The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

ragemen
That to promot

I Lyceum, iii wl
granted for th

formation of That the sale be carried on during two days in each week
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Tuesdays and Fridays); from eleven till four o'clock,
bourhood of Lancaster.
The first bar of American railroad iron was made in (
1844, and an American paper now states that there are at conducted under the superintendence of the ladies of the
present sixteen or eighteen mills, at which it is made at committee, and to commence on Tuesday next, the 6th
4-1-. am r:itc, of about 120,000 tons per annum.

. - vIIC Mule, nu uk.,..a r•-,....,•-• I. -
_ -a tor sale shall be strictly contmen
all, or nearly all, were sold. On Friday there was about the The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Railway -•--- -
,
number •of carts, but the potatoes did not sell so Bridge over titer rivet ?add, at_ l
Knaresborough, by Jo--
articles which are the work of the suffering pool
readily, ily,The people are from the ministers, or public authorities, of tne district. generally impressed with the seph Dent, Esq., High Sheriff of orkshire, took place at that certificates to this effect be required in each instal,.
idea that there are considerably greater quantities of po- one o'clock. •
tatoes saved than the farmers admit, and they, therefore, At a meeting of the Bishop Auckland and Weardale That a subscription be entered into, for the purpose of
carrying into effect the objects of the meeting.
anticipate a considerable fall in price, and a fair supply, Railway Company, a resolution approving of . the bill for
as the seed season is over." The Kerry Evening the purchase of the line by the Wear Valley Company was
as
soon That fifty ladies be appointed a committee, with power
Post says, "We had a very large market of potatoes in agreed to unanimously, to add to their number, fourteen of whom shall act as a
alee this day, (Saturday,) with a brisk buying for the Great Britain and Ireland have been traversed by sub-committee, for the transaction of business.
1 Lady Patroness—Mrs. George Hall Lawrence.
10,323 miles of railway, British colonies by 1000 more ; surer—Mrs. Charles Shells, 15, Mount Vernon-.
East India by. 500 more; America, by 3,800; France by Secretaries—Mrs. W. Crosfield, Rake-lane, Edge-.
2,200 ; Germany, 1,570 ; Belgium, 1,095 ; Cuba, 800 ; Miss Cropper, Dingle Bank ; Miss Oulton, 15, Mc
Holland, 200 ; Italy, 115 ; Denmark, 106 ; Russia, 52. Vernon-road ; Mrs. Priestley, Parkfield Cottage.
"n of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, from phof 41.,0 1„-„,f. tu.,„1.... _, .

-pence to nine pence per stone ; and minions proportion-
ably.higher. ,We can learn that the planting of potatoes
is much more general than was anticipated.. A corres-
pondent informs us that there were upwards of one hun-
dred loads of potatoes at Kilkenny market yesterday,

aye so liberally

nalstown, county of Carlow, or; Saturd

there wa

tion with the trains to carry passengers to and from their

room in the Lyceum, for the propOsed—side.
WILLIAM POLLOCK, Chai
It was the united desire of the ladies to expri
best thanks to the Rey. Mr. Pollock, for his grey
ness in presiding on the occasion.

got supply 'a

he price a!

or ENG LAND.—The drain of money for I
ntly indicated by the decline in the :me