The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

A passenger leaped from one of the carriages of the Glas-
gow and Ayr Railway on the 11th current, while the car-
riages were in motion. He was laid hold of, and fined 20s.
for thus running the risk of breaking his own neck.—Edin-

burgh Register, tea at eighteenuence
The Paris and Rouen line isnot yet open for the conveying •
of goods. The receipts for passengers during the first week The whole of the ships belonging to the Commercial Ship-
were £430 per day. The steam-boats and several diligences ping Company of Stockton, were offered for sale by auction,
still continue to run, though with a diminished number of at the Vane Arms Hotel, in that town. They were all
passengers. Notwithstanding this, the receipts for passer- bought in, there being scarcely a bid to any amount.
gers by the railway exceed the estimate of existing traffic, CITY OF DURHAM ELECTION.—The 'Whig-Radicals of
and when the competition is exterminated, will doubtless the City of Durham have determined, it seems, on petition.
arrive at that doubled amount which has become almost an. bring against the return of Lord Dungannon on the ground of
axiom in making estimates of railway traffic. ibery.
The first " compensation" case of the Yarmouth and Nor- Sir Frederick Tyrrell, the eminent surgeon, died suddenly,
wich Railway Company was decided on Thursday week. on Tuesday, at the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane, where
The claimant, a person of the name of Tuck, asked from he had gone for the purpose of bidding for a lease of freehold
£7OOO to £BOOO. and the jury gave £1517! The company property. Sir Frederick was in his 46th year.
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had recently made an offer of £1482, (with £4O of the In the church at Lydney a pair of robins have built their
amount allowed !) and a previous offer in October of from neat between the pipes of the organ. There are now five
£2400 to £2600. Mr. Tuck, therefore, will take very little young ones in it, and the birds carry food to their young
by his appeal to a jury, more especially as he had engaged while the service is proceeding.
Mr. Kelly, the eminent counsel, as well as Mr. Hoggart and
Mr. Driver, auctioneers and land-valuers, from London,
besides a host of other witnesses, the portion of whose
charges that may be struck out by the taxing officer he will,
of course, have to pay. Mr. Driver admitted, in his cross-
examination, that he had once, in a railway case, estimated
the value of certain land at from £35,000 to £40,000, for
which a jury awarded only £2OOO ! But the most remark-
able evidence offered on the part of the claimant was that of If the expense of converting the Penelope frigate into a
steam-ship of 700-horse power be successful, we may have
forty sail of the finest steam frigates from extant hulks, for
charges less than the building of them would' cost.
A recent return gives us the exact details of the success of
the voluntary system. Out of 1,222,137 children receiving
daily instruction throughout the kingdom, 48,170 only are
found in the schools of dissenters.
Mr. Richard Hanbury Gurney, the London banker, who, in The total number of grammar schools in England and
his cross-examination by the Solicitor-Generul, stated that Wales is about 450 which no fewer than 150 were founded
he had left by his will money to oppose the extension of rail- in the 16th century, out of the spoils of religious houses de-
ways ! According to the Norwich mercury, in which the stroyed during the reformation.
case is reported very fully, this information elicited, as well
it might, ' great laughter." W hat may be the amount of
the bequest tor this laudable object did not transpire, nor the
Among the various establishments kept up by the king of
the French for the improvement of the useful arts and sci-
ences is a collection of silk-worms, at Neuilly, where, at this
mode in which it is proposed to apply it.
time, his majesty has a great quantity of their eggs in a state
of incubation.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EPSOM RACES.