The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

One day in Christmas week no less than 6,000 barrels
oysters were conveyed from London in one railway train.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway, for the
week ending December 24, exceeded those of the preceding
week by nearly £3OOO, owing to the immense number of
Christmas packages.
A prospectus for the formation of a company for the
construction of a railway from Paddington to the Bank of
England, has just made its appearance. It is intimated
in this prospectus that " calculations have been made by
eminent surveyors, who report most favourably of the
proposed line." One point adverted to is the tunneling
of Pentonville-hill, by which process the dangers and
difficulties of that locality are to be avoided.

At the special meeting of the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, held on Thursday, the resolutions empowering the
Directors to carry out the extension lines to Cambridge,
Brandon, and other localities, and raise £960,000 in the
shape of a perpetual five per cent. stock for that pupose,
were carried unanimously. Cobbold's line to Ipswich, it
appears, is not to be opposed by the Company, and
Braithwaite's line to Harwich is to be leased in connexion
with the main trunk railway. It was also stated that a
line from the station at Stratford to the river Thames is
to be constructed and completed for £30,000, and then to
be leased to its promoters for seven years at a minimum
rent of £1,500 per annum. The Harwich branch is to be
constructed by an independent company, and the terms
of the lease are to be £10,500 for three years, and £8,400
per annum afterwards in perpetuity, the not profits beyond
the latter rent being equally divisible between the lessors
and lessees.

A deputation on the subject of the Chester and Holy-
head Railway, had an interview on Thursday with Sir R.
Peel, Sir. J. Graham, and the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, in Downing-street. The Deputation were accom-
panied by Mr. G. C Glyn, chairman of the London and
Birmingham Railway, Mr. W. H. Moss, director of the
Grand Junction Railway, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Tynne.
Mr. J. Walker also attended the conference. We have
reason to believe that no arrangement with regard to this
important undertaking was made. It was considered on
the part of the government that any such arrangement
would be premature, as there had been scarcely time for
drawing the public attention to the reports of the naval
officers employed by the Admiralty, and that of Mr. Wal-
ker, the civil engineer, and for giving to parties generally
who might be induced to undertake the construction of a
railway communication from Chester to Holyhead the
opportunity of submitting to the government any propo-
sals they might have to offer. The immediate question
for consideration was understood to be, whether govern-
ment would, for a given term of years, engage to pay any,
and wkat, sum, for the conveyance of the mail by this
new railway beyond the ordinary charges of conveyance.

The national debt commissioners have given notice in
the Gazette, that, as the revenue for the year ending
October 10, 1843, exceeded the expenditure by £908,541
11s. 91d., the sum of £227,135 7s. lad. being one-fourth
of the amount, will be applied to the reduction of the
debt.