The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.

On Saturday, the Committee of the Lords met on the
Bolton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North
Union, Liverpool and Manchester, and Grand Junction
Amalgamation 8.11. Mr. Hope called Mr. James Booth,
treasurer of the Manchester and Liverpool line, who bore
strong testimony to the desirableness of the proposed
amalgamation. Mr. Booth was subjected to a long cross-
examination, but his evidence, in thief, was not shaken.
The Cornmitt3c, after some further evidence, declared
the preamble of the bill proved, and adjourned to Mon-
day (yesterday).

YESTERDAY'S MANCHESTER SHARE

MARKET.

(From J. B. Locke, &qr.'s List.)
Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction, 8I;
Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool, 27; Caledonian, 11 ; Ches-
ter and Birkenhead, 67 ; Ely and Bedford, 31 31; Hud-
dersfield and Manchester, 12 121; Ditto and Sheffield
Junction, 101 ; Leeds and Thirsk, last sale, 91;
Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester, 25 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, closing price, in; Liverpool, Orms-
kirk and Preston, 51 si; North Union, 206 ; West
Yorkshire, 143.

PASTORAL AID SOCIETY,—On Sunday morning last,
the sum of £25 was collected at Aigburth church, on be-
half of this excellent society, after a very eloquent sermon
by the Bev. Thomas Nolan.
We believe there is no foundation in the statement of
the Railway Times that " i'tr. Grant is likely to be suc-
cesqor of Mr. Moss, as chairman of the Grand Junction
Railway."

CAUTION.—A clerk in the office of a respectable
attorney, in this town, had his pocket picked of a small
leathern bag, containing two sovereigns, at the post office
on Saturday last. No police officer was on the spot at
the time.

SUPPOSED SWELL MOB.—SiX young men, all strangers
in the town but one, were yesterday brought before Mr.
Rushton, on suspicion of going together in a gang, over
various parts of the t rwn, in pursuit of their game, as
pick-pockets. They were remanded for further inquiry.
PLAYINE PITCH AND TOSS:ON SUNDAY.-Six boys,
brought before Mr. Rushton, yesterday, for Ibis offence,
and also for using disgraceful language to passers by,
were fined ls and costs, or to be imprisoned for three
days, the magistrate remarking that complaints of the
practise were general.
FELONY.—At the police court yesterday, a woman
named Margaret Hewitt was charged with stealing two
gowns from an eating house in Vauxhall-road, the pro-
perty of Caroline Room. They had been taken from a
basket of clothes in a back room, and carried into the
cellar, where she was detected with them. She was sent.
for trial, having before been committed for felony.
CAUTION.—A sailor belonging to the ship lnde-
penden,e was yesterday charged with smuggling from her
a few pounds of tobacco and a small packet of tea. He
was fined 405., or to be imprisoned fourteen days. Another
seaman, of the same ship, who was found with three or
four pounds of tobacco, was fined 305., or one month.
One of the customs' officers stated that 40 cwt. of the
same article was found in the ship.

YACHTING.—On Saturday evening, at eight o'clock,
the splendid schooner-yacht Wyvern arrived opposite this
town, and came to an anchor in the Sloyne, having on
board her noble owner, His Grace the Duke of Marlbo-
rough. She is a noble craft, and is commanded by Capt.
Paul, R.N. This independent nobleman is no bad repre-
sentative of a true British sailor, a real yachtman, who, in
the words of the song, says—
"tip up with my sail, let the sheets kiss the wind,
" And I warrant we'll soon leave the seagull* behind."
and is always ready to sail for any port the wind will carry
him. His grace was in Liverpool on Sunday, and we
hear will remain a few days in the neighbourhood.
* You won't leave the R. M.Y.C. Seagull behind.—E. L. S.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These truly beautiful grounds
continue to attract crowds of visitors, and the many
strangers who visit our town during the summer should
not loose the opportunity of visiting the splendid.pyro-
technic exhibitions of Mount Heels, for we feel no hesita-
tation in saying that it is unequalled by anything that has
preceded it. Many of the colours in the rockets and
shells are entirely new, and are the result of numerous
scientific experiments made by Mr. John Atkins—on
whom they reflect no ordinary credit. The yellow meteor
shell is one deserving particular attention, displaying a
surprising diversity of colours—that are only seen when
it has attained its height—descending in a thousand beau-
tifully brilliant star-like forms. The menagerie and the
centrifugal railway, the other attractions, are sources of
general amusement.

CHARGE OF SHOOTING.—On Saturday morning, a
little before eleven, as the Rev. R. Moore, incumbent of
Lund, a county magistrate, was walking up Fishergate.
Preston, he was fired at by a man of the name of Richard
Bennett. He was instantly apprehended by Mr. Moore,
and taken before a magistrate, and was committed for
trial at the assizes. The ball passed Mr. Moore's coat,
and went across the street. The prisoner, after firing the
pistol, threw it at Mr. Moore, and bit him on the right
breast. No cause is assigned for the prisoner's conduct,
but lie is the same person who was charged with having, at
four o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 19th of April,
1836, blown up with gunpowder the house of Mr. Thomas
Parkinson, of Kirkham. He is the son of Mr. Bennett,
shoemaker, of Kirkham, and was instructed in the busi-
ness of his father. He is about 34 years of age. Mr.
Parkinson's house was blown up the day following the
marriage of one of his daughters, with whom Bennett was
in love, but to whom he had not declared his passion.
ALLEGED POOR LAW CRUELTIES.—For the credit of
England we trust that some ex,ggeration has been prac-
tised upon Mr. Wakley, and that the statements which
he made in the House on Friday evening respecting a
Poor Law Union in Hampshire cannot be true to the let-
ter. Nevertheless Mr. Wakley vouched one of the
guardians as his authority for stating that the paupers of
that union were employed in crushing bones, and that,
while so employed, they quarrelled with each other for
the bits of marrow they might chance to contain, and
knawed off the meat from the extremeti s of the bones.
Surely this is more like the picture of a dog-kennel and
of fighting dogs than of English men ! Can it be that
ten years of Poor Law discipline has had so much power
for brutalizing as this. On the same evening Mr. T.
Duncombe brought forward another Poor Law case,
which we cannot doubt to have been truly painted ; Si.t
James Graham himself spoke to the accuracy of the por-
trait. It seems that at Mansfield the noor who seek for
nightly shelter or food are set to work in return at a
wheel for the mere sake of the task. The wheel is not
employed for any beneficial purpose, as grinding corn,
&c., it is purely used for grinding the poor.

ANDARD.

NEW LIVERPOOL ROYAL STOCK EXCHANGE.

By the kindness of the secretary of this new institution,
which, it will be observed from the announcement of
the committee, is to be carded on on a more open system
than the old Stock Exchange, we have been permitted to
pay a visit to it during the hours of business, and witness
the mode in which the buying and selling of shares is
conducted. As it may be an object of curiosity and in-
terest to some of our readers to be acquainted with the
system we shall briefly describe it, as it came on this oc-
casion under our own observation, premising, however,
in justice to the new body, that their arrangements can as
yet scarcely be said to have been fully matured, and the
number of members will, of course, be very materially
increased.
The building formed into the Royal Stock Exchange is
the British Hotel, at the top of Moorfields, a large room
on the first floor being fitted up for business. At the
door a porter is stationed, equipped in a magnificent uni-
form, (of which he appears mighty vain,) to communi-
cate messages, convey letters, &c. to the members inside.
On entering the room you are struck with the somewhat
lively mode in which buying and selling is conducted.
The members perambulate the room, or stand in groups,
making their various offers aloud in something like this
fashion—" I'm a buyer of Luxeroburgs"—" What's your
price ?" " I sell London and York's," &c., and every
sale which is made is forthwith written by the secretary
on a large painted board, which occupies part of one side
of the room, thus ensuring publicity and correctness for
the transactions. These entries are at the close of the
day transcribed, and form the " business done" which ap-
pears in the daily circular. The closing prices are ascer-
tained in the usual way, by the secretary calling out the
names of the various stocks which have been operated in
during the day, and recording the prices at which offers
to buy and to sell were made. The room is neatly fitted
up, supplied with newspapers and share-lists, and at one
end has a rostrum fi ted up for the secretary. We under-
stand that a very satisfactory business has been transacted
since the opening of the establishment, which promises to
be a very flourishing concern, and must materially relieve
the inconvenient pressure which we understand is felt at
the old establishment in Bank-buildings.

MAYNOOTH BILL—PROTEST AGAINST THE
THIRD READING.
Dissentient,—
Because, I consider this measnre to be entirely incon-
sistent with the Protestant Constitution of our govern-
ment, to maintain and defend which the house of
Brunswick was called to the throne of these realms.
Because, I cannot but think that this bill, taken in
conjunction with the measures recommended and pursued
by her Majesty's ministers, is calculated to put in hazard
the existence of the Protestant Church in Ireland ; though
at the time of the union of that country with Great
Britain, it was distinctly undertaken, that that Church
should be the United Church of England and Ireland, and
be maintained as such

Because, I fear that the security of her Majesty's
throne cannot but be greatly endangered, and the hearts
of her Majesty's loyal Protestant subjects throughout the
empire deeply shocked by such measures, as, indeed, the
unprecedented number of petitions presented to both
houses of parliament and to her Majesty, abundantly
testify.
Because, I consider that the Protestant Church and
Constitution of England are the highest of all blessings
vouchsafed to our country by God's special and peculisr
mercy, and that the nation will be guilty of a ereat crime
in abandoning the protection of so sacred a trust ; and
that as we have been blessed beyond all the nations of the
world during the periods of our possessing it, so we may
well fear that if we prove unworthy, we may receive such
severe punishment, as a nation, as such abandonment of
our highest national duty deserves.
KENYON,
WINCHILSEA and NO GAM,
FARNHAM.

NCREASE OF THE DEPOSIT REQUIRED ON
RAILWAY SCHEMES.

On the motion of Lord G. Somerset, and, we presume,
to place a bar in the way of new and useless railway
schemes, the House of Commons on Tuesday night
passed a new standing order, by which the deposit of five
per cent., now required by the House to entitle the pro-
moters of any railway scheme to apply for a bill, is to be
in future increased to ten per cent. This arrangement—
whether well advised or not we shall not stop to inquire—
must create considerable embarrassment to companies al-
ready before the public, and to scripholders who have pur-
chased from original proprietors. Such companies will,
before the next session, have to call up an additional five
per cent. from their shareholders; and will in many cases,
we fear, have considerable difficulty in getting the money
contributed. Of course they can only look to the parties
who have originally signed their deeds ; and where these
have sold their scrip, they will naturally hesitate upon
paying a further five per cent. upon property which has
passed from their hands; and in many cases it may not be
easy to induce the actual holders of their scrip to show
themselves and do the needful. In some unpopular un-
dertakings many shareholders wiil undoubtedly forfeit
what they have already paid rather than add to the:r risks
by paying more. We anticipate, as the result of this new
order, the winding up of many of the more hopeless un-
dertakings. Under all circumstances, the best course
perhaps would have been to confine the operation of the
order to new projects.

DICTATORIAL MAN./VEAL or THE DUKE TOWARDS His
COLLEAGUES.—The correspondent of the Dublin Even-
ing Mail, in communicating the decision of the Lords on
the Dublin and Galway Railway Bill, gives the following
singular scene :—" Lord Stanley Secretary of State for
the colonies, is indulging his sporting propensities at the
Goodwood races—so Field Marshal the Duke of Wel-
lington took the leadership on the occasion, and rumped
his colleagues, after the approved fashion practised
towards himself by the Secretary of the Colonies. As-
suming a false propoiit'on, his Grace naturally arrived at
an illogical conclusion, and uttered his determined veto,
indulging in some bitter sneers at Lord St. Germans, and
was of course supported by the dependent followers of
the government. The principal Whig members left the
house without voting, and Lord Wharncliffe, the Lord
President of the Council, had the manliness to follow
their example." The dictatorship of the gallant Field
Marshal is felt, it seems, upon such a matter as the
throwing out of a railway bill ; but when it extends to
throwing down the buttresses of the Protestant church
and constitution we have no such displays of " manliness "
SS that above referred to.

MORE MELANCHOLY NEWS FROM ALGERIA.—The
Moniteur Alg6rien of the 28th ult., announces, that Mar-
shal Bugeaud embarked for Dellys on the 23d, to take
the command of the expedition directed against Ben
Salem. That journal states, that the disarmament of
the inhabitants of the Ouarensenis and Dahara was still
proceeding, but that many arms, some of which are of
the best description, had not yet been surrendered. No
less than 7,000 muskets fit for service had been removed
to Orleansville, and 1,500 more had been broken. Hadj-
Hamet, the Aga of the Ouarensenis appointed by the
French, on returning from the marriage of his son (with
a young woman of Masouna), was unexpectedly attacked
in the defile of. Meran by a party of Ibeahs, who killed
the Aga and twelve of his followers, wounded twenty, and
dispersed the remainder. A detachment of 30 French
spahis, given to the Aga by Colonel St. Arnaud as an
escort of honour, and who were at the rear of the column,
charged the enemy and attempted to recover the body of
the Aga, but being overpowered by numbers, they retired,
leaving five of their body on the field and bringing off 13
wounded. The young bride, and several other women,
with the whole of the baggage, fell into the hands of the
assailants. The Ibeahs were at all times a tut bulent
race, and in constant revolt against the Turks, large
caves, into which they sought refuge on the approach of
the latter, securing them impunity. Marshal Bugeaud,
on being informed of their treachery. had decreed the
transportation of the tribe into some distant part of the
regency, and the confiscation of their territory. Colonel
Pelissier embarked for Dellys on the 21st, and was to
accompany Marshal Bugeaud in his expedition.
LEEDS AND WEST RIDING AND WEST YORKSHIRE
RAILWAYS.—These two:lines, which lately waged so fierce
a contest in Parliament, have both been taken up by the
Manchester and Leeds, with which enterprising company
they have become identified, and the three now form one
interest. The amalgamation will be effected by the crea-
tion, by the Manchester and Leeds, of fifth shares. This
intelligence was received in Liverpool on Saturday, and,
though it was known to comparatively few persons, the
shares of both the above lines rose considerably. Quarter
shares in the Manchester and Leeds railway are worth
£2B premium, £6 paid ; the real value of the fifth shares,
(or, which is the same thing, the shares of the two compa-
nies referred to,) is £22 to £23 premium; and to this
price they will in all probability, when the ercutnstances
become fully known, attain.

It was said on Saturday, that the protracted labours of
both houses on railway matters, would probably be
brought to a close yesterday. Both lawyers and legis-
lators were tired of the subject.
CRICKET.-0o Saturday last, the return match be-
tween the Edge-hill and the Olympus Clubs, was played
by the particular desire of the latter, on the ground of the
Derby, when fortune once more favoured the Edge-hill,
who came off victorious, with six wickets to go down.

FATAL OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday a gentleman
named Everett, formerly a lecturer on chemistry at the
Middlesex Hospital, and late an inmate of the lunatic
asylum, Middlesex, met his death by an accidental scald.
while in one of the baths of the establishment, in con-
sequence of general:defective arrangements.
NIGHT ASCENT OF MR. GREEN WITH FIREWORKS.
Last night, this intrepid and fortunate aeronaut was to
perform the perilous feat from Vauxhall-gardens, of dis-
charging fireworks from the car. The balloon was to be
illuminated with coloured fires, and would be visible
from all parts of the metronolis.
INTERESTING TO GEOLOGISTS.--There has been
a growing demand of late for furniture made in the
Elizabethian style, and the cabinet-makers, after trying
every stain which ingenuit; could suggest, brought to the
requisite shade. In the Cree timber there is every diver-
sity of hue, from sable black to the most beautiful wain-
scots, which has induced our spirited townsman, Mr. Ur-
quhart, of 80ld-street, to become the sole purchaser of
this wood mine, and to manufacture it into antique furni-
ture, and for hills, and for furnishing for noblemen's
mansions, churches, &c. As Mr. Urquhart has received
a cargo, consisting of more than one hundred huge trees,
geologists and the curious may see the timber in the depot
of Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming; and the lovers of an-
tique furniture may see, at Mr. Urquhart's rooms, several
pieces made from the wood, among which is a beautiful
sideboard, richly emblazoned with figures of heraldry,
such as shields, belts, &c., surmounted with open vases,
beautifully carved ; and library tables In the same antique
style.