The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY CHARGES

THE belief that Railways were constructed, as the old
tokens were coined, " for the honour and love of trade,"
is not realised to the extent which a consideration of
mutual interest would dictate. The London and North
Western Company enjoy a monopoly, which, under liberal
management, might be of considerable advantage to the
public and the shareholders, but their high rate of charges
for the carriage of small parcels not only operates to
mutual injury, but will make out a case for the interposi-
tion of the legislature, unless the good sense of the direc-
tors should induce them to obviate the necessity of such
an appeal. A few days ago, we were charged no less
than 3s. 4d. for a small ream of paper, and since then were
mulct in 2s. 4d, for the carriage of a parcel containing
fuur small books, although, if they had been sent se-
parately by post, from Land's-End to John O'Groat's
the whole cnarge would have been only 23

A moderate

scale of charges for small parcels would ensure an immense
amount of business, from which the public are debarred
by the present system, but we trust that the attention
of the Company being called to it will prove sufficient.

RICHARD BRYAN, 35 years of age, a prisoner in the
Borough Gaol, died on Saturday night, in an epiliptic fit.
THE EARL and COUNTESS of DERBY, Lady Emma
Stanley, and suite, last week left Knowsley Hall for
London. Lord Stanley also left Knowsley last week.

YESTERDAY morning the body of a man, supposed to
be a hair-dresser, was found dead at No. ;67, llarybone :
an inquest will be held on his body to-day.

THE JOURNALS OF VIENNA announce the sale of a
music-box, which plays twelve pieces, said to have been
composed by Haydn for this very box.
GGORGE BAKER, aged 4 years, son of William Baker,
124, Dale-street, was accidentally burned to death on
Saturday, in the absence of his mother and an elder sister
from the apartment in which he and some other children
had been left by themselves.

The second of a course of lectures on " the Archetypes
of Religious Mind," will be delivered on Sabbath evening
first, in St. George's Church, Myrtle-street, by the Rev.
A. Cromar, M.A. Service beginning at half-past six
o'clock.

GEORGE BEATTIE, formerly shipkeeper of the ship
General Dunlop, whose arm was accidentally broken on
Christmas Day last, died in the hospital on Friday night
last, from the effects of the accident.
MARGARET ANN, aged six years, daughter of John
Farragher, 9, Brown-street, was poisoned, on Thursday,
by eating a couple of muscles, which were given to her by
an itinerant vender of shell-fish. The unfortunate crea-
ture died on Friday morning, after intense suffering.

MAN FOUND DROWNED.—The body of the steward of
the barque William Botsford, who was accidentally
drowned a short time before Christmas, was, on Thursday,
discovered embedded in a sandbank, in the river Wyre,
and was interred in the cemetery.
FROM GAY TO GRAVE.—As the advices from Liverpool
announce "a tone of great steadiness in the yarn market,"
we may look for more gravity than usual in the speeches
in the House of Commons when the session is resumed.—
Punch.

BEFORE THE PACIFIC took her departure, on Wed-
nesday, her commander, Captain Nye. forwarded a letter
of thanks to the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane So-
ciety. for the splendid medals presented to himself, his
mate, and two of the crew, as a token of admiration for
their efforts in rescuing the crew of the Jessie Stephens.

A FIRE broke out on Saturday morning, in the timber-
yard of Mr. Al!port, Bootle, but it was extinguished by
the fire-brigade before much damage had been occasioned.
In the evening a fire was discovered in the cabin of the
ship Manasi, lying in the Sandon Graving-dock. The
flames were quickly extinguished, very little damage being
done.

MESSRS. DENNY AND RANKIN, of the Clyde, have a
large iron sailing ship fast approaching completion. She
is to be the property of Mr. James Smith, formerly of
Greenock, and now of Liverpool, and is designed for the
Australian trade. Her register is 780 tons ; length, aloft,
178 feet ; breadth, at midships, 33 feet ; depth of hold, 18
feet.

JANE FLYNN, a prisoner in the Borough jail, commited
on the 31st January, to 21 days' hard labour, and suspicion
of stealing certain goods in her possession, died in the
hospital on Sunday, whither she had been removed that
morning, from disease of the lungs.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ICE.—William Fairclough,
a boy, residing with his parents in Richmond-row, while
skating in the fields, near tne Zoological Gardens, on
Sunday, fell into the water and was drowned. The water
was dragged for several hours before the body of the un-
fortunate deceased was recovered ; and then, of course,
all symptoms of animation had fled.
GOLD-MINING IN DEVONSHIRE.—The Albatross, 100
tons, cutter, is to proceed from Plymouth to Barnstaple,
with the first portion of the machinery connected with the
Poltimore gold mine, near North Molton. After landing
the machinery, the vessel is to convey 100 tons of aure-
ferous gossan from the Poltimore mine to Liverpool.
where it is to be reduced in bulk, at the works of Messrs.
Rawlins and Watson. These gentlemen desire to try a
quantity before determining on the average yield.—De-
vonport Independent.

FATAL FIRE.—A firo took place on Saturday night in
Castle. street, Holborn, by which a widow named Ardine
was burnt to death.

CAMPS OF INSTRUCTION. The Goiernment are in
earnest respecting the exercise of the Line and the Militia
during the ensuing open season. Ground is everywhere
being laid out for camps of instruction. In the vicinity
of Sandhurst, Captain Needham, Lieutenants Barrister,
Vacher, and Maclean, passed students of the senior de-
partment, are engaged in surveying ground for the selec-
tion of a proper site for a camp in that locality. Plans of
the old camps, in existence in George M.'s time, have
been received at several stations from the Quartermaster
General's department, that inquiry may be mad(

their present state, in view to their modern applies_______
Some of these are now built over, and other spots must,
therefore, be selected. We bear that it is very likely Sir
C. Napier will command one of the camps, if his health
will permit. He is at present suffering from a complaint
contracted in India.— United Serrice Gazette.

THE RAILWAY KING.—On Friday the Master of the
Rolls gave judgment in the case of the York and North
Midland Railway Company v. George Hudson, M.P. He
was of opinion that the plaintiffs were entitled to the
whole relief sought by the bill, and that there must be a
decree declaring that the defendant was trustee only of
the York and North Midland Railway Company in respect
of shares in the East and West Riding Extension and
Hull and Selby Railway, sold and disposed of by him or
by his order, and that the defendant was bound to account
for all profits thereon. An account to be taken of the
profits; defendant to be charged with interest at the rate
of 5 per cent, from the time of sale of those shares ; to be
allowed credit for the sum paid by him, with all just al-
lowance ; the value of the shares, where it could not be
ascertained, to be taken at average market price at the
time of rale. There were various other directions to carry
out the decree. Defendant to pay all costs of the suit up
to hearing. Decree accordingly.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (From a Manchester
Correspondent.)—The betting-rooms have presented a
new aspect since they have been graced by the presence
of the member for the West Riding, whose truly sporting
wager of £lO,OOO to a shilling a week has been taken by
a gallant general in her Majesty's service. The example
has been catching, and many new faces have appeared.
Mr. Bright came in last night, and took the odds against
Lord Derby's Umbriel. He also inquired whether any
fights were coming off, and seemed disappointed that he
could not get more than 6 to 2 against the Nobby
Buster, whose affair with Shambling Billy is fixed for
Tuesday. The Peace Conference has backed Billy rather
heavily. Mr. Joseph Hume telegraphed that he was
making a book on West Australian, and his agent did a
good deal at 12 to 1. Mr. Brotherton came down by ex-
press train, and was busily offering 8 to 3 that the dog
Tommy would not kill the 50 rats in five minutes on
Thursday, and 6 to 3 that Mr. Disraeli will not sit with the
Irish brigade on the same night, and 11 to I against the
two events. It is thought that a foot-race about to come
off between the Flying Butcher and Sam Jones's Bill
bring down all the Peace Society next week. This is as
it should be, and good old English habits and English
totoacteinnadto-
- are coming up again.
THE ART OF ARRANGlNGradeTqffuTteHuAgillly.
face
etimes the hair is pushape to the face. Let the oval, where
hed into the
squared at the forehead, as to give a most ex-
traordinarycheeks, and
inat-
tention tsieoen at
o reallyli a lines. g. o odSdo
• be always preserved it exists. ; where it does not, let the
hair be so humoured. that the deficiency shall not be per-
ceived. Nothing is mores common than to see a face, which
is somewhat too large below, made look grossly large and
coarse, by contracting the hair on the forehead and cheeks,
and there bringingit to an abruptcheck; whereassucha face'
should enlarge the forehead and the cheek, and let the hair
fall partially over, so as to shade and soften off the lower ex-
uherance. A good treatise, with examples in outline of
the defects, would be 'of some value upon a lady's toilet,
who would wish to preserve her great privilege—the su-
premacy of beauty. Some press the hair down close to
the face, which is to lose the very characteristic of hair—
ease and freedom. Let her locks, says Anacreon, lie as
they like ; the Greek gives them life, and a will. Some
ladies wear the hair like blinkers ; ynu always suspect they
will shy if you approach them. A lady's head dress,
whether in a portrait or for her daily wear, should as
in old portraits by Rembrandt and Titian, go on into
shade, not to be seen too clearly, and hard all round ;
should not, in fact, be isolated, as if out of sympathy
with all surrounding nature. The wigs of men of Charles
IL's time had at least that one merit of floating into the
back-ground, and in their fall softening the sharpness of
the lines of the dress about them.—Blackteood'! May.