Workmen are now actively engaged in carrying on the works
con- nected with tine Brighton and London Railway; and hitherto, we be- lieve, every thing has proceeded satisfactorily. The opening which has been made in the north side of Clayton Hill, for the purpose of divert- ing the road there to make room for the tunnel.shafts, has very much improved the view. The observatory also is a pretty object, and the view from it must be beautiful. The shafts fur wonking the tunnel have been set out, and the workmen are actively engaged in sinking them ; and they are also fencing in that portion of the laud which has been taken by the company for the railway. The Shoreham branch has been set out ; and workmen are employed upon it in Goldstone. bottom, where an embankment is to be formed. We understand, the contractors have taken Goldstone barn and premises of Mr. Stanford, to be used as workshops and dwellings for the men. It gives us muck pleasure to be enabled to convey this interestir.g intelligence to our readers, who, knowing the importance of a railway communication between London and Brighton, have been disposed to censure this company for an apparent want of energy. We learn too that active operations have been commenced between Merstham and Croydon.— Brighton Herald.
The works of the Great North of England Railway, near North- allerton, which were in a state of great forwardness, and partly finished on the south side of the Castle Hill, were unfortunately stopped on Wednesday evening, by the sudden fall of a massive bridge over the Willow Beck, which was nearly finished ; by which three men have been severely injured. It happened, providentially, that most of the workmen had left a few minutes previous to its fall, or the consequences might have been fatal to several of them.— Tyne Mercury.
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