The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

THE -LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

RAILWAY IN7 ALLIGENCE.

The Leicester and Bedford railway has been amalga-
mated with the Midland.

Captain Huish has been appointed general manager of
all the lines now amalgamated under the name of the
London and North-Western.

The railways in course of construction in Ireland afford
employment to 40,000 labourers, to whom 1:25,C00 are
paid weekly in wages.
On Monday, some carriages on the Eastern Counties
Railway were thrown off the line, the engine being pre-
cipitated down the embankment into a pond, from which
it has not yet been extricated.
The opening of the Great North of England Clarence
and Hartlepool railway took place last week. It is eight
miles long, and forms the connecting link at Ferryhill be-
tween the York and Newcastle and the Clarence railways.
It is stated that Messrs. Pickford and Co., and Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne, have, between them, undertaken the
agency for the goods on the London and North-Western
Railway and its dependencies.
On Friday week, the second of the railway approaches
to Lincolnshire was opened, trains running on that day
between Stamford and Peterborough; no formality was
observed, but the line was at once thrown open for public
vehicles.

ACCIDENT ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—On
Monthly last, William Diamond, a youth fourteen years of
age, a native of Liverpool, fell under the wheels of some
waggons, near Moffatt, while working on the above rail-
way, and was killed on the spot. His body was nearly
cut asunder.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The Conway
bridge is to be completed and fixed in its place in eight
months from the present time. The Conway bridge is
400 feet span, the Britannia bridge across the Menai
Straits, 450 feet span ; the greatest span of any rigid
bridge hitherto known is 240 feet.
An accident occurred this week on the Manchester and
Bolton Railway, by which the East Lancashire train,
close to Cross-street station ran into and smashed two or
three third-class carriages of the Bolton train. The car-
riages had been occupied by butchi,rs, who had just got
out, and thus escaped destruction.
A very startling accident occurred on a railway near
Whitacre last week. A shower of red-hot cinders from
the funnel of the engine descended in an open third-class
carriage, burning the clothes of the passengers, and setting
fire to an umbrella which a female was holding over her,
and then to her dress.

A few days since Mr. Platten, one of the magistrates
for Lynn, and a member of the Town Council, appeared
before the jastices in answer to a summons for trespassing
on the Lynn and Ely railroad. He contended that, be-
ing a shareholder, he had a right to walk on the line;
and as this was a question of law which the justices did
not feel themselves competent to decide, the case was ad-
journed, in order to obtain an opinion from counsel.
RAILWAYS IN ITALY.—A correspondent, addressing
the Alhenaum from Rome, writes—" The net of railway
which the Pope seems disposed to grant will embrace six
principal lines—from Rome to the frontier of Naples,
from Rome to Civita Vecchia, Civita Vecchia to the
frontier of Tuscany, Bologna to Ferrara, Forli to Ravenna,
There is talk, also, of two great lines, from Civita Vec-
chia to Ancona, and Ancona to Bologna, which might be
executed by the united resources of the Papal Govern-
ment and the companies. The entire web of Roman
railways would embrace 1,025 kilometres ; and the ex-
pense of construction, it is estimated, would amount to
256,250,000 francs."
We announce in another column the prospectus of a
company for constructing a railway between Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport. This is a revival of the old
scheme of last session, but under far better auspices, and
with much better hopes of success, the present promoters
having embraced those essentials, the want of which were
in a great measure the cause of former failure. The land-
owners now not only give the use of their names, but a
considerable part of their land necessary for the construc-
tion of the line ; in addition to which the direction con-
tains the names of several of our first merchants. The
line is one of that class that will confer great benefits at
very little cost ; and to an increasing population such as
Liverpool's, in a sanitary point of view alone, the project
is deserving every support. In such hands it cannot fail
of doing well.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.—The Rev. H. Heighton, of
Rugby, has obtained a patent for improvements in elec. 1,
tric telegraphs, which relate to the introduction of an
apparatus to supply the place of the magnetic needle now
used for electric telegraphs. This apparatus consists of
a glass tube fitted with brass caps at top and bottom, and
having a strip of metallic leaf (gold leaf is recommended
as best) passing through the centre of the tube, loosely
hung in metallic contact with the brass caps ; the upper
extremity of the leaf being fixed at right angles to its
lower end—so that the leaf, from whatever direction seen,
will present at some part its flat surface to the eye. The
brass caps are placed in a circuit suitable for electro-tele-
graphic communication. Near to the leaf (as on the out-
side of the glass) is placed either of the poles of a magnet.
The effect of this arrangement is, that when a current of
voltaic electricity is caused to pass through the circuit,
and thereby the metallic leaf, the latter is deflected to one
side or the other, according to the direction of the cur-
rent ; and the distinct motion so obtained may be repeated
and combined and used for the purpose of designating
letters or figures, or other conventional signals. One of
the apparatu3 is to be placed at each terminus of telegra-
phic communication, and others may be placed at inter-
mediate points, each to be provided with a voltaic battery,
and one of the key-boards used in single magnetic-needle
electric telegraphs.—Mintng Journal.
EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Pre-
parations ate making for effecting a communication via
Eastern Counties Railway, by electric telegraph, between
London and Liverpool. Between Ely and Peterbo-
rough the wires are already fixed ; and in the opinion of
Mr. Powell, the superintendent, the whole length be-
tween London and Liverpool will be complete in less
than two months. From Ely, the wires will run to
Stamford, Siston and Derby, proceeding by the Western
branch of the Midland railway to Birmingham, and from
thence to Liverpool. When completed, a message will
be able to be conveyed to and from Liverpool in eight
minutes. A communication will also be opened with
York, Newcastle, Hull, Leeds, &c., by means of the
northern branch of the Midland. Southward of London,
the electric telegraph will be carried along the North
Woolwich line, which will shortly be opened for traffic,
and, passing under the Thames by means of the sub-
marine telegraph, form a communication between Wool-
wich Dockyard and Liverpool. On the completion of
the Thames, Haven, and North Gravesend line, it is the
intention of the company to effect, if possible, by means
of the electric and sub-marine telegraph, a communication
with Sheerness Dockyard.—Daily News.
The London and North-Western are now about to be-
come their own carriers. This department will, we have
no doubt, immediately realise to the company a large
increase of revenue. They will gain in a short time an
increase of no less than £50,000 or £60,000 a year from
this source. The new system is to be carried out by a
management already well practised in the business; for
the Grand Junction have long been their own carries,
and the joint company have placed Captain Huish, who
has so successfully managed that part of their affairs, to
be their general manager over the whole of the North-
Western traffic : and, judging from past experience, there
can be little doubt that he will make the appointment
profitable to them and honourable to himself. It will,
however, require the exertion of untiring energy and
pains-taking activity to carry into effect a duty so exten-
sive, and in which he will still at every step have to en-
counter the opposition anti combination of the carriers.
At the last meeting Mr. Glyn threatened the company
with a possible diminution of dividend. We, on the
contrary, do not think that, with good management, any
such diminution is at all likely. On the contrary, if the
carrier traffic be steadily carried out, we promise them the
maintenance of the 10 per cent. dividend, unimpaired for
many years to come. Nay, more, we advise our readers,
who have experience of our correctness in prediction, to
look at the present prices of London and North-Western
sbares, and to invest accordingly.—Railway Chronicle.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—On Friday,
the half-yearly meeting of the company was held at the
Clarendon-rooms, Wm. Jackson, Esq., chairman. He
stated that the negociations for the proposed sale of the
railway were at an end, and that the line therefore stood
as before. He thought that good would result from the
non - completion of the agreement. Some proposals
had been submitted to the Cheshire Junction Proprietors
and Birkenhead Commissioners, with a view to put an
end to differences, and increase the traffic of the Birken-
head line by £lOO a week. The following arrangements
were then entered into That the Chester and Birken-
heed Company will proceed to make the Extension line
from Grange-lane to the docks ; that the Cheshire Junc-
tion Railway Company will give to the Chester and
Birkenhead half the Station land near Bridge-end on
paying the original cost of the same, and all expenses in-
curred ; that the proper deeds be prepared, and that all
the other arrangements be carried out under the seal of
the two companies; and that this arrangement is contin-
gent on the Chester and Birkenhead Company opening
the extension to the docks at as early a period as possible.
That the Chester and Birkenhead Company shall be at
liberty to carry their own goods across the Mersey, or to
contract with the Duke of Bridgewater's trustees, for the
purpose, releasing the Birkenhead Commissioners from all
obligations to carry them. This agreement to take effect
so soon as the Extension line from Grange-lane to the
docks shall be commenced. Upon these arrangements,
the following motion was proposed by Mr. J. Laird, and
seconded by the chairman, and unanimously passed :
" That -Messrs. J. Laird, Burt, Radcliffe, Potter, and
Cochrane, be appointed a committee, to enter into a con-
tract for the making of the Extension line to the docks,
and that upon that contract being
entered into, the at,
rangement between the Chester and Birkenhead Company
and the Duke's Trustees may commence, subject to sonic
modifications in the foregoing agreement." The meeting
then adjourned for about a fortnight, when the proprietors
will be called together again to sanction the taking up of
£lOO,OOO, according to the act of parliament.

UNIVERSITY 4 CLERICAL NEWS.

The Bishop of Durham consecrated the new church of
St. James, Morpeth. on Thursday, and the new church
of St. Paul's, Alnwick, on Friday.
Lady Bassett has given £lOOO towards rebuilding the
parish church of Illogan, Cornwall, which is to be re-
opened at the end of the month.
Calculations are made that nearly four hundred churches
are now in some stage of progress in England, either
being in actual process of building, or conditionally or-
dered, or privately prepared.
The Bishop of Newfoundland has arrived in this
country. His lordship came home in the Hawk, which
had just arrived at Teignmouth, after a passage of six-
teen days from St. John's.
The Bishop of Chester has presented the Rev. F. Ford

to the re:tory of St. Peter's, Chester. The rev. gentle-
man is secretary to the Irish Society ; he is son of Mrs.
Ford, who resides in Chester. _ _ _

FASQUE CHAPEL.—The Episcopal Chapel lately erected
by .Sir John Gladstone, at Fasque, is to be opened on
Sabbath first for divine service. The sittings are quite
free, and all who are so disposed are invited to attend.
The chapel is a very tasteful building, beautifully situated
on the lawn adjoining the magnificent mansion-house of
Fasque.—Montrone Standard.
THE NEW BISHOPRIC.—We are inclined to believe,
from the best information we can obtain, that it is the
present intention of the Government both to preserve the
see of St. Asaph, appointing Dr. Short to it, and also to
create the new see of Manchester without delay. We
hear, also, that the new and additional bishop is to be
placed in the House of Lords, like the rest of his brethren,
a bill for that purpose being intended to be proposed to
Parliament—Record.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—At the Ripon Diocesan
Church Building Society's meeting last week the Bishop
of Ripon said that a gentleman, who will not permit his
name to be announced, proposes to appropriate £lO,OOO
towards the building of a church in Leeds, and in all
I probability before be has completed the parsonage and
the school, and provided for the endowment, he will
spend £20,000, but he has pledged himself to the expen-
diture of £lO,OOO.
The Rev. Mr. Close has addressed a letter to his con-
gregation at Cheltenham, complaining that the Rev. Mr.
Gresley, in his late pamphlet, has grossly misrepresented
both himself and flock, in imputing negligence to thern, as
regards attending to the duties of fasting, and the value of
the prayers of the Church. In defence of himself, he in-
stances a sermon he has published, on " The Excellerce
of the Liturgy," and a tract, entitled " Thoughts upon
the Scriptural Authority for the Duty of Fasting, suited to
the Season of Lent," and proves distinctly that the
remarks which Mr. Gresley makes Mr. Close apply to
his own congregation were levelled at congregations gene-
rally, Mr. Close unfairly omitting the opening sentence
from Mr. Gresley's remarks.
THE FORM OF PUBLIC PRAYER.—The Archbishop of
Dublin protests against the form of prayer prepared by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, agreed upon by her majesty in
council, as well as to that settled by the lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, humbly imploring the Almighty God to avert from
these countries the impending calamity of famine. The
objections are of a two-fold nature—legal and spiritual.
Dr. Whately denies the constitutional right to issue such
a command ; and as he considers the visitation a direct
judgment from God, be looks upon any attempt at propi-
tiatipg the Divine wrath in the nature of a blasphemy.
His grace preached a sermon upon this subject on Sunday,
in the Episcopal Chapel of St. Stephen, in which he ex-
pounded his view political and religious. Copies of the
form of public prayer, as it appeared in the Gazette, were
distributed throughout the church, but were subsequently
removed, and the prayer was not read—orders, as it was
said. to that effect having been issued by the archbishop.
Dublin Evening Mail.—[lt seems that such orders were
not issued by the Archbishop, and it would appear that
his Grace argued that the potato disease arises from
natural causes, and ought not to be looked upon as a
judgment from God ; and therefore, &c.]
THE REV. DR. SCORESBY.—At the close of the morn-
ing service at Bradford parish church, on Sunday week.
the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, formerly chaplain at the Mariners'
Church in this town, announced his resignation of the
vicarage of that parish, and that the period of his minis-
trations there would probably terminate in two or three
months time. In making the announcement, the rev.
gentleman was much affected, and he said that he had
only come to the decison to resign his present charge after

the exercise of much careful and deliberate, anxious and
prayerful consideration. He further observed—" Various
have been the considerations which have availed towards
the production of this decision. It will be sufficient for
the present occasion, and, indeed, for all necessary pur-
poses. to refer to two of these—first, the anxious state of
health of one claiming, and in all respects entitled to, my
chief earthly regard and consideration ; and secondly,
the painful experience (in effects which I will not specify)
of the too great burden of this very large parish, and its
various concerns, devolving on myself. To the difficulties
which I have had, unhappily, to encounter in pursuance
of my official duties here, 1 will not further refer than
merely to say, that these, according to my decided con-
viction, will be found to justify the confidence I ever en-
tertained, viz., that collisions forced upon me whilst in
pursuance of a simple, straightforward, and righteous
cause--that collisions which I must adventure on, or
sacrifice a conscientious obligation and duty regarding the
interests of the vicarage of which I was the responsible
trustee—would [ultimately be resoved into good for you
and the parish. To myself has been the arduous toil, the
painful. protracted suffering ; and to my successor. I
doubt not, will be the reaping of the fruit : and may that
fruit be a rich and an abundant harvest, to the glory of
God, and to the best interests and efficiency of our revered
church !"
PROGRESS OF TRACTARIANISM.—In a church in the
western part of the metropolis, which has already drawn
much attention by its Popish manifestations, the Curate
was recently heard, in his Sunday afternoon's catechizing,
to teach the children the Romish doctrine of transubstan-

tiation, in its fullest extent, without the least reserve, and
with the further declaration, that " such was the teaching
of our Church." In another church, in a western county,
a clergyman was struck with the singular appearance of a
new building, bedecked with crosses, images, candlesticks,
&c. He asked a woman whom he found in i•, " What
place it was," and was surprised to bear that it was a new
church. Going to a reading desk near the `• altar," be
took up a book which lay there, and found it to be the
Romish Missal! Expressing his surprise again to the
woman, he called out to the clergyman, who said that it
had been left there by mistake, that it was his own and
he had been using it, but it did not belong to the Church.
The operation of all this Romish teaching is just what it
is intended to be. The people, so far as they come under
the influence of it, are going over to the Romish Church.
Conversions of this sort are constantly taking place. 'We
believe that several members of the family of one of the
representatives of a borough in the southern part of the
metropolis, have been recently received into the pale of
that Church. A person who is in the habit of visiting
Oscott on business, remarked, the other day, that he
never went there without meeting several persons who had
come there to be " received ;"—and that, on his last visit,
he sat down at table with nineteen such persons, who were
to abandon Protestantism for Popery the next morning.
A very extensive publisher of Romish tracts and books re-
marked, very lately, that not a week passed, in which he
did not receive several letters from young persons in Pro-
testant families, reroesting him to send them various
Popish works, by circuitous means, to as to reach them
without coming to the knowledge of their relatives Such
is the work going on among us ! What is to be done to
stop it?—Record.