The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-11 00:00:00

TO THE CANAL NAVIGATION PROPRIETORS 1.4

GREAT BRITAIN.

I At a period when energetic -and extensive efforts are being
t made for the formation of Hailwev communications, it is im-
perative upon the Committees *.ha Proprietors of Canals to
coine forward end tender their respective navigation* as perfect
as possible. Many of the canals have remained in nearly the
same cundition for several years ; ere needlessly circuitous, aro
in a defective state of repair in their locks, towing-paths, small,
incen venteut, and even dangerous state of their tuunels—are in-
adequately supplied with water, and require deepeuiug anti
cleansing. It is most important these defects should no longer
retiraiu,.and whilst guarding against nnprovideut expenditure,
that the several cabal works of whatever kind should be ren-
clered effective to the increased and increasing wants and trade
of the country;—it cannot otherwise be expected jhat canals
will maintain their present position auaiust t formidable
rivalry now organizing in the midst of them, •
The canal proprietors in their several districts, who are so
much interested us sharetruldera, and who are trustees for dis-
tant parties, are bound to attend to the efficient. state of the
canals iu their own neighbourhood ; and where there does not
exist in the local Committees energy or inclination to effect
essential improvements. it becomes the duty of the proprietors
themselves at their annual general meetings to elect such per-
•sous as are alive to the present state of canal affairs, before they
irrecoverably lose that pekieu of their trade which proper at-
tention may now permanently secure. Good management is
now become an indispensable requisite ter every Canal Company.
Upon some of the canals the trade is muck fettered by com-
pensation and junction torinaaes, conceded iu the infeucy of
these undertakings, to the influence of opposing iiarties. rho
Canal Companies so circuinstauced will do well, iu a friendlc
and conciliatory spirit, to meet And arrange these antiquated
modes of deriving income, and thus place their tonnages upon
a sound and rational footing, as well as by doing away with such
local arrangements as ate vexatious to the trader, and which
often, without benefit to themselves, are injurious and irritating
to the Companies immediately connected with the trade of their
district. Canal Companies must have uo petty jealousies, but
unite in affording every facility to the transit of the trade of
this increasingly commercial country.
The writer of these observations is so strongly impressed with
.their importanee, that he hopes they may commend themselves
to every Canal Proprietor, awl to the practical operationsof
every 'Canal COininittee and Canal general meeting in the
kingdom.
A pril2, 1838

A CANAL PHOPttIb.TOR.

EXHIBITIONS AT THE BOTANIC GARDEN.—We understand
that there will be two uaeetings this year at the Botanic Garden,
for the exhibition of plants, vegetables, fruits, flowers, &.e.• The
first will be held on Wednesday, the 6th of June, and the second
on Wednesday, the 15th of August.

FATAL' ACCIDENT ON 1111 RUNCORN. GAP RAILWAY.-1
M. 'raylor, respectable person, wh a believe,. was em-
ployed on this line, was unfortunatelfillilled oti Wednesday
last. Whilst in the act of ,iumping on one of the coal waggons,
his foot slipped, and he got his head entangled between two of
the said waggons: when going across the incline, which caused
his instant death.

On Wednesday, Edhean Bey, General d' Artillerie, Inspee-
teur-General du materiel de I armie d' Egypte, and Abel-el-
ralitnan Rouchv dv Effendi, Premier Aid-de-camp de S. E. le
General Eilheui Bey, inspected the establishment of Messrs.
Fawcett, Preston and Co., and expressed their astonishment
and gratification at the extensive operations and magnitude of
their works. They also bad an opportunity of viewing several
pairs of marine and colonial steam-engines, now in different
states and progress of completion, amongst which, they observed
a pair of beautiful marine steam-engines, of the aggrq„,,ate power
of 270 horses, intended for a company at Calcutta. They were
also touch gratified with inspecting their extensive mechanism
i❑ the ordnance department ; but, more particularly the in-
spection of time progress of an extensive order tor ordnance,
now under operation for the Pacha of Egs pt, for which purposes
they visited Liverpool, -and expressed their fullest or entire:
a pprubation:

FATAL. ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER —An inquest was held on.
Wednesday, at the hotel, Birkenhead, betuie the Coroner.
Faithful Thomas, Esq., to inquire' into the death of Sarah.
Dexter, a young lady of 18 years of age. Frun► the evidence
adduced it appears tbat the deceased resided at Tranmere, and
was passenger on board the Britannia, steamer, which left St.
George's pier for Birkenhead at 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening.
When about half way across the river, the steamer ran foul of a
sloop, then lying at anchor. It would appear that the steamer.
in endeavouring to pas a-head of the sloop, struck against her
bowsprit, and the deceased was knocked overboard. Two of
the sloop's crew immediately jumped into their boat which lay
astern, and succeeded in getting her on board the steamer.
but she was found to be quite dead. The inquest was adjourned
to this morning at 10 o'clock, ih order that a post modem exami-
nation of the body might take place, and also that further par-
ticulars should 'ue ascertained of the sloop, which was found to
have weighed anchor that night or early the next morning. The
captain and helsman of the Britannia are in custody until the
result of the inquest isknown.

Measures for the itmorporatiou of Wolverhampton are under
cousideratiun.

As a proof of the backwardness of the season, many of the
farmers near Loudon are now, in the month of May, bush-
harrowing and rolling the ineadows, which in a forward setiou
would be nearly ready for the scythe.

G A lIRICK's SlzE.—Wheu Foote was about to produce a play
by puppets, a lady of fashion asked him if the figures were to be
as large as life. " Oh, no, madatn," replied Sam, " out much
bigger than Garrick.

A DURHAM ENDYMON.—A north countryman, returning
from a neighbouring fair, having partaken too freely of Julio
Barleycorn, fell asleep by the road side, and a pig being attract-
ed to the spot, began licking the drunken luau's mouth: the
latter feeling the salute, but mistaking the applicant, roared
out, " Whit's kissin' me tacio ? ye see what it is to be well iiket
amaug the lasses !"
Rushout, M.P., having called ou Mr. Borth-
wick to explain some observatious made by him at a public din-
ner at Eveshain,which Mr. Borthwick nectined to do, a meeting
took place between those two gentlemen ou Tuesday evening at
Wormwood Scrubs. After the second discharge, the seconds
interfered, and Mr. Borthwick stated that he was perfectly ready
to withCtraW any observations which reflected on Mr. Rushbut's
character, being convinced unit he bait made use of them under
misapprehension.
Neer was tinker so troubled with a budget as poor Spring
Rice. " Make me a peer, make me any thing," says the tight
honourable accountant,." but chancellor of t\tre exchequer with
a falling revenue. Then the domestic situation of Baring. It
drives me mad. -The•whole thing isintolerable 1"

DUNIFRIES.—It is rumoured that bur county member, J.-J.
Hope Johnstone, Esq., of Annandale, is about to become a
peer, and that James Macalpine Leny, Esq., of Daliavinton,
has consented, at a private meeting of conservativesAbeld on
Saturday morning, to be named his successor.—Datniriss
Courier.

Penalties to a considerable amount have been lately obtained
in the Isle of Wight against persons who have been seen follow-
ing hounds without having taken out acme certificate. The
penalty and costs have in each case amounted to seven guin'ems,
The annual meeting of the Church Pastoral Aid Society was
held yesterday in the great room, Exeter-hall. The liight Hon.
Lord Ashley was in the hair. The report detailed the pro-
ceedings of the society for the first year. from which it ap-
peared that the grants of the society now aid 132 incumbents of
parishes and districts, having the aggregate population -of
I,USG,OOO souls, in whose spiritual -care before the aia of the
society, only 147 members were eniploN ed.Tpe grants of the
society provide for an addition ,of 123 clergymen, and 21 lay
assistants. The great room was neariy full, and the platform
was crowded with the frieuds and supporters of the society.—
Standard, Wednesday.

SINGULAR DECEPTION OP A MUTINEKR.—OIIe of them pre-
tended to be an idiot, and had so far succeeded in deceiving the
officers, that he was not put in irons like the rest, but merely
placed. under the charge of the sentinel at the cabin door, where
his apparently insane and unmeaning gestures excited the mirth
of all but Lord St. Vincent, who immediately lead him through
and through, and said to him, ant very much mistaken, if you
are not the greatest viilaiu of the whole." The man kept up his
disguise until the trial, and even before the court ; but when, in
t he courseof the investigation, some startling facts were elicited,
three of the prisoners fell down ou their knees and implored for
mercy. From that moment the seeming madman shook off all
diasiwulation,and tesuming his true character, astonished the
court with his animated countenance, and keenly reproached his
accomplices for their meanness and pusillanimity. " For shame!"
he said; " is this the way you give yourselves up; "and then
addressing the president, he said, "Sir, I
_wish to-cross,exarnine
that witness. This he did with the greatest ability, and the must
remarkable acuteness of observation. lit fact, he proved him-
self to he a man of superior talent and education, and fully bore
out the observations of Mr. Pitt, before referredto, he having
been selected front among the rebellious Irish to enter as volun-
teer into the navy, in order to sow the seeds of rebellion and
mutiny in the fleet, or in any regiment to which he might gain
access.—Breaton's Life of St. Vincent.
BtlisroL ANC EXETER RAILWAY.—PubIic confidence in this
undertaking has very materially changed in its favour within
the past few months. The intended opeuin:_t of its parent source,
the Great Western from Loudon to Maideuhead, 28 miles, on or
about the 4th Juue next, will stamp its utilityzjind presage of
return for capital invested; andthe continuous Me from Bristol
being now contracted for to Bridgwater, 33i miles, evinces the
confidence of the Directors in' prosecuting this undertaking
with energy and preseverance. A further contract, it is said,
will stem appear .for part of the road from Bridgwater to
'Taunton, thereby embracing more than one half the dist-
ance between Bristol and Exeter. Such sitnnhaueous co-ope-
ration with the Great Western affords a fair prospect of entitle
funds being provided for its completion. It should be born in
mind, that the examples of those links now in operation in the
main chain of general communication from Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Birmingham to London, which ai once afford the
easy and expeditious transit of postage communication, will he
so materially enhanced upon the speedy completetion of the
Western Hues, that all parts below Bristol and Bridgewater
have a vital interest in aiding rote or the other of these nearer
links, so as to feel and take advantage of the whole,—and that
efforts may be made to induce the ,Directors of the Bristol and
Exeter line to open the works at and (ruin Exeter without delay,
and thereby simultaneous progression may take place, that the
union may be more speedily effected.—Exeter Gazette.
THE BRIGHTON RAcEs.—The Brighton races are in as bad
plight as the Notting-hill nuisance. A meeting was held at the
Town-hall, Brighton, on Friday, for the purpose of reviving
the races, when it was stated that the stakes won last year by
Lord Bentinek, amounting to .Egutt, had not yet been paid,
and that the Duke of Richmond, en being applied to, bad de-
clared that he would not send a horse to run at Brighton if the
money due to Lord Bentinck was not paid. To advertise
stakes without money in hand to pay is a new feature in the
morality of the turf. It was stated at the last meeting that of
late years the company at the races had degenerated into a
mere assemblage of vagabonds. Some few persons benefitted
by the races, but the place was demoralised by them to a fright-
ful extent. Nevertheless, the committee agreed to appoint a
committee to revive the nuisance if possible; but it will be "no
go," there not having been more than fifty persons present,
and yet not a shilling having been subscribed.

LAUGHING LEGISLATORS AND STARVING WEAVERS.—
Sir F. Trench stated in the House of Commons on Monday
evening last that there are fifty thousand 'pour weavers in a.
state of starvation. He added that something ought to he done
for them, and lie wished to.know whether it was intsoded that
ladies should appear at the coronation in liritish manufacture.
This humane and reasonable inquiry WaS met by " a laugh."
from the philanthrophic and rational legislators in parliament.
What a pity it is not to publish the names of these laughing
hyenas. so that they might he laughed at in merited defeat and
disgrace when they again show their hypocritical faces to their
constituents.— Warwickshire Tunes.
Fox.—Fox Was often truly wonderful. Ileiwutrld begin at
full tear, and Toll ou for hours together withotit tiring either
himself or us. Fox was truly amiable in private life, and great
allowance ought to he made torhim: his father was a profligate
politician, and allowed him as much money to gamble with as
ever he wished.—Life of Wilbojiirce.