The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

A Match for 50 sous. Half-a-mile

Payne'si)cPeQ;e, by Despot, 2 yrs, 'ist.. (Howlett) 1
Lord Maidstone's ch f Wide-awake, 3 yrs, 9 st 2
Betting-6 to 4on Pensive, who took the lead, was never
headed, and won in a canter by two lengths.

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The LADIES' Puusil, value £5O, to be run for by horses
beaten during the week ; heats, twice round the course.
Mr. Dawson's ch f The Biddy, 3 yrs (Lye) 3 1 1
nl3eaneour, won by about three
Mr. Graydon's ch h Clinker, 6 yrs ... ............. 1 2 2
Mr. Langley's b c Rancour, 4 yrs ..... : .......... 2 3 d
made the
Betting—First heat—Clinker made all the running, and,
after a short struggle le with
u le with The Biddy, lengths. Second
after Saeclooungd
struggle with
r again
running,
y, was beaten by a
neck. Third heat—The Biddy made way at a middling pace,
and icon easily by half a length.
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Sir W. M. Stanley,
.Bart., F. R. Price, Esq., and the Hon
E. S. Anson are appointed stewards for next year's races.

JUNCTION OF THE RAILWAY IN MANCHESTER

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
;ra,—After the conflict of interest and feeling which CI
)ortant question has excited, it appears that the director
the Liverpool line have submitted to the Hunt's Bun

y and wealt

lo auuccu amunitiataLig, aigni,
of a body representing the earliest and most renowned un-
dertaking of this nature, that they should have yielded to the
domination of the Leeds Directors, after publicly announcing
their conviction of the paramount advantages of a southern
over a northern junction of railways in the town of Manches-
ter. Mr. Hodgson, a member of the Liverpool Board, has,
however, nobly redeemed the minority from the imputation
of infirmity of purpose, exhibited by its other members, who
must have felt some keen anticipations of public
upon their inconsistency, in coniu,—''

ion with the ov(
ing preponderance of shares held by Mr. Hodgson
party. It can scarcely be imagined that so Dowel'

nority wi!l quietly se

and forced upon it by such disc

mpany's

stable me.

carried out to the expectation of the Leeds Directors.
it is to be wished—for the sake of the public, who ha

right to require, in the formation of this cunctio'n—tiaZitb;
not made for mere selfish purposes, and have, at least, the,
appearance of its being what is ostensibly declared for the
accommodation of the public. But how can travellers by
the Birmingham and Manchester and Sheffield and Man-
chester lines reach the Liverpool Railway by the proposed
communication? It is surely not intended to invite them to
dangle themselves in mephetic air and darkness down a pit
seventy feet deep, and emerge from the other tunnel shaft
like a knot of colliers issuing out of their pandemonium ?
The public need not entertain any apprehension that they
will be deprived of a proper communication ; for parliament
can never sanction so absurd a project as a tunnel while the
desiderata for an union of all the railways present themselves
in the line to the Store-street Station.

I take it for granted, that the Liverpool and Manchester
Company will sleep upon their oars until they see the fate of
the bill for the tunnel project, which must be defeated, and
will then gladly yield to the tide of public feeling for the
southern line, from which they have been so unwillingly
driven. Their late adhesion to the Hunts Bank junction
will, of course, prevent any open demonstrations from them
against that measure; but the Sheffield and Manchester
Company, whose interests are seriously involved in the
question, have only to exhibit the two proposed lines to par-
liament—and say, " look on this picture and on that"—" Hy-
perion to a Satyr"—to insure the defeat of the tunnel scheme,
which must instantly neutralise the plans of the Leeds
Directors and their party.
Since writing the preceding observations, which I had
intended to request the favour of being published in your
journal, some friend has sent me your publication of the 3d
instant, containing some stringent observations upon the
late—but I do not believe it will be the last—decision of the
Liverpool Board. The thanks of the public are due to you
for your talented advocacy of the southern junction, which
alone can give that convergence of lines which they have a
right to demand; and as a shareholder in the Sheffield and
Manchester Company, whose interests are also involved in
this question, I thank you, in the name \of its proprietary,
for your just and indignant reprehension, on several occa-
sions, of the unprovoked calumnies heaped upon it. Had
it been an undertaking from which the coalescing lines of
Birmingham and Leeds had nothing to fear, they, at least,
would not have disturbed it as they have done in its progress

to the euthanasia into which they have fruitlessly striven to
drive it. But the cause of their enmity to it constitutes its
value ; and the prospect of its becoming a participant in the
eastern traffic of one, and the southern traffic of the other,
is destined, I conclude, to perpetuate their hostility.
Assuredly no green-grocer or chandler's shopkeeper ever
exhibited more degrading and silly animosity at the audacity
of a competitor opening a neighbouring shop than has been
done by one of these companies, while the truth of the fact
is demonstrable that railways generate peculiar traffics of
their own which never materially interfere with those of
others.

Requesting the favour-lof your publishing these observa-
tions, I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

Sheffield, 6th May, 1812

ATTICUS

'We have readily given insertion to the communication of
our correspondent' " Atticus," not only because of the inte-
rest of the subject, upon which he writes, to our Liverpool
readers—(and in truth it is of far more interest than they

are at present aware of)—but because it is only just on the
one hand, that the claims of towns, seeking to be connected
by a railway communication with this port, should be heard ;
and, on the other, that those of our fellow townsmen whose
recent concession to dictation has, for the present, repu-
diated, in appearance at least, those claims, should be ena-
bled to judge of the opinions, held beyond the limits of their
own immediate locality, of the propriety and dignity of the
position into which they have submitted to be driven. With
respect to these we have already expressed ourselves freely ;
and in everything that we have advanced upon the subject
we are fully borne out by our intelligent correspondent.
To one passage of the letter of " Atticus" we would re-
spectfully entreat the serious consideration of the Liverpoo
board. Our correspondent, whilst predicting the certain
failure of any attempt to.carry out the projected tunnel from
Hunt's-bank to Store-street, as the junction of the Liverpool
line with the Sheffield and the Birmingham lines,—and how
such an absurd proposition can ever be attempted to be carried
out we are at a loss to conceive—suggests that the Liverpool
hoard should " sleep on their oars until they see the fate of the
bill for that project." Surely there is, at least, reason in the
adoption of such a course. If the Manchester and Leeds
Company have entrapped the Liverpool directors into the
adoption of their Hunt's Bank Junction, by the promise of
such an 'underground continuation to the foot of a shaft in
-street, from whence passengers and goods are to be
lifted in buckets or baskets, or projected by some " infernal

machine" to ti

evel of the Sheffield line, surely it is but

in the fora

m of a portion of

the scheme, to see whether the remainder, bad though it be,
is ever likely, or is even intended, to be proceeded with—
whether it is ever destined to be any other than a paper plan
—a merefighting line—conceived in the fertile imagination
of an engineer, for the purpose of bolstering up an imposture
upon the Liverpool board and upon the public. We, at least,
are satisfied not only that it never will be made, but that it
was never intended to be made! Let the Liverpool board
only examine facts and probabilities, and they will inevitably
arrive at the same conclusion.

We must return our thanks to " Atticus " for the flatter-
ing mention which he makes of our labours upon this junction
question. We have certainly "reprehended severely," and
with justice too, the unworthy course which the Leeds directors
have pursued and are still pursuing, against the undertak-
ing in which he is interested, (in common with the public,) and
against the board of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
The concession of the latter body to insult and insolence has
not convinced us that we are wrong ; and we see nothing as-
suredly in the present conduct of the Leeds and Manchester
gentlemen—we see nothing of that moderation in victory--
which is calculated to assureus that concession!has purchased
peace. But a fortnight ago, the same fire-eaters, who lately
threatened to eat up the Liverpool line by a northern project,
were about to swamp the Sheffield line (having succeeded in
depriving it of a junction with Liverpool) by a branch line ol
their own to Ashton (Y.), and surely men who could put forth
such an absurdity—who could thus show the true nature of
their raving opposition to any junction, in the advantages of
which their Sheffield opponent could participate, will not be
particularly,observant of any pledges which they may have
entered into to abandon that northern scheme, the fear of
which has driven so far from their propriety the directors of
the Liverpool line !

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BILLY, THE TERRIER OF THE TOWN-COUNCIL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—May I, through the medium of your columns, offer
a few hints to our worthy town-councillors, upon the impro-
priety of having admitted the canine species into the town-
council. But having done so, I would Numb y advise them,
whenever they find a tiresome, cross-grained cur snapping at
their heels, to act as the brave bruen did with the mastiff.
Take him by the neck and give him a toss over, and let him
go yelping to his kennel. By-the-bye, it may be as well for
the friends of the animal in question to chain him up. Let
them remember, that, as the hot weather is coming on, our
worthy magistrates may issue orders that all mad dogs should
be shot. Perhaps you will be prepared to say, let things take
their course—but no ; every dog has his day. and we would
rather see this worrier die a natural death. The animal has
been so snappish lately at an honest policeman, that one has
a notion that he feels an instinctive horror at the truncheon,
and has already ringing in his ears the frightful cry of mad
dog. At all events the creature should be muzzled.
Your obedient servant,
PINCHER.

On Friday a young woman jumped from the Greenwich
steamer into the Thames, and was rescued with the greatest
difficulty.

Lord Claude Hamilton, brother to the present Marquis of
Abercorn, is understood to be the successful suitor for the
hand of Miss Burdett Coutts
" Trade is New bad

d Stoltz, the fashionable tailor ;

"I do n't make near so many coats as formerly." " How.
can you expect it," was the reply, " when there are so many
turned coats among your customers in the Lords and Com-

GERA, APRIL 26.—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince
of Hanover is betrothed to the Princess Mary. eldest daugh-
ter of the Duke of Saxe Altenburg. His. serene highness
himself announced the news to the members of the Assembly
of the Estates, who were mustered yesterday to keep the
25th anniversary of his highness's marriage.
COPENHAGEN, April 29.—8 y a royal precept to the Bishop
of Sealand, the Rev. Mr. Tryde is commissioned to confer
with Baptists (the brothers Minster) who have been arrested
and thrown into prison, and to ascertain the doctrines of this
sect, with a view to find whether it may be proper to grant
them the free exercise of their religious worship. It is to be
hoped that this measure will lead to the desired end.
Last Wednesday morning, between eight and nine, a fire,
attended with the destruction of near 20 houses, broke out
in High-street, Beaminster, Dorset.
A terrific storm of thunder broke over the villages of Ban-
well, Worle, Wrington, and places adjacent ou Monday. A
man and two horses engaged in ploughing a short distance
from Banwell, were struck by the electric fluid and instan-
taneously killed.—Sherburne Journal.

From a return of the number of accidents of a public na-
ture on railways, it appears that they are considerably dimi-
nishing. In the last five months of the year 1840, 28 acci-
dents, 22 deaths, and 131 cases of injury took place, while the
twelve months of 1841 give only 29 accidents, 24 deaths, and
71 cases of injury. It is very satisfactory to observe diat a
marked diminution has taken place in the class of accidents,
such as collisions, arising chiefly from mismanagement or
defective arrangements. A great proportion of accidents
which occurred in the end of 1840, and beginning of
1841, were of the same nature, no fewer than 17 acci-
dents having occurred in eight months from August,
1840, to April, 1811, from the single cause of collisions
by trains or engines overtaking others travelling on the
same line. During the nine months from April, 1811,
to January, 1842, only five collisions of this nature occur•
red, and those, with one exception, unattended with fatalns
consequences. This diminution in the number of collisions
appears too great to be the result of accidant, and fairly
be attributed in a considerable degree to the more
ecadoption of the precautions suggested by the Ins,p
viz.,
maYgeneral
the
neral, and recommended by this departmeenat
erection of proper fixed signals at stationns,...thz_ad9zl:
t the tion of a
en-
better description of tail-lamps and hal; ign
t part of servants,
forcemeat of more attention to signals o
for all trains, in-
and the adoption of proper time-tables
eluding luggage trains, with a view to preserving regularity
between successive trains.
in the traffic, and proper intervals