The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE.

The Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Railway Bill
has been reported to the House of Commons.
On Wednesday the parliamentary committee decided
that the preamble of the Lancaster ansi Carlisle Bill was
proved. The Kendal and Windermere Bill was also ap-
proved.

RAILWAY PROJECTS.—It appears from an official re-
turn of the railway projects, submitted last November for
the consideration of the Board of Trade, that no fewer
than 248 railways were projected up to that period. Only
18 of those projects remain to reported upon by the board.
DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last night week
Mr. Thomas Cooley, wine merchant, Glasgow, engaged a
special engine and carriage to convey him to Edinburgh.
In consequence of some accident to the engine it pro-
ceeded at a very slow rate, and was overtaken by the or-
dinary train, when the engine of the latter dashed through
the carriage in which the unfortunate gentleman was
seated, crushing him to death instantaneously.
The Blackwell Railway directors have been authorised
by the shareholders to proceed in parliament for the for-
mation of the proposed branch to Epping, and also to
convert £160,000 of the money now borrowed on deben-
tures into capital, by the creation of new shares. The re-
port presented on these subjects was unanimously adopted,
and the concerns of this company now wear a much more
flattering aspect than they did two or three years ago.
A new line, called the Newcastle and Lancashire Rail-
way is contemplated, the object being to place Newcastle
town and the adjoining counties in direct communication
with North Lancashire, the manufacturing districts, and
Liverpool and Manchester. The line will commence on
the south side of the Tyne, and proceed along the Team
Valley, by Birtley and Chester-le-street, to Durham,
where it will join the Sunderland, Durham, and Auckland
Union Railway, and, using that line for ten miles, will
pass through Staindrop, Greta-Bridge, and join the York
and Carlisle Railway at a point eastward of Stainmoor.

A NEW RAILWAY—the Birkenhead and Holyhead
Junction—is it is said contemplated. It is to run from
Woodside, by Wallasey, Leasowe, Hoylake, West Kirby,
Parkgate, to Neston, and from the latter place across the
Dee, to Flint, where it will join the Holyhead line. It is
said that 8000 acres of land will be reclaimed by an em-
bankment at the Dee. It is also propose to make a har.
bour of shelter at Dawpool. The line will shorten the
distance from this town to Holyhead about eleven miles.
At a meeting of the St. Helens and Runcorn Gap
Company on Tuesday, it was agreed io unite with the
Sankey Brook Navigation. By this amalgamation 1,440
new shares, to be called preference shares, are created,
960 of which are at the disposal of the company, and the
remaining 480 are taken by the Canal Company. The
company will therefore now consist of 1,440 preference
shares of £lOO each, 1,200 original £lOO shares, and
1,056 new shares of £2O each.
RAILWAY AMALGAMATIONS.--On Tuesday, a special
meeting of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Com-
pany was held, for the purpose of approving of the fol-
lowing bills :—For enabling the company to make certain
branch railways, and amending and enlarging the former
acts ; for amalgamating the said railway and the Grand
Junction, the North Union, the Bolton and Leigh, and
the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway Companies;
and another bill for making a railway from the city of
Chester to Preston-on-the-Hill, in the parish of Runcorn,
to be called the " Chester, Manchester, and Liverpool
Junction Railway." The Chairman mentioned that the
last-named bill would not, he believed, get so far as to
require their sanction at least this session. This closed
the business.—The Bolton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh,
St. Helens and Runcorn Gap, and Sankey Navigation
Companies, afterwards met to consider the bills in which
they were respectively interested, which were all approved
of.