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

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

It is intended to form a line of railway from the Fleet;
wood line to the fashionable watering-place of Blackpo° '
The distance is about three miles.

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

RAILWAY FROM LONDONDERRY TO ENNISKILLEN'''.
On Wednesday last, a meeting was held at Londonderry,
when it was determined to carry out this undertaking, Or
which a company was formed in the year 1836, and the
progress of which was arrested at the time by the cool'
mercial embarrassments of the country.
BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CHANNELS JuNCTIOI4.
RAILWAY,—The proposed line is now being surveyed'
the course is that pointed out by NI r. Percey, of Shereboll
in 1825, as the most eligible for the then projected Gray('
Ship Canal, viz., from Bridgewater to Ilchester, ne9ll
Yeovil, Sturminster, Newton, Bradford, to the Port °
Poole.

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

DOVER AND GREENWICH RAILWAYS.—On Tuesday'
the directors of the Greenwich Railway submitted a Pro'
position to the Dover company to lease their line 0" ice
following terms : namely, that the Dover should g_rtio
them a rent of £30,000 for the first year, and afterwa
increase it by £lOOO yearly, until it reached £50,000 P_!,:
annum, which is about 5 per cent. on the expenditures
Then, that they should receive a penny per head 7,
between
NI'Do
Ondno9rgdal')
every passenger above 6,000,000 per annum passing o 4
their line.
n and RAlLWAY.—Thedinb roll'
rapidly
dßlcEyoAmaTpmpNirion°aißec itilnijognocFob
d be Tuesday, (this
from
Darlington extended rAir
the line of railway already forme
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The entire -,no
Darlington to
London and Newcastle, Lance between Lo upwards of
will be accomplished, it
s calculated, twel„
miles,
Be'
hours, including all stoppages. From Newcastle to
ot
wick-upon-Tweed, a distance of sixty miles, a tin-east
railway has been projected, and surveys made by toefi-fti
coast, and thence to Edinburgh, little more thall nd
miles, a line is already in course of formation-a ei
leaving the station in Euston- qPas to
!t* the traveller t
83 miles along the London and Birmingham *righa
meEtp:letion.
Rugby, thence 491 miles along themiMidlamnd
Railway to Derby thence 631 miles along the Northo,'o6
land Railway to Normanton, thence 231 miles awrcist
York and North Midland Railway to the Cathedl,pg:
of York, thence 45 miles along the Great North- of tl
land Railway to Darlington, thence 271 miles 81°,11'01
Newcastle, Darlington and Durham Junction Italiloow
Worbington, thence si-smiles along the Pontop and „e)11
Shields Railway (formerly the Stanhope and'itos.o
Brockley where the line diverges to Suno`an#
and Shields, and thence 6} miles along the 13,,,,r/lbeait
Junction Railway to 'Newcastle, or rather to Ga'aniv-
on the south bank of the River Tyne, where awe fro!
cent station, is being erected. A more direct lill,aster,
York to London has beea projected through the 101
Counties by way of Bedford, Huntingdon. and .1 s, ea.
which will shorten the distance by about thirty Loll one iti"
pass over the most extensive planes in England, of
the vallies of the Trent and Ouse by direct railwaY
munication with the metropolis.

of
FRATAICIDE.—A man of the name of John Ch' de of
Leeds, has been committed to York Castle on a cluier,,lar°:
manslaughter. The prisoner was quarrelling with "A-paelP:
tiler on Tuesday last, and at length they conamence".loo"
mg, when the prisoner stabbed brother in fic,c,ras to
with a clasp knife, inflicting such serious wound t. 13.
penetrate the heart, and of course cause the dot'
unfortunate man almost immediately.

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