The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

On Saturday last, a darkish cabriolet, containing a mili-
tary-looking gentleman, luxuriating in all the hirsute glory
of imperial, moustache, and " hyacinthine locks of ebon hue,"
was observed making the circuit of Berkeley-square for up-
wards of three quarters of an hour. The attention of several
persons was attracted to the " turn out," first, from the very
frequent protrusion of the " head piece" of the cab-(gentle-)
man, who was evidently on the look-out; and, secondly,
from the extraordinary diminutive appearance of the tiger
attached to the vehicle, who might, had he lived in days of
yore, safely have competed with that renowned dwarf, Jeffery
Hudson, for the honour of being served up in a pie at the
royal table. As time wore on, the military-looking gent.
began to evince evident symptoms of growing impatience.
He was observed frequently to consult his watch, and then,
leaning forward in the cab, gaze anxiously in the direction of
Brook. street. Suddenly the figure of a female, closely veiled,
appeared at the corner of the street.
The quick eye of the gallant cabman detected the " fair "
in an instant. A smart " flanker " awoke the spirited horse
into action, and in the twinkling of a love-glance the lady was
seated by the side of the imperialled driver, and the vehicle
dashed off at a rapid pace towards Oxford-street. The
cabriolet had barely been put in motion, ere a remarkably
stout and pursy-looking individual rushed to the spot. He
gesticulated with an energy truly wonderful for a man of his
exceeding bulk, and in a voice resembling the groan of a
broken-winded bagpipe, he bawled out, " Stop, stop I" As
well might he have roared " Hold hard," to an engineer on
the Great Western, who with the steam up, had just started
for his terminus. The driver of the cabriolet heeded not the
foot-board behind the vehicle, swung
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fyoooutg imp, of juvenile delinquency,
himself round on the heel of his top-boot, and actually tele-
graphed the " roarer " with his five digits, after the most
approved style of the " fancy when sportively inclined.
The pursy-looking individual, finding that his request was
not attended to, waxed exceedingly wroth and eccentric. He
flung his hat violently on the pavement, and commenced a
sort of pas seul on the beaver of an extraordinary and novel
description, to the infinite delight of an admiring crowd, who
began to collect around him. The reiterated shouts of
laughter from the byestanders at last, however, somewhat
restrained the exuberance of his feelings. He gathered up
the compressed beaver, buttoned up his surtout with the air
of a desperate man, and forthwith departed from the scene of
his serio-comic exhibition. It has since been ascertained
that the military-looking driver of the cabriolet is a bona fide
son of M.-,rs, being no less a personage than Lieut. G—s,
of the twenty--, and the fair partner of his flight is the
only daughter of an opulent wool..merchant, residing in the
vicinity of the, square. The fair fugitive, who is nineteen
years of age, will, on attaining her twenty-first year, become
entitled to a fortune of £35,000. No intelligence has been
obtained of the course taken by the runaways.—Era.

THE GARDEN.—You must not find fault with my forma-
lity in gardening. I love, to my very heart, the old English
taste in horticulture—its neat square shrubberies; its wide
gravel walks crossing eaeh other at right angles; its numer.
ous parterres, each of which is devoted to one kind of flower ;
its clipt hedges, its well-shaven lawn, its primitive time-
keeper (the sun-dial), its statues, and the sparkling gush of
its fountains. A garden is essentially a thing of art, and
should look artful. Is not every plant in its present exube-
rant beauty, the result of man's handicraft and daily-renewed
culture? Why, then, should we, according to modern ca-
price. strive to give our gardens the appearance of the irre-
gularity of untamed nature, and place our delicate, and (so
to speak) highly-educated floral children in mimic wilder-
nesses ? Such a style is discordant in itself ; and, moreover,
is not in keeping with the sentiment of home, from which a
garden is inseparable.—Charles Oliver in Ainstvorth'a Ma-
gazine for October.
A curious scene occurred before the Tribunal Correctional
Police on Saturday. A man, named Claude Giniez. sixty-
five years of age, was charged with vagabondage. On being
asked by tit president whether he had no relations who
would undertake to provide for him, and thus prevent his
condemnation, he replied, " Relations ! don't talk to me of
relations ! I had, when young, a cousin, who was a cabinet-
maker, and who, instead of teaching me his trade, taught me
to drink. 1 had another cousin, who was a soldier, and who,
soon after my marriage, ran away with my wife and all my
savings." The poor fellow was found guilty of the offence
charged, and sentenced to twenty-four hours' imprisonment,
at the expiration of that time to be transferred to the asylum
for the destitute at St. Denis. As 'he was leaving the bar,
grateful for a sentence which provides him with food and
shelter for the rest of his life, the name of Catherine Gaillard
was called, and an old woman, in rags, was brought up on a
similar charge. The eyes of Claude were instantly rivetted
on her, whom he thus addressed :—" Failes excuse, madame,
but are you the person called Catherine Gaillard ?" The
woman having replied in the affirmative, Claude exclaimed,
`• It is my wife, who left me thirty-five years ago." The
following conversation then took place between the old
couple :—" What !" said the husband, " can it be you, once
fresh as an apple, and with hair as black as jet ?" " And
are you, old vagabond, my husband ?" " Yes ; your hus-
band, whom you left to follow my cousin." " A heartless
wretch," replied the wife," who beat me dreadfully, and
robbed me of all I had." " And what became of the gridin ?"
"He died on the field of honour." " After robbing me of
mine." The president of the tribunal here interrupted the
colloquy, and passed the same sentence upon the wife as upon
the husband, who will thus pass the remainder of their days
under the same roof, and under the same circumstances, after
a separation of thirty-five years.

STEAM NAVIGATION ON THE RRINE.—We find the fol-
lowing interesting account of the progressive increase of the
steam navigation of the Rhine in the Monileur :—" In 1816
was started the first steam-boat on the Rhine, running be-
tween Rotterdam and Cologne. After a lapse of 23 years,
there were 39 of these conveyances between Basle and the
sea, and this number is annually increasing. The companies
rival each other in zeal and attention. The two Prusso-
Rhenish establishments, however, have made the most rapid
progress in improvement. The Cologne company commen-
ced on Ist May, 1827, with one boat only, between Cologne
and Mentz : on the Bth June following it had two. and in
1837 it possessed mine, viz., one of 118-horse power, one of
85, two of 80, one of 75, three of 70, and one of 50-horse
power. In the same year this company had three departures
from, and as many arrivals at, Cologne, and a regular com-
munication witla Strasburg. In the following year the num-
ber of hnritc wsic inerPaceti to 11 : in 1839. to 14 ; in 1840. to
15; and, in 1841, to 20, passing between Cologne and Stras-
burg. In 1838, the Cologne company made an association
with that running boats between Basle and Strasburg, which
had two of 30-horse power each. From this period the pas-
sage between Basle and Cologne has been made in 40 hours,
29 of which only are spent on board the boats. Shortly af-
terwards another company launched two boats, which per-
formed the same distance in much less time. The second
Prusso-Rhenish company, which had been formed by capita-
lists of Mentz and Dusseldorf, commenced running in 1838,
with five magnificent boats. Once a week one of these goes
down to Rotterdam. In 1838 they conveyed no more than
84.000 passengers, and 60,000 metrical quintals of merchan-
dise ; which, in 1840, increased to 152,000 passengers, and
90,000 quintals of merchandise. This was nothing to what
was done by the Cologne company; for whereas, in 1827, its
transports amounted Co 18,000 passengers, and 26,000 quin-
tals of goods, in 1833 it had. 100,000 passengers, and 106.000
quintals on freight ; and in 1840 the number of passengers
exceeded 460,000, and the goods on freight 130,000 quintals;
and in 1841 these figures increased to 680,000 passengers,
and 300,000 quintals. The company which has just been
formed at Basle, and which has made a connection with the
steamM ent z
navigationa n d Dusseldorf
on
thecompany,u p p e
r Rhine. The Netherlands will give a fresh impulse to
company (Maatschappy), established at Rotterdam, has tra-
versed between that city and Cologne ever since 1837, with
11 boats, of from 50 Co 120-horse power. They run daily ;
but one boat a-week is exclusively employed in conveying
merchandise. The navigation of the Rhine is carried on to
London by boats from Rotterdam, and they make this pas-
sagegreat with
number sucho
regularity
passengers
large laquantities of that they insure a
merchan-
dise on freight."

PRICES OF SHARES, OCTOBER 24.
Prices within the last seven days. This days
RAILWAY'S, &c. Per Share. Prices
Bolton and Preston
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter
Birmingham and Derby lOO .. 0 0 0 ....
Bristol and Exeter 7O .... 0 0 0 ....
Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto half
Ditto, new, issued at £33 dis .... 00 0 ....
Dublin and Drogheda
Eastern Counties
Ditto new Shares .. 86 8 10 2 6 ....
Ditto, Debentures
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto new shares 5 .... 4 13 9 .... 4 17 6
Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 20 paid 0 o 0 ....
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 25 paid 0 0 0 ....
Half Shares...
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar }
50 paid 0 0 0 ....
Greenock, and Ayr
Grand Junction
Ditto half shares 5O .... 87 0 0 .... 87 0 0
Quarter 25 42 IS 6 ....
New ditto. 7 10.. 24 15 0 ....
Great Western 6s' 0 0 0 ....
Ditto new shares 5O .... 61 0 0 ....
Ditto Fifth Shares 4 .... 0 0 0 ....
Great Nortil of England lOO .. 0 0 0
...
Hull and Sol' y
Lancaster an,l Preston .. :
Ditio Junction, new
Leicester :Ind •;wannington 5O .... 0 0 0 ....
Leeds and L'isy
Liverpool an : Manchester ... • 100 •• .. 0 0 0 ....
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto half shares
London and Birmingham 9O ... • 182 10 0 ....
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto old shares
Ditto new
London & Urighton
Ditto new
London anti South Western
Ditto, loth shares
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
Manchester and Birmingham 4O •• .. 0 0 0 ...•
Ditto and Ditto Extension
Manchester and Leeds 7O .... 0 0 0 ... •
Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter shales ...
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter . 5 .... 15 5 0 •• • •
Noi ill Midland
New North Midland 4O .... 29 5 0.• • •
One-third Shares
North Union
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 0 o 0 ...
Ditto quarter shares
Ulster 25 0 0 0 ....
Paris and Rouen 2O .... 0 0 0 •• • •
South Eastern and Dover 5O 0 0 0 .• • •
New shares
York and North Midland 5O paid 0 0 0 ....
Half Shares l5 .... 0 0 0 ....

BANKS.
Bank of Liverpool
- Borough Bank lO .... 14 0 0 ....
- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 00 0 ....
- Commercial of England. 5 ... • 00 0 ....
- East of England lO .... 00 0 ....
- of Manchester lO .... 0 0 0 ....
- M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 000 .. .
- Northern and Central
- North and South Wales.. 10 .... 0 0 0 ....
- Royal of Liverpool 500 ~ .. 00 0 ....
- South Lancashire
- Albion
- Liverpool Union lO .... 00 0 ....
- Liverpool Banking Co lO .... 00 0 ...
- Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. 0 0 0 ....

GAS, WATER WORKS, &c.
exchange Buildings £loo paid 0 0 0 ....
L'pool and Harrington Water )
Stock .. 0 0 0 . ..
Works 1
.3ootle Ditto Stick.... 000 • • .
L'poo Gas Light Company,
(Original Stock) 100 .• • • 000• • ..
Ditto new Shares
:pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .. • • 00 0 ....
Ditto new shares are now paid up.

ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
-
VPcbester Assurance Company. 10 .. • • 0 0 0 ...
f.iverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 0 0 0.• ..
)cean Assurance
..iverpool Marine Assurance }lO paid 0 0 0 ....
Company

DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES,,, &"
";:'
tnderton Carrying Company .. 16 ss•
•
.
'ock Ferry
.... 5
10 0 ~.. 510 0
0 0 0 ....
Steam Tug Company lO . •
larrington Docks 100 .• ••0"00 60 10 0
...
kpothecarics' Company
Asphalte (Liverpool)
0 0 0 ....
- (Polonceau)

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