The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTALLiuBACB.

Mr. Strutt, the member for Derby, is to be the Chef
Commissioner of the new Railway Board.
FACILITIES FOR 7 HE PRESS. —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 seera,ry should forward to
the reporters of e,ch of the Cumberland newspapers free
tickets to pass along the line."

MONSTER MAI V.—One of the lamest trains ever seen
on a railway ltft Rugby station on Fti.iay. It consisted
of eight y-fuur carriages, and was impelled by three of Ste-
verson's powerful six-a heeled engines. 1!E; length ex-
tended to nearly half a mile, and the weight of merchan-
dise, exclusive of the carriages, was upwards of 210 tons.

On Sutidav evening week, a.man tamed Robert Black-
burn, aged 28, eml:loyed as a striker at the North Union
station, Preston, met with his death at the Farrington
station, in his attempt to get on the Bkckhurn train when
in motion, when the wheels of the carriage passed over
him, and killed him on the spot. _ .

LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.-011 Wed-
nesday the first trial trip was made on a portion of this
line—namely, from Carlisle to Penrith, a distance of
about e!ghteen miles, with an engine and tender. Au-
other trial trip was made the same day between Lancaster
and Hackthorpe. but it is understood that the rails at va-
rious places were only temporarily laid for the occasion.
A number of the directors came by this train to attend

the general meeting of the company at Penrith.
CHARGE OF EXTENSIVE FORGERY BY THE CHAIR-
MAN OF A RAILWAY COMPANY.—Captain Richardson.

Chairman of the Worcester, Tenhury, and Ludlow

ompany, t

trended Mes;is. Coutts and Co., by altering a cheque
for to the sum of .C5,0J0. was on Saturday aPeritoin
brought before Alderman Musgrove, at the Mansion-
hnu-e. It was stated in evidence that the prisoner had,
as the chairman of this company. filled up-and signed the
cheque, that it was for £lO, that it had afterwards been
returned to him signed by two other directors of the com-
p ny ; and that. subsequently, it had been paid into
Messrs. Courts's hank, the aunt of £lO being altered into
the sum of 1:5,100. Mr Robert Hare, clerk at Messrs.
Courts and Cu's britiking house, stated that he paid the
cheque produced, which purported to be for £5,000, on
the 20th of July, to a person at the counter. He did riot
know to whom be paid it. tie paid the amount in five
notes of £l,OOO each. The witness here produced the
notes as those which he harrpaid. Mr. Henry Jerning-
ham, a clerk in the Bank of England, stated that on the
20th July be charged three £l,OOO batik notes, which
were all dated February 13, 1846. The person who pre-
sented the notes gave the name of J. Jones. They were
paid in gold. Other individuals belonging to the Bank of
Erigl Ind declared that they had not the least doubt that
the prisoner was the person who got the gold. The pri-
soner declined so say anything, saying be was taken by
surprise, and wished to consult his solicitor. He was re-
manded till to-day (Tuesday.)
RAILWAY SURVEILLANCE.—Mr. Morrison's Com-
mittee on railways have made their report. It establishes
the fact that rival companies are only a delusion. They
are, it is alleged sure, to amalgamate, and wirer: there is
already an established line, the old company brings up the
new. The remedy which the committee recommends is.
—an efficient system of Government ant nil/lance over
roads already in operation, and a careful investigation into
the merits of new schemes, conjoined with a prudent re-
striction of the powers of companies hereafter to be pro-
jected. The report contains much useful information
concerning the c-,mtinental lines. In Belgium, it appears.
a systematic plan has been laid down by the government
from the commebrerrent, which has ever since been stea-
dily adhered to. France began as we did, hut soon find-
ing the inconvenience of disorder, adopted a regular sys-
tem, which has been in force since 1842. In Germany
the choice of lines was at first the work of chalice; but
there also a systematic plan was soon adopted. In all
these countries the charges and fares are very
much be-
low those of EriglanA ; in France, for the conveyance of
Passengers in first-class cart iages, little more, in Germany
less, !liana .;
in Belgium not beyond a third. ('ue
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travelling on the continental railroads. This is not so;
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