The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

It is proposed to establish a railway between Carnarvon
and Bangor.
There is no truth in the report of the works at the
Menai Straits being suspended.
On Tuesday, as. two men were crossing the railway at
the Edinburgh station, a train came up and killed them.
It is understood at Stockton, that Geo. Hudson, Esq.,
has taken a lease of the Stockton and Darlington line.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended Oct. 21st :—Coaching traffic, £l2lB Is. 11d. ;
parcels. £53 2s. 11d. ; goods and cattle, £217 Bs. Bd.;
steam-boats, £154 14s. 6d. ;—total, £1643 Bs. Bd.

The first instance upon record of a change in the name
of a railway station, will take place on the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway on the Ist of November, when the Wenden
station, 43 miles from London, and the stopping-place
for passengers to, Saffron Walden, will be called by the
name of " Audley's End."

The result of the meeting of the Liverpool, Manches-
ter, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway shareholders, on
Tuesday, was the adoption of the recommendation to re-
turn 10s. per share on the Ist proximo, and subsequently
proceedings were adjourned until the 15th, the directors
in the meantime to oring up a report stating what further
sum can 'be distributed. It is anticipated that the second
and final-division will be about 4s. per share.

The directors of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle
Railway Company have declared a dividend of £3 a share,
and so in proportion to the quarter shares (far the half-
year ending the 30th June last), to be paid on the 15th
November next. The interest on the red scrip shares up

to the same period will be paid at the same time, the
-tax being deducted from the respective amounts
lend and interest.

Northern Railway took place at Boston on Thursday
Upwards of 500 sat down to a banquet in the theatre
Mr. James Hodges, mayor of Boston, in the chair. Th

meeting was addressed by the Earl of Yarborough, Sir
James Duke, M.P., Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., Mr.
Denison, M.P., and other gentlemen ; and the meeting
separated early, to attend a ball given in the assembly
rooms.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—At a meeting of the
shareholders, held in. Manchester on Tuesday,—Mr. W.
Rawson in the chair,—resolutions, declaring the inexpe-
diency of proceeding with ex pensive works of a doubtful
character at present, and calling for a full and explicit
statement of the liabilities and actual position of the
company, and, at the same time, requesting an immediate

a of all unnecessary works, and -that no further

,ears that the amount of traf-

lc, on 4,166 miles of rai
£220,334, thus accounted for:—£111,13; for the convey-
ince of passengers only, £55,246 for the carriage of goods,

ist wee

way, was

gether, not respectively apportioned; being an increase of
£30,081 over the corresponding week of last year, when
the mileage was 3,309. The average earnings per mile
were £54, whilst in 1847 they were £57,
RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.-It has been already an-
nounced that an amalgamation was in contemplation be-
tween the London and North Western railway, the Great
Western railway, and the London and South Western
railway, and that several meetings has taken place be-
tween the respective boards with that view. The Rail-
-leronicle of Saturday, however, says that the nego-
)n, which was for an alliance, if not an entire fusion,

has been broken off, but that powers are to be asked from
Parliament to make such an alliance hereafter, if the
pat

can agree

- MIDLAND RAILWAY.-At a meeting of shareholders
in this railway on Saturday, J. H. Brancker, Esq. in the
chair, the following resolution was passed :—" That the
meeting having been called prior to the promise of the
Midland directors to publish a full report of the state of
the company's affairs, now deem it desirable to adjourn
until after the publication of that report, and they request
the chairman of this meeting to desire the midland direc-

forwarded to them on the24-th instant, mail the requisi
tionist communicate farther with them."

COURT AND FASHION.

The Standard makes the following announcement :
" It is currently believed in the fashionable world, that
her Majesty the Queen bas the intention of commencing
what is called the season at a very early period this win-
ter. by making the beginning of the usual Court ceremo-
nies in the month of November, instead of delaying them
until a late period in February, and continuing them to so
late a period as really to turn summer into winter. This
would be a decidedly great improvement ; and as the state
of the Continent of Europe is now such that it will be im-
possible for the nobility and gentry of Great Britain to go
abroad, and spend their money in foreign countries, the
English people will no doubt duly appreciate this unex-
pected and beneficial innovation, and by adopting which
our amiable and youthful Sovereign will confer a benefit
on her grateful and loving subjects."

The -Globe states thai the Duke of Buckingham is
about to visit Stowe, and remain on the estate some time,
for the purpose of shooting.. Still further portions of his
Grace's estates will have to be brought to the hammer to
satisfy his creditors, whose claims amount to the enor-
mous sum of £1,800,000. The Duchess of Buckingham
has a yearly income of £16,000 in her own right, and the
Marquis of Chandos has about £15,000 per annum.

eerietal ilAtOcellanv.

A method of welding iron, steel, and sheet iron has

been discovered.
A few days since a fine whale was caught in the I.
Humber.
A grant of £BOO has been voted by the National Society
towards the fund for the building of the Worcester Dio-
cesan Training School.
M. Jullien has announced that he will open Drury-lane
Theatre Royal, London, on the 3d of November, for a se-
ries of concerts.
The collection of English pictures which Mr. Vernon
presented to the nation, has at length been removed to
the National Gallery,
The entire cost of the witnesses in the recent state
prosecutions for high treason, as paid by the crown,
amounts to £l5OO.
SELF IMMOLATION OF FIVE. PARTRIDGES.—On the
19th instant, a covey of five partridges flew against the
sails of a wind-mill, in the occupation of Mr. Worthing-
ton, at Barwick-in-Elmet, and were killed thereby.
The alkali and glass trades on the Tyne are in a very
depressed state. Several of the manufactories of crown,
flint, and bottles are closed, besides three of the principal
aikali manufactories.
The Committee of the Stock Exchinge have decided
that the " Weekly Railway Share List" shall in future
contain only official data, prices, &c. No Bearish state-
ments again.—Sun.
Lord Strathmore's horses were put up for sale last week,
and the following lots sold :—The Swallow, 200 guineas,
Gambler, 59 guineas, Telegraph, 50 guineas, Legerdemain,
45 guineas, St. Leger, 25 guineas.
On Monday the body of a labourer was found on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway fearfully mutilated.
in
toxicated,
and is thought he had strayed on the line whilst
and was cut down by a train.
A dancing-master in Carlisle, at the foot of an adver-
tisement, announcing the re-opening of his school, offers
for a wager to dance any man in Cumberland, in horn-
pipe or quadrille.
A RUTLAND GRAND JURY.—At the sessions, on Thurs-
day, the grand jury returned a bill into court as follows :
" know bill on the first count ; a true bill on the last
count."
The eminent discount firm of Overend, Gurney, and
Co., have given notice, it is understood, to their regular
banking and money connexions that they decline to take
in money returnable at a call at a higher rate of usance
than 2 per cent,
On Sunday, the Folkstone police hastened to apprehend
a Mr. O'Gorman, who had just arrived from France, but
were disconcerted in finding that the man whom they
supposed to be the Irish rebel was 63 years of age, instead
of 29, the age of the true Simon Pure.
Two large bodies of the Parisian National Guards,
about 1200 in number, arrived in London last week.
They were in full uniform, and on Thursday they visited
Westminster Abbey, and have since inspected the nu-
merous public buiidings of the metropolis.
PRECIOUS STONES.—The recent disturbances in the
French capital in particular, and other portions of the
continent of Europe, had the effect of causirg so large an
influx into this country of diamonds that they are now
" a drug to the market," and nearly unsaleable.
On Wednesday morning James M`Wheelan, an Irish-
man, who had been convicted of the murder and robbery
of a young country lad named Young, on a solitary road
in Ayrshire, was hanged at the usual place in the vicinity
of the county prison of Ayr.
THE CHARTIST PRISONERS.—On Monday, the Char-
tist prisoners, Ritchie, Lacey, Fay, Cuffey, and Dowling.
who were sentenced to transportation for life, were re-
moved to Millbank Penitentiary, in which place they will
remain until their final departure for Van Dieman's Land.
As the Roman Government had previously resolved
that the chief magistrate or Papacy of Rome is a merely
civil office, it is not impossible that a Jew may be the
next Pope,—a matter that we seriously recommend to
the attention of Mr. Rothschild.
On Saturday an inquest was held at the Sussex County
Hospital, on the body of Mary Sturt, who met with her
death by falling ovar the cliff just above Kemp Town.
Deceased was about 40 years of age, and bad been filling
a domestic situation in some respectable family in Lon-
don.
On Thursday, a little boy, seven years old, who was in
a menagerie at Huddersfield, offered a quantity of nuts
to a large and savage baboon, which immediately seized
him by the arm, bit off three of his fingers, tore out one
of his eyes, and frightfully lacerated his cheek. In spite
of the severity of his wounds, he is expected to recover ;
and the fierce baboon has since been killed.
TIMBER ROBBERIES IN THE NEW FOREST.—At the
Southampton sessions, John Light was charged with
stealing, at Buskets, five beech trees and other timber,
the property of her Majesty. The prisoner, who is a
timber-merchant with a good business, was found not
guilty. Several other accused parties pleaded guilty, but
were not sentenced at the time.
AMPUTATION OF Two LEGS PREVENTED BY HOLLO-
WAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Extract of a letter, dated
Roscommon, Feb. 19, 1847 :—Mr. , prtetor of
the hotel next door to me, ha o very bad legs, one
with eight ulcers on it, th ther with three. After
spending some time in D in with several eminent me-
dical men, he left wit e choice of one of the two alter-
natives, to have bo egs amputated or die. On his way
home he met w" a gentleman" in the coach, who recom-
mended hi ollowr.y's Pills and Ointment, which he
used, by their means, is now quite well. Signed,
Charles Tully, proprietor of the Roscommon Journal.—
See add.