The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

al . . r meet malt een- SE, ack, me ich Nl m- er- Sept. 3,1814 I tbe f :o oci ao 01s , oa ..... ity for gio rter 14, ) erg ,te. lo t D a/ 'ti ) , of riPT I " DO lilies ,tivc • bet Ora l with 31, C1 P , 1 _ . IIVERPOOL, ORMSIZIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY, WITH A BRANCH TO SOUTHPORT. CdP ITAL, £600,000, in 24,000 Shares of .£25 each; DEPOSIT, £2 10s. per SHARE. Sir Thonaas Hesketh Bart., Rufford•" PROVISIONAL commi t Ty.PEr---„ an, T hole ..w. eTrafford, of -hall, Lancashire, Lancashire, Sir Thos J d Batt.,T,rafford-park, Lancashire, Es „rtnee Director 48 old Blundell ' q `E Liverpool, a Duekenfield Bold.? sq., wc.!,the Lancaster and s ailisle Railway, ~,Robert Browne, Esq., l Wavertree-road, 1 ithaal Boardman E ~ Farrington-hall,Liverpool, mss Golden- Oo,tnas Brandreth, sq., Ormskirk,. 1 eae r i ck w . 4 u ar e Caldwell, Lnn d London, q . , Villi Mesho . is 1, Argyleshire, and Iv .arn en-u'• Esq Kensington, Liverpool, illiam Dixon, Esq . :, of Govan, dame Nowell Ffarington, Esq., les, Lancashire, William Peilden, Esq.. M.P., Fernseew William Posberry, Everton, MG 7 ol ar ds ge n ":l;all, Lancashire, Liverpool, vorge Grad well,'Esq., Preston Charles Grove. Esc'•, Liverpool ' , Ralph Greenough isq., Southport, Bohn 11 " v ell, ESQ. Beaumont-villa, Middi Es q '+ je esex, H e Humber, Esq., Preston, Shepherds'-bush, Titil_n'Y Harrison, Esq., Southport, skirk and Southport, jo,;.a. Kershaw, Esq., 0 Cl e " ° osson, Esq., More-hall, m Lancashire, vi ire ments Royds, Esq., Mount ..,..„ ilway Company, hairtrian of the Preston and Wyre na Manor-house, , 'IL Gillibrand Unsworth, Esq., Manor eashire Lan- D aniel 'Waterhouse, Esq., Aigburth, Liverpool, (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. 1 , 1 1 Me • r!. Williams, Deacon, Labouchere, and Co., London, eta Liverpool Commercial Bank, Liverpool, The Preston Banking Company, Preston. ENGINEERS. Sir j o h n AI ~ - . I .Neill, L.L . .D., F.R.B. xir R I A. ~ jacnes Thanspson, Esq F.R.5.1.., „.. . . Messrs n 'PARL Parlia- orrington, Hayward, and Ellicombe, PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. linent•-st' tir the r eo " ri t ;traction of this RAILWAY a direc a tc_o t tn ; In anication will b e made between Liverpool t' he N orthern Lines, and a connection formed with cil 'ther ole of 'the manufacturin dlstricts of York_ L shir a e s , hi b re y t ile Bl ackburn and Pr es t on g Itailiiay, and the aoc and Yorkshire Junction. This independent entrance into Liverpool, from the advantage, limited as the llortia, will 'be of great publict by _iiiway. town now is to only one ou . tet . Li. A Brart..th from the main line, Et , O v rmskirk, will pro vide th e means o f c h eap and expeditious access to the junction watering-placeof this Branch w ith t h e ri sing and much-frequented of So u th port; Ind by a contemp l ate d . j un to Solithport will be af- Liverpool and Manchester 'Railway, at Newton, the shortest and most direct route ed by Sir John M Neill fordrd from Manchester and tie Midlandtcounties. M' . The proposed line has beetrguir h v o Y se report is highly fa fl(l James Thompson, Esq., 'euurable. The terminus, h Gaol, in Great Howard tm.lacled to he near the Among . in w Liverpoot, is at present in- Aim ' g r . id Aughton, to the in street fc,,,nl which the line willproceed to the west of town ree Raerrom.sr, by Mk lain a ? ford 4 Ormskirk, and from thence oy Union Railway, 'tit r`gssi, Crosten, to join tbe Ng:pill Burscough, Rtlf- A 1 ur 'l and Pr t n Railway. Il laol4 " 31 '1 ssoaere a junction will be effected with the l— .ower Lat e t" o onrryeed'or''''airtgGtlhenwest of - St-x-isbrick has also been ,i Coal p; eicstructioarOf a •railwaci, but le e a v v e m n g ue may be epe ted k , ~ (from - which a considerable would have to be „,...I..titid the town of Ornifkirk . , fore however; both dt PP " aae lled by a Branch'; the er r dire w line is, -there trill %.„7.d preferable ; at the same time, Plan s rve Maitre consideration before depositing the p h. , o'•• Pirrliaroent. ird north iverlnsdent circuitous Railway com t m e u n n e ica rt t n i ,n onl! etween east, i';',?ar.pd*Preston, and Pisces to a p,,,1,c,...7 lied on by lines. oregtnai , y pyojeeted,for other subjected to un-, beee,7r, nhd`the traffic ls consequentl y .. 'nce the. only e- .' isti ro lr xPanse, delay, and locomen' R a n t l I ote b e i ri „. b., Li - tbe • Noith tni°nll,a,l'F•aroe, and thence to Preston I , „ s ) the Manchester and Li'verpool usually occupy 'Pb ingTrottalive7, a distance of 382 wiles' _ 1.,i pool to Pre st „,, n4 2 •• to 2i hours. The distance . Is I - re a cting a sayslpy ielc"' l 'l r "se proposed direct line, fram e' I Y 27oltile ' greietivill te traversed in one hour, thuse . e __ me. Thi s e4 ' ni ts's, and more than one ‘tti..,frfi '" t '''Oet; r Passengers to car . Y t°gether with the greatly diminished cost Of con utd d°o, 'will enable. the Company bl e in:odatt such redrreed rates as to creme a considera- Co-le leave n the present traffic. ed in thetraffic lietweding advantages will be c - ter, IZl'Lleroool and the towns of I3iec glct kid Q6e,,hdal, Carlisle, Tenrith, lel, up,ttrroe, Burnley, Nevi castle iortnettior ex k bur E n u , ' i La - a n - bur e g a h s , tendi,,-Inw_t and Companies having' e_eo . . to 2...cri,„_ ton, ci,l,.he Blackburn and Preston Itail,:t . u4 bie -m y , , Bin ; . Colne, SliiPton , It. eo h .' ;. , lord, and•leeds, these towns (all o participate in the inte atTse with Lic . . , enr.ool) will p e be tiefi. , e re - ' t'llne. f which have -nil litle ° L the proposed dire nt c: .... t i Liverpool for .pas sege_ will form the direct ro , - bi Iz,cotland, Is - 3 Steam- Paeketertn Ir eland•and the WcsT --,, th the Preston and "WYte-ti:,,leetwoitt-2 in conjuactiot. tv, To th r "ay. taffe. Lathom. Itt ul okb Isluable Coal Fields ofilickers 'benefit of 1 144 4 ce Places, When(' excluderl frou . l the t the pro llosed4eatatounicatio, access will be given i wit fora.' a source ,r (..04.,ne: While the carriage of Coa- l . an d, by at and • - profit to the Company , ~„ „,,_ teas e . ofd increasin g pr the LtverpFi.l ;•.:anita, in the a tivarich to countess with f the terminus, facilt (4, w h t e itatnediate vicsnity-o• - Cori and .mer -"andise., ttiforticil for the shipment of- ‘-; The . j, com eil, u p . k tm . it s direct course, be- Th e %mi. the he-lvlioir l a y °kite from Liverpool to the Worth. ed including ra r n eh t o R....gtb. of the Lineto be form , . 02 _,..., cos. o. c - utt s . i ~,,s :an d th e esti ii , .."'-! other onstr,etit port, 1832- Ills"' ' . _ engines , and necessar n, nieluding land' stations, n ~..,hich maY be eonfiderLti , Y outla y • i .C6oo;°°-' hl na ture of I, y rened tn ' cis un • " 'from thnfavoura e , th e at , ae coo t* , l a i S Suflicien., , the Line pases, . - and Izotjt s yse T tl eF •of Y ' 3t rou g h which engineering difficiitt Coa l 't is, Ihnt•e-Yf or exPeathv o e ge ,d ir that the Capital f the t 25 each')h be '" 'Pr , X.6 Uu,Olilll (divided intd . 24,000 hares .u of witAVlwer to increase it :to:Li - 00,000 the bi, erto Its benig.,.dre 4 , „ v or advisable by the pendentrB t 5 continue. teemed Line et to B.B Preston with an lade ," terminn4, ~_ e .. _. for this contingency, -... ece3sary ti a ' i 'no, toprovide . _ posited in II bmade and de or„l,l,B and sections will. be ~ Parliarnet't. c--r.,ance %ilia the stand i ng orders 01 -An es tivate - based upon ex -4tiny t r ,,,,.. ;If revenue has been made' , aking an inapie „1-tge,.trora which itagyears thatriefi.eF,Ea , , , s. Per c Leductiom ter working expenses,a-divide n a 01 iv t e lit •eitiy.,lietfairly anticipated, without taking into rnuat, count any of the traffic ornich would•aceme by the eon ion di' tneLine already .alluded to. from Blackburn, con ;feeds^ an easterly dir , qio e n,t. „or towards B. ratiford, a . acl s, winch wo9l'd b very. -considerably , and also in 'ePendest ot •tliattaereased trattae, by the openin g of the '-'-a, neaster end Carlisle Railway, and ite.continuation to 44 dithburgh„ Glasgow, and the North of - Scotland. . ~ A Pplicatiass for Prospectuses or other information, - 'lld for Sha ~(in.the annexed ' form ) ) to , be in ., tde h n the a) ro . . I\l3-8, Exe ange vistotaal Committee, ..at th eir Office, . ~.411q, Exch treet West, CiverPri ' auge-s Messrs. Fon -.1•11, Brokers, Li n- • e l nd PLIITCHO.RD, ....t R ook and Share ate Brokers, tri)Qc'. • Al Tif- Ewe cod AULD, Si .. Li- St, .. tr, , es‘rs. CALD csrs. TEV3MAs I,„4l.;:ncent.psace, ....Glasgow.; Me, t r - Messrs Bum. anti it 'lna Snus;Broker.,,, %web" e . Taos. .W.ia,-,„"°„ales, Show Brokers, Leeds.; ,r,,,N Say it,--sr,.. zfroker Preston • Mr. 'rims. A.G1i...,, , * • Hak, IS' • • Y •41 - -srs C. and - .Na,, reosktrk ; and e-- • . ate-street, Lood tu. ' " b ack and Share .Brokers, 4 100 :g 2 'o eic-o„ --- - • °vision,/ cvmmiticev,the ,Livorpoot, orms- Geritier kirk, and Prestau Railway. Sha es-r•---ei hereby request that .you will allot me I i he es- eaell tit 4 above proposed Railway ; and ' e r.g nn„," ,"•-•`'nertake'to p a ' " v e t ] Deposits thereon, or any i s ecut e ,,es of Share s - , k'i ' may be allotted me s , and to 'Dca l ''''e P erlian '4 4. c 1 coLo.ract and -SsJ" cribers' me at. ~... e le.r4ary — 'll.l n required to do 40. I am, Gentlemea, Your obedieitt Servant. Name -- - Description------ --_______— Resid ence ----- ---......,......... ,..„...1) ake---- C-0/2)41-/kLE JUNCTION RAILWAY. ..44 .c. 40,, i _..,_ x xbo eac h . S t y e ••• • ` - !' f *Op in 8,000 SLIA /KA , ' 4 t , ..1116t iIoriPEGVTISioN'AE comxturczE• t nton. - WnielnatnenurabLe Lord Belhaven and S . e i e l Bart. sl r ., Venry J. B.,,"nlehaelA.nstruther of,Carnne It ' ' dOhn kir,,,:-‘Oll trySrt of Allanj.co, Bart. lie Li, ...Ind of dos 13 n. Jar r , L aIPY. Glasgow' Joh n ry so , ~,,, utnsden, Lo W Provost of i ._ _. ° ail Gib s o „' ' c- wrio of Hollandlfusii Provost of hamliion C,hristoph -' ''l•, Pro- •'Lanark. es sitniarsi. •ostrot jarnesiit ztteverte , ',!,, EN., Middleton L o dg e. C. lid . A ar ste, t„„, o- ' ' 4 l, of Braid wood. Lie t ar stow, e i of 13rownlee. Williamtlolonel r::(4., Edinbaegh. Alexanderßobertot, fl•I, of Mossknow. De • . sq. f L ' xand- r C nnist°un, e ll"'ImP. Willi, ',.„ 44,Pbe11, ts s q., of of hill. milli " til dolour, E c l- , of Bed'ay 3,4,_an 3 Ki E 8 4.10 i 0 ti • • ~, Es n, gi., , , a ands. I:re " fe q., 1)-i.1141‘ 454 , 51) eY• • A. 1-- Brock, Esq., i 3 arnocg 1-1 —ouse, 44rKidston, E.' 4711'er' Glasgw. i ts ,_ es Te, s k rr ,_bq't i erch ant, Gla,gow let. Ewing , the., Merchant, Greenock. ' ' 4 9 , Merchant. Greencck. EKGINEER. -Meg a ,. Jos ep h Locke, Egg g, London. ----4 r C r " sEeRETAE.Y. Ge ar " ua rne, Esq., St. Vincent -street, Glasgow. George CrA Wfurd ^ soLicyroa. M , t.'9•. West George-street, Glasgow. etig.c.A.__lfiAßL lANIENTARY AGLNTS. ' c bald Gtaharce NI , - fr and Weems. Th e c, iiAN --- , ~ o.tcrei i, T he ,7deadule Banking Company.....cca_s• Glasoow. The' tdintiurgh sand Glise il ' Edir;burgh. Ale °° tlon and ly •-ow d n ssra. by estrninster Bank .... Lon o . xi and C 9P3Pany ........ ..Liverpool. Iljs ~-, I I ~. , ~.k.J udertaking er4races soveral objects of great hexiouria,.2c utilit i Y. whether viewed separately or in con- In th e each other. th e 01 t first place, tie estalali-h-n, ent of Railway, by teals first direct route, from ttle'C't • of Glasgow to the the 41.'.1)0Pulous, and rapidlyein4.-Lsing coMmunity in bell, t/',•ieta adjoining to Ilamilt,,n bothwell, Mother that „' Iskaviton, aad the various coal awl iron works in Invtairktt,of ihe country ; Jegtond Place, a direct, agd insioteetupted Rail way Communication between the City of Glasgow and the inexhaustible fields of coal and other minerals, lying in the lower valley of the Clyde, as well as those traversed by the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, the Wilsonton Railway, and other communicating Lines ; In the third place, a union between the Caledonian Railway and the City of Glasgow, possessing the Ter minus at that city, suggested by the Royal Commis sioners appointed to report on the best means of Railway communication between England and Scotland; and In the fourth place, a Junction of all those Lines with the existing Railway leading from Glasgow to the sea ports of Greenock and Port Glasgow, so as to form one continuous and unbroken Line to the south of Scotland and all parts of England. The Provisional Committee have been induced to state, in the fi rst place, the local objects to be attained, because these objects have long been the subject of public consi deration, and, of themselves, afford the certainty of an ample return for the expense to be incurred, without re ference to any Line of Railway not yet formed ; and also because they ought not to be lost.sight of in the prospect of a Junction with the Caledonian Line, and of a con nection between that Line and the Railway to Greenock and Port Glasgow. An examination of the Sketch of the proposed Lines will show how the objects in view are to be attained. The Pollee and Govan Railway, which has been already constructed and is open to the public, is a line of three miles in length, commencing at the Harbour of Glasgow, and terminating at the Royal Burgh of ltuther glen ; and it is intended to be incorporated in the present undertaking. With this view the Provisional Committee have ac quired a right to the Polloc and Govan Railway, by an agreement of Sale conditional on an Act being obtained fur the Clydesdale Junction Line. at a price (to be taken in stock) which will afford an ample return to the New Company; and it is part of the agreement that the price (while it shall in no event exceed the stipulated sum) shall be subject to review by Mr. Locke, the Engineer to this undertaking, who may reduce it to such an amount as he may think reasonable. The Provisional Committee hate also concluded an agreement for such station ground as may be required, at a price to be fixed by arbitration. From the terminus of the - -Politic and Govan Railway at Rutherglen, it is intended that the main line shall run eastward to Hamilton; and that a Branch shall be formed to join the Wishaw and Coltness Railway at Motherwell. By means of the last-mentioned Railway the communica tion with the Caledonian Line will be completed ; but if the terms demanded by the Wishaw and Coltness Com pany, for such accommodation, should render it necessary or desirable., the proposed Line can be extended, at a small expense, so as to join the Caledonian without the intervention of any part of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway"; and the - Provisional Committee contemplate the possibility, though not the probability, of such an ex tension as a part of the present undertaking. The projected 'works, including the price of the Polloc and .Govan itttilway, and an ample allowance for Stations, are estimated to cost £400,000, which is proposed to be the Capital cirtbe Company; but in order to provide for the possible extension of the Line as above explained, and for some highly profitable additions in the shapeor short side trenches, which this Railway admits of, the Provisional Committee recommend that power should be reserved to increase the Capital to £500,000, if needful, — the existing Shareholders having a preference to the ad ditional stock. The trovisional Committee have taken gredtpains to ascertain, with accuracy., the returns which -maybe ex pected 'from the Traffic on the proposed Railway; and after elowing for every contingency, and deducting from the gross receipts 40 per cent. for working expenses, the 'results show a net pro& on the Capital, of nearly 9 per • cent. per annum, exclusive of the great additional traffic which may be antieipated from the Caledonian Brine. The Contnittee have concluded an Agreement with the Pro visional Committee -of the Caledonian Company, upon terms advantageovsqo both undertakings; -and they have •no doubt, that, , Etch the comparative shortness of the Clydesdale line, and the superiority of its Terminus, the .greater part, if met the whole, of the Western traffic of the Caledonian will.pass along it. The Committee have also ascertained that the Works may be completed within eighteen months after the Act of Parliament shall have been obtained. The Shares- wilt be £5O each, and it will be a provision of the Act of Incorporation that no Subscriber shall be liable for more than the amount of his subscription. A deposit of I'o -per cent., or £5 per Share, to be paid at the time of Allotment; and Subscr.bers will have to exe cute the Parliamentary Deed on receiiina their Scrip. Of the proposed Capital upwards or-3000 Shares have already been up, by parties locally interested. Application for Shares to be made in the form annexed, addressed to the Secretary, or to "Heavy Francis, Esq., 57, Th,eafdrreedle-street, Landon; Messrs. FORSYTH and PRITCHARD, Liverpool; or. Ittr. J. B. Locke, Manchegter; from any of whom -Prospectuses and Plans may be,obttined. crOGM OF APPLICA'TION' , POR SHARES. llotheAirovisional Committee of tire 'Clydesdale Junction Railway. • Dtek 1844. 'GK24.7iLEM EN,- I wish to become a Subscriber fcr Sharesir %is Undertaking, of 456 per Share, the deposit upon which,- or on any less number of !Shares that may be ‘Alottotl - to me, I agree to pay; and I also to undertake tosigathe necessary Deeds, when - rzquired so to do. I arn..dentlenien, Your obedient Servant, Atigvess• fAS SUPPLIED TO THE-ROYAL TABLE. fIArTAIN PI DOING'S 110WQUA'S MIXTURE 'IL) (TEA is an admixture of 40 rareillack Teas, produced on as teeny different plantations‘ each Tea differing from the rest, and possessing a flavaur,-refragrance, or strength, pecOliar to itself. Blended together in the proper pro portions, they comprise ell:that isreresirable in Tea. `lbis discovery was not the effect of ehame, but of many great advantages united in erne individual, and the reetilt•of numerous experiments and the alas minute analysis. For nr , sther to peodnce the -Sam e rsulr, he must 'possess equal au', the same discriminating taste, equal pewee of procuring the forty varioss Teasevequired, and know the exact. pcoportions of ecelalincbuserl—and though he may never once have visited China; he must have had agile' opportunities of securing to 'himself, its productions: with , our who, like Captain Piddiog„ has spent years there in aoqufring these advantages, sad to whom alone Bow qua-7.7ears before his death--- , inaparted at Canton, Ale secret of compounding hia Mixture. ••Yet,there are upwards ofZOO-reta&ers pretending t e o sel 'tea, ika t y call " Hem que€ Mixtare"—each mixtur t d f tering from all the others. Now as there can be bu roa . m that, as 500,1- ;499 counterfeits are so manyevidenees of the superiority f ß e E re A n L t ,L ix ‘ e t i d s le7s u are ss M ar i rt6 e r etl r --4 e ' n,t il s ° t 'c l:e spurious. T of the,c•izz GEN GING. And it would be t absurd to suppose thatiCaptain pidding , with advantsges, he result of Eight Voyages made ,to China, and five years spent in that country, would be so silly—evcntwere it possible —as to, yield them up to 500 others,or import to them so valuable a -secret. Th e , v ecy great celebrity this Tea Alas acquired, haring tempted many unprincipled •persotis to give similar, .or nearly siriilar titles to their own-spurious niixtures, to guard ogeinst such imposition, urc h e .. sers should observe that SIGN ATIME -,_roptain JOHN 111-101388 ;PIDDING, Honourable Coar i p any ' s S erv i ce, is on every•genuine Package. those who drink Gruen Tea. - " Captain Pidding's HowquA's 'tenall Leaf Gunpowder'," grown only on one estate, is ree3mmended for it strength :aid economy, aml as being the purest and most wholesome Green Tea im ported ftomChitia. Captain 'Pickling has appointed the 'under Agents for tl)i6 ,District ; : _ dEokGE I oftRLYLE, Repository, 3E, BOLD -STREET, Agent for Liverpool. Accrington...... E. Rowker, Bookseltr. DittO V. H utchin Eon, Statiouer. Blacichurn; ; '' n, Ciemist,tehurch-street. Bolton Burnley T. Sutliffe, Bookseller, St...fames-street. Chester 'T. Bowers and Son, Druagkits. Evertoti .... . J.. Ayer, Great I-lomer—street. Knutsfortl T. /Williams, Draper, Lancaster .., George Carruthers, Chemist, New-street. Manchester 4.! Ford & Co., Drapers, St. Ann's-square. Prescot , .W. Turner Kydd, Tea Dealer. And Grocer. Preston Ditto W. BEodbelt, Provision Deaier.. Ditto . J. Hieiam, Draper. Ditto ..., J.:Knight, Waterloo House. Ditto Rochdale ,. J. Booth, Chemist. Southport Whitely', Wine Merchant. Wigan. E. H. ,Burmish, Chemist. For Agencies, Address, Captain Pidtling, 22, College hill, Londor. FRIGHTON FORIMLED.—.U. the event of a rupture with France, we are happy to state that ministers have taken the best means to keep the encusy from this town, having engaged Charles Kean to play during the whole of the war.—Punch- PROBABLE DURATION OF TLIE SUPPLY OF COAL IN GRVAT BRlTAlN.—Although the present known coal fields of Great Britain contain, perhaps, sufficient coal to supply her wants for from 2,0000 ter3 ; ooo years to come, it is a very erroneous bas 7 s of calculation to assume that the whole is at our disposal. Under the present system, in the finest description of coal in the northern field, there is even, iu its extraction, a loss 0(361 percent. The views of the theoretical geologists, without allowing for waste, would lead pis to the most incorrect practical conclusions : while Corkybeare, Lardner, and others would make our coal resources sufficient for 1,500 or 2,000 years, Profes sor Sedgwick and Dr. Buckland, allowing for loss in working, calculated from practical experience, are con vinced that 400 years will leave little more than the name of our best seams.. Of forty-five feet of coal in a section of all the coal strata in one of the best pits of the T)= I not thirty feet are workable. In the north, coal canon t be extracted at a profit if less than 2ft. Sin. In the wes ttrn part of Wall's End, the Bencharn seam is considered unworkable at 2ft..loin. though there are times when it is worked at twenty inches. The thinnest scam waked in Yorkshire is thirteen inches, in North Lancashire twee ty inches, in the Northumberland and Durham districts 2ft. Gin., St. Lawrence 2ft, 9in. Most of the thin sea ms, above are worked for home consumption, and.cannot b ear the expenmot.transit and competition for mantifactur ng And commercial purposes. Already the Tyne portion of the northern coal-field begins to feel the difficuliics of ex haustion in the finer de f.cription of ;, and that cf the Wear and T ees (less war than it) has the ailvaLtage in commerciaLcompctition, of from nine t.,9 ten F' Pent. in puce. —Mirtitw Journal, _._.---... •om two Bed' and the two .M...... ---.-...... ac )01 ry )01, ir s,) S of THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TEN POUNDS REWARD. STOLEN or STRAYED, from a Field a t M eanwoo d, near Leeds, on the Bth of August last, a BAY HORSE, six years old, 16 hands hig„l4.lis a white fore head, and a white place on his near hind leg, and is long in his hind quarters, with a swirch tail. Whoever will bring the same to Mr. JOSEPH BURROW, of Meanwood, or Mr. READ, Chief Constable, Leeds, will receive £lO Reward. AT an — ADJOURNED MEETING o f t h e LIVER POOL PROPRIETORS of the SOUTH-EAST ERN and DOVER RAILWAY, at the CLARENDON. ROOMS, South John -street. on the 2d September, 1844, PRESENT : N. D. BOLD, Esq., LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., WILLIAM Nicol,, Esq., HENRY HOLMES. Esq., RICHARD HOUGHTON, Esq., STANLEY PERCIVAL, Esq., JOHN LATH AM, Esq., JOHN TWINAME, Esq., DANIEL WILLINK, Esq., CHARLES GROVES, Esq., JAMES MAC GREGOR, Esq., JAMES CAW, Esq., ROBERT BROWNE, Esq., WILLIAM COOK, Esq., JAMES Buc HAN AN. Esq., RICHARD HAYNES, Esq., ~L. PRITCHARD, Esq„ &c. &c. &c. WILLIAM COOK,. ESQ. in the Cbair, It was unanimously Reiolved, That the Proprietors p6w assembled are confirmed in their opinion, by the ,ififormation this-day received, that a thorough change in the system of carrying Goods on the South Eastern and Dover Railway is imperatively called for, and they record their conviction that it would be as much for the advantage of the Public as of the Company that the South Eastern and Dover Proprietors should themselves become carriers. That it is the opinion of this Meeting that the net earn ings from traffic, from the Ist October, 1843, cannot in equity be charged with the inter es t on Capital then un productive, and therefore such net earnings, allowing for the subsequent opening from Folkstone to Dover, and of the Bricklayers' Arms Branch, areapplicablefor adividend. That the Proprietors present pledge themselves to sup port the Directors in all sound measures for the protec tion of the South Eastern and Dover Railway Company. That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chair man. GAINSBOROUGH, SHEFFIELD, AND CHES TERFIELD RAILWAY. SHORT AND DIRECT LINE. CAPITAL, £750,000, IN 15,000 SHARES OF £5O EACH. DEPOSIT, £3 PER SHARE. • PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. 1 Wm. Jno. Bagshawe, Esq., The Oaks, Sheffield. Wilson Overend, Esq. ' Sheffield. Benj. Burdekin, Esq., Sheffield. Richard Bayley, Esq., Castle Dyk e . Sh e ffi e ld. Thomas Creswick, Esq., Ecciesall Grange, Sheffield, Henry Wilson, Esq., Westbrook, Sheffield. Henry Houldsworth, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. William Entwisle, Esq:, M.P., DeputseChairman of the Manchester and' Leeds Railway Company, and a Di- - rector . of the / Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway Company. Robsrt Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, a Di rector of the Manchester and Leeds, and o 6 the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston RaitwayCompanies. Leo Schues'ter, Esq., a Director of the Manchester and Leeds, and ef the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway 'Companies. Captain Laws, 'R.N., Crumpsall Hall, Lancashire. Thomas Claile, Esq., Mayor of Chesterfield. Edward Humble, Esq., Renishaw, Derbyshire. Samuel Butcher, Esq., Endeliile, Sheffield. Thomas Ellin, jun., Esq., Sheffield. Henry Wilkinson. Esq., Endaliffe Ball, Sheffield. Robert Vonnge, Esq., Greystones,Sheffield. Roger 'Haywood. Esq., Hooton Levet, Maltby. Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braith well Manny House,Yorkshire. Thomas'Adsbury, Esq., Rotherham. Charles Frederick Younge, Esq., Sheffield. James Willis Dixon, Esq., 'Broom todge, Sheffield. Henry 3rubb. Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield. John'Sansoin, Esq., lloor Lodge, Sheffield. John'Green, Esq., Neepsend, Shield. John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield. Rikleard Ellison, Esq., Sudbrooke Holme, Teincoln e Chairman of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston, Railway. Thu Rev. H.W. Sibthorpe,Vesitinghorough,".) ',Directors : Lincoln, of the Edward Fowler, EN., Lincoln, Wake- • T. TM. Keyworth, Esq., Lin - celn, ' field, 'Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Lincoln,; Cracroft, Hacktbornliell, Lincoln, 'I 3: Boston; 'Weston Craerofc, Esq., Haßthorn, 3 Railway. With ererwer to add to their number. 'teenrnEEß. William Cubit t, Esq., F.R.S. eneerereas. Sheffield ...... The :Sheffield and Rotherham 'Bankireg . 'Company ; the Sheffiela and'Retfcrad Bank. Gainebomugh tlVlessrs: - Salith, Ellison, •and Co. Lincoln .... Chesterfield.. —The Chesterfield and Derbyshire Banking Compeny. Boston . MessrseeGee and Co. Bawtry .. The=Yearkshire BankineCompany. Manchester.... Messrs.eCunliffe, Brnekes, at Co. London _. 'Messrs. Cunliffe, Brookes, and To. ; Messrs. Barclayeßeven, and Co., the • London and Westminster' Bank. THE oiliest of thisetridertaking is toconstrubt the most direct and verfeetlslNE OF RAILWAY from the Town and Port of GetVeISBOROUGH, throw:ll-SHEF FIELD, to the Station of the Midland Railway at CHESTERF/E'leD, tkereby efectinge more expefiitious and economical communication between Gaineberough, Sheffield, read thetMiZisand Counties ei the oneland, and between ShnEeld Land the Metropolis on the other ; and, also, to bring into immediate contact the whole of Lin colnshine , and the -Eastern Counties, with the important Manufacturing andxMineral Districtsof Sheffield, Dron field, and Unstone. The Line will commence at Chesterfielde pass through the important Mineral Districts of 7.Thstone and•Dron and thence thy Canklow, (wh ere fi it el i d ja , s t st ore et gh ehheeffi l Tickhill, and Beatty-, to Gainsbornagh, near which last named TOWti it will onite with the projected' Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway, the promoters of which cordially sanction ass:approve of thepresent undertaking, constituting, as a main in conjunction with theireLine, the best and most comprehensive systenniof Railway commu nication betweetrithe -Agricultural Districts of Lincoln berfe Lor b k os s l h eios i uh r L e etisil a nt n eae d rnfib r id Lancashire. The shire and the Eastern:Counties, and the populous Menu th o a t n t b h y e fac T tu h r e in d g ist To an w e n e s (and 18 miles m th iles W les es f c o o r n m se e ci r u T en o t s l y y n) al ev l irl i :/e c y es the present tedious and circuitous route via'Masbrough ; thus effecting a saving of nearly one-half ,of the whole distance in the existing Lines of Railway communication between those two 'Towns. The distance frqsn Gainsborough to Sheffield will be under thirty miles, which is less by several mile?, than by any other Line which bas yet been proposed to unite those Towns. In fact, no shone:ll,km can be had ; moreover, it can not be surpassed, if squalled, by any other intthe excel lency of its gradienteor the lightness of the :works that will be required in its construction. To the Inhabitants of and Owners of Property in Lin colnshire, and the Eastern Counties generally, this Rail - way is of paramount importance, as it will 'furnish to them, at a greatly diminfshed cost, an ample supply of Coal of the best qualityefor all purposes, the Line passing for sixteen miles of its leugth through a rich and almost inexhaustible Coal Field.; whilst to the Inhabitants of -Gainsborough and Boston, in part'cular, it must prove highly advantageous, as furnishing (along with the Wake efield, Lincoln, and Bostcn•Line) an immense accession of horsiness to the Shipping Interests of those Ports. elt is. almost superfluous to point out the greatadvan. stages of, and the necessity which exists for a rapid and tsheap mode of transit between tile agricultural and the manufacturing districts, which will be effected by thin and the Wakefield, Lincoln, and ,Boston Railway, in theenost complete and effectual manner, as the Agriculturists of North Nottinghamshire. Lincolnshire, and of the Eastern Counties, will thus be able to.transmit their produce at a greatly diminished Cost, direct to the consumers. The Line will traverse a District arhich is not immediately provided with any navigable River or Canal, hence its freedom from the competition of and interference with . Water,Conveyance, and it is entirely divested of all ob. jections:nn the score of interfering with Parks and orna mental ,Grounds and Residences. The Passenger traffic, which must necessarily come on this Line, will be great ; this wilt .be at once apparent when it islearne in mind that indepeesdently of all other conveyances, fourteen Daily Coaches are required to con duct the traff.c:of the District, which this Railway will accommodate. The well-known and extensive Quarries of Roche Abbey and Wickersley, are in immediate prexi mitv to the Line; the Stone of the former is universally allowed to ssurpass all ether for Building purposes, in beauty and durribility, whilst the latter 'furnish nearly all the Grinding Stones used in the Manufactories of Shef field and its Vicinity. The carriage of Live Steck will, of itself, form an im. poitant item in the traffic, inasmuch as at least LOOO head of Cattle and 11:10,030 sheep are annually sent from the Eastern Districts to the market at Rotherham alone. From a careful estimate of traffic on data accurately taken, the Promoters feel themselves fully warranted in stating that a profit of at least £8 per Cent. will be realised on the proposed Capital, afeer allowing £4O per Cent, for working expenses. The deposit of £3 per Share is to be paid on the allot ment of Shares, and the liability of Subscribers will, of course, be limited by the /WO Parliament to the amount of their respective Shares. Applications for Shares in the Forms below given are requested to be made to Messrs. WILSON, YOUNGS, and netnews', or Mr. DIXON, Solicitors, Sheffield ; or to the following Eltarebrokers :—Mr. Duncuff, Manchester ; Messrs. H. and G. Towgood, 33, Thrognaorton-street, London; Messrs. WILLIAM RETNOLDS and SONS, and Mr. JOHN HALL, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. B ear d . shave, Leeds ; Messrs. Moore and Gatl iffe, Huddersfield ; Mr. James Harvey, Halifax ; Messrs. Beaumont, Kenne dy, and 13mk, , • s Bradford and Leeds ;or to Messrs. Col linson and Flint, or Mews. Trigg and Hodson, Hull. I ORNI OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES, J request You will secure to me Shares in the Gainsborough, Sheffield. and Chesterfield Railway, upon the Terms of the Prospectus. And 1 agree to take such SAWN ne may be allotted to me, and to pay the De posits upon the same, and excente the Parliamentary Con tract and Snbecribtrs' Agreement when required. Dated 1844. __ Name. '• Residence. - ,-- Trade or Prolegbion. To the Provisional Committee of the Ga'r.,sbro', Stlctileld, atv Chesterfield Railway. LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL & DOUGLAS NAVIGATION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next GE NERAL ASSEMBLY of the COMPANY of PROPRIETORS of the CANAL NAVIGATION from LEEDS to LIVERPOOL, and DOUGLAS NAVIGA TION, will be held, at the ADELPHI HOTEL, in LIVER POOL, in the county palatine of Lancaster, on FRIDAY, the 20th day of September next, at Eleven otolock in the Forenoon, when and where the,Prolfrietors, by themselves or their Proxies, are requestell to attend. By order, SAMNii: HAILSTONE, Law Clerk. Bradford, Yorkshire, 29th August, 1844. EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON RAIL WAY COMPANY, INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CALL OF THREE POUNDS PER SHARE. MOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance II of Resolution of the Board of Directors, the Pro prietors of Shares, of the New Stock, in this Company are hereby required to pay an Instalment of TH REE POUNDS sterling, on each of their respective Shares, on or before MONDAY, the 16th day of September next, to any of the undermentioned Bankers. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per alinum will be charged on all sums that remain unpaid after the 16th proximo. LONDON.—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Bircbin lane. LtvEuPoot.—Messrs. Leylands and Boffins. EDINBURGH. — City,of Glasgow Bank, Hanover street. Holders of Scrip Certificates who have not yet lodged them to he registered, will please do so without delay, with the Secretary, at the Company's Office, 35, Scot land-street. By order of the Board of Directors, A. G. FIELD, Secretary. Edinburgh, 28th August, 1844. Inouranre 43. 0 i tas. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 27, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital, £500,000. EMPOWERED BY ACT OP PARLIAMENT. DIVISION OF PROFITS : tilt-1E steady succeTs — ;ntfincreasiiigProsperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to daclare a Second BONUS, averaging '6O per cent, on the amounts invested on each Policy effected on the Profit Scale. ___ EXAMPLES. . sum'elic . s Permanent Assnmd a; • 0 , t i Bonus Bnnnus reduction may e L -Sum. o 0 added. of Borrow Cash. Premium.. on P., Policy. £ R ,s. d. ' .e s. d. & s. d. £ s. d.' £ s. d. 60 1000 .74 3 4 1831170 •93 77 5 1 12 3 9 1346 2 3 1893 f 44 22 61 5 6 g 16 4 296 13 4 Isng 1,6 16 oisl 5 11' 7 11 .9.217 4 5 The division Prctits is annual, and the next will be made in December of the present year. This Institution offers many itnportarittand substantial advantages with respect to both Life As§urances and De ferred Annuitdes. The Assured has, on pal occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or forfeiture of the two thirds of the premiums paid, (see table ;) also, the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet otherconveniencesornecessity. Aesnr ances fortterms of years are-granted on the lowest poible rates. F. FERGUSON CANMOUX, Secretary. AGENTS. Livtat2ool—JAM ES IRVIN E, :Esq., 28, SouthCastle street: Matchester—Mems. Duffield and Lofthotsc, and Whitworth, 12, Princess-street. 'WESTERN LIFE-ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Oktr ICE, 49, PAIrLIAMENT-Sa'REET, WESTMINSTER. 'DiItItOVORS. Henry Edgeworth 'Bicknell, Esq., 28, Upper Bedford place. William Cabal,'Esq.,.lqewiugton.place, Surrey. Thomas Somers'Cocks, jun., Esq., Charing-cross. 'Geoff ge Henry IDrew,'Esq.,l3erialondsey. William Evans, Esq.. Milibank. William Freeman, Esq., liEillbank-street. Francis Fuller, Esq., Charlotte-row, Mansionlirause, (London,) and Croydon. Joseph Henry , Goodbart, 'Esq., Upper Tooting. James Hunt, , Esq.,' WhVehall. John Arscott Lethbridge, Esq., Giesuwich Hospital. Edmund-Lutes, Esq.,lbaulr-street. George Kennet Pollercky.Esq., Great George-street, Westminster. r James Lys:Seager.'EML, Millbank. John Itazley White, Esq., Millbankastreet, and Swans- combe. Joseph Carter Wood, Esq., Artillery-place, Westminster. PHYSICIAN. 'William Richard Basham, Mir. BANKERS. MessrsXocks, Biddulph, and• Co. SOLICITORS. Messrs. J.'L. Bicknell and J.'C.,Letlibridge. 114E.attenlion e the unassured:portion of kthe com-; *nifty cannot'he too nointedlyrdrawntto the unusual adva4ages offered to the PiibliciVr-THrS SOCIETY over, thosec.of many otly.ers, as it enables all classes to effect LIF& AssvnArrces in the manner most convenient to themselves; and Emonast other of its,popular features, that .tif allowing the Assured (by Tilble 2) to leave , HALF THE ANNUAL iin.umiums unpaid for seven years, will not be found undeserving public attention. Immediate and deferred ANNurrtzs, and every de scription of Lite Assurance business, undertakentby this Society. Prospectuses, and all other requisite information, will be furnished on application to E. T. RICHARDSON, Secretary, Or to the following Agents for the Society, viz. : LIVEATOOL Mr. JOHN SOTH ERN, Castle,street. ft ,Ir. H. E. Ridgeway, Solicitor. llfreadheskr . Mr.T. Houghland, Stock & Share Broker, office 51, King-street. Bolton Mr. Thomas Balahaw. Blackburn Mr. James Bell, Solicitor. Lancaster . Mr. Thomas Johnson. Solicitor. Preston Mr. John Gillibrand, 86, Fishergate. Roeltdate . . Mr. Richard Hunt, ASolicitor. CHESHIRE. Macclesfield— Mr. John James Osborne, Solicitor. DERBYSHIRE. Mr. John Gadsby, Solicitor. NORTH MALES. P G r r o iffi vi t n h e s ial jo ß n a . n , k M o a f n z ag n e g r ia o n ft d it . e Batisor ..M National . BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY COMPANY• AT the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of this COMPANY, held at the White Lion Hotel, in the City of Bristol, on THURSDAY, the 22d of August, 1844. _ FREDERICK RICKETTS, ESQ. in the Chair, It was unanimously Resolved, Moved by T. W. HILL, Esq., and seconded by C. J. WHITTUCK, Esq., Ist,—That the Report of the Directors, now read, be received and adopted; and that they be requested to send a copy thereof to every Proprietor. Moved by JOHN STONE, Esq., and seconded by RICHARD / BASTARD, Esq., 2d,—That a Dividend of £1 Bs. per Share, for the Half year ending the 01 of October next, be declared payable after the 30th of the same month, free of Income-tax. Moved by Joug STONE, Esq., and seconded by C. B. FRIPP, Esq., 3d,—Tbat the Directors be and they are hereby em powered to obtain a Survey of the country, and take such other preliminary measures as they may find nec( siary, or deem expedient, for an application to Parliament, in the next session, for a Bill cr Bills for making a Railway from the main line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, between Bridgwater and Taunton, to Bridport, Dorchester, and Weymouth, with a Branch from such intended Railway to Yeovil and Sherborne, and that they report hereon to Special General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Com pany, to be convened (or this purpose. Moved by JOHN ALLEN, Esq., and seconded by WM. CROSS, Esq., 4th,—That the Directors be and they are hereby em powered to take all necessary measures for applying to Parliament, in the next session, for a Bill for making a Branch Railway from the main line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway to the Town of Tiverton. Moved by the Rev. JAMES TAYLOR, and seconded by J. P. BARTRUM, Esq., _ _ _ sth,—That a Committee be formed for the purpose of conducting a Subscription, as a testimonial of our grati tude to our Secretary, J. B. Badham, Esq., for his able, untiring, and successful efforts in promoting the prosperity of the Bristol and Exeter It. dlway ; and that Frederick Ricketts, *lames Gibbs, and Francis Parker, Esqrs., be requested to form a Committee, with power to add to their 'number, Moved by JOHN SPARK, Esq., and seconded by ROBERT SCOTT. Ebq., 6tll,—That the best thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Directors for their able and zealous management of the affairs of this Company. Moved by W. Arournams, Esq., and seconded by Fat- DERICK RrCKETTS, Esq., 7th,—That the warmest thanks of this Meeting be given to our Engineer, I. K. Brunel, Esq„ for his very able services to the Company. FREDERICK RICMETTS, Chairman. The Chairman having quitted the Chair, It teas Resolved by acclamation, _ _ Bth,—That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to Fredetick Ricketts, Esq., for his able and judicious conduct in the chair. MARINERS' AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, AIitHUR:STREET EAST, LONDON -BRIDGE, For Assurance's on Lives and Sureivorships, Granting Deferred Annuities, Effecting Endowments, Purcha sing Reversions, Making Loans, and Receiving Dcpo- sill. SPECTAXLX , EMPOWERED BY ACT OW PARLIAMENT. Ten per Cent. of the Profits are set-iiside as a Fund for Destitute and Disabi,ed Mariners. TRUSTEES. Admiral Sir Philip li derson Durham, G.C.B. Joseph Somes, Es Vice-Admiral Si illiam Hall Gage., G.C.B. DIRECTORS. The Right Hon/ apt. Lord Viscount Ingestre, R.N., C. 8., M.P. Capt. Thos. Dickinson., R.N. Sir George Rich. Joseph Bhhop, E-q. John Warrick, Esq. Philip Baker, Esq. Edmund Turner Watts, George Lee, Esq. Esq. George Mann, Esq. 1 John Willis, Esq. AUDITORS. Donald IVRae, Etg , B. Fooke, Ebq. VII VSICIAN. Sir James Eglinton Anderson, M.D., 11, New Burlington-street. SOLICITOR. _ _ John Hayward, Eso.. 2, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Dartford, Kent. BANKER g.—Bank of En g land. BURGEON. 'Charles Ilderton Croft, Esq., 22, Laurence Poimtney - lane. RESIDENT MANAGER.—John Dawson, Esq. ADVANTAGES fIN Life Policies, half the premiums may remain un- V/ paid for Seven Years, and then be continued as a permanent loan, if required. _ Thus a Policy is obtained at half the usual rate, and may be dropped, at any time, at half the usual sacrifice, or continued without fresh certificates, although the health be impaired. LINE Policies may all be made WHOLE GLOBE ones. To those insueng the lives of others this is often of conse quence. seeing that the person whose life is insured may go out of Europe and cause a forfeiture of the policy. Interest is admitted in all policies on thelives of others. Every MARINER may now, if he will, derive advantage from this Institution, either by an Insurance upon his Life; the purchase of an annuity to commence at a petiod when age or incapacity unfits him for sea; the Endow ment of Children ; by a Loan ; by depositing spare moneys at - interest ; by means of a fund expressly for destitute or disabled Mariners. The word MARINER comprehends individuate of every rank and grade, whether of the Royal or Mercantile Navy, Members of the Coast Guard, Fish ermen, Pilots, or Boatfnen of Great Britain and Ireland. But INSURANCES at this office are not confined t o M a- INDIVIDUA.LS going voyages, or intendi ng t o set as MILITARY MEN, MEDICA L PRACTI TIOpERS, and CIVILIANS: SO ALL PERSONS, residing on i tt h e e i ir n distant lives or dangerous parts of the globe may insu re shore, in England, or any where in Europe, are eligible. TABLES OF PREMIUMS for every kind of risk have been calculated, and the rates made as low, in each case, as are compatible with the particular risk and the pecuniary safety of all panics. The Premiums on Policies to cover Voyages of every description and service , in e ver y part of the glebe; viz., with permission to go a n y an d every where without for feiture, are lower than have ever hitherto been taken. Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities .deserve the of ail suppor t. serious consideration of all. Flow often does death over take men in the midst even of health and hope. How often are those most dear to them, wives, clii:dren, pa- London, or of the Agents to the Cern panv.. re p i t u s 1 , 1 or r o c t s h p e c r et r u ti rr ni a s y , t b h e us h d ad epr a i t ve ti d le chkf Offices, in C. P. HAYES and CO., Peg berion Feriv . ick-ateet, Liverpool, LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ST. BA.RNABAS'S GH URCH SCHOOL. Yesterday the foundation stone of St. Barnabas's Schools eras laid by 'tire Rev. Rector Brooks, on a large 'piece df ground adjacent to the church, and situated at the corner of Greenland-street and Flint-street. The ceremony was conducted with all the solemnity and im pressiveness beconiing so interesting an occasion. A procession was foensed about twelve o'clock. at-the Church of'Dngland Schools in Cornwallis-street. In front walked the male and female children belonging to the Blue Coat Spool, headed lby the juvenile band belonging to that 'establishment. 'Next was borne a large and handsome white flag. surrounded with a light blue herder, which was beautifully worked and painted for the-occasion by a 'lady belonging to the congregation of St. 14arnabas. On -one side it represented Samuel in the attitude of prayer, with Christ's celebrated command underneath—" Feed my lambs." On the other side was an open Bible, with the Saviour% equally well-known remark of " Suffer little children to come unto me, and 'forbid them not." Then followed the Rev. Hector Brooks , and 'the Rev. Rector Campbell, the Rev. Thomas Nolan, A. 8., incumbent, and the Rev.faristopher A. Graham, curate of St. Barnabas's, the Rev,. William Falloon, the Rev. Drummond Ander son, the Rev. F. Parry, the Rev. R. Davis. the Rev, F. Barker. and the Rev. Messrs. Gibbons, Whiteley, Hig gins, Stewart, Cordeavax, .Bold,Cowen, &c. A large body of the-members of the congregation and subscribers to the undertaking brought up the rear, among wham we no ticed Mchard Harbord, John Sothern, John B,ittain, G. Barnsley, Tbos. Robinson, Thos. Wilkinson, J. Munn, T.'Clare, W. Mann, •D. Clarke. E. Richards, J. F. Von Bach, R. Ramsey, J. Easton, C. H. Parnell, T. Green, Epqrs., &c., the Churchwardensof St. Barnabas's, Messrs. Thus. Wagstaff' and JOhn Laurence, and the Building and General Committees. The procession, which was followed by-crowds of persons, after having been formed in Corn wallis-street, proceeded along Pitt-street, Great George street, Great George-place, and down Greenland-street to the selected spat-of ground, where an immense number of ladies had assembled, -and were accommodated with seats en a raised platform, for thepurpose of witnessing the in teresting ceremony. The day was one of the most beau tiful which could have been selected. The sun shone forth in all the brilliancy of his-meridian splendour, and every 'countenance-bore witness of inward joy, which was expe -rienced at being presentonaso auspicious an occasion. On all sides union jacks were-displayed, while, above all, was surmounted a large 'flag, -on which was emblazoned the spirit-stirring motto of "'Church and Queen." The erection of the schools will cost, we understand, £1,532, exclusive of the land. for which the sum of £1,050 has been paid to 'Miss Morgan and Mrs. Sander son, the proprietors. The architect is Mr. Arthur Holme, who has gratuitously furnished the working drawings and other plans, and thus saved the committee an additional expense of at hail £l3O, for which he is deserving of the warmest 'thanks of the 'committee, and the congregation generally. It is expected that the building will be com pleted by-the lst of Febr uar y n ex t ; and a s it will be the only choral scheo' for that extensive and populous dis trict of 'the town, we hope that it will be as extcm=ively useful as its mc:t ardent patrons desire. It will be ca pable of accomnelating no fewer than 700 children and as it will consist of three stories, the first will be appro_ prfated to-the instruction of the infants, the second to the girls, and the third to the boys. When the whole of the procession had arrived upon the ground., and everything was in readiness for proceed ing with the important business of the day, The Rev. Mr. NOLAN took the silver trowel, manufac tured !or the occasion from the hands of the senior church warden, and addressed the Rev. Rector Brooks, with pe culiar force and eloquence, in the following beautiful and appropriate terms. He said :—Mr. Senior Rector,—The pleasing task is assigned to me of congratulating you (for 1 know you feel it to be a matter of congratulation) upon the happy occasion for which we are assembled, as well as to thank you in the name of the congregation, committee. wardens, and minister of St. Barnabas' Church, for that act of kindness you are about to perform, in laying the first stone of our Sunday and daily male, female, and in fant schools, calculated to accommodate no less than 713 children. Many reasons concur to make you the fittest person upon whom this office should devolve ; yet it is not youehigh position as Rector of this important parish, and the respect and gratitude with which your name is regarded throughout, and beyond the extent of it ; nor yet the fact of your being a trustee of the church to which the schools are attached, and the kind and ready co-operation you have afforded at all times, in every matter affecting the ' interest of our church; there is a : tronger motive even than any of these, which decided us at once upon asking the favour which you have granted, of coming amongst 415, and presiding over the proceedings of this day. I mean. sir, this,—that ou have already sown the first s eeds of this undertaking, when in February, 1843, i n conjunction with our dear friend and brother, your co-trustee, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile (who absence from town w e regre t , while we gratefully remember Ins , serv i ces on tha t and ' other occasions), you preached in St. Barnabas' Church, in behalf of the object that this day has advanced so far towards its completion. No two names could more suitably be associated in a n y educat ional effort than his and yours. by whose means principally, supported as you were by, I believe, your respected colleague, an d b y a ll the brethren of the town, the battle of scriptural eduea tion was fought and won, not merely for Liverpool, but for the entire of England. In your p resence i t were ' pre sumptuous to insist upon the advantages of set iptual edu cation in general, and chur c h e d ucat i on i n part i cular; but of this we are persuaded that the most effectual mode of securing the temporal interests of our children and adults is by attending to their spiritual concerns first ; the happiness even of this world is b e st p romote d b y teach i ng `` the k in gdom of God and his right eousness ," trust i ng in the promise that " all other things will be added unto them." . And the most eff ec t ua l way o f t ra i n i ng up l oya l subjects to a Protestant Sovereign, is by making them cordial and consistent, and enlightened members of a scrip tural church. Vie are taught, Sir, that it is a good and -pleasant thing to be thankful; and it well beet:meth us to be thankful, for whom the Lord has done so much in the matter of these schools; he has raised up friends and be nefactors for us too numerous to be mentioned in detail; but yet without being insensible to the kindness of those whose names W 3 omit, there are some to whose generosity and well directed zeal, we cannot forbear making more particular allusion. To the Reverend the Hector Camp. bell our thanks are due for the interest and sympathy he evinced towards us throughout, in the committee of the Church of England School Society and elsewhere. Mr. Edmund Molyneux and Mr. Charles Jones are too well , known in Liverpool as patrons and promoters of every rood work to require even the humble tribute of our thanks for their kindness to us, kindness, that we feel it to be as much out of our power to a cknowledge, as to for get. It is only an act of simple justice (would that we were in a condition to do more) to Messrs. Arthur Samuel and James Holme to acknowledge with deep thankfulness our sense of their gratuitous professional ser'ices, what they have done already, furnishing the working plans, specifications, &c., &c., and what they have so . kindly consented to do until the work is com p lete, superyttend- Scc., ervices that, were they to be requited ac cording to even a moderate sc ale of ordinar y remuneration, would be underpaid at 150. I speak not of the estimable wardens and committee o f management, for I include them with myself, in returning our thanks to you, sir, and Mr. Campbell, to the friends already named, and the generous public of this great town, by means of whose liberality this work of ours sands ncivv on the point o f a happy, and, I trust, with God ' s bless ing, auspicious com mencement. May the Lord repay it tenfold into their own bosoms, and may they find their rea art' in the peace and blessing that, we trust, this school will be the mules of dispensing throughout this neighbourhood. And now, sir, in requesting your acceptance of this emblem of the office you are called upon to discharge, permit me to add the humble tribute of my own personal acknowledgement of the kindness and courtesy experienced at your hands. ever since I had the privilege of being enrolled amongst the honoured brethren of this town. You will look op= it with pleasure in after days, as recalling your own past in the work of to-day ; and you will look up from it frith thankfulness to God, wbo hath led us through difficulties and obstacles, and placed us now on the brink, we trust t of a speedy completion. And now, sir, wishing you earnestly much peace and blessing, praying that wog may be abundantly endowed with that wisdom that comet!' down from above, in whose right hand are length of days and happiness, and in her left hand riches and honoizr; that you may be blessed in your own soul, in your family, and your people; that your last days be your hest days; that your declining years may give you a long foretaste of that bliss and blessedness that is ensured for those that are God's dear children through the redemption that is is). Christ Jesus, I comply with the request of our committee and beg of you to take in hand the pleasing office you have so cheerfully consented• to perform. And, " now, may the God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole body, soul, and spirit may be pr&.erved blameless until the day of the Lord Jesus.' The trowel presented to the rector was of massive silver. and was exe( u ed by Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street, in a style of workmanship far surpassing anything of the kin" we have ever before witnessed. It bore the following in scription, neatly and elegantly engraved:— " Presented to the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, A.M., Rector, an the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the schools la connexion with the Church of St. Barnabas, Liverpool, Sept. 11. MDCCCXLIV., Thos. Nolan, A.M., incumbent. nos, Wagstag John Lawrence, churchwardens." The Rev. Rector BROOKS having accepted the trowel, replied to Mr. Nolan as follows :—I feel myself, in the first place, sir, bound to express my thanks for the very kind manner in whieh you have requested me to take upon myself tae 'office this day assigned me. But, when peak ask it as a favour, I am sure I consider the obligation ties entirely upon the other side. I look upon it as a high privilege—as a most gratifying privilege—to have beep► . employed in such a work as we are this day commencing, and to. he selected as a person qualified to lay the fitst stone of a building which, I hope, will be the means of both the temporal comforts and spiritual ad, vantages of a large body of the population of this great town, and teaching the rising generation not only their duties in time, but their hopes in eternity. Sir, I, like you, do neither think this the appropriate time, nor the fitting opportunity, to attempt to say anything upon the general subject of education ; and, indeed, it is a . subject which has been so frequently discussed, and, in roy opi nion, so finally settled, that it is almost useless to talk about education itself. She great object we ought all te have in view is to give it a right direction. Now, sir, your. and I, and those friends whom I sre assembled around. me, and, 1 hope I may say—indeed I believe I may say the great majority of the population of this country, feel that they can find the right direction within the pale of this Established Church. They do consider that the Established. Church of this country is founded upon pure and scrip_ tural principles—that it is her object to inculcate those principles to as great an extent as her means will allow., and that her only regret is, that the population has in creased in such a rapid manner that those means have been crippled far beyond what her own wishes would de sire. lam one of those who believe that places of wor ship, even when they are multiplied—and 1 only wish they were multiplied to a far greater extent—are incom plete, unless they have a school attached to them; and it is one of the happiest results of the way in which educe._ tion has been made the general subject of discussion, that there is hardly a clergyman attached to the Established. Church who does not think it as incumbent upon him to have a school as a place of worship itself. Why, sir, we are taught that we should instruct the whole population of Christ's church. We are not to confine that instruc tion to those adults who are able to receive it at our hands from the pulpit; but it is our bounden duty.—and we are met in the performance of that duty,—after having gathered the sheep into the fold, to look also to the lambs —that we endeavour to bring them up in true Christina principles—that we endeavour to instil such principles into their minds as may lead them.to fill the different sta tions of life with creditto themselves, and benefit and ad. vantage to those around them, and that a just, honest and sincere discharge of the duties which they owe to their God, to their Saviour, to their neighbours, and all these with whom they are bound by social gations, is the best way to secure their happiness and comfort here, and to lead them at last to that rest which is reserved for the people of God. Sir, I have before said that I had the greatest possible pleasure in performing the office assigned me this day ; but I eau nat do so without expressing my earnest congratulations to you, and to those who have been acting with you, on the way In which you have overcome difficulties, sur mounted obstacles, and, at last, have been put in the way of completing-a "labour of love " of such great impor tance to this extensive and populous district. To you, sir, and to those gentlemen who have so ki n dl y acted with you, I consider the paesh of Liverpool is eminently indebted. You have been pleased to mention a certain number of names, whom I tun happy to recognise as al ways taking the lead ioevery work intended to promote the kingdom of God on earth ; and it is peculiarly grati fying to think that their example should find so many followers in this populous town. Sir, I shall not longer detain you from the work of the day, but proceed now to perform the office which you have assigned me; and I humbly pray that the blessing of Almighty God, which has accompanied it hitherto, may bring it to a final ter mination, and that it may for ever tend to promote his righteous work upon earth! - - - A bottle containing the STANDARD of last Tuesday, the Mail of list Saturday, and the A/bintt of yesterday, together with several of the present coins of the realm, was then placed under the foundation. So also was a brass plate, bearing the following inscription . a St. Barnahas' Schools, for the education of the children of the poor in tqe principles of the Christian religion, in accordance with the tenets of the Church of England.. The foundation stone a these schools was laid on Monday, the Second of Sept., A.D., 1844,, by the Rev. Jonathan Bmoks, A.M., Senior Rector of Liverp....,4 Thomas Nolan, A M., Incumbent of St. Barnabas' Church ; Chris topher Alexander Graham, A. 8., Curate; Thomas Wagstaff, John' Lawrence, Churchwardens; Arthur Bill Holme, Architect; Alex ander little, Robert Anderson, Builders.—' And all thy Children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy. Children.'—lsaiah liv. 13." The Rector having then laid the stone, striking it at the four corners with the mallet, and using all the other customary ceremonies. The Rev. Mr. NOLAN offered up the following prayer, composed for the occasion : Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 0 tlioniss finite and eternal Spirit proceeding from the Father and the San, in thy name, Father, Son, and Holy Ohost, three persons and otse God, we commence this great undertaking: thy blessing we invoke, that thou would'st present us with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy co n ti nua l h elp. Gracious God and Father we acknowledge with humble thankfulness thy goodness and mercy,,, which bath followed us hitherto in this work : grant that as it as - now formally begun, so it may also be continued and ended in thy name, and ever tend to promote thy glory : out of the mouths of babes - and sucklings vouchsafe to perfect praise in this place: grant that many children may be taught to know thee here, in the Gos. pel of thy dear Son, to know thee, the only true God turd Jesus Christ whom thou halt sent Merciful Saviour, suffer little child ren to approach thee here, and thou Spi r it o f Holiness descend upon them from on high, that many from out of these intended schools, from generation to generation, may be finally accepted of God, being washed. justified, and sanctified by the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. Here, 0 God, we ask $ blessing upon all that shall be engage I in the future working otT these schools : bless, we , beseech, the masters and monitors, 't teachers and children that are to assemble in this house: :Wets also our friends and supporters, those especially who haie be, friended us hitherto, through whose bounty aud.zeal, owing to thy goodness, we hare teen enabled to advance thus far, Mass.!, Heavenly Father, we humbly beseeeh thee our Sovereign Lady Queen Victeria, her consort, and her children, endue then l Z l ``22 thy grace, and make her a blessing to this kingdom: n Prost . L e. God, all the Institutions, civil and religious, at hom e ut . i c t ri r of our beloved land: Bless also, we pray thee, u preserve her from every taint of error, b keep e p her sh r o b p a s s , tram p ground of the truth amongst us . 1 , 31 her Bishops, Deacons, especially our own His op, en with'ministcrs wit righteouShess and truth, and make thy chosen people joyful:, :k•ren et her from her enemies: `. destroy her_not for a blessing 1.9 iitf her : strengthen her.stakes and enlarge her borders, that her sound may go forth through the land ; come ye children hearken unto m e, I will teach you the fear •of the Lord.' " Bless the &air brethrcn and friends assembled with us here to day, especially thy dear servant who has „just now commenced this good work : save us from accident or injury, even to its completion. Mark us with thy blessing that our heirts may rejoice, when we give glory to thee where alone the praise and the glory is due: prosper thou the work of her hands upon us. 0, prosper thou our handy-work through Jesus Christ our only mediator anti advocate, or hope an a trust, • our strength, and our Redeemer. Thy mercy ; gracious Father, we entreat, thy Spirit we invoke, upon the death and merits of thy dear son is our only reliance: his words also we adopt, when we- sav as he bath taught us—Our Father, &c. The Rector then rronounced the blessing; and ttte . children of the Blue Fchonl, who had opened the proceM ings of the day, by singing the •hymn commencing with • the lines— " Let children hear the mighty deeds, Which God performed of old," closed the ceremony by also singing a hymn of " Lord of Heaven, and earth of ocean, Hear us from thyc right abode." The Blue School band then struck up the National' Anthem ; and the whole of the children proceeded to the residence of tile Mayor, at Aigburth,•where they hild been previously invited by his Worship, and where they par took of his kind hospitality. H is Worship was unavoid— ably prevented from being present at the ceremony. The vast assemblage of spectators separated at the same time, half-past one o'clock. Monocco.—The population of the Morocco.enrire is variously represented. Jackson prefesses to have had access to the Imperial Ilegisters, and gives the following as the result;—City of Morocco, 270,000; City Of .Fry. 280,000; city of Mequinez, 110,000 ; other cities, 135,000; rivinces, 13,01.000.—T0ta1, 14,886,000. There is evi d ntiv great exaggeration in this statement. More recent t , avellers have set thwn the population of the city Morocco as 30,000, and the other towns in proportion. Another writer is of opinion that the entire population is not beyond 5,000,000. Perhaps 6,000,000 is nearer the truth. The plain between the Atlas - mountains and the sea is between four and five hundred miles in length; an 4 - the bighcA peak of the chain is 13,050. In 1547, as. Arabian chief, of the race of the Schireffes, ascended the t - nrone, and his posterity still rules. VOLTAlRE.—ltemernber the p rop h et an d precursor of that great reformation. itecal his person so softly appa relled, his residence so detcatcly furnished. See hint in his study. it is hung with the portraits and needlework - of sovereigns. His portfolio is full of their correspond ence. Ile is proud of nothing so much as of being a gen- • tleman of the chamber. Fie delights to compare Louis the Fifteenth to Trojan. He will not bow to God, but Ise cringes to Madame Pompadour. He receives a rensiets through her influence. lie is enabled by her boor_' display the ostentation he delights in; He cLorCts out every day in a gilt coach with four horses. Ile insists upon the inhabitants of Ferney calling Wm Men . seigneur." He despises and tramples on " the canaille." The main offence of Christianity, in his eyes, is,-hat it is a religion of the people ; the chief fault of the apostles, • vv x .•;- that they were not gentlemen. Yet this luxuri t . us who sapped all the authority that was above rod all IPA*: faith that was beneath him, could write about Cie t y r *Kai j '7' , of monarchs and the evils - of their sway p t Smut Ile. 17 11 1 spot.' o Mja . . '