The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

An enormous turn-table is beind constructed at the
Derby railway station works, capable of shifting several
carriages at a time.

KAOLIN CLAY.—Out of this material, found largely in
France, it is stated there is a method of constructing a
species of porcelain, fitter for the rails of railroads than
iron, harder and far more durable.
MAIDSTONE BRANCH RAILWAY.—During the last
week the £20,000 subscribed towards the proposed branch
from the South-Eastern Railway to Maidstone has been
returned by the company to the subscribers with interest,
the irectors having obtained the necessary funds on more
advantageous terms. The proposed line is now being
surveyed by Mr. R. Stephenson.
The prospects of the Hastings, Rye, and Tenterden
branch Railway (to the South-Eastern) appears in the
Railway Times of Saturday. The capital of the com-
pany is to be £250,000 in 10,000 shares of £25 each.
There is to be only a single fine of rails on the proposed
branch, which is to 25 miles in length, the estimated cost
being about £lO,OOO a mile.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—THREE OREN KILLED.—OD
Sunday week, about four in the afternoon, a number of
half-fat oxen, amounting to nearly a score, which had
been depastured on the moor at Durston, about five miles
from Taunton, strayed down a lane bordering on the rail-
way, the gate of which having been negligently left open
by the owner of the land, the cattle got on the line just as
a down train was passing. From the sudden appearance
of the animals, the engineer was unable to stop the train
in time to prevent its running over three of the oxen,
which were mutilated in a shocking manner, and thus
killed almost immediately.

THE DUKE OF NORMANDY'S CASE.—The schedule of
Charles Louis de Bourbon, commonly called the Duke of
Normandy, has been filed and is now, therefore, open for
public inspection. The document in several respects is
an exrtaordinary one. The consideration debts, extending.
over a period of some years, are set forth at £4,959 3s. 2d.,
and the insolvency is ascribed to the non-completion of
an invention for the British government, the machinery
of which was seized for rent, and a great loss sustained.
The insolvent describes himself as a modelist and ma-
chinist. He has been confined in H orsemonger-lane Gaol
since March last, and a short time ago the court made an
allowance to the attorney (Mr. Pater) to file the schedule
on which the order mentioned was issued. There appears
on the property side of the schedule, three statements re-
specting the throne of France, and his title to that king-
dom. Under the head of freehold and copyhold portion
is the following entry :—" All my right and interest in the
Castle of St. Cloud and the Castle of Remboulliet, in the
city of Paris, in the kingdom of France, with the several
dominions which were purchased by my late mother,
Marie Antoinette, late Queen of France, as her private
property ; the same cost about eighty millions of francs."
In another section it is stated, " all my right and interest
in the lands of the English government, being the value
of certain ships of war, which were, by the authorities of
Toulon, deposited in the hands of Admiral Hood, about
the year 1794, by way of trust, for the benefit of Louis
XVII., the Dauphin of France." Under the head of pro-
perty in trust for him is the following statement :—" All
my right and interest to the throne of France, as the law-
ful son and heir of Louis XVI., late King of France."
The several pages of the schedule are signed by the insol-
vent in the name of " Charles Louis de bourbon, Duc de
Normandie."