The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY IN TA LIA GEA CE.

In the House of Commons the preambles of the follow-
ing bills have been proved : Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth, except the branch from Basingstoke to Salisbury ;
West Riding Union, No. 2; Vale of Meath, Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford; Birmingham, Wolverhamp-
ton, and Dudley; Grand Junction (Porto Bello Branch);
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ; Birmingham and Oxford
Junction (Birmingham Extension); Rugby, Leamington,
and Warwick (as far as Leamington); London and Bir-
mingham ; Birmingham Extension ; Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Radstrevor ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston; and
Lancaster and Preston Junction.

The preambles of the following bills have this week been
proved in the House of Lords : London and Brighton
(Wandsworth) branch; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion ; Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole (Methley, Askern,
and Oakenshaw) Branch; St. Helen's Canal and Railway;
Wishaw and Coltness (Greenhill) Branch; Sheffield,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Duckinfield,
Worsborough), and other Branches.
The following Bills have been thrown out :—Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby, in the Lords; and the
London, Newbury. and Bath, the Huddersfield and Man-
chester (Bradford Branch), and Blackburn, Chorley, and
Liverpool, in the Commons.
The Grand Junction Company are laying the electric
telegraph on their line of railway.
The Leeds and Bradford Railway was opened on Tues-
day last.

It is rumoured that Pope Pius Bill be as favourable to
railways as his predecessor was opposed to them.
The North British Railway, extending from Edinburgh
to Berwick, has now been completed, and was opened
yesterday for general traffic.

MANCHESTER, BUXTON, IVIATLOCK, AND MIDLAND
JUNCTION.—The preamble of this bill was on Monday
declared proved.
The amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1800
miles of railway, was £151,055.. thus accounted for :
£92,369 for the conveyance of passengers only. £29,391
for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £29,295 for
passengers and goods together, not respectively appor-
tioned ; being an increase over the corresponding week of
last year of £14,024. _

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"EST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—The committee on
this railway decided on Monday that the preamble
was not proved. Amongst the witnesses were Mr. Thos.
Sands and Dr. Duncan, of this town. The latter stated
that he had made the medical stati'tics of Liverpool his
study for several years, and considered that as the rail-
way would lead to the erection of villas about Crosby, the
air of which was most salubrious, it would be extremely
desirable for the people of Livrnpool.
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Til E GUAGES. —The London and Birmingham has lost,
during the week, the Warwickshire bills, which it pro-
moted, whilst the broad gauge interests have obtained, in
the committee, their bill from Oxford to Birminghom.
This event, says the Railway Chronicle, practically re-
opens the whole question of the guages ; for to suppose
that the broad gunge, being allowed to go within 30 miles
of Birmingham, will stop at the little village of Fenny
Compton, is quite absurd. The House of Lords and an
Act of Parliament have still to sanction the Board of
Trade's reversal of the Guage Commissioners' Report.
The long-pending contest between the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham and Stour Valley Railway Companies on the
one hand, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and
Dudley on the other, was terminated on Tuesday. An
arrangement has been made, in virtue of which the upper
line, by West Bromwich and Wednesbury, between Bir-
mingham and Wolverhampton, is apportioned to the
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley ; while the
lower, or canal line, is given to the other two companies.
The select committee have decided to allow two stations
in Birmingham.