The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

13trtb5, filaurtaoss EiratDs. PRICES OF SHARES, OCTOBER 21.

BIRTHS.

On the 14th instant, in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, Lon.
don. thi lady of Maj n--General FREDERICK, C. 8., of a son.
On the 15th insta .t. at Lay...nder Hill, the lady of JOSEPH
GURNEY, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., in Princes-walk, Howard street, the wife
of Mr. HUGH H A LL, Honourable East India Company's Service,
of a daughter.
On the 17th instant, at Finch-house, Mrs. WM. MATHER,
of a Laughter.
Same day, at Marine-Villa. Torquay, the lady of FRANCIS
SHAND, Esq. of Rupert-thiLse, Everton. of a daughter.
On the 18th instant, in London, Mrs. JONATHAN PEEL, of
a son.

TIDE TABLE.
DAYS. MEN. EVN. HEIGHT TIOLYDAYS, ETC.
Tuesday 22 sl6 845 13 6 Venus rises 2h 19m m.
Wednes. 23 910 933 14 4
Thurs... 24 954 10 14 15 5
Friday.. 25 Is 34 10 52 16 0 Crispin.
Saturday 26 11 9 11 26 16 5 Jupiter sets sh 52m cv.
Sunday. 27 11 42 11 58 16 4 121st Sunday af. Trintiy.
Monday. 28 - 015 16 2 ISt. Simon and St. Jude.

LIVERPOOL INFIRM

UIS.'.IIAIt IIRI)

In-patients cured 25
Relieved and at own request 6
Made Oat-patients 2
Irregular
Dead

RY REPORT, OCT. 19.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, OCT. 19.
[WEEKLY REPORT.]
AbNIITTKI). IIISCIIARCHD.
Accidents 24 Cured
I Medical and Surgical cases Relieved and at own request 2
Upon recommendation ... 18 I Attending as Out Patients. 12
- 1 Irregular
42 I Died
Remainingin the llospital . . 70.

Consulting Surgeon, William Gill, Esq.
Rouse Visiters, John Lightbody and 13. 11. Jones, Estill,.
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. Wro. Hughes.-House.Surgeon, Mr. Parker

PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S.
Outward. Home.
LONDON & LIVERPOOL, ----
t 0.... .... .... ....
Jamaica 2ss Od@ 30 0 i 20s Od (( Aug.l
Leeward Isl. Dem. & Berbic 20 0 0 0 20 0— 30 0
Honduras 5O 0— 60 0 50 0— 60 -0
Havana 35 0— 50 0 33 0— 44 0
New York, Boston 25 0— 30 0 17 6_ 20 0
Charleston, Savannah
New Orleans
Canada 0 0— 0 0 0 0 0 0
British *Tortn America
Newfounaland 0 0— 0 0 0 0— 0 0
Brazils
River Plate - 40 0 i 30 0 (W..,
East Indies
China 5O 0 60 0 , 60 0 70 0
Batavia 35 0-- 40 0 35 0 40 0
New South Wales
Cape of Good Hope
Africa 3O 0 105 0
liihraltar ..
Lima, Valparaiso, &c.
Malta, Sicily, &c.
Smyrna and Constantinople 3O 0— 0 0 40 0— 0 (1
Malaga l7 6 20 0 17 6 20 0
Madeira
Western Lslcs, Cape de Verds —— • _ _____
Lisbon
Cadiz 2O 0 17 6 _ <,O 0
France
Holland 4O 0— 50 0 30 0— 40 0
Hainburg, Bremen, &c.
Gottenborg, Stockholm
Petersburg, Riga, Ric.
Oporto

SHARES.

1 ig Amt.
g. paid.

RA I LtVA S.
3olton and Brry ..
Birkenhead and Clic,tcr
Dittd half ..
Ditto, new,issued at se:l •
3irmingbani and Gloucuatii .
Ditto quarter
Birmingham and De! by
Ditto One.eighth Shares
Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Holyhead .....
Caledonian
Dublih and Belfast
Dublin and Cashel .....
Dover, new..
oid
Eastern Counties
Created at 13s. ad.
Perpetral
Eastern Counties, Registered...
chnburgli and Glasgow
Ditto Qr..... .. ......
Ditto Leith, &c. prLfcre ce
lasgow, Paisley, & Greenock I 25
New I 12i
.

.4*
50
55
2J
50
100

100

i -

I so

i °5

6 i-5

Ditto 6 per cent. interest
Glasgow, Paisley and Ayrshire so
Greenock, preference ..
'rend Junctio
Ditto hall shares
Quarter 2!
One-eighth
Great Western.
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifth Shares
Great North of England ...... 1
Holyhead
Hull and Selby (paid up)
Leicester and Swannington
Lancaster and Preston
Ditto three-quarter shares
Ditto and Carlisle
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto half shares .
Ditto new
London and Birmingham
Ditto quarter
Ditto < shares
London & Brighton

Ditto Loan Notes
London and South Western ....
Ditto, loth shares
Leeds and Bradford
Manchester, Ilo'ten, & Bury
Manchester and Birmingham—.
Ditto quarter
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter abases
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
1-sth Shares
North Midland
Ditto new
Dittos 3 6s sd
North Union
North British
Newcastle and Berwick
Ditto quarter :iharcs
Newcastle and Darlington Junc.
Preston and Wyre
Paris and Rouen....
Paris and Lyons
Lyons and Avignon.
Runcorn Gap
Boulogne tad Amiens
Rouen and Harre
Sheffield and Manchester
Quarter
South Eastern and Dove,
New shares
South Western .....
Ditto * shares.
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction.
Scarborough
Toeura and Bourcleaax
Trent Valley
Ulster
York and N, rth Midland
Half Shares
Bank of Liverpool
Borough Bank
Commercial of Myer', •01. .
East of England
M'chester & L'pool Dset
Northern and Central
North and South
Royal of Liverpool
South Lancitsl.ire
- Liv4rpool Union
Liverpool Banl.ing Co
Wilts and I.)f,r,;et
Exchange Buildings
t'pool and Harrington Watas 1.
Works
3octic Ditto
L'pool New Gas & Coke Co.
L'uool Gas Light Company.
Ditto new shares
Liverpool Marine Assurance..
Company
Marine Assurance
Liverpool Fire and Life
M'cliesier Assurance Company
Apothecaries' Company ..
Harrington Docks
Anderton Carrying Company
Rock Ferry
Steam Tug Co:wan .. „

Sales
This Day.

44
Mock
32

33}
Mock

23
81
13s 4d

25
12i
li
50

33
112 i
361
24i

Stock
Stock,
ico

46s 6d

131
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LATE U oufts.--,At a meeting comprising no fewer than
three thousand individuals, held at Exeter. hail on Wed-
nesday night, some strong resolutions condernoatory of
the practice of keepinz open the shops to late hours, were
I,assed. The Rev. Mr. Hughes and a Mr. Fukey were
the principal speakers. The latter termed all those who
support the present system " murderers," an observation
which was greeted with lo;.d pplause•
An extraordinary sensation pas been created in Bishop
Stopford during th‘ last. few civs.'inconsequence of the
• apprehension of Alfred, son of Mr. Yardley, pawnbroker,
together with Sarah Fuller, his sersent girl, who were
charged, the former with having set fire to the d.elling-
house of his father, and the latter as an scressat y. The
female has been discharged, and Yardley fury committed
for trial at the next Hertford As•izcs. On the sth ult.,
the premises of Mr. Yardley were found to be in flames,
when a great quantity of property was destr3yed, a great
portion of which belonged to the poor of Stortford and
neighbourhood. Yount Yardley was very mile' respected,
and would, on attainii,g his majority, (in a few months,)
come into possession or very considerable property.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON.—OR Monday night.
about nine o'clock, the neighbourh-oil or New Cross was
alarmed by the report that the railway s•ation was on fire.
It wes soon ascertained that the engine repository, a fine
oct!gonal building, was in flames, which made sudi
rapid progress that in less than a quarter of an hour the
whole building was in a blaze. The lire was gre tly as-
sisted by a quantity of oil and turpentine, as weilas paint,
that had been laid a,ide in a- part of the eng,ine.rocm.
Before the engines arrived the flames had got so far
a-head that it was found to be impos,ible to arrest their
pro Tess. The fire bt igade ust.d their utmost ezerti,ts to
save the adjacent buildings, and, fortunately, the wind
proving favourable, their exertions 7.eve so far suo.e.e,,stul.
By eleven o'clock the roofs of both houses (which ware
boards covered with lead, and on iron rafters) fell in,
and then the engines, amounting to shout 14, were able to
make an effectual resista,ce against the devouring ele-
ment. The flames were at length eff'etually got under;
and the books and furniture of the ~ffic, were entir.Ay
saved from 'destructicn at the early tart if the confl,igra-
tion. The heat was so intense that the iron rafters
which formed the roof came a..,unticr in various places,
and being unable to support its own weight fell in with an
awful crash.

CLEARANCES TO AND FROM THE EAST —The usual
comparative statement, pt.h is;L 1 1y -he East India and
China Association, of ihe :,ut).ber aritish ships, with
their tonnage, ent-•rt d inwards and dr-and outwards from
and to places within the limits of the East India Compa-
ny's charter, has trade it, apnemanc-. It extends °yir
the period from the Ist of January to the 30th September
in !he years 1813 and 1844. The following are the results
of the entries inwards t

London....

Ships. Tons.
.1843 . 417 . 473.346
.1 184( 4.!5 171,714
11843 1:-!6 0075
841 .. 112 .. 61.494 S
11543 11 .. 3
J .844 .. 14 .. 4.897
Clyde and other poets 118." • • 38 • • 13.4‘64
12Y55
Slowing an increase in all the ports, vxcea Clyde,,
vili;ch
exhibits a el!'creue in 1844 of one ship and 909 tons. The
total number of vess,,ls entered inwards in 1843 WAS 592,
and 247,459 tons; in 1814-618 vessels and 251.062 tons.;
calking an inerern-e in 1844 of 26 vessels and 66113 tom.
The &ears: ces ()Awards exhibit a very considerable in-
crease, viz.:—

Liverpool

Bristol and h nll

Ships. Tons.
From London ...... 12571
,6:
5 t
From Liverpool 11843 .. 19:) .. 72,724
1,44 .. 252 .. 95 ill
From Bristol and Hull 11%3,
7,7474
Clyde and ether ports }1884434
.. . 118131
44,73942492
showi,g an agvezate increase for 1844 over 1843 of 167
ships and 56,794 tons., It will be observed, that in none
of the ports has there been any d:Trease. In July last,
we ment oned that a number of vessels had chered
Liverrool in ballast for the East India ports, whose re 4
destination was the west coast of Africa, to collect guano,
and that these returns must to that extent be fallacious.
In the one now published, a distinction is drawn in the •
form of a note, b:.,tween the bond fide clearances for the
east and the. nominal ones. Tne note says—" There were
likewise cleared out in ballast fort be west coast of Africa
and the following ports, chiefly from Liverpool. 90 vessels,
viz.:—For Calcutta seven, 2172 tons ; Madras nine, 2039
tons; ,Bombay forty-iwo, 18,092 tons; China four, 2143
tons; Ceylon one, 298 tons; J 3va two, 790 tons; Amnia
one, 220 tons; Mauritius ten, 2.306 tons ; and the tape of
Good Hope fourteen. 3460 tons ; told 90 vessels, 31,144
tons ; and, as the professed object was that they should
load guano on the African coast, it was not judged proper
to include them in the above statement."
CRIME ANE PUNISHMENT IN Mottocco.--tin avari-
cious butcher, who had enriched himself by selling " keh-
hia, (fried meat,) was determined to increase his gains by
the more simple method of receipts without expenditure.
With this view he nightly inveigled into his house a wo-
man of'exceptionable character, who was immediately as-
sassinated, cooked, and di-posed of the following day as
" kchlia." His wife, who witnessed these nightly mur-
ders, apprehending a similar fate, went to the Pasha, seal
demunced her husband. He was soon judged and ern-
deinned ; a boiler full of water was placed over a fierce
fire before his shop door, which soon reached boiling
temperature. The executioner then dragged the eriiminell
to his own-block, still stained with the- blood of his nu-
merous victims, and, chipping off his hands, threw them
into the cauldron, and, when boiled, they were given ti 3
the numerous bands of hungry dots who had been mi-
. sembled for that purpose. In the same way his feet and
legs were disposed of, until loss of blood terminated his
life, and with it this appalling and barbarous Justice.—
' Standard.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot inform " A Member" *when Mr. Charles Kemble
will deliver his readings at the Mechanics' Institution. The
lectures at the Collegiate Institution are invariably advertised
in all the Liverpool papers; but. for some reason whin we
ca,inot explain, the announcements of a similar description
at the Mechanics' are confined almost exclusively to the
Radical press.
A Correspondent most pathetically deplores the great danger
passengers are exposed to, where our great areas. Ranelagh
pace :or instance, and chief thoroughfares, are intersected
by ether streets, inconsequence • f the rapid or furious dririn,
of lit ed carriages; more especia ly during the evenings of
winter &c., before the lamps are available. And when our
streets are lighted up,—he observes.—it is no easy task to keep
safe from the fearful perils alluded to.
The letter from Orniskirk in cm* next.
The young lady who christened the George Canning Plot Boat
yesterday week was Miss Bullen and not Miss -Banne,*, as we
erroneously stated.
We know mining whatever of the party alluded to by " A
Churchman."

"An Assistant" and " Beaver" who address us on the subject of a I
holiday or half holiday along with the closing of the. shops on the
day of the laying of the foundation stone on Wednesday next should
really have forwarded us their communications earlier. We should
have cordially seconded their views. At present see can only wish
them well. Such an era in the history of this loc.-dity would have
warranted a little sacrifice on the part of theiremp!oyers, many of
whom, would, no doubt, like well enough to enjoy the scene them
selves.

i.tbervoci &itanDarD.

TUESDAY 11101:AING, OCT. 22, 1844

In another column we have offered a. few remarks
upon the subject of the approaching . Municipal
Election ; and find that, in doing the same, a con-
temporary of Saturday, the Journal, has thought
proper to raise an objection against the eligibility of
a gentleman, whose name is mentioned for the office
of Mayor for the ensuing year. We refer to Mr.
James Lawrence.

It seems that, by section 49 of the Municipal Act,
it is provided " that on the 9th of November in
every year the council of the borough shall elect,
out of the aldermen or councillors of such borough,
a fit person to be the Mayor of such borough."
Mr. Lawrence happens to be amongst the number
of aldermen whose period of office expires on that
day; and the Journal, somewhat too hastily jumps
to the conclusion tha►, as such, being no longer one
of " the councillors or aldermen" he is legally in-
capacitated for election to the- Mayoralty. For the
satisfaction however, of our contemporary, and the
council, we beg to intimate that this very point has
already been raised before the Court of Queen's
Bench, and twice decided in favour of the eligibility
of a retiring alderman under similar circumstances.
In the first of these the Queen v. Muddy, to be found
in the 18th volume of the Law Journal Reports, it
was decided that.an outgoing alderman may be duly
elected mayor at the quarterly meeting on the 9th
of November; and that his election is not voided by
two outgoing aldermen having voted for him, such
outgoing aldermen continuing members of the
council until new ones are elected, which election
takes place after the election of mayor. In the
second case the Queen v. Stanley Lord Denman,
C.J. thus confirmed his former decision :
In the caseofihe Queen v. Stanley, Mr. Maddy, although
an retiring alderman, was still an alderman, and as such
one of the council, and eli2ible as mayor; and the election
of mayor being the first thing to be done at the quarterly
Meeting on the 9th of November, was rightly elected
mayor. Being mayor end so, ex-officio, member of the
council, he was cempetent to give any _ vote for which he
was not expressly disqualified; but any member of the
council, who is en out,toing alderman, is expressly dis-
qualified from voting in the election of the new alderman.
141 r. Muddy wa an our-going alderman, and subject
to this disqualification. Ile could not, therefore, vote
originally for Stanley's motion. If he could not vote
.originally for him, the case never arose in which he would
have a casting vote for the time as mayor. It follows,
therefore, that Stanley was not dely
So much then for the legal part of the question ;
and now that we have had so prominently brought be-
fore us the" consideration of Mr. Lawrence's claims to
the office, to which his friends are wishful to raise'
him, we may, however much we should have pre-
ferred leaiing the selection in the hands of the
council, take the opportunity of saying a few words.
Mr. Lawrence has been a member of the Watch
Committee since the year 1836. He has sat as its
chairman for three years past; and the activity,
firmness and impartiality which he has ever dis-
played in the discharge of his onerous duties cannot
be sufficiently admired.. In cases of fire, especially,
he has always been amongst the first at his post,
. and his services have _been incalculable and most
praiseworthy. He is a member too of the markets
committee and the highway board, upon which, as
in every department of the public service to which
he has devoted himself, his attention has been most
tmwearying and most useful. We know no greater
compliment that could be paid to the tradesmen of
the town—no appointment more likely to give
universal satisfaction—than -Mr. Lawrence's elevation
to the office of chief magistrate.

The crisis in the affairs of Ireland appears now
about to arrive which all sensible men have long
ago anticipated. The arch agitator, Daniel, has
thought proper to make a Jim Crow movement ;
to jump round from Repeal to the senseless and
ricketty crotchet called federalism; to defer the ex-
pression of the craving of Ireland's masses for
nationalists, and to become the fawning slave of a
a new Whig alliance. But in attempting this, he
has a little mistaken his powers. The pirouette of
the old imposter appears destined to be a solo per-
formance; for alas, "young Ireland" refuses to
dance at his prompting, or to be dragged in the
mire of his selfish and tortuous policy.
The split already has betrayed itself, in a letter
addressed to O'Connell by Mr. Duffy, of the Nation,
one of his recent companions in prison; and we may
with certainty discover from the tone of the writer,
which is firm and yet - respectful, that the slippery
agitator has now very different materials to work
upon from those which, in times past, he has moulded
to his will :—that, in fact, he has instilled principles
and awakened hopes in the breasts of those earnest
and ardent men, who may be regarded as the young
blood of Ireland, which will not be suppressed or
postponed at his mere and selfish caprice. These
men have learnt to contemplate the reality of national'
independence, which O'Connell, in his anxiety to
mystify the eyes of the British people, has inured
even himself to view as.something too shadowy and
unsubstantial for accomplishment. Whilst he has
been making the cry of Repeal a convenient lure for
the pence, and shillings of• his
.ignorant fellow
countrymen, they have been preparing in earnest
fOr its achievement. Whilst he has prated of moral
force as his only weapon, they have looked forward
to far other, more direct and holder means of
...working Jut their objects; and they will no longer
submit to' be duped by the timid and plausible
speciounesses with which their former leader has
,been in the habit of gulling and bewildering the
mind of. confiding Ireland. We may now, at length,
as the result of this movement, expect to see a little
~light thrown upon the subject of Repeal. We shall
:know at least what it means, and how the more
. daring and earnest of its advocates expect it to be
carried. •
' W perfectly agree with the objections urged by
Mr. Duffy to the adoption of the principle of
Federalism in place of Repeal. There can be no
half-way house, no compromise in such a question
as this. 'Utterly delusive as we believe to be the
expectations of the Irish people, of advantage to be
derived from a local and indepedent legislature, we
look upon the present project of a federal parliament
as a mere mockery, and its proposal as a paltry
subterfuge to enable a defeated bully to back out of a
position which he feels to be dangerous, and to en-
able him during the remainder of his unruly career
to pocket the money wrung from his wretched
fellow countrymen, without perilling what is dearer
to him than any earthly object—the safety of his
precious person. But it will not do, Daniel. You
must go on now with your eager and excited allies,
or abdicate at once 1

We are happy to have it in our power to thank
Ole Directors of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway on behalf of the public, for the satisfactory

Iregulation of their fares, which they have now an-
nounced to come into operation on the 2nd Novem-
ber. I,Ve could have wished indeed to see the first
class fare reduced a little lower still ;—say to 5,. 6d.
each way, with the return ticket at nine shillings;
but we must not be unreasonable. The principle
is conceded that a necessity exists for this, and
other old lines of railway, to come down from the
extravagant rates hitherto imposed upon travellers.
to a scale consistent at once with the convenience
of the public and a fair remuneration for the enter-
prise of proprietors. Experience is daily spewing
that the abundant capital now directing itself to the
formation of these undertakings will eventually
crush attempted monopolies ; and with this fact ad-
mitted by the chairman of the Liverpool and Man-
. chester Company, in announcing their new regula-
tions, we may be assured that they will see the ne-
cessity of further concession whenever circumstances
arise to call for them.

A contemporary, we observe, who has moved in
this question of low fares in common with ourselves,
endeavours in his last publication to depreciate the
value of the boon now accorded by a complaint of
alleged insufficiency of accommodation in the
new carriages of the second class trains: We can
only say, for ourselves, that we have used them and
can see no reasonable ground for the complaint
urged. They are quite roomy enough for passengers
of ordinary dimensions.

We have seldom been more amused than by the
lame attempt of. the Mercury to fabricate a political
grievance, out of our reTrarks upon the question
now at issue between the Works Committee of the
Dock Trust and the warehouse owners. 'rhe poor
gentleman has been well prompted, doubtless ; but
unfortunately the prompters have not succeeded in
driving, if they intended doing sn, the real facts of
the matter into his stolid intellect. He is as deci-
dedly abroad as if he had just arrived from Kam-
skatcha to start in his career of local journalism.

It is almost a folly to notice such trash as the
Mercury delivers himself of on this occasion; but
unfortunately he fibs a little in his facts, and there-
fore we must set him right, for the sake of the nu 7

merous wiseacres who imbibe his wisdom in the
Cellars and taps where he finds his extensive circula-
tion (.1). Our wise contemporary urges, in excuse
for Messrs. Evans and Aiken, who have certainly
managed their business very astutely, that the ware-
houses round the Albert Dock have, " in compliance
with the suggestions of Mr. Stewart"—a compliance
scarcely to haVe been expected from such all-suffi-
cient authorities—been built in detached blocks ;
that some five feet have been taken to widen the
quay of the Salthouse Dock, and, ergo, the Works
Committee were justified in taking the space, thus
given up, from the quays of the Albert Dock, and
converting it into warehouse accommodation. This
plea may stand for what it is worth. But when our
contemporary states that only " about one-fourth of
the space under the warehouses" has been appro-
priated " to the stowage of heavy goods," or, in
other words, to warehousing purposes instead of
quay room, he states that which, in his own polite
vocabulary, he •Nould fill up by a very significant
line, thus : but what we shall only term
such an erroneous statement as we firmly believe he
would not make, if he had ever inspected the ware-
houses in question, and knew what he was talking
about. A walk round the Albert Dock works
would convince him that he is wrong, and, of
course, he will acknowledge that he is so—some day
far distant. Vain men, like our friend of the Mer-
cury, take time before they confess that they are in-
fallible.

Another statement in the. Mercury's article con-
vinces us that he is innocent of any knowledge of
the subject which has drawn from him his remarks.
He says that " if the warehouse owners go to law
with the dock trustees"—a proceeding which he is
striving to bring about, and which we should be
sorry to witness, as we are satisfied that is is un-
necessary—" the result can only be either the com-
plete stoppage of thJ works, with the loss of all
the money expended upon them, or their demolition
and erection on a different plan." Poor gentleman !
He may just as well tell us that tearing a leaf, and
that a blank one, out of that elementary work to
which he has apparently confined his studies, and
which is familiarly called "The Horn Book," would
have, as its awful result, " either the complete stop-
page of the works" of the pedagogue, with the loss
of all the birch expended upon his unhappy subject,
or the 6` demolition" of the alphabet and its " erec-
tion on a different plan." There is no more diffi-
culty in making the works in question what they
were intended to be, and what the act of Parliament
contemplated, than there would be in reducing our
contemporary's " high-lows" into slippers.
It would really be a treat if the Mercury would
confine his remarks to matters which he under-
stands. A treatise upon peg7tops or tee,-totems
from his pen might send us to sleep with some com-
fort ; but the serious business of the world he ought
certainly to leave alone.

A correspondence appears in our paper this day
between Mr. John Moss, the chairman of the
Grand Junction Railway, Mr. Geo. Carr Glynn, the
chairman of the London and Birmingham Railway,
and Mr. Ormsby Gore, on the part of the provi-
sional committee of a proposed line of railway be-
tween Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, which in-
volves a question so important in its results to the
interests of the shareholders of the two great lines
that we cannot resist the opportunity which it af-
fords us of addressing to the respective hoards a few
words of advice. But first let us endeavour briefly
to place the subject a little more clearly before our
readers than a hasty perusal of the lengthy and
somewhat disjointed document published may
perhaps do.
One of the principal causes of the collision which
took place recently between these two hoards, and
excited such alarm in the minds of their constitu-
encies, was a disagreement between them with re-
spect to the line, and the mode of formation, of this
Shrewsbury and Wolvekhampton Railway. The
Grand Junction directors, who had stirred in the
matter only at the earnest solicitation of a party in
Shrewsbury, wanted the communication with that
town to be made from Stafford, having ascertained
that " as regards the North (Manchester and York-
shire for instance), no point on their line further
south than Stafford could be considered as offering
any considerable accommodation; whilst, as regards
London and the East, they found that the Trent
Valley Railway would shorten the road to London
nine miles, besides giving a direct communication
with Derbyshire and the East." Such a line was
accordingly determined upon, a subscription list
filled up, and preparations made for going to Parlia-
ment. At this point sprang up the rival Shrews-
bury and Wolverhampton scheme, which was
warmly espoused by the London and Birmingham
hoard, jealous apparenly of the leaning of the Grand
Junction Board to the adoption of the Trent Valley
line ' • and a serious disagreement between them en-
sued, which was however terminated, or thought to be
terminated, by an arrangement entered into on the 3d
of JJuly lass, in which the course of the two companies,
as to the support to be given to any proposed new
-lines, was laid down. The following was the stipu-
lation with respect to. the Shrewsbury scheme, by
which it will be
.seen that the choice of the line to
he formed, viz., from Wolverhampton instead of
Stafford, was conceded by the Grand Junction,
reserving to themselves, however, its formation.—
"The London and Birmingham Board is prepared,
with the concurrence of their Shropshire party
(which they will use their best endeavours to obtain)
to withdraw from the guarantee towards the Shrews-
bury line, the Grand Junction, with the concur-
rence of their Stafford shareholders, undertaking to
make a line to Wolverhampton, and guarantee four
per cent, on the capital, and an equal division of
future profits ; the Shrewsbury Birmingham share-
holders (under the same condition as the Stafford
and Shrew-bury) having an option of half the capi-
tal, the Grand Junction Company having a lease in
perpetuity, and working the line a manner conve-
nient to that part of the country."
This stipulation certainly appears plain enough,
and was accepted at the time as perfectly satisfactory
to all parties. Misconstruction, however, will break
in where powerful parties, mutually jealous, are at-
tempted to be bound together by any mere form of
words. Misconstruction has broken in, each party
to the contract accusing the other of having evaded
its spirit, and meaning, and neglecting to -ulfil its
provisions. The Shrewsbury party claim the right
themselves "to make the line," leasing it when
made to the Grand Junction Company, and repu-
diate having ever agreed to the interpretation which
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