The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The line from Hull to Louth was opened for public
traffic on Wednesday.
The Directors of Rastrick's Direct London and Man-
chester Railway are about to make a further return of 10$.
per share. _ _

- Captain Claxton has been engaged by Mr. Stephenson
to assist him in transporting the Conway tube for the
Chester and Holyhead railway.
The line of the Scottish Central Railway from Stirling
to Greenhall, where it joins the Edinburgh and Glasgow,
was formally opened by the directors on the 22nd ult.
At the Eastern Counties Railway Meeting. Mr. ilud
son announced an increase of traffic on the half-yeat
amounting to £70,000; but the dividend is only Bs.,
owing to the consolidation and extension of the stock
receiving dividend.

The list of calls for March exhibits a total of £2,203,651
being a decrease of £1,304,406 as compared with the cor-
responding month of 1847. Of this amount £1,262,000
are called upon French and Belgian lines, the shares of
which are but partially held in this country.

The meeting of the proprietors of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway was held on Saturday, when it
was again adjourned for a week, Mr. Mozley stating that
matters were in progress, and that he hoped an amicable
settlement would be come to in a few days.
At the half-yearly meeting orthe Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company, on Thursday, a dividend of £1 13s 94
per £lOO share, free of income tax was declared. A re;
solution was passed approving of the recommendation et
the directors to work the line independently at the expirti'
tion of the present lease.
RAILWAYS V. SHIPPING.—At the annual meeting of
the Berwick General Shipping Company on Tuesday last.
a dividend of 10 per cent was declared. During the pro-
ceedings it was remarked that railwly communication ir
inflicting great injury on the shipping of the port, in the
conveyance of good.' between Berwick and Leith, and
Berwick and Newcastle.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—This important railway Ws°
opened throughout for traffic on the 15th current, between
Carlisle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and all places in connection
with the London and North Western and Lancashire and
Carlisle railways. Mail trains now run twice each war
daily between London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, without
change of carriages.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,518 miles of
railway, was £148,323, thus accounted f0r:—£68,325 for
the conveyance of passengers only, £42,829 for the car'
riage of goods, and a remainder of £37,169 for passengfri
and goods together, not respectively apportioned; been
an increase of £23,911 over the corresponding week a
last year, when the mileage was 2,711. The average
earn!ngs per mile last week were £42, whilst in 1847 the(
were £45. _

LAND SLIP ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.7°
Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, it was accidentally (it
covered that an embankment between the Euxton an
Coppul stations, on the North Union line, about efg
miles from Preston, bad given way. Before eleven o'cinl
one end of the wooden bridge had sunk considerably, ant
the embankment adjoining suddenly fell in to the depth 01
about twenty feet, carrying with it both lines of rail, and:
leaving a frightful chasm, into which the express trail'
from London, then coming up, would, but for the clie
covery, have inevitably been driven.
ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—OD ThUTSua.T,
fearful railway accident was well-nigh happening, by
carelessness of not attending to the signal at the statil
at Weedon. There is an iron bridge to let governrnol,
boats through, for the service of the barracks and militaral
prison. This bridge was open and the proper sig%
given, but owing to the inattention of the guard, 1:,,,
notice was taken of the signal, and the engine fell
the middle of the boat, which instantly sank. No,_livja:i
happily, lost. Had it been the express train, !Ali'? "
nearly clue- the cnnaenuenees might have been feaital.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—?'behaIf-yearly me
%
ing of this company was held at Manchester, on Weaoe"
day last. Mr. Houldsworth, the chairman of the coal'
parry, presided, and gave a satisfactory account of the
state and prospects of the company. Notwithstandil
the commercial depression of the country for the •
months, the gross income of the company, on the sir,
extent of mileage, exceeds that of the correspondqt
months of 1846 ; the sums being, for 1846, £260,667,
1847, £273,220 A dividend of 31 per cent. on the lo'th
year was declared, subject to the income tax. The leng,.,
of railway which the company has in course of constru4
tion is 127 miles, •of which 51 miles will be openefl 01
July, and other 51 miles by December next. A called
£5 will be due on the £5O Manchester and Leeds sin.
in April next ; and at the same time a call of £5 will
made upon the Liverpool and Bury £5O shares.

THE FRENCH PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT'
COUNT MOLE.
Mole is much more of a statesman—much more ofd
politician—much more of a man of the world, than eitlo"
Guizot or Thiers. He is now in his 69th year, and der;
scended of an illustrious legal family. Early in life. mote
than forty-five years ago, he entered the service of Fran
under the First Consul, as Auditor of the Council of Stoll
and subsequently filled high administrative funetilnr
under the Emperor. Mole has been a French Peer
many years, and therefore his discourses do net fiQ—ubre
in the Chamber of Deputies. But although his na rri.e
not in the mouths of the public, like the names of Guizol
Thiers, and Berryer, every educated Frenchman hp° 0
that he is one of the foremost and most considerable 18,ee,
of France. He is rather a man of the world than a lib
rather, or a man of science ; yet he is infinitely more,°„fril,
scholar and a man of science than M. Thiers and unr6,
stands all questions of diplomacy and administration 'Bos
nitely better than either Thiers or Guizot. Though 1,
so brilliant, showy, orlively a person, in public or sonie,
as the deputy for Aix,—though less quick and apprel'fje,
sive and ready, he is more solid, steady, and relic
Though he could not write a state paper so quickly Iteg
so glowingly as M. Guizot, yet when written by him, 8 be
being fully perpended and slowly elaborated, it wouluoto
less open to criticism or objection—it would be 0,0
neatly and more succinctly drawn up, and present fe",fh
assailable points to a rival or an enemy. Mole, theuti,
not so ready, is sounder and safer, and his style, in spec is
ing and writing, though not so glowing, is more c 13500
and pure than the style either of Thiers or Guizot.
language is rather choice and correct than flowing, ratd,
distinguished by propriety and eloquence than by c4O-,
ousness or strength. He is calm, clear, neat, often
nious; always equal to his subject ; sometimes, he
far above it. Now that Talley rand, Hauterive, and
ederer are dead, he is possessed of more anecdotal hist°
than any living herniae d'etat in Paris, and is, perll4o
the best and most classic raconteur in France.
countenance is open and gentlemanlike, and there 0,
breadth and elevation in the forehead. He is rather Oleo
thin, and delicately shaped, and possesses in an em,i,ll
degree what our neighbours call the "air distingue.

M. ARAGO, MINISTER OF MARINE. L... 40
Is one of the first savans in France, and his rePir cr,
as an orator is brilliant. He was born in 1786, and 's r
petual secretary of the Academy of Sciences, meiP,Aberool
the office of longitudes, and one of the most WO"' he
is moderate in expressing his opinions, though
scientific men of tlic,age. The Repub/icari priiito
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extreme views. The Morning Chronicle, how ever:iscioit
that even in the scientific world the great mathema— es,
is known by the violence of his temper and the harsbritib.
of his character ; his politics are of the most ardent repo!,
licanism. The Times says he cannot string three Obi
together in public, although he has long been
called
his flatterers " the Consul Elect of the Republic." 0'
M. DE LAMARTINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN Ar",g-jel
Is known as the historian of the Girondins. 130
puty for Macon, and more than thirty years ago servestel
re appnticeship as a diplomatist, and was named Milli or
Plenipotentiary by Charles X. in 1828 and 1830. Lamb
tine, now in his fifty-eighth year, is a gentleman Of tri;
and fortune. He is everywhere a poet, ever, at tb°oo
bune. Like most poets, however, he is rather fick/8,00
inconstant, vain, and imprudent. For a length of 'bet/
he occupied a very undecided position in the Cho!" ~o,
but he eventually ranged himself on the side of the uSrdeo
sition. From that period M. de Lamartine took a de,
part in favour of progressive reform, and ridiculed 00
Guizot Cabinet as the Ministry of "limitations.
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voted against the Pritchard indemnity, and was prizlwir
the Opposition as an invaluable acquisition. The ft!i;:!
ing is an expression of his policy in his own WO
" The organic and progressive constitution of the
democracy, the expansive principle of mutual charity
social fraternity, organized and applied to the satisfy
of the general interest "

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number of persons in trades or professions whose Ind AS
amounted to £l5O, and did not exceed £2OO, en kir,
paid the income tax for the year ending the sth el
1845, was 38,392. The gross income on which 01
these persons was charged amounted to X6,102,19;50,
the sum received for income tax, to £177.980 I3'jtp,
The total number of persons engaged in trades en
fessions who paid the income-tax in the above...eel
was 111,818. In 1846 there were only sixteen Aon,
who paid the income tax on incomes exceeding .1:4,95,
and the amount these sixteen persons paid was Tor
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