The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,
completing the communication (by that company's line)
between Manchester and Bury. was opened with all due
eclat yesterday week. The new line forms the link of
communication between Manchester and the Liverpool
and Bury line, the works of which are under contract to
be ready by July.
The railway calls amount to £2,605,868, being within
£263,000 of the total for the corresponding month of
1847. The monthly average this year has hitherto almost
kept pace with that of 1847, the amount per month
having then been £3,506,000, while during the five months
of 1848 it has reached £3,127,000. Of the calls for this
month £38,500 is on account of foreign lines.
LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.—At the Lincoln
County Court, a tradesman recently applied for leave to
summon to the court, at Lincoln, the secretary of the
Midland Railway Company for the value of one cwt. of
goods lost in the transmission of a package to Lincoln by
rail. lie stated that he had been charged the carriage of
the full weight, though one cwt. was lost, and that, upon
applying for recompense, he was referred to the secretary.
The judge decided that, as the domicile of a company, or
of its representative, was wherever the company carried
on trade, the summons might be issued.
THE ULSTER RAILWAY HANDBOOK, Published by
George Phillips.—This is an excellent little publication,
and one which has been much desiderated. It gives a
very lucid description of the various objects of interest on
the route between Belfast and Armagh, and is written
with great care, and in a pleasant narrative style. It also
contains a map of the railway, and the circumjacent coun-
try, and is embellished with a well executed engraving of
the façade of the splendid new terminus here now fast
approaching to completion.—Belfast Commercial Chro-
nicle.
ACCIDENTS ON THE CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD
RAILWAY.—Two serious accidents last week hap-
pened on the above line. On Wednesday evening a por-
ter named John Dodd, who was acting as a supernumer-
ary guard, was thrown on the line by coming in contact
with the door of one of the carriages, several of which
passed over one of his legs, which was dreadfully mangled.
On the following evening Mr. Henderson, assistant super-
imtendent at the Monks Ferry station, imprudently at-
tempting to get out of a carriage while it was in motion,
was thrown down and had his right foot nearly severed
from his leg. Both patients are doing well.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—This line, RS
we announced last week, was duly opened for public traffic
to Bangor on Monday. Early in the morning, Rear-Ad-
miral the Hon. J. W. Dundas, C. B. and M. P. (the First
Lord of the Admiralty), with Mr. Ward, M. P. (Chief
Secretary to the Board of Admiralty), and several other
gentlemen, arrived at Holyhead from Dublin, in her Ma-
jestv's mail steamer Banshee, and in3pected the arrange-
ments for the new naval station at Holyhead, preparatory
to the removal of the Irish mail steamers from Liverpool.
The alteration is not likely to take place for some time,
although the Chester and Holyhoad Railway Company
are fully prepared to run the Irish mails on the Ist of
June, as originally determined on, every arrangement
being completed. Whether Government considers the
non-completion of the Britannia-bridge across the Menai
Straits ( which, probably, will require a period of two
years) sufficient ground for extending the time, or from
other circumstances, we are unable to learn. At the
close of the inspection, which was highly satisfactory to
the company, a special train conveyed the government
representatives across Anglesey to the Menai Straits.
They there alighted, and crossing the suspension.hridge,
took their departure by the afternoon express tsain,fracn