The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

Feb. 18, 184.5. . THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ________ __ __________ - ------- - - - - --- UNIVERSITY 6- CLERICAL NEWN. the adoption of that dress would be tantamount to an ad- CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. —We I A project has appeared for _ mission which wotlld, to a certain extent, damage any strongly suspect that the shareholders of this company to connect the West Riding c Lancaster. The total km OXFORD, FEB. 10.-1 n a convocation holden this da,„ rights he may urge on the occasion of his appeal to another will not accede to the terms of the Holyhead Company. and ,. the Rev Frederick Wade, M.A.M, of Trinity College', tribunal. The end is, as has been said, that he goes The facts seem to be these. The Chester and Birkenhead the capital a million. The lin( Dublin, was . admitted an eundern. At the same time the about in plain black and beaver. It is understood that Directors informed their shareholders that the terms were —the proposed Leeds and Bra following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts.— Mr. Ward's application to the Court of Queen's Bench to be near £35 per shares, and to these terms the share- and passing by way of Seta The Rev. William Rogers, Exeter ; the Rev. John Acres, ft)r a mandamus to the University to restore his degrees holders, with a few non-contents assented. But it seems Vallevs of the Aire, the Wenni Lincoln. —Bachelors of Arts.—Fre .'erie George Blom- 'will be made immediately after the commencement of the other side will give only £33 6. Bd. per share, which, itself on the one hand with I field, Balliol ; Alfred Richard Middleton Wilshere, Pem- Easter Term. on 14,830 shares issued, makes £194,333A the cost of the Railway, a little soute of Ort broke; G eorge Ch arles Berm, Merton. Enc.—Railway Magazine. the Town and Port of Lancast , iREFERMENT.—The Rev. James Ralph, M.A. late NORTHER , / AND EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.— SHREWSBURY, OSWESTRY, THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. A . • - ~ Vicar of Adlingfleet, York (East Riding), brother of Dr. meeting of shareholders was held on Thursday last, RAILWAY.—Out of the twer when it was determined that a dividend of 5 per cent. per assents have been received from RalPh. Dalgety, late of Liverpool, has been appointed to The court remains at Brighton, where the Queen and annum be paid on the paid-up capital of the company for two miles, and there is a certai the important and valuable living of St. James's, South- Prince Albert enjoy such pleasures as the place and season the half-year ending 31st December last, and that £1 2s. of those on the other twit in wark, London, in the diocese of Winchester, population afford, walking on the Chain Pier, (reserved for their use 6d. be accorded on the registered shares (£45 paid), 2s. engineer is more than ample 10,000, by th e L or d Ch ancellor. two hours daily.) on the Cliffs. or driving. On Tuesday , 1 a,i ~... „a-- .r... .i.,,, __....,......___, ...,.....,... .....-1 I,L. ...... t...der having been received fre NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.— A meeting of shareholders was held on Thursday last, when it was determined that a dividend of 5 per cent. per annum be paid on the paid-up capital of the company for the half-year ending 31st December last, and that £1 2s 6d. be accorded on the registered shares (Xcls paid), 2s. 3d. per share on the £lO registered shares, and 10s. per share on the scrip shares of £3O. The sum of £10,773 had been carried to the capital, arising from the premium obtained on the sale of 1068 unappropriated shares. The receipts of the company for the last half-year amounted to £47,107 145., being an increase of £3,310 ss. sd. over the corresponding period of 1843—the total increase on the year amounting to £11,057 2s. 2d. The balance of the traffic account was £1,821 6s. 10d., and the balance of £lO3 3s. 4d. carried to the capital. RAILWAY SPECULATION.—The overland despatch to India of Messrs. Trueman and Cook fully bears out the expectation of disastrous consequences from the wild spe culation in railways to which we have already invited public attention. While prices are advancing, and all is well with the speculator, these warnings will probably be disregarded ; when the reacti-n begins, they will be re membered when it is too late, and this circular agrees with us, that the effects will then be felt " much beyond the Stock Exchange." After remarking that " capital is alienated from the more legitimate operations of trade by the mania for railroad speculation, which has reached a frightful extent," it thus proceeds :—" A large amount of English capital is embarked in French railroads, which are absorbing fully £20,000,000; and the English projects already approved by the Board of Trade reach an enor mous sum. It is unquestionable that great good will arise from improved means of intercourse, and it is equally true that many of the schemes offer fair prospect for the in vestment of capital ; but the gambling speculation which is daily going on in them portends a crisis, which, bright as the aspect seems now, will be very severe when it does come. The settlements at the Stock Exchange are enor mously large in amount, and money is borrowed for the purpose at rates greatly higher than those current in other quarters—even six and seven per cent. ; this can perhaps be afforded while prices are constantly advancing. but when the reverse comes, and come it must, the evil effects will unfortunately be felt much beyond the Stock Ex change." The court remains at Brighton, where the Queen and Prince Albert enjoy such pleasures as the place and season afford, walking on the Chain Pier, (reserved for their use two hours daily,) on the Cliffs, or driving. On Tuesday, her Majesty and the Prince were greatly annoyed by the impertinent curiosity of a mob of vulgar persons who surrounded them, some of whom had the audacity to place themselves before the Queen and stare her Majesty in the face. APPOINTMENTS.—The itev..El. Howarth, 8.D., of St. John's College, to the rectory of St. George's, Hanover square, Westminster : value, £1,550. The Rev. R. C. Savage, M.A., of St. John's College, to the vicara2e of Nuneaton, w ith th e curacy of Stockingford, Warwick shire : value, 1902. The Rev. E. P. Dennis, M.A., of Trinity-h a ll, t o t h e rectory of Clifton, Nottinghamshire : value, £405. The Rev. S. Brown, M.A., of St. Cathe rine's Hall, to the vicarage of Westbury, Wilts: £238. The Rev. E. T. Vaughan, M.A., of Christ's College, to the vicarage of St. Martin's, Leicester : value, £l4O. The Rev. D. Campbell, M.A., of Trinity College, to the perpetual curacy of Berrow, Worcestershire: value, £B4. The Rev. J. M. Pratt, 8.A., of St. John's, to the incumbency of St. Paul's, Derby. The Rev. H. P. Wright, 8.A., of St. Peter's College, to the living of St. Mary's, Leeds. The Rev. E. Maxwell, M.A., of Trinity College, to the ministry of the district of St. John's, Barnsley. The Rev. J. B. B. Clarke, M.A., of Trinity College, to the prebendal stall of East Harptree, founded in the Cathedral Church of Church. The Cambridge University have resolved that nothing more shall be printed at the University press for the Cam den Society, in consequence of the popish tendency of their publications. The Rev. Dr. Hill, Professor of Divinity in the Uni versity of Glasgow, will be put in nomination for the office of Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the ensuing year. The Bishop of Ely continues in a very precarious state of health. According to his Lordship's medical attend ant however, he is not in immediate danger. On Wednes day and Thursday his lordship sat up for about an hour and a half each day ; and on the latter day be was able to dictate a letter. But, considering Dr. Allen's advanced age, (75, we believe,) no very sanguine hope can be e ter t ained of his recovery from so severe a paralytic attack. THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.—On Thursday the Cambridge Camden Society met to bewail the loss of the " stone altar cause," and the secession of the Duke of Northum berland and the Bishops of Lincoln and Exeter. The Bishops of London, Winchester, and Chester had pre viously withdrawn. Under this amount of rebuke and dishonour, the society took the most prudent course that offered, by resolving at once to DISSOLVE ; and thus one brok h e of te chief Romani s i ng confederacies of the day is n u p. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have given notice, that for the following districts, in this town, amongst others, no proposals have been made for the assignment of the patronage under Sir R. Peel's Church Endowment Act, viz., Bevington, St. S mon's, All Saints, and Smith field. Hitherto no less consideration has been accepted by the Commissioners for the whole patronage in per petuity than the providing f chrch with deq accommodatio n an d a sufficie o nt a repa u iring fund. a and uate the securing of £5O a-yea r t owards the endowment, the re mainder being supplied out of the moneys at the disposal of the Commissioners. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, drove out on Tuesday atterncon upon the new sledge which her Majesty used for the first time. The sledge is drawn by two beautiful little ponies, which are attached to the sledge by means of Morocco harness covered with small bells. The Court was expected to leave Brighton, for Bucking ham Palace, yesterday. On Thursday her Majesty arrived at Worthing at a quarter past twelve, when she was met by the Duke of Norfolk, who accompanied her Majesty to Arundel Castle. Twelve of the duke's servants appeared in state liveries on the occasion. This visit, it is said, is only pre paratory to a visit which she intends to pay the noble duke in the course of the summer, when it is expected that her Majesty will remain at the Castle for three days. It is also said that the noble duke intends to entertain his illustrious guests in such a manner that the expense will not be less than £30,000. LAW INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Baron Gurney continues confined to his bed The appointment of Counsel to the Admiralty, vacated by Mr. Shepherd, has been conferred on Mr. Godson, M.P. for Kidderminster. The following gentlemen are to be raised to the rank of Queen's Counsel :—Messrs. Lee, Parry, and Wood. of the Equity Bar; and Messrs. Humfrey, Hayward, Butt, Russell Gurney, and Montagu Chambers, of the Common Law Bar. Mr. Carus Wilson was brought up, in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, and the case was ordered to stand over till the 22d April, Mr. Kelly having aban doned it, and Mr. Roebuck, the new counsel, being unprepared to proceed. In the meantime Mr. Wilson, rather against his will, was discharged on his own recog- BAILWAYSH AREPHOBIA IN BLACKBURN.—There was a time when speculating in railway shares was left in this neighbourhood to the working of cool heads and full pock ets. Now-a-day, however, so rapid has been the intellec tual progression of the times, (it is to be lamented that the march of money has not kept time with the march of mind), that anybody, literally anybody, or as it may per haps be more appropriately worded, literally nobody, rushes into the market, and with more brass in his face than his pocket by a good deal, straightway becomes a dabbler in. " London and Yorks'," " Dublin and Bel fasts," " Edinburgh and Glasgows," nay, even " Paris and Lyons," or " Strasburgh and Basles !" Of course those schemes nearer borne come in for an extra share of patronage ; and amateur brokers block the way wit " I say, have you got any Bolton and Darwen's ?" How are you off for Accringtons ?" " What's the state of the Ormskirk's ?" What'll you take fur Pre-ton's?" Such is the excitement at present among some of the speculators in Blackburn, that having obtained possession somehow or the other of an " allotmt•nt," they pounce upon their un happy victims at street corners, shop doors, public• houses, before, during, and after business, anywhere, exclaiming, " Here, my good fellow, here's a chance for you, you may have these Bolton's at £5 ls.; well, say £5 10s. 10d. ; —well, then, make it £5 10s. 9d., just threepence a share more than I gave for them !" It is in vain that an escape is effected in one place ; you are watched for and seized upon at another, with an offer of " Ormskirks," " West Ridings," " Preston's," " Rugby's," any of them, at any sum above prime cost, so that a profit may be made. The matter has become a regular nuisance.—Blackburn paper. nizances The case of the insolvent who, lately, it will be remem bered, was seized in the precincts of Windsor Castle, whither he had retired under the impression that he was there exempt from civil process, and whose debts, it ap peared, amounted to £63,000, came on, on Friday, at Reading. The examination was postponed, the insolvent's schedule not being perfect. This appears to confirm the legality of the arrest. SIR W. FOLLETT.—A Marseilles letter of the Bth inst. says, "Yesterday morning, at half-past ten, Sir William Follett entered this port on board the steamer Alecto, from Naples. Sir William, on his passage, experienced most rough weather, so much so that it was at one time expected the Alecto would be obliged to run into Toulon. During his stay in the Bay of Naples, the Alecto run aground and lost all her boats. She leaves in a day or two for England to be paid off, having been five years on the Mediterranean station. THE CHANCERY OFFICES.—An article has just made its appearance in the Law Review, which announces as a fact that from £200,000 to £300,000 a year is raised by way of fees from the suitors of the Court of Chancery, " by about 200 fee bailiffs ; and that this £300,000 is re ceived from them in full for their receipts, without the slightest pretence of checking their accounts, and. as to two-thirds of them, without even requiring any affidavit or averment of the correctness of Lie amount." It is also aserted, page 425, that £150,000 a year is raised by fees in the common law courts, without any check whatever. The Lord Chancellor, on Thursday, pronounced judg ment in the long-pending case of Mr. Cobbett. His Lordship felt himself bound to say, that Mr. Cobbett was entitled to be discharged from the effects of the order of the 11th of June, without the payment of costs. What effect this might have on the other proceedings he would not say—he would leave it to Mr. Cohbett to consider that, the other order being in force against him Mr. Cobbett was anxious to know whether the order now pro nounced would discharge him out of custody in one suit ? The Lord Chancellor said it would not. Upon the appli cation of Mr. Cobbett, he was permitted to come up again on a future day, to move for the discharge of the other orders. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RA ILWAY.-011Wednes day the twenty-third ball-yearly meeting of this company was held at the Euston Station—Mr. G. C. Glyn in the chair. From the report it appeared that the revenue for the half-year ending December 31, amounted to £456,447, of which £450,479 was derived from the ordinary traffic, and £5,969 from interest on the employment of cash balances and from rents. The charges amounted to £182,543, of which £96,413 was for working the line, and £86,130 parish rates, government duty, &c. The ordinary traffic exceeded the amount in the corresponding half-year of 1844. by £18,122. The charge for working it was less by £273, making the comparative rate of half-yearly charge to receipt as £2l Bs. Id. per cent. in 1844, to £22 7s. 3d. in 1843. The net proceeds, £273.904, added to the surplus of the preceding half-year, £15,937, left a clear profit of £289,941, and on this amount the directors recommended that a dividend of £5 be again declared on every £lOO of the company's capital stock, leaving a rest of £47,093 to the credit of the current half-year. The report proceeded to state that the Warwick and Leaming ton line was opened December the 9th, and that the traffic, short as the experience of the working of the line bad been, much more than equalled their expectations. The advanced state of the works upon the Northampton and Peterborough line promised to justify the anticipations of the directors. The report of the progress making in the Lancaster and Carlisle line continued to be satisfactory. The report concluded by referring to the proposed exten sion lines of the company, for which arrangements had been made. The report was adopted, and resolutions were passed authorising the directors to lease the Churnet line, by which a direct communication would be made with Manchester, and also to lease the Trent line ; also au thorising the directors to construct a branch line from Dunstable to the London and Birmingham line at Leigh ton Buzzard. A resolution was also passed, empowering the directors to purchase the West London Railway. Five retiring directors were unanimously re-elected. SECRECY AT THE BOARD OF TRADE.—In the course of Lord Dalhousie's speech, on Thursday night, in the Lords, a summary of which we have given elsewhere, his lordship detailed the following as the mode in which the Board of Trade has proceeded with reference to any rail way scheme, to prevent the decisions of the board being known prior to their insertion in the London Gazette:— " When any scheme was taken up for examination, we referred it to the different officers of the department, the engineers and other officers ; and by them a summary was made out, and submitted to myself. After conside ration, I wrote my memorandum upon it, and then the two—the summary and the memorandum—were submit ted to each of the board ; every one of whom made what ever memorandum he pleased, in like manner, upon the summary of the officers. Thus it was that the board came to a decision. Now, my lords, it is clear that if any parties mere to have had access to these memoranda, the decisions of the board would have been prematurely known. Every precaution, therefore, was to be taken to guard against that result. My lords, I would not even trust those memoranda to the ordinary messengers of the office, or to my private servants, but I bad a box made with a lock of my own, and with only one key besides the master key; and tbis box, having placed in it my memo randum, I gave to the member of the board to whom the summary was to be next submitted with my own hand, and he delivered it in the same way to the next member, and so on round the board. That box, therefore, has never been out of the personal keeping of the members of the hoard, and therefore it is physically impossible that any one else should have bad access to the documents contained in it. For myself, I can say that no person, not even my own private secretary, knew what my opinion was in any case, until the publication of the decision of the board in the Gazette; and, speaking for myself and for my colleagues, I am sure 1 can say that no person out of the board was ever aware of the decision until it was placed in the hands of the editor of the Gazette. As the Stock Exchange shut at four o'clock in the afternoon, an arrangement was made by the board that the decisions THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE JUDGES.—In the ('am bridge Advertiser we find a list of the great law officers under the crown, and the universities they respectively belong to. From this it appears that the following be long to Oxford :—Vice-Chancellor Sir J. L. Knight Bruce; Mr. Justice Coleridge; Mr. Justice Wightmen ; Mr. Justice Coltman ; and Mr. Justice Erle.'The Uni versity of Cambridge can claim the Lord Chancellor; the Master of the Rolls; Vice-Chancellor Wygrarn ; Lord Chief Justice Denman; Mr. Justice Patteson ; Mr. Justice Williams; Chief Justice Tindal; Mr. Justice Manic ; Mr. Justice Cresswell ; Chief Baron Pollock ; Baron. Parke ; Baron Alderson ; Baron Rolfe ; Baron Platt ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who some times sit in a judical position. should not be placed in the hands of the editor of the Gazelle until such a period of the day and so near four o'clock that by no conceivable means cculd he have ar rived in the city before four o'clock. My lords, I think every human means have been taken to prevent premature discovery of the decisions of the board." GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—The half yearly meeting of this company was held at Darlington on Tuesday last. From the report it appeared that the gross receipts for the half-year ending December 31st, 1844, amount to £54,048 Gs., which, compared with the corre sponding half-yrar, shows an increase of £15,481 7s. Bd. The balance, after defraying the expenses, amounted to £31.784 Gs. Bd., out of which the directors recommend that a dividend be declared at the rate of six per cent. per annum—(that is, for the half year, £3 on every £lOO share, and 10s. on every £4O share,) clear of income tax, and be made payable on the 4th of March. This will amount to £23,820, leaving a reserve fund of £7964 Gs. Sd. Resolutions to carry out the recommendations of the directors were unanimously agreed to. The directors stated that the necessary surveys of the proposed branch lines to Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, and Borough bridge, as well as to Richmond, have been made, and all the necessary steps taken ; that they have great confidence that the report of the Board of Trade will be in their favour. As to the Leeds and Thirsk line, the directors expressed their opposition to it, and stated "they believed that a better line to Leeds could be made, by an extension of their proposed branches from Knaresborough, in the direction of Spofforth and Wetherby ; and they are happy to announce to the shareholders, that their engineer h as surveyed a line shorter in distance, much less expensive in construction, and capable of completion in less time than that selected by the Leeds and Thirsk Company." A series of resolutions giving power to the directors to take all necessary steps in the event of the projected branch line of this company to Kneresbro' and Harrogate, being sanctioned by parliament, to procure a railway, by the extension of the said branch in the direction of Stof forth and Wetherby to Leeds, so as to form a junction at Leeds with the North Midland, Leeds and Bradford, and such other railways as may there mret„and that in order to provide the necessary funds, the directors we re au thorised to apply for powers to raise an additional capital of £500,000 by the creation of 15,000 shares of £33 6s. Bd. each. Authority was also given to the directors to enter into a joint guarantee with the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to the Middlesbro and Redcar Railway Company, of five per cent. on £36,000, the capital re quired for the construction of about eight miles of railway from Middlesbro' to Redcar. The terms of the guarantee to be for twenty-one years. and should the profit exceed five per cent., after defraying the working expenses, one half of such excess to be appropriated to the shareholders of the Middlesbro' and Redcar Company, and the re mainder to be equally divided between the two guarantee ing companies. A project has appeared for the formation of a railway to connect the West Riding of Yorkshire with Carlisle and Lancaster. The total length will he sixty miles, and the capital a million. The line will commence at Skiptun —the proposed Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway, - - it - 1g by wa: S. ftheAc t V alone: the ,leys of tne enning, and Lune, will connect itself on the one hand with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, a little soute of Orton, and on the other with the Town and Port of Lancaster. SHREWSBURY, OSWESTRY, AND CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY. — Out of the twenty-four miles of railway, assents have been received from the landowners on twenty two miles, and there is a certainty of obtaining the assent of those on the other two miles. The estimate of the ergineer is more than ample to execute the railway, a t-r7der having been received from the most eminent con tractor of the day, Mr. Thomas Brassey, of the firm of Mackenzie and Brassey, to execute the whole works under £330,000 —leaving £70,000 to meet any possible contin gencies. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Tuesday last the half-yearly general meeting was held at the Paddington Station. The report stated the receipt for the six months ending on the 31st of December last, to have been £410,046 Is. ld., presenting an increase of £62,248 10s. sd. over the former corresponding half-year. It com prises, however , the Income from thirty-two miles of railway which were not opened for traffic in 1843. After defraying the expenditure, and all charges for rent and interest on money borrowed, (giving credit for a sum of £3,216 realised for premiums on some South Devon Railway shares, which were taken as a temporary invest ment, and have been since resold,) there is a balance of £160,517 is. 10d. disposable by the company, and the directors consequently recommend that a dividend of four per cent. should be declared payable to the proprietors, for the half-year ending 31st December, 1844. A balance of £13,613 is. 10d. will then remain to be carried to the credit of the current half-year. The report alludes, at considerable length, to the extension lines lately in dispute between the Great Western and South Western Compa nies, and states that an amicable adjustment has been effected "in a spirit of fairness and equity." The report and the dividend were carried. MR. WARD'S CASE On Thursday at one o'clock the convocation met at Ox ford. Between 1200 and 1300 members of the university were present, although only about 1100 voted. Amongst the distinguished persons present were the Earl of Rom ney, Lord Faversham, Earl of Eldon, Lords Kenyon, Sandon, and Ashley, the Bishops of Llandaff and Chi chester, Rev. Drs. Tait, H ook, and M o b er l ey . M r. W ar d bad previously ascended the rostrum from which he was to deliver his defence. The passages from Mr. Ward's book which have been already published were read by Dr. Bliss. The Vice-Chan cellor then spoke to Mr. Ward in Latin, when the latter Commenced his defence in English. He commenced _ Heb_y protesting aga i nst the legality of the whble proposal. stood before them the advocate of opinions which he knew the great majority of them viewed with extreme suspi cion ; y e t t h e matter before them had no more to do w i t h the q uest i on whether or not the opinions be expressed w e re true or f a l se t h an whether the style in which he expressed them was goo d or bad and the composition itself du ll or in teresting. N o th eological determination was ever h i nte d , but simply the question were th ese p assages o r notincon sistenteo w ith certain formula which he subscribed t t l o er wh e not he to o k hi s d egree. Now persons not only m c ompetent to fo rm a judicial decision in thicsacase t case,but who before they heard i t actually pledged their vote under a general fe e li ng, that by so doing they were putting down Mr. W ar d and popery in that university. Anyt hin g .like a full d e f ence, on such an occasion, must be impract i cable. Instead of two months, two years would not have been sufficient. If any one would look at his book, they would find th a t th e opinions he expressed respecting it had no more to do with articles and subscriptions than they bad with the wars of the Roses. He must say, then, that he had not had fair play, when if ever there was a case in which it should have been allowed, it was when they pro posed to inflict so severe a censure. They would act most injudiciously —mo s t fatally to the English Church. if they did affirm this resolution. For the sake of the Church of England, of that church to which they were joint mem bers, he beseeched them to pause. The effect of their af firming would possibly be far greater than they imagined in accelerating a crisis which might end in the premature destruction of the present fabric of the English Church. He frankly admitted that at the time he took his degrees of B.A. and M.A., he entertained opinions widely diffe rent from those which he now held. He admitted that if the convocation should express extreme disapprobation of his Opinions it must have great weight; but he denied that, as then constituted, that house had any more power than a private individual to declare.what was The sense of the Church of England. Moreover, he could not but fear that a vast number of them had mixed up in their mind ques tions which were utterly distinct, and were unable to give themselves wholly to the question before them, because of their intense conviction respecting a question qus with which it bad not hi ng in the world to do. Thequestion wa s , was it the i ntention of the Church of England that her formula should be subssribed in a natural sense. The argument he was prepared to maintain was, that if such was her inten tion, it was a sense in which no person in the world could subscribe to them. There have been two parties for a long time accusing each other of dishonest subscription. Now he believed one side was as honest as the other, and that all this di ffi culty arose, because they had no living, breath ing, evangelical Church government. Belie v i ng that the opinions he h a d recently advocated were the very truths of the gospel, he believed also they would grow and increase if they were allowed fair play. He wished them to show equal confidence in the truth of their opinions. This was the one thing he had urged throughout his work, that they should cease from this disastrous civil war, and turn their united weapons against the common enemy. Let them "endeavour, each according to his opportunity to carry out their principles in waging war, interminable war, egainst worldliness, covetousness, self-seeking, and ignorance. Be willingly staked the truth of his opinions on the issue of the experiment • why did they shrink from staking the truth of t i .eirs ? It was ex clude hereti cs f rom he the duty o f every church to pale, wh en s h e was deeply disturbed by their intrusion; but if the Evangelical party could hope to exclude from the Church of Bollard all whom they be lieved to be strangers to the true gospel, or, if high church men could hope to exclude those who denied baptismal regeneration, as well as those who denied the benefit f the English R e f ormation; the case would be oifferent. No lisp Ch..--, thing was more prob a bl e than 4-1,-..., - • Luat toe fabric of the Eng _....en would fall to pieces, if they began taking out a singh! tone. He, therefore, implored them to consider well what they were doily's, when they were about to take a step that might terminate so disastrously. Dr. Grant then Dron...-i t-- ~.,,posea an amendment, that the pas sa,zes tr,,m the work were worthy of grave censure ; but that Convocation declined to pronounce judgment on the nature or decre e of the offence. The Vice-Chancellor said thi s motion could not b e en tertained. Soon after the Vice-Chancellor put the question, when on a scrutiny the numbers turned out to he—for the con demnation of the passages 777 against it 386 It was, th• retore, decl ire pa against Mr. ' Ward. The Vice-Chancellor then proposed the second propo- . sition—that for the degradation of Mr. Ward. Mr. Ward then addressed the Convocation, also in Engh He said,-1 have only to say, with respect tc, this particular mode of punishment, that for myse If, what ever ethers may think of my opinions, I have shown by My acts and my words that I am most anxious, most de siro4, and tr ost ready, I may say, most eagerly desirous and ready, to devote all my energies, such as they may be, and whatever powers of mind or action I may possess, to the service of the Church of England, if I may be allow ed. It must at the same time be remembered that cer tain persons, not holding the opinions that I hold, have renounced into o rders and l e f t t h e church and have entered com munion with the Church of Rome, and yet have kept their degrees of B.A. a ppear that th e ive se and M.A. Th erefore it does p r oposed proceedin g t owards me, who h not re nounced th e Ch urch of England, but am ready to with, is h ars h when compared with what has been done for thethem.thank characterppity afforded me f justice to m opinions before so o many doing m Y embe rs o f a church towards which I do feel the deepest attachment. w eth e questi on was then put, and on a scrutiny the votes found to be —f or M r. Ward's degradation 569 ; against it, 511. When the Vic e - Chancellor put the third proposition, the senior procose and put a veto on it. The pro ceedings then terminated 13/ I"r * W. E. Gladstone M.P., was among the Non _acels on both propositi'ons. His cry !p_ the theatre was observed to be particularly energetic. of "Nonplacet" mr• Newman did not vote, nor was he present. 1) 4111 "e the IVon-placets were —Archdeacon Manning, Tl r ic; "°"k, Archdeacon Robert Wilberforce, Archdeacon ~,,, rPe, Dr. Grant, the Rev. John Keble, the Rev. John in•ller, Dr. Air 1- -sa uerly, Dr. Gresly, and Dr. Pusey. f Among the Placels were Archdeacon Samuel Wilber._ d cn." ' Lord Ashleyr,.Lord Sandon, the Bishops of Llan alfand Chicheste about. Ward hss doffed his cap and gown, and appears Oxford in the ordinary dress. It seems that there `1! t:iritroversy on ipoint also. The University auh titles maintain that Mr. Ward should now wear a scholar's . l itr no RS an undergrauate, and a member of a foundatio a n t . 4 the other hand, his legal advisers are of opinion, th at RAILWAY IN TELLIGE CE, The Rochester and Gravesend Railway was opened on Monday with the usual formalities. The South Devon Railway from Exeter to Newton Abbot will be opened on the lst of July. A railway from Madrid to Cadiz is in contemplation, and meets with the support of the Spanish ministry. It is stated by the Railway Magazine that a line from Oxford to Birmingham is in contemplation by the Liver pool and Manchester Company. Diss, BECCLES, AND YARMOUTH.—A meeting of the subscribers to this scheme was held on Thursday, when it was unanimously resolved to proceed to parliament, in spite of the adverse decision of the Board of Trade. HULL AND GAINSBOROUGH RAILWAY.—The shares in this undertaking were allotted on Saturday. The total number of shares were 12,000; and we understand that the applications exceeded 80,C00. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. — Tbe half-yearly genet al meet ing took place on Friday, for the half-year ending Decem ber 31st, 1844. The receipts amounted to £22,692 7s. 2d. ; and the disbursements to £9115 3s. The Carlisle Patriot says that a survey is now making to form a railway from Coniston to join the Furness line of railway near Kirkby Ireleth, the construction of which will be easily accomplished, as the greater part of the distance is a dead level. EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—The half yearly meet ing, and also a special meeting. were held at Ipswich on Wednesday. Every thing passed of harmoniously. The directors are fully cmcowered to proceed with the Har wich branch. The electro telegraph is now completed to Southampton, and it is said that the Railway Company are prepared to send simple messages to London, for private parties, by means of this wonderful invention, at a charge of one shilling. RAILWAYS ST YORKSHIRE.—On Tuesday, two meetings were held— -the one ht ford—relative — tO - ihe rival lines in this district. At Hali fax, the West Yorkshire was preferred, and at Bradford the West Riding; but the promoters of the West York shire complain loudly of unfair dealing on the part of their opponents at the Bradford meeting. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.--Messrs. Clay and Swift, the solicitors to this company, have an nounced to the Lancaster Commissioners of Police that they have abandoned the line to the east of the town of Lancaster. All difficulty will, therefore, be removed in obtaining leave from Parliament to proceed with the line on the west side of the town. PROJECTED RAILWAYS.—The Board of Trade have decided to report to Parliament in favour of the Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool line, the Trent Valley line, except the Potteries and Alfrewas branches, and the following schemes proposed by the Liverpool and Manchester Rail way : the Patricroft and Clifton branches, the Parkside branch, and the extensions into Liverpool ; and against the St. Helen's and Rufford branch of the Liverpool and Manchester Company. RAILWAY MISSIONARIES.—Messrs. Grissel and Peto, the contractors on the Brandon line, have presented every workman with a Bible and other books. Five railway missionaries are also employed between Norwich and Brandon, who specially devote themselves to the religious instruction of the men, both on Sunday and during the week. Two buildings have been provided by Mr. Peto, as temporary places of worship, and opened for that pur pose during the last fortnight. A numerous meeting of the shareholders in the Direct Northern Railway was held on Friday at their offices in Moorgate-street, when it was unanimously resolved to place the entire funds of the company at the disposal of the committee for prosecuting the measure in Parliament. It was intimated to the meeting that the Parliamentary deposit of upwards of X 142,000 had been made with the accountant• general, and that the bill would be immedi ately presented to Parliament. The meeting passed off most harmoniously, and a resolution of confidence in the committee was passed with acclamation. Mr. Mathison, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Copeland, addressed the meet ing, and spoke confidently of the prospects of the com pany and of the result. LONDON AND GREENWICIL—At a meeting of the shareholders, held on Wednesday, it was announced that the line had been leased for 999 years to the South-East ern (Dover) Company, on the following t erms , namely, £36,000 for the first year, to be increased £l,OOO yearly, until it shall reach £4,5,000 per annum, such rent to be payable quarterly, clear of all taxes and deductions, ex cept the property tax. The engines, carriages, stores, and working-plant, have been taken by the South -East ern Company, at the sum of £22,808 17s. Bd. The term in the lease commenced on the Ist of January last, and the business of the railway has, since that day, been con_ o,ucted on the account, and at the risk, of the South- Eastern Company. The report of tie directors was una nimously approved. GENERAL MISCELLANY. A new steam-vessel, with the screw propeller, will be placed on the Cork and London line next month. Mr. Summers Harford has relinquished his intention of contesting the borough of Lewes : a very prudent resolve. A new fine vein of lead ore has just been discovered in the Isle of Man. Wm. Lloyd, the fellow who maliciously broke the Portland vase, value £lOOO, at the British Aluseum, has been committed to bard labour for two months. A range of buildings at Fulham, valued at between two and three thousand pounds, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday last. The Commissioners of 'Woods and Forests have pur chased the Eari of Haddington's right, as "hereditary keeper of Holyrood Palace," for £30,674. The Journal des Debats of Thursday, the Gth instant, under its " second edition" head, announces an on dit that Mr. Gladstone, who retires from the Board of Trade, is to be appointed Bishop of Exeter! At She ffiold, last week, a young man, a tool-maker, having a quarrel with his father, pulled out a piece of red hot iron from the forge, and struck him so violently as to cause his death a few days afterwards. THE IRON TRADE, GLASGOW, Feb. 13.—Sellers are holding firm to-day at £4 10s. ; and it is now confidently believed that X. 5 will be declared at the forthcoming meet- The Board established by a patent during the Pitt Ad ministration, for opening the letters of foreigners sus pected of having treasonable designs against this or fo reign governments has been abolished. Jane Crosby, charged with the wilful murder of her own child, by holding it forcibly on the fire, has been com mitted to Carlisle gaol, to take her trial at the ensuing assizes. A man named Jones, employed at the Bridgewater Foundry, Patricroft, was murdered on Saturday night week, in mistake, it is supposed, for another man. Two men are in custody for the offence. CONTROVERTED E [ACTIONS' COMMITTEE.—The speaker has appointed the General Committee of Elections for the Present session, to consist of Lord Granville Somerset, Sir George Grey, Bart., Viscount Sandon, James Loch, Esq., John Wilson Patten, Esq., and The O'Connor Don. A boy, thirteen years of age, the son of a cow-keeper, named Press, in Somerstown, committed suicide on Fri day, by hanging himself in a cow-house, from dread of a threatened castigation, his father having threatened to beat him severely for playing truant. . . . - - Mr. Crompton, surgeon oculist to Henshaw's Blind Asylum, estimates the number of blind persons in Great Britain and Ireland at 24,000, and expresses his convic tion that at least one-third of these might have had their eyesight. 'I he two chief causes of blindness are neglect of vaccination, and the purulent opthalmia of infancy. MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Hon. W. B. Baring succeeds Sir Edward Knatchbull (who will be raised to the peerage) in the office of Paymaster-General to the Forces ; and Lord Jocelyn succeeds Mr. Baring at the Board of Control. These changes cause vacancies in the representation of Marlborough and King's Lynn.— Morning Herald. SHOCKING INHUMANITY.—A g'rl, sixteen years old, has been found in a loft over a cowshed, at Wandsworth, dying of starvation, and covered with vermin and filth to a degree too disgusting to be described. She was removed to the Union-house and properly attended to, and is now a little better. She is the daughter of a gardener, who, she says, on recently taking a second wife, turned her out of doors. For six days she was without food or drink. Mrs. Lashbrook, the wife of a respectable farmer, and her servant girl, have been committed for trial on a charge of firing her husband's premises, in the parish of Northam, North Devon. The girl made a full confession, stating that she was instigated by her mistress to commit the act of incendiarism during the absence of her master. The house and outbuildings were fired at four different places, considerably detached from each other. Both prisoners were committed for trial ; but the mistress was admitted to bail. BURNING OF A SHIP.—On Monday afternoon, as the ship Henry of 500 tons, the property of Mr. Fletcher, of Lintehouse, was taking in a cargo of coals, at the West India Dock Buoy, from a collier alongside, she was dis- . covered to be in flames. The report circulated at the time is, that a boy belonging to the Henry had been col lecting shavings and wood in the hold of the ship, which by some means not explained caught fire. She was towed clear of the shipping, and after high water she was run on shore at the west side of the Blackwell Reach. As the warps were burnt, it was found impossible to hold her in deep water after the fall of the tide, and it was therefore necessary to run her on shore, to prevent her driving amongst the shipping at Blackwell. Ihe amount of damage will exceed £lO,OOO. THE PHCENIX STEAMER. — The first trial of this war steamer was made down the Thames on Monday last, when, drawing 12 feet 9 inches fore and 13 feet 9 inches aft, her speed was found to average 9.616 miles per hour, her en gines, of 260 horse power, making 22.75 revolutions per minute (theirlegitimate number), and her propeller (Mr. Steinman's patent) 56.875. This same invention when tried a second time in the " Rattler" war-steamer g ave, drawing 10 feet 8 inches fore and 12 feet aft, a speed of 9.457 knots per hour, the engines, of 220 horse-power (with 25 revolutions), making 25.244 revolutions per mi nute, and the propeller 100 896, whilst that of Mr. Smith's, when tried, a 25th time, in the same vessel. and under the same circumstances, attained a speed of 9.638 knots, the engines making 26.98 revolutions, and the propeller 107.92, thus showing an increase of .181 of a knot (little more than a sixth) in 9.638 knots in favour of the latter, when assisted by 1.756 additional engine revolutions per minute, or 15 horses extra power. ROMANTIC STORY.—The following is part of a letter to a relati‘ e in this town from a gentleman at present re siding in the lonely and unfrequented island of Barra. The circumstance narrated in the conclusion of the ex tract is singular :—" On the afternoon of Thursday, 2d instant, a person came running into the manse, and alarmed us with the cry of ' A vessel in distress in sight,' We immediately rushed out, and, on reaching a point of land which stretches a long way into the sea, below the manse, we found that the ship (which had been seen a few miles distant some time before) was now within a few hundred yards of the rocky point. She truly presented the appearance of a wreck, being without masts, and hav ing only fragments of sails attached to poles temporarily erected by the crew, which we afterwards ascertained to consist of only five men,—seven having deserted the ship about a fortnight previously, and gone aboard an Ameri can vessel bound for Live,' pool. No sooner did we make our appearance, than the poor men shouted, and rang their hell to attract our notice. ‘‘ e did all in our power to indicate by signs a place of safety, and a boat went out and conducted them to an anchoring pace. They had suffered so much from hunger that raw potatoes were con sidered a luxury, and were greedily devoured by the fa mishing crew before time could be got to boil theta. The vessel is the Clarinda, of New Ross, county of Wexford, Ireland, bound from Quebec to Dublin, with a cargo of wood—a providential one for the crew, as she was filled with water, and kept afloat solely by means of her cargo, The captain, John Finnis, the carpenter, second mate, cook, and one seaman, are those saved, and they are all Irishmen. They were for thirteen days without water but what they could catch of rain water, and their store of provisions bad dwindled down to a small bagful! of biscuit crumbs. On the Sunday before Christmas, the vesse l capsized, and their provisions, clothes, &c., were lost, having'the night before been brought upon deck in the hope that some vessel might be met with, and that they could quit their ill-fated one. in this critical situa tion they remained fur five or six hours, until the masts and rigging were cut away, through the instrumentality of two penknives—these being the only tools saved. When the masts were cut the vessel righted ; but the unfortu nate crew were utterly ignorant of their course, being des titute of compasses, quadrants, and everything else. They supposed, when the welcome land of Barra made its ap pearance, that they bad come in sight of the Orkney Islands. The ship has not been got into a safe harbour vet, in consequence of the tempestuous weather, and it is feared she will become a total wreck. She is, however, fully insured. The captain, on hearing me mention that I had a brother at sea, stated that he knew a young man of the name of —, with whom he lived for a short time in the spring of 1841 (nearly four years ago,) in the Mau ritius, or Isle of France, and that his personal appearance so much resembled mine that (romantic as it might seem) he fancied he could be no other than my brother. On making mutual inquiries, it actually turned out to be the case.—lnrerness Courier. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.—This body met, at Lon don on Thursday. Mr. Soarnes,. M.P., took the chair, and said,—" Gentlemen, I deeply re.lret the spirit that has bren evinced by the Colonial-office against the New Zealand Company ever since Lord John Rtissell resigned the post of Colonial Secretary. Had his lordship re- mained at the head of the Colonial-office up to the y resent time, this company, and the 10,000 British subjects in New Zealand, would have been in a very different situa tion to that in which, I regret to say, they are at present placed. The Colonial-office has not carried out either the spirit or the letter of agreement entered into with this company. (Cries of bear, hear.) I therefore fear there is no other course for the company but to appeal to par liament for justice, and for that compensation which is clearly due to them. (Cheers)." Resolutions to that effect were moved and carried. ANOTHER CRISIS.—Some of the indications which preceded the crisis of 1825-6 are beginning to appear in the money-market, and should not be allowed to pass without observation. Letters are constantly received de nouncing the directors of joint-stock companies for all sorts of irregular practices, including the formation of them with insufficient means; the witholding of shares from bond fide subscribers, and selling them surrepti tiously for a large premium at the same time ; and, finally, a resort to the old and nefarious system of " rigging," so often exposed on former occasions, which means the purchase for a time of a larger number of shares than are known to have been issued, which subjects the sellers on the day of settlement to such terms as the fraudulent buyers may think fit to impose. It would be unfair, per haps and certainly dangerous, to give publicity by name to parties against whom such imputations are directed, but it is sufficient for the purpose of further warning to the mad speculators of the day, to advert to them gene rally, and to observe that where such manifest temptation to such frauds existed, it is extremely probable that they should in some instances be resorted to. The unwary and credulous speculator, therefore, in such transactions, who has numerous chances against him when all is fair and above-board, is certain to lose, or perhaps to be ruined, when exposed to such frauds as those described. The protection of manifest and wilful dupes is perhaps of no great consequence ; but the trade and monetary operations of the country, which are now threatened with disturbance from this cause, should be saved if possible from its consequences.—Times, City Article. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CH ATH AM.—About two o'clock on Tuesday morning, an alarming fire broke out in her Majesty's dockyard, Chatham, which threat ened the most serious consequences to the whole estab lishment ; but owing to the heavy fall of snow, the absence of wind, the presence of assistance immediately on the spot, a plentiful supply of water, and the praise worthy exertions of officers and men—naval, military, and civil—the damage sustained, although extensive, is comparatively little to what might have been anticipated from the inflammable materials and their contiguity. The fire was first seen in a place called the Joiners' Pound, which was full of seasoned mahogany and other materials for ships' cabins, &c. ; and very soon it bad extended on one side to the joiners' shop, and afterwards on the other to the treenail-house, over which is the school for the apprentices, forming a range of buildings on the east side. The roof of the joiners' shop was destroyed, and the building itself was entirely gutted ; and all the bulkheads, &c., prepared for ships building, with great numbers of joiners' chests of tools and fittings were consumed. The treenail-house was also gutted, and the roof of the build ing, with a great portion of the books, instruments, &c., belonging to the school, were completely destroyed. The schoolmaster's house, which is at the east end of the buildings, is also ruined. The schoolmaster and his family happily escaped without personal injury, and a large quantity of his property was saved, but of the whole range of building on lire scarcely anything but the tot tering walls remain. As soon as the alarm was given the workmen belonging to the dockyard, the officers and men from the ships in the Midway, and the troops of the gar rison, were on the spot as speedy as possible, and by their zealous exertions the tire was got under between five and six o'clock. The origin of the fire appears at present to be involved, as usual, somewhat in mystery. CAPTURE OF TWO SWINDLERS.—A few days ago the inhabitants of Tonbridge, Kent, were visited by two fashionably dressed persons, under the assumed names of the Hon. Captain and Lady Stewart. They took up their abode at the Queen's Arms Hotel, and had not been long there before they called at different tradesmen's shops, and gave extensive orders for valuable jewellery end clothes of the very best description. The dress and appearance of the strangers were well calculated to lull suspicion as to their real characters, and they succeeded in obtaining two gold watches, chains, rings, and pins, of various descriptions, which .were paid for with checks on the London and County Bank, (a check-book of which the '` gentleman" carried in his pocket,) and filled up in the presence of the unsuspecting tradesmen, from whom he generally obtained five or ten pounds, the balance of the amount of the check. They carried on their depre dations until Thursday morning last, when several boxes were removed to the railway-station, addressed to Mr. Dittmar, London, to be left at the terminus at London until called for. The removal of so many boxes caused some suspicion, and inquiries were instantly sent to Lon don respecting the checks, when it was ascertained that the party was known there only as a swindler, several applications having arrived at the bank from various parts of the country respecting them. On the return of the messenger from London it was found that the parties bad absconded. An officer was dispatched by the railway after the fugitives, who had walked a short distance from Tonbridge, where they had a conveyance in waiting, and in which they were driven off to London. Saturday two officers secured the prisoners at the railway terminus, where they had arrived to carry away their luggage. The whole of the boxes were seized by the police, and found to contain jewellery and dresses worth between £2OO and £3OO. On the male prisoner was found a gold watch and chain, a blank check-book of the London and County Bank, and 30 sovereigns. On the female was also found another gold watch and chain. HORSE-FLESH SAUSAGES. — Mr. Mebane'', a horse slaughterer in Sharp's-alley, Cow-cross, attended before Sir Peter Laurie, at Guildhall, to hear a complaint that was about to be made respecting his establishment, by Mr. Lamplough, a chemist, at No. 88, Snow-hill, and one of the guardians of the West London Union. Mr. Lamplough said that a short time since, perceiving a very offensive smell in the New Farringdon-street, curiosity induced him to endeavour to trace the cause of it, and he discovered it proceeded from the knacker's yard in Sharp's alley. He found several horses there, some waiting to be slaughtered, and some dead. As he was leaving the yard, a sight presented itself which excited his disgust, from a suspicion which might or might not be well founded. He saw a quantity of sausage meat brought from Mr.Atcher ler's dwelling-house, and remembered that while he was in the yard he heard the click of a sausage-making mill. On Friday last he and his friend again paid a visit to the knacker's yard, and on leaving it they saw two baskets full of sausages going from the same dwelling-house. They followed the man, and saw him deliver them at the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, where he booked the bas kets to go to Brighton. If 'the horrid suspicion that en tered his mind that those sausages were partly made of horse-flesh were well fr. unded, it would partly account for some of the peculiar diseases that had recently deve loped themselves in the human frame, and which the fa culty had a difficulty in accounting for otherwise. Sir Peter Laurie asked Mr. Atcherler if it was true that, being a slaughterer of horses, he had a chopping-mill for the conversion of horse-flesh into sausages ? Mr. Atcher ler said he had not. His house was at the top of the yard, and the dwelling-house mentioned did not belong to him, but to Mr. Lansdowne. He certainly had a mill, and carried on the business of a maker of saveloys and polonies. With regard to the smell from his premises, he had the yard scalded out once a week, and it was kept in as good order as any place of the kind in the metro polis. The stench was as likely to come from the pre mises of some of his neighbours. Sir Peter remarked it was rather remarkable that a saveloy- maker should choose premises next to a horse-slaughterer. In a recent great distillery case, they had heard of a convenient connecting pipe with other premises. Sir Peter was glad he had af . of explaining that he had no connexion with the sausage-maker; and wished him good morning STATEMENT OF THE SELLING PRICE OF MERCHANT BAR IRON, IN LIVERPOOL, REF, MOST REMARKABLE PERIODS IN THE HISTORY OF THE TRADE (From Jevons and Sons' Circu"a?..) FIRST PERIOD, SECOND PERIOD, THIRD PERIOD 1817 to 1823. 1824 to 1832. 1835 and 1813. £ s_, 1817 Feb.... 8 101824 Jan. .. 8 15,1835 Feb Match . 9 10' Feb. .. 9 15t Sept... 7 July 10 10 Sept... 10 01 Oct - 5 0 7 10 August 12 0 Oct. ll 01 Nov... 8 0 Oct. .. 13 0 „ 11 10; Dec... 8 5 1818 Feb. .. 12 /5 l3 0:1836 Jan. .. 10 10 April.. 11 )5 Nov 12 10 April.. 11 10 May .. 11 5 Dec 13 0 July .. 11 5 June .. 10 15 1825 Jan. l4 0 Oct. .. 11 0 August 10 0 Feb. l5 0 Nov— 10 15 Sept... 11 10 March 14 10 Dec... 10 10 Dec. .. 12 10 April 14 0 1837 Feb. .. 10 5 1819 May .. 11 10 August 13 0 March. 9 15 June .. 11 0 „ 12 10 May 9 0 1820 March.lo 10 Sept 11 10 June .. 8 10 June .. 11 0 1826 Jan. ll 0 July .. 7 5 9 0 April 10 10 August. 6 15 810 May 9lO „ 15. 7 5 8 0 Oct. lO 0 „ 19. 8 0 1827 March 9 10 ~ 31. 8 15 1828 8 0 Sept... 9 10 1829 7 0 Dec... 9 15 1830 1831 6 0 Dec... 9 15 1832 May .. 10 0 June .. 9 15 Sept... 9 10 1840 Jan. .. 9 0 Dec... 8 0 1841 April.. 7 15 1812 Jan. .. 6 10 Dec... 5 5 1813 April.. 5 0 June .. 4 10 1821 1822 1823 Loup SANDoN.—We learn, on what may be deemed unquestionable authority, that on the occasion of the late sudden departure of Loid Sandon from Liverpool to London, Sir R. Peel offered to his lordship the presidency of the Board of Trade, with a seat in the Cabinet. For personal reasons, however, his lordship thought proper to decline the offer.—Courier. THE SHARE MARKET (From Mr. Wills' Circular.) The Share Market has not rnaintlined its usual buoy ancy this week, and there is a sensible pause, which is not to be regretted, in the oneratinng of gnernintnr, A nlnnert •-•/ •.• npruuldtvis. t41E11111,7 at the quotations of the week will afford the fullest con firmation of an assertion in my last circular, that " the ard,ur of speculators was in proportion to the uncertainty which existed as to the ultimate success of the projects upon which their speculations were based." Thus, "Churnet Valleys" sold as high as £lO, previous to the appearance of the notice in the Gazette that the board liEd decided to report in favour of the line, but have since declined near £3 per share. The shares ir. the " Bolton, W igan, and Liverpool." " Barnsley Junction," and other favoured lines, experienced a similar depression after the publication of the report in their favour. It is true that neither Government nor Parliament are bound by their reports, still it may be fairly presumed that the board will be prepared to fortify them with sub stantial reasons ; hence a great point is gained by the pro jectors of new lines, when it is known that their projects are to be favourably reported upon. The absolute absurdity of the extreme views taken by such men as Mr. Wallace, who would fill the country with competing lines of railway, thereby introducing the greatest anarchy and confusion into the railway system, under the plea of benefiting the public has been striir ingly displayed by the announcement at the" London and Birmingham " meeting held in London, on the 12th in stant, that that company had made an agreement for a junction of interests with the " Manchester and Birming ham," and " Trent Valley," and the " Churnet Valley ". Companies, by which a greater monopoly has been cre ated than could have existed if the competing lines had never been projected. Moreover, it is idle to imagine that such a company as the " Grand Junction " can be excluded for any length of time from the benefits of such an arrangement ; and however parliamentary orators may amuse themselves by ringing the changes upon the evils of railway monopoly, its-baneful effects would be increased by the multiplication of rival lines, which, after all, would only tend to perpetuate monopoly, as those powerful cor porations would ultimately combine for mutual protec tion. Such a legislative enactment as that which was passed during the last session of Parliament, regulating the charges on railways, and compelling railway companies to provide for the accommodation of the poorer classes, is the only but all-sufficient means of obviating the dreaded effects of the monopoly in question. _ _ It is to be regretted that the intentions of the Board of Trade have not yet transpired with reference to the competing lines between London and York, which are decidedly the most important of the new undertakinge, and it is admitted on all hands that the decision of the board, with reference to the various projects of railway extension, ought to be made known with as little delay as possible, as their early pubication must serve as an effec tual check against the spirit of gambling speculation, and prevent the outlay of immense sums in premiums upon the shares of lines which are not likely to receive the sanction of Government. The increase in the traffic receipts of the undermentioned nineteen railways for the first six weeks of this year, as compared with the ccrresponding period of last year, amounts to £49,7lo,—namely, Birmingham and Glouces ter, £2487 ; Chester and Birkenhead, £446; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £l6ll ; Glasgow and Greenock. £254 ; Glasgow, Paisley and Avr, £1389 ; Grand Junction, £4361 ; Great Western, £8650: Liverpool and Manches ter, £2677 ; London and Birmingham, £4607 ; London. and Brighton, 2241 ; London and Croydon, £BB2 ; Lon don and South Western, £2071 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, £669; Manchester and Leeds, £4851; Mid land Company. £8340; Newcastle and Carlisle, £1442; Preston and Wyre, £716 ; Sheffield and Manchester, £995 r York and North Midland, £1521. LOCAL NEVUS. On Tuesday morning, James Knipe, who resided in Chisenhale-street, got up and made a fire, but expired on his chair shortly afterwards. It appeared that death bad resulted from serous apoplexy. On Wednesday, police-officer W. H. Campbell, was committed for trial at the sessions, by Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing 501 b. of boxwood, from George's Dock Quay. Jane Nelson, an old woman, 79 years of age, who bad her leg broken by being run over on the 3d instant. in Tithebarn-street, died on Thursday, at the Northern Hospital. CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.—On Tuesday, Henry Young, a sailor, was charged with stealing a coat and trousers, belonging to Mr. Crossley, of Great Howard street. It appeared that the clothes bad been sent from the shop of a tailor in Paradise-street, to the house of compl , inant. The prisoner, who lodged with Mr. Cross ley, took them from a boy at the house door, said " It is all right," and afterwards got a female to pledge them, at the shop of Mr. Medder, Oldhall-street. He wasordered to pay 305., the value of the clothes, and £5 penalty, or go to gaol for two months. After the case had been de cided, Mr. Crossley claimed the clothes. Mr. Rushton. to the pawnbroker's assistant : Did you ask no question ? Answer: " No." Mr. Rushton : " Then restore the clothes to the owner ; you ought to have asked. LIVERPOOL FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. —On Thursday the ninth annual general meeting .4 the company was held at the Clarendon-rooms. T. Booth, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that 36,585 shares had been issued in the course of the year; that the pre miums . received on fire business had been £56,239 56.5 d., and the losses £14,050 7s. Bd. ; that the life business was in a more satisfactory position than at any previous period, and was likely in each succeeding year to improve; that the balance of profit and loss, after making up the re served surplus fund to £lOO,OOO, was £20,075 10s. 6d., from which the directors proposed to take a dividend of ten per cent., which would require £11,930 12s. 6d. after deducting five per cent. on the unpaid portion of the ca pital, and leave a sum of .C 8,144 18s. at the credit of the account against current risks. The report stated that the directors intended to open agencies throughout the coun try. Mr. E. Mozley urged on the directors the propriety of bringing down the charge on premiums in all descrip tions of property, but he was not quite so certain that it would be to the advantage of the concern to spread their risks throughout the country. The Secretary said that the life department was at present in a much more satis factory state than heretofore. Mr. Blackburn suggested that in future•the dividends should be paid half- yeatly ; but the directors would not pledge themselves to carry out such a suggestion. The retiring directors were re elected, the report and dividend were carried, and a vote of thanks was passed to the directors, with 400 guineas for their services. LIVERPOOL LYING-IN HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY. —The third annual meeting of the subscribers to this charity was held on Monday last, in the Charitable Insti tution house, Slater-street, John Rigby, Esq., occupied the chair. The report, which was read by Dr. Watson, stated that the progress of the charity had been most sa tisfactory, although it was to be regretted that a diminu tion of income, to the amount of 15 per cent., had taken place in consequence of deaths, removals, &c. The number of cases which had been received into the wards during the past year was 109, exceeding by 33 the number of the previous year. The number of di pensary patients was 1034, being a large increase over that of 1843. The receipts during the year had only been £ll2 lls., whilst the expenditure reached £172 95., leaving a balance due to the treasurer of upwards of £59. The committee re ported that, in conformity with the recommendation on the subject of the education of nurses, contained in the appendix to the report of the Registrar General of births, deaths, and marriages, they had already sanctioned their medical officers in attempting to form a medical school for nurses, and they were informed that a few very respect able nurses had been glad to avail themselves of the op portunity afforded them, and had proved themselves on examination, worthy of certificates. In moving the vari ous resolutions, the speakers referred to the great useful ness of the charity, the economical manner in which its funds were laid out, and all expressed their conviction that if the institution and its merits were better known, ......... .. there would be a large increase of subscribers DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY. — The letter of Mr. Wilson, respecting the land which bad been offered to him on lease, was, in consequence of a communication from the solicitor, referred back to the Sub-committee of Works.—Some conversation took place as to the non removal of Messrs. Forrester, hut the matter was even tually referred.—The Sub-committee would not recom mend the wood paving between the Waterloo and Victo ria Docks, on account of the expense, which would amount to about £2,ooo.—The Sub-committee of the Marine de partmeat recommended that the following returns be made to the order of the House of Commons :—The titles of the several Dock Acts ; the title of the Conservancy Bill; the oldest chart of the harbour; the oldest chart of the river; copies of the reports of Messrs. Rennie and tawsa' conditions h ss u i o t p b r ed y ei o tr i n et deo t n l ft i d e o et s bhn t ete a t og e of the Dockif vtehne v tHo CommitteeoN i ri y r e e. r —ife SherwoodT. b l ie u oa relativets life-boat.—The To of rh his ots s e guine as rkmees nn servic es and berths for flats at the Waterloo Dock were agreed to by the parties, and the new arrangements were to commence yesterday.—A recommendation was made by the Sub committee, that the slip on the south side of the Queen's Dock should be filled up to a level with the quay, a serious accident having occurred within the last few days from its being allowed to remain as at present. Referred to the Committee of Works.—Two accidents were reported to have taken place by vessels running against the Pier head, while going into the Queen's Dock basin.—A re commendation for a fly-bridge at the entrance to the Canning Dock was referred to the Sub-committee of Works.—A letter from the Secretary of the Pilot Com mittee, complaining that the person in charge of the life boat refused to take a pilot on board the ship Brewster, during the gale of the 27th ult., was referred to the Ma rine Committee.—Some discussion took place relative to the claim for compensation made by Messrs. Humble & Milcrest, those gentlemen wishing the matter to be re ferred to two justices, at the same time naming Mr. H. Earle and Mr. J. C. Ewart. The Chaim m an thought it would be better that each party should name one, or let the question be decided by the bench in the ordinary . way. —A communication from the Watch Committee referred m n ort. been jack l s a o i n d b t e h f e o reeh chair man to a fire which broke out in a shed at the King's Dock, which had probably originated from the lights used 1;oy the workmen being incautiously placed tere . .—The Chair man stated, in reference to a communication respecting Birkenheadthe e land i ng Commissioners stages, m pe a c n em of be t that body, nd dei that d the t 1 letter r. m w a a i s i a sent by,s o o n ffi t c h e e tb l e fit s h am o o f day; that the commissioners had met on the 7th January, and it was not until the February meeting the letter was brought torward, which arose, as was alleged, from its n ot being received in time.—The committee adjourned shortly afterwards.