The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-25 00:00:00

PROMOLI AND HAUSBURG

110 t EG leave to inform their Friends and the Public in
-1-0 general, that by their extensive arrangements for
the manufacture of

" GOLD AND SILVER LEVER WATCHES,"
they are enabled to submit them at Prices much below
those at which these articles have been hitherto attaina-
ble :
GOLD LEVER, with hard Enamelled
Dials, Seconds, Capped and Jewelled in
two holes, and five actions, maintaining I
£1 10
power during winding, improved detached
Lever Escapement, and double bottomed
cases
DITTO, precisely the same as the above, I
t 11 I 0
but with Gold Dials

SILVER WATCHES, Patent Detached 1
I 5 0
Lever Escapement
GOLD WATCHES, horizontal Move- -t
ments, Enamelled, Silver or Gold Dials 8 IC
SILVER DO., Enamelled or Silver Dials,
Gold Joints, Gold Balance, and Jewelled} 4 0
in four holes

ALL WARRANTED.
PROMOLI AND HAUSBIL:e,G,
OLD POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS.

C 0 RRESPONDE CE.

BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

perceive by the public papers that the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway Company are about to extend
their line, by a tunnel or otherwise, as far as the Monks'
Ferry ; and as I have never heard of their having made
any application to parliament in order to enable them to
take such step, I am at a loss to know whence they derive
their authority. Probably you will inform me. Their
own act is very explicit on that point, by which they are
expressly forbidden to extend their line beyond Grange-
lane. They wanted to extend it to Woodside Ferry, but
parliament, very justly considering it would be a mono-
poly, would not allow them to extend it to any one of
the ferries without their making and maintaining, at their
own cost, a line to each of the ferries, viz., Tranmere,
Birkenhead, and Woodside, (Monks' Ferry not being
then in existence.) What are the proprietors of those
ferries about ?—and what can the inhabitants of Birken-
head be about, to quietly suffer the terminus to be re-
moved from them, which legitimately belongs to them ?
For the only advantage which any town can derive from
a railroad, is, having its terminus ; but the contemplated
plan would, in effect, make Liverpool the terminus, in-
stead of Birkenhead. What, then, can the commission-
ers of Birkenhead be about, that they do not better pro-
tect the rights and privileges of their constituents ? It is
said that the commissioners themselves are not taking
any steps to prevent it, but rather are giving their sanc-
tion to it. if such be the case, I can only say, that the
railway company are better represented in the Commis-
sioners'-room than the ratepayers of Birkenhead, which
may easily be accounted for, when, be it remembered,
several of the railway directors are the directors in the
Commissioners'-room, and the solicitor to the railway
company is likewise the solicitor to the commissioners.
Be it likewise remembered that for several years past the
ratepayers of Birkenhead have not been suffered to have
a voice in the election of their representatives. I would,
therefore, as one of the ratepayers, call upon the commis-
sioners, when they assemble in the Commissioners'-room,
to consult the interests of their constituents rather than
the interests of the railway company. I would likewise
caution any person entering into any contract to make
the said tunnel, not to break up the public streets, with-
out first obtaining the sanction of parliament.
The powers of the commissioners are not optional—
they ate specific; and their duty is to protect—not to
destroy.

I am, sir, yours, &c.,
A MISREPRESENTED RATEPAYER.
13irkenheacl, July 24th, 1843.

The Great Western may be expected here from New
York about Wednesday next. She sails again for New
York on the sth of August. Her passage out was made
in the short space of thirteen days nine hours.

CAUTION AGAINST PLAYING AMONGST TIMBER.—
On Thursday evening, John Crossie and another boy
were playing amongst some timber opposite the Queen's
Dock. They were seen climbing up a pile of two and a
half inch planks, about twenty feet high. When they
got near the top, the planks fell over upon them. Crossie
was taken up bleeding profusely from the mouth and nos-
trils. He died almost immediately, his scull being frac-
tured.

CHOICE OF DEATH.—A court buffoon having offended
his sovereign, the monarch ordered him to be brought be-
fore him, and with a stern countenance reproaching him,—
" Wretch ! you shall receive the punishment you merit ;
prepare yourself for death." The culprit in great terror
fell upon his knees, and cried for mercy. " I will extend
no other mercy to you," said the prince, " except per-
mitting you to choose what kind of death you will decide.
Decide immediately, for I will be obeyed." " I adore
your clemency," said the crafty jester, " I choose to die
of old age."
SUBSTITUTE FOR PISTOLS.—A correspondent of the
Spectator suggests the following project for superseding
duels : " Let seconds be appointed as now ; let them
choose an umpire; let the seconds, if they can agree—or,
if not, the umpire—dictate the apologies or explanations
proper to be made by the offending party, or by both par-
ties, if both are in fault. Should a party refuse to obey
the award so made, let his refusal be published in the
newspapers, and himself be cut in decent society. And
whether he gives or refuses the apology required of him,
let the honour of the other party be considered as satis-
fied by the proceeding."
Mr. E. M. Meader, employed in the office of the Phi-
ladelphia Inquirer, has invented a new mode of locking
up forms and galleys. It consists in the application of
moveable screws, which are used with a small key or
wrench, with straight side and footsticks. The Inquirer
states, that this plan of locking up has been subjected to
the severest tests in that office, and has proved highly
satisfactory.

COBBETT os DUELLING.—Cobbett, when challenged to
fight, recommended the challenger to draw a Cobbett in
chalk upon a door. and if he succeeded in hitting it to
send him instant word, in order that he might have an
opportunity of acknowledging that, had the true Cobbett
been there, he, in all probability, would have been hit too.
But hit or no hit, the bullets could have no effect what-
ever, he maintained, on the original cause of quarrel.

GUY'S HOSPITAL BUILT BY LOSING A HUSBAND.—
Thomas Guy, the founder of this hospital, had agreed to
marry his female servant, whose manners pleased him.
Some few days before the time arrived for celebrating their
nuptials, he had ordered the pavement before his door to
be repaired, to a particular spot. Having left home, his
servant discovered a broken flag beyond the spot pointed
out by her intended, desired it also to be replaced by ano-
ther, thus prematurely assuming an authority, by telling
the workmen to say to Mr. Guy, " I bid you, and he
won't be angry." On his return, and being informed of
her conduct in this affair, he renounced his engagement
with her, and, determined to devote his fortune to charity,
built the hospital which bears his name, at a cost of
£18,793 16s. Id., and afterwards left for the endowment
of it the sum of £219,490 Os. 4d.
PLANTING IN ScomANn.—The plantations newly or
recently formed on the Sutherland estates contain in all
2,091 imperial acres, of which 1859 acres have bee❑
planted within the last five years, or since autumn 1837,
and the remainder at different times prior to that, and
posterior to 1836. These plantations occupy different
altitudes varying from 50 to upwards of 1,000 feet above
the level of the sea, and are situated in the parishes of
Golspie, Dornoch, Clyne, and Creich, on the north-west
shore of the Dornech Frith, and in the vicinity of the
58th decree of north latitude, a district exposed to the
sea breezes off the Moray Frith, but possessing a com-
paritively mild climate, being defended from the more
violent winds of the no

and wester❑ oceans by succes-
sive mountains and uplands of considerable elevation.—
Highland Transactions.