The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

TESTIMONIALS OF THI, PUBLIC PRESS

" There are no diseases which have more puzzled the faculty
than nervous complaints and insanity. Doctors have both
been unable to account for them and to prescribe any means-
of cure. This darkness has, however, been cleared away by the
clever author of the above pamphlet, in which he explains his
theory of cure in a very rational manner, and we feel certain
that it will induce many to apply to Mr. Adams for his able
assistance."—The Chronicle, Dec., 1846.
We cordially recommend ail nervous persons to submit
their cases' o the skill of Mr. Adams, the author of a pamphlet
on Mind or Nervous Complaints and Insanity:"—Farmer's
Journal, July, 1846.
" A most useful and important pamphlet."—London Mer-
cantile Journal, Sept., 1846.
" We recommend Mr. Adams to those of our readers who are
nervous, and wish to be cured."—Bedford Times, Oct., 1846.

John Jameson Laskie, Esq., East India-chambers,"fia enliall-
street.
THE subject of Railroads in India has at length
attracted a degree of public attention,atillicient to ensure
a speedy commencement anti:progressive-extension of a prin-
ciple so calculated to develope the infernal resources of that
portion of our dominions.
In the Minute of the Court Directors of the East India
Company, to the Bengal G. ' rnment, dated the 7th of May,
1845, it is stated,—" 'rha t cannot admit of question, that
mai,
wherever railroad com unication can be advantageously in-
troduced and maintained, it is eminently deserving the encou-
ragement and co-operation of the Government."
The construction of any and every line of railroad within the
East India Company's territories, must be undertaken with
their sanction, and in subordination to such rules and regu-
lations as the local government under their authority may
deem fit to enact ; and' the operations contemplated by this
company will, of course, be conducted in conformity with such
regulations.
In surveying the vast extent of territory embraced by the
Brjtish dominions in India, with a view to the introduction of
railroads into that country, it would appear obvious, that the
local demarcations which have been found convenient in the
administration of the Indian Governments should be kept in
view. In raising the capital required to carry these under-
takings into execution, it will be necessary that the Directors
of the companies which may be formed in this country should
contain a large proportion of gentlemen possessed of local
knowledge and experience in that part of India which is to
form the scene of their operations; and in this view of the
case, it seems natural that for the most efficient working of
such projects, a separate Board should be formed in this
country for the organization of railway operations within each
of the Presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, to act in
conjunction with local committees of the Indian Presidencies;
each of such boards in England to contain sl:ch a proportion
as may be thought desirable of parties gnat fled by residence
and local knowledge of the different Presidencies, to afford
useful and correct information upon the subjects brought
before them.
Impressed with these views, this Provisional Committee has
been formed with the object of securing the introduction of the
railway system into the territories under the Presidency of
Madras. •
In the minute of the Court of Directors above alluded to, it
is stated to be their intention to depute to India a skilful
Engineer, to be associated.with two Engineer Officers in their
owd service, to investigate the subject of railway communica-
tion in India, in all its bearings; and they add, that one object
of this committee will be to suggest some feasible line, of
moderate length, as an experiment for railroad communication
in India.
It is probable that in no part of the East India Company's
dominionstci ee; t ai n:
operations ty a s will
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of
ihstehel subjectnpereosfernio)
tea
Company
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pm"
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ye lal withar err }sp- ort
oomphuol
sea
eddre,aasis
in the
:aidatni, i
it is to the construction of a railway between these points that
first instance, to be directed, with a view to accomplish the
primary object of the preliminary investigation about to be
undertaken by the Committee- appointed by the East India
Company.

This line has all the requisites for an experimental railroad.
The distance is moderate, being Two Hundred and Seventy
Miles by the present winding route, and by this projected
direct line the distance will only be Two Hundred Miles; and
the country between the termini may be taken for all practical
purposes as a level. There is already a substantial road raised,
ast:ldchMaa dirvaosr,kwthoi cv,hihtial
withstand
cdcetshse-
minute as operating against the railway system in India—the
fpc;jec. inlilecipatrriols%''ogeudit:cetellislaeo'i'adCpealsiltliltitiactPytia‘ho,ef' action enumerated in the court's
termini of which places are military stations, and of great
commercial importance; a large traffic on goods, passengers,
troops and military stores already exists upon the road ; and it
passes through a fertile and very populous country. This pro-
vince was one of our earliest acquisitions in the East. Since
the rise of the British power •in India it has enjoyed uninter-
rupted peace and tranquillity, and is, relatively to its extent,
the most productive portion of our Indian Empire.
The surveys and estimates already made by eminent engi-
neers contain the minutest details of the cost of construction
of a single line of rail, upon a principle which has been found
to be perfectly efficient in America.
But it is considered that, however desirable such a construc-
tion maybe for the feeding lines that connect the thinly peopled
and less cultivated tracts of the country with the main trunk
lines upon which the largest portion of the traffic must always
pass, a more substantial method of construction, and one more
approaching than that found to answer best in Europe, will be
required upon the trunk lines, of which that from Bellary.to
Madras is the most important within the Madras territories.
This part of the country is so singularly favourable for a rail-
road, that the cost of a single line with rails of the dimensions
generally used in this country, will not exceed .es;coo a mile,
and that, by fixing the available capital at .t'1,000,000, it is con-
sidered that a sufficient front will be provided to meet all the
possible contingencies that can attend the construction of the
proposed line.
The present population of the territories included in the
Presidency of Madras exceeds 14,000,00 o.
The line will past throiath the country towards Hyderabad,
the great cotton and indigo districts of Bellary, and also through
the towns of Roopangoody, Hotoor, Wdgar-tinroor, Panndy,
Calan witty, Moochatota, Taudaperata, Tallypootatoor, Vattoor,
Gondytita, Baukrapp, Jummulmagoor, Camalapoor, Wallar,
Chenoor, Cuddapah, Manchuply, Sidhot, Mnilailputinan, Ho-
bluni, Chinelulon, Pwer, Cotepanii, Mantlaloor,
Cotoor, Dassoor, Podalcoor, Alumba'e, A \nice, Penpol-
nin,•and Cholaveram, to Mad and it will taunt facilities for
the transport to the coast of the produce of Mysore and North
Arcot, consisting of sugar, tea, coffee, nut, lac, potatoes, corn,
oil, seeds, grain of various kinds, and charcoal and fireweed;
towards the West it will facilitate communication with the cot-
ton districts of Salem and Coiinbatire ; Mid towards the South
with the fertile countries of Trichinopoly and Tanjore. The
best cotton that is 'raked in India is produced in the Madras
territories; all that is required to enable it to compete success-
fully with American cotton, is increased facility for brinpin:, it
to the shipping ports in rood condition, and at a moderate rate
of transport, which can on'y dr,ctcd by a railway. r,Fe,
c,„ of last Report by the Itirector, of he Manchester (Wong-
q(Commerre. as regards the CottOo oroteth iii Jadia.l
uTsiii::erso'filpraeast rerisst.swttriaiici,,oluj ltdh this
I.)firgrocotgllnaill°pltl- theex
capital. It is joliiostsibie to cu!eolate the returns to be eNpected
ri-om-th..trio.ot or troops, military stoma, treasure, and the
conveyance or the- inals on account of Government lint the
amount 'must be considerable. 'the same voneequences must I
follow the introdricron of railroads in India that have followed
elsewhere, autl already the results in every instance have far I
exceeded the expectations which the most sanguine speculator
woulithave vmtured to form.

It is clearly :0-town that there can ro line of railway in
:Madras, to any extent, nith which this line will not form a
junction ;r connection. lint intlerendent traffic for its support
exist: liej wen liellary. Citthisipah, and Madras; and whatever
lire of raitway it trap fora] a junction with, it N; in increase its
trallie. It is sitig•ularly sltiated as to be an independent
line of railway for its owl! support.

a =owl climate,* and a
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profluee More inipoitant re-
m, sy,t,,„ i, but now in its infancy in Iltirope, and its pro-
gression hereafter no one can cateMate. The same ri-sults
must
,follow lit every instance of the introduction of railways
into countries 1:).--..tasessing a fertile soil,
suilotsisTsatitnys in kali:l4 ,-- •
nuitterous and industrious ropnlation ; mid. at 011,. -
s monieitt,
there is probably po portion of the elobe where tbe kutrollitc-
stiloilitisotfharnaithhveayiskiwtiisthl
will b. vested
in lalue
onalialnia
of
feilleriette
toofrtsl:ei
laltrialrisuloofwt,bgtiamip, pi.riy,,,w
with a j
.. 0
ct 1
(74 anruittee of residents in Madras. • A prop*); tion of the Shares
v Pt he reserved for Madras.
The Board in London to have the entire management of the
Company's affairs. • .
Dividends to paid in London or Madras, r.t the option of the
Shareholders, at the current exchange. '
A Deposit of Five Shillings per Share tnhe )mid On Allotment.
A Subserription Contract to he ev,o,ttedby the t.-berebolders.
In the event of the nerrotiations v nth the Jr:than antlioritiCts
not being in all respects antitifattory "to the Board, the prin-
ciple sum subscribed will he returned to the Shareholders, less
the unionot of preliminary expensm
Applications for Shares to.lic wade, in the annexed 4trm,. to
Mr.-. 161, ti 3. LASSIE, the Acting Secretary, or to the Att-en tt
A ivt•noNy LAIHHE ...El,q" Sliarebroker, LivcrP6ol; Messrs.
BRA DI- aid Co.;. :.,41nrebrokerq, Doll ; Alesrts. I. 011(1 .1..
K 1 M n'TER, f"ilarChto;,Prs, Newel) slit.- upon. t yne; . mid W . s.
Moue, K q... 33, JAn-d•street. I iverpooL
roll' OF• API LICATION FOR SHARES. •
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To s THE PEWVISIONAL CifiNDl iri i..r. OP I in: C.1:1;,.: T MALIAN
' • .. JITNCTION LAIEW A I COMPANY.
G(;ntlem.em— I wish to become a Subsreilier fer
Sliai-es in this unflerteking, of ,esOrer Share,- the Depnsit iron
which. 01' any less number of Shares that may be :dieted tome,
I. a.-4,lee to pay, and I also undertake to sign Inc netfeakary (lecds
when • reoutred to do 50.,-I am, Gentlemen, your obedient
servant,
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ti tiereßee
No ar,,,ficotion for Shores can be rectiN cri after
t6tlL, 1f..47. •

GENTLEMEN,—Though I feel considerable reluctance
. and diffidence in addressing you thus publicly nn a subject
which you may not possibly at the present time have the
power to entertain or interfere with—at least in the way
I am going to propose—yet my duty is imperative, and I
therefore offer no further apology. Gentlemen • I regard
you as the special conservators of the health of this my
native town, and I am sure, from the benevolent character
and constitution of your committee, the humble, yet well-
intentioned, suggestions of any member of the commu-
nity will have your best consideration. Gentlemen, it
has unfortunately occurred, within a very short time past,
that the lives of two individuals, belonging to our Parish-
office, have been sacrificed by fever, in the course of lthe
execution of their perilous duties. Mr. Charles S. Row-
land, than whom there could not have been a more oblig-
ing, gentlemanly, anctefficient officer, was cut off in the
course of a very few days; and Mr. Smith, whose duties
led him to be almost constantly mixed up with the lowest,
and poorest, and filthiest portion of the distressed Irish,
also fell a victim to their contamination. I have myself
only been a short time an assistant relieving officer in the
southern district, comprising Thomas'-street, Atherton-
street, Crosbie-street, Brick-streat, New Bird-street, &c.,
and I have had the misfortune to be laid down by typhus
fever, which had very nearly terminated my existence,
and I now remain extremely weak, and almost helpless,
although I am now making periodical effortS to write my
letter out. Now, gentlemen, we are only three sufferers;
but look, I entreat you, at the numbers of poor, destitute,
forlorn, creatures, who must inevitably suffer unless
something be done for them. . .
If I had my official memorandum-book at hand, I could
enter into details of suffering such as I am sure you can
have no conception of, nor, indeed, could any one unless
• by personal investigation.
I well remember opening the door of a cellar in Tho- 1
mas'-street, and when I had done so, I was compelled to '
retreat instantly, for I most truly felt the weight of the
poisoned atmosphere, as it made its escape past me. One
of the inmates was ill, and was cold, having little fire and I
no food, and in order to keep the place warm, every cre-
vice and aperture was stuffed up with old bags and old
rags. This of itself was enough to engender fever, and
so spread its fearful influence in that dirty locality. On
another occasion I visited a cellar, where there were no
less than three poor helpless infants, lying huddled toge-
ther in a bundle of collected filthy rags—not bel.:clothes—
and all sick of the small-pox in its worst stage —and, oh!
the cellar was awfully and disgustingly tmeretane These
I are heart-rending recitals; butl have yet woeseetO tell.
More towards the south end of the town, "(I forget the
name of the street, for my memory is somewhat. impaired
by siekne.ss,) I went on a visit to a court-house: - 1 had
no sooner entered, and enquired for the. persOn 'making
application for relief, than a wretched half-starved Irish
woman came flying as it were down the stairs, exclaiming,
" 0 master, master, what shall .1 'do. I can't get the
Woman into a coffin." She had not rightly understood
what was told her at the Parish-office, in referenee t-,t the
registrar's certificate being first required, and therefore .
she had lost her labour on this first day. I can, hos 'Waver,
bear my most solemn teAhnony to the fact, that Ary':
possible care is taken by pi/ in the office, • without..nFt.., p-
tion, to explain distinctly to these poor ignorant:beinv, ,
what the requirement is, beflre tlicy ego:Obtain a erMin 1
or 7,epolture. But my busioe,:; had tertniiinted u'ith the'
dead, and I was then seekiee to 1.:1ie:4,- the, living.. Mye
recipient was up stairs sick uf a thver. lis Cut up to satisfy
myself of the truth. as well as to giNe ieto her own hand.
the relief I had to offer, when; to my great hOrrer and
surprise, I saw the poor corpse stretched on the bare
boards of the floor, and covered only with what appeared
to me a cotton Window blind, streaked and stained, and
Only mu' half washed from its filth. About eighteen
inches only froM the feet of the corpse lay the object of
my visit ; and on the other side of the room, -about a
Yard distant, there was 'an empty bed, which would no
doubt be the resting-place of some other of the inmates
of the lazar house. All was piallution and loathsomeness,
and heart-sickeeing beyond deseriptitine
-' Gentlemen, I will not:lengthen Out my statement with
any more tales of misery, hut I -hall tell you at once,
what sort of treatment I think would be of essential ser-
vice to the poor; ai, well as those who are obliged to visit
them. I would letee a low cart constructed of good stout
iron, particularly at the bottonri, to rim .on four wheels.lt should be divided into two en r, reds- mpartilients ; and
underneath 'these, there should he placed a -small ficrnaee,
to heat the materials to be conveyed from house to howe.
TI-:e first should -eOhtain,a strong 'line -waab;
,with a tri-
fling admixture of chloride of lime—not too much of
this, for it: hetoo.oveepowering ie its (acts on some weak
and nervous systems, and might itt the ,mne time consti-
tute a gi•Otind Of objestien-lo the u•-c ;1' the vva;•11 in any
shape. . Ov.erhanging on eitch side ti, cart, there should
be thi•ee`or four buckets, say eight in all, with as many
brushes. - ,

c t ; into full operation by any of the able-
' bo;;;:d 0,-, and you would very soon make clean and
,hvelliol,!-fi for thorn, and no doubt woulod
be very !7" einl. Then withV. few strong whiA:,
or
'brooms, s away all the congregated filth, whi,h is
nothing It ihan their straw heds*crn to dust by con-
stant traction -and this done, send up a basket or two. of
tot Rated, (which 1 Mean should be contained in this
second compartment of the niseltine,) and set the nioq
robust to work with the holy stone—and after the ex_
ample of one of our most scientific Arctic navigators,
who thought much of the health of his crew, let them
scrub vigorously at their rooms, until they are completely
eb-nnsed.

The sand and dirt. should Lff erivardS be carJuily
4s.A.VI*I unto the street, and motored speedily, and I hive

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VICE-.CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
GUINESS V. TURNER.
Mr. HEATHFIELD moved for a perpetual injunction to
restrain the defendant, Mr. Geo. Turner from selling..
" Guiness's stout" other than such as shall be supplied
by. the. plaintiffs, or their agent, Sparks Moline, or any
other authorized agent, and particularly from selling the
same in bottles, with labels in imitation of those used by
the plaintiffs, or corked with corks marked or branded
with the words " Guiness, Son and Co.'s extra ,stout,"
and also from representing himself as agent for the plain-
tiffs. The learned counsel also moved that the defendant
should pay £6O by way of damages.---His HoNoun ; Is
the latter part of the motion consented to ?—Mr. HEATH-
FIELD : The whole is submitted by Mr. Glasse, counsel
for the defendant.—His HONOUR : Take the order.

PICKING POCKETS.—Yesterday, Thomas Young, John
Phillips, and Patrick Doyle were brought up, charged
with picking pockets. Young was sent to gaol for throe
months, and the others were discharged.
Bateman, the celebrated lecturer on Negro Manners,
and Delineator of Ethiopian peculiarities, is nightly draw-
ing crowded houses. He is a strange mortal—decidedly
talented, and certainly worth visiting.
TILE ORIENTAL DrvAN.—The unprecedented success
of this now leading Restaurant, is attributed to a multi-
plicity of causes. Some say it is the moderate charges—
some the excellence of the viands and wineSsome the
neatness and beauty of the Establishment ;—but the fact
is that these alone have not led to so desired an effect.
The Proprietor " keeps the best of everything." No
price precludes an article from the table. He personally
superintends every department, and—advertises in the
STANDARD.

DARING ROBBERY.—Yesterday, two men, named James
Barn and Thomas Brideson, were placed at the bar,
charged with breaking into the house of a poor woman,
residing in Garden-lane. The complainant stated that,
on Sunday morning, about three o'clock, the prisoners.
with two other men, came to her house and knocked at
the door, threatening to break it in if it were not opened.
Their request not being complied with, they smashed in
the pannels of the door, and effected an entrance; after
which they carried off a quantity of wearing apparel.
The complainant gave the alarm, when a police-offieer
came up and succeeded in apprehending the two prisoners,
The other parties escaped. The wearing apparel was
found near the house, having been dropped by the prisoners
when they were-pursued. They were both committed for

Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills effectually cure every
description of go t, rheumatic gout, rheumatism qtr
bago, tic'dolorouX, sins in the head or fa . They
are recommended t the afflicted with a -ifidence, aris-
ing from exparience, a, one of the v.' le results of the
improved state of me 'cal sciene nd the only efficient
remedy ever discovere or t .._c disorders. The 'conti-
nued authenticated pro decided approbation sent,
unsolicited, to the pro or, from all parts of the king-
dom, and from all sses f society, with a rapidly in-
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unparalleled, lly warrants t e assurance that no person
subject to a •i complaints wil after a trial, ever be with-
out thet Sold by all niedicin venders. Price -2s. '9d.
per box. Observe the name o "'Thomas Prout, 229,
Strand, London," on. the govern out stamp.
TM Tr. Di TWOS- ANATONIICA L VE N ITS . —This splendid
prodnetine, to which we have before called the attention
of our readers, is a most -beautiful piece of art, and well
worthy the attention of those wishing to gain instruction
in the. wonderful works of nature. It is a wax representa-
tion of an exquisitely-moulded human 'figure, from which
the integuments can he removed at plea.sure, and the mns-
cies, nerves, arteries, &c., brought into view, both upon
the face andlimbs. The ea Icarium admits of removal for the
pnrpoc of permitting the extraction of the brain for exa-
mination. - In fact, those persons whose feelings may de-
bar them from examining the wonderful formation of the
human being in an anatomical school, can here see ex-
posed . tie divine mechanism of. the human bOdy, free
from any sensations of disgust, or associations connected
with mortality. As the exhibition closes in two weeks,
we would strongly advise all who have not done so to pay
a visit to t 42 Bold-street.—See adrt.

ANuFACTURING DISTRICTS.—The operatives,
of Afanchester'who have been suffering some months from
want eremployment, met on Thursday morning to take
measures for their own relief. The assembly was ad.
dressed by several working men out of employment. The
whole of the speakers seemed to throw the responsibility
of their present deplorable condition on the shoulders of
those speculators in corn and cotton who are now sup-
posed to be fattening on the misery Of the working classes.
The following resolutions were unanimously carried :
That in the opinion of this meeting it is the thity
of government to protect the working classes against
all monopolies, inasmuch as the monopolists of corn
sail cotton possess witlin theraSeives the power to
throw the working classes out cf employment and starve
them into acts of violence. That while we admit the
of equal exchange. and distinctly deny raising
barricrs or obstacles to trade, we protest against the
preaxit :Tee-ions and cari.ious system of commerce, as it
pr;Nents an equitable distribution of the fruits of industry,
OvstroyF, the heete market, and drives the producers of
wealth into pauperiSm and crime. That as machinery has
gratis :,tioerscded manual labour, and may be increasedhework.
. to extent, and consequently re t!
ing 2,:illi!;ns to the lowest depths of soetareiehitiesepu'r,prz
there urge on the Government to place
peqple tpt,ntfle triad, where theywoul prltoed,uurceesf.ooerd,fotr
them: elx es ;to nuke agriculture with TRIM d , e
how, conminptiori, the lanud.wners.an the peo.
terest. A. petition, fotaided.
plc in the .bonds of Plu.tu,"
hinolie wait autt)etvu,„
on the tiiiegOn4' r&Q ,

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