The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

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CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Rev. S. F. R
Lurch. Burleigh-stro

ana of 47,218 men employed for 3,3tia2 _
A 1,040 stations. This may perhaps be rath€
7 above expectation. But it does not take
tl of unfinished way. It refers only to what is as L.—
mt perfect and efficient as the Liverpool and Manchestt
lvei toreover, the great bulk of this labour is skilled and pr
inni 1. Only 12,493—that is, a quarter of the wholr
on o n. .e labourers. There are 10,800 artificers,
take policemen and porters, 4148 plate layers, and 3432 cler.
r,—produce( Nearly all the rest are very responsible servants, in th,
, an animal left in receipt of high wages. These fifty thousand men, then,
:! The force of illus- are by no means an average fifty thousand. As a whole
—at least in company with my they are a picked and superior class, probably employing,
directly or indirectly, i.e., by their expenditure, as many
---- • and so representing an amount of labou,
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

in one furlong

equal to 100,000 unskilled pers'ons. They who are ac-
customed to such calculations will probably think it not
tel ACCIIIIIO that these fifty thousand railway ser-

AND CARLISLE R

kILWAY

yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Mary-
Toward, on port and Carlisle Railway was held on Wednesday last, at
Vis- Maryport, when the attendance was very large, and com-
prised many gentlemen from distant parts of the countr
`o r- - •to the end of " - showed '

~as peen inviteu .. as,.
.....Ae accounts, made up ....,.me, .
1 during her stay in the Highlands, and hay
gross receipts of the half year to have been £16,980 19s 2u
-lon for Scotland. and the expenditure £14,411 Bs. 2d., leaving a disposable
-afford is to be raised to the earldom, balance of £2,569 lls. The directors recommended a
nd Cremorne and Sir R. Bulkeley dividend of 15s. on the £5O shares, and of 10s. 6d. on
-eated peers of the realm. Lieu- the first call of £5 on the quarter shares, leaving a balance
Macdonald, Lord Fitzroy So- to be carried to the next half year's accounts of £323 18s.
't are soon to receive the The report stated that there had been an increase of the

mineral traffic, and a further augmentation of the revenue
anticipated from the same, source. Arrangements

pointing a meeting to negotiate an arm

tradesmen dined together as usual ; and in the evening the some of the connecting lines, the report stated that pro-
own was illuminated in honour of the occasion. positions had been made to the Newcastle and Carlisle
Railway Company, which are at present under the consi-
deration of that company, and that so far the communi-
cations were not so conclusive as to require a special report
minister of St. Michael's from the committee. Some discussion arose on the state
fter successfully de- of the negotiations with the Newcastle,. and Carlisle Rail-