The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-26 00:00:00

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a a portion of the

got up for their amusement last week in San Sebastian.
" Between two ships a large rope hung across the sea,
and in the middle was tied a live
to be wrung off by men who jurr

goose, whose Deck wa.

from boats which passed under the rope; and, really, see•
ink these men one after another jump from the boat and
rise in the sir, each holding the bird's head fast in his

band, was not the

boat dived under the water, an

,ban ever

Imetimes repeated st vrral

, when the roan succeeded in wringing off the
the. boat

,ore's neck, down he went int(
turned to pick him up." W

amiable tastes must

these royal personages pOsSeas I Un the following nays
their Majesties attended the favourite sport of bull-
fighting, and were delighted with the spectacle of the
picadores being crushed, and the horses " beina goaded
on with their entrails trailing on the ground I" So
much fcr the enlightenment of a country in which Popery
is in the ascendant. Her Majesty, Queen Isabella, at-
tended the religioug ceremony on the occasion of the
Alp.umption of the Virgin, and prayed very devoutly on
her knees. We are informed however that she "would
have preferred seeing the bull-fight, as she is very partial
to the amusement ;" and she accordingly gratified her-
self in the evening with that delightful pastime.

LIVERPOOL, PRESTON, AND NORTH ONION RAIL-
WAY.—Upon this line we are disposed to look with very
great favour in preference to the Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston line, despite the fearful odds which we en-
counter in striving against the prestige attached to any
scheme to which the member for Sunderland lends his
name and sanction. The Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union line is one of the cases in which we believe the
judgment of the railway potentate to be erroneous. By
the proposed Liverpool, Ormskiik, and Preston, he will
have to construct no less than twenty-seven miles of new

country which has been so ingeniously
)icked out as to go over every bit. of bad ground there
.sists on the way, with all the disadvantages and cun-
.

railway

r comitant expenses attending a separate entrince into the
p town of Preston. He will thus pos•eaa all the evils of a
,9 state of isol•ition, without enjoying the advantage of
being independent or free from competition. Every ob-
ject—we repeat the phrase emphatical'y, every object

ontemplated—not to say effec:eti—by li;s line, is met by
ens of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union,
of expense less than half that of the
opposing scheme. By the construction of seventeen
miles of new railway through a country selected with the
greatest care for favourable gradients. consistent with the
most complete accommodation of the district, this line
will t fleet every object contemplated by the other at
less than half the cost ; while, instead of challenging
opposition on every side, it wilt have the sanction of
existing interests, and must receive the ready and cordial
support of the landholders through whose property it is
to pass. Under such circumstances we are fully prepared
to look forward to the successful result of an application
to parliament.—MancAnter Advertiser.

and at a saving