The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL S'I`ANFARD.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
PLANS FOR LANDING STAGES.
TO ENGINEERS.

THE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
are desirous of receiving PLANS FOR THE
MOST CONVENIENT MOPRITP LANDING OR
EMBARKING PA:perns, CARRIAGES, &c.
&c., at GEORGE'S RHEAD. Each Plan to be
distinguished by a tto or Cypher, accompanied by a
Sealed Letter, c.,nraining the name and address of the
Party, bearing on the outside a Motto or Cypher, cor-
responding with the Plan ; which Letter will not be
opened, unless the Plan be approved. A Premium of
Two HUNDRED POUNDS will be given for tha Plan se•
lected and acted upon by the Dock Trustees; and a Pre-
mium of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS will be given for that
Plan which may be deemed by them to be the next in
utility.

A Plan of George's Pier, &c., with the necessary Sec-
tions, and general information as to what is required, may
be had on application by letter or otherwise, at the Office
of the Secretary of the Liverpool Docks.
The Plans must be sent, Sealed, addressed to " The
Chairman of the Committee of the Liverpool Docks,"
and delivered, under cover, at the Office of the Secre-
tary, not later than WEDNESDAY, the nineteenth day of
March next.

By order,
DANIEL MASON, Secretary
Dock Office, Revenue Buildings, Liverpool,
6th February, 1845.

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY
(IRELAND.)

ADDITIONAL SHARES.
FIRST CALL OF £2 10s. PER SHARE

IVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance
.1.11 of a Resolution of the Board of Directors, the Pro-
prietors of the Additional Shares in this Company are
required to PAY A CALL OF £2 10s. PER SHARE
on their respective Shares into yof the undermentioned
Banks, on or before THU AY, the 6th day of March
next.

interest at the ratkerfFour per Cent, per Annum, pay-
able half yearly, w.ji e allowed on the amount of Deposits
and Calls paid up, until the Railway is. completed.
Should any Callt remain unpaid after the day above-
named, interest at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum
will be charged thereon.

- By order,
WILLIAM TAYLOR, Secretary.
3, College-preen, Deblin,
GM Feb., 1845.
Bank of Ireland • .
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mill-
Bank of Liverpool......
Manchester and Salford Bank
Borough Bank

Dublin

►s, and Co

London.
Liverpool.
Manchester,
Liverpool.

the doctrine that is according to godliness, than such a
diversion of the clerical mind of the nation from the sub-
stance of religion to the forms of external worship. It
was not with a view to liturgical investigations like these,
that candidates for holy orders were exhOrted to the
' daily reading and weighing of the Scriptures, that there-
by they might wax riper and stronger in their ministry.'
Nor is it easy to perceive how such inquiries can help to
the knowledge of the same.' Far from it.. Both the na-
ture of the controversy itself, and the spirit which it has a
tendency to generate, are so contrary to the views and feel-
ings of every one who is seriously interested in the ' work
pertaining to the salvation of souls,' that it must be most
burdensome to those who are aware of its comparative
insignificance ; most injurious to the Divine growth and
usefulness of those who devote to it their understandings
and affections ; most dangerous to the young, the weak.
and the unwary, by drawing away their cares and studies
from God's word, and the higher and holier things of
their vocation. With sentiments like these I would
gladly have avoided any attempt to prolong, by writing
upon it, a controversy I condemn. But whatever may
be the relative insignificance of the points in debate, when
compared with the weightier matters of religion, such
language has been used, and such principles laid down by
several writers, who think they have a right to speak with
authority, as have given an adventitious importance to
the subject, and rendered it impossible for any conscien-
tious minister of the Church of England any longer to
view it with indifference. His own conscience is deeply
interested in the proper determination of the dispute, and
his own future conduct cannot fail to be influenced by
the guides he follows, and the opinions he forms.”—'From
a Pamphlet by the Master of the Temple.

VALUE OF CATTLE, &c.-160,000 head of cattle are
sold in Smithfield market alone, without including calves,
or the dead market—the carcases sent up from various
parts of the country. If we reckon this to be a tenth
part of the cattle slaughtered in the United Kingdom, it
follows that 1,600,000 cattle are sent to the butcher every
year, and averaging the life of the ox or the cow at five
years, the value of British cattle, estimated at £lO per
head, will be £80,000,000 sterling. 1,200,000 sheep,
36,000 pigs, and 18,000 calves are also sent to Smithfield
in the course of a year, and if we reckon these to be
one tenth of the whole number, and allow only two years
as the average duration of the lives of sheep, and pigs, and
value the calves at £2 10s. each, the pigs at £2, and the
sheep at £1 10s., we shall arrive at the additional sum of
nearly £10,000,000 ; so that we may safely compute the
actual value of cattle, sheep, and swine, to be nearly
£120,000,000, sterling.—Professor nue,.

FIRST Use OF COALS IN ENGLAND.—About the end
of the twelvth century a notice of coal first appears as an
article of traffic, and as a staple element in the social
comfort of our own country. In the Leges Burgorum,
enacted at Newcastle about 1140, the especial privilege
of not being distrained but for their own debts, is granted
in Scotland to the inbringers of fuel, which is described
to be wood, turves, and pelts.' With respect to coal
there is 'a complete silence, from which it has been some-
what hastily concluded, that though coal must have been
known, it was not used as fuel. The first legal notice we
have of this mineral is a grant made in the reign of Wil-
liam the Lion, by William de Vetereponte, to the monks
of Holyrood, of a tenth of his coal at Carideo ;' and in
the Chartulary of Newbottle, there is a grant in 1189 to
the monks by De Quincey, Constable of Scotland, of the
coal between Whiteside and Pinkie, which is also con-
firmed by King William. In 1239, Henry 111., granted
a charter to the inhabitants of Newcastle to dig for coal,
which is the first legal mention of fuel in England.