The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

which is at ene part about forty yards from a quarry in
one of the fields. Witness expected her soon home, and,
as she did not come, sat up for her until one n'elnek

when, as she
she had gone
at the time—particularly as she sometimes went there and
stopped all night. On the following morning, about nine
o'clock, they heard that she had been found in the delf in
'question; and, on going towards it, they fonnd her seated
on-some balks, a short distance from it. and apparently in
great pain. On asking her what was the matter, she said
•she had teen abused by two men, carpenters, one of
whom she knew by sight but not by name. She also
stated to Miss Billinge, witness's daughter. (who went to
her,) that one of the men was in the habit of frequenting
their house ; but she showed an aversion to be then ques-
tioned, saying she would tell her more in the afternoon.
A coach was procured, and she was immetately taken to
the Southern Hospital. It was there at Alice found that
her left collar bone was fractured, that she had also two
or three ribs broken, and that her left ear was slit. She
was carefully atteuded to, but died on the following Monday
afternoon. Witness said that deceased was a sober, well-
behaved girl.

Lid not make her appearance, she conjectured

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN

RAILWAY

We have pleasure ita directing the attention of our
readers to the Parliamentary Notice, in our columns this
day, by which it will be seen that, notwithstanding the

- -
virulent and ignorant opposition of our Contemporary;

the Railway Times, the Directors of the Edinburgh,
Leith, and Newhaven line are enabled, by the confidence

of the public, to proceed to the actual carrying into exe-

s, upon the

cution of the proposed Branch undertakinb
advantages of which we have previously remarked, and o

which our opinion is in unison with that of every
nalist who has noticed them with the single exception of
the Railway Times !
With a sincere wish to enlighten our splenetic contem-
porary with respect to his isolated position upon this sub.
ject and the inferences which some people ',my drawfrom
it, we beg to place before him and the public, the follow-
ing judicious remarks from the Caledonian Mercury of
the 28th inst., the jusliice of which, so far as Liverpool is
concerned, we can fully verify. Referring to the antici-
pations contained in the prospectus of, the Directors, the
" Our opinion of the undertakinv ;-

writer says

s even

in advance of theirs ; not from a consideration of whh
actually exists at present , but of what may and assuredly
will, happen, as soon as the Forth is connected with
the Clyde by a continuous line of railway, passing in the
immediate neighbourhood of the mineral districts of the
west. We happen to have

_ __re us at this moment a
plan of the city and docks of Liverpool in the year 1728,
and a plan of the same city and docks in 1842. At the
former period the whole of Liverpool occupied, an area of
not more than a mile and a half in circumference; at the
latter, it extended over a space of more than nine miles,
while the magnificent docks alone, second perhaps to none
in the world, are nearly four miles in length. It is per-
haps not generally known that this unexampled increase
in the size and importance of Liverpool proceeded mainly,
if not entirely, in the first instance, from that port's
being able to furnish to traders discharging there, back
cargoes of salt and coal. Leith has nothing of this kind
at present to offer. Vessels discharging there must seek
their return cargoes at Grangemouth or St. David's,
which they receive in the shape of coals or pig iron,
actually leaving the port of Leith for this purpose in bal-
last. It thus requires but little foresight to predict that
when by means of a railway communication, with the
minerals of Airdrie, &c., coal and iron can be shipped at
Leith as cheap or cheaper than they presently are at Grange..
mouth, the trade of Leith will increase to an extent not
at this moment easy to contemplate."

In some observations addressed to ourselves, our cor
mrinrary cave that Is

!ciined a defence of the

Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven

„enetne and
of Menagement ; ” and further that we have "su its Board
ested"
a prosecution for libel, as the proper course for the direct-
ors to pursue in reply to his injurious aspersions. With
respect to the first item of his complaint, we can only say
that we never declined and will not decline, when we see
it attacked by anything more worthy of notice than foul-
mouthed abuse, a defence of " the Edinburgh, Leith, and
Newhaven scheme." We only declined to answer the
insolent questions which our stilted contem-
such an ex-cathedra air chose to cut to _
son for so declining was our acqulintance with tn...
less source from which his eaves-dropping information was

porary, with
Ind our rea-

derived, It was quite within our con mporary's powe
to satisfy himself, if truth and -not t, J
unworthy spite had been his object, that th
Edinburgh, Leith, and Nevvhaven Railway is compose,
of men, far above the suspicion of unworthy practices,o
irracrnin ritioa it.

,e gratification of

Board of the

atico. respect to our suggestion of a prose-
cution for libel and.its apparent incompatibility with the
sentiments which we have expressed upon the law of libel
generally, we have only this explanation to give. When
a journalist offends only as we had offended at the time

the law of I

s, at c

and tyrannical ; but our contemporary's sweeping con-
demnation of a body of respectable men as "disreputable"
and dishonest is not a case in which we could wish the
rigor of the law to be one tittle relaxed. In the perform-
ance of its duties we would gladly see the press protected;
for a harmless pasquinade, or a mere passing jest tortured
into an imputation, we should not wish to see it
crushed, at the caprice of a fool or a pettifogging attor-
ney; but when a Journalist sits down to slander a num-
ber of men, and erects his editorial chair into an inquisi-
tion, a court of Law is the only fitting place in which
respectable people are justified in replying to his impu-
dent queries and rebutting his designinr falQplinna.

SINGULAR EXPLOSION,
,g last, al
on a lc

Insion, of an unusual

the corr

towards t