The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

THIS LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TRACTARIANISM IN BETHNAL GREEN.—During a
discussion upon an unsuccessful attempt in the London
Common Council to obtain £2OO in aid of the free church
in the St. Giles's district, Mr. Deputy Corney mentioned
that the adoption of the Tractarian observances in the
Bethnal Green churches had stripped them of half their
congregations.
FAULKNER V. TITCHFIELD.—This is an appeal from
the decision of the Consistorial Court of Ely, founded
upon circumstances which may be briefly stated. A.
faculty wag issued to repair the Church of the Holy Sepul-
chre of Cambridge. Certain innovations were made, such
as introducing a fixed communion table of two tons
weight of stone, &c. The Vicar of the church disapproved
of the erections, as being contrary to the Rubric and
Canons of the Church of England. The Court below
held the Faculty to be good, from which an appeal to Sir
H. J. Fust, in the Arches Court, was promoted. After
hearing the arguments, the judge postponed his decision.
THE RUBRIC.—The Bishop of Exeter has just issued
a pastoral address, in which he declares that of the law
appealed to, "one main and leading object, since the Re-
formation, has ever been to establish ' uniformity of pub-
lic prayers, and administration of sacraments, and other
rites and ceremonies." The true remedy for existing
evils is only to be found, he thinks, " in returning to a
faithful observance of the act of Uniformity " and " peace-
ful obedience to the laws of the church, especially in all
that relates to the public worship of Almighty God, as
enjoined in the rubric of the Book of Common Prayer."
The Bishop, however recommends caution. " While I
urge you," he says, " to return to a full observance of the
rubric—falling short of your prescribed part in no-
thing—beware of exceeding it. The peculiar dan-
gers of the times, as well as the prevailing tone of
public opinion, call upon you most powerfully, as you
would avoid being in the number of 'them through whom
offences come,' to forbear all unnecessary innovation, es-
pecially, as I have recently had occasion to urge, that
worst kind of innovation, the revival of obsolete usages
not required by law, which are associated in the minds of
many with the superstitions andcorruptionsofßome." His
Lordship is positive in requiring that " the surplice he
always used in the sermon," and also " at all other times,
whenever a sermon is part of the ministration of the paro-
chial clergy." With respect to the offertory, he says—
" Now, in every church in which the congregation in
general is prepared to regard the collection as the exer-
cise of a high Christian privilege—the privilege of offering
to God—of giving to him of his own—there 1 advise that
a collection be always made. But wherever the pervading
tone and feeling is not yet of the high order, be patient ;
strive, but strive gently, and with prayer to God, to rare
your people to a better mind ; and till they have attained
to it, shock not their prejudices, irritate not their selfish-
ness, it may he their worldly-mindedness. Only let them '
not deceive themselves ; let them see and feel that you 1
' seek not theirs, but them.' Tell them the truth in love, 11
and leave the rest to God." 3

THE CHURCII.—A petition has been prepared for pre-
sentation to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It has al-
ready obtained a large number of signatures, amongst
which are those of the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of
Denbigh, the Earl of Gainsborough. Viscount Sandon,
M.P., Viscount Morpeth, M.P., Lords Calthorpe, Ray.
leigh, Teianmouth, Bloomfield, Francis Egerton, M.P.,
Henry Cholmondeley, Ashley, M.P., Robert Grosvenor,
M.P., Howard, M.P., &c., &c. It has been set on foot
for increasing the efficiency of the church, without intro-
ducing any organic change. The following extract shows
the wishes of the memorialists :—" First, the clergy must
be increased in number; and, secondly, provision must
be made for a more systematic employment of laymen, in
the exercise of functions which do not belong exclusively
to the clergy. For the attainment of these objects, we
would respectfully request your Grace, and the other mem-
bers of the Episcopal Bench, to take into your considera-
tion—first, the expediency of increasing largely the num-
ber of the third class of our Clergy, the Deacons. And we
venture to suggest that this may be effected by admitting, on
such condition as will maintain the order and discipline of
our church, persons who have not the means or opportu-
nity of proceeding to an University degree, but who are
found completely trained for the service of the sanctuary ;
their advancement to the higher order of the ministry
being made contingent upon a faithful discharge during a
lengthened period of the office of a deacon, or upon such
other circumstances as your Grace and the other members
of the Episcopal Bench may think fit. 2d.—The pro-
priety of sanctioning and encouraging the employment of
a class of laymen, who, without altogether abandoning
their worldly callings, might be set apart, under Episco-
pal authority, to act as visitors of the sick, Scripture read-
ers, catechists, and the like, in parishes where their in-
troduction should be approved of by the parochial clergy.
The system of district visiting, and the appointment of
lay Scripture readers, under clerical superintendence, have
already been adopted, we believe, with much success, in
many populous parishes, but the present state of society
requires that both these means of usefulness should be
greatly extended, and brought into more immediate con-
nection with our ecclesiastical arrangements. To provide
the necessary funds (which should be administered by a
board, made up by a well-considered union of the clergy
and laity,) contributions may we have little doubt, be
extensively called forth, in offerings and collections made
for this specific object."

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.

CHESHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.
(Before Mr. Baron Gurney.)

TRIAL OF MR. WINTERBOTTOM.

John Kenyon Wintcrbottom, late a most respectable
solicitor at Stockport, was on Thursday indicted for
forging the PndorcPmentn to fi bill of nxchringe for £5OOO,
whereby he defrauded the Pelican Life Insurance Com-
pany of that amount. There were four indictments
against the prisoner for the same offence, which were
merely variations in the name of the party defrauded.
The prosecution was conducted by the Attorney-General
(of the Palatine), Mr. Davidson, and Mr. Yardley ; and
the prisoner was defended by Mr. Jervis and Mr.Welshy,
both of whom were specially retained.
The circumstances of this case, as appeared from the
evidence, were as follow :—The prisoner had been for
many years the confidential attorney of a gentleman
named Isherwood, who resided at Marple Hall, near
Stockport. In 1813 this gentleman effected an insurance
upon his life for £5OOO with the Pelican office, the annual
premium upon which was £l6l ss. The policy continued
in Mr. Isherwood's hands till his death, in May, 1839;
and at his death the prisoner (who was well known as
Mr. Isherwood's legal adviser) went to Mr. Tate, the
company's agent in Manchester, with the policy. Mr.
Tate had previously received instructions from the office
in London to pay the £5OOO. The prisoner asked him
for the money. On the ith December, 1839, Mr. Tate
told him lie would give him a bill of exchange, at seven
days' sight, for it; but that the names of the executrixes
(the wife and daughter of the late Mr. Isherwood) must
be endorsed, in their own hands, and not by procuration.
When the bill was first drawn the words " or order" were
omitted. The prisoner called Mr. Tate's attention to the
omission, and at his suggestion those words were inter-
lined. The bill being thus in the prisoner's hands, he
paid it into the Bank of Stockport on his own account :
the Bank of Stockport sent it to their bankers in London,
Messrs. Jones, Lloyd. and Co., by whom it was pr..
ed to Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., (the bankers of
the Pelican office,) and by them paid at the clearance. It
was not till the month of July that the fraud was disco-
vered; but in the meantime the executrixes, or some of
them, had applied to the prisoner concerning it, and he
alleged various excuses as the cause of delay, one of which
was, that the office had not given a receipt for the last
payment of the annual premium, and that in consequence
of some difficulty in obtaining a prerogative or Canterbury
probate, the office would not pay the sum insured, but
would pay the interest on it. The prisoner, it appeared.
had been made a bankrupt, but previously he had ab-
sconded, and was not met with till September last, when
he was accidentally seen in Liverpool by a person who
formerly knew him, and by whom he was given into cus-
tody. The prosecution was carried on by Messrs. Bush
and Mullen, solicitors to the London Association of
Bankers, on the part of Messrs. Roberts and 'o.
For the defence no witnesses were called, but a very
powerful speech was made by Mr. Jervis, with the view
of reducing the offence to a breach of trust.
Some objections to the indictment, arising from a vari-
ation between the designation of the insurance-office, as
stated in the bill, and that in the policy, and also as to
the intent being laid to defraud the trustees, wild t their
designation was not set forth as required by the Joint
Stock Act, were reserved by the Judge for the considera-
tion of the court above.

The jury immediately found the prisoner guilty. Sen-
tence, however, was not passed, nor will it be till the
opinion of the superior court is known upon the objec-
tions.

Mr. Jervis, as the prisoner bad been convicted on one
indictment only, applied for his discharge from tht, other
three, but the Judge refused the application.

CONVICTION roll. MURDER.—Mary Gallop, a young
woman having the appearance of a servant, aged 20, was
on Friday placed at the bar, and pleaded not guilty to an
indictment charging her with the wilful murder of her
own father, Richard Gallop, at Monks Coppenhall, on the
2d of November last, by the administration of a quantity
of white arsenic. After a long examination, the jury
found a verdict of guilty, and his lordship, in an impres-
sive address, passed sentence of death upon the prisoner,
who appeared to be very little affected at her situation.

It is rumoured that Sir W. Follett is to be judge of the
Privy Council.

The Court of Queen's Bench was occupied on Monday
with a case, Hope v. Harman apd others, which is an ac-
tion brought, by direction of the Court of Ciiancery, to
ascertain the equitable right of different parties to a share
in the jewels left by the will of the late Mr. P. H. Hope,
valued at the enormous sum of £210,000. The principal
question in the cause is, whether the will of the testator
revoked a deed made in his life time, respecting the dis-
position of his jewels. It was stated that one of the dia-
monds cost the deceased £14,600!
LIABILITY OF SHAREIIOLDERS.—In the Court of
Chancery, Dublin, on Tuesday last, the Lord Chancellor,
in the case of Taylor v. Hughes (one of the public officers
of the Agricultural Bank), decided that the registry of
the plaintiff's name in 1843 (it having been omitted for
more than seven years from the registry lodged at the
stamp office, pursuant to the statute), was for the frau-
dulent purpose of exposing him to the liabilities of the
establishment ; that be was bound, therefore, to grant the
relief prayed for in the bill, and that therefore, looking
to all the circumstances of the transaction, he was of
opinion that the decree should be with costs. The result
of this decision will relieve 2400 shareholders, whose
names were placed on the registry since 1843 ; therefore,
the liabilities of the parties remaining on the registry are
greatly increased.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.—A deputation
from this company, consisting of Capt. Salmond, chair-
man; E. V. P. Burnell, Esq., vice-chairman; Montague
David Scott, Esq., The Elms, Kingston, a director; Mr.
Gibbs, engineer; Mr. Sanderson, surveyor; Mr. Dennis.
ten, secretary ; Mr. Benn and Mr. Norton, joint solici-
tors; and Mr. Ellicombe, parliamentary agent; had an
interview with Lord Dalhousie at the Board of Trade, on
Tuesday, which we are confidently informed was satisfac-
tory.

THE RAILWAYS TO DEREIIANI.—The two projects for
a railway to Dereham are now amalgamated; and it is stated
that all material opposition on the part of owners of pro-
perty is at an end.
The fire at the New Cross railway station, which oc-
curred when Louis Philippe was present, has been traced
to the spontaneous combustion of some vegetable black in
the paint room.
The verdict of the coroner's jury on Mr. Varnalls,
another of the victims by the collision on the Midland
Counties Railway, was delivered on Wednesday. It was
" accidental death," with a deodand of £l,OOO upon the
engine.

The competition between the Forth and• Clyde Canal
Company and the Edinburgh Railway is so strong, that
the canal company are carrying passengers from Glasgow
to Edinburgh with a profit at less than a farthing a mile !
The increase of the traffic has made up for the reduction
in the amount of charge.
A meeting of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
railway company was held at Manchester, on Friday,
James Brancker, Esq., in the chair, at which it was re-
solved to unite and consolidate into one concern that
company with the Manchester and Leeds and Hull atd
Selby. Great dissatisfaction was expressed by many
shareholders at the proposed junction, and a committee
was formed to oppose it.
SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER) RAILWAY.
—We learn that Sir John Kirkland, Mr. W. H. Thomas
(deputy chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway),
and Mr. Robert Browne, of Liverpool, have been elected
directors of the London and Dover Railway, in the place
of General Hodgson, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., and Mr. L.
Cubitt, mho have resigned ; and that Mr. Francis Mills
has been elected deputy chairman of the board of direc-
tors, in the place of Mr. W. P. Richards, who has also
retired from the direction.—Standard.
At a meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway
company, on Tuesday, it was resolved to raise in addition
to the present capital the sum of 1:281,250, by creating
22,500 new shares of £l2 10s. each, to be paid at five
calls of £2 10s. each, in 1815 and 1846 ; the new shares
to be apportioned amongst the present shareholders. The
chairman 'stated in the course of his remarks that the di-
rectors intend to proceed with the Stirling branch. A
short line to Campsie would also be formed. There was
likewise a proposal for a junction with the Ayrshire line.
The new shares are to be distributed in the proportion of
one for every £5O of capital stock held in the company.
SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—At a special meeting of
this company, on :_•aturday, it was resolvedAo proceed with
the following branches :—From Nine Elms terminus to
the vicinity of the Hungerford and Waterloo Bridges and
the Thames, and from Wimbledon to Epsom. From
Weybridge to Staines and Windsor. From Woking-
common, by Guildford, Godalming, and Chichester, to
Portsmouth and Fareham, including the purchase of
the Guildford Junction Railway. From Hook-pit Farm,
on the main line of railway to Mottisfont on the Salisbury
branch, and from Salisbury to Sherborne and Yeovil, and
to Dorchester and Weymouth. From Basingstoke to the
Great Western Railway at Didcot and Swindon.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Wednesday, as two la-
bourers employed on the South-Eastern Railway were on
their return from work to Dover, and had entered Abbott's
Cliff Tunnel, the up train passed them, and the noise of
the engine preventing their hearing the down train, which
entered the tunnel a few minutes afterwards, they being
on the rail, were knocked down and killed.—On Tues-
day, at King's-bank, Hoghton• bcttoms, on the new line
of railway now constructing between Blackburn and
Preston, a large portion of the upper part of the hill, it is
calculated to the extent of nine or ten tons, gave way,
burying the men beneath. One of them must have been
crushed to death against the waggon instantaneously. The '
second :was injured to a very dangerous extent. The
third was much less hurt.

NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE STANDING ORDERS.—
Among other defaulters the Barnsley and Goole Railway
did not deposit their plans with the Clerk of the Peace,
at Wakefield, on the 30th ultimo, and have consequently
not complied with the standing orders of parliament.
The Lincolnshire and Sheffield Junction, from Lincoln
to Sheffield, with a branch to Gainsborough, have also
failed to deposit their plans in accordance with the stand-
" ing orders. The latter project was under the guarantee
of the Sheffield and Manchester and Midland Companies.
This change in the position of affairs is of very great im-
portance to the London and York Railway, as it is now
the only line which forms a direct communication north
and south from Londo❑ to York, placing all the towns
between the two cities on a main line, at the same time
that it effects the same important object for the whole
tract of country, east and west, from Liverpool to Boston,
which it does, in a continuous and unbroken chain, by its
junction with Cle Sheffield and Manchester, Manchester
and Leeds, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole. and Newark
and Sheffield liailways. In fact, it most fully occupies a
vast space yet unoccupied by any railway; and places
Sheffield on a main line between Liverpool and Boston,
and between Liverpool and London 11 miles shorter than
the existing route. The plans and books of reference of
the London and York line, notwithstanding its extent of
320 miles, were nearly everywhere the fir.c
and, so far as their appearance goes, are highly creditable
to the parties engaged upon them.—Standard.
WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAYS.-03 Wednes-
day last a very numerous and influential meeting of the
Leeds and West Riding Junction liailway Company, was
held at the Royal Hotel, Brighouse, near Halifax. Henry
Houldsworth, Eq., chairman of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway Company, was called to the chair, and
addressed the meeting at great length, explanatory of the
objects in view. They had been called together to receive
a report of the proceedings of the managing committee
appointed at the last meeting held at Bradford, for the
purpose of maturing the plans of the committee and tak-
ing those preliminary steps necessary to enable them to
apply to Parliament ext session. As some misrepresen-
tations had gone abroad, he entered into a brief history
of the origin of the company, and their desire to adopt
the Van which would be approved by the district as the
best. With this view a negociation was opened with the
Manchester and Leeds company, and it was determined
that the most extensive surveys should be made, in order
to lay down such a system of ways as would be commen-
surate with the wants of the district, in which the traffic
was more peculiar than in the district comprised between
Leeds, Bradford, (Halifax, Huddersfield, and Dusbury.
Great advantage would arise by laving down lines which
while they would shorten the distance between Leeds and
Manchester on one hand, and Halifax and Leeds on the
other, would at the same time provide adequately for the
local traffic. The leading object for providing for the in-
ternal traffic, had been kept in view, and after some
months of extensive surveying, the engineer of the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway company had laid down a line
which was thought to be most likely to effect the object.
Those lines after having been duly considered by the gentle-
men connected with the district, bad been by them ap-
proved as the best calculated to provide for the wants of
the district. The next arrangement that they had to de-
termine upon was, as to the connexion that should exist
between the Manchester and Leeds Railway company and
the West Riding Junction company ; and it was seen at
once that the greatest public advantage would result from
the West Riding Junction Lines being worked by the
Manchester and Leeds company ; experience having
shown in all cases that where the lines of independent
companies were united with each other, great expense was
incurred by both companies, and great inconvenience was
entailed upon the public. It was impossible where the
management was divided to secure that harmony of action
in working the lines upon which the public convenience
depended) whilst unity of arrangement would secure the
most advantageous passage from one point to another.
Acting upon these considerations the West Riding com-
pany had agreed that the Manchester and Leeds company
should work their lines. He then entered into some ex-
planations of the traffic, and the low charges made for
goods and also passengers, the result of the last being
that they were now carrying about a million of passengers
in the half-year, at the rate of 11 a mile. Accommoda-
tion had been made for third-class passengers, and the
directors had decided, in order to increase it, to add seats
and covers to such carriages. They were also engaged in
revising their rates and renewing their arrangements with
a view to the bringing out on the Ist of January next what
might be called a new tariff, which he hoped would add
to the convenience of the public,g as he trusted it would
not be ineffectual in promoting the interests of the com-
pany. An officer had also been appointed to superintend
the passenger traffic and obviate all complaints. After
alluding to the fact that a large proportion of the share-
holders of this railway were Lancashire gentlemen, he
expressed his opinion that the connexion of the Manches-
ter and Leeds company with the West Riding Junction
company had secured an advantage to the district which
could not be achieved by the success of those other par-
ties who were candidates for supplying the district with
railways. Mr. Ilawkshaw, engineer of the Manchester
and Leeds Railway company then explained in detail the
several proposed lines, the places through which they
would pass, &c. The chairman then said that the ar-
rangement come to was that there was to be independent
company, which had been designated the Leeds and West
Riding Junction company ; that they were to raise, in
conjunction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, a
capital of £1,400,000; and that one half of that capital
(as some proof of the interest which the Manchester and
Leeds company had in the undertaking, and the confi-
dence they felt in its success,) should be raised by them,
and that the other half of that capital should be raised by
shares in the district through which the proposed railways
were to pass. Upon that basis they had issued a pros-
pectus, and had allotted shares to the full amount, except
a small portion which had been retained for proprietors
immediately connected with the district. The conditions
attached to this arrangement were these—that the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway company, should, in the event
of the Act of Parliament passing, take a lease of the
lines when made—that they should guarantee, when any
portion of these lines was made so as to be workable,
interest upon the capital which might be expended by the ;
Leeds and West Riding company, at 4 per cent, per an-
num for the first five years, and afterwards 4} per cent.
Some salisfactory conversation and explanations then took I
place, and the chairman read a correspondence between I
the promoters of the Leeds and West Riding company,
expressive of a desire on the part of the former to amal- I
gamate the two schemes into one, and the public advan-
tage of such a union.