The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The new bridge erected over the Skerne, on the New..
castle and Darlington Junction Railway, near Darlington,
has, during the last kw weeks, given way. It is of five
arches of brick and stone, and the injury is supposed to
have been caused by pressure at one end.

AMALGAMATION OF THE MANCHESTER AND HULL
RAILWAYS.—The terms for uniting the management of
the Hull and Selby Railway with that of the Manchester
and Leeds line have been agreed upon by the directors,
subject to the approbation of the respective bodies of pro-
piretors ; the management to be be vested in the Man-
chester directory.

EFFECTS OF RAILWAYS.—On Saturday last an appli-
cation was made at the Rochester Borough Court, by Mr.
G. Calder, of that city, the proprietor of the Crown Inn
and postmaster, for a reduction of the amount at which
he was rated to the poor from £173 to £lOB annual value.
It was proved that the effect of the opening of the South
Eastern Railway had been to reduce Mr. Calder's stock
of post horses from 32 to 12, and that the profits have
fallen 75 per cent. -
SMOKING IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—On the North
Midland line of railway a large carriage, capable of hold-
ing many persons, has been appropriated to and fitted up
for the accommodation of those gentlemen who are
emulous of competing with the engine in the quantity of
smoke that can be thrown off in a given period. This
carriage is termed the " divan," and first class fare is de-
manded, and most willingly conceded to by the votaries of
the weed.—A similar accommodation is provided on the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.

GRATITUDE OF THE POOR TO MR. OASTLER.-Mr.
Auty has forwarded us the two following incidents which
strongly exemplify the feeling of the yoor to Mr. Oastler :
—" A poor man came to me last Saturday evening to ask
if I took in subscribers for Oastler's Liberation Fund?
I answered ' yes, I do,' he then said put me down two
shillings,' I asked what name? lie answered Bryan
Cowgill and family.' So you see, Mr. Editor, this man
bad made it a family matter. May many go and do like-
wise. An old man came into my shop the other day and
opened a piece of blue paper with ls. 9d. wrapped up in
it, all in copper, he said, this is from a few children who
are taught in cottage-house on a Sunday, by a poor man
from the top of Ayteliffe-hill,'—a place where there are
only a few scattered houses and where one would think
that the name of Oastler was rarely known."

HER MAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS : FORTUNATE ESCAPE
OF THE WHOLE PACK ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.— A field of between 100 and 200 were present at the
meeting on Monday week, which took place near the Sun
Inn, in the town of Maidenhead. The splendid- Scotch
deer, Highlander, which has heretofore afforded such
excellent sport, upon being uncarted on Maidenhead-
thicket, went away across the thicket to the Coach and
Horses, making for the Great Western Railway, where it
ran along the up-line towards Reading, for upwards of a
mile and a half. The hounds followed in hot pursuit,
having got upon the railway before the huntsmen and
whippers-in had got up to call them off. When between
a deep cutting, an up-train, proceeding at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, appeared in sight. At this moment
the destruction of the whole pack (the hounds still pro-
ceeding downwards on the up-line) appeared inevitable.
The stag made for the bank of the cutting as soon as it

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