The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

Is. to 1

at Kendal—'

railway cost of the carriage of coals
dal would be about lid. per cwt.
in Kendal and the neighbourhond
annum ; and, consequently, the town we
railway, in coals alone, to the extent of £lO,OOO
Every year £lO,OOO more would be available i
community for food and clothing.—Kendal Mcrcur

The consum

aster to K

The papers from Demerara of the 16th of Oc
that the affairs of Messrs. Troughton were still

gated, and there were fears tht t
would be swallowed up by the law

out in the regi

smallpox had not de

ased among the

bound for Barbadoes would be subjected
arrival there. It is stated that the propri
Cayenne were about to declare them free

lain, it was believed, would sl
se. At Essequibo there had be,

Left by t

de of t

The plantations are all reported to be -in g

;ors of slave
The Dutc

and likely to produce good crops.
Tsia FASTING MAN.—A correspondent in t
Herald gives a detailed account of a visit to Bernal
during his present confinement in prison. Cava
having eaten of the food which he purchased, bu

cultivation

having gone to a field his hunger left him
the edibles there. The surgeon of the gaol sut
from which the following is an ext
at this date, completed his ninth day of ent
from food and drink. After closest watching and th
care on the part of myself and the turnkeys of the
prevent the possibility of his clandestinely taking
satisfied and convinced, in my own mind, that Be
vanagh has not tasted food or drink during the nin
has been an inmate of the gaol. He remains, not,

ing the privations he has volunt

Beinard (

perfect Bodily health, and I cannot detect the sligl
ation in his appearance or spirits."
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES AT MANCHESTER.--Wil
six hours no less than three fires, all of a
curred at Manchester last week. The fir
day, which injured an oil-cloth fact(
the extent of about £3OO. Th(

prison, to
pod, I feel
rnard Ca-

was on V

ills of

four o'cl

lowing morning
Messrs. Wood, Oxford-road. The upper part of the s
and the greater portion of the lower were wholly destroyed
and the damage is estimated at about £1,200. On the sal
evening a more alarming fire occurred in St. Anne-stre
which threatened destruction to the neighbouring I
both in the direction of Deansgate and St
The premises where the fire originated were four stories I
in the occupation of Messrs. Dixon, Bell, Harris
others. Every portion of the interior was compls
stroyed, and nothing now remains but the mere she
building

DEATH OF THE EARL OF HAREWOOD
to announce, by the information which reached us
hour, the sudden death of the Earl of Harewc
noble earl was out hunting on Wednesday last.

turning homewards in the neighbour

ood of 'I

felt himself indisposed

The noble earl was found by the whipper-in lying on be
face, and quite dead. He had only been left about ter
minutes. His lordship's remains were removed to Bram•
ham. The death of the noble earl occasions a vacancy in tht
office of Lord Lieutenant for the West Riding of this county.
His lordship was born in 1767 ; married the daughter of Sii
J. Sebright, Bart. who died on the 15th of February, 1840
His lordship was the second Earl of Harewood, the titb
being created in 1812. He was appointed to the office o
Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1819
and was also High Steward of Allerton.—Doncaster Gat
[The noble earl is succeeded in his title and estates 1
eldest son, Henry, Lord Lascelles, who was born 179:
married Ludia Louisa Thynne, daughter of the Marq
Bath, by whom he has a family of eleven or twelve '
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Thursday the
meeting of this company took place at the Londo
Joseph Baxendale, Esq., in the chair. It appeare
report that the works are progressing, and tha
were entered into for completing the railway to T(
May, to Staplehurst Road in July, - - -
ber next; that the tunnel at Blet
and that by the Ist of January the lint
with the Brighton line near Red Hill. 1
heavy rains had not impaired the works
chalk occurred at Dover, they did not
tunnel, and the, sea-wall stood remark

,t 4 to Ashford

Jaration of forfeiture of 7,372 shares in August,
had been paid; £18,304 3s 4d had been advance
of the joim station at London Bridge. Froir
counts it appeared that the receipts for the half

were £188:864 4s

,u, anu the payments were
making the total payments, £762,490 I7s 8
in hand of £26,361-56 Id. Aftt
Tyrrel, Mr. Smith, Mr. Par
prietors, the report was adot

making a cora
£246873 16s 5,
, leaving a bala

cuscussion bt
Mr. Cash, and c
.ed. A large nun,'
,),,50, were declared to be forfeited,
that they should be offered to the shareholders, as
1,405 shares in the hands of the directors. A resolution t
raise £120,000 additional capital was then passed unanimously
During the meeting Mr. Field made an application to the di
rectors on the part of a sad victim to the mania of specula
tion, a Mr. John Williams, who, he stated, was reduced fron
a state of affluence to the most complete necessity. It ap,
peared that Mr. Williams had been of essential service to tilt
company, and bad paid up calls amounting to £24,690. anc
being unable to continue them, judgments to the am
£32,000 were entered up against that gentleman. Mr. Fief
not succeeding in getting 493 paid-up shares as a comper
tion to that gentleman from the company, made a pp'
appeal to the meeting, and being backed by a large
of proprietors, the judgments were agreed to be lr
as satisfied, and a resolution to that effect was
large majority.