The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended 7th instant :—.Coaching traffic, £1275 lls.
4d. ; parcels, £54 12s. ; goods and cattle; £ll9 Os. 10d. ;
steamboats, £lB5 7s. 6d. ;—total, £1634 lls. Bd.
A portion of the Great Northern Railway, extending
from Peterborough, vid Spalding and Boston, to Lincoln,
35 miles in length, will be opened to-day for passenger
and ods traffic.
MT Caledonian Mercury mentions, as a proof that
railway regulations must be observed by all men, that on
the Queen's return from Scotland, when the train stopped
at Glammis, the porter came out with a lantern, and
Prince Albert asked him for a light for his cigar, but re-
ceived the answer, given with the utmost coolness, " No
smoking allowed here, sir."

THE -LATE RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR NEWTON
BRIDGE.-Mr. Shuard, another of the sufferers by the
accident, died at the Queen's Hotel, at Birmingham, on
Tuesday evening. The unfortunate gentleman, who was
an architect, residing at Somerlayton, in Suffolk, was
found after the accident completely jammed in amidst the
carriages.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The arrangements
for leasing this undertaking to the Southern companies
have been fully concluded, and the agreements signed.
The Scottish Central Company is guaranteed in perpe-
tuity a dividend of 7 per cent. and half the surplus profits
by the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Caledonian, the Lan-
caster and Carlisle, and the London and North-Western
Railway Companies.
NEWSPAPERS ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—The privilege of selling newspapers, &c. at
the several stations on this line of railway has been let by
tender to Messrs. Smith and Son, news-agents, Strand,
for the sum of £1,500 a-year. The person who has
hitherto supplied Euston-station offered the company the
enormous sum of £6lO for a stand at that station alone.—
Builder.

A WEIGHTY LIFT.—On Saturday week the atigle quoin
was lifted into its berth in the facing of Bangor tunnel.
The weight of this stone when chiselled, was 16 tons; in
the rough, 25 tons. It was drawn through the street by
12 horses in single file, and before arriving at its destina-
tion, one of the wheels of the waggon took fire through
friction, and had to be taken off and set to rights. Luckily
the ponderous mass did not topple over.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 4,115 miles of railway, was
£218,892, thus accounted for :—£111,183 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £52,708 for the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £54,999 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £13,087 over the corresponding week of last
year, when the mileage was 3,288. The average earnings
per mile were £53, whilst in 1847 they were £63.

OPENING OF THE SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAIL-
WAY.—This line of railway, which is forty-one miles in
extent, was on Thursday opened throughout. A special
train started at twelve o'clock from Chester, conveying
Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., the chairman of the company,
the directors, their friends, and the Corporation of Ches-
ter, to Shrewsbury. The civic bodies of the two towns
met for the first time for at least a century past. At
Shrewsbury a banquet was prepared, at the Music-hall, by
the Corporation, and the proceedings of the day were
closed by a grand ball and fireworks.
BRIDGE ACROSS THE TWEED.—The bridge and viaduct
across the Tweed, at Berwick, was formally opened on
Tuesday, when a train of fourteen trucks, laden with
coke, drawn by two engines, proceeded from the Tweed-
mouth station to that of the North British. It is estimated
that the total weight of this train could not have been less
than 180 tons. Beyond a very slight vibration, the train
went as smoothly as upon the firmest rock. Several trains
of the same kind, and one or two goods trains subse-
quently passed over, during the day, and the regular pas-
senger trains commenced running along the bridge on
Wednesday.

USES OF RAILWAY ARCIIES.—On Friday the Lambeth
Infant School was removed from the old school-rooms, in
Church-street, to the arch of the South-Western Railway
viaduct, numbered 193, facing Doughty-street, which has
been fitted up, and seems very well adapted for the pur-
pose. Some of the licensed victuallers adjacent have con-
verted the arches into drinking-rooms and skittle-alleys.
Several of them having commanding frontages in the
principal thoroughfares, are about to be turned into
shops. A popular preacher is also in treaty with the
company to convert one of the arches into an Indepen-
dent chapel ; whilst a society of philanthropists have it in
contemplation to fit up one or two as shelters for the
houseless during the approaching inclemency of the win-
ter.
SELLING OUT OF RAILWAYS.—The railway panic of
Monday and Tuesday, originated in absolute orders from
Liverpool, Manchester, and two or three other provincial
towns, but principally from the two first-mentioned, for
sales at any price. It is reported that a large proportion
of these orders came, directly or indirectly, from the banks
there, who had advanced upon shares some time ago with
a large margin as to price in their favour, but which had
not only been reduced by the continuous fall to the market
quotations of the day, but below, so that, as the parties
mortgaging could not redeem them, or give security to
restore the balance, the banking mortgagors became
alarmed, and resolved to realize at whatever loss. The
more extraordinary feature of the panic has been, more-
over, that it bore more rapidly upon the London and
North Western line, the proudest of all as a generally
accepted measurement of share values. One broker alone
sold £12,000 value of the shares of that line, all bona fide,
and for transfer.