The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR%

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

Capt. Codrington, the government inspector, passed
over the Kendal and Windermere railway, on Tuesday,
and was satisfied with his observations of the line. _ _

The railway station at Tourcoing, on th6French North-
ern Railway, was wholly destroyed by fire, on'the night of
the 9th ult.
A drunken man, whilst wandering on the Sheffield and
Manchester railway, a few nights since, was run over by a
train and killed

The openin of the Trent Valley line has been delayed
until July. By means of this railway the journey from
London to Manchester will be performed in less than five
hours
The

ne Leeds and Manchester Railway Company are at
present engaged in laying down the electric telegraph from
Normanton to Manchester. It is expected that the tele-
graph will be completed in about a fortnight.
In Mr. Hume's statement on' his motion last Tuesday
for the amendment of the Act for the Taxation of cost of
Private Bills, the preliminary expenses of the London and
York were stated by him at £432,620.
Lord Torrington has been feted with splendour by his
lated brother directors of the South Eastern. The meet-
ing was a very brilliant one, and abundantly complimenr
--"n truest declared that the South-Eastern

had. made him a man of business.
The Preston and Longridge divide 19s. per share, clear

r` 12s. on the 31st July. The transfer to the Fleetwood,
" Preston, and West Riding Junction is completed. The
annual rent-charge to be £3,000, less income-tax,
KENTISH LINES—LAND EXTORTIONS.—The Ashford
and Hastings line, with an expected traffic of £5,000 a-
year, will cost £20,000 a mile to make. ThQ North Kent,
for the first 6 miles out of London, will exceed the Par-
hc liamentary land esti- t-

~....mate•for the whole length. Some of
the claims average £20,000 an acre for land. The total
laud estimate for the 26 miles, with stations, was about
£300,000.

The bricklayers employed by Messrs. Branson and
Gwyther, the great contractors, on the extensive works
of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction and Great Wes-
tern Railways, near Birmingham, have struck for wages.
The strike was occasioned by the masters desiring the
bricks to be wheeled in barrows, for the sake of expedi-
tion, instead of carried in hods, and thus dispensing with
the hodmen.

etneral Biatllany.

Dean Swift's snuff-box is announced for sale at Bristol.
The Vicar of Newcastle has a third time been presented
y his parishioners with a sum amounting to £5OO
,as a

voluntary Easter Offering, in augmentation of his salary.
There is a great number of men at present employed in
s of a light draught of

aeepemng Yeel harbour. V esse,
water may now go up to the mill.
A boy died last week at Tettenhall, near Wolverhamp-
ton, from the effects of a surfeit of " pig nuts," of which
he had gathered and eaten a large quantity.
On - so gl

Tuesday, the Metropolis was so glutted with
mackarel that 12, and in some instances 14, were sold for ls.

At a bazaar held at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, last
week, the sum of twelve hundred pounds was collected in
aid of the destitute Irish.

Samuel Garrett and James Downes, late keepers at the
Grove House Lunatic Asylum, Bow, Middlesex, have
been committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter
of a lunatic pauper named William Rank. _

lire, are said to be irremediably

leranged

have rendered it

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The Cali

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on the Lothian-rO'ad, and intend to erect a magnificent

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week, for £36 lOs