The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

number of parties seeking recreation

the outskirt

—On Wednesday last, this town pre-
lted nearly all the outward appearance of Sunday. All
the churches were open for Divine service, and the forms
of prayer were read therein, The catholic chapels, many

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dissenting places of worship, and the Jews' synagoole,
were also open, and in the synagogue a printed Hebrew
form of prayer, prepared for the occasion by the chief
rabbi, (with English translation,) was used. The Exchange
was closed, and the Post Office (for delivery) from ten to
five o'clock, and twine3s almost universally suspended.
It was doubtless to thousands a day of recreation and en-
joyment, rather than of fasting and humiliation; for the
numbers were very great who made excursions into tbe
country, especially to Alderley Edge, Bowdon, and other
favourite places of resort. We understand that tbhoorse mand for horses was so great, that scarcely a saddle-
was to be got on hire, unless ordered two days previously.,
The public parks were most numerously thrm.gea by
bein
sitors, and, the day

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exer-

cises were much in vogue. In the town, how ,
thing had a quiet, Sabbath aspect ; and there was none of
that excess of disorderly conduct, usually experienced on
popular holidays. The next morning there were at the
Borough Court only two prisoners for examination, and
the whole business did not exceed the daily average, al-
though the court did not sit on Wednesday, and there was
consequently the police business of two days and nights to
be disposed of.—Manchester Guardian.

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It appears also to have been properly observed in most
of the neighbourhood.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The Manchester and Southampton Railway Bill has at
last passed Standing Orders.
The Newcastle and Carlisle declare a dividend of
£2 15s. per £lOO share, and-in the same proportion for
the £25 shares, free of income-tax.
COCKERMOUTII AND WORKINGTON.--The opening is
shortly to take place, as the works are reported to be
completed, and are now undergoing consolidation.
The Electric Telegraph Company have recently ob-
tained ledve to lay down their wires through the city, and
thus connect every telegraph in town and country, so that
Liverpool, Manchester, York, &c., will be placed in in-
stantaneous communion.
The directors of the East Lancashire Railway offer a
premium of £lOO for the best, and £5O for the second
best plan and design of the building necessary for the
making and repairing of their locomotive engines and

carriages.
The new railway bridge over the Susquehanna, at Har-
risburg, United States, is about 4000 feet long, and con-
sists of 23 arches, averaging 173 feet each, and two arched
viaducts, one 53 feet, the other 84 feet long. The entire
cost is said to be short of 100,000 dollars.
BLACKBURN, CLITHEROE AND NORTH IArEsTOI4
RAILWAY.—We are glad to see the spirited manner 10
which different cuttings between here and Chatbute are
commenced. Already the temporary rails for a short
distance are laid down, and the carriages are now busily
employed in conveying soil along the line for the purpose
of embanking in the low grounds.—Blackburn Standard.
BLACKBURN, DARWEN AND BOLTON RAILWAY.—
PROGRESS OF THE WORKS.—There are now upwards of
2500 men employed in this important line of railway, and
in a short time the number will be nearly doubled, as the
line is to be opened throughout to Bolton, if possible,
early in January next, and to Darwen in June next.—
Ibid. _

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FATAL RAILWAYAcCIDENTS.—On Saturday afternoon,
as the workmen were undermining the earth in the deep
cutting on the railway near the Burnley Barracks, one of
them was burried beneath a quantity of the materials
which came down sooner than was expected, and on being
taken out was found to be quite dead. He was a stranger
on the line, and had only been set to work that morning.
OLDHAM EXTENSION RAILWAY.—The formation of
the Oldham Extension Railway, from the present station,
near Lyon Mill, to Greenacres Moor, is proceeding with
great rapidity. The two tunnels, each
a quarter ofa mile
in length, are rapidly approaching completion, and are
expected' to be entirely finished in the course of about
two months. The excavations and embankments, near
the gas-works and Rhodes Bank, are being actively pro-
ceeded with, and the building of the station' t Greenacres
Moor is to be shortly commenced.
LIVERPOOL AND BURY •RAILWAY.--011 Tuesday last,
a portion of the viaduct in the course of erection for this
railway gave way. As it has mostly been persevered in
through the winter, the weather, we presume, must have
been most unfavourable for the erection of this work.
We feel some degree of regret that this should happen at
a time when this fine line of railway was progressing so.
favourably. We learn, however, that the engineer-in-
chief, Mr. Thomson, has examined the arch, and from the
material being mostly entire, and very slightly damaged,
the accident, although apparently of a serious character,
from its prominent situation, is by no means so considered._
The estimated cost for reconstruction will be only about
£2500. Mr. M'Cormack is making immediate arrange-
ments for its re-erection, and from his well-known and
established character, as an enterprising contractor, we
have no doubt, with the additional advantage of favourable
weather, we shall soon see the work in a permanent state.
THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND MIDLAND.
RAILWAYS.—During the last few days the town and
neighbourhood of Rugby have been thrown into a state of
considerable excitement, in consequence of the discovery
of two extensive robberies of prints, cottons, &c., on
some trucks standing upon the above-named lines ; bales
of goods having been taken out of each, after which the
bales were cut open, and the goods scattered abou

icion falling upon the porters in the employ of the rail-
ivay company, they were all .(about thirty in number)
placed under arrest at the station, and not allowed to
leave the premises till the whole of their houses had been
1. Nothing, however, was discovered to implicate
The second robbery was discovered on Tuesday
morning, and consisted of a lot of orange velvets, silks,
ation, 130 members of the &c., on their way from Coventry to Sheffield. The truck
University attended to witness the august ceremony. from which this property was stolen was standing at Pick-
Among, those present were—The Members of Parliament ford's wharf, on the Midland Railway, about a mile and a
for the University, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn and half from Rugby. The thieves, having stripped the box
the lion. Charles E. Law ; the Regius Professor of Divi- of its contents, threw it amongst some bushes in a field
nity, the Rev. Dr. 011ivant. adjoining the railway, after which they attempted to fire
The whole of the members present wore their respee- the bushes, with the view, it is supposed, to consume tho
tive academic costumes, and the Vice-Chancellor and the box, but in this they failed.—Globe.

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