The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

RAILIITAY INTELLIGENCE.

It is intended to form a line of railway from the Fleet.
wood line to the fa,ltionable watering-place of Blackpool._
Tne distance is about three miles.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER. RAILWAY.—The directors
made a trip on this line from Bristol as far as Stonehouse,
on Thursday last.

RAILWAY FROM LONDONDERRY TO ENNISKILLEN.
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On Wednesday last, a meeting was held at Londonderry,
when it was determined to carry out this undertaking, for
which a company was formed in the year 1836, and the
progress of which was arrested at the time by the com-
mercial ernharra,sments of the country.
BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CHANNELS JUNCTION
RAILWAY,--The propos?d line is now being surveyed;
the course is that pointed out by Mr. l'ercey, of Siierehone,
in 1825. as the most eligible for the then projected Grand
Ship Canal, v;E., from Bridgewater to Ilchester, near
Yeovil, Sturminster, Newton, Bradford, to the Port of
Poole.

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY EXTENSION TO
OXFORD.—The directors, accompanied by a large party
of their friends, came down to Oxford on Monday by a
special train, to inspect the works, which they found in a
very satisfactory state. After inspecting the station at
Oxford, and the bridges at Nuneham and Appleford, they
returned to Paddington by a spccial train. On Wednesday
morning the line was opened for traffic, and was found in
very good order.

DOVER AND GREENWICH RATLWAYS.—On Tuesday,
the directors of the Greenwich Railway submitted a pro-
position to the Dover company to lease their line on the
followinz terms : namely; that the Dover should give
them a rent of £30.000 for the first year, and afterwards
increase it by £lOOO yearly, until it reached X 50,000 per
annum, which is about 5 per cent. on the expenditure--
Then, that they should receive a penny
per head for
every passenger above 6,000,000 per annum Passing over
their line.

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* GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.--'The rail-
way communi,ation between London and Edinburgh is
rapidly approaching completion. On Tuesday, (this day,)
the line of railway
idsyh
efdo r,
Darlington to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The entire dis-
tance between London and Newcastle, upwards of 300
hours, including all stoppages. From Newcastle to Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, a distance of sixty miles, a line of
railway has been projected, and surveys made by the east
coast, and thence to Edinburgh, little more than fifty
miles, a line is already in course of formation. On
leaving the station in Euston-square, the traveller passes
83 miles along the London and Birmingham Railway to
Rugby, thence 491 miles along the Midland Counties
Railway to Derby, thence 63+ miles along the North Mid-
land Railway to Normanton, thence 231 miles along the
York and North Midland Railway to the Cathedral City
of York, thence 45 miles along the Great North of Eng-
land Railway to Darlington, thence 27+ miles along the •
Newcastle, Darlington, and Durham Junction Railway to
Worbington, thence 51 miles along the Pontop• and South -1
Shields Railway (formerly the Stanhope and Tyne) to
Brockley Whins, where the line diverges to Sunderland
and Shields, and thence 6+ miles along the Brandling '-;
Junction Railway.to Newcastle, or rather to Gateshead, -
on the south bank of the River Tyne, where a magnifi-
cent station is. being erected. A more direct line from '
York to London has been projected through the Eastern,.:,
Counties by way of Bedford, Huntingdon, and . Lincoln,
which will shorten the distance by about thirty miles, and
pass over the most extensive planes in England, uniting
the vallies of the Trent and Ouse by direct railway com-
munication with the metropolis.

FRATRICIDE.—A man of the name of John Child of
Leeds, has been committed to York Castle on a charge of
manslaughter. The prisoner was quarrelling with his bro-
ther on Tuesday last, and at length they commenced fight-
ing, when the prisoner stabbed his brother in five places
with a clasp knife, inflicting such !rious wounds as to
penetrate the heart, and of course cause the death of tb.
unfortunate man almost immediately.