The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

CONTRACTS LET ON THE SHEFFIELD AND
MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
We understand that the directors of the Sheffield and
Manchester Line have just succeeded in letting two more of
their contracts upon very advantageous terms. One of these
is the Etherow Viaduct, which has been taken considerably
under the estimate of the engineer; and the other the Wood-
head Contract, a length of seven miles, which has also been
let under the estimate. The contractors are Mr. Joel Bux-
ton, and Messrs. Miller and Blackie, of this town, both of
whom have before executed contracts for this company, and
given the highest satisfaction.
EMPLOYMENT OF PAUPERS UPON A CONTRAOT BY THE
SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—We under-
stand that in consequence of some delay in getting possession
of the land, Messrs. Buxton and Clark have not yet been
able to set to work an additional number of hands. It is sa-
tisfactory to learn that the men who are employed work
very heartily, and have already made surprising progress. It
is moreover stated that they are able to earn from Is. 6d. to
2s. per day, but as they become more accustomed to the la-
bour, we trust they will be able to improve upon this. The
Board of Guardians, with a view to the employment of a
greater number of men, have requested the directors to let
another contract, and we understand that the question is to
be considered at the meet4ng of the directors on Monday
next.—Sheffield Independent.
A correspondent of the Railway Times remarks of the
Manchester and Birmingham Railway,—
" You are aware, that under the new agreement the Grand
Junction Company work and provide all things requisite for
all the traffic or the Manchester and Birmingham Company
between Crewe and Birmingham. The Manchester line is
therefore a mere branch. 31 miles lope. instead of hping (oa
originally designed) a main trunk of something like a 100
miles (inclusive of its branches.)
" And yet, for this- mere shadow of its former self, the
directors (of whom, by-the-bye, there are about a dozen,
who divide £BOO amongst them) baye already appointed a
manager at a salary of a thoufatid per atirturn;_a treasurer,
with six hundred; a goods traffic manager, with £4OO ; a
storekeeper, with £200; a book-keeper, with, I think, £300;
a resident (besides a " consulting") engineer, with £3OO ;
making an outlay among these higher functionaries of about
£3OOO per annum, in addition to the directors' allowance on
the one hand, and to the salaries of the subordinate (and,
perhaps, really working) members of the establishment, such
as superintendents of engines, of police, &c., on the other
" Surely this monstrous evil ought not to be allowed to
continue even for one half-year."
[The above, we must say, is a pretty fair staff for the ma
nagement of such a concern as the Birmingham and Man-
chester Railway, shorn as it is of its' once magnificent
pretensions. But all connected with the, direction of this
undertaking are large gentlemen ; and we can wonder little
at any extravagance they may be guilty of.—Ed. L. S.]

TIME BARGAINS IN SHARES.—The publication of a
clause in the new bankrupt act, which will shortly come into
operation, has caused some uneasiness among the dealers in
shares. This act will reach most of the parties usually en-
gaged in time bargains, and the clause particularly alluded to
provides that all certificates shall be void if the bankrupt,
" in any gaining, or wagering, loses £2O, or within one year
next preceding his bankruptcy has lost £2OO by any con-
tract for the purchase or sale of. any government or other
stock, where such contract was not performed within one
week after the contract, or where the stock bought or sold
was not actually transferred or delivered in pursuance of
such conduct.". A more decisive death-blow to time bar-
gains can scarcely be conceived.—Railway Tines.
EFFECT OF. HIGH FARES.—The Blackwall Railway Com-
pany have this week lost upwards of £l2O by the raising of
the fares, as compared with the corresponding
.week of last
yesr, while the number of passengers has diminished from
46,034 to 27,551. •
THE LEEDS AND MANCHESTER JUNCTION WITH THE
MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL. RAILWAY.—The utmost
exertions are making by the former company to complete
their part of this important work. By the end of this week
the centres of eight arches will be fixed in the immediate vi-
cinity of thz intended station, Hunt's Bank, whilst in nearly
every part of the Junction line equal exertions appear to be
making. The Liverpool company, however, appear to be
much more sluggish in their operations, as an immense num-
ber of houses have yet even to be pulled down, It would
seem to be impossible that the Liverpool and Manchester
company will be able to complete their part of the under-
taking in anythipg like the time that the Leeds and Man-
chester appear certain to do.—Leeds Mercury.
Respecting railway affairs there is little to notice this week.
The Eastern Counties meeting was to have taken place to-
day, but as the late wet weather has interrupted the hoped-
for completion of the line to Colchester, it stands adjourned
to the 28th of October, it being thought desirable to have the
line opened to that point before the shareholders go into a
discussion of the prospect of their investment.
The West London Railway Company have not yet conclud-
ed the arrangement to carry on the works, the Manchester
shareholders requiring time to consider the proposition made
relative to the issue of new shares. Another meeting is to be
held to hear the determination they come to, when it is pro-
posed, should the acceptance of the terms be declined, to
give the public the option of coming in to the assistance of
the directors.—City Article—Times of yesterday.
Ths following,are the receipts of railways for the past week
—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns
are made Birmingham, £17,262 Western,
£14,632.;. ; Great
£14,632 Brighton, ; and Selby,nulll,2o62';
Eastern Counties, £1,077 ; Birmingham and Derby, 2'14
South-Western. ; Manchester and Leeds £5,018;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, £1,995;
North
Midland, £1,822;
Greenwich, 735 Great North of England,
Mid-
land Counties. £2,841 ; and South-__ £1,323 • , Mid-
Eastern £1,559.
RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS. I
spectable authority, that " —We are told, upon high Y".•
an entirely new desctiption of
railway carriage has been invented, by a professional gentle-
man at Hamnierstnith, which may be prope , lied without tne
.
aid of steam, at an extraordinary eueedang silty
miles per hour, with coscillation,
or the possibilit •of omparative safet, withont _
turning over by the loss of sysvheel or an
axletree breaking,pleprinciple,
and worked upon a mostsidt
and which will, no doubt, dinar
eventually become them y
mode of railway travelling for short distances; Trom the cir-
cumstance that the railroad and carriages maybe constructed
and kept in repair at less than a fourth- of the usual expense."

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—An extraor-
dinary and most inhuman attempt was made on Sunday last,
by a man named James Mailers, or Mallard, to murder his
wife, at llemingford, Cambridgeshire. Mailers and his
father-in-law lived next door to one another, and on Sunday
afternoon, during divine service, whilst all the persons resid-
ing in the house adjoining his own were at church; he enticed
his wife, who is Pregnant, to the brink of a well in the back
part of the premises, and, watching his opportunity, when
the unfortunate woman's attention was engaged, be seized
her suddenly and threw her headforemost into the well, which
is about 10 or 12 feet deep. In the fall the poor creature's
head came upwards, and, as there was not more than five
feet of water in the well, she was enabled to keep her._ mouth
above the surface. Seeing that his object was not likely to
he effected, the murderous wretch jumped down upon her
shoulders and endeavoured to trample her under the water.
During this attempt the struggles of the woman for life were
dreadful ; and each time that her head rose above the surface
she made use of the brief breathing space to beseech him in
the most agonizing tones to spare her,
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, who is supposed to have come to London.-
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