The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

Mr. John TAYLOR expr

have been fo
had the Mers

the benefit of the -merchants of Liverpool
been blocked up during the last two
laugh.) He had seen many bad times, but he
remembered none like the present. He hoped the recent
convulsions on the Continent would turn out advan-
tageously in the end ; but the people of England must
never forget that if they expected to realise any benefit
from the Government of the day, they must fearlessly and

unitedl
had nay

.t that the time foi'impOsing heavy taxation

ROBERTSON said, it was to be regretted that
the labouring classes were so deeply suffering, they
should have such an objectionable Administration. fie
thought it was a Government without principle ;
would move only on compulsion. It had convertee
plus into a deficit revenue ; and so far from relined
unjust burden which weighed upon our interest,
moving its inequality, its plan was to equalize it by pia,.
ing an unjust burden upon another class. Such was its
proposition to increase the income-tax; and rightly had
the attempt been met in Liverpool overthrew it. If ti
was a deficit.

which

by re-

Executive was to blame. They
Government, he said
democrat, and aided his case. H
vile system of unmerited place, uncallc

njustia

the frier

ided to by sort

y was to d

'cstroy and to blood

horn

a menial

by black banners
mrclied in full mi

with pike-heads on

ILY OPTIC

Wheatsone, in his indefatigable researche

Professor
into the ab-

struse, but beautifully interesting, phenomena of light
and optics, discovered a property in optics, previous to the
perfecting of calotyne pictures, to which Mr. Cundell has

•obably

. -
discoveries in the delicate arts of obtainirig sun-light pic-
tures, and the effects resulting from them, of very consi-

nce. A board is provided about two feet
inches in breadth, at each end of which is

an Upright piece truly perpendicular, with a grove at top
and bottom, for sliding in a picture ; in the centre of this

at the height-of the centre of the uprights, are
placed two small mirrors, at angle of 45 degrees, with the
hoard, or 90 degrees with each other, in front

edges of th
of which i

ufficientiv

of the same object in the grooves, against the uprights
such, for instance, as a jum vase, piece of
•

Ituary, g

metrical figures, &c., each eye of course sees the-reflec-
tion in the corresponding mirror of one picture only, the
left hand picture being seen by the left eye, and the right
hand picture by the right eye ; yet, the singular result of
this a

ement is, that flieslieciator sees- before him a
fac simile of the object from which the pictures were ob-
tained in its original state, with the lights, the shadows,
the under cuttings, and all the full roundedness and pro-
jecting points of the solid body. In fact, so complete and
beautiful is the illusion, that it is impossible, by any at-
tempt, to see the pictures as viewed separately, and a
perfectly finished solid body is represented to the eye of
the astonished viewer. It must be pictures taken by sun
light, in different points of sight, to have the effect, as no
two drawings by hand could be done sufficiently correct to
prevent confusion in the shadows, and meeting of the
corresponding lines. Professor Wheatstone, in the first
instance, applied it to the representation of geometrical
solids, which may be drawn mathematically true, and
slindpd to Nature_

OUR PRESENT POSITION.-It was impossible that we
should not in some degree feel the effect of the continual
revolutions. Itwas impossible that one part of the politi-
cal machinery of Europe should be out of order withou
the rest being disturbed at the same tim

Two-thirds of

he continent hare been upsetting, destroying, and rec0n-
,,,...4;”,.

Soefetibas been dis-

the pulsations of the heart shOuld remain uneharigedl;;;

shock in theeystemand'a fractureofthc-rAticmitics. `.
disturbance of Lyons vibrates to the looms of Mancl

The distress of the bur g eoiseie

'chaff reacts on the manufacturer and the me;
Ind if the operative of Lancashire or Yorkshii
orse off than his compeer at_ Paris, it is only 13(

Loaung

Railway Company on Wednesday, it 1
the line perpetually to Mr. Hudson's
petual lease paying 6 per cent. for th
cent. afterwards.

resolved to lease

ipanies on a per-
years, and 7 per

On Wednesday the magnificent new South Wales Rail"
way bridge, which crosses the river Usk, built of wood,
and being about four hundred yards long, was completely'
destroyed by fire. The bridge cost £20.000 in ennstrue^

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company have resolced
to raise £1,055,000 by the creation of new preference
01.1,..0 rC -PM L•

snares of 10 each, bearing a guaranteed interest of 6 per
cent. This will enable the directors to complete about
100 miles of railway upon which upwards of £2,000,000
have been already expended.
LIVERPOOL AND BURY. —The whole of this line is,
now presenting as busy an appearance as a " bee-hive,'
and its progress is most satisfactory. It is contemplate:l
that they will be enabled to have their "opening day
early in September. The principal part of the work to be
executed is in Wigan and the neighbourhood. Piles are
placed under the rails of the North Union Railway, under
which the line passes.

From our official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 3,785 miles of railway, was
£189,778, thus accounted f0r:—£95,911 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £48,083 for the carriage of goods,
and a remainder of £44,784 for passengers and goods to-
gether, not respectively apportioned; being an incresse of
£8,781 over the corresponding week of last year, when the
mileage was 2,862. The average earnings per mile were
£5O, whilst in 1847 they were £63.
EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.-At an extraordinary
general meeting of this company, at Bury, last week, It
was resolved to raise £300,000 by creating new shares Of

be called

preference share. The money ig
to be expended in expediting the completion of the Li-
verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway, which is 0E"
peered to he opened between Liverpool and Ormskirk on
the Ist November next. The line from Accrington to
Blackburn and Burnley will be completed this month, 111.1 u

The
incline at Accrington, which has a rise of one in forty,
as easily workable as any other part of the line.
RAILWAY RESOURCES FROM AGRICULTURE.—At
time when commerce languishes, and trade and manufac-
tures are depressed, it is gratifying to observe that the
owners and_ occupiers of land are at length heroine fully

sensible of the advantages of railways. The quantity ot
food poured into the metropolis weekly by railway almost
surpasses belief ; nor is it the agriculturist alone who 1'
benefitted by the railway system. Even the hardy fisher'

on every part of our coast, now fi
aratino market frirn,,,‘,

lq read' and re:
rishayb le frutt
-"rifles of

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;herstone, out of Clock

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