The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

ester and Holyhea
mounted to £(

rn Company's. bill for making an brawl

lough to Windsor.
On Friday a fireman, named Rupert Cooke, killed
o the Birmingham and Bristol Railway, wams kille"
ii:ough a train_ passing over him, which rec,-Aved a sudden

as deceased was shunting it into a siding.
)n Monday a three-arched bridge on the Bu,
re Railway, and across Bath-lane, Bucking

divhallP
lam', fell?
butrneuts

a tremendous crash, into ruins

The Swindon Refreshment Rooms, on the lines of the
eat Western Railway, held for a term of ninety-nine
I.rs from the Company, at an annu
ye been sold b

I rent of one penny,

1111 am

55,000)
The
on) as-

ed by the Lancashire and

shareholders (with the exception of Messrs. -
sented to the directors' propGsals without opposition.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction the report was adoPtei
It announced the gradual liquidation of the liabilities fa
the company, and the extension of time afforded by t'
commissioners.

_neral meeting of the Newcastle and Carlisle
Railway Company on Wednesday, it was resolved to 105 e
the line perpetually to Mr. Hudson's companies on a Per;
petual lease paying 6 per cent. for three years, and 7 13'„

iay the magnificent new South Wales It
lge, which crosses the river Usk, built of vg)°,l
ig about, four hundred yards long, was completely
destroyed by fire. The bridge cost £20,000 in construe'
tion, and the contractors are insured to the full amount'
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company have resolve
to raise £1,055,000 by the creation of new preference
shares of £lO each, bearing a guaranteed interest of 6 Pet
cent. This will enable the directors to complete about
100 miles of railway upon which upwards of £2,000,
have been already expended
LIVERPOOL AND BURY,
now presenting as busy

On V
way bri

—The whole of this line_ i,g,

that the

upeinos
early in September. The principal part of the work to u°
executed is in Wigan and the neighbourhood. Piles are
placed under the rails of the North Union Railway, under
which the line passes.
From our official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 3,783 miles of railway, 1135
£189,778, thus accounted for :—£96,911 for the conveY-
ance of passengers only, £48,083 for the carriage of goods'
and a remainder of £44,784 for passengers and goods to-
gether, not respectively apportioned; being an incresse9l_
£8,781 over the corresponding week of last year. when tb!

mileage was 2,862. The average earnings per mile we
£5O, whilst in 1847 they were £63.
EAST LANCASHIRE -RAILWAY.—At an extraordinl
general meeting of this company, at Bury, last week' "f
was resolvd +,, - • hares ?

~use z.JUU,UOU by creating new sna.--
£6 ss. each, to be called preference share. The mono' r
to be expended in expediting the completion of the Ll,
verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway, which is "'„
petted to be opened between Liverpool and Ormskirk
the Ist November next. The line from Accrington ''''
13Iackt-- lev will

—Rum and Burni, oe completed this month, A;
that from Burnley to Colne in the month of August. is
incline_at Accrington, which has a rise of one in fortYt

as easily workable as any other part of the line.
At RAILiVAY RESOURCES FROM AGRICULTURE.- a
time when commerce languishes, and trade and munliftaici;
tures are depressed, it is gratifying to observe that
ily
owners and occupiers of land are at length become fn
sensible of the advantages of railways. The quantity
food poured into the metropolis weekly by railway aj_n's" ig
surpasses belief ; nor is it the agriculturist alone wtr,
benefitted by the railway system. Even the hardy fis''
man on every part of our coast, now finds a ready and reit
munerating market for any quantity of the perishablefolf
of his enterprise and toil. Tie following the
sevoi
provisions were forwarded to London, via the Eagt,./th.
Counties Railway, during the week ending MaY 14.7
Beasts, 2,250 ; calves, 112 ; sheep, 7,980 ; Pigs, "oul-
grain, 13,572 ; flour, 5,327 sacks ; meat, 168 tons ; i„s,
try, 26 tons ; fresh fish, 70 tons ; fruit and vegetaln-eg

and spirits, 78 tons ; milk, 20,848 quarts ; bread,
and general merebandize 2,500 tons.—Railway Tines

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

Knntsford races will take place on the 6th an,

September,

.
Gaming tables, and even " shies for snuff-boxes,
interdicted at the approaching Ascot races.

..... ..,Ar.—On Thursday, while Z..
__,
Surplice beat Sping„y Jack and Shylock, in the El. 9, u'
Lords the Bishops heat Little John and Bothschila'nuth,
~soquence of the disfranchisement of Yarn eve
~: " members' plate" is lost, the races
....
~andoned this year. 39 feet,
DISTANCES JUMPED BY HORSES.—CIian ,
dicif,et over
over a brook at Warwick ; Culverthorpe,_33l L' 3L feet,
hurdles, at Newport Pagnel ; King of the. l'a.ll,oitery, 34
over the Wissendine Brook, Leicestershire ,___
t lioston.
property of Earl Spencer, were sold
feet, at Liverpool ; Peter Simple, 37 feet" a- ••,
yearly
SALE OF BLOOD STOCK.—The follows-• .
day last, by Messrs. Tattersall :—CaAanero, bY sir
ther-
culea, out of Serquidilla, 105 guineas • , Pharo, by Co by,
stone, out of Aliumette, 225 guineas; HUMPhI:eY:. ti
Cotherstone, out of Conscience, 260 guineas • Brir!zi,o F
Filbert,
by Cotherstone,'clam by Glencoe, 235 guinea's;
by Nutwith, out of Agnes, 120 n..-' .Iy, by ran.
by audio;
_.r
tier.

by which di
been "

by Cotherstone, out of Recreation, 31
mews; Juo,
Cothcrstone, out of Clock, 210 guineas;g The Wren, by
guineasuin guineas
; iii iisoeorncr
bt;

Mafd of Fez, 82