The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

April 23, 18U.

BRIDGE ACROSS THE SEVERN.—A number of scientific
gentlemen have been employed during the past week in
making surveys, &c. of the Severn, near Fulton Passage,
on the Lidney side, preparatory to a report on the practi-
cability and usefulness of a 'bridge across the Severn at
that spot ; thus connecting the a hole of South Wales with
the metropolis and manufacturing districts, through the
medium of the Gloucester and Bristol Railway.
RAILROAD SPECULATION IN ,FRANCE.—Some doubts
are thrown by the Paris pavers of Thursday, upon the
safety of rail-road speculations, which were _proceeding °
an extent in France beyond all precedent. The Zeational
observes, " that speculations in railway shares have be-
come so excessive, that the stockbrokers are determined
to have two settling days in each month : we fear a Me-
lancholy conclusion to this rage for speculation."
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—At a special general meet-
ing, held in the Black` Bull Hall, of the proprietors of the
Wishaw and Coltness Railway, it was resolved to use
every exertion in promoting' the proposed Caledonian
Railway, in connexion with this comp iny's line; and with
this view, the committee of management was authorised
to subscribe, for beboof of the company, a Qum not ex-
ceeding £25,000 to the proposed undertaking, and to Cur'
respond with the provisional committee of the Caledonian
line as to the junction with the, Wiahaw and Coltness
Railway.
SOUTH WALES ANL SOUTH OP IRELAND RAILWAY'
—An important line of railway is to be laid down trots
Stonehouse, on the Great 'Western line, across the river
near Purton to Carmarthen. The route will be through
the Forest of Dean, opening the vast mineral resources o',
that district, to Monmouth, thence down the vale of Usk,
to beyond Brecon, and afterwards by the river Tow/ 0
Carmarthen. Although South Wales is so mountainoUs,
in character, nature seems to have provided a level line 01
country for a railway. Twn great interests will be mate-
rially benefited by the projected line, viz. :—the Great
Western railway and the mining property on " the hills."
The traffic on the former will, of course, be extensivell
ncreased.— Cardiff Advertiser.

The formation of a direct railway from London to
York, by way of Lincoln, for the purpose of connecting
the north of England and Scotland with the metropolis,
has been decided on. Prospectuses have been issued,
together with maps, explanatory of the mode of proceed-
ing intended. It appears that the proposed line is to
commence near King's Cross, in the New Road, and in:
dependently of any other line, is to take its course throng,'
Hertford, Bedford, H untingdon, Peterborough, Stam-
ford, Sleaford, and other important towns, to Lincoln
and York, the distance, by the adoption of this I,inn
• being less, by nearly forty miles, than it can be trtevem,°—
'by any existing railway. The capitsl required 1.01 the
execution of the work is estimated at £4,000,000, the
length of line being one hundred and eighty mites.
RAILWAYS IN DENMARK.—ii' letter from Copenhagen,
April 2, says Railroads are beginning to excite atten-
tion here, and within the last mon It the king has autho-
rised different societies for the construction of the follow
ing lines:—l. One trom Copenhagen to Elsineur, oboe
thirteen French leagues in length. 2. Another to cross
the island of Zealand in its whole length, running from
Copenhagen by Rothschild, Hingstead, and Slagelsee, to
Corsoer, the length of which will be about thirty-one
leagues. By this line all communication between Open.
hagen and the east of Denmark, as well as the rest of Eu-
rope during the period that steamers cannot ply in the
Baltic, will take place. 3. Six branch lines in the duchy
of Holstein, from the main railroad now in construction
between Kiel and Altona, which will unite the principal
towns of Holstein together, and the North Sea with the
Baltic."
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EDINBURGH AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY.—Since Fri'
day, workmen have been employed in opening the gronnd,
in the front of Canal-street, to complete the drift tunnel
of this railway, already carried as far as Prince's-street;
and within a few yards of the proposed terminus. A fen.
days' work will thus open the bore through and throughi
a d the bui ding of the tunnel may be expected to be pro-
ceeded with immediately. So soon as the Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and the North British Railway bills are passed,
we may expect to see the whole of the. area under the
bridge speedily transformed in appearance, and its various
buildings removed in order to its conversion into a termi-
nus of railway communication, by which the east and
west coast of Scotland will be connected with each other,
and both again with the metropolis of Britain.—Edin:
burgh Evening Post.