The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

Feb. 2, 1847.

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—The following days have bee°
appointed for opening the commission on the Norther°
Circuit :—Lancaster, Monday, February 15.—Appleby
Thursday, February 18.—Carlisle, Saturday, FebruarY_
—Newcastle, Wednesday, February 24.—Durham, ta!`nc,
day, March I.—York, Saturday, 'March 6.—LiierPu_n
Saturday, March 20. Judges.—Mr. Baron Alderson P.
Mr. Baron Rolfe.
.T. G. Harris, Esq., Insolvent Commissioner, In'
his summer circuits will attend at Lancaster, on Monday'
July 12, at Liverpool on July 19, at Beaumaris on W
nesday, July 28, at Ruthin on Friday, July 30, at Ye'
on Monday, August 2, and at Chester on Tuesdali
August 3.
The benchers of the Inner Temple have resolved thill
henceforth no one shall be elected to the bench of tYd
Inner Temple, unless he obtain the votes of a majority
the existing benchers; and that four black balls shall be
sufficient to exclude.
UNATTESTED ALTERATIONS IN WILLS.—In the Pre'
rogative Court, on Tuesday, Sir H. Jenner Fust,
giving judgment in some will cases, remarked on't-he ev
effects of inattention to those sections. of the Wills Al
which made it compulsory on him to refuse probate W
unattested alterations. It was, he said, extremely pail?
ful, court after court, to be under the necessity of defeat'
ing the clear intention of testators, under the presuo
tion that unattested alterations were made subsequenul
to the execution of the will.
THE LAW AS TO THE PUBLICATION OF STATE PAVED
—A short time 1-. ~1, "TV-, •• • •

use Junes published a mass of er
tracts from letters, &c., regarding Polish affairs, writ
by Lord Castlereagh while present as the representatl
of Great Britain at the Congress of Vienna. The hrothel
of the Minister, the Marquis of Londonderry, sent a 01
licitor lo the Times office with a view of nreventinx

runner publication of these notes ; but a iia-Ciaia
given to the demand. The noble Marquis then -appbe.
to the Foreign Office on the subject. Lord Pahnerstol
however, replied that he was not prepared to say that thi
law would interdict the journal in question from the
comnbtinpfl nf ~•

on comparison with the.actual papers of Lord Castlerea
to be but a translation from French of what had originall
been translated from English into that language. In
postscript to the letter expressing the doubts Of the Foreig
Secretary on the subject it is intimated, that the WI
officers of the Crown have reported " that they are
aware of any legal measures which can be taken to pre,'
vent the publication of any further papers. of the soli
description as those which have appeared-in the Times.:
Lord Londonderry himself sent Lord Palmerston's deer
sion to the Times.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,
and Windermere line is

SAFUAAVAI 111.1 ime•ist April next.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.—On Wednesday ti!
Bisbopstoke and Salisbury Branch was opened in du'
form.

The London and North-Western, Lancaster and Car'
lisle, and the Caledonian are conjointly to be the lesscee
of the Scottish Central.
One line of the rails of the extension of the Birkenhead
and Chester Railway to the docks is to be ready by the
31st March.
On Friday, a handsome testimonial, consisting of silver
candelabra, was presented to Mr. David Waddington,
deputy-chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway, by the
officers of that line.
The Railway Record says that the Man Chester and
Leeds Company are in treaty for the Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport liner on terms the most advantageous to
the shareholders.
The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jo/lair-A
Railway, (deviation of main line,) and Chester and Birken-
head Railway Bills were read a second time in the House
of Commons on Friday.

A young woman named Dolman was, last week, killed
at the Whittlesford station of the Cambridge Railway'
was struck by an engine in crossing the line. Iles
bonnet was first found, and the finder was horrified bf
her head dropping out of it.
It was decided in the Court of Queen's Bench on Wed'
ne,day, in a special case connected with the South-East'
ern line, th tt a Railway Company has a right to refuse its
certificate of approval to an engine which a stranger pro'
poses to run on its line.
After some demur, the Reading, Guildford, and Reigat
resolved to adopt the directors' proposal to lease the lino
to the South-Eastern at 41 per cent., and equal profits
until the formation of the line, when the. terms were W
be commuted to a rental of 52 per cent,
The extensive factories in connexion with the locomo-
tive and carriage-works of the Eastern Counties, adjacent
to the station at Stratford, and the three hundred houses
and church, for the accommodation of the company's
workmen, have received the appropriate title of Hudson's
New Town.

According to the Railway Record, that portion of the
directors of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction, who wish to emancipate the line from the in-
fluence of the Manchester and Leeds Company, will have
a large majority of the votes at the meeting to be held in
Manchester to-dry (Tuesday).
The turnpike-roads of England and Wales amount 0
only 23,000 miles, and in 1852 we have reason to antici'
pate that from 8,000 to 10,000 miles of railways will he
open for traffic. That these railways may satistactorill
perform the work that formerly was done on. common
roads it is absolutely necessary that they should he
uniform and continuous.
VERY PROPER.--At the meeting on Friday, of the
Midland Railway Company, Mr. Hudson, the chairman,
said, in reply to a question from Mr. J. lirancker, thatbe
had offered to head a list for the compensation of the
family of Mr. Boteler, killed last year at Masborottih'
with £5OO, but the company had taken upon;#*Logle
payment of £5OOO for that purpose.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RA iLwAy.--The platform,
for the Britannia and Conway Bridges. on which the tubes
are to be constructed, are now in course of erection,"ande
considerable quantity of the iron is already manufactured'
The platform at the Straits will be 1000 feet in lengtbf
with wharfs and sheds to protect the workmen. In a fey
weeks the construction of the tubes will be commenced.

e dsay tra
ofi m
its itte
ddelthoe Sryh.effiAeltd ,tbhis
I SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—We mentioned, lasiweekr
that the Queen's Speeetli
wa
electric telegraph on the
Chesterfield station, .a man was placed to hold a couple 01
3t,ahtelellifgthitl
fell,feli full upon it. He did so for gi
candles, with directions to look stedfastly at the inde%
the protractedasfisxtiitifyaosfahipsoasttielniatviohnlg. be/
and see, that
e bd"bt
official returns it appears that the amount 0'
for the last week, on upwards of 2730 miles of rail'
fullmeFs
mesmerised s,
g,:aaooyffid.sewas .£134,230, thus accounted for :—.£67,645 for the
conveyance of passengers only, £38,738 for the carria4/
of goods, and a remainder of £27,847 for passengers and
together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £1,861 over the corresponding week of la-s 4
year, when the mileage was about 1920.
AMERICAN RAILROAD ISO' he first bar of mill osi
iron was made in 1844, and the e are now sixteen ,„Of
eighteen foundries at which it is made, and these nlO7
over one hundred and twenty thousand tons per aimue-i:
This amount is sufficient to lay four miles of railroad Pei
day, or twelve hundred miles per year. The progreota,e
this manufacture, in the shirt space of two years, in tp,
country, is very remarkabl ~ and is a strong manifestation
of American enterprise and skill.—New York Tribune. lt is stated that the Eastern Counties Railway lovi".
made handsome money compensation to some of the Per'
sons who were hurt by the accident at Stratfoid in tier
tember last. Mrs. Smith, a poor woman of Chigwell
whose legs were broken, and who has just been pronounce,
,
the Bank of England, who was severely hurt and has neot
convalescent, has been paid 600 guineas. Mr. Cotton, 01,
yet entirely recovered, has withdrawn the action he had
commenced against the company, on their paying a large
sum to the Bethnal-green schools.
MR. E. J. MozLEY .—Mr. Mozley is one of that small
band of men to whom this country is indebted for her
railway system. As he himself expressed it at the lasi
London and North Western meeting, he 'is one of the
pioneers of the railway system. He was one of the pro'
jectors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and he
was and is one of the largest theholdersin G r atnwdo Jguri;sci
tion. He was one of the pioneers of these
leading Companies, and he has remained true to them ttl.
Oxforduri ng a
in the railway world,
the last. His last movement has made his name famoustheir shares the Birmin
agohdaminansdec
to thank him alone.--Railway Times. proprietors
e tporrosfi
hate
aolille
RAILWAY TAXATION.—It was shown, by evidence be-
fore Morrison's own committee, that the tax on Englisb
railways (parish rates and passenger duty) exceeds the
taxation of French railways by about five per cent. pci
annum on the gross receipts ; add one per cent. for incceou
tax, part of which may fairly be included, and you have
an excess of six per cent. Now, take the same railwal
which we have already adduced as an example of gre4
original cost and a low average fare, six per cent. on the
gross receipts of the Brighton and South Coast is near)/
30,000 per annum. £30,000 per annum, with the ace:o
mulations of interest at four per cent., will amount ',
£5,000,000 in 50-1- years (as calculated by an insuran,,e°
officer of high standing), being more than the cost of 0;
railway. 55 years would make it £6,000,000.. Four 10'0,
cent. is a high rate for Government and a low rate for t'
railways. In England, therefore, the companies will, is i
effect, hare presented their railroads to the GovernntOf
in 50 or GO years. This fact is precisely the reverse 1.
Mr. Morrison's statement, and we call his attention'to 1
—Railway Chronicle. _

An extraordinary and fatal accident occurred at a's
Southall Station on the Great Western Railway on
'vePoP'ecal appears that
day.
express
sabout i
tai
tgruoamrterEx- peatesrt flso.ausr
rung
at its usual speed by the above station, and at the said;
moment the four o'clock stopping down-train sl
slacking its speed previously to its stopping at that plate.
the tweitl
The express train had passed the statiOn some fifty 'yaro
and the four o'clock down train was about 200 or
yards also on the London side, when the tire Of the dri:.
mg wheel next to the down rail broke into several piec"'7'
which were projected in different directions, with a ter;
rible velocity. One portion, of four feet in length, ti;
thrown to a considerable height, and in ,its descent co'ie,
longitudinally on the front of the second-class carriag
next the luggage van of the down train, forcing awald
small portion of the front end, as well as a long itualy
slip of the top, and making a clear breach into the
riage itself. So great was the force' with which it 113 0
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broken the one into the- other. We are infaiiied ti)
the second and third compartments were filled with Pm,
sengers. •Of those in the second compartment, two
e';',o
bouring men, Henry Hall and Henry Bishop. who of
sitting opposite each other, were killed. The portion,,,
the tire fell on their heads, and their'dehths were ins"-pt
taneous. A woman who was in the same Con-warty:leo,
was also struck on the head, and is stated to be in a
gerous condition. We believe that no other rierso!' r 9,
the down-train sustained any injury. A severe
and from a similar cause, happened to Mrs. Mona.
Martin, who woe a paaaenger by the exproaa traiti•

he carnage