The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ern, independently of all the advantages of the proposed
Central Station at liurgerford Bridge, and the convenient
access to the Thames both there and at Nine Elms, over
the distant and inconvient station of the Great Western
at Paddington.
In length the proposed line will be nearly 110 miles
(assuming this Company to have the construction of that
portion between Reigate and Dorking for which plans
have been deposited by the South-Eastern Company)---
the country through which it passes does not present any
engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any residen-
tial or ornamental property be interfered with except un-
der an imperative necessity.
A reserve of shares will be made for landowners on the
line, and the Committee also retain to themselves the
power to vary the course of the line with reference to any
arrangements with existing interests and projected lines
that may be considered advantageous to the Shareholders.

The Capital proposed to be raised is £1,500,000, in
75,000 Shares of £2O each, with a deposit of £2 2s. per
share, to be paid on allotment.
Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at £4
per cent. per annum upon all deposits and subscriptions
until the opening of the Line, and no subscriber shall be
answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until
the Act has been obtained, and then not beyond the
amount of his subscription.
The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary
Contract will be ready for execution, and the Scrip issued
immediately upon payment of the deposits.
Applications for shares must be addressed to the Secre-
tary, at the Offices of the Company, No. 12, Gray's-inn-
place, only ; but no application will be attended to unless
accompanied by a reference to a member of the Provi-
sional Committee, one of the solicitors to the Company,
or a banker.
Copies of the Prospectus and form of application for
shares may be obtained at the Offices of the Company,
or of Messrs. Peppercorne, Old Broad-street; Mr. Sym,
9, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr. B. B. Williams, Throg-
morton•street, Stock and Sharebrokers, London.

On Thursday last, there was launched from the build-
ing-yard of Messrs. W. and A. Adamson, Wosodside,
fine clipper brig, of 235 tons register, named the Equator,
intended for the foreign trade. She was completely rig-
ged and coppered before launching.
At Stockport, last week, two labourers were committed
to the Knutsford House of Correction for three months,
for having placed several large stones across the rails on
the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. The obstruc
tion was fortunately discovered before a train came up.
TOXTETH PARE.—The Poor-law Commissioners have
declined for the present to separate Tosteth-park from
the West Derby Union. They are, hewever, ready to in-
crease the number of guardians, to appoint a separate re-
lieving officer, and to give to the ratepayers the appoint-
ment of their officers.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A poor woman, named Platt, from
Tvldesley, lost her life on Monday on the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway, at the Kenyon Station. She hid
just arrived from Bolton, and on alighting from the train,
attempted to cross the rails, withoot observing a train
which was coming up in an opposite direction. Before
she could cross, she was struck by the buffer of the en-
gine, and was so dreadfully injured that she died shortly
afterwards.

THEATRE ROYAL LIVER.—The leading attraction at
this favourite theatre during the past week has been the
revived drama of Don Ccesar de Bazan, which is got up
with great splendour, and has been excellently played.
On Friday and Saturday the Magic Mirror, a fairy bur-
lesque spectacle, was played, in which the burlesque pa-
rodies introduced by Mrs. Grattan were received with
great applause. We observe that Mr. W. J. Hammond
has transferred his valuable services from the lioyal to
this establishment.

ASSAULT.—Last week Mr. John Gough, gamekeeper
and agent to Greene, Esq., of Spittle-hall, had a vio-
lent quarrel with Mr. Joseph Edwards, a small farmer at
Poulton-cum-Spittle, holding a tenement under Mr.
Greene. In the affray, Gough was stabbed repeatedly
with a pikel, and the tussle concluded by the shaft being
broken over his head. The agent received several dan-
gerous body wounds. The matter is being investigated
by the magistrates.
FACTORY INFORMATIONS.—At Haslinaden, on the
26th ult., Henry ltamsbottom, of Bridge Mill, was con-
victed in penalties of £1 and costs, for working his own
child both in the forenoon and afternoon of the same
day : also 10s. and costs, for not properly schooling the
said child. James and Thomas Worsick, of Holden
Wood Mill, were fined £6 and costs, for working six
children in their dinner-hour. Lawrence Whitaker, of
Holden Mill, was fined £3 and costs, for working three
children in their dinner-hour.
COMMUTATION OF TITHES FOR WOODCHITRCII.-011
Friday, John Job Rawlinson, Esq.. Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner, sat at Gough's Hotel, Woodside, for the pur-
pose of hearing all matters relative to the commutation of
tithes for the parish of Woodchurch.—The following are
the awards made by the referees for the different town-
ships :—Noctorum, £7O Gs. ; Woodchurch, £77 155.;
Barnston, £l4B 125.; Oxton, £lO7 6s. 10d.; Peosby,
£5l 10s. ; Arrow, £lOO 15s. ; Irby-in-Woodchurch,
£93 16s ; Landican, £lll 195.; Thingwall, £53 18s.
IMPORTANT TO BUTCIIERS.—The question of compel-
ling the wholesale butchers to kill at the establishment in
Troubridge-street came before Mr. Rushton and Mr.
Rathbone on Wednesday. One of the trustees of the
aba'oir said there was room enough for all the wholesale
butchers, but it appeared from the evidence of the market
officers that the accommodation was insufficient. Mr.
Seger, the barrister, contended, therefore, that the sum-
mons should be dismissed. Mr. Halton replied, and the
bench are to give their decision this week.
THE WATER INQUIRY.-011 Tu.sdav this inquiry was
' resumed. The witnesses consisted of Mr. Wslthew, the
Chairnyin of the Houseowners' Guardim Society, Mr.
George Wright, and five of the members of the foregoing
society. They were upwards of two hours under examin-
ation, and at the close it was arranged that they should
give further evidence on that day fortnight. Mr. James
Reay, the secretary, and some of the members of the Li-
verpool guardian Society, will be examined on Tuesday
next. The whole of the evidence will be published.
WIRRALL ADJOURNED LICkNSING SESSIONS.—These
sessions were held on Friday week, when the following
licenses were granted :—Messrs. John Lodge, Argyle-
street; Hilton, Claughton-road ; John Halliday, Mar-
ket-street ; R. Fairclough, Chester-street; Thomas
Jones, Grange-lane ; Thomas Jaggers, Hamilton-street ;
Chitrles Hamilton, Market-street; and John Turner, St.
Ann's-street. The future meetings of the magistrates for
the western division of the hundred of Wirrall will be
held at Birkenhead.
THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.—The Lords of the
Treasury have refused to return the overpaid duties paid
on wines in bond between the 22d January and the Bth
of April last, when the allowance for wastage was limited
to packages of 100 gallons. The board have, however,
transmitted to the collector and comptroller at this port,
the copy of a minute, authorizing them in future, without
applica:ion to the board, to make the allowance in cases
where the deficiency beyond the recently-augmented scale
does not exceed two per cent. on the ullage contents of
each cask.

DOCK COMMITTEE.—On Thursday, the weekly meet-
ing was held. The surveyor was ordered to pave the
south-west quay of Brunswick dock. The sum of £5O
was ordered to be paid to Messrs. S. and J. Holme, for
having given up some land in the vicinity of the Fort. A
boy was ordered to be employed at the office of the
Prince's transit sheds, at a salary not exceeding £3O per
annum. Authority was given to the superintendent to
sweep the transit sheds whenever needed, and to hand
over the proceeds of the sweepings to the treasurer of the
dock estate.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—On the Ist November
fourteen conservatives and two radicals retire. The fol-
lowing is a list of the retiring members, the radicals'
names being printed in. italics :
Everton Ward Mr. Francis Shand.
Scotland
Vauxhall
St. Paul's..
Exchange „ John North.
Castle-street „
St. Peter's ~
Pitt-street ~ ••• • • • ~ T. Robinson.
Gt. George-st. „
Rodney-street ~
Abercromby „
Lime-street „
St. Anne's „
West Derby „.. „ James Plumpton.
South Toxteth •• Ambrose Lace.
North Toxteth „ .
HIGHWAY BOARD.—At the weekly meeting on Thurs.
day a memorial was read from several of the inhabitants
of Castle-street, praying that Mr. Samuel Holme might
not be permitted to encroach further on the carriage way
with his palings in front of the new Branch Bank of Eng-
land, and that placards be not allowed to he pasted on the
said palings. The subject was ordered to stand over until
next week ; and, in the meantime, Mr. Holme was re-
quested to make application to the council to remove the
coach-stand from Castle-street, during the t;me his build-
ings will be in the course of erection, a period probably of
eighteen months or two years. The Grand Junction
Ra lway Company applied for permission to drive a main
sewer from the station at Wapping to the entrance of the
Wapping tunnel, and to connect it with the main sewer
belonging to the commissioners. The board agreed to do
the work, and to charge the expense to the applicants.
The board further agreed to report upon the propriety of
making certain crossings in ;Greenland-street, in compli-
ance with the request of the Churchwardens of that dis-
trict. A letter was read from a Mr. John Wilson, of
Clarence-street, stating that Helsby, in the employment
of the commissioners, was in the habit of charging the
poor men employed to mind the open sewers at night a
half-crown each per week for having put them into their
situations. Mr. Ashlin said that no such person as John
Wilson could be found in Clarence-street, and the charge
has since been found to have no foundation.
n ex ceedingly neatly-printed share-list, containing
the Manchester as well as the Liverpool prices, is, as will
be seen on reference toour advertising columns, published
daily by Mr. C. Willmer, whose exertions to give the
latest prices with all possible dispatch is certainly deserv-
ing reward.
By an advertisement in another part of our paper it will
be seen that Mr. Chalk has lately replenished his coffee-
house, in St. John's-lane, and from his long experience as
head waiter to Mr. Horne, Mersey-hotel, we feel confi-
dent he will give satisfaction to all who may visit his esta-
blishment. _ _

HATS.—It will be seen by an advertisement in our pa-
per of to-day, that Messrs. Bickerton and Satchell (for-
merly Bickerton and Son), who have long held a prece-
dence in the metropolis as manufacturers, have been ap-
pointed agents in Liverpool to Messrs. Johnson and Co.,
for their patent flexible hats, on a principle that entirely
removes the pressure occasioned by the stiffness of ordi-
nary hats.
N w ANTI-FRICTION METALS.—Galignani mentions
the discovery of a new mixture of metals, called anti-fric-
tion, as a substitute for the use of brass in the various
uses to which that metal has been hitherto applied in the
manufacture of locomotive and other engines. From the
statement of Messrs. Allcard, Buddicom and Co., who
have made the locomotives for the Rouen and Paris and
other railroads, it appears that this metal, although very
much lower in price than brass, and attended with an
economy of 75 per cent. in the use of oil during the work-
ing, is of a duration so far beyond that of brass as to be
almost incredible. The metal referred to is Fenton's Pa-
tent Anti friction Metal, a British invention, as appears
in our advertising columns.
It was once said by a crabbed old bachelor, that all
women were mysterious beings ; but could he have wit-
nessed the performance of the Mysterious lady, at Con-
gress Hall, he would, we doubt not, have exclaimed,
" Many daughters have done mysteriously, but thou ex-
cellest them all!" What would the people of Salem in
the days of witchcraft have said or done to a woman
whose wonderful faculties would have enabled her to
name articles that she saw not, and to name cards (with-
out seeing them) indiscriminately drawn from a pack ?
The various perfcrmanFes are really most amusing and
wonderful, and were witnessed last evening, with infinite
pleasure and gratification, by a very large and elegant
company of ladies and gentlemen.—Boston Transcript.—
This lady is on a visit to Liverpool. See adv.
Intelligent as most certainly the community new are,
comparatively with the state of society in former times,
still there appears to have been one essential matter over-
looked in the search for intelligence and happiness. How
often do medical men recommend exercise to their patients
for Indigestion, Liver Complaints, Costiveness, Sick
Head-aches, &c. Females leading an inactive life, and
thousands of both sexes are, through their sundry avoca-
tions, debarred from that exercise in a pure atmosphere
which is essential to health ; to all such, therefore, we
would recommend the occaisonal use of that excellent
Family Medicine, PRAMPTON'SPILL OF HEALTH, which,
as a restorative, a gentle aperient, and a promoter of a
healthy action of the system, stands unequalled in public
estimation.