The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

RAIL INTE LL IGE CE.

The projected railway from 'Beverley to Hull, in con-
nection well The Hull and Selbf„' is prorosed to h,
constructed on 'Alr. l'rosEer's plan'tif wooden rai!s and
bevel wheels.

EXPLOSIOI'i ON A RAILWAY.-7-Yesterdßy week, at
13rigir'tori, the non-arrival of ti:e last tria fr ni London
'causer:ll6W e alarm anti a pilot rnginelqs 'srnt n to
ceriain ihe cause, win n it was faticilfk at Hayward's
Heaila S ation cne of the ly,iler tube 'h:rd borst, and
enveloped the
train in steam.NO me was.rjuredby
the The pilot Lrutight up the train atter a
delay of tin hour.
A meeting of the inhabitants of Banbury was he d on
ErWay,to disQlssthe,mer:ts of four projects. if railway,
which liire.been submitied as advantageous to that tuvvo,
and the one selected by ,a large majority was the Great
6terii,l'frorri Oxford to It !Jaw: The other three were
the OxrtiM, Wotcestcr, and- Wolverhampton I ne; the
Ltindon and Birmingham, frorri Weedon to Woreesver ;
and the Birmingham, Bantmry, and Oxford line. Depu-
tations were present in behalf of the respective projects,
and a very animated d. bate wa, entered into.
BRISTOL AND GLOUCEt:TER RAILWAY.—ThiS railway,
371 miles in length, was opened on Monday let, and the
event was marked with the usual demonstrations cf re-
joicings. On Saturday the directors and their friends
made an excursion on the line by a special train, and par-
took of a deyturver a mi:Gurchertp at Gloucester. By the
opening of this line tie inconvenience hitherto experienced
by the rubEc from the diss; ver.e.nce of the chain railway
between the west and noith of England is at length ob-
viated.

At the Ulster Railway meeting held on the 3d inst.. the
shlreliolders resolved to complete the orig nal plan of the
company by carrying on the line ,from Portadovin to
Armagh. The engineer stated that the expee,se would be
about £lO,OOO per mile, including the cost of Ale bridge
across the river Baun. Traffic appears to brEN. xpected
irom the adjoining districts, and Armagh being a town of
greater population than Pottadown, it has been thought
more desirable to make the terminus there. An extension
as far as Monaghan was spoken of by some parties, but
this did not ro?,et. with the approbation of the meeting.
DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRTAGE.-011 Thursday
morning, Mr.. Thomas. Anthony Tuelon, aged 81, of
Deni•hfield, Surrey, died very suddenly in a railway car-
nage in which he had just taken his seat at the London
station to return home, after transacting a good deal of
business at the Bank and other places. His two sons
were by him at the time. A physician who had attended
him for some years said that his health was generally ex-
cellent, but, from symptoms of disease of the heart, he
warned the family two or three years ago that he night
die suddenly. Verdict—" Died by the, visitation of
God."

MISCHIEF AND DISTRESSING CALAMITY.—About two
days ago, Mr. ..lt.tph Crawshaw, contractor on the
Silt ffield and Manchester Railway, having gone to York
to look after another contract, and,detained,longar than
expected, some malicious persons raised a rumour
tltht he had, been thrown on the rails and killed. his
relations in alarm sent his brother hichard in search of
him to York, when he found him well, and also that he
had been successful in hisfenders for 44 miles of road.
On Mr. Joseph reaching home, being elated at his pros-
pects, and employed in the viaduct at Blacktcoor, went
too near to a stone.that was jest slung, and: it fell upon
him and crushed him to, death
.The.outrageous fabrica-
tion of his death was.thus in some measure confirmed...

Low FARES ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.—It appears from Mr. Lang's paper, appended
to the select committee's report, that at• present the
London and Birmingham Company carry 780,000 passen-
gers per annum, and average distance of 66 miles each.
Of this number, 37 per cent: p4y 3d. per mile; 54 per
cent., 2d. ; and 9 per cent., lid. 'Supposing the com-
pany to run third-class carriages at Id. per mile, with all
their trains, and allowing that ls.rer cent., raid 3d. rer
mile, 30 per cent. paid 2d.. and 55 per cent. ld., they
would require to carry 2,979,670 persons (or newly four '
times the present number,) an average distance of thirty
miles each, to secure the same gross returns; or, as the
expenditure would be increased, the number must be
increased to 3,500,000 to retain the existing amount of
net profit.—Railway Record.
YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
the last few days, public meetings hare been held at •
obtainedproposedlines,communicationfromßrad-
fordsubject'proposede
vicinity
f
during the present session, are anxious to extend it to.
binuerttet,rsf nor'. themakinghwhich,ne oan railway
has only F " enen to
n
Burnley, Colne, and the. Yorkshire Railways; and that
the promoters of the Bradford and Leeds :Railway are
equally desirous to carry forward their line. to .Keighley,
and through Craven, into Laneashire„but that,there is a
considerahleslifference of opinion betwe.en,the two parties
as to the best line to be taken for the purpose. Tite Leeds
and Bradford Company prppose to continue their,line from
Shipley to Bingley, and thence up the valley of the Aire
to Skip'on, with a branch to ,Keighley, and from Skipton
to make a junction line to Blackburn. The Blackburn
Company recommend a line through Burnley and,Colne
to Shipley, to effect which it will be 'necessary' to make a
long tunnel, with steep gradients in other parts of the
line, sometimes to the extent of 1 in 80. Nothing has
been decided, but the surreys are proceeding ; and a meet-
ing held at Keighley, on Monday; for the purpose of se-
lecting the site fur a station, declined to do so until the
line was fixed upon.