning from Ulverstone to Dalton,_ at a lonely situatioo,
about mile atid"lilialf from the latter place, a Mille:
was fired from the roadside at him, which passed through
his hat, about an inch and a half from the crown, forts'
nately without doing him any injury. Ile could distiuctl
make out two persons at the road side, one of whom fire
the bullet from a pistol, and immediately rushed up°
him ; but he gave the ruffian a blow with a stout stick
which laid him sprawling on the ground. His companion
made off to a short distance, and Thomas began bets;
bowing and kicking his prostrate 'foe, who sereatne,c'
lustily for the assistance of his confederate, who, it
seems, plucked up courage and came to the rescue.
It is conjectured this attempt at assassination was ill'
tended for some of the Dalton maltmakers; three or foot
of whom it was known were collecting their account°,
preparatory to paying for barley at Candlemas, and wb°
were expected to return home that day.—Carlisle Patriot.
A PEEP AT LAHORE. A recent French traveller
describes Lahore, of which we have recently heard- s!,
much, as being surrounded by high walls and defended b.,
towers and ravines, and gives a graphic picture of
sanatory state and condition. He says, when seen fra.:T
a distance,. no idea can be formed of the spectacle it P
seats within. Its present misery is as great as its _lft
splendour. It is nothing but a mass of ruins ; evert ;
where its noble mansions seem ready to fall to 1"
ground. To adventure on foot through the inextrtg;
ble mazes of tortuous, infectious, dark streets formin hl
town, obstructed as they are too by ruins, and n,
with elephants, horses, mid men, is almost impossible f 01.4
stranger. The streets are so narrowthat in manyyounn
touch both sides as you pass. The houses, construe,
of brick, are so high, so overladen ivith balconies and
' copiers, and in such a state of dilapidation, that a IA:1,0
would seem sufficient to overturn them, as it would 410
triumphal gates, under which you pass in going frota"od,
quarter of the city to another. To sum up all, the gretor•
which has never been paved, is a mere open sewer, as h by
rible to see as to bear ; and is pierced here and thereicii
deep holes, which, notwithstanding all the address Yri_;oo.
is displayed to avoid them, often cause the elephants..fect
gerous falls. We should be glad to obtain the CO°"001,
average duration of human life in this reeking cessP
for the advantage of the sanitary agitation now eing
lin England. —The Builder.,