The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

ANOTHER DISCOVERY BY THE SAME

EMINENT AUTHORITY.

Thy Mercury has just discovered, " in a local print
very moderate circulation"—(we presume the Liverpo°,
Times is referred to)—" an official notice of an intended
application to parliament for powers to enable the Gre.e.
Junction Railway Company to form a railway,
with their present one at a point in the township of ICee_ed
wick, near Runcorn, and terminating in the Liverpoolaus
Manchester Railway at Huyton." This discovery is
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little clever, if our contemporary first made it from %use
columns of that " local print of little circulation,
Liverpool Times, which we doubt, however, inasmuch:::
we gave, a fortnight ago, both a description of the ro
and a plan of the railway in.question. We hope our COe;
temporary will not be visited by the Stamp-office, 8,
se.tns to apprehend, for such amazingly novel inforolaun;.
We agree with him, however, that companies such as,S:
Grand Junction should give " extensive publicity" to MP'
unit!!!
projects by advertising in papers which are everywhere
seen and read. For ourselves, we seek for no exclusive
favours from this or any other company, and have alreadY
been prepared to anticipate the reverse as an effort of ti°,er
revenge for our advocacy of the claims of the public'
This studied " obscurity' wears, however, in our minds, 36,
in that of our contemporary, " a suspicious appearance.
It is not the straightforward way, or the way of seekiog
public confidence.

Her Majesty is expected to visit the Duke of Welling'
ton, at Strathfieldsaye, the week after next.
THE CABINET.—The Duke of Wellington does not
leave town for some days. Sir Robert Peel departs for
Drayton Manor to-day, and Lord Stanley goes to the
Earl of Derby's seat in Lancashire to-day to meet Lady
Stanley and family. Lord Wharncliffe, accompanied bY,
Lady Wharncliffe, leaves Curzon-street in the course 01„
the week for Wortley Hall, near Sheffield. The Earl of
Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir James
Graham remain for the present in town.
The Hon. R. Otway Cave, M.P., for Tipperary, died
on Friday, at Bath, after a short illness.

Lord Nugent has fractured three of his ribs by falling
from his horse.

On Thursday Mons. Sallior was tried at St. Omer for
the alleged murder of Mr. Thorn, at Calais, the psrticu•
Lars of which we gave at the time. He was acquitted.
The Monmouthshire Merlin of Friday last contains an
account of an explosion of fire damp, by which upwards
of fifty lives were sacrificed. Considerable doubt 181
however, entertained as to the truth of the statement.

A little boy was killed in Cork a few days since, in 00*
sequence of having drank a quantity of spirits from
decanter, which his mother had imprudently left within
his reach.

The coroner's jury, at the inquest in the case of Mt'
Dean killed last week by the collision on the Midlol
railway, have returned a verdict of " manslaughter'
against Mt. Lightfoot, the regulator of the trains.
THE FIRST BISHOP OF NEW BRUNSWICK.--The
Rev. Prebendary Medley, Vicar of St. Thomas's, in the
diocese of Exeter, has received the appointment to the
bishopric about to be constituted in the province of Nevi
Brunswick, in North America.
The parties charged with the riot and attack at Stone-
leigh a few weeks since were tried at Warwick on Satur-
day, and found guilty. They were twenty-eight in num-
ber, and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment vary-
ing from three years to three months.
Sir William Stanley's splendid pack of fox hounds will
meet at Birkenhead Hotel, on Thursday morning, at half-
past ten o'clock, where they will be joined by a number ,
of influential gentlemen from Leicestershire and other
places. The hounds will then proceed to the Prenton and
Storeton covers.

The Gazette of Saturday last consists of no less than
eight sheets and a half. The first article in it is the copY
of an order of her Majesty in council assigning districts,
under the 16th section of the 59 Geo. 111., cap. 134,
eight chapels, all in the parish of Rochdale, in the coun-
ties of Lancaster and York.

GROSS DEPRAVITY.—Ann M'Cormick, a domestic
servant, was convicted, at the Central Criminal Court, pn
Thursday last, of having stolen a sovereign belonging to a
fellow-servant, and of having attempted to entice her
master's daughter, a little girl ten years old, for the pur-
pose of introducing her to a life of prostitution. She was
sentenced to seven years' transportation.

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHIP.—The first ex-
perimental trial of the engine of this vessel took place on
Wednesday last, in Cumberland basin. The screw made
36 revolutions, at about half speed. The trial was per-
fectly satisfactory. The Great Britain will leave the
basin on the 11th instant. She will remain in Kingroad
for a short time, whence she will make a few experimental
trips ; after which she will proceed to the Thames.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Friday night last,
about seven o'clock, an affray took place at Wollaton, neat
Nottingham, between a gang of poachers and the keepers
of Lord Middleton, of Wollaton Hall. The keepers (four
in umber) had apprehended two poachers, when about
sixteen or eighteen of the accomplices of the latter came
up, released the offenders, and brutally beat the keepera•
One of them had his mouth shockingly torn, another ilea
in a very dangerous state. All the poachers escaped.
Two FACTS.—In the Rev. Mr. Trench's national
school of Clougbjordan, where no Protestant religion ea°
be taught to objecting Romanists, there is not a single
Roman Catholic male child. The schoolmaster of tbiS
school, our readers will remember, was murdered, having
been denounced from the altar by the priest. In the nest
parish—Shinrone--a school of the Church Education
Society, in which no Romanist child can be without being
instructed in the Scriptures, nearly one-half of the chil-
dren are Roman Catholics.—Dublin Statesman.