The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY

YORK AND NORTI

January dividend of this company :
Balance from last half year
Receipts for 19 weeks to November 10tf.

Ditto for 7 SCE

Rents and staith dues
DiVnd. on Hull and Selby, held by the company 1,034
Various items as per last report ........ 2.065

The Wesleyan Methodists are making a spirited effort
on behalf of education. In order that they may receive
proportionate grants from government, they purpose
holding special meetings throughout the connexion to
raise a large sum. At meetings in Manchester last week
£5,000 was subscribed. •

The splendid steam-yacht called the Peterhoff, which
was built in this country a few months since, expressly for
the Emperor of Russia, has been entirely lost on her
passage out to St. Petersburgh. She ran upon a shallow
reef of rocks and was wrecked, in consequence of the
master having mistaken the light on the Island of Oesel
for one thirty miles distant. Her loss, it is said, will ex-
ceed £20,000. Mr. G. Rennie, the engineer, and Mr.
Waterman, jun., the designer of the yacht, were on board.
A landing was attempted in the boats but unsuccessfully,
and the passengers, among whom were two ladies, con-
nected with the Embassy at Copenhagen, were obliged to
return to tile Peterhoff, in which they remained till day-
light, firing rockets every consecutive half hour, when at
length three boats came from the shore to their assistance,
and a safe landing was effected.

A FLUE OF FeuEs.—in course of operations in the
Tamar Silver Lead Mines, on the borders of Devon and
Cornwall, it became latterly essential either to erect a
powerful steam-engine at the foot of a subterranean
inclined plane, 2,000 feet in length, and running right
below the river which flows over the mine, to a perpen-
dicular depth of 80 feet below its bed ; or, failing that,
to shut up the mine, and throw 1,500 people out of
employment. It was therefore determined to adopt the
former alternative, and a 20 horse power steam-engine,
one of the petent combined hydraulic engines from
Walker's manufaeory at Oliver's-yard, City-road, was
accordingly fitted up at that depth. Flues were, of
course requisite, and it was found advisable to conduct
these across to the furthest bank of the river, and in a
series of horizontal levels united by perpendicular shafts,
so that the flue in sections rises like a flight of stairs to
the surface. This flue is n 1 less than two miles long and
upwards, probably the longest flue in the world. The
result was quite successful.—Builder.
A FAIR QUESTION UNFAIRLY SHIRKED.-It may not
he generahy known, that there issues from the press,
monthly. a small publication—the mouth-piece of dissent
fly 1

chie. ,ndependents—entitled " The Christian's Penny
Mag,avne. and Friend of the People." In the October
number appears an anonymous article signed " H,"
headed " Specimen of Baptismal Regeneration," which
states that the writer, " passing through a village not far
from Bristol," called at " a miserable hovel," and found
there two little girls, the elder of whom, aged eleven
years, he began to question as to " Who was Jesus
Christ ?" " What did he come into the world to do ?"
&c., of all of which, the writer affirms, the girl was
utterly ignorant. He then asked, " What is your name ?"
" C—." " Who gave you that name ?". "My god-
fathers and godmothers, in my baptism, wherein I was
rnade a member of Christ," &e. " H." then adds these

remarks —" So here was a child telling us she was a
member of Christ by baptism, and did not know who
Christ was ! Yet, in spite of this ignorance of the very
elements of Christian knowledge, this child, according to
the teaching of the Church of England, was a chihi of
God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." This
article chancing to fail under the notice of a gentleman
at Holmfirth, he at once wrote a very respectful letter to
the editor of the.. magazine, requesting to be favoured

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whether there is a resident Clergyman, and the name of
the person who occupies the cottage, with any other
information connected with it." The gentleman added,
" if more pleasant to -you., and you will oblige me with
the address of your correspondent at Bristol, I will com-

And what was the reply to tt

alleation ?- Here it i

John (

!ampbell, D.D.—Banner