The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS

The Caledonian railway will be opened for traffic the
beginning of next month.
One hundred and twenty-nine railway bills have been
deposited for parliamentary examination. _ _ _

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—About two o'clock on
Thursday, while Mr. Payne, shoemaker, of Bitteswell, was
waiting at Rugby for the fourth class train, he carelessly
crossed the line of railway at the time the train was pass-
ing, and was struck by the engine and killed on the spot.
A portion of a screen of double columns, now con-
structing at the Euston Station, fell on Thursday, when
about 25 men were engaged at work, and twelve of them
were sadly injured, one so seriously that he is not expected
to recover.

The London and North-Western Railway Company
have adopted the practice of requiting all passengers pro-
ceeding from the Euston Square terminus, in London, to

show their tickets immediately before the starting of the
trains, and the first six trains so examined are stated to
have yielded £6O from passengers who had seated them-
selves without tickets. _ _ _

From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,403 miles of rail-
way, was £178,912, thus accounted for :—.1.:93,095 for the
conveyance of passengers onl , £44,604 for the carriage
of goods, and a remainder of £41,213 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £30,926 over the corresponding week of the
former year, when the mileage was 2,645. The average
earnings per mile for last week were £52, whilst in 1846
they were £56.

TRAFFIC RESULTS OF 1847.—Owing to various disturb- of the day, sits in his cottage, surrounded by his family,
ing circumstances, it is difficult to make a just or perfectly and at his own hearth—his nephew, a boy, seated at one
satisfactory comparison between the traffic of the years side of him—his niece, a girl of early age, at the other—his
1846 and 1847. The mere comparison of the totals is fal- children in the room—his wife, their mother, occupied in
lacious. The mileage has increased 25 per cent., the re- a little office of motherly attention, washing the feet of
ceipt only 16 on the whole of the railways. It is not to one of those infants preparatory to putting the children
be expected that many miles which were opened towards to bed. That man is sitting in his chair in that scene of
the very end of the year should instantly be very pro- bliss, when you enter the dwelling-house with a blunder-
ductive. Still the prospect appears satisfactory, and par- buss charged with eleven balls—you approach him—you
ticularly so in those cases where a true parallel can be place it within a few inches of his back, and, in the pre-
made. We will not pretend to estimate what precise sence of his wife and children, you shoot him dead ! You
effect the times may have had, although it is obviously a saw before you, for he saw you, the boy, who looked up,
most influential circumstance—more or less affecting all saw you, and identified you ; that boy was in the direction
lines. To be able to form a perfectly just estimate, it is where you were firing ; and you incurred the risk, of a
obvious that the amount of mileage ought to be the same double murder, and nearly perpetrated the two, for some
in both years. But this happens to be the case in only of the balls that perforated the body of your victim,
one or two instances of the more important railways : reached the boy and inflicted wounds upon him. Is it
in the Dublin and Kingstown, in the Lancashire and possible to conceive an assemblage of circumstances unit-
Yorkshire, and. the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- ing in themselves so much the character of that horror
shire, On the first-named line, the increase is 6 per cent. ; i which belongs to the crime of murder, as those ?"
on the second, 2 per cent. ; whilst on the Manchester, A WELL-TIMED REPROOF.—The Earl of Shrewsbury, a
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire it is as much as 17 per cent. ; Roman Catholic peer, has addressed a letter to Dr.
a fact of peculiar congratulation to the shareholders. M`liale on the recent Irish outrages. Lord Shrewsbury
Next in the category of good results stands the Newcastle insists on reminding the archbishop of his duty, and urges
and Carlisle : the mileage increase has been 8 per cent., for a satisfactory explanation of his conduct, because "it
traffic 13 per cent. In the South-Eastern the mileage is currently reported, and readily believed, that in what
has increased 13, the receipts 17 ; Midland, mileage in- concerns religion, your grace's diocese is in a state of pe-
crease 16, traffic 15 ; Eastern Counties, mileage 25, traffic culiar destitution ; that you have ever debarred your poor
29 ; Glasgow. Paisley, and Ayr, mileage 21, traffic 16; from the benefits of education under the national system,
Norfolk, mileage 38, traffic 33 ; Dublin and Drogheda, without any efficient substitute of your own—that you
mileage 9, traffic 6 ; York and Newcastle, mileage 60, have never admitted Father Mathew withip your limits—
traffic 40; York and North Midland, mileage 42, traffic and that too many of your parishes are without a school,
24; London and North-Western, mileage 13, traffic 7; and some of them without a chapel, though the repeal
London and South Coast. mileage 36, traffic 16 ; London i rent is regularly levied, and ungrudgingly paid." With
and South-Western, mileae 75, traffic 20; Great Wes- regard to Dr. M'llale's assertions that there have been no
tern, mileage 12, traffic 3; 'Edinburgh and Glasgow, mile- t crimes, but deeds of retaliation ; no murders, no assassin-
pge 15, traffic 3.—Railicay Chronicle, ations, no robbery, do pillage, no injustice, no cruelty, no