The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH COURT. (AMENDMENT OP ACTS.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the Session of for an Act to repeal, alter, extend, amend, or enlarge gime of the provisions of the following local and personal Acts relating to the Local Court of Record, commonly called the hurt of Passage, of the Borough of Liverpool : that is to say, r t lAtt of the 4th and sth William IV., cap. 92 ; an Act of the :land 7th William IV. cap. 135 ; an Act of the Ist Victoria, I,r; ;an Act of the Ist and 2nd Victoria, cap. 99 ; and an "of the sth Victoria. cap. 52. And it is proposed by the : Ai d intended Act to alter the jurisdiction of the said Court, nd to limit, and in certain cases to extend, such jurisdiction, Vto confer powers to improve and simplify the practice in ° conduct of actions therein, and the trial of issues and pro tsedi.- gs subsequent thereto, and to render the said Court fore efficient for the administration of justice. t`Sdln NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN, that Copies of the BS A will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of - ",mtnons, on or before the 31st day of December next. D ated this 15th - day of November, 1852. WSI. SHUTTLEWORTH, Town-Clerk of Liverpool, Solicitor for the intended Act. together with a copy of this Notice, be deposited before the same day at the Residence of the PARISH-CLERIC of that Parish. Printed Copies of the Bill will be deposited at the Private Bill-office of the House of Commons, before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Dated this twelfth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. JOHN WHITLEY, Clerk to tke Company. LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY (REDUCTION OF TOLLS FOR USE OF PART OF THE LANCA SHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY-LEVEL CROSSING IN NORTH MEOLS-POWER TO LEVY TOLLS IN RESPECT OF AINSDALE BRANCH-AMENDMENT OF ACTS.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is Ili intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session, by the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Company, for an Act to alter the existing tolls, rates, and ditties limited by " The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Act. 1847," and by " The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Amendment Act, 1850," or either of them, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of such tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights and privileges, and a l s o t o a lt er an d reduce the tolls, ratesiand charges payable in respect of the passage of all traffict 'ming to or from the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, upon or along that part of the Lanca shire and Yorkshire Railway which lies between the terminus (Pa r , - of the said last-mentioned Railway, at Tithebarn-street, Liver ri-, ISIONs RELATING TO BUILDINGS-SEWERS AND pool, and the point of junction of the same Railway with the ;RAINS STREET IMPROVEMENTS-NUISANCES AND AN- said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, such part of , - ' O YANCES-WAGGON. AND PUBLIC VEH ICLES-LODGING FansEs AND PLACES-POLICE SUPERANNUATION FUND- the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway being wholly in the caunty . of . Lancaster. 'llaosiTioat FOR RATES-MORTGAGES- AMENDMENT OF And it is proposed by the said intended Act, to take powers H ers.) ..., to enable the said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway --,---- Company to carry over th e li ne o f th e sa id R a il way on th e NOTICE IS HEREI6' GIVEN, that Application is level, a certain public road or highway, commonly called intended to be made to Parliament, in the Sess ion of 1853, Hawes Side-lane, in the township of North Meols, in the parish for au Act to repeal the Local and Personal Act, fifth of Vic- of North Meals, in the county of Lancaster, either as such road t." 5, chapter forty-four, commonly known in Liverpool an d or highway at present exists, or as the same may hereafter be t.s.reinafter referred to as "The Health Act," and t o re _ enac t , deviated or diverted ; and also to levy tolls, rates. and duties in o ; i biect to certain alterations, additions, and amendments, all respect of a branch line of Railway constructed by the said b,. o ,rne of the provisions of the said Act, and to make further company, commencing at or from the Ainsdale Station of the Vision touching the construction, alteration, repair, fencing said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, in the township liana filling up, removal, and regulation of buildings, excaya- of Ainsdale and parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, in the county of li, and other works for or connected with buildings, or of a Lancaster, and terminating at or near Segar's-lane, in the :e nature thereto, within the Borough of Liverpool, and also township of Halsall, and parish of Halsall, in the said county. 4 1 ching the materials and foundations of !Thildings, anti all And it is further proposed by the said intended . act, so far as t o el:Matters incidental thereto, or otheravise in any manner may be necessary for the several objects aforesaid, or any or truing to buildings, excavations, or works, as aforesaid ; and either of them, and also for other objects, to alter, amend, 4 40 touching interments of the dead within the said Borouel, extend, enlarge, or repeal, or to ame n d, re p ea l, an d re - enac t, t fl to am en d, so f ar as m ay be rendered necessary by the 're- all or some of the powers and provisions of "The Liverpool, Fai of the said Act, such of the provisions of the Local and Crosby, and Southport Railway Act, 1847," "The Liverpool, Penal Acts, 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 109, and 7th and Bth Crosby, and Southport Railway Amendment Act, 1850," "The ktoria cap. 51, as would lie affected by such repeal. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway (Sale or Lease) Act, s t :rld it is proposed by the said intended Act, to extend, 1850, " "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1836," "The s ts e nd, enlarge, and regulate the powers and duties of Survey- Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1837,' "The M a nch es t er „of Buildings within the said Borough, and to authorize the anti Leeds Railway Act, 1839," "The Manch e st e r and Leeds 42 0 intment of Vrt i n relation to the construction or alteration of buildings, Official Referees, to decide, determine, or Railway Act, 1841," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 844," "The Manchester and Leeds R a il wa y Act, N o . 1. 1845," isig d "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, No. 2, 1845," "The O f i" Powers for regulating the payment of such Surveyors an t 'lnOrtc or determinations. el Referees, and enforcing compliance with their orders, Ma nchester and Leeds Railway Act , 1846 ." "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, No. 1, 1847," "The Manchester and e , u ;and it is proposed by the said intended Act, to make various Leeds Railway Act, No. 2, 1847," " The Manchester and Leeds I . o',.! r alions in the Local and Personal Act, 9th and 10th Railway Act, No. 3, 1847," "The Ashton, Stalybridge. and sa.„ - "a, chapter 127, (commonly known in Liverpool and herein- Liverpool Junction Railway Act, 1844," "The Ashton, Staly tZr referred to as the " Sanitary Act,") with respect to bridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway Act, 1845," "The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway Act, 1831," Iti, r s, sewerage. and drainage, within the said Borough, and 140arge, rate, or assess the owners of lands, buildings, and " The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway Act, in e ditaments with the cost of sewers, sewerage, and drainage 1832," "The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway la t e :rtain cases, and to direct the application ,of such charges, Act, 1835," "The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and t 5 8, or assesAments, and to repeal the provisions of the Sani- Railway Act, 1838," "The Manchester, I3olton, and Bury Canal a c r 3 Y Act, enablin; the occupiers of property within the said and Railway Act, No. 2, 1846," "The Manchester, Bolton, and ro ugh to deduct one-half of the sewer rate levied upon and Bury and Manchester and Leeds Canal and Railways' Act, ", ay such occupiers from any rent payable to the owner of 1846, " "The Liverpool and Bury Railway Act, 1845/' "The Liverpool and Bury Railway Act, 1846," " The Liverpool tea Property, and in lieu thereof to authorize such occupiers ii !duct the' whole, or a larger proportion than one-half, of and Bury, and Manchester and Leeds Railways Act, 1846," t s J ' , ewer rate, from the rent payable by such occupiers, and 'The Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway Act, 1845," alpttend the period limited by the Sanitary Act during which "The Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction and Manchester and Leeds Railways Act, 1846," "'Pte West Riding Union Railways le Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the said Borough are h stired to pay a certain annual sum of money for sewerage Act, 1846," "The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway Dis.'neses, within the Parish of Liverpool, and to alter the ap- Act, 1845," "The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway C - ation, directed by the Sanitary Act, of moneys arising from Branches Act, 1846 ." "The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole l4";aies levied and received by virtue of that Act, and from Railway and Port of Goole Act, 1846," "The Manchester and Nide,le of dirt, dust, night-soil, and filth ; and to authorize the Rahway and Act, 18 . 47," " The Old . liam Alliance Railway Ito 4 ayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses to expend such moneys Act, 1847,' " The Lancashire and I orkshire Railway Act,1848," tibe execution of works by the Sanitary Act or the said in- An Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 9th is d d ed Act directed or authorised to he executed by them ; and 10th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled pa rc h enable the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, to "Anti Act for vesting in the Grand Junction Railway Company lse or lease and to hold lands or buildings within or e Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, the North le e. eut the limits of the said Borough, or e'sements or privi- Union Railway, and all the works, property, and . effects apper -14,7 over or upon lands or building's, for sewerage, drainage, taming thereto, 'an Act passed in the said Session of Parlia- A,, e Ning, and other purposes. ment, held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present te n "d it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter or amend Majesty, intituled "An Act for enabling the Hull and Selby le,„4„in of the provisions of the Sanitary Act with respect to Railway Company to lease, and also to sell, their Railway to 1114.",_1ng, paying and &vine' streets, and other places, whe- the York and North 'Midland and Manchester and Leeds Rail kst.niithways or' not, and to make further and better provi- way Companies, or one of them, and to authorise the raising of iN t „,„" with respect thereto, and to extend the provisions con- additional . money by both or either of the last-mentioned corn itite'" in the sections of the Sanitary Act, from 39 to 43 inch'. panics for those or other purposes," an Act passed in the said ittie.and from 102 to 104 inclusive, to sewering and draining, as session of par i liament, held ie thy, 9th . and 10th years of tne k. reign of . ler . present M . aje . intituled " An Act for A n !s.leyelling, forming, paving, flagging, and other purposes. litav;stt is proposed by the said intended Act to make further ma ing certain Lines of Railway in the West Riding of bts,,,•'slons as to laying out and making streets, and to alter the the County of York, to be called ' The Sheffield, Rather ,lf batons of the Sanitary Act, with respect to fixing the level ham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Rail ‘o reefs and measuring the width of streets, and with respect way,' " " The York and North 'Midland (Hull Station) Rail-- tos t %, ° viding, and constructing, cleansing and repairing, way "The,Leeds Central Railway Station Act, tsi 4.ll -ting house-drains, water-closets, urinals, cess-pools, 1148, ' " Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and °I l.aa, ash-pits, and other works of the like nature, in or near North Western Railways (Preston and \Vyre Railway, Harbour, and . Dock Vesting) Act, 1849." " The Lancashire and York kia ' I ,n connexion with houses, warehouses, manufactories, shire Railway Act, 1849," " The Lancashire and Yorkshire kir' , O taer erections, already built or hereafter to be built; Railway Act, 1850," " The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ,414`,, ° make new provisions and to °aye the Council of the Act, 1852," " The York and North Midland and Lancashire •eitt e "°rOugh further power ' s, in respect to all or any such and Yorkshire Arrangement Act, 1852," "The East Lanes- AsP: ,Tisj.. 4 is rroposed by the said intended Act to make further • shire Railway Act, 1844," being an Act for making a Railway , 1 11p 1 .,'',° 1 a for preventing nuisances, whether from smoke or from the Manchester and Bolton Railway, in the parish of L'ity",,, le, and for enforcing the use of furnaces and fire-places Eccles, to the parish of Whalley, all in the county palatine of Ns:" tne said Borough, and in steam-vessels on the River Lancaster, to be called " The Manchester, Bury, and Rossen fl,ale Railway ;" "The East Lancashire Railway Act, 1845," Sat.'eY, constructed on a principle for consuming or prevent te/tirn°l(e, and for enforcing the raising or altering of chim- The East Lancashire Railway Act, 1845, (No. 2,)" "The bite or the adoption of other means for the prevention of , East Lancashire Deviation and Branch Railways Act, 1846," rl The East Lancashire Rail wa y A ma l gamat i on Act, 1846;" And ildre or annoyance from smoke, gas, or vapour. " The East Lancashire Rail wa y D ev i at i ons an d R awstenstall 1,l te r, SO m uc h o f th e Loc a l a nd Personal Act sth and 6trepeal, extend ~ Coal Branch Act, 1847," " The 'E as t L ancas hi re R a i lway Act, et, 1: , ,: 1847, (Preston Extension,)" "The Blackburn and Preston I.'', chapter 106, (commonly known in I.iverpool Railway Act, 1844," being an Act for making a Railway from 414 r e reinafter referred to as the Improvement and Po , the town of Blackburn to the North Union Railway, in the ° to ',et,/ asrelates to the removal of night soil or other . township of Farrington, near Preston, all in the county of ~ci ii - e ad to obstructions nuisances, and annoy- Lancaster ; " The Blackburn and Preston Railway Act, 1345," c',!ll e 4l,the streets and tboroughfa . res', and . also to amend the "The Blackburn and Preston Railway Act, 1846." " The Li- L'atj a "„'S and the Sanitary Act by inserting provisions for pre- : verpool, Orm . skirk, and Preston Railway Act, 1846," " The ~.'tsa n, c,injury to carriage ways and footways within the said East . Lancashire Railway Act, 1849," and " The East Lance- NlL'', especially by . en . forcing . the . construction .. of proper shire Railway Act, 1851." 01 1 . ts, and by prohiblting the d o r r iving,Urawmorsee a li n n d g AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN, that Copies of 'ell ", I 'ees or other vehicles over along such footways, eat4 l 'ng for the recovery of damages for injury thereto. the Bill relating to the objects aforesaid will be deposited on ~esit il t is proposed by the said intended Act to make further or before the Thirty-first day of December, 1852, in the Pri vate Bill Office of the House of Commons. t aliCji with respect to the licensing and regulation of public jris t Scif every description li, use within the said Borough, Dated the 2nd day of November, 1852. 'Oy e ,, 'lle drivers, conductors, and others in charge of or em- DUNCAN, SQUAREY, anti DUNCAN, Liverpool, likto`l about the same, and for regulating the dimensions of Solicitors for the Bill. qa, carts, and other such-like vehicles, and the loadin H. and W. TOOGOOD, Ne e 1 and to amend the Sanitary Act and Improvement and 22, Parliament-street, Westminster, Oseart with reference to all or any of such matters. Parliamentary Agents. a i elld' t is Proposed by the said intended Act to give the owners they 4 and buildings greater powers and facilities as against t Leli A Piers thereof for carrying Into effect the provisions of tslh e „ et, and of the Sanitary Act, and to make provision for Oth, -e ation in respect of damage done to houses, buildings, , 11,Yhereditaments, by works authorized or to be author sAbasSanitary Act or the said intended Act. : l i , l or is proposed by the said intended Act to make provi kl ai,Dreventing over-crowding in places used for human l4lts r ,l'n, and to repeal or alter such of the provisions of the Ve ar Y Act as require a notice to be given of the provisions kilio4 , ,Prohibiting the occupation of cellars previous to a con -o', 'ar offending against such provisions, and to extend, siti,Aild enlarge such provisions, and to fix pecuniary and t 1 the breach thereof, and of such new provisions, and tl4l..ot,lier provisions, with respect to places used or in itala ii'i ne used for human habitation. lla' th e , is also proposed by the said intended Act to repeal or il f , t iko allth and 81st sections of the Sanitary Act requiring 4,' 1 it,,7 1 ,ouncil to give notice and hold a meeting prior to kitnis .',king, or abandoning certain works, end empowering ,sto,aZgrieved thereby to appeal against the same, and to es t i L.ner provisions in lieu thereof. y,, e o n is proposed by the said intended Act to enable the `SIn ril to make bye-laws touching all, or any of the %last herein before contained-or which may be desirable or lisieur ensuring, or securing the safety, health, comfort, or 'lee of the inhabitants and others within the said a'alth. L IVERPOOL SANITARY AND OTHER LOCAL ACTS SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY, (CONSOLIDATION AND AMENDMENT OR REPEAL OF ACTS ADJUSTMENT OF SHARE CAPITAL, BORROWING POWERS, AND MORTGAGE DEBT OF THE COMPANY-CONVERSION OF SHARE CAPITAL INTO STOCK-SCALE OF VOTING-CREA TION OF NEW SHARES FOR PAYMENT OF DEBT-POWERS TO RUN OVER THE WARRINGTON AND ALTRINCHAM JUNC TION AND CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAYS.) NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is ±N intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session thereof, for an Act to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, or to repeal in whole or in part, ar4to consolidate and re-enact, with such amendments as may lot necessary, the Acts hereinafter specified, relating to the lirewsbury and Chester Railway ; (that is to say) Local d Personal, 7 and 8 Victoria, chapter 99; 8 and 9 Victoria, iapters 42 and 115; 9 and 10 Victoria, chapters 250, 251, 27 , and 275 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, chapter 144; 12 and 13 Victoria, apter 55 ;14 and 15 Victoria, chapter 131 ; and 15 and 16 Vi toria. chapter 146; by which Act it is in tended to dissoWe the Shrewsbury and Chester itailway Com pany, and in their stead to incorporate into a new Company the present holders of shares in the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, and to transfer to and vest in such new Company the whole Railways, stations, shares of joint stations, piers, wharves, jetties, landing places, works, lands, property, capital, stock, shares, estate, and effects, of or belonging to the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, and all the rights, powers, privileges, and authorities vested in and exercised or enjoyed by the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company ; and to enable such new Company to levy toils, rates, and duties for or in respect of the Railways, wharves, piers, landing places, and works, vested in or bebng ing to the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company; and, if need be, to alter, vary, or increase the tolls, rates, and duties payable and authorized to be taken for or in respect of the said Railways, wharves, piers, landing places, and works, and to enable such new Company to levy other and additional tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish ex emptions from the payment of any such tolls, rates, and duties, and also other rights and privileges. And it is also proposed by the said intended Act, to confer on the said new Company further and more efficient powers than those at present possessed by the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, in reference to the construction, maintenance, regulation, and management of the several un dertakings of the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Com pany, and also to fix, regulate, ascertain, and determine, the share capital and borrowing powers of the said new Company ; and to regulate, confirm, and determine, the rights of the dif ferent classes of Shareholders, and the payment of interest and dividends in respect of shares or stock in the Company ; and to authorize the conversion and consolidation of all or any part of the shares of the capital of the Company into a general ca pital stock, and to fix and regulate the scale of voting in respect of such shares or stock, and also to authorize the closing of the register of transfers of shares at and for such period prior to any Special or Extraordinary Meeting of the Company, as the Company or the Directors thereof shall think fit, or as may be provided in and by the said intended Act. ' ll n k La Proposed by the said intended Act to . repeal or 4 to ' 4 4th ction of the Improvement and Police Act re- Liverpool Police Relief Fund," and to authorize [ l l '4a f ilment, maintenance, and support of a Superannua. 1; or the officers and men, now or hereafter, belonging ti o Verpool Constabulary Force, and for the relief of their ' }, tt ibT,; (l ; °ws, and children, by means of stoppages from, and b • such officers and men, and by payments to id o r oY or } on behalf of the Borough, out of the Borough ° therwise. and by means of the payments, .interest, h t 17' and profits, now made or payable to the said Liver ?kire Relief Fund ; and for regulating such Superannua -1)k. and the investment of moneys payable thereto, by i t i ranient of Trustees and otherwise. Proposed by the said intended Act further to amend 4 4 ts , s l 'ott of the Sanitary Act, and of the Improvement and and of the Local and Personal Act 21 George 1 . 1., 111 1 , 1 `fttnonly known in Liverpool as " The Lighting " to authorize the Council of the said Borough to of t e°fl irnittees, and delegate to such committees all or leq ,"' Powers for carrying the said Acts and the said 4 ta hr ,t , ct into execution ; and to authorize the Council I .kld with the owners Drat Tenements within the said h, 7 4 AT! all or ai y of the s chargeable by virtue of t kiC f `Ltl, or of the said intended Act, and to make better ;'`ed ' o r the recovery of rates and compositions for rates pct or due under or by virtue of the provisions of hlor,"jespectively • and with respect to the borrowing 9f letfegecurity of the rates by the Sanitary Act, or the said Steet. authorized to be levied, and to paying off money at r ,,,nd . to re-tistering and transferring mortgages, or tc(47.ating to such mortgages. 1 , 111 11;11, 1 0E IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN, that copies of oe deposited at the Private Bill Office of the House 7 1ti i ' °, on or before the 31st day of December next. ta 15th day of November, 1852. WM. SHUTTLEWORTH, Town-Clerk of Liverpool, Solicitor for the intended Act. INT — PARLIAMENT.—SESSION, 1853. And it is also intended by the said Act to enable the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, or the said new Company to be incorporates in their stead as aforesaid, to borrow money, and to convert the money borrowed, or which may be borrowed by them, into capital, by the creation and issue of shares or stock bearing a guaranteed or preferable dividend of such amount, not exceeding three-and-a-half per centum per annum, and with such special privileges as shall be fixed by the said Bill. 41x, It,. " 11 HELENS CANAL AND RAILWAY And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, or the Company to be incorporated in their stead as aforesaid, to run over and use with their own engines, carriages, and waggons, or with engines, carriages, and waggons coming to or from the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway or any of their branches or stations, the several lines of Railway following: (that is to say) the Warrington and Altrincham Junction Rail way. and the Chester and Holyhead Railway, from its point of junction with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway at or near Saltney, in the Parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, in the County of the City of Chester, to the terminus of the said Chester and Holyhead Railway at Holyhead ; and also the whole stations, sidings, watering places, wharves, landing stages, and other works belonging to or connected with the said Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway. and Chester and Holyhead Rail. way respectively ; and to alter and limit the tolls, rates, and duties, authorized to be levied under the Acts relating to the said Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway Company, and Chester and Holyhead Railway Company respectively, so far as the same would be leviable in respect of such engines, carriages, and waggons, passing on and along tie said War rington and Altrincham Junction and Chester and Holyhead Railways respectively; And it is also proposed by the said in tended Act to enable and require the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, or the Company to be incorporated in their stead as aforesaid. and the said Warrington and Altrincliam Junction Railway Company, and the said Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, to book through all passengers and other traffic passing to, from, or beyond the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, from, to, or beyond any point or place on the said Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway, or the said Chester and Holyhead Railway, and to receive, forward, and convey, to their or its destination, all passengers and other traffic so booked, by the first practicable train conveying the like description of traffic, along the route over which the same is to be forwarded, and to vary or extinguish all rights or privileges, if any, which could or might interfere with the ob jects aforesaid, or any of them. t l ,BOl/i ‘i•A ",..T HELENS CANAL AND RAILWAY I, l ll t tor i e Y intend to apply to Parliament in the Session t are to introduce a Bill which will contain the fol- Vtlit r Tn_ e of the following, among other powers : Zt v. l.4o„a . Branch Railway, commencing by a Junction G. a lAne of their Railway , . at or near to the point rd's Bridge Branch joins the Main Line, in the i l 4 , k l . •tit ton , in the Parish of Prescot, passing through p r u e te, Hardshaw-within-Windle, Saint Helens. Rain ttvrtlal the acot, and terMinating by a Junction with the ' 0 .. Bury Line/of the Lancashire and Yorkshire iv :lear to the Bridge by which News-lane is carried kto i ta PY !t,?ottevio,!iwayentirely in Rainford aforesaid, leaving the !Vt i Ja rne u_slY/described at or near to a Field in the occu liA4,_ae slid William Woods, in the Township of Rain ttiglizi"usli of Prescot, and terminating at or near to a „li r ,"akt to the Earl of Derby, and in the occupation of ' e r.foot. •o e k - ,,k , e o l 'iway commencing by a Junction with the 041% 1 i 'erY Branch of the Saint Helens Railway, at or 4,4or r ,, n th , e.occupa,tion of . Messrs. Bromilow, Had ai',`,l3, in the T ownsh ip of Sutton, and Parish of t t t (prough Sutton, Eccleston, Prescot, and Saint I.thoanifTwating at Field in the occupation of Mr. t ftii,;Re ; ‘ "too, in the said Township of Eccleston. t tt t athi,„"e Stations of the Saint Helens Railway ; in the , ti N ili ttp4' t Of Sutton. fl !‘l t HO new Road, commencing in the Public Road th e Ta to Warrington. commencing at or near the lel e .erard's Bridg e Branch with the Main Line of 4, 19 t , !, t jivalteatinlway, and terminating in the same Road, at n with Parr-street, all which Works are in 5..- " - STATIONS-CAPITAL AMENDMENT OF ACTS.) i 4 n," 4 te tte -arlds and Houses compulsorily for the pur -4e4l4,°Ye Works, and to extinguish all rights that may tli,`wall Branch, levy Rates' Tolls, and Duties for t t oli4 said Railways and Works. Iti4c o 4 , e into Sto t y xi ting Rhares of the Com -01 fr r . 4l and regulate e e all s existi - ng preferences and heretofore 0-ranted by the Company, or 4 reF, lst) ,?;; to divide the One Hundred Pounds Pre rdkrti of the Company into Two or more Shares, or Otirn? l* of Stock and to attach to each portion 1 1 1 4; 1 ) /b 1) ," Il t rights sod privileges •, and to convert the Debt Ltoer,' now secured by Mortgage or Bond, into a - And it is also propOsed by the said intended Act to authorise the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, or the new Company to be incorporated in their stead asaforesaid, and the Warrington and Altrincham Janction Railway Company, to make, and enter into, and carry into effect such contracts and arrangements as may be or may have been mutually agreed upon by or on behalf of the said Companies, with reference to the conduct, management, and direction of the traffic upon their respective Railways or an part thereof, and the division and apportionment of such traffic, and the tolls, rates, and charges arising therefrom between the said two Companies; and to enable the said two Companies to appoint Committees or a Joint Committee for carrying into effect any such contracts or arrangements, and to exercise, by means of such Committees or Joint Committee, or otherwise, such of the ri g ht s , p owers , and privileges ? whether with reference to the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise, now vested in or belonging to the said two Companies respectively, and all such other rights, powers, and privileges as may be necessary or expedient for more effectually carrying into effect any such contracts or ar rangements. And it is also proposed by the said inter to enable the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Compai 6 . ,,` t z i 'nd extend the powers and provisions of the 'urg e I , e .„Company ; namely, 11th George IV., cap. v., cap. 61 •, 4th William 3j I st " r and 9th Victoria, cap. 117 ; Saint g IW aY Act PilwaY Act, 1846 ;" and "The Saint Helens 18 47. y, p i , ( Tha of the proposed Branch Railways, Road, ~7n of the Enlargements of the Stations, a Book - }, !t!nich tIPB, a published Man, showing the direc- led Act Of the Plati,Sec.74:l7a—tiaioTri.Oiliefeienc Pariah in which the Work will ' sway belOngitig to other Conipanies. ND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that for be made will, HIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1852. carrying into effect the above objects or some of them, it is intended by the Act to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and also to repeal, if need be, all or some of the powers and pro visions of the several Acts of Parliament above mentioned, or some of them, relating to, or affecting the said Shrewsbury and Chester Railway; also, of the Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway Act, 1851; also, of the Acts relating to the Chester and Holyhead Railway (that is to say), Local and Per , sonal, 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 65 ; 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 33 : 10 ' and 11 Victoria, caps. 147 and 238; 11 and 12 Victoria, cap. 0; ' and 12 and 13 Victoria, cap. 41 • also, of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Act, 1852; and of the Acts relating to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway ; (that is to say), Local and Personal, 9 and 10 Victoria, caps. 307 and 3f 8 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 80; 12 and 13 Victoria, cap. 85 ; and 15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 165. And NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that on or before the 31st day of December next, printed copies of the said Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. Dated this Ist day of November, 1852. H. KELSALL, LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY (AMENDMENT OF ACTS; EXTENSION OF POWERS FOR CON STRUCTION OF OLDHAM BRANCH RAILWAY; DEVIATION OF LINE; AND ALTERATION OF LEVELS.) VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the Session of 1853, for an Act to alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or ' some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Par liament, or some of them, following, relating to the London and North Western Railway Company (that is to say) : local and personal Acts, Bth and 9th Vic., caps. 36, 37, 43, 105. 112, 123, 156, and 198; 9th and 'loth Vic., caps. 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 192, 193, 204, 231,;x32, 233. 244, 248, 259, 261, 262, 269, 300, 309, 322, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, 380, and 395; 10th and 11 th Vic., caps. 73, 107, 114, 118, 121, 131, 132, 139, 159, 161, 178, 188, 228, 236, 270, 278, and 294; 11th and 12th Vic., caps. 58, 60, and 130; 12th and 13th Vic., cap. 74; 13th and 14th Vic., cap. 36; 14th and 15th Vic., caps. 28 and 94; and 15th and 16th Vic., caps. 98 and 105 : And it is proposed by the said intended Act to revive the powers granted for the purchase by compulsion of the lands and houses or some of them required for the Branch Railway by "The Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Deviations and Alterations in Oldham Branch) Act, 1847," authorised, and therein described as commencing at or by a junction with the main line of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway, at or near Shaw Hall Bank, in the township of Quick, in the west riding of the county of York, and terminating at or in the town of Oldham, in the township of Oldham, in the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham in the county of Lancaster, by a junction with the Mumps Extension of the Manchester and Leeds (now Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway), at or near Mumps Mill, and passing in, through, into, or along the several parishes, townships, extra-parochial and other places of Rochdale, Saddleworth, Quick, I.ydgate, and Lees, in the west riding of the county of York, and Ashton-under-Lyne, Prestwich-cum-Oldham, Knottlanes, Hartshead, Lees, and Oldham, Oldham above Town, and Oldham below Town , in the county of Lancaster, and to extend the time limited for the construction of said Branch Railway; and to make a diversion and alteration in the line and levels of the said Branch Railway within the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other places aforesaid, or some of the same. And powers will he taken by the said intended Act for the purchase, by compulsion or agreement, of lands and houses for the purposes thereof, and for altering, varying, or extinguish ing all existing rights, powers, and privileges connected with such lands and houses, which would impede or interfere with the objects of the said intended Act ; and also for crossing, varying, diverting, or stopping up permanently or temporarily all roads, streets, footpaths, and other ways, as it may be ne cessary to cross, vary, divert, or alter, in carrying the purposes of the said intended Act into execution; and also for levying tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of such proposed diverted and altered Railway, and for granting exemptions therefrom ; and also for abandoning such parts of the said Railway as now authorised as may become unnecessary by reason of the proposed diversion or alteration. And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the London and North Western Railway Company to apply to the purposes aforesaid any moneys which they are now au thorised to raise, or to raise a further sum of money. And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that a pub lished map, and plans and sections describing the proposed diversion and alteration in the line and lcve!sof the said Branch Railway, and of the lands to be taken for the purposes thereof, together with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of this Notice, as published in the Loudon Gazette, will be depo sited, on or before the thirtieth day of November, 1852, with the Clerk of the Peace of the County of Lancaster, at his Office. in Preston, and with the Clerk of the Peace of the West Riding of the County of York, at his Office, in Wakefield •, and that copies of so much of the said plans, sections. and book of re ference as relates to the several parishes, townships. and extra parochial places in or through which the said Railway is pro posed to be made, together with a copy of this Notice, as pub lished in the Landon Gazette, will be deposited, on or before the said thirtieth day of November, as follows (that is to say) : in the case of parishes, with the parish clerks of such parishes respectively, at their respective places of abode; and in the case of any extra-parochial place, with the clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at the place of abode of such pariah clerk. And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that printed copies of the proposed Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, on or before the thirty-first day of December, in the present year, Dated this 11th day of November, 1852. SAMUEL CARTER, Solicitors. SWIFT and WAGSTAFF, To be *oitt or let. To be LET, a WAREHOUSE, No. 9, Goree piazzas. Apply to Mr. 514.its4c, 5, Old Churchyard. ELIGIBLE BUILDING LAND, NEAR WOODSIDE FERRY. rpo be SOLD, several Thousand Yards of FREE- I HOLD LAND, within a shortiiistance of Woodside Ferry, suitable for the erection of Dwelling-houses, for which a large demand at present exisjs." - _ For further particulars apply to ROBERT TAYLOR, Surveyor, 2, Lord-street, Birkenhead, and Sweeting-street, Castle•street, Liverpool. Manttb. WANTED, a few good WATCH-FINISHERS, at Ovna's, 33, Basnett-street. An Advance will be given. GRAPPENHALL NATIONAL SCHOOLS. WANTED, for the BOYS' SCHOOL, after the Christmas Holidays, a Trained and Certificated MAS TER. Salary, -eat per Annum, with a House, Coals, and Garden, for Leading the Choir in . Church, and there are at present three Pupil Teachers. Applications (with Testimonials) to be made to the Rev. THOMAS GREENALL, Gpripenhall Rectory, near Warrington. THE SECOND ROYAL LANCASHIRE MILITIA. WHEN the force raised in this district, ranking as the SECOND ROYAL LANCASHIRE MILITIA, was first as sembled for training, and when only a few of them bad been supplied with even clothing, many were the sneers indulged in at what was said to be the sorry materials of which Ministers proposed to form a force for the protec tion of the country. The lapse of a single week spent by the men in training and drilling, converted sneers into wonder that the half-ragged, slouching persons, so lately seen going to and returning from the neighbourhood of Everton, in ill-fitting and unaccustomed scarlet, could ro soon have been " set up" and taught to walk with such military precision. In another week the public were amazed in finding them going through the evolutions of the service with somewhat of the coolness and readiness of old soldiers ; and surprise became admiration when, raised to the condition of a well appointed regiment, 1,100 strong, they were seen walking in perfect order through our streets to divine service. Their first period of training has now expired ; and on all hands it is agreed that a body of men more likely to be effective for the object of their being brought together, has rarely been seen. As a general rule, although many of them have un doubtedly been taken under the stature insisted upon by the rules of the general service, they are clean limbed, well-proportioned fellows, capable of hard service and ready for any sort of work. Amongst the most per fect of these is the light company, under the command of Captain Phibbs. It must not be supposed, however, that there are not amongst the corps a considerable number of men of larger build. No. 1 company of grenadiers, com manded by the late Mayor of Liverpool, Captain Litttle dale, need not fear comparison in this respect with any grenadier company in the service, regular or otherwise, ar.d fully maintain the ancient character for the power, stature, and exemplary military bearing of its militia corps possessed by Lancashire during the late war. The greatest credit is due to Colonel Sir Thomas Hesketh and Lieutenant-Colonel Blackburn for the excellent spiri with which they have animated the regiment during the entire period of their training, and for the interest which they appear to have taken in rendering it a " crack corps Fitting credit ought also to be awarded to the officers of the line and pensioners, by whose aid the men have been trained. On Friday his Worship the Mayor entertained the whole of the officers at the Town-hall, on which occasion they were highly complimented by his Worship, and by the inspecting field-officer, Col. Derinzy, who, having wit neised the effect of discipline in the field, is a competent judge of the sort of men who do their duty there. On Saturday they were reviewed by that officer in St. Do mingo-park ; and considering the short period of their training, and their having been brought together from so many uncongenial avocations, they performed their evo lutions in a most creditable manner. At the close of the review the whole regiment wns formed into a hollow square, and addressed in the most flattering terms both by Cal. Derinzy and Col. Sir Thomas Hesketh. Hearty cheers from the men for those officers followed the close of their addresses. On Sunday afternoon the regiment attended garrison service in St. Simon's Church, where the Rev. J. R. Conor preached a most impressive sermon to them. It is a most gratifying fact that the conduct of the regiment, both when on duty and off, has been most excellent during the period of their being assembled. EGYPT AND THE NlLE.—This beautiful and highly in structive exhibition of the ancient land of Egypt, and the classic river Nile, continues to attract numerous spectators to the Panorama Hall. An attractive feature has been added to it in the delivery of lectures, showing how the antiquities of Egypt illustrate the truths of Holy Writ, both history and prophecy. DEFICIENT WEIGHTS.—His Worship the Mayor, Holmes, Esq., presided in the police -court yesterday, when a large number of parties were Om. plained of by the inspector of weights and measures for having improper and deficient weights and scales. There were no less than 69 persons fined in various sums, several Lis Worship observing that he was Sa rou au parties onenaing, protrottv la to who ought to have full and sufficient w ;lit and measure for their - money. Kiberpoot #kanbatt, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 30, 1852. THE VILLIERS' MOTION AND ITS RESULTS. A PEEP behind the scenes of the political theatre is a matter of considerable curiosity and interest to the uninitiated spectator. The "vulgar" had, before last Thursday night, but little idea of the trouble and fuss, the setting of scenes, the fixing of traps, the learning of cues, the consultings and schemings, incident to the "getting up" of a great Anti-Ministerial motion. Sir JAMES GRAHAM on that night treated the public to a view of the preparations which had been made before the curtain rose for the performance of that popular actor, Mr. C. VILLIERS. Really, the Knight of Netherby has made out a case for com passion towards himself. Knocking about from BRIGHT to Lord ABERDEEN, from Lord ABER. DEEY and his colleagues (whoever they may be) to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and from Lord JOHN to Mr. VILLIERS, striving hard to ensure the adop tion of his own form of motion, for which he con fessed all the fondness of a parent, he was at last obliged to agree to support through thick and through thin the resolutions which Mr. VILLIERS submitted to the House on last Tuesday night. The urgent necessity which compelled the Free-trade champion VILLIERS, his friend BRIGHT, his allies ex- Premier RUSSELL, and ex-ex-Ministers GRAHAM and ABERDEEN (and colleagues), to bring forward and support the motion in question, was, forsooth, the ambiguity of the declarations of Government on the subject of its commercial policy, and the necessity for the Ministry giving a guarantee to the country that they would not attempt to overthrow the Free-trade system, or introduce Protectionist measures. If the words of the QUEEN'S Speech were not sufficiently clear to bind the Government to the maintenance of the new commercial policy, surely the declarations of Lord DERBY in one House, and of Mr. DISRAELI in the other, were more than sufficient fo; any pledge that could be reasonably demanded of them. But if it should be urged that Parliament, having been summoned at this time for the express purpose of conclusively deciding upon the question of Free-trade, was bound to make an autho ritative declaration of its own opinion on that ques tion, the resolutions which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved as an amendment to Mr. VILLIERS'S motion were surely more than suffi cient for the required purpose, and were the more valuable for that purpose, as emanating from the very Government whose adherence to the policy which they embodied, was the subject of doubt. Was it not enough that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER should himself move a resolution, acknowledging two advantages which have accrued from recent legislation, and declaring that un restricted competition having been adopted after due deliberation as the principle of our commercial system, it is the duty of Government to adhere to that policy in their measures ? No ! a manly acknowledgment and a straightforward declaration, like that, would not satisfy the opposition. Messrs. BRIGHT and Co. would insist on the Government saying "Peccavimus," and acknowledging the Free traders to be very wise men, and their policy to be " just and wise," and so forth ; while the mortified RUSSELL, despairing of regaining power and place, urged on his allies to insult and try to humiliate the possessors of the lost and much coveted seats of office. That the intention of Mr. VILLIERS was not' merely to insult the Govern ment, but to force them to resign, should chance favour the factious movement of the Opposition, few will doubt, notwithstanding certain flourishes in his speech, which might have borne a contrary meaning ; and Mr. DISRAELI was, therefore, right in treating the motion as a vote of want of confi dence. Lord PALMERSTON, firmly attached as he is to the existing commercial policy of the country, and fully acknowledging the propriety of an explicit declaration by the new parliament of its opinion on the subject, exposed to the indignant reprobation of the House of Commons and the country the mean motives and shabby conduct of the Opposition, in insisting upon the unne cessary phrases in Mr. VILLIERS'S motion, which constituted the only substantial difference between it and Mr. DISRAELI'S amendment. He entreated the House of Commons to remember that they were an assembly of gentlemen,—and speaking himself with the right feeling ofan Englishgentleman, he said, " I, for one, cannot reconcile it to my feelings to call a set of English gentlemen, for any purpose or for any view, needlessly to express opinions which they do not entertain, or to recant opinions which may be still lingering in their minds." The noble lord also indicated the evil consequences which must result from turning into an ordinary party struggle any motion tending to elicit from the House the affirmation of a great principle of domestic policy. The amendment first suggested, and then proposed by Lord PALMERSTON, amply providing for the affirmation of that policy, and avoiding all expres sions which the Government could not, with a due regard to their honour and self-respect, make use of, was so thoroughly consistent with the views of the Government and the amendment of the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, that the right hon. gentleman did not hesitate to withdraw his resolu tions in favour of those of Lord PALNIERSTON. The very significant result is, that while the original motion of Mr. VILLIERS was lost by a majority of 80 (336 to 256), Lord PALMERSTON'S amendment, adopted by the Government, was carried by a ma jority of 415 (468 to 53). Thus triumphantly has the Government overcome the first obstacle which the cunning, the meanness, the intriguing, and malicious hatred of the CHESHAM-PLACE conspirators have thrown in their way in the new parliament. It might be hoped that the Opposition would now permit parliament to proceed to substantial legislation without any further attempts at obstruction, as impotent as they are unworthy. Bat the ministerial party will be on their guard against ambuscades and traps of every sort, and will amply profit by the experience of their adversaries which they have already gained. One happy result which we may anticipate from the recent debate and division, is that some of the moderate Peelites, believingthere to be no longer any substantial difference between them and the main body of national Conservatives, will now cheerfully enrol themselves under the banners of Her Majesty's Government. Should this consummation be realised, Mr. VILLIERS' motion and the pertinacity of its supporters:will not have been in vain. "EMPEROR" AT LAST. THE Empire in France is a fait accompli. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is the Emperor of France, and is acknowledged by the French people as the reviver or founder of a dytylsty. The "spe cial constable" of Regent -street of the 10th April, 1848, is now, on the 30th November, 1852, the almost irresponsible monarch of the great country from which he was then an outcast. His title, for all we know, is as good as that of many emperors who have made great figtires in the pages of his tory. The second NAPOLEON enjoys a noble opportunity for achieving true greatness and glory. Let us rather trust that he will use the occasion nobly than anticipate that his unexpected and rapid rise will be followed by a speedy downfa apt to judge of the French people and their pro ceedings by the principles generally accepted among and applicable to Englishmen, it needs an effort for us to place ourselves in the proper position from which to judge of the justifiability, expediency, or necessity of the recent acts of Louis NAPOLEON, and of the prudence and sagacity which they have displayed. The rational and wholesome manner in which the democratic element of government has— thanks to the influence of Conservatism—been developed in this country, saved us from the expe rience of all those vicissitudes and horrors to which the violent and ill-regulated aspirations of the French people after free and permanent political institutions, have for two generations condemned them. The sobriety of feeling and of judgment which characterizes our own countrymen has pre vented the progress of democracy among us from proceeding to that point at which it becomes anar chy, necessarily resulting in despotism. We must not, therefore, hastily conclude that despotism is, in France, under the existing circumstances, anta gonistic to rational liberty. The French people have discovered by repeated experiments that they are not fit for a republican form of government, nor a republican government for them. They have experienced all the mischiefs incident to that system. The imperial form seems to be the only alternative at the present moment, and they have chosen it; and if Emperor and people but work together for the common weal, they have yet a great and glori ous career before them. Let the Emperor by his acts verify his declaration, " L'Empire c'est la Paix ;" let him devote his energies towards the development of the great internal resources of his country, and of its commercial relations with other countries ; let him wisely use the mighty engine entrusted to his care for the material and moral improvement of his people ; let him preserve to them the utmost liberty of person and opinion consistent with the general welfare ; let him think a little more of the future and a little less of the present ; and he may leave behind him a name which will as much excite the respect of future ages as that of his great kinsman will excite their wonder. There have been certain occurrences in the tran sition of Louis NAPOLEON from the president's chair to the imperial throne, which have necessa rily excited prejudices against him in the minds of a people so jealous of liberty in all its shapes as we are. His conduct towards the Press, in particular, has been very generally reprobated in this country, and has been made the thetne for unmeasured vitu peration by portions of our own Press, which do not always use their liberty and power with discre tion and generosity. For ourselves, we can con ceive that it might have been next to impossible, under the existing circumstances of France, to esta blish any form of government with a chance of suc cess and permanency, without some restrictions upon the Press. The pains which some of our own journals have taken to provoke the President, and to make him abandon his pacific intentions, may give us some notion of the difficulties he might have had to contend with, had the organs of the enemies of order in France been permitted to run The " leading journal" of England, as it superciliously calls itself, which snubs foreign poten tates, and dictates to foreign nations with the most complacent self-sufficiency, although it does not cry Peccavi—(when, indeed, was it ingenuous enough to do so?) already begins to acknowledge that, after all, the empire is "the best expedient in a bad crisis," and that the Emperor seems really to have come to the conclusion that peace is his best policy. The opinions of the " leading journal" have a very curious connection with the state of the Funds. That pulse of public opinion indicates no fear of convulsions in France /or elsewhere. The empire established in peace, threatens no infringe ment of the peace of the world. The Emperor may, if he will, soon efface, by good and patriotic deeds--by substantial contributions to the progress and improvement of his subjects, and of the whole human race—all recollections of these passages in his transitional career which might otherwise tend to sully his fair fame ; and his name may yet be recorded in the annals of France as that of a good sovereign and a real benefactor of his country. DEFEAT OF THE MANCHESTER CLIQUE THE time of the House of Commons and much virtuous indignation seem to have been literally wasted in the late discussion, the whole object of which was to gratify the restless activity of the faction who choose to consider themselves specially identified with the present system of commercial policy. It is, however, gratifying to think that the Manchester School is virtually defeated, and tha t the direct biddings of Mr. COBDEN and his col leagues for office have not been responded to. The present Government have done all that could have been expected of them. The result of the last election, as a verdict unfavourable to their own convictions, was most frankly declared in the speech from the Throne ; and the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER took the first opportunity of an nouncing that he would, on an early day, make his financial statement, which comprised the whole system of financial and commercial policy which the Government proposed to pursue. Nothing, therefore, but the worst spirit of faction could have dictated the resolutions moved by Mr. VILLIERS, which were artfully contrived to anticipate the mi nisterial statement. The pretence of requiring a definite pledge from the House of Commons of the wisdom, justice, and beneficence of the repeal of the Corn Laws, is mere moonshine, nor could it have any other effect than would be accomplished by the declaration of the Minister. It offers no guarantee for the future, nor can it influence the electoral body, should they, on any future occasion, see fit to change their minds and return a majority in favour of a return to a Protective system. It may be relied upon, that no measure can be success ful by which any important interest is suffering, for so long will it afford a pretext and a justification for a continuous struggle ; and therefore, in even suggesting a remedy, the Ministry were far better friends of Free-trade than the braggarts who compensate for their want of experience by their audacity. The debate of Thursday last was some what significant of the expectations of parties. The alliancf!, which was so precipitately formed in Chesham-place, was held but by a rope of sand, for the first real difficulty scattered it in fragments. Lord PALMERSTON, anxious to get back into respectable company, assumed the part of a peace maker. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, still undecided as o the next character in which he shall appear, tried to get a step further and found himself nowhere notwithstanding his pathetic allusion to his friend ship for the late Sir ROBERT PEEL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, doubtful of his new associates, quietly cut the connection, and, true to his antecedents, left the issue to Providence; while Messrs. COBDEN and VILLIERS, grown desperate by the desertion, turned like stags at bay and doggedly resolved to give up nothing but stick to their original resolu tion. Incapable of reasoning, impenetrable to common sense, totally unsusceptible of any ap proach to gentlemanly feeling, they blindly rushed on their fate in the forlorn hope of exciting a popular feeling in their favour which they will never live to experience ; and no better proof could he afforded than the simple fact, that before a syllable was known of the ministerial intentions, the funds showed a sensible improvement. The debate had s of the fac hich assumes .0 be the popular party. It has proved the impossibility of any practical alliance between the fragments of the defunct Whig party and the revolutionists who claim Messrs. CORDE7q, BRIGHT, and Co., as their leaders ; and we may even feel grateful to the latter, for having thus de monstrated the weakness of the Opposition to Her Majesty's Government. NEWSPAPER STAMPS The Attorney-General has just given notice of his in tention to bring in a bill this day (Tuesday) to the House of Commons fur the amendment of the law relating to the stamp-duty on newpapers. This is all the information affurded on the subject, so that we have no means of stating the nature of the alterations to be proposed. HEALTH OF MR. DISRAELI. IT will be seen by our notice of the Privy Council on Saturday, that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was absent from indisposition, and his illness was, also plainly noticed at his attendance in Parliament last week. This fact has been eagerly laid hold of by the Radicals as an evidence that the duties of his office have been beyond his physical powers, not unmixed with a feeling of hope that it may lead to a vacancy not easily to be filled. It is gratifying to be able to state that, notwithstanding the virulence with which Mr. DISRAELI has been attacked, he is suffering merely the effects of influenza, and that there is every reason to believe he will be sufficiently restored on Friday next to delight his friends, and con found his enemies, by his comprehensive statement of financial and commercial policy. AURICULAR CONFESSION. AMONG the many valuable services which the Rev. Dr. APNEILE has rendered to the Church and the cause of Christian truth, not the least valuable, perhaps, is that occasional enunciation of some great fact, of which, until so lucidly stated, there was hardly a sufficiently clear per ception. This was more particularly the case on Tuesday last, when he claimed credit to the greatparty in the Church, specially distinguished as Evangelical, for the calm for bearance and Christian charity with which they had held aloof from party warfare, while their more active and un- scrupulous opponents were systematically organised to urichurch them. There was, however, a limit to forbear ance—a boundary beyond which Christian charity became culpable indifference—and that this bound had been passed was evident in the enormous gathering which filled every part of the spacious Amphitheatre on Tuesday. It was no light matter—no mere anxiety to listen to some favourite orator—which brought together so large an as sembly at a time of day usually devoted to active business. It was a jealous regard for the integrity of the Reformed Faith, and a stern resolve that it should not be tampered with, which constituted the attraction ; and most nobly did the public of Liverpool vindicate their character for attachment to the Church of their fathers. The all-ab sorbing question was, whether, in the nineteenth century, the Churchmen of England would countenance the adop tion of Auricular Confession upon the mere perverted construction of some of the formularies in the Book of Common Prayer. It would be, perhaps, needless to show that this system has been, and is still, one of the grossest errors of the Church of Rome ; that its exercise has proved one of the most effi cient instruments of priestly tyranny and slavish superstition, and that its effects are of the most demo ralising and debasing kind,—destructive of social happi ness and ruinous to body and soul. All who are out of the pale of its influence must be convinced of this truth ; and, therefore, the great point for consideration in the present agitation is—how far there is anything in the Articles or Ritual of our Church which may be supposed to give an implied sanction even to the modified form in which, it is alleged, its introduction has been attempted. Should it be shown that the Rubrics of the Church admit of such a latitude of construction, it will then be a question in what way a remedy should be applied, —a question which may go far to create the necessity for the exercise of a power analogous to that which is supposed to be long to the Convocation of the Church. This is, how ever, fraught with evils which few would choose to hazard, not the least among which would be the opening a door to controversies on doctrinal paints, and the disuniting of the several Reformed Churches now in communion with our own. A due consideration, however, of the points at issue will show that such an alternative does not arise, and that those who took part in the meeting on Tuesday are correct in their views, not only according to true literal construction, but also to common sense. These who are anxious to Romanise the Church, and claim for the priesthood that power of Absolution so impiously as sumed by the minions of Roman heresy, have no shadow of a foundation for their claim except the language of the Book of Common Prayer. 'We shall not weary our readers with allusions to, or quotations from, the multi farious works of theological writers, but simply refer them to the authority which must be in everyone's possession, and it will then be seen that the Church vindicates herself from the calumny of her unworthy sons. In the notice for the celebration of the Holy C„rnmunion, to be given on the Sunday or holyday immediately preceding, the minister has to say ; " Therefore, if there be any of you, who by this means cannot quiet his own conscience herein, but requireth further comfort or counsel, let him come to me, or to some other discreet and learned Minister of God's Word, and open his grief ; that by the ministry of God's holy Word he may receive the benefit of absolution, together with ghostly counsel and advice, to the quieting of his conscience, and avoiding all scruple and doubtfulness." Here is plainly a simple permission to the minister to give spiritual counsel to those who seek his aid in cases of doubt, and not, as Rome teaches, an injunction to declare such a confession imperative. Again, if we turn to the form of absolution as given after the general confession, we shall find it a form of prayer, by no means implying any authority to judge of the repentance of those before whom it is uttered, nor can it in any way be held to be won by private confession, when it is openly declared before all the congregation who have joined in the general confession. It is a wilful perversion of language to argue from it any authority for the practice of Auricular Confession, and a reference to it is only rendered necessary by the use which has been attempted to be made of it. It is a misfortune, too often attending the discussionof such questions, that individuals in hatred of one extreme are prone to rush into the opposite one. In this respect the meeting of Tuesday last cannot fail to have a beneficial effect. The Primate of all England had declared in his published letter that the question should be submitted to the force of public opinion, and, as far as Liverpool is concerned, he has not misjudged the force of the weapon, nor the prudence with which it was wielded. It was not deficient in numbers or influence, for the largest available building was filled to overflowing with the clergy and the laity of all classes. There was no unseemly de monstration arising from feelings excited by passionate declamation, but an expression of calm determination to hold fast by the blessings secured at the Reformation, and not to permit the small end of the wedge to be inserted for a return to Romish error and superstition in one of its worst and most debasing features. The Rev. Dr. 111`NEILE, with, perhaps, more than his usual eloquence, threatenedplaced before them, his immense deformity ; while the Rev. W. POLLOCK clearly demon strated that the Prayer-book was free from the charge of and exposed dangers evil h its c affording sanction to such an enormity; and the united voices of the vast assembly testified to the earnestness and zeal with which they stood by the faith of their fathers, and once more PROTESTED against the foul blot with which apostate Rome had overlaid the pure and simple truths of Christianity. In every respect, therefore, the meeting was triumphantly successful, and the thanks of every sincere Protestant are due to those who were in strumental in calling it together, and who, by the manner in which they took part in the proceedings, were the means of bringing it to such a successful issue. " Vernon," Birkenhead firry COLLISION.—On F r id ay n i ght, a vesse l com i ng up t h e river ran agai ns t a flat, which immediately sunk. The and a wom an , t h e only parties w h o were on b oar d . .hoat, picked up two men MELANcuto LY A ccionis r.—On Friday afternoon, as Mr. Willi am H unter , o f Exchange-street East, was re turning to hi s res id ence , at Wavertree, by the h a lf- past five omnibus, at a little way beyond the railway bridge he was seized with a fit, and died in five minutes after ar riving at his own house. THE ASSIZES.—The special and supplementary assizes for the southern division of this county will be opened in this town on Monday, the presiding judges being Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Justice Crompton. The calender -stains about the average number of prisoners. Of these er 2 • manslaughter, ; ro bbery from the ; arson la tpusev 1; embritr,49.6le. there are eba. s 7; stabbing o r wounding, ; rape person, 40) bigamy, 1 . ; burglary, 10 tent to train stealing 1; perju o chaiyts7with .WOE wan, msband by p tting ipblaxm