The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Le rectors were

e meeting at the

re on Wednesd
on Sunday, by pi

g of the

curresnonctent says that " the railviai from Liverpool to
Waterloo and its vicinity is of the greatest service to the in-
habitants. The property has much increased in value, and
houses are in great demand. The delightful marine view
will no doubt render this locality one of the most pleasant

never heard of any such agency as that referred to by
W.D.',

We have handed to a member of th
about the Industrial Schools.

Select Vestry the letter

Ely Zthrrpoot :Otantatt.

TUESDAY MORNING

26, 1850

THE Agriculturists of this country will read the
following passage from the Times of Saturday last

with some surprise

" We can only say that, on t

aggregate of the last
lt of free trade, the

four years since the commenceme

agrimiltural i

been by far the most prosperous

of all the inter

the empire ' • and if landowners and
not enjoyed better profits and saved
either their own

ban all otherclassep, it
h some other cause

independent of agri-

play a little too palpably their entire innocence of
any knowledge of highway management.
The various townships throughout the kingdom
must be stirring to oppose this bill, or they will
have its iniquitous provisions fastened firmly around
their necks, when they will find its presence intol-
erable, especially under their already accumulated
burdens.

We were enabled last weeu, by the aid and en-
terprise of parties belonging to our own establish-
ment, and connected with the transition of news
between this port and the United States, to lay
before our readers an important despatch, conveyed
by telegraph from New York, to meet the mail
steamer at Halifax, and bringing two days later
news. The effort was one unprecedented in the
history of newspaper enterprise, whether provincial
or metropolitan; and we did not wonder that, at
the first blush, the news thus brought, especially as
they conveyed reports of a decline in an important
staple, at the time the object of a large amount of
speculation, should have been received with a little
distrust. Two days later than the news brought
by a fast sailing steamer does seem an instance of
despatch beyond the reach of possibility ; but when
it is borne in mind that the steamer in question had
to call at a port on the same continent, to which
the wires of the telegraph are capable of conveying
messages with the speed of thought, the difficulty
is solved at once. It is enough for us now to as-
sure our readers that they may regard the intelii-
gence as coming from a source on which we place
reliance. Had we not been able to do so, it should
not have appeared in our columns. We may state,
by the bye, that an error in the heading of the des-
patch, easily accounted for, however, by parties
connected with journalism, contributed materially
to create doubts as to its authenticity. The des-
patch was headed " Telegraph-office, Feb. Bth,"
such being the date of the sailing of the steamer.
The body of the document, however, gave the date
of the news from New York as '6 5 p.m. this even-
ing." As the mail, however, sailed from Halifax
only at 4h. 15m. a.m. of the the Bth, the evening of
the 7th, upon which the letter itself containing the
despatch was written, was obviously that on which
the news were forwarded.o

We were a little amused by a paragraph in our
contemporary, the Courier of 'Wednesday, noticing
the news in question. Our contemporrry had it
on Wednesday, in his Second Edition !—it was the
first article in the leader page of our own first edi-
tion on the day preceding—and quoting it as from
the London Sun of Tuesday evening, premising it
with his own opinion that, " from its mysterious
history and purport," it was entitled to little cre-
dence. 'What the meaning of these terms " mys-
terious history and purport" is, is a mystery to
ourselves. All that we can see surprising in the
history of the despatch in question, is the fact that
the Courier could have kept himself ignorant dur-
ing the whole of the day preceding the publication
of his paper of the existence of a document, whose
publication brought to a stand still operations in
the market for the most important staples of our
manufacture, and which employed during the day
the wires of the telegraph, to convey it through the
length and breadth of Great Britain.