The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

fillE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the

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week ended October 14 —Coaching traffic, £1427 6s. 6d.;
parcels, £63 ss. 4d. ; goods and cattle, £lB6 Os. 9d. ;
steam vessels, £202 13s. ;—total, £1879 ss. 7d.
The London and North-Western Railway Company
have resolved on erecting a marble statue from the chisel
of Mr. Gibson, to George Stephenson, the late eminent
civil engineer.

The Directors of the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company have presented their medical officer for
Manchester, Dr. John Gregson Harrison, with a very
handsome testimonial, consisting of a set of richly cut
glass:castors, in a very elegant silver stand.
By the opening of the great bridges over the Tyne and
Tweed on the North British Railway, passengers are now
enabled to travel by the east route to Edinburgh and
Glasgow w thout change of carriage. The train leaving
Edinburgh at 9.30 a.m., reaches York at half-past three,
and London soon after ten.

The number of passengers who travelled by rail during
the last half-year, 26,330,492, comprehends a railway ride
for every man, woman, and child in England, Scotland,
and Ireland. It is calculated that within the next five
years there will be upwards of 10,000 miles of railway
open in Great Britain.

An instance of the danger of depending on claims for
compensation for railway encroachment occurred lastr
week in Glasgow. Mr. Dixon claimed £10,466 10s. to
a crossing made by the Pollok and Govan Company. The
sheriff's jury found that the complainant was entitled to
nothing.

OPENING OF THE GREAT NORTHERN.—The line ex-
tending from Peterborough to Lincoln, and thus forming
a communication between London and the whole of Lin-
colnshire, was opened on Tuesday last with great ecliit.
Trains left Peterborough at six and nine a.m., and arrived
at Lincoln soon after three, having been hailed on the
road with every demonstration peculiar to such ceremo-
nies.

Mr. Hudson has declined to lease the North British
line. The terms perhaps were ( just now) too high. The
report relating to the late negotiation, together with the
last half-yearly report, were received at the adjourned
of the North British proprietors Assent was

given to the proposal to hold preference stock in the
Aberdeen line, on condition that the sum of £276,000 be
sufficient to complete the works of that line.
AN UGLY BORE !—ln a railway tunnel in the course of
construction near Huddersfield, which had been bored at
each end, thinking that the excavators would meet in the
centre, it has been discovered that through defective en-
gineering the two sets of workmen were passing each
other, having got six yards asunder,' instead of meeting
face to face. The tunnel will be about seven-eighths of a
mile in length, and, while it should have consisted of a
gentle curve, it now takes the shape of a dog's hind leg !
A WARNING ACCIDENT.—A portion of the Great
Northern line having to pass across the River Brayford at
Lincoln, an iron bridge of modern construction has been
made to allow of vessels passing through to the wharfs.
On Friday, as a vessel, laden with stone, neared the
bridge, it was opened to allow it to pass. This was not
at first noticed by a navvy employed with a tram-train,
and he only discovered it just in time to loosen his horse
and thereby save its life. The waggons having no breaks,
hurried on and toppled over the bridge into the river.
some of them falling on the boat underneath and swamp-
ing it. Providentially, no one was hurt, and but compa-
ratively little damage was done.

FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.--An accident occurred
on Friday morning, about one o'clock, to the luggage and
fish train on the South-Eastern line, which leaves Margate
shortly before midnight. It appeared that everything
proceeded in the usual manner until the train reached the
bridge which crosses the river Stour, in the hamlet of
Chartham, about three miles from Canterbury, upon ap-
proaching which the engine appeared to oscilate consider-
ably. The next moment the bridge gave way, most part
of it falling as the engine and trucks were about to pass.
The crash is said to have been tremendous, and the con-
sequences may be faintly imagined from the fact that the
whole train, engine, tender, and trucks fell into the stream
and the vale beneath, completely destroying that portion
of the line, and scattering the various articles consigned
for conveyance to the metropolis.
THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND AND SUNDAY RAIL-
WAY TRAVELLING.—The secretary of the Scottish Cen-
tral Railway, says, with reference to a paragraph in our
last, " I was not communicated with, and consequently
could send no answer; nor did I hear anything whatever
on the Sunday of the occurrence referred to, till several
hours after the departure, both of the train and of her
grace in different directions, when, for the first time, I also
learned the very pressing nature of her grace's journey,
not having received intimation till then that there was the
slightest speciality in the case. On the morning of Satur-
day, between nine and ten o'clock, when accidentally at
the station. I was informed, through a second hand, that
her grace had sent to inquire if she could be carried for-
ward by the mail train on the following day. To the
question I replied that, being precluded by a vote of the
shareholders from carrying passengers on the Sunday, it
would be impossible to comply with her grace's wishes,
the inquiring party answering that the Duchess would in
that case proceed by the Edinburgh and Northern train,
advertised to carry passengers on Sundays, and which
starts 40 minutes before the Central mail train, or perhaps
wait till the following day. The messenger did not call
upon me. I received no letter upon the subject." The
duchess could not have reached her father to have seen
him alive, as his lordship was dead when her grace applied
for the special train.
A NEW MODE OF TRAVELLING BY RAILWAY.--The
servants at the general station at Dundee have much
difficulty in getting the cattle put into trucks, particularly
highland stock which have never been under cover. In
loading one of these, last week, a fine Argyleshire stot,
after having his fore legs in, was startled by an engine
whistle at his ear, and, making a desperate leap, cleared
the truck, and dashed up the line to the general station.
His first mark was a pointsman, stooping, with his back
towards the animal, which pitched him forwards, but
fortunately he was untouched by his horns. He then
tore onwards towards the station, where his approach
caused great sensation, and speedily every guard, driver,
and porter, were on the roof of every available carriage.
The agility displayed on this occasion was much to the
satisfaction of the superintendent, who proposes an occa-
sional visit of the same kind, with a view of practising
the servants in celerity of movement ; and, judging from
the first lessor,, he thinks that, like a new handwriting, it
might be proficiently acquired in three lessons. Onward,
however, the animal went, passed on to the Scottish Mid-
land line, which he left about a mile to the north, and
was last seen making for his native hills, with foaming
mouth and streaming tail, forming no unapt representa-
tion of " Taurus," as depicted on the celestial globes.—
Dundee Courier.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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