The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

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—Although your cow mitte

duties

id discretion of the directors in referenc

feel bound to recommend that the call
new shares announced to be paid on the
March be not enforced until the Ist July, until after
which period there does not appear to be the least proba-

they yet

WM. POTTER, Chairman,
iting individually from the 7th clause regarding
proposed agreement with the Grand Junction

agreed that t

report be pa3Fetl, printed, and

Mr. MALLAiv then submitted sev
which resulted from the adoption of the reF
feet that the dividends should be as follows

—to the ef-

Do. (the dfference being for interest) 12s. 6d
7s. 6d.
Os. Bd.
(Cheers.)

£lO shares

aid lea.'

a balance of £4lB 5

tatinns were cast upon a portion of the
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mittee NI

round any cause

imputa-

r a reply, parti-
Or the appoilit-

Cochrane, who had moved f

'OCHRANE wished to h

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Mr. BROWN ILIGG rep

Lostility to

s a the company

BENTHAM intim7tted tha

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.OWNRIGG then allu

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shua Walmsley, to the effect tt;
the board with whom he could DC

LMSLEY said he was not aware of having said

re than

ARSON.—A servant at Oldstead Hall, near Thirsk, has
been committed for trial on a charge of having set fire to
the building. He was seen coming out of the apartment
where the fire originated in a state of intoxication. For-
tunately no serious damage was done.
The Commissioner of the Leeds Bankruptcy Court has
committed a bankrupt to York Castle for not satisfactorily
answering questions put to him as to recent dealings.
He admitted his debts exceeded £20,000 but the assets were
not more than £2OOO.

The gentleman who leaped from one of the carriage
windows, on the Chester Railway, while the train. was
proceeding,.was Mr. John Mollett, of Lane Delf, in the
Potteries. He was 37 years of age, and has left a widow.
Intoxication seems to have induced.his mental infirmity.
Two young people, who bad been out making prepara-
tions for their approaching marriage, quarrelled the other
day on Westminster Bridge—threw their purchases, in-
cluding even the wedding ring, into tha Thames, and se-

parated

At a recent meeting of the Austwick board of guardians,
the assistant overseer of the Cleckheaton district was
taken to task for getting drunk, on which one of the guar-
dians naively said he could see nothing wrong in the offi-
cers getting drunk, for he sometimes got drunk himselt !

A Reading paper states that " a much respected clergy-
man of that town, presiding over a well-known school, has
recently been presented with £5OO, as a grateful acknow-
ledgment from the surviving parent of a former successful
pupil." Dr. Valpy is the gentleman alluded to.

Sir G. W. Lefevre, Bart., late physician to the embassy
of Russia, destroyed himself last week by taking prussic
acid. lie had been labouring under delusions of mind.
He was the author of several medical works, and was in
affluent circumstances.

LEEDS AND WEST-RIDING BANK.—A meeting of the
shareholders in this bank took place at Leeds on Monday.
It appeared that the liabilities of the company were about
£350,000, and their assets £300,000 ; shewing a deficiency
of £50,000, which loss will have to be borne by the shar
holders

FATHER AND SON KILLED.—OR Saturday week, at
Shotton Moor Colliery, Durham, a man named, Brown,
aged 50, and his son; aged 16, were being lowered down
—a,— +ho e.l-,oin hrrard._ ntirl they wvre nrecioitated

iterwards found quite

with their bodies crushed to pieces

All the best clocks that are now made in America are
constructed with wooden pendulums, which are but little
subjected to the influence of heat, and, as such, the rate
of these horological machines is much improved. The
great clock of the Horse Guards, so much celebrated for
its accuracy, is furnished with a wooden pendulum rode

CATTLE IMPORTED FROM IRELAND.—From a paper
issued by order of parliament, it appears that there have
been imported into Great Britain from Ireland, in the
Quarter ending the sth of January, 1846, the following
—32,883 oxen, bulls, and cows ; 583 calves ; 32,576
' 104,141 swine.

genious•rogue has been reaping a good harvest in

After a few days [he supposed plants

slips only, secured by twine to the bot-