The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

1~1 ii LIVERPOOL STANDARD

TRACTARIANISM IN BETHNAL GREEN.—During a
discussion upon an unsuccessful attempt in the London
Common Council to obtain £2OO in aid of the free church
in the St. Giles's district, Mr. Deputy Corner mentioned
that the adoption of the Tractarian observances in the
Bethnal Green churches had stripped, them of half their
congregations.

FAULKNER tl. TITCHFIELD.—ThiS is an appeal from
the decision of the Consibtorial Court of Ely, founded
upon circumstances which may be briefly stmed. A
faculty was isued'to repair the Church of the Holy Sepul-
chre of Cambridge. Certain innovations were made, such
as introducing a fixed communion table of two tons
weight of stone, &c. The Vicar of the church disapproved
of the erections, as being contrary to the Rubric and
Canons of the Church of England. The Court below
held the Faculty to be good, from which an appeal to Sir
H. J. Fast, in the Ar4hes Court, was promoted. After
hearing the arguments, the judge postponed his decision.

THE RUBRIC.—The Bishop of Exeter has just is.ued
a pastoral address, in which he declares that of the law
appealed to, "one main and leading object, since the Re-
formation, haseever been to establish unifermity of pub-
lic prayers, and administration of sacraments, and other
rites and ceremonies." The true remedy for existing
evils is only to be found, he thinks, " in returning to a
faithful observance of the act of Uniformity "and " peace-
Nil obedience to the laws of the church, especially in all
that relates to the public worship of Almighty God, as
enjoined in the rubric of the Book of Common Prayer."
The Bishop, however recommend s caution. " While I
urge you," he ears, " to return to a full observance of the
rubric—falling short of your prescribed part in no-
thing—beware of exceeding it. The peculiar dan-
gers of the times, as well as the prevailing tone of
public opinion, call upon you most powerfully. as you
would avoid being in the number of ' them through whom
offences come,' to forbear all unnecessary innovation, es-
pecially, as I have recently had occasion to urge, that
worst kind of innovation, the revival of obsolete usages
not required by law, which are associated in the minds of
manywith the sueerstitionsandcorruptioesofßome. His
Lordship is positive in reouiriog that " the surplice he
always used in the sermon," and also " at all other times,
whenever a sermon is part of the ministration of the paro..
chial clergy." Willi respect to the offertory, he Says—
" Now, in every church in which the cengregation in
general is prepared to regard the collection as the exer-
cise ofa high Christian privilege—the privilege of offering
to God—of giving to him of his own—there 1 advise that
a collection be always made. But wherever the pervading
tone and feeling is not yet of the high order, be patient ;
strive, but strive gently, and with prayer to God, to
your people to a better mind ; and till they have attained
to it, shock not their prejudices, irritate not their selfish-
ness, it may be their worldly-mindedness. Only let them
not deceive themselves ; let them see and feel that you
seek not theirs, but them.' Tell them the truth in love,
and leave the rest to God."

THE CHURCH.—A petition has been prepared for pre-
sentation to- the Archbishop of Canterbury. It has al-
ready obtained a large number of signatures, amongst
which are those of the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of
Denbigh, the Earl of Gainsberough. Viscount Sandon,
M.P., Viscount Morpeth, M.P., Lords Calthorpe, Ray-
leigh, Teienrriouth, Bloomfield, Francis Egertoe, M.P.,
Henry Cholmondeley, Ashley, M.P., Robert Grosvenor,
M.P., Howard, MA'., &c., &e. It has he -n set on foot
• for increasing the efficiency of the church, without intro-
ducing any organic change. The following extract shows
the wishes of the memorialists:—`' First, the clergy must
be increased in number; and, secondly, provision must
be made for a more systematic employment of laymen, in
the exercise of functions which do net belong exclusively
ti the clergy. Fur the attainment of these objects, we
would respectfully rr quest your Grace, aed the other mem-
bers of the Episcopal Bench, to take into your considera-
tion—first, the expediency of increasing largely the num-
ber of the third cla,s of our Clergy, the Deacons. And we
venture to suggest that this may be effected by admitting, r n
such condition as will maintain the order and discipline of
our church, persons who have not the means or opportu-
nity of proceeding to an University degree, but who are
found completely trained for the service of the sanctuary;
their advancement to the fugher order of the ministry
being made contingent upon a faithful. di-charge during a
lengthened period of the office of a deacon, or upon such
other circumstances as your Grace and the other members
of the Episcopal Bench may tbh.k fit. 2d.—The pro-
priety of sanctioning and encouraging the employment of
a class of laymen, who, without altogether abandoning
their worldly callings, might be set apart, under Episco-
pal authority, to act as visitor sof the sick, Scripture read-
ers, catechists, and the like, in parishes where their in-
troduction should be approved of by the parochial clergy.
The system of district visiting, and the appointment of
lay Scripture readers, under clerical superintendence,lave
already been adopted, we. believe. with much success, in
many populous parishes, but the present state of society
requires that both these means of usefulness should be
greatly extended, and brought into more immediate con-
nection with cur ecclesiastical arrangements. To provide
the necessary funds (which should be administered by a
board, made up by a well-considered union of the clergy
and laity,) contributions may we have liAle doubt, be
extensively called forth, in offerings and collections made
for this specific object."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CHESHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.
(Before Mr. Baron Gurney.)

RAILWAY lATELLIGEACE.

NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.—A deputation
from this company, consisting of Capt. Salmond, chair-
man; E. V. P. Burnell, Esq., vice-chairman; Montague
David Scott, Esq.. The Elms, Kingston, a director; Mr.
Gibbs, engineer ; Mr. Sanderson, surveyor ; Mr. Dennis-
ten, secretary ; Mr. Bean and Mr. Norton, joint solici-
tors; and Mr. Ellicombe, parliamentary agent; had an
interview with Lord Dalhousie at the Board of Trade. on
Tuesday, which we are confidently informed was satisfac-
tory.
THE RAILWAYS TO DEREHAM.—The two projects for
a railway to Dereham are now amalgamated ; and it is stated
that ad material opposition on the part of owners of pro-
perty is at an end.
The fire
,at the New Cross railway station, which oc-
curred when Louis Philippe was present, has been traced
to the spontaneous combustion of some vegetable black in
the paint room.

The verdict of the coroner's jury on Mr. Varnalls,
another of the victims by the collision on the Midland
Cou .ties Riulway, was delivered on Wednesday. It was
" accidental death," with a deodand of £l,OOO upon the
engine.

The competition between the Forth and Clyde Canal
Company and the Edinburgh Railway is so strong, that
the canal company are caroir.g passengers from Glasgow
to Edinburgh with a profit at lass than a farthing a mile !
The increase of the traffic has made up for the reduction
in the amount of charge.
A meeting of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
railway company was held at Manchester, on Friday,
James Brancker, Esq., in the chair, at which it was re-
solved to unite and consolidate into one concern that
company with the Manchester and Leeds arid Hull and
Selby. Great dissatisfaction was expressed by many
shareholders at the proposed junction, and a Committee
was formed to oppose it.
SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER) RAILWAY.
—We learn that Sir John Kirkland, Mr. W. H. Thomas
(deputy chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway),
and Mr. Eckert Browne, of Liverpool, have been elected
directors of the London and Dover Railway, in the place
of General Hodgson, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., and Mr. L.
Cubitr, vho have resigned ; and that Mr. Francis Mills
has been elected deputy chairman of the board of direc-
tors, in the pace of Mr. W. P. Richards, who has also
refired from the direction.—Stilndard.

At a meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway
company, on Tuesday, it was resolved•to raise in addition
to the present capital the aura of £281,250, by creating
22,500 new shares of £l2 les each, to be paid at five
calls of £2 10A. each, in 1845 and -1846; the new shares
Lo be apportioned amongst the present shareholders. The
chairman stated in e course of his remarks that the di-
rectors intend to proceed with the Stirling branch. A
r•hort line to Catopsie would alai be formed. There was
likewise a proposal for a junction with the Ayrshire line.
The new shares are to be distributed in the proportion of
one for every £5O of capital stock held in the company.
SOUTH WESTERN RA I LWAY.—At a special meeting of
this company, on r aturday, it was resolved to proceed wi!h
the follow:ng branches : —Fmm Nine Elms terminus to
the vicinity of the Hungerford and Waterloo Bridges and
the Thames, and from Wimbledon to Epsom. From
Weybridge to Staines and NN indsor. From Woking-
common, by Guildford, Godalming. and Chichester, to
Portsmouth and Fareham, including the purchase of
the Guildford Junction Railway. From Hook-pit. Farm,
on the main line of railway to Mottisfont on the Salisbury
branch, arid from Salisbury to Sherborne and Yeovil, and
orehester and Weymouth. From Basingstoke to the
Great Western Railway at Didcot and Swindon.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—OR Wednesday, as two la-
bourers employed on the South-Eastern ltailway were on
their return from work to Dover, and lad entered Abbott's
Cliff Tunr•.el, the up train passed them, and the noise of
the eng:ne preventing their hearing the down train, which
entered the tunnel a few o_inutes afterwards, they being
on the rail, were knocked down and killed.—On Tues-
day. at King's-bank, Hoghton• bottoms, on the new line
of railway now constructing between Blackburn and
Preston, a large portion of the upper part of the hi 1, it is
calculated to the extent of nine or ten tons, gave way,
burying the men beneath. One of them must have been
crushed to death against the waggon instantaneously. The
second :waa injured to a very dangerous extent. The
third was much less hurt.

NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE STANDING ORDERS.—
Among other defaulters the Barnsley :end Goole Railway
did not deposit their plans with the Clerk of the Peace,
at Wakefield, on the 30th ultimo, and have consaqtiently
net complied with the standing orders of parliament.
The Lincolnshire and Sheffield Junction, from Lincoln
to Sheffield, with a branch to Gansborough, have also
failed to deposit their plans in accordance with the stand-
ing orders. The latter project was under the guarantee
of the Sheffield 'and Manchester and Midland Companies.
This chance in the position of affairs is of very great im-
portance to the London and York Railway, as it is now
the (-ally line which forms a direct communication north
and south from London to York, placing all the towns
between the two cities on a main line, at the same time
that it effects the same important object for the whole
tract of country, east and west, from Liverpool to Boston,
which it does, in a continuous and unbroken chain, by its
junction with tie Sheffield and Manchester, Manchester
and Leeda. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole. and Newark
and Sheffield vailways. In fact, it most fully occupies a
vast space yet unoccupied by any railway; and places
Sheffield on a main line between Liverpool and Boston,
and between Liverpool and London 11 miles shorter than
the existing route. The plans and books of reference of
the London and York line, notwithstanding its extent of
len rnilPe ware nrstrlr Pvvrvahrre the fir..t
and, so far as their appearance goes, are highly creditable
to the parties engage d upon them.—Slandard.
WEST RTDING JUNCTION RAILWAYS.—On Wednes-
day last a very cumerous anti influential meeting of the
Leeds and West Riding Junction liailway Company, was
held at the Royal Hotel, Brighouse, near Halifax. Henry
Houldsworth, chairman of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway Company, was called to the chair, and
addressed the meeting at great length, explanatory of the
objects in view. They had been called together to receive
a report of the proceedings of the managing committee
apeointed at the bit meeting held at Bradford, for the
purpose of maturing the plans of the committee and tak-
ing those preliminary steps necessary to enable them to
apply to Parliament ext session. As sopie misrepresen-
ted ►ns bad gone abroad, he entered into a brief history
of the origin of the company, and their desire to adopt
the p,an which would be approved by the district as the
best. With this view a negociation was opened with the
Manchester and Leeds company, and it was determined
that the most extensive surveys should be made, in order
to lay down such a system of ways as would be commen-
surate with the wants of the district, in wnich the traffic
was more pecut ar than in the district comprised between
Leeds, Bradford,, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Duebury.
Great advantage would arise by laving down lines which
while they would shorten the di tance between Leeds and
Manchester on one hand, and Halifax and Leeds on the
other. would at the same time provide adequately for the
local traffic. The leading object for providing for the in-
ternal traffic, had been kept in view, and after some
months of extensive surveying, the engineer of the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway company had laid down a line
which was thought to be most likely to effect the object.
Those lines after having been duly con•idered by the gentle-
men connected with the district, had been t y them ap-
proved as the best calculated to provide for the wants of
the district. The next arrangement that they bad to de-
termine upon was, as to the connexion that should exist
between the Manchester and Leeds Railway company and
the West Riding. Junction company ; and it was seen at
once that the greate-t public advantage would result from
the West Riding Junction Lines being worked by the
Manchester and Leeds company ; experience having
shown in all cases that where the lines of independent
companies were united with each other, great expense was
incurred by both companies, and great inconvenience was
entailed upon the public. It was impossible where the
management was divided to secure that harmony of action
in working the lines upon which the public convenience
depended, whilst unity of arrangement would secure the
most advantageous passage from' one point to another.
Acting upon these considerations the West Riding corn-
pany had agreed that the Manchester and Leeds company
should work their lines. He then entered into some ex-
' planations of the traffic, and the low charges made tor
goods and also passengers, the result of the last being
that they were now carrying about a million of passengers
in the half-year, at the rate of 13 a mile. Accommoaa-
lion bad been made for third-class passengers, and the
directors had decided, in order to increase it, to add seats
and covers to such carriages. They were also engaged in
revising their rates and renewing their arrangements with
a view to the bringing out on the Ist of January next what
• might be called a new tariff, which he hoped would add
to the convenience of the public,, as he trusted it would
not be ineffectual in promoting the interests of the com-
pany: An officer had also been appointed to superintend
the passenger traffic and obviate all complaints. After
alluding to the fact that a large proportion of the share-
holders of this railway were Lancashire gentlemen, he
expressed his opinion that the connexion of the Manches-
ter and Leeds company with the West Riding Junction
company' bad secured an advantage to the district which
could not be achieved by the success of those other par-
ties who were candidates for supplying the district with
railways. Mr. Hawkshaw, engineer of the Manchester
and Leeds Railway company then explained in detail the
several proposed lines, the places through which they
would pass, &c. The chairman then said that the ar-
rangement come to was that there was to be independent
company, which had been designated the Leeds and West
Riding Junction company ; that they were to raise, in
conjunction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, a
capital of £1,400,000; and that one half of that capital
(as some proof of the interest which the Manchester and
Leeds company had in the undertaking, and the confi-
dence they felt in its success,) should be raised by them,
and that the other half of that capital should be raised by
shares in the district through which the proposed railways
were to pass. Upon that basis they had issued a pros-
pectus, and had allotted shares to the full amount, except
a small portion which had been retained for proprietors
immediately connected with the district. The conditions
attached to this arrangement were these—that the Man-
chester and Leeds if ailway company, should, in the event
of the Act of Parliament passing. take a lease of the
lines when made—that they should guarantee, when any
portion of those lines was made so as to be workable,
interest upon the capital which might be expended by the
Leeds and West Riding company, at 4 per cent, per an-
num for the first five years, and afterwards 4,1 per cent.
Some FA isfactory conversation and explanations then took
• place, and the chairman read a correspondence between
the promoters of the Leeds and West Rtditmg company,
expressive of a desire on the part of the former to amal-
gamate the two schemes into one, and the public advan-
tage of such a union.