The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

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TO A LOVER OF FLOWERS

Still gentle lady, cherish flowers—
True fairy friends

On whom of all thy cloudless hours

is throWn away

3} them, WI

man's ruder race,

e confcrr'd is spurn'd,

_ I and fosiering grace
thousand-fold returned.

But all t

The Rose repays thee all thy smiles—

Dew in the chalice of its wiles

as th}• tears

gladd'ning eyes
ssly are pour'd ;

:he blue Violet's tender dyes
eliold them all restored.

Yon bri
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it Carnation—once thy cheek

c o'er it in the bud;
And back it gives thy blushes meek
In one rejoicing flood!
has treasured all thy sigh,
onovr-drop touch'd thy brow,
not a charm of thine shall die

!iy painted people vow.
Blackwood's Magasint

LORD SOUTHAMPTON'S SALES.

(Franz the Morning Herald.)
)ur moneyed readers may he a little anxious to
Ive something in respect to the result of this im-
ase sale, with a view to ascertain if a previous opi-
n " that the capitalists were entirely absorbed in
way shares and foreign securities had any real
nda.tion." We think it will not be difficult to
ve, and demonstratively, that there are still left
)e thousands of moneyed men who adhere to the
1 old-fashioned principle of preferring real to ima-
• - The great sale to which we are al-
this to the test; the public, who have
their attention kept on the qui the by the
„,ed advertisements of Mr. George Robins's an.
acement of this vast property, congregated in such
to make it indispensable to remove the
?st hall-room of the London Tavern
..rt being entirely incapable of holding
_tuber.) One thousand persons were each
.mbled, and the result was no less satisfactory
public than the noble lord the proprietor. There
een some previous diversity of opinion as to the
of freehold ground rents; in this sale the rever-
try expectancy was prolonged to 90 years, giving a
sing, although a remote prospective view to those
have families to provide for. The average price
from 28 to 30 years' purchase, and where the
ci-
An was more than usually seductive, many cases
ere they realised 50 years' purchase.—
prices appeared to have been the result of
rge Robins's declaration that Three per Cent.
at 91 were at an unhealthy price--and though
lust old enough to remember them at 474—
our learned friend of the rostrum, without
-m them too much by the threatened
with France, this is assuredly the time to escape
i a doubtful security, where the principal may be
materially reduced, to the positive certainty of
And-rents, which, if influenced at all by another
would rise rather than take a retrograde motion.
'n succession was the vacant ground of the noble
mmencine; at his park on Highgate-hill, and
at the vicinity of the Regent's Park. By
of no ordinary tact, it was contrived to add ma-
ly to the value of the building-ground at High-
by means of complying with the wisl'es of Lord
Seld, to sell him nearly 50 acres of the park

jn to the lar
kuction Ma

erred wh

ich adjoins his own fence ; this reduced the number
acres, and consequently diriiiished the means to
;sess so many plots to build on as had been intend-
and formed a portion of the proposed auction.—
e result was, not merely obtaining £5OO an acre
rn Lord Mansfield, but it gave such an impetus to
adjoining lots, from the knowledge they would still
ye the beauteous park for their boundary, that the
,d adjoining in many instances averaged £l,OOO per
.e. Another and a very important feature that in-
enced the prices from Haverstock-hill, arose from
ling to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests,
the morning of the second day's sale, 20 acres of
Ld, which separated their property, and interfered
Lterially with the grand plan in their contemplation

v open to the public all the land from Primrose-
-Ito Chalk Farm. By this fortuitous arrangement
ill enjoy one continued park, beautifully
,h ornamental grounds, and consequently
-gat will now have a park for their neigh-
of never-ceasing houses, rose in value so
s to double the amount per acre given by the
ssioners. Our reporter, who attended at this
hat interesting exhibition, gives the result of the
t 120,000 guineas—this is necessarily independ-
f the two large sales made by Mr. Robins to
I Mansfield and the Woods and Forests, which, it
has been whispered, was 25,000 guineas in addition.

iered

the lots t

STATE OF

THE BRITISH NAVY

(From the Horning Herald.)
Palmerston journal has ceased to parade its catalogue
silt ships of war, as part of the available defence of the
y. Even ships completely built, and actually launched
t the necessary number of bands to man them, can be
little service, as an immediate means of either defence

proportion of the ships, in the Globe's cen-
t ai real a locus in our navy as the phantom-

p, which some of our dramatists and novelists have con-
ed into a shadowy existence on the stage, and in the closet,
11 with pleasing terror the elderly children of the lite-
irsery. The French must be children indeed to be
ned by a pompous enumeration of keels of vessels laid
or even by the unplanked ribs of what, in some half-
r half-score of years, if whig economy permit, may
mizlity men of war, wanting nothing but efficient
igate and able officers to command them.
to which the whip have brought the British
ht to make Lord Palmerston and his ac-

is such as oug

ited perpetrator of solemn silliness in the Globe per-
y content with the realisation of their theory, which for-
a nation, threatened with hostilities by a great and pcw-
neighbour, to put itself in a " decent posture of de-
e," lest it should thereby irritate the state by which its
:y is threatened. England is, at this moment, at the
:,17 of any great naval power that may choose to assail
The conduct of the Whigs in this particular, whether
from incapacity or design, is treason to the state, and

was well for England, in the days of a former Queen,
Lord Palmerston's " cheap defence of nations" was not
rstood. if it had been then acted upon, the Spanish
tda would have been upon our coasts before the country
assume a " decent posture of defence," and the chains
opish tyrant would have been upon Protestant England
e our gallant admirals could have found a fleet where-
to resist his gigantic armaments. But Elizabeth did
when she heard of the fleet fitting out in the ports of
1, abstain from making preparations for defence through
raven apprehension of thereby increasing the irritation

)wer that menaced her with invasion

are we to expect of ministers who, instead of
) govern men, are themselves the dependent crea-
e " ladies of the bedchamber," by whose apron-

s they cling to power ? Is the head of the ministry
aing, hut au indolent voluptuary and court fribble, the
e study of whose existence seems to be, to escape from
nisiness of the state to enjoy the animal indulgence of
)icurean state of existence, and dine every day at the
m's table !

linost the first time, and we trust it will be the last
`,ry of this country, which has seen the Prime
. among dangling courtiers, and the last
.0. How can a creature like this, only quali-
.n inglorious part among court sycophants and
()flour, when the country is in danger and her in-
(cc is menaced—

;he first

Presume to lay his hand upon tho ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause."

nsei:vatives in parliament have a great deal to answer
lowing things to come to this state, by permitting
_ _inerston and his irnbzcile tools to mismanage the
.1 policy of the country as they pleased, without ever
fling them to account; for at no period of our
he foreign policy of England been sogrossly mis-
the party in power, and neglected by the party
t, as during the last ten years.
amcnts are sent to ravage the coasts of China in
ie contraband infamous traffic in opium, our own
It defenceless ; and a government journal is or-
the British people that they must not be put in
tire of defence, lest France should be irritated,
lould instantly inflict upon us that subjugation
ius of Napoleon failed to accomplish !
' England's glory."

COMMUNICATION.—From the "Appendix tog
the Fifth Report from the Select Committee on Railwa.es,.
it appears that the number of trains which arrived unthns
time at the Birmingham terminus of the London and Dr-
ningham Railway, from the Ist of November, 1839, to
the
9th of March of the present year, was 754 ; the whole num-
-- that ran being 781. Of the 27 trains that were over time
ithin that
.period, 14 were under 30 minutes, 11 under 60,
id two uneer 90. The causes of delay seem to have been
incipally trifling derangements of machinery. Of the 781
nns_from Birmingham to London, 686 were within time,
-1 95 over time. Of the latter, 74 were in connection with
sand Junction. From the Grand Junction returns it ap-
st, from the Ist of October, 1839, to the Ist March
,1 number of trains on that line, arriving at Bir-
firss class 889, second class 314; of which the
.e 230 and 128 respectively ; arriving at
spool 888 first class, and 314 second class, of which 212
151 were behind time ; arriving. at Manchester the same
fiber as at Liverpool, but with 263 and 128 trains respec-
ely behind time. The majority of detentions are attri-
ted to dersi,sements in macninery, high winds, scc., and
delays at die junction with the North Union line. It is
tated that the second-class trains take up or set down pas-
sengers at more than 30 places between the termini. The
Liverpool and Manchester Railway returns show the total
number of first-class trains, from the Ist of October to 31st
of March, to have been 1,806, and second class 1,674, of
which 237 and 337 respectively have been late, most of them
by less than 15 minutes. A large proportion of the delays
are attributed to head winds or small defects IR the machi-
nery. On the Great Western Railway, the mail trains
commenced running on the 4th of February last. The
tntal number of trains from that day to the 10th of March
-9. of which 09 arrived within time. In two of the
of failure, the delay was less than five en-
'owl number of passenger trains on this line,
st of October to the 10th of March, was
c which number 1,876 were before time, and 2,337
s five minutes after. There were delayed from sto 15
tes 590, and from 15 to 30 minutes 185—heavy loads
being the principal causes of dela'. The re-
le South-western Company are more concise in
,et at the same time more detailed in substance, than
of the other companies. It appears, that from the Ist
r to the 31st March, 2,582 passenger and mail trains
ere despatched, of which 234 were behind time viz., 149
less than 30 minutes, 59 by less than 60 minutes, and 26
hour and upwards. The causes are of delay are stated
•-25 late starting, owing to late arrival of mails
; 21 detentions at stations, taking in stage
coacnes, private carriages, &c. ; 42 by failure of engines; 4
by accidents to carriages ; 84 by strong head winds and slip-
ping of engines ;13 by goods and ballast trains ;34 by slips
of embankments or cuttings ; and 11 by various other causes.
„...,Railway Times.

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