The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

From the Railwt

ry Magazine of Saturday.)

NAME

Car. wk.
last year

Arbroath and Forfar
Birmingham and Derby
Birmingham and Gloucester
Brandling Junction ..
Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Birkenhead
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath
Durham and Sunderland
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Eastern Counties.

Glasgow and Ayr
Glasgow and Paisle
Grand J unction
Great North of England
Great Western
Liverpool and Man
London and Birmingham
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton ...
London and Croydon

,ster .:

London and Greenwich
Southwestern
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Manchester and Birmingham.
Manchester and Leeds and
Hull and Selby
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Darlington
Newcastle and Carlisle
Newcastle and North Shields 14865
North Midland
North Union • • 6999
Paris and Orleans

Paris and Rouen
Preston and Wyre
Sheffield and Manchester
South Eastern ..
Taff Vale -
Ulster
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland .

I 6268' I

* See Midland Counties,

PRICES OF SHARES, FEB

SHARES

2i I Banish- y Junction RAILWAYS.
5 Birkenhead, M'chester& Chester.
leo iirmingliain and Gloucester
25 Ditto quarter ...........
5 Blackburn and Preston
4 Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool
70 Bristol and Exeter .
so Bristol and Gloucester

5 !Caledonian

50 Chester and Birken
9 Ditto new Shares
5 Ditto half .. .

5 Chester and Holyhead
I Chester and l4r rexham
2i Dublin and Belfast
5 Dublin and Cashel
60 Dublin and Drogheda
2a Dundee and Perth
25 Eastern Counties
53s 4d Perpetual
13s 4d Perpetual, No. 2

1334
11200
3711
13364

1958 lo
5

124 Ditto quarter ..
20 Edinburgh, Leith and Granton
5 Ditto, preference-shares....
"Glasgow and Dumfries

25 Gasgow, aaisle, ,
123 Ditto half sh res
13 Ditto preference
50 Glasgow and Ayr....
123 Ditto quarter share
100 -.rand Junctic
50 Dit
u
72143521 One-eighthrDC
100 3reat North of England
eal
50 Ditto Haleitto ifirSnslhAaarrte,ss
50 11011 and Selby
10 i Ditto quarter
10 Lancaster and Carlisle
473 Lancaster and Preston
19 Ditto three-quarter shares
100 Liverpool and .Manchestet
50 Ditto half shares
Ditto new
23 Liverpool, Ormskirk & Preston
100 London and Birmingham ...
2 Ditto .e 32 shares.
2 Ditto quarter shares
45 London & Brighton
123 Ditto Loan Notes
50 London and South Western
6 Ditto new shares
23 London and York
5 Leeds and Bradford
40 11aticliester an,
2, Ditto quarter
24 Manchester, Bolton & Itossendale
93 Aanchesicr, Bolton, & Bury
3.0 4anchester and Leeds
2 Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter shares
100 Midland Counties

50
37
100
60
40

This Day

Stock
100
100
100
100
Stock.

624

2 I-sth Shares
14 Newcastle and Berwick
100 (Newcastle and Carlisle
21 IN'ewcastle and Darlington Junc
5 North British
100 North Union (A.)
Ditto (B
50 Preston and Wyre
100 Runcorn Gap
100 Ditto preference
14 Sheffield and Lincoln ................
823 Sheffield and Manchester
8 Quarter
23 Scottish Central
5 Shrewsbury and Grand Junction,
50 South Eastern and Dover
I New shares

2 Trent Valley
2gi Ulster
20 Yarmouth and Norwich
50 York and North Midland
25 Ditto half S!iares
10 Ditto, (Scarborough)
York and Selby shares
Ditto £25 shares

FRENCH, &c. RAILWAYS
2 Bou ogne vnd Amiens
2 and Avignon
l Central
o Dan
ce
2 laznce
2 Lyons on
Or:eans and Bourdeaux
2 Paris and Lyons
20 Paris and Orleans
20 Paris and Rouen
2 Paris and Strausburgh
12 Rouen and Havre
14 Strasburgh and Basle
2 Sambre and Meuse
I Tours and Nantes .

I BANKS, and MISCELLANEOUS
12 I Liverpool Bank
10 Ditto Banking C:,mpany
10 Ditto Borough Bank
10 Ditto Commera
500 Ditto Royal ...
10 Ditto Uni n ...
10 Manchester & I iverl
10 N7orth anl South W,
17,1 lAntiertonCarrv:ne C
...... I 3ootte Water Works
(Coal G

73 $t
129 k
31i

16s. 6d
154 i

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2i 20

Dsct rict

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Pmpany

200 'Harrington Water Work:
Liverpool Fire and Life.
100 Liverpool Deck Beud_

6 6i
61s. (k 1

10 Ntuine Assurance Company
100 'Srew Gas R Coke Ccmpany.
25 Ditto, quarter
20 sock Ferry
10 Steam Tug Company

MlSPRlNTS.—Misprints often strike what are termed
unlucky blows. The omission of a t makes the mortal
the moral, and the immortal poet stands praised as the
immoral poet. We read a short time ago a lamentation
on " the frightful increase of morality in the metropolis ;"
and once saw the advertisement of a treatise on " the
blessed immorality of the soul ; " we have met with the
glory of a conqueror turned into gory by the dropping of
the liquid consonant ; our loyalty has been shocked by the
announcement of a "most reasonable attempt on the
life of a Sovereign ;" but, worst of all, we lately saw the
Duke of Buckingham described, through the dropping of
the dog's letter, as " the Farmer's Fiend."

CURIOUS CUSTOM.—In a great portion of Ireland there
are to be found, in all fairs, what the people term spoilees-
tents, that is, tents in which fresh mutton is boiled, and
sold out, with bread and soup, to all customers. I know
not how it happens, but, be the motive or cause what it
may, scarcely any one ever goes into a spoileen-tent un-
less in a mood of mirth and jocularity. To eat spoileen
seriously, would be as rare a sight as to witness a wife
dancing on her husband's coffin. It is very difficult, in-
deed, to ascertain the reason why the eating of fresh mut-
ton in such circumstances is always associated with a spi-
rit of strong ridicule and humour. At all events, nothing
' can exceed the mirth that is always to be found among the
parties who frequent such tents. Fun, laughter, jest,
banter, attack, and repartee, fly about in all directions, and
the only sounds heard are those of light-hearted noise and
enjoyment. Perhaps, if the cause of this were closely
traced, it might be found to consist in a sense of shame,
which Paddy good-humouredly attempts to laugh away. It
is well known that the great hotly of the people pass through
life without ever tasting either beef or mutton—a circum-
stance which every one acquainted with the country knows
to be true. It is also a fact, that nineteen out of every
twenty who go to eat spoileen, are actuated more by en-
rioßity than hunger, inasmuch as they consistof such per-
sons as have never tatted it before. This, therefore, being
generally known, and each possessing a latent conscious-
ness of its truth, it is considered best to take the matter in
good humour, and escape the shame of the thing, together
with the poverty it implies, by turning it into ridicule and
j-st. This, indeed, is pretty evident from the nature of
the spoileen-keeper's observations on being paid ; which is
usually, " Thank you, Barney; you may now consider
yourself a gintleman ;" cr, if a female, " Long life to you,
Bridget; you may now go into high life any
tontine M' Clutchy.