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 £64 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.

Passen

NAME

Passen. I
per day.l Money

ICor. wk.'yer mile
Mast year! per wk.

Birming. & Derby £1195 £— ' 25
Birming. & Gloster 1554 1401 28}
BrandlingJunetion 898 36
Chester & Birken. 5088 727 531 435 36
Dundee'&Arbroath 4092 682 229 —13 i
Edinb. & Glasgow 11849 1693 2014 431
Eastern Counties.. 16938 2420 1027 841 584
Glasgow and Ayr . 11851 1975 1018 25,1
Glasgow & Paisley 11467 1911 838 726 374
Grand Junction .. 8530 8222 64
G. Nth.of England 1284 1192 2£o
Great Western 4791 13988
Hayle....
Hull and Selby .. 4373
Lan. and Preston . 2579
L'pool & Manches
Lon. and Birming.
Lon.and Blackwell 67384
Lon. and Brighton 5795
Ditto Shoreham 2599
London & Croydon 9828
Lon. & Greenwich 85527
Southwestern —
Man. Bolt. & Bury
Man. & Birming.
Man. and Leeds
Midland Counties. 10121
Newcas. & Carlisle
New. & N. Shields 12897
North & Eastern . 90911
North Midland —
North Union .. 3346
Preston and Wyre 1194-1
Sheffield & Man ' 7830
Ulster
York& N. Midland 77251

I 33537

- 227
625 818
368 465
- 4480

610
471
4551
16526

- 17101
9626 1296
828 2771
371 123
1404 542
12212 2352
- 6809

529

_..„
- 547
- 4707
1446 2626
- 1736
1842 384
1299 1353
- 4197
478 978
171 176
1118 280
1414 419
1104 1556

5500
585
327
3290
2664

3454
55i
221

511
6274
73k

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

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 be 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

le weakest nerves, to witness the "condemned sermon "
once i❑ their lives, shrieked and fainted. The culprit looked
with evident 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 he shook his head, pressed
his hands together, and looked up, as if calling God to wit-
ness that, although he was a great offender, his hands were
unstained. During the first part of the service it was consi-
hdeerewdanecessary to give him a glass of cold water, by which
was, or to be, relieved.
forth death.
The
James, marV took his text from the General Epistle of
self—after
it bringeti chap.
connectlg tlh,:verse 15-4. Then, when lust bath conceived
,c;rth
cov was the slaasysie
sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
separated from kindred many a great deal of power he addressed him-
was so soon to be :era]. observations upon the consequences
in this world for e nto which it was acknowledged the
e—to the miserable wretch himself, who
victed as that murderer had
ever, Re and acquaintances
called upon the murderer, con-
his power to offer, for tifettlit
to make an avowal of his ,as the only reparation now in
bleen upon the clearest testimony,
country and of humanity. I.lon:gression of the laws of his
head, and the upward motion oii repeated the shake of the
hernen:trnhee service was con-
being thus solemnly invited to maktehe hands and eyes, upon
salutary confession, in
conducted :add sbaaicdk, 4t'oOhhis,
gr eg,av,tiisohntc„ thatatt attend
order, no doubt, to impress upon th
defence was founded in truth ; and w
e l
Godudebte
bless
se y
or raised saeldl .
,u, up hisH He
awnadss
then on
room.
He did not appear in the prison dress, his
own clothes having been complied •
chapel with.
in his

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