The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE KATI

meeting was be
before Parliam

-.300,000, to construct branch lines, and enlarge the stations.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the meeting
separated, expressing their gratification at the continued im-
provement of the company's affairs.
MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The money for
the formation of this line, we learn from the Whitehaven
Herald, at the eastern end, has been advanced with great
promptitude, and in their next they expect to publish the
letting of the contracts for the construction of the railway
from Carlisle to Wigton.
Sxx* —The York-

lELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY

shire Gazette s.

eat pleasure in announcing
iceeding very favourably, and that the
Able to open the line eight

miles out of Manchester in the first week of September in
this year. The carriages and engines are contracted for to
be on the line by the first of September, so that the active
working of this important line may be confidently relied on."
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—We may remind our readers that
it has been decided by the directors of the London and
Brighton Railway to open 20 miles of that line from London
to Hayward 's-heath, in June. The whole work will be com-
pleted and opened to the public in August.
RAILWAY CHASE EXTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday last,
a person named George Comley (having with him his wife
and six children) took places for himself and family by the
eleven o'clock railway train from Gloucester to Birmingham.
Soon after the train bad started, Mr. W. Gillman, of North
Nibley, arrived at the station-house, in the hope of inter-
cepting Mr. Comley, who, he stated, had executed a forgery
upon him to the amount of £40., and had also committed
other fraudulent delinquencies, and was then en route for
Liverpool, where it was understood he had engaged a passage
for America. After a short consultation with Mr. Walker,
police superintendent, on the best steps to he adopted, a pur-
suit was resolved upon, and for a payment of £lO. an engine
was immediately got ready, with which Mr. Gillman and Mr.
Walker started, at high pressure speed, in the hope of over-
taking the train, which by that time had had the advantage
of about twenty minutes' start. After a fine chase, they suc-
ceeded in getting sight of the train at Ashchurch, and fol-
-'-

to the surprise

rnation of the fugitive, his pursuers
iadly deranged the plans he had so

cleverly laid for his'escape. the remainder of his journey to
Birmingham was performed in the Company of Mr. Gillman,
who on arriving in that town, gave him into the custody of
the police on the charge of forgery. On Mr. Walker's return
to the Gloucester station, he found that the prisoner's land-
lord had a little too late sent a distress, in the hope of laying
an embargo on his runaway tenant's luggage. It would ap-
pear that he had been carrying on the business of a clothier
at North Nibley, till he suddenly decamped as above stated.
Yesterday afternoon he was brought to this city in the cus-
tody of Mr. Stephens, superintendent of the Birmingham
police force, and conveyed before the magistrates of the dis-
trict where the offences are alleged to have been committed.
His wife accompanies him back to Nibley, but his large and
nnfortunate family are left behind at Birmingham.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY
INTELIGENCE.

(From the Oxford Herald.)

PROMOTIONS.
Rev. Henry Sudcliffe, 8.A., Curate of Brereton, to the
Perpetual Curacy of Keele, Staffordshire ; patron, R. Sneyd,

William Dannett, 8.A., to the Rectory of Naunton
, Worcestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. W. Pashley, 8.A., to the Recory of Aston Somer-
ville, Gloucestershire, vacant by the cession of the Hon. and
Rev. Wm. Somerville ; patron, Lord Somerville.
Rev. Richard Brough Maltby, 8.A., of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, and of Whatton, to the Curacy of Kirkby
Woodhouse, Notts.
Rev. Charles Upham Barry, 8.A., of Trinity Hall, Cam-
bridge, to be Incumbent of St. Edward's, C-ambridge ; pa-
trons, the Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has granted a dispensation
to the Rev. F. Simpson, of Queen's College, Cambridge, to
hold the Vicarage of Carnaby, and Chapelry of Fraisthope,
Yorkshire, together with the Vicarage of Boynton, in the
same county ; patron, Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P.
Rev. Joseph Oldknow, of Christ's College, Cambridge, to
the Incumbency of Trinity Chapel, Bordesley.
Rev. W. Brocklebank, late of Queen's College, Cambridge,
to the Perpetual Curacy of Udimore, Sussex.
Rev. J. Donton, to the Vicarage of Biggleswade, Beds.
Rev. T. S. Evans, to the Vicarage of St. Leonard. Shore-
ditch, London, vacant by thd death of the Rev. H. Plimley;
patron, the Archdeacon of London.
Rev. John M'Cornich, to the Perpetual Curacy of Coal-
vile Church, Northamptonshire, lately erected.
Ret. D. Mead, to the Perpetual Curacy of Brewham, So-
mersetshire ; patron, Sir Hugh Hoare, Bart.
Rev. Robert Bond, to the Vicarage of Briston, Norfolk,
vacant by the death:of the Rev. George Preston ; patron,
the Bishop of Norwich, by lapse.
Rev. Richard Davis Evans, M.A., to the Rectory of
Kingston, Herefordshire, vacant by the cession of his father,
the Rev. William Evans.

Beauchamp,
C. Copner ;