The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Standard-office, Three o'Clock.

A passenger leaped from one of the carriages of the Glas-
gow and Ayr Railway on the 11th current, while the car-
riages were in motion. He was laid hold of, and fined 20s.
for thus running the risk of breaking his own neck.—Edin-
burgh Register.
The Paris and Ronen line is not yet open for the conveying
of goods. The receipts for passengers during the first week (From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)
were /.480 per day. The steam-boats and several diligences The arrivals into this port since Friday, contain several
still continue to run, though with a diminished number of
passengers. Notwithstanding this, the receipts for passen- parcels of Wheat, coastwise and from Ireland, with a good
I supply of Malt, Oats, and Oatmeal, including a moderate
gers by the railway exceed the estimate of existing traffic,
and when the competition is exterminated, will doubtless 1 'quantity of Flour thence, and 3560 qrs. of Wheat from
arrive at that doubled amount which has become almost an. Danzig and Wolgast.
axiom in making estimates of railway traffic. The weather, in contradistinction to the reports from the
s The first " compensation" case of the Yarmouth and Dior south, was very fine here yesterday, and although we have
' wich Railway Company was decided on Thursday week..
The claimant, a person of the name of Tuck, asked from
a slight rain this morning, our market to-day has
£7OOO to £BOOO, and the jury gave £1517 l The company not received that impulse from the rise in London
had recently made an offer of £1482, (with £4O of the which might have been expected ; for notwithstanding
amount allowed !) and a previous offer in October of from the trade for Wheat opened with great firmness on the
£2-100 to £2600. Mr. Tuck, therefore, will take very little
by his appeal to a jury, more especially as he had engaged part of holders, and much higher prices were required, an
Mr. Kelly, the eminent counsel, as well as Mr. Hoggart and actual improvement of more than Id. to 2d. per Nibs. over
Mr. Driver, auctioneers and land-valuers, from London,
the currency of this day week was unattainable; and the
besides a host iotnetsbseysibethteuxpinotrtoioffinceorf
that he
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whwoilsle, millers y paying the advance, the transactions in
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of course, have to pay. Mr. Driver admitted, in his
cross- any description of this grain were upon a very moderate scale.
examination, that he had once, in a railway case, estimated States and Canadian Flour were held at the amendment of
the value of certain land at from, £35,000 to £40,000, for
=his
Friday, and English as well as Irish le. per sack higher than
which
a jury awarded only X 2000! But the most remark-
ableevidence offered on the part of the claimant was that of
3,1 r Richard Hanbury Gurney, the London banker, who, in were effected.
Barley, Beans, and Pease, were saleable in retail parcels
left by his will money to oppose the extension of rail-
his cross-examination by the Solicitor-General, stated that
be had only at late prices ; and Malt, in consequence of the
vs , According to the Norwich Mercury, in which the- '
ways
is. reported very fully, this information elicited, as well large supply at hand, barely maintained our last quotations,
itca might, " great laughter." What may be the amount or ' udts being taken off sparingly to-day, remained stationary
the bequest for this laudable object did not transpire, nor dm :
in value; .nlizt Oatmeal, ewitinuing t, Intel. nit • •
IWO, ic.oi-
-1 mode in which it is proposed to apply it. ized, but not readily, an advance of 6d. per 240 lbs. upon ti e
i rates of this day se'nnight.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tms

EPSOM RACES.

ARRIVALS OF CORN.
From the 23rd to the 29th May, 1843, incltuire,

LATEST BETTING IN TOWN,

DBSCRIPTION.
LAND.

COAST-

Wheat Qrs. 603
Barley Qrs.' 424
Halt
Oats
Bye Qrs., 17
Beans Qrs.i 3
Pease Qrs.
Shelled Barley
Indian Corn
Rapeseed

Oatmeal
Flow ..
Ditto .. .

Loads! 9722
Sacks! 3175
Br's.;

1791
4543
1339
- .

CANADA

3560 1 5959

4:15
5293
10315
17

1 20.6

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs.; Bar•
ley, qrs. ; Malt, qrs.; Oats, qrs.; Pease, qrs. ; Oat.
meal, 74d Ids.; Flour. 320 sacks brls.