The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTL LLIGE CE.

It is in contemplation to form a branch railway from
Chorley, to join the Blackburn and Preston line.
The shareholders of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
have presented a splendid silver salver and £llOO in mo-
ney, to Mr. Badham, their secretary.
The Great Western Line via Gloucester, Stroud, and
Windsor, to London, was opened for the first time on
Monday.
The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Company have con-
firmed their amalgamation with the Manchester and Leeds,
and the Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale have confirmed
their extensions.

INCREASE OF TRAFFIC.—The revenue of the London ACCIDENTS FROM SWINGS.—On Sunday week, in
and Birmingham Railway Company, for the past week is London,cl,ed —On Tuesday a young woman at Deptford was
of last. This is entirely exclusive of the numerous ex-
a girl, 14 years old, was pitched out of a swing,
greater, by £2,800, than that of the corresponding week and
suddenly taken ill in a swing, and falling out of the car
cursion trains, and certainly speaks loudly in favour of low when at its greatest height, received such injuries that she
fares, the charges on this railway having, in the interim, is not expected to recover.
been reduced nearly 25 per cent. A gentleman named Gregerly, on Tuesday night, shot
himself on Southwark bridge, and died of the wound soon
WHITSUNTIDE HOLYDAYS.—During last week it is
after. The pistol was loaded to the muzzle with powder,
calculated that upwards of 10,000 persons have availed
and fourballs, and onbeing
themselves of the cheap trains from Manchester to visit happy man was the brother of a respectable solicitor, but
fired exploded. The on-
Liverpool. Upon the Leeds line, the amount of travelling
was depressed from reduced circumstances.
has been enormous ; and not less than 20,000 persons, per
day, have been conveyed to or from Manchester on these Mr. DOUGLAS JERROLD.—On a recent visit of this
rails. Alderley Edge, and other places on the Birming- gentleman to Birmingham, the working jewellers present( d
ham line have also presented great attractions, and on him with an elegant gold ring, with an onyx stone in the
Thursday the numbers who traversed that line is estimated centre ; and in an address expressed their admiration of
at 20,000. The Sheffield, and the Bolton lines have also his talents, and their gratitude for his literary advocacy cf
had a great accession of business. In the numbers men- their own class.
tioned above, several Sunday-schools are included, both We learn by the official returns that there is in fact no
in Manchester and the country. The numbers resorting individual named Payne in the eminent London banking
to Dunham-park have also been very great; on Thursday firm of Smith, Payne, and Smiths; nor any partner named
morning upwards of twenty boats, full of passengers, took Jones in the firm of Jones, Lloyd, and Co. There are
their departure from the Knott Mill packet station ; and five persons in the first-named firm, all of the name of
a large proportion of these were destined for Dunham. Smith.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A special As the pension granted by Sir Robert Peel to the widow
meeting of this company was held on Wednesday. The of the late Mr. Hood has been pretty much forestalled, a
meeting was convened for the purpose of taking into number of noblemen and gentlemen have determined on
consideration the various bills now before Parliament con- raising a sum by subscription, to enable her to educate
netted with this company. They consist of the London, her family and to make some slight provision for them in
Worcester, and South Staffordshire project, with a branch case of her decease.
to the Grand Junction; the Dudley and Wolverhampton ; THE NAVY.—THE SCREW v. PADDLE-WHEELS.—
the Trent Valley ; and two branches from the London The greatest triumph ever achieved by the screw over the
and Birmingham line, one to Dunstable, the other to Bed- paddle-wheel has been effected by the Rattler steam-sloop,
ford. The Churnet Valley and Manchester Amalgamation commander Smith, beating the Vesuvius steam-sloop,
bills have been rejected on Standing Orders. The Peter- commander O'Callaghan, five hours in the run from
borough line was opened as far as Northampton, on Tues- Greenhithe to the Frith of Forth.
day last, and by about the second of June would be open ANTI-MAYNOOTH MEETING.—On Monday night a
throughout, having been completed within the specified meeting was held at Manchester to oppose the endow-
time and the estimates. The chairman took occaEion to ment of Maynooth College, and to receive a deputation
observe, that the directors were willing to make pecuniary consisting of Sir C. E. Smith, the Hon. B. Noel, and
sacrifices to obtain an amicable arrangement of the differ-
several ()flier gentlemen from the Central Auti-Maynooth
ences with the Grand Junction Railway Company.
Committee. Several eloquent addresss were delivered,
MIDLAND IVAILWAY.—On Tuesday last a special and the meeting was very enthusiastic.
general meeting of the shareholders in this Company was DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN COUPLE.—It is but three
held at Derby. Resolutions were passed unanimously or four weeks since we gave an account of the extraordi-
confirming the following extension bills :—Ely, March, nary age of Mr. and Mrs. Plaisance, tken living in Red-
Boston, and Lincoln Line ; Nottingham, Newark, and
moor-fen in the Isle of Ely, the husband of the age of
Lincoln, and Syston and Peterborough. The meeting 107, the
wife 105. On Wednesday, strange to relate, after
also approved of the bills for consolidating the Shef-
field and Rotherham with the Midland, for forming ah
short affliction, both expired on the same day. They
have left one daughter, who lived with them, of the age of
the Erewash Valley Line, and for leasing the Birming-
eighty-four.—Bury Post.
ham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester Lines.
The chairman stated that the bill for making branches to ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY.—On Friday last a hand-
Elsecar, Wakefield, &c, had been abandoned, in conse- some young woman, of South Stoneham, eloped with a
married man, taking with her the sum of £37, belonging quence of the landowners on the line being opposed
to it; and that the agreement to lease the Sheffield and to her father. A description of them was forwarded to
Manchester had fallen to the ground. The original pro- London by the magnetic telegraph, and they were appre-
moters of the Erewash Valley Line had agreed to trans-
handed immediately on their arrival, amazed at their
fer their right to the Midland Company, for £145,000 of proceedings being known at such a distance from home.
Midland stock, and to receive 6 per cent, on the whole of They were taken before a magistrate, and remanded.
their branch stock. The directors had secured a fourth THUNDER STORM.—On Saturday last, Bristol was
interest in the Matlock Line; and they had directed sur- visited by one of the heaviest thunder storms experienced
veys to be made for a line from Nottingham to Mansfield. for many years past. Several trees in the villages adja-
They had no connection with the Leicester and Birming- cent to the city were struck by the electric fluid, and a
ham, Northampton and Leicester, Derby and Crewe, vessel called the Joseph, of Kinsale, which was lying on
Grand Union, or Stafford and Birmingham schemes. the Quay, near the Swivel Bridge, waiting to discharge a
They were about to consider measures for improving the cargo of potatoes, had her mast split in two. Some sea-
connection between the Birmingham and Gloucester and men, on the deck at the time, narrowly escaped destruc-
Birmingham and Derby Lines. They had taken posses- tion.
sion of the former line. SINGULAR OPERATION.—A short time ago a farmer
PROGRESS OF RAILWAY COMMITTEES.—The Corn- near Sedgefield left one of his sheep to die in the field, as
mittee on group B has sat for fifteen days, and has dis- it had the sturdy or water in the head, which was consi-
posed of five railway bills—the Manchester and Leeds dered incurable. A servant boy having heard of it im-
branches, the Huddersfield and Manchester, the Leeds mediately procured a gimlet, with which he returned to
and West Riding, the Leeds and Dewsbury, and the the field, and, without practice or skill in the art, oper-
West Yorkshire. Committee C sat six days—passed one ated upon the head of the animal, by boring a hole ex-
unopposed bill and rejected another. D was occupied actly upon the top of the scalp, by which the water oozed
five days in passing three unimportant bills. Committee out of the head of the sheep, which, in a very few minutes
E has been hearing evidence from April 29 to May 9, and got upon its feet, and began to eat grass, and is now doing
has not as yet done anything else. F has been equally as well as any of its owner's flock.
unsuccessful, having spent the interval between May 5 SUSPICIOUS CASE.—A short time since a fashionably-
and May 9on one bill. the London and South Stafford. attired young female was taken by two equally well-attired
G and G 2 has reported two bills and entered on the evi- men to lodgings at Hampstead. On Friday loud screams
dente for two more since April 29. L passed two bills in were heard proceeding from her room, and, on the mis-
five days. M was fortunate enough to have only one bill, tress of the house going thither, she was found in convul-
which took it but a single day to despatch. N has been sions, with a dead newly-born child near her, the body of
engaged five days in hearing evidence on the West Corn- which was quite black. There was some medicine on the
wall schemes, which has not yet terminated. 0 got table, which, the girl said, when she came to herself, had
through two bills in eight days. Q has succeeded in been left by the gentlemen when they visited her on the
coming to a decision on four bills in five days. S took preceding Wednesday. Shortly afterwards she died, and
four days to make up its mind on the Belfast and Bally- her body also became black. The wife of a surgeon in the
mena ; whilst three bills were passed by Tin six days. neighbourhood called and took away the medicine • and,
The Great Grimsby and Sheffield employed U for seven by some means or other, the parties who had brought the
days, when it was passed ; whilst the Nottingham and deceased to Hampstead were made acquainted with her
Lincoln has now been before V for six days, without any death. They gave directions for the immediate interment
result at all. Committee X, having managed to pass the of both mother and child, adding, at the time, to the un-
Ely and Whittlesea bill by some extraordinary exertion dertaker, that money was no object, so that the burial
on the first day of meeting, has now been employed for could be promptly effected, with secrecy. The case is to
nine days in listening
to the speeches and witnesses for the undergo investigation.