The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY RECEI

The following are the receipts of railwi
that is to say, up to the date to which
are made :

RAILWAYS.

Week.
ending

Amiens and Boulogne
Arbroath and Forfar

Chester and Birkenhead.

Cockermouth and Workington
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh and Northern
Eastern Counties and N. Eastern,
East Lancashire

Eastern Union and Ipswich and
Bury
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr.
Glasgow and Greenock
Great Southern and Western
Great Western
Kendal and Windermere
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Lancaster and Carlisle
Londonderry and Enniskillen
London and North-Western
London and Blackwall
London 8z Brighton, South Coast
London and South-Western
M'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland, Bristol, and Birming-

ham %
Midland Great Western (Ireland)
Newcastle and Carlisle
Norfolk
_ . _

North British
Paris and Rouen
Rouen and Havre...
Shrewsbury and Chester ...
South-Eastern. and Branches South Devon
Taff Vale
Ulster
Whitehaven Junction
York, Newcastle, and Berwick
York and North Midland,

Nov. -
- 20
--
19
-- 21
-- 18
--
23
—2O
—2O
--
20
- 21
--
20

--
14
--
20
-- 20
- 20
--
21
- 20
- 20
-- 12

Lys for the past week ;
the respective returns

1847.
Amount.

£ s. d.
0 0 0
168 0 0
618 0 0
138 0 0
716 0 0
683 0 0
695 0 0
3382 0 0
613 0 0
10391 0 0
857 0 0

1102 0 0
2422 0 0
1003 0 0
1820 0 0
16807 0 0

89 0 0
8610 0 0
1364 0 0

- 21
- 21
- 20
-• 21
-20
- 21

0 0 0
38209 0 0
654 0 0
7468 0 0
7150 0 0
2105 0 0
621 0 0

18488 0 0
840 0 0
2014 0 0
1959 0 0
2065 0 0
6863 0 0
2739 0 0
514 0 0
7820 0 0
1158 0 0
1822 0 0
739 0 0
293 0 0
10923 G 0
7142 0 0

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Havinsseen this day, (23d instant,) in your va-
luable journal, an article headed " Extraordinary inci-
dents at St. Jude's Church," I looked with anxious. but
disappointed expectation, for some remarks from you on.
the " extraordinary" event, thinking that you would
throw some light upon the subject. In the absence of
such information, and finding the " poor man" branded
by your mercurial neighbour as a " maniac," my mind
seemed to inquire, is there anything in the machinery of
Christianity to lead • us- to expect such results ? and I
thought I perceived such a natural connexion between the
machinery of Christianity effectively worked and the ac-
tual position of man, as led me to inquire why should a
result like the one under consideration be considered wor-
thy of being styled "extraordinary." or the subject of it a
maniac ?" I have always- been taught to look upon a
maniac as one who from false premises arrives at right
conclusions, or vice versa; But how stood it in this case ?
where were his wrong premises? and if they were true,
where his false conclusions ? He felt lie was a sinner
(this is an undoubted fact); he felt that without mercy he
must perish (this was-one of his conclusions) ; and he had
learnt that Christ was exalted to show mercy, therefore he
called out (not as your Lord-street neighbour would insi-
nuate) to those around him, but as given in the Albion,
as transcribed by you, " Lord have mercy on me, Christ
have mercy on me." I declare, if this man were a maniac.
the wisest man this earth possesses could not have acted
the sane one better. And in order to ascertain if my
opinion of the natural' adaptation of the Christian system
to the producing of such results were correct, I considered
how it had made others thus mad, how it had produced
results thus mania-like, when, on its first being brought to
bear upon its legitimate objects, on the day of Pentecost,
the multitude cried out, " Men and brethren, what shall
we do ?" The Philippian jailor acted very like a maniac,
when under the lashings of his conscience, being con-
vinced by the demonstration given that he had been sin-
ning against God, he cried out, " What must I do to be
saved ?" And Saul acted very like a madman, when he, a
mighty warrior (attended by his military staff, who perhaps
were with him when he received his commission from the
chief priests, when issuing from the Holy City, his armout
glittering in the rays of a cloudless sun, he, amidst the
benedictions of the teeming-thousands of Jerusalem, en-
tered upon an expedition which promised so much, to
add fresh laurels to his brow) is found prostrate on the
grounds exclaiming,. " Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do ?" and indeed he was afterwards told by a very polite,
learned, and influential person, that he was " beside "
himself, which was equal to calling him a " poor man'
and a " maniac." To my mind, it is a serious reflection,
that Christianity should have been in the world more than
1800 years, and that even now, in Liverpool, the modern
Tyre—in politeness, literature, and architecture, promis-
ing to be a modern Athens—a man convinced of sin, and
seeking mercy through an exalted Saviour, should be
branded as a maniac.—Yours, &c.
A LOVER OF CONSISTENCY.

[We have received a number of communications on this
subject, and insert the above at particular request. We
have given no opinion of our own, because we consider it
a case of that kind which is better left to the judgment
and conscience of each individual reader.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND-IEP.
SlR,—The cabin passengers by the New World, packet..
ship, Capt. Knight, beg leave, through you, to call atten-
tion to the evils that may result from the absence of pilots
at the appointed station off the port of Liverpool.
The ship sailed from New York on the 10th November,
and reached Point Lynas at 9 a.m, on the 27th, but lay
there for nearly twelve hours, unable to procure a pilot
till after nightfall.
What avail the skill and seamanship of the ablest cap..
tain in bringing his ship across in sixteen days, if she
must be kept lying twenty-four hours, in the end, of No-
vember, with the barometer below 29, off a coast, where
sudden and disastrous changes of wind so often occur.
Let those concerned in the safety of this splendid new
ship and valuable cargo, look to this.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A CABIN PASSENGER.

[The writer of this letter is a highly respectable gentle-
man, but we feel convinced that the apparent neglect is
capable of explanation, as our pilots are so well known as
a hard-working body of men—ever at their posts.]