The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-15 00:00:00

THE CHESTER CUP.-P.P.

8 to 1 agst. Mr. Copeland's King Cole:
9 to 1 .„ Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway. (off)
12 to 1 „ Captain Healey's Van Buren. (t)
14 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff. (t to-day)
14 to 1 ~ Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy.
15 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's lon. (t)
100 to 6 „ Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry. (t)
100 to 5 „ Mr. Topham's The Drone.

. The rest not named.
THE DERBY.-81 to 1 was offered on the field this evening.
Erin-go-Bragh has been backed repeatedly for some days,
at 20 to 25 to 1. It is imagined the Londoners are rather
" out" in their intelligence ; be it so or not, he is supported
here in the first circles. 35 to 1 was taken to-day on the
Duke of Grafton's JEther, and Mr. Thornhill's lot ; 400 to
20 has been booked on the latter. There appears to be a
great desire to get on Flambeau at 15 to 1, and the Dey of
Algiers ; the latter has been backed at that figure.

Accounts from Montreal state that during the past year
the imports of goods into that port, paying the duty of two
and a half per cent. currency, was £738,023 4s. 2d. currency.
The value of goods imported free was £40,957 Is. 7d. ster-
ling •, and the amount of crown and provincial duties col-
lected at Montreal in 1839 was £74,604 7s. 2d. currency.
DUNDEE AND FORFAR RAILWAYS.—We observe that,
after the Ist proximo, there are to be additional trains on
both our railways, and that the hours of starting have been
so arranged as to dovetail into each other with great conve-
nience to the public. 13y the accommodation thus afforded,
one may leave Forfar or Brechin in the morning, have nearly
six hours for transacting business in Dundee, and be home
again by tea-time •, or, if his dinner hour be highly aristocra-
tical, in time for that meal. Wednesday last was a stirring
day upon the Forfar line. In the morning, and within five
or ten minutes of each other, two large and heavily laden
trains left the Almeriecloss depot for Forfar. At Guthrie
station both were joined, and conveyed to Forfar by a single
engine, the " Victoria." It was really a beautiful sight to
observe this train—consisting of three passenger carriages,
with nearly a score of waggons, containing coals, lime, yarn,
and other goods—pursuing its even and onward course
through a tract of country presenting such a diversity of
" hill and dale, and wood and vale," as characterizes the en-
tire scenery along this line. The interest of the scene was
heightened when, after the junction of the trains, both en-
gines were set to work—the one in front, and the other in
rear of the lengthened mass. The weather has been uncom-
monly pleasant, and a considerable increase, we think, has
in consequence taken place to the number of passengers tra-
velling on the railways.—Montrose Standard.

SWINDLING IN GLASGOW.—For some time past, a board
has been hung from one of the pillars of the Tontine, headed
in gold letters " J. C. Leckie, Registry ()nice ;" but so often
does John Colquhoun Leckie, as fie calls himself, change his
" office," that the whereabouts is ^ -nerally written on a piece
of paper. This board is covered over with written advertise-
ments, some copied from the newspapers, others mere crea-
tions of his own brain, announcing situations of every variety.
On Wednewlay he put one on the board, stating that a num-
ber of joiners, masons, and labourers, were required for rail-
road work in France. This led a great number of younglnen
belonging to these trades to apply to him for situations. The
" office" being marked "85, Nelson-street," they found him
seated in a room in a public-house, with a book of recipes
for Mop: on's pills, of which he was once a vender ; and,
having .rst got the fee of one shilling, he made the parties
put do ,n their names, and then. gravely told them that they
would ..earn all about it on Saturday. One young man, who
had paid his shilling op. Thursday, and suspected all was not
right, applied at this office on the subject, when the matter
was reported to the captain of police. Leckie was conse-
quently taken up for examination, when it became evident
that the whole affair was a swindle. He could tell nothing
about the matter—had no documents to show on what au-
thority he acted—but asserted that he acted on the authority
of Mr. James Fullerton, 20, King-street, Manchester, to
whom he was recdfnmended by Mr. Fox, 2, King-street,
Liverpool. Leckie was convened before Bailie Leadbetter,
in the police court, on Saturday, when a number of young
men, who had paid him a shilling to get their names regis-
tered for employment at the French railroad, with a salary of
three pounds per week! were examined. No doubt the
whole affair is a hoax ; but the prisoner was remanded, to
give him an opportunity of procuring the testimony of Messrs.
Fullarton and Fox in his behalf, if he can.—Glasgow Herald.