The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
THE DIRECTORS of the LONDON and 8111.
MINGFIAM COMPANY are desirous of CON-
TRACTING for delivery on the Railway at the earliest
possible period of 20 Passenger and lOGoods ENGINES,
of the greatest power that may advantageously be em-
ployed, being not less than 1,000 square feet evaporating
surface.
Proposals, with spesific_atiori of general dimensions, may
be address, d to the Secretary. R. CREED, Esq., Euston
Station, Lond in, not later than MONDAY, the 3d of No-
vember. By order, R. CRE E D, Secretary.
Office, Euston Station, 11,1: October, 1845.

CHESTER AND HOLYH It'AD RAILWAY.
THE DIRECTORS of the CHESTER and HOLYIIEAD
RA 'II WAY COMPANY inform the Shareholders that
the Surveys are now nearly completed, and the other ne-
cessary preparations actively proceeding, to enable the
Company to apply to Parliament in the next Ses,ion for
power to construct the following BRANCH LINES :-
1. To MOLD and the MINERAL DISTRICT of
FLINTSHITE, joining the Chester and Holyhead Rail-
way near Quieen's Ferry.
2. Throughout the VALLEY of the CLWYDD. ac-
commodating in its route Rhyddlan, St. Asaph, Denbigh,
and Huthin, joining the Chester and Hol3 bead Railway
near Rhyl.
3. T. accommodate the Traffic of the CONWAY
VALLEY and LLANWRST.
By order, GEORGE KING, Secretary.
Offices, 62, Moorgate-street.

HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAIL-
WAY AND CANAL.
A T an EXTRA° RDINA RY GEN ERAL MEETING
111- of the PROPRIETORS of the HUDDERSFIELD
and MANCHESTER RNILWAY and CANAL COM-
PANY. held at the Guildhall, in Huddersfield, on MON-
DAY, the 13th instant, the following Resolutions were
unanimously passed :-
I.—That the Corporate Seal be affixed by the Chairman
to the Resister of Shareholders in this Company, now
pi oduced.
ll.—That iq conformity with the Company's Act of
Incorporation, 7,677 Shares of £3O each be, and the same
are, hereby created for the purposes following, namely :
(To be uiven in Exchange-to the holders of Shares
l (to the like nun-ylrer) in the Huddersfield Canal
5552 Navigation, v_sh6 have elected to commute their
I Canal Shares for Shares in the Huddersfield and
Manchester Railway and Canal Company.
For the purpose of raising Capital to the amount of
I £17,175, to pay off at the rate of £25 per Share,
573-{ the holders of 687 Shares in the Huddersfield
I Canal Navigation, who have become entitled to
I be paid off in money.
For the purpose of raising Capital to the amount of
£46.560 for the purchase of Sir John Ranasden's
1552 Canal and Warehouses, as heretofore and now
sanctioned by this Company
And that for the several purposes aforesaid, the Capital of
the Company, now consisting of £630,000, be. and the
same is, hereby augmented to the amount of £230,300, so
as to constitute an entire Capital of £860,300.
That the Shares to be created as aforesaid for raising
Capital to pat off the said Canal Shareholders, attd to
purchase the said Sir John liamselen's Canal, shall be
issued together with the Shares (in number 3,lBS);Net
unallotted of the Original Capital of the Company, to the
holders of Shares in this Company appearing on the Re-
gister Sealed at this Meeting. (including the Canal Share-
holders who have, elected to commute their Canal Shares
as aforesaid,) in the proportion of one New Share for every
four existing Shares, and to the exclusion of all fractions
of less than four Shares.
111 —That the Meeting approves of the Application to
Parliame..t by the Company for a Branch Railway from
their Mein L'ne to Oldham and Mossley ; and for a
Branch or Extension of their Main Line trom Cooper
Bridge, by way of Cleckheaton, to Bradford ; and for a
Branch from the Main Line near Cooper Bridge, joining
the Leeds and Manchester Railway to the Westward ; and
empowers the Directors to take all such steps for prose-
cuting the same, and for making other arrangements rela-
tive thereto, as the Directors may from time to time deem
expedient : and the Meeting also authorizes the Directors
to raise for such Branches and Extensions, a Capital of
£862,000, by the issue of New Shares to the Shareholders
in this Company.
IV.—That the Meeting approves of the friendly Asso-
ciation of this Company, with the Line of the Huddersfield
and East and West Coasts Direct Railway Company, and
of the pecuniary interest (to the extent of one-third of the
Capital) allotted therein to the Shareholders of this Com-
pany. WILLIAM ALDAM, Chairman.
Huddersfield. 13th October, 1845.

HEREFORD AND MERTHYR TYDVIL JUNC-
TION RAILWAY. IN CONNECTION WITH
THE GLOUCESTER AND ABERYSTWITH
AND CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY._

1 HE Holders of Scrip in the Gloucester, Aberystwith,
and Central Wales Railway who apply for Shares in
the Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway are
requested to forward the Numbers of their Scrip to the
Office of the Comp Any immediately, as the Allotment
Committee are about to commence tne business of Allot-
ment. By order;
THOS. HAWKER, Secretary.
Offices, No..}; N.w Broad-street, City,
- October 10th, 1845.

NEW ENGRAVINGS.
TITOS. BOYS' GRAPHIC UNION,
.1845

TILK I E'S VILLAGE FESTIVAL, in Line, large
Vl' size, to range with Wilkie's most important Plates.
Prints, £I 11s 6d. Pfs., £3 3s. Ind. bef. let. XI 4s.
Artist's pfs. all sold. To be advanced on the publication
of the Prints to double the prices above.

LUCAS'S PORTRAIT OF PRINCE ALBERT,
engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R A., and Samuel
Bellin, in the first style, to match Chalons' whole-length
Portrait of the Queen.

Pr 'its, J l lls: Gd. Pfs., £3 3s. Ind. bef. let., £4 4s
Artist's pls., £6 Gs.

THE DYING CAMEL IN THE DESERT, a beau-
tiful Line Engraving, after H. Warren, by W. R. Smith.
Prints, El 6 ?fey £3 3s. Ind. bef. let., £4 4s.
Artist's Pfs., £6
Sub.crihers thkitig the whole of the above three En-
gravings at of are entitled to purchase them on the
undermentioded terms, viz.:—
Print Impressions .. the three for £4 4s

Proofs, I id a paper ditto 8 8s
Proofs, India, before Let ditto H4s [Sold
Artist's Proofs, India (only 50) do. 16 16s " Festival" all

THE LAST APPEAL, from FRANK STONE, beauti-
fully engraved by Samuel Bellin, same size as " The
Heart's Misai* ins."
Prints, LI Is. Pfs., £2 2s. India bef. let. and Ar-
tist's Pfs. all sold.

DOCTOR JOHNSON RESCUING OLIV ER
GOLDSMITH FROM HIS LANDLADY, from E.
M. Ward's Original Picture, by Samuel Benin.
Prints, 10s. 6d. Pfs., .£1 Is. Itid. pfs., bef. let., all
sold. Art. pfs., £221.

REDGRAVE'S " POOR TEACHER," engraved by
William Giller.
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sold. Art, pfs., £2 2s.

Subscribers taking the whole of the above three En-
gravings at once, are entitled to purchase them on the
undermentioned terms, viz. :
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Proofs, India paper ditto 2 6s
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*** The Engravings of "Prince Albert"—" Camel"—
" Johnson"—and " Teacher," will also be shortly ad-
vanced to double their present prices.
Subscribers may now have there. as well as " The Last
Appeal" and " Villdge Frstival" on the low
terms above stated, if ordered immediately.

The above s'x Plates are the Engravings for 1845, in
THOMAS BOYS' GRAPHIC UNION, 11, Golden-
square, London, where Prospectuses may be had, and the
Engravings seen ; or any of his Avents throughout the
United Kingdom :—J. R. ISAAC, 62, Castle-street. and
H. LACEY, Bold-street, Liverpool; J.WALKDEN, Black.
burn; L. CLARKE, Preston ; J. LAW, Birkenhead ; J.
OGLE. Bolton; H. WHALLEY, Clitheroe; T. CATHER-
ALL, E. Dvuout, Chester; J. SIDDELEY, Knutefurd.

THE EARL OF WINCHELSEA AND THE TOI
TETH PARK PROTESTANT OPERATIVES.

Our readers are aware that the Earl of Wincbelsea re-
cently resigned his magisterial dignities and deputy lies-
tenancies, because his Lordship did not wish to retain any
office in connection with a government which could zo far
damage the interests of Protestantism as to dimiss thst
venerated Mr. Watson from the magisiracy of Ireland.
who felt it his duty to be present nt a meeting tor the re-
organisation of Orarmeism, though not an Orange:ma*
himself. On the occasion of his Lordship's retirim froth
the offices in question, the Toxteth-park Protestant Oper-
ative Association addressed to h;s Lordship the following
animating address, (the composition, we believe. of an
operative,) which was excluisitely printed on satin, is
gold letters :-
1 " The Toxteth-park ProtPstrint Operalire Assoeiatiok
to the Right Honourable the Earl of Winehelsea mei
Nottingham

" Toxteql-hall, Mil'.-street, Liverpool;

26th Sept:. 1845

"MY LORD,—We, the Toxt,th-park Protestant Oper-
ative Association, beg sincerely and most respectfully to
present to your Lordship present congratulatory Ad-
dress, for the urcompromising and zealous manifestatiuo
of your Lordship's determined and urishaktn attachment
to those great and hikh principl,s of Protestantism, which
alone have elevated this country to that glorious emi-
nence of prosperity of which no other nation in the world
can boast, and which, through God's blessing, we, io
conjunction with a glorious array of insulted Protestant
operai-i7es, of this our native land, will rise to one man to
maintain, and with unco,lqiierable might we wilt will and-
for ever defend the everlssticg Gospel, which, to quota
your Lordship's words, "is above all earthly value.'
With proud exultation do we point to the time in the
history of our country, when, midst the darkness and
gloom of superstition arid ignominious cruelty—when the
desponding heart hail no lovely spot to csze upon—glo-
rious and majestic above the horizon of Popish despotism,
at that portentious moment rose the STAR OF OrtANost
and LILY OF NASSAU ; then the spirit of religious liberty
(which your Lordship has so nobly stood forward to
maintain) burst asunder the iron chains of Popery which
had been placed around her, and wood bold'y forward in
all her unconquered might and unclouded Christian love-

liness.
" When Rome shall moulder with those who gave hey
birth, and the proud cities of the earth be si ent, a grate-
ful band of F otestants shall revere the name of " Win-
chelsea and Nottingham," for his bygone bravery in
defending the glorious Protestant and triumphant religion
of our native land.
" We are, as the Protestants of Ireland, my Lord, fully
determined not to be tr.unpled ttpo, : we arP the descen-
dants of the fathers of the Reformation, men who passed
the fiery ordeals of persectrion for our tu,kes ; and we, by
their examples, are preosred to buckle on our armour
should the hour of peril arrive. We d not think, my
Lord, because there appears a subdued stillness in the
Protestant mind, that that indicates defeat. No; it is,
as it were, the pause of the tempest summoning its fury
and gathering the elements of its fierce anger, that with
more desolating wreck it may burst forth with all its re-
sistless energy.
your Lordship's late noble conduct may be desig-
nated by some narrow-minded partisans a High Church
affair : so our Church IP and ever shall be high, exte,•ding
her sublime orthodox and evangelical truths to the highest

- -
heavens.
" Why should the churches of the ever blessed Refor-
mation contend with each other, when our common danger
is thundering at their glees and st, tacking their walls?
Ours is one common dmger, my Lord—a reciprocity of
feeling and a community of interests—and however the
sectarian may scorn, and the jea!nus and the ignorant
impede, Presbyterian shall unite with Episcopalian in the
bonds of Protestant onion ; and may your Lnrdship's
name be enshrined in the grateful affe•ctions of the true
and faithful Protestants of England, as an honourable
and unblemished testimony of your Lordship's public
services and private worth, after many long years of active
exertion in the Protestant cause, and undeviaiing recti-
tude of character.
" My Lord, we are only the sons of labour and toil ; we
have no pride of ancestry; cur names are not recorded in
the archives of the noble and royal; we boast not of pa-
timonial ball and wide domain ; the statues of our fathers
do not adorn our homes. But, my Lord, we can boast of
I what is still more glorious and imperishable, and that
which shall survive when human glory shall be obliterated
—the integrity of principle, and the stanch adherence to
truth and honour, to religion and patriotism, which alone
can ennoble and elevate the human character.
" My Lord, as the ivy is entwined in all its greenness
around the ancient oak, and serves to add freshness to
the memorials of antiquity, so around the minis of the
Protestants of England may the name of " Winehelsea
and Nottingham" ever cling; and should the trumpet
sound the charge ar d the banner be unfurled, then let
" No Surrender" be our err :
" We wait the foe,proud England's sun thou halt not, shalt not set;
The clouds that dim thy fiery brow shall vanish from thee yet;
In happier days our fathers' swords once more shall ye be known;
And flash, with dazz ing blaze, around the Altar and the 1 hrone.'
" I retna;n, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's nto.o obrdi,tit and humble servant,
" In behalf of the Toveth.ro,rk Protestant Operative
Association,
"CHARLES IiUINtTON, Secretary."

His Lordship returned the foll.wlng gratifying reply t•
the address :

" Edstwell park, Oet. 10th, 1845.
" Sin,-1 have the honour to aoknowledge the receipt
of your letter, accompanied by the R re,s which has been
voted to me by the members of the Toxteth-park Protes-
tant Operative Assoeia!ion.
" I request that you will have the kindness to take the
earliest opportunity of expressing to that much-re•pectect
body of my fellow-countrymen how deeply I appreciate
this mark of their approhwion and esteem. W,th truth
and sincerity you may assure them that the great Protes,-
tant principles for which we are coAending w,ll, to the
last hour of my life, receive my best and uncon3promising
support.

"I beg also to offer you my hest thanks for the kind
and gratifying sentiments expressed in you. letter towards
myself and family.-1 have the honnur to be, Sir, with
every respect, your most .bed;ent servarv.
" WINCH ELSEA AND Noll-INGHAM."

THE HARVEST.—ThouRn the weather has not beep
uniformly favourable during the present week, we have
bad several fine harvest dws, and a got ,e 1 deal of the corn
that was in stock in the fields in this and the neighbour-
ing counties has ben secured—we fear, not in v..ry good
condition, but we hope not essentially d6rnaged. It
wou'd probably n t he en ove,-estimate to say, that not
less than a tenth of the. e'rn grown north of the Humber
is yet exposed to the h zards of the weather, so that the
deficiency already ascertained to exist in the harvest may
be still further increlsed. Beans wou'd also suffer from
wet weather. Potato gathering for the winter supt,ly will
soon be general should the aeather, on the other hand,
be dry : at all events, i' cani.ot safely be delayed beyond!
the first of Noverr. ber. The promise oc this root in York-
shire and Lancashire is sti'l good : it is not improbable
that the disease will he found most extensive on ill-
d rai,nrtd soils.—Leeds R
s LereTri:REifsefEreNt7._,
?Sic;
.18.
THE NAVAL Charles Napier, in st
Ipeitatne r
ttoo
et hne,ibEa ria l
etl
the Admiralty
tlxdnd:itg
ri
lt-vo
to
o, proposesretire
old thei Rl to
t,,ilnoscvai
an
obtain young admir4s with the grant of £30,000 made
by Parliament. 243 captains have se,:t in their r«signa-
tion, of whom 43 are wi; him the fist 100. and 143 within
in the first 250, the rest !wine low down the list. one evert
1815. Sir Ctiarles vropose- to iirmt the retirement to the
first hundred. filing 'hem up as vacant ies take piece,
giving them £4OO a-r-ar, with the rank of rear admiral
When the retired list i- completed to 100, another
should be formed of retired captains with £350
only eligible when they come on the 14s. 61. Its.
should always be kept no to 100, arid as vaca,cie6
curred on the retired list of admirals, they should be
tilled from the retired list of uptoins. When the money
granted by Parliament is abst,thed, the retirement to the
captains' list should cease, and tie retired list of admirals
be filled up as vacatic'es cvteurred.

a year,
list, which

held
aPLimetick'
Bna
v e
the
edr
revenue
in
eenvuie-
THE IRON TRADE —Our readers
our remarks of last week that a further advance in the
price of iron was highly tirobahle. It has since taken
place to the extent of L'l per ton, in addition to the £ll
which had been demandeil on the Ist ult. The price is,
therefore. £lO for the same tiescrintions of irfin as were
sold at £8 three months since. We learn that orders are
ahundant, end that manuf:ic,urers of iron are busy, bt4
we have no reason for believing that the orders on hana
are at the improve I prices. Makers are rather in a con-
dition to demand an advance than to rely upon getting it.
They refuse orders at the qu.itations of last quiniter, be-
cause they have plenty to do at those prices, but the recent
advance will check the demand, unless spectilatt.rs are
diverted from railways to railway bars anti produce a mo-
mentary effect upon the iron market. People beet ac-
quainted with the trade are but little at east with the pre-
sent aspect of the mat k,t. It may continue over six
months, and prices may be even higher than .it present,
but the supposed excessive dt-s9and is likely to he exploded
before the makers have rt ally ft It the effects of the advanct
in their own returns. The over confidence that has fount/
its way into the money and stock markets is eXpfCed Us
react with a fearful pressure upon our after startle manu-
factures,whentiie atmidoenbgesgtiwnsh
tit;,heihrbo.nt mayh Lanni:oatellingforemast
Rained
h ow
di;
nes:
tri (Il
we may have to pay for past fillies. It is pretty certain,
however, that the iron trade will maintain present prices
forC aTpalttpa
ilAne
TIDAL HARBOUR
assohmineu monthsn,
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this h e re)
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nFi
.oirsiods Mercury.iah.iy:id,b1
ve lash,a .9
'lives he held a public inquiry.
also
in Dublin, prosecuthig his enquires.
oadnfe
channelnnctu
Washington evi-
dence
el tl hydpa expended
greatxrrpti
nenvgisidts
ehi
udrdeete,dilwpn:::i
tirin,:iiitreettowriayeotmr£yedree3:ll3h7acsotz,
that
been: ,
e Youghal, Cro •khaven the
spacious harbours of B. rehavell,
shannon, and Done.: al, to Bantry Bay, and Va-
lencia, in Kerry. In Connemara, R. undstone and Clif-
dGHe aenhva
bays
also
sai inspected
wsepeaercecht evodil
iwKt shah!
.threet,aindcre:
Westport.Sligo,,
Public meetings Bally.B
of inquiry were held it, the more im-
portant places on the twill' an.: east toss's, .s at London-
derry. Belfast, Newry.
N. wra•tle, sk. tries, Ark..
which the commissioner,. visited end inspected the era.
as well as Ardglass, Kil!ourlit
finial harbours of Kings,own, Powth, Dona:o4)(l,e. Dun-
more, and Port Rush : the rapacious natural harb..urs
Dinuntdiaielk:lritthl-)wreo:th of Ireland.
Loughs Swilly, Poyle. Fztranefori, Cat I' itgford arid Larne,
low, Wicklow, and almost all the fi herr pier- a rood the
coast. It is gratifying to know that the revenue and ten-.
nage of every port arc On the increase, aud.ti hat i he harbour
income of Ireland, arising from the tolls paid by slAupinc,
exclusive of light dues, excei-ds £loo,tino a ye.e. Captain
, Washington has arrived at Lancaster, to enmauence
inquiry into the Eng:isli harbours, with Mr. Godson.