The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY I.NTELLIGEACE.

It is in contemplation to run a line of railway from
Londonderry to Coleraine.

STOCKPORT AND ASHTON.—These towns ore shortly
to be united by a railroad, in conjunction with the Man-

chester and Birmingham line.

Arrangements are in progress for extending the New-
castle and North Shields Railway from its present terminus
at Shields to Tynemouth.
GLOUCESTER AND FOREST OF DEAN RAILWAY.—A
line under this title is about to be brought forward in op-
position to the South Wales Railway, and the inhabitants
of the locility give this the preference.
A line of railway is projected from Blackburn to Bolton
The line will pass within a few yards to the east of the
new church at Over Darwen, and proceed along the
Tart on Valley.
Al REALLY " MONSTER" TRAIN.—One day last week
no fewer titan eight thousand persons passed from Leer's
and Yotk to Hull, in three excursion ileitis! Net a sin-
gle accident of any kind occurred.
At the half. yearly meelting of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway Company, held on Wednesday last, a
resolution was agreed to, authorising the directors to ap-
ply to parliament early in the ensuing session for have to
for m a junction with the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line.

Sot; rn WALES RAILWAY.-Mr. Brunel and Mr.
Saunders will attend meetings on the subject of this rail-
way at all the chief towns between Chepstow and Melford,
on behalf of the Great Western Company, by whom this
line is projected.
The Sheffield and Rotheram Balt-ray, it is stated, will,
from and after the 10th of October iast, be worked under
the control of the Midland Company. The basis of the
arrangement is a perpetual annuity at the rate of 6 per
cent. uer annum, to be paid by the latter company.
The Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings railway sharehold-
ers give the Brighton Company, on condition of takng
3,500 shares, the option of leasing the line within three
calendar months of its completion, at a rent of 41 per cent.
upon the cost of the works.
Friday was the nineteenth anniversary of the opening
of the Stockton and Darhngton Railway, which is the
oldest of the existing railways, and the first on which lo-
comotive engines were employed for the conveyance of
passengers and goods.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAlLWAY.—Apreliainary
prospectus of. a railway with this name.has r,cently been
issued. It is stated to be simi!ar to a scheme which has,
at various periods since 1836, been before the public. The
capital is put down at z61,E00,C00, in £25 shuns, with a
deposit of £1 10s. per share.

CHESTED, AND HOLYHEAD RA ILWAY.—TEe Directors
have closed with the g,overnwent proposition of £35,000
per annum for ten years, fur the conveyance of the mails,
and there is nothing to prevent the work being commenced
forthwith. The intermediate line, skirting this city, is,
we understand, the adopted one.—Chester Chronicle.

WEST CORNWALL AILWAY.—A railway with this
title is urojected, in connexion with the flayle Railwuy.

The capital is £lBO,OOO, in £2O shares, and a rrturn of
upwards of ten per cent, is promised. _ Capt. W.S.

Mcorsom is the. Engineer; and at [lie head cf a very in-
fluential Provincial Committee are the names of the local
members of Parliament.

A RAILWAY ON FIRE.—A portion of the Middles-
borough branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
has br-en on fire ; but the traffic on it has teen iiroecuttd
es usual. A large quantity of small coal bad been used in
forming an embankment at the end cf the bridge over the
'Fees : this has ignited ; and great quantities of water have
been thrown on it, to estinguish it, in vain.
LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.—MT. Locke has re-
signed the situation of engineer to this line. The direc-
tors st nt fur Mr. Cubist, the eminent engineer, t,) under-

titre the onerous office vacated by Mr. Locke. They ex-
plained to him the situation in whizii they were placed by
that gentleman's seCessiiin. Afer a full examination Mr.

Cubt-tt pledyed himself to place_ the _Committee of:Direc-
tion-in a position to meet Parliament in ample time.

COLCEIESTER AND Dies JUNCTION RAILWAY.—A
railway, with this detignation, has be, n brought forwa, d
in the course of the week by the principal parties in the
Norwich rind Brandon line. It is intended to run from
the terminus of the Eastern Counties' Railway at Col-
chester, to the terminus of the proposed Dies branch of
the Norwich and Brandon. Of course it is in direct op-
position io the scheme of the Eastern Union Railway for
tin extension from Ipswich to Norwich. The capital is to
he 1:600,000, 4.1:20 shares. Mr. Ro..ert Stephenson and
Mr. Bidder are the engineers.
On Monday week, a highly respectable meeting was
belrl at Waterford to consider the best means of promot-
i a direct line of railway to connect the ports of Lime-
rick and Waterford, through Clonmel and Cahir, to Tip-
perary, where the Limerick branch of the (2reat Dublin
and Cork main trunk is expected to terminate. The
Mayor took the chair, supported by the Earls
.Forte'scue
and Huntingdon, and before the meeting broke up a sub-
scription of shares was entered into, headed by Earl For-
tescue and his Worship the Mayor, which amounted to
nearly £50,000.
DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Another candidate
appears iri the field fur the profi.s of a direct line to York,
claiming- a priority of projection. It is proposed to com- •
mence n-ar King's-cross, in the Nevi-road, and to pro-
ceed by Chipping, Barnet, Biggleswade, St. News,
Hun-
tingdon, near Fet,,rhorough, and Market Deeping, by
Stamford, to the west of Bourn, east of Grantham, west
of Sleaford, and east of Newark to Lincoln, and thence,
by Gaineborough, Thorne, Snaith, and Selby, to York.
The length is 180 miles, and the prospectus s•rys it will
be twenty miles short& than any projected line.
CADIZ, SEVILLE, AND XERES RAILWAY.—A line of
railway has recently been ,urveyed between Cadiz, Sett-
ville, and Xeres, by Mr. Blunt, and will immediately be
brought b: fore the public under the above title. The en-
gineering faci.iii's are stated to be great, and the neces-
sary material abundant along the line, which is about 25
miles in length. Sir John Rennie is spoken of as the
Consulting Engineer, who reports specially upon Mr.
blunt's line. The traffic in wines alone, independent of
the very large passenger traffic between Seville, Xeres,
and the only port which Spain possesses, promises a very
profitable return on the required capital, which is esti-
matt d from £250,100 to 300,000 only.
RAILWAY CARRIFRS.—It is said that most of the
principal railways in the kingdom have come to the de-
termination of acting as their own carriers, and of dis-
carding the middle-men who have hitherto c rntracted with
the directors to convey goods and parcrl; fur the public.
The lines which are said to have art ivee. at this resotrition
are, the Great Western—the Grand Junction—the Bris-
tol and Exeter—the Birmingham and Gloucester—the
Bristol and 61,rucester. If the public: will derive any ad.
vantage from the change, they will hail it with satisfac-
tion. The pertinacity with which the Liverpool share-
holders on the South Eastern anal Dover line forced the'

suj,ct upon the directors of that undertaking, and at
length compelled them to adopt it, is said to be the pri-
mary cause of the movement in other companies.
MAIDSTONE BRANCH RAILIVA Y.—OD Tuesday, this
railwav—a branch from the Dover line to Maidstone was
thrown open to the public. The distance from London to
Maidstone is 55 miles per rail, the greater portion of
which (46 miles) is travelled on the Dover line. The
new branch line Is nine miles in length, and branches

off at Maidstone road station, the name of which is
now changed to Paddock-road-station. The branch
line is a single- line of rails, but provision has been
made for the laying down of another line, should the
amount of traffic render this necessary. The establish-
ment of this branch line has been almost forced upon the
inhabitants of Maidstone, as a measure of self-defence.
Ft rmerly Maidstone was the centre to which the vast
quantities of hops and fruit grown on the fertile plains of
Kent were all conveyed, to be thence shipped by the Med-
way Navigation to London : since the opening of the Do-
ver line of railway, the greater part, if not the whole of
this immense traffic, has left Maidstone, end was rapidly
forming central points on different parts of the Dover line ;
and the opening of this branch line is an attempt, in some
measure, to bring back this traffic to Maidstone.
SETTLEMENT OF THE DOVER RAILWAY DISPUTES.--
We are glad to find that a settlement has been made of the
important questions raised by the Liverpool and maniacal
shareholders. This timely adjustment of differences has
been brought about through the mediation of Mr. Card-
well, the member forClittho the Liverpooleroe. Thearra
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rived at is highly creditable to that gen'lean and his
brother
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extremely satisfactory to the also,
general, nd da
as tending,
in an eminent degree,
tout its great resources
for revenue. There is to be an immediate election of two
s giving
new directors, both of whom will be nominated by the
northern interest ; these two will be to supply existine• •
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vacancies. Otlu r vacancies are expected to occur, and".
as they do. will be tilled up in exactly the same spirit. A
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committee of three will at once be appointed to inquire
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in the next session, to give the shareholders. power of ap-
pointing directors, in a manner agreed•upon, so as to give
the shareholders a right power over their property. We
believe, that, in the course of a few days,' all' the share-
holders will receive an official announcement from the
directors of the amicable arrangement which has been ar-
rived at.

Oct. !, 1844.

The Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester Railway Com-
pany is working successfully, and the whole will be shortly
opened. Arrangements, it appears, have been made with
Lord Francis Egerton, and the Manchester and Birming-
ham Railway Company, for the formation of the South
Junction .Railway through Manchester, to connect them-
selves with the Liverpool and Manchester-Company, and
the river and canal nay igations. Other measures for im-
proving the traffic of the line, in connexion with the Shef-
field and Lincolnshire, and Midland Railways, are also in
progress, and the shareholders have confirmed them, and
given the directors full powers to carry them out.
CREWE RAILWAY Tate. CREWE, SEPT. 28.—A
cheap trip was given, -on Wednesday last, tO the school
children, their teachers, and ttiends, from Crewe to Al-
derly Edge and back, by the " Manchester and Birming-
ham Company, charging sixpence each to the juveniles
and one shilling to the adults. Above a thousand booked
from the Crewe Station, which, for this locality, is a
large number. It very -much wished that the Grand
Junction Company would give a trip from Crewe to 'Li-
verpool at a similar charge, which, it is thought, would be
mutually interesting. s the Liverpool inhabitants
would favour our "new town " with a visit if a cheap
[tip were given them at a similar rate. While we are on
this topic, it might be suggested that, after this had been
granted, the Crewe people would be glad to vi -it Birming-
ham, while, no doubt, the Birmingham people would
favour Crewe with a visit to see our really British colony.
Let these broad hints be." read, marked, and inwardly
digested " by all parties interested.
RAILWAY JOBBING —There is reason for believing
that much improper jobbing exists in the shires of new
railway companies previously to their issue, azainst which
the public should be on their guard. To make this more
intelligible, we will suppose that a prospectus appears of
a particular rail Way, and the public are invited to subscribe
for shares, but that before the allotment takes place they
are marked on the Stock Exchange at a premium of Xi
or £2 neon £1 called. The actual arotment is advertised
to take place two or three days after, and the public are
then informed that all who do not eet letters of appro-
priation are to consider that no Shares are to be had, in
which prAicament may be placed a very large proportion
Of the applicants. This was ro vial, uncommon case
during the wholesale concoction of joint-stuck companies
which took place in the year 1825, though since that. period
-net,' now projectors have been commonly too glad to re-
ceivemoti
among
ptphlei ca:o}snts
rfersoit:proper a :de rso
appr,priations to take their natural course of division
competent.persons,
a id
however, has been the formwion of new railway schemes
allscrow erd.
rapid,
however,
of late, and so eager the demand for shares produced by
the success of those which have preceded them, thet the
projectors have the opportunity, if
they plase, of resP;
ing a large and immediate profit, by throwity, overboard;
all or the greater part of !he eiVie,nt., and di,po,ing 131
shares in the open market to Other parties at a pretwurn.
All such proceeding. shoal be caiefully watched, and the
company with which they orieinete ba avoided as or a very
suspicious chatacter. In fact the mania for new schemes
in railways is going on much too rapidly, and, if not
checked, will bring about-, in a very shot t time, some very
serious consequences.—Tines.