The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

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RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

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The line from Hull to Louth was opened for publi4
traffic on Wednesday.
The Directors of Rastrick's Direct London and Man"
chester Railway are about to make a further return oflo3,
per share.
Captain Claxton has been engaged by Mr. Stephenson_
to assist him in transporting the Conway tube for tbc
Chester and Holyhead railway.
The line of the Scottish Central Railway from Stirling
to Greenhall, where it joins the Edinburgh and Glasgovil
was formally opened by the directors on the 22nd ult.
At the Eastern Counties Railway Meeting. Mr. 1111;
son announced an increase of traffic on the half-Ye
amounting to £70,000 ; but the dividend is onlyS3"
owing to the consolidation and extension of the Lane,'
receiving dividend.
The list of calls for March exhibits a total of £2,203,9
being a decrease of £1,304,406 as compared with the ent'
responding month of 1847. Of this amount £1,262,n
are called upon French and Belgian lines, the shares °
which are but partially held in this country.
The meeting of the. proprietors of the Birmingham
Oxford Junction Railway was held on Saturday, when
was again adjourned for a week, Mr. Mozlev stating ths
•
matters were in progress, and that he hoped an auneubl
settlement would be come to in a few days.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Bristol and BOt er
ed
Railway Company, on Thursday, a dividend of 1:1 13s I,
per £lOO share, free of income tax was declared. A ref
solution was passed approving of the recommendation "
the directors to work the line independently at the exPitr
Lion of the present lease.
RAILWAYS a. SHIPPING.—At the annual meeting Of
the Berwick General Shipping Company on Tuesday 13
a dividend of 10 per cent was declared. During the PI;
ceedings it was remarked that railw-iy communication be
inflicting great injury on the shipping of the port, in t a
conveyance of goods between Berwick and Leith, and
Berwick and Newcastle.
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.--This important railway visg
opened throughout for traffic on the 15th current, bet Wee.,
Carlisle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and all places in connectioa
with the London and North Western and Lancashire ell,
Carlisle railways. Mail traits now run twice each 011
daily between London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, witholl
change of carriages.
From official returns it appears that the amount ofof
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,518 mil,esit
railway, was £148,323, thus accounted for: —.£68,32°
the conveyance of passengers only, £42,829 for the Cll4
riage of goods, and a remainder of £37,169 for passenge'
and goods together, not respectively apportioned; bet
an increase of £23,911 over the corresponding week 4ok
last year, when the mileage was 2,711. The aver!4
earn:ngs per mile last week were £42, whilst in 1847 t°
were £45.

Ori
LAND SLIP ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWA..--lit's,
Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, it was accidentally "ij
covered that an embankment between the EuxtonB„o
Coppul stations, on the North Union line, about Pt,t
miles from Preston, had given way. Before eleven h
one end of the wooden bridge had sunk considerably, t'of
the embankment adjoining suddenly fell in to the deptPoo
about twenty feet, carrying with it both lines of rail, fi ip
leaving a frightful chasm, into which the express
from London, then coming up, would, but for the
covert', have inevitably been driven. 0
ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursuaw
fearful railway accident was well-nigh happening, bYtioo
carelessness of not attending to the signal at the stipeot
at Weedon. There is an iron bridge to let goverrorbef
boats through, for the service of the barracks and n'tilroil
prison. This bridge was open and the proper 5,4
given, but owing to the inattention of the guara,.oo
notice was taken of the signal, and the engine fell :140,
the middle of the boat, which instantly sank. No hd.pl
happily, lost. Had it been the express train, whit _t
nearly Aloe,. the oonsequencos might have been feat ta"-oet.,
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. —Tilehalf.yearlYtes•
ing of this company was held at Manchester, on WeuP-10,
day last. Mr. Houldsworth, the chairman of the rto
pany, presided, and gave a satisfactory account o.l.,iieg
state and prospects of the company. Notwithstan'o
the commercial depression of the country for the hot 00
months, the gross income of the company, on the log
extent of mileage, exceeds that of the correspon for
months of 1846; the sums being, for 1846, £260,667 if,
1847, £273,220 A dividend of 31 per cent. on the bildb
year was declared, subject to the income tax. The lerri;c•
of railway which the company has in course of cons`,l" 1)1,
tion is 127 miles, of which 51 miles will be 'openeil ol
July, and other 51 miles by December next. A 6-I,'
rel
£5 will be due on the £5O Manchester and Leeds 5,1,1,310
in April next; and at the same time a call of £5 111'
made upon the Liverpool and Bury £5O shares.

THE FRENCH PROVISIONAL GOVERNNIESis.

COUNT MOLE. 40
Mole is much more of a statesman—much more bet
politician—much more of a man of the world, than elide,
Guizot or Thiers. He is now in his 69th year, and.„ool
scended of an illustrious legal family. Early in life, ""00
than forty-five years ago, he entered the service of Fr,.3,itet
under the First Concul, as Auditor of the Council one raii9
and subsequently filled high administrative fo,i-fot
under the Emperor. Mole has been a French Pee' ore
many years, and therefore his discourses do not fig,. be

the Chamber of Deputies. But although his narrl•eovt,
not in the mouths of the public, like the names of G"10,0
Thiers, and Berryer, every educated Frenchman Icnrrea
that he is one of the foremost and most con4derable,io
of France. He is rather a man of the world than a
of,
ratan-, or a man of science ;.yet he is infinitely in°reaer'
scholar and a man of science than M nntl

stands all questions of diplomacy and administration pot
nitely better than either Thiers or Guizot. Thou Pet!,
so brilliant, showy, or lively a person, in public or slot.
as the deputy for Aix,—though less quick and apPr, ble'
sive and ready, be is more solid, steady, and reo3d
• 1,1, - The-moll

so glowingly as M. Guizot, yet when 'w-ritTenb9yhin,;l9;be
being fully perpended and slowly elaborated, it wo'l ,ore
less open to criticism or objection—it would be 1:1,wel
neatly and more succinctly drawn .up, and prccsent 'l,O
assailable points to a rival or an enemy: Mole, tb(),,A'
m.,11.,,rand. Hauteriv
not so ready, is sounder and safer, and his style, in o,„.iie
ing and writing, though not so glowing, is more cilio
and pure than the style either of Thiers or Guizot• tbef
language is rather choice and correct than"flowince, ra pv
distinguished by propriety and eloquence than by ~,,0"
ousness or strength. He is calm, clear, neat, often 'f'i6e#
nious; always equal to his subject ; sometimes, ll'
far above it. Now that e'matte
ederer are dead. 1,-. •

possessed of more anecdotal 1015 pt
than any living homme d'etat in Paris, and is, Per ji'3
the best and most classic raconteur in France. e
countenance is open and gentlemanlike, and the
breadth and elevation in the forehead. He is rather. left
thin, and delicately shaped, and possesses in an 011,1;
degree what our neighbours call the "air distinoue•

M. ARAGO, MINISTER OF MARINE.
Is one of the first sarans in France, and his reP?,.:veri
as an orator is brilliant. He was born in 1786, anal,;:lo'
petual secretary of the Academy of Sciences, meni,u;ooo
the office of longitudes, and one of the most ,
scientific men of the age. The Republican prints,_.l)ol%
is moderate in expressing his opinions, though Jic",il)4
extreme views. The Morning Chronicle, however;;'cito
• in the scientific world the great inathenni-e0
#1,.. bars'

of his character; or ms temper and - his t:-'
politics are of the most ardent oro
licanism. The Times says he cannot string three b 1
together in public, although he has long been e71,,,'
his flatterers " the Consul Elect of the Republic." Airo"
M. DE LAMARTINE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AVltis
Is known as the historian of the Girondins. ife;ti Iv;
i
puty for Macon, and more than thirty years ago segnote"
apprenticeship as a diplomatist, and was named iniporil
Plenipotentiary by Charles X. in 1828 and 1830. Ibittr
tine, now in his fifty-eighth year, is a gentleman
and fortune. He is everywhere a poet, even at th 0;
bune. Like most poets, however, he is rather &I'll 60'
inconstant, vain, and imprudent. For a length 47 „fiber'
he occupied a very undecided position in the CIoAVA
but he eventually ranged himself on the side of the de"
sition. From that period M. de Lamartine took a 'le tile
part in favour of progressive reform, and ridiculr,'
Guizot Cabinet as the Ministry of " limitations..„,6ll3/
voted against the Pritchard indemnity, and was Prlif,ijo!:
the Opposition as an invaluable acquisition. The t'Ag
ing is an expression of his policy in his own vic'ean
"The organic and progressive constitution of, the.,,100
democracy, the expansive principle of mutual chafieti°
social fraternity, organized and applied to the satisw
of the general interest."

dist the:
It appears by a parliamentary return just issed . cosl o
number of persons in trades or professions whose ind
amounted to £l5O, and did not exceed £2OO, 11 APO
paid the income tax for the year ending the sth 0 ty
1845, was 38,392. The gross income on which 215'1;
these persons was charged amounted to £6,102,17,p,
the sum received for income tax, to
.£177.980 Pri,
The total number of persons engaged in trades illipeiVo
fessions who paid the income-tax in the abovee6a,
was 111,818. In 1846 there were only sixteeno6'l,"
who paid the income tax on incomes exceeding 254,Y5.
and the amount these sixteen persons paid was 319 r
Thiwealthy are caught sometimes. There were
Mg With IRMO/ between £lO,OOO and £50,000.