The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

Nu-other and, an important advantage would result from

such an effort on the liar

of the well-affected shareholders,

which would not b,

Ithout its effect upon the prospects of
the undertaking. A considerable portion of the works being
now let, the directors, it umst be evident, have a certain
ascertained sum to provide for the carrying on of those works,
and must regulate the amount of proprietors upon whom
they can depend for prompt payment. It will, therefore,

materially lessen the pressure for money to individual share-
holders, if the present arrears are satisfied and the entire
proprietary come forward to support the directors with funds
to enable them to progress in their Arduous duties. The
nature of the line is such as to enable the directors to extend
the payment of calls equally, or to the whole period Allowed
for completing the works ; and even should the question
between the litigant proprietors and the directors remain for
a short period unsettled, an energetic and united effort on the
part of the remainder would enable them to complete and
bring into working—and, we believe, profitable working—a
considerable portion of the line out of Manchester without

any inconvenient pressure for money

We are'quite aware, and we shall shortly endeavour to
prove the face, that in sterling mei.it, as an investment, this
line is interior to very few of its rivals, and that its shares
ought to rank as high as those of any undertaking, which has
not had the guaranteed test of experience in working, We

say that we shall endeavour shortly to prove this fact i-but in
the meantime the shareholders should assist our efforts with
the public by paying up their calls at once, and thus proving

. . . . . „ .
that they too have confidence. Let them do this, and the
we venture to predict that not only the danger which eve
attends "a house divided against itself" will pass ow
that they will find themselves in possession of a so

1 Inar-

ketable property, instead of v.-hat is now little better than a
mere liability.

We propose, in an early publication, bringing more fully
before our townsmen the claims of the Sheffield and Man-
chester Railway to a portion of their support. Independent
of its merits as an investment, the opening of this line, us a

communication with a large and important district hitherto
almost shut out from the port of. Liverpool, will confer great
benefits upon the commerce of our town ; and we shall en-
deavour to dissipate, by a fair and candid statement, those
prejudices which we cannot but perceive exist against this
useful and important nndertaking in our own market.

NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—Mr. Jackson of, Pimlico,
who had the Belper contract, and who has been very exten-
sively employed at the Derby station, is engaged to erect a
warehouse for the company in Chesterfield, by the side of the
station. It will be forty-two feet square, and constructed of
stone. Mr. Jackson has also engaged to erect.warehouses
upon a similar plan at the respective stations of Masbro',
Barnsley, and Wakefield.--Leeds Intelligencer.
NORTH MIDLAND RAlLWAY.—Tratfic returns for the
week ending sth September :
Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mails.-E.3010 17 3
Merchandise 4lO 1 7
Minerals
Cattle....

HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY

August 3

,eptember 6, inclusive

Passengers, (42860 parcels, &c
Goods, sheep, &c., about

Thal Heaven! this trip is at an end—
We're just upon " the Start."]
re on that dear Island now

In sadne.s thinks of me ;
Would I could know she does not weep—
[Then sound the pumps, and see !]

leaments are fainter

I
The 1
Than In

Is here, but ah!

e pourtrayed upon this heart—
You Jack ! east off the painter.]

ruby lips; that mild blue eye

The indexof -the soul

My timbers ! don't slid To-11 !

r every siep displays

rom Fas

's fetters, she

To her no homage pays :
That form requires no aid from art—
[She never misses stays n
When parting last—to calm her fears--
" Cheer thee," I cried, "my joy.
A cherub's keeping watch aloft"—
[Come down from there, you boy !]

And when to that loved home again
I wearied shall arrive,

I hear her greet me thus—
Now, d—n it, look alive !]

Oh, Love ! thou dolt thy, Sceptre sway
With more than Monarch's might :
Where's he who dare dispute thy power ?
[Why, Captain, there's " the Wi:ht.
Minstrels to thee attune the lay
That calls forth Beauty's tear ;

-._
Bards quaff Piorianidraughts to thee—
lWhat water have we here?]

Shun those who say the man that weds

Has but his cares increased ;
Such men would go to any lengths—

[Five fatilow, at the least n

Oh, Cupid! present be, when I
With hand and heart requite her;
Hymen ! do thou our path illume—
[Steer clear of that there lighter !)
Night comes ! I'll to my Cabin hie
eind —nor doubt
n my dreams she'll-visit me—
r Now mind and keep her out 13

;ek repose

There--

'Tis Morn ! and wheresoe'er we be
On shore I'll quickly hasten ;
I'm really sick of this suspense—
[Well, here's the Wapping Basin !]

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

WORKING CLASSES OF ENGLAND,
(From the Morning ILerald.) _

e Morning Chronicle of yesterday there appeared
le on the present state and temper of the work-
ing classes in France and England—an article display-
ing a strange mixture of knowledge and of ignorance
in regard to the subject treated of.
The writer in the Chronicle commences by adverting
to those feelings of deep discontent with their condi-
tion which pervade the working classes in France, in
England, and in the United States. He then observes,
" the evil appears to be incident to the present state of
socipl progress; and it demands the best efforts of le-
gislatures to avert the convulsions, of which it threat-
ens to be the harbinger." . _ _

In th
an artic

To allege that the— evil in question is " incident to
the present state of social progress," is, we admit, to
advance nothing definite on the subject. The real
question which arises out of the admitted facts of the
case, is, whether or not the present progress of society
be in the right direction, and whether that progress be
effected on sound principles ? The legitimate infer-
ence from the facts stated by the Chronicle is, we are
disposed to maintain, that the present age, despite its
" march-of-mind" principles of progression, is not so
wise and so happy as other nations have been—ages
far less distinguished than the present by boasting and
self-glorification.

The actual state of feeling amongst certain sections
of the labouring classes is, in some respects, truly de-
scribed by the Chronicle. " The cry is not for more
freedom, but better wages. The attempt is to barricade
out the middle men from industrial interference, and
not the Orleans Bourbons from the government."
" " In both countries there is a sort of
working-class aristocracy, which the rest aim at being
equalised with. The French workmen claim the same
wages for all. The intervention of the contractor or
agent is felt by them as an oppression. They want
toil to be paid, and paid equally in all, without allow-
ing intelligence and industry the advantage to which
they are entitled.

'the movement, in short, resolves itself, as we stated
yesterday, into an anti-property movement. The
Chronicle is, however, to a certain extent, in error in its
description of the character of that movement. It is
not true, for instance, excepting in a certain sense, that
any portion of either French or English workmen
" claim the same wages for all." The workmen who
cling to the anti-property theory may, indeed, be (le,
cribed (although inaccurately) as doing so—inaccu-
ach as the anti-property men hold that the
t system under which the produce of la-
]. into " wages" for one class, and " pro-
r, involves the perpetration of fraud on
The anti-property men, in

rately, ina

existent

boar is divi

wages

the whole produce of labour should
belong to the labourer, or rather to the society at large,
ording to their views, every member of so-
ciety ought to labour, and to contribute the produce of
his industry to the common stock. It is only in the
sense here described, that any section of operatives
claims " equal wages" for all classes orlabourers.
Higher wages may, indeed, he claimed for all kinds of
labourers ; but " equal wages" are not amongst the
demands of the most discontented of the operatives in

either country
The Chreni,
" unskilled la

proceeds to admit that on the
s" the whole brunt of modern
Is. The " unskilled labourers"
:eta' competition with steam and
er a sense of what they cannot
"And, moreover,"

must end

groan

avoid feclin

adds the C

)cial injustice

mode th

hronicle, " if ihey be not educated in the
mild most benefit them, there is a kind of