The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead Railw!!
for the week ending May 27, amounted to £6Ol 13s. 7d•
The parliamentary committee has passed the Gra!'
Western Company's bill for making a branch line from
Slough to Windsor.
theOn
and
onnamed Bristol Ru
through a train passing over him, which received a Budd
jerk as deceased was shunting it into a siding.
pßeratil Cooke,
e ,
was erPkciill!
ied
On Monday a three-arched bridge on the Bucking
shire Railway, and across Bath-lane, Buckingham, te4',
with a tremendous crash, into ruins. The abutmems
only remain.
The Swindon Refreshment Rooms on the lines of t.
Great Western Railway, held for a term of ninety-nw
, 1_1.60,
years from the Company, at an annual rent of one PennY'
have been sold by auction at Garraway's for £20,000.,A1
Thefull amountauthorized under their act (£1,055,;;;;
is to be borrowed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire.
shareholders (with the exception of Messrs. Fielder') "'
sented to the directors' proposals without opposition. ,
At the half-yearly meeting of the Derbyshire, Staffo,_Ars:
shire, and Worcestershire Junction the report was adopt'
It announced the gradual liquidation of the liabilities ..0!
the company, and the extension of time afforded by the
commissioners.
At the general meeting of the Newcastle and Carlisle
Railway Company on Wednesday, it was resolved to law
the line perpetually to Mr. Hudson's companies on ape,,
petual lease paying 6 per cent. for three years, and 7 P"
cent. afterwards.
On Wednesday the magnificent new South Wales Raj:
way bridge, which crosses the river Usk, built of `gun;
and being about four hundred yards long, was comp
destroyed destroyed by fire. The bridge cost £20,000 in constrl
tion, and the contractors are insured to the full amolo.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company have resali;
to raise £1,055,000 by the creation of new preference
shares of £lO each, bearing a guaranteed interest of 6 P 4
cent. This will enable the directors to complete sh,tia
100 miles of railway upon which upwards of £2,000,
have been already expended.
LIVERPOOL AND BURY.—The whole of this ig
now presenting as busy an appearance as a "
and its progress is most satisfactory. It is contemPila.,t7t
that they will be enabled to have their " opening 987b6.
early in September. The principal part of the work tom
executed is in Wigan and the neighbourhood, piles 17;
placed under the rails of the North Union Railway, nu"
which the line passes.
From our official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 3,785 miles of railway,
£189,778, thus accounted for :—.£96,911 for the Cooecc
ance of passengers only, £48,083 for the carriage ofgoo,_.!
and a remainder of £44,784 for passengers and goods wf
gether, not respectively apportioned ; being an incressef
£8,781 ever the corresponding week of last year, when to
mileage was 2,862. The average earnings per mile wed
£5O, whilst in 1847 they were £63.
EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—At an extraordlnall
general meeting of this company, at Bury, last week,4
was resolved to raise £300,000 by creating new shares II
£6 ss. each, to be called preference share. The money,
to be expended in expediting the completion of the
verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway, which is e
pected to be opened between Liverpool and Ormskirk
the Ist November next. The line from Accrington l'sj.
Blackburn and Burnley will be completed this month, an
that from Burnley to Colne in the month of Angust • j
incline at Accrington, which has a rise of one in fortYt
as easily workable as any other part of the line. At 11
RAILWAY RESOURCES FROM AGRICULTURE.-- r
time when commerce languishes, and trade and Waal'l;
tures are depressed, it is gratifying to observe that
owners and occupiers of land are at length become 414
sensible of the advantages of railways. The quantity of
food poured into the metropolis weekly by railway ale is
surpasses belief ; nor is it the agriculturist alone Wife,
benefitted by the railway system. Even the hardy fiSfit,
man on every part of our coast, now finds a ready anuL.,3
munerating market for any quantity of the perishablem~4
of his enterprise and toil. The following quantities ;
provisions were forwarded to London, via the FaS,,tietb•
Counties Railway, during the week ending May `,,,11;
Beasts, 2,250 ; calves, 112 ; sheep, 7,980 ; pigs, 'old.
grain, 13,572 ; flour, 5,327 sacks ; meat, 168 tons ; P,480,
try, 26 tons ; fresh fish, 70 tons ; fruit and vegett,„' es
198 tons ; ale and porter, 207 tons ; wool 159 tons; w`i,,te
and spirits, 78 tons ; milk, 20,848 quarts ; bread, 79
and general merchandize 2,500 tons.—Railway

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. •
Knutsford races will take place on the 6th and 7th Of
September. 0 are
Gaming tables, and even "shies for snuff-bones'
interdicted at the approaching Ascot races. .01,001
THE DERBY DAY.—On Thursday, while et,o'use
Surplice beat'Spingy Jack and Shylock, in the r,d,
Lords the Bishops beat Little John and Rothsej"o3oet%'
In consequence of the disfranchisement of tle,"es have
by which the " members' plate" is lost, the
been abandoned this year. () feet,
DISTANCES JUMPED BY HORSES,—Chandier: Oyer
over a brook at Warwick ; Culverthorpe, fee 35 feet,
hurdles, at Newport Pagnel ; King of the Vairoitery, 34
over the Wissendine Brook, Leicestershire ;
SALE OF BLOOD STOCK.—The following
pfderaeoytp,
leaarsttty,Liverpoolbo yf
Earl Messrs.
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vuactt
yi:oebnoaysr:lio:nni
rnglti>.llo:.
culea, out of,Serquidilla 105 guineas ; Pharo, by by
stone, old of Allurnette, 225 guineas;
Cotherstone, out of Conscience, 260 guineas ; Bring
by Cotherstone, dam by Glencoe, 235-guineas; Fill;o.
by Nutwith, out of Agnes, 120 guineas; Judy, by ent,
tabylocoont,hoeursttoofneT,hoeuMt
oafidßoefcrFeaetzi,oBn2,g3ulingeuainse;aAs rusell3.
MN, by
Cotherstone, out of Clock, 210 guineas.; ,The Wren'
Cotherstone, out of Wyrneck, 92 guineas.

1848,

head Railway
£6Ol 13s. 7d.
sed the Great
ranch line from

)oke, eraplo Sled
IY, was killed
ceived a suddeU

ng.
e Buckingham:
ekinghara, fell,rhe abutment°

he lines of the
of ninety-nine
t of one pool,
£20,000•_,,,
(£1,055,0r
rorkshire. The
rs. Fielden) as'
Dpposition. •
shire, Staffoll.
IA was adoPteu,
he liabilities 0,
afforded by the

Ie and Carlisle
esolved to lease
mnies on a Per'
ears, and 7 Per

ith Wales Rail,:
built of wool
was completell
10 in construe'
a full amount.,
y have resolve!
new preferenef
nterest of 6 put
complete 81'....°6
of £2,000,

of this line
a " bee-live'
I contemplated
opening naYbe
the work to
md. Piles Aaprr
lia"-

the amount of
f ,as
raiLwaYc W
'or the conve,Y;
rriage of goof
and goods t°,:t
an incressaf:
year, when vt.f.
per mile We''

extraordinaric
r, last week, if
new shares yg
q.
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on of the 1.4'
which is C.
Ormskirk
Accrington to
his month, on
f August. Thpi
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