The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

A deputation from the Provisional Committee of the
Liverpool, Ormskirk , and. Preston Railway, had an inter-
view with Lord Dalhousie, on Friday, at the Board of
Trade.

The Hereford Times says, the Great Western Railway
Company have " volunteered " to take a perpetual lease
of the proposed Hereford and Gloucester Railway at 21
per cent., with a moiety of the surplus profits.

A deputation of the North Union Railway Company,
consisting of Messrs, Theo. Rathbone, H. Earle, J. C.
Ewart, Wolstenholme, and R. Earle, Mr. Part, solicitor,
and Mr. Chapman, secretary, had an interview with Lord
Dalhousie, on Friday.
The negociation between the Liverpool and Manchester
and Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Boards is broken, off; the latter declining to bind
themselves to the same rate of tolls per mile as that
charged by the " great parent of railways."
-

The Papal government has rejected the proposition of
an English company to construct a railroad between Ci-
♦ita Vecchia and Home. It is only of late years that a di-
ligence has been allowed to ply in the Papal states ; a
railroad, therefore, would seem to be a step in advance
reserved for another age.
Her Majesty's state carriage on the Southampton rail-
way is nearly completed, and it is confidently. expected that
the application of the patent kamptulicon (or composi-
tion of cork and India rubber,) under the carpet and be-
tween the framework and body of the carriage will en-
tirely prevent the unpleasant vibration inseparable in all
railway travelling.
CHESTER, STOCKPORT, AND MANCHESTER RAIL-
WAY.—The Chester and Warrington Junction line has
recently undergone a change, inasmuch as, at the request
of several extensive shareholders in the Chester and
Warrington Railway,an extension of the line has been
determined upon to Altrincham, thus affording a direct
communication with Stockport and Manchester.

A collision took Once on the Croydon Railway on Fri-
day week, in consequence of the trains up running into a
train on the same line. The shock injured several who
were returning from the fair, but no fatal mischief was
done. Those who required surgical assistance were im-
mediately conveyed to Guy's Hospital. The accident is
attributable to negligence in making the proper signal.

The half-yearly meeting of the Durham and Sunder-
land Railway Company was held on Friday last, when it
appeared that the revenue for the half-year ending 31st
of August last was £12,123 12s la., being a decrease on
the corresponding half-year of 1843 of £5307 ss. ; the
deficiency was attributed to the late pitmen's strike, from
which the leading of coals, which is the principal source
of revenue, was nearly suspended for several months.
SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER RAILW AY.
—We are happy to find from an official letter that Jas.
Macgregor, Esq., of Liverpool, and B. Harding, Esq.,
have been elected into the direction to supply existing
vacancies, which, in future, are to be filled up, so as to
ensure general confidence. The question of the carriage
of goods is to be referred to a committee, including the
new directors, and the special meeting threatened by the
Liverpool shareholders is withdrawn.
MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Tuesday a meeting of this
company was held at Derby, when resolutions were passed
authorising the directors to apply to parliament to make,
lst--A railway from the Midland Railway, at Notting-
ham, to Newark and Lincoln. 2d—A railway from the
Midland Railway, at Swinton. by Doncaster, Bawtry, and
Gainsborough, to Lincoln, and thence passing near Bos-
ton, Spalding, and Wisbeach, to join the Eastern Coon.
ties Railway at March. 3d—A railway from the Midland
Railway, at Seyton, by way of Oakham and Stamford, to
Peterborough. And to amalgamate the Sheffield and Ro-
therham Railway with the Midland Railway—the latter
guaranteeing the former 6 per cent. The chairman, George
H udson, Esq. announced that the traffic for the week ending
the day of the meeting was £11,998, being more than
£2,000 over the corresponding week last year. The di-
rectors were also authorised to raise an additional capital
of £2,500,000, by the creation of 62,500 shares of £4O
each. Such shares to be distributed as follows :-51,339
among the holders of stock in this company, being at the
rate of one share for every £lOO stock ; 250 among the
holders of the £2 shares,being at the rate of one share for
every fifty shares; 10,911 to be reserved for landowners
and parties locally interested and others.

A deputation from the Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Chester Junction Railway, consisting of Messrs. M. F.
Brownrigg, Wm. Laird, and Joseph Mallaby, had an in-
terview with Lord Dalhousie at the Board of Trade.
The same deputation had also an interview on the subject
of the Cheshire and Shropshire Junction Railway.
ST. HELEN'S, SOUTHPORT, WIGAN, RAINFORD, AND
LIVERPOOL. RAILWAY.--This project is evidently put
forth to upset the proposed Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston line, and is backed by the united strength of the
Liverpool and Manchester and North Union Companies.
The chief merit of the project before us, and it, certainly,
seems to be a very sufficient one, is, that it will supp'y to
Ormskirk, and other pl,ces which the Liverpool, ()rms.
kirk, and Preston propose to serve, a'l the benefits that
that company offer at one-fourth the cost, and, conse-
quently, a saving to the public, without interfering with
the property of existing railways.—Railway Magazine.
The adjudication of the Orleans and Bordeaux Rail-
row), for which three eminent capitalists contended, was
decided on Wednesday in favour of Messrs. Mackenzie
and Co., who tendered to lease it for 27 years 11 months ;
Messrs. Rothschild offered to lease it for 32 years and 3
months; and Messrs. Drouillard for 36 years. The
conditions of laying down the lines, working the lines,
and the prices of transport were settled by an act of the
last session. The object of the Government was to lease
it to that competitor who would take it for the fewest
years. The Orleans and Vierzon Railroad has been ad-
judged to the existing Orleans Company for a term of 40
years, the company ceding to that of Messrs. Le Conte
and Company one third of the shares. Several English
capitalists have, it is said, embarked in these specula.
tions.

Two HORSES KILLED DV A RAILWAY TRAIN.-01t;
Saturday week, as a groom in the service of Mr. John
To'lett, of Oxford-street, was returning home with four
valuable horses from High Wycombe, riding one of them
and leading the other, when, close to the bridge crossing
the West London Railway, at Shepherd's-bush, the led
horses were frightened by the lamps of a carriage, which
suddenly turned the corner of the road, and broke away
from the groom. Two of them took the direction of the
railway station, which is at a short distance north of the
Uxbridge road, and entering the gates of the station, ran
on to the line just as a train was advancing towards them.
It was then dark, and on the clerk at the station hearing
a noise, and running out to see what was the matter, be
found the groom on horseback on the line in the act of
following the horses, which he appeared determined to do,
though told that a train was approaching, and was only
kept back (and his life consequently saved) by force. The
clerk instantly hoisted the light to stop the train, which
it did, but not before it had (though unknown at the time
to the engineer, or guard, who felt no jerk) cut down two
out of the three animals. On search being made for the
remains of the animals, one was found in a dreadfully mu-
tilated state at no great distance behind the train, and the
other about 200 yards further off, with his hind legs com-
pletely cut off. The groom was in such a state that had
he not been restrained he would have committed suicide.
The two horses were valued at £lOO, and the damage
to the train amounted to £lO.

PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.--OR Wednesday a
meeting of the Liverpool proprietors in this company
was held at the Clarendon-rooms. John Moss, Esq.,
occupied the chair. A resolution moved by Lewin Moz-
ley, Esq., was unanimously adopted, to the effect that the
proposition to be submitted to the general meeting of
proprietors to be held in Paris on the 31st instant—for
the raising of capital for making a branch line to Elbeuf,
and another to Louviera, and for finding material for
working the Havre line with one set of officers—met with
the approbation of the Liverpool shareholders. The sum
of £400,000 will be required for these objects. Mr. Reid,
one of the French directors, stated that the receipts of
the Paris and Rouen railway for the past half year would
amount to £160,000, which is considerably more than the
sum received in the corresponding period of last year.
He also stated that they had lowered the prices for the
first 35 miles out of Paris, and the first 25 miles out of
Rouen ; and yet it would be seen from their weekly re-
turns that their receipts had not fallen off, but, on the
contrary, that they had been greatly augmented. They
took 55,000 francs for goods alone last week, and in one
day they received upwards of £4BO for the conveyance of
goods, although their charges were at so low a rate as 10
francs a ton for 85 miles. The result of the whole was,
that they had a satisfactory progressive increase in their
traffic ; and that when the creation of the proposed
branches should have been sanctioned, they would still
have the same tale to tell—that they were going on in-
creasing in prosperity. Mr. Reid concluded by saying
he had no doubt that a line, to start from Rouen. would
be made to the southern part of Normandy. It was
mentioned at the meeting, that of the 72,000 shares in
the company, 40,000 were held in England, and of those,
20,000 in the district of Liverpool alone.

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last,
as a train, principally occupied by butchers going to
Shields, was proceeding to that town, on the Newcastle
and Shields Railway, about two miles from the latter town,
another train was seen coming in an opposite direction,
but at so short a distance, owing to the curvature of the
line at the place, that a collision appeared inevitable. The
engine men at once reversed the engines, and then leaped
off, and immediately afterwards they came into violent
collision. Most of the butchers were stunned by the shock,
all of them being thrown with considerable force against
the partitions of the carriage. The next moment they
found themselves careering away towards Shields, the car-
riage, to use the expression of one of the passengers, "fly-
ing like lightning." At once apprehensive of danger,
some of the passengers began to leap from the carriage,
and it was soon ascertained that the• engine was under no
control. Indeed, the engineman and stoker had been left
behind, after jumping off, and the engine, bounding from
the collision, was running at an enormous speed along the
line towards Shields, it being a gentle incline. By the
time the train had reached the station, between fifteen
and eighteen of the passengers had thrown themselves out,
the remainder continuing in the carriage, ready to jump
out when they saw a favorable opportunity. Fortunately,
on reaching the station a train of four or five empty car-
riages was standing on the line, against which the engine
drove the carriage before it with tremendous force, carry-
ing all forward to the back part of the station, where a
strong balk of timber is placed as a stopper, over which
some of the carriages were driven, whilst the whole were
crushed together in one confused mass of broken frag-
ments. Three or four yards behind the stopper a low
wall encloses this part of the station, and beyond the wall
there is a coal depot, on a lower level by twenty-five or
thirty feet. One of the carriages, torn from its frame
and wheels, was left balancing on the top of this wall.
The engine, after being " brought up," still continued to
" puff and blow," urging itself through the mass of broken
carriages. By this lamentable catastrophe, two men,
Brown, a drover, and Burrell, a butcher, were killed, and
fifteen other persons were more ,
or less injured. At the
inquest the jury returned a verdict of Accidental death,"
with a deodand of £3OO on the engine, and at the same
time expressed their severe censure at the impropriety
and danger of allowing passenger trains to run up and
down on one line.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL':
CESAREWITI

>, THURSDAY.
II STAKES.

gto 2 agst Dawson's lot (t) 16 to 1 agst Give-him-a-name
11 —1 Dentinck's lot (t) 25 —1 Emperor (t)
6 1 Souvenir filly 125 1 Marqu se
11 1 Gllossy (taken) 25 1 Scalteen (take 30
12 1 Jamal to 1)
iv— 1 Foig-a-ballagh (t) 30 —1 Mania 11layers
13 1 Lightning (t) 30 1 Johnny /
16— 1 Vibration (t) 100 —BO on Emperor against
16 1 Una (t) Scalteen
A good deal of business was done on the above race at quo-
tations that in several instances differed essentially from those
returned on Monday. Thus Jamal. on that day second favourite.
after two or three bets at 8 and g to 1, receded to 12 to 1, and
left off without friends—Glossy, who on the same day was at
20 to 1, again coming strongly into favour, and closing second
to the Duke of Portland's filly. Foig-a-ballagh wa-j also hacked
freely in several quarters, and finished at 12 to 1 (takers).
Lightning came next, a strong commission to back him having
been executed at 12 and 13 to 1. The Souvenir filly was fre-
quently backed at 7 to 1 (no layers at the close); Vibration, at
14, 15, and 16 to I; Una, at 16 and 17 to 1 • and Give-him-a-
name, at 15, 16, and 17 to 1. The betting, in other respects,
was devoid of interest.

DERBY.
10 to I agst Mr. Greville's Alarm (taken)
20 1 Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzafien (taken)
The report of Alaric's death is confirmed.

The following horses have arrived at Newmarket in the course
of the week :—Discord, Gaper, Naworth, Duke of Cornwall, the
BI ck Gentleman, Alva, Nat, Physallis, Priscilla Tomboy, New
Year's Day, Skeleton, Syntaxina, David, Julia, Aristotle, &c.
Several of Richmond's, Lord G. Bentinck's, and Mr. Payne's,
passed through town yesterday for the same destination.

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.

THE CESAREWITCH &MAK PS.

FRIDAY EVSNING.—During the early part of the week consi-
derable sums have been invested on Glossy, Lightning, Foig-a-
Ballagh, and Boarding School Miss; Jamal and the favourite
also having a share of attention. On Tuesday. Lightning was
freely supported at IS to 1, and the same party invested on
Glossy at 12 to I ; Lightning afterwards sprang two or three
points. and. left off at 12 to I. Foig-a-Ballagh opened at 26 to
1. and was backed with considerable spirit, so much so that at
the close 15 to I was his figure (taken freely); ce, tainly should
this nag win, it will be a most extraordinary performance for a
three-year old, carrying sat in so powerful a field. Lightning
and Foig-a-Ballagh were backed, coup'ed, at 7 to 1 .t'l7s ; arid
Boarding School Miss obtained a few friends at 26 to 1. Wed-
nesday and Thursday, owing to the attractive fair at Knuts.
ford, were almost blank days.
The favourite was in still higher odour, finishing at 11 to 2
(taken freely) ; Jamal was a point and a li ilf worse than ou
Tuesday, closing at 10 to 1. Glossy, Haitoe, and The Brie, had
plenty of friends at the prices annexed, and Foig-a-Ballagh was
also supported freely. The aunexed are the prices of all that
were backed for any amount :
Si to 1 agst Souvenir (t)
1 Jamal (t)
12 1 Glossy (t)
13 1 Lightning (t)
14 1 Haitoe (t)
16 1— Vibration (t)
DaRBY.-1,7,

20 1 The Brute
25 Emperor (t)
-a-name
211566
__to
111
_a_gst
mGUinavareq.(uht):
140-7 Foig.a-Ballagh
thing done.

FIRES.--From Friday week to Thursday last no less
than five incendiary fires took place in the neighbourhood
of Bury St. Edmunds—one taking place on the first
mentioned day (Friday) at Cheveley.park, belonging
to the Duke of Rutland; one at Waltham de Willows,
on Saturday; another at H engrave on Wednesday after-
noon; and one at Whepstead on the evening of the same
day. The inhabitants, generally speaking, are in a state
of great alarm, and the destruction of property is immense.
On Thursday a fire occurred at Woods-green Farm, Tot-
tenham, Middlesex, when the following premises were de-
stroyed Two cart-sheds, with contents and carts
therein ; a granary, a small cottage, a barn, the cow-
houses, calf-pens, brew-house, and outbuildings, with the
whole of the contents, consisting of beans, oats,.pota-
toes, and agricultural implements ; also a quantity of
pigeons and rabbits. Length of building destroyed, 159
feet, by 36 feet in width.

Oct. 15, 1844.

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