The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-29 00:00:00

.CIPTURE OF THE VIXEN

Sir STRATFORD CANNING presented a petition regarding the
seizure, by Russia, on the north-east coast of the Black Sea, of
an English vessel (the Vixen, it was understood), complaining
of the irregularity of the seizure, end the non-interference of
the British authorities. He stated that he should bring forward
a motion on the subject on the .7th June.
Lord PA:LmEttsron observed that he would content himself
with remarking on one assertion in the petition—namely, that
the expedition vas sanctioned by the Foreign-office—iu other
language, by him ; it was totally and entirely untrue.

- - .
•NEGRO A'PPRENTICESHI'P.
Sir E. ANTLuttor stated that it was not his intention to bring
in any bill founded on the resolution regarding the immediate
emancipation of the negroes.
Lola J. RUSSELL said that, had any-such bill been proposed,
the government must have strenuously opposed it. 11 e intended
on Monday to move resolutions, declarrn that it was not ex-
pedient to adopt every measure which could tend to secure every
advantage and privilege heretofore enacted and contemplated
for the apprenticed negroes; and that the most anxious atten-
tion of the house should be directed to strengthen the condition
of the negro population when they-should be entitled to freedom.
It was agreed, on the motion of Lord J. RussELL that the
chaplain be directed to preach before the house on the 29th of
May.
iloxnuncii ELECTION.
The adjourned debate on Sir J. Graham's motion relating to
1-lay.ick as a polling place, and the Roxlmrglz election, was then
resumed, and chiefly occupied the remainder of the sitting.
After much discussion, in which the lord advocate, Sir kohl,
Peel. Lord John Russell, &c. took part, the house divided on
Si, J. Graham's motion. The numbers were : for the
25C, against it 272; majority against the motion 22. motion

The matristrateg of hull have resolved to pvoliibit parties
from hawking and cr3,ing shrimps in the streets on Sundays,
the act of parliament only specif)-ing mackerel and milk as
alticles allowed to be sold un the Sabbath day.

01)ESING_01"I'llE MANCHESTER AND BOLTON
RAILWAY.

'l'lle opening of the Manchester and Bolton Portion of the
intetidei " Manchester, Balton, and Bury Railway" took place
on Thursday morning, when the directors, and a number of
the proprietors and their friends, proceeded to an experimen-
tal trip from this town to Bolton and back, preparatory to the
line being thrown open to the public on Tuesday next.—Amongst
the company present were James Brancker, Esq., chairman of
the directors; John Bibby, Esq., director; E. D. Falkner,
Esq., ditto ; George Parsons, ditto; W. S. Miller, Esq., law-
clerk ; James Ritson Esq. treasurer; John Hawkshaw, Esq.,
engineer; Robert Price, 'Esq., (of Liverpool,) together with
the following proprietors :—James Hutchinson, Esq, R. C.
Harvey, Esq., C. S. Parker, Esq., John Moore, Esq., .1. G.
Chamberlain, Esq., John Fletcher, Esq., Benj. Frankland, Esq.,
Francis Gouthwaite, Esq., C. J. J ullott, Esq., John McFarlane,
Esq., Jas. Tyrer, Esq., Robert Marshall, Esq., It. H French,
Esc!, H. H. Grounds, Esq.,. W. Burland, Esq., W. Dugriale,
Esq., E. Hore, Esq., John More, Esq,, Crawford Logan, Esq..
-Win. Logan Dlauifold, Esq., Peter Manifold, Esq., Lawrence
Peel, Esq., J. A. Timm, Esq., Alfred Webb, Esq., Peter
Wright, Esq., William Bromilow, Esq., and Arthur Thompson,
Esq.
It is, perhaps, known to most of our readers that this line of
railway was originally intended to have been formed on the bed
of the present canal, and that valuable property was bought by
the railway proprietory ostensibly with that view; but it was
thought advisable, after an act of parlianieet had been obtained
for that purpose, to repair and continue the canal in use, and
apply for another bill (which was ultimately obtained) to en-
able the company to form a line of railway independent of it.
At the same time the company availed themselves of the excel-
lent opening into Manchester which that canal and the adja-
cent land, forming part of the purchase, gave them, by bring-
ing their railway into the town along its banks, whilst their
amended act gave them the power of diverging considerably to
the left of it beyond Pendleton and Agecroft. These explana-
tions, perhaps, may be necessary to some of our readers, in or-
der to give them an idea of the reasons which have led to the
completion .of the line having been so long protracted beyond
the time it was reasonably supposed-such a work would occupy
in construction. Thus, though the first bill was obtained in
1831, yet owing to the time which the company had to wait be-
fore they could get their amended bill through parliament, it
was not till the latter part of the year 1835 that a portion of the
forming seven-teriths of the whole could be commenced;
and when it is recollected that the works on this line are of
greater magnitude in proportion to its length than those of any
other railway in the kingdom—there being scarcely a yard of it
Which has not been attended either with erhbanktnenta or cut-
tings of from three to 25, and in some places-of more than 30
feet—it is not surprising that itsCOmpletion has occupied nearly
three years. The line commences with a temporary station in
New Bailey-street, and runs over a noble viaduct of brick-
work, consisting of 38 arches of about 21 feet span, and nearly
of the same height, (crossing Irwell-street,)and is continued by
an embankment and other arches over the company's canal and
Ordsall Lane, to near Oldfield Road, under which it passes by a
slight cutting similar to that on the Manchester and Liverpool
line, From this point it runs by the side of the canal undei
Windsor Bridge, and it continues from thence nearly parallel
with it through a part of Mr. Vitigerald's land at Pendleton, as
far as Agecroft Bridge, where it leaves it and diverges consi-
derably to the left. The line continues from this point over the
beautiful valley of Clifton, entering Pepper Hill near to Clifton
Hall, and passes through Clifton Wood to the Village of Ring-
ley, and from thence by way of Chimer dough, through part of
which it is carried by a tunnel of 975 feet in length, to Halshaw
Moor, passing through the estates of Benjamin Rawson, Esq.,
of Darley Hall, and of John Bentley, Esq. A little beyond this
point it passes under the Manchester and Bolton turnpike road,
and a few yards further. on under the road to Farnworth, at a
distance of little more than a mite from Bolton, and continues
through Burnden, passing Liver-street, Bolton, under a stone
bridge of eight arches, and terminating at Bradford Square,
near to Trinity Church, where a Commodious station, and
booking and other offices have been erected. The only stations
. on the line are at Ringley and at Agecroft bridge.
The weather on Thursday was extremely favourable for the
opening excursion, and at a little before eleven o'clock the
directors, proprietors, and their friends, including ladies and
gentlemen from Manchester, Bolton, Liverpool, Bury, and
other towns, to the number of about 150, assembled at the station
in New Bailey-street, where a first class train of five carriages,
attached to the Victoria engine, and a second class consisting
of one first class and tour second class carriages attached to the
Fairfield engine, were waiting to convey them along the line.
'rhe first class train, containing principally the directors and a
few of their friends, with the reporters of the Manchester press.
left the station precisely at eleven o'clock, amidst the shouts of
a concourse of people assembled to witness the event, and of the
workmen on the line. The speed was gradually increased till
the train had passed under Windsor Bridge, when it moved
along at a rapid rate, reaching Agecroft Bridge in about eight
minutes; the village of Ringlev in IG; Halshaw Moor in 20
minutes; and arrived at the station in Bolton, a distance of
neraly 10 miles, in 2G minutes after leaving Manchester, having
made no stoppage on the road. We believe, however, that the
ordinary time of accomplishing the journey by the first class
trains will not occupy inure than twenty minutes. The second
class train, which left Manchester hi minutes later than the
first, arrived at Bolton 12 minutes before 12 o'clock, having
accomplished the distance in 38 minutes, including two stop-
pages on the road, one of five and the other of three minutes.
Great numbers of persons had assembled at various points
along the line, and especially near the terminus in Bolton, and
loudly cheered the trains as they passed.
We may here mention the carriages of which the company
have 15 of the first class and 21 second class, mule by Messrs.
Mather and Chantler, Pin-mill, Ardwick, Mr. Carr, Bridge-
street, Messrs. Melling and Co. Green-heys, and Mr. Cooper,
of Bolton. They are equally elegant and commodious with
those on the Grand Junction line, the second class being en-
closed and differing only from the first class in not being lined
and cushioned, and in having no arms to the seats. They are
pannelled with good bay wood, handsomely painted and var-
nished; the window of the door is of one large square of plate
glass, and there is a smaller pane of plate glass a quarter of an
inch thick on each side the door, so that the passenger can sit
in comfort, protected from the weather, without been excluded
from a view of the country through which he is passing. They
form a striking contrast with the unsightly-luoking pig-pens
called second class carriages on the Liverpool and Manchester
line. The company have six engines in readiness, and four
others are expected to be ready in a few days. The Victoria
engine, we perceived, by the time it bore, was made by Mr.
Edward Bury, of Liverpool, NI e have before noticed that the
rails on this line, instead of, as on the Liverpool line, being
laid down on sleepers placed equi-distant a few feet from each
other, are laid upon a continuous line of sleepers formed of large
blocks of solid stone of nearly a foot in thickness, by 18 inches
in width and four feet in length, (and on a great portion of line
on long balks of timber, Kyauised to prevent decay) sunk on a
foundation of about 12 inches of gravel cemented with lime.
The rails are of great strength, about four yards in length and
slightly sunk in the stone, restin either end on an iron chair, 0
to which they are secured by and screws. The chair is
also let into the stone, being sec red red on each side by strong
bolts running through the blocks of stone. The joints are formed
with great nicety, and the work appears altogether of a sub-
stantial and lasting character. The effect of this to those who
have travelled on other lines is soon felt, the motion of the car-
riages being much easier, and especially un the wood sleepers,
when it is scarcely perceptible.
Fur the journey back the whole of the carriages forming the
two trains were joined into one long and splendid train of car-
lieges, with the Victoria engine in front and the Fairfield in
the rear; and the whole moved off at a slow pace from Bolton
at about a quarter to one o'clock, stopping occasionally on dif-
ferent parts of the line for the company to get out and view the
formidable cuttings and embankments which had been required
in the construction of the railway. The first of these which at-
tracted attention was the heavy cutting on passing under the
Fern worth-road, about a mile and a half from Bolton, which
runs through the park of B. Rawson, Esq. to a point near the
church on Halshaw Moor, gradually deepening to 21 feet below
the surface, where the line enters the tunnel we have already
mentioned. Over this cutting are several light and elegant
stone foot-bridges, connecting the estates through which the
line has been cut. By a judicious contrivance of the engineer,
the tunnel has been lighted by a shaft being sunk from the sur-
face,
about equi-distant from either end, which lis covered with
a glass dome; and the unpleasant seusation felt by many per-
sons in passing through the dark tunnels on other lines is thus
obviated. The time occupied in passing through the tunnel by
a first class train is barely 30 seconds. Pursuing the course of
the line from Bolton homewards, it emerges from the tunnel in
Clamer Clough and through a deep cutting in Stone Clough on
the village of Ringley, and is carried through it upon an em-
bankment of great height, and more than a quarter of a mile in
length, taking its course by a deep cutting through Clifton
Wood, the property of the family of the late Ellis Fletcher,
Esq. Indeed from the tunnel through Ringiev, Clifton Wood,
Pepper Hill, and the valley of Clifton, a distance of several
miles in length, the works are of a most stupendous nature, and
created much surprise amongst the visitors who were strangers
to the line. Nor were the company more surprised at time ob-
stacles which nature had fruitlessly opposed to art and the in-
domitable spirit and enterprise of man, than they were delighted
on many points of the line with the beautiful landscapes spread
before them, especially to the left [on the right hand of time road
from Manchester]; and indeed we should imagine that to the
class of passengers bent on pleasure no portion of equal length
of any line in England will afford such a variety of pleasing,
romantic, and picturesque scenery. The country along the
whole line (except where interrupted by cuttings), as you pass
it in the railway carriages, appears like a series of constantly-
revolving panoramic views of the most diversified anti striking
character. The last great work which the company alighted to
look at was the embankment from Agecroft Hall to Clifton
Hall, a distance of from 400 to 500 yards, above 20 ft. in height,
and which must have beeu raised at an enormous cost, the na-
ture of the ground having been such that the canal had to be
diverted and the embankment raised on its former bed. The
company were again taken up at Agecroft Bridge, and a few
minutes sufficed to bring them once more to the station in New
Bailey-street, from whence a considerable portion of the gen-
tlemen proceeded, about two o'clock, to partake of

THE LUNCH.
Provided for them in the large room
with choice wines.
Bridge-st. where a splendid cold cldolla
tioant, Ladyman's Hotel,
resided; JAMES RITSON,
BRANCKER, Esq., of Liverpool, u
was in readiness. Covers were •id for about 21)0. JasiEs
After a most hearty dinner,
Esq., occupying the -vice chair.
country air wonderfully Improves
rather than a lunch,—the
_ becloth having been withdrawn, the
your citizen's appetites,
,:r companyhe c formedtiAi It
l,i
was sure it must be a source of great
Lea
n the birth-day
otiyso,olft'uotutrhagtra itciboauds
d so happened thatthe '-
eveitsinto a convivial party.
opening of
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)engine whit h bad takeu them on
Queen—(a burst
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their first trip along _
line was named after her majesty.
(Renewed applause.) He begged to propose to them "tlie
also happened that the
t%h•eory .
health of her Majesty Queen Victoria the First, with nine times
nine." The toast was heartily given with the proposed cheers.
_lii giving the next toast the Chairman said, after a long and
trying period of preparation the Manchester and Bolton
railway had been opened. In proposing that they should drink
success to it he would only appeal to the company to ask them-
selves, from what they had just seen of the line, whether it
was a work which had been lightly done or lightly undertaken.
They had witnessed upon it more stupendous works than were
to be met with upon any other line of equal length in the
country; and though it had been thought by many that the
outlay upon it was too great as regarded expense, he believed,
himself, it could be shown that no inure money than was neces-
sary had been spent upon it. He, like many there, had held
shares in it whilst in the market they had been up to lOU preht-
uion], and down to 50 discount; but whatever might be thtiug
of it by others, he had good reason for believing that their
vi-
cissitudes were now over, and that the railway would friliattut
steh.ils
day take its rank among the first in the kingdom. A
He could safely say that for himself he would.
and ou his shares in it for any other company's extstinln;
various parts
look-
ing at the great undertakings now progressingirf t 1 a link of communi-
ot the kingdom, with which this must nut now( exchangepp
therefore, S
cation, he must say that he thought its
with its years. tie begged to propose,
The next
'(Cheers.)
the Manchester and Bolton Railway/
success wo,u.ld_nicnccersesastoe
prosperity—the town
and trade of Manchester." (Cheers.)
toast was "one of the great bases of our
had witnessed. this
The VICE-CHAIRMAN said the company

MAN £9, s:IS

day the preparatory opening of the Manchester and Boltod
Railway, a work which he hoped would repay the -proprietary
fir the expense to which they had gone in arconstruction. He
had pleasure in informing them that the directors had, the day
previous, directed a dividend to be made upon mw branch of
the company's property, he meant the canal; and it would be
speedily carried into effect. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that
from both, in a short time, the shareholders would derive a pro-,
fitable return. Their worthy chairman had remarked that the
opening to-day had been most auspicious, owing to its being the
birth-day of our gracious and beloved sovereign, whose name,
was borne by one of the engines. He begged to observe also
that the name of the other engine was the "Fairfield;" and
be
could not help wishing that the proprietors might ever have Ei
" fair field" open to them. They had 'had an addition to these
engines with them, also the representatives of that mighty en-,
gine which regulated and goYerned our social system—whose,
effect was felt at times in stimulating us all to do our duties-7-
and whose mighty power was too well known and felt in 011,1.
kingdom not to command respect—he meant, " the Press.
(Cheers.) He might also mention as a circumstance
day that they ha been honoured with the company of the l,
sex. He would say then let " the press" and "the fair sex ge
together ;—( cheers and laughter)—and he beocred to propose as
the next toast "the press and the fair sex." (Cheers.)
rests.s,
.
Mr. BttosiiLow, of St. Helen's, said he rose to prof with
toast which he was sure the whole company would agree ;sr':
hint ought to be drunk in a bumper He begged to observe'
that he had been one of the first shareholders in this line, he
let others form their opinions of its value as they might,.
would only say for himself—and he knew something of the Ithe
that I won't sell !" (Laughter and cheers.) He begged
tit
propose "the health of the Working Committee." (Cheers.)
Drunk with three times three.
Mr. FALKNER, having been called upon to respond, said
though it was many years since this line was first projected,
since which time the Leeds and Selby Company had obtained
a bill, formed a line, and were at work upon it; yet this com-
pany must not deceive themselves as to the real time this (the
Bolton and Manchester Railway) had occupied in eonstiuction.
It was but about three years since they obtained their bill for the
construction of the greater portion of the line. In 18.31, it was
true, they obtained a bill to make a railway by converting the
existing canal into one. And here he might observe, that the,
purchase of that canal by this company was a master-stroke 0'
policy. It enabled the company to obtain into Manchester such
an entrance as'they could not otherwise have possibly obtained,
by the purchase of a piece of ground which would one day return
them a honest profit. (Hear, hear.) In 1832 they went before
parliament for-an act to amend their former one, and to enable
the company to carry the railway along the side of the canal;
finding that the benefit derivable from the latter was such as Dot
to be overlooked, for it was seen that the canal, which cost the
company only from £BO,OOO to A:90M00, was likely to pay a
handsome dividend. And it had indeed paid them back a gross
revenue of £12,000, or nearly approaching £13,000 per annual;
enabling them, exclusive of the expense which it had been at-
tended with, to divide from £BOOO to £9,000. The expense to
which he alluded had been incurred in repairing the canal, the
banks of which were in a very dilapitated state-at the time of the
purchase. The purchase of the canal, with its banks, he had
before said, was made because it gave them an excellent entrance
into the town ; and the obtaioing of a new bill carried them on
till the year 1835, one year having been lost by the parlia-
mentary practice requiring a year's notice of such bills being
given. It was then the proprietors went for the line over which
the company had travelled to-day ; the deviation from the former
line commenciii,g at Pendleton, and taking the railway up to the
higher part of Bolton, and avoiding there by an inclined plane
an the road which would have required a stationary engine and
ropes to have worked the carriages up it. (Hear.) By this ju-
dicious change too, the proprietors had accomplished another
important desideratum, by overcoming the only obstacle to h
continuation of their line so as to foint a communication with.
that of the Preston and Bolton railway. (Hear, hear.) Thus
in reality three years had not elapsed since the bill was obtained,
enabling them to make seven-tenths of the whole line. It would
not be said that the formation of such a line bad been long id
construction by those who had seen it this day carried over the
valley of Clifton ! (Hear, hear.) With the profits of their canal
the proprietary, he had already said, had reason to be satisfied;
and he trusted that the traffic by railway would be equally pro-
fitably to them. He would conclude by proposing to them the
health of a gentleman whose abilities, in his early as well as pre-
sent connection with the company, had been greatly instru-
mental in contributing to the success of the works. He proposed
" The health of Mr. Hawkshaw, the engineer." (Cheers.)
Mr. HawEsusw said that if custom had not rendered it
necessary for hint to acknowledge the compliment 'which bad
been paiil him, gratitude, at least, on his part would have con-
strained him to do so, however unaccustomed he might be to
public speaking. ( Hear.) He had known this railway upwards of
seven years. It was true it had been a long time in hand froirt
first to last; but it must be recollected that soft timber was of
the quickest growth, and they mast hope that, though their line
had been long in construction, like the oak, it would be the
harder wear, and last the longer. (Cheers.) The difficulties
attending its formation, owing to the nature of its locality, had
this day been witnessed and explained ; but it must be recollected
that if these difficulties had been great, they were not without
their use, inasmuch as they would form a barrier to the con-
struction of a competing line for at least half a century to
come. (Hear, bear.) There was another peculiarity
about
the situation of Bolton. It could, only be said hitherto to have
been connected with Manchester by a turnpike road, only
small portion of its merchandise being transmitted along thecanal. It might be said to be only a sort of suburb to Man-
chester rather than a distant town—a sort of bleaching croft
to this metropolis of the manufacturing district; and as such it
had increased in an equal proportion. And if this increase had
been so rapid hitherto, how much more so must it become now'
that it was brought so mach nearer? In his opinion it would
now increase in a double ratio, thus securing to the line a re-
turn for their expenditure, increasing with every year. (Loud.
cheers.)
Tlie CHAIRMAN next proposed " Success to the Town and
Trade of Bolton.".
Mr. JOHN M‘Fa REAM said he rose not so much to respond
to the toast as to make an observation on what had been said
on the locality of a piece of laud over which the railway
anden-
teredtiSe
yal
gfoerndt.le
happened know something e thi u ofg that land,
man
conversant to kn
with the he map of f Manchester
must see the means afforded of making a toad by throwing a.
bridge across the river, to connect Chorlton-upon-Medlock with.
of the town. ( Ilear, hear.) He thought was not difficult to
it, and thus open sr direct communicatuton itbetween those parts
see that the time was not far distant, therefore, when this land
future means indeed of connecting the south with
as the
would become valuable to the company. He looked at the rail-
waythe north, by an union of the proposed Manchester and Birming-
ham railway, with a continuous line northward of Bolton.
Mr. Hawesuaw rose to answer a question put to hint throng!'
the chairman, as to whether the timber forming the sleepers on.
which the rails of the line were laid had been Kyanized ? lii
stating that it had, Mr.. Hawkshaw said he bad before omitted.
to mention a cause which had greatly added to the expense and'
length of time in constructing the Manchester trod Bodon Rail
way. He alluded to the fact that all the cuttings, embankments,
and bridges on this line had been made of more than ordinar
width with a view to the ultimate laying down upon the roadottv
third line of rails. (Hear, hear.) All this could be done' with/
the slight additional expense of the iron, and the expense of
laying it down. This was a capacity which no other railway at
present constructed possessed, and was done with a view to the
ultimate adoption of one of two objects, either as a means of
preventing the line from being too much crowded, should it
The merchandiseciiilntAiari here alon
nrbecome the means of connecting. lines to the north and south,
or of forming a separate line fur the carriage, at a slow rate, of-
heavy
his hands news of t agiti.ounced that he had just placed in
he arrival in this country of the Great
Western steam-ship, after her trip to America, beating the
Sirius by three days. He begged to propose " the hAlth of
relative of his own—the gentleman under whose auspices the
purchase of the canal for this company was accomplished, and
the builder of our largest steam vessel—Sir John Tobin."---
The toast was drunk with applause. The Chairman said he
had another toast to propose, which he was sure they would
all drink with applause : that of their law clerk, Mr. Miller-
(Cheers.) He too, like others had his difficulties to content
with, but like his great predecessor, " Jack the Giant Killer,
he had overcome them all. (Cheers and shouts of laughter.)
Mr. MILLER briefly acknowledged the compliment.
The health of Mr. JAMES RITSON was proposed
and drunk
with great applause, and in acknowledging it that gentleman
said, he hoped with Mr. M`Farlane that this line might ulti-
mately prove the means of connecting the north and south of
England. He saw no difficulty in its way which might not be
overcome. A good-rteal of perseverance, mixed up with a good,
deal of money, was an excellent recipe for accomplishment-
(Laughter and cheers.) He concluded by ffoposing
health of the Chairman"' which was drunk with three cheers,
and one cheer more.
The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the compliment, anti
then proposed in succession, as sources of future wealth to the,
company, " The Bolton and Bury Canal;" " The Manchester
and Salford Junction Canal;" and " The Town and Trade of
Bury."
Mr. HUTCHINSON (of Bury) responded to the last toast, after
which Mr. FALKNER proposed "Prosperity to the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway."
The healths of Air. Bromilow and Mr. John Bibby were after-
wards given, to which those gentlemen responded; and
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Earl of Derby, Lora'
Lieutenant of the County," which having been drunk with eP-
plause, the company soon afterwards rose and separated, at.
about fiv?. o'clock.

WooL AND CATTLE FAIR'S AT RIPON.--The Town-courl
of Ripon has recently given notice of the re-establishment
_eo":
month, two in June, and one in 1315
establishusentof fortnight fairs is under
EALFISHE four fairs, one in the Pretsthe,
wool markets, by the appointme
NEWFOUNDLAND SEAL
John's, 10th ltOotchon April,
cereport the arrival"'
Council.
thet,
liion Bay and the Northern Ports,' bi. Ili Rol net
A sealscc o,ui.nnt se.?
longing
gone too far south and had missed the—
of twelve vessels, all "
only 23,000 seals. Ithad was generally believed that a large °e
of which the fishery this season would be very partial.
~,
QUAKERS EN TAGE.— e have on more than one occa
Vo W
sion travelled up to town with a whole inside .ofFriends, • et)!4'
• .a
we could not help imagining, that those who are, apt to rega'
them a
as very self-denying people would have seen, with "weti,'
degreeof • wonder, the quiet indulgence in which they travell .
of
on. Going up to the yearly meeting is like the going, up
Israelites of old to the Passover, at Jerusalem—and it is Phtill
that it is a time of feasting and good cheer. At every, meal 0001 P;
Friends seemed to enjoy themselves with a sense.of the g 9'),
things of Providence, which even Solomon must have approve",
rifsre°q°lu e. :ec re. l,
when he said, " Let us eat and drink. for it is the gift of Gti,
1 speak now more pa*icularly of one Sall-grown and full. e .
party which filled the coach,, as a nut is tilled with its kernel_,
They enjoyed the fat things of the, table, and, laid in stores of
substantials for discussion in the intervals of travel. At break'.
,
fast they ordered a quantity of eggs to be hard boiled, to latKed,
with thetas, and a pint of sherry, which they carefully decaneed,
into a handsome wine-flask. 'Whenever the horses BLechantheY
at any place noted for the production of any good thing',
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sent and procured of it ; at one place a Stilton cheese, at
ar,.
then a cream cheese, nay, even yontig radishes were purch
town,
It was evident that they wet eproviding for the lodgings in tor._
which were themselves already provided; for experienced yea.,?:.
meeting goers always secure good and appropriate quarters. his
fore leaving the " warm precincts"' of their own, houses. 1.11,2,,,,.
party being a stout and jolly quarter, and the weather being
unusually warns for the season, they travelled with the coact!..
doors open, to get as good a share of fresh ail as they had
lta'
ready got of provisions. Every coachman and every traveer,
that we met, womiering, at the winged aspect of our vehicle, Its
doors both standing wide, invariably cried, " Coachman, your.
doors are open t.," Coachman nodded assent, and went on.
without further notice, to the increased astonishment of the
people. If our rriends, however, took good eare of themselves,
it was evident that they extended their care to all those, wit('
had a claim of fees upon them; for those invariably expressed
their lively satisfaction on feeling the gratuity in the palm, bY
the most expressive faces, and other inuubitable signs. Let Ilone accuse the of wishing to represent sober Friends as got."'"
tnands. I here merely relate a particular case which I hag"
seen ; and I am bound, by a large experience, to describe them
truly as a tentipetate, but yet a self-indulgent people, who, '3
fulfilment of their own and the Psalmist's prayer, have been led
to "lie down in green pastures, and by the still waters."--o'4l
Hotrilt, in Tait'srgagAzine.

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LIVERPOOL MARKETS

CORN EXCHANGE, Tursokr, MAY

We are. moderately tomplied with Grain and Flour since this
da'f week; durloir that time there has, been an Active demand
f"r Wheat from :onstimer% and sneculators at an advancing
Price; ant', at to-day's market an advance of sd. per 70Ibs. was
firmly est],lished on free Wheats, with a fair retail sale.

Oats were Td. per 451hs. higher, with a moderate demand.
Oalpw4al.has been taken by speculators and consumers at 9.1
per 2101hs. advance.

Vie' hart a glo,l sale for Flour at 2s. rer sack above last
' k.'a prices, the best samples .rea';zin;.! 558.
Bonded Wheat has been purchased freely at Is. per 701bs