The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

SHARES.

RAILWAYS.
Bolton and Bury
Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto half ..
Ditto, new,issned at 433 dis.
Birmingham and,Gloucester
Ditto quarter
Birmingham and Derby
Ditto One-eighth Shares
Blackburn and Preston
Chester and Wrexham
Caledonian

Churnet Valley ..
Dublin and Cashel
Dover, new......

01d...
Eastern Counties
Created at £l6 13s. 4d. .
Perpetual
. .

Eastern Counties, Registered
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Qr. _

Ditto Leith, &c. pi\ fere: ce
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock..
New
Ditto 6 per cent. interest ..
Glasgow, Paisley and Ayrshire • .
Greenock, preference.
Urand J unction
Ditto half shares
Quarter
One-third

Great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifth Shares
Great North of England
Holyhead
Hull and Selby f (paid up)
Leicester and Swanniugton
Lancaster and Preston

Ditto thi ee. quarter shares....

Ditto and Carlisle

Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto quarter shares ..
Ditto

London and Birmingham
Ditto quarter
Ditto i shares
London & Brighton

Ditto Loan Notes
London and South Western ...,
Ditto, loth shares
Lynn and Ely
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury ,
Manchester and Birmingham_
Ditto and Ditto Extension , ,
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares

Ditto quarter shat es
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
I.sth Shares
North Midland
Ditto new
Ditto 433 6s 8d
North Union

North British
Newcastle and Berwick ......
Ditto quarter shares
Newcastle and Darlington Junc
Preston and Wyre

Paris and Rouen

Paris iindOrlcans

Lyons and Avignon
Runcorn Gap

Bou'ogne and Amiens
Rouen and Havre

iheffletd and Manchester
Quarter
South Eastern and Dover
New shares
South Western
Ditto * shares
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction,
Scarborough
Tceurs and Bourdeaux

Trent Valley

Ulster
York and North Midland,
Half Shares
Bank of Liverpool

Borough Bank
Commercial of Liverpool
East of England
M'chester & L'pool Dsct
Northern and Central
North and South Wales
Royal of Liverpool
South Lancashire
Liverpool Union
Liverpool flanking Co
Wilts and Dorset
Exchange Buildings
L'pool and Harrington Water)
Works
Bootle Ditto.. _ _ _

L'pool New Gas Rz Coke Co.
L'pool Gas Light Company ....

Ditto new shares.

Liverpool Marine Assurance
Company
Marine Assurance
Liverpool Fire and Life
M'cliester Assurance Company
Apothecaries' Company
Harrington Docks
AndertonCarrying Company.
Rock Ferry
Steam Tue Cormranv

S rATISTICS OF MORTALITY,
who die 11 Bradford is 18.69 ye
rage age is from 17 to 18 years
while in Leeds it is 21 years.

50
55
20
50
100

25
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6 2-5

25
121
71
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23
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13s 4d

40
Stock,
32

25
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331
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ANCIENT CANAL FROM THE NILE TO THE RED SEA.
—The account of the canal given by the geographer;
Makrizy, requires to be transcribed in his own wordi,
from the accurate summary which it contains of the later
history of this great monument of civilisation. " When
the Most High, says the writer, " gave Islamism to
mankind, and Amrou-Ben-el-A'ss conquered Egypt by
the order of Omar-ben-al-Khatab, chief of the Faithful,
he cleared out the canal in the year of the mortality. He
carried it to the sea of Qolzoum, from which ships sailed
to Hedjaz, to Yemen, and to India. This canal remained
open until the time when Mohammed-ben-Abdoullah-
ben-El-Hossein-ben-Aly-ben-Aby-Thalcb revolted in the
city of the Prophet (Medina) against Abou-dja'far-Ab-
doullah-ben Mohammed-Al-Manssour, then caliph of
Irak. This prince immediately wrote to his lieutenant in
Egypt, ordering him to fill up the caual of Qolzoum, that
it might not serve to transport provisions to Medina. The
order was executed, and all communication was cut off
with the sea at Qolzoum. Since that time matters have
remained in the state we now see them. * * At pre-
sent, the question of restoring the canal is solely con-
nected with the Indian trade. We own we have very
great doubts whether its re-establishment, if destined only
to connect our lines of steam-packets from India to Suez,
and from Southampton to .Alexandria, would be found a
profitable speculation. The tedious navigation of the
Red Sea, and, we may almost add, of the Mediterranean,
would render the route by the Cape preferable for sailing
vessels ; and we have not yet arrived at such perfection
in the construction of steamers, as to contemplate their
becoming the only vessels employed in the Indian trade.
It appears to us, that before any reasonable hope of re-
storing the canal can be en•ertained, or. at least before it
can be kept open with profit, that Egypt must be again in
a condition to employ the irrigable land on the banks of
the canal for agricultural purposes. Unless the country
be flourishing, the population increasing, and the canal
constantly employed, it would be half filled with the sand
of the desert every year.—Blackweod's Magazine.
A MANAGER OUTWITTED BY AN ACTRFSS.—In the
winter of 1818, Miss Kelly accepted a very liberal offer
from Mr. Frederick Edward Jones, the proprietor of the
Theatre Royal, Crow-street, Dublin, to remain in that
city during a principal part of the season. Her talent
was highly appreciated by those who witnessed it; but,
to the discredit of Dublin, the number was too limited to
render her engagement profitable either to herself or the
management. She bad brought with her letters of intro-
duction from several persons of rank in England to their
compeers in Ireland ; and to the Lord-Lieutenant's con-
sideration she was particularly recommended by a very
popular nobleman, whose patronage of the drama had
been much lauded. As we observed, she had been un-
attractive as to the public in general, and the noble pa-
tronage had been reserved for her benefit night. The
manager had made his appeal to the Viceroy for his usual.
periodical " command,' when a full house would be sure
to compensate for his previous losses. the command
was immediately given, but with this unexpected stipule-
ti )n—that it was to be on Miss Kelly's benefit night;
which night, according to the terms of her agreement,
was to be " free of all
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cunning
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he paroocloteowrrreensicnsl.a,
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nearly
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Ihlasuvosi
ra.ogsuke-dn' obtainedfao out-manoeuvred
eivtrc.eosdnh
five hundred pounds, and the treasury of the theatre was
left to recover from its insolvency by any other method it
could adopt. The actors were unpaid. A vice-regal
command was then always calculated to bring five hun-
dred pounds to the trea=ury, and had never been known
to occur on a performer's benefit in Dublin. Bitter were
the manager's complaints at being " out-maroeuvred by
a woman" ; yet, while smarting under the alleged wrong,
he could not help paying the lady a high compliment. He
was heard to observe, in a very fretful tone, " Talk of
tactics, sir !—talk of reancenvres at Waterloo I Pole!
l'd back General Fanny Kelly against Wellington and all
his staff !" The receipts of the " command" night not
reaching the theatrical treasury, placed the actors in a
very critical situation. Of their poverty, and their wit
and merriment in the midst of it, many whimsical stories
were then told. —Our Actresses.