Glasgow Courier. — 1844-09-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

RAILWAY JIINCTIOII. were for the most part, of an inferior quality, and the sale of this on was dull. This was probably owing to the fair of RutherPROPOSED JUNCTION Or IRS 10101111 - Ina OD MiIIOMESTIM dation and glen being held on the same day, and the few purchasers AND BIRMINGHAM AND M•lloldirralliMMlLGl•2ll, WITH van deaf. L/YERPOOL AND MANCHICSTEM LIM who attended. Of those sold, a few brought from £3O to We understand that the losg-ef innotion of these £4O; but many were sold at less than the half of these railways, by a line to the south of with alestral Its- sums. Cheese was about sixpence a atone dearer than lest morals and ton in the neighbourhood of Onfded Woad, has beenWeity deter- year. „maw_ mined upon; and, from the energy with which rallweig Smelts's- Fires.—On Sunday morning the wrights' shop attached nit., full of meats are just now being prosecuted, we may anticipalisite speedy to Herr Mill, Beith, belonging to Mr. James Crawford, c, thus anformation. Onr readers may remember that we contended for the advantages of this junction long before the present lies was completely destroyed by fire. It is thought that two through Manobaster to the present terminus in Runt's Wok was men the worse of liquor, who had found means of enter. the dew of conceded. Westerman that each a junction with two Mb power- lug during the night, were the accidental cause of the ode by the ml companies SS the ilbadheid and Manchester and Birmingham damage. Nothing is left of the building but the walls.— ' inere„aeked and Manchester must event-tally be made, end that a MOPS oentral revel" n 'n- station than that at linnt'a Bank, for the Liverpool traffic, would About mid-day on Monday, another fire broke out in a And for. be loudly called for; and it may now, at least, be questioned thatched house in Menford Lane, Kilmarnock, connected ligion—and whether the Board of the Liverpool and Manchester dfid well at with the large printing establishment of Messrs. Anderson, , and sepa- the time in submitting to waive tihnir admitted prefcrearefor that lll‘Gregor, & Co., and in the immediate vicinity of Messrs. junction, and expending so largos HIM upon the lineehrough Sal- Blackwood's extensive spinning-mills. At first, from the ford, by which nothing but the Leeds walk is tendleed, and IM dryness of the thatch, it was feared that the fire would pay for which passengers between the two towns here to submit to the imposition of an additional-shilling per head Mores already cause much damage; but it fortunately happened that there exorbitant. Whilst upon this sabieet, we may be estemed if we was a plentiful supply of water at band, and also a great throw out a hint or two to the directors of, what we way oall, our many workmen, who exerted themselves in the most praiseown railway. The station to be formed in Oxford Reed will, no worthy manner; and thus the devouring element was very doubt, be one worthy of three such wealthy companies as those • which it will unite. The existing stations in Manchester are suf- soon overcome. ficiently commodious and splendid. Compared with them, the Appalling Case of Suicide.—On Saturday sennight, Liverpool station is a paltry affair in every respect, and affords Samuel M.Callum, carpet-weaver, Kilmarnock, who had perhaps the least amount of public comfort and convenience lobe been indulging rather too freely, and who had had a querfound at the terminus of any leading railway in the kingdom. rel with his wife, left his house and was not heard of for Surely this might be amended; and comfortable waiting and re. several days. n Friday week, e wasfound in a par l d 0 li ' k freshment rooms at least might he provided, if we are to have nothing better. We psi quite sufficient for travelling upon this line near Bonnington, in the neighbourhood of Kilmarnock, his to entitle us to look for decant accommodation at both its termini. throat cut out ear to ear, and holding a razor firmly grasped in his hand. From the state the body was in, it is