The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Glasgow, Paisley and Ayr Railway, at a special
meeting on Wednesday, the 2nd instant, determined upon
extending the company's railway from Ayr to Loch Ryan,
and of forming certain other lines for the accommodation
of the interior of Ayrshire.
The Eastern Counties Company raise £710,400 by
shares to pay off that amount in bonds and debentures,
which are out in the market and shortly fall due. The
alteration is calculated to save in interest about £7OOO
a year ; and four per cent is to be paid upon the calls as
they are made.
The Grand Junction Railway Company have completed
arrangements for crossing the Mersey at Runcorn, and,
in consequence, will abandon their Marshgate project,
and, next session, proceed with the line through Runcorn.
This will cut off a great angle, and much improve and
shorten their line to Liverpool.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAIEWAY.— FAST
TRAINS.—A trial was made on Tuesday with a three-
hours' train from London to Birmingham, and the dis-
tance was accomplished with 13 minutes to spare. The
train will run daily on and after the ht of next month.--
Railway Record.

SUBSCRIPTIONS TO RAILWAYS.—In the House of
Commons, yesterday week, on the motion of Mr. Gibson
Craig, the following account was ordered :—" An alpha-
betical list of the names, descriptions, and places of abode
of all persons subscribing to the amount of £2,000 and
upwards, to any railway subscription contract deposited
in the Private Bill Office during the pre-ertt session of
parliament ; showing the amount subscribed by each
person for every railway to which he may be a subscriber,
and the total amount of such subscription by each person."
SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.--On
Wednesday a meeting of proprietors in this undertaking
was held at the Clarendon-rooms, for the consideration of
matters of great importance. The attendance was rather
thin. The chair was occupied by Richard Haynes, Esq.
Dr. Holland, of Sheffield, explained at considerable length
his reasons for thinking that the line ought nor, as pro-
posed, be leased to the Manchester and Birmingham
Company. After a brief discussion the following resolu-
tion was adopted :—" That this meeting are satisfied with
and approve of the reasons adduced by Dr. Holland, in
support of the motion of which he has given notice, to
oppose the progress of the bill for leasing the Sheffield
and Manchester, and that he be requested to support the
same at the approaching meeting of the Sheffield and
Manchester shareholders." Dr. Holland's motion was
carried at the meeting on Thursday by a majority of 15
to 4.—A meeting took place on Friday last in Sheffield,
and was very numerously attended, about 70 shareholders
being present. T. A. Ward, Esq., was called to the
chair ; and after a short discussion of the question of
leasing, a motion to oppose such a proceeding was carried I
unanimously.

FIRST QUARTER'S REVENUE OF THE RAILWAYS.--
We have now betore us the official railway returns made
up for the last three months, being that quarter of the
year in which the traffic is the smallest and also least sub.
ject to fluctuation. It appears that the aggregate receipts
fr m traffic, since the Ist of January, on the principal
public railways, amount in round numbers, to £1,210,000,
while last year it only reached £1,054,000, at the same
period, being an increase of £156.000 on the quarter. Of
this increase we find that £26.000 belong to the Great
Western, £12,000 to the London and Birmingham,
£ll,OOO to the Grand Junction, £5,000 to the North of
England, £6,000 to the London and Brighton, £lO,OOO
to the Manchester and Leeds, £21.000 to the Midlands.
£22,000 to the South-Eastern, and £5,000 to the E is t ern
Counties and North-Eastern. Among the smaller lines
we have an increase of £1,200 to the Chester and Birken-
head, £3,000 to the Edinburgh and Glasgow, £3,400 to
the Glasgow and Ayr, £3.000 to the London and Black-
wAll, £9,000 to the London and Croydon, £3.500 to the
to the Manchester and Birmingham, £3,700 to the New-
castle and Carlisle. Of the lines not opened last year, we
have on the Yarmouth and Norwich at present an increase
of £26 per week, and on the Newcastle and Darlington
an increase at the rate of £2OO per week. Some of these
amounts are affected by extensions of the line, &c., bu,
the greater part arise solely from the steadily i►creasing
trade of the country.—Railway Chronicle.

WEST INDIA MAIL STEAM-PACKET Come/terve,
The annual meeting of this company was held last wer.
"
The company pays a dividend of £1 10s. per share, wl"cb
absorbs £21,015 of the £50,107 the accounts show 5s a
the
surplus,replacein leavingreplacement. of c,.
.tpi2t9al,oa9n2d h
applicable
purposes.theabletolt appears t
fund for t,.":
"
have been desirable to declare a dividend, instead of eti_i-...
ryitig the whole amount to this account, in order to Ovi.° that the undertaking has got into a working and PaYinAd
condition. A vote of £ZOOO to the directors for Past
services, earsv iccae
carried
eadn and
unanimously,
allowance
and of £2OOO per
generalper a annum num
feeling in
sfeuetnuTeerg:
ttohebethatt
business o het h ' exertionstean
comopftlyie
it, directorshi
ato satihsraaveenro w b rouge
y position,
The progress of modification and increase of revenue ma,y
be judged by a comparison of the results of the eccoun"
xf03r2118,54381a n; d
elxBp4e4n,
dai ianirceh, aret .2a2
,f 3061110
£91,21v•
The Duke of Wellington will complete his 76th year on ;w .s—urlpBl4u3s
1844: Receipts, £364,610; expenditure, £2k6,861; sue"
It Ist of May.
plus, £147.749.
It now appears that no less than ten lives were lost by
A GAME End
OF CHESS BY TELEGRAPH.—A novel b
the explosion of West Moor Colliery, near Newcastle.
interesting proof of the fidelity and accuracy with whir.
The ship-carpenters of Whitehaven have turned out for intelligence may be conveyed by the ofthe electric
agency
are advance of wages.: ReceiPut„:
telegraph is about to be shown. At the suggestion ,d't
Two boys, one 11 and the other 12 years old, were com- M.. Staunton, the gentleman who, it will be remembere mitted from the Thames Police-office, London, on Mon. obtained a signal victory at Paris over the French
chee usa
e
bundre
'
day, on the charge of horse stealing. champion, a year or two ago, a game at chess will
.i
There are to be three military prisons in England—one plated this week between two parties nearly one
at Weedon, one at Southsea Castle, and one at Chatham ; miles asunder, at no more
perceptible expense of 11no
and ultimately there will be one in Scotland. than would be reqeired if they sat at the sari 00e table- a
this occasion Mr. Staunton will take his place at one fnir,
Mr. Fernand says, in a letter to the Dublin Protestant
of the termini of the South Western Railway and er,
Operative Association, that " Sir R. Peel is, in his Walker, the well-k ow- • l r 'the utu
opinion, the greatest traitor who has existed since Judas and they willthen nei writer onrchess, c less, a-, we
play a game together, their only b,
Iscariot."
Ilium of communication being the electric telegraP s
Prince Albert dropped a bunch of keys the other day. Every facility for carrying out' this interesting idea 1:a A reward of £2O was offered; and it fell to the lot of a been kindly afforded by the directors of the railway, at
poor man with a family, who picked up the keys and took it is calculated that the game,
which will be begun_ .
them to Buckingham-palace. eleven in the forenoon, may be finished in about tb_st,
rel 3
-
On Saturday. Simon Hill was remanded by Mr. Bal.. hours.—Globe.—[The game was played on Thursday l'.
lents, e, at the Thames police office, on a charge of having and after a nine hour.' contest, the parties, being equal'
murdered Jane Thrussell in a low lodging house in Rose- consented to a drawn game.]
merry-lane, Whitechapel.
SIR. R, PEEL'S INCONSISTENCY.—In a seeml., ' merle p-
Dr. Volff arrived at Southampton on Wednesday last, by Sir R. Peel on the 23 I June, 1810, when Mr. riure
and has published a letter to his friends in England and tre moved the discontinuance of the Maynooth grant,ip
elsewhere. He promises a detailed account of his adveu- us,d the following remarkable words :—" But while Cabe
tures and sufferings. porting the principle of the grant, I cannot also sub'
fecille
At Monmouth, Mr. Baron Platt " regretted that the to a sentiment which I have heard attributed to the noble
good old law should have been abolished, by which the lord opposite. I cannot agree that, in passing the 1,,,,are
a contract was ever implied to prevent the legis " ~..
authors of vexatious suits were condemned to be whipped
from interfering, should the money be perverted to 'du,
at the cart's tail !"
pi oper purposes. I cannot rgree that the system of e (At
THE SHAPWICK MURDER.--At the Teunton assizes, cation carried on there iv a matter of indifference 0„v
on Saturday, Sarah Freeman was convicted, and sentenced legi4lature. I think that the system pursued al 161"ra:
to death, fur the wilful murder of her brother, Charles nooth iso leoitimate mater of con•ideiation fur Par-
Dimond, by administering arsenic to him.
merit, and that it would be A N ABANDONMENT OF Duch
John Brough, who murdered his brother, was executed were the House of Commons to avow a doctrine W,.....
at Stafford on Saturday last. He died penitent. This is would allow us to say to the Roman Catholic Profess°
oil
the firth murderer who has suffered on the same scaffold 'Here is the money—we are p edged to grunt it-I 7.,
bre
during the last twelve months! may do with it as you phase, inculcate doctrines su
not
THE ROYAL YACHT TENDER FAIRY.—This pretty sive of order, and injurious to morali!y ; but we *re' little screw propeller vessel has been tried far the first interfere."' How Le this statement of du,y in 1.?,8.15? time down the river Thames, and a speed equal to above eoncileable with his speech and conduct of April ' oat
15 miles per hour has been obtained. He does not now pretend that this increase of the ginto,
to Maynooth is because of any satisfactory i
eiqurY ',ell
At Norfolk, Robert Richard Royal, aged 24 ; James and • al of, the teaching - eir. ' 1 He °-„t
Mapes, aged 24 ; and James Hall, aged 2t ; charged with not approval
ie . of ~.a.ynoot 1. , ,ea the
pretend, nay,he carefully repudeites the In'ehiag•
the wilful murder of Harriet Candler, at Gteat par_-
any iiiterference whatever is to ensue eith that teB`,aisi,
mouth, on the 18th of November last, were acquitted.
"By improvement I mean improvement of means "iahl
The quantity of malt consumed by brewers is 18,434,469 not an int. rference poisoning all the good that youlsss,
bushels ; by victuallers, 7,813,338 bushels; by persons der ire from liberality," says the liberal baronet of, 'nted
licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the premiss, 2,961,017 who in 1841 pronounced that this le-re eiu•se now an°r
bushels; and by those licensed to sell beer not to be would be "AN ABANDONMENT OF DUTY !"
drunk on the premises, 4101,6.14 bushels.
, is s°le'
OPENING MR. MAZZINI'S LETTERS.—There OOO,
" SALE BY TICKET."—Tae repeal of the auction du- thing not a little singdar to Mr. Stied being the
or
or:
ties will do away with the necessity of this mode of sale, above all others, to vindicate the safe transmission° 4 or
and in all probability will put an end to it altogether. respondence to and from the enemies of the Ctsi't sre
We imagine that in practice the vender will find sale by Rime. We entertain no doubt of his sincerity, but and
auction much more advantageous than this ingenious de- inclined to suspect that it is the Pope, not Mazernineele vice for evading the auction duty, the Bandieras, after all, a hose interest he takes s°,,quest '
SALE OF THE FLEET PRISON.—On Monday, the sale to heart. For the five centuries between the n°;f•e he'„
of the materials of the Fleet Prison commenced on the and the Refoemation, there was one continuous so:. IA of
premises. The prison stands on an acre of ground, end tween the Courts of England and Rome on the rig
jettero
contains 3,000,000 bricks. It seems that the corporation appeal to the latter Court, and its, right to send sen•
e.,ea
of London have purchased the property for £29,000. into the kingdom without the leave of the English Cr. per
The present building was erected after the Gordon riots, In defence of their supremacy, the English Sov.e:pealv
in 1780, three former buildings having been destroyed by with scarcely an exception or an intermission worth 0018 fire.
ing of never hesitat dto intercept and open letters All
THE SCREW V. PADDLE-WHEELS.—In the trials insti- the Court of Rome, and severely punish the beare!:;,culti
tuted by the Admiralty to test the qualities of the screw- readers of history are familiar with the extreme nrballsr
propeller Rattler, and the paddle-wheel Alecto, the supe- and danger attending the transmission of PaPal., were
riority of the Rattler has been fully shown. The two ves- reseripts, judgments, and other documents. They gill.;
sell being fastened to each other, with their heads in op- reduced to the smallest compass, and
h'dden in the earrie'
posite directions, the Rattler towed the Alecto, in spite of ment, the bat, the shoe or the staff. They wereo
_,,t toe
all her attempts to run away astern, at the rate of two through a succession of disguises. They were brwiutirth_
miles and a half an hour. shore by stray fishermen. They were delivered was
A SAGACIOUS .ANIMAL.—The Epworth bill-poster most secret craft, or the most fatal courage- Ter pasfets,
rides to his occasional duties ; and has so well trained his the vengeance on detection. Law after law w_.„uforee t.',',,
pony, that at every public place suitable for his object, warrant after warrant issued, to secure and. ei,f seart'_:,
the animal walks up, turns itself en the right side close to Royal right of detention, and consequently °f
The returns moved for the other day by M• ' t
the wall, door, or window shutter, where it stands until
ern °tilt'
though including little more than the fourteenth a
_,
its master has pasted and stuck up the placard ; and then
give the titles of near 200 documents illustrative.aae 03°0f
off it trots to the next convenient place for the object of
in I.' ee
its employer. coetinual vigilance and unscrupulous determ
pettit'e
nifested by the State. 'What are called the S- ec eier
MATRICIDE.—An idle, dissolute young man, named Provisors uniformly order that persons entering th__ two;
Robert Simpson, is in custody on a charge of having dons steel be searched, and if bulls are found ul (11. aon
murdered his mother, a very respectable old lady living they ate to he arrested and sent before the Coupe_ giog I
at Old Hatton, near Kendal. On Saturday week, whilst the hulls are to be reken from them and sent to therrei, sls
intoxicated, he repeated a ferocious attack on the de- the bearer, of hulls, &c ,to be imprisoned, and f°,e seri!:
ceased with a poker, and it is suspected she died of the their goods. The -writs de capiendo provisores, de
wounds, as she was found dead at her residence dread- Bois faciendo, de supervidendo et arrestando, de Tullis et
fully wounded. He has been committed for wilful murder. pro toreros, de attachiando, ne quis transeat, lieeniselvet
THE R APID MAIL CARRIER: THREE HUNDRED alliS proci sslbus &c., vi ill sufficiently explain to_,,urtica_,
MILES PER HOUR.—In the Mtehanies' Magazine. of ; ome has always been the ewer of whcse e
at
the
pere,
Saturday last, is a notice of a new plan invented by Mr. tions the State was most jealous ; and even.
_,L,roernberr;
W. H. James, for the rapid transmission of letters and sent moment there are not wanting reasons 0%
w re 5139°!b1e
light dispatches through tubular passages, at certain in- of that m mmunion may be anxious to secure
possi
0,
tervals, in which he proposes to place air-exhausting ma- liberty and immunity of correspondence. I' ' for Phe
with Borne' to
chines, which will establish a perpetual current or artifi- event of the State renewing relations wi ,,,ae rou
gh
vehicles, hurricane, by means of which frenetically-shaped litical reasons, it would be no new thing for Let :„,throno,_.d
vehicles, or bags. ail! be blown at inconceivable speed sending one order through the State, and snot a
,us
from station to station. The first cost is estimated by some private channel. Whether Mr. SpielarT; aticitri%
Mr. James at £2,000 per mile, and the working expenses Catholic er not, he is al least a zealous P"rt!3„ op 10! eis at from £3OO to £5OO per annum for every fifty miles. would not be unnatural that be should take teeeteszeiu•
This system would enable us to transmit documentary in- i nit y of asserting a Papal claim in the disguise ot
telligence at the rate of 7,00 miles a day ! I champion.—Times.

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