The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

(From the Railway Magazine of Saturday, May 21.)
The following calculation of the last weekly returns of 30
railways, 1301 miles in length, given in our present number,
will, we believe, be of interest :—Number of passengers on
24 railways, 335,011; consequently the total for the week
must be about 400,000. The receipts for passengers on 38
railways, £70,119 ss. Bd. ; ditto for goods on 31 railways,
£19,587 19s. 8d ; total, £89,707 ss. 4d. This is an average
of £641 per mile per week. The traffic, therefore,
is certainly at the rate of more than three millions a year, and
carrying fifteen millions of passengers.

NAME

Passen- Passen.
gers. per day.

,Cor. wk. Per mile
last year, per wk•

Birming. & Derby)
Birming. Gloster
Brandi-mg Junction -- --
Chester & Birken. 5083 727
Dundee'&Arbroath 4092 682
Edinb. & Glasgow 11849 1693
Eastern Counties.. 16938 2420
Glasgow and Ayr . 11851 1975
Glasgow & Paisley 11467 1911
Grand Junction
G. Nth.of England
Great Western
Hayle
Hull and Selby
Lan. and Preston . 2579
L'pool & Manches
Lon. and Birming.
Lon.and Black wall 67384
Lon. and Brighton 5795
Ditto Shoreham
London & Croydon 9828
Lon. & Greenwich 85527
Southwestern ..
Man. Bolt. & Bury
Man. & Binning.
Man. and Leeds —
Midland Counties lOl2l
Newcas. & Carlisle
New. &N. Shields 12897
North & Eastern . 9091
North Midland
North Union 3346
Preston and Wyre 11941
Sheffield & Man..• 7830
Ulster ..... 9898
York& N. Midland 7725

£1195 1

9626
828
371
1404
12212

478
171
1118
1414
1104

2014
1027
1018
838
8530

1284
13988
227
848
465
4480
17101
1296

2771
123
542
2352

6809
529
547

610
471
4551
16526

5500
585
327
3290
2664

13
43
5/4
25&
37+

THE MURDERER GOOD.-DIVINE SERVICE IN
THE GAOL OF NENVGATE.

On Sunday a great number of respectable persons of both
sexes were admitted by orders from the sheriff to the chapel
in Newgate, in which the Reverend Mr. Carver (the ordi-
nary) read Divine service, and preached a sermon adapted to
the awful condition of Daniel Good, who had been ordered
to he executed yesterday morning. Before half-past nine
o'clock, the common door of admission to the gaol was
blocked up by the multitude, and at ten o'clock all were ac-
commodated in the most satisfactory manner in the different
parts of the chapel allotted to visitors. At about that hour
the Lady Mayoress and some of her ladyship's friends en-
tered the governor's pew. The body of the chapel was fur-
nished with benches and chairs by the direction of the go-
vernor, so that, although the chapel was numerously at-
tended, every individual in it was provided with a seat.
Immediately before the service commenced, the general
mass of prisoners confined in Newgate entered and took their
seats within the railing on each side of the building, attended
by turnkeys, and then Good was led in by two of the officers
of the establishment, and placed in a chair in the midst of
the congregation by the governor. His appearance indicated
extreme mental suffering. He clasped his hands together
sometimes, and sometimes he raised them up, and pressed
them against his breast in great agony ; the tears streaming
from his eyes while he endeavoured to catch a glimpse of
some old acquaintance or friend amongst the surrounding
multitude. So strong was the expression of horror in his
face and demeanour, that a respectable female, who was
prompted by the curiosity which will induce, even persons of
the weakest nerves, to witness the "condemned sermon "
once in their lives, shrieked and fainted. The culprit looked
with evideat anxiety towards the spot from which the alarm
proceeded; but finding that a stranger was the cause of it, he
seemed to resume his own meditations, and to struggle with
feelings beyond the power of any human being to describe.
The service was interrupted for some minutes by this inci-
dent, and the ordinary did not proceed until the lady who
had ventured to try the experiment of abiding the presence
of so dreadful an offender was carried away from the scene.
The ordinary selected for the lessons of the day portions of
the Scripture closely adapted to the circumstances in which
the convict was placed, and to the particular crimes to which
he was, by his own acknowledgment, especially addicted.
The rev. gentleman read with the most impressive solemnity
the rebuke of Nathan to David, whose indignation was roused
by the story of a criminal, whose offence was as nothing
compared with that to which the King's conscience soon
afterwards pleaded guilty, and which manifested itself to him
in all its hideous deformity when the words, " Thou art the
man," were rung in his ears. The murderer seemed to at-
tend to some parts of the scriptural lessons; but it was quite
evident that he was wrapped up in the fear of death, and that
compunction had very little to do with the anguish he was
suffering. Whenever a passage occurred which contained an
allusion to the spilling of blood be shook his head, pressed
his hands together, and looked up, as if calling God to wit-
ness that, although be was a great offender, his hands were
unstained. During the first part of the service it was consi-
dered necessary to give him a glass of cold water, by which
ne was, or seemed to be, relieved. The
elf—after naztiity
ordinary took his text from the General Epistle of
James, eh
it hrinaetila. 1, verse 15—" Then, when lust hath conceived
forth cfcaiii.
convict forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
'With a great deal of power he addressed him-
was so soon to
of indulging
in this world for
general observations upon the consequences
was thee passion to which it was acknowledged the
iLave—to the miserable wretch himself, who
to make an avowal o
ever.
eperated from kindred and acquaintances
as that elerdeerr. He called upon the murderer, con-
victedhis power to offer, for
feiii"ihsad been upon the clearest testimony,
country and of humanity.ilt, as the only reparation now in
head, and the upward motion Good
the transnession of the laws of his
being thus solemnly invited °toll repeated the shake of the
of the hands and eyes, upon
upon
a salutary confession, in
order, no doubt, to impress IPeouttli the congregation that his
when the service that
its
and said, " Oh,
defence was founded in truth •
eluded, he raised up his hands onwe
Conducted back to his
God bless you all." He was the:
room.
He did not appear in the prison dress, his Wish to attend
dwith,
chapel in his own clothes having been complie

Why is a man troubled with epileptic a
. attacks, like •
ncti-
ing pair of boots ? Dye give it up ? Because he's in a
tight fit.
It is said that the Archimedean screw has becn successfully
applied to the ventilation of buildings, ships, mines, the cur-
ingY of smoky chimneys, and other purposes.

FOnsloN INTnLIGENCE,

FRANCE.
The Faris papers of Friday and Saturday haws bow ro.

ceived

The right of search forms still the only topic of importance
with these journals ; but it would require a much larger space
than we can afford to give in order to lay before our readers
an account of the prolonged and animated debate that took
place on Friday in the Chamber of Deputies, when, on dis-
cussing the Foreign-office estimates, the question of the right
of search was again brought forward. The speeches of MM.
Lefebvre, Lamartine, Mauguin, Berryer, Tocqueville, Dupin,
and Salvandy, were all in direct opposition to the ratification
of the treaty of 1841, and delivered in a manifest spirit of ill-
will and enmity to the present Foreign Minister, M. Guizot.
The able minister defended his conduct, as also the line of
policy followed by his predecessors on this question, on un-
deniable principles. With stern resolution, he said he wil-
lingly accepted the whole of the responsibility with which it
pleased others to load him with, although he had been a total
stranger to the treaties, negociations, and protocols that had
preceded, and naturally engendered the new treaty of 1841.
He maintained that the protocol signed in London by the
French ambassador on the 13th of December, 1838, (and
which, be it recollected, was only a natural consequence of the
correspondence and negotiations that had been caaried on
between the French and British Cabinets since 1836,) con-
stituted a moral engagement for France.