The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEA CE.

Andover Canal has been sold to the Manchester and
Southampton Railway Company for 30,0001.
Six railway surveyors were [convicted of a trespass at
Brentford, on Monday, and fined £6, for having entered

a gentleman's grounds without permission.
A cargo of oranges landed at Southampton was sent up
by railway last week, and sold in London, within a few
hours after the vessel's arrival, thus saving five days in
the channel voyage.
It is stated, hy a correspondent in the Railway Record,
that Mr. Jackson, of Birkenhead, and his copartners,
have now offered their bargain of Hungerford or Charing-
cross Bridge to the Central Terminus Railway Company.
The London Gazette of Saturday consisted of 584
pages, being occupied, for the most part, with notices of
new railways intended to be applied for in the approach-
ing session of parliament.
The London and Birmingham directors have given no-
tice of their intention of applying to parliament for a new
metropolitan terminus, to come down to the late Fleet
Prison, passing be Hatton-garden.
George Bott, a breaksman on the Leiceister and Swan-
nington Railway, aged 22, and upon the point of marriage,
had both legs so seriously injured on Monday last, by
falling from a train upon the rails, that it was found ne-
cessary to amputate both limbs immediately.
WHAT NEXT ?—A company has been formed for the
construction of a railway between Liverpool and Man-
chester, for the transit of laden ships from the former to
the latter town, and to construct docks in Manchester at
the railway terminus.
The contractors for the Liverpool and Bury Railway,
in sinking, a shaft at Walton, had hardly sunk thirty feet
when the flow cf water was so great that they had to de-
sist until a canal was cut for carrying it off to the neigh-
bouring brook.
A railway surveyor, named Charles Frow, has been
committed to Leicester Gaol, for threatening to shoot
one of Lord Harborough's men, when warned off his
lordship's land, which he was surveying for the Notting-
ham and Peterborough Company. He had a pistol loaded
with powder and shot.
It is said to be the intention of the Great Western to
apply for parliamentary powers to carry a new line to Bir-
mingham on the broad gauge, and that the London and
Birmingham have it in contemplation to lay down another
set of rails to accommodate their increasing and prospec-
tive traffic.
The Sussex Advertiser records an accident which hap-
pened to the son of poor persons living at the Teville
Cottages. Having rode to Lancing on a train of wag-
gons on the Worthing line, he jumped off while the train
was in motion, arid, falling with the back of his head
against a wheel of one of the waggons, broke his neck,
and died almost immediately.
RAILWAYS V. PASSPOILTS,—The head of the passport-

office at Ostend, says The Times, has announced thtit, in
future, persons entering Belgium, either by that route or ;
by Antwerp, will not be required to produce passports.
This remission is understood to have arisen from the dif- 1
ficulty of keeping up the old regulations, now that tra-
velling by railway has come so much into use • and hence
a further relaxation of it may soon be looked for.
The Leeds Stock Exchange have passed a resolution
that transactions in shares which do not yet exist, if the
undertaking shall not be carried out in accordance with
the prospectus, but shall be amalgamated with some other
undertaking, so as no longer to be the same project an-
nounced in the prospectus, shall be regarded as inopera-
tive and void. The benefit of this regulation, and the
equity of it, we certainly do not see.
The incidents arising out of the surveys now so rife
throughout the length and breadth of the land, are many.
They assume all kinds of aspect, from gay to grave.
From Lincolnshire we hear of the kidnapping and bri-
bery of surveyors, the competition for the prize being as
keen and hot as in the days of rotten boroughs. The
Lincoln and Retford line has lost one of its chief survey-
ors. He had been bribed by a competitor to decamp.
He was pursued and taken in the fact, states a local paper,
of surveying, not a line, but a roast duck, afar off from
his work. In Oxfordshire the surveyors are the occasion
of broken bones and heads. The villagers near Islip put
down the surveyors by force. Not to be foiled in their la-
bours, the engineers sent to Bicester for assistance, when
a party was obtained to fight for them. The villagers
again renewed the battle. Again were the surveyors over-
powered, and again stopped. Not, however to be daunted ,
their fora s were again doubled. This small army being
too numerous for the rustics, the surveyors were allowed
to continue their work under a body-guard amounting to
nearly 100 strong. On all sides we hear of unwarranta-
ble and petty tyranny from landowners, and many in-
stances are reported of surveyors summoned and fined for
trespass. Mr. John Wilmot, a fruit-grower at lsleworth,
and tenant of the Duke of Northumberland, causes no
fewer than six surveyors to be apprehended for entering
his grounds, " supposed for an unlawful purpose." Four
other surveyors were fined at Lyndhurst for " unlawfully
treading down and damaging turnips." The shifts to
which the poor surveyors are thus driven are, however,
amusing. They go with " bulls' eye " lanterns in the
dead of the night, and also watch tie opportunity, when
the population are at church, to pursue their '‘ unlawful
occupation. Truly, at the present moment, may railways
• in all theh bearings be said to be surrounded with anoma-
, Res.—Railway Chronicle.

LAW INTELLI GENCE.

An action has been commenced in the Court of Queen's
Bench by a gentleman named Semple, against Mr. Robert
Gray, banker and money-broker, for £39,700, the amount
of penalties incurred under the usury laws, arising out of
bill transactions. _

William Cobbett, Esq., a barrister, and the son of the
late William Cobbett, now lies in the Queen's prison, for
contempt of the Court of Chancery, in nut paying, as
ordered, certain costs.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TATTERSALL'S..---THURSDAY.
The " industrious classes " having quitted for Newport
Pagnell, the room was attended by only three or four
members, who amused themselves by speculating on the
possible chances of obtaining payment from certain par-
ties who have not been seen at " the corner " since the
last day of the Houghton Meeting. Not a bet was laid
in the room, but in private 350 to 10 was laid against The
Traverser for the Derby, and 1,900 to 95 against Cuckoo
for the Oaks. _ _ _

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FOOT RACE.—On Monday, a race for £lOO a side, dis-
tance 120 yards, came off on Scandall-road, near Wake-
field. The runners were Wray, of Leeds, and Holdswortb,
of Bramley. The latter man beat his opponent easily.