The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTA LL IGE IV CB.

Glass windows have been introduced in the second.
class carriages of the Glasgow and Greenock Railway, as
is done on the Belgian lines.
BLACKBURN AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—The share
list of the proposed Blackburn and Preston Railway is
rapidly filling up, numerous applications for shares having
been received during the last week, amounting in the ag-
gregate, in round numbers, to £12,000.

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO CAUSE A RAILWAY ACCI-
DENT.—On Saturday morning last, a heavy bar of iron
was placed across the rails on the North Midland Rail-
way, near to the Castleford Station, it was fortunately
observed in that most dangerous position about seven
o'clock, and in time to prevent the evil design of the
villain who placed it there.

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—On New
Year's-day the extension line of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway, from Collyhurst to the New Victoria
Station, at Hunt's Bank, was opened, the first train from
the station starting at seven o'clock in the morning.
There was no public celebration ; the train taking its de-
parture in the ordinary way, amidst the cheers of those
assembled.

RAILWAY TO THE NORTH.—Ground has literally been
broken towards the commencement of the new railway to
Carlisle from Lancaster. Travellers on the north road
will find, on getting past Richmond house, near Lancaster,
that on the hill upon the right, miners are engaged boring
in anticipation of the general commencement of the work,
which we presume will take place the moment the act is
obtained.

ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.—During the last fortnight
quarter-hour trains have been running daily. Sundays
excepted, on the Atmospheric Railway, at Dublin, from
H in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, and not the
slightest delay or accident bas occurred. Passengers are
carried free of expense, as the line is not open for gene-
ral traffic, the negociations between the company and the
Lords of the Treasury being still pending.

BRADFORD AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—The Provisional
Committee met on Saturday to allot the shares in this
new undertaking. Their job was a difficult and delicate
one—more than three times as many shares being applied
for as there were to dispose of in all. The proposed ca-
pital of the Company being £320,000, furnished 6,400
fifty-pound shares, of which it was intended to reserve a
portion ; but nearly 19,000 shares were applied for, and
the committee was compelled to allot the whole. Of
conese every applicant has to be satisfied with less than
half what he asked for, and many applicants have been
refused altogether.

THE MILITARY AND THE RAILROADS.—An order
has been issued from the War-office, intimating that ar-
rangements have been entered into by 'he government
with the London and Birmingham, Great Western,
Brighton, Dover, Grand Junction, North Midland, Mid-
land Counties, Birmingham and Derby, Manchester and
Birmingham, Birmingham and Gloucester, Manchester
and Leeds, York and North Midland, Lancaster and
Preston, Nerca-tle and Carlisle, and Great North of
England Railways, for the conveyance of the horses of
field and staff officers, and infantry, when prcceeding by
route with regiments and detachments on railways ; and
likewise for the conveyance of sick horses of cavalry re-
giments. The rates of conveyance are fixed as follow :
For any distance not exceeding 50 miles, 4d. per mile for
each horse ; for beyond 50, and not exceeding 100 miles
34d ; and exceeding 100 miles, 3d. ,

IMPROVED VALUE OF RAILWAY PROPERTY".—MeSSrS.
Sohmes and Tripp, of Bristol (brokers), in their circular
of the Ist instant, give some statistics respecting railways
which possess considerable interest for the holders of the
stocks :—" It is an established fact, that each year's ex-
perience brings with it a diminished expenditure. Thus
the railway proprietor has in prospect, not only an im-
proving income, but with it likewise a proportionate ac-
cession of capital. To illustrate our meaning, we will
take a few railways for example. The increase of traffic
for the current half-year, compared with the corresponding
period of last year, upon the Great Western Railway is,
in round numbers, £20,000; upon the London and Bir-
mingham, £15,000; upon the Manchester and Leeds,
£13,000; upon the Brighton, £11,000; upon the South-
Western, £7,000. The present value of the shares, com-
pared with the corresponding period of last year, shows
an improvement in the capital of the Great Western Com-
pany of 10 per cent.; London and Birmingham of 42 per
cent., which, added to the £27 premium on the new quer-
ters allotted last August, makes together 69 per cent.;
the York and North Midland 25 per cent., which, added
to the premium of £l6 upon the New Shares allotted last
month, makes 41 per cent. ; the Manchester and Leeds,
26 per cent.; the Bristol and Exeter, 14 per cent.; the
Brighton. 12 per cent. ; the Sou!h-Western, 11 per cent.
These sufficiently testify the improving character of rail-
way property ; but, if our space permitted, we could ad-
duce many other railways, whose income and capital have
improved in a corresponding ratio."