The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE.

Messrs. Mallaby and Townsend, the solicitors for the
Birkenhead and Chester Railway, have inserted a notice
in the Shrewsbury papers to the effect that a " Company
is established to construct a railway from Chester to
Shrewsbury, Welshuool, and Newton, with branches to
Mold and Oswestry."
It is calculated that the 31 railways for which Acts of
Parliament were obtained last session will require a capi-
tal of £11,731,717 sterling.
ROUEN AND HAVRE RAILWAY.—We learn from Paris
that Messrs. Mackenzie and Brassey have just taken an
additional contract for works on this line, amounting to
£205,000. The tunnelling and other heavy works pre-
viously contracted for on this line by the same gentleman
amount to about £6oo,ooo.—Railway Record.

last an accident attended with fatal consequences occurred
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-611 MOnilay evening
on the Leicester and Swanningion Railway, at the Bag-
worth incline. At this place the full waggons draw the
empty ones up, and a man is statio,.ed as breaksman to
regulate the speed of the full waggons in descending.
The breaksman had made three " runs " down the incline
on the night in question, and on the fourth his breakatick
gave way, when he was thrown under the waggons, several
of which passed over him. He lingered until Tuesday
morning when he expired.
THE HYDRAULIC RAILWAY.—The Journal des Che-
mins de Dr, of last week, announces the intended in-
troduction on the projected line of Railway from Winder-
mere to Kendal, of Mr. Shuttleworth's system of propul-
sion by hydraulic pressure. This statement of our
contemporary will, we think, be "news " to the iaventor,
who, we are aware, has been actively engaged in negoti-
ating the subject with some influential parties, .but has
certainly not agreed to its introduction on any line at
present. The conclusion of our contemporary must,
therefore, be premature.—Mining Journal.
CHURNET VALLEY RAILWAY.—The oppostion to this,
it is alleged, will consist of four parties : namely the Lon-
don and Birmingham, Grand Junction, Manchester and
Birmingham, and Trent Valley. We understand, how-
ever, that the first and last ant neutral. Certainly, the
London and Birmingham, if the Trent Valley is to be
made, cannot but regard it with a favourable eye, since it
will cut off no traffic which the Trent Valley does not,
and bring more to it. The Grand Junction say it will do
them no harm, as it will only take £21,000 per annum out
of their £410,000 traffic, and it cannot compete with them
for the Liverpool trade, on account of the stringent na-
ture of their agreement with the Liverpool and Manches-
ter. Assuming that to be true, and we have no reason to
doubt it from the quarter it comes from, the Churnet
Valley must depend mainly on its local and Manchester
traffic. We have heard of a change in this line into the
North Midland above Derby. If this is done, it will lose
all its merit as a London and Manchester Railway. We
have been informed, on the best authority, that it is not
true that the Grand Junction Directors intend to lease
the Churnet Valley line.—Railway Magazine.

A Derby Sweep for 1545 will, we believe, be opened at
Mr. Ni‘hite'B, Globe Hotel, on Monday next; the fiat horse is
to receive £l5O.

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Those who are about to frame the Map, presented with our
paper of to-day. will see by advertisement, that Mr. Jones, of
Great George-street. announces to frame them at prices most
easonable—o..e of the frames may be seen at our Office.

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It will be seen by advertisement, that an extensive supply of
turtle is always kept at M. r. Vt Inteman's, Brunswick Hotel, an
establishment, that from its general proximity to the business
portions of the town, and its great convenience, is most liberally
iqitronised. The tripe suppers commence on Friday evening
next.

The maps published under the superintendence of the
Honourable Board of Ordnance are now completed as far
north as Preston. They are to be procured either in
sin Ate squares, in counties, or complete gets, frara the local
agents of the board, Mr. Waring Webb, stationer, Castle-
street, Liverpool, and Messrs. Simms and Dhibaaa, elm-
tiontrs, Exchange-street, Menclager.