The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

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INT.ELMGENCI

The directors of the London and Birmingham Railway
Company, have resolved to run third-class trains on their
line. They will travel separate from the other classes, and at
a slower rate. The fare will be fourteen shillings for the en-
tire distance from London' to Birmingham.
HULL AND LEEDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.—EXTRAORDI-
NARY PASSENGER TRAIN.—On Sunday morning last, a
special train started from the Leeds station for Hull, com-
prising no less than 40 carriages, containing 1,250 passengers,
chiefly workmen, we believe, who had embraced the opportu-
nity of inhaling, for a short time, a purer air than is to be
found in " smoky Leeds." The arrival of so many respec-
tably dressed strangers amongst us all at once created no lit-
tle sensation in the town; and on the departure of the same
train in the evening for Leeds, embracing.the same number of
carriages, the Humber bank, and every'spot where a glimpse
of the novel and really astonishing sight could be procured,
were crowded with spectators. We understand, that during
the day no less than 3,500 persons passed through our depot
in entering or departing from the town.—Hull Observer.
BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY AND MIDLAND COUNTIES
RAILWAYS.—Our readers are aware, that, for some time
past, a competition has existed between these two railways
for the conveyance of passengers between Derby and London.
In this competition, however, it appears that the Birmingham •
and Derby Company complained of an agreement which the
Midland Counties Company had made with the North Mid-
land Railway Company, under the terms of which the latter
company were compelled to forward and book all the passen-
gers from any part of their line (wishing to go to London) by
way of the Midland Counties Railway only, and were pro-
hibited from booking them by any other route. We have
been informed, that in the bill which the Midland Counties
Company have just passed through parliament, for increasing
their capital and other purposes, a clause was inserted by the
house of lords, at the instance of the Birmingham and Derby
Railway Company, annulling the agreement above referred
to, with a penalty of £5O per day on the Midland Counties
Company if they should at any future time enter into or act
upon any similar agreement with the North Midland Com-
pany, to the prejudice of the Birmingham and Derby Com-
pany. It appears also, that an application by the Midland
Counties Company to the Court of Chancery, to prevent the
Birmingham and Derby Company from lowering their usual
fares from Derby to Hampton, has been refused with costs.
1 —Midland Counties Herald.

TRIAL OF GEACH FOR FORGERY

CROWN COURT—Before Mr. Baron Parke.

• MONMOUTII, FRIDAY, AU G.' 14.—The trial of Thomas
Foster Geach, the step-son of John Frost, upon various
charges of forgery, having been specially fixed for this morn-
ing, the court was crowded at an early hour.
The prisoner was charged with having, on the 29th of July,
1837; feloniously forged a certain bill of. exchange, drawn by
himself upon one Edmund Williamszkitirportiug to be ac-
cepted by the said Edmund Williams, and endorsed by the
prisoner to MesSrs. William Williams and Co., bankers, at '
Newport, with intent to defraud the said Messrs. William
Williams, and Co. There were other counts for uttering the
said bill of exchange, others for forging the acceptance only,
and others laying the intent to defraud Edmund "Williams.
Mr. R. V. Richards, Mr. Charles Phillips, and Mr. W. J.
Alexander appeared for the prosecution ; the prisoner was
defended by Mr. Sergeant Ludlow and Mr. Sergeant Tal-
fourd.
The charges were fully substantiated by the evidence
which was brought forward, and the jury after an hour's de-
liberation, brought in a verdict of Guilty. Sentence was
deferred.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15.—This morning at nine o'clock,
Mr. Geach was brought up to receive sentence, previously
to which he addressed the court in mitigation of punish-
ment.
Mr. Baron PARKE said that it was with great pain he
passed sentence in this case. But for the recommendation
of the jury, in which his lordship's judgment could not con-
cur, he should have felt it his duty to pass the severest sen-
tence of the law,.but he should allow some weight to that
recommendation. It was necessary, however, to pass such a
sentence as should read a lesson to persons similarly situate,

and as far as possible deter from the commission of a crime
which it is to be feared is but too common (and increasingly
so) among persons connected with mercantile affairs, when
in desperate circumstances. For the first offence, therefore,
the prisoner was sentenced to transportation for 20 years ;
upon the second indictment it was 'not necessary to pass any
sentence. _ .

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The prisoner, whose firmness had never forsaken him
throughout the whole of the proceedings, was then removed.
In the course of the morning he was again placed at the
bar, and his lordship said, that, it having been intimated to
him, on behalf of the prosecution, that some statement had
been made (whether truly or not he did not know) that one
of the jurymen in the first case had not been sworn, he
should,.to avoid any question arising upon the point, direct
the sentence to be recorded upon the second indictment.

THE GREEK. MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER