The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY BRIDGE ACROSS THE THAMES.—Another
bridge across the metropolitan portion of the Thames is
proposed. Among the speculations of the day is a plan
of a metropolitan junction railway, one of the most con-
spicuous schemes of which is the formation of a railway
bridge across the river Thames at Battersea.
The French, the Belgian, and the German manufacturer
and man of business, can travel by railway at ld. or 14d.
a mile, where the Englishman pays 24d. or 3d. the
foreign operative can travel for id„ where the English-
man is either excluded altogether, or obliged to pay ld.
for very inferior accommodation.
()UV .11,1VAlr...INT A. 1.41/ 1 ti. rtall,WAY DILL.-We are
gratified in being enabled to state that the result of the
interview which took place last week between Mr. Glad-
stone, on the part of the government, and Mr. Entwisle,
M.P., Mr. Hudson, Mr. Glvn, Mr. Saunders, &c., as a
deputation from the railway companies, is in the highest
degree satisfactory. The subject having been fully gone
into, the Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade
stated his determination so to modify the bill as to render
it in every way unexceptionable to the railway interest.
The measure will now pass through parliament without
opposition, and will prove, to adopt the language of a
gentleman, a member of the deputation, who has hitherto
taken a leading part in opposition to the bill, " a good
bill for the public as well as for the shareholders."

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—A general meeting of the
shareholders in the North Midland, Midland Counties,
and Derby and Birmingham Railway, now consolidated
into " The Midland Railway," was held at the Derby
Station on Tuesday last, and was attended by between
three and four hundred shareholders. Geo. Hudson,
Esq. the chairman of the hoard of directors, gave a very
favourable report of the affairs of the company, and of its
future prospects, in consequence of the consolidation of
the three companies, of the increase of traffic, and dimi-
nution in the expenses. The opening of the line of rail-
way from London to Newcastle-upon-Tyne direct was re-
ferred to with considerable pleasure, as also the prospect
of the completion of the remaining one hundred miles. be-
tween Newcastle and Edinburgh, when London and Edin-
burgh would be connected by railway by the eastern line,
which was of great importance to the Midland as every
other railway on that route. In order to meet the threat-
ened opposition to the Midland Railway, by the formation
of a direct line from London to York, full powers were
given to the directors to take the necessary steps to obtain
powers in the next session of parliament for fhe construc-
tion from the present main line of four lines of railway,
viz. 1. From Swinton station by Doncaster, Bawtry, and
Gainsborough to Lincoln. 2. From Nottingham, by
Newark to Lincoln. 3. From Lincoln southwards, to
join the Eastern Counties' Railway at March. passing
near Boston. 4. From Doncaster to join the York and
North Midland Railway. The half yearly dividend on
the North Midland shares was declared to be on the £lOO
shares £2 25.. half £1 ls., third 14s. ; Midland Counties,
£lOO shares, £2 2s. 6d., quarter 10s. 7 d. ; Birmingham
and Derby, £lOO shares, £1 Gs. 6d., third Ss. 10d.
NEW IRISH RAILWAYS.—The Dublin and Cashel is
now wending its way through Parliament, and supported
as it is by ministerial influence, there is little doubt but it
will pass into law. Out of this starts a line from Cork to
Limerick, and Limerick to Waterford. The Limerick
and Waterford, in conjunction with the Great Western
South Wales line, is evidently to compete with the Dub-
lin and Cashel,in connexion with the Chester and Holyhead
line. A strong opposition may, therefore, be expected to
both the Fishguard, or South Wales, and the Waterford
and Limerick lines, by the London and Birmingham,
Grand Junction, Chester and Holyhead, and Dubli❑ and
Cashel Companies. On the other hand, both of these
lines will be supported with all the weight the Great
Western, and we presume the Birmingham and Glouces-
ter, and Bristol and Gloucester, can throw into the scales.
It will be a curious phanomenon to see the London and
Birmingham and Great Western battling for a line in the
sister kingdom, apparently in no connection with either.
But let the Irish Great Southern and Western be carried,
and it will be a reason immediately for the Fishguard
line, or let the latter, and it will be a reason for the for-
mer. From Fishguard to Wexford, to which the Lime-
' rick and Waterford line would of course be extended, is
only six miles longer, sea distance, than from Holyhead
to Kingstown. The other line which is expected shortly
to appear before the public, under the title of the Irish
Great Western Railway, is one issuing from the Cashel
line at Lucan, 71 miles from Dublin, and taking nearly
the route of the Royal Canal, on to Mullingar, and teethe
to Athlone, for the object, we presume, of going i
end to Galway.—Railway Journal.