The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

TARVIN HALL SCHOOL.

The Public Examination, Speeches, and performance of
Sacred Music, in connexion with the ahove Institution,
took place on Monday last. The attendance was highly
respectable, and the most marked interest was taken in
all the proceedings. Amongst those present we noticed
the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, the Rev. G. R. Moncrieff„
Rector of Tattenhall, W. P. Hutton, St. Bridget's, Ches-
ter, J, W. Hill, Waverton ; H. S. Joseph, Chaplain of
Chester Castle, &c. Letters had been received from
many clergymen and gentlemen in the county, expressing
their interest in the welfare of the institution, and re-
gretting their inability to be present on the occasion.
Amongst others, from the Lord Bishop of the Diocese;
Sir Edward Walker, Mayor of Chester • Sir Philip Eger-
ton, M.P. ; G. Greenall, Esq., M.P., *alton Hall, War-
rington ; J. Duncuft, M.P., who for some time has had
sons at the school. The Bishop said in his letter,—" On
Sunday last, when I was at Tarvin, I was very much gra-
tified by the appearance and behaviour of your scholars."

They h'ad had the honour to submit to the Bishop the ex-
amination papers for the pr, sent year; of which his Lord-
ship thus speaks,—" The printed examination rapers for
the present year, which you kindly sent me, intiniate a
very extensive range of attainment in the various branches
of instruction. The mathematical examination, in parti-
cular, very much exceeds what is usualiy included in the
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e accuracy with which the lowest forms had An-
wered the questions proposed to them. The First Class
was examined in the following subjects :—Homer, the
Orestes of Euripides, the Greek Testament, the Satires of
Horace, and.the Satires of Juvenal ; Butler's Analogy,
Paley's Horse Paulinte, Watt's Scripture History, New-
ton's Principia, the Integral and Differential Calculus,
Mechanics, Conic Settiors, Trigonometry, Euclid, Algi-
bra, and Arithmetic.—The boys who distinguished them-
selves in these subjects were Sprague, Long, Utterson, C.
Macartney, Broome, D. Shaw, and Arthur Thomas.

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RAILWAY

AFFAIRS.

The Extension Railway from Lincoln to Hull was
opened for general traffic on Monday.
Mr. Hudson is about to take in hand the entire com-
pletion of the docks at the Tyne, which will give to the
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, a perfect water terminus.
The calls for January amount. to £2,587,225, being
about a million and a quarter more than for the present

month
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended the 16th instant :—Coaching traffic, £BBl
lls. ; parcels, £6O 9s: 7d. ; goods and cattle, £lB6 4s.
3d. • steam-boats, £lO7 Gs. 4d. ;—total, £1235 lls. 2d.
A man named Rawson, a frame-work knitter, was
killed last week by a train on the Midland Railway, near
the Wingfield station. It is supposed that he had placed
himself on the rails on purpose.
GILLARD V. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.—On Thursday, was tried this action,
brought in the Court of Exchequer, by Mrs. Gillard ;
to recover compensation at the hands of the defendants,
for the injury sustained by her through the death of her
husband, brought about as alleged, by the negligence of
the company's servants. under circumstances well known
in Manchester. The plaintiff's husband was in the ser-
vice of the Electric Telegraph Company, at Leeds, and
was killed at the Sowerby-bridge Station, on the 16th of
September, in consequence of there being no break on
the last carriage of the train he was in. The jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff, with £750.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Monday
the mail train upon the Newcastle and Berwi

was proceeding niirth, and when near to Cr

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tion, a party of horned owls, being di_
roost, by the noise; made a furious attack upon the en-
gine and those in charge of it. The fireman, while seated
in a comfortable position in the flying
furiously assailed, and before he could d

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meter of his foe was seriously pecked in the face, and had
one of his teeth forced out of its place. Such an assault
at such a place, and during the dP-'- *her alarming,
especially considerin•-

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