The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

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orders of the House by three, four, or five instalments,
as the parties applying may wish. This the speaker will
do by specifying in the order the number of instalments.

Part of the Furness Railway, having to run along a
marsh called Salthouse Marsh, which is covered by high
tides. an embankment was formed whereon to lay the
rails. During the late gales, the sea swept away the

whole of the embankment, doing damage to the estimated
amount of £2,000. The works will not be resumed this

winter

RAILWAY SHARES AND A DISSOLUTION. Appre-
hension of a dissolution of Parliament has had great in-
fluence on many of the scrips, from a belief that all the
bills left over last session will have to begin de novo.
We may, therefore, remind holders that it is quite com-
petent for a new Parliament to get over this difficulty, by
a resolution, or, if necessary, by a short bill ; and that as
a matter of fairness it is almost certain. they will do so.
THE BROAD AND NARROW GUAGE.—The experiments
for testing the tractive capacity of the broad guage engine
will commence on Tuesday (this day). The first experi-
ment will be made with a train of eighty tons, exclusive
of engine and tender, to Didcot, fifty-three miles. From
our knowledge of the working of the Great Western line,
we venture to predict that the time occupied in the journey
will vary from about fifty-eight to sixty-four minutes.—
Railway Standard. _ _

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.—The London and
York board have at last determined on considering Mr.
Hudson's proposals, and it appears most probable that
they will accept them. The greatest indisposition has
been exhibited, on the part of the London and York
board, to the interests of the shareholders in this matter ;
but those who know Mr. Hudson, are well aware that he
does not headily give in in anything he undertakes.—Rail-
way Herald.
TuE CROYDON ATMOSPHERlC.—Preparations are be
ing made for laying down a second pipe on the Croydon
line. If the Atmospheric system is to be made use of at
all there must be a double pipe and a double set of rails.
This will make a complete thing of it. Hitherto it has
proved a decided failure; occasionally they cannot get a
vacuum at all in the pipe; and this is not the fault of the
engines, which are of the most beautiful and perfect work-
manship, but of the longitudinal valve itself. It is within
our knowledge that the engines have pumped for twenty
minutes without any effect whatever. This is the true
reas.in why the public are not carried upon the line. We
venture to predict that, if they ever carry out a double
atmospheric line, they will find the expense not less than
from £17,000 to £20,000 per mile, in addition to all that
is necessary for the working of a locomotive over it.—
Railway Standard.
NAMES IN RAILWAY PROSPECTUSES.—At the Man-
sion Howe, London, on Wednesday, Mr. Charnock,
barrister, applied for a summons against the Secretary
of the Thames, Southend, and Northern and Eas ern
Railway, for inserting the name of Mr. Richard Garde,
a member of the bar, in the prospectus of the company,
without his authority. Mr. Garde had called at the office
of the company and requested his name to be withdrawn,
which was promised, though it afterwards appeared. Un
the sth inst. Mr. Garde was amazed at receiving from
Messrs. Cope and Eales an application for £lOBl, being
expenses incurred in surveying the line.. The demand
WAS made on the defendant " as a member of the com-
mittee of the line." Mr. Garde immediately wrote to the
surveyor, denying any connection with the line. The
magistrate wished for a copy of the prospectus, which
was not at hand, but which will be produced on a subse-
quent day.

NORTH UNION RAILWAY--A special general meeting
of the proprietors in this undertaking was held in the
offices of the company, in Preston, on Thursday last, for
the purpose of confirming a conditional arrangement made
on the 15th Sept. with the Grand Junction Company and
the Manchester and Leeds Company. The report stated
that all the works, property, and effects of the railway
would be vested in, and transferred to, the Grand Junc-
tion and Manchester and Leeds, subject to all engage-
ments, obligations, and liabilities, in consideration of a
perpetual annuity of £lO for every £lOO of stock A, and
£7 for every £lOO of stock B, to commence at the expi-
ration of the present year, and to be paid in perpetuity in
half-yearly payments, free from all deductions, save in-
come or any government tax of that description. The
Grand Junction takes and has the exclusive management
of the line from Parkside to Preston, and is to pay
£42,168 9s. per annum ; the Leeds Company takes and
is to have the exclusive management of the line from BA-
ton to Preston, paving £23.895 9s. per annum ; making a
total annual payment of £66,063 184. Payments to be
made on the 15th February and 15th August ellen year,
and, if default is made, in fourteen days the North Union
to have the option of proceeding to recover the arrears
either at law or in equity, to distrain,-or to appoint, a re-
ceiver. The chairman highly eulogised the favourable
arrangements made on behalf of the company, for they
were secured a very handsome dividend upon the faith of
the first lints in the kingdom, without the slightest risk
on their part. After some conversation of great length,
the resolutions for the leased transfer of the line were
agreed to, and the directors invested with the powers usu-
ally conferred upon them when going before Parliament.
the branch to Norwich was confirmed, on the under-
standing that if the amalgamation line was lost this ses-
sion, it should not be proceeded with. The cost of this
bran& will be £20,000.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, PRIDAY

ACTION ON A BANKING ACCOUNT : POTTS AND OTHERS

V. EATON AND ANOTHER.

In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, an action
was brought by Potts - and others, bankers' assignees,;
against Eaton and another, for the recovery of the balance
of a banking account. It appeared that the defendant,
Eaton, had established a shop at Mostkn-quay, in Wales,
and that his main object in opening the concern was to
supply the workmen of a neighbouring colliery, in which
he had a part interest, with necessaries on-the old truck
system. He had ,a partner of the name of Jones. The
trade at Mostyn-quay went on until the year 1840, when
the premises and most of the stock were destroyed by fire.
The balance of the account with the bankers, Wetherby
and Co., when this occurrence took place, was £2,983, and
for that the action was' brought. The jury found for the'
defendant.

In the Court of Queen's-Bench, on Thursday, damages
to the amount of £lB4 were obtained against an attorney
named Caldwell, for negligence, in not entering a writ of
record in the manner required by law.
On Friday, in the Arches Court, Sir H. J Fust pro-
nounced sentence of deprivation on the Rev. Mr. Heath-
cote, convicted of an attempt at crime. -
In the Arches Couri on Friday Sir H. J. Fust pro.
nounced a sentence of deprivation and loss of all prefer-
ment on the Rev. Arthur Loftils, rector of Fincham, and
vicar of Heighton, Norfolk, for adultery, and other ex.
cessf..,s, and condemned him in the costs of the suit.
NON-LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS.—In the Exche-
quer Court, last week,-the case of Key v. Giles and others
was tried. The action was upon a bill of exchange for
£322, and the defendants pleaded that they were not ha.
ble. The case was nonsuited, with liberty to the plaintiff
to move, on the ground that no sufficient evidence had
been given of a recognition on the part of the defendants,
that the-company was to be carried on by the directors
until the whole of the capital had been subscribed.
CAUTION TO PUBLISHERS..—Henry Patterson, sta-
tioner, Auchtermuchty, pursued the Rev. T. Martin,
Strathminglo, for the value of the Penny Cyclopredia from
July, 1841, to December, 1843, amounting to £2 ss. The
Sheriff-Substitute assoilzied the defendant, the publishers
having pledged themselves, in the first volume, to com-
plete the work in twenty volumes, whereas it extended to
twenty-seven volumes. The Sheriff held that the pub-
lishers were bound to complete the work, and that the
subscribers and purchasers were not bound to pay for
more than twenty volumes, in terms of the publishers'
pledge.—Scotch Gazette.
BARON DE BODE versus THE QUEEN.—FinaI judg-
ment was delivered in this long-litigated case, by the
Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday.
The present Baron de Bode is the son of the late Baron of
the same name, who was born at Neuhoff, in tie princi-
pality of Fulda, now part of the electorate of Hesse. and
was a Colonel in the Regiment of Nassau Saarbuck Ger-
man Infantry, in the service of. the King of France. The
late Baron married Mary, the daughter of Mr. Thozhas
Kinnersley, Loxley-park, in the county of Stafford, and
the present Baron, the issue of that marriage, was born at
Loxley in 1777, and baptized at Uttoxeter in the following
month. At the breaking out of the' French Revolution,
the Baron was in possession of the ancient lordship of
Soultz.sous.Foret, in Lower Alsace, now forming the de-
partment of the Lower Rhine, in the kingdom of France.
This lordship was confiscated during the Revolution. At
the peace it was stipulated by treaty that all British sub-
jects should be adequately indemnified for their losses

during the Revolution. A large sum of money was paid
over to the British Government for that purpose—and the
Baron being a British subject, preferred his claim. After
an unparalleled course of law, the Baron recovered a ver-
dict in June last year, for the sun, of £364,206, with in-
terest from the Ist January, 1819. The Crown disputed
the verdict, and on Thursday the Court delivered judg-
ment, to the effect that the sum which was the subject of
the inquiry was not received personally by the Sovereign
or by any other pert-on for the personal benefit or use o
the Sovereign, and that any argument fo

ed upon the
contrary supposition, was inapplicable and invalid. For
these reasons the judgment upon the verdict was ordered
to be entered for the Crown.

GENERAL MISCELL ANY

Parliament has been further prorogued until the 30th
instant.

The Papists have pompously announced their intention
of praying "by name," for Dr. Pusey's conversion.
A serious boiler explosion, resulting in the death of two
men, took place on Friday week, at Segbill colliery.
A quantity of gooseberries were plucked from the gar-
den of Mr. Wood, of Tockwith, near York, last week.

Her Majesty has granted a free pardon to the Brazilian
convicts under sentence of death at Exeter.

The Bank of England is about to reduce the rate of
interest.

A young lady, yesterday week, at Neyland, while driving
a gig, cams in contact with a waggon, and was throw n on
the road, when the waggon passed over and killed her.

A poor child, which eras left alone in its cradle for a
few minutes. last week, at Pentonville, had its face fright-
fully mangled by a rat, its nose being nearly bitten off.
At the York Assizes last week. a man named Watson,
was acquitted on the ground of insanity of the murder of
his wife.

A free trade meeting was held at Perth oft Wednesday,
and though convened by the Lord Provost, the Whig
aristocracy refused to attend. -
The tenant of a mill and land at Durham has been fined
£lO for making n false return of the amount of his rent to
the Property Commissioness.

Peel Castle, Isle of Man, is at present undergoirg ex•
tensive repairs, preparatory, it is supposed, to troops be-

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ing permanently stationed -it that place.
A ripe strawberry, grown in the open air, in the gar-
den of Miss Lilly, Retreat Cottage, Glanmire, near
Cork, was pulled last week.
The Rev. J. N. White, rector of Tivetshall, and brother
of the poet Henry Kirke White, who has been for some
time suffering from, defective vision, fell into a pond on
his premises, on Tuesday last, and was drowned.
The directors of the South Shields Water Works pur-
pose, if three thousand families will agree to take the wa-
ter, to supply the working classes of the town with water
ad libitum at the rate of a penny per week.
POST-OFFICE MISMANAGEMENT.—It is a strange and
anomalous fact, that a letter from Paris reaches Galashiels
sooner than one from Glasgow, the latter usually lying 24
hours at Edinburgh.—Border Watch.
THE VALUE OF A SURVEYOR.—A London engineer,
who visited Taunton during the last week, publicly offered
£3OO for the services of a surveyor acquainted with the
locality for ten days!
At the York assizes last week, Edward Lunn, a re-
spectable druggist at York, was acquitted of a charge of
manslaughter in occasioning the death of an aged female,
by dispensing to her laudanum instead of a cough mixture.
Mr. WM. Akers, a parsimonious and eccentric indivi-
dual, who died the other day in London, aged 87, has be-
queathed £6OOO to her Majesty, to be applied towards the
liquidation of the national debt.
SCARCITY OF MASONS.—At Merthyr, and the district
of the iron works, it is almost impossible to get masons,
even at high wages. Many more houses would be built if
carpenters and other workmen could be procured.
Jane Clifton, a child aged nine weeks, died lately at
Burwash. from the want of sufficient nourishment, the
mother being in great destitution, living principally on
turnips.
The Perthshire Courier states that Blackwood and Mr.
Stephens are right in estimating the crop in Scotland
equal to, if not above an average, and as far as the cereal
crops are concerned, there is an abundant return.
The High Sheriff of York has convened a public meet-
ing of the inhabLants of the West Riding at Wakefield,
on Wednesday (to-morrow), to petition for the repeal of
the corn-laws. _ _ _

MUNIFICENT DONATION.—The Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge has just received the handsome
sum of 1,0001. from an anonymous contributor signing
himself " A Friend Unknown."

The Court of Exchequer has decided that the Great
Western Railway Company, in running the special trains
past Swinton without stopping, violated their agreement
with the keeper of the refreshment rooms there.
A tailor, on Wednesday, returning from Dumfries to
an adjoining village, fell into a ditch and was dr.wned.
although the water was not more than three inches deep;
but the obstruction of his head caused it to overflow.
On Monday night a man on Leith pier hearing some-
thing struggling in the water, sent in his dog. The gal-
lant animal soon returned with the body of a female, who
had a few minutes prevously fallen in. She was speedily
restored.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in re=
publishing a little tract on " Palestine," by the Rev. C.
P. %I ilbraham, late curate of Bolton, has carefully sup-
pressed the word Protestant wherever it occurs in the
original. _ _

A mother stands charged at the Hereford assizes with
endeavouring to murder her illegitimate male child, not
three weeks old, by leaving it quite naked and uncovered,
in a field, exposed to a cold wind and pitiless storm a few
evenings ago.
A man of very depraved character, a letter carrier at
Rugby, has been taken into custody, for stealing letters
containing money and other valuable property. The
students at Rugby School are said to have lost nearly £SOU
worth of property by this man's treachery.
The celebrated Professor Liebig says that wine, spirits,
and beer, are necessary principles for the important pro-
cess of respiration ; and that the stomachs of all mankind,
teetotallers included, secrete those articles from the food
which is eaten.

M. Fadieff, a Russian chemist, recommends that gun-
powder should be mixed with powdered charcoal and
black lead, which will prevent it from exploding. When
the powder is wanted for use it can be readily separated
from the mixture by means of a hair sieve.
The Secretary of the Board of Stamps and Taxes offi-
cially states, in reply to a dissenting minister, that parties
whose incomes are derived solely from voluntary contri-
butions are not required to make a return of the same for
assessment under the Property Tax Act.
At Edinburgh, last week, an old woman who was in a
state of intoxication, after loosening her stays, attempted
to pull them over her head, and pulled them so firmly over
!Inv. mnnth na to tia nrs Wiz to p‘trient, herself. and to

caused suffocation.
Mr. Spencer 'Hall, in a letter to the Standard, claims
for mesmeric science the honour of the victory the Tones.
has obtai

~ed in revealing the decision of the Privy council
on the corn-taiv. question, •He says the Times 11;39 staked
its credit' on the revelatiorr of elairvOyent.

In answer to a question agree( oy tine
Doncaster to be submPtedto Robert Hall, Esq. the re.
conler of the borough, as to the legality of the council
t.lcing shares in any projected Tine or lines of rail Way, the
learned entleinan is nlideistbod to hale "expressed his
opinion, that the adoptidn of such a proceeding is illegal
and contrary to the intention of the municipni act.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.