The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

The extension line, from Hawick to Carlisle, of the
North British railway, has been thrown out by a parlia-

mentary committee.
The F hareholcien of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and :Car-

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affinity, and to marriages solemnized abroad, or m the their directors, for bran( hes, &c. The title of the com-
British Colonies." The hon. member alluded in his pany will be hereafter " the Glasgow and South Western
speech principally to the Marriage Act of 1835, which Railway."
rendered void any marriage between a widower and his LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN.—May 13.—The ex-
deceased wife's sister. He contended that such marriages press train from Liverpool. due at Euston-square at
were valid by the common law, and that that act. had not 11 p.m., did not arrive till 1 5 a.m. The train ran into a
•,iinplislied any of the objects for which it was intro- goods train, on a curve in the line, a little below Wolver-
Ms' --t respectable clergymen—as. for in- ton, by which the guard's brake-waggon was broken to
' and several of

.any most .
stance, the late Dr. Tattershall, the Itev. Dr. Close, of pieces. No lives were lost, but the guard ,
Cheltenham : Dr. A,burst, of Plymouth ; Dr. Hill, the the passengers were slightly injured. It is occurrence
Archdeacon of Derby, and several others—concurred with like this which create the necessity for quadruple rails.
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him in thinking that th

s were not

and that t

wring the case he could not see why an the numbers who arrived by the Chester and Birkenhead
inquiry should not be granted. line were—on Tuesday, 2,428 ;on Wednesday, 9,563 ;on
Sir G. GREY, on the part of the Government, expressed Thursday, 3,198, and on Friday, 2,270. The Chester and
his concurrence in the grounds which Mr. Wortley had Birkenhead Railway Company received no less than
laid for his motion. He thought that a sufficient case £2,174, the average weekly traffic being about £6OO only !
had been made out for inquiry. The law of marriage was The Chester and Shrewsbury line received £6Ol.
at present in a most unsatisfactory state; and the Act of I IMPROVED REVENUE OF LONDON AND NORTH-WES-
-1835, instead of removing uncertainty, had increased it— , TERN.—Having noticed, a few weeks since, the falling off
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instead of checking, had increased immorality. The which until then had appeared in the receipts of the Lon-
feelings of any individuals were in a painful situation in i don and North-Western for 1847, we may now advert,
consequence of the vagueness of the law. and it was only with sincere pleasure, to the marked improvement that has
fitting that they should be set at rest. He concurred since taken place from the very moment in question., So
with Mr. Wortley in thinking that a commission would 1 rapid was the rebound upwards, during the short space of
be a better mode of conducting such an inquiry than a four weeks only, that whereas the gross revenue up to the
committee. In acceding to the motion, he gave no 3d of April was reported less by £5,400 than the amount
opinion as to what the law of marriage hereafter ought to received within the corresponding period of 1846, the
be. account up to the Ist of May, on the contrary, shows a
Sir R. INGLIS expressed his regret that Sir G. Grey difference to the credit of 1847 of £4,7s3—which of court e
had consented to this motion, and compared the 153 cler- gives for the single month of April a gross total of more
gymen who had signed petitions in its favour with the than £ll,OOO in excess over the same month of the year
15,000 clergymen who, by their silence, had declared their preceding.
approbation of the present law, and the proportion those MONEY FOR RAILWAYS.—A parliamentary return in
marriages bore to the annual average, which was in En- forms us exactly what we have already undertaken to
gland 100,000. He disputed several of Mr. Wortley's spend and to pay for railways. The acts passed in the
assertions, repeating the arguments he had used against two last sessions authorize new calls arid loans to the
Lord Francis Egerton's bill, and contended that these amount of £154,675,655. The portion of this sum actu-
Thaerriages were contrary to the policy of society, and to ally so raised is £28,320,020. It follows that the sum yet
the happinessl of families, and that they were contrary to to be raised in order to complete the lines granted in 1845
of
the of Scripture and to the canons and the practice and 1846 is £96,355,635. Supposing this to be spread
church for the last 1,500 years. lie therefore over two years, it results that the popular average of a
should give his decided opposition to this motion.
a few observations million a week is not far from the truth. There are, in-
AfterfroM Mr. M.MINESand Mr. deed, very few of the lines which the projectors do not
WATSON in support of the motion, and from Dr. Nicholl, contemplate finishing by May, 1849. We have our own
declaratory- of his opinion that it was impolitic to institute opinion—the opinion we have always entertained and de-
an inquiry into the operation of
.2_ I—. -s to the Possibility of this gigantic am egate of

morality

....... to a law because a number dared—as _ pos.,
of individuals thought fit to evade it
it. undertaking. We believe that it will involve the whole
Sir R. INGLIS contented
himself
with crying " No" mercantile world, and with it all the industrial classes, in
to the motion, but declined to divide upon it' difficulties beyond our present experience. However,
The motion was then agreed to.
Sir H. W. BARRON moved for a select committee what is done cannot be helped. it seems agreed on all
inquire into the meal of improving thentshveiirteenst.in Ire- out. The public attention is rather directed to the fresh
land, and thereby aff biz profitable-ern
ci p to hands that this part of the experiment must work itself
undertakings now before parliament. They can be con-
Mr. FREWEN secon ed the motion. fined to a safe compass, or subjected to prudent condi-
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that many inquiries had already tions. What, then, is their extent ? The capital pro-
been made, and abundant evidence was before the house I. posed to he raised by the bills of this season is altogether
on the subject of the Irish fisheries.
£l6 32.5
£47,486,674,01her of which £31,161,674 is for extensions and
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK thought the reasons given forimprovements of lines already opened, and
refusing the motion the weakest conceivable. He rejoiced 2is for railways not yet opened. Some of
to find it established on the authority of the Irish Secre- these are
tau, that the Irish people are not the idle characters they pining
all
the object
lines. Some are competing. Sup-
to be sanctioned, considerably more
are represented to be--because the right hon. gentleman than half the bilisectloilfo. If only half pass, there-will
boastfully asserted that it was only necessary to provide a . then be an additionw
a about £24,000,000 to our railway
market in order to stimulate the Irish fishermen to the engagements, entailing a/le outlay of about£2oo,ooo
most energetic enterprise. The noble lord promised the a week for 120 weeks to ATend of August, 1848, and. rais-
motion his warm support. in; the weekly expenditure for two years to 61,200,000.