The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.—WEDNEsnAr.

Try
CHESHIBE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The half-yea at
general meeting of this company was held, on Friday,
Monk's Ferry Hotel, Birkenhead. James Bancroft, Esll.l
the chairman of the board, presided, and there was a very
numerous attendance. Mr. Gibson, the secretary, corn'
menced the business by reading a report from the auditors;
which pointed out some items in the accounts as °Wee"
tionable, especially the heavy expense of the joint-station
at Chester. The half-yearly report was then read. This
began by some details from the statement of accounts'
which have already been published, and which showed se
aggregate increase in the revenue of £6,147, or twenty'
five per cent. upon the previous half-year. The increase
arose mainly on the goods department. The report neat
referred to the prospective traffic from the docks at Birken-
head. The new line from Chester to Lower Walton bad
been opened on the 18th of December, but the arrange'
ments for the goods traffic were not yet complete. The
board proposed to pay a dividend upon the several classes
of shares at the rate of £1 10s. per cent. per annum. The
engineer's report showed that the works were in a satis-
factory condition.—The Chairman moved the adoption of
the report. He congratulated the company upon its im-
proved condition. The capital account would soon be
closed, and the company be out of debt. In regard to the
rivalry between the London and North-western and the'
Shrewsbury Companies, up to this time their own coW'
pany had observed, as far as practicable, what had been
properly termed a neutral policy. The board was nowt
however, impressed with a conviction that they should
not be led any longer by this understanding of neutrality ;•
and the directors had unanimously agreed to suggest to
the meeting that a committee of shareholders should be
formed to consult with the board as to the line of policy
which should in future be adopted. Communications bad
been made, and matters of great importance would have
to be discussed shortly.—Mr. Hope, M.P., seconded the
adoption of the report, which was agreed to.—A motion was
then carried, declaring a dividend for the half year of
4s. 1;d. on the £27 10s., 2s. 101-d. on the £22, and
3s. I(4d. upon the £3l shares.—Mr. Titherington com-
plained, at great length, of attempts made by ihe London
and North-western Company to abstract the traffic which
ought to flow on the Cheshire Junction line to Manchester.
He was afraid that the agreement with that company had
sacrificed their independence. There was nothing open
to them but to sell themselves to the London and North-
western.—The Chairman replied at length.—Mr. Knolr,
of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company, adduced
ether instances of the abstraction of traffic. There was
no doubt, he said, that the object of the proposed com-
mittee of consultation was to arrange the terms of sale to
the London and North-western Company. The Chair-
man had not said, and would take care not to say, what
was intended.—After considerable discussion it was agreed
that the committee should be appointed, and that they
should consider, besides the general policy of the corn-
rany, the agreement, or the traffic arrangement with the
London and North-western ; but the appointment of the
shareholders to constitute the committee was deferred
till a special meeting, to be held on the 29th March.

The CHAMPION FREE HANDICAP 'HURDLE RACES Of 5 VON'S
each, with 50 added. The second to receive 20 soya oat of
the stakes, and the winner to pay 7 soya towards expenses.
Two miles.
Mr. Tresham's Cogia, 5 yrs, 9st 101 b (Archer) ....... 1
Mr. -Gains's br c Seignor of Holde"ness, 4 yrs, 9st 81b 2
Mr. Cunningham's Little queen, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b 3
Mr. Brotherton's Valiant, aged, lOst 101 b, fell.
Mr. Maxwell's Empress of Russia, 6 yrs, Ost 81b, fell.
Mr. Cowell's Patrick, 5 yrs, 9st 61b.

Betting.-2 to 1 agst Seignor of Holderness, 6to 2 agst Cogia,
and 6 to 1 agst Patrick.
Won by half a length—a length between second and third.

The SPRING CUP HANDICAP Of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5,
&c., with 100 added. The second to save his stake, and the
winner to yay 7 soya towards expenses. Mile and three-
quarters.
Mr. Hesseltine's Unity, 3 yrs, sst 91b (T. Dodd)
Mr. Palmer's Doubt, 5 yrs, sst 71b 2
Captain Haworth's Baroness, 5 yrs, 7st 91b.
Mr. T. Parr's Panope, 4 yrs, 7st 51b

The GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE Of 20 sovs each, 10 ft,
and only 5, &c., with 100 added. The second to save his
stake, and the winner to pay 20 sovs towards the expenses.
Winners of a steeplechase after the declaration of the weights,
6lb eltra ;of two or more, 10lb extra. About 4 miles. 63

subs, 30 of whom declared, &c.
Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader, aged, lOst 41b (T. Abbot) 1
Mr. C. Higgins's Maria Day, aged, lOst slb (Frisby) 2
Lord Waterford's Sir John, aged, Ilst 121 b (Ryan)
The following also started, but were not placed :—Vain Hope,
Sir Peter Laurie, Peter Simple, the Victim, Fugitive, Rat-trap,
Half-and-Half, Shinrone, Tipperary Boy, Mulligan, Fugleman,
Currig, Hope, Volatile, b m by Grey-Steel, Reindeer, Maurice
Daly, Penrith.
Therace was excellent, and the prize well contested for. Hope
led in the front, followed by Peter Simple, Sir John, Maria Day,
and Tipperary Boy, and Abd-el-Kader being in the rear; but
after the first two or three fields had been crossed, Sir John
spewed pluck, and took the lead until he came to the brook,
where Hope rushed past him, but breaking a stirrup leather, he
was obliged to give in. The brook leap was taken in good style
by all the horses clearing it beautifully. Tipperary Boy was
the first over, followed close by Peter Simple and Sir John,
Abd-el-Kader making a fair fourth. Volatile fell at this leap,
and was pulled up. The contest now lay between Mulligan,
Maria Day, Sir John (leading), and Tipperary Boy. At Bee-
cher's Brook Mulligan fell heavily and retired. Sir John, Ahd-
el-Kader, and Maria Day now took the lead, and the pace, for a
time, was terrific. Sir John, however, soon gave in, and the
contest lay between the two nations. It was now that the Irish
Brigade had to look to the old favourite or nothing. The strug-
gle was fearful for the last hurdle. The mare crossed by half a
length in advance, but the sturdy Abd-el-Kader and his good
pilot were not daunted, for, collaring his opponent, he ran un-
til they were nose and nose on passing the lower corner of the
grand stand, a whip, a leap, a bound, and lie was a head in ad-
vance; another, and he was half a neck past the winning post,
amid the most excited and enthusiastic cheers of every indivi-
dual on the course.

Abbott was warmly congratulated upon his skilful manage-
ment and superior riding.
The race was run under 10 minutes. Abd-el-Kader won last
year in 9in Us. Since the days of Lottery he is the only horse
who has won the " Grand Liverpool" two years successively.
The OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 30 sovs

added.
Mr. Hesseltine's b h Mistake (late Andalusian), 3 yrs, £5O. 1
Mr. Rider's b m Clara, aged, .t'3o
Mr. Barton's b g Master Downes, aged,

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

An English clergyman, writing to the Morning Herald,
states that in his cure the Romish priest has commenced
the practice of signing as " Clergyman of the Parish."
A great open-air meeting of the Roman Catholics of
Drogheda was held on Sunday week, for the purpose of
petitioning parliament against the new " penal measures.
In the address of the Irish Roman Catholic bishops to
the people of Ireland, every signature but one is the pre-
late's simple name, as "--Paul Cullen," " t D. Murray ;"
the one exception is, of course, the signature, " t John,
Archbishop of Tuam."
PERVERSION OF SCRIPTURE.-The Romish Bishop of
Elphin, Ireland, has just issued a " pastoral" to the
" faithful," in which, after a long exhortation about ab-
staining from meat, he says :-" If incapable of fasting,
we should endeavour to cancel our sins by a more abun-
dant charity to the poor; for "charity covereth a mul-
titude of sins."
On Thursday a great united meeting, to manifest the
agreement of Protestant christians in opposing the present
pretensions of Rome, was held in Exeter-hall, Mr. Bevan
in the chair. The Revs. H. Allon, W. B. Mackenzie,
Dr. Stevne, W. Cadman, Dr. Leifchild, and T. R. Birks,
took part in the proceedings. A large number of clerg
and dissenting ministers were present, and a strong and
unanimous feeling prevailed.
Father Gavazzi again addressed, on Sunday last. 0
crowded and enthusiastic audience of his followers, who
now count (says the Daily News) by thousands, and re-
minds us of one of the Huguenots excluded from France
by the edict of Nantes. The subject of this, his eighth
oration, was the social effect of monastic establishments.
The Earl of Harrowby and Mr. H. Drummond, M.P.,
were among the auditors.
PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION.-TWO large meetingt
were held last Friday at the Royal Subscription Rooms
in Exeter, when petitions to both houses of parliament
were adopted, praying for more efficient measures to resist
the hostile aggressions of the Roman Pontiff. The
greatest enthusiasm was manifested, and thanks were
voted to the Rev. Canon Stowell for the able and animat-
ing addresses which he delivered on the occasion. It was
supposed that from 1000 to 1200 were present at the
evening meeting.
MEETING OF THE ROMISH BISHOPS.-The Roman
Catholic prelates re-assembled, on Wednesday, at Dublin,
and finally adopted the addresses and petitions against
Lord John Russell's Bill. Every act done. it is stated,
was done without a dissentient voice, and each of the
documents will appear bearing the signatures of fir'
whole Irish hierarchy. Their " graces" and " lord-
ships,' are, however, doing their work cautiously, as tb
°
address to the people of Ireland is not to meet the pubc
gaze until the opinion of eminent counsel has been re-
sorted to for a " full explanation of the effects upon the
Irish Catholic Church that were likely to be produced by
the bill proposed by the late cabinet." This opinion, it
seems, was before the prelates, but in some of its minor
details was not quite prepared for publication, and it svaB
deemed more advisable that the " opinion" should ac"
company the address to the faithful.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF A NuN.-A public meeting
was held on Thursday evening, at Nottingham, pursuant
to a requisition by a body of Freemasons of that borough.
Dr. Clarke, chairman, stated that a female, confined in 0
nunnery adjoining the Roman Catholic Church of St'
RAIL IVA I' AFFAIRS. Barnabas, Derby road, Nottingham, a few days since en-
* deAvoured to effect her escape, but was observed by 13
The Lords of the Admiralty have consented to the person who retails milk in that part of the town, and sheconstruction, under certain conditions, of the Ulverston was again immured within the convent.-Brother Toni-
and Lancaster Railway. linson proposed that a summons should be applied for
Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Company's report on the from the borough magistrates, tailing upon Dr. Mulligan,
Eastern Counties capital account has taken about two or any other priest, to appear before the bench, and shed
1754, April 5 Duke of Newcastle.. years to get ready, and has cost the company about £lOOO- cause why females should be incarcerated within the con'
1762, May 29 Earl of Bute At the Bristol and Exeter. Railway meeting, on Thurs- vent after they had expressed a wish to be liberated.-Se'
1763, April 16 G. Grenville l2 day, the report was adopted, and the dividend confirmed conded by a gentleman named Jones, and carried nets.
1765, July 12 Marquis of Rockingham 1
1766 August 2 Duke of Grafton 3 - against a slight opposition in favour of making it £2 con.-It was stated during the discussion that between
1770,0
January 23 Lord North 12 - instead of £1 15s. thirty and forty females are now in that convent, eight r
1782, March 3 Marquis of Rockingham o - The Court of Queen's Bench has decided that railways ten only being Sisters of Mercy or noviciates, on probe-
-1782, July 13 Earl of Shelburne 0- 2, must be rated to the poor according to the earnings of tion for two years ere they take the black veil.-It woe
1783, April 5 Duke of Portland 0 -26 t the railway within the bounds of the parish, and not on finally moved by the chairman, that the meeting should
1783, December 27 William Pitt 17 - 80 the average mileage of the whole line. stand adjourned to Saturday evening, and in the mean'
1801, March 17 Lord Sidmouth 3 - 66
1804, May 12 William Pitt I - 246 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.-From the time a petition should be prepared for general signature:
1806, January 8 Lord Grenville - 64 report of the directors, it appears that the balance of re- calling upon her most gracious Majesty's ministers to add
1807, March 13 Duke of Portland
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PAPAL NVy ns ni, ,AaTnEds
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FEB.
Hilo, June 23 Spencer Percival 3 - 102 venue for the past half-year, applicable to dividend and a clause in the bill about to be brought before the Heal,
I - 350
1812, June 8 Earl of Liverpool 14 - 307 interest, amounts to £235,785 Os. lid. It is recommended of Commons against the recent papal assumption e"
1827, April 11 George Canning 0 - 121 that a dividend, at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, less power, to abolish all nunneries and monasteries now Ow
1827, August 10 Lord Goderich - 168 income tax, be declared, which, after providing for the isting in the united kingdom of Great Britain.-Seconded
btiale-
-1830, November 22 Earl Grey 3 - 231 lance of £13,6
1828, January 25 Duke of Wellington.... 2 - 301 amount to be se7t6aslisdse. f3odr.dteoprbeeciaetaiorrnisedwiflolrwleaarvde
tao
1834, July 11 Lord Melbourne 0 - 128 next account, inclusive of the reserve ordered by the Master speech was received here express by the French Ambassa-
-1834, November 16 Duke of Wellington 0 - 22 of the Rolls in his recent judgment in the case of the dor on the 11th, and published next day in the official
1834, December 8 Sir Robert Peel 0 - 131 fifths' proprietors. Gazelle. The debate on the address arrived in regular
1835, April 19 Lord Melbourne 6 - 138
THE MIDLAND RAILWAY MEETING AND THE Extui- course yesterday ; but, though the public appetite is
1841, September 3 Sir Robert Peel 4 -97 somewhat satisfied, the greatest anxiety prevails for the
1845, December 20 Sir Robert Peel dl , '
0- HS proposed to have thirty-hve new engines an 1,0 carriages receipt of the bill, which our Ministers were to introduce
and wagons, for which £lOO,OOO has been granted, one-
-1845, December 10 Lord John Russell 0 - 19 DITION OF 1851.--I.t appears that at. the meeting it was
1846, June 26 Lord John Russell on the Friday following the opening of the session. Th.
A MEEK QUAKER.-On Wednesday, the 'Manchester half of it to be chalked up to capital, and the other half impression made by the paragraph in the Royal discourse
14.-The Queen's
Guardian charged Mr. John Bright with canvassing the spread equally over the revenue of four half years. The was not favourable to the vigour of our government, and
Irish members to vote for Mr. D'lsraeli's motion, (whilst chairman observed, that "if he had had the carrying out publictagiailenddtah
e vagueness
witha
gl ltunheievnersally exclaimed, "Is that all ?" Thy
he himself voted against it), in order to harass and per- of the plan individually, he would at once have said, idea was fortified by the appearance in Galignani of re'
plex the government. To this charge Mr. Bright gives ' take it all out of the revenue;' but the board, after solutions which it announced, on the authority of the
an unqualified denial, and having done so proceeds to mature deliberation, had come to the unanimous decision Spectator, as the Ministerial measure to be submitted th
lecture the poor editor of the Guardian in the following to recommend that one-half be placed to capital and the Parliament, and the mildness of her Majesty's language,
meek and unquakerlike style :-" So long as you confined other to revenue."
ceossovoifetiohne rthesaotluQtoioene,oi
Victorianspired twhoesPeriothlr'
yourself to insinuations and to calumnies that were not LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT.-The half-
specific, I abstained from noticing your attacks upon me ; yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday, Mr. favourably disP Obed to the Roman Catholic Church, or
but now, when your malice has got the upper hand of William Earle in the chair. The attendance was numer- that she dreaded a contest with the Pope of Rome'
your prudence, I consider it desirable if not indeed neces- ous, Tile accounts showed a balance to the credit of Letters which had been previously received from leading
sary, to notice what you say. You have been in London revenue of £1,198 6s. 10d., from which the directors Catholics in London, announced that the measure to 139
during the present week, and I have no doubt that your recommended the payment of a dividend, at the rate of proposed was intended only to satisfy' the clamour fo"
own hand wrote the letter in which these slanders are two per cent, for the past half year, leaving a balance to mented by Protestant bishops and clergymen, and that '
contained. You have doubtless listened to every bit of be carried forward of £B3B. On the motion of the chair- would be in form and substance as mild and unmeaning
the endless gossip that has been circulating here for some man, seconded by Mr. T. B. Barclay. the report was as possible ;so that when the speech arrived, and the
days past, and the malicious stories of some hack of the I unanimously adopted. In reply to Mr. Forwood, the series of resolutions published, every one said the English
government you have treasured up as valuable for the Chairman stated that the period of closing the capital ac- government was paralyzed, and the Pope, as usual, tr,i;
purpose that seems ever nearest your heart. There may count depended upon the question as to whether they umphent. The decided language of Lord John Russell,
be individuals in the constituency of Manchester to whose would have to make a double line the whole of the way to as reported in the Times, has altered this opinion to •
vitiated taste your incessant calumnies may come as their I Southport. It would cost about £5,000 to alter the pre- certain extent ; but until the bill itself be before 01
natural food. I envy neither them nor you. I claim to sent station. Mr. ?Hansel, the secretary, in explanation, nothing worth serious notice can be said.
represent that great portion of the electors of Manchester said that it was expected that the increase of traffic during AN EPISCOPAL REPROOF.-The laymen of Old Down,
who can appreciate an honest and a manly course, and the summer would be such that they would be compelled in the diocese of Bath and Wells, recently sent an address;
who will judge me by principles which you cannot coin- to have a double line, in order to afford the necessary to their bishop, worded iq the most respectful and tem;
prehend. and with a fairness and a generosity to which, facility and accommodation to the passengers.-(Hear, p erate language, against the Papal Aggression, and again"
unhappily for yourself, you are evidently, by constitution hear.) The retiring directors, Messrs. W. Bundell, W. Tractarian innovations. To this his lordship deemed it
as by habit, a total stranger. I am, &c., JOHN BRIGHT." Earle, and T. S. Gladstone, were unanimously re-elected. becoming to reply as follows :-My dear Sir,-I have the
Reform Club, Feb. 27, 1851. -Mr. Hargreaves and Mr. Greenough of Southport, were honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Feb,'
LORD JOHN OF THE WHITE FEATHER.-We never appointed directors to fill up the vacancies. 24, accompanied by an address to myself from an assoa'
believed-our readers will bear us witness-that Lord EASTERN CouNTiEsRA/GwAy._Thelialf_yearly Meet- ation of persons calling themselves "The Lay Members
John Russell was in earnest in his doughty defiance of the ing was held on Thursday, in London. Mr. Joseph Glyn of the Old Down Local Committee for the Defence of the
exceedingly Protestant Faith," of which you state yourself to be the
to theg chairman-a document which it would be as improper TO
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not the remotest intention of acting up to it. " Look- meeting adjourn to the 18th of March next. The Chair- yourself I feel it must be needless to point out the great
ing," his lordship is reported to have told the house last man said the motion for adjournment h was
affected
avery impor- impropriety which attaches to any self-constituted hod/
night, "to the past proceedings in the Irish Courts of tent one ; and lie considered it sofimuc! . the posi- of persons addressing themselves in a tone of dictation
Law, there are some of its clauses which ought not to be tion of the executive and the Preclpriti of the towards one to whom the government of the church in
pressed to the fullest extent. IT WAS NOT OUR INTEN- company, that he must state-and did o without
,any this diocese has been lawfully committed. And I cannot
TION TO INTERFERE WITH ANYTHING WHICH BELONGS intention of giving offence, without any feeling of pique, but think it would be well if you were to place before SRO:
TO THE REGULAR ORDER OF ROMAN CATHOLIC WOK- without indending it in the remotest degree as a threat- association, at any future meeting, that it is not consistent
slur." But Lord John Russell is not content with that lie should, if it were carried, resign his seat.-Mr. with their duty, as members of the Church of England, to'
declaring that his intention was, not to enforce the bill Waddington suggested that the mover of the adjournment be parties to any such address to their bishops." WWI
beyond what might he thought consistent with the main- should embody in his amendment an intimation to the a bishop can write such a reply as this to a protestant
tenance of " religious liberty." Ire has felt the rod, and effect, that the committee °' shareholders to requested to remonstrance, we may well have ministerial difficulties
like a good boy, he promises to behave better for the consider the policy of entering on any working agreement and excitement through the country. The Archbishor
future. "If that hill were proceeded with, I should be that might be made with the,Newmarket and Chesterford of Canterbury has recently made a very different reply to
ready to make all such alterations as should prevent any and East Anglian lines of railway, and if so considered a lay address from Bath, presented to his grace by Lor"
of the interference which seems to be dreaded. TVhen I I advisable, to report thereon to the meeting to he held on Ashley. The archbishop says,-" I lament, together'
see a man of such moderation as Archbishop Murrayassented to this, and on it with the subscribers, that any ground for this expectatio
the 18th March. Mr. Norris n
objecting to the provisions of that bill, I WILL SAY THAT being put to the meeting the chairman declared it to be should have been furnished : that doctrines should 110.8
lAM QUITE READY TO EXAMINE AND GO INTO THE PRO- iost. A poll was demanded, but afterwards withdrawn. been preached in any of our churches closely approXl:
VISIONS OF THAT BILL, AND SEE WHETHER THE OBJECT It was then proposed that the meeting should be adjourned mating to those of Rome, and that the simplicity which '°
Twigs WHICH HAVE BEEN STATED REALLY DO EXIST " till the 18th of March, and a poll was taken upon it. the becoming characteristic of public worship should hay,'
Indeed, Lord John Russell is willing to examine his bill, I GIVING ONE'S LIFE FOR A CAP.-On the 11th instant, been exchanged in many instances for that which if
with a view to find whether it is "really" objectionable a young man named Bromfield, employed as a porter on unnatural and artificial, and which is, in fact, a part Ot
to the Papists; and if it is, w then, seeing that his lord- the Altrincham Railway, while riding in a second-class that erroneous system which cur forefathers renounced o',
ship cannot get on in Parliament without Popish votes, carriage,, hetween the Oxford-road and Knott Mill sta- the Reformation. The power which the ecclesiastics
the Protestants of the united Kingdom may solace them- tons, on his way home to Timpariey, put his head out of laws confer of restraining these innovations is very limited
selves with the big words of Lord John's letter to the the carriage ; his Ei wr cap blew off ; he opened the door and and might, perhaps, be advantageously enlarged. A
Bishop of Durham, which still remains as an imperishable jumped out ;in so doing he fell, and was ridden over, time will prove whether it may be needful to seek al
record of the most consummate official sham ever perpe. both his legs became broken, and he received a fracture fresh enactments, or whether the strong expression
trated. It needs not such paltering as this to encourage of the skull. Under these injuries he laboured till the public opinion which has been manifested may not super'
the Papists to further acts of inaolence.--,-10n, livii. 26th instant, when. he died. tede the ne malty of additional legislation.".