The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

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painted in oak. These, with s
arranged, and comfortable, ti

churCh is preferable-to another

The accommodation is for nearly eight hundred per-
sons ; and galleries may be added, when required, for four
or fire hundred additional sittings.

This church, as we have already nnticed, is built and
endowed at the sole expense of Mrs. Thornton, of " The
Elms," West Derby, of whose munificence, and Chris•ian
feeling it will be a lasting memorial. The architectural
designs were by our talented townsman Mr. Welch. The
painted glass was. we are informed, by Mr. Forrest, who has,
in this instance, been eminently successful. The church will
be opened in January next. It is built of fine red free-
stone, the walls rusticated, with the exception of the
buttresses, window sides, outward decorations of the
tower, the spire, &e.

SALE OF CADETSHIPS.—The grand jury have returned
a trn • bill for a misdemeanour against John Charretie,
James Rallett, Ann Stewart, and Sir William Young,
Bart., a director of the East India Company. The first
three are indicted as principals, and the latter as aiding
and assisting, in the sale of a cadetship in the East India
Company's service, contrary to the provisions of the 49th
George 111 ,c. _ _ _

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RAILWAY TAXATION.—The last returns of the follow-
ing leading railways for the second half-year of 1846. give
the following comparisons and results, in round nirtobers :
—London and North Western, 350 miles, with a 'Capital
or cost of £13,000,000 ; gross receipts, above £1,000,000
dividing to shareholders, £543,929 ; paid £21,425 for
local rates and taxes, and £24,582 for the government
duty of five per cent, on passengers, besides property tax,
income, stamps, &c., being equal to about 9 per cent. on
what the shareholders divided for rates and duty. Great
Western, 222 miles ; capital, £8,000,000 ; gross receipts,
£496,000 ; divided to shareholders; £301,807 ; paid
£15,030 local rates, and £14,748, government tax; besides,
&c., eqnal to about 10 per cent on the shareholders' profit.
The Midland Railway, 178 miles; capital, 2,250,000 ;
gross receipts, £324,000 ; divided to shareholders,
£170.200; paid £7,130 for rates, and £6,645 for govern-
ment tax, besides. Sm., or 8 per cent on dividend. The
Manchester and Leeds, 84 miles; capital, £3,750,000;
gross receipts. £153,000 ; 1.000.000 Passengers ; divided
among shareholders, £86,470, after paying £4,414 local
rates, and £3,464 duty, besides, &v., or 10 per cent. On
a rough estimate of the 12 leading English railways (those
we have enumerated among the number) of 1,250 miles

(or, at 10

.es per mile. 12,500 ac

Only h If a year, £75,951 localrates

ud £73,177 govern
proper)

went tax on passengers, besides income•ta
tax, stamps, &e. Estimate that for a year, and we have
£152,000 and 146,000 for these 12 railways, paid in reality

by the public, to local and general taxation. Esiimathi
the present railways at dcuble that length of miles, gives
2,500 miles, or 25,000 acres, paying about 96 times more

as many three-penceq as railways do pounds
extent of land to tin local taxes, &c.