The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

(F'om the Railway Magazine of Saturday.)

The following calculation of the last weekly returns of 49
railways, 1.782 miles in length, given in our present number,
will, we 1 elieve. he of interest :—Number of passengers on 34
railways, 468,137. The receipts for passengers on 49 railways,
£95,458 ; ditto for goods on 47 railways. £29,691; total,
128.958. This is an average of eni per mile per week.

RAILWAYS
3olton and Bury
Rirkenhead and Cheater
Ditto half .

Ditto, new, issued at .430 dis.
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter

Ltirmingham anti Derby -
Ditto One-eighth Shares
Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Wrexham
Caledonian
Dublih and Belfast
Dublin and Cashel ..
Dover, new.
old
Eastern Counties
Created at 13s, 4d. .

Perpetual
Eastern Counties, Itegistered
F dinburgh and Glasgow

Ditto Qr.
Ditto Leith, Lkc. pr.ferez.ce .
~ilasgcw, Paisley, ez Greenock.

New

Ditto 6 per cent. interest
Glasgow, Paisley and Ayrshire
Greenock, preference
and.
Ditto half shares
Quarter

j ton

1 -L-

50

gi
6 2- 5

' 50
12i

12.1
50

11)0
50
23

One-eighth
Great 'Western
Ditto Halt Shares
Ditto Fifth Shares
Great North of England
Holyhead
Hull and Selby (paid up)
Leicester and Swanuington
Lancaster and Preston
Ditto three-quarter shares
Ditto and Carlisle
Liverrool and Manchester
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto new
London awl Birmingham
Ditto quarter
Ditto shares .....
London a Brighton

.. I 20
100
I

so

Ditto Loan Notes
London and South Western
Ditto, loth shares
Leeds and Bradford
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
Manchester and Birmingham._
Ditto quarter ...
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter shat es ..
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
I-sth Shares
North Midland
Ditto new
Ditto £33 Gs 8d
North Union
North British
Newcastle and Berwick
Ditto quarter share s
Newcastle and Darlington June.
Preston and Wyre
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Lyons
Lyons and Avignon
Runcorn Gap
Boulogne and Amiens
Rouen and Havre
Sheffield and Manchester
Quarter..
South Eastern and Dover
New shares
South Western .
Ditto shares
Shrewsbury- and Grand Junction.
Scarborough
Tceurs and Bourdeaux
Trent Valley
Ulster
York and London
Half Shares
Bank 01 Liverpool
Borough Bank
Commercial of Liverpool
East of England
M'chcster & L'poul
Northern and Central
North and South Wales
Royal of Liverpbol
South Lancashire
Liverpool Union
Liverpool Banking Co
Wilts and Dorset
Exchange Buildings
L'pool and Harrington Water,
Works.

23
Si
13s 4d

18s. 4d.

40
Stock
32.

25
l'2
li
50

255
.4'd 3s. 93.

36
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4 4} 4i

Bootie Ditto
I.' pool New Gas & Coke Co
L'oool Gas Light Company
Ditto new shares
Liverpool Marine Assurance.. 1
Company
Marine Assurance
Liverpool Fire and Life
Nrchester Assurance Company
Apothecaries' Company
Harrington Docks
Andertonearrying Company
Rock Ferry
Steam i in; Company

08 1071

3 18. 6d.

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Stock

93 3

Stock.
Stock.
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THE ORIGIN OF Foos.--The very common but mi.-
t .ken idea, that the fog which we see of an evening hang-
ing over low meadows, and by the sides of streams, is €
cending, arises very naturally from our first observing t
in low places, and as the cool of the evening advances, rt.
marking that it ascends to higher land : the fact is, how-
ever, not that the damp is ascending, but that from the
coldness of those situations they are the first places which
condense the before invisible vapour, and as the cold of
the evening advances, this condensation takes place at a
higher level. A large portion of the vapour ascends to
the upper regions of the atmosphere, where it cools, and
becomes visible to us in the form of clouds; and increas-
ing in density by cooling, they gradually descend nearer
to the earth, until at last becomhz too condensed by the
loss of heat, they fall in rain, to be again returned in end•
lesi succession.—Scientific Phenomena.

LONDON ROAD.—The following auction - announce-
ment, dated 1776, will show the state of this road at the •
close of the last century, " To be Sold by Auction, at Ec-
cleston's Mill House, near Low-bill, on Wednesday, Aug.
7, at five a.m. The present prime crop of early white outs •
growing on a close of land belonging to the Water Works
at Low-hill near Liverpool." An old lady lately living,
stated that she could recollect afield being between Lime-
turret and Seymour-street, which was surrounded by a
d..tep trench, probably dug by Prince Rupert's soldiers
Prince Rupert's trenches were disco-
vdeurreicnlgittibelBoB3ie.
1803. They were thus described at the time.
4. They are situated about twenty yards from the present
London-road, opposite the end of Slt. Anne-street, on the
east side of the road (Seymour-street) recently cut lead-
ing to Rodney-street. Here the rock has been widely
excavated and filled up 'again with loose earth. Other
traces are discernible in a field above, as well as on the
other side of a lane nearer the tuwn at the top of a new
street now planned, to be called Gloucester-street, and at
the commencement of an intended street to be denomi-
nated Silver-attest, all just below the Copperas Works,
and on the site of the old • mill, blown down in the year
1795. There has likewise been traced, and may now be
seen as the workmen are removing the earth, the situation
of the Fort or Buttery; in the trenches have been found
broken glass, bones, the remains of a wall, and leaden
balls. The lower trenches were discovered about sixty
years vgo, when the foundation of the Infirmary was dug,
and in them Guard-de•vin bottles, and eirtouche boxes,
were found as left by the besiegers ; at the upper end, a
high mound was raised, probably the remains of a battery.
In the trenches, tradition says, the bodies of the rebels'
executed in 1745, were buried."—Lacey's Handbook,
A liiNT FOR THE LADIES.—LOak here—twenty-seven
alvcreisementa from persons wanting pupils. The greatest
thug in the nelve,rtisina world is education. We are too
clever by half now-a-days; everybody, in their own opi-
nun, can tenth anybody. Here's a lot of knowledge for
twenty guineas a-year, extras included. French, Ger-
man, washing, board, lodging, music, drawing, calistheni s
—what's that?—geometry, arithmetic, and the use of the
globes ? Why, it's dog cheap; too much by half for the
money. Old Peachern, in The Beggar's Opera, who
wondered how any man alive should rear a daughter, must,
with respect, have been a fool ;sd daughters can be in-
,tructed in everything for nothing, we wonder who
wouldn't rear scores of daughters, if he could get them off
his hands. But there's the difficulty ; for when a man
comes to choose a wife in this work-day world, his object,
in nine cases nut of ten, is to get a woman who will strive
to make a shilling do duty for eighteenpence, who will at•
tend to her household, vetch over her family, and not be
a'iove doing her duty ; ar d we think we can see in these
tnultifarieus accomplishments of the present day, and the
necessary neglect of that solid practical education which
gives woman a position of utility. the reason why daugh-
ters now-a-days are. stock, slow of sale, and apt to hang
heavily on hand. Who on earth, unless he be a fool, or a
man of fortune, can abide to sit_ lloWn to an ill-dressed.
dinner, in a slatternly house, with the beam- relish for his
' victuals from a knowledge that his'' at a five-and-
twenty
quantity
typoundboartling-school, has acquired aninappre-
of French, Italian, German, calisthenics,
(which, 1 suppose, is some other outlandish lingo), geo-
metry, or globes? Pieklinz, pre-erring, cooking, making
and repairing her children's dresses and her own, and a
knowledge of the use and economy of money, are things a
marrying man can understand and pO-eciatc, particularly
if be is under the neees-ity, as most of us are., of earning,
his own bread ; and this, I think, is the reason that sun-
dry friends of ours, despising boarding-school accomplish-
ments, airs, and gray's, have gone down to the country,
, and brought up wives ho had learned by experience of
I their respectable mother the art of presiding over a " corn-
' fortable home," and who, to their credit be it spoken,
don't know the difference between Italian and Irish, or
could distinguish calisthenics from Carlotta Grisi,—e,
Bentley's Miscellany.