The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

It is said that Mr. Robert Stevenson and Mr. Bidder,
both of whom were most strongly prejudiced against the
atmospheric principle for railways, have been conducting
a series of experiments tit Kingstown, which have com•
pletely altered their previous opinions.

DUBLIN AND CASHEL RAILWAY.—The railroad from
Dublin to Cashel will be commenced in the next summer,
and will be completed in two years. The share list is
filling rapidly in Dublin, 7,500 shares being already taken.
The grand jury of Clare took up the subject very warmly,
and on Friday some hundred shares *ere taken in Ennis.
—Limerick Chronicle.

A dividend of four-and-a-half per cent. has been
declared for the half•year on the shares of the
Sheffield and Rotherham Company, the balance of
profits divisible among the shareholders having been
£3,194 6s. 7d., the receipts having amounted to
£8,938 13s. 9d., and the expenditure to £5,241
7s. 2d.

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The chair was occupied by Dr. Brandreth, and, after a
brief discussion, the amalgamation of the line with the
presid,d and Mr.
Liverpool and Manchester Company was sanctioned.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—The pro-
prietors met at the Clarendon-rooms, stipnofFrid.ay, for the
purpose of nominating
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March 12, 1844.

UNIVERSITY AAD CLERICAL NEO.

ORDINATION AT CHESTER.—On Sunday,Bishop held an ordination, when the folllowing.wer °wird•
ay, the
mitred into holy orders :
Black, 8.A., Worcester College, Oxford ; Frederick
Adolphus La Trob•,s. roster, 8.A., Oriel; Henry
Queen's;
Jones, 8.A., ?.nd Robert Scarr Redfern. 8.A.,
Ed.7,ard Royds, 8.A., King's Hall and Brasennose_;
Edward Tomlinson, 8.A., Trinity ; Alfred Gott Wool-
ward, 8.A., Magdalen; Edward Walker, 8.A., Peel:
broke, William Chawner, B.A. St. John's, Cambridge:
—.Deacons :—Robert CorPe.r
Samuel John Lyon, 8.A., and Thomas Troughton,
Trinity; James Richard Whyte, 8.A., Downing
Bateson, B.A. Charles Richard Huson, 8.A., Thomas
I:eland, 8.A., and James Richardson 8.A.., Trinity,
Dublin ; Hugh Thomas Downman, St. David's, Lare,Pleei
ter ; Henry Thomas Fletcher, William Robert Pa'
Wandby, and Thomas Wilson, St. Bees. Priest: ;
Charles Rede Clifton, B.A. Merton College, Oxford.,
Robert Fletcher, 8.A.. and William Rishton Garnett,
8.A.. Brasennose ; William Thomas Redfern,
Hall ; John Higg, M.A., New Inn Hall ; Jonathan
Appleton, 8.A., Thomas Massey, B.A. Philip Thong:
son, B.A. and William Shackleton, 'B.A. Cathernw
Hall, Cambridge;t William Ashforth Cartledge, 13•LA,,:r
St. John's; John Palmer Firm in, 8.A., and JohnPeeilw"
ton Power, 8.A., Queen's ; William Clayton Gree,n.aer
8.A., and Charles John Graham Jones, 8.A., Ciej"
Hall; Charles Babington Jeaffreson, 8.A., Pembroke;
Samuel Gideon Frederic Perry, Trinity : James Dillon
Raven, 8.A., St. Mary Magdalen ; John Bowman Ti.arri
ner, 8.A., Caius ; Patrick Reynolds, 8.A., Rmue
Francis Jones Shea, M.A., and Gustavus Adolphne
George Warner, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin ; Jonathan &lit!
William Hughes, William Henry Jones, John Dong'"
Lateward, and Thomas Sabine, St. Bees.
OXFORD, March s.—The election for the Vineriall
Scholarship took place this day, when the numbers were
—for Mr. Burrows, of Wadham, 164 ; for Mr. Bathurst,
of New College, 114 ; for Mr. Lingen, of Balliol, 95.
OXFORD, March 7.—ln a congregation held this day"
the following degrees were conferred :
Masters of Arls.—Jens Pell, Exeter College, Grand
Compounder; the hon. Edward Frederick Leveson Gower'
•
Christchurch ; Henry King, Scholar of Wadham • Rev'
George Pretyman, New Inn-ball ; Augustus V;Tilliael
Ward, New Inn-hall.
Bachelor of Art.—Francis Alexander Dawson, Nei!
Inn-hall. Mr. H. Worsley, of Exeter College, was this
day elected a Michel Scholar of Queen's. Magdalen
CAMBRIDGE, MARCH B.—At a congregation just held,
the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts;•
—Robert William Essington, King's College; Rowland
Wilriams, King's College; and William Burdett, Queen':
College. Bachelors of Arts.—William Ager, St. John''
College ; Robert Wallis Belt, Emmanuel College • John
Potter Jones, St. Catharine's Hall; Thomas 'Clarke
Onion, St. Catharine's Hall ; and Henry Mann, Trinity
College. Ad Eundem.—Rev. Thomas Drew, D.D',
Trinity College, Dublin.
MARISCHAL COLLEGE.—ELECTION OF LORD REC'
TOR.—At the annual meeting of students held yesterday,
for the election of the Lord Rector of Marischal College
and University, the votes were equally divided between
the Marquis of Breadalbane and the Marquis of Bute.
The result is, there can be no rector this year.—Aberdeett
Herald.