The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

8. GREAT NORTHERN

As published "The value of this stock constitutes one of
in Sept. 1850. the most difficult railway problems of the day.
Judging from the present receipts, and taking
into consideration the cheap and solid construction of the line,
its freedom from onerous guarantees, and the great resources
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The price in September was £ll ; in December, £lB.
Increase of traffic in the second half year, £86,000. Pro-
bable value, Ist May, 1851, £2O.

IX.—SCOTTISH CENTRAL.
As published "This line will form an exception to the gene-
in Sept. 1850. rality of Scotch railways. The expenditure has
been too great. but its geographical position is
so good, and its liabilities so small, that persons investing at
present prices will receive more than 5 per cent. for their mo-
ney. Any favourable arrangement with the London and North=
Western would cause a sudden rise in the value of the stock."
Cheap at a price of £l5 on its awn merits, and.liable to
a rise of from £5 to £lO, in the event of a favourable
issue to the dispute with the southern companies.

X.-THE GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN OF IRELAND

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number of feeders, which must gradually flow into such a main
line, we venture to predict that this stock will be at par within
twelve months from the present time."
The price in September was £3l; in December, £39.
Increase of traffic in the second half year, £19,000.
The accuracy of the prediction here stated is remarkably
verified up to the present time, and we abide by the views
already expressed as to the future.

The above calculations are founded on the assumption
that those who invest their money in railway stock will
expect, in most cases, an interest of. .5 per cent., and will
only pay such a price as will secure this rate of dividend ;
but as stock becomes more subdivided, and confidence in-
creases, prices, in all probabiiity, will adjust themselves
to a rate not higher than 41 per cent., and in that case
the calculations of value will be found considerably under
the mark. It is also very probable that a speculative
movement may set in, in the course of the summer, which
may drive up prices irrespective of a sober estimate of the
interest paying condition of the property ; but as the ob.
ject of this table is only to serve as a guide for invest-
ment, no notice is taken of the possible effects of such a
speculative movement.
Manchester, 15th January, 1851

VATES

The Earl of Wilton has in the press a collection of
hymns, chants, and responses, of his own arrangement,
and which are, by permission, dedicated to the Queen.
Lord Stanley received the Earl of Malmesbury, Mr. B.
Disraeli, Major Beresford, and a select party to dinner,
on Saturday evening, at his lordship's mansion in St,
James's7squa_re. _

On Thursday, at the usual Petty Sessions, atLawford's
Gate, near Bristol, several persons were bound over to
the general Quarter Sessions to answer a charge of hav-
ing obstructed the Rev. Mr. Cusworth from preaching.
The action resulted from the disputes among the Wes-
leyan body.

Mr. Robert Hill, superintendent of police at Weston-
super-Mare, died last week ; and a post mortem exami-
nation has clearly proved the connection of his death with
a wound he received three years since whilst endeavour-
ing to quell a riot, and 'during which one of the mis-
creants stabbed him with a knife. He appeared after-
wards to have quite recovered.

alsP laved a

great drar

Warmly rec
read Mue4

1 natural humour, rare in a female,
portions were delivered with that
and gracefulness of, manner

:ner when

fifty-fourth
Hohne pre
tiemen, amongst
*sears. Arthur I

she first made her
fortunes of a theatre doomed to

:e effect ; everythir

poetical appreciation of th

this talented lady read another
Romeo and Juliet. _She was

in her renderings, and was again very
To-morrow evening Mrs. Kemble will
about Nothing, and :on Friday the
istorical play of Henry the Eighth. We
r audiences on these occasions.
POLLO GLEE CLUB.—On Saturday even-
association of gentlemen celebrated its
-ersary at the Adelphi Hotel. Mr. Jas.
and there were present about fifty gen:.
whom were his Worship the Mayor,
Jolme and Samuel Taylor, (who occupied

vice-cnair,) Thomas Littledale, J. Bramley-Moore,
Bhuttleworth, W. Davies, John Lockett, Richard
Lockett, and Charles Smith, (the composer.) The fol-
lowing ladies and gentlemen contributed to the harmony
of the evening by the exercise of their musical talents :
Mrs. G. Holden and Mrs. M'Dougall ; Mr. George
Holden,
M who presided at the piano-forte as the father of
the club, essrs. George Holden, jun., Boothby, Evans,.
Mellor. Roberts, and Armstrong. It is no small praise to
Bay that their efforts to please reflected credit on the
established musical reputation of the Apollo Glee Club,
and we need scarcely add that Mr. Radley acquitted him-
self with that superior skill and courtesy which charac-
terizes the management of the Adelphi, and gives it the
high position which it has attained in the town. The
oratorical efforts of the evening were unusually good, fre-
quent allusion being made not only to the progress of the
art of music, but to subjects of more immediate local in-
terest connected with the rise and prosperity of the town
of Liverpool. The principal speakers were the Mayor,
Mr. BramleY-Moore, Mr. Thomas Littledale, Mr. James
and Mr. Arthur Holme, Mr. C. Smith, and the Town-
Meek, A most delightful evening was spent

ball, and primed. The prisoners were then conveyed to
Lancaster. On the same day they were brought before
the magistrates, at the Town Hall, when the magistrates'
room was densely crowded by a large number of trades-
men, thr majority of whom had been visited by Colonel
Durnford, who was a debtor in their books. The elder
prisoner gave his name as Andrew Montague Isaacson
Durnford, and the younger as Montague John Felton,
Durnford. The elder was muffled up in a large blue
mi-
tary cloak, with crimson lining and collar. and appeared

to be between 70 and 80 years of age. The younger ap.
peared to be about 20. Mr. Wright detailed the nature
of the offence with which the prisoners were charged, and
also the manner they had been apprehended. Mr. Smyth,
tea dealer, Lancaster, stated that the prisoner had ob-
tained goods from him by false representations ; that he
was a lieutenant-colonel in her majesty's service, and was
in receipt of pay.—Mr.", Wright stated that communica-
tion had been had with the War Office, but they knew of
no such person.7—An_ adjournment was applied for, and

granted.—On Thursday the elder prisoner was again
brought up, and charged with obtaining game by repre-
senting himself as C. Bower, Esq., of Sunderland. He

denied

he charge, and

1 .
and maid servant to_ prove that on the day the game
dealer said he was in Lancaster he had never left, home,
nor had his carriage ever been out. He stated that he

was a lieutenant-colonel in the Scotch Fusilier Guards,
and was then in the receipt of pay from the army. He
had written to Lord Somerset, and expected an answer on
the following day, which would prove that he was a lieu-
tenant-colonel in the Scot& Fusilier Guards. The case
against both the prisoners was then gone into.—Mr. Bond,
furniture broker, was examined, as wen; also several
other tradesmen, who stated that they had let the pri-
soners have goods in consequence of the representations
by both that the elder was a . lieutenant-colonel, and in
the receipt of half-pay as such.—A charge was then
brought against the younger prisoner for obtaining a gun
by representing that he was an officer in the Rifle Bri-
gade, and aboutto proceed abroad.—Mr.,Shaw, who had
let him- have the gun, stated the facts.—The hearing oc-
cupied about six hours, and the case was further 'ad-
journed till Monday next.—The circumstances have
created much excitement in Lancaster and the neighbour-
hood.