The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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Drship to the

AND CLERIC

FRANCE_
The Paris papers, of Tuesday are filled with Monday's
debates in the Chamber of Deputies, The principal I In six days, according to the Cork Examiner, from
speeches were those of M. Gamier Pages and M. Billaut ; Monday to Saturday last, the deaths amounted to 102.
the former violently against ministers, and the latter of All the flax mills at Belfast have commenced working
the contrary character. The ministerial supportersdenied full time.
that any interruption of the good understanding with En-
At the weekly repeal meeting, in Dublin,' on Monday,
gland had taken place. M. Guizot referred to the temper the attendance was wretched, and the proceedings unin-
in which the English Parliament had discussed the Spanish teresting. The " rent " was £27 7s. 11d.
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marriages, nut entereu intm no aaa. baa..a.a—a.aaa aa cat ',Juana. 1.111 ellUti MOKS vigorouN,
The disturbances respecting the price of corn- were sub- fully six inches over ground. The sowing of wheat is,
siding steadily, but had not been quite extinguished in however, one-third short of last season.
ime of the departments. A new Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner for Ireland

Viceroyalty

but. occasionally

Feb. 9, 1847.

convene a meeting of that party to consider the atrocious
imputations made by the mayor of that borough at a
recent public meeting held in that town, on the publia
character and conduct of the Conservatives of Sunder-
land, whom he described as worthless as the worst felon.l4
in the land. It is intended, it is said, "to send hie
worship to Coventry." The affair is creating " a sensa-
tion."—At Durham, only about fourteen miles distant,
the mayor of that borough last week, refused to put a mo-
tion made by one of the members relative to the accept-
ance of the resignation of the town-clerk. He was fre-
quently and vehemently reque.sted to do so, but con-
tinued to refuse. After the lapse of a considerable time,
during which the proceedings were of any rather than
of an amicable kind, Mr. Veitch, proprietor of the Dur-
ham radical paper, and therefore of the mayor's party,
rose and said that the only thing which prevented him
from proposing a vote of censure on the mayor was, be
cause he felt uncertain whether the gentleman in' that
chair would condescend to put it to the meeting.—[Ap-
plause.) Shortly after this the mayor attempted to read
some document or other, but the council were so annoyed
with the conduct which had been pursued, that they
hurried out of the room, leaving him with only one or
two thick and thin supporters of his party ! And thus
ended this memorable meeting. Since the meeting, we
understand, says the Durham Advertiser, that the mem-
bers of the council have come to the determination not
to attend any more meetings of that body that may be.
Summoned by the present mayor.

RAILWAI

FAIRS.

The LiverpoOl Crosby and Southport railway bill would
be read a second time last (Monday) night.
All negotiations between the London and North-Wes-
tern and Great Western Railway boards are at an end, and
are not likely to be renewed.

The inquest on the bodies killed on the Great Western
ccidental
of the

Railway has terminated, and
death," with a reco►nmenda
wireels should he screwed inst
At a late meeting of the dii

verdict
II that the

of.weldea
tors of the

Midland Rail-

way Company, tenders were received for two thousand
coal waggons, which, if placed end to end, would form a
line upwards of six miles in length. _ The cost of the wag-
gons would amount to nearly £150,000.
The Liverpool and Bury Railway Company intend to
make their passenger station in :N. Toorfields, and to purchase
the Wellington Hotel, Dale-street, for a waiting-room
and inn, with a carriage road at the back to Dale-streeti
opposite North John-street.
AN INSATIABLE BOG.—Th

iley is r

ilway between Shipley
r, with the exception of

. ,
that part nearßingley Church called the
Sixty tons of earth and stones are cast into this pog every
hour Of the day. Notwithstanding this immense quantity
being dropped into the gulf at both ends, all is swallowed
up every morning; the heavy matter sinking thus forces
the lighter up, and makes a blacl

During th

powerful

gay embankment on

ELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.-
- rounded in the Humber,
To save her very
I the aid of a very
tired, the telegraph
-qeweastle-npon-

of beii

Tew_pr9Feller be:ng rc

from Hull n ode k-nown th
Tyne, and by first train the much needed scree
coming, and thus property was saved by this prompt
Itance excee ling in v, In; consid, rally above £1;0;30
THE CALEDONIAN.—The works on this line are rapidly
and it is promised to be opened from Carlisle
is Beattock is equi-distant
the inhabitants of the
pm plaints that the Duinfries
the sth of April, in conse-

to ileattock early in July.
from Edinburgh and Gla
former city are loud in thei

. ,
qumice, it is supposed, of this partial openin
affirm that this-discontinuance will be highly de

They
jtrimen tal
vects. correspondence from Galloway and Western

whether procee
wards, to Liverpool or London

ling north,;vards or south-

ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, in Abbott's Cliff tunnel, on
lie South Eastern Railway, Joel Rush, the master of the
electric telegraph at Dover, having experienced some dif-
ficulty in transmitting a message per telegri*li to Folke-
stone, was proceeding along the line to inspect the wires,
with a view of ascertaining where the-defect existed ; and
on the one o'clock afternoon passenger train leaving
4', Dover for town he got on the engine with the driver and
, be- stoker. When the train had advanced about thirty or
"an forty yards ;.• " Angin.

. iu the Abbott's Cliff tunnel, the ,-driver
saw hith fall against, the wall on the left-hand side, and
disappear bene th the train. The engine was stopped,
and the body of Mr. Rush was found frightfully mutilated
lying across the rails.

EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF A RAILWAY ENGINE AND
SINGULAR ESCAPE.—On Thursday eveni-g, wile soma
men were engaged with an engine at the Camp-hill sta-
tion, on the Birmingham and Bristol Railway, bear the-
former town the engine suddenly started off at a terrific
pace, without driver, guard, or any other person being
upon it, and continued at the rate of upwards of 30 miles
an hour for about eight miles, when, owing to some cause
at present unknown, the engine suddenly stopped, and
avoided an accident which must have been terrible in its
consequences. It appears that if was running on the
down line, up which the third-class train was coming
from Gloucester, and-had actually stopped when within a
few minutes, if not seconds, of coming into collision with
it: The guard of. the train saw the light of the runaway
engine, pulled up, and prevented the accident. -
VICTORIA TUNNEL.----On Monday, the first stone of
the grand entrance of the tunnel was laid at Edge-hill,
by Edward Woods, Esq., the engineer, in the presence of
many of the railway officers, -and of a large concourse of
Persons. The works of the tunnel commence by a splen-
did iron bridge, of two arches, across their railway at We-
vertrec-lane: 6everal acres of land are in progress of ex.
cavation at Edge-hill, to be added to the present station,
where there will be abunduit space for the thousands

summer

traina. The grand entrance of the tunnel is under the
road leading to the railway hotel, and several hundreds of
workmen are already engaged on these gigantic undertak-.
ings. The tunnel is to pass in an oblique direction across
the town, being carried in a direct line under the King's
Monument, Christ's Church, the Friends' Meeting-house,
the Chapel in Byrom-street, the North Dispensary in
Vauxhall-road, and then under the Leeds and Liverpool
Canal, to a station comprising several acres, between
Great Howard-street and the, Waterloo Dock. These
works have been contracted for by Messrs. Samuel and
Holme, and Mr. M'Cormick, and considerable

progress has been made at the various
are termed, along the whole of tl
will be, we understand, about A

' eyes," as they
The entire cost

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—A
" wind-up" meeting was , held in London on Saturday
week. The directors' report stated that the total amount
received in deposits on shares issued, and interest on those
deposits was £80,200, of which £45,500 had been returned
to shareholders, at the rate of 30s. per share, out of £2 12s.
6d., the deposit paid, as determined on at the last meet-
ing ; £5900 had been paid to Mr. Brewer, the solicitor to
the company, and one of the original promoters; £7OOO
to Mr. Blunt, the engineer ; and about £13,000 to cover
various other claims and expenses, leaving a balance of.
assets to the credit of the company of £B6OO in the funds
and banker's hands. Of thA sum, however, Mr. Brewer
still claims £4OOO more, in addition to what had been
already paid' him ; and had brought an action for that
amount, which was now pending in the Court of Exche-
quer, and which he ha offered to compromise on being
paid £2600, an offer which the directors had refused.
Should the action be altogether defeated, then there would
be over ss. a share more to be returned to the sharehold-
ers ; or should the compromise be accepted, there would
still be over 3s. a share more to return. Every other
demand and claim on the company had been settled and
discharged. Thy was unanimously agreed to, as
'rig the committee of ma-

was also

natrement to resist to the last paying Mr. Brewer one
shilling more than he had already received.

LIVERPOOL, 'MANCHESTER, AND NEWCAsTLE-UPON-
IiCS
tr
e st t o
the report of Messrs. Win. Gibb, George W. Cram, and
pur-
pose
TYNE JUNCTION .RAILWAY.—On Tuesday, a very nu-
merous meeting of the proprietors of this company, was
held inof tohoensiPdaelriantignethlelote
steps
l,
tobinlae takenci te
with for thep e
c
Wm. Nichol, the committee of investigation appointed on
Saturday, the 25th day of July last and to determine the
propriety of reducing the number of directors from twelve
to six ; and also for powers to proceed with and endeav-
our to obtain in the ensuing session of parliament acts
for—Alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch, with
power to purchase, rent,, or. use the Northern Counties
Railway, and Amendment 'of Acts relating to the Liver-
pool,_ Manchester, and Newcastle upon-Tyne Junction.
Railway, and to the Northern Counties Union Railway
Companies—Railway from the East Lancashire Railway,

chester and "Leedsßailway, with power to sell or lease to
the East Lancashire -Railway Company, or to the Man-
chester and . Leeds Railway Company—and Liverpool,
Manchestelt;, and Newcastle-upon-Tyn,..tilw. --and'
Northern Counties Union Railways Amalgamation. The
following is a summary of the statement of accounts
Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, receipts 09,892-
13s. ld. ; expenditure, £26,773 2s. 7d.-; balance, £63,113-
10s. 6d. ; accounts unpaid, £13,247 ss. 11d. Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Coin-
;- expenditure, £24,707
17s. ld. • accounts unpaid,
p9sany,
ib; receipts,bac .f.:Be, 8£,64,7.
£7,015 6s. 2d. - The report above alluded to stated that
the serious amount of £44,201 13s. 4d. had been claimed
for law expenses, and the committee suggested the pro-
priety of submitting such of the bills as remained unpaid
to the respective solicitors, in order to give them 'an op-
portunity of reducing the balances unsettled. Mr. Le-
man, after asking some questions relative to the allotment
of shares, asked to have the books with the minutes of
proceedings of the Company produced ; and this being
done, he called attention to the meeting on the 27th
of August, when 23,000 shares were allotted to the direc-
tors and their friends, and 6000 only to the public. Ile
elicited from thelninutes of proceedincrs that on the 29th
of September five gentlemen met and allotted to them-
selves 3250 shares ; and that upon the very day on which
they had issued a not ice that all the shares had been taken
7 _

up i and be

ist of Octocer 1, frota

which it appi

ling at 61 pre

--circulated that
aie to the line, and, that 2000
Ned for him and his friends. At
stated by Mr. Allhusen that. Mr,
1000 shares, and that he (Mr. All-
losit for them ; but it now appeared

Hudson had become fovom

r, it wa