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IVERPOOL, CROSBY, and SOUTHPORT
. RAILWAY.—DEVIA.TIONIII, ENLARGEMENT of STA-
TION, EXTENSION of TIME for PURCHASE of LANDS and
COMPLE PION of WORK 6, REDUCTION of TOLLS PAYABLE
in RESPECT of the USE of PART of the LANCASHIRE and
YORKSHIRE RAILWAY (late the LIVERPOOL and BURY
RAILWAY), and AMENDMENT of ACTS.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the next Session for an ACT to autho-
rise and empower the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway
Company, incorporated by " The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport
Railway Ac', 1647," to alter the line of the said railway, by abandon-
ing the formation of certain parts thereof, as authorised to be con-
structed by the said Act, and by substituting another line or lines of
railway for the parts so to be abandoned, all which portions of
railway so to be abandoned and so to be substituted as aforesaid, are
or will be sitaate in the county of Lancaster, that is to say, to
abandon the formation of the several portions of the said line of
railway as at present authorised, which are situated as next herein-
after mentioned, namely—lst. That portion of the said line which
lies between a point in a field situate in the township of Lither-
land, in the parish of Sefton, numbered 12 on the plans or the
said railway referred to in the said Act, and a point in a field,
numbered 9 on the said plans, in the township of Great Crosby,
in the parish of Sefton aforesaid, now the Waterloo station-yard of
the said company. 2dly. That part of the said line of railway
which lies between a point in the Warren numbered 55 on the said
plans, opposite a field numbered 51 on the said plane, in the town-
ship of Great Crosby, and parish of Sefton aforesaid, and a point
in a field numbered 37 on the said plans, in the township of Formby,
in the parish of Walton-en-the-Hid aforesaid. 3dly. That part of
the said line of railway which lies between a point in a field situate
hi the said township of Formby and parish of Walton-on-the-Hill,
numbered 94 on the said plans, and a point in a field in the
township of Biradale, in the parish of North Meols, numbered 52
on the said plans. 4thly. That part of the said line of railway
which lies between a point in a field situate in the said township of
Birkdale and parish of North Meols, numbered 156 en the said
plans, and a point in the waste land on the south side of Chapel -
street, in the township of North Meols, in the parish of North
Meols aforesaid, numbered 99 on the said plans, and in lieu And
substitution of the parts of the said railway so to be abandoned as
aforesaid, it is intended by the Act so to be applied for, to authorise
and empower the said Company to make and maintain the lines of
railway next hereinsiter respecti%ely described, with all proper
works and conveniences connected therewith, that is to say :
Ist. A hue of railway, commencing by a junction with the line of
the said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Rahway, in or near
the aforesaid field numbered 12 on the said plans, in the s id
township of Litherland, and parish of Sefton, passing thence
Irma, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships,
extra-parochial, or other places of fatherland, Great Crosby.
and aefton, er some of them, and terminating by a junction
with the line of the said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport
. Railway, at a point in a field numbered 9 on the said plans, •
in the township of Great Crosby, and parish of Sefton
aforesaid.
2d. Another line of railway, commencing by a junction with the
line of the said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, at
a point in the Warren numbered 55 on the said plans, opposite
a field numbered 51 on the said plans, in the township of
Great Crosby, and parish of Sefton aforesaid, passing thence
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, extra-
paro, hial, or other places following, or some of them, that is to
say, Great Crosby, Little Crosby, Ince Blundell, parish ofAltcar,
township of Altear,Formby, Sefton, and Walton-on-the-Hill, or
some ofthem, and terminating by a June ion with the said rail-
way, at a point in a field numbered 37 on the said plans, in the
said township of Formby, and parish of Walton-on-the-Mill.
3d. Another line of railway, commencing by a junction with the
line of the said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, in
or near the aforesaid field, numbered 94 on the said plans, in
the township of Formby, and parish of Walton-on-the-Hill,
passing thence, from, in, through, or into, the several parishes
townships, extra-parochial, or other places, or same of them,
that is to say, Formby, Ainsdale, Birkdale, Walton-on-the-
Hill, and North bleeds, or some of them, and terminating by
a junction with the said railway, at a point in the aforesaid
field, numbered 52 on the said plans, in the township of Birk-
dale, and parish of North Mesas.
4th. Another line of railway, commencing by a junction with the
line of the said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, in
or near the a'oresaid field, numbered 156 on the said plans, in
the said township of Birkdale and parish of North Meols,
passing thence, from, in, through, or into the several parishes,
townships, extra-parochial, or other places, of Birkdale, North
Meols (township), and North Meols (parish), or one of them,
aed terminating by a junction with the said Railway at or
near a point numbered 99 on the said plans, in the said town-
ship of North Meols and parish of North Meols.
And it is further intended by the Act so to be applied for to
authorise and empower the said Company to enlarge the station at
present constructed by them at or near East Bank-lane, otherwise
Black Horse-lane, near Southport, and to construct and maintain
such works in connexion therewith as may be necessary for the
purpose of such enlargement, and for making better approaches to
the said station, and conveniences connected therewith, all which
last-mentioned works will ba situate in the townships of North
Meols and Birkdalc, or one of them, and parish of North Meols
aforesaid. •
And powers will be taken by the said intended Act to divert,
stop up, or alter, whether temporarily or permanently, all such turn-
lake-roads, highways, railways, tram-roads, paths, passages, 'canals,
streams, rivers, and water-courses, as it may be necessary or expe-
dient so to divert, alter, or stop up, for carrying into effect the
several objects aforesaid, and for confirming all such purchases
of land, and the execution of such works as may have already been
made or executed by the said Company, in relation to and consis-
tently with such objects

AMI it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
said Company to purchase lands, either by compulsion or agreement,
for effecting the objects aforesaid, and to vary and extinguish all
existing rights and privileges, in ally manner connected with the
lands so proposed to be purchased or taken, or which may have
already been purchased as aforesaid, er which would in any manner
impede or interfere with the objects aforesaid, or any of them, and
to confer other rights and privileges ; and also to confer on the said
Company powers for levying tolls, rates, and duties, in respect of the
use of the said new or substituted lines of railway and other works,
and to alter the existing tolls, rates, or duties limited by the said
Liverpool. Crosby, and Southport Railway Act, and to confer, vary,
or extinguish exemptions from payment of such tolls, rates, and
duties, and other rights and privileges, and to alter and reduce the
amount of tolls payable in respect of the passage of all traffic
Coming to or from the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway,
upon or along that part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
(late the Liverpool and Bury Railway), which lies between the ter-
minus of the said last-mentioned railway at Titbeharn-street, Liver-
pool, and the point of junction of the same railway, with the said
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to extend the
time granted by " The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway
Act, 1847," for the compulsory purchase of lands and buildings re-
quisite for the kurnoseA nf +h., said undertakene.
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undertaking.

And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the 30th day
of Novemt er instant, maps, plans, and sections, describing the di-
rection, situation, and levels, of the said proposed new or substituted
lines of railway and other works hereinbefore referred to, and the
lands proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof respectively,
together with books of reference to such plans containing the names

of the owners, or reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and
occupiers of such lands, and also a copy of this notice, as published
in the " London Gazette," will be de., osited for public inspection at the
Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, at his

Office in Preston, and that a copy of so much of the said plans, sec-
tions, and books of reference, as relates to each of the parishes from,
in, through, or into which the said intended works, or any of them
respectively, will be made or passed, and also a copy of this notice
will be deposited for public inspection on or before the said 30th day
of November, with the respective parish clerks of such parishes at
their respective residences.

And lastly it is proposed by the said intended Act, so far as may
be necessary for the several objects aforesaid, and also for other ob-
jects, to repeal, amend, and enlarge some of the powers and provi-
sions of " The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Act, 1847,"
and of the several Acts following relating to the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company—namely, " The Manchester and Leeds
Railway Act, 1836 ;" " The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act,
1837 ;" " The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1839 ;" ." The
Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1841 ;" " The Manchester and
Leeds Railway Act, 1844 ;" " The Manchster and Leeds Railway
Act, No. 1, 1845 ;" " The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act,
No. 2, 1845 ;" " The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1846 ;"
" The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, No. 1, 1847 ;" " The Man-
chester and Leeds Railway Act, No. 2, 1847 ;" " The Manchester
and Leeds Railway Act, No. 3, 1847;" "The Ashton, Stalybridge,
and Liverpool Junction Railway Act, 1844 ;" " The Ashton,
Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway Act, 1845;" "The
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway Act, 183 I;"
"The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway Act,
1832 ;" The Manchester, Rol: on, and Bury canal and Railway
Act, 1835 ;" " The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway
Act, 1838 ;" " The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Rail-
way Act, No. 2, 1846 ;" " The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury and
Manchester and Leeds Canal and Railways Act, 1846 ;" " The Liver-
psol and Bury Railway Act, 1845 ;" " The Liverpool and Bury
Railway Act, 1846 ;" " The Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and
Leeds Railways Act, 1846 ;" " The Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion Railway Act, 1845 ;" " The Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction
and Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1846 ;" " The West Riding
Union Railways Act, 1846 ;" " lhe Wakefield, Pontefract, and
Goole Railway Act, 1845 ;" " The Wakefield, Pontefract, and
Goole Railway Branches Act, 1846 ;" " The Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole Railway and Port of Goole Act, 1846 ;" " The Manches-
ter and Southport Railway Act, 1847 ;" " The Oldhara Alliance
Railway Act, 1847 ;" " The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Act, 1848 ;" an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in
the ninth and tenth years of the reign of her present Majesty,
intituled "An Act for vesting in the Grand Junction Railway
Company and the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company,
the North Unio i Railway, and all the Works, Properly,
and Effects appertaining thereto ;" an Act passed in the said
Session of Parliament, held in the ninth and tenth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for enabling the
Hull and Selby Railway Company to lease and also to sell their
railway to the York and North Midland and Manchester and Leeds
Railway Companies, or one of them, and to authorise the raising of
additional money by both or either of the last-mentiened companies,
for those or other purposes ;" an Act passed in the said Session of
Parliament, held in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, intituled, " An Act far making certain lines of Railway
in the West Riding of the county of York, to be called' The Sheffield,
Rothbrham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Rail-
way e " " The York and North Midland (Hull Station) Railway Act,
1847 ;" " The Leeds Central Railway Station Act, 1848 ;"
" The Lancashire and Yorkshire, and London and North-
Western Railways (Preston and Wyro Railway Harbour and Dock
tßha. Railway
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Lancashire Railway Company—namely, " The Ea;t Lancashire
Railway Act, 1844," being "An Act for making a Rail-

way from the Manchester v and Bolton Railway,- in the
parish of Eccles to the parish of Whalley, all in the county
palatine of Lancaster, to be called ' The Manchester, Bury,
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and Rossendale Railway ;" " The East Lancashire Railway Aet,
1845," " The East Lancashire Railway Act. 1845 (No. 2)," " The
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East Lancashire Deviation and Branch Railway Ad, 1846," " The
East Lancashire Railway Amalgamation Act, 1846," " The East
Lancashire Railway Deviations and Rawstenstall Coal Branch Act,
1847," " The East Lancashire Railway Act, 1847 (Preston Eaten-

sion)," " The Blackburn and Preston Railway Act, 1844," being an
Act for making a railway from the town of Blackburn to the North
-Union Railway, in the township of Farington, near Preston, all in the
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county of Lancaster, " The Blackburn-and Preston Railway Act,
1845," " The Blackburn and Preston Railway Act, 1846," " The

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Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway Act, 1846," and " The

East Lancashire Railway Act, 1849."
Dated the 14th day of November, 1549.
DUNCAN and RADCLIFFE, Liverpool, Solicitors.

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NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS,
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2. MX POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER. Translated
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series of Dissolving Views, with a Descrip-
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Ten.—Lectures on the Chemistry of food, by Mr. Ashley, daily, at
Half-past Three, and in the Evening at Nine o'clozk.—Lecture, with
Experiments, on the Hydro-Electric Machine, by Dr. Bachhoffner,
daily at Two, and on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings, at
Eight o'clock.—Exhibition 01 the Oxy-hydrogen Microscope.—Diver
and Diving-bell.—The Chrornatrope.—Models and Machinery ex-
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Admission. le,—School,, Half-price.—The New Catalogue, is.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, Nov. 15.
OXFORD ART SOCIETY.—A meeting was held by
permission of the curators, at the Taylor Building,
yesterday evening at eight o'clock, the Vice. Chan-
cellor in the chair, when a lecture on the method of
studying ancient art was given by Charles Newton,
Esq., M.A., student of Christ Church and of the
British Museum. The lecture, which was of a
highly interesting character, gave rise to an animated
discussion, ,in which the Vice-Chancellor, the Princi-
pal of New Inn Hall, the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, Mr.
Collins, the eminent sculptor, and others joined, relat-
ing chiefly to some valuable remains of the age of
Phidias, which Mr. Newton had detected among the
marbles in the Pomfret collection, now deposited in
the Randolph Galleries. No formal resolutions were
come to but several gentlemen, including the Vice-
Chancellor, expressed a wish that a society for the
study of the fine arts, similar in its constitution to
that which already exists in the University for the
promotion of the study of mediaeval architecture
might be organized. The names of a committee
appointed some time ago were laid before the meeting.
It is to be regretted that a larger number of the
heads of societies were not present. •Among the
senior members of the University in the room we
observed Dr. Acland, the Revs. Vaughan Thomas,
Richard Greswell, William Hayward Cox, William
Edward Buckley, Thomas Harding Newman,
Thomas Chaffers, John Hungerford Pollen, &c., &c.,
and a tolerable sprinkling of bachelors and under-
graduates.
THE NEW EXAMINATION STATUTE.—It is under-
stood that the New Examination Statute has passed
the Hebdomadal Board, and that it will be promul-
gated in convocation in the ensuing Lent Term.
DAY OF THANKSGIVING.—The Queen's proclama-
tion appointing this day for a general thanksgiving
to Almighty God, to acknowledge his great goodness
and mercy in relieving us from tie sore judgment of
grievous sickness and mortality which has lately
afflicted our land, was most religiously observed
throughout the University and city. Business of all
kinds was suspended, and the various parish churches
and dissenting chapels, &c., were opened for divine
service, and at many of them collections in aid of
local charities were made. Service at some of the
churches was performed four times during the day.

UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.
PROFESSOR SMITH'S LECTURE.
On Monday Professor Smith delivered one of a
series of lectures on music, in the Dining-hall of
Trinity College, before a select and fashionable
audience. he commenced by observing that the
genius of Guido had made great improvements in the
mechanical and harmonica! arrangements of music ;
and it was no less interesting than instructive to con-
sider at what period modern languages were first
applied to musical tones, and by what people. He
did not mean to speak of the airs of melodies that
Caine within the description of national music—such
as the old airs of Ireland or Scotland, which might
almost be considered as natural to the people of those
_ n ten tiou was to onn.
eider the subject of music as a matter of science
framed upon a complete scale and under such regu-
lations of art as successful cultivation rendered
respectable and worthy of being imitated. Each
nation had its peculiar songs—the Indian had his
war, the Italian his love song. The learned lecturer
then alluded to the songs of Provence, as sung by
the Troubadours, and to the fact that although the
Troubadours were not able to diversify notations or
mark the time in music properly, it was supposed
that they laid the germ of the future melodies of
France and Italy. The Provençal was the language
of poetry. The Princes of Provence often practised
the divine art ; and Richard the First, during the
latter end of his father's reign, passed his time prin-
cipally at the Court of Provence, learned the language
of the country, and beguiled his leisure hours with
" the gay science" of poesy. The most ancient
melody, set to Provençal words, was written by a
Troubadour named Gaucelm. The subject was the
death of Richard the First; and as it was supposed to
be one of the first, if not the very first, melodies of
Provence wedded to a modern translation, it might
prove interesting to the audience. The lecturer then
played the air, which attracted much attention and
admiration, and proceeded to treat of Irish melodies.
He passed a high eulogium upon Sir John Ste-
venson, Moore, and Edward Bunting; and next
alluded to the fact that most of the Troubadours
were practical musicians, and enumerated several
French melodies to show that the French people had
been highly instrumental in the cultivation of music
and poetry. The French were still a people as es-
sentially musical and poetical as ever, although of
latter days they were not as successful in producing
as many brilliant composers as Italy; and while in
the olden time they were very successful in the practice
of vocal music; they were by no means behind hand in
instrumental music or the invention of musical in-
struments, for which all periods, even to the present
time, they had been celebrated, as in the thirteenth
century—their list comprised no less than thirty dif-
ferent instruments. A piece supposed to have been per-
formed upon some of their instruments, and written
about that time, had been preserved ; and, in conclu-
sion, he would introduce it to his audience, as afford-
ing some idea of the style and character of French
instrumental music in those days.
The lecture was listened to throughout with marked
attention, and was made principally attractive by the
Provençal and French melodies by which it was
happily illustrated.—Saunders's News Letter.

CAPE or GOOD HOPE.—Letters from:the Cape of
Good Hope have been received, via St. Helena, to the
4th of September. According to these it appears that
the Neptune, with the first batch of convicts on board,
had not then arrived out.

THE MEXICAN MAlL.—Telegraphic advices by
way of New York convey information that the Mexi-
can steamer, due at Southampton on the 22d instant,
has through incessantly heavy gales been delayed a
week in the Gulf of Mexico. As the vessel must,
consequently, be several days behind her estimated
time in reaching England, it will be satisfactory to
parties interested to learn the cause of her detention.
The day of her arrival will, probably, be about the 28th
instant.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—There were 111 public
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exception of one, are in operation. The exception re-
lates to the repeal of the navigation laws, which will come
into force on the Ist of January next.
It is said that the discovery has been made in Lin-
coln that gutta percha can be used for large printing
letters, and that impressions can be obtained nearly as
clear as the impressions from metal types.
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THE QUEEN'S LETTER ON BEHALF of
the _NATIONAL SOCIETY for PROMOT-
ING the EDUCATION of the POOR.
Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased
to issue the following royal letter, on learning that
the funds of the above society (including the special
fund for the mining and manufacturing districts)
are now, and have been for some months, entirely
exhausted
" VICTORIA R.—Most Reverend Father in God,
our right trusty and right entirely beloved councillor,
we greet you well. Whereas the president and go-
vernors of the Incorporated National Society for the
Education of the Poor in the principles of the Esta-
blished Church in England and Wales, have, by their
petition, humbly represented unto us that the presi-
dent and governors of the society have now, during
a period of thirty-eight years, zealously and persever-
ingly laboured to carry into effect the great work for
which the society was incorporated, and that they
have now expended the whole of the funds which
either through the munificence of the sovereign, or
the liberality of the public, have been placed at their
disposal for the purpose of extending and improving
education among the poorer classes; that the produce
of the collections made under the authority of the
royal letters, which for some time past have been
triennially granted on their petition, has
been mainly expended in building school-
rooms and teachers' residences, permanently
secured for the education of the children of the poor,
and in the organization and improvement of those
already erected ; that the general principles upon
which the.society has conducted its operations have
received the sanction of the Legislature, as well as
the approbation of our subjects at large; that the plan
which the society has pursued since tits foundation in
1811, of encouraging local voluntary efforts, by
granting moderate sums of money to aid in the erec-
tion of schools and teachers' houses, has been adopted
by our Government in distributing the grant voted
away by Parliament, in furtherance of national edu-
cation ; and that, with respect to the approval and
co opertion of the people in general, it will be sufficient
to observe that the number of children attending
schools in immediate connexion and correspondence
with the society amounted, in the year 1813, to
40,484, in 1833 to 400,830, in the year 1837 to
597,911, and in the year 1847, when the last return
was made, to 816 874, and has since proportionately
increased; while the whole number of children in
attendance at church schools is estimated at above a
million and a half; that the training institutions
maintained by the society have during the last five
years sent out 1,042 trained teachers (553 masters
and 489 mistresses) into schools in various parts of
the country ; that during the last five years the
society have expended, in aid of building,
enlarging, or otherwise improving school rooms and
teachers' residences, 139,1971. 1 ls., in 1,940 cases of
application, thereby affording accommodation for
265,542 children, at a total outlay of 767,9801.; that
the great progress which has been made in extending
education amongst the poor renders more desirable
than ever the adoption of effective measures for its
improvement ; and that for this purpose the society
will continue to maintain its central schools for boys,
girls, and infants, and will afford support to its vari-
ous establishments for instructing and training young
persons of either sex, as well as adults, to be teachers,
and will give aid towards the expense of inspecting,
organizing, and remodelling schools, so that the
most improved methods of teaching may be speedily
and effectually spread throughout the country ; that
the great progress which has been made in extending
education among the poor renders more desirable
than ever the adoption of effective measures for its
improvement, and that for this purpose the society
will continue to maintain its central schools for boys,
girls, and infants, and will afford support to its
various establishments for instructing and training
young persons of either sex, as well as adults, to
be teachers, and will give aid towards the expense
of inspecting, organizing, and remodelling schools,
so that the most approved methods of teaching
may be speedily and
,effectually spread throughout
the country; that, as well from the rapid increase of
the population of this kingdom, as from the numerous
applications continually made to the society both for
aid towards erecting schoolrooms and for the services
of duly qualified teachers, it is evident that liberal
contributions to the society will be required, in order
to meet the demands for assistance constantly made
upon its resources, the increase of which demand is
one of the many proofs of the general feeling which
exists throughout the country, strengthened by the
late events in other nations, that it is only by pro-
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masses of the population that the social and religious
institutions of these kingdoms can he preserved :
" We, taking the premises into our Royal conside-
ration, and being always ready to give the best en-
couragement and countenance to undertakings which
tend so much to the promotion of piety and our holy
religion, direct that these our letters be directed to
the several suffragan bishops within your diocese,
&c., so that the minister in each parish do effectually
excite their parishioners to a liberal contribution, &c.,
the results to be paid over to the treasurer for the
time being of the said society, &c.
" Given at our Court, &c.
"To the Most Rev. Father in God, &c. &c., the
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all
England, and Metropolitan."

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.
On Wednesday morning an inquest was held before
Mr. \V. S. Rutter, of Manchester, county coroner for
the hundred of Salford, on the body of a young man
named Thomas Weaver, who had been killed on the
railway between Bolton and Manchester, on Monday
afternoon. The following are the circumstances of
this shocking fatality :—The Bolton Railway, as it is
generally called, was constructed about ten or twelve
years since, and though the works are generally of a
substantial character, there is one feature about the
bridges which carry the various turnpike and other
roads over it which has often raised apprehensions in
the minds of thoughtful persons for the safety of pas-
sengers. These bridges consist of straight horizontal
beams of iron across the line, supported upon cast iron
pillars. Rows of these pillars, at each bridge, were fixed
between the various lines of rails, and were so near to
the carriages as they passed that any person leaning
thoughtlessly out of a carriage window was liable
to have his skull fractured by coming in contact
with them. Strange as it may appear, however, with
this danger in the way, on one of the railways having
the greatest amount of passenger traffic of any in the
kingdom, for fire or six years there were fewer acci-
dents on this line than on any other. A few years
ago the line came into the possession of the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Company, who have sought to
remedy this objection to their line, and commencing
at the Bolton end they have removed bridge after
bridge to substitute others of a better construction,
till the work of reconstruction had reached Pendleton,
near to Manchester, where this accident took place.
Thomas Thornley, a companion of the deceased,
and witness at the inquest, described how the accident
took place. He said, Weaver lived at 72, Chapel-
street, London-road, Manchester, and on Sunday he
and deceased went by the railway to Bolton. They
took tickets at the Pendleton station, and deceased
had a gun with him of a novel construction, which he
showed to the railway porter at the station before
they started. They returned to Manchester by
the train which left Bolton at three o'clock on
Monday afternoon, in a third-class close carriage;
and as the train did not stop at Pendleton, deceased
(who was anxious to let the railway porter know they
were returning) said to witness, "Jew, I'll pop
(point) the gun at the porter." Deceased got his
gun out of the window, and then put his head and
shoulders opt also, to do what he had stated. In a
few minutes they passed the station-house, and in
another moment—for the bridge at Pendleton is not
many yards from the station—the unfortunate man's
head came in contact with one of the pillars support-
ing the bridge. Witness said Weaver's head re-
bounded from the pillar against the opposite side of
the carriage window, and he then sank back upon his
seat in the corner of the railway carriage. In a few
minutes the train arrived at the Salford station, which.
is the Manchester terminus of the railway, and witness
perceiving that his companion was insensible,
.and that
his head was dreadfully fractured, and his brains scat-
tered about the carriage, called for the assistance. of the
railway servants, and, Weaver was carried. to the
Salford Dispensary. he surgeon of the Dispensary
said, though Weaver was insensible when brought to
the house, about four o'clock, he continued to
breathe till about half-past ten o'clock the same night,
when he died. The porter at the Pendleton station
was examined, and said he saw the heads of two men
out of one of the carriages as they approached the
station, but the motion of the train was too rapid for
him to recognize them. He waved his hand and ges-
ticulated with a view to warning these parties to draw
their heads into the carriage. He looked after them
as the train passed under the bridge, and no longer
perceiving them, supposed all was right. He did not
hear of the accident till afterwards.
The jury found a verdict (after hearing a statement
from the company's servants similar to that above
given of the gradual removal of the pillars) to the
effect that the fatality was accidental, but expressed
an opinion that there had been unnecessary delay in
completing the work.— Worcestershire Chronicle.