The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY IN TELLIGE CE,

The Rochester and Gravesend Railway was opened on
Monday with the usual formalities.

The South Devon Railway from Exeter to Newton
Abbot will be opened on the lst of July.

A railway from Madrid to Cadiz is in contemplation,
and meets with the support of the Spanish ministry.
It is stated by the Railway Magazine that a line from
Oxford to Birmingham is in contemplation by the Liver-
pool and Manchester Company.
Diss, BECCLES, AND YARMOUTH.—A meeting of the
subscribers to this scheme was held on Thursday, when it
was unanimously resolved to proceed to parliament, in
spite of the adverse decision of the Board of Trade.

HULL AND GAINSBOROUGH RAILWAY.—The shares
in this undertaking were allotted on Saturday. The total
number of shares were 12,000; and we understand that
the applications exceeded 80,C00.

TAFF VALE RAILWAY.—Tbe half-yearly genet al meet-
ing took place on Friday, for the half-year ending Decem-
ber 31st, 1844. The receipts amounted to £22,692 7s. 2d. ;
and the disbursements to £9115 3s.
The Carlisle Patriot says that a survey is now making
to form a railway from Coniston to join the Furness line
of railway near Kirkby Ireleth, the construction of which
will be easily accomplished, as the greater part of the
distance is a dead level.

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—The half yearly meet-
ing, and also a special meeting. were held at Ipswich on
Wednesday. Every thing passed of harmoniously. The
directors are fully cmcowered to proceed with the Har-
wich branch.

The electro telegraph is now completed to Southampton,
and it is said that the Railway Company are prepared to
send simple messages to London, for private parties, by
means of this wonderful invention, at a charge of one
shilling.

RAILWAYS

ST YORKSHIRE.—On Tuesday, two

meetings were held—

-the one ht

ford—relative—tO-ihe rival lines in this district. At Hali-
fax, the West Yorkshire was preferred, and at Bradford
the West Riding; but the promoters of the West York-
shire complain loudly of unfair dealing on the part of

their opponents at the Bradford meeting.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.--Messrs.
Clay and Swift, the solicitors to this company, have an-
nounced to the Lancaster Commissioners of Police that
they have abandoned the line to the east of the town of
Lancaster. All difficulty will, therefore, be removed in
obtaining leave from Parliament to proceed with the line
on the west side of the town.

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.—The Board of Trade have
decided to report to Parliament in favour of the Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool line, the Trent Valley line, except
the Potteries and Alfrewas branches, and the following

schemes proposed by the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-
way : the Patricroft and Clifton branches, the Parkside
branch, and the extensions into Liverpool ; and against
the St. Helen's and Rufford branch of the Liverpool and
Manchester Company.
RAILWAY MISSIONARIES.—Messrs. Grissel and Peto,
the contractors on the Brandon line, have presented every
workman with a Bible and other books. Five railway
missionaries are also employed between Norwich and
Brandon, who specially devote themselves to the religious
instruction of the men, both on Sunday and during the
week. Two buildings have been provided by Mr. Peto,
as temporary places of worship, and opened for that pur-
pose during the last fortnight.
A numerous meeting of the shareholders in the Direct
Northern Railway was held on Friday at their offices in
Moorgate-street, when it was unanimously resolved to
place the entire funds of the company at the disposal of
the committee for prosecuting the measure in Parliament.
It was intimated to the meeting that the Parliamentary
deposit of upwards of X 142,000 had been made with the
accountant• general, and that the bill would be immedi-
ately presented to Parliament. The meeting passed off
most harmoniously, and a resolution of confidence in the
committee was passed with acclamation. Mr. Mathison,
M.P., and Mr. Alderman Copeland, addressed the meet-
ing, and spoke confidently of the prospects of the com-
pany and of the result.

LONDON AND GREENWICIL—At a meeting of the
shareholders, held on Wednesday, it was announced that
the line had been leased for 999 years to the South-East-
ern (Dover) Company, on the following terms, namely,
£36,000 for the first year, to be increased £l,OOO yearly,
until it shall reach £4,5,000 per annum, such rent to be
payable quarterly, clear of all taxes and deductions, ex-
cept the property tax. The engines, carriages, stores,
and working-plant, have been taken by the South-East-
ern Company, at the sum of £22,808 17s. Bd. The term
in the lease commenced on the Ist of January last, and
the business of the railway has, since that day, been con_
o,ucted on the account, and at the risk, of the South-
Eastern Company. The report of tie directors was una-
nimously approved.