The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

Sept. 17, 1844. Wantria. - pMPLOYMENT can be given to a WOMAN, to - 11 -A Wash Bottles at a Wine Merchants. She must be Well recommended for honesty and sobriety. Apply (post paid) to R., Standard-office. HOUSE WANTED, in the vicinity of Pembroke place. An Eight-roomed House, in good repair, With early possession. Address, R., at the Standard-office. AYOUNG MAN, who has had full charge of an Ironmongery and Ship Chandlery Business for the last six years, wishes a SITUATION at present, in a r espectable Establishment. References can be given as to character and abilities. Please address, Z. L., Standard-office. TO SURGEONS. WANTED, a qualified SURGEON, to attend on the members of the Liverpool Philanthropic Burial Society, resident in Birkenhead and the Neighbourhood. He must reside on the Cheshire side of the water, and be a Member of the College of Surgeons and Apothecaries' Ball. Application to be made to Mr. Tiros. H. TAYLOR, Black Horse and Rainbow, Cheapside, on or before Thursday next, the 10th instant, when the Election will take place. TUITION IN THE FINE ARTS. AGENTLEMAN, well versed in the Fine Ar ts, and accustomed to Tuition, is desirous of TAKING CHARGE of a CLASS of from Twenty to Forty, for One or Two Days in the Week, in one of the Public In stitutions of the town, or in a respectable Boarding School. For particulars and terms apply to Mr. JOSEPH CRISP, Clerical and Scholastic Agent, Commercial Hall, Glou cester-street, Liverpool. THE• COMMERCIAL HALL, The largest, cheapest, and most convenient Room in town, is constantly to LET for Public Meetings, &c. (One intere,t.) LIVERPOOL DOCKS. THE TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS are ready to receive TENDERS for a LOAN of MONEY, at the rate of THREE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS (31) per Centum per Annum Interest, for a period of not less than Seven Years. All letters, stating the amount parties are willing to lend, to be addressed to GEORGE W ITHERS, Esq., Dock-office, Liverpool. The interest will be paid half-yearly, either in Liver pool or in London, or remitted to the parties, at the option of the lenders. By order, DANIEL MASON. Secretary. bock-office, Liverpool. Thursday, 20th June, 1844. Contrarts. LIVERPOOL DOCK WORKS. CONTRACT FOR POZZOLAN 0. THE DOCK COMMITTEE are in want of abou t EIGHT HUNDRED TONS of the True Red R OMAN ur POZZOLANO, to be procured .from the Works of Carlo Nepoti, called the Cave of St. Paul, near Civita Vecchia, a certificate of which to be pro duced with each Shipment. To be delivered at the rate of 200 Tons in the course of each period of Four Months from the time of agreement for the same,and to be laid down upon such parts of their Works, Cartage, &c. free, where the same may be re quired. A Sample of the kind and quality required may be seen at the Office of the Dock Surveyor, Dock Yard, south sid e of the Coburn. Dock. The T en d ers mus t be sealed, marked " Proposal for Pozzolano," to be addressed to " The Chairman of the Committee of Dock Works," and left at the Office of the Secretary, not later than FRIDAY, the 11th day of Octob er next. By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Dock-office, Revenue-buildings, Liverpool, 20th Accost, 1844. TO JOINERS. LIVERPOOL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. THE SELECT VESTRY of the Parish of Liverpool Prepared to receive TENDERS for the following , —nainely, the DINING TABLES, DESKS, and F 0 R. MS required for the above School, according to Plans and Specifications to be seen at the Parish-office. Sealed Tenders, addressed to the Secretary of the. Select Vestry, must be sent in on or before the 20th instant. Tha Select Vestry will not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender. By order, NATHAN LITHERLAND, Secretary. AMBERSWOOD BRIDGE. TO BUILDERS. TENDERS will be received for the ERECTION of AMBERSWOOD BRIDGE, in the Township of Ince, on or before Twelve o'clock on MONDAY, the 30th day of September, sealed and directed to Mr. A. B. CLAYTON. Bridgemester, Cable-street Chambers, Liver pool, at whose Office Plans and Specificatio ns will lie for thsPection until MONDAY, the 23d ; and after that period, until MONDAY, the 30th, at the Eagle and Child Inn, gan• The lowest Tender will Lot necessarily be ac cepted. By order of the Magistrates of the West Derby Hundred, 1314 A. B. CLAYTON, Bridgemaster. %ember , 1814 • ARMY CONTRACTS. Office of Ordnance, Pall Mall, 4th September, 1844. NOTICE IS 'HEREBY GIVEN to all Persons de sirou‘ of CONTRACTING to supply MEAT, BREAD; OATS, & FORAGE, To Her Majesty's Land Forces (Bread and Meat for the Foot Guards generally, and for the Household Cavalry in Middlesex excepted) in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the CouAles of England severally, in Wales, in North Britain, in the Isle of Man, and in the Channel Islands, for SIX MONTHS from the Ist November next, inclusive ; and also, STRAW FOR PAILLASSES, at the several Barrack and Ordnance Stations in Great Britain and the Channel Islands., for ONE YEAR from Ist November next. That Proposals in Writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, sealed up and marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at the Ordnance Office, Pall - Mall, on or before THURSDAY, the tenth day of October next ; but none will be received after Eleven o'clock on that day. The C orrespon d ence re l at i ng to the Contracts for Com toissariat Supplies, cannot pass free from postage. Persons who make Tenders, are desired not to use any Forms but those which may be had upon application at the Office of the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance in Pall Mall. By order of the Board, R. BYETAM, Secretary. CONTRACTS FOR POLICE CLOTHING. THE OF LIVERPOOL , HE WATCH COMMITTEE HEREBY GIVE Dp NOTICE, that they are willing to receive TEN for SUPPLYING by CONTRACT, the follow '!g Articles of CLOTHING for the Constabulary Force, FOR CONSTABLES. , 1526 BODY COATS and PANTALOONS. I . 64 FIREMEN'S FROCK COATS and PANTALOONS. 600 Uniform FELT HATS. • 650 Pairs LEATH ER BOOTS. 1200 Pairs WHITE COTTON GLOVES. • 650 ARMLETS. • 100 STAVES. FOR INSPECTORS. 7 f4O FROCK COATS. 40 Pairs PANTA LOONS. °•--- 40 Plain FELT HATS. FOR BRIDENVELL-KEEPERS. 30 BODY COATS. { 30 VESTS. 10 30 Pairs PANTALOONS. 30 Plain FELT HATS. The Committee reserve to themselves the option of di t,,,l,g any one of the Contracts, as above mentioned, ir . ito j o .l3 7 ,t°ts of equal proportions. Persons, therefore, sending of 'enders are requested to state their prices for the whole a mple One lot, or for one-half. b on 4 o , ple Patterns may be inspected any day, between the Ortl a of Nine and Twelve in the Forenoon, at the Office i,Te Head Constable, until the 30th instant. '''"e whole of the Cloth to be wool-dyed, and of one 1 . ity and description, for the articles named in lot No. T p r h e Uniform Buttons for the Coats and Vests are ,ovided by the Committee. Ca t C9namittee will not pay for any Sample Patterns C Inspection, except those they approve of for the ontracts. t o T . h e Parties whose Tenders shall be accepted will have t i „.. - nter into the usual Contract with the Watch Comm a e - ct for the doe fulfilment thereof ; and also engage to 41 3 lete and deliver the goods on the 21st day of April, ti o „ • to be paid for, on approval, in Cash, at the expira g of One Month from the delivery. to u _ e . a ted Tenders, separate from the Sample Patterns, b ._!t be left at the Secretary's Office, not later than FRl ihair the 4th day of October next, addressed to the man of the Watch Committee, (Alderman JAMES and marked " Tender for Clothing," No. aforesaid and any Per s on o ffering Tenders for any of the ea c h Articles, must send Samples and Tenders Er deecribet d 4 eParate and Numbered on th:. Outside as before By order,PES ASHLIN, Secretary. t c " - office, No. 1, C Fenwick-street, alst Aug:est, 1814. _ - IN the matter of the Petition of ELIZAEETEI MET ,,„`ALF, at present and for upwards of twelve months rssitdFesiding at No. 7, Upper Pitt-street, and prevlously IL. ln g in Great Crosshall-street, both in the parish of ti r ,"` r Ponl, and county of Lancaster, arid being part of the l-ather dealer, but latterly in no business, ' - ' 4 th e IS HEREBY GIVEN, that EnENEzER th e L ° l v, Sergea nt - at- L aw, the Commissioner acting in iMatter of this Petition, will proceed to make a FINAL 3JaItDER thereon, at the Liverpool District Court of Ai, s nic ,ruPtey, at Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, on °AY, the 30th day of September instant, at One ° clock ia the Afternoon precisely, unless cause be then a nd there shown to the contrary. AUTHORISED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. • ze.." ,1 / 4 " t:r , . , THOMAS BOYS' FINE ART DISTRIBUTION. 11- The'Peze , will be DRAWN FOR ON THE3Oth SEP TEMBER NEXT, being the LAST Distribution allowed by Act of Par:iament. As the Drawing must and will positively take place on the day fixed, Mr. Boys requests that all his Friends and the Public will Jose no time in availing themselves of this last, and only opportunity, they can have of obtaining Tickets and Engravings with the great advantages afforded by this Distribution. LIST OF PRIZES. 2 of 500 Guineas .... making 1000 Guineas. 3 of 100 Guineas .... making 300 Guineas. 3 of 50 Guineas .... making 150 Guineas. 6 of 40 Guineas .... making 240 Guineas. 9 of 25 Guineas .... making 225 Guineas. 10 of 24 Guineas .... making 240 Guineas. 4of 20 Guineas .... making 80 Guineas. 13 of 18 Guineas .... making 234 Guineas. 9 of 16 Guineas .... making 144 Guineas. 18 of 10 Guineas .... making 180 Guineas. 23 of 9 GuineL , s .... making 207 Guineas. 29 of 7 Guineas .... making 203 Guineas. 25 of 5 Guineas .... making 125 Guineas. 136 of 4 Guineas .... making 544 Guineas. 48 of 3 Guineas .... making 144 Guineas. There should be no delay, as the number of 'rickets he has remaining is limited. Tickets, Prospectuses, and the Engravings may be had at No. 11, Golden-square, and 221, Regent-street, London ; also of J. R. ISAAC, H. LACEY, and Ross and NIGHTINGALE, Liverpool ; J. II A DDOCK, Warrington ; T. SOWLER, Manchester ; J. WAI EDEN, Blackburn ; L. CLAUKS, Preston ; and J. LAW, Birkeuhead. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. THE Public are respectfully informed, that in con formity with the Directors' published Report of the 24th July last, they will he prepared, on and after the let of October next, to run a THIRD-CLASS TRAIN of COVERED CARRIAGES, Every Day, to and from Liver pool and Manchester. Further particulars, of the Hour of Departure from each end, with a statement of Fares, will appear in the Time Bills of the day. By order of the Directors, HENRY BOOTH, Treasurer. Liverpool, 10th September, 1844. eburation. LA POLKA! AS TAUGHT BY M. CELLARIUS. MR. EDGAR WEBSTER most respectfully an ti to the Gentry of Liverpool, that he has visited Paris, on purpose to obtain this Dance from the above Celebrated Professor, and that no other arrangement or composition but this is genuine. In consequence of the press of Mr. E. W.'s engage ments, he has set apart MONDAY and THURSDAY EVEN INGS exclusively for the practice of the POLKA. Lessons either private or in Class. 26, Bold-street, September 14th, 1844. LA POLKA. ESSRS. HARW6OYand SON, PROFESSORS or JAI DANCING, have OPENED their EVENING CLASSE S, for the practice of the above popular Dance, on TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, in Nelson-street ; and, on MONDAYS, at their Rooms, Brandon-street, Woodside. For Ladies and Gentlemen from Eight to Ten o'clo k. PRIVATE LESSONS in the Polka and Valse a deux Temps every Evening upon application. Juvenile Classes every THURSDAY and SATURDAY Afternoon. *** The FIRST BALL for the Season, at which the Polka will be introduced, will take place oh WEDNESDAY, the 2d of October. 42, Nelson-street, Great George-square. DANCING. ATESSRS. JOSSET and DUGIT beg to announce, 1/1. that their ACADEMY, 1, DEVON -STREET, will RE-OPEN, for the ensuing Quarter, on the 26th inst., at Half-past Twelve,. and their ACADEMY, ROYAL. ASSEMBLY-ROOMS, GREAT GEORGE -STREET, the same day, at a Quarter-past Two. LA POLKA. Messrs. JOSSET and DUGIT give Lessons in the above fashionable Dance and in the Waltz of an Evening, either in Private Classes or in Private Single Lessons, at the Academy in Devon-street. DANCING. VER. GIDDENS requests to inform his Friends and I! Pupils, that he has returned from London, and purposes to RE-OPEN his ACADEMIES for the ensu ing season, at Soho-street, on MONDAY next, the 23rd, and Hope-street, on THURSDAY, the 2Gth instant, at Two o'clock. Mr. G. gives private instructions in LA POLKA, POLKA COTILLON, and VALSE A DEUX TEMPS, as taught precisely by Monsieur Cordon, A Card of Terms may be obtained at Mr. SMITH'S Music Warehouses, Bold-street and LOrd-street ; also of Messrs. finktk. and SON, Church-street, and of Mr. GIDDENS, 149, Duke-street. Schools, Private Classes, and Families, attended as usual. September 16, 1844. EDUCATION. AGENTLEMAN, who has been accustomed to study and travel, is desirous of receiving Four or Six YOUNG GENTLEMEN to EDUCATE with his own Sons. In addition to the general Course of Education, his Pupils will receive Instruction in the following De partments of Learning :—Roman and English Literature, the Latin and French Languages, the Fine Arts, Poetry, and Music. Lectures will be delivered to the Pupils three times every week, in the following Branches so es sential to Youth:—History, Biography, Astronomy, Geo graphy, the Use of the Globes, Elocution, the Moral and Physical Management of the Person, Political Economy, Wealth of Nations. The Pupils will have the advantage of enjoying exercise free from street inconvenience, in Great George-square, No. 8, where all applications will meet with immediate attention from Mr. RAN SOME. Mr. R. gives Private Lectures in Families that may de sire so advantageous a mode of Education, or he will act as Private Tutor. Gentlemen can read with Mr. Ransome at any hour of the day. in all the above Departments of Literature. Evening Lectures given to Gentlemen who wish to im prove their leisure hours, at No. 8, Great George-square, on calling on Mr. R., or addressing a note to the Post. lieferences—Hugh Price, Esq. ; J. Hosken, Esq. ; Capt. Snell, R.N. ; Sir W. Martin. The following Families have been under the care of Mr. Ransome :—The Hon. Mr. Cruikshank's, the Hon. Capt. Baldwin's, Count Shotten's, Judge M'Cauley's. TARVIN HALL SCHOOL, NEAR CHESTER. FOR THE EDUCATION OF RESIDENT PUPILS ONLY, under the superintendence and tuition of the following resident Masters :-- PRINCIPAL.-JOHN Blt IND LEY, of Magdalen Col lege, Cambridge, Ph. D. M.A. of the University of Giessen, formerly Second Master of the Grammar School, Brigg ; and Head Master of the Oldbwinfold Hospital en dowed School, Worcestershire. ASSISTANT.—CHARLES JONES, Trinity College, Dublin. ..... FIRST CLASSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL MASTER—E. S. CROOKE, B.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, in double honors. FRENCH MASTER.—MONSIEUR BOIN, B.A. of the University of Paris. GERMAN. DRAWING, AND MUSIC MASTER.—LIERR QUELLII ORST, a Native of Hanover. JUNIOR MASTER.—Mr. R. K. BROWNE. DRILL MASTER, and Play Ground Superintendent.— SERGEANT COX, late of the 40th Regiment. The above Masters are resident. - - TEACHES OF DANCING.—Mr. EDGAR WEBSTER, Chester. VISITING SURGEON. - Mr. GEORGE HARRISON, Chester. ----- The objects aimed at in this Establishment are, I. To insure a thoroughly Scriptural and Gentlemanly Education, under Masters of high Classical and Mathe matical attainments. 2. To provide a sound Classical and Mathematical Edu cation for pupils preparing for the Universities and learned Professions—and an equally sound course of business in struction, with daily practice in the Modern Continental Languages for Mercantile scholars. 3. To maintain in every department the strictest Dis cipline, united with kindness and moderation, and the absence of corporal punishment, except in extreme cases, and then to be inflicted by the ?rincipal only. 4. To treat the Pupils as members of the family, pro viding them liberally with domestic comforts at the same table with the Principal and Masters. 5. To include under one charge every expence both in the Educational and Domestic departments, that there may be no extras for Stationery, Printed Books, Wash ing, Medical Attendance, nor under any pretext whatever. REPORT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS INTHE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY, By the PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT. ARE -SURVEY of this Railway having now been com pleted by Mr. Locke, and several new features having recently presented themselves in connexion with the project, your Committee deem the present to be a fitting opportunity for addressing you on the position and prospects of the undertaking. This course is, more over, desirable, in consequence of the Company having been organised in the early part of the year, and of an in terval of comparative inaction having necessarily inter vened between the completion of the subscription and the preparations for applying to Parliament. It is not necessary to inform you that the selection of the Caledonian Line was based upon the decided prefer ence given to it by the Government Commissioners above all other routes of Railway communication proposed for connecting England and Scotland ; but it is desirable to advert, very briefly, to the nature of the Line to which that preference was given, with a view to a proper under standing and due appreciation of circumstances which have been developed since the Commissioners' Report was made, and since the Prospectus of the undertaking was published. The Line preferred by the Commissioners, as combining the greatest number of advantages in respect of " the distances and gradients, the probable cost of construction and working, the numerical and commercial importance of the population to be accommodated, and the relative traffic and other statistical properties, cons sted of a Trunk Railway, extending from Carlisle to a point about seventy miles northward, and diverging from that point to Edinburgh on the east, and Glasgow on the west. That was the proposition submitted to the Commissioners, and adopted by them "as being the general route which would fulfil the greater number of requi-ites in the railway com munication under consideration." All the information which your committee have been able to collect has confirmed the soundness of the opinion pronounced by those impartial judges. It is an important fact, that more than seven-eights of the whole population of Scotland are to be found to the north of the proposed , point of divergence to Edinburgh and Glasgow, compre hending very nearly the whole of the manufacturing classes of that kingdom. Such being the ase, it scarcely admits of dispute, that the shortest practicable route to the seat' of such a population must afford the greatest accommo dation to the greatest numbers. To divert that route from the direct line, for the purpose of benefitting a rem nant of population, would be to sacrifice the intrests at the public at large to considerations of a comparatively trivial description. The Caledonian Line possesses the advantages of affording accommodation by the shortest route, and at the cost of one trunk line, to very nearly the whole of the population of Scotland. Such was the plan recommended by the Government Commissioners and adopted by the Caledonian Railway Company ; and, considering the importance, in every point of view, of the districts immediately connected with the Northern Termini of Edinburgh and Glasgow, it was not surprising that the traffic of the Line should show a return of 8 per cent. as anticipated in the pro spectus. The public responded to those an . icipations, and a short period sufficed to fill up the required sub scription, upon which a depcsit of ten per cent. was im mediately paid. The original Provisional Directors thereupon concluded their exertions; and the committee who have now the honour of addressing you were ap pointed by the Subscribers Agreement, and have the satisfaction of bringing under your notice the following circumstances of importance to this undertaking, which have arisen or been developed since the prospectus was issued : First : The Act for the formation of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway has received the sanction of the Legisla ture, and that Line is already in course of being con structed. Socorelly : A company has been organized for the es tablishment of a Railway, called the " Scottish Central," leading from Perth to Sterling, and thence, southward, to Castlecary, where it is to be connected with the Caledo nian Line, by a short extension of the latter. The whole capital required for the Scottish Central Railway has been subscribed ; and a deposit of ten per cent. has been paid thereon. It would he difficult to exaggerate the im portance of this new feature in the undertaking. It forms a third Terminus to the Caledonian Railway no less important than the connexions with Edinburgh and Glasgow ; and Mr. Locke has stated, that, in consequence of saving on other parts of the Line, the Castlecary Extension of the Caledonian Line can be constructed without exceeding the capital upon which the prospectus proceeded. This connexion will secure to the Caledo nian the traffic between the northern parts of Scotland, (including the important towns of Stirling, Perth, Dun dee. and Aberdeen,) and the western and southern parts of England. Thirdly: by the extension of the Caledonian Line to Castlecary a junction will be effected at that place with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, by which the towns of Falkirk, Linlithgow, Kirkintilloch, and others will be brought into direct communication with the Caledonian, manifestly to the advantage of both undertakings. Fourthly : By the prospectus it was contemplated that the Caledonian Company should avail themselves of other Railways in the neighbourhood of Glasgow as an access to that city. Following out that intention, your Commit tee are upon the point of concluding arrangements with the Proprietors of certain existing Railways of a satisfac tory nature both as regards the public and the Caledonian Company. Among the advantages which will be thereby secured is the use of an eligible terminus at Glasgow. within a few yards of the Exchange of that city. While your Committee have thus in view one connec tion with Glasgow, very advantageous in many respects, they do not intend to pledge the Caledonian Company to the exclusive use of the Railways alluded to. This freedom of action is reserved by your Committee with reference to a proposed Line, called the " Clydesdale Junction Railway," which will be of the greatest benefit to this undertaking. The Clydesdale Junction will con nect the Caledonian Railway with Glasgow on the side of the city opposite to the terminus already referred to, thereby affording to the Caledonian Company a double communication with that city. The Clydesdale also extends to the Harbour of Glas gow, from which the other terminus is separated by the intervention of a part of the town. The Clydesdale line is moreover connected with existing Railways leading from Glasgow to Paisley and other m a _ nufacturing towns of Renfrewshire, and to the Seaports of Greenock and Port Glasgow. Your Committee are happy to state, that they have con cluded arrangements with the Provisional Committee of the Clydesdale Junction, of a description beneficial to both Companies, and on such terms as to enable the Cale donian Company to avail themselves, with advantage, o f that line to any extent which their traffic may require. Under these favourable circumstances you will be at no loss to attribute to its true cause the original determina tion of the promoters of the Caledonian line to trust to other railways for their connexion with Glasgow rather than to incur the large expense of forming an independent line for themselves. Lastly : Your Committee have much satisf ar ti on i n s t a ting Mr. Lf - cke's expressed opinion, that a large saving in the construction of the works, will be effected upon the estimate given in the prospectus, particularly upon that portion of the line which diverges to Edinburgh, and w:lich your Committee have always considered a most im portant part of the undertaking. In aid of the foregoing explanation, your Committee refer to the Map which accompanies this report, It af fords convincing evidence of the judicious selection of the Caledonian Line. It has seldom, if ever, happened that any newly-projected Railway could boast the possession of so many contributing Lines already in existence or sure to be immediately formed. The Map shows that the 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. Wm. Jno. Bagshawe, Esq., The Oaks, Sheffield. Wilson Overend, Esq., Sheffield. Benj. Burdekin, Esq., Sheffield. Richard Bayley, Esq., Castle Dyke. Sheffield. Thomas Creswick, Esq., Eeclesall Grange, Sheffield. Henry Wilson, Esq., Westbrook, Sheffield. Henry Houldsn•orth, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. William Entwisle, Esq., M.P., Deputy• Chairman of the Manchester and Leads Railway Company, and a Di rector of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway Company. Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, a Di- rector of the Afanchester and Leeds, and . of the Wakefield, Lincoln ' and Boston Railway Companies. Leo Schuester, Esq. , a Director of the Manchester and Leeds, and of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway Companies. Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall Hall, Lancashire. Thomas Clark, Esq., Mayor of Chesterfield. Edward Humble, Esq., Renishaw, Derbyshire. Samuel Butcher, Esq., Endcliffe, Sheffield. Thomas Ellin, jun., Esq., Sheffield. Henry Wilkinson, Esq.. Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield. Robert Younge, Esq., Greystones, Sheffield. Roger Haywcod, Esq., Hooton Levet, Maltby. Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braith well M anor H ouse,Yorltshire. Thomas Didsbury, Esq., Rotherham. Charles Frederick Younge, Esq., Sheffield. Henry Jubb. Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield. John Sansom, Esq., Moor Lodge, Sheffield. John Green, Esq., Neepsend, Sheffield. John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield. Richard Ellison, Esq., Sudbrooke Holme, Lincoln, Chairman of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway. The R er. H. W. Sibthorpe, Washingborough; Lincoln, Edward Fowler. Esq., Lincoln, T. M. Kevworth, Esq., Lincoln, Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Col. Ciacrolt, Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln, Weston Cracroft, Esq., Elarlithorn, Lincoln, With power to add to their number. ENGINEER. William Cubit - , Esq., F.R.S. BANKERS. Directors of the Wake • field, Lincoln, & Boston Railway. Sheffield The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company ; the Sheffield and Retford Bank. Gaincborough Messrs. Smith Ellison, and Co* Lincoln .... Chesterfield The Chesterfield and Derbyshire Banking Company. Boston Messrs. Gee and Co. Bawtry The Yorkshire Banking Company. Manchester Messrs. Cunliffe. Brookes, and Co. London Messrs. Cunliffe, Brookes, and Co. ; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. ; the London and Westminster Bank. THE object of this undertaking is to construct the most direct and perfect LINE OF RAILWAY from the Town and Pert of GAINSBOROUGH, through SHEF FIELD, to the Station of the Midland Railway at CHESTERFIELD, thereby effecting a more expeditious and economical communication between Gainsborough, Sheffield, and the Midland Counties on the one hand, and between Sheffield and the Metropolis on the other ; and, also, to bring into immediate contact the whole of Lin colnshire and the Eastern Counties, with the important Manufacturing and Mineral Districts of Sheffield, Dron field, and Unstone. For detailed Prospectus see LIVERPOOL STANDARD Of September 3 and 10. The Line will unite with the projected Wakefield, Lin coln, and Boston Railway, now merged in the London and York, constituting, in conjunction with that Line, the best and most comprehensive system of Railway commu nication between the Agricultural Districts of Lincoln shire and the Eastern Counties, and the populous Manu facturing Towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Fromacareful 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, after allowing £lO per Cent. for working expenses. Applications for Prospectuses, with Maps, or other in formation, and for Shares, (in the annexed Form) are requested to be made to Messrs. WILSON, YOUNGE, and PrEnsoN, or Mr. DIXON, Solicitors, Sheffield ; or to the following Sharebrokers :—Mr. Duncuff, Manchester ; Messrs. 11. and G. Towgood, 33, Throgmorton-street, London; Messrs. WILLIAM REYNOLDS and SONS, and Mr. JOHN HALL, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beard shaw, Leeds ; Messrs. Moore and Gatliffe, Huddersfield ; Mr. James Harvey, Halifax; Messrs. Beaumont, Kenne dy, and Binks, Bradford and Leeds ; to Messrs. Collinson and Flint, or Messrs. Trigg and Hodson. Hull ; Messrs. Earl) and Son, Derby ; Mr. James Pearson, or Mr. Lane, nd Chesterfield R a il way, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. I Shares eschuerffie e t l o d n a e upon the Terms f the Prosp ectus. And I agree to take i n the re (I G I u e i s t t i s Y b c o u r o w n i g l h l such Sharer as may be allotted to me, and to pay the De posits upon the same, and execute the Parliame n t ar y Con tract and Subscribers' Agreement when requi re d. Dated 1844. _ _ Trade or Profession. To the Provisional Committee of the Gainsborough, Sheffield, and Chesterfield Railway. [ADVERTISEMENT.] DUBLIN CONFECTIONERY ESTABLISHMENT. -- In compliance with the wishes of numerous families of dis tinction, a central branch of the Dublin Confectionery and Fancy Bread Establishment has been opened, at 20, Berry-street, on such a new system of style and prices as seems to astonish the public, as well as insure an im mense sale; indeed, so great a variety in the art of con fectionery and fancy bread could not be surpassed in Lon don, and certainly nothing has as yet appeared in Liverpool to equal it. The proprietors, Feeny Brothers, wish to bring under special notice the prices per pound of a few leading articles, as it would take an entire column to form a list of all : —Plain Wine Biscuits,sd., Cheese ditto, 5d., Butter ditto, 6d., Abernethy ditto, 7d., Mixed Wine Ditto, 9d., Savoy, Rice, Sugar, and Imperial ditto, Is. 3d., Tournament ditto, Is. 4d., German ditto, Is., Prussian ditto, is., Sponge Cake, Is. 3d., Seed Cake, Is. 3d., Plum Cake for weddings and christenings, ls. 3d., Almond Seed Cake, Is. 4d. IMPORTANT TO THE FASHIONABLE WORLD.—By far the most influential of the graces that contribute to per sonal adornment is the Hair. Its recovery, preservation. and improvement, proportionably concern the elegantes of our fashionable circles, and any information which will ensure these desirable results will be hailed as an inesti mable boon. The following extract from the letter of a respectable chemist in Bridlington will be read with the highest interest :—" A lady, a customer of mine, has found great benefit from the use of your Balm. About six months ago her hair nearly all fell off. f recom mended her to try your Balm of Columbia, which she did. In the course of a few applicaticns the hair ceased to fall off. Before she had used one 3s. 6d. bottle it be gan to grow very profusely, and she has now a beautiful head of Hair. I am, gentlemen, yours respectfully, " WM. SMITH, Chemist and Druggist, " Market-place, Bridlington. " To Messrs. C. and A. Oldridge, " March 13, 1844." C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA causes the Hair to curl beautifully, frees it from scurf, and stops it from falling off, and a few bottles generally restore it again ; it also prevents greyness. 3s. 6d., 65., and l Is. per bottle. No other prices are genuine. Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM,!, Wellington street, Strand, London. Sold by respectable Chemists, Perfumers, and Stationers. How seldom do we feel, perceive, or think of the small beginnings of disease which surround and operate upon us in our enjoyments and intercourse with the world. " The young disease, which must subdue at length, Grows with ourgrowth, and strengthens with our strength." An improper regimen acting upon a particular kind of constitution, late hours, both of retiring to rest and rising in the morning, lay the foundation of intestinal, as well as skin diseases. Te all such we would recommend first a change of system, and secondly, as a powerful assn tant for the recovery of health that efficacious Family Medicine, Frampton's Pill of Health, which has procured the appro bation of persons in every station in society.—See Adv. SINGULAR MODE OF RELIEVING A BESIEGED CASTLE. —There was a peculiar custom in Cheshire. During the sanguinary feuds on the Welsh borders which succeeded the conquest, and which continued more than two centu r'es, Randle Blunderville, the celebrated Earl Palatine of Chester, 1181, and founder of the then impregnable castle of Buston, was beseiged in the castle of Rhuddlaw, by a numerous army of Cambro-Britons. He imm e di a t e l y 'des patched a messenger to his constable, Roger Lacy, Baron of Halton, who, in the exigency of the moment, - assembled at Chester, (it being the time of the fair,) great body of idle and dissolute people, including all the fiddlers, minstrels, and players then present, besides a considerable number of women, and other dissolute peo ple; with these he marched to the Earl's relief. The ap pearance of this motley multitude operated so strongly on the fears of the Welsh, that they fled in all directions. As a reward for the signal services thus rendered, the Earl gave to " Roger Lacy" power over all the fiddlers and shoemakers in Cheshire. The constable, however, pre sented his steward, Piers Dutton, with the authority over all the shoemakers, reserving to himself only the right over the fiddlers.—Polytechnic Review. COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, OF 1830 TO 1840.—" On the publication of the ordonances, the members of the Chamber who were in Paris met at. each others' houses to discuss measures of resistance. But it was not from the members of the Chamber that the move ment was to emanate. Those who had any position to compromise looked on, for the most part, with anxiety and astonishment, waiting to see what current the dis turbed waters would finally take. "On the evening of the 27th, a man, name ueknown, appeared on the Qeai d'Ecole, and paraded the banks of the river with the tri coloured flag, which had been folded up and hidden away for fifteen years." The symbol was adopted by the people. The revolution had commenced. Then followed all those strange scenes of levity and blood, buffoonery and heroism, which the history of Parisian revolutions has familiarized to the imagination, but which, never theless, have an inexhaustible interest. The people arm themselves wheresoever and howsoever they can. One brings into the Place de la Bourse two large hampers, full of muskets and accoutrements. Teey come from the Theatre du Vaudeville, where a piece bad been played. a few days before, which required that a number of actors should be armed. To command men thus equipped there there were extemporary generals, whose epaulets were ob tained from the wardrobe of the Op era Comique. The students of the Polytechnic were, as usual, on the alert to practice whatever they had l earned of military science; the younger sort entering int o t h e war with the same spirit that other school bo y s enter into an y minor mischief that is going forward. A student of the Polytechnic i s s t an ding on the left bank of the river ; he has a musket, but no am munition. A fellow-student, a lad of fif teen, has a packet of cartridges, but no musket : " You shall share them" said he, showing his treasure, "if von will lend me the gun to shoot my half." A p ar t y o f th e roya l guard were coming over the bridge. He started with the gun to have his shots. He was swept off with others by the fire of the military."—Blackwood's Magazine. USE OF B ATI] s.—Sir George Lefevre, in an article en titled " On the use and abuse of domestic remedies," strongly recommends the use of a shower bath, which he says can be employed with advantage and comfort in many cases where the space is ton limited for the esta blishment of a plunging bath, and he observes that refreshing effects in warm weather contribute much to the perfection of the animal functions even !in the most healthy state. A morning shower bath, or if that cannot be accomplished, one taken after the morning fatigues are over, as a part of the ante prandium toilette, will often secure a pleasant sensation for the evening, and add a charm to the dolce far niente of the remainder of the day. It is a restorative to strength in those cases of languor, attended without actual disease. Delicate fe males derive the most pleasurable advantages from its use; and even during pregnancy it is not counter-indi cated, if proper precautions be adopted. Th e p roper hour of the day for it is immediately after rising, or before dinner, and it may be used every other day with advan tage. It should cot be administered, however, without certain precautions, and should be progressive as regards its temperature. When first used, this should vary with the season of the year. If it can be commenced in sum mer, Sir G. Lefevre recommends that the water be placed over night in the bedchamber, so that it may possess the same degree of temperature. The cold should not be such as to produce a shock in the first instance, but when the system has been initiated into its effects by degrees the caloric should be lowered daily, so that the fluid 'nay be cooled down to the freezing point, without any risk of producing- discomfort, but the certainty of luxurious sen sation. if commencedin the colder season, the water should at first be raised to a comfortable temperature, and afterwards gradually cooled down to the same extent as in summer. It is necesiary to rub the body smartly during the d ry i n g process, and that too in a room free from cold draughts and currents of air. A flannel dress. ing gown should be p ut on immediately afterwards in the winter season, and rest indulgedin for some time. Thi s remedy is of great utility in nervous he...idiot:es, and those produced by frequenting crowded assemblies, and intlulrz in,z in the luxury of the table, and also in hypochonariasis. —Lancet. TERMS Under Twelve years of age.. Forty Guineas per annum. Above Twelve and under Sixteen years of age.. Fifty Gui neas per annum. Above Sixteen years of age.. Sixty Guineas per annum. Private Pupils are allowed a Private Study and separate Bedroom.. One Hundred Guineas per annum. All payments to be made in advance, either Quarterly or Half-yearly. Mr. BRINDLEY begs to acquaint his Friends that he has further extended his premises, which will enable him to accommodate Eight additional Pupils at the Michaelmas Quarter, commencing SATURDAY, the 28th instant.! 7arvin Hall, September, 1844. MONEY, L 2 000 IS BE ADVANCED L 2, ON APPROVED SECURITY, in one or smaller sums. Apply to Mr. JOHN LOWE, Solicitor, Harrington street. THE lIEPTAPII/EMION. MRS. PARKES, GOLDEN -SQUARE, LONDON, draws the attention of the Lovers of the Fine Arts to the HEPTAPRIEMION, which will be drawn on the 30th instant. _ . The HIGHEST PRIZE lS 700 GUINEAS. The LOWEST PRIZE is . 3 1, The value of the Property is six times seven thousand Guineas. The required number of Subscribers, at ONE GUINEA each, is twice seven thousand. The Prizes are three times seven hundred in number. The First Prize is of nine times seven Engravings, and of seven times Fifty Guineas in value. Every seventh Ticket is a Prize. Thus the principle of the seventh runs throughout ; and hence the name of HEPTAPItIEMION, or every seventh a Prize. Subscribers may select Engravings to the amount of their Subscriptions from a numerous Catalogue. Every particular c n be ascertained on application to G. LINNECAR, 15, RANELAGH-STREET. PARTNERSHIP IN A LADIES' SCHOOL. NEIGHBOURHOOD, MANCHESTER.-PREMIUM, £l5O. EXCHANGE OF CHURCH PROPERTY. A GENTLEMAN, holding a CROWN LIVING, in a delightful part of the Country, of about £251 p er Annum, will be happy to EXCHANGE for a LIVING of the same value, but where there is a larger sphere of usefulness. WANTED, a TITLE for ORDERS in Liverpool or tha Neighbourhood. A YOUNG GENTLEMEN'S SCHOOL to be SOLD in the Neighbourhood of Liverpool, And a LADIES' DAY SCHOOL in Cheshire. A LADY, of middle age, and folly competent in Wanted as GOVERNESS in a Family. Every particular given respecting the Sutton-Coldfield Grammar School, near Birmingham. Apply to Mr. JosErn Cause, Clerical and Scholastic Agent, Commercial Hall, Gloucester-street, Liverpool. The COMMERCIAL HALL constantly to LET for PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SOUTHPORT AND EUXTON JUNCTION RAILWAY. CAPITAL, £lOO,OOO, IN 4000 SHARES OF £25 EACH. THE Promoters of this Undertaking have much satis faction in announcing to the Public that arrangements have been made with the Board of Directors of the North Union Railway Company whereby the proposed Railway will be permanently worked in connexion with the North Union Railway Company, and by which the North Union Railway Company guarantee to the Pro prietcrs of this Undertaking a Rental, in perpetuity, equal to Four Pounds per Cent. per Annum on the proposed Capital, and one-half of the net profits beyond such per centage. Application for Shares will be received by Mr. T. Lee, Surveyor. Canning-street, Manchester; or at the Office of the Solicitors, up to the 26th September instant, when the Allotment of Shares will take place. . . By order of the Provisional Committee, WOODCOCK and PART, Solicitors. Wigan, 9th September, 1844. Caledonian will, from the moment it is opened, command the following connections, in addition to its principal Termini, in Edinburgh and Glasgow : . By the Scottish Central Railway,with Stirling, Perth, Dundee, and the North of Scotland generally. 2. By the Edinbnrgh and Glasgow Railway, eastward, with Falkirk, Linlithgow, and the important districts of which these towns form the centres. 3. By the same Railway, westward, with Kirkintilloch, Kilsyth, and other towns and villages in that quarter. 4. By the Forth and Clyde Navigation, with Grange mouth and the Firth of Forth. . _ 5. By the Clydesdale Junction, with Paisley, Greenock, and Port-Glasgow ' • and 6. By the Clyde Navigation, with the Firth of Clyde. Your Committe have likewise carried out the original views of the promoters, by ordering a survey and plans of a Branch to Dumfries, and these are now in course of execution. These various ramifications must always give the Cale donian Company the command of the railway traffic be tween Scotland and England. This leads your Committee to the only other subject to which they thick it necessary to allude before concluding this Report, and that is, the competition of other Lines. Your Committee are cif opinion, that much more impor tance has been attempted to be attached to that compe tition than it deserves. They say this without the slighest disposition to underrate any real or well-founded danger from such a cause, but they look upon the danger in this case as neither iminent in its circumstances nor serious in its consequences. The routes alleged to be Lines competing with the Caledonian are the projectad Railwys from Newcastle to Edinburgh, by Berwick, and from Carlisle to Glasgow, by Dumfries. With regard to the first of these routes, your committee do not regard it as a competing Line at all. It was de cided not to be so by the Select Committee on competing Railways appointed last session, by the House of Com mons ; and a statement to the same effect was made, in Parliament; by the President of the Board of Trade. The Caledonian Line must always be the shortest and cheapest route from Edinburgh to three fourths, at least, of all England. Any one examining a map may ascer tain that Berwick, while it is 57 miles distant from Edin burgh, it is only 14 miles to the southward of it. The distance from Edinburgh to Liverpool, by the Caledonian Line, will be 226 miles, whereas, by the route to Berwick, •it would be 304 miles, making a difference in favour of the • Caledonian of 78 miles. Under such circumstances, your Committee are of opinion, that the Caledonian Company has nothing to fear, in any event, from Railway communication along the east coast. vv The other projected Line is a proposed continuation of the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Railway, by way of Dum fries, to Carlisle. If that project were to be sanctioned by Parliament, it might, to a limited extent, compete with the Caledonian in the wear of Scotland traffic. It has not, and never can have, any direct communication with the Northern and Eastern Railways. The navigable river of Clyde, and the city of Glasgow form insuperable bar riers to such a connexion. Beyond the western traffic, therefore, the competition could not be extended ; and in regard to it, it would be conducted by the rival Company under the d'sadvantage of a great excess of distance. For instance, between Glasgow and Carlisle the excess is 24 miles. Between Edinburgh and Carlisle, besides the in terruption at Glasgow, the excess of distance, by the Avr and Dumfries route, is not less than 70 miles. Competi tion on such terms would be so hopeless or ruinous that your Committee cannot suppose that any influence which the Glasgow and Ayr railway Company possess will be sufficient to induce Parliament to sanction such an under taking. On the subject of the merits of the Kilmarnock and Dumfries Line, as compared vbith the Caledonian, the Government Commissioners are very Explicit. "It is true," says their Report, " that, as each of the three (Nithsdale) routes is intended to form a Junction with the Ayrshire Railway, or its branch to Kilmarnock, there would be a shorter length of new Line to construct ; * * but this is rather to be considered as an advantage to the proprietors of that Line than to the public, whose fares would be in proportion to the distance travelled over, whether on the old or new Line ; * * and it would be very unjust, for their exclave advantage, to tax passen gers between Carlisle and Edinburgh and Glasgow, both in time and expense, to the extent it would be requisite in this instance. Viewing the matter in this Ught, it is conceived that neither of the three Nithsdale Lines can be recommended as a Main Trunk Line of communication between England and Scotland." . In conclusion, your committee have to state, that vigor ous measures have been commenced to obtain the Act for the formation of the Caledonian Line. Your committee anticipate that the Act will be passed and the Works commenced early next summer ; but as there is already a large sum of money in hand, a second call on the capital will not be required b: fore the month of July, 1845. By Order of the Committee, 21st August, 18-T4. BE,LHAVEN, Chairman. tW Holders of Scrip in this undertaking will receive copies of the Report and relative Map of the Railway, upon applying to Messrs. FORSYTH and PRITCHARD, Shareholders, Exchange-street, Liverpool. LEEDS AND THIRSK RAILWAY. AT a MEETING of the COMMITTEE, h e ld thi s day, PRESENT, H. C. MARSHALL, Esq. in the Chair, Christopher Beckett, Esq. Thomas Mason, Esq. Francis Thorp, Esq. D. W. Nell, Esq. Wm. Whincup, Esq. W. Wms. Brown, Esq. Wm. Driffield, Esq. J. Wordsworth, Esq. Jonathan Benn, Esq. C. G. Maclea. Esq. Newman Cash, Esq. William Smith, Esq. John Gott, Esq. The Committee having now received and carefully tested the Traffic Tables, showing each separate item, are enabled to lay before the Public, as promised in their Prospectus, the following Abstract, which fully confirms the favourable opinion they had entertained of the under taking : Passengers' Traffic (including Coaches. Private Vehicles, and Carriers' Waggons, through and intermediate) Parcels (including both Coaches and Car. riers' Waggons) .. • • Coal and C0ke........ .... General Merchandise (including Goods by common Carriers and by Private Convey ances) .... •• • • Wool, Flax, Yarns, Grain, Flour, Leather, Fish, Lead, Iron, Timber, Lime, and Manure . Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Calves, and Pigs .. 5,461 0 0 Sundries, of which no correct estimate can be made. Carriages, Carriage Horses, Passengers, Luggage on which a charge is made, Stone, Flags, Blue and Gray Slate, Draining Tiles, Timber fcr Building purposes, &c. &c. 4,013 0 0 34,247 0 0 Total £132,814 0 0 The Committee have also to state that a further Exa mination and Survey of the Line has confirmed Mr. Grainger in his orignal estimate of £BOO,OOO es the amount of capital required for the completion of the undertaking, and of the practicability of obtaining very favourable Gradients on the largest portion of the Line, namely, from the Wharf to the Northern Terminus ; and in the short extent of difficult country, from Leeds to the Wharf, the Gradients are more favourable than some which are at present in use for Locomotive Engines on other Lines of large Traffic. The Parliamentary Plans and Sections are rapidly pro ceeding, and ail the arrangements for going before Parlia ment are in a forward state. Applications for the Shares not yet allotted may be made to Messrs. PAYNE, EDDISON, and FORD, Leeds ; or to Mr. JOHN DORNING, 19, Leigh-street, and Mr. RICHARD DAWSON, Share Broker, Liverpool. TOWN EDITION. MANCHESTER.-MONDAY EVENIN G. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Our market during the past week may be reported on the whole as firm. On Tuesday there appeared a dispo sition to purchase, but generally lower rates were offered, though in no case submitted to. In this state of things but litt!e business was transacted, more especially in goods suited to the American markets. Our home trade is also in a healthy condition with firm prices. In yarns a little more has been done, and at firm prices. Towards the end of the week a somewhat better feeling prevailed and consequently a more extensive business was transacted. The arrival of the Overland Mail relieved many of our merchants from great aNarehension. The' commercial intelligence brought by this mail is on the whole favour able, and many orders have been received. The accounts brought from America are also said to be favourable, with a fair amount of orders. The prosperous state of our manufacturing pursuits has stimulated the operatives to ask for a share of the ad vantages of the improved state of trade, and they ha - re therefore determined to ask for an advance of wages. They have issued a respectful circular to their masters but as yet no answers have been received. THE LEAGUERS AND THE REGISTRATION COURTS. At ten o'clock this morning the revising barristers for this division of the county commenced their labours at Ashton-under-Lyne and Newton-le-Willows. M r. Brand reth presided at Newton. At an early hour Mr. Hickin, secretary to the League, accompanied by Acland, their lecturer, John Gadsby, and several others, reached New ton. Mr. Henry Coppock, of the firm of Coppock and \%'oollam, solicitors, Stockport, and Mr. Worthington, solicitor, of Manchester, appeared for the Leaguers; Mr. Ackersley, solicitor, of Wigan, and Mr. Wagstaff, solici tor, of Warrington, appeared to defend the Conservative voters objected to. On the opening of the court, consi derable time was occupied in testing the validity of the objections served by the Leaguers. It appeared that a, very great number had been signed by Mr. Gadsby, with out his having any knowledge of the parties ; and it was argued that such a system of wholesale objecting to voters was vitiating the spirit of the law and intentions of the legislature. The barrister decided that Mr. Gadsby, being on the list of voters, was qualified to object to any other on the list. It was nest objected to that the Mr. Gadsby described in the register was not the Mr. Gadsby who signed the objections, but Mr. Hickin proved that the signature attached to the objections was that of John Gadsby, as described on the register of voters. Mr. Gadsby's objections were, therefore, held to be good. Mr. Gadsby was present, but it was deemed inadvisable to call him, and in each case Acland proved his hand writing. The court sat until five o'clock, at which time something like 40 claims and objections had been disposed of. If, therefore, the courts get on at the same pace, it is probable that the barristers may finish their labours in this county by the month of May or June next. The objections taken by the Leaguers are in most cases owing to some little informality in the description on the regis ter, and the barrister has decided that wherever he feels himself called upon to alter the description, he cannot award costs. From the nature of the objections brought before the court to-day, there is every reason to believe that if the conservatives attend the courts, but few votes will be struck off the list. Notwithstanding the immense number of objections issued by the leaguers, they have lost more votes to-day than the conservatives. This ought to be a stimulant for the friends of conservatism to attend the courts and substantiate their votes. At Ashton under• Lyne the court was also occupied, before anything like a rule was laid down. and have not during the day pro ceeded much more rapidly than the court at Newton. SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAYS. At two o'clock yesterday a meeting of Liverpool share holders in the Manchester, Ashton-under. Lime, and Shef field Railway was held at the Clarendon Rooms, for the purpose of hearing the advantages derivable from an ex tension of the line to Lincoln and Gainsburgh, explained by Messrs. Haywood, Bramley, and Gainsford, solicitors, of Sheffield. Mr. Gainsford delivered a long address, in the course of which he showed that Sheffield, with its 120,000 inhabitants, lay in a direct line between Lincoln and Manchester, and that a railway through that town would open the shortest, quickest, and cheapest route from Lincolnshire to Manchester. intersecting, at the same time, the largest amount of population and of trade that can possibly be accommodated by any line of railway in the intermediate country. Amongst other places to be intersected by this line will be the market towns of Worksop andßetford, which carry on an extensive malting business almost exclusively with Manchester. A careful survey has been completed, the result of which appears to be that the line presents no en gineering difficulties, that the works are light, the gradi ents favorable, and that it will be of the most economical character, both as to construction and working. An ar rangement has been made with the Sheffield and Manches ter Railway Company, by which a net minimum revenue of four per cent. per annum on the capital expended is guaranteed to the subscribers in this company, with an equal division of the further profits between the two com panies and a clause wi.l be inserted in the act for payment of interest at the rate of four per cent on all calls until the opening of the line, which may be expected in 18 months after the passing of the act. A number of questions were asked by Mr. Holland, of Preston, were very satisfactorily answered; and at the close of Mr. Gainsford's address, the meeting adjourned, evidently very favourably impressed with the important advantages to be derived from the extension, and fully satisfied with bis explanations on the various points in dispute. THE DONCASTER EVENTS. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY AFTERNOON'. Although a prophet has no honour in his own country, yet I find the gift of seership S 9 strongly upon me, that I cannot forfear laying before you the •‘ coming events," which have " cast their shadows before," with respect to the great event to be decided to-morrow at Doncaster—. viz. the St. Leger. As it is well, however, to remind them that there are now and then false prophets, and es pecially weak pretenders to the judgment of horseflesh and the men connected therewith, I would beg them to receive my visions with no more implicit credence than is due to a careful examination of the performances of the various horse's engaged, and a wish to guide them honestly and correctly. _ First, then, although difficult is the task cf selecting the best horses in the list of probable starters, I come to the decision that not more than four are worthy of con fidence. The foremost of these which I shall notice is "The Cure," a son of Physician. Of him, although first favourite, I have, however, as little faith as in the veriest quack. He shall certainly not physic me, and I fear he can never cure the holes he has already made in the con stitutions end pockets of his friends, unless this wet day have given him a ghost of a chance. With respect to " Ithuriel," I have many doubts. Should he go oYer the rare, I expect to hear Marmion's last exciting words,—" On, Stanley, On ! gamely answered. Of the Princess I think highly. If not first, she will come in for second. Red Deer lam satisfied will do more than his foes imagine ; and I should be sorry to stand against him, for the song of " chasing the deer" may he as well sung at Doncaster at it was at Chester. My only other fancy is Godfrey. who must be respectfully spoken of. I feel certain he will have a prominent place amongst the first three in the race; and that none except Red Deer, Princess, or Godfrey, will be proclaimed first by the judge. For the Yorkshire Handicap I have only two favorites —Godfrey first, Advice second. The other races I leave alone, satisfied that in what I have said already, your readers will not have ground to find fault with my judgment, if I am only what I have been. ORLANDO. Lord Stanley has arrived at Wiseton, near Bawtry, cut a visit to Earl Spencer, from Knowsley hall, Lancashire. The Earl of Harrowby and Viscount and Lady Frances Sandon and family arrived at Harrogate, on Thursday last, from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire. The noble earl has for some years past annually visited that watering place, and has invariably derived great benefit from taking the waters. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—In consequence of the un favourable state of the weather last night the splendid ex hibitions which were announced at these gardens have been postponod until to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, when we trust Mr. J. Atkins who has so long so success fully catered for the public amusement will receive that support to which he is so well Entitled. PRICE OF WHEAT.—The retrogade movement in the pri eta of wheat has not yet received a check, the farmers . ...ontinuing to bring larger supplies than the demand for immediate consumption can take off. We are inclined to think, however, that the value of the article has now nearly touched the lowest point ; at present very good wheat, weighing 631bs. to C4ibs. per bushel, may be bought in IT any parts of the country at 435. to 445. per quarter. We sincerely hope that increased production may in some measure compensate the agriculturists for the lowness of the price, but feel disposed to counsel caution ; as, by pressing sales, the depreciation is likely to be increased. —Mark-lane Express. BANK OF ENGLAND.—The first practical effect of the intheß s stnpnokoefd at En the gla Banknd ap ;_,, Bn pears in a th k e following alterations notice, which was of England, Sept. sth, 1844. At a Court of Dire c t ors, held this day, resolved, that the rate of interest for bills and notes discounted at the Bank of England be as fol lows :—Bills, 21 per rent. ; Notes, 3 per cent. suck bills and notes not having more than ninety-five days to run.', We (Chronicle) suppose that in future the Bank will commence trading upon the footing of any private es- Oblihment, and the probable consequence will of course be to make money more abundant than ever. The re duction in the rates of discount will be sensibly felt by country 1 ankers, with whom the establishment of Thread needle -street may now be anticipated to act in open com petition. IMMENSITY OR THE UNIVERSE.—Herschel esitmates the star "Lyra" to be more than 54,000 times larger than the sun, which fills a cubical space equal to G 81,472,00,000,000 miles; 100,000,000 of such stars lie within the r ang e of the telscope, and between each there is an interval of more than 200,000,000,000 miles of space. Who can think what lies beyond the telescopic In such a thought, is not the mind lost 41,64 grandeur ? *4 • .4: tt s ' . 4 1) „A-7. 1 . A vat €±3,.;0,;; '4 ~~ ~~ C ~~ dr II