The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

A policeman committed suicide at the Ivybridge station
of the South Devon, by sitting on one of the transoms of

the line previous to the approach of the 7 30 a.m up train.
The curve is so short that command of the road cannot be
had beyond a distance of a few chains.

Two meetings of shareholders in London, dissenting
from the proposed raising of £745,180 by 7 per cent. pre-
ference shares, by the directors of the Caledonian, have
been held. They do not appear to have gained their
object, as the proposal of the board was subsequently
carried in Edinburgh, by a large majority.
A splendid service of silver plate was, on Thursday pre-
sented to Matthew Plummer, Esq., having been voted at
the Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company, held in March
last, as a testimonial of their respect and appreciation of
his valuable services to the company during the long period
which he has filled the office of chairman of the Directors.
From official returns it appears that the amount of traf-
fic for the last week, on 3,910 miles of railway, was
£205,998, thus accounted for :—£112,970 for the convey-
ance of passengers only ; £44,850 for the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £48,178 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £16,067 over the corresponding week of last
•,ar, when the mileage was 3,100. The average earnings
7,52, whilst in 1847 they were £6l.
tND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
who study the weekly traffic t

per mile were

LONDON

have remarked that there has been an apparent falling off
in that of this company for the last six months, to the
extent of some £6,000 or £7,000, as compared with last
year. We are happy to learn, however, that there is a
real increase over last year of more than £lO,OOO, the
difference being accounted for by the mode of keeping the
merchandise returns. It is also rumoured that there is
to be a large reduction of expenses during the half-year,
and that the net profit will consequently be much greater
than in any preceding six months.—Railway Record.

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THE ABERDEEN RAILWAY.—It is said that an agree-
ment is actually signed between the London and North-
Western Railway and the Aberdeen Railway Companies,
by which the former covenants to take shares at par in
the latter to the extent of £140,000, and undertakes to
enable it to pay off debentures at short dates and high
rates which shortly become due. What the exact condi-
tions are per contra in favour of the London and North
Western Company have not yet precisely transpired, but,

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must shortly be rendered Public in course. In taking
shares at par, or say at the £5O paid, when they can be
bought in the market at about £22, or say £2B discount,
countervailing advantages in some shape or other of a pro-

spective nature must necessarily be stipulated for or Con-
templated.

appear to be those 01 ',"i 0",
, with the general nature The ref
pur readers are already familiar.
_„,sesA

which have been devise(
and Industrial Schoo'

sults which have followed the withdrawal of the of 511‘P.
children in question from tie vitiating influence h,gioll'
evil example, of imparting to them moral and r`tic
instruction, of training them to habits of system 3 teivq
dustry. and in some measure preserving them f,r°l9,„, re,.°!t
tation by supplying their bodily wants, have tilt at If
gratifying and encouraging, unpromising as inig°otit.
sight appear the materials on which they had to, sl oisv,ivo
the general character of these materials some la° 011 titre
gathered from the recent speech of Lord AshleYllo.l) f
subject in the House of Commons. In speakif:rnOle,(lll4s
habits, pursuits, and " natural history," as be
of the class for whom be spoke, he referred oatticv,
scholars whose names are on the books of fifteeebi?ieb 1,3
lar Ragged Schools, the average attendance ill sv• - •
about 1600. Of these, 162 had often been in prOstocl;;
lived chiefly by begging, 216 had neither shoes Off bo"
o 0 0
ings, 280 no cap, hat, or bonnet, 101 DO SeraPiept
linen, 249 bad no recollection of ever hcahviiiiiigresnliti
jootabes:l
bed ; 68 were children of convicts, 125 of stecl;ols'o,
306 orphans. The average attendance on the s this l'tl a•
some 4000 : the proportions above, if applied to 01
berm, gave 660 who lived by begging, 178
victs, and 800 orphans. Glancing at their occuPrses. 30,3
' sweepers, match-sellers, holders of fiords,l° lithe
ents of dealers in marine stores—in other .tea
indictridgeiS

modeontne.stan or receivers or stolen goons--
. in which they passed their nights—u
- rider L'eaty
viaducts, door-ways, in saw-pits, Ihne-kilns, 3nridne °lt'll
vehicles, in the open air, on the bare earth. `-',"-th'rotig-,,i
whom Lord Ashley had spoken personally, sleP' ',, rolie;
the inclement winter of last year in the greet it%tiotbe:
in the Regent's Park. This boy had a friend, dto tli°
_ boy, who was even worse off than himself ;
and I'll let you intoya ,and
thing." arl -ith lii!
boy he went one da said "Come along 'i% , t bl,
getherd to the i
ei rroenmai roller,nci
er and d
theth ewti re
winter.
boysfrien t thereon.
110 brouga to'
cur in representing the ragged inmates of •the ie-._,, O'
their l'''
in question as showing great aptitude for instructiol"• i
AllsalecPeo'
,utlizttiltioo!
k ble i"'
they become orderly and docile, and attached to
structors ; and there have been many eolr'-`lotl 0;
stances of reclamations of relations and familieso„toc
provement in considerable localities, through the IY, lov:
of reformed juvenile pupils of Ragrted Schools.. ‘.lo.'t, ba._
on former occasions • e articulars of Wil, wilieP
given som . p i od won" i oPe
been A • -one in our own town in aid of tie go ur ' 0
those schools are carrying on, and expressed
wo.ich :0,
that the Christian and philanthrophic efforts "11,,,5fu1,
coral°
now
Makin,
to extend their operations will beatlr'
All such efforts have our warmest sympathy
good wishes.