The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

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There never was a season, we believe, in which the
principal watering places in all parts of the icingdom were
so full of company as at present, and this is chiefly
accounted for by the cheapness of travelling and the other
facilities that are given to visitors by railways.
Stock to the amount of £18,095, was sold in the Bolton
and Bury line. by auction, at the Clarendon-rooms, on
Wednesday, Mr. Winstanley officiating. The company
was not very lively, and the prices realized were all below
those quoted in the lists of the day.
The London and North Western Railway Company
have, during the last three months, been testing a newly-
invented electric telegraph, at the London end of their
line, and the experiments having proved satisfactory, they
are making arrangement to lay it down along the whole of
their line, from the metropolis to Lancashire.

FACILITIES FOR THE PRESS.—A GOOD EXAMPLE.—
At the meeting of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Company on Wednesday week, "it was resolved that
previous to every general meeting of the Company, the
Secretary should forward to the repot ters to each of the
Cumberland newspapers free tickets to pass along the line."
JUVENILE RAILWAY EXCURSIONS.—On Monday
week much interest was excited in Gloucester by the arrival
of two monster trains, bringing no less than 4,000 Sun-
day-school children and 500 teachers and friends from
Bristol. About half-past six o'clock they started for
Bristol in one enormous train, consisting of fifty-eight
carriages, drawn and propelled by seven engines.
BIRKENHEAD AND MANCHESTER RAILWA
Runcorn, men are now busily engaged in boring and c
cavating for this line, and although many hundred men
are at work, still there is a great demand for labourers,
and large wages are offered, which has the effect of making
men dissatisfied with the amount of wages they have been
in the habit of receiving in and around the neighbour-
hood

The " war" between allottees and provisional commit-
tee-men appears to be not yet completely concluded.
The most " agreeable" mode of suing applicants for their
proportion of expenses has been illustrated in a recent
case. The old plan of threatening legal proceedings, with
all consequent terrors, has been abandoned for the mild
and persuasive call of a gentleman `4 connected with the
profession," who, according to the history furnished by a
correspondent, "beards the allottee at his very door,"
and after handing in a lithographed letter, asks, " when"
he shall call again for the required amount. We had
really hoped that, after the many flagrant exposures which
have taken place, an end would have been put to this
kind of proceeding.
ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE LONDON AND YORK,
THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE, AND THE MANCHESTER
MIDLAND AND GREAT GRIMSBY RAILWAYS.—We are
informed that the committee of management of the London
and York and South Yorkshire Railways, met a commit-
tee of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, and
Goole, at Rotherham, on Monday last, and confirmed the
contract entered into for the south end of the railway
from Barnsley to Sheffield, by payment of the amount
agreed upon ; and terms of arrangement were also pro-
posed for joining the line of the Manchester, Midland,
and Great Grimsby, with the South Yorkshire. A direct
communication by railway, from Sheffield and Rother-
ham to Doncaster, bas been long required, and these
United Companies, we doubt not, will be enabled to ob-
tain in the next Session of Parliament, such lines as
will serve the wants of this extensive and productive
district.

A. TRILATERAL RAlL.—Since the first introduction of
wrought-iron rails for railways, by Birkenshaw, much
ingenuity has been exerted to discover a form which, with
a minimum of metal, should give a maximum of stability
and strength. Cosiderable difference of opinion exists as
to the best form of rail in use at the present day, each
particular rail having its advocate. A rail has been
patented by Mr. Wheeler, which bids fair to dispose of
this question, its advantages being of so positive a charac-
ter as to establish its superiority in all those points so
essential to the perfection of railways. The following
substantial advantages are claimed for this form of rail
over those heretofore employed. Great strength, and
impossibility of the rail springing or curling at the end.
Greater steadiness, from the character and position of its
bearing upon the continuant sleeper, Increased safety,
inasmuch as wheels with deeper flanges can advantageously
be used on this rail. Greater durability, arising, firstly,
from the form of the rail itself; secondly, from its having
three bearing surfaces available in succession. While the
alarmists are so loudly ipredicting a probable deficiency
and greatly enhanced cost of iron, it is of no small import-
ance to manipulate that material into the most advan-
tageous form. Railway companies are also well aware
that everything tending to Increase durability of their
permanent way is of the utmost importance to their
interests, and may, in the long run, prove a remedy for
the depreciative consequences of rivalry and competition.
—Mechanics' Magazine.
ACCELERATION OF THE MAIL TO LIVERPOOL.—A de-
sire having been expressed that the mail-train between
London and Liverpool (210 miles) should run in five
hours, the London and Birmingham directors, on Friday
afternoon, tested the capacity of the ordinary passenger
engines for such a rapid journey. The train (a special one)
consisted of six first-class carriages, left Euston Square at
five minutes before five o'clock in the afternoon, and
reached Birmingham at thirty-three minutes past seven
o'clock, having been detained at Wolverton fourteen mi-
nutes. At Birmingham, an excess of stoppage amounting
to nearly twelve minutes took place, and at Crewe, a si-
milar stoppage of five minutes occurred, notwithstanding
which the train ran the 197 miles, from station to station,
one minute within five hours. Deducting the excess of
time occupied at Wolverton, Birmingham, and Crewe—
viz., twenty-nine minutes, it will be seen that the 197
miles, inclusive of the time that would be lost if the train
were running daily, were accomplished in four hours and
a half, or at an average speed of nearly forty-four miles
per hour. Liverpool is, however, thirteen miles further
than Manchester, but at the average rate at which the trip
of Friday was made, the twenty-nine minutes excess of
stoppage would be equal to twenty-three miles, so that it
appears the journey from London to Liverpool can, with
six carriages, be made in something like ten or twelve mi-
nutes within the five hours.