The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

TIRE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

WARWICKSHIRE AND LONDON RAILWAY,
affording the nearest practicable communication
between the towns of Warwick, Leamington, London,
and Birmingham, with an improved Line to Cheltenham
and the West.
CAPITAL, £700,000, IN SHARES OF £2O EACH.
DEPOSIT, £1 10s. PER SHARE.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle.
Dr. Jephson, Leamington.
Kelynge Greenway, Esq., Warwick.
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington.
Edward Greaves, Esq., )ford, near Warwick.
John Towers Las renceEsq., Birmingham.
Richard Jones, EscKL'eamington.
Edwin Woodhouse, Esq., Leamington.
George Carr Glyn, Esq., London, Director of the London
and Birmingham Railway.
Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool, Ditto.
Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey, Ditto.
Captain C. R. Moorsom, R.N., Birmingham, Ditto.
George Hudson, York, Director of the Midland Railway.
John Ellis, Esq., Beaumont Lees, near Leicester, Ditto.
Samuel Beale, Esq., Birmingham, Ditto.
Abel Peyton, Esq., Birmingham, Ditto.
J. Whitmore Isaac, Esq., Boughton House, near Wor-
cester, Director of the London, Worcester, and
South Staffordshire Railway.
Timothy Rhodes, Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Ditto.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.

Warwick—Messrs. Greenway and Greaves.
Leamington—The Warwick and Leamington Banking
Company.
London—Messrs. Glyn and CO.
ENGINEER.
Robert Stephenson, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Thomas Heath, Esq., Warwick.
Messrs. Buck and Baker, Ditto.
Samuel Carter, Esq., Birmingham.

The proposal of the lines of the London, Worcester,
and South Staffordshire Railway through the district to
the west of London and Birmingham Railway, has called
for the revival of a line in connection with the London
and Birmingham and Midland Railways, from the point
of junction between those lines at Hampton• in-Arden to
Warwick and Leamington, for which plans and sections
were deposited by the Birmingham and Derby Railway
Company (now united with the Midland Company) in
1841 and 1842, with a continuation of such line from
Warwick and Leamington to join the London, Worcester,
and South Staffordshire Railway, the necessity for which
was specially referred to in t .e prospectus of that under-
taking, issued last autumn. This junction will be effected
by two lines—one to the neighbourhood of Southam, and
the other following the Valley of the Avon till it joins the
Stratford and Moreton Railway, near Stratford-upon-
Avon, which crosses the London and Worcester line. To
complete the communication with Cheltenham, a branch
will he made out of the London and Worcester line from
Evesham to Ashchurch, on the Birmingham and Glou-
cester line.

These objects are considered of so much importance by
the local interests, that their full support has been ob-
tained for cart ying them into effect.
The Report of the Board of Trade in favour of the
London and Worcester line states so fully the peculiar
advantages of the scheme, that it is unnecessary to repeat
them here. The reasons there given for the adoption of
that measure apply in a great degree in favour of the
present proposal, as compared with any rival scheme, and
the lines now proposed are so connected with the London,
Worcester, and South Staffordshire scheme, and with the
system of railway communication which the Board of
Trade have recommended in their Report, that the success
of the scheme may be considered to render certain the

adoption of the present project. Allusion may, however,
be made to the great importance of the junction at
Hampton, in connection with the Trent and Cburnet
Valley lines, by means of which a direct and uninterrupted
communication will be established with Lancashire and
the North.

The London and Birmingham, Midland, and London
and Worcester Companies unite in co-operation with the
local interests, to insure the most effectual completion of
the objects in view.
A guarantee will be proposed by the abovementioned
Companies, and a due proportion of the shares will be
reserved for local interests.

Careful surveys of the whole of the country have been
made under the direction of Mr. Robert Stephenson,
and application will be made to Parliament for an Act in

the next Session

The Applications for Shares having already exceeded
the number for Allotment, no further applications can be
received.

CALEDONIAN EXTENSION RAILWAY

PROSPECTUS

CAPITAL, £1,500,000, IN 60,000 SHARES OF £2.5
EACH. DEPOSIT, £2 108. PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS

The Right Hon. Lord Belhaven, C airman of the Cale-
donian Railway Company
The Right Hon. Lord Polwa
John Moss, Esq., Chairm of the Grand Junction Rail-
way Company
Lieutenant-Colonel sham, Deputy Chairman of the
Caledonian Railway Company
John Wakefield, Esq:, Deputy Chairman of the Lancaster
and Carlisle Railway Company
John James Hope Johnstone, Esq., M.P. for the County
of Dumfries "
Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq. M.P., Chairman of the
London and Westminster Banking Company
John Hodgson Hinde, Esq., M.P. for Newcastle-upon-
Tyne
Richard Hodgson, Esq.. M.P. for Berwick
W. Lockhart, Esq., M.P. for the County of Lanark
The Hon. J. Lumsden, Lord Provost of Glasgow
John Gibson, Esq., Provost of Lanark
John Masterman, jun , Esq., London
R. Paterson, Esq., London
William Macdonald, Esq., of Powderhall, Edinburgh
C. M. Ba-stow, Esq., Edinburgh
John Hou'dsworth, Esq , Glasgow
E. Git,b, Esq., Glasgow
R. Monteith, Esq., of Carstairs, near Lanark
D. Dickson, Esq.. of Hartree, near Lanark
Sir W. C. Anstruther. Bart., of Westraw
John J. Burnett, Esq., of Gadgerth, near Ayr
R. Johnstone Douglas, Esq., of Lockerby
James Wolfe Murray, Esq., of Cringletie, near Peebles
John Hamilton Craik, Esq., of Arbigland
John Wilson, Esq., of Westsidewood
John Greenshields, Esq., of Kerse
J. G 111`Kirdy, Esq., of Birkwood
R. G. Baillie, Esq., of Culterallers
Richard Mackenzie, Esq., of D,lpinton, Edinburgh
J. W. Alston, E,q., of Stockbriggs
With power to add to their number.
Messrs. Hope and Oliphant, Agents, Edinburgh.
John Marr, Esq., Agent and Interim Secretary, Lanark.

ENGINEERS.
Joseph Locke. Esq., F.R.S.
J. E. Errington, Esq., C.E.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Masterrnani Peters, Mildred, Masterman, and

Co., Lond6n

Edinburgh and GlaEgow Bank
The Commercial Bank of Sc

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Mefsrs. Archibald Grahame Moncreiff and Weems

THE Cal
the Boa

inn Railway has been recommended by

rd of Trade as the best trunk communication
through Scotland, and may coftfidently be expected to re,
ceive the sanctio►► of Parliament in the present Session.

The proposed Extensions are as follows I—First, from a
point on the Caledonian Railway near Lanark, Eastward,
along the valley of the Tweed, by Peebles, Galashiels. and
Melrose, to Kelso, where it has been arranged with Mr.
Hudson that a j )int station will be formed with the New-
castle and Berwick Company ; and secondly, Westward,
by Muir kirk to Ayr and Kilmarnock.

k direct communication, Northwards and Southwards,

iegns or the trunk line, will thus be secured to those

ireportant districts, the expediency of which has been
pointed out by the Board of Trade, for the full develop-
ment of the Caledonian system.

Numerous and iufluential Meetings have been already
held in those important districts, loudly calling for Rail-
way accommodation, and offering every facility and

agricultural districts in Scotland with timber, slate, coal,
lime, and other minerals, in all which articles they are in
themselves wholly destitute ; while the Western Extension
of the Caledonian, as well as the trunk Line, intersect
tracts of country remarkable for their mineral resources,

but requiring a supply of agr:cultural produce from the
East, for the immense population engaged in manufactures

and mines

When Mr. Telford made his survey of a Line from
Glasgow to Kelso and Berwick, in 1810, being the first
projected Railway in Scotland, he reported that " it might
be eat•ily and cheaply made," and that " no districts can
be better calculated for an interchange of produce, and
for promoting each other's prosperity."
. .

He further— remarks that, " The whole distance from
Berwick to the water summit being 771 miles, and the
total rise 753 feet, (which is considerably higher than the
summit now proposed to be passed over,) the average in-
clination is under 10 feet in a mile, or 1 in 528.
" Inclinations so vcry easy over such extensive districts
of country will enable the intercourse by means of Rail-
way to be carried on in both directions at a comparatively
small expense, and it will appear still more perfect when
it is considered that the heavy articles of coal and lime
are all to be passed downwards."
The Western Extension will foam the sh,rtest and most
direct communic,tior from Edinburgh to Kilmarnock and
the seaport towns of Ayr and Troon, and thence to Ire-

land. -
The Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle scheme, which
has been reported against by the Board of Trade, proposed
partially to open up the resources of Ayrshire, but af-
forded no access from thence to Lanark and Edinburgh,
or to Kelso and Berwick, whilst the Caledonian Extension
Railway, in fulfilment of the.anticiffttions of the Board of

Trade, will accomplish all these objects, and
time afford an equally good route Scutha•ards,
COST ANDSpRVEV.

he same

The length of Railway which it is necessary to construct
for the accomplishment of the whole important objects
shove specified will be about 104 miles ; and, from sur-
veys already made and an estimate given by Mr. Locke,
the Committee are assured that the Capital of £1,500,000
will be sufficient to cover the whole expense.
TRAFFIC.

The traffic will embrace-Ist, on the Eastern portion,
the carriage of the whole minerals required for the exten-
sive manufacturing districts around Galashiels, Hawick,

Melrose, and Selkirk, consisting of Timber, Slate,

Lime, Lead, and IrOn, which must be conveyed_tn

on this Railway ; whilst their vast woollen manufa
consisting of Tweeds, Blanketings, Shawls, Pla
&c. &c, as well as raw material must pass in return

2d,—The conveyance of agricultural produce from
highly-cultivated South-eastern districts of Scotland and
Northumberland to the dense population and mining and
manufacturing districts of the West. Upon a calculation,
based upon Mr. Telford's estimate, it can be shown that,
at the present day, a return of upwards of 5 per cent. may
be reckoned upon from those sources alone, after deduct-
ing 40 per cent. for expenses.
On the Western portion of the line to Ayr and Kilmar-
nock, a very large mineral and goods traffic may be relied
on, independent of the Eastern Extension.
From the very highly-important districts which those
lines intersect, a very large passenger-traffic may be cal-
culated upon, not only of a local, but of a general nature.
From these sources the Committee feel themselves
justified in calculating on an ample return for the Capital
required. _

The Subscribers' Agreement will contain powers to the
Provisional Directors to be thereby appointed to fix the
precise extent and course of the Line, and the position of
the termini, as circumstances may render desirable; and
powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to grant a
lease of the works to the Caledonian Railway Company at
a rent of four per cent. and one-half of the surplus profits.
Applications for Shares to be made to THOMAS
FORSYTH, Esq., Stock Broker, Exchange Buildings,
Liverpool, with whom Copies of the Prospectus and 'Paps
of the Line will be lodged on and after the 16th instant,
together with Forms of Application.

22, Parliament-street, Westminster,
April 12th, 1845.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
WEST DERBY DISTRICT.

j THOMAS AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DOL-
♦, LING, REGISTRAR of BIRTHS and DEATHS for the
WEST DERBY DISTRICT, compr4sing-- the Township of
West Derby and the Extra-Parochial Place of Crorteth-
park. DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that attendance
will be given every dayvtiom Eight o'clock in the Morn-
ing to Eight o'clock/itfthe Evening, at my Office, No. 55,
Pre-cot-street, near St. Jude's Church, for the purprise
o 4 REGISTERING BIRTHS and DEATHS; and, for
the convenience of Persons residing in the rural part of
the Township of West Derby, I shall attend every
FRIDAY, for the purpose aforesaid, at the following places,
viz:—

At the House of Mr. HALL. Chemist, near the Old
Swan, Prescot-road, from Twelve to One o'clock ; and at
the House of Mr. CHARLES EDWARDS, Schoomaster,
Mill.lane, near West Derby Chapel, from Two to Three
o'clock. •

THOMAS AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DOLLING,
Registrar of Births and Deaths for the West Derby
District.

Registrar's-office, 55, Prescot-street, West Derby

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.
AT the SPECIAL GENERAL VESTRY, held in ST.
NICHOLAS' CHURCH, on TUESDAY, the 15th day of
April, 1845, for the Election of Select Vestrymen, in the
place of the Select Vestrymen now retiring,
The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS, one of the Rectors,

world. The enlightened statesmen of the Augustan age
had attained to that fashionable indifference about creeds,
which we see so remarkably exemplified in the instance
of Gallic,. 'When this accomplished specimen of the then
rising generation, was depaty-governor of Ackaia, he was
called on in his judicial capacity to decide in a matter of
dispute between Jews and Greeks. It involved the whole
question of revealed religion, as opposed to a traditionary
polytheism • but the young Roman saw nothing in it bu
a question of words arid names, not deserving his atten-
tion. He turned itway from both the dispute and the
disputants, and "cared for none of these things." It is
of some consequence, however, to remark, that while
Pagan Rome tolerated all sorts of religions, she supported
only one. No temples were built at the public expense,
except for the state religion;, no priesthood were edu-
cated or paid from the public treasury, except for
the state worship. t Hear, hear.) The Jews were
allowed to have their synagogues in every town, to
have their own priests, and enjoy their own worship ,•
but it was entirely at their own expense. Toleration and
protection were distinguished from support. All were
tolerated ; all were protected ; but only the State religion
was supported. This was the reasonable extent to which
Imperial Pagan Rome carried her liberalism. It was
reserved for our own days to see an advance upon this :
to see an enlightened State having a national religion, and
not only tolerating and protecting those who teach and
are pledged on oath to teach that her national religion is
heresy ; but actually educating them for the purpose, and
paying for their education out; of the national treasury !
This outgallins Gallio. (Loud cheers.) The contrast
with Rome Papal is still more striking ; because her
poli.l, has ever been toleration, abstractedly held, and
voluntarily exercised Her toleration has rather been
policy, put on for a purpose and for a time, when danger
would have been increased by acting on her more genuine
sentiments. In proof of this, I shall not have recourse
to any voluminous and elaborate treatise, in the hands of
the learned only; but simply to the short and popular
notes appended by authority to the Rhemish Testament.
and inculcated as widely as Papal Rome has ever allowed
the Word of God, even with her own notes, to be circu-
lated. On the parable of the tares, in the xiii. chap. of
St. Matthew, the significant note is this :
" 29. Lest you plucke vp also.] The good must tolerate the
mil, when it is so strong that it can not be redressed without
danger and disturbance of the whole church, and committe the
matter to God's judgement in the later day. Otherwise where
it men (be they heretikes or other malefactors) may be punish,_ d
or suppressed"—
(Hear.) Suppressed !—what's the meaning of suppres-

" Without disturbance and hazard of the good, they may and
ought by pu like authority, either spiritual or temporal, to be
chastized or executed."

Now, methinks I hear the sound of the meeting held last
week in London, with a noble lord in the chair, where
resolutions were passed civilly expressive of sorrow that
Protestants should lay to the charge of their Catholic
brethren what has been so often and so successfully
refuted. I venture to ask of the noble chairman of that
meeting where this charge has been refuted ?—when this
charge has been refuted ? —by whom has this charge
been refutee? (Hear, hear.) And I venture to send
a letter to Lord Camoys through those ready-writers
(the reporters) whom we see hear us—(loud cheers)—
that if his lordship will have the kindness to point out
where, when, and by whom this charge has been repeated,
an answer shall be speedily supplied. Tremendous
cheers.) Has any Synod of the Romish Church met to
condemn the notes of the Romish Testament ? Have the
authorities of that Church expungad those notes as
heretical ? Hos any authoritative step been taken, by
which the church is bound, to clear it of the charge of
holding the doctrines which are here circulated by au-
thority in the notes of her Rhemish Testament, the only
translation into English which they have to circulate. You
will recollect that the Old Testament, called the Douay
Bible, and the Rhemish Testament, form one publication
of the Scriptures, when put together, and is the only
authorised edition which they have translated into English.
These notes I have read from part of the Rhemish Testa-
ment; and I hold in my band a copy of that book pub-
lished by the authority of that church. (Hear.) If they
could clear themselves of the charge, we should be
thankful to see it ; but so long as these notes are
published, by authority, as the only English Testa-
ment they have—so long as they may he applied to
as soon as the danger of putting them into practice
shall have passed away, we must be excused if we
cannot take the word of Lord Camoys, when he says that
the charge has been often and successfully refuted. (Loud
cheers.) Upon this principle, toleration is Rome's policy
at present, and her practice in England, where at present
she has no power to do anything else; but, for the in-
struction of Lord Camoys and his coadjutors at that
meeting, I may venture to assert, that in some parts of
Ireland, where Protestants, especially converts from the
Church of Rome, niay be put out of the way without
danger to the faithful, there Rome begins to be more
sincere; and in Madeira, where she has full opportunity
of pleasing herself, she has given practical proof that the
Rhemish notes are not merely a dead letter. (Hear.)
What, then, should England do? 1 certainly cannot
commend to the imitation of our country the example of
Papal Rome. I trust that no British authorities may
ever be found profaning their power by inflicting any
injury on any man because of his religious opinions ; but
I do most cordially commend for imitation on this parti-
cular point the example of Pagan Rome : she tolerated
all—she protected all ; in return for this protection, she
levied taxes from all ; but she endowed only that which
she believed to be agreeable to her gods. This is an
example worthy of imitation. But if it be argued still
that it is invidious, and seems to be unfair, that in a
divided nation, where all pay taxes, public money for
religious purposes should be given on one side only, what
have we to answer ? For myself—and I believe I shall
not be alone in this—l answer, that if the religious per-
ceptions of Englishmen be indeed so indistinct that they
cannot clearly and broadly separate fundamental truth
from destructive error; and if their faith in God be so
weak relatively with their courtesy towards one another
that they cannot feel justified in giving practical prefer-
ence to acknowledged truth; then, as the next best thing,
I would recommend the entire cessation, after reasonable
notice and saving existing interests, of all grants of publ,e
money for religious purpoies. (Enthusiastic cheering.)
And if the inquiry be further made, as of course it will,
should this extend to and include the Established Church ?
[Here there was some interruption by parties attempting
to obtain an entrance into the room. After some delay
the rev. gentleman said,—You see, my friends, you are
destroying the meeting, and defeating your own purpose
by attempting to crowd into the room. If I could matte
myself heard on the stairs—(a cry, "You can, Sir,")—
Well, then, I would say, fair play 's a jewel—(laughter)—
recollect, first come first served, and as the room is built
of brick and mortar, and not indian rubber, you must just
put up with the inconvenience, and let those who have ob-
tained admission hear quietly. (Cheers.)] The reve-
rend gentleman then proceeded as follows :—I had,
said he, made a eeneral statement about endowments,
that I would rather they should all cease if the peo-
ple cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood;
and I was just asking how that should bear upon
the established church? I answer, first—There is an
essential difference between a proprietor and a trustee,
and no one but a proprietor can ever become a donor.
The state is not, and never was, the proprietor of the
property of the established church. That property was
given by various individuals at various times, under laws
and regulations which constituted the state its official
trustee ; and although the state has the power, of course,
to alter the laws, it would be a breach of trust to alienate
that property from the purposes for which. the voluntary
donors originally bestowed it. This constitutes a differ-
ence between the property of the established church, and
grants from the public treasury; and this appears to me
to be conclusive, as far as that portion of church property
is conce ned which was so entrusted in this kingdom pre-
vious to the introducti n of Roman Catholic doctrines.
The ecclesiastical body corporate, which then existed,
held identically the same opinions that the Established
Church holds now. The Nicene creed, which is our
creed, was also their creed. The new articles of Pope
Pius the Fourth, which we repudiate, they had never
heard of. Thus, the Primitive and the Protestant are
one—one in all that constitutes, or can constitute; the
identity of a body corporate, not one in the very indi-
viduals composing it, but one company associated for the
same purpose, and holding the same opinions. (Herr,
hear.) This opens, while as vet it lerves untouched, ano-
ther feature of the case. During the time that Roman
Catholic opinions prevailed, additions were made to the
property or the church—large additions in both houses
I lands. G J. I • e-•.,e t trait that. -