The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-30 00:00:00

CAUTION TO THE SERVANTS OF RAILWAY
COMPANIES.

We understand that no less than six of the guards, in the
employ of the Grand Junction Railway Company, have,
within the last week, been committed by the magistrates here
to take their trials at the next Kirkdale sessions, for the very
serious offence of " conspiring to defraud their employers,"
by permitting persons to travel along the railway, sometimes
without paying any fare to the company, but only a douceur
to the guards, and at other times upon paying the fare to one
place, and riding to a more distant place, in consideration of
a fee to the guards in charge of the train. The different
cases, as presented to the committing magistrates, appeared,
unfortunately, too clear, and if (as seems almost unavoidable)
conviction ensues at the sessions, the punishment will be se-
rious, the offence of conspiring being of a very grave character.
The directors had long suspected that the company were
defrauded in the mode here mentioned, and indeed we under-
stood they had from time to time received information to that
effect, from various parties who were fully cognizant of the
facts ; and at length they took such steps as have led to the dis-
covery of what we might call a wholesale fraud. We under-
stand they have also determined upon certain additional pre-
cautionary \ measures for the future, which, though of a
secret kind, can scarcely fail of leading to discovery of fraud
committed by any party travelling upon or connected with
the railway ; and we think the proprietors have a right to ex-
pect that the directors should pursue with the utmost
rigour (as they now appear determined to do,) all parties
who may hereafter be discovered in the practice of any fraud
or attempt at any fraud upon the company.

THE TOURNAMENT.

(From the Glasgow Constitutional.)
Finding we were not likely to obtain any information re-
garding that all-engrossing subject, the Tournament, by re-
mauntng .
in Glasgow, we put our limbs in motion on Ws&
nesday, and by the assistance of a little horse and steam
power found ourselves in a few hours amidst the bolds ant
preparation in Eglinton Park. The day was splendid, ands
hearty wish that day eight days might prove equally fine was
universally expressed by all present. The first object that
arrested attention on nearing the castle, which is $ very •
stately building, is the immense extent of a wooden pavilion
in progress of erection, to be used as a dining and ball room.
This great house is situate immediately behind the castle, and
is in the whole 325 feet long ; 168 feet to be occupied as
the ball r00m,136 as the dininig room, with a saloon in the
centre of 20 feet. The whole is to be covered with canvass,
made to resemble marquees, the interior being decorated in
the most splendid manner possible, and hung with rich chan-
deliers. = From the billiard loom of the castle, the great win-
dow of which is to be levelled with the floor of this building,
the company_ will walk into the dining room, and the decep-
tion will be so complete that no one, unless, they knew, would
ever suspect but these but these gorgeous halls were a part
and parcel of the castle itself. Five hundred persona
will dine in this temporary room with ease. Proceding
onwards, and across a beautiful cast iron bridge over the
Lugton, you at price perceive the serpentine walk laid
off as the route of the . knights and their train from the
castle to the tilting ground, where a line of splendid galleries
are already erected. As some slight errors appear to have
been made in an account we lately copied into this paper, we
may again state the space inside the lists is 650 feet long and
250 wide ; the barrier in the centre, for tilting, being 300 feet
long and 4 feet 6 inches in height. The grand stand
is a most conspicuous' abject, carved and gilt in beautiful
Grecian style in front, many of • the decorative gild-
ings having been used at the late coronation of Her Ma-
jesty in Westminster-Abbey. In the front and centre of this
gorgeous stand, which will contain about 700 persons, is a
splendid seat for the Queen of Love and Beauty, who, it is
still said, is to be: the Lady Seymour. This stand will be one
of the greatest attractions of the occasion, it being confidently
anticipated that such a display of noble dames and noble men
as will there congregate has never before been seen together
in Scotland. On each side of this grand stand are two smaller
ones, to hold 600 persons each ; and the nobTe earl, on account
of the immense number of applications, 11.95115 t given orders
for another, to acommodate 1,000 persons. Immediately op-
posite the grand stand there is to be one erected for artists
and reporters of the press, who are each to be furnished with
two tickets. Inside the lists about 30 marquees will be placed
for the accommodation of the knights engaged. In and around
the tilting barrier• the ground will be all levelled and covered
with bark and sawdust.
From this it may seem that those who will occupy the
stands must be a very limited number indeed, not above four
or five thousand at the most, while we should not be sur-
prised, if the weather prove fine, to find sixty or eighty thou-
sand persons on the lawn. Whether all these will be able to
witness the various manoeuvres on the tilting ground is very
problematical ; but the whole of them may see the procession
of knights from the Castle, which we should conceive to be
the most picturesque part of the display, passing over, as
they -must do, about three-quarters of a mile, amidst aged
oaks and other noble trees. Be it observed that this :proces-
sion leaves the Castle at 1 o'clock, and a substantial bridge
will be erected over the Lugton, with finger-posts marked
" To the Tournament," to direct visitors along. We think
it right also to inform the public, that neither doss nor smok-
ing will he allowed on the grounds. As to the dress to be
worn on the occasion by the.great body of the visitors, we
may once for all ob • efve, that- no, one will be refused ad-
mittance. It will be considered complimentary, however, to
the noble Earl, to appear in plaids, with bonnets and a sprig
of hether, &c. Those who occupy the stands will either
come in costume of the 14th or 15th centaries, or in fancy
dresses or uniforms. We thought we would have been able
to lay before our readers a programme of the procession el
knights, but it could not be made up without the assistants
of a gentleman from London, who was not expected to ar-
rive at the castle before last night.

BOLAM, Tun CONVICT.—On Monday Archibald Bolas&
arrived in the City of Hamburgh steamer, at Woolwich, sad
was placed on board of the hulks at the Royal Arsenal.
In a letter received from Oporto last week, it states the
heat has been so excessive as to prevent the inhabitants from
bath'ng. At midnight the therMometer stood at 80.
BOLTON FORTNIGHT FAIR.—The fair on Monday last
had a much better attendance than those of late. Some
prime fat beasts were brought out, and were sold at a slight
reduction in price. Other descriptions maintained previous
rates.

TAE LATE SIR JOHN ST. AUBYN.—The baronetage of
this ancient family becomes extinct by the death of Sir John ;
but the large entailed estates descend to his nephew, the
Rev. J. Molesworth, together with the ancient family seat

of Clowance.—West Briton.
We understand that Lewis Lloyd, Esq. the London
banker, has purchased the property at Wing, lately belong-
ing to the Earl of Chesterfield. The purchase money, with-
out the valuation of the timber, is nearly £l7o,ooo.—Bucks
Herald.

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The Worcester Musical Festival will take place on the
10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th of September. The principal
artists engaged are Madame Persiani, Signor Timburini,
Miss Hawes, Miss Woodyatt, Miss Novello, Mr. H. Philips,
Mr. Machin, &c.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the great seal, granting to the Right Hon.
Francis Thornhill Baring the offices of chancellor and under-
treasurer of her Majesty's exchequer.
The Bishop of Exeter has received a letter from Lord John
Russell, protesting against the interference of the chapter or
the bishop with the rights of the Crown to nominate a dean,
and giving his lordship notice that the Crown will take early
legal proceedings to vindicate its rights and dignity.—Woot-
mer's Gazette.
We observed, on Tuesday, in the shop of Mr. Carfrae,
animal preserver, Prince's-street, a beautifully stuffed sea-
eagle, the capture of which was effected under somewhat
curious circumstance. A few weeks ago a deaf and 'dumb
lad was crossing a lonely moor, in Ayrshire, when he was
suddenly assailed by two eagles, which darted down upon
him with the utmost fury. Fortunately, however, he was
furnished with a good stick, which he plied about him with
great vigour, until at length he succeeded in driving off the
one and killing the other. The lad having presented the
latter to a gentleman in Ayrshire, he sent it to Edinburgh
to be stuffed. It is supposed to be about two years of age
only, but it is a noble-looking bird.—Scotsman.
THE INQUISITION IN IRELAND.—We have frequently as-
serted that the Holy office of the Inquisition virtually exists
in Ireland. We have frequently exhibited its operation in
facts which have come under our notice : we shall add two
which occurred within the last month in this neighbourhood.
A young man who obtained a Bible at this place was led to
see from the light of the sacred volume the errors of the creed
in which he had been educeed. He forsook the mass, was
denounced by the priest, continuing refractory he received a
message, through a member of his own family that if he did
not return to the church of Rome he would be murdered.
With the constancy of a martyr, he still continues true to his
Convictions. Another individual who is a tradesman and
therefore dependent on the peasantry for support, also fors9bk
the chapel. As it was suspected that disaffection to the rope
was spreading in the parish, the priest in order to find out the
ringleaders and terrify them into submission, ordered all his
parishioners to appear at mass on a certain Sunday, stating
that any person who did not shew himself at the muster
should be treated as an enemy to the church. The poor trades-
man fearing that he would be denounced from the altar and
thus be deprived of the means of supporting his family,
went
to the mass.house, on his way he met a confidential friend to
whom he read, Psalm cxy. " Their idols are silver and gold
the work of men's hands. They have mouths but they speak
not, eyes have they but they see not, Sic.," making anappli-
cation of the whole to the wafer idol which is held up for
adoration in the mass-house, and which, from fear of the
penalty of beggary and starvation with which he was threat.
=led, he was going hypocritically to worship.—Achill Hasid.