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

MONEY MAIMET

SATunDAY EVERINo.—The reduction 01 the eate of In,
terest on Exebequer-bills from 24d. to 2d„ which is now
officially announced, has been generally commended as a
proof of the acuteness and attention to business of the pre,
sent administration, who have lost no time in remedying the
blunder committed by the last. It will be remembered that
when the advance of 14d. to 24d. was made by the whigs, it
was the general opinion that 4d. was needlessly thrown away,
and that a rise to 2d. would have been quite sufficient, with
proper management, to keep the bills in circulation. By again
taxing off the 4d. the present ministers have brought Exche-
quer-bills to their proper value, and done away with the ano-
maly of keeping up tha unfunded at a higher rate than the
funded debt, which' should always bear higher interest, as
the capital is liable to fluctuation. The time also at which
the operation is effected is no less commended than the
principle of the measure, as Exchequer-bills are at such a
high premium that there is not the slightest chance of the
announcement of reduction being followed by a demand
for payment. Some, indeed, have expressed an apprehen-
sion lest the reduction of the interest on English unfunded
securities should give a new impulse to investment in fo-
reign stocks ; but so decidedly unpopular have such stocks
become, and so many severe lessons of experience have
been learned by those who dealt in them, that the appre-
hension does not seem to be well founded, and the com-
mon opinion is, that the only tendency of the reduction
will be to drive people to invest in the English funded
securities. As a practical illustration of the disinclination
to have anything to do with foreign bonds, it may be men-
tioned, that while Consols since February have advanced
about three per cent., Dutch stock has advanced only one,
although it is by far the most secure stock of those that
commonly dealt in. It was remarked yesterday that the
operation had been pretty generally anticipated ; and this
accounts for the comparatively small decline that has ta-
ken place in the value of Exchequer-bills. Indeed the
June bills have for some time commanded a lower price
than the March bills, in consequence of such anticipation.
The public funds have been very quiet all day, and quota-
tions closed firm : Consols for money, 921 to 1; ditto Ac-
count, 921 ; Exchequer Bills, 37 to 39 premium ; Bank
Stock, 167 to 168 ; India Stock, 249 to 250 ; 3 per Cent. Re-
duced, 911 to 4 ; 34 per Cent. Reduced, 994 to 100 ; New 34
per Cents., 1004 to 101 ; Long Annuities, 12 9-16 ; and
India Bonds, 21s. premium.
Chili stock rose to-day to 85 buyers, the committee of bond-
holders being summoned for Monday to receive proposals
from M. Rosales for the arrangement of the arrears of divi-
dends. This has taken the speculators quite by surprise, the
last letters for Chili having given no hopes of a speedy set-
tlement of this affair, although the agent employed had been
in close negotiation with ehe government. It is therefore
feared, that although M. Rosales may have a proposition to
submit, it will be to the effect of allowing an increased con-
cession, though the bondholders have already determined
the length they will go. Other stocks also slightly im-
proved ; Spanish closing at 224 to 23 for the Actives, and 224
to 23 for the New ; Dutch 24 per Cents left off at 524 to 53;
ditto 5 per Cents., 101 to 4 ; Danish, 801 to 84 ; Colom-
bian, 264 to 274 ; Brazilian, 671 to 681 ; Belgian, 102 to 103 ;
and Portuguese, 5 per Cent., 374 to 4.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

On Saturday, the 14th instant, Charles William Stocker,
D.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, late Fellow of St.
John's College, was instituted by the Commissary of the
Bishop of Lichfield to the Rectory of Draycott-le-Moors,
in the county of Stafford, on the presentation of the Chan-
cellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford.

On Wednesday last, John Freeborn, son of Mr. Freeborn,
surgeon, of this city, was elected Bible Clerk of Worcester
College. There were seven candidates.
The Rev. D. Melville, of Brasenose College, who was no-
minated as a Master of the Schools on Wednesday last, has
been appointed one of the Tutors of Durham University.

The Rev. Thomas Rea Medwin, M.A. formerly of iVor-
cester College, has been presented to the Curacy of Christ
Church,'Blackfriars, London. _ _ _

The Rev. Mr. Tomlinson, one of the Secretaries of the
Christian Knowledge Society, has been appointed Bishop of
Gibraltar.

Rev. George Greaves, M.A., of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, to the Incumbency of Christ Church, Herne
Bay. _

Rev. Robert Shittler, M.A., Curate of Melcombe Horsey,
to the Vicarage of Alton Pancras, Dorset, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Henry Masterman ; patrons, the Dean and
Chapter of Sarum.

Rev. William Holmes, to the Rectory of Theverton, in
exchange for the Rectory of West Newton, both in Norfolk.
Rev. Richard Rigg, M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge,
to the Rectory of St. Clement's, Norwich ; patrons, the
Master and Fellows of Caius College.
Rev. W. W. Harvey, M.A. of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge, Rector of Truro, to be Domestic Chaplain to the
Earl of Falmouth.

Rev. Matthew Wilson, Curate of Edenfield, to the Per-
petual Curacy of Barrowford, Lancashire ; patron, the Rev.
R. N. Whitaker, Vicar of Whalley.
Rev. E. A. Webber, Rector of Runnington, Somerset, to
the Rectory of Bathealton ; patroness, Mrs. E. Webber.
Rev. John Webber, to the Perpetual Curacy of Thorne
St. Margaret, Somerset, vacant by the death of the Rev. E.
Webber; patron, the Archdeacon of Taunton. He has also
been licensed to the Chaplaincy of the Wellington Union.

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

• Birming & Derby

I Passen- Passen. Cor.i wk.:Per mile
1 gers. per day.' Money. 'last year per wk.

Birroing.& Gloster
BrandlingJunction
Chester & Birken. 5088
Dundee'lkArbroath 4092
Edinb. & Glasgow 11849
Eastern Counties.. 16938
Glasgow and Ayr . 11851
Glasgow & Paisley 11467
Grand Junction ..

G. Nth,of Englandi

Great Western

Havle

335371

Hull and Selby

£1195 £- 25
1554 1401 284
898 - 36
531 435 36
229 - 13
2014 - 43
1027 841 58i
1018 - 25-4
838
8530
1284
13988
227
8-18
465
4-180
17101
1296
2771
123
542
2352
6809
529
547
4707
2626
1736
384

1693
2420
1975
1911

726 374-
8222 64
1192 281
-82 i
- 12

Lan. and Preston

610 1 27i

L'pool & Manchesi

Lon. and Binning.
Lon.and Blackwall 67384
Lon. and Brighton 5795
Ditto Shoreham .. 2599
London & Croydon 9828
Lon. & Greenwich 85527
Southwestern ..

371
1404
12212

Man. Bolt. & Bury
Man. & Binning.
Man. and Leeds..
Midland Counties. 10121 i
Newcas. & Carlisle
New. &N. Shields 12897
North & Eastern . 90911
North Midland ..
North Union . 33-16
Preston and Wyre 11941
Sheffield & Man... 7830
Ulster .
York&N. Midland 77254

471 22i.
4551 1441
16526 1311
-345 -
- 551
- 221

1353
4197
978
176
280
419
1556

-51 i
- 6274
5500 734-
585 53

478
171
1118
1414
1104

327 21
3290 921
2664 451

THE MURDERER GOOD.-DIVINE

- 45
3569 57*/
1015 431

190 lii
1292 55i

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 ladysliip'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 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
be 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-
dered necessary to give him a glass of cold water, by which
mu death ~
he was, or seemed to be, relieved.
The ordinary took his text from the General Epistle of
chap. 1, verse `s Then, when lust hath conceived
f lingeth forth sin • and n, when it is finished, bringeth
was so soon toe
self—fte With .a
great deal of power he addressed him-
of inthatirnmany general observations upon the consequences
in this world for convict was 1-`e Passion to which it was acknowledged the
victed as that bslave—to the miserable wretch himself, who
to make an avowal orfer
separated from kindred and acquaintances
his power to offer, fohi3
murezeer. He called upon the murderer, =-
had been upon the clearest testimony,
guilt, as the only reparation now in
head, and the upward IZ.
country and of hurnarn.the transgression of the laws of his
n e
Good repeated the shake of the
being thus Solemnly invitet
order, no doubt. to impress f the hands and eyes, upon
0 make a salutary confession, in
defence was founded in truth .fion the congregation that his
eluded, he raised up his hands when the service was con-
cluded,
conduee more and
back to his
room.
and said, " Oh,
God bless you all. He was
He did not appear in the prison dress, his wish
to attend
chapel in his own clothes having been complied with.

Why is a man troubled with epileptic attache, like a
ing pair of boots ? D'ye give it up ? Because h ,
s in a
Pinch-
tight fit. e
It is said that the Archimedean screw has been successfully
applied to the ventilation of buildings, ships, mines, the
cur.
ing of sm ok y chitnneYs7 and other purposes.