The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY INMLLIGEAGE.

ADAM SMITH STOLEN WHEN A CHILD.—When
child of only three years old, he was stolen by a gang of
the vagrants, called, in Scotland, tinkers, and resembling
gipsies in their habits : the same race which Fletcher, of
Saltoun, describes as having, in [his day, become so nu-
merous as to form a considerable portion of the Scottish
people. It was a fortuuate circumstance that, being soon
missed, his uncle, at whose house be was residing, pur-
sued the wretches, and restored him to his affrighted pa-
rent.—Lord Brougham's Lives of Men of Letters.
A DOG'S KNOWLEDGE OF TIME.—It is a curious fact,
that dogs can count time. I had, when a boy, a favour-
ite terrier, which always went with me to church. My
mtither, thinking that he attracted too much of my atten-
tion, ordered the servant to fasten him eip every Sunday
morning. He did so once or twice, but never afterwards.
Trim concealed himself every Sunday morning, and either
met me as I entered the church, or I found him under
my seat in the pew. Mr. Southey, in his " Omniana,"
informs us that he knew of a dog, which was brought up
by a catholic, and afterwards sold to a protestant, but
still he refused to eat anything on a Friday.—Jesse's
Anecdotes of Dogs.
TIIE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE CORN BILL.—IS not
this a singular state of affairs ? The strength of the ar-
gument confessedly with the Protectionists ;—the bill, if
passed at all, to be passed by the votes of men who dislike
both it and its author ! About one-fourth of the House
of Lords are coerced into the support of it,—hating the
measure heartily all the while,—lest Sir Robert Peel's
government should be broken up. Another fourth are
similarly coerced into an equally unwilling support ; for,
as Lord Londonderry remarked, there are not six mem-
bers of the house who ever thought such a thing possible
till within these few weeks ;—by the assurances of Lord
John, that only by this path can he attain the government.
So that 100 peers are to vote for a bill which they hate, in
order to keep Sir R. Peel in office; and another 100 are
to vote for the same bill, in order to bring Lord John into
office ! Both parties cannot be right;—which of the two
is deceived ?—.Herald.
LORD STANLEY'S CONCLUDING APPEAL TO THE
Loans.—My lords, if I know anything of the constitu-
tional value of this house, it is that it should interpose a
wholesome and salutary obstacle to rash and inconsider-
ate measures—to protect the people against the conse-
quences of their own indiscretion. It has never been, and
it never will be part of the functions of this house to resist
the continuous expression of deliberately formed and
united public opinion—that your lordships will never be
disposed to do; hut you will oppose a check to the pro-
gress of hasty and irreparable measures. It is yours, al-
though the constitution would hardly be deemed to pro-
vide such a security—it is yours to protect the people, not
against their own caprices and hasty judgments, but
against the treachery of those above them, and chosen as
their leaders. My lords, if acting on your own deliberate
and impartial judgments, you scorn the degrading suspi-
cion of acting from unworthy motives—if you pursue that
course which, in your own consciences, you believe to be
for the good of the empire, you may be unsuccessful, but
not disgraced ; yell may be conquered and overborne by
numbers, but not degraded. You may fail to save the
people from the threatened evil, but you will secure the
approbation of your friends, and compel the respect of
your opponents. And, my lords, if, by the blessing of
God upon your proceedings this night, you can arrest the
progress of hasty and ill-advised measures, and give time
for the intelligence of the country to act upon the public
mind,—if you should be happily successful in bringing it
back to wiser councils, then, indeed, you may be proud of
what you have achieved ; you may be proud of having dis-
charged the duties which the constitution has imposed up-
on you—proud of having performed those duties, unre-
duced by the allurements of power, and uninfluenced by
the intimidations of agitation—proud of having saved your
country from serious and irreparable evils. Your best re-
ward, my lords, will be the consciousness of having per-
for:ned your duty. But you will have another—you will
have the reward which will arise from the approbation and
the thanks of an admiring people, who will exclaim— ' Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of
" Thank God that we have a House of Lords now !" Bath, with every appearance of an abundant crop.
COSTUME OF A GERMAN SPORTSMAN.—The costume It is rumoured that Ibrahim Pacha is to quit Paris en
of a German jager appears somewhat strange to those who June 5, to proceed to London.
are accustomed to the trim dress of the English sports- The Daily News sys that Czerski, the German re-
man ; and as he is an animal not often seen by our touring former, is expected in this country in a few weeks.
countrymen, we may as well describe him. At first sight It is said that the vacancy in the Lord Chamberlainship,
it appears strange how he can even walk with any corn- occasioned by the resignation of Earl Dolawarr, is not
fort ; as to shooting, that we confess, until we had an op- likely to be immediately filled up.
portunity of personal observation, appeared to us quite PRICE OF BREAD.—The price of the 41b. loaf has been
out of the question. The coat, which is usually made of considerably reduced by the London bakers—in some in-
some very thick warm cloth, is long in the skirts—longer, stances the fall is as much as 11d.
at least, than any of the shooting jackets we are accus- Agnes Browne, of Stamford, in her will, dated 1470,
tomed to behold ; thick cord or leather unspeakables ; bequeathed £75 "to a priest, to sing for her fifteen years
and huge jack boots, bigger than any guardsman's, are the continually."
main articles of his dress. The hat is conical in the On Wednesday last, the church spire at Cheiter-le-
crown, end wide in the leaf, like a Spanish sombrero. It street, Durham, was struck by lightning and much shat-
is made of green or white felt ; and, besides sundry deco. tered.
rations—such as the family crest, if the wearer happen to The notorious Joseph Ady was, on Thursday, commit-
be a nobleman, or some little fanciful device, if be be of ted for trial, on a second charge of obtaining money under
inferior rank—there are usually great bunches of feathers false pretences.
stuck in the front. Suspended from the shoulders by a Two of Lord Francis Egerton's gamekeepers were at-
broad leather strap hangs at one side, a huge game bag, tacked by poachers on Sunday morning, and one of them
made of leather or of twisted cord, and along the top of dreadfully, if not mortally, injured.
which is a device which we take this opportunity of re- The hay cutting is rapidly going forward around Lei-
commending to such of our Cockney friends as are fond of cester.
sporting, and at the same time have no desire to conceal A man named Richard Burrow, of Malvern, has been
their success. It consists of a number of small loops. or committed to Worcester gaol for trial on the charge of
running nooses, fastened in a row on the outside of the biting off the ear of Edward Thomas, in the course of an
bag, from which are suspended the beads of any unfortu- affray at North Malvern.
nate birds which happen to fall victims to the sportsman's A barrister named Ward, while labouring under brain
skill. From the other shoulder, slung by another broad fever, got out of his bed-room window, at the house of his
leathern band, depends the gnn ; and bow it could ever be brother, Dr. Ward, of Kensington, London, and fell into
got off in time for firing was to us a marvel. Another the area, by which he was killed on Saturday last.
leathern strap is fastened somewhere about the person, , An explosion of fire-damp took place at Mostyn col-
and at the end of it the setting dog—for he is rarely al. liery on Monday evening last. Five men and boys were
lowed to range the fields—meekly follows his master, who, considerably burnt, and a horse and fivemen were injured
thus equipped at all points, with a long pipe in his mouth, by the blast.
and, should the weather happen to be at all cold, a huge A CURIOUS BIRD'S NEST.—A few days since Mr.
bear-skin concern, something like the sporran of a High- John Hubbard, Burton Joyce, found a tom-tit's nest,
lender, in front, for the purpose of thrusting both his containing several young ones, in an old hat placed on a
hands into, the German sportsman goes forth to the stick in his gardens.—Nottingham Journal.
slaughter ; and the mode in which he does so is pretty REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—One of the men now engaged
nearly as follows:—He walks across a field, to where the as conductor to an omnibus plying between the railway
" trieb" or beat is appointed. He is posted with his back station at Leamington and Warwick, was, in ]B3l, mayor
against a tree, and looks listlessly on, while the beaters of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon.
advance with loud shouts, driving whatever game is in the The underwriters at Lloyd's, in preparation for any
field before them. A big lump of a bare, something contingency arising from the hostile position of affairs on
smaller than an Irish calf, cornea cantering along, at first the other side of the Atlantic, refused, last week, to
apparently unconscious of the least cause for alarm. At insure American vessels, except at advanced premiums.
last it discovers this singular apparition, and stops short The duty on foreign wheat at present is 16s. per quarter,
to have a look. The jager meanwhile cocks both barrels ; at which, however, it is not likely, under existing circum-
and taking this opportunity to get a quiet aim, raises his stances, that there will he much cleared from bond. The
gun, covers the bare as well as he can through the haze of grain markets throughout the country continue in a very
tobacco smoke which surrounds him, he fires. The languid state.
quarry seems surprised at the noise, looks round, and gal- A man named Park has been committed at Durham
lops right up to the sportsman, who then gets flurried as for the manslaughter of William Robson, at Quarrington-
he sees it approaching ; he endeavours to take a better hill, in that county. The two were quarrelling about a
aim with his second barrel, but the hare comes up so fast, gun, and in the scuffle for it, it went off, and Hobson was
he cannot ;if he fires, he may possibly shoot off the ex- killed.
treme end of the tail—if he does not, it puts its best foot The large fish which was observed last week in the
foremost, and bolts past at the top of its speed, leaving Medway was washed ashore on Monday morning, near
the sportsman much exasperated and inclined to swear. Upnor. It proves to be what is called a " white whale."
Such is a scene which we have often witnessed. It is by It is of the genus Beluga, and measures thirteen feet long,
no means an exaggerated picture of the trieb, or " jagd," and is six feet in circumference.
where the sportsmen are drawn up in a hollow square, Some months since, a horse was stolen from Mr. Cross,
around a large field, the game found in which is obliged to of Glentworth, who, having employed a gentleman as
run the gauntlet through a formidable array of jagers ; agent to purchase him another, it is not a little surprising
and although occasionally a good shot is to be found that he should buy and deliver to Mr. Cross his own
among the German jagers, as a class they are the worst horse ! Such, however, is the fact, and the police enter-
appointed, the most clumsy, and the slowest sportsmen we taro hopes of being able to trace out the original thief.
have ever had an opportunity of observing.—Dublin Uni- The last steamer from Halifax brought over a quantity
varsity Magazine. of new Canadian or Oregon caviare, an esteemed delicacy
AN OLD ENGLISH COUNTRY INN.—A more lovely prepared from the sturgeon, for the supply of which we
country does not exist than all that fertilized by the have hitherto been solely indebted to Russia. The cargo
" Wharfe," the most beautiful river for its size, and also included a quantity of canvass back ducks, preserved,
flowing amongst scenes the most delicious and diversified, a very rich delicacy.
to be found in any part of England, or even Europe. CRICKET.—EXTRAORDINARY HIT.—On Saturday, in
From Harewood Bridge (or even Tadcaster) to Skipton, a match between the Marylebone Cricket Club and ele-
by Ilkley, Otley, Bolton, and Barden Tower, the Wharfe ven members of the University, the Earl of Stamford
winds amongst a succession of beauties. Meadows of struck a ball clean over a building in the gaol, the height
deepest soil, on which beef is produced worthy of the of which is 20 feet, and the distance from the wicket 240
name, with alternate amphibious woods, half on land, feet.
half in water, grass, and waterfalls, complete the changing Sir George Murray is again in a dangerous state of
scene. The deer-park and manor-house of the squire— health. Within the last few days he has ruptured a blood-
the farmstead and comfortable dwelling of the yeoman— vessel, and the most serious apprehensions are entertained.
, with the neat, yet humble cottage of the labourer, are all Sir George is about the same age as- the Duke of Wel-
in the background of this unrivalled picture. When you lington. and with the single exception of his Grace, there
I get to Bolton Bridge to dine, and find a room in an inn is not another name of more established reputation in
furnished with easy chairs, pictures, and Turkey carpet, the British army.
with windows opening upon a lawn, across which, through On Friday week as two young ladies were walking on
vistas of laurel, rhododendron, and roses, you see the the road between Worcester and Whittington, they were
lovely prospect and distant hills, you fancy you have mis- met by a cow, belonging to Mr. Hook, of Norton, when
taken the hotel, and got into the duke's shooting-box ; , one of the ladies having a natural fear of these animals,
but if you ring the bell and order dinner, the very neatest ran away screaming, whereupon the cow pursued her and
of all country lasses will bring a trout fresh from the tossed her several times, cutting her face and otherwise
stream, weighing a couple of pounds, place a chicken, bruising her severely.
boiled home-cured bacon, with beans and parsley and Immediately after the race for the Derby on Wednesday,
butter before you (which, if of the true faith, you will a carrier pigeon, belonging to Mr. Oxley, the proprietor
ask for), and with a smile, as she hands you the bread, of the Windsor Express newspaper, was tossed on Epsom
inquire if you drink ale or water? /say the latter, and.a Downs, with the names of the three first horses attached
pint of old port afterwards, which sip with open windows in the usual way. Within less than thirty minutes after-
and half-closed eyes in delicious languor, ruminating on 1 wards, the bird alighted on Mr. Oxley's pigeon-house.
your walk and its delights, taking your first glass to the The distance from Windsor to Epsom is very nearly thirty
health of " absent friends." Tell me not of chariots and miles, straight across the country.
phaetons, or any other conveyance, as aids for seeing RUSTIC SIMPLICITY.—One of the servants of the Mid-
these things, but your feet. * * I cannot quit this land Company, at the Nottingham station, a few days
most beautiful of all beautiful spots, and most unique of ago, received a letter from his lady-love in the country,
country inns, without one lingering reminiscence. Before upon which he had to pay twopence. On opening it, bow-
you retire to the chamber allotted to you for the night, ever, be found that the writer had enclosed one of the
at " the Bridge" (one replete with comforts and cleanli- postage stamps with which he had supplied her, " lest if
ness), pull off your shoes and gaiters in the kitchen, it she stuck it on the outside it might be lost or stolen, and
only to get a sight of it. The white stone floor and hearth cost her dear Richard an extra penny."—Nollinyham
are swept and sanded for the evening. The large range, Mercury.
boiler, oven, and fire, are as bright as the sun just setting At Rome, on the sth ultimo, the Rev. George Dudley
over Barden Tower. The long plane-tree table and Ryder, his wife, Mrs. Ryder, his sister, Miss Sophia
dresser are much whiter than this paper. The bacon and Ryder, and his three eldest children, were received into
hams, incrusted with flour and salt, hang in goodly rows the Roman Catholic Church by Cardinal Acton. The
high above your head. The dish covers, crockery, and Rev. G. Ryder is the second son of the late Lord Bishop
warming pan, brilliantly garnish the walls—the old- lof Lichfield and Coventry. nephew of the Earl of Har-
fashioned clock is ticking in the corner. A large "horse" rowbv, and first erelein of Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, Esq.,
is before the fire, with a pair of sheets on his back, in- of Grace Dieu e. .. Mrs. George Ryder is the sister-
tended for your slightly fatigued limbs, and the bonny in-law of the Lot d Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Wilberforce.
tidy lass ironing, at a small side table, a few of her mis- EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A BOY.—On Sunday
tress's caps, and her own. I have been in a few of the evening, a lad about seventeen years of age, named Wil-
kitchens of France, and have seen the dreadful dens, the Liam Bowman, residing with his brother, who is a hair-
bearded, night-capped cook, taking a pinch of pepper for dresser, North Shields, was discovered to have hung him-
your cutlet, after having performed a similar civility to self. The boy had been left alone in the house, and on
his nose. The fowl, or " half gigot" of mutton, roasting his brother's return he found the door locked inside, and,
within one inch of the floor, before a few crackling sticks as no one answered tile knocking, another door, leading
—and that floor ! Enough, enough ; go into the kitchen from a side passage, was broken open, when the unfortu-
at Belton Bridge by all means, but keep out of all in nate youth was seen suspended from the ceiling, quite
France, if you wish even a twenty-miles walk to give you dead. The deceased was dressed in a style similar to the
the slightestl appetite; the former will in everything you culprit recently executed, whom he had seen, and the
see increase it ; the latter produce the " rnal de terre," neck was protected from the cord by a pillow, which had
if you persevere. But thank God we are yet at Bolton, been placed between the rope and the skin. A night cap
in our mind's eve. What a scene awaits you in the morn- was pulled over the face, and the legs were tied ; and an
ing, as you shake off the deep sleep of a pedestrian, and attempt seeu.ed to have been made to pinion the hands,
prepare for the ramble before you, one of the most lovely, but one was at liberty, having, it is supposed, got loose
for its extent, to be found in the whole world. You are during the poor fellow's struggles. The rope was drawn
awoke by that peculiarly pleasing sound, the whetting of through a ring bolt at the ceiling, and a chair seemed to
a scythe under your windows. The gardener is shaving have been used to jump off, and thus complete the catas-
the lawn of its week's growth of ambrosial beard,—not trophe. No reason, whatever, can be assigned for the
blue but beautifully green, and bathed in the healthy act. The deceased bad for years visited every execution
sweat of night. Every blade is loaded with dew; the sun which had taken place in London, having resided there
is streaming over the eastern hills and flowing Wharfe, until within a few months since. He also took great de-
fresh from the ocean.—Pedestrian Bemmiscences at light in reading accounts of the conduct and execution of
Home and .Abroad. criminals.

The opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle railway this
year is certain. _

The Morecombe Harbour and Railway Bill has been
approved by a committee of the House of Commons.
The East Lancashire Railway is expected to be opened
in the course of next September.
The Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company
have determined, by a majority of 55,202 shares, to pro-
ceed with the undertaking.
The Furness Railway is about completed, and was to be
publicly opened for the conveyance of both passengers and
traffic on Whit-Monday (yesterday.)
The shareholders in the Grand Junction Railway, at a
meeting on Tuesday, agreed to proceed in Parliament for
all their bills.

The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Bill was read a third time in the House of Com-
mons on Friday, and passed.
RAILWAY SURVEYORS.—In the course of the trial of
an action in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday,
brought by a surveyor to recover remuneration for ser-
vices performed for a railway company in September and
October last, some of the witnesses stated that 10 guineas
a day for a surveyor was a very reasonable sum at that
time ; and that they had known an engineer receive £306
for ten days' work.
DOMINIONS OF THE GREAT RAILWAY POTENTATE.—

In cross-examination by Mr. Wranghana, before the com-
mittee upon the Eastern Counties Extensions Bill, Mr.
Hudson, M.P., said that he " was chairman of the Ber.
wick and Newcastle, the Newcastle and Darlington, the
Great North of England from Darlington to York, the
York and North Midland from York to Normanton, the
Midland from Normanton to Rugby, the Branch from
Rugby to Derby, the Birmingham and Gloucester, the
Gloucester and Bristol. the Leeds and Bradford, and the
Eastern Counties Companies, as well as of several branches
from the Midland to Hull and elsewhere. Those com-
panies represented a capital of between 50 and 60 millions
sterling. That was the present extent of his dominions."
A responsibility so great was seldom placed upon one
man's shoulders.

PREAMBLES PROVED.—During last week considerable
progress has been made in the bills before Parliament.
The preambles of the following have been declared proved.
In the Lords :--Midland Sys°o❑ and Peterborough. In
the Commons—proved:—Airdrie and Mon klands ; Buck-
inghamshire—Thring to Banbury ; Glasgow Southern
Terminal; Grand Junction (Hutton to Warrington) ;
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds, London and Birming-
ham (Camden and Euston Stations); Midland (Notting-
ham and Mansfield); Midland and Eastern Counties—
Cambridge and Weedon ; Midland (Burton on Trent and
Nuneaton) ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
South Wales, No. 2, with Amendments. Not proved :
Caledonian (Dundyvan Branch) ; Caledonian (Langholm
Branch) ; London and South Essex, Halesworth and Nor-
wich, Ipswich, Norwich and Yarmouth ; Norfolk (Exten-
sion to Stowmarket); North Gravesend, North British
(Carlisle Extension) ; St. Helen's Canal, and Waveney
Talley.

THE CJURT ty FASHIONABLE WORLD,

We are happy to say, that the Queen and the infant
Princess are going on most favourably. The daily calls of
the nobility and gentry at Buckingham Palace continue to
be very numerous. Prince Albert and the junior mem-
bers of the Royal Family have taken their accustomed ex-
ercise, and continue in excellent health.
We hear that the infant Princess is to be named Eliza-
beth, after the " Virgin Queen," whose reign was among
the most brilliant in the annals of English history.

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