The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

auaptea, or it
for men, and would be found cheap and lasting.
about sending a few pieces to the Great Exhibition, as
specimens of " Blackpool gingham," and, for the de-
scription of work, good judges state it cannot be excelled
in Glasgow or Manchester.
IRISH PROFESSIONALS.—At Clonmel assizes, Dr.
Burgess, a surgeon, was fined ten pounds for assaulting a
fellow practitioner, named O'Flynn. Both parties
• -on were ‘.

WE. . day .. on horse-back, and meeting each other,
Dr. B. informed O'Flynn, that certain conduct of his, was
" unprofessional and ungentlemanly." After they had
separated, O'Flynn pursued Burgess and knocking his
hat off with his whip, set his horse on a full gallop ; Bur-
gess followed him, and fugitive and pursuer thundered in-
to the town of Fethard almost together, which they " wit-
ched with noble horsemanship"—executing through its
streets and by-lanes manoeuvres so rapid and intricate as

to inspire, even in the recital, with the most unfeigned
admiration, Mr. Justice Crampton, who tried the case.
Dr. Burgess however " met a cripple," and dismounting,
" took one of his crutches from him"—armed with which,
as the military historian would say." "he hastily threw

himself into a square," and prepared" to receive cavalry."
We hear nothing of the fate of the cripple"—who, bereft
of one of his crutches, was of course reduced to the state
of a fixture, and, we suppose, with the aid of the other, in
like manner prepared to receive the enemy Scarcely was
this position taken, when "the horse" was upon them,
with a determination to break the enemy, and as the
prosecutor alleged, "to trample him under the animal's
feet." A single well directed blow, however, with the
crutch upon "the nose" of Dr. O'Flynn's horse had the
ses of spore- I effect of repulsing that physician. and so the day closed_

leaving Dr. Bur
of the lane.

in possession of the field—or, rather;

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL

NEWS,

Henry Miller, Esq., a native of Scotland, and a retired
London merchant, has presented £4,000 to the new col-
lege of the Free Church of. Scotland, as a fund for the
erect!on of four scholarships.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom,
naming and appointing the Rev. Hibhert Binney, D.D.,
to be Bishop of the bee of Nova Scotia, void by the death
of Dr. John Inglis, late bishop thereof. '
The Rev. Robert Eden, D.D., Oxon, whose election
to the see of Moray and Ross, vacant by the resignation
of the Right Rev. Dr. Low, recently announced, was
consecrated to his office by the Bishop of Aberdeen and
Primus, assisted by the Bishops of Edinburgh, Argyll,
and Glasgow, in St. Paul's Church, Edinburgh, on Sun-
day last.

RAILWAY

AFFAIRS.

The second reading of the Caledonian Railway Bill has
been agreed to by a majority of 214 to 67.

RAILWAY MANIA.--It may be stated that within a
comparatively short period Chester and Holyheads have
jumped from about .E 9 to about £25 per share, Caledoni-
ans from 7 to 18, Leeds and Thirsks from 6 to 20, South
Devons from 5 to 21, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolns
from 13 to 38, Eastern Counties from 6 to 84, Great
Northerns from 9 to 19, South Wales from 15 to 351,
ard many others in a similar way. Nothing has occurred
to render these lines a jot more hopeful than they were
six months ago.

Great excitement prevails at Dudley among all classes,
in consequence of the castle ruins, walics, and caverns
having been leased by Lord Ward to the South Stafford-
shire Railway Company for a period of seven years. It
is, however, understood that the South Staffordshire
Railway Company do not intend to exclude the inhabitants
of Dudley, who will still be admitted as heretofore. The
object the company have in view is annually to produce
a series of castle fetes, as a speculation to bring traffic on
their line to Dudley.
At a meeting of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway
Company, last week, the chArman, Mr. Latouche, hav-
ing declined to receive a notice for the removal of the
seat of management to Dundalk, on the ground that the
meeting was at an end, Captain Jocelyn, brother of the
Earl of Roden, exclaimed, " Oh, this is most outrageous !
After such conduct as this, d-n me but I will throw
my shares into the fire !" and Mr. French said to the
chairman, " By J- you are equal to anything, from
pitch-and-toss to manslaughter." _

LANCAST ER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday in
Liverpool. Mr. E. W. Hassell, chairman of the board of
directors, presided. The Chairman addressed the meet-
ing at considerable length. in terms of congratulation,
upon the present prospect of the company. He concluded
by stating that at present the Lancaster and Carlisle rail-
way was the best paying line in the country. The report
was then read. it recommended a dividend of 64 per
cent. The accounts showed that the receipts from traffic
during the half-year amounted to £125,238 4s. Old., and
the disbursements to £48,733 ls. 71d., leaving a balance
of £76,505 2s. sd. The reports and accounts were
adopted. _

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A frightful accident
occurred at the Kirkstall station of the Leeds and Brad-
ford Railway, last week, to Miss Leyland, of this town.
She and her sister entered the station, but, instead of
passing through the passengers' gate, they went through
a small wicket gate, leading to the goods warehouse, and
from thence walked along the side of the warehouse
towards the passengers' platform. A train suddenly
approached, and caught her dress. In this position, the
body being whirled round and round, she was dragged for
more than twenty yards, and then thrown upon the plat-
form. Medical assistance was at once procured. The
left arm was dreadfully shattered, her thigh broken, the
pelvis broken and lacerated, and her head very seriously
crushed. But little hope is entertained of her recovery.
OUTLINE OF THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN AND
CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY AGREEMENT.—We have
before us the agreement between these two companies.
How long the agreement is to last, or what notice is to be
given for its termination, in our hasty perusal of it we
have not been able to see. It enjoins that the junction of
the two companies shall be at Lower Walton, and to be
completed on or before August 12th, 1852. The Cheshire
Junction is to have the use of the lines and branches of
the London and North-western for their own traffic on
the payment of 50 per cent. of the earnings to the London
and North-western—less the Government passenger duty.
That is for through traffic. For Cheshire Junction traffic,
to be taken up or set down on the London and North-
western, between Warrington and Manchester, the Cheshire
Junction are to pay 75 per cent. The Cheshire Junction
are to abandon all their lines except the Heelsby and
Hooton branch, and not to divert, directly or indirectly,
any of their traffic from the London and North-western
Rail Way. They are besides to pay 6 per cent. for station
accommodation at Warrington, and to pay for like accom-
modation at Manchester. The agreement was signed 21st
of November last. We have not time just now to consider
this agreement closely, but it appears to us, at first glance,
to be not a stry perfect one.—Hera,palh's Jaurnat