The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOO-1 'STANDARD.

BLEEDS AND THIRSIC RAILWAY.—It is expected about
ten miles of this railway, from Thirsk to the north side of
the river Ure, near Ripon, will be open for public-traffic
early in October, and that a permanent junction will be
formed with the York and Newcastle Railway, at Thirsk.
early in November. A further distance of about eighteen
miles, from Ripon to Weston Lane, near Castley,--will
probably be open in March._ _

The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Company have offered to the Birkenhead Dobk
Commissioners, that if the rates upon shipping be reduced
to 6d. per ton from foreign ports, and ld. per ton on
coasters, the railway company will pay the rates upen all
vessels with cargo entering the docks, guaranteeing a mi-
nimum revenue, from the Ist of September to the Ist of
January, 1849, considerably exceeding what the commis-
sioners have hitherto received
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IVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE jIINC-
-I.—The meeting of this Company on Tuesday was of
a different character to one in February last. The_pro-
ceedings were short and pleasant. The Chairman said,
that the £92,000 available balance was out on good secu-
rity at 5 per cent. The Directors have pledged themselves
to make no call during the next six months ; and the
Chairman gave it as his opinion, that there would be no
need of any for the next twelve months. He also made
the agreeable announcement, that there will be no neces-

sity for their going to parliament next session. A saving
of £l,OOO a year has been effected by dispensing with the
London and Newcastle offices. The business is now car-
ried forward at Manchester, under the superintendence of
Mr. C. M. Wilson (the Secretary), on whom the Chair-

man pt

igh and no doubt well-merited comyiliment,

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.
—The speech of Mr. Houldsworth at the meeting of this
Company on Wednesday will be read with interest. It
contains matter of the gravest importance, and shows in
the strongest possible light the evils that are resulting from
the Government interference with the rate and tolls of the
railways. This is shown in the great disproportion between
the increase of passenger and merchandize traffic, and the
receipts therefrom. Mr Houldsworth says, the average
of passengers has increased since 1845 22 per cent., while
the receipts had only increased 51 per cent. A similar re-
sult is shown in the merchandize department: The in-
crease of work done was about 12 to 14 per cent., while
there has been little or no increase in the receipts. The
direct effect of this is a loss to the Company of £50,000

per annum.
THE BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
—The half-yearly meeting of this company took place
yesterday week, at Birmingham, Mr. Mathews in the
chair. The Chairman directed the secretary to affix the
seal of the company to the share register. Mr. Mozley
objected. He did not believe that this could be done

without the authority of the meeting. The Chairman
It is done. (The secretary here affixed the seal.) M
_ _

Mozley said, that what had been done was neither more
nor less than a declaration of the nullity of all meetings
of this description. (Applause.) Several Proprietors ex-
pressed a similar opinion. Mr. Mozley moved a resolu-
tion, demanding that the seal of the company, which was
now improperly used, should be delivered up to him, Mr.
Elias Joseph Mozley, for safe custody. Mr. Hore se-
conded the motion, which, however, the chairman de-
Mozley said this was of no importance,

since it had been improperly done, and he accordingly put
the resolution himself, which he declared to be carried.
Amidst some laughter, he then requested that the seal

might be handed over to him, a request which was not
complied with. Mr. Whately then read the half-yearly
report, together with a statement of accounts. The re-
port consisted of little more than a statement that no re-
port would be presented, in consequence of the differences
id shareholders. The accounts
received to be £442,008 19s. 3d.,

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and the balance in hand to be £41,408 16s. The Chairman
made a few observations, and moved the adoption of this
report. Mr. Spooner, M.P., seconded the motion. Mr.
Mozley opposed it, and demanded further explanations as
to the estimates and expenditures. The Chairman said
that these points would all be included in the directors'
answer to the bill in chancery, and for the present he
should decline further explanation .upon them. After a
good deal more wrangling conversation of the same na-
ture, the meeting was, on the motion of Mr. Mozley, ad.

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Mr. Lumley has concluded an engagement with Jenny
Lind, for the next season, at her Majesty's Theatre.
The Leeds intelligencer says that the potato disease has

not visited Yorkshire.
The barque Cobre from Swansea to Coquimbo has been
entirely destroyed by fire originating in the spontaneou
combustion of the cargo
The d.v nn mhi
released

on which she was christened at Bristol by Prince Albert.
The Marquis of Anglesey transmitted to Lieutenant
Munro a check for one hundred guineas, immediately after
his trial.

has purchased from a party in Edin-
portrait of Dr. Chalmers, printed

by John Watson Gordon

Mr. Yardley, of the Chester and North Wales Circuit,
has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of
Bombay.

farmer of Glasgow, has
en into custody for dating a bill 1947, thus im-
yosing on his creditors.

been to

The rumour of an extensive loss of life on board the
steamer, Glamorgan, in the Bristol Channel, which has
appeared in several papers, proves to be untrue.
On Wednesday, the boys belonging to Plympton, St.
Mary Union, near Plymouth, were taken to bathe, when
three of them were drowred.

The majority of pews in Wakefield parish cht

A'NOBLE POULTERER.—A general reduction Of game-
keepers has been made on the Duke of Buckingham's
Manors in Bucks. Around Stowe no less than sixteen
have been dismissed, and two only retained. A number
-of "watchers" are out of commission. The venison
from Stowe park is in the course4:pf sale, and the leverets
on the estate are sent to market-weekly.
CRICKET. —The great match between the eleven of all
England and twenty-two of Birmingham,-was brought to
a termination on Wednesday. The play was excellent on
both sides, especially tie bowling on the part of the Bir-
mingham players, who gained the victory by five runs
only. The numbers scored were—Birmingham, fir -t in-
nings, 80; second innings, 81. All England, first innings,
93; second innings, 63.
A few days since, two boys, four years old, were playing
in the streets of Perth, and amused themselves by running
after some pieces of paper which were driven about by the
wind. The children caught the whole of them, and took
them home as playthings, but their parents discovered
that the pieces of paper were 'four bank notes for £2O
each, which had been lost by agentleMan residing in.the
neighbourhood.
Loss OF THE AUCKLAND.—We regret to announce that
private letters have been received in town, which leave
very little room to doubt that her Majesty's ship Auckland
has been unfortunately wrecked. This vessel was engaged
in endeavouring to carry out Lord Stanley's project of
finding a fit site fcr a new penal settlement, we believe to
the north of Port Essington. It was on her return that
the Auckland went upon the rocks.
PRICE OF WHEAT AND BREAD.—OR referring to our
paper of no longer date than May last, we find that wheat
was sold at 120 s. per quarter, and the quartern loaf at
um. At the commencement of this month, September
2nd, We find wheat quoted at 60s. per quarter, and house-
hold bread is now sold in this city at 6d. per quartern,
though in most instances at 7d. In May potatoes were
sold at ls.6d. per quartern. now they are to ba bought at 7d.

, . .
A man named Dixon has been committed for trial, in
London, on a charge of stealing a number of sheets of
the Pickwick Papers, the Peoples' Journal, and Punch,
from the premises of Messrs. Bradbury and Evans. The
prisoner was a warehouseman there, and has been in the

habit of supplying various newsvenders with those works
several hours prior to their issue by the regular publishers.
At Dixon's lodgings were found as many sheets of differ-
ent worl(s printed as would fill a barrow.

BOILER XPLOSION.—The boiler of the Firebrand, one
of the steam-tugs employed on the river Tyne, burst one
day last week, as the vessel was running into Shields har-
bour. One of the tubes gave way, and the steam rushed
forward underneath the deck, and destroyed the fore cabin,
shattering the bulk head and the entire wooden partitions
to pieces. Fortunately, no one was below at the time, but

boy, named F,

hatches

iency of water is

said to have been the immediate cause of the *accident.
STATUETTE OF JENNY LIND.—An elegant statuette of
this celebrated singer has been modelled by Count D'Or-
say, and may be seen at the establishment of Messrs. D.
Colnaghi and Co. Pall-mall East. She is represented in
the character of the Figlia del Reggimento. The attitude
is precisely such as the lady assumes in one part of her
performance, and will be immediately recognised. The
likeness is good, both as to the features of the face and
the general outline of the figure. The statuette is about
20 inches in height.

The people of-Newcastle-on-Tyne have lost the oppor-
tunity of seeing Jenny Lind. An agreement had been
made with the proprietors of the theatre there for the ap-
pearance of the nightingale, but afterwards Mr. Knowles,
who had engaged the thatre, was apprised by the secre-
tary that there were 70 proprietor's tickets, and that these
would be entitled to gratuitous admission, and it also
coming to light that the proprietors tickets instead of
being 70 were 130, Mr. Knowles determined to forego
the concert, though the tickets had been printed and every

other arrangement made

COMPENSATION FOR PERSONAL INJI
of which many persons are availing them

Facilities

in the new county courts for bringing actions to recover
compensation for injuries where the damages are not laid
at more than £2O. In one of these cases, heard recently
at North Shields, J. Robson, a boatman, complained that
as he was lying in his boat with his hand hanging over, a
Mr. Black pulled a small boat against him with great vio-
lence, and so injured his hand that he was obliged to sub-
mit to the amputation of his finger. The court awarded
him £2O damages.
A WIFE POISONED BY UER HUSBAND.—At Edinburgh,
on Wednesday, Thomas Leith was tried at the High Court
of Justiciary for the murder of his wife. It seemed that.
h of April last. the nrismier. whn

at Dundee, mixed a quantity of arsenic with some barley
meal, which his wife made into porridge and partook of,
soon after which she became ill and died, as was proved,
from the effects of poison. Some time before this the
prisoner had been made ill by some tea sent to him by his
wife, which was found to contain poison. The man was
found guilty, and sentenced to death

IJOUS COINCIDENCE—BRITANNIA-BRIDGE AND
REAT BRITAIN."—A correspondent of ours, in
conversation, happened to mention he had suggested a
plan to Mr. Robert Stephenson for placing the BritAnia-
bridge from pier to pier by floating the one end of it over
to the centre pier, supported upon a wooden tower, built
upon the hull of a large iron vessel—at the time, there
happened to be in our office another scientific gentleman,
who, after hearing the thing explained, observed, it might
be necessary for Mr. Stephenson to defer placing his
bridge until the Great Britain was got off to float it over.
On the same day, to the best of our remembrance, that
noble vessel was rescued from her perilous situation.—
Mining Journal.
THE CROPS.—The accounts from the provinces are all
confirmative of the abundance and good quality of the
grain now being harvested in this country. The barley
crop, in particular, is said to be unusually fine. Hay and
grass are quite as abundant as any other crop and the

THE " G

The government steamer, Mastiff, Commander Lieut-
A. B. Beecher, which has far sometime past been engaged
in the surveys of the coast in the vicinity of the Orkneys, on
the morning of Tuesday, off the Island of Sandor, was
driven from her anchor and carried ashore, a violent sea
beating over her for nriany hours afterwards. The whole
of the crew and officers were saved. Very little chance
remains of preserving the steamer, which is full of water,
and has sustained considerable injury. The Mastiff was
an old vessel, having been launched at Bideford in the
Year 1813. She was nearly 200 tons burthen.
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR BETWEEN A HEN AND PAR-
-A short time ago, at Capenhurst, a hen, be-
iong►ng to Peter Woods, took it into her head to build a
nest, and laid several eggs in a field adjoining his house.
During the same interval a partridge also laid several eggs
in the same nest. When the period of incubation arrived,
the hen first began to sit. Not long. however, had she
been in possession, before the partridge made her appear-
ance, when a general fight took place. The partridge
proved the conqueror, hatched the eggs, and the varied
brood now range the fields together, the chickens equally
wild as the young partridges:

TRIDGI

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IMPERISIIABLE PORTRAITS UPON CAMEOS. - The
finest specimens of cameo engraving that are known are
hose devoted to mythological subjects, and consequently
are liable to the caprice or fancy of the artist, whose ob-
ject is to portray the general character without the neces-

sity of subscribing to the features, except so far as they
are classically delineated. A young medallist of the name
of Picourt has struck out a new path, and has ventured
upon taking likenesses upon cameos, which of course are
imperishable, and his essays have been crowned with the
cress by those of her Majesty and the Prince
London paper. •

Consort

WARNING TO BAC

IELORS.-A worthy couple, who
hood of Bishop Auckland, are ac-

in the r

customed to share between them ti

soon as the clock; tolls the hour of repose, out the good
man sallies, up the highways and byeways, in quest of his