The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

According to the Nation there are 168 estates in Ire-
land for sale. No wonder.
The Belfast municipal elections have terminated in the
return of Conservatives for every ward by a.large majority.

By the municipal election last week, the Conservatives
have gained, in Cork, two aldermen and two councillors.
A schoolmaster, named Gowdy, was fined 20s. at the
Coleraine petty sessions, on the 15th instant, for having
assaulted one of his pupils by severely flogging him.
A slcop, lying at Glin, near Limerick, was, in a gale,
last Sunday, driven from its anchorage, and went down
with twelve hands on board, only one of whom was saved.
PERSECUTION.—At Kildare petty sessions informations
were laid against a Romish 'priest and several other per-
sons, for intimidating a Presbyterian clergyman from
preaching.
DISTRIBUTING NEWS.—In one parish in Ireland, the
newsboy supplies all his customers, who live at great in-
tervals of distance, by leaving their newspapers for them
in their pews at church.
On Monday intelligence reached Lloyd's that the
French brig Camelia, of St. Malo, laden with Indian corn,
had been totally lost, in Ballenkillig Bay, county Kerry,
the master arid crew, except a boy, being drowned.
IRISH GRATITUDE FOR ENGLISH BOUNTY.—ThOS.
Darkin, an Irish piper, has been repeatedly committed to
gaol at Manchester, for breaking the windows of the house
of the Bolton overseer. He declares he will persist till he
has obtained 15s. to mend his pipes.
The Dublin Nation alludes to certain members of tl e
Old Ireland party who were opposed to Sir Robert Peel's
Colleges, and took p:rt in the anti-bequest agitation, as
" a gang of blacklegs, swindlers, brothel hunters, and
drunken h3pacrites ! ! !"
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-Mr. E. D. Williams presided
at the weekly meeting on Monday. A letter from Mr.
John O'Connell, strongly deprecating and deploring the
prevalent outrages and murders, was read. The rent for
the week, which included £5 3s. sd. from Liverpool, per
Mr. James Levingston, was announced to be £4O Ils. 7d.

About four or five hundred persons, composed of men,
women, and children, again congregated outside the doors
of the Nenagh workhouse, at the last meeting. They
were quiet and orderly, and their appearance was truly
deplorable to behold. They were clothed in rags, which
were drenched with the rain. There was a small body of
police present to preserve the peace.
Violence continues its progress. In the King's county
the effect has been excessive alarm on the part of the
landed gentry ; and the local papers state that many are
preparing to break up their establishments and retire to
the continent. One gentleman,•a Mr. Walsh, magistrate,
guardian, and resident landlord, advertises the sale of his
furniture and stock preparatory to departure. Others, it
is said, are ready to follow. Few can censure this com-
pulsory absenteeism, for no man can aTord to be patriotic
at the expense of his life.
On Monday week, a man named Griffith, who was
employed to attend the engine by which the trains are
lowered.down and drawn up an inclined plane on a rail-
way leading from a colliery near Meath, was killed in a
horrible manner. A loaded train had been pushed too
far, so that it descended with terrific speed ; and, in en-
deavouring to check it by fixing a pin in the break, he
was caught by the unattached chain, which carried him
round the drum, severed his head from his body, cut his
waist in two, and scattered pieces of his flesh over the
machinery.

INSOLVENCY AMONGST IRISH FARMERS. —Tile Dub-
lin Gazelle of Tuesday se'nnight, contains a list of no
less than 73 insolvents whose cases are to be disposed of
at Nenagh, Tipperary, on the 7th of December next. Of
this number, 41 are set down as "farmers." The same
Gazette gives the name of 31 insolvent, who are to be
brought before the commissioner at Limerick, on the 9th
December ;of this list 10 are " farmers." Friday's
appear at Ennis,
number are " farmers."
Gazette contains thee. names
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FRIGHTFUL CASE OF .ABDUCTION.—On Sunday night,
eristhof 04f8Di iescoelmv ebnetrs-301° ofa r ethis
a lawless gang under arms paid one of their nocturnal
visits to the house of Roger Molony, of Lisnamuck, near
Curragh Chase, in this county. At once they smashed
the windows, and having thereby effected an entrance,
rushed like so many demons up stairs where his daughter
lay in bed with her sister. They seized their innocent
victim and dragged her off in her night dress, amid her
shrieks and the lamentations of her family. Having pulled
her along mercilessly for about a mile through fields, over
ditches and fences, her feet and head bare, they entered
the house of Mr. Richard Creagh, where they left her
with the monster whom they designed for her husband ;
but they were grossly disappointed, for Mrs. Creagh, a
highminded woman, afforded that sanctuary and protec-
tion she so mt c's wanted, and in the morning restored
and accompanied her to her disconsolate parents. The
principal is still at large, but several of his companions in
guilt have been lodged in bridewell.—Limerick Chron.
A TALE OF HORROR.—Mr. Stafford O'Brien shocked
the house on Tuesday night with the following narration
of the circumstances connected with the recent attempt
to assassinate Mr. Bayly, near Nenagh :—" With re-
spect to one crime," remarked the hon. gentleman, "be-
ing connected with the district where it happened, I will
state the facts to the house, and they will shew—for it is
not, I regret to say, a solitary crime—the state of feeling
which exists in Ireland respecting that species of crime.
I allude to the attempt upon Mr. Bayly. Mr. Bayly is a
man so well known that any eulogy I could pass upon
him would be idle indeed. There may be cases of persons
accused of hard dealing, but hard dealing is no excuse for
assassination. Mr. Bayly, however, needs no eulogy
which I can•bestow ; and Mr. Bayly—l say it with grief,
I am obliged to say it, and in the face of parliament I say
it—is one of those men whose character deepens the
shame which belongs to a state of society that could suf-
for an attempt at his assassination. He was going in his
gig to Nenagh to witness the result of an experiment for
lighting the town with gas. My informant tells me, .that
he remarked two men watching behind a wall, and a
young country girl on the other side of the road. Upon
his return from the town Mr. Bayly was driving home
with his brother-in-law, when his murderers aimed at
him from behind the wall. The shot entered his jaw, and
forced out some of his teeth, splitting his tongue in half.
His brother-in-law (Mr. Head) after the shot, heard the
country girl, who had been set to watch and give the sig-
nal to the murderers, say loudly Well done boys ; now
make off as fast as you can.' Mr. Head took his wounded
brother-in-law, who exhibited a horrible spectacle, into
the house of a tenant of my father ; and lie said, For
God's sake go for a surgeon to Nenagh.' Nenagh was
about a mile distant. I blush for the Irish people—l
blush for human nature—not one single soul would go for
a soldier, and his brother-in-law was obliged to leave Mr.
Bayly in the torment and agony of his wounds, and him-
self go for a surgeon. We have heard that in Ireland
there is a feeling of fear at giving assistance and protection
against violehce; and, if Mr. Head had asked them to
assist in pursuing the murderers, and they had refused.
even this we should deeply deplore. But when the victim
lay bleeding in the house,,how to reconcile such a refusal,
on the part of men and Christians, with the feelings which
exist in other countries, I know not, or what must be the
consequeneee if such a state of things shall continue. The
vengeance was lot considered complete; the victim was
not dead; he WO only his tongue split and his teeth
knocked out."

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Rev. Dr. Wolff has been appointed honorary chap-
lain to Lord Carbery. The appointment of the rev.
gentleman was accompanied by a most flattering commu-
nication from his lordship.
Dr. Hinds, who has been named ror the regius profes-
sorship at Oxford, vacated by Dr. Hampden's promotion,
is understood to have refused the bishopric of New Zea-
land, many years since.

The appointment of Dr. Samuel Hinds to the Regius
Professorship of Divinity at Oxford, adverted to in our
last number, has not taken place. It is said now that the
offer was-made to Dr. Hinds, and refused.
ST. BEES.—The number of clergymen who have been
eduCated within the walls of the college since its founda-
tion exceeds five hundred. The number of students at
present there is ninety-eight, and accommodation has
lately been provided for one hundred and twenty.
The Church of St. Mary in the South Bailey, Durham,
was re-opened on Sunday week for divine service, after
having undergone very extensive repairs, and having been
decorated both in the interior and exterior at much cost,
which has chiefly been defrayed by private subscription.
The history of the Church of St. Mary is a subject full of
interest. The period of its foundation is comval with the
earliest parts of the Cathedral, and goes back at least to
the year 1100. Its founder was a Lord of Brancepeth,
of the nameof Bulmer, from whose family its advowson
passed, by marriage, to the Nevilles, of Raby, who con-
tinued to be its patrons till the rebellion of the last Earl
of Westmorland in 1569, when it fell into the hands of
the Crown, in the patronage of which it still remains.
A convocation of the clergy of York was held in the
Minster on Friday, but proved a stormy gathering, and
was abruptly dissolved. In consequence of the death of
the late Archbishop, a special writ was issued by the
crown appointing the Rev. Canon Dixon president, and
that gentleman accordingly took the chair. Archdeacon
Thorp claimed to elect a prolocutor, but in this he was
opposed. as was-also Archdeacon Wilberforce in moving
an address to the Queen on the affairs of the church, em-
bodying the views of the late archbishop. The president
said that these objects were beyond the province of the
convocation. Ultimately the chairman retired, leaving
the other clergy in consultation. In a few minutes he
sent the chapter-clerk to inform them that the chapter-
house must be clired, but that the minister's library was
at their disposal. Archdeacon Wilberforce respectfully
declined the offer, and he and the clergy along with him
then withdrew.
A most interesting public meeting, in behalf of the
Borneo Church mission, was held in the Hanover-square
Rooms, London, on Monday, the Lord Bishop of Win-
chester in the chair. The Lord Bishop of Norwich, the
Hon. Captain Keppell, Sir R. Inglis, the Hon. and Rev.
Montague Villiers, Mr. Brooke, the Rev. F.T. M`Dougall,
and others, took part in the proceedings. In the course
of his speech, Mr. Brooke said that he did not apprehend
that any danger was likely to occur to the members of the
mission from the lawless tribes beyond the river of Sara-
wak. In the country itself they would find a quiet and
peaceful community, with whom they might hold the most
unreserved intercourse, and he might venture to predict
that the most timid lady attached to the mission would in
a short time enjoy a• sense of security which she could
hardly experience in some parts of her own country.—A
similar meeting was held at Bath on Tuesday. Mr. Breol e,
who claimed to be a native of Bath, was present, as was
also the Mayor of Bath, the Lord Bishop of Antigua, the
Lord Bishop of Peterborough, with several of the nobility,
and a numerous company of the clergy and gentry. A
series of resolutions, in accordance with the objects of the
meeting, were unanimously adopted. The Bishop of
Antigua presided.
INSTITUTIONS rod TRAINING SCHOOLMA.STERS.—A
better substitute for the National School system has often
been recommended to our readers, which has taken its
rise at Cheltenham under the zealous efforts of the Rev.
Francis Close. But we are also glad to know, that the
metropolis is not to be deserted, but that the Home and
Colonial School Society has attracted so strongly the ap-
probation of the Government Council, that a considerable
grant of public money is to be placed at its disposal, in
order to enlarge the Institution, and enable the Society
to keep the students under instruction a much longer time
than they now can afford. But as the preliminar , to this
important aid, it is stipulated that the Society shall itself
procure a sum of £5,000 by private subscription. The
fact that this intimation should have followed the report
made by Mr. Tuffnell, after a long and careful examina-
tion of every branch of the institution, is a striking testi-
mony to the excellence of its arrangements and the effi-
ciency of its tuition. It has been officially and publicly
announced that the Marquis of Lansdowne himself visited
the Institution, minutely inspected its details, and testified
his unqualifidl approbation before the grant was made.
It is under these circumstances the Earl of Chichester,
the President of the Society, has in his own name issued.
an appeal to the Christian public, the aid of which is
needed in the present crisis.—Record.
THE CONVOCATION.—The attendanceof theupper house
of Convocation consisted of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishops of Winchester, Chichester, Exeter, Lincoln,
Oxford, Rochester, Salisbury, St. Asaph, and Worcester.
In the lower house there was also an unusually numerous
attendance of the Deans and Archdeacons of the various
dioceses, with upwards of one hundred of the clergy ;
among them were the Dean of Canterbury ; the Archdea-
cons of London, Middlesex, Bristol, and Maidstone; and
the canons and prebends of several cathedrals. Important
matters connected with the interests of the church were
considered in the lower house, and the discussions are re-
presented as being generally of a highly interesting cha-
racter, and most ably conducted. It was understood—
That the address sent down from the upper .house was
amended in one or two not unimportant particulars. It
will, we are informed, be found to imply an earnest desire
that Convocation may be permitted to meet for the consi-
deration of the great interests of the church ; an expression
of thanks to her Majesty for giving the royal consent to the
measure for securing the separate existence of the sees of
St. Asaph and Bangor ; and a prayer that the Episcopate
may be made more proportionate to the wants of the
church and the rapid growth of the population. The
question of Dr. Hampden's appointment was mooted,
and a proposition made' for petitioning her Majesty to
delay a conge d'alire till certain passages in Dr. Hampden's
works had been subjected to a careful examination by the
proper authorities. As many doubted whether it properly
came within the sphere of Convocation to pronounce upon
it, the proposition was negatived. The address to the
throne was thereupon agreed to by both houses, and will
shortly be presented to her Majesty.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—We are happy
to observe that Mr. Horsman is not going to abandon his
inquiries into the working of the ecclesiastical commission.
The hon. member has given notice of his intention of
bring forward the subject on Tuesday. The abuses which
have been allowed to grow up in the management of the
great revenues of the established church, have been, to a
certain extent, exposed and redressed. But many more
require to be searched out and ventilated. The able
speech of Mr. Horsman, on the second reading of the
Bishopric of Manchester Bill, and the valuable statistics
which it contained, have made a deep impression both on
parliament and the country. We have yet to learn by
what process it happens that the receipts of bishops cre-
ated since 1835, are swelled up to an amount fax exceeding
the maximum intended to be established by parliament ;
and how it happens that so small a portion of their reve-
nues goes to the augmentation of the small livings belongL
ing to the hard-working and deserving inferior clergy.
It appears, for example, that the Bishop of filisbury,
income Salisbury, al-
though appointed subsequent to the Ecclesiastical lem-
poralities Bill, is in the receipt of an of somewhere
about £12,000 a-year, and the Bishop of Durham nearly
as much. There is another subject that requires investi-
gation, and that is, the principle on which returns of re-
venue are made. In the diocese of Exeter it would ap-
pear that the deductions are such that, were it not for the
golden stall at Durham, it would not astonish us to hear
that the bishop had taken refuge.in the union of Exeter,
where we suppose he has a settlement, as he unsuccess-
fully pleaded exemption from rates as non-resident. We
think the revenue of that see has been in a gradual course
of reduction, until it amounts to somewhere about £3OO
a-year !—Record. [We think that our contemporary
would find, on inquiry, that the income of the Bishop of
Durham considerably exceeds the amount he has stated.]
TRACTARIAN MOVEMENTS.—The tractgrians allege
that the venerable Archbishop of Canterbury is almost
in his dotage because he declines to aid them in their
opposition to the elevation of Dr. Hampden, to the see of
Hereford, although had his grace consented to do so, we
should, doubtless, have only heard of the flourishing old
age of Dr. Howley. But we expected nothing less from
the sect whose members are bent upon creating a schism
in the Church of England, and who would fain dissever
that happy union of the Church and the state under
which religion and morality have advanced with rapid
strides—their ultimate object being UNION WITH ROME.
We do not speak idly : we have serious foundation for
what we assert, and we cite one circumstance in proof.
The Tractarian members in the House of Commons are
meditating on a scheme for giving their assent to the ad-
mission of the Jews into Parliament, on the express
ground that such admission will destroy the last remain-
ing pretext for the controul of the State over the Chris-
tian Church in this country. The activity of the Trac-
tarian party for evil is equally energetic in another
direction. They have calculated that many persons, who
committed themselves against Dr. Hampden in 1836,
would be ready to makecommon cause with Mr. Mozley,
and his brother-in-law,Vir. Newman, against the Regius
Professor; and our accounts from Oxford state, concur-
rently, that an intrigue of this precise nature has been on
foot, but that it has failed. We particularly beg our
readers to observe that, in the inflammatory articles of
the Times, the wily controversial writers have avoided all
allusion to Church principles so called, in the hope of
catching those whom in their conclaves they delight to style
" the stupid evangelicals." To stir up as wide a feeling
as possible against Dr. Hampden, the Times has sated its
weary readers with.garbled extracts from the writings of
that'divine. It was a gratuitous labour on the part of our
huge contemporary. The supposed errors in these very
extracts were long since ably explained away by Dr.
Hampden in "an Introduction to the second edition of
the Bampton Lectures, published in 1837," which ex-
planation has, to our knowledge, established him in the
confidence of the soundest divines of the Church. All
mention of this explanation and vindication is suppressed;
and we are told that Dr. Hampden has "recanted' which
of course lie has not—nor, we presume, intends to do.
So at least his Popish assailants say, and on this point we
hold them as witnesses to be depended on.—Church and
State Gazette.

The late lamented Mr. Youatt, in one his orations to
the members of the Veterinary College, observes—" That
by the improvements in modern chemistry, the medical
profession are enabled successfully to treat diseases which
were previously supposed as not within the reach of me-
dicine." This truth has been manifested for many years,
but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than
by the discovery of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills.

Nov. 30, 1847,

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

*
The Lord Chancellor is progressing favourably towards
convalescence.
Mr. Cobden has elected to sit for West Yorkshire, and
anew election will therefore have to take place for Stockport.
The retirement of Mr. R. Cobden from business would
seem to be correct, for the Gazette of Friday announces
the dissolution of the firm with which he is connected.
Mr. Villiers has declined to sit for South Lancashire,
and Mr. Alexander Henry, a merchant in Manchester,
has consented to come forward as the free-trade candidate.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written to the papers to say
that he is prevented by the state of his finances from em-
ploying counsel to defend his parliamentary qualification,
but that " he will fight the battle alone and unattended."
Mr. Cowan has resigned his seat for Edinburgh, as, in
consequence of his being connected with a government
contract at the time, his election is of doubtful legality.
It is expected, however, that he will again come forward,
and be returned without opposition.
CURIOUS SCENE.—Mr. Moore, the member for Mayo,
excited great laughter on Monday, by partly taking the
Protestant instead of the Roman Catholic oath. The
hon. member went on reading the oath until he came to
the words " damnable" and " idolatrous," when he in-
stantly dropped the book with the look and gesture of hor-
ror, and rushed away from the table amidst the roars of the
house. He subsequently took the Roman Catholic oath.
On Monday a deputation, consisting of thirty-two Irish
members of Parliament, with-Mr. H. Grattan, M.P., at
their head, had an interview with Lord J. Russell on the
subject of Irish hffairs. The noble lord, after hearing Mr. Grattan, Mr. John O'Connell, and other gentlemen,inti-
mated that Government had made arrangements for the
establishment of food depots in Ireland, and that it was
expected the Poor-law would answer the expectations
which had been formed of it.

The authorities of the Bank of England have received a
letter, signed by Lord John Russell and Sir C. Wood, ex-
pressing the satisfaction of Government at the revival of
confidence in the commercial classes through the course
adopted by the Bank on their recommendation, and that,
too, without the least infringement of the law; and inti-
mating that the purpose they had in view in the letter
addressed to the Bank, on the 25th October, having been
fully answered, it is unnecessary to continue that letter
any longer in force.

It seems that no attempt is to be made to force Baron
Rothschild into Parliament, so long as the law remains in
its present state. The English Parliament is to be formally
dechristianised by statute. On Thursday last Lord John
Russell gave notice of his intention to move, on that day
fortnight, the 9th of December, " for leave to bring in a
bill for the further relief of her Majesty's Jewish subjects
from civil disabilities." This bill will most likely be car-
ried in the House of Commons ; but unless the Lords be
content to be mere registrars to the will of the Commons,
we presume they will reject it.
WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS !—Mr. Wawn,
M.P. for South Shields, left that borough on Thursday
for London, there to commence the discharge of his duties
in a new Parliament. We have already stated that the
electors had pledged themselves to place their representa-
tive at the door of the House of Commons not one penny
the poorer for his election. They have fulfilled their
pledge. The cost of the contest they discharged locg ago ;
and on Thursday the election committee presented the
hon. member with a first-class ticket for London, and
money to pay his cab-hire from the railway station to St.
Stephen's !

A SINGULARLY BRIGHT LEGISLATOR.—We are glad
to find that the tedium of a debate upon an Irish subject
may be expected to be somewhat relieved during this pre-
sent session ; that amidst the horror, with which the
honourable members are doomed to listen to the revolting
details of Irish crime and squalidness, an occasional op-
portunity is to be allowed them of indulging in a hearty
laugh. The " punch " of the house, or we may more
properly describe him as the Irish Sibthorp, made his
debut on Tuesday evening, the character being undertaken
by our old friend Fergus O'Connor. We give the follow-
ing from his first performance :—" He considered that the
present government would not long retain their places,
because they were the weakest party in the honse ; and
the proposed measure would not add to their strength.
He was willing to give his cordial support to every mea-
sure which was for the good of the people; but he should
oppose every measure they brought forward, because he
had no faith in them. (Laughter.) He repeated that he
was ready to give his support to every measure that should
be propounded for the good of the country; but, as the
government were not likely to propound one of that na-
ture, he should give them ais decided opposition. (Con-
tinued laughter.) He thought that a good reason, a good
notice, and good logic." Verily, a most sensible conclu-
sion, most lucidly stated. We should be obliged to any
of our arithmetieal readers to discover for us a rule by
which the value of this paulo-post-futurum sort of pro-
mise of support could be ascertained.
THE MERCANTILE HOUSE OF A. AND S. HENRY AN"
Co.—Alexander Henry, the new candidate for South:
Lancashire, whose great establishments at the corner of
Portland-street and York-street, Manchester ; at Leeds,
Bradford, and Huddersfield, in Yorkshire; at Notting-
ham and at Leicester ; at Glasgow, in Scotland ; at Bel-
fast, in Ireland ; and whose commercial agencies are rn all
the chief cities of the United States of North America;
in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ; in Montreal and
Quebec, in Canada ; in the British West Indian . ;
in Cuba, Mexico, and all the states of South America ; in
California, the Philippine Islands, China, Batavia, the
East Indies, Australia, Egypt, Turkey; on the African
and European shores of the Mediterranean sea ; in Italy,
Portugal, Spain, and Northern Europe ; whose commer-
chl name and influence circulate from Manchester through
all Britain in the inland trade ; wider than the British do-
minions in the foreign trade—Alexander Henry, the head
of this commercial house, whose mercantile operati(r.
round the world, was born at Loughbrickland, Uie
county of Down, Ireland. He was named after an uncle
settled as a merchant in Philadelphia, to whom he was
sent at the age of twelve years. He came to England
from Philadelphia while still a very young man, and set-
tled in Manchester in the year 1804. His first place of
business was in Palace-street. On finding his business
increase he removed to premises in Spear-street. There
he took his younger brother Samuel into partnership, and
the firm became "A. and S. Henry." Subsequently ano-
ther partner was admitted, and the firm became " A. and
S. Henry and C 0.," which it still continues .to be. In
1833, the large premises in Portland-street were built, -
and the premises were removed there. The houses in
Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham,
Glasgow, and Belfast, are each distinct from the other
and from the parent establishment in Manchester. Each
has partners not connected with the ethers, Mr. Henry
being the connecting and sole head over all.

THE COURT.
The stay of the court at Osborne House is intended to
be prolonged until the 23d of next month, with one or two
short int(rvals.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
The metropolis is thronged with railway labourers out
of employment.
By means of the electric telegraph, the Queen's speech
was received in Dublin thirteen hours after delivery in
London.

The small shopkeepers who have been thriving on the
great employment of working people on railway works,
are beginning to feel most sensibly the difference between
the activity and suspension of the works.
_ _

A new and splendid eight-wheel engine, named the Em-
peror, just started on the Great Western line, recently ran
for some distance at the rate of 76 miles an hour, with a
load of 80 tons.

The Manchester and Southampton, even in these times,
again declares an intention of going to parliament ; but
the only portion of the original line which is to be made
is that uniting Cheltenham and Andover, the remainder
being supplied by lines already authorized.
The sea has made an inroad on the Whitehaven and
Maryport line, just by the Salt Pans, Lowca Point, where
the tide sets in very strong. The hole of the pitching
for several yards has been swept away, so that the greatest
care is necessary lest the whole breadth of the line on
that part of the railway fall a prey to the sweeping tide.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Edward Bedford,
clerk in charge at Walsden station, on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, was acc!dentally killed, last Sa-
turday evening, as he stumbled in his attempt to get on
to a passenger carriage, when a train was leaving his sta-
tion. He was thirty-six, and had been married about
three months.

The terms of the treaty between the South-Eastern and
Brighton are, it is said, to the effect that the South-Eas-
tern shall give up certain claims to capital, and afford
facilities for the Brighton traffic at the Bricklayers' Arms
Station, and in lieu thereof the Brighton shall waive their
toll upon the Croydon line, which is double that which
the South-Eastern received from the Brighton over the
Greenwich, and which they are also said to give up.
These are rumoured to be the chief particulars of a com-
pact, which is quite apart from any amalgamation.
RAILWAY SCRIP.—At the Central Criminal Court,
London, on Thursday, on Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice
Coltman, taking their seats, an application was made on
behalf of Horatio Nelson West, convicted at a former
sessions of felony, in forging railway scrip. Mr. Baron
Parke said that the majority of the judges had in this case
decided on Saturday that railway scrip was not a repre-
sentation or security for money, and the prisoner might,
therefore, be admitted to bail, himself in £5OO, and two
securities in £250 each, to take his trial for a misde-
meanour.

The Lancaster and Preston Company have adjourned
their meeting to the 13th January. The committee re-
ported that they were more determined than ever to get
rid, if possible, of the canal company. Mr. Allen's claim
as a contractor, which the canal company bound them-
selves to pay, they had not paid, and the committee had
ascertained that the mortgagees on the lines, to the extent
of X 113,000, had given notice to the.canal company, who
had assumed the responsibility of that sum, ,for payment
of those loans. The committee were anxious to go still
further into the details of the whole case before bringing
forward the subject of ejectment.
RAPID EXPRESS.—The express engine with tl e morning
papers of Wednesday started from London at three
minutes past five a.m., and reached Beatock, N. 8., by
fifteen minutes past two p.m., a distance of 339 miles,
including stoppages—ten minutes at Rugby, five minutes
at Warrington, seven minutes at Preston, and the same
time at Carlisle. The papers were delivered in Glasgow
the same night, soon after eight o'clock ; the whole dis-
tance travelled being 398 miles. The 339 miles was gone
over in 9j hours, including all stoppages, and the distance
between Beatoc.k and Glasgow (60 miles) was travelled by
post-horses in 54. hours. The gentleman. in charge of the
papers returned to London on Thursday night, having
travelled the entire distance from London to Glasgow awl
Edinburgh, and back, (upwards of 900 miles), in 40 hours
—nine of which were spent in Edinburgh and Glasgow