The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

Extensions, &c.)
. Capi-
Bill read second

AND
...MANCHESTER

RAILWAY
0,000.

Parliamentary agents: Burke and Co
- - •

The members of this committee are : Mr. Divett
(Exeter). chairman; Mr. Granville Harcourt (Oxford-
shire) ; Sir A. Armstrong (King's County); Mr. Du Pre
( Buckinghamshire) ; Mr. Antrobus (East Surrey). To
meet on Thursday, the 28th of May, at 1 p.m.

GROUP,

No 50,

1. SHROPSHIRE UNION AND CANAL (Newton to Crewe,
with Branches). Capital £1,500,000. Lengtb, 70
miles. Bill read second time.
Engineers : Stephenson and Cubitt. Parliamentary
agents : Burke and Co.
Committee (who are not named) to meet on Thursday,
' the 28th of May, at 12 at noon.

GROUP, No

South Staffordshire :District,- consisting of-
1. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON AND DUDLEY

ital X 700,000. Length 21

Imiles. Bill read sec,

Engineer :J. R. Maclean. Parliamentary agent : Doe-
rington and Co.
2. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON AND STOUR
VALLEY. No. 1, Birnoingl.am, Wolverhampton, and
Dudley line. Capital £1,200,000. Length 30 miles.
3. - (No. 2, Stour Valley line, from Harborno to
Stourport). Capital £BOO.OOO. Length 20 miles.
Both bills read second time.
Engineer: Robert Stephenson. Parliamentary agents:
Burke and Co.
4. GRAND JUNCTION (ShoWhill to Portobello). Bill
read second time.
Engineer : Joseph Locke. Parliamentary agents : Burke
and Co.
5. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE JUNCTION (ShOwhill ti

- (Bilston and Priestfield Br
£103,000.

Capital

of the four lines, 42 miles
time.

All the bills read second

Engineer, :.1. R. Maclean. Pa
Burke and Co.
9. TRRNT VALLEY, MIDLAND

liamentary agents

ND GRANDJUNCTION

Capital L 800,006. Length 2

Bill read second

maigineers : tepnenson, Bidder, and Gooch. Far-
liamentary agents: Dorrington and Co.
10. BIRMINGHAM. LICHFIELD, AND MANCHESTER
(from Birmingham to Lichfield, to be leased to the
Grand Junction Railway Company. Capital 260000.,
Length 14 miles. Bill read second time.
Engineer : J. R. Maclean. Parliamentary agents
Dorrington and Co.
11. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRI

JUNCTION
£300,000.

ND WORCESTER
/alsall). Capital

(from Utoxete
Leng,h 16 miles

Bill read seC

Engineer : Sir John Rerun..
Jones and Walmsley.
12. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM OD be a alga-
mated with the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampte an
South Staffordshire Company). Capital £9 ,0(1
Length 61& miles. Bill read second time.
Engineers: Stephenson and Baker. Parliamentary
agents : Burke and Co.
3. SHREWaBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND SOUTH

Parliamentary agents

200,000

TAFFORDSHIRP:

UNCTION (promoted by Grand
-Pwsbury to Wolverhamp-
. qn milno

Junction) No. I, from
ton. Capital £660.000.

ARLIAM ENTARY

DECISIONS DURING

The following lines have received during the week the
Preamble not Proved :—North Kent, South Eastern,

earn. _, co
nd Brighton (Dorkit
nd Dorking Branch)
listrict ; East Dtreh:

erbury

Nianistone to Stroud); Londo
ranch) ; South I

tern ( Reigate

Staine9

Windsor

South Yorkshire Coal
Sheffield, Leeds, and B

d, Barnsley;
_)arfield, El-

secar, and other branches

Ctitheroe Junction; Manc
and • Oxford (bill withdr
Brook (withdrawn)
The following hay
Preambi
Uiceeter a

Ashtor

proved

Cheltenham
Ind Preston
ithdrawn).

Guildford, and Reigate
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley
I, and Goole; Huddersfield an,

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-ojice, Ten o'clock.

AWFUL COLLISION ON THE RIVER LAST
NIG lIT.-DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

Through the skill and painstaking care of the com-
manders of the various cra't which navigate our river, it
is not often we are called upon to record any very de-
structive casua!ty ; but it is now our du'y to give the par-
ticulars of a most heart-rending occurrence which took
place on the Mersey last night, and which was unfortu-
nately attended with the most limentable consequences
both to life and property. We may say at the outset
that from all we can at present learn the accident seems
to have been occasioned through no neglect or inattention,
b-ut seems to have been one of those casualties which no
human care or effort could have averted, though the con-
sequences are most distressing to those who have been by
the accident bereaved of their relatives and friends. We
love had an interview with Captsin Toompson, the in-
telligent commander of the Sea Nymph, (steamer). one
of the vessels which unfortunately has been in collision,
and he has politely favoured us with the following par
ticulars:—

The Sea Nymph, which trades between this port and
Newry, was proceeding last night on her outward passage
to the latter port, when, about eleven o'clock, just as she
was off New Brighton, a steamer was seen coming up,
which afterwards proved to be the Rambler steamer,
coming into this port from Sligo. Both vessels, as far as
we can learn, ported their helms—in conformity, we be-
lieve, with the requirement of the bye-law; but before the
vessels got fully swung round, they came into collision;
and as it may appear paradoxical to any but nautical
readers bow, under such circumstances, so alarming a
collision took place. we subjoin a diagram, which will
illustrate and exhibit, with the following few remarks,
the course which the vessels took immediately preceding
and up to the instant when the collision occurred. The
•
The Roc a 1 I

V

/1

Rambler, inward bound, was outside, the Sea Nymph
hugging the land. When both vessels ported their helms,
the effect would be to force the bows along the dotted
line, but, from their speed, i►isteail of cleariru, they came
into collision at the point shown by the two stars.
Captain Thompson was on the se.affilding over the
engines, and had them stopped fully two minutes before
the accident occurred. The rna,e, Mr. Samuel Easter,
was forward. The sta►board bow of the Sea Nymph
struck the lirboard how of the Rambler, and scrapii,g
on toward; the paddle carried away her stem. The
Rambler way run on shore near the Rock, and Captain

Thompson having ascertained that she was there safe
from sinking, brouiht his vessel into the Clarence Dock,
and disch aged his cargo which has not suffered we are
informed any material injury, though the dam ige done to
the vessel is great, and it is said that her not slotting is
owing entirely to her water tight compartments. We
ae,certain so far what injury the
sse!s had their lights up.

have no

But, a

given, t

of persons have
turn out that u

re t
s still moil

particulars we have dread),
itneotable to contem-

we fear

)f twenty are already dead, and

many others more or less injured, some of them very seri-
ously, if not frtally. In the Mavzine Boathouse there
sn, nine dead bodies : three more are in the

dead in t

are at present in a

necessities anew

and at present in t
Gill, Mary Rowlar

to give

augsequent edition

ospital; and twelve other persons
•nt institution, having their
ong those who are injured
rn hospital, are—Catherine
Ferny, John Roach, Mary
za Connolly, Mary Batty,

J. Patric

..26. ~..m.iml•lowi

THIRD

Standard-

ruin 119

lliei

After obtainin

ied to N

Ship public-

Daniels, informed

ulars we can gather up.to the
reporters will probably be able

ccurate information in a

EDITION.

ffice, Half-past Twelve o'clock

—Further Particulars.

near th

that he

f description, we pro-

slip of which ferry the
The pilot, Mr. William
taken ou board outside

,npo coming right across
Ordered the helm to he put
engines; the Sea Nymph
.a opinion, a-starboard, came stem on
oow, cutting her completely down to the
..crying away momentarily the top-gallant
forecastle, smaThilig to pieces a heavy patent windlass, and
severing the deck half way across, and so shaking the
whole frame of the vessel, that every water-tight com-
partment was rendered perfectly useless, and it w--

,t ten passed the Rock

and the weather parti

bard a-port, and sto

e! KOCK.
ti

t that &le tut

started, and the v
filled. _

Two principal off

suesing et
3 order to

lave sunk had not the engines been
I run ashore, as she immediately

f the Rambler were at the wheel,
river pilot (a person carried in

Light

Alter vesse

nes, and they were kept going for some
arden her on as the tide attained its

iunded, stir

e of the passeng,

of the

,ers, d

They let go

previous to her reac
it is impossible to

nil at that moment some

I. The weight of persons in he
some 11) caused her to upset,

the actu4

ell events fiv

maue through her larboard side
enrage, a most extraordinary sight presented
of the fhoring of the quarter deck was
and the remainder, a confused mass of
some fl rating in the
part of the vessr I. The scene
-ifying, the whole, both fore
covered with dead pigs,
notlier portion of which
whole saturated in the

as we state below, at

tering through to
into th

P.r
smashed thrm.,„

3 rats, boxes

water which hid fi

and abet

labhied with human

blood, and strev

,troon, broken boxes,

t bevc

nts of the windlass

One poor woman, with her

up from underneath the broken
h fallen upon her
portion of her brains

nt out

unfortunate's now lit