The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-24 00:00:00

i. Mr,
verpool, last.,
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,ore will enable them to seize Peshawur. nanta desirous of building, or rebuilding, or draining, are
In the interior of India tranquility prevails. The death to apply for forms of proposal and printed instructions,
of Old Chundoo Loll, the Prime Minister of the Nizam, which forms are to be filled up when furnished, and two
accordir
has taken place. The Mahratta country was quiet. The copies to be furnished, one of which is to be sent to the
court-martial on Colonel Wallace had terminated, but the ads
landlord. The tenant, having then received the Commis-
sinner's answer, may make the proposed improvements, d to
der, lion was not known.
rice(
Scinde was tranquil and healthful ; one or more of the if authorised, the landlord having power to inspect them
Bombay regiments were expected to leave before the rains n to
during their progress, and to require a preliminary in-
began.
aainu;
quirt as to the suitableness of the improvements pro-
The news from China comes down to the end of March. posed. The assistant commissioner, the improvements
The Emperor htd received some favourable notices of being finished, is, if the landlord require it, to ascertain RACE
Christianity, and was disposed to tolerate it. Lieutenant the cost of the improvements, and to report what sum gsembl
A. NI-Donald, of her Majesty's 98th regiment, had been the tenant is to be allowed ; or in case of improvements nchesti
tried by a court-martial, for sending an insulting note to being completed by the landlord, what sum is to he al. 0 yards
his superior officer; he was sentenced to be cashiered; lowed to him. In ease of eviction the Assistant-Com- ar Bur,
but on a revision, a milder punishment has been inflicted. missioner shall also state whether and when the tenant h, who 1
Major-General Sir T. Valiant died of spasmodic cho- has been evicted; and a similar inquiry is to tat—
me yard
tera on the 22d of April, at Calcutta. Cursetjee Manock- as to the death and termination of the tenantry. weep Ea
jee, a distinguished Parsee, died at Bombay, on the 7th of rules are laid down to limit the amount of allowance and Wes,. _ d Willoc
May, in his 83d year. disallowance in all these cases. The commissioner is then occasion. Ne e ie._
;
There were several frightful murders amongst the na. to prepare a certificate of allowance of compensation, and projectors of the line Is.
in quest,—
" MELO. —John Day,
,we 'end _ I tives in Bombay.
, __-. .
to-register that certificate, and to send copies to the land- occasion to rejoice at their own defeat. it
tie.-
made ase to Mr P
_ . ••
eeie atone • -
Islam Khan, the only one of the robber chiefs who bad lord—such certificate being conclnsive as to the claim. sion is an important boon to the author of a literary i lelody, that kr-
o his life "'
...... ie •L
escaped from being taken prisoner by Sir C. Napier. had If the tenant be evicted, or die, and his tenancy, then, or work, it is a still more important one to the proiee'
cure the" -
returned to make a foray into Scinde, but he was attacked within thirty years of' the proposal, determine, the sum a great public undertaking ; and of the a' flair was
and beaten by the Murree tribe, by whom the British allowed the tenant for building or rebuilding is to be re- nalely, we maintain, alluwee • The c'
friendship is respected, and who killed two Boogtee chiefs coverable from his then landlord. deducting one twenty- posed Birkenhead a'--'' • 3 that Jr
that joined him. The frontier appears to be well de- ninth thereof for each year, computed from one year after tainly me-- a crimin
fended. the date of the proposal. The allowance for drainage to :- ,ourse a
The question of the succession in Bhopal has been de- be recoverable on death or eviction, within fourteen years; there, 1
cid ed, by allowing the daughter of the late Ilajah to reign. and the remedy to be by action of debt—the tenant bay- ,market
She is to marry a Prince chosen by the British minister ing no claim but in cases above provided for. ee
and her friends.
MAYNOOTH STATISTICS.—We learn from a parlia-
mentary paper that the average number of students was,
stun was utea. in 1841, 427 ; 1842, 425 ; and in 1843, 433. The average th Lig
• a eenired it ea._ number of students annually admitted in 1841, 1842, and 1 Foot
he Drovj, e 1843, was 86; the average number of students who have aointe
accounts from Belgium state that Captain D'Hondt, of
d annually left the college within the same period, 86; and 11th
yr
the ship Industrial, bas made a discovery of three new
la I,
-lands in Polynesia, the average number of the latter who ace in holy orders,
wn 9'
ro -i66. The parliamentary vote of £8.928 is charged with ,ange
to t -eat part of the province of Silesia (Prussia) was the maintenance of 250 students. All the other students nerd'
551 . d
a`nti tilt. They in the college are maintained at their own expense, except ians(
g I .-
which a few who enjoy the benefit of private or family founds- 15t'
- St t
.. thins. The sum allowed out of the parliamentary vote base
is e for the support of the 250 students charged therein, in-
:Donsif t t Protestants settled on the shores of the M'e children
editer of
cluding, with the
ranean alimentary maintenance, the eeneral Acne,
-e e e.t and in the Levant, and of British residents in India, is heating, lighting, and repairs of the college, is £23 per ut 1
aotit about to be established at St. Julian's, Malta. annum. The estimate for 1841, 1812, and 1843, (the tl,
Ice .or their services. - BELGlUM.—Accounts from Brussels of the 16th an- same for each year,) of the charge of the said Roman a I 21:
.Itr
...end that we had proceeded upon an en- Catholic college amounted, as already mentioned, to ,e 7
nounce the resignation of all the ministers. It appears
e course in our intercourse with New Zealand, that the elections, both in the capital and Antwerp, had £8,928, which was voted in a committee of supply by the I 0 ieut
et t
and to support the opposition which Mr. Hole had given'House of Commons. Of this sum, £5,750 was appropri- polo
gone decidedly against the government candidates, and
vet to the motion of Mr. C. Buller. In the course of his ated to the subsistence, including commons, crude, can. 43d
eleven liberals had been returned. These unexpected re-
aJie
observations he amused the house by declaring that, ifdies. furniture, repairs, &e., of 250 students, at £23 each; seal I\
silts had such an effect upon several of the members of
far '
none but those who bad read the blue books published 0n£425 to commons for 17 masters, at £25 each ; £l,lOO 'e Mo
the cabinet, that a council was summoned ; and, after
, ex's this question were to be considered entitled to decide this to commons and allowance for 20 scholars in the Don- e9th Foot.—Lieut
some deliberation, all gave in their resignations. Baron question, the number of those who would have to decide boyne establishment, at £55 each ; £2.572 to salaries
D'Hurrt governor of Namur, and formerly finance mi.
portant portion, however, of the new line 2:41 Foot, to he 's
fr°.
et lit would be much less even than that of those who were • ' ••'• • i ' with including that of the president, at £326; that of the vice tires tot milt-pay as Lieutenant.
and had only tended to increase the amount of ignorance then 1 stening to 'the debate. water, was immediately sent for, and entrusted the
president, at £l5O ; that of the senior dean, at .£122 ; • •
IS 101 common cation with the Lancashire side of the
in Ireland. The plan he should recommend was that of formation of a new ministry. The visit of the king and
Mersey. It is well known that the enterprising projec-
Sir H. DOUGLAS supported the views of this motion that of the junior dean, at £ll2 : that of the second ju- half-pay of the 89th Foot, to be Captain, vice the I.l'
, bf,
the Church Education Society, which provided for the wind) had been so ably explained b Mr El '
. ope and Sir
, queen to England has in consequence been deferred.
nior dean, at £ll2 ; that of the prefect of the Dunbovne tors of the Birkenhead docks and warehouses a short J. It. Villiers, who exchanges. ;ewe, c,,
601 h Foot.—Brevet Major G. De Rottenburgha4eo.ll'
spiritual instruction of children under the !superintendence R. Inglis. He contended that it ways the duty of Lord Wavy INDIES,—The Forth, royal mail steam.ship, establishment, at £142 ; that of the bursar, at £122 ; while ago possessed themselves of the property, at the 69th Foot.—Ensign A. B. Hankey to he L Geo
of the parochial clergy, and he trusted this plan would
.Glenelg to have prevented the formation of this colony in Captain Chapman. arrived at Southampton on Thursday those of three,
professors of theology, at £122 each (4366 south end of Liverpool, known as the Herculaneum Es- purchase, vice K. Gore, who retires' ,G. Bagutt
to
find favour in the eyes of her Majesty's government. the first instance ender the auspices of the New Zealand evening from the West Indies, with the usual fortnightle altogether) ; that of a professor of tbe Sacred Scriptures fate, for the formation of docks and warehou•es, upon to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Flankiey. C'
The After several peers bad spoken, Company, and insisted that the Marquis of Normanby, mails, and nearly 100 passengers. The news brought by and Hebrew, at £122 ; that of a professor of matheme- which an act of parliament was already in existence. 711 Foot.—Major General Sir R. H. Dick, A.
The Duke of WELLINGTON explained, that, although
the Forth is of a rather meagre description. In Jamaica, From this point they now propose to carry a line of rail- be Colonel, vice Lieut Gen. Lord Harris, deceaselv/,
instead of indulging in strong writing, ought to have taken ties, at £ll2 ; that of a professor of logic, metaphysics,
he had many years ago been moat adverse to a system for strong measures against their audacious proceedings by nearly the whole of the crops were in, and exceeded the and ethics, at £ll2 ; that •of a professor of humanity, at way through the valley of the Mersey, to join the Bir- 75th Foot.—Capt R. Lane, from half-pay Una' Vett ,
the joint education of Protestants and Catholics, he had stopping the sailing of their vessels. Had he been the most sanguine expectations of the planters. The fine £ll2 ; that of a professor of rhetoric, at £112; that of a keehead and Manchester line at Warrington ; and a con- to be Captain, vice Basil Gray, who exchanges
vice
DAD°
ever since that system had been approved by the lepisla-
season was much in their favour, and there is no doubt nection will thus be I.reaed from the docks of Liverpool
governor of New South Wales, of which New Zealand professor of English elocution and French, at £ll2 •; and G. W. C. Stuart to be Captain, by purchase, vie 0,0/
lure earnestly supported it, and, as a law, by
his best was a dependency, he would have seized on all the emi- that the amount will be over 60.000 tons. The prospect that of a professor of the Irish language, at £112; to the to Manchester, by the Altrincham line, little inferior in who rttires ; Ensign C. Couche to be Lieutena
ot., tO
to carry it out. He exhorted the Irish people to follow
for the future, too, it appears, is good. The Blundell
grants sent out by the New Zealand Cornpany to New
pircuas, vice Stuart; . 1 itzger
eatery of the secretary of the trustees and treasurer, at Point of dibtance to that by the direct Liverpool and e. • C - at r ald Mahoney, Ge
a ef
this example, and declared the impossibility of making
Manchester line, whilst to Stockport and the surrounding
Zealand, and would have sent them all to New S th with two hundred bill coolies, had arrived: they were all
1.) Ensign by purchase, vice Couches .0. d
grants of money to the other religious sects in Ireland if
in excellent health at d spirits, and appeared to enjoy the £73 10a. ; the physician,at £52 10s. ; and the apothe-
districts it will form the nearest route. It will, more-
Wales, there to remain until the crown had authorized
~cary at £2OO. Thealtogether amounted to £279.
the Roman Catholic, which was well entitled to be called
change. In Barbadcee,:there had been some fine, invi- inchidinf wages.£ 0 -butler £lB over, have connexions with Leeds, Sheffield, and the
their settlement. He contended that the treaty of IN at. g those o the cook, et 4 , the, at
be vice H. Johnstone, who retires , le•.
the national religion of Ireland, were excluded.
1/106
tangi must be maintained. The New Zealanders knew its prating rains, and the new crops were progressing very 12s. ; four servants, at £l2 12s. each ; twelve servants, Humber, equal in point of advantage with its powerful to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hay.
11th e,
The conversation then dropped. stipulations, and if the British government intended to favourably. It is reported, however, that the late crops at 49 6s. each; and eight servants, at £7 6s. each. This
is the cheapness of its construction, and its '
competitor. One very material feature which it possesses be
Fooi.. tnsign J. G. Hay to
.be
.Lpie.utvven7 Doi'
98ih Fouts—Lieut. H. Hanson, from the
who
'
violate them, it woeld be as well for it to be prepared with will not be so productive as represented. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY makes a gross total of £10,126, from which, however,
bo
eats. It will run upon the water level throughout the to 0
the means. At present there was no other force in that • was deducted the sum of £1,193. consisting partly of the
changes.
tresor, _t,
island than the regiment which he had the honour to com- FRENCH FINANCES. whole distance to Manchester • good gradi-
rent of the Dunboyne estate (.£154), and partly of the and Stockport •; and thus Ceylon Rifle Regiment.—Major A. Mon
__ber,sv;;o
mend, and it was not provided with a single field gun. fees of admission from students (.£744). The number of will be rendered capable of being worked at moderate Lieutenant Colonel, without purchase, vice Flet'le to .
Dragoons to be Lieutenant, vice Bridgeman, w
Even with a greater force, the country must be prepared ,We have frequently reverted to the extraordinary dr- students actually at the present moment within Maynooth rates. To provide fur this, the tolls upon the line which retires upon full-pay; Brevet Major P. B. KeYlbe c.g,
to meet with a double loss and injury to its present ex- cnmstance, altogether unprecedented in the financial College amounts to 438. They are all, generally speak- it joins at Altrincham were reduced in committee to ato ,to
sited character.' Something, however, must be done to history of nations, that, in spite of the vast increase of ing, young men, varying in age from 18 to 35. maximum of 2d. per mile for passengers, and Id. forßayIY
urnfara G. fri
remedy the present evils under which that colony was the revenue of France, derived from the established merchandise. twin,lklajo Major,
vice Rayne
eneylnoen
;t r esseocro ;n
Second
Lieut.
Lieut. F .CB. B.
c.p
- - Reverting,
however, to the features of the original to be
labouring. He suggested to the government to resolve modes of taxation, there has not only been no reduction RAILWAY lIV Tit LLIGE IN CE.Tranchell, from the Royal Military College,
New Zealand into that higher order of colonial establish- whatever in the fiscal burdens supported by the tom- Cheshire project, i glance at the Map containing the pro- Lieutenant, vice Durntord.
, woe
merits which were entitled to a free representative system. munity, but there has still been a constant and increasing
accession of importance to this line. Retaining its for-
jected southern arid western tin s skews a vast prospective First Lieutenant, vice Bayly ; Gent. Cadet soon°
•
(Oro et
and to call upon the New Zealand Company to surrender excess of the expenditure over the revenue; and this The locomotives and other .machinery for the first rail-
—Mr. Itans, , t°,
way in Jamaica have arrived out. The line is to open on
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.
heir charter, and, in case of their non•compliance, to remark applies with, at least, equal force to the state- nier features as the communication from Manchester and the Ist of Auaust.
el 0,
merit of the present year. The total amount of the or- the manufacturing districts to Chester and Hot head, it y
Saturday e'en' see •0
eve
highly-respectable audience, on
dinary budget of 1846, voted in the present session, is The first of the railway bills of the session, reported is connected with the Cheater and Wrexham, and Shrews- it will
HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. ' 1,296,828,771 f., or about £52,000.000 sterling; but it is from the House of Lords as agreed to, were the Black- bury and Oswestry lines, for which acts are already his Illustrations of' Gipsy Life and Chirac!
F rom the advertisement in our columns,
to glue ire,
Lord CAMPBELL referred to the rejection of his three difficult to arrive at the exact amount of the expenses of burn, Burnley, Accrington and Colne Extension, and the passed. It forms also a portion of the chain of rojected that Mr. Malone Raymond has been engaged
n.,.oue sos *
sills for the amendment of the Law of Common Process, the year, which are much increased by the extraordinary Cheater and Holyhead—both on Monday night. lines from Manchester to Newtown, Welahpool, and popular Irish entertainment, entitled, AI! will dreg
land. We doubt not but that Mr. Raymond
race" irn'
and thought it uncourteous in the House of Commons to additions to the budget, by the appropriation of the FIRSTSALE orßAnwAy SHARES BY PUBLIC AucTioN. Aberystwith, accommodating the immense mineral traffic
do so, without a discussion, after the bills had received sinking fund to other purposes, and by the applications
sanction of their lordships. —The trial experiment of this mode of disposing of railway of South Wales ; and, by its branch to the Bolton and good home.
of sums voted in previous sessions for public works. stock took place on Tuesday,at the Commercial Side - *nom Leielt- ens teTnee's I --i--- Lee-
the revenue, it Temple-come. A large attendance se—
*ttc 'hat the fors

resolutions proposed by ,
iot
,be induced to give them. his sup

200 to 100 that he tit(
id kill fifty pigeons..

chat the alternative line by Woodhouse and Brighton, to J. Shawcross, of Staleybring.
the Midland Railway, would not pros ide for the interest of go nine miles in two hours si
the inhabitants of Sheffield, and that the meeting regarded Friday he commenced with tht,
with regret the opposition off.red to the project, oy the six on each side of him, in the centre of t.
Duke of Norfolk, and trusted that his Grace would defer He killed, according to the timekeepers, &c.,
to this expression of their opinion. A strong feeling of and 2 seconds his fitty birds, and in 114 minutes
Almost immediately
with the 0(.1°,

twelve_ tray,:

of Government to this rnotionwo"

in 10 minur4

respect to the unworthy nature o
part of the engineers, and interested
evidence the bill was thrown out.

opposition, on the

he commenced his other perform..., r
a sovereign to a cigar on him, and went in an easy win

on whose

with ten minutes

) spare

PROPOSED BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE AND FOOT ItAcas.—On Tuesday last, a large coneourse;
CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. people assembled on the race-course at Bellevue,Gortdo.
near Manchester. The first race was for £5O a-side, ._ot.
The rejection, upon the standing orders, of the original tance 200 yards, between William Howarth, of Ramnre.
line projected to connect Manchester and the manutac- tom, near Bury, and Bryan. of Bradford, Yorl"";0..
taring districts with the new docks of Birkenhead, was
Howarth, who had a start of li yard given, was the *l'.
regarded at the time as an unfortunate blow levelled at ner by one yard only. The next race, also for £5O a-f 1
the enterprises of our Cheshire neighbours; and there was between Eastham, .....
were not wanting parties who rejoiced maliciously on the ton, and Willocks, of Edinburgh.
occasion. We much question, however, whetner the 24 yards.
projectrs f the line in quesion have not themelves HE " MEODY COLT AFFIR."—
occasion for ejoice at their own defeat- If time fors revi- having L
made a statement to Mr.A
Etwall, the owner of `.t:
Biota is an important boon to the author of a literary colt Melody, that Mr. Crornelin offered him a large ,11141cr
work, it is a still more important one to the projectors of to procure the defeat of that horse in the Derby a ' Ire
a great public undertaking; and of the time thus forlu- the affair was investigated last week before the JO a
Imlay, we maintain, allowed to the directors of the pro- Club. The charge was declared unfounaed, and it icat'
posed Birkenhead and Manchester Railway, they have cer- rected that John Day, jun., having endeavoured to al,
tainly most advantageously availed themselves in the port
a criminal charge by wilful falsehood. ho
improvement of their line, and been materially aided by the course at Newmarket, and out ~"
fortuitous external circumstances in the projection of the yard there, and not be permitted to rid
undertaking, the principal features of which we are about Newmarket.
to describe.

e place

Certain

eger n' "..'

as the Flying
The former Woo

he Coffee-r°

As originally proposed, it will be remembered that the
Birkenhead and Manchester Junction coi.sisted of a ling
from the Sutton sta.io❑ of the Ctester and
_Birkenhead 4th Light Dragoons

It is said that Louis Philippe, in filling the vast galle-
ries at Versailles with paintings and sculpture, has ex-
pended above 80 millions of francs—about £3,300,000.

WAR OFFICE,

JUNE 20

—Erisign C. B. Mol

fro°
neu,tutoo

an ~
-
-'ert 43d Foot, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
with a branch to Warrington and an extension to appointed to the 15th Light Dragoons.
Stockport. It had also connecting lines to Chester.
The present project the Birkenhead, Lancashire, frolmlth9sLoilghFtooDt,ratgooobnes.—LiLeioetu.t,
vOice. J. C
Hanson,
ragoa on,
and Cheshire Junction varies materially from the changes ; Cornet W. G. Sutton, from the ,Ith
.1-,,., vice.
original one ; is bolder, and more comprehensive. Guards, to be Adjutant, with the rank of Cornet
Upon the Cheshire side of the river it pursues the
Hanson, who resigns the Adjutancy only. a'
same route to Runcorn); and, instead of accommoda.. 15th Li ht Uht Cragoons.—To be Cornets, without ppf.s.
Ling Warrington by a branch, the main line passes through t.
coase : Cornet E. Colston, from the 4th Ugh! Did
that town, and thence runs on to the Bolton and Leigh _ vice Bernard, deceased ;H. J. Wale, Gent., .

anches'

111[)0 •f
_,

extended over a surface of 20 square leagues,
the crops were almost destroyed by hail and rail

_ ~:er line, and to the L
arkbide station, by the latttr junction connecting itself
with the western route to Scotland. Fr0..1 Warrington
the main line is carried on to a iuneti,-, • -

ay, to be adjetla

Mr. C. Buttutt commenced the business by bringing
under the discussion of the house a string of no less than
18 resolutions relating to the policy pursued towards the
colony of New Zealand. His task, he said, would have
been light if he had only bad to call the attention of par-
liament to the case of the New Zealand Company arid the
government; but that case of private wrong was merged
in the greater public mischief perpetrated by the Colonial-
office. in its mismanagement of New Zealand. He called
upon the house to contrast the scheme of colonization
adopted by the New Zealand Company with that pursued
by the Colonial-office ; and if he could make out that the
plan of the company was the most advan
colony. and wa

annul it

!ous fbr th

.ounded on the soundest principles, and
..culated to relieve the destitute population of
and to create a flourishing and industrious po-New Zealand, then only would he ask the
e for the New Zealand Company the
h he said that it had a right to have car
Majesty's governm,iir •

meet, W

After point-

ANCELLOR attributed the k

trig out

e great imp

aloud in a national

Serjeant Murphy

who had charge of the bilk, at

-- - - i a Pre"Fto*
ruineei attention of all parties sufferingfrom ice o ow
_ „Jon of this committee, w- -.owing were the sales :-10 old Liverpool Fire and Life to the Pottery and the Trent Valley lines. By a pro• visitation of baldness or gray hair, so destruct, ;to to 0„„r
---., on the six last budgets, added together, Insurance,.£7; 20 Union Bank, Xl3; 100 do., £l2 I 75.6 d. ; posed line to Northwich, Middlewich, and the Potteries, appearance of youth and vigour which all :ure:ii" °the' r
mounts to no less a sum than £25,000,000 sterling. 10 Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction £l3; 20 ditto £ll it will also form the best commupication for the salt and Lain, to the advertisernent of Mr. Ayres, In- it ,to ii,
the great public works, of which so large a portion in 17s. Gd • 120 Belfast and county Down 265. 3,1,. •35 earthenware of these districts to fipproach the Mersey for of our impression, by a careful perusal of whichnovic,,%"oo
France are executed at the cost of the state, are defrayed Great iaris and Lyons 41s. ; 160 London and York shipment. By the same proposed lines joining the North seen that that gentleman is not only no mer;e,..,ltific '..0 0(
by an appropriation of the revenue, nominally applicable £3 17s. 6d. •10 Londonderry and Enniskillen £4 155.; Staffordshire line at Newcastle, and proceeding by the his profession, but is possessed of that "-- hid' if tli
to the sinking fund ; and this sort of engagement has 50 Paris and Lyons (Lafitte's English) £2 18s. 9d. The Trent Valley, it will offer to Liverpool and Birkenhead ledge, the result ef an enhrged experience• w t 0
been carried to such an extent that this branch of the auctioneer (Mr. Gardner), announced another sale, amidst the most direct route to the metropolis itself. revenue is tied up from the present time to 1854. Mean- great applause, which will take place on Friday next. To render the scheme complete, it was originally pro- c.or.iducive to the prJper and success.f.uolftrdeisstetnag -

s established-by the re

and politrcal p

,e increase of

TI traffic

L; be car

Ile recornrneoded that the bills should be re-i

troduced during nest session.
The house having gone through its hue
tine nature, adjourned early.

'Es, of a rou

HOUSE OF COMMONS..--TRURSDA Y.
The adjourned debate on New Zealand was resumed by

halt in an incipient or developed but