The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

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transports, and men, who sailed rounc
on arriving at California, they quietly took p-ssess _
the two ports there, San Francesco and Monterey, and t
States flag now floats, till the united zeal of Montezuma

ords of the pleasures of Hope, will yet cry aloud—

a season bade the world farewell

And Freedom shoo

The emigrants who took their departure for this place
by land, all the male portion of whom were remarkably
well armed, had different places of rendevous, which they

hard ma

Many of them have already arrived, and no doubt are to
3e the useful tools of brother Jonathan, in fighting his
)tittles, and colonizing this now fertile country, the ex-
- hick would admit of constant emigration for
some years to come.

The Texian government l•as it in contemplation to take
possession of St. Fee some years

ast, and had a large

trading party and soldiers to effect this end

•
Mexicans took complete possession of them, through the
perfidy of one of their followers, and they were then all
marched into Mexico, and chiefly consigned to the castle
of Perote, where in the day time they were employed in
chains, sweeping the streets, making roads, and proceed-
ing with the public buildings.
General Kearney lately, with a large command, amount-
ing to at least 3000 men, proceeded from the States with

this army, and we recently bear that he had not only as
cerded, but had entered Saint Fee without opposition
where he quietly ensconced himself within the walls

proclaimed himself governor—entered the palace—de-
manded allegiance in the name of his government from
the Alcade and other civil citizens, and hoisted the star-
spangled banner. •
We last week left General Taylor in the mountains at
Monterey, where already instructions had been given from

rnment to prosecute the war with vigour ; but we
his army has about entered that trap from which

he first parliamentary or cheap train was on its way
from Manchester to Leeds, on Monday, a guard fell from
one of the carriages, and both his legs were severed from
his body. He is since dead
they were. I On Sunday week atr

n left Preston for the south
without a single passenger. A similar event is declared
never to have happened before, but it does not say much
in favour of any very great necessity (not to mention the
morality of the question) for Sunday trains.

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The platform onthe arrival side of the Euston-square
Station has been lengthened 550 feet ; and when the car-
riage-shed has been removed, there will be a continuous
arrival platform of 980 feet in length, affording room for
about 60 carriages, or five trains of average length.
On Tuesday morning, the mail train near Stcckport ran
at full speed into a coal train, causing much destruction
of property, besides personal injury. No lives were lost,
but several persons were seriously injured, among others
a clergyman who is variously described as Curry and
Cassidy.

The" Comparion to the British Almanac" for 1847
states that, making allowances for cases of possible dis-
appointment, it is probable that the railway openings of
1846 will amount to between 600 and 700 miles. The