The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—This Company has
been singularly unfortunate this Session in their schemes.
Out of five bills, they lost four.
It is estimated that the Wolverton'accident will involve
the London and North Western Company in an expense
of between £30,000 and £40,000.
The daily expenses of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, in the present parliament, have been estimated at
£4500, or about £30,000 a-week.

The Mining Journal states that a series of experiments
made by Mr. Motley, C.E. have thrown doubts upon the
safety of Stephenson's bridge across the Menai Straits.

Twenty railway bills have received the royal assent
this session, authorising £5,404,915 to be raised by capital
and loan for the construction of 2551 miles of railway.

During the present session, the mere expense of railway
bills in parliament have been estimated at half a million
sterling, and during the last sessions at three millions
sterling !

The rombro' Railway Branch was opened on Monday,
and in commemoration of the event two thousand colliers
received each a gratuity and free passage to Liverpool and
back.

THE ST. HELEN'S RAILWAY.—The St. Helen's Rail-
way Company's Bill, for branches to Warrington and
Blackbrook, passed through the committee of the House
of Lords on Tuesday.
In the railway committee of the House of Lords on
Wednesday, the preamble of the Liverpool, Manchester,
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction was declared to be
proved, and evidence was heard in favour of the East
Lancashire (Southport branch).
AMERICAN TELE GRA PH. —A telegraph line is completed
and in working operation between Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh. Everything is also in readiness to carry it farther
west. In a short time we may expect to hear of this
magic means of communication being extended to the
most remote regions of the American continent.

A useful label for passengers' luggage has been invent-
ed by a person named Hope. These labels are printed
with each a different number, and on a diversity of stri-
king patterns, all dissimilar; and passengers may readily
fix them on packages, so that they may be easily recog-
nised, and no mistakes arise.
Yesterday week, the boiler of a locomotive engine on
the North Union Railway, near Wigan, exploded. The
foreman was seriously injured, but hopes are entertained
of his recovery. The engine was completely wrecked up,
portions of it being carried upwards of a quarter of a mile
from the spot, and one piece weighing 701 b. nearly the
same distance.

The Chester and Holyhead Railway Company have
withdrawn that clause of their bill which enabled them to
apply their funds to the purchase of steam-vessels, and
to unite the business of railway management with that of
shipowners ; and the parliamentary committee have de-
cided on recommending that ample free quay e shall be
provided for the public, instead of giving the company
the exclusive use of the quays and lauding-stages. _

OPENING OF THE NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAIL-
WAY. —The line of railway, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to
Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is the last link in the iron
chain which binds together the capitals of England and
Scotland, was opened for general traffic on Thursday last.
The bill for the formation of the line received the royal
assent in July, 1845 ; in less than two years from that pe-
riod it has been opened for public traffic throughout.—
Sunderland Times.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—We are happy to learn
that this company are making preparations for immedi-
ately commencing the line from this town to the Askern
Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway,
which will afford a ready communication between Don-
caster, Wakefield, and Normanton. This part of the line
it is expected will be finished by Christmas, at least up to
the Marsh, where probably a temporary station will be
erected until the bridge over the Don is completed.—
Doncaster ,Chronicle. -

RAILWAY CARIIIAGES.—A novel first-class carriage is
to be constructed expressly for through trains between
Scotland and England, designed by Mr. Sinclair. The
,body of the carriage will be of the usual size, divided into
two apartments, the one larger than the other. Both di-
visions will be fitted up with cushions, pillows, and every-
thing suitable for laying down at full length. The larger
division will accommodate six personsi ; the smaller one,
communicating with the other, is principally intended for
ladies, and will afford room for two. In this latter divi-
sion there will be all those conveniences which ladies and
invalids will appreciate.—Railway Chronicle.

LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The
annual meeting of the shareholders of this company was
held at Lancaster on Tuesday ; Mr. —. Bushell in the
chair. The report stated that the accounts furnished
by the committee of management showed a balance of
£4,505 in favour of the company, the disposal of which
the directors recommended should be postponed. The
accounts showed that £38,605 had been received from the
shareholders since June, 1845, of which £37,406 had been
disbursed, including £28,655 paid on account of calls due
on the Lancaster and Carlisle shares held by the company,
leaving a balance of £1,200. Resolutions were passed
adopting the report and accounts, re-electing the retiring
directors, appointing Messrs. Willan and Jackson solici-
tors to the company, and also Mr. Bushell to be the com-
pany's representative at the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
way board, in right of the shares held by the company.
THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—This line (which we
have before stated was opened with great ecldt on Satur-
day week) is, strictly speaking, a level one throughout,
through a very pleasing country, passing partly under (by
tunnel) and partly through Shugborough Park, the seat
of the Earl of Lichfield; crossing the Trent seven times,
and having junctions or connections with the North Staf-
fordshire, the Midland Counties, and the Birmingham and
Derby, lines of railway. The cost of construction is stated
at £1,050,000, or £21,000 per mile, which, we believe, is
about the estimate. Though the first sod was cut by Sir
Robert Peel, on the 13th November, 1845, it was not till
February, 1846, that the contractors got fairly to work on
the line, and yet it was so expeditiously constructed thoat
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are all finished, and the whole line as complete in all de-
partments as a new railway well can be.
BIRM!NGI!AM.ANDOXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.—

On Wednesday, the adjourned meeting of the sharehelders
in the Birmingham and Oxford Company was held at
Dee's Hotel, Birmingham. P. H. Muntz, Esq., chair-
man of the dirprtnra nracitiorl Mr