The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

QUARTER BEFORE THREE

,-YESTERDAY

There has been a brisk business in several of the ral'way
shares, and the general tone of the market is as firm as it was
last week. Bristol and Gloucester have been done at 138,
Caledonian 13, Oxford and Worcester 13, London and ork 64,
Cambridge and Lincoln af, Great Western 165, Remington's
Manchester Si, Rastrick's ditto 21 premium, Dutch Rhenish
11k, Jamaica Junction and Sambre and Meuse Bi.

MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET-YESTERDAY

(From Mr. J. B. Locke's Circular.)

Bideford and Tavistock 2 s ; Birkenhead, Lancashire
and Cheshire 14z Brecon and Myrthr Tydval 71-; Ches-
ter and Manchester Direct 44 4 3A 3 4; Direct Northern
3 2/ 3 ; East Lancashire 22 ; Exeter, Yelverton and Dor-
chester 3/ 4/ 1-6 ; Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding
34;; Goole, Doncaster. Sheffield and Manchester 64
4; Grand Union 314 3/ ; Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal 214 2; Huddersfield and Sheffield
Junction 28 9 30 ; Leeds and Thirsk 20 ; Leeds, Dews-
bury and Manchester 35; Leeds and West Riding 144;
Leeds and York 7k; Liverpool and Bury, late Bolton,
Wigan and Liverpool 444 34 ; Liverpool, Manchester and
Newcastle Junction 71! London and Manchester (Rem.)
4a I 13-16ths ; London and York 6/ a ; Manchester,
Bolton and Bury ex d. 215 t Manchester and Birmingham
ex d. 89 84 ; Manchester and Birmingham con. and W.
Junction 34; Newcastle, Durham and Lancaster 51;
North Kent 6 15-tbs 7/ 7 ; North Staffordshire ex n. 7
4 7 ; Nottingham. Birmingham and Grantham 51 6*
§ ; Nottingham, Erw. Ambergate and Manchester 64 a
7-16ths ; Sheffield and Manchester ex n. 137 ; Shrews-
bury and Birmingham 8/ 9 ; Tean and Dove Valley 31-;
Trent Valley 23 ; West Yorkshire 141; Whitehaven and
Furness 8 ! Worces!er, Shrewsbury and Crewe 44 4 4 ;
York and Carlisle 6 54.

RAILWAYS IN LINCOLNSHIRE

(From a corre

nondent of the Railway Record.)

The Lincoln and W
ainfleet Hallway is progressing in
public estimation. The speculators have got hold of t
• , m, .

already, and the shares are at a premium ! The project is
looked upon very favourably at Nottingham and Derby,
and it is rumoured (though we helieve without any
foundation) that the Midland Company have their
eye upon Wainfleet, in opposition to the port of
Grimsby, which seems to have fallen into the hands
of the Manchester and Leeds Company.
it may, the capabilities of Wainfleet as a port ...
harbour are scarcely to be equalled on the coast, and men
wonder that so excellent a schethe was rot taken up years
ago. it is understood that a company of coal proprietors
in the north have guaranteed to deliver best
Lincoln, by Wainfleet and the railway, at 12s. per ton.
It will cert nnly interfere to some extent with the Grimsby
Docks and Railway. A direct line from Hull to Lincoln
is about being started.

Be that as

The Railway Times publishes the following letter, in
order to show the mania which has seized men for rail-
way speculation •,—" I have lately felt a very strong
impression, that I might be able to make money by buy-
ing and selling shares freqnently, and 1 should be much
obliged to you, if you would favour me with your opinion
whether I had better leave this place and come up to Lon-
don for the purpose. I hold a situation here of £l2ll
a-yea-6 which I must in that case relinquish. I have
about £17,000 worth of York and North Midland Rail-
way stock, which I conld sell out and speculate with.
Compared with the profits of speculation, if successful,
my situation is of little importance. My idea is, that the
present is the time
.to speculate rather than invest, as
until the railw iys are completed, ann the system settled,
it is difficult to say which will be a guod investment. I
have Dublin and Galways in view, and also Cambridge and
Lincoln, and expect a rise in them nextsession when the bills
pass. If I remain here, and employ a broker. h.: writes to
his agent in London, who goes into the market the nest
morning, and thus a day is lost. It seems to me that if
I was in London I could do many things personally—suck
as delivering over scrip, &c• My broker here has the
prices of the preceding day to refer to, as for instance, to-
day (Tuesday) he refers to yesterday afternoon's London
list; his agent would have his letter if he wrote to-day,
to-morrow (Wednesday) morning—a distance of time
which renders a reference to prices here almost useless—
for speculation. Though I am aware of this, I should
be more confident with your opinion, as you would know
exactly how I should go on if I came to town." The
writer resides in Liverpool and is unknown to us.
THE PROSPECTS OF RAILWAY REVENUE ON THE
. . .

HALF-YEAR.—We formerly had occasion to notice the
fact, that the railways of this country had afforded on the
earlier half of this year, an increased revenue of £550,000
over the corresponding period of 1844. This was not at
all surprising to us, for the earlier half of 1814 was
marked by a gradual revival of trade, and a rapid increase
in railway revenue, which was fully sustained in the latter
half of 1844. This increase was naturally maintained in
the earlier half of 1845, and therefore the increase of that
half-year, over the earlier half of the former, was not a
subject of surprise. But, as the latter half of 1844 hail
the full benefit of the rise, it was by no means anecessary

consequence of the great balance in favour of the past
half-year that there should be a similar balance on the
current one. We are, therefore, agreeably surprised at
tbecostinued increase manifested in our returns; which
is quite as great as that on last half-year, being already,
in two months, au excess of more than £200,000.

cannot, therefore, be taken at
for the current half-year, over
half of last year. Of the £200,00
roNo past months, nearly £20,000

The estimated exces
less than £500,00('
the corresponding
of i,icrease on the

belong to the Midland proper, excluding- its lines
on lease ; about £20,000 to the London and Bir-
tningham ; .g20.61.i0 to the Amalgamated Liverpool. Man-
chester, and Grand Junction ; and £20,000 to the Dover.
The increase on the Great Western is 1:12,000 ; London
& Croydon, £10,000; Eastern Counties and Northern &
Eastern Counties and Northern and Eastern, £9.000;
London and Brighton, £9,000 ; Newcastle and Dar-
lington, £9,010 ; South-Western, £5,000.—Railway
Chronicle. _

_
—Examiner.
MAN DROWNED.—A
Tuesday last, before lien

Churto

Hide Hotel, on the body-of

Thomas, who was found drov
It appeared that the deceP-
day uight by the twelve o'clock boat,
have fallen overboard. lie was a married ma
wife had only been confined about a w,ek o
child. Verdict—' Accidental death."

d had left

„...
UNALLOWED EXTRAS.—The horrible statement that
paupers in the Andover workhouse eagerly devoured
the putrid marrow and gristle of bonea they had to
pound has been completely substantiated, and it is re-
ported that the Poor Law Commissioners regard with
serious displeasure the management by which bones and
marrow and gristle were placed in the hands of the hungry.
It is said that they have admonished the masters of
workhouses to place all such bones out of the reach of
gluttonous paupers, or else to diminish their allowance
of food in proportion to the quantity of marrow or
gristle they filch from the bones. The Board observe
that the puhlicis naturally shocked to find that paupers
have been thus living literally on the fat of the land,
together with a succulent food like the tendrons, which
are such a delicacy in French cookery. Such an elan'
fare as this was never contemplated in the workhouse
system, and the commissioners are much displeased at so
prodigal an excess, calculated to make the pauper's con-
dition an object of envy to the independent labourer
wanting the extras of marrow and tendrons de ch evaux.
It is a question whether paupers should henceforth be
trusted with bones, as they make no bones of whatever
they can find in or on them, and whether stone-breaking
should not be substituted for bone-crushing ; but the ob-
jection to the former is, that there is the pudding-stone,
which the paupers might be gluttonous enough to make a
meal of. It has been suggested that, as paupers have
shown that they can regale on the putrid marrow and
grizt le of dry bones. it might economically be introduced
as a regular part of the dietary, in lieu of so much meat or
bread ; but this proposal has been thought to require con-
sideration, the price of bones having lately risen Is. lid.
the ton. The commissioners are reported to see nothing
amiss in the vigorous state of appetite which caused the
paupers to feast on the putrid marrow and gristle, but
they find 1111
great !t with the negligence which allowed of
their
ma
king .
his unallawed and extravagant addition to
their diet. This is a view which will not be altered till
paupers have made a meal of an assistant commissioner.

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