The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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__mars in habitations the Christians had occupied. It is saia L.
some thousands of individuals thus perished. A battle,
l' ii a RIVER PLATE.—The Paris Presse announces upon we are also told, had taken place between the Turkomans, 1
authority that the settlement proposed by Mr. Hood of under Cara Achmet Khan, and the Persians, commanded I ,„,
the differences between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video by Suleiman Kdan, in consequence of a genera uprising lea
bas received the sanction of Prance, and that orders have of the Gokhlans, when the latter lost 700 killed, and Bury s,
been transmitted to Bar
Deffandis to sign at once. some thousand prisoners. The cholera was raging most tender, a, , with two carriages and a horse-box, through
fearfully in several parts of Persia, when these accounts
EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—TO arrow to what extent a some. defect in the rail, were thrown off the line, and the
fission for gambling is carried, we may cite the came away.—Standard. engine embedded itself in the side of a cutting, the tender,
of a free coloured fireman Co board a steamboat on DESCRIPTION OF CRACOW.—"Cracow," says ,M'Cul- carrieges, and horse-box being upset near it, and all of
baring lost all his money at loch, "is a small and nominally independent state of them more or less damaged. There were no lives lost.
'orn, which he also lost, his Central Europe, formerly part of the kingdom of Poland ; In August, 1845, the shares of the Great Western Com-
eee, and was actually sold by the having N. and E. Poland; W. Prussian Silesia ; and S. parry stood at £152 premium. They are now at some £47
eared—Pennsylvania Inquirer. Gallicia. Length, E. to W. forty-six miles ; breadth, premium. There have been, however, new issues, and
dent occurred on the sth ult. at Zeiten varying from five to fifteen miles ; area, 488 square miles. the premiums on these (say £l5) must be added to show
Bournow, near Constantinople. A chimney which was Population (1837), 131,462, of whom 37,027 belong to the the comparative value. Taking these circumstances into
:,wilding at the imperial manufactory, and which had been city. The budget voted for the three years, from 1831 to account, the diminished value of the property is no less
raised to the height of nearly 150 feet, suddenly fell down, 1841, fixed the annual revenue and expenditure at .1245,300. than £9O a share ! Now, to what must we attribute this
and more than 100 of the workmen employed in its erec- At the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the territory was fearful fall ? We have no hesitation in answering, to the
tion were crushed. Of these 50 were dead when extri- created into an independent neutral republic, under the foolish, we might almost say insane, quarrel with the Lon-
cated from the ruins. The accident is attributed to the protection of Russia, Austria, and Pruesia..... But, since don and Birmingham.—Railway Times.
false c ilculations of the engineer. 1826, the city has been garrisoned by Austrian troops ; During the year 1841, the number of first-class pas-
A SUSPENDED BISHOP.—At a diocesan convention held and the government is substantially and in fact adminis- sengers carried by the London and Birmingham Company
at New York the first week in October, the only business tered by the resident agents of Austria, Russia, and was 311,777, and for the year 1845 the number amounted
of importance was the question whether ex-Bishop On- Prussia. And this, in troth, is the only result that could to 388,884. The second-class passengers for 1841 were
derdonk should receive his salary, notwithstanding his have been anticipated. No doubt it would be desirable 386,106, but for the year 1845 they numbered 726,362.
being suspended from office on the ground of immorality (we do not know that) to have small independent states For the year 1841 the third-class passengers were 69,713,
and impurity. After a most tumultuous debate, use reso- like this scattered up and down the continent, to serve as but for 1645 they were 330,258. While the first-class
lotion directing the treasurer to pay him over the sum of foci for the diffusion of political information (and rebel- passengers increased nearly about 25 per cent., the
2.500 dollars annually, out of the episcopal funds, was lion), as asylums to which persecuted individuals (and second-class increased nearly 100 per cent., and the third-
carried by 169 ayes against 76 nays. traitors) might resort, and as depots for foreign produce. class nearly 500 per cent.
SPAIN.—The Madrid papers of the 18th mention that But the circumstances that make the formation of such ACCIDENT ON THE M (BLAND RAILWAY.—On Thurs.
thirty-one ladies of high rank were to receive the decora- states desirable," continues Mr. M'Culloch, "are quite day week the train due at 6.40 p.m. ran off the line about
lion of Maria Louisa, as a remembrancer of the Royal sufficient to hinder them from ever having any real ex- a quarter of a mile on the Rugby side of Ullesthorpe ;it
marriages. On the 17th the theatre of Cruz was honoured istence. Is it to be imagined that the governments of again got on the rails at the crossings at Ullesthorpe,
with the visit of the Queen and her august Consort. The Russia, Prussia, and Austria, should be so inattentive to but. some of the wagons having got injured, tore up the
Timpo charges the government with employing unlawful their own interests (and security) as to permit a state like rails for a distance of more than half a mile, which caused
means among the electors of Cordova. with the view of Cracow. on the very borders of their territories, to become about thirty wagons to be thrown off, and completely ob-
preventing the return of Senor Pacheco, the opposition an asylum for individuals obnoxious to them, (that is, structed both lines of rail. The damage the Midland
leader. The authorities of Toledo are accused of similar plotting the overthrow of their respective governments.) Company will sustain must amount to some thousands—
atrocities. and wbere the latter might prosecute their projects in upwards of 20 wagons are a complete wreck, and goods
TAHITI. —A memorial, signed by the magistrates, the safety ? To suppose such a thing would be tolerated is to an immense value completely damaged, consisting of
established and dissenting ministers, and persons of every absurd. How long should we permit a similar state to hops, tea, fruit, hogsheads of gin, wine, brandy, &c.
religious persuasion, as well as men of political parties in exist on the confines of our Indian empire? And have PRESTON AND WYRE.—The adjourned half-yearly
Beverley, has been sent to John Towneley, Esq., MX., the Russians, Prussians, and Austrians less cause for meeting of this company was held at Fleetwood on Wed-
to be presented to Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's jealousy." nesday. At the meeting in April, Mr. Cottam was ap-
principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, requesting pointed to audit the accounts, and from his statement it
his lordship to use his influence, in a friendly remon- _.--------- appeared that now, after deducting from income all the
exiled with the government of France, on behalf of the LAW INTELLIGENCE. expenses belonging to the half-year ending 31st August,
exiled inhabitants of the island of Tahiti •, and also re- a balance of £lO,OOO remains sufficient to pay a dividend
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questing the French government to allow the poor peopleof 14s. 21 per share on the old shares; and on the half-
In the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Coltman delivered
to retire, along with their Queen, to another island. shares A , of ls, 5d., being after the rate of £5 13s. 2d.
judgement in the case Flight v. Gibbs. It was to the ef-
Such reasonable requests cannot surely be refused. feet that Alderman Gibbs had not been legally elected per annum. and a dividend of that amount was declared.
Caaeow.—The Cracow Gazette of the 17th publishes Churchwarden of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, in 1844. —The directors were empowered to raise further capital
a long account of the formal taking possession of Cracow On Tuesday, Lord Chancellor Cottenham did not at- for a branch line from Lytham to Blackpool.
by Austria on the preceding day. A salute of 21 guns was tend Court, in consequence of there being no more busi- MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.—A special general meet-
fired, there was a service at the cathedral, and all possible ness before him undisposed of. The same thing occurred ing of the shareholders in this line was held at Manches-
demonstrations were made by the Austrian authorities. once in Lord Brougham's time, and once in Sir Thomas ter, on Wednesday. The number of directors was in-
The public buildings were illuminated, but the feeling More's time; but never, we believe, before or since. creased to thirty-six, and power was given to create new
shown by the people was that of deep melancholy. The However, the existence of three Vice Chancellors makes shares in the company, in compliance with the provisions
new arrangement is condemned unanimously by all the the occurrence now nothing very wonderful. and powers of the several acts incorporating the company
French papers ; some from a real regard to Poland, and In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the rule of proprietors of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal
others for the sake of embarrassing the ministry.. It is for a criminal information against Mr. Busfeild Ferrand Navigation and Railway, and the Liverpool and Bray
becoming the general belief that a storm is rising against was made absolute. It was obtained by Mr. Lewis, one Railway, respectively, with this company. Discretionary
31. Guizot, which he will not be able to withstand. M- of the Poor-law Commissioners, for a libel in a letter to powers were also conferred upon the directors to enter
ready some of the papers have been obliging enough to the Times newspaper, charging that gentlemen with a into arrangements with any other railway company which
name his successor—M. Mole. conspiracy to send a false report to Sir James Graham, they might deem beneficial.
Ten years ago the province of South Australia was of proceedings in the Keighley Union, to upset Mr. Fer- EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE.—Avery extraor-
tenanted only by kangaroos and a few straggling natives, rands statement in the House of Commons. dinary event has just taken place in the works connected
physically and mentally the lowest of the human race. PRIVILEGE OF A MARRIED WOMAN.—In the Court with the Scottish Central Railway. It was necessary to
It is at present the scene of the enterprise and energy oferect an embankment fifty feet high in a field near Allan
of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, an action to recover an
more than eighteen thousand individuals of English race; upholstery bill was tried, in which the defendant pleaded Bridge, where the railway was to pass. The works ac-
hes an active and extending mining industry, a great that she was married, and that her husband was living, cordingly commenced, and many thousand loads of earth
breadth of laud under cultivation, and a greater covered although she had been long separated from him. To this were piled in the requisite place, and the work was leftifor
with flocks. It imported in 1842 from this country to it was answered, that she represented herself to be a the purpose of acquiring solidity, but upon visiting it again
the value of some £32,000, and exported in the same year widow when she obtained the goods. Lord Denman told it was found to have disappeared, with the exception of a
few feet.. On inquiry it was found that the field had ori
to Great Britain to the value of £23,000, to Van Diemen's the jury the only question they had to try was, whether
Land, to the value of £B,OOO. And South Australia, we ginally been a bog, and the weight of the soil necessary
or not the defendant was a married woman. The jury,
learn from the Governor's financial statement of 30th to form the embankment had broken through the external
being satisfied that she was, found a verdict for the de-
June last, is in this, the tenth year of its existence, a self- solid earth.
fendant.
supporting colony. The revenue for 1846 is estimated at ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND
HAS A NUN CIVIL RIGHTS?—The following pare- GLASGOW.—On Friday. night an occurrence of a very
£42,970 ; the expenditure at £32,677. graph makes reference to a law-suit pending in Ireland at
RIOT AT Roo LOGNE-SUB-NIER.—On Wednesday after- serious charcter took place on this railway. The half-
the present time :—" A curious question is now pending
noon Boulogne was the scene of complete commotion, past eight o'clock train from Edinburgh having reached
before the Irish Chancellor, whether a nun can have civil
occasioned by a shipment of cows and potatoes for Eng-the Wincliburgh cut, the engine suddenly came into vio-
ri hts, or whether she be not absolutely dead in the eye of
land. The mob would not allow them to be embarked, HI ' The eis M Canby v. 11i'Larthy. All lent collision with a mass of rock which had slipped down
and a severe conflict took place between them and the pn- parties law.re RomacnasCatholics ; and Sir Colman O'Lou h- the southern embankment and fallen upon the line. The
lice, during which the sous prefet, en grand tenue, the lie, a Boman Catholic barrister, will argue in support of effect was to throw the engine across both rails, and pro-
mayor and authorities, arrived ; they were received with a the proposition which bars the enjoyment of the claim.,, duce a fearful concussion of the carriages. The engine
but
dashed to pieces, and several of the carriages damaged ;
volley of stones and potatoes, several of which fell heavily If
our Protestant State gives a legal sanction to the
we are appy to say that none of the passenzers suffered
upon some of the great men in office. The sous prefet usages of the Church of Rome, then the deluded creature injury. The driver and stoker were thrown off the engine,
had his order torn from his breast and was nearly killed. whose case is in Chancery can have no more civil rights and escaped with some slight bruises.
During the time the authorities were seeing the potatoes than if she had been dead twenty years before. We he' LABOUR REQUIRED FOR
d RAILWAYS.—At the meeting
put on beard the Britannia steamer, a ludicrous farce took lieve a part of the ritual employed in nun making is a
place ; some boys and women cut the ropes to which kind of funeral service—a requiem over one utterly dead of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, on
Wednesday last, Mr. Houldsworth, the chairman, calcu-
twenty-five cows were attached ; the beasts being set at to the world, and separated from all its requirements, du-
liberty, some were driven into the water, and others ties, and sympathies. It is of the very nature of such a rotated that the railways for which legislative sanction
booted and pelted about the town, to the terror of the in- condition that the novice should be prepared to make so had already been granted, and which are not formed. will
habitants. The mob, about seven in the evening, paraded absolute a renunciation. But whether the State—Great require the employment of 500,000 men for ten years,
the -streets, singing the Marseillaise, and when they ar- Britain, the land of Cranmers, and Ridleys, and Knoxes— supposing that this number could be withdrawn from the I
rived in the Rue de l'Eau, opposite the mayor's house, will legitimate the heartrending, unnatural rules of mo- general labour market of the country, which is the maxi- I
they began breaking his windows. The magistrate ran nachism, is another matter. It is surprising the question mum that can be withdrawn. He estimated the maximum
out of his house, sword in hand, and if the national guard should be mooted at all. What have our courts of law to cost of the railways now in the course of formation, or for
(horse) had not suddenly come up, the worthy mayor do with the senical—rather farcical—death of Romish which acts have been got, in Great Britain, at £200,000,000,
would have been severely 'handled. Mr. Adam, the mayor, in of which £160,000,000 will have to be expended on
perverts disposing of questions of property ?—.Edin-
has received several anonymous letters, stating that un- bur_oh Post. . those in England, and of this £160,000,000, the sum of
less he prevents the exportation of potatoes be must suffer X 120,000,000 will be spent for labour.
the consequence. If a stop is not put to the exportation, Not one of the least interesting features of the electric
it is feared serious, and, perhaps, fatal consequences will THE CORN-LAWS AND RENTS. telegraph, in the case of accident, is its power to explain
arise. The town is at present quiet, and several of the -- delay and appease suspense, even should a catastrophe
ringleaddis have been arrested. TUE DEPLORABLE EFFECTS OF THE REPEAL OF TUE CORN occur at 100 or 200 miles away. Take an instance :
Tem Jaws IN POLA.ND.—WA.RSAW, Nov. 6.—Since LAws.—We understand that at the Michaelmas audits of the " Train off the line at Rugby (said A. B. at Newcastle,
Right Hon. Lord Feversham, held at Helmsley and Kirhymoor- who had gone to fetch the mail the other day), and won't
the et of October, the memorable day on which the Jews
in the kingdom, by laying aside their national costume, side, last week, not one of his lordship's
.numerous tenantry arrive till one." It is useful, too, for convivialities. Two
made default, and that there was not a single arrear.—York.
made the first step towards civilisation, has afforded us of the legal profession meeting accidentally at Leicester,
shireman. '
many comical scenes through the uncomfortable positionone invited the other to dinner; but the invited excused
We hope we shall never have worse "effects " to deplore
in which the Jews have been placed by it. From all thehimself, saying, "I've to see Hudson, at York, to-day,"
from " the repeal of the Corn Laws ;" but the " York- " Oh," said the other, " Hudson mayn't be at home ;
great cities of the kingdom respectable looking Jews ar-
shireman" doesn't exhibit the customary shrewdness of but, stay, we'll ask the telegraph I" The lawyers linked
rived in all the splendour of their most costly silk pelisses
his shire if he supposes people can be gulled by a para. arms, ascertained, by a
whisper from York. that Mr.
trimmed with sable, with their beards and ringlets in the
graph like this. The destruction of the potato crop bas Hudson " was not at home," having been suddenly sum-
best order to obtain a delay at least for some years; but
given an accidental value. to corn,
. and through a favour-.
they had come to meet their ill fate, for they were here de- moved to London, and made themselves at home in Lei.
able harvest the haggards of the farmer are well filled
prived of their silk pelisses, their beards, and their locks rester.—Railway Chronicle.
with wheat. He bas then the unusual conjunction of a EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—ThiS company has
by some barbers, who had received the orders of the po-
high price and a
.large produce, and because with this *given notice of the following lines :—A. branch railway
lice, and the poor disgraced Jews stole clandestinely out
double advantage.he is able to pay his rent, we are to ac- from the main line at Accrington to Clitheroe, and from
of the city. A few days ago a similar event took place,
cept "the repeal of the Corn Laws "as a boon for which near Whalley to Padiham, with a branch to unite with
which excited no little sensation, in the remotest part of
the country, where " Chapictism" exercises its powerful we,.. . says thet Cork . Constitution! _ should _be grateful ! i the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding line, near the
influence on the demoralization of the Jews. A company, uiPera potato petiletzcee,
growercorn will no doubt comman a i village of 'Mitton. A branch from the main line at Orms-
consisting of 80 men, with their Rabbi at their head, ar- price thatrent;
will enable both to live. and to pay kirk to Southport ; and an extension of the Liverpool,
his but how will it e when the potato is (as it may Ormskirk, and Preston, and the Blackburn and Preston
Prize at the gates of our city, in order to obtain from theand
again be) abundant, when consequently corn, from
Pnc-Governor permission to retain their old costume. lines of the East Lancashire Railway into Preston, with
the diminished demand, may briny little more than half
Punts. strange a company, which might be distinguished an inpendent station accommodation thete. A line for
its present rate ) What will the Yorkshireman say then 'th better •E L h'and Manches-
at a distance by their strange gesticulations, was not per- • . • eet connecting the ast ancas ire
However, the farmers are paying their rent, and if our
milted to enter the city without inquiry, may be conceived. ter and Leeds Railway in the town of Burnley. Certain
contemporary owns any, let him take them, and be thank-
General A—, the chief of the police, being informed ofdeviations in the line of the East Lancashire Railway at
ful. It is more, we assure.
in, him, than he wauln have
the strange party before the city, ordered that they shouldan Lomb, Haslington, and Rawtenstall, with a short coal
opportunity of doing if he lived lreland. Here the rents
be immediately put under a good escort to the police of. branch at the latter place. An extension of the East
are carried, not to the landlord, but to the bank. There
fire ; and there, that without speaking a word to them,Lancashire Railway from a point south of the town of
their beards and locks should be cut off, and their pelisses they are lodged, and thence, as we remarked last week, through It c .
Bury, `way fi ld
slit up behind. In half an hour the poor people felt the in springy to be
they will will in all probability be drawn ,
New
, LIABILITY OF PROVISION AL COMMITTEE I%IEN.
cold air on their bald unprotected faces, and when they tied by the defaulters to Canada, or Sydney,
recovered from thcir consternation, they found themselves All this time the land lies unfilled, and the plundered Wednesday, the chief -Baron delivered judgment in the
again at the gates of Warsaw, de
ire had been con- landlord, while struggling to support the labourer through cases of Reynell v. Lewis, and Wld Hop
kin. both
y v. .-,
veved. They had now no further desire than to be allowed the scarcity of this year. is left to look forward to the actions against provisional railway committee men, in
to take the clippings of their beards home, that they might {amine of the nest. This, friend Yorkshire, is the way h• ' d• t • f 1 ' •ff the li
w Ica ver lc s were given or the p mots s, OP ca-
bury them in their cemetery. These, however, were dis- in which things go on in Ireland ; but we are not, though lion for the court being for new treats. His lordship held
persed to all points of the compass, and the travellers had the conclusion would be as allowable as yours, inclined to that the mere fact af a man being a member of a provi-
now nothing more to do in Warsaw than to satisfy the proclaim it us the " effect" of " the repeal of the corn sional committee was net sufficient of itself to render him
laws."—Cork Constitution.
barber's apprentices who came for their pay. liable for the delats of the. company, as it amounted to no

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ks the quarter-past one o'clock train was proceeding from
-tcnstall to Bury, on Monday last, and when o❑ the
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A dreadful acc