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

died on the 17th instant,

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

RAILWAY INTELLiGEN

he Margate branch of the South Eastern Railway,was
e opened yesterday (Monday).
he central station of the electric telegraph in Loudon
be at the Royal Exchange
In Thursday the

first train passed over the line from

.y St. Edmund's:
goat's carried between London, Birmingham, and
iy amount to about two thousand tone per day.
-.nen, Messrs. Williams, Ackroyd, and Co.,
-rs for the extension line of railway to tke

O to 13‘.

Our towns

lallead Docks.
e Dover Telegraph says that a fellow climbed one of
des of the electric telegraph, in West Kent, and ap-
ear to the wires, in order to hear the news.
le generally known, that, according to act
the government have the power of seizing

It may not I

of the Hungerford Suspension

4 applyyig to

;rlt,in the ensuing Si

ion, for
,hat the

power to sell or lease tue orrage ; auu
South W estern are likely to be the purchasers.
The Railway Times says that there is no truth in the
rumour that negotiations are pending between the North
3taffordshire and the London and North Western Com.

As the first parliamentary or cneap tram wan on its way
from Manchester to Leeds, on Monday, a guard fell from
one of the carriages, and both his legs were severed from
his body. He is since dead.
On Sunday week a train left Preston for the south
without a single passenger. A similar event is declared
never to have happened before, but it does not say much
in favour of any very great necessity (not to mention the
morality of the question) for Sunday trains.
The platform on the arrival side of the Euston-square
Station has been lengthened 550 feet ; and when the car-
riage-shed has been removed, there w ill be a continuous
arrival platform of 980 feet in length, affording room for
about 60 carriages, or five trains of average length.
On Tuesday morning, the mail train near Stcckport ran
at full speed into a coal train, causing much destruction
of property, besides personal injury. No lives were lost,
but several persons were seriously injured, among others
a clergy man who is variously described as Curry and
, Cassidy

The
states

V.
" Companion to the British Almanac" for 1847
that, making allowances for cases of possible dis-
ent, it is probable that the railway openings of
unt to between 600 and 700 miles. - The

appoin
1846 coil
lengths (4

i-inthe year ending No

;e of Manchester, neverthe

j Sheriffs' Court, on Thursday, Mr. Shillibeer,
vell-known omnibus proprietor, recovered £5OO
ges from the Eastern Counties Railway Company,
juries sustained through an accident, on the Hert-
hr.noll linp_ on the 18th of October, 1845. The

see of

Company had paid £75 into court.
The Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester have agreed,
majority of four to one, to amalgamate with the Lon-
,d North• Western. The same meeting likewise The gun yy...
'an agreement with the Huddersfield and Man- person when it was accidentally
"way and Canal Company for the mutual the deplorable accident jus,
the traffic Mr. Wordsworth has written to C
his gratification at the result of the

dischar

named

a order has been given by the

& LONG ORD

Lordrecto

id IN ewcat
, for three

literature

re, but by, the mile I
inattention of a fireman employed on the South
Lailway, on Wednesday, a locqmotive ran away
e v v Cross Station to London Bridge, where it

d by running into the station, destroying the
the wall of the °areas office.

mated to have been occasi-

more than a promise of co-operation. Such a promise
did not constitute an agreement to share in the profit or
loss of the undertaking, whatever that might be, which
was the-real essence of partnership. He could not be re-
sponsible as a mere member of the committee. If, how-
ever, the provisional committee appointed an acting com-
mittee to act on their behalf, and be their agent, then the
members of the provisional committee would clearly be
liable for the acts of the acting committee. As to soli-
citors, there were various questions which must be deter-
mined by the circumstances of each case, the particular
terms of the prospectus, and the reasonable inferences to
be drawn therefrom. A new trial was granted in both
cases. _

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS,

A Protestant Association is about to be formed at
Cambridge. A preliminary meeting has been held, of
which a full report is given in the Cambridge Advertiser.
The Senatus Acadernicus of the University of St. An-
drews have conferred the degree of LL.D. on Lord
Campbell, !ormerly an alumnus of that University.
The Rev. W. Sinclair, of Leeds, has declined the
vicarage of Bradford ; being the second time the reverend
gentleman has refused promotion.
The Rev. George Cuthbert, curate of Christ Church,
has been presented to the district of Duckenfield, near
Ashton-under-Lyne, by the Bishop of Chester.
The Rev. Thomas Troughton, M.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of
Haverthwaite, Lancashire, Patron, the incumbent of
Colton.
The Exeter Protestant Committee have passed a vote
of confidence in Sir J. Duckworth, and of no confidence
in Mr. Divett, the latter member having supported the
Maynooth Endowment Bill.
The Venerable Archdeacon Shirley has been appointed
the new Bishop of Sodor and Man. The Archdeacon is
a member of New College, Oxford, and had previously
been appointed Bampton Lecturer for that University for

1847. The venerable Archdeac
and therefore warmly attached to the church
sent charge is the Arcndeaconry of Derby.
Mr. Bates, a contra-tenor singer of Carlisle Cathedr
has been appointed, from out of thirteen competitors, t
the choir of Durham Cathedral, at a salary of £lOO pe
annum, with prospective increase. Messrs. Wylie au
Norman, of Carlisle. Cathedral, have also been appointe
to the choirs of Exeter and Rochester respectively.
The question of the Welsh bishoprics is satisfactoril
_____ sees are to be preserved, an

His pre

diately. It is in confirmation of this report that tht.
of St. Asaph has already been filled up by :he transl
of the late Bishop of Mall,
just filled.
A CLERGYMAN SHOT.—A correspondent whose lettf.
is dated " Swansea" informs us that on Friday last th
Rev. John Collins, Gower, was accidentally shot througl
his back, and that the reverend gentleman's life is in im•
minent danger -,as in the hands of another
,a
-and caused

Man is also

--Car-dUP Adverb

expressive

recent contest for t

—away Company, ,itnna
.niles of trucks! The number now in more welcom, as Mr. W. says he was not aware _
ost countless; yet so immense is the traffic on to be proposed a candidate. Though the issue of it v
„; reownv_ that the Directors are contrary to the wishes of his friends, he is less plea:
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dependent of political consideration.
DIFFICULTIES NOT DISCOURAGEMENTS.
great societies which God has blessed had feeble
nings, and had much opposition to encounter. ...
Church Missionary Society did not begin actual mission
till four years after its formation, and did ',nt
single convert to the Lord's table till its
and now what a wide sphere of blessing C

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