The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

TILE LUERPOOL STANDARD.

tion prevail most among the parishioners. A new church,
far inferior in architectural beauty, has been erected much
nearer the clergyman's residence, half a mile from the old
church.

The Rectory of Bishopwearmouth has been conferred
the Rev. John Patrick Eden, M.A., perpetual curate of
St. Andrew Auckland, and son-in-law of Lord Brougham.
In connexion with this appointment a re-distribution of
the revenues has been made, but it has been confined to
the parish of Bishopwearmouth. The disttibution may
be summoned up in a few words. £2OOO is to constitute
the income of the Rector. St. Thomas' Church, Bishop-
wearmouth, is to have £200; St. Andrew's, Depford,
£l5O ; St. Mary's. Hylton, £lOO ; Trinity Church, Ry-
hope, £lOO. The surplus (X 1,450) is to be funded, and
disposed of hereafter, according as the experience of the
working of the above arrangement. during the next three
years may point out to be most necessary.

EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.—DIOCESE OF
GLASGOW AND GALLOWAY.—CONFIRMATION.—On Sa-
turday, the 11th ult. the Bishop of the Diocese held his
first confirmation in Glasgow, within the temporary cha-
pel in Catherine-street, knderston. The Incumbent read
the usual prayers ; and the Bishop having delivered a most
impressive address

proceeded to administer the solemn
rite to fifteen candidates. After service a meeting of the
clergy and churchwardens was held in the vestry, the
Bishop in the chair, at which it was agreed that as the
subscription now amounted to nearly £l2OO, immediate
steps should be taken for the erection of the new church ;
and that in the meantime, till the completion of the struc-
ture, a resident curate should be engaged, whose whole
time should be devoted to the poor of the district, nearly

sam
building

which they were baptised: His Lordship was pleased to
lion these arrangements, subscribing £5O to the
fund, and £lO to the curate's stipend for one
year, when, the church being built, it is believed there will
be ample resources from the increased congregation for
-'-t of a

..,ergyman, without extraneous aid.
HORFIELD CASE.—It has been known that there is
evidence that Lord Melbourne entered into an under-
standing with Bishop Allen, that the valuable leases
should be allowed to run out and go to augment the re-
"b.. Church ; that the estimated value of the
are £3,000 a-year ; but that
....“moent has only £BO a year, besides £6O allowed
by Government for doing duty at the barracks near

venues c

oristol; that, consequently, the incumbent and his curate
have, on the average, between them, about £l4O a year ;
and that the bishop has neither continued his prede-
cessors' customary annual payment of £5, nor done any-
for --, the schools of the parish ; that his lordship has
- which averages £6,400 on the last septennial
„.. 4t7.l'nfre. amount to at least
1. future, besides his palace and several
valuable commendaws, the amount of which is not
stated, but which would probably be underrated at£2,ooo
a year besides. It is under these circumstances that the
bishop proposes to renew the lives, instead of allowing
the lease to depend on one, which is expected to drop
from month to month. To prevent this catastrophe, the
commissioners have agreed to pay the bishop £11,500,
which might otherwise have been employed for the
general good of the church.—Record.

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ORIGIN OF THE GRIEVANCES IN THE TEMPORALITIES
OF THE IRISH CHURCH.—A century since, if a peer or a
bishop had a son or a nephew needing a " good living,"
and none offered at the moment, how obvious the tempta-
tion to make a rich benefice, by uniting several small
ones ! In such a state of things, and among such persons,
can it be doubted that arrangements of this sort were
often made ? . The principal law authorizing such
" unions," and making them legal and permanent, was
passed in the 2d of George I. And Bishop Mont tells us,
that between 1721 and 1799, he finds mention of sixty-
one such unions having been formed, embracing, some
two, some three, some four, and some even five and six
parishes. But either this is an imperfect statement, or
the practice of forming unions must have continued in
full activity after the Union. For the Commissioners of
Inquiry, in their Report of 1835, state, that they found
s 907 benefices consis.' parish ; and 4,70 - •
ld of two or more.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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IN Itg J. R. Pm—This bankrupt again appeared before
Mr. Serjeant Ludlow on Friday. Mr. Rowe, solicitor,
stated that the accounts were still unsatisfactory. There
were £26,000 in biils not explained. The bankrupt stated
that £17,000 of them were for bills payable, but they did
not seem to have any connexion with the estate. The
official assignee said he never saw such unsatisfactory ac-
counts. The case was adjourned sine die, with protection
for a month.

IN RE GOULDING.—This bankrupt, late a builder in
this town, applied for a certificate. He was opposed on
the ground of reckless trading. and that he had erected
and obtained mortgages on worthless property. Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow said this appeared to be the case of a
party who, having no capital, or, at all events, a very
small capital, made a number of contracts for land which
he did not pay for; after putting together a few stones
and other materials on that land, obtained a mortage
.upon it, in consequence of the increased value which he
appeared to have given it by so doing. He thought that
was a mode of dealing of which the public had a right to
complain. The result of such a system was the incessant
demand for interest on mortgages, the payment of stamps,
and other liabilities, under which it was impossible almost
for a party to bear up. He could not, therefore, make
his judgment absolute, but must suspend the bankrupt's
certificate for twelve months from the date of his last exa-
mination.

Mr. Barber, the solicitor, who, a few years since, was
sentenced to transportation, with Fletcher and others,
for alleged forgery of testamentary documents, and whose
sentence has been recently reversed, and free pardon
granted him, appeared on Saturday in the precincts of the
Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, Mr. Sergeant
Wilkins having been charged by him to make an applica-
tion to the Court to have Mr. Barber replaced on the rolls.
The novelty of hearing such an application or motion
made attracted a considerable crowd to the Court. In the
course of the day the Attorney-General entered, and had
some conversation with Mr. Wilkins, after which the lat-
ter gentleman withdrew, and it was understood that, on
consulting with Mr. Barber. he agreed to the postpone-
ment of the application until next term, or at least for the
present.

The proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas on Fri-
day, the 24th ult., afford some evidence of the correctness
of the opinions we have expressed with reference to the
Acts of Parliament lately passed applying to Joint-Stock
Companies. It appears that certain proceedings had been
taken, against a shareholder in the Universal Gas-Light
Company, and the rule for issuing execution discharged
with costs, in consequence of 10 d

s' noti

Act, sec. 67, not having been given—the lawyers
appearing not to have carefully read, or understood, the
clauses of the Act; but, with the view of remedying the
defect, counsel for the
_plaintiff subsequently obtained a
rule against the d-e-

.vienclani„ calling upon him to show
cause why execution should not issue, under the 66th sec-
tion of the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 7 and 8 Vic., c.
110. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd now contended that such rule
must be set aside, inasmuch that the former application
to the Court -- ' •

against the defendant as a " former shareholder,
the present was as a shareholder "for the time being-
After argument on the part of counsel in support of the
application, the Court granted a rule absolute for the is-
suing of execution against the defendant, on the ground
that having been a shareholder once, and signed the deed,
by the 3rd and 12th sections of the Joint-Stock Compa-
nies' Act, he continued a shareholder until be bad di-
vested himself of that character by the transfer of his
shares.

RAILWAY A F'FAIII.B

The Oswestry extension of the Shrewsbury and Chester
railway has been opened.
The Ardwick extension of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
railway, uniting the latter line with the Sheffield and the
London and North-Western lines, has just been opened.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended 26th Nov.: Coaching, £705 15s. 7d. ; par-
cels, £BO Ils. ; goods at cattle, £257 3s. 2d. ; steam
boats, £lO3 13s : total, £1147 3s. 2d.
In the recent fatal collision case on the Richmond and
Datchet line, the coroner's jury have returned a verdict of
manslaughter against the driver and titeman of the Vul-
ture engine.
The London and North-Western Company and ti
LancasP-- ' • •

and re Coman have' n-ter-
mutual traffic arr angements,Yorkshi
the effect of which willed he to
immediately transfer all the traffic of the latter to the
Leeds and Dewsbury line.
A remarkable tunnel on the Waterford and Dublin
Railway, at Bray, has advanced so far towards completion
that there is a communication throughout. Thp

GREAT BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.—The works
of this great structure, which are of twice the stupendous
character of those over the river Conway, have been put
in full operation this week, and are already in an advan-
ced state. The platform for this purpose across the
Menai Straits alone is half a mile long, and four large
tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly comple-
ted. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have to be
floated half a mile along the straits, and then raised 106
feet home. The end tubes are also much advanced. The
scaffold or platform on which they are being put together
is 100 feet high. 230 feet long. and 60 feet broad, capable
of sustaining a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The
cast-iron work of the bridge weighs upwards of 2,000 tons,
and the chains used for raising it will alone weigh 100
tons. It will be floated on eight pontoons. Two of them
are of iron, of 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep,
and capable of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier,
rising out of the water from the Britannia rock, after
which the bridge is named, is to be 230 feet high. There
are two other piers of the same elevation, and the entire
length of the tube-bridge across the straits will be 1,420
feet, or one-third nearly of a mile.
" AILWAY MANAGEMENT.—in.`qqin -”al

,n, the gene
manager of the London and Nerth Western Railways
published a letter on railway management, in reply to I,
letter recently written by Mr. Whitehead, late Secretary
of the South Eastern Railway Company,—whose object
was to show that the present rates for the carriage of
goods by railways is too low, and entail loss on the com-
panies—sinking a considerable portion of the profit derived
from passengers ; and he contends that the North Western
Company are losing much by the goods traffic, and that
either the rates are too low. or the passenger fares too
high. Captain Huish examines Mr. Whitehead's data
and assertions, and supplies some statistical facts. He
states that the total receipts from for the year ending
30th June last, were 4'2,140,035 ; namely, passengers
and mails, £1,417,659 ; goods and coals, 4722,376. The
total cost of working the railway in every department was
only 4751,172. It thus appears that the merchandize
receipts about covered the entire expenses of the line,
leaving the passenger traffic net ! •".Che goods train earns
as much per mile run as its vaunted competitor the pas-
senger train. The total weight of passenger travelling for
the year was 399,956 tons, about equal to the merchan-
dise conveyed in eleven weeks; so that a run of 238,732
miles was sufficient to convey a weight of goods which it
required 4.220,078 miles to transmit when converted into
passengers."

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LIGHT LOCOMOTIVE,—Messrs. England's new engine,
the " Little Wonder," has had several trials. Her di-
mension,: are as follow :—Cylinders, 7 inches ; stroke, 12

carrying wheels 3 feet diameter; fire box, 3 feet diameter;
boiler, 2 feet diameter, with sixty tubes 11 feet 4 inches
long, 11 inches diameter. The tender is placed upon the
the extreme length of which is nlinnt 9n rom-

same frame

ana tne we►ght, we are informed, is about 9 tons. The
whole of the working parts are in sight, and within the
immediate control of the driver while at work. From nu-
merous trials, during which a distance of nearly I,COO
miles has been performed, we have ascertained, that for
express purposes, with one or two cs, ;a

—..reages, a speed of 60
miles per hOur is well maintained ; and that a twain of five
carriages, with passengers equal to 20 tons, is run at 40
miles per hour. With this load she ascended the heavy
incline at New Cross-1 in 100 for three miles—at the
rate of 20 miles per hour; and upon the level line, one
mile was passed in 80 seconds, being at the rate of 45
miles per hour, with a load of 20 tons—the consumption
of coke not exceeding 6 lbs. per mile. This performance,
we believe, is unparalleled in the histoty of the locomotive
engine. The fact that a load of 20 tons was propelled at
the rate of 45 miles per hour, with 6 lbs, of coke per mile,
while the quantity required for any of the heavy engines
to perform the same work, would not be less than 25 lbs,
per mile, shows, we think, the mistake of making loco-
motive engines of enormous weight—engines which spend
two-thirds of their immence nntver

s.. pa up t, LUCA& UWil
weight. During the experiments, we were highly pleased
with the very safe and steady working of the engine.
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—On Saturday night week, an
experiment was made on the Great Western Railway, to
test the power of a new species of light produced by elec-
tricity, particularly with the view to its being used by
railway trains. The light is produced by an apparatus
invented by M. Le Mott, a French gentleman, who has
been for several years employed in electrical experiments
in Russia, and whose discoveries in that department are
well known to the scientific world. At half-oast six

Ing a woo,

en square box, about
the size of a sentry-box, and having a galvanic battery of
some sixty or seventy small jars deposited around it, was
attached to the last carriage of the train then about to
proceed from Paddington. The light was produced inside
the box, and the rays, condensed and heightened by a
powerful reflector, were emitted by an aperture contrived