The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Bishop-Auckland and Weardale Railway is ex-
pected to be opened on Wednesday next for general traf-
fic.

RAILWAY BETWEEN BERWICK AND EDINBURGH.—
The requisite notices of an intention to apply to parlia-
ment during the ensuing session for a bill for this under-
taking, have been posted on the church-doors of the dif-
ferent parishes through which the railway is intended to
pass. _ . .

A correspondent states that the Caledonian Railway
(from Lancaster through Kendal to Carlisle,) is now fixed
and certain. " A meeting of the subscribers (he adds)
will be held in Kendal on Monday next, to take proceed-
ings for the formation of a Company. The requisite funds
(£800,000) are guaranteed, £500,000 by the united Rail.
way Companies, and the rest by the public."
OPENING OF THE RAILWAY FROM LONDON TO
HERTFORD AND WARE.—Tuesday witnessed the com-
pletion and opening to the pubiic of the railway to Ware
and Hertford, the line having been officially reported by
Major-General Pasley as in a perfectly consolidated and
fit state for working. The first train started from the
Shoreditch station at eight o'clock, reaching Ware, a
distance of 24 miles and a half, and Hertford, a distance
of 26 miles, in the space of little more than an hour.
RAILWAY FROM LANCASTER TO CARLISE.—The
subscription list for this great undertaking is rapidly
filling up; but a few shares yet remain undisposed of,
which we trust will be taken immediately, as the requisite
notices for applying to parliament must be given in the
course of a few days, and no movement in that direction
can be made until the full amount required is obtained.
The sum already raised in Carlisle exceeds £20,000. The
subscription at Penrith, which has been very liberal, is
not to be taken as part of the £25,000 required from Car-
lisle. It was erroneously stated by a contemporary last
week, that Lancaster would contribute £25,000. That
town has already paid £200,000 towards bringing the
railway to its present terminus, and cannot be expected
to contribute more. That the requisite sum will be
raised we have no doubt ; and all we urge is despatch.—
Carlisle Journal.

BOLTON AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—A special meeting
of this company was held at Bolton on Saturday week, to
consider the propriety of uniting with the North Union
Company. A resolution was passed to amalgamate the
companies, on the understanding that the dividend to be
paid to the proprietors of the North Union Company
upon their paid-up capital of £477,539, shall be twice as
much per centum per annum as the dividend to the pro-
prietors of the Bolton and Preston Company upon their
paid-up capital of £262,002, until such respective divi-
dends shall amount to £6 per cent. per annum on the
paid-up capital of the North Union Company, and £3
per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the Bolton
and Preston Company ; and that, when the net profits of
the consolidated company shall exceed the amount of £6
per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the North
Union Company, and £3 per cent. per annum on the
paid-up capital of the Bolton and Preston Company,—
then such surplus of net profits shall be divided pro rata,
at an equal rate per cent. ver annum, upon the said two
several sums of paid-up capital of £477,539 and £262,002.
The case Ranger a. the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, the judgment in which we reported last week,
involved upon the question of amount almost as important
results as were embraced in the great case of Small and
Attwood. We are able to lay before our readers some of
its statistics. The first bill was 812 folios ; the amended
bill 1157. The first supplemental suit bill 341 folios ;
the second supplemental bill 525 folios. The first an-
swer 1,299 folios; the second 132 folios; the third 212
folios. The documents admitted upwards of 800 folios.
The plaintiff's evidence 1685 folios. The defendant's 405
folios. Total of folios upwards of 6736, for which an
office copy charge was paid of 10d. per folio, besides volu-
minous affidavits ! Shorthand notes on collateral argu-
ments 2,200 folios. Observations, 39 briefs. The total
brief, embracing these copies, for counsel, would be
nearly 960 brief sheets. Sir W. Follett's fee was 300
guineas, and 100 additional, with sundry other fees,
making £5OO. Mr. Stuart had 220 guineas, and 100 ad-
dittonal ; Mr. Richards 220 guineas ; Mr. Stevens 150
guineas, and 50 additional. In the early stage of the
(muse the counsel had fees as follows—first counsel 150
guineas ; second ditto, 125 guineas ; third ditto, £BO ;
besides numerous other smaller fees; making a total in
counsel's fees alone of nearly £2,000. The Vice-
Chancellor has already ordered the plaintiff to pay a great
part of the costs of these matters ! The case was five
years in progress, and the same solicitors were for the
compiny that were engaged in Small and Attwood—
namely, Messrs. Swain, Stevens and Co., Frederick-
place, London. The shorthand writers' bills amounted
to nearly £4OO ! Thus it will be seen that going to " law"
is a rather expensive amusement.
RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS AT TODMORDEN RAILWAY
SrxrioN.—On Wednesday last an affray of a very serious
character took place at the Railway Station, between the
company's servants and a dozen labourers in the employ
of Mr. Wm. Greenwood, of Stones. The dispute origi-
nated some time since in consequence of the company's
appropriating certain portions of land to their own use,
which Mr. Greenwood, the owner of the property, main-
tains they never bargained for. A few weeks since he
employed a number of men to fill up a goit or sluice which
he said the railway company had made in his land without
any authority. The work of destruction was no sooner
commenced than the railway company set on a number of
men to counteract their proceedings; and for upwards of
a day whatever was done by one party was immediately
undone by the other. Having played at this game till
they were weary, both parties agreed to have a meeting in
a fortnight from that time to make some satisfactory
agreement. On Wednesday morning, the time appointed
having gone by, Mr. Greenwood again engaged a number
of men to demolish the property. They first broke through
the arch, and filled up the goit or sluice above mentioned,
and were proceeding to pull down a strong burr wall, when
one of the company's servants pushed a large stone from
the top of the wall which severely injured a person named
James Harrod. one of Mr. Greenwood's men, and it was
almost miraculous that no lives were lost by so dangerous
an expedient. This aggression, however, was but the
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UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, Nov. 2

In a convocation holden this day permission was given
to Mr. Charles Henry Barrett, M.A., and Fellow of
Magdalen College, to commute the degree of Master :of
Arts for that of Bachelor of Civil Law.

In the same convocation George Lidwill Shannon,
M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, was admitted ad atm-
dem.

In a congregation holden at the same time the follow-
ing degrees were conferred :

Bachelor in Divinity.—The Rev. John Rouse Bloxam,
Fellow of Magdalen College.
Masters of Arts.—The Rev. John Thomas Spring,
Edmund-hall ; the Rev. Thomas Jackson, Queen's ; the
Rev. Lloyd Sanders, Christ Church; the Rev. William
Edward Allfree, Wadham ; The Rev. Edward James G.
Hasluck, Pembroke; Arthur Bigge, University; John
Barber, Worcester.

Bachelors of Arts.—The Rev. Henry Fyffe, New Inn-
hall; Samuel Harward Archer, Exeter College ; John
O'Brien, Queen's (incorporated from Trinity College,
Dublin).

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3.
At a Congregation on Wednesday last the following
Degrees were conferred :

DOCTOR IN DIVINITY.—Jacob Henry Brooke Moun-
tain, Trinity.

MASTERS OF ARTS.—Charles Griffith Smith, Clare
Hall ; Fred. Edward Long, King's ; Samuel Longhurst.
Queen's ; Joseph Spence, Christs ; Alfred Hudson Shad-
well, St. John's; Charles John Bayley, Trinity.
BACHELOR IN MEDICINE.—Henry William Fuller,
Caius.

BACHELOR OF ARTS.—J. Griven, Trinity Hall

PROMOTIONS

Allen, Rev. Henry, Vicar of St. Mary-le-Wigford,
Lincoln, to the Vicarage of Patcham, Sussex ; patron, the
Lord Chancellor.
Angley, Rev. J. G., 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin,
to the Curacy of St. George, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Burgess, Rev. Robert, 8.A., of Christ's College,
Cambridge, to the Curacy of Sandiacre, Derbyshire.
Harrison, Rev. Henry, M.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and Incumbent of Christ Church, Kilndown,
to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Viscount Beresford.
Kidd, Rev. Richard Bentley Porson, M.A., formerly
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of
Potter Heigham, Norfolk ; patron, the Bishop of Nor-
wich.

Tate, Rev. Thomas, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, Curate of Edmonton, Middlesex, to that Vicarage,
vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Tate ; patrons, the
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's.
Williams, Rev. Lewis, Curate of Monton, Monmouth-
shire, to the Rectory of Matherne, near Chepstow, vacant
by the death of the Rev. J. Probyn ; patron, the Bishop
of Llandaff.
Williams, Rev. Thomas. Rector of Llanvapley, Mon-
mouthshire, to the Arcdeaconry of Llandaff.
Yorke, Rev. Philip Wynne, to the Rectory of Hawkes-
well, Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. Walling-
ton ; patron, R. Bristow, Esq.

The Bishop of Chester has arrived at his palace at
Chester, and intends to reside there until the close of
February.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, President of
the National Society, has appointed the Rev. W. J. Ken-
nedy, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, and curate
of Kensington, to be secretary of the National Society.

We are happy to announce the safe arrival in this
island, on the Sth inst., of the Right Rev. the Bishop of
Gibraltar, and suite, by Her Majesty's steamer Virago,
from Gibraltar.—Malta Times.

DIVISIONS.—A letter in the Record, signed, " A Mas-
ter of Arts," mentions that Mr. Palmer, Dr. Hook, Mr.
Gresley, Mr. Perceval, Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Paget,
have relinquished their connection with Dr. Pusey and
M. Newman, although it is still doubtful how far they
have abandoned the peculiar views of these Anglo-
liomanists.

In the Arches Court, on Thursday, a motion was made
that the Rev. H. E. Head, rector of Feniton, Devon,
(who had been sentenced to suspension for three years,
aad condemned in the costs, for publishing matter in de-
rogation of the Book of Common Prayer,) might be re-
lieved from the costs attending the protest in the first
instance, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to
which tribunal the case on protest was appealed, not
having condemned Mr. Head in the costs of that appeal—
Sir H. Jenner Fust said he had condemned the party in
the costs generally, which necessarily included the costs
of the whole proceedings, and he rejected the motion.
THE NEW BISHOP.—It is confidently stated that Arch-
deacon Lonsdale has received an intimation of his selection
for the vacant see of Lichfield. The appointment may be
considered an average one. The Archdeacon is one of the
old High Church school; but declares his decided hostility
to Tractarianism. He vacates, on his elevation, several
important offices. He is Preacher at Lincoln's-inn. His
successor there will be nominated by the Benchers, and
we should not be surprised if a Tractarian were to be
brought forward as a candidate. His Archdeaconry is in
the gift, we apprehend, of the Bishop of London. The
Headship of King's College is in the hands of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; and the valuable Prebendal Stall
in St. Paul's Cathedral will fall into the treasury of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. So that the government
will del ive no patronage whatever from the Archdeacon's
elevation.

Rev. MR. SIBTHORP.—The Rev. G. S. Faber, of Dur-
ham, has just published a very interesting letter on the
subject of Mr. Sibthorp'e recent conversion to Roman-
ism and subsequent departure from her communion, in
which he says—" Relying on the fidelity of representa-
tions such as that of Dr. Wiseman, and thence believing
the charge of idolatry to be without foundation, Mr.
Sibthorp is induced to quit the pure communion of the
protestant church of England for the supposed still purer
communion of the popish church of Rome. Thus, by
the actual practice of the party which he joins, he has a
full opportunity of testing the correctness of the explana-
tion afforded by that ingenious gentleman, Dr. Wiseman.
And what is the result? Why it is nothing less than a
conscientious departure from the very society into which
he had entered through a full belief that Rome was un•
justly charged by England with idolatry; a departure,
moreover, be it specially observed, on the avowed ground,
as I have been led to understand, that he was required to
pay a species of adoration to the Virgin Mary, which,
after all the ambages of Dr. Wiseman, plain unsophis-
ticated common sense told him was palpable idolatry or
creature-worship. In other words, as soon as the veri-
table practice of the Latin church was exhibited to him in
its undisguised deformity, all Dr. Wiseman's painful ex-
planations, and all other essays to boot of the same
stamp and tendency, vanished into thin air. Mr. Sib-
thorp, after quitting England for Rome in the full honest
belief that Rome is not idolatrous, finds it necessary to
return from Rome to England on the equally honest
practical conviction that Rome is idolatrous."

THE SCOTCH SCOTCH CHURCH.

The Free Church Assembly has resolved that no coun-
sel shall be permitted to appear at their bar on behalf of
parties on them.

FREE CHURCH BIGOTRY.-Mr. Stott stated on Tues-
day in the Edinburgh Town Council, that on Thursday
week he heard the Rev. Dr. Macdonald, of Ferintosh,
who was preaching in Edinburgh, use the following lan-
guage in his sermon. " The Established Church of
Scotland is a Christ-denying, God-dishonouring, and soul-
destroying Church." The awful state of mind which
could give birth to this sentiment, must make its unhappy
possessor an object of sincere pity to all right-thinking
persons.