The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

THE NEW COLLEGES—THE CATHOLIC CLERGY.—
The following declaration has been signed by 115 of the
clergy of Cashel and Emly :
" We the undersigned Roman Catholic priests of the united
archdiocese of Cashel and diocese of Emly, beg leave to express
our entire and co, dial concurrence with the archbishops and
bishops in their declaration relative to the recent act of acade-
mic education, being convinced that the measure, in its altered.
as well as its original form, is, 'pregnant with danger to faith
and morals.'
A similar declaration has been signed by 124 of the clergy
of the diocese of Waterford and Lismore.
IRISH TASTE.—At the repeal meeting on Monday Mr.
O'Connell, alluding to the decisions of the Committee of
the Fine Arts on the statues for the new Houses of Par-
liament, uttered, amidst the increasing merriment of his
auditors, the following wicked expressions, " They had
left out one of the very greatest men that England had
ever produced—Thomas it Becket—the defender of her
liberties (cheers); at whose shrine 100,000 Englishmen,
when England was Catholic, had assembled in homage,
because they knew him to be the advocate of their liber-
ties. (Cheers.) They omitted that really great and
magnificent man, who died a martyr as he bad lived a
saint ; the defeater of Henry and his tyranny ; and whom
her (Mr. O'Connell) would sooner have for an Irishman
than almost any other that had ever lived. [The learned
gentleman having described the death scene of it Becket,
proceeded],—Well, they left him out; but to whom did
they give a statue? 'Why, to Oliver Cromwell! (Cheers,
groans, and laughter.) They had also given one to Monk,
than whom a meaner or more despicable traitor—however
useful his treason—never existed. (Cheers.) Why, they
might as well have put up a statue of Judas Iscariot.
(Loud cheers and laughter.) Indeed, they only wanted a
third to make up a trio complete—they should have added
the statue of the Devil. (Tremendous cheers and laugh-
ter again and again.) The group would then have been
completed by the presence of their master." (Renewed
merriment.)

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

no objection to try this question in a court of law, were
the occasion afforded me. An opportunity for doing this
once occurred, but it was frustrated by a third party. I
was invited to preach a charity sermon in Stillorgan
church. shortly after my election ; I replied that there
was nothing to hinder it, and that I should comply. His
grace uttered a similar inhibition. 1 would, however,
in this instance have stood upon my right, and preached,
notwithstanding the inhibition, had the rector allowed.
He, however, did not wish to litigate the matter with his
grace, and so the question has not been brought to an
issue. Thus, then, the matter stands at present."

RAILWAY INTALLIGEACE.

It is said that Mr. Hudson confidently expects to make
the Eastern Counties line shortly pay 6 or 7 per cent.
The first sod of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway
was cut a few days since by the Earl of Roden.
A treaty for Northumberland House is going on be-
tween its ducal proprietor and the South-Western Rail-
way Company.
HANOVER RAILWAY.—The railway from Lehrte was
opened with great solemnity on the Bth inst. The King
and Duke of Brunswick attended the ceremony. The
town of Celle was brilliantly illuminated in the evening.
Sir Erederick Smith and Professors Barlow and Airey,
are busily engeged in receiving evidence on the great
question of the gauges. It is reported that the evidence
on the narrow gauge is completed.
At a meeting of Bristol and Exeter shareholders at
Bristol, on Tuesday, convened by circular, resolutions
were passed condemnatory of the terms of the provisional
agreement entered into, by the Directors, with the Great
Western Company.
MACCLESFIELD CANAL.—We understand that an ar-
rangement has been made with the Manchester and Shef-
field Railway Company, by which it is proposed that that
company shall take a lease of the Macclesfield Canal in
perpetuity, at £2 10s. per share.— Stockport Advertiser.
The Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Railway, have
purchased the buildings and grounds of Glasgow Uni-
versity fur a great railway station. An estate called
Woodlands, consisting of about 22 acres, has been se-
cured for the new college, which is to cost from £70,000
to £lOO,OOO.
On Sunday night week, a man was killed on the Shef-
field and Rotherham Railway. He had hooked on one
of the carriages so incautiously, that, when the engine was
set in motion, the chain was drawn tight across his breast,
and thus he was dragged along till the stoppage of the
engine released him, when he fell and expired.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.—The important works
on this line of railway are fast completing. The length-
ened embankment near Carlisle is formed, and a loco-
motive is employed on it, Eamont-bridge and Lowther-
bridge are finished, and they have a noble appearance.
Respecting the viaduct at Docker Gatthie, and an em-
bankment at Clifton, its progress is most favourable.
REDUCTION OF RAILWAY FARES.—Following the ex-
ample of the London and Brighton Railway Company,
the Manchester and Birmingham Company have reduced
their first and second-class fares, the latter from ss. 6d.
to 4s. 4d., and the former from 7s. 6d. to ss. Gd. ; and a
first-class passe ig,er now trave:s between Birmingham and
Liverpool for 17s.
RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—Last week a jury in the
Queen's Coe:sty awarded Lord Portarlington 1,684 19s 6d.,
for land re:sr:tired by the Great Southern and Western
Railway Co epany, and for damage by severance. The
Company ! al offered just 16s 6d. less than the award, his
lordship', ~emand being upwards of £3,000 ! The costs
amount to £1,263, which the Company of course will
have to pay.
The negociations which have been pending for some
days past between the Brighton and Croydon Companies
have at length been brought to a satisfactory conclusion.
The directors of the two lines, after long and anxious de-
liberation, have finally agreed on an amalgamation, the
shares to be consolidated into stock, and to rank therein,
Brighton at £5O, and Croydon at £lB 10s. This arrange-
ment is of course subject to the approval of the respective
proprietors.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, a man
named Law was killed on the Manchester and Birming-
ham Railway. Having a quantity of luggage on the top
of a carriage of a perishable character, his anxiety for its
safety had induced him, while the train was proceeding at
its usual rate, to get on the top to see if it were safe, and
while there the current of air blew his hat off. In endea-
vouring to recover it, his head came in contact with a
bridge, about two miles from Nautwich, which proved
instantly fatal.
RAILWAY ADVERTISING.—MF. F. D. Lewis' of the
firm of Lewis and Lowe, advertisement agents, 3, Castle-
court, Corn-hill, London, lately applied to the magistrates
at the Guild-hall, for advice, he sot having been paid by
the Oxford, Whitney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Inde-
pendent Railway Company, for advertising in the London
and provincial papers, to a large amount. The applica-
tion led to a curious expose of the conduct of some of
the parties. There appeared, however, no ground
of apprehension of ultimate lots of the account, and no-
thing had occurred to warrant the interference of the
magistrates.
A LUCKY CLERICAL ERROR. (?)—A certain gentleman
of large property, who had figured, if he does not uow
figure, as a railway director, applied for shares in a cer-
tain projected railway. 50, it seems, were allotted to him.
Whether that was the number he applied for or not, de-
ponent saith not; but by some means nothing got added
to the 50 and made it 500. The deposit for the said 500
was paid into the bankers', the scrip obtain, d, and before
the mistake could be detected end corrected—for no
doubt it was only a mistake, or at most a lapsus pennce—
the shares were sold, and some £2,000 profit by this very
fortunate accident found its way into the pocket of the
gentleman.—Herapath's Journal.
RAILWAY JOBBERS.—On Tuesday, at the London
Mansion House, two officers of the Stock-Exchange
applied to the Lord Mayor for information as to the
manner in which they should proceed to clear away the
enormous crowds of jobbers and " stags" who thronged
the interior of the Auction-mart. It was, they said,
quite useless for any of the servants of the concern to
address them. They only gave the names of their at-
torneys or treated the requests to leave the place with
contempt. The Lord Mayor said that he could not in-
terfere, as the pereons spoken of did not commit ob-
structions in the streets or thoroughfares. The officers
departed evidently diseppointed.
Am ALGAMATIONs.—The London and Birmingham and
the Grand Junction Railway Companieshave finally settled
their differences, and the directors of both companies take
their seats at a joint board. By arrangements in progress
the consolidated company will proceed to establish what
has long been considered a desideratum, a complete system
of trunk lines from London to Glasgow (via the Carlisle
and the Caledonian) ; and from London to Holyhead ;
and across Ireland; and they have decided to encourage
in every way the formation, into such trunk lines, of the
most direct lines subserving the trade of the country.
The York and North Midland and the Manchester and
Leeds Railway Companies have also come to arrangement.
The Manchester and Leeds will withdraw its support from
the London and York, and the East Riding projects and
the Leeds and York Direct are given up.
RAILWAYS.—An important parliamentary document
was printed on Saturday in respect to railways under the
Joint Stock Companies Act, whence it appears that, from
the Ist November to the 7th June last, 355 joint-stock
companies w2se2reweprreovriasiiolwnialyllyaorziasnteireead; an,ofd winhiacnh
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pendix it is stated that between the 9th and 30th June, as
many as 57 railways were provisionally registered, on all
of which registrations a sum of I:5 was paid. In the
month of May last about 80 railways were registered, and
17 from the Ist to the 7th of the following month. One
railway completely registered, and four of the same class
have notified their intention to abandon their plans. It
seems that of companies that had existed, out of 965, only
105 were railways ; and, as already mentioned, of provi-
sionally registered companies, out of 355 there were 252
railways. The fees received, from November to June,
amounted to £2164, in England. In two months after
the operation of the act the registration fees were £590 ;
in the next three months £3lO ; and in the following two
months and seven days as much as £785; making a total
for registration of £1691,
MR. GEORGEHUDSON.—It is surprising with what
little pretensions to information some of the new railway
Papers write of this gentleman. In No. 1 of the Roil
way Kinq, we find the following brief outline of his
carper :
t. Born of humble parentage, ne at an early age became
errand boy in a draper's shop at York. After several years had
passed, some money was unexpectedly left him, and with this
capital he set up bus ness as a draper on his own account.
Things prospered ; his pre-eminence in the trade attracted at-
tention, and his shop was always full. A considerable oeriod
elapsed, and he found he had money ; he embarked it in rail-
ways, and seeing sooner than most men the great field that was
being opened up, he studied the subject, and became master of
it. His speculations. at first small, became large, and the York
and North Midland having been started, he transferred his
stock and attention to that. His subsequent history is familiar
to every one."
Scarcely a single sentence of this paragraph is correct.
Mr. Hudson was not born of humble parentage, his
father being a respectable yeoman in the neighbourhood
of York ; and so far from being an errand boy in a
draper's shop, he was placed as an apprentice in one of
the first establishments in York, in which he was offered
a partnership as soon as be was out of his appienticeship
—an offer, which the capital his friends were competent to
advance him enabled him to accept. After being in busi-
ness many years, the sum of between £60,000 and
£70,000 was left him by a distant relation, which enabled
him to retire from business, and instead of becoming a
speculator in the York and North Midland after it
started, he was one of the original promoters of the
scheme.—Hull Packet.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning week,
between four and five o'clock, the mail train from London
to Leeds, on the Midland railway, was proceeding near
the Barnsley station at a very slow pace, in consequence
of an accident to the engine, when an engine in pursuit
came up, and ran with great force into the train. The
concussion was tremendous. The last carriage, which
was a second-class one, was forced up from the rails, and
the buffers were driven completely through the first com-
partment of the next carriage, which was one of the first
class. In this compartment were Mr. Fuller Boteler,
one of the commissioners of the Leeds Bankruptcy
Court, and Inspector Child and Sergeant Stubbs, of the
Leeds detective police force, two of whom sustained in-
juries, the issue of which it is impossible to anticipate.
Mr. Bottler, who is a gentleman of between 60 and 70
years of age, bad one of his thighs fractured, and his other
leg severely bruised. Mr. Stubbs sustained a compound
fracture of his left leg, and other serious injuries. All
the passengers were more or less injured. We regret to
state that Mr. Boteler died on Thursday, after having had
one of his legs amputated. Ile was in his 68th year. The
driver of the pilot engine was brought before the magis-
trates on Tuesday, charged with negligence in driving the
engine into the train as described above. Among the
witnesses was the guard of the train, who said, they had