The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

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withdrawn that clause of their bill which enabled them to
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tided on recommending that ample free quayage shall be
provided for the public, instead of giving the company
the exclusive use of the quays and landing-stages.
OPENING OF THE NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAIL-

Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is t

han two years from that pe-
riod it has been opened for public traffic throughout.—
Sunderland Times.

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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
la this company are making

ately commencing the line fir this town to the Askern
Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway,
which will afford a ready communication between Don-
caster, Wakefield, and Normanton. This part of the line
it is expected will be finished by Christmas, at least up to
the Marsh, where probably a temporary station will be
erected until- the bridge -over the Don is completed.—
Doncaster Chronicle. _ _

RAILWAY CARRIAGES

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1 first-class carriage is

Scotland and Englarid,: designed by Sir. Sinclair. The
body of the carriage will be of the usual size, divided into
two apartments, the one larger than the other. Both di-
visions will be fitted up with cushions, pillows, and every-
thing suitable for laying down at full length. The larger

division will accommodate six personsi ; the smaller one,
communicating with the other, is principally intended for
ladies, and will afford room for two. In this latter divi-
sion there will be all those conveniences which ladies and
invalids will appreciate.—. Railway Chronicle.
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LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAHAvAY
annual meeting of the shareholders of this company was
held at Lancaster on Tuesday ; Mr. —. Bushell in the
chair. The report stated that the accounts furnished
by the committee of management showed a balance of
£4,505 in favour of the company, the disposal of which
the directors recommended should be postponed. The
accounts showed that £38,605 had been received from the
shareholders since June, 1845, of which £37,406 had been
disbursed, including £28,655 paid on 'account of calls due
on the Lancaster and Carlisle shares held by the company,
leaving a balance of £1,200. Resolutions were passed
adopting the report and accounts, re-electing the retiring
directors, appointing Messrs. Willan and Jackson solici-
tors to the company, and also Mr. Bushell to be the com-
pany's representative at the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
way board, in right of the shares held by the company.
THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—This line (which we
have before stated was opened with great ecliit on Satur-
day week) is, strictly speaking, a level one throughout,
through a very pleasing country, passing partly under (by
tunnel) and partly through Shugborough Park, the seat
of the Earl of Lichfield ; crossing the Trent seven times,
and having junctions or connections with the North Staf-
fordshire, the Midland Counties, and the Birmingham and
Derby, lines of railway. The cost of construction is stated
at £1,050,000, or £21,000 per mile, which, we believe, is
about the estimate. Though the first sod was cut by Sir
Robert Peel, on the 13th November, 1845, it was not till
February, 1846, that the contractors got fairly to worktir
the line, and yet it was so expeditiously construe ed t
it could have been opened for traffic on the Ist May, bad
it been desirable to work fast trains over a new line. It
may be said to have been executed in little more than fif-
teen months ' • and it has had the advantage, for more than
six weeks past, of due consolidation. Judging from the
easy motion of the carriages on the rails, without any dis-
agreeable jerks or vibrations, we should say that the con-
solidation is now in a very satisfactory state. The stations
are all finished, and the whole line as complete in all de-
partments as a new railway well can be.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.—
On Wednesday, the adjourned meeting of the sharehelders
in the Birmingham and Oxford Company was held at
Dee's Hotel, Birmingham. P. H. Muntz, Esq., chair-
man of the directors, presided. Mr. Mozley moved,
" That this meeting, considering the main objects of the
bill now before Parliament, to enable the Birmingham
and Oxford Junction Railway Company to make certain
alterations in the line of the Birmingham and Oxford
Junction Railway, and to purchase the Stratford-upon-
Avon Canal Navigation, and for other purposes, to be
consistent with the interests of the shareholders, desires
to express its concurrence in the provisions of such bill,
expecting those which confer power on the Great Western
Company to subscribe for, or to purchase and hold shares
in this company, under the alleged agreement, to the
terms of which the shareholders in this company object,
and which enable the Great Western Railway Company
to raise capital for that purpose, and to vote in respect
thereof, of which provision, in the present state of the
matter, the meeting cannot approve : and this meeting,
understanding that certain shareholders have petitioned
the House of Lords against such bill, on standing orders,
respectfully request those shareholders not to proceed
further with such petition, provided the objectionable
provisions before referred to are withdrawn, and cloth
hereby express the desire of the shareholders that, sublect
to the withdrawal of such provisions, the said bill should
be allowed to proceed without further opposition in Par-
liament." Mr. Jones, of Liverpobl, seconded the motion.
The chairman said every one present must be in favour
of such a motion ; but if it were carried, it would not be
of the slightest weight. Whatever came from the Wharn-
cliffe order, required a period of three or four weeks. If
the petition were withdrawn, the committee might per-
haps allow the bill to pass. Mr. Mozley enquired,
" Will you withdraw the bill ?" to which the chairman
replied in the affirmative, provided the shareholders would
withdrawn their opposition to the other bill. Several of
the directors dissented, and the chairman declined to put
' the resolution, on the ground that it had not been men-
I tioned in the notice calling the meeting. Mr. Mozeley

then moved,

That 0)

hereby adjourned unt

the matters r
of the 29th (1

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July 6,1547.

Her Majesty's royal assent has been given to the new
Enlistment Act; and, from the 22d instant, recruits for
the cavalry are only to serve twelve and the infantry tea
y ears.

A quantity of horse flesh, salted and picked so as to
resemble ribs of beef, has lately been seized in Birming-
ham. The house where it was found has long been
famous for cheap and savoury meat. The ingenious pro-
prietor has absconded.

AN UNEXPECTED DIEFICIILTY.—The Weekly Times
states, that Mad'lle Lind has found herself involved in
some difficulty with respect to practising at her house in
Brompton. It has been impossible for her to give free
vent to her vocal energies without attracting a crowd of
persons about her dwelling ; and consequently, to remedy
this inconvenience she has been compelled to take a house
on Wimbledon Common, in the centre of a deep garden.
Thus she hopes to avoid the uncourteous inroads of John.
Bull upon her privacy.
NEW POSTAGE BILL.—A bill has been introduced by
government empowering the lords of the treasury to pre-
vent packets of unweildly bulk from being sent by post,
by fixing the maximum weight ; to reduce the rates on
any letters exceeding one penny ; and to allow printing.
or writing on newspapers or their covers, besides the
direction ; also to extend the privilege of the 3 and 4
Vict. to seamen and soldiers' foreign letters ; to enable
any person to require a receipt for a letter delivered to the
post-office, at a regulated charge ; to compel the senders
of letters rejected or addressed to persons not to be found,
to pay the postage; and to authorize the sending of
mails by railways without a guard.
A CIDER DRINKER.—An old man, named Abraham.
Hillard, approaching fourscore, who has lived in the
family of the Holmans, large farmers, at Glastonbury,
for the last forty years, as farm bailiff, has had through
the whole of that time one gallon of cider daily allowed
for his own drinking, from his master's stores, and
though he is now too aged to work, he is still seen going
for his favourite beverage. The father of the present Mr.
Holman, at his death, left in his will Bs. per week, to be
given to this faithful servant as long as he lived. This
he (the old man) regularly has been paid, and his daily
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potation of cidei drawn for him also. During that forty
years this man must have received 14,600 gallons, or 270
hogsheads 20 gallons, which, at 40s. the hogshead, would
have realized £540 and upwards.—Sherbourne Journal.
A NEW WAY TO TAKE A COLD BATH.-Two sailors
were taking a walk the other day on the lower footpath to
Daddington ; and when opposite the Loch, one of them,
evidently the worse for liquor, suddenly broke off from
the other and dashed into the water, his friend following
him ; but the latter, it is supposed, seeing the other swim-
ming so well, and thinking no suicide was intended, re-
turned to the shore and sat down on the bank, waiting the
event. The tipsy man swam for the nearest island, which
he reached in safety, and coolly lay down to rest himself
beside a swan on its nest; and after remaining for a few
minutes, again plunged into the Lock and swam ashore.
Having rejoined his companion, they returned again to
town, arm in arm, as if nothing in particular had occurred,
dripping like two Newfoundlands after a plunge.—Edin-
burgh Weekly Register. _

AN INNOCENT CONVICT.—A highway robbery was corn-
Ited in the early part of 1846 by four persons, near
ertford, and three were taken into custody and tried at
e February assizes held there, and being all found
guilty," were sentenced each to 15 years' transporta-
William Bowers, one of the persons convicted, de-
2ence of any participation in the crime
.ce had been passed upon them ; but the tes-
, of his fellow-convicts was of a doubtful nature,
..ing to their silence on the subject previous to convic-
tion. Another of the guilty parties having been recently
taken, confessed to th chaplain of the Hertford Gaol
that William Bowers was innocent of being a participator
in the crime of which he was convicted, and named the
other person, still at large ; and it having now been satis-
factorily established that Bowers was really' innocent, a
free pardon for him was received from Sir George Grey,
Secretary of State, by Mr. Masterman, Governor of the
Warrior convict-hulk,; at Woolwich, and the prisoner was
-ly liberated a faw days ago.
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