The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTALLIciENCE.

The Strangford and Peterborough railway was opened
last week.
The meeting of the Chester and Birkenhead railway
railway on Wednesday, was adjourned till to-morrow.

Sir W. Verner has been restored to the deputy-lieu- The Great Northern have Confirmed the purchase of
tenancy of the county of Tyrone ; and the Lord-Lieu- the Stamford and Spalding, and Captain Laws says that
tenant has approved of the appointment of Mr. John at least 100 miles will be in work before July, 4848.
O'Connell, M.P., to the deputy-lieutenancy of the The Scottish Railway Gazelle of Saturday gives a de-
county of Kerry. plorable account of the mischief done to the North British
The proposed meeting of landholders in Dublin, for the line by the floods following the " heavy and continuous
purpose of calling on the government to authorise present- rains.',
merits for reproductive works, and devising other means SHREWSBURY AED CHESTER RAlLWAY.—Engines
for the alleviation of the prevailing distress, has been have traversed the line from Chester as far as Ruabon
postponed sine die in conseluence of the lord-lieutenant's during the last few days: but the opening of this Railway
announcement mentioned in another paragraph. for public use has not yet been officially announced.
The Limerick papers, though generally containing too The first experimental trip on the Lynn and Ely Rail-.
many pecounta di' evstrescts egninnt lit= and pinprity, wca-c ...DV ...... P.""..".."..- V"..-7 C.-.... 1-'7',... t.' pc,"ainmr
The train conveyed a number of the directors and their
last week unusually full of such occurrences. Horses
have been shot, fields of potatoes dug up, houses entered friends. It is expected that the line will be opened through '
and rifled, lives attempted—an enumeration even of which in a few weeks.
we have not room for. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.—An important junction
REPEAL IN BELFAST.—The " independent" Repealers between this line and that of the Maryport and Carlisle,
of this town have resolved to adjourn their important is in contemplation of being formed at Saint Nicholas,
operations for a month. The reason is said to be the dif- thus obtaining at once a direct railway communication
ficulty of collecting "the rent" during this season of de- with the sea ports on the west coast of Cumberland.—
pression. As the rent is the most important psrt of le- Carlisle Patriot.
peal, it is no wonder that adjournment should be made The Bridlington branch of the Hull and Selby Railway
when the tin is not forthcoming. was opened lest week. The line being jointly leased to
On Wednesday as Major Bevan was returning from a the York and North Midland and Manchester and Leeds
shooting excursion, on a car, with three other gentlemen, Companies, the directors and their friends to the num-
near his father-in-law's, Mr. Brew, of W ildbrooke, ber of about 1,000 left Hull about 11 o'clock in the fore-
county of Clare, he had his loaded fowling-piece with the noon, in a train consisting of 51 carriages, drawn by three
butt-end resting on the foot-board, when it accidentally engines. The train stopped at Cottenham, Beverley, and
went off and shot him through the head. He was a ye- Driffield, to take up the inhabitants of those places who
teran soldier, and had been thirty years in India. had received invitations. The train arrived at Bridling-
A VOICE FROM DARRYNANE.—Mr. O'Connell has ton shortly after one o'clock.
issued trona his " mountain home" a third essay on the FIRE IN A RAIKWAY TRAIN.—As one of the trains
state of the country, in which he repeats all h s previous was proceeding near Whitacre to Birmingham, a mass of
arguments in favour of holding a mock Parliament in red hot cinders from the funnel of the engine fell amongst
Dublin for the purpose of prescribing to the Government the passengers of a third-class carriage. One gentleman
such measures as may best seem fit to the " Convention" had his cost completely destroyed, and a female passenger
to meet " the horrible emergency in which the country is had a vary narrow escape. Her umbrella took fire, and
iuvolved." The repeal rent last week was £126. the flames were communicating with her dress, when a
GOVERNMENT DEPOTS.—FAMINE PRICES.—A COM- man, at a great risk, rescued her from the burning ftag-
munication has been addressed by Commissary-General ments, and saved her from dreadful injury, if n)t from
Hewitson to Major Beamish, in reply to his representa- death. The passengers were in imminent peril of being
tion of the exorbitant price exacted for Indian meal by the roasted alive.
retail corndealers in the towns of Skull and Ballydehob, DESTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE.—Among the disasters
West Carbery. and urging on the government the opening occasioned by the recent floods is one dreadful to look
of their reserve depots. By this letter it oppears that go- upon. In the place in question there is an embankment
vernment have actually commenced operations with refe- which, we are told, is quite without a rival in regard to
rence to a supply of food, but that their depots will not be extent. This embankment fills up a deep and extensive
opened so long as the market prices remake " within mo- ravine, and so connected two projecting points of the
Berate hounds." What the Treasury nction of " moderate ravine as enabled the railway to proceed along. This
bounds" may be remains to be seen. majestic embankment is 136 feet in height, and about 50
FAIAL AFFRAY AT CASTLECOI•INELL. A draft of in breadth. Under it were a few barrel arches for the
88th or Connaught Rangers, which had been in Nenagh purposes of allowing free course to the water leading from
on the previous Friday when on route to Limerick, ar- the adjoining towns. These appear to have been too
rived at Castleconnell, and were quartered there on Sun- small for the purposes intended. At all events, on the
day wee.k They conducted themselves, whilst in Nenagh evening of Monday and morning of Tuesday, the water
on Friday, in a scandalous manner, shouting and yelling stood in a body for about half a mile in length, up the
through Ihe streets. A party of them went to the police glen, and upwards of 100 feet in height. This unwonted
barracks in Castleconnell, and proceeded to break the circumstance burst the barrel arches ; the mighty body
windows with stones. The police rushed out armed, of water referred to covered trees, outhouses, and some
forced on the party, and shot one of them dead, and a dwelling-houses; and, pressing against the embankment,
civilian who was in their company. Two others of the carried it away, causing the chasin.—Edinbro' paper.
sol,iiers were wounded. A BANKRUPT RAILWAY COMPANY.—A fiat of bank-
DISTURBANCES IN THE SOOTS.—There are accounts ruptcy was opened in London. on Tuesday morning
in town from the counties of Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, againgst the Tring, Reading, and Bassingstoke Railway
and Clare, of assemblages of the people, for the purpose Company, the shareholders !ravine determined upon
of preventing the transport of corn and provisions to the " winding up " the scheme, and resolving that the disso-
large towns. Upwards of twenty horses have been shot lotion should be considered as an act of bankruptcy.
in these counties during the past two or three days, and There seems to be little doubt but that the remaining
farmers who have not been deterred from loading others assets, variously estimated at from £12,000 to £20,000, will
with corn have received notices that it They do not desist fully satisfy the demands of the whole of the creditots, so
that the contest respecting "liability," or " non-liability,"
from sending food cut of their respective parishes, not
only their horses :Jut themselves will be Aot. The con- will ultimately rest between the provisional committee
sequence of this is, the corn, flour, bread, and all other and the shareholders. As these reapeetive parties have at
provisions are rising rapidly in price in the towns so be. the recent meetings held on the aff:iirs of the company ma-
leagured from without. nifested a strong degree of antagonism, it seems likely
ANOTHER " DIFFICULTY."—AIMOSI the whole of the that the proceedings under the bankruptcy will furnish
barony of Farney, in the county of Monaghan, is, it is some curious disclosures relative to the organization of
well known, the proper yof two landlords—the Marquis the project, and the subsequent allotment of shares under
of Bath and Mr. Shirley. According to the Evening the 9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 28, it hr,s excited more
Mail, " their agents arranged to employ every man in than usual interest among parties who identified them-
barony on the lands, without presenting. All was set- selves with the late railway speculation, especially those
tied, apparently most satisfactorily, when the tenants on defunct and abortive undertakings.
the Shirley estate refused to work on the estate, and de- ACCOMMODATION BY THE LONDON AND NORTH-
mended public works, because 5 percent. was eventually WESTERN RAILWAY.—The number of stations on this
to be charged them for the improvements made, though line from -London to Birmingham, with branch to Ayles-
they admitted that they would be benefited 25 per cent. bury, 120 miles, is in all 25, of which—
Such is Ireland ! The quarrel is •to be determined and stations.
a are in Middlesex
settled by Government inquiring into the matter." 7 in Hants

Population
.1,576,515
• 157.237
. )56,969
. 107,9,7
. 199,062
. 402,121

DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING.—In the lin Bucks
townland of Killaghey, near Donaghadee, during the 2in Beds
awful thunder storm which occurred on the 28th ultimo, 5 in Northamptonshire
a thunderbolt descended through the roof' of a house, sin Warwickshire....
belonging to a man named John Jamison, and killed his 25 2,598,g6t
son, a boy about eleven years of age, and a goat that was Showing that the London and North-Western, in its
standing in the middle of the floor. Jamison's wife, who first section of 190 miles, between London and Binning.
was sitting at the fire, was struck senseless, and deprived ham, accommodates, with its five-and-twenty stations, a
of sight for a considerable time. A child in the cradle population, between north and south, of 2,598,961. On
fortunately escaped without injury. The electric fluid its branch from Northampton to Peterborough, 47 miles,
then separated, one portion tearing away the front of the there are 14 stations, all in Northamptonshire. From
cabin, the other proceeding backwards into the sleeping Birmingham to Liverpool, 974 miles, there are 24 stations,
apartment, and thence into the cow-house, where it killed of which—
two cows—the man's entire stock. The house is so much , stations

Population
. 02.121

.._......
damaged that it cannot be occupied.—Downpatrick ... 3
are in Warwickshire
Recorder. 9 in Staffordshire
ADUSE OF CHARITY IN IRELAND. —The cry from 9in Cheshire ........
Ireland is fur employment, and the mode of providing it 3 in Lancashire
has been decided to be the making of such public works 7:4
as will be most permanently beneficial to the country, So that this section of 974 miles, and 24 stations, accorn-
and employ the greatu•st amount of unskilled labour. It modates 2,974,691 souls. On the Northern branch, from
seems that under the catalogue of permanently beneficial Liverpool to Manchester, 30 miles, there are 21 stations.
works are to he ranked Roman Catholic chapels. At all in Lancashire. From Birmingham to Manchester, 35
Timoleague, in Cork, £3OO has been assessed upon the miles, there are 26 stations-3 in Warwickshire, 9in
people of ail classes for the building of a Roman Catholic Staffordshire,
Mayo, Mr. Dil!on Browne 11 in Cheshire, and 3in Lancashire. On
chapel. At Balintubber, in
the Chester and Birkenhead, in the same counties, there
exerts all his bland persuasions upon the Lord-Lieutenant are 11 stations in 16 miles. Hence the London and
to have the ratepayers assessed for a similar purpose ; North-Western accommodates a population of upwards
while Mr. Thomas Steele announced to the Repeal Asso- of 3 millions over its total area of 328 nines, exclusive of
ciation, amidst great chtering, that "he had just returned its large collateral traffic from the north and south, and
from. Clare, where he attended a baronial sessions at from Ireland and Scotland, basing connected with its
which £3500 was granted for finishing the Catholic large ramifying system a total of 121 stations.—Railway
church at .Ennia." Cvlroaigis..

510,205
305,3(,g

1,667,063

2,974,691