The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-15 00:00:00

CAPITAL IN RAILWAYS COMPLETED, IN
PROGRESS, AND PROJECTED.

From a very elaborate table, contained in Burn's Com-
mercial Glance just published, we deduce the following
statistics of the capital embarked in railways and railwdy
projects. In 77 railways, completed or in progress, the
amount of capital is £85,370,723, of which £53,090,893
is paid up, and £32,279,830 remaining to be called up.
Of 139 railways before parliament this session, exclusive
of small branches, deviations, connecting links, &c., the
nominal capital for which the registered shareholders are
liable is £96,245,650. of which, averaging the deposit at
£2l per share, £7,290,733 appears to be paid up, and,
being lodged with the treasurer of the Private Bill-office,
is thus withdrawn from commercial circulation. We
have also 196 railways projected, but not yet before par-
liament, of which the average deposits amount to Xli
per share. The total capital represented by these is
£160,309,000, and the amount paid up and withdrawn
from commercial circulation is £9,913,312. There are
also a number of small branches and deviations, in pro-
gress and in prospect, involving a capital of £27,000,000,
on which the deposits amount to £2,350,000. The total
number of shares is 11,047,821, or nearly a share for
every two of the population. The total capital repre-
sented by railways, paid up and to be paid up, is
£368,000,000, or about £l6 per head to the whole popu-
lation ; and the total paid-up capital is £72,644,938,
leaving £296.280,345 to be called up. Of course this
calculation refers only to the amount required if the
whole of the schemes projected should be carried out.
Many of them, however, are competing lines; some are
rejected already; whilst others have been rendered un-
necessary by the formation of branches, &c., from exist-
ing lines. Taking, however, only one-half of the amount
remaining to be called up for the new lines, as being as
much as the legislature is likely to sanction, we have no
lees than £132,000,000 which the country will probably
be called upon to furnish for new railways in the course
of the next four or five years, in addition to £32,279,000
remaining unpaid upon the lines completed or in progress.
We may remark, however, that of the lines completed
or in progress, representing a capital of £85,370,723,
many are at a considerable premium, as are some of
those at present before parliament and projected. We
may fairly add one-third to the capital represented by
the first for premium ; and we have then the following as
the total capital already invested in railways and liable to
be acted upon by speculation on our various stock ex-
changes :
Paid up on lines completed or in pr0gre55.£53,090,893
Add one-third for premium 17,996,964
Paid up on railways before parliament
Deposits on new schemes
Do. for branches, &c

Total
already invested in this description of property, exclusive
of our engagements in foreign railways. Of this amount
no less than £19,554,045, the amount of deposits on new
lines, may be said to have been furnished within the last
twelve months, in addition to the amount, a large one,
which has been absorbed in calls upon lines in progress.
This last fact speaks volumes as to the elastic and expan-
sive state of the country's resources.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

OATHS IN BANKRUPTCY CASES.—By a bill now be-
fore the House of Commons (having passed the Lords),
it is provided that bankrupts may be examined after
making a prescribed declaration, instead of taking an
oath ; but that a false statement, after making such de-
claration, will be punishable the same as perjury now is.
A servant has not the power to compel a character be-
ing given ; but if one is given, it must be a just and fair
one, otherwise the party giving it is liable to an action.
' In the Court of Exchequer, on Saturday last, Mr.
George Robins, the celebrated auctioneer, obtained a ver-
dict for £644, against Mr. Burke and another, the ven-
ckrs of an estate in Bucks, which they employed Mr.
Robins to sell by auction. After they had agreed with
Mr. Robins as to the terms on which he was to he paid,
they sold the estate by private contract to the Duke of
Buckingham, for £60,000. The question was whether
Mr. Robins, by the agreement entered into, was entitled
to one per cent. commission on the purchase money.
The jury decided he was, and gave a verdict in his favour
fur £644, the sum claimed.
PurvitEov; OF COUNSEL.—In the recent trial in
which two men, Gompertz and Witham, were found
guilty of a conspiracy to defraud Captain Rose, that
gentleman felt himself aggrieved by the language used by
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly in commenting upon his evidence and
wrote to him to ask him if he dare to repeat the false
statements. In reply Mr. Kelly stated that he proposed
to forward the letter to the Horse Guards, with a state-
ment of the circumstances that led to it ; but offered an
opportunity of withdrawing the letter, if he was desirous
of so doing. Captain Rose immediately withdrew the
letter and apologised for having written it.
Lord Huntingtower came before the Court of Bank-
ruptcy on Saturday week for his final order. The Com-
missioner, to mark his sense of the young lordling's im-
prudence and recklessness, adjourned the case sine die.
without protection, leaving Lord H. if be chose to come
up on a future occasion. Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque
again expressed his regret that the Earl of Dysart, his
lordship's father, should leave the undoubted heir to
£50,000 a year and a peerage without sufficient provision.
The Earl and Countess of Dysart have not lived together
for eight years, and a suit between them is now pending
in the Ecclesiastical Court.

The Charitable Trusts Bill now before the commons
proposes to empower the Lord Chancellor to appoint two
masters in Chancery, and a barrister-at-law of no less
than ten years' standing, as "the Commissioners of Cha-
rities," with two inspectors; and to the Commissioners
subject to the approbation of the Treasury, gives authority
to appoint a secretary, clerks, messengers, and officers, at
discretion, There was a. clause in the bill, at first pro-
mulgated, providing for the expence of all these offices
out of the funds to be administered; but that has been
dropped. The bill is now in the commons, and no doubt,
it is now meant that the salaries. &c. should be provided
out of the consolidated fund. This bill is abandoned for
the present session.

SPORZ'ING INTELLIGENCE

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S.-THURSDAY

LIVERPOOL CUP.
4 to 1 agst Winesour (t) ' 12 to 1 agst Rowena
6 1 Trutboy 12 1 Coranna
6 1 Milton 12 1 Lightning
11 —1 Ironmaster 25 —1 Little Hampton
GOODWOOD CUP.
2 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh 112 to 1 agst Stomacher
5 1 Ironmaster

GOODWOOD STAKES.
118 to 1 agst Queen Mab
20 1 Europa
25 1 Wee Pet
25 1 Boarding School

11 to 1 agst Pythia
12 1 —. The Libel
16 1 Pineapple
17 1 Venus
18 1 John o' Gaunt

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
sto 1 agst Weatherbit 16to 1 agst Merry Monarch

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
The business transacted in ourturf market for the past
week has not been distinguished for either spirit or quan-
tity. We give the latest prices :
LIVERPOOL CUP.
The field agst any three (offered, with takers of 4)
7 to 2 agst Winesour (taken,
and aft. offered)
6 1 any other (offered)
1 Trueboy (taken)
1 Milton (taken)
10 1 Rowena (taken)
12 1 Ironmaster (offered)
12 1 Nereus (offered)
15 1 Lothario (taken)
15 1 Warp (offered)
16 1 Lightning (taken)
20 1 Coranna (
33 1 Cock Robin
freely)
33 1 Dog Billy (taken)
We select Winesour or Milton to win. Nerus (if at
the post) not to be lost sight of : Lord George is always
awake.

GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 on the field (offt•red)
12 1 agst The Libel (taken, and offered)
16 1 Pineapple
20 1 Europa (taken)
20 1 John o' Gaunt (taken)
20 1 Glossy

GOODWOOD CUP.
2 to 1 on the field (offered)
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
500 to 100 agst Weatherbit (taken on Tuesday)
600 100 Merry Monarch
A strong desire to back Pantasa at 25 to 1.

PEDESTRIANISM.—Yesterday week, at Birmingham,
James Searles ran 10 miles and jumped over 250 hurdles,
each 3 feet high, in a minute and a half less than 75 mi-
nutes, and thereby won £lO.

INSTALLATION OF THE JEWISH HIGH PRIEST.

The installation of the Rev. Dr. N. M. Adler to the
office of chief rabbi of the united congregations of Jews of
Great Britain took place on Wednesday at the Great
Synagogue, St. James's. place, Aldgate, with unusual
pomp and splendour. Some hours before the appointed
time, the immediate vicinity became immensely crowded,
so much so that it was with difficulty the police could
keep the passages leading to the synagogue clear, and
such was the anxiety manifested to obtain admission to
view the ceremony, that large sums of money were offered
for tickets, but very prudently refused. The interior of
the synagogue had been beautified for the occasion, and a
spacious orchestra had been erected facing the ark for the
accommodation of nearly 50 singers, principally boys, be-
tween the ages of eight and fifteen years. Before the ark
was hung a rich white damask satin curtain, embroidered
profusely with gold and silver ; the reading desk was also
covered with the same rich material. The chandeliers
and branches were decorated with a profusion of flowers,
of the choicest description, and lighted with upwards of
500 wax candles, which, together with the galleries being
filled with ladies, bad a very pleasing and brilliant effect.
Soon after 5 o'clock the chief rabbi arrived at the syna-
gogue, and was conducted to the vestry chamber, where
he was presented with an address.
After the address, Dr. Adler was conducted to the sy-
nagogue, Preceded by flower boys, the passages and lob-
Hes being lined with the children of the different chari-
ties by the wardens. On entering the principal door a
splendid canopy was in readiness to receive him, con.
structed of rich blue damask satin embroidered with
silver, and, carrying one of the scrolls, he was conducted
to his seat on the left hand of the ark ; the reader (Rev.