The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

THURSDAY

The DURDANS STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 30 added,
were won by Mr. Mytton's Miles's Boy, (Dockeray,)
beating the Hon. S. Heebert's Sir Simon, Mr. O'Brien's
Conceit, and seven others.
The GRAND STAND PLATE Of 200 sovs., added to a
handicap sweepstakes of 10 soya., were won by Lord
Eglinton's Eryx, (J. Prince,) beating Mr. Paris's The
Attorney, Mr. O'Brien's The Liberator, and six others.

The 1.3131.1 AM STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added,
were won by Mr. Parr's Icicle, (Whitehouse,) beating
Lord Chesterfield's Maid of Saragossa.
The DENBIES STAKES of 3 sovs. each, with 30 added,
were won by Mr. Lord Strathmore's Satyr, (Crouch,)
beating Colonel Anson's Treacle, Mr. C. Brewer's Sarah
Sykes, and Mr. Drewitt's Clementhe.

FRIDAY.
The OAKS STAKES; of 50 ova. each, were won by Sir
J. Hawley's Miami, beating Mr. Payne's Clementina and
Mr. Bowes's Ellerda' le.

THE DERBY.—It is a remarkable circumstance, that the
Derby of last year was won by Mr. Gully, of Ackworth
Park, near Pontefract, awl that, this year, the prize has
been carried off by Mr. Pedley, of Pontefract itself. Cos-
sack seems to be a worthy associate of Pyrrhus the First.
Both have achieved wonders. The " prophets" were
sadly wrong in their anticipations of this event, only one,
Bell's Pie in London, declaring the winner,

FOREIGN 4- 'COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTUGAL

The Nautilus, •screw steamer packet-ship, Capt. Gor-
don, arrived at Liverpool on Friday, from Lisbon, bring-
ing papers .and letters to the 15th inst. and havingac-
complished the passage in five days. Great uncertainty
and alarm continued to prevail. The return of Colonel
Wylde ,from Oporto was anxiously expected every, hour,
and H. M. steam-ship Bulldog had been waiting in rea-
diness to convey despatches for several days. About an
hour before-the Nautilus sailed, orders had been received
from the admiral for the Bulldog's immediate departure ;
and ere this she will probably have arrived at Southamp-
ton. H. M. ship Canopus, Captain Moresby, had on
board eight political prisoners of distinction, who had es-
caped from-the prison, and placed themselves under Bri-
tish protection. Nothing, further had transpired on the
subject 0f.C61. Wylde's mission, and no dependence can be
placed on the rumours published in the Lisbon journals.

RwER PLATE.—By the arrival off Falmouth of the
Danish brig, Ernest Lorenz, Captain Rohrs, we have had
a mail freraMonte Video, to so late a date as March 21.
The chief news relates- to the assassination of Don Manuel
Rodriguez, The Bolivian minister to the Argentine republic,
which diabolical deed was done in the streets at _Buenos

Ayres at noon-day, it was stated at the instigation of
Rosas. Oribe maintained his 5,000 men at Cerito. The
British and French had landed a larger number of marines
than they were wont to have at Monte Video.

WEST INDIES.—The accounts brought by the Clyde
'from the West Indies still report favourably of the pro-
gress of the crops. From Jamaica it is stated that " the
prospects of the sugar planter are as favourable as the
most sanguine West Indian could desire. From all parts
of the island we hear that the crops are abundant, and
that the seasons are most propitious for their manufacture.
This cheering intelligence, however, is not without its
alloy. In many districts we find serious complaints of
want of labour. From St. Mary's, especially, these com-
plaints are loud. On one estate the labourers are said to
have shown so much unwillingness to work that canes cut
for manufacture have been perilled, if not wholly plost, by
an actual deficiency of hands to put the mill about."
By a decree of the Ladrath of the canton of Glaris, in
Switzerland, all the young men are interdicted from mar-
riage before they are twenty. _ _

AUSTRIA.—the little town of Rohrau, near the Hun-
garian frontier, has been entirely destroyed by fire. It
was the birth-place of Joseph Haydn and his brother
Michael.

An article in the Austrian Observer states, in the ports
of South Russia in the Black Sea, and the sea of Azoph,
that they will be able to supply from the Ist of April to
the Ist of July 3,630,000 chetwerts of corn.

DUTCH POTATOES.—The Commerce states that there
has been so great a quantity of potatoes planted in Hol-
land this year, that if the crop prove a moderate average,
one-fourth will be sufficient for the consumption of the
country, and the remainder may be exported.

A letter from Hanover, of the Sth instant, states that
the royal ordinances forbidding the use of grain and pota-
toes in the distillation, of brandy, and also 'their exporta-
tion to Prussia and the grand Duchy of Hesse Cassel,
those countries having by law prevented those articles be-
ing exported to Hanover, have just been published.
The largest naval force which the United States have
ever had afloat is now employed with the war at Mexico.
This force comprises 46 ships, 24 barques, 56 brigs, and
11 steamers, which have been hired as transports, and the
regular ships of war added to these make a total of 164
ships.

SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF SIXTY LIVES.-OD the 9th
of April, at eight o'clock in the evening, the French brig
La Clarisse, of Granville, having on board 69 passengers,
and a crew of 14, was lost in the Philibert rocks, in one
of the entrances to the harbour of St. Pierre, Newfound-
land. The brig had missed the South-east passage into
the harbour, having been driven to windward. The vio-
lence of the waves was such as to preclude the possibility
of any assistance from the colonists. The number of vic-
tims amounts to sixty.

A LIE CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
During a speech in Congress on the Wilmot proviso, Mr.
Brinkeroff, of Ohio, paused and drew a half-dollar piece
from his pocket, and holding it up so that every member
of the house could see what it was, said—" Sir, look at
this, sir,—look at it, and see its inscription, ' Liberty' is
stamped upon it. Shall we strike it out and insert
' Slavery,' or shall we hereafter, in the face of the world,
continue to use it as a circulating lie ? Yes for a circu-
lating lie—or shall we make it tell the truth, sir ?"
PORT WINE.—We are informed that the Junta of
Oporto have resolved that wines of the Upper Douro of
the vintage of 1846 may be brought into Oporto until the
20th June next. Upon wine of the first quality a duty
of 7,200 reis (about £1 14s. 2d.) a pipe is to 6e paid,
and the owner of the wine is to bind himself to export the
same to ports in Europe. Upon wine of the second
quality the duty is to be 600 reis (about 2s. 105.,) and on
wine for home consumption 6,800 reis (about £1 12s 10d)
a pipe. The entrance duty paid on wine of the first
quality is to be deducted from the export duty.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The preamble of the Mold Railway Bill has been de-
clared proved.

The iirst sod of the Killarney Junction Railway was cut
on Wednesday, by the Earl of Kenmore.
On Tuesday, an experimental trip was made upon the
Southampton and Dorchester Railway.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—It is said that a great railway
matt has borrowed £lOO,OOO for two years, at ten per cent.
per annum.—Herapath.

IRISH RAILWAIFBILLS.—The promoters of Irish Rail-
way Bills have no reason to complain of the facilities
afforded to .the progress of these bills. This Session no
fewer than fourteen have already passed the committees
upon merits in the Commons.
We find from the Railway Gazette that my Lord the
King sways an iron empire of 1,5314 miles in length, with
an annual revenue of £2,184,832. When all the lines in
the Hudson empire are complete, it is expected that
the revenue will be five millions.

Six persons were convicted at the Central Criminal
Court, on Monday, of having stolen a large quantity of
goods from the Camden station of the London and North-
Western Railway Company (from the waggons of Messrs.
Crowley and Co., the carriers), and sentenced to seven
years' transportation.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.—The Board of Management
have just resolved to suspend all new works in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, which are not likely to be imme-
diately productive. The (.£,32) third shares and the
West Riding Union shares are consequently relieved of
Calls ; those of the fifths will not amount to more than
30s. per share.
On Thursday, the bridge of the Great Western Railway
at Hanwell was -destroyed by fire, supposed to be the act
of an incendiary. •It burst forth before the twelve o'clock
up train from Reading reached it—a most fortunate cir-
cumstance, as the weight of the train would have proba-
bly broken through the smouldering rafters, antra great
loss of life ensued.

THE DERBY DAY.—The Epsom line was so managed,
that hundreds got into the trains at Epsom without pay-
ing; and on their arrival at London-bridge, after waiting
patiently whilst fewer than half-a-dozen men attempted to
collect tickets and money from 43 carriages (many with
70 people in each), the whole body of passengers opened
the doors on the off-side, and marched up the line without
paying or leaving their tickets!
The Manchester and Southampton, in no wise dis-
heartened at their second failure, have resolved to go be-
fore parliament again next year. Mr. R. Stephenson,
with characteristic frankness, admitted that the responsi-
bility of failure rested with him, and said that he would
repair the error as well as he could, and would himself
bear all the expenses of passing standing orders in the
next session.
..

.--The 71;tiFivay Chronicle, of Saturday, in an article on
the defeat of the narrow gauge party in parliament, states
that it sees " nothing to prevent the broad gauge travel-
ling to the north indefinitely far." The Chronicle is a
strong advocate of narrow gauge interests, and concludes
its remarks as follows :—" The better cause, in the worse
hands, has now lost all chance of success. The cause of
uniform gauge in the north is lost."

The immediate cause of the stoppage of the Croydon
Atmospheric was the condition imposed by the Govern-
ment Inspector of having a second junction at the point
where the Croydon line diverges from the Brighton, be-
fore he would sanction the opening of the Epsom. He
deemed this necessary for public safety. But this was
found to be impracticable, unless the Atmospheric was
actually taken up at the point. The directors, therefore,
had only the option of retaining the Atmospheric and
giving up the traffic of the Epsom, or opening the line
candor the oonclition, imposed by the Rdilway Board.

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SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS.—WC rejoice to an-
nounco that the committee of the House of Commons
have sanctioned the South Yorkshire Railway, with the
exception of the portions of the line projected between
Worsbro' and Penistone and between ,Mexbro' and Ro-
therham. But the Committee having also granted the
Barnsley Junction (applied for by the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway), there will now be a continuous line of
rails from Doncaster through Barnsley and Penistone to
Manchester ; and it is left to the railway commissioners to
say upon what terms the South Yorkshire shall run their
trains on the Midland line to Masbro'. These arrange-
ments provide for Doncaster the westerly communication
which it so much requires, and fully open the South York-
shire Coal Field to the Great Northern, Midland, and
Sheffield and Manchester Railways.
FALSE PROPHECIES IN 1834.—A Mr. Cort predicted
in 1834, only thirteen years ago, as follows, in a work he
called ' Railroad Imposition detected :'—" Long before
the Birmingham is ready, such are the improvements now
making in canals, not only may the charge be expected
to be many times less than the railway, but the time now
lost will be considerably saved ; and as a proof of the
impotency of the Manchester and Liverpool to compete
with water lines, it has not been able to obtain at the end
of three years, three months and a half, much above one-
sixth of the whole traffic ; nor even that, without a total
failure as to profit. But granting the Birmingham secured
only one-half instead of a sixth, the income estimated at
£92,820 would be reduced to £46,410. The only chance,
therefore, for the latter railway in the waggon department,
must be confined to goods requiring extraordinary expe-
dition ; and these, comparatively, are very few. The
Great Western, though probably it may reach as far as
Bath from Bristol, after having, like a mole, explored its
way through tunnels, long and deep, the shareholders who
travel by it will be so heartily sick, what with foul air,
smoke, and sulphur, that the very mention of a railway
will be worse than ipecacuanha, especially when the only
prospect they can find the least cheering in the midst of
all this derangement of their stomachs, will be a granite
tramway, actually in operation, along side of their own
dose of ipecacuanha, ready to follow up the black draught,
so as to get rid of every particle of obstruction with which
the bottoms of their pockets might be otherwise afflicted."