The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

A railway from Ulverstone to the Lancaster and Carlisle
line at Burton is said to he contemplated.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company have
agreed to purchase at par the Liverpool and Southport
The English shareholders in the Dutch Rhenish rail-
way have gained their object, the directors having agreed
to concede b their wishes.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—On Monday, this Company
opened the Clydesdale Junction line for traffic to and from
Hamilton, connecting it with the Ayrshire and Greenock
Railways, and giving them a terminus on the south side
of the Clyde.
The passenger receipts of the railway lines leading to
the metropolis have fallen off very much during the last
few weeks. This is attributed chiefly to the prevalence
of cholera in London. The receipts on the lines leading
from London to Herne Bay, Margate, Brighton, Folk-
stone, and other places have very decidedly increased.

HORSES TRAVELLING BY RAILWAY.—in the Stafford-
shire county court a plaintiff has recovered £3O and costs
for damage done to a horse intrusted to the North Staf-
fordshire Company's care for conveyance between Crewe
and Langport. It was argued on the part of the company
that by their regulations for the conveyance of horses they
were not liable for loss or injury, where it arose from vice,
violence, or restiveness. The court would not undertake
to say whether the conditions of the company were bind-
ing on the community. As it was not shown that there
was vice or restiveness, but on the contrary, that the horse
in question was tractable and quiet, and " accustomed to
railway travelling," and that the oscillation of the car-
riages on the occasion was such as to throw a person off
his seat, and consequently sufficient to alarm a dumb ani-
mal, the company were declared liable to make full com-
pensation.
11Ir. J. S. Yeats, of Bank Chambers, London, in a
letter published in the Times, supplies the following com-
parison of the merchandise traffic in some of the principal
railweys, in the half-years ending the 30th of June, 1848
and 1849:

1848. 1849.
London and North-Western .t 239,800 385,081
Great Western
Lancashire and Yorkshire 96,181 153,422
Miland
Yordk and North Midland 2,937 251,320
104,327 94,255
;York, Newcastle, and Berwick 168.161 203,075
ft:astern Qout,ties
South-Western . 47,960 56,410
Brighton
The large decrease on the York and North Midland rail-
way may, to a certain extent, be attributed to the blockade
of the ports in the north of Europe more immediately con-
nected with the port of Hull.

THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.--Active prepa-
rations are being made at the Menai Straits connected
with the renewed attempts at raising the tube to its per-
manent level, a process looked forward to with considera-
ble anxiety, in consequence of the late misadventure.
The new cylinder intended to replace the one that sprung,
was cast on Saturday week. It has to be a week in sand,
to get annealed, by which process it will soon become
toughened. When in perfect readiness, the new cylinder
will be shipped on board a steamer direct to the Straits.
It will be a machine of prodigious power, of cast-iron, in
one piece from sixteen to twenty tons weight, and capable
of sustaining a pressure of 9,000 or 10,000 lbs. on the
inch. Since the accident, last month, the whole range of
the scaffolding and ell the immense machinery have re-
ceived such a superabundance of strength for the next
trial that any recurrence of the recent casualty is looked
ußon as improbable. The tube is now raised about: one-