The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

funds be augmented by 4:2000

The Royal family are still in the Isle of Wight. On
Tuesday Prince Albert attended by Major General
Weinyss embarked on board the Fairy, and proceeded to
the Ajax steam-vessel, to witness the experiments with
the new steam propeller fitted in that vessel. llis Serene
Highness Prince Victor Hohenlohe Langenbourg paid a
visit on Wednesday to the Queen and Prince Albert.
The marriage of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the late
British minister at the Court of Madrid, and the Hon.
Georgiana Charlotte Mary Wellesley, youngest daughter
of the late Lord Cowley, and niece of the Duke of Wel-
lington, was solemnised on Saturday evening, by special
license, at Hatfield House, the Marquis of Salisbury's
beautiful Elizabethan seat in Herefordshire. Among the
distinguished company present were, the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Marquis of Douro, Sir Edward Bulwer Lyt-

per of ti

presentation of Leominster, &c

id candidate fo: the ie-
A grand banquet for 30

guests was given on the occasion

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

The discontinuance of the " Return-tickets," is found
to operate injuriously on railway interests, in the dimi-
nished amount of traffic.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Trnffic for
the week ending the 9th instant—Coaching traffic, £727
11d.: parcels, £43 2s. 4d. ; goods and cattle, £164 Bd. ;
team boats, £lO5 16s. 6d. ; total, £lO4O sd. •
The directors of the Caledonian Railway announce that
on of the traffic occasined by the
de, has been overcome, and that
the trains are again running as usual.

An entire stoppage has been put to the further progress
of the railway bridge over the Tweed at Berwick, in con-
sequence of the men in a body having refused to work
any longer for the contractors without wages. On Satur-
day night the arrears amounted to nineteen weeks.
Captain Laws, who lately resigned the management of
the Great Northern, has been re-appointed managing
director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire, which he left
to join the Great Northern, at a salary of £1,500 per
annum. _ _

On Saturday evening, a timekeeper, employed on the
Oswestry branch of-the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway.
got drunk, and lay down on the rails near the Rednal
Station. The'evening train from Chester soon afterwards
arrived, passed over the body and killed him on the spot.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER. RAILWAY.—OPENING
OF THE BRANCH TO OSWESTRY.—The branch from the
mai❑ line to the town of Oswestry being completed, it is
intended to open it for traffic on Saturday, the 23d inst.
The directors of the .Shrewsbury and Chester Railway

contemplate starting a pleasure. train on some day, not
yet fixed, during the Christmas holidays, at a cheap rate,
starting at an early hour from Shrewsbury, so as to allow
the passengers ample time to view the ancient city of
Chester. it is stated that Mr. Ormsby Gore has resigned
the office of Chairman of the Shrewsbury and Chester

Railway.—Sifretesbury Chronicle.
LANCASTER AND PB.ESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.--
A meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at
Lancaster, for the purpose of considering an agreement
entered into with the Lancaster Canal Company respect-
in.' the lease -of the above railway, Mr. Bushell in the
chair. It was stated that the Lancaster Canal Company
had agreed to surrender the lease of the railway to the
Lancaster and Preston Railway C

on con,

.cton of .1,1,e0u ror
se. the railway eon).