The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS

THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—This important line,
which will confer very great advantages on the merchants
of Liverpool, Manchester, and the North, is, it is stated,
to be opened for traffic on the Ist of September.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week on upwards of 3,154 miles of rail-
way, was £188,824, thus accounted for :—X108,606 for
the conveyance of passengers only, £40,476 for the carri-
age of goods, and a remainder of £39,742 for passengers
and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being
an increase of £16,175 over the corresponding week of
last year, when the mileage was about 2,290.
Parliamentary elections of Railway Members are the
events of the week, and nearly the only events important
to railway readers. Mr. W. Cubitt is returned for An-
dover ; Mr. Locke for Honiton ; Mr. Peto for Norwich ;
Mr. R. C. Hildyard, the railway barrister, for White-
haven ; Mr. Glyn for Kendal ; Mr. Jackson for New-
castle-under-Lyne ; Mr. Mangles for Guildford ; Mr.
Ricardo for Stoke-on-Trent ; Sir J. Walmsley for Lei-
cester ; Mr. Chaplin for Salisbury.
TELEGRAPHING FOR WITNESSES.—In a case tried
last Thursday, at York assizes, Mr. Ellison, of Tickhill,
the attorney for the plaintiff, in order to secure witnesses
in time, went to the railway station, at York, and had
recourse to the electric telegraph. He there gave direc-
tions for a messenger and conveyance to be sent immedi-
ately from the Masbro' station to Tickhill. In the
course of ten minutes he received an answer, stating that
a cab was then getting ready, and the plaintiff and the
witnesses arrived in York the same evening. By the
usual means they could not have reached York until half-
past eleven the following morning.—Doncaster Gazette.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
GOODWOOD RACES.
This great provincial meeting commenced on Tuesday
with an ample bill of fare. The noble Duke of Rich-
mond entertained, as usual, a most distinguished party. It is now said that the Rev. H. H. Milman, rector of
The following is a brief epitome of the sport : St. Margarets, Westminster, will be the first Bishop of
TUESDAY:—The Craven Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, 3 Manchester. The reverend gentleman is author of seve-
subs., with 50 added, were won by Mr. Mostyn's Wilder- ral able works.
ness ; the Gratwicke Stakes, of 100 sovs. each, for three- The last of the ten churches to be raised in the densely
year-olds, 50 subs., by Duke of Richmond's Red Hart ; populated parish of Bethnal-green was consecrated on
the Levant Stakes, of 50 sovs. each, for two-year-olds, Tuesday, by the bishop of London. It is dedicated to
14 subs., by the Duke of Richmond's Nectar ; Sweep-
St. Simon Zelotes, and will contain 1000 free seats.
stakes of 300 sews. each, for colts and fillies, 17 subs., by NEW TRAINING COLLEGE FOR SOUTH WALES.—The
Mr. Mostyn's Ennui : the Ham Stakes, of 100 sovs. each ;
foundation-stone of a new school for the education of
for two-year-olds, 43 subs., by Mr. Mostyn's Surplice ,
children in the principles of the Church of England, was
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, 15 subs., b laid at Carmarthen on the 16th ult., by the Bishop of St.
Mr. W. Russell's Companile ; the Drawing Room Stakes, y
David's. About 5000 persons were present on the inte-
of 25 sovs. each, with a bonus of 10 sovs. each, for three-
resting occasion, and the procession, which included the
Mayor and Corporation the Druids' and Oddfellows'
,
year-olds, 29 subs: to the stakes, and 18 to the bonus,
by Mr. Gully's Mathematician • the Goodwood Cup Societies, &c., with an excellent band of music, was ex-
Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, 10 subs., by Mr. Mostyn's tremely splendid. It is most gratifying to witness the
Camera Obscura (Capt. Pettatt): and the Innkeeper's progress of the Church, and the interest taken in the
Plate of 50 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs.
each, scriptural education of the poor, among all classes in the
l 3 subs., by Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland. Principality.
WEDNESDAY.—The Goodwood Stakes of 25 sovs ROMANISM AND LIBERTY.—The Rev. Hugh Stowell
each, 15 ft., and 5 only if declared, 112 'subs., 49 d • , delivered last weellc,beat Preston, an excellent
.lecture on
dared, won by the Duke of Richmond's Lotha 'o ; the. the painting of " Acquittal of the Seven Bishops," in
Stewards' Cup of 300 sovs. with a Sweepstakes of rl5
sous, the course of which he made the following remarks :
each, 28 subs., by Mr. Rolt's The Cur; the Queen's. "To think that Itomanism was the friend of liberty, s
Guineas, by Mr. Mostyn's Camera Obscura ; the Stand to expect to hear the wolf pray for mercy, or for the- was
Plate of 50 sovs., with 50 added, Mr. Mostyn's Wilder- to prefer the light of day to the darkness of night. Who
tress walked over; and the Cowdray Stakes, of 25 sovs. ever heard tell of Rome offering to endow a Protestant
each, 3 subs., by Mr. Irwin's King of Kildare. priesthood ? Who ever heard tell of Rome issuing her
THURSDAY.—Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each 12 subs., bulls to expunge from her statutes laws because they were
walked over for by Duke of Richmond's Nectar ; Sweep- repugnant or obnoxious to Protestant feeling ? That
stakes of 100 sovs., for three-year-olds, the produce of Rome which was the mother of despotism,
mares that never bred a winner, 12 subs., won by Mr. A. harlots. What did the Church of England say of the
Featherstonhaugh's Quicksand ; Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. mass ?—that it was a thing to be abominated by all
each, for two-year-old fillies, 13 subs., by Colonel's Peel's Christian men. But they had got into such silky glazing
Lola Montez ; the Molecomb Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. days, and he knew not how much absurd circumlocution
ft. 13 subs, by Payne's Glendower; the Goodwood Cup, in their speech, that nothing was called by its right name.
value 300 sovs., with a 100 added, 38 subs. of 2o sovs. The devil was called the Prince of Darkness, instead of the
each, by John Day's The Hero ; Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. Father of Lies. He bad too much respect for the freedom
each, for two-year-olds, 9 subs., walked over by Mr. of conscience of others, to ask a man what his Shibboleth
Mostyn's Mastiff; Duke of Richmond's Plate of 100 soya. might be, but it really did make him sick and sad to see
by Mr. Rayner's f. by the Nob out of Corinna; the Rae- that trimming Conservatism so much in vogue at the pre-
ing Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 26 subs., by Mr. Mostyn's sent day. What they wanted in parliament was a band of
Planet ; Duke of Beaufort's Plate of 100 sovs., by Mr. right and true-hearted Protestants, to oppose all the, fur-
Gratwicke's Joyful ; Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with ther encroachments of Popery, which was ever the same.
50 added, by Mr. Osbaldeston's Giselle ; and the Angle- It was the same to-day as it was a century ago. Mr. Sheil
sey Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 11 subs., by Major Pitt's The upon many measures had been silenced by a seat in the
Widow (Mr. Berkley.) cabinet; but no sooner did Mr. Watson introduce his
FRIDAY.—Match 50 soya., half a mile. The Widow bill, than the thunders of his eloquence were again heard
received forfeit from Outpost; Match 50 sovs., T.Y.C., within the walls of St. Stephen's ! They wanted such
Bowstring beat Sloth ; Holywell Stakes of 10 sovs. each, men as good Sir Robert Inglis, and Pemberton, and
T.Y.C., was won by Lord Eglinton's De Witt, beating Spooner, to stand by the Protestant faith. They wanted
Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe, and four others; Sweep- no trimming and truckling statesmen to betray it. One
stakes of 300 sovs. each, for two yrs old, won by Mr. hundred true Protestants—Protestants not merely because
Alostyn's Surplice, beating Mr. Herbert's Hope, Lord they asserted they were so with their lips, but whose lives
Glasgow's Clerk of the Council, and Mr. Mostyn's Load- were a pledge that they were so—in parliament, and the
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CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE,

beating Sister to arxwriguu, .... ~ppeu ; tile Nassau /tome Knew now to bend, like the ozier twig, until the
Stakes of 50 sovs. each, was won by two lengths by Cle- storm passed over. She never was so quiet as at this pre-
mentina, beating Slander, Cosachia, Archness, and Me- sent moment. She feels that old England's Protestantism
rissa • Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, T.Y.C., won by has been roused, and she fears to provoke her wrath fur-
Bowstring, beating Awkward, Christopher, and Gundred ; ther. She is waiting until there is another Protestant lull
for the Chesterfield Cup, by 30 subs., of 13 sovs. each, of security. She never now interfered at their religious
Mr. Rolt's Collingwood ran in first, Mr. Irwin's Patriot meetings, as she did at one period. The fatal bill of '29,
second and Mr. Robinson's Blackbird third—fifteen ran. the Dissenters' Chapel Bill. Watson's Bill, and the en-
The First Class of the March Stakes of 10 sovs. each, was dowment of Maynooth, had aroused the Protestant feel-
won: by Mr. Clifton's Brown Bess, beating Mr. Merton's ing of the country, and by the blessing of God it should
African, Duke of Richmond's Outpost, and Lord G. never be allowed to slumber again. (Loud cheers.) He
Lennox nd Draco. For the Second Class of March trusted that the Protestant religion, as bequeathed to
Stakes, Mr. Irwin's Patriot beat Captain Pettit's Kismet, them by their fathers, ' That the Pope of Rome hath not,
and three others. The Challenge for the March Stakes and ought not to have any place, power, or dominion
,
was won by Mr. Merton's African, beating Mr. Clifton's within the realms of old En land ' would long be
Brown Bess, and Mx. Elliott's Nottingham. . predominate." (Tremendous chegering.)