The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEA CE.

LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—This line has
amalgamated with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union,
which was looked upon as its chief opponent.
On the Sheffield and Manchester Railway is one of the
highest bridges in the world, being the wooden bridge at
Broadbottom, whi-di is seventeen feet higher than the
Menai. It is not, however, so high as the bridge at
Basle.

The South Devon Line of Railway has been frequently
traversed by a locomotive engine and tender, during the
past week, over the once called unfathomable swamp of
Cockwood. The distance has been accomplished in from
sixteen to twenty minutes. _

The Grand Junction Railway Company have advertised
for contracts for the erection of a new passenger-station at
Eccles. The preparations for the improvement of the Lime
street station are drawing to a close—the property has
been sold—and the works will, we believe, shortly be
commenced.

CAMBRIA AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANY, CONNECTING SOUTH WALES WITH LIVERPOOL,
MANCHESTER, &c.—We learn that this company have
made a complete re-deposit of their plans and sections
with the board of trade and clerks of the peace of the re-
spective counties, and intend prosecuting the undertaking
with vigour.

A RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASE.—FRANCE. —A
very important question at this moment engages the at-
tention of the Courts in Paris—being no less than a trial
of the claim of the road—carrying interest between
Rouen and Paris, to compensation in consequence of the
competition they are exposed to by the railways between
these termini. The case will be argued on the 7th of

January

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FRENCH RAILWAY SPECULATION.—In the eleven
months of 1845, the sums lodged in the Paris Savings'
Bank have been 34,987,113 francs (£1,399,484), and the
amount withdrawn 47,624,817 francs (.£1,904,992), being
an excess withdrawn of 12,637,794 francs (£505,512).
This is attributed by the authorities partly to the long
strike among the journeymen carpenters, and partly to
the speculation in railway shares.
The King of Sweden has authorized the construction of
railroads in Sweden. The principal lines will be from
Stockholm to Gottenburg, Stockholm to Istad, and Stock-
holm to Upsal and Gefle, with various branches. The
English Consul-General in Norway is authorized to con-
struct the road between Christiania, Ojeren, and Mjosen,
in the event of his being able to form a company for that
purpose within a delay of six months.
The Directors of the Midland Railway Company, it
is said, have resolved to allow the sum of fifteen shillings
a week to the family of the late Mr. Stubbs, police-ser-
geant, of Leeds, who lost his life in the late accident,
until the youngest child is ten years of age ; after that
ten shillings a week to be allowed until the youngest child
reaches the age of fourteen, to be paid weekly in the
Leeds pay-bill.
The " Battle of the Gauges" last year, like other
battles, was rather costly ; it is estimated to have cost
£120,000. It is now known that one side. viz., the Lon-
don, Worcester, and South Staffordshire narrow gauge
line, promoted, by the London and Birmingham, against
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton broad gunge
line, promoted by the Great Western, expended nearly
£60,000 out of £131,450 received for deposits.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last Monday two la-
bourers on the South Eastern line, near Ashford station,
were working a lorry up the line,'when a coke train from
Folkestone came up with them. The driver of the en-
gine blew the whistle, and did everything in his power to
give them timely warning of his approach ; but it appears
the men either did not bear him in time, or did not con-
sider the danger so imminent, for they did not make pre-
parations to clear the line till the train was too much ad-
vanced, and before they could get the line entirely clear
the buffer of the engine struck one of them, and he died
in a very short time.

LEEDS AND YORK RAILWAY.—A general meeting of
this company was held at Leeds, on Monday. A long
report from the directors was read, from which it ap-
peared that 5,000 shares in this company had been allotted
to ten gentlemen as the parties who were to hold the shares
as trustees for the idanchester and Leeds comyany. These
were subsequently accepted by the Manchester and Leeds
directors, and the board sanctioned the payment of
£12,500 as a deposit on those shares. The Manchester
and Leeds board, however, subsequently intimated that
it had been found necessary, in carrying out certain ar-
rangements with Mr. Hudson, that the support of the
Manchester and Leeds board should be withdrawn from
the Leeds and York Company. The report also stated
that for the purpose of union with the northern parts of
Lancashire, and the port of Fleetwood, the directors had
made an arrangement with the directors of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Not th Eastern Railway Company, between
the point of junction between Wetherhy aild York. The
directors expressed their confidence that the Leeds and
York lir would command such decided parliamentary
support as would lead to the passing of the bill in spite of
all competitors. During the discussion which ensued,
the conduct of the Manchester and Leeds board formed
the subject of animadversion.
"No PEACE WITD" RAILWAYS.—A meeting was held
at Cheltenham, on Monday, for the purpose of receiving
a report from a committee appointed at a former meeting,
to guard the interests of the inhabitants against " the in-
vasions and incursions of railways." The Rev. Francis
Close presided ; andithe Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P. for
the borough, is reported to have concluded some observa-
tions (on the lines affecting Cheltenham) with the follow-
ing denunciation :—" So much for my public connexion
with this railway ; now for myself—Gentlemen, as an
individual I hate your railways, I detest them altogether,
I wish the concoctors of the Cheltenham and Oxford, and
the concociors of every other scheme, including the soli-
citors and engineers. were at rest in Paradise. (Laughter
and loud cheers.) Gentlemen. I detest railroads : nothing
is more distasteful to me than to hear the echo of our hills

reverberating with the noise of hissing railroad engines
running through the heart of our hunting country, and
destroying that noble sport to which I have been accus-
tomed from my childhood, and to which I would humbly
hope the good town of Cheltenham owes some little of its
prosperity, (Loud and repeated cheers.) Such are my
feelings against railroads ; but I know it is useless for me
to attempt to stem the stream of public opinion ; and`my
object in joining the Cheltenham and Oxford Company
is to secure to Cheltenham a more direct means of com-
munication than she now possesses. My object has been
to benefit Cheltenham ; and although I know I have in-
curred great unpopularity by so doing, I feel that I could
do nothing else. By promoting facilities of eommunica-

tion I have felt that f must benefit this town, which de-

pends so much upon its visitors ; and whether those
visitors come to enjoy the sports of the field, or to reno-
vate their health, or to avail themselves of the meagre
religious consolation which your reverend chairman can
afford"-[the remainder of the sentence was lost amid
storm of hisses, groans, and " shame."]