The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

The project of an Exchange in London, for the sale and
purchase of railway shares, has been set en foot.
Last week two trains took, from 13irrningbaat to Derby,
7,000 children, on a pleasure excursion. There were 112
carriages. Another train to the same point had 69 car-

riaees.
The directors of the Midland Railway Company have
sent £l,OOO to the E,rl of Harborouzh, as compensation
for the expense, trouble, and inconvenience they occa-
sioned his lordship on the late survey, &c., for the new
line from Syston to Peterborough.
THE REGENT'S CANAL.—The Regent's Canal has been
purchased by a new railway company. The purchase
money is £1,000,000, of which sum £500,000 is to be
paid down, . nd the remaining £500,000 is to be paid in
three instalments, extending over a period of three years.
It is to connect the Great Western and London and Bir-
mingham and Eastern Counties Railway.
The Whitehaven and Maryport Railway last week sus-
tained cotisid,rable damage at Micklt ham-point, between
Lowca and hare ington, through a te)ring tide, assisted by
a north west wind, having washed over the embankment.
Several hundred yards of the crolankment and a tempo-
rary sea walling were swept away, arid sixteen or eighteen
waggons, besijes trucks and harrows, severely injured.
The Manchester and Birmingham Railway proprietors
agreed at a meeting, on Tuesday, to confirm the amalga-
mation wiih the London and Birmingham. It was stated,
in the course of the meeting, that there are no less than
ten projects for making a more direct road from Manches-
ter to London, the estimated cost of which was £23,000,000
on which a deposit of upwards of £2,000,000 has been
paid.
NEW RAILWAY PROJECTS.—The number of new
schemes announced for the first time during the last four-
teen days, is seventy-nine; and the aggregate of their
estimated capital is £81,535,500. We place these facts
before the public, believing them to merit the serious
consideration, not only of parties engaged in railway
speculations, but of all men interested in the commerce
and manufactures of the country.
A KNOTTY POINT FOR THE CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER.—The City article of the Tones says that
many conjectures are afloat as to the mode in which the
Chancellor of the Exchequer will manage the payment of
the deposits upon the new railway projects in the hands
of the Accountant-General. The whole sum to be raised
amounts to at least £30,000,000 sterling, or more than
the whole circulation of the bank, and this large sum paid
over at once would derange the whole currency of the
country. It is also asked what the Accountant-General
will du with it when he gets it into his hands. The
wisest of the City men are said to be puzzled, end some
fear that it will puzzle the Chancellor.
A CAUTION TO RAILWAY SERVANTS.—At the Ed-
monton Petty Sessions, a clerk and a porter of the East-
ern Counties Railway appeared to an information, which
alleged that, on the 7th September, whilst at the Totten-
ham Station, by the negligent performance of their duty,
they did not remove, or cause to be removed, a horse box
and passertgers' carriage, by which an engine, to which a
train of passengers' carriages was attached. was forced off
the rail, to the dan .er of the passengers and the danger of
the engine. The defendants were severally fined in the
mitigated penalty of 405., or three weeks' imprisonment,
the highest penalty being £lO, or in default two months'
imprisonment.
REGULATION OF THE TRAINS ON THE LIVERPOOL
AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—Since the amalgamation
or arrangement of the North Union with the Liverpool
and Manchester line we should have imagined that some-
thing could have been done to remedy the annoyance
caused to passengers by the detention of the trains to Man-
chester at the Parkside Station. If the Liverpool trains
marked N. U. have always to wait twenty or thirty mi-
nutes at Parkside for the arrival of the North Union
trains, there must be a remedy, by accelerating, or alter.
ing the starting time of the latter. On Tuesday last we
were ourselves driven to travel by the train leaving Liver-
pool at half-past ten o'clock, and did not reach Manches-
ter until nearly a quarter-past twelve o'clock, owing, in a
great measure, to this detention, travelling barely four.
teen miles an hour.
A RAILWAY SCHEME.—As one sample of the charac-
ter of these new speculations, into which the public are so
unanimously rushing, we may allude to a railway-scheme
which, among fifty others, we lately saw advertised in
the daily papers. It was for a line which we believe to
be impossible, and wholly through a region wherein noth-
ing but poverty is found ; and among the leading names
presented, we saw three, at a glance, of men who are
commonly reputed to " live by their wits,"—one of whom
had, within the last twelvemonth, passed through the In-
solvent Debtors' Court for the third or fourth time.
These three leading projectors of a very costly railway,
would be, we believe, quite unable to find £lOO among
them, for the undertaking. What could we conclude,
from the whole, but that the real object was, to get hold
of the deposits of the public, in order to spend the money
in lawyers' bills and " preliminary expenses "—Record.