The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-29 00:00:00

STEAM-COACH AND'WAGON.COMPAN Y,

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Although, in point of expeditirid, railway travelling is, and
still will be, productive of the most heneficig effect in the com-
mercial 'world, still it will be,-we lament to say,attended with
the most ruinous consequences to the inhabitants of those vil-
lages and small towns in the great leading thoroughfares of
our country. Already is the truth of this ohServation beginning
to exhibit itself in different parts of the kingdom, to a fearful
extent. We were ourselves eye-witnesses of it, but a week or
two since, when travelling, in the "old-fashioned style" of a
single-horse chaise, on the Birmingham and Manchester road
Atter observing with regret the vast number of unemployed
peasantry, standing at every corner of the different towns and
yiliages through which we passed—the majority of them indus-
trious men, who had been aticustoined to obtain a livelihood for
themselves and fainilie,, by means of the coaches and wagons
tnrinerly running on that road—we put up for the night at whet
we should term a second-rate inn good commercial
posting-house,— not half-aol izen miles from the far-famed
St. Alban's; but when we entered the travellers' room, where
all had so recently been activity and high spirits, we
1- were truly horrified at the desolation which p.evailed around,
Land the gloom and melancholy which depicted themselves
pin every countenance. " What cold meat have you in
the house ?" we inquired. " None, sir I" was the reply.
" What, not in such a house as this ? Welt, then, can't you
get us a chop?" We don't know where to get such a thing,"
was the answer: " nobody kills any meat now, for we have no
company. They all go by the railway." What a state of
thinos! We seemed suddenly to have been transplanted from
the present age of impoivement back to the time of our greet
grandfather', when such is want of accommoda ion would not
have excited their surprise. We called for the landlord, who
though he plain's showed - that he had been the man of. bit-
siness, was now all that was hopeless and despairin,i. In answer
to our inquiries, he said, " Sir, I occupy this house at an ire-
'mense rent; I took it three or four years since, when we were
doing a most flourishing trade. Until within the last fortniright,
one hundred horses have stood in my stables, at a guinea a year
each, where now only two remain; fifty coaches stripped here
daily, not above one in ten now comes this roa.l. I kept eight
or ten ostlers; a boy is now not employed about half his time;
I had ten or awelve maid-servants, and have now hot one.
What am I to do?" We were silenced—we-knew not how to
reply, until we thought of the company we are about to notice,
which has for its -object—,general, and not partial, good. The
inventor of this engine has had many obstacles to overcome. In
the early steam-coaches, those invented by Mr. Gurney, for in-
stance, six wheels were used: the two front ones were called
pilot wheels, on account of their being simply use I to guide the
coach. These are now done away with. The machinery, too, was
principally laid under the body of the carriage. consequently the
pisnn-road of the cylinder worked horizontally, which was very
objectionable. To Mr. Gurney, we are indebted for the discovery
of the tube boiler. The formation of the entrails. of the human
being is said to have given this gentleman the idea of generating
steaming tubes. lnthisfurnace, the pipes were laid longitudinal-
ly, one portion being placed over the fire, and the other portion
forming the bottom bars the furnace. By this method the
tubes were soon destroy consequence of the red-hot coals
continually laying on th r. The fuel is placed in a separate
department ; and plates, not tubes, are ranged perpendicularly,
and the flame is made to ascend and descend thus alternately
until it reaches the flue. The cylinder is upright, and evert/
thing placed above-board in the most simple, economical, an-il
masterly manner. Thus much for the machinery. Now. then,
for a word or two as to the results. We stated,-in a former
Number, that those persons who ought to have encouraged
steam coaches were their greatest opponents; for a time, were
the main cause of .their failure. Their opposition gave a fresh
impulse to persons speculating on forming railroads. Every
impediment thrown in the way of steaming on common,roadi
was caught up by them, and "the impossibilityof steam coaches
being made capable- of running, on common roads," was Con.;
tinually being !divined forth in the daily journals. Railroads_
are now formed; but an immense expense ; and an-enormous
sum will be. required annually to keep them in repair. The
Birmingham Railroad, to pay. the interest alone of rhe capital
vested in it. must produce nearly £lOOO -perday. We are per-
fectly satisfied, then, that with the assistance of the public, the
Company's Unproved -Steam Coaches will he able to compete
with railroads. Let us once more, then, Ball on those persons.
innkeepers and others, whose prosperity depends on the traffic
on the old coach roads, to use their mutual and utmost exer-
tions to bring to a triumphant issue the labours of The Steam
Carriage Waggon Company.—Penny Mechanic.

THE DESOLATE HALL.

• ET THOMAS MILLER.
A lonely hall upon a lonelier moor,—
For many a mile no other dwelling near;
Nor'hward an ancient wood whose tall trees roar
When the rude wilds their huge broad branches tear.
A large old hall—a servant deaf and grey,
On me in silence watts, throughout the dreary day.
Before my threshold waves the long white grass,
That like a living desolation stands,
'Nodding its withered head whene'er I pass,
Tb, last sail heir. of these broad barren lands,—,
The last the old vault to repose,
Then its dark marble door upon our race will close.
The whining wind sweeps o'er the matted floors,
And.m.ikes a weary noise, a wailing moan;
I hear all night the clap of broken doors,
That on their rusty hin.es•grate and groan;
And then loud voices seem to call behind
The worn and wormy wainscot flapping in the wind.
-Along the roof the dark :toss thickly spreads,
A dampness o'er the oaken rafters throwing;
A chilly moisture settles on the beds,
Where lichens 'mid decay are slowly growing,
'Covering the curtains, and the damask eyes
Of angels, there enwrought in rainbow fading dyes.
Sometimes I hear—or fancy—o'er my head 1. 4*,t
A trampling noise—like that of [lnman feet: ..,,•,54,
In hollow hiedi-heerd shoes they seem to treail,
And to the sound of solemn music beat :
Then with a crash the window shutters close,
Shaking- the crazy walls and breaking my repose.
The silver moth within the wardrobe feeds;
The unturned keys are rusted in the locks;
Upon my hearth the brown mouse safely breeds;
By the old fountain safely sleeps the fox ;
The white owl in my chamber dreams all day,
For there is no one cares to frighten him away.
What hollow gusts through broken easements stream
Moving the ancient portraits on the wall!
I see them stirring by the moon's pale beam,
. . Their floating costutno,:s seem to rise and fall;
And as I come and go, move where I will.
Their dull white deadly eyes, turning, pursue me still.
And when a dreary slumber o'er me creeps,
The old home-clock rings out its measured sound,
I hear a warning in the march it 'keeps;
Ano4l the rusty vane turns- round and round;
There are sad tones, for desolation calls, •
Amtruin loudly roars around my fathet's halls.
The fish-ponds now are mantled o'er with green,
The rooks,hrive left their old ancestral trees;
. Their sileninests are all that now is seen;
No oxen lowing o'er the winding tees;
No steeds rteiVh out, no flocks bleat fr.m the fold;
Upland and hill and vale arertnpty, brown, and cold.
And chance, and song, within -these walls eave sounded,
And breathing, music rolled in dulcet strains;
And lovely feet have o'er these ._ray stones bounded,
In snowy kirtles and embroidered trains;
.Such 'things have been, ;Ind now are gliding past,
And then our race is,done: I live and die the last !

NovEt..M ATC H. Thf. subgcribws to the Jockey Club, not in
, the scuret,•were nn Tuesday as+otinded to see two of the menu-
trrs Pnter each mounted nn a pony. It WfiPl
sp.n they had agreed thus to splay a niatch f0r...100
Nalwilentis • Their io,rfordanee was curious anti
.!c•qouvb, and occasicaittly excited the' hilarity of lI s spectators
.of this extptocklinary cont4st. The match was ;ion. by Mr: U.
C.. V:.---.-qatipitsnt r Meitenyei-. '

SP(fkf' ELLIGENCE,

'IIIA2•TiI EST gli,-:-TuE:;IIA Et-rcrNG

The most remarkable oecarreaces in the engagements, made
on: the .Liyerpdol-Ctip Irave,:hee'ir:therestabliShing of Cardinal
Pufras premier, and the downfall of some others. The Mar-
quis of Westminster's horse: clearly' `first' favourite ; for, in
the course of the present day, 71 to tiia round Shm was offered
to be taken. Melbourne loSes ground; and the Doctor, from
the great desire shown within the past tWO dhysto lay-against
him, is evidently not exactly chat his, fornfer backerS wisht d
for.-7
-At the present hour, with many of t he influential sportsmen
at Newcastle-upon4yne, the tpeCuiationS are to no great
amount. The prices will be found'as

THE, NEWCASTLE ST. LEQE4.--,.(ThiS day.)
7 to 4 agriust The Hydra.. (t rreely)
'5 to 2 „ Charfey. Boy:
6to 1 „ Hart. (t)
The field, from the most recent accounts received froM New-
castle, is expected to be rather light upon the Doncaster event;.
all the horses being at Newcastle but Lortl Kelburne's colt by
.ferry-, dam by Ardrossan, and Thero. Seven were expected to
run.—For the Cup.race, on -Ihursdav, the following horses are
at hand :—Opera, Bee's Wiug, Y,irico, Miss Eliza,
Bellona, and Rebecca. The lace is booked over to Cartwright,.
on Bee's Wing. . •

THE LIVEPPOOL CUP, P. P.
iI to 1 against Lord WestinMster's Cardinal Tuft.,
9to I „ Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime. (t)
•9 to I „ Mr. H. Itobinsua'i Melhoure." (off freely)
12 to 1 „ Mr. S. L. Fox's The Doctor. (off freely)
14 to 1 „ Lord Grosvenor na. Hark-away. (off)
100 to 6 „ Heseeltine's Sla'shing Harry. (off)
100 to 8 ~ Lord EglintOn's. St. Bennett. (no layers)
20 to 1 „ Meikhain's Modesty. (off)
25 to 1 • „ Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen. (off)
25 to 1- if., Mr. S. L. Fox's Dirmid. (t freely)
The strength of- the business rests to-day upon , Puff. St. Ben=
nett, and Birdlime-; but great changes must follow in a day, or
two. Nothing said or done upon the July Stakes or the Gopd-
wood events.

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
10 to 1 against Lord C. lieutinck's Grey Momus (off)
20.t0 I „ Wee Willie ( taken to-day)
20 to I „ -Mr. 800-es's Appleton Lad (no layers.)

THE LIVERPOOL STAN.LAPID

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