The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The railway calls for August amount to seven hundred
and seventy thousand pounds.
It is expected that the Lancaster and Carlisle line will
will be opened in the course of next month.
The West Riding Union Railway has received the Royal
assent.

The Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway has
received the Royal Assent. The line will be amalgama-
ted with the East Lancashire.

In the parliamentary return of persons subscribing to
railway contracts in 1845, are the followinc, .—G. Hudson,
York, £818,540 ; L. L. Goldsmid, London,' £636,000 ;
and G. B. Paget, Sutton Bonnington,*Xs2s,7e4.
The Morning Herald states that the Birmingham and
Lichfield Railway for which an act was obtained this ses-
sion, has been sold to the London and North-Western
Railway Company.
During the present session 260 acts of parliament have
been obtained for the construction of upwards of 4.000
miles of railway, for which purpose powers have been
given to raise more than £340,000,000.
The iron tube or tunnel, by means of which the Ches-
ter and Holyhead Railway is to be carried across the
Menai Straits, will require the extraordinary quantity of
8,000 tons of iron plates to form it.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—By a Parliamentary paper
just printed, it appears that from the Ist of January last
to the 20th of July, of accidents on railways, 73 persons
were killed, and 84 injured.
LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY VIADUCT.—The
first stone of this stupendous undertaking will be laid on
Saturday, the 29th instant, when about 500 persons will
be invited to witness the ceremony. James Brancker.
Esq., chairman of the directors, will officiate upon the
occasion. After the stone has been laid, a splendid di-
jeuner will be given, at which about 300 ladies and gen-
tlemen will be present. The intended visitors will extend
from Boundary-street to the Borough Gaol, and ulti-
mately to Tithebarn-street.
BLACKBURN, DARWEN, AND BOLTON RAILWAY.
Th e directors
and Liverpool
voefrtphoi
o n
s canal, at
have decided
ti
d Scotia
,
crossing
Blackburn,
the
Leeds
by tubes, constructed as nearly as possible upon the same
principle as has been suggested by Mr. Stephenson for
the Menai Straits. Here there will be, it is said, three
tubes across the canal ; two on the outside and one in
the centre ; each end of the tubes to rest upon the piers
now erected, and to be strengthened by a large piece of
moveable iron, attached to the part where they touch
the stones. On the top of the tubes will be laid oak
baulks longitudinally, upon which the rails will be laid.

COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE ELECTRIC TE-
LEGRAPH.—The fact of the suspension of the Leeds
Commercial Banking Company's business, which took
place at twelve o'clock on Monday last, was known in
Birmingham in about a quarter of an hour after that time,
by means of the electric telegraph, which has been re-
cently completed on the Midland line of railway. Imme-
diately on the arrival of the intelligence, it was forwarded
to the various banks and public offices in this town. The
advantages of such an almost simultaneous mode of com-
municating intelligence so important to the mercantile
world, is too obvious to require any comment ; and great
praise is due to the railway officers for the promptitude
with which they communicated the news to the more in-
terested portion of the public.—Birmineharn Journal.