Dec. 21,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



James Lawrence, Esq., presided, supported by about 

 400 gentlemen, including the borough members, ai 

 nearly all the leading merchants, brokers, and gentlemen 

 connected with the trade of Liwrpool. Sir H. Pottinger 

 in acknowledging the toast of his health was loudly 

 cheered. He dwelt at some length on the terms of the 

 Chinese treaty, and expressed his belief that, if treated 

 kindly by England and all other nations that may resort 

 there, in due time, with God's blessing, the Chinese will 

 enter as widely as any other nation into all our social 



, feelings, and into that intercourse which is so desirable 

 between man and man. Lord Stanley acknowledged the 

 toast of Her Majesty's Ministers, and spoke in the 

 warmest terms of praise of Sir H. Pottinger's services. 

 His Lordship said, in reference to the common opinion 

 of the Chinese character, " I believe, so far as our later 

 experience has gone, that there is no nation which more 

 highly values public faith in others ; and up to the pre- 

 sent moment I am bound to say that there never was a 

 government or a nation which more strictly and con- 

 scientiously auhered to the literal fulfilment of the en- 

 gagements into which it has entered. I believe it is 

 easy, in the present state of public feeling, to raise 

 jealousies, and to foster anew animosities which are 

 beginning to subside — that an over-anxiousness for suc- 

 cess, and an improvident pressing for advantages, may 

 lead to such a conclusion ; but I believe, also, and I 

 entertain a confident expectation of it, and I pray that 

 such may be the result, whether under this or succeeding 

 Administrations, for many a long year, that the trade 

 with China, which is now commencing, and in its vigorous 

 infancy, may, if prudently conducted, be made the 

 foundation, not of inordinate speculation and immense 

 gains, followed by corresponding and ruinous losses, but 

 be made the means of extending the blessings of civilisa- 

 tion, of science, of knowledge, of religion — and, along 

 with them all, but only by a prudent course of not shock- 

 ing the prejudices of those with whom we are brought 

 into contact — it may lay the foundations of a great, a per- 

 manent, and a rapid augmentation of British commerce." 

 Man Chester. —On Tuesday, a meeting of the manu- 

 facturers, spinners, and other inhabitants of this town, 

 was held for the purpose of memorialising the Lords of 

 the Treasury for the remission of the import duty on raw 

 cotton. The meeting was convened by the Mayor, in 

 pursuance of a requisition signed by upwards of 130 of 

 the leading manufacturers in the town and neighbour- 

 hood. The meeting was presided over by the Mayor, 

 and was addressed by Mr. Greg, Mr. Gardner, Alderman 

 Hopkins, and other gentlemen, all of whom expressed but 



. one opinion as to the impolicy of the duty. A memorial 

 to the Treasury on the subject was unanimously adopted, 

 *nd a deputation appointed to present it. 



Oxford.— The Vice-ChanceUor of this University has 

 issued a notice in reference to the case of the Rev. Mr. 

 Ward, of Bailiol College, whose work entitled " The Ideal 

 of a Christian Church considered, has recently caused 

 bo much excitement. The Vice-Chancellor quotes several 

 passages from the work, in which Mr. Ward says, among 

 other things, that "he knows no single movement in the 

 Church, except Arianism in the fourth century, which 

 seems to him so wholly destitute of al! claims on our 

 sympathy and regard as the English Reformation," that 

 he believes if " we were as a Church to pursue such a line 

 of condnct as has been sketched in his book, in propor- 

 tion as we did so, we should be taught from above to 

 discern and appreciate the plain marks of Divine wisdom 

 and authority in the Roman Church, to repent in sorrow 

 and bitterness of heart our great sin in deserting her 

 •communion, and to sue humbly at her feet for pardon 

 and restoration |»W« that as well could a student in the 

 heathen schools have imbibed at once the Stoic and the 

 Epicurean philosophies, as could a humble member of 

 our Church at the present time learn his creed both from 

 Prayer-book and Articles -/'-that he » distinctly charges 

 the Reformers with fully tolerating the absence from the 

 Articles of any real anti-Roman determination, so only 

 they were allowed to preserve an apparent one •/'-that he 

 rejoice, to -find the whole cycle of Roman doctrine 



f^K ''^ SSeS3,ngDUmbersof En S lish Churchmen;" 

 and that three years have passed since he said plainly, 



RoLnY" BCnb ™V^- Artides ' he enounced no one 

 Romandoctnne. ' The Vice-Chancellor after quoting these 



S. tlT ! £ W 8 - a l teS ' that the y a PPear to be incon- 

 tinent with the Articles of the Church and with Mr. 



Ward s good faith in subscribing his declaration to those 

 Articles on taking his degrees ; and consequently that in 

 a convocation to be holden on the 13th Feb., a proposi- 

 tion to this effect will be submitted to the House, Mr. 

 n> ard having at the same time an opportunity given him 

 of answering to the charge of having published such pas- 

 sages. If this proposition be affirmed the following 

 proposition will be submitted to the House:-" That 

 the said Wilham George Ward has disentitled himself 



2 Ji! . ng , t8 ; nd P r ! vile ° es couve y ed by the said 

 ^degrees, and is hereby degraded from Ihe said degrees of 



"pt^r^i reS P ectWel y-" ^fore the question 



Placetne, &c, is put, the Vice-Chancellor will give 



Mr. U ard an opportunity of stating any grounds he may 



have for showing that he should not be degraded. Mr. 



Ward has since published a letter stating that as he is 



now aware of the course intended to be pursued, he is 



ready at once to join issue solely on the merits of the 



•case. He avows himself to be the author of the work 



in question, and expresses his intention of defending 



himself before those who are to be his judges. He also 



announces in a letter to .Members of Convocation, that 



tie is preparing actively a pamphlet in his defence, and 



that various arguments against the proposed measure 



will doubtless be submitted to their notice by others 



J who differ, perhaps even fundamentally from himself in 

 theological principles. * 4 Under these circumstances," he 

 says, " I claim at your hands, as a matter of the plainest 

 and most imperative justice, not to promise your vote, or 

 from any definite judgment until you shall have had an op- 

 portunity of carefully weighing what may be said against 

 the measure," 



Portsmouth. — A warm controversy is going on in the 

 daily papers as to the merits of the ships-of-war con- 

 structed by the Surveyor of the Navy, one party con- 

 tending that the recent experimental cruises show the 

 Surveyor's system to be a complete failure, while others 

 defend it as having produced the finest ships in the 

 service. It is difficult to decide on such contradictory 

 statements ; and until some official information be pub- 

 lished, all the accounts are probably to be received with 

 considerable caution. The Hampshire Telegraph states 

 that the Surveyor's new ships, the Queen, 110, Captain 

 Martin, at Sheerness, and the Albion, 90, Capt. Lock- 

 yer, on her way from Lisbon to Plymouth, are ordered 

 to be put out of commission ; the officers and crew of 

 the former to be turned over to the Trafalgar, 120, built 

 by Mr. Lang ; and the officers and crew of the Albion, 

 to the Superb, 80, for which purpose the latter has been 

 commissioned this week at Plymouth. The Queen is 

 to have a piece added to her stern-post, thick at the 

 head, tapering to nothing ; a considerable addition 

 made to her gripe, her foremast shifted three feet 

 aft, and her centre magazine altered to the old fashion 

 of one forward and one aft, which will throw a stow- 

 age of 60 additional tons of water into the centre of 

 her hold. It also states that directions have been 

 given from the Admiralty that the Prince of Wales, 

 Windsor Castle, and Royal Sovereign, 110 guns each, 

 and Exmouth and Algiers, 90 guns each, all designed by 

 the Surveyor, and constructing, or ordered to be con- 

 structed, at the different dock-yards, are not to be further 

 proceeded with, and that the Surveyor's Collingwood, 80, 

 which, as far as Madeira in her present voyage, carried 

 royals the whole way, rolled so much that gunnery ex- 

 ercise was a difficult operation. Commander Matson, of 

 the Daring, has written a letter to Mr. White, the ship- 

 builder, of Cowes, giving a clear and comprehensive state- 

 ment of the circumstances under which the sailings took 

 place, from the 26th November to the return of the 

 squadron to port, and throwing more light upon the trial 

 sailings of the experimental squadron of brigs than any 

 other document hitherto placed before the public. Cap- 

 tain Matson states that the Daring is superior to the 

 other vessels of the squadron in almost every point of 

 sailing, having gained, in the words of the letter, after a 

 trial of six hours and a quarter, on the 28th November, 

 on the Waterwitch, 1500 yards ; on the Espiegle, 4000 

 yards ; on the Flying Fish, 7500 yards ; and on the 

 Pantaloon, five miles. 



Sunderland. — The Lords of the Treasury have 

 granted 750/., part of the Parliamentary grant for public 

 walks, &c, to the corporation of this town in aid of a 

 plan for providing a place of recreation for the inhabit- 

 ants, the only condition of the grant being, that the 

 ground when purchased, shall be legally and permanently 

 secured as a place of recreation for the people. It is in- 

 tended to purchase and lay out Building-hill. The 

 estimated cost is about 3000/., the remainder of which 

 will be raised by public subscription. The Town Council 

 have resolved to apply to Parliament in 1 846 for powers 

 to enable them to light the town with gas. This is 

 already done by a company, but the corporation expect 

 to be able to do bo at a cheaper rate, and at the same 

 time to realise as much profit as will relieve them from 

 the necessity of levying a borough-rate. 



Windsor. — On Monday evening, after the Queen had 

 retired from the dining-room, a message was sent from 

 the Castle to the lessee of the Windsor Theatre, com- 

 manding the attendance of the three German dwarfs, who 

 were engaged to perform at the theatre in the evening 

 and during the present week. This Lilliputian family, 

 Henrick Brockstead, aged 22, who stands 3 feet high ; 

 Maria Brockstead, 18 years, 2 feet 8 ; and their brother 

 Christian, 13 years old, 2 feet 4 inches, and who weighs 

 16 lbs., immediately repaired to the Castle, attended by 

 their interpreter, Mr. Lewisson, and were ushered into 

 the presence of Her Majesty, who was much amused by 

 their waltzing and performances. The Distin family, 

 consisting of the father and four sons, who have ac- 

 quired notoriety on the Continent as Sax-horn players, 

 have also performed before Her Majesty at Windsor 

 Castle. — Preparations were made last week for sledge- 

 driving in the Home and Great Parks, in anticipation of 

 a heavy fall of snow. These plans, however, have been 

 frustrated by the thaw, but two beautifully-constructed 

 sledges remain at the Royal Mews for the use of Her 

 Majesty and the Prince, and the infant royal family, in 

 the event of another fall of snow. A set of sledge har- 

 ness for a pair of grey ponies, which have been broken 

 in with great care, has been manufactured ; it chiefly 

 consists of red Morocco leather, with silver-gilt orna- 

 ments, to which are appended upwards of two hundred 

 small bells. The whole of the trappings, which are ex- 

 ceedingly costly, have a magnificent effect. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the 

 past week : — Birmingham and Gloucester, 2116/. ; Bris- 

 tol and Gloucester, 973/. ; Eastern Counties, 3584/. ; 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1901/. ; Great Western, 

 13,035/. ; Grand Junction, 6842/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, 

 and Ayr, 1419/. ; Great North of England, 1521/.; Lon- 

 don and Birmingham, 13,203/.; South Western, 4986/. ; 

 Blackwall, 642/. ; Greenwich, 766/. ; Brighton, 3579/. ; 

 Croydon, 360/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 4467/. ; 

 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, 6199/. ; Midland, 



[1844. 



84 12/. ; Manchester and Birmingham,' 2854/. ; New 

 castle and Carlisle, 1573/. ; Newcastle and Dar- 

 lington, 1010/. ; Preston and Wyre, 316/. ; South-East- 

 ern and Dover, 3848/. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 631/ • 

 York and North Midland, with Leeds and Selby, 2054/ • 

 Yarmouth and Norwich, 174/.— -The mere enumeration 

 of the proposed Railways, in the Parliamentary Notices 

 of "New Railway Bills for England, Scotland, and Ire- 

 land," is of tremendous length — occupying 19 columns 

 of close print. The new railways (or extensions, devia- 

 tions, &c, of existing ones), for England alone amount 

 to no fewer than 195, those for Scotland to 7, and those 

 for Ireland 23— making a total of 235 Bills that are to 

 be introduced next session for new lines of railway 

 lengthening, diverging, or otherwise altering and im- 

 proving old lines, &c. The Eastern Counties Company 

 alone have given notices for seven Bills. There are also 

 a " Hungerford-bridge and Birmingham Junction" to 

 join at Willesden ; no fewer than nine lines having 

 a terminus at Manchester ; four from Newcastle 

 four from Oxford ; five from South Western extension 

 lines, &c. The capital proposed to be raised for these rail- 

 ways is enormous. Two of the Oxford lines alone would 

 cost, according even to present calculation, 4,000,000/. 

 The North Kent would cost 2,200,000/. ; the London 

 and York, 5,000,000/. ; the London and Chatham, and 

 North Kent, 1,500,000/. ; the Leeds and West Riding 

 Junction, 1,200,000/.; the Direct Northern to York, 

 4,000,000/. ; the Central Kentish, 2,250,000/.— An in- 

 quest was held at Nottingham last week on the body of 

 Mr. Bolestridge, whose death in consequence of the 

 recent accident on the Midland Counties Railway, was 

 noticed in our last. After several adjournments, the 

 jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Robert 

 Lightfoot and Jonathan Raven, the station-master at 

 Beeston, and the coroner immediately issued his warrant 

 for the apprehension of Raven. Before delivering the 

 verdict, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed 

 to by the jury: — 1. That the management upon the 

 Midland Railway is exceedingly defective, and that the 

 jury cannot too strongly express their disapprobation of 

 the manner in which the engineers, stokers, and guards 

 are selected, and not being considered a requisite qualifi- 

 cation that they should be able to read and write, and 

 that a presentment of these and other facts be made to 

 the Board of Trade, with the signatures of the foreman 

 and jury attached. — 2. That a memorial from the jury 

 be presented to the directors of the Company, in behalf 

 of the widow,of James Bolestridge. — 3. That a petition, 

 signed by the foreman and jury, be presented to Par- 

 liament immediately on its assembling, praying for an 

 alteration in the law, which prevents the relatives of per- 

 sons killed by culpable negligence from obtaining com- 

 pensation. The jury also recommend that a similar 

 petition be forwarded by the inhabitants of Nottingham. 

 — On Saturday the grand jury ignored the bill against 

 Mr. Lightfoot, who was immediately discharged. For 

 the particulars of the proceedings, we must refer to our 

 Law Report.— An inquest has been held on the body of 

 the engineer, and stoker, who were killed by the explo- 

 sion on the viaduct of the South Eastern Railway, 

 noticed in our last. The engineer was killed on the 

 spot, and the stoker died in Guy's Hospital on Friday. 

 The jury in both cases returned a verdict that the de- 

 ceased were killed by an accidental explosion of the 

 locomotive engine, owing to an excessive pressure of 

 steam on the boiler.— The amalgamation of the Grand 

 Junction with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 

 was determined by the meetings of the respective share- 

 holders held last week. The Grand Junction, it appears, 

 is to create new quarter-shares, to bring them in a position 

 with the other company as respects capital, after which the 

 shares of both companies are to form one consolidated stock, 

 the 100/. North Union shares to be included in the general 

 consolidation, at 64/. 7s. 6rf. From what was said at the 

 Grand Junction meeting, there is every reason to sup- 

 pose that the disputes between that company and the 

 Birmingham Board are in a fair way of being finally 

 settled.— The Liverpool and Manchester Company at 

 their meeting authorised the directors to apply to Par- 

 liament for authority to construct the following exten- 

 sion lines :— 1st. A new entrance into Liverpool, by 

 means of a tunnel from the main line, near W avertree 

 Lane, Edge Hill, to the Waterloo Dock, with a com- 

 modious station at the latter side. 2d. A new approacn 

 line, by means of a tunnel, or open cutting, from tne 

 Old Goods Station, Edge Hill, to the company s yard 

 in Crown-street, for the better accommodation of tne 

 coal trade. 3d. A line of railway from the immediate 

 vicinity of the new docks, now constructing at the norm 

 end of the town, passing near Walton, behind £ r . oxteta 

 and Knowsley, and through Simmonswood to Raintora, 

 there to be joined by a new line of railway from St. Helens 

 to Rainford, Bickerstaff, Latham, Ormskirk, and Rufforo, 

 at this latter place, connecting with a proposed railway 

 from Euxton, on the North Union line, to the popular 

 bathing place of Southport. 4th. A branch railway, 

 about 3 miles in length, from the main line at Paticrolt 

 to Clifton, on the Manchester and Bolton line ; there to 

 connect with the Manchester, Bury, and Rossenoaie 

 Railway. 5th. A branch from the main hoe near 

 Newton, to join the North Union Railway near ^rks.de, 

 by which a more easy and ra,pid communication between 

 the North Union line and the Liverpool and Manchester, 

 in the direction of Liverpool, will be effected. Also, i<« 

 authority to improve and extend the passenger station 

 in Lime-street, and the goods station in Cro«bie-etreet, 

 and Wipping, extending the latter to the Queen s Dock. 

 -The Lancaster and Carlisle Company have confirmea 

 the proposed agreement for leasing in perpetuity w 





