The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-06 00:00:00

LOWER CANADA.

We have the Montreal Herald' of the al inst. from which
we,learn that further trouble was anticipated in the county of
Areadie, where the Canadians were undergoing frequent drill-
ings, and threatening the British portion of the population. A
considerable number, estimated at 200, French Canadians, had
crossed the line id the direction of Napierville and Oilelltown,
to reinforce General Cote. A respect%ble force has been sta-
tioned at Laprarie, St. John's, and Chambly, and two com-
panies of the 15th regiment, under Captains Power and Brock-
man, left Montreal on the Ist for Napierville, to prevent any
organised movements among the rebels. A. B. Papineau,
brother of the Speaker of the Hous&of Assembly, was brought.
into Montreal on the 2d on a charge of high treason.• Lord
Gosford has paid Mr. Debartzch, a man whom the ' Herald' ac-
cuses as the prime instigator of the late insurrection, £lOOO on
the account of the losses he sustained in the destruction of his
property by the Canadians in the village of St. Charles. His
lordship was to take his departure for Quebec on the 4th, and
Messrs. Stuart and Ryland left on the let for Montreal, to be
present as Executive Councillors at the swearing in of Sir J.
Colborne as Governor-in-Chief.

MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—From advertise-
ments in our paper of to-day, it will be seen that this company,
the bill for whose incorporation passed last session, is preparing
to commence active operations. The Maryport and Carlisle
line is one very little known, but only wants to be more gener-
ally known to occupy a prominent place in the market as a safe
investment. It completes the Carlisle and Newcastle line to
Mary port, the first port of debarkation on the west coast, and
must become the line of a great passenger traffic. Its length is
27 miles, and estimated cost under £200,000. Mr. Robert
Stephenson is the engineer. The returns are very moderately
' estimated by Mt. Stephenson at 17 per cent. per annum. At
present the shares are held almost exclusively by landowners
and capitalists in the neighbourhood, It will be one of the
cheapest lines in England, having very favourable gradients,
without a single tunnel, embankment, °deep cutting, or con-
siderable bridge, and running over land of comparatively little
value. Being unopposed, the parliamentary and legal expenses
are next to nothing. The whole of the commerce between the
neighbouring counties, and the west of Scotland, Ireland, and
Lancashire. must pass along it, and should a line of railway be
ever taken from Lancaster along Morecomhe Bay to Scotland,
it will form part of it. We understand the directors mean in
the first instance to execute the first nine miles from the sea,
which will open out to the Irish market a vast coal-field, and
from the inclinations, coal can be brought to the sea at a very
light expenditure of locomotive power, and consequently at a
profit not usual on so bulky an article. The present annual
vend of Cumberland ciial in the Irish markets exceeds five
hundred thousand tons, and is daily increasing.
COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—On. Friday morning week, as three
lads were descending a coal-pit at Breightmet colliery, near
Bolton, on arriving within seven yards of the bottom, a quart-
tit. of bricks and earth fell from the yard mine hay, which was
abiiut twenty yards above them; and so great was its weight
that it forced out the bottom of the tub in which the lads were
standing, and they were precipitated to the bottom of the pit:
One of the lads, William Greenhaigh, who resided at Roscoe
Field, had his head dreadfully fractured, and died ou Sunday
morning. The other two are expected to recover.