The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The Caledonian Railway i; now completed to Beattock,
forty miles north of Carlisle. It is expected that the whole
line will be completed by November next.
WATER CONVEYED PER RAILWAY.—Trains of water,
conveyed in engine tenders, are now running up the
Midland Railway from Derby to Leicester, in consequence
of the shortness of the supply at the latter station.
The Manchester and Leeds (now called by the more
comprehensive name of the Lancashire and Yorkshire)
pay a dividend of 31 per cent. on the half-year, minus
income-tax.

At the meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company,
last week, Sir Andrew Agnew brought forward a motion
against all traffic on the Lord's day, which was lost by a
majority of 6,428 to 2,874 votes.
The railway calls for September amount to £3,851,439,
exceeding by nearly a quarter of a million the average for
the preceding eight months of the year, and by nearly
two millions the amount claimed last month.
RAILWAY SECTION OF PARLIAMENT. The new
House of Commons will comprise no fewer than forty-
three members connected with railroads—an important
phalanx who may turn the tide in any struggle on the
boards of St. Stephen's.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The posts for the elec-
tric telegraph have been put down, and the wires have
been laid along a part of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway, so that in a month or two we shall have a tele-
graphic communication from Liverpool to London, via

Manchester.
The London

and North-Western, with its
itgrown the usual " time table'

branche

now issued in a pamphlet shape, and
instead of seeing at a glance the information respecting
the times of arrival and departure at each station, you are
referred to the different places by means of an index.
The new
mode is the less convenient, but perhaps is
unavoidable.

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LIVE171;00L AND MANCHESTER RAlLWAY.—TheWidell-
ing.of this line, from Liverpool to Huvton, is proceeding
rapidly. Three lines of rails have been laid down on part
of the way, and. four for a short distance. It is said that
when the four lines are completed, the omnibus trains will
be introduced at this end of the line as well as the Man-
chester end. There they are found to be an immense con-
venience to parties having occasion to visit the populous
villages along the line, and they would be found not less
useful at this end of the line, -in rendering easy the corn-
municatien with Bvacigrecn, 1c110tt; Hu-ten, and
Jrescot.

LEEDS AND THIRSIC RAILWAY.—It is expected abont
ten miles of this railway, from Thirsk to the north side of
the river The, near Ripon, will be open for public traffic
early in Odtdber and that a permanent junction will be
formed withl
heFork and Newcastle Railway, at Thirsk,
early in November. A further distance of about eighteen
miles, from Ripon to Weston Lane, near Castley, will
probably be open in March.
The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire —lnnction
Railway Company have offered to the Birkenhead Dock
Commissioners, that if the rates upon shipping-be reduced
to 6d. per ton from foreign ports, and Id. per ton on
coasters, the railway company will pay the rates upon all
vessels with cargo entering the docks, guaranteeing a mi-
nimum revenue, from the Ist of September to the Ist of
January, 1849, considerably exceeding what-the commis-

LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE JUNC-
TioN.—Vhe meeting of this Company on Tuesday was,of
a different character to one in February last. The pro-

aan said,

that the £92,000 available balance was out on good secu-
rity at.s per cent. The Directors have pledged themselves
to make no call during the next six months ; and the
Chairman gave it as his opinion, that there would be no
need of any for the next twelve months. He also made
the agreeable announcement, that there will be no neces-
sity for their going to parliament next session. A saving

of £l,OOO a year has been effected by dispensing with the
London and Newcastle offices. The business is now car-
ried forward at Manchester, under the superintendence of
Mr. C.ll. Wilson (the Secretary), on whom the Chair-
man passed a high and no doubt well-merited compliment.
r I LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.

speech of Mr. Houldsworth at the meeting of this
Company on Wednesday will be read with interest. It
contains matter of the gravest importance, and shows in
the strongest possible light the evils that are resulting from
the GnvernmPnt interference with the rate and tolls of the

the increase of passenger and merchandize traffic, and the
receipts therefrom. Mr Houldsworth says, the average
of passengers has increased since 1845 22 per cent., while
the receipts had only increased 51 per cent. A similar re-
sult is shown in the merchandize department. The in-
crease of work done was about 12 to 14 per cent'., while
there has been little or no increase in the receipts. The
direct effect of this is a loss to the Company of £50,000
per annum.
THE BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
—The half-yearly meeting of this
_company took place

The Chirman directed the secretary

hare register

'e that this could be done

without the authority of the meeting. The Chairman :
It is done. (The secretary here affixed the seal.) Mr.
Mozley said, that what had been done was neither more
nor less than a declaration of the nullity of all meetings
of this description. (Applause.) Several Proprietors ex-
pressed z similar opinion. Mr. Mozley moved a resolu-
tion, demanding that the seal of the company, which was
now improperly used, should be delivered up to him, Mr.
Elias Joseph Mozley, for safe custody. Mr. Hore se-
conded the motion, which, however, the chairman de-
clined to put. Mr. Mozley said this'was of no importance,
since it had been improperly done, and he accordingly put
the resolution himself, which he declared to be carried.
Amidst some laughter, he then requested that the seal
might be handed over to him, a request which was not
complied with. Mr. Whately then read the half-yearly
report, together with a statement of accounts. The re-
port consisted of little more than a statement that no re-
port would be presented, in consequence of the differences
between the directors and shareholders. The accounts
stated the whole amount received to be X 442,008 19s. 3d.,
and the balance in hand to be .241,408 16s. The Chairman
made a few observations, and moved the adoption of this
report. Mr. Spooner, M.P., seconded the motion. Mr.
Mozley opposed it, and demanded further explanations as
to the estimates and expenditures. The Chairman said
that these points would all be included in the directors'
answer to the bill in chancery, and for the present he
should decline further explanation upon them. After a
good deal more wrangling conversation of the same na-
ture, the meeting was, on the motion of Mr. Mozley, a&
journed till the 22nd October.

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Mr. Lumley has concluded an engagement with Jenny
Lind, for the next season, at her Majesty's Theatre.
The Leeds intelligencer says that the potato disease has
not visited Yorkshire.
The barque Cobre from Swansea to Coquimbo has been
entirely destroyed by fire originating in the spontaneous
combustion of the cargo.
The day on which the Great Britain steam-ship was
released from Dundrum Bay, was the anniversary of that
on which she was christened at Bristol by Prince Albert.
The Marquis of Anglesey transmitted to Lieutenant
Munro a check for one hundred guineas, immediately after
his trial. _ _

Sir Robert Peel has purchased from a party in Edin-
burgh the full-length portrait of Dr. Chalmers, printed
by John Watson Gordon.
Mr. Yardley, of the Chester and North Wales Circuit,
has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of
Bombay.

A Too ARTFUL DODGE.—A farmer, of Glasgow, has
been taken into custody for dating a bill 1947, thus im-
posing on his creditors.
The rumour of an extensive loss of life on board the
steamer, Glamorgan, in the Bristol Channel, which has
appeared in several papers, proves to be untrue.
On Wednesday, the boys belonging to Plympton, St.
Mary Union, near Plymouth, were taken to bathe, when
three of them were drowred.
The majority of pews in Wakefield parish church are
owned by Dissenters, who receive the pew rents, but re-
fuse to pay the church rates.
JUVENILE ORGANIST.—Master Edwin Mercer, son of
Mr. James Mercer, who is only sixteen years old, has just
been appointed organist at the Episcopal Chapel, Great
Horton, near Bradford.
A petition for the pardon of Lieut. Munro, having some
200 names attached to it, has been forwarded to the Home
Secretary from Ross-shire, of which county the lieutenant

is a native
A few days since, while a boy named White, ten years
old, was chasing some butterflies near the edge of the
West Cliff, at Whitby, he fell over the precipice, and was
killed on the spot.
The French government has ordered two English jour-
nals, Punch and the Weekly Dispatch, to be stopped in
the post-office, as they have published articles reflecting
personally on the King of the French.
Mr. Barrett, of the Broadway Theatre, New York, when
in London, offered Jenny Lind £5OO per night, for forty
nights ; but she could not engage, having already con-
tracted for a long time in advance at the European theatres.
A dreadful fire took place at Exeter, on Wednesday,
which began at the premises of Mr. Solomon, in Water-
beer-street. It extended to the adjoining premises, and
did nearly £lO,OOO damage.
A London paper says that several tradespeople in St.
Paul's Churchyard have placed boards descriptive of their
trade and calling against the chimney pots on the roofs of
their houses, in the hope of catching customers among the
visitors to the summit of St. Paul's.
The Gazette of Tuesday contains the appointment of
the new peers—General Strafford to be Viscount Enfield
and Earl Strafford ; Viscount Acheson to be a baron of
the United Kingdom, by the title of Baron Dartrey Sir
R. Bulkeley P. Philips, Bart., to be Baron Milford.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of Douglas, Isle of Man,
on Thursday week, Wm. Kelly, Esq., in the chair, the
deputation who ought to have presented the address to her
Majesty from the town of Douglas was called to account,
and their conduct severely censured.
The Guernsey Star mentions that a young lady, who
arrived at that island from Jersey, suffered so much from
sea sickness while on her passage, that shortly after land-
ing she died, probably from some internal injury caused
by vomiting.
A correspondent of the Standard, who signs himself
" A Rural Dean," states that he bas received a letter
from the Bishop of Oxford, dated August 23, in which his
Lordship says, " a thanksgiving is to be appointed when
the harvest is generally secured."
The magistrates of Windsor have determined to put
down " Derby sweeps," and lotteries of a similar nature,
in every public-house within their jurisdiction. A great
good would be effected if such a gambling practice as this
were put a stop to in London, where it is extensively
carried on.
THE FOLLY OF BEING UNINSURED.—A bankrupt
merchant passed his last examination last week, in the
London court. His property, an oil mill at Southampton,
uninsured, was burnt down by lightning ; and a vessel, in
which he had also an uninsured interest, being lost at the
same time, completed his misfortunes. .
FALL IN FLOUR.—On Thursday, the price of bread
fell in Lambeth a halfpenny the loaf. At one of the
cheap baker's, the shop was so crowded with customers
that the floor fell in, and several persons were buried in
the troughs of flour. All however escaped with a little
frightening.
In London, last week, an inquest was held on two chil-
dren of the respective ages of eight and nine years, who
were proved to have died from dysentery, produced by an
insufficiency of wholesome and nutritious food. The fa-
ther is a billiard-table maker, and travelling the country
in search of work.
Among the young gentlemen who have just gained
honours at the London University is an East Indian,
named Soorjoo Coomar Chuckerbutty, who has distin-
guished himself in three different departments of medi-
cine—anatomy and physiology, chemistry, materia me-
dics, and pharmaceutical chemistry.
On Monday, three men, who were engaged in cleaning
out a sewer leading from Laggate under the ballast hills
to the river Tyne, were suddenly thrown down into a
state of torpor, and one of them was found dead soon
after, and the other two were insensible but ultimately
recovered.
On Saturday week, a poor woman, named Daggett,
living near Bath, went from home early to go gleaning, and
having no one to leave with her children, all under seven
years of age, for greater safety locked them in the house.
On her return, they were all found suffocated with
smoke, but how the fire had originated could not be as-
certained.
DESTRUCTION OF WHEAT BY VERMIN.—There are
now standing in a close at Willingham four stacks of last
year's wheat so destroyed by rats that it is estimated their
produce will not exceed 40 coombs ; whereas, if thrashed
out at the proper time they would have produced 240
coombs, and the wheat would have sold for between £4
and £5 per quarter.—Cambridge Chronicle.
CONVERTS TO POPERY.—CII Thursday last, at the
Spanish Chapel, Mr. and Mrs. Burns, of Portman-street,
i and their family, along with Miss Christian, and Miss
Mary Banks, were received into the Catholic Church, by
the Rev. William Hunt.—Tablet (Romish paper). [We
presume this is the popular publisher who has becuilhulcd
1 to as likely to embrace Romamism.]

A NOBLE POULTERER.—A general reduction of game-
keepers has been made on the Duke of Buckingham's
manors in Bucks. Around Stowe no less than sixteen
have been dismissed, and two only retained. A number
of "watchers" are out of commission. The venison
from Stowe park is in the course of sale, and the leverets
on the estate are sent to market weekly.

CRICKET.—The great match between the eleven of all
England and twenty-two of Birmingham, was brought to
a termination on Wednesday. The play was excellent on
both sides, especially the bowling on the part of the Bir-
mingham players, who gained the viqpry by five runs
only. The numbers scored were—Birmingham, first in-
nings, 80; second innings, 81. All England, first innings,
93 ; second innings, 63. _ _

A few days since, two boys, four years old, were playing
in the streets of Perth, and amused themselves by running
after some pieces of paper which were driven about by the
wind. The children caught the whole of them, and took
them home as 'playthings, but their parents discovered
that the pieces of paper were four bank notes for £2O
each, which had been lost by a gentleman residing in the
neighbourhood.-
Loss OF THE AUCKLAND.—We regret to announce that
private letters have been received in town, which leave
very little room to doubt that her Majesty's ship Auckland
has been unfortunately wrecked. This vessel was engaged..

finding a fit site'fcr a new penal settlement, we believe to
the north of Port Essington. It was on her return that
the Auckland went upon the rocks.
PRICE OF WHEAT AND BREAD.—On referring, to our
paper of no longer date than May last, we find that wheat
was sold at 120 s. per quarter, and the quartern loaf at
104 d. At the commencement of this month, September
2nd, we find wheat quoted at 60s. per quarter, and house-
hold bread is now sold in this city ac 6d. per quartern,
though in most instances at 7d. In May potatoes were
, now they are to be bought at7d.
s been committed for trial, in

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London, on a charge of stealing a number of sheets of
the Pickwick Papers, the Peoples' Journal, and Punch,
from the premises of Messrs. Bradbury and Evans. The
prisoner was a warehouseman there, and has been in the
habit of supplying various newsvenders with those works
several hours prior to their issue by the regular publishers.
At Dixon's lodgings were found as many sheets of differ-
ent works printed as would fill a barrow.
Bou-mt EXPLOSION.-The boiler of the Firebrand, one
of the steam-tugs employed on the river Tyne, burst one
day'last week, as the vessel was running into Shields har-

forward underneath the deck, anddestroyed the fore cabin,

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Fortunately, no one was below at the time, but

the steam rushed up one of the hatchways and scalded a
boy, named Foreman, in the face. Deficiency of water is
said to have been the immediate cause of the accident.
STATUETTE OF JENNY LIND.—An elegant statuette of
this celebrated singer has been modelled by Count D'Or-
say, and may be seen at the establishment of Messrs. D.
Colnaghi and Co., Pall-mall East. She is represented in
the character of the Figlia del Reg pimento. The attitude
is precisely such as the lady assumes in one part of her
performance, and will be immediately recognised. The
likeness is good, both as to the features of the face and
the general outline of the figure. The statuette is about
20 inches in height.

The people of Newcastle-on-Tyne have lost the oppor-
tunity of seeing Jenny Lind. An agreement bad been
made with the proprietors of the theatre there for the ap-
pearance of the nightingale, but afterwards Mr. Knowles,
who had engaged the theatre, was apprised by the secre-
tary that there were 70 proprietor's tickets, and that these
would be entitled to gratuitous admission, and it also
coming to light that the proprietors tickets instead of
being 70 were 130, Mr. Knowles determined to forego
the concert, though the tickets had been printed and every
other arrangement made.
COMPENSATION FOR PERSONAL INJURlES.—Facilities
of which many persons are availing themselves are offered
in the new county courts for bringing actions to recover
compensation for injuries where the damages are not laid
at more than £2O. In one of these cases, heard recently
at North Shields, J. Robson, a boatman, complained that
as he was lying in his boat with his hand hanging over, a
Mr. Black pulled a small boat against him with great vio-
lence, and so injured his hand that he was obliged to sub-
mit to the amputation of his finger. The court awarded
him £2O damages.
A WIFE POISONED BY HER HUSBAND.—At Edinburgh,
on Wednesday, Thomas Leith was tried at the High Court
of Justiciary for the murder of his wife. It seemed that.
on or about the 15th of April last, the prisoner, who lived
at Dundee, mixed a quantity of arsenic with some barley
meal, which his wife made into porridge and partook of,
soon after which she became ill and died, as was proved,
from the effects of poison. Some time before this the
prisoner had been made ill by some tea sent to him by his
wife, which was found to contain poison. The man was
found guilty, and sentenced to death.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE—BRITANNIA-BRIDGE AND
THE "GREAT BRITAIN."—A correspondent of ours, in
conversation, happened to mention he had suggested a.
plan to Mr. Robert Stephenson for placing the Britannia-
bridge from pier to pier by floating the one end of it over
to the centre pier, supported upon a wooden tower, built
upon the hull of a large iron vessel—at the time, there
happened to be in our office another scientific gentleman,
who, after hearing the thing explained, observed, it might
be necessary for Mr. Stephenson to defer placing his
bridge until the Great Britain was got off to float it over.
On the same day, to the best of our remembrance, that
noble vessel was rescued from her perilous situation.—
Mining Journal.
THE CROPS.-The accounts from the provinces are all
confirmative of the abundance and good quality of the
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grain now being harvested in tins country. tne oariey
crop, in particular, is said to be unusually fine. Hay and
grass are quite as abundant as any other crop ; and the
large stocks of the former on hand will probably keep
prices at a low range for some months. Fruit, too, par-
ticularly of the kinds most in common use, is generally
plentiful, and well ripened. In France, too, the harvest
is nearly housed, and is described as one of the most pro-
ductive and the finest ever remembered. The only draw-
back experienced in respect of the crops is the reappearance
in some districts of the potato disease ; but even this ca-
lamity would leave in the harvest a vast superabundance
of food for all France.—Gardeners' and Farmers' Journal.
On Friday, the attention of the Oxford city magistrates
was occupied a considerable time in hearing informations,
on the prosecution of the Crown, against seventeen market
carriers, for having, contrary to the statute, carried pas-
sengers, and travelled at a greater speed that four miles
an hour, whereby they had not only incurred a penalty of
£5 each, (the lowest the magistrate could inflict,) but had
made themselves liable to the mileage duty, as well as to
a license for carrying passengers. The result was, that
seven were fined £7 each and 9s. costs, four were dismissed
for want of proper evidence, three were adjourned, and
the remainder were out of the jurisdiction of the city
authorities. These informations, it is understood, were
at the instance of some of the coach proprietors, who had
complained to the Board of Stamps and Taxes of the
system carried on by the carriers trading to and from
Oxford. In every case the defendant pleaded ignorance
of the law. _

THE HARVEST.—The corn harvest throughout the north
of England is now in full operation, an immense amount
of grain having this week been cut down in the best pos-
sible condition, whilst in the more early and favoured dis-
tricts considerable quantities of wheat and barley have been
safely deposited in the stack-yards. The weather conti-
nues to be all that could be desired, and the harvest is
unusually early. There can now be no doubt that the
crop of wheat will be fully an average one ; the same may
be said of barley and oats, although the latter, in many
places, are exceedingly short in the straw, no doubt owing
to the droughty weather which we have experienced.
Turnips will be more than usually abundant, and potatoes
—free at present from all symptoms of disease—will also
be a good crop. So far, there is great reason for thank-
fulness, and little prospect of our being required to look to
foreign countries for supplies of grain. In Northumber-
land the wage's of reapers is from 3s. to 3s. 6d. a day. The
Irish are paid at the rate of 12s. a week, with their food.—
Newcastle Journal,
THE FEAST OF HARVEST.—The Jews err in overlooking
the Advent of the Messiah, in humility and the New Tes-
tament. Many Christians err in overlooking the Advent
of Messiah in glory, and the Old Testament . The Pentateuch
may teach an important lesson to Christians. Unless it
can be shown that less gratitude is expected from Christians
than Jews, bow can Christians justify their neglect of the
Feast of the Harvest ? After the Jews had gathered in
their corn and their wine, they observed a feast of seven
days, when they were all commanded to rejoice :—" Thou
shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daugh-
ter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the
Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,
that are within thy gates," (Deuteronomy xvi. 13-15 ;
Leviticus xxiii. 39-43 ; Numbers xxix. 12-40 ; Ezra iii. ;
Nehemiah viii.) After our happy deliverance from scarcity
and dearth, can we do better than follow the example of
the Jews by such an expression of gratitude to God as shall
include charity to man, especially by feeding the hungry,
delivering the poor and fatherless from want, and causing
the widow's heart to sing for joy ? Let the harvest feast
and harvest home be kept in every parish and neighbour-
hood, and special services be performed in every • place of
public worship, to conclude with the gathering of alms for
the purchase of bread or cakes made from the new wheat,
to be given to the poor, who may be recommended for their
general good conduct.
INCREDIBLE BARBARITY.—A most revolting case of
inhumanity occurred at Horkstow, near Barton, on
Saturday morning last. An itinerant Irishman, with a
wife and three or four famishing children, a few days be-
fore solicited and obtained employment of a man of the
name of Spencer, foreman for Lady Tuffnell, in the
harvest field. His wife was far advanced in pregnancy,
and on the above-mentioned morning began to show
signs of approaching labour. Spencer, who is the over-
seer of the parish, and whose duty it was to have provided
for such a case, when informed of the circumstance, went
immediately to the woman's husband, and discharged
him, at the same time telling him that he must leave
the town instantly, in order to prevent any expense and
trouble his wife might put him or the parish to. The
Irishman, of course, remonstrated, representing his
wife's condition, and her unfitness to travel. All the poor
fellow could urge or say was wholly unheeded, for Spencer
threatened if they refused to go to have them imprison-
ed. He also declined paying the man his wages, until
he saw them fairly out of the town. Thus compelled, they
commenced their journey to Ferriby, another village about
a mile or two off. What the woman suffered it is impos-
sible to describe ! They had scarcely arrived at this place,
when the hapless creature was delivered in the open street,
surrounded by the unfeeling rabble, who had congregated
to witness the sad spectacle. The miserable mother hud-
dled up the dead child, for dead it was, in her scanty and
tattered garments to prevent exposure, until she was re-
moved to a public-house stable, and there deposited on
some straw. The proper authorities have since taken the
matter iato their hands, and commenced proceedings
against .Spencer.—Doncaster Gazette.