The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

We are informed that the. Duke of Portland having resigned
his office as Lord-Lieutenant or Custos Rotulorum of the
county of Middlesex, the Marquis of Salisbury will be ap-
pointed in his place.— Times.
THE LATE Mn. CLoUGH.—WC trust our musical friends
will not forget the concert this evening, to take place at Mr.
Lassell's Rooms, for the benefit of the widow and infant son
of the late Mr. Clough. The programme is well selected and
most attractive.

POST OFFICE PLACE GALLERY.—This delightful place of
public resort is, we are sorry to find, positively to close on
Saturday next. Those who have not been must really lose
no time, and those who have should take " a last fond look."

•
WEST INDIA MAILS.—As the West India steam-packets
do not take the mails until the Ist of January next, an in-
quiry was addressed to the postoffice as to whether the
steam-packets sailing from Southampton previous to the Ist
of January would be allowed to take letters as ship-letters,
to which the following answer has been received:—
. " General Postoffice, Dec. 10, 1841.
" Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry, I beg to inform you that
the Postmaster-General has authorized ship-letter bags to be
made up and forwarded by the steam-vessels about to sail from
Southampton for the West India Islands, prior to the com-
mencement of the new arrangement of the transmission of
the regular mails to the West Indies.
" I am, &c.,
" THOMAS LAURENCE, Assistant Secretary.
" Messrs. Powles, Brothers, and Co.,
13, Austin Friars."
THEATRE ROYAL.—It will be seen, by the advertisement,
that Mr. Slaiter takes his benefit to-morrow evening. We
are sure this unpretending, clever, and humourous actor--
the best country boy, by the way, on the stage--deserves the
support of the public. He has been attached to this theatre
some years. Monday next will be the last night of the sea-
son, when Mr. Clarke will have his benefit. Many will go
on that occasion to take leave of one who has so long and so
successfully administered to the amusement of the public.
He retires with honour to himself, and in it is a beacon for
the younger members of the profession, to show them what
perseverance, and industry, and uprightness will do. We
cannot but think that the profession ought to show him some
little token of regard, in a manifestation of which numbers
of Mr. Clarke's wellwishers would gladly join.
CHARGE OF ROBBERY.—A female, named Julia Cambrin,
was yesterday charged at the Police-court with robbing a Mr.
Dillon of his purse, containing twelve sovereigns and some
silver. It appeared from the complainant's evidence that he
had treated another female, and afterwards the prisoner, at a
public-house. The former went out, and did not return.
The prisoner, after the other had gone, asked him to search
his pockets, and see that all was right, which be did, and
missed his purse, which he had not shown to either of them.
Tne evidence betas hmuotanstve aisainet the prisoner, and
nothing being found upon her, she was discharged. Mr. D.
then preferred a charge of want of courtesy and rude lan-
guage towards him by the keeper of the Vauxhall Station-
house. The charge was but trivial, and was to a considerable
extent explained away by the accused. Mr. Rushton said it
was the duty of all officers to conduct themselves civilly to
everybody. The parties then left the court.

PROPOSED JUNCTION LINE THROUGH MAN-
CHESTER, BETWEEN THE MANCHESTER AND
LIVERPOOL AND THE MANCHESTER AND
LEEDS RAILWAYS.

Our contemporary of the Railway Times is this week a
little severe upon the directors of the Menchester and Liver-
pool Railway Company, on account of their declining, for
the present at least, to hurry on the formation of the pro-
posed junction line between their present terminus in Water-
street, Manchester, and the Manchester and Leeds line, for
which, it will be remembered, the requisite powers have
already been obtained. The Liverpool and Manchester
directors allege, it appears, as one of their objections to
going on with the junction in question, that, on enquiry,
they have found the estimates of the traffic likely to come
upon it very much overrated; and our contemporary—dis-
satisfied with the allegation itself, and with the means as
well, by which the estimates are said to have been tested—
calls upon the directors either to employ the same means in
examining the estimates as those used in framing them, or,

as the alternative, to give up the powers of their act of par-
liament for executing the line into other hands.
Now, with due submission to our able contemporary, we
cannot see that the directors of the Liverpool and Manches-
ter line are bound to accept either of these two alternatives,
or to proceed with the junction line as at present laid down,
without being fully satisfied as to its being the best commu-
nication that can be formed through the town of Manchester.
Upon this point we are not at all so well satisfied ; and con-
sider, besides, that circumstances and measures which are at
this very moment in contemplation, may contribute to render

the profitable working of any junction line whatever through
the town of Manchester very problematical. The principal
benefit which has been held out as likely to arise from the

formation of a junction line has been the saving to be effected
by merchandize and produce being forwarded direct from Li-
verpool to the manufacturing towns upon the Leeds line—the
saving of unloading and reloading, cartage, porterage, &c. The
supposition upon which the companies have ever gone has
been that Liverpool was to continue the depot for bonding
this produce; and now, when it has become almost matter
of certainty that the privilege of bonding is about to be con-
ferred upon Manchester itself, and that a portion at least of
the foreign produce for which the consumers in the maim-

acturing towns upon the Leeds line have heretofore looked
tpon Liverpool as their market, will in all probability, before
ong, be deposited under bond in Manchester—this saving by
,hrough carriage is no longer so practicable, or the advantage
Ind profitable working of a junction line so evident.
But even conceding the fact (which we are quite prepared
to do), that a junction line must ultimately be made between
the Manchester and Leeds and the Liverpool lines, are there
not, we ask, other lines from Manchester to the south and

torth which have a claim to be considered in the formation

of such a junction ? The Manchester and Sheffield and
Manchester and Birmingham lines seek, as well as the Man-
chester and Leeds, a connexion with Liverpool ; and we think
it must strike our contemporary that if it is possible to pro-

jest a line which will satisfy the wants of these companies
and the reasonable claims of the Leeds Company as well,
that line it is which, under existing circumstances and exist-
ing prospects, ought to be taken up by the Liverpool and
Manchester Company. _ _

That such a line can be made has already been sliewn—a
line, we believe, even less _expensive than the present pro-
jected line ; and we are not perhaps far wrong when we state,
that to the prospect ultimately of uniting themselves at once
by this line with the three railways which seek a communi-
cation with them, is to be attributed this justifiable unwil-
lingness to be dragged into the formation of a junction with
the Leeds and Manchester solely.

EFFECT OF REDUCTION OF RAILWAY FARES

We have been favoured from an official source with a
comparative statement, showing upon a small scale the effect
of a reduction of railway fares. The line upon which the
reduction referred to took place, is the Canterbury and
Whitstable, six miles in length. On the Ist of February,
1841, the fares were reduced from 9d. to 6d., and the follow-
ing is the result : _ _ _

February .
March
April
May
.tune
July
August
September
October .
November

1810.
X 366
352

1841.
£1,087
1,649
1,932
2,168
2,945
3,244
3,387
2,921

538
816
1,171
1,407
1,468

T0ta1...... £9,388 £23,719
lance in favour of low fares, .±:14,331.—Railway Times.

3 REAT NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW BAZAAR.

Satisfactory as must be the above statement, as to the in-
crease of gross receipts which results from the reduction of
railway fares, the example would be far more likely to be
followed if a better arrangement could be come to with the
government with respect to the mode of levying the passen-
ger duty. The amount per head charged by the revenue
ought surely to he proportioned to the amount levied by the
company ; and we would suggest that railway directors
could not be better employed during the approaching session
that► by impressing the justice of such an arrangement upon
the present Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Our liberal neighbours of Manchester are moving—not
heaven and earth—but middle-aged ladies, sympathetic misses,
blue stockings young andold, and philosophers of every grade,
to aid them in the holding of a bazaar there upon the most ex-
tensive scale, and with a splendour unparallelled. Needle ;are
being plied with unexampled celerity and zeal ; fair pencils
are engaged by hundreds; samplers, flowers, gimcracks of
every description which fair fingers can put together, are in
preparation ; coins, (principally of copper,) autographs, bee-
tles, classified and duly stuck through with pins, stuffed birds
—every thing " rich and rare" which can be scraped up for
sale—are anxiously sought after by patrons and patronesses,
M.P.'s, and knights and " squires of low degree" ; and the
produce, it is not to be doubted, will be almost sufficient to
pay the national debt, to build a score of churches, or endow a
few hundred alms-houses.
Good, kind, charitable, "liberal" ladies and gentlemen of
Manchester ! Of course this vast effort is intended for some
one or other of these laudable purposes ! Your starving
weavers are to starve no more ; the shivering factory child,
running shoeless to his work in the bitter winter mornings, is
to run shoeless no more ; destitution is to be taken out of
your streets, and brightness and warmth to be introduced to
the poor man's hearth, a pillow to his weary head, and a
blanket to cover his toil-worn frame ! " Not at all"—is the
reply of each tart blue-nosed spinster, as, looking unutterable
scorn, her busy fingers knit, net, sew, paint, or patch with a
feverish velocity. "It is for no such vulgar, low, worldly,
unenlightened object that our sympathies are moved. There
is the new poor-law and the union workhouse for such
wretches as these. We have nobler, more comprehensive
ends in view—the advancement of the happiness of the whole
human race—the promotion, in short, of the agitation of the

Anti-Corn-Law League !"
" Sweet George Thompson "_" excellent eloquent man!"
—he cannot astonish and enrapture the world without money.
" Clever Mr. Acland "—he cannot do without money ; and
the funds are very low—very ! Agitation is " hard up "—(a
vulgar phrase, but expressive,)—and a Great National Anti-
Corn-Law Bazaar is just the thing to relieve it! Charity,
philanthropy, humanity,—Fudge! They have a very bad
effect, all the political economists and philosophers agree,
upon the character of poor people. The workhouse test and
cheap bread are the proper remedy. The league alone eau
regenerate the world " and " sweet George Thompson," and
his fellow speechifiers, therefore, it is for whose especia'
benefit is intended the proceeds of the " Great Nationa,
Anti-Corn-Law Bazaar:" What next?

The grand exchequer-bill fraud might still have been car-
ried on four years, perhaps, before final explosion, but for
those monetary derangements which rendered it every day
more difficult to obtain advances of money on deposit of bills,
excepting on conditions so usurious as could not fail to excite
misgivings that the security deposited was not come by legi-
timately. Hence detection of the existence of duplicate
numbers of bills by an astute banker applied to for advances
of money on his own terms, whatever those might be, which,
arousing his suspicions, led to those examinations and colla-
tions of bills by himself and others, which resulted in verifi-
cation of the fact suspected.