The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-23 00:00:00

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Lord NORMANBY made no oblection to the production of it pure from those parties who could render no assistance.
the correspondence, and after some conversation, their lord- In a short time they hoped to be able to re-issue forfeited
ships adjourned till Monday. shares to solvent shareholders. They would then have a
healthy responsible body, able to answer the calls made on
them, but the directors would not make these calls if they
could avoid doing so. But for the purpose of avoiding it

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY
Col. CLEmENTs took his seat for Cavan.

Severa
Sir F.'

'e presented

against the poor

1591,L0cK presented a petition from the Royal Col-
lege of Physicians, London, signed by Sir H. Halford, the
president, and by Dr. J. Bright, Dr. B. G. Babington, Dr.

he would propose to the meeting to give the directors power
to borrow money when it was required; that if their means
were found to be insufficient for completing the railway, the
directors might borrow the sum of £230.000. to hi, t:ipn

or the alteration of the laws relative to the medical profession that the company's directors be authorised and empowered
in Great Britain. The petitioners stated that they have been to mortgage and assign the property of the undertaking,
for some time engaged, in concert with the other medical rights, titles, &c. arising, or to arise, by virtue of the act,
corporations, in the preparation of a proposed measure of re- with interest of the same, to such person or persons as shall
form in their own body, which would shortly be submitted to advance the same.
the legislature. Mr en Ao.A Iv cannria..7

.. .uv uiviavu, aim LL pussea.
Ina conversation as to the day for discussing the medical A vote of thanks having been passed to the directors,
profession bill, Mr. HAwEs said it was his intention to strike Mr. WADDINGTON, at the request of the chairman, with
out all that part of the bill relating to chymists and druggists. great pleasure returned thanks on behalf of the directors. He
Mr. `VARLET said, as that part of the bill was to be struck felt confident they would endeavour to deserve the thanks of the
out, he entreated that his hon. friend would strike out the proprietors by carrying out the objects of the company, in
other portion of the bill also. reference to the railway between Manchester and Sheffield,
Ultimately Mr. flAvvEs said he would withdraw his bill, so as to return them a handsome dividend on their out-
and ask leave to bring in an amended measure. lay. The chairman alluded to the state of the money mar-
Mr. AINSWORTH gave notice, that in Committee on the ket as being unfavourable to the company's operations, but
poor law amendment bill he should move a clause exempting much more evil had resulted from evil reports, which had
the Bolton union from the operation of the bill. been most industriously circulated by parties carrying out
Mr. EWART gave notice for the 4th March. of a bill to railway speculations of their own. These parties had calum-
appoint a public prosecutor. niated this railway undertaking, and represented it as imprac-
On the motion for the second reading of the English Re- ticable, and not likely to yield a remuneration. The board
gistration Bill, Sir EDWARD SUGDEN advanced several ob- of directors were carrying on the work with the utmost pos-
jections to that measure. In lieu of the present revising bar- Bible dispatch, and making as small a draw as possible on the
rioters, it would constitute 15 judges, who would have no pockets of the shareholders. The undertaking was a veinal,'
other professional business, and who would therefore soon one, and if proper exertions were '

lose their legal aptitude

_ wade to forward the work
me knew of no complaint against without unnecessary delay, it would be second to none in the
.he present revising narristers, except the youth of some of kingdom. On the part of the board he thanked the propri-
them. He objected to a nomination by the Speaker of the etors for the renewed mark of their confidence afforded by
15 original judges, and still more, of the judges of appeal. confirming the grant of ;£1,600, and he was sure the directors
Stich nominations, however' uprightly made, woud always be would prove themselves worthy of the trust reposed in
suspected of political partiality. Speaker Lenthall had told them.
Charles I. that the Sneaker wng tk

but this measure would make him their master
also the proposal for constituting two cl

he meeting was

:len declared to t)
• He censured The work is divided into- five contracts. The. Ardwick
,thes of voters—the contract commences at the junction near Blind-lane, and
Patrthligh _ m__:, _ _

unus at tne Iran uogs, iviessrs. Buxton and Clarke are the
the rich, and leave the poor questionable; and it would open contractors. The Newton contract begins at the Trail dogs,
- to much collusion in getting voters into the esta- and ends at Newton-green ; the contractors are Messrs. Sar-
As to the business to be done by the proposed gent and Denton. Mr. Thothas Brassey is the contractor
he believed there would not be enough to for that part of the line from Newton-green to Broadbottom
-- seven, in each year._ So much —this is called the Hattersly contract. The Gamesley

the way

Court of Appeal,

occupy ten days, perk,
for what this-bill conti

omitted. It omitted the necessity for payment of taxes, and
it omitted all attempt at that which the bill of a former year
had proposed—a definition of the franchise. How was it

tract is unuertagen oy iviessrs. Miller and Blackey, who
carry on the line to its terminus at Glossop, with the excep-
tion of a bridge over the Etherow, which, we understand, is

that this definition, which Government said was indispensa-
ble to a registration bill for Ireland, bad been wholly omitted
in this Registration Bill for England ? He would not resist
the second reading, but would reserve his further opposition
for the committee.

crate contract

RAILWAI

Mr. GISBORNE, in support of the bill, referred to instances
of inconsistent decisions by revising barristers ; the judge on
one side of a passage admitting the votes which his brother
judge on the other side of the passage was rejecting. There
might be objections to some of the details of the present
measure, but it would, on the whole, be a beneficial one.
Mr. WABPURTON considered it to have been a point
mitted
barristers was a bad one

Long since as 1838

that the institution of revisit)

He saw no force in

steady and active manner in which this company are pursu-
ing their object of completing the line leaves no doubt of its
being opened to Bridgewater by the Ist of June, and to Taun-
ton early in 1812 ; already the wooden bearers for the rails
are being laid. The object of the directors is, now sufficient
has been paid up, to give the proprietors a little respite by
taking up £500,000. on loan • no new calls will be made for
a year and a half to come. With this loan the works will be
completed considerably beyond Taunton, so that the share-
holders will be in the receipt of a good income, while the

bondholders will be secure of their interest the moment the
line reaches Bridgewater, not out of the capital but out of
the annual rental secured by the lease to the Great Western
Company, and leave a considerable surplus to the sharehold-
ers besides. If it be true, as we understand it is, that
£1,500,000., with the loan of £500,000., will complete the
line to Exeter, and the rent and toll will pay 6 per cent. on
the total outlay, and 5 per cent. be paid for the loan, the
shareholders will receive at the rate of Al rprth +h.:.

•ge discount

capital; making a good thing for those who have bought
. The forfeited shares, we are in-
v the large ‘1 an_ cn_etsint;.l chnra_

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY,—This important
link of the railway communication across the kingdom from
Liverpool to Hull, will be completed and opened throughout
on the Ist of March. A few months will now tell what may
be expected of this and its kindred lines, but the full traffic
will probably not be developed for a year or two.

NORTHERN. AND EASTERN RAILWAY.—The meeting
was held on Thursday. The directors in their report express
their satisfaction with the result of the opening of the line,
and of the prospects of traffic. It appears that they have
made arrangements for laying a double line to Broxbourne,
and also for opening to Harlow-road, seven miles further, in
July.

OF CARDIGAN.--1

a correspondent.)—Such was the doubtful character of the
issue of the late trial in the House of Lords, entertained by
the Earl of Cardigan and his legal advisers, that his lordship,
in the event of being found guilty of felony, and to prevent,
in that case, the whole of his property being forfeited to the
Crown, executed, some time before, a deed of gift, assigning
over the whole of his valuable possessions to Viscount Cur-
zon, the eldest son of Earl Howe, the latter nobleman having
married a sister of Lord Cardigan. It is stated, that the
legal expenses of this transfer of property, arising from fines
upon copyholds, and the enormous stamp duties, amounted
to upwards of XlO,OOO. As the deed is stated to have been
enrolled in due form, the same expences will now have to be
again incurred to effect a re-transfer of the property from
Viscount Curzon to his lordship. Should the statement of
our informant regarding the stamp duties payable to govern-
ment be correct, they will not only most amply defray all the
expences incurred by the country in fitting up the House of
Lords, &c., but leave a very handsome surplus.—Times.