The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-08 00:00:00

lAILY TIMES.

•
'1!-431 OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, FRIDAY.
news which arrived of Turkey having de-
o,. War against Russia, is still the general topic
e_Onversation.
uliit_ll..owning-street
It still disconcerts the calmness
, and discoMposes the equa-
,,LnitY of Capel court ; although in both those
seek there are not wanting influences which
.I,n lower, or explain away its importance.
or ",e last of the special pleas whereby the indolence
an'ncapacity of the Ministry aims at reducing its
4,.arent gravity, is that put forth by last night's
Go_ue• "It is not," says the very organ of the
hourt:oefrntnibeent. " the news of a declaration of war
apparently Unanimous resolution of the,
tot Grand
CottnCil against the signature of. the Vienna,
L_C;,,and in favour of insisting on mutual .guaran-
p—ie; tor the integrity and maintenance of the Em-
-I,c, by the Russian evacuation of the Danubian
There is not a syllable in the
int-oluents brought by the telegraph to justify this
„nyni,,,, supposition; The fact is, it is a guess,
{3lll,..„ll3thing more; and, nibst likely, it is only a
thi Suggestion from one of the subalterns in
in joreigii Of in reply to an application to be
itp„itied whether the telegraph was correct or not.
is the meantime, the general feeling of the public
fro'ccidedly of a warlike tendency. It is evident
Den" the conversation of two out of every three
1.4,,r„5°11s you meet with, from the gossip and ru-
tl;",P in the clubs, and from the talk in the city,
11 War with Russia on this question walla be
utolndar. People in general have the strongest
pell,viction of our power, not only to bring the im-
ba,.. 'us ruler; Who has produced the existing em-
5-'sMeutt, to reason, but to punish him for his
fpStions. There is the same conviction in
reallce; and I have been assured, by a gentleman.
presntly returned from that country, that the
sioesch soldiers would be delighted to try conclu-
w with the Russians. It is proverbial that all
tO4B are popular in the beginnin g. None are more
than those founded in justice, of which that
t• "1 bnPending is one: So that; if there were -no
olitical reasons for restraining the Emperor of
mits,Sia by farce of arms, independent of the ab-
bja.„ct jitstice of the cause, the fact of the war
g a just one, secures for it the sympathy, and
e' enlist for it the support, of the nations of
Which binds
who have any regard for the public- law
binds them altogether.
it ,4e whole scientific world will lament the loss
nivas experienced by the death of M. Arago, one
,1„ the most eminent savans whom France has pro-
103:ced- He died at the observatory, about six
~-aoeic in the evening of Sunday. He held the
Scree of perpetual secretary to the Academy of
,etence=a situation he desired to relinquish -the
Its
he found he could no longer discharge
is
active duties. I will give yob, a brief sketch of
la life, merely premising that he was as great in
I.'"tics as in science; and that his name will long be
,41etabered all over France, for the energy with
hIPII lit defended, in the provisional g.)vernment
hllB4B the true principles of order, civilization,
Cu. liberty ; while his discoveries iri magnetism
(.4re extended the boundaries of science—and• in-
,reased the application of the arts—to the useful
Purposes -of life.
M.
Arago was born on the 26th February, 1706,
at Estagel, in the Eastern Pyrenees. He was .the
n
sni °of a gentleman who filled a situation in the
nt, and who gave • him from his earliest age, a
nlost liberal education. Having finished his studies
at the college of Perpignan, he was sent to Mont-
where he was prepared for the Polytechnic
school—which institution he entered, at the age of
18, at the head of all his competitors. Soon after-
Wa,rds, he was attached to the Bureau des Longi-
tudes ; and he formed part of an expedition sent
:nto t
Spain, under the direction of M. Biot, to de-
termine the arc of the terrestrial meridian from
tl3arcelona to the Balearic Isles. The principal ob-
et of this expedition terminated in 1807, when M.
rot returned to Paris ; but M. Arago remained in
Spain in order to conclude the work. Here a
curious incident happened to him. He was estab-
lished upon the summit of the Galatzo mountains
in order to communicate with a place ealipd Yvin,
andst. to mereurestuhdedly a
arc of parallel
broke betweentwoveetuthe
France
Fa.tens,n
and Spain. Whilst the savan was pursuing
his observations, a report was circulated among the
people that the fires and the signals that were in
use, were intended to call in the French. M. Arago
had only just time to disguise himself as a peasant,
and to flee away in that dress, before an armed
tf°, agsembledrushing in the greatest rate towards
Menaced with death, his dress enabled
and safely to pass through the enraged peasantry,
cape took refuge on board a Spanish vessel, the
136`; In of which took him to the citadel of Belver.
se whichierty he was . permitted to go to
rCies, he reached in pa
fishing-boat, the
°,e crew of which Consisted of a single sailor.
to °„41... Algiers he was sent by the French CoUsul
witiarseilles on board an Algerian frigate ;. but
e,, el in sight of the French coast, a Spanish
f 0 air took the frigate. M. Arago was sent to the
tft of li.ora,s, and made to feel all the misfortunes
n. captivity. The Dey of Algiers, however,
ned a restitution of the frigate, when along with
1.),e crew M. Arago was set at liberty. The frigate
--.eceded towards Marseilles, but a furious storm
,„,,-tvse on the voyage, which drove the vessel upon
Ale: Coast of Sardinia, a power then at war.with
ii(;g,'crs- But to avoid falling into the hands of
Ar enemies great efforts were made, and at last
Af-e: frigate arrived at Bougie on the coast of
I..,:r'ca- From hence, after many perils, M. Arago
;gained his native land. At the age of 23, he was
acted a member of the Academy—the ordinary
1114„1" of which were suspended in his favour on
i,eount of his great scientific merit; and soon
awards he was appointed Professor of Analysis
t 7
`4 Geodesy in the Polytechnic School, an .ap-
vointraent which he retained till 1831. His
career in science need not be traced here. In 1831
tc entered the Chamber of Deputies for the first
4rae as' representative of the College of Perpignan,
1,11, „cl he took his place, as might be expected from
JC. Political principles, among the extreme left
a legislator he greatly distinguished himself.
Swilon
e,uNevtaisthe principal means of preventing the con-
of railways by the state, and whenever r11.,3' questions of science was in issue, he exercised
great influence in the decisions of the Chamber.
oe2Tas many times President of the Council Pre-
i'ai of the Seine, a body which he was the means
Or causing to decide in favour of the emancipation
paves in the French colonies.
hi,ar7 the revolutions of 1848, and in the provi-
te-,1141 governMent, M. Arago was considered the
tiv,,resentative of the principle of order as well as
vi,,” of the revilution. He maintained the same
po-„,"'s in the commission which had the executive
i3tit'ver, and in the National Assembly. Through-
-44
Ththe country he was deservedly popular and,
left74.,aY be expected, after such a life, he has
411 this world amidst the tears and sorrows of.
taiga` The funeral was to have taken place yes-

Th i FRIDAY, 4 P.M.
to d. ° ntelligence received to day is not calculated
has
issiPate the fears of war. On the contrary it
hpb,,, tendency to increase them, inasmuch as it
tha't-arB all the powers are making preparations for
tire
adful contingency.
'Pro, ere seems to be no doubt of the intentions of
titioh-cie, to send a corps of 30,000 men to Constan-
Algiu,e. Of these 10,000 will be drafted from
111 til'Ars; Another corps of 18,000 is being collected
for South of France, to be embarked at Toulon
It is .7, If necessary,
of 10-aid that England is to send a contingent
`teat —v° men ; but this rumour, which emanates
srta. Prance requires confirmation. There are
4111 1113' no signs of the concentration of any
The force at any of the channel ports.
wcl teh Cabinet met at two o'clock this afternoon,
writirc4:37. are still in deliberation at the time of
-44 h '''four o'clock. The discussions, it is said,
i.hTitt(l4.l-Y be harmonious.
c 40,4111E1s maintain their position. Stocks is
nd to meet speculative engagements
4°11.11 lrito, being the excitement caused by the
jNAT elnent of Turkey having declared war.

11171.,7,1,1/11ATION OF THE STATUE TO SIR ROBERT
twZtilvtliNte'lle Peel Statue, in front of the Royal Infirmary,
inittet vtir, will be inaugurated' on Wednesday next, at
the' ~) I.°lsek. The members of the Peel Monument Com-
irin r., city Council, and other gentlemen., will meet
11,11) 1vh,„41-11all, at half-past eleven o'clock in the fore-
esstoth
sitwi shortly afterwards move off in pro-
irnmil ° the e
of the statue. Sir Sohn Potter, the
'411(1 "4,11. of the Peel Monument Committee, will ftoiriemcaollry_
Peratio'el' the statue to the Mayor, as the head of
l'e3Po ll' to 'whom it is to be resented, and who are to be
b 4sible •
lineo,, for its future conservation. The statue, will. then
Worshi, ~ed, and exposed to the view of the public. His
tatue n'lle, May or will then in a brief address, accept the
' "11 °ollalf of the corporation.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING

IN our paper of yesterday we reported the arrival
of the steam-ship Franklin, at Southampton, from
New York, and gave a summary of the commercial
intelligence received by her. We have since re-
ceived. our private advices which, announce the im-
portant fact that the American government have it
in contemplation to submit to Congress at an early
period in the ensuing session, a proposition to re-
duce the impost duties. We are informed that
those on raw materials will be first reduced, and
that others will be modified. It appears that cir-
culars have already been issued by the Secretary of
the Treasury department, which indicates a desire
to discriminate, and not to abide by the principle
on which the present Tariff is based; namely, to
regard it solely as a- revenue measure. We quote
from the New York ,Economist of September 24th,
the following report of the dry goods market

` ` The market has been very- active both in the
receipt of Goods and in • 'meeting. the, demands of
the country trade. The check in the money mar-
ket has had a salutary influence in producing
caution. The wants of the country at large for
Goods are at this moment greater than ever. The
demand has risen in the double ratio of greater
numbers and improved means per capita. As a re-
sult; notwithstanding that the manufacturers have
taken 12 per cent. more raw materials this year
than last, and wrought them up into a quantity of
Goods proportionably increased, prices have risen
steadily, and in some cases revived imports that
that had long lain dormant. The quantities of
desirable Goods here, large as they are, are not
equal to the wants, Cloths are well supported in
prices, and Blankets in demand. The supply of
continental Cassimeres is large, of beautiful styles
and at prices which indicate a determination to
get a footing, For heavy Coatings the demand is
in excess of supply, and nearly every article. of
British as Well as Continental production, indicate
that the stock will diminish with the approaching
close of the active season, satisfactory to all
parties." •
The London Stock Market was firmly supported
today: Consols opened at 91%, and advanced to
92%, from which they fell 1, . but subsequently ad-
vanced again to 92%, and finally closed at 92% 02%
for money and time. South. Sea Stock 113. Bank
Stock for the opening, 220 222. Exchequer Bills
lls. to 12s. dis.

In the foreign house Mexican Stock ranged from
24 to 24 Peruvian weaker, having dropped from
70 to 794. Russian 44- per Cents. 98. Sardinian
901 91. Spanish Deferred, 21i 214.

The Share Market business was limited. Cale-
donians recovered to 50 ex. div. Eastern Counties
12. East Lancashire 60. Great Northern steady
at 741. Great Southern and Western of Ireland
fell £2. Great Westerns 81i- Lancashire and
Yorkshire 631 ; London and North Westerns have
returned to 1631; South Westerns are £2 higher;
Midlands 6011; Shrewsbury and Birmingham ad-
vanced £2 ; South Easterns 58+ ; Berwicks, 62 ;
York and North Midland, 462. French shares
have rallied, Strasbourgs marking 36i. Northerns,
33 388 ; Paris and Lyons, 251.
• No alteration in gold mines. Chartered Bank
of Australia was firmer to-day, at 14. South Ails
tralian Land Shares are 1 higher. Van Diemen's
Land Company, 151.
The official returns just published by the Board
of Trade, and which will be found in another part
of our paper, are highly satisfactory. They exhibit
a progressive increase in our exports, which, for
the month ending Sept. 5, amounted to £8,297,086.
The Bank of France, • on Thursday, raised its
rate of discount from 3 to 4 per cent.
In the Corn Markets throughout England, a
slight advance is observable for the week. The
Liverpool Market, however, was thinly attended
to-day, and several parcels of wheat ex-ship, were
offered at a decline of Id. to 2d. per bushel. The
demand for flour was limited, and at a reduction
of 6d. and upwards, per barrel. It appears by
the annual
.circular of Sir R. Proctor, that the
amount of grain and meal
.imported into Liver-
pool, and retained for home • consumption, during
the past year was 810,452 quarters of grain, 911,109
barrels and 214,817 sacks of flour,and 320,547 loads
of meal.

The Cotton Market has presented a healthy tone
to the close of the week. The business does not
exceed 5,000 bales daily. 4,010 bales American,
30 Pernam, and 1,010 Surat, have been taken on
speculation and for export, and 81,120 bales to the
trade. The actual export consists of 5,050 Ameri-
can, 530 Brazils, &c., and 540 East India, in all
6,120 bales.
The Produce Markets have all been remarkably
quiet and firm through the week, as will be seen
by the usual weekly reports, which we give in ano-
ther column. The Coffee trade are about to aban-
don the use of Chicory altogether.
The Liverpool money market has been remark-
ably tight for some days, and discounts could not
be obtained at our banks under 6 per cent. The
railway market has been active to-day with a slight
advance in prices.

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.-ocr. 6.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Debit.
Notes issued . £29,031,895

£29,031,£95

BANKING I):

Proprietors' Ca-
pital .. .
Rest
Public Deposits 6,738,755
Other Deposits 11,885,565
Seven-day and
other Bills 1,443,636

Total. . £38,303,069

Credit.
Government DebtXll, 015,100
Other Securities . 2,984,900
Gold Coin Bullion 15,031,895
Silver Bullion . . Nil.

£29,031,895

EPARTMENT.
Government Se-
curities . . £12,339,083
Other Securities 17,124,799
Notes
Silver and Gold
Coin

Total . . £38,303,069

BULLION MARKET AND FOREIGN EXCHANGES

We give the current price of Gold, as follows, to
assist the merchant in calculating the rates of
Foreign Exchange, by the actual current rates of
bullion, as last reported :
London, 775. 9d. ; Paris, -; Hamburgh,-; Am-
sterdam, Vienna, -; St. Petersburg, - ; Ber-
lin, -; Milan, -; Constantinople, -; Alexandria,
-; Bombay, -; Calcutta, - ; Hong Kong,- ;
Sydney, 745. 6d. to 755. ; Port Phillip, 775.; Adelaide,
=---; Victoria, 775. 6d. ; Ovens, 765. 6d. ; Montreal, ;
New York, -; Boston, £3 17s. 9d. ; San Francisco,
; Mexico, -; Brazils, -.
_ _

We subjoin a return of the Foreign Exchanges,
calculated according to the London Mint price of
3. 17s 100. the ounce ;

Amsterdani, short, 11 17 to 11 174 ; do, 3 months, 11 19
to 11 194 ; Rotterdam, 3 m. 11 191 to 11 19f ; Antwerp,
3m. 25 40 to 25 45 ; Brussels, 3 m. 25 40 to 25 45 ;
Hamburg, 3 m. 13 71 to 13 7/ ; Paris, short, 25 74 to
25 124 ; do, 3 m. 25 40 to 25 424 ; Marseilles, 3 m. 25 40
to 25 45 ; Frankfort, 3 m. 1204 to —; Vienna, 3 m. 11 10
to 11 15 ; Trieste, 3 m. 11 12 to 11 18 ; Petersburgh, 371
to —; Madrid, 3 m. 50 to —; Cadiz, 3 m. 504 to 501;
Leghorn, 3 m. 30 10 to 30 15 ; Genoa, 3m. 25 45 to 25 50 ;
Naples, 3 m. 411 to —; Palermo, 3 m. 1244 to 1241 ;
Messina, 3 m. 1241 to 125; Lisbon, 3 m. 521 to 53; Oporto,
3 m. 534- to 53 1; R. Janeiro, 60 days, to —; New
York, ditto, 10 91 to 10 sg; Boston, ditto, to ;
Foreign Gold in bars, a 17s. 9d. ; Mexican Dollars,
Os. Od. ; Silver in bars stand, Os. Od. ; East India Com-
pany's Bills. House Bills 60 days ; Calcutta Co's Rupee,
241; Bombay ditto, 25; Madras ditto, 24*.

BANKRUPTS.
(From Last Night's Gazette.)

Charles Baker, upholsterer, Brook-street, Grosvenor-
square, to surrender Oct. 18, at Eleven, and Nov. 24, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Richard Lancaster Swallow, licensed victualler, Park-ter-
race Battersea-fields, Oct. 17, at eleven, and Nov. 15, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Charles Pollard, licensed victualler, Wellington-street,
Strand, Oct. 17, at two, and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Court
os Bankruptcy. _ _ _

Henry Baker, ironmonger, Bloomsbury, Oct. 15, and
Nov. 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

SUGAR.—In good demand, and very full prices obtained.
COFFEE.—A good business concluded in plantation Cey-
lon, and prices firmer, ruling equal to those of last Friday.
Cocon.—An increasing supply, and demand not improve-
ing prices declined Is. per cwt.
TEA.—Better kinds in active request, and in some cases
stiffer prices obtained,. supply not increasing.
TALLOW.—Transactions in Russian not equal to last
week, in consequence of further advanced rates being de-
manded.

On Thursday evening, a man was robbed in a
brothel, near Scotland-road, of £BO in American dollars.
On Thursday evening, a girl found a child, a few
days old, on some steps in Parliament-street,

THE NORTHERN I

AMERICA

In our impression of yesterday we gave a sum-
mary of the intelligence brought by the mail
steamship, Franklin, which arrived at Southamp-
ton from New York, on Thursday evening, at nine
o'clock.

The Africa arrived out on the 22nd ult

The yellow fever continued to rage with great
virulence on the plantations, and in the various
towns of Louisiana, Mississippi, &c., but the epi-
demic was rapidly decreasing at New Orleans and
Mobile.

An immense and enthusiastic public meeting
was held at the Metropolitan-hall, •New York, on
the 22nd ult., for the purpose of voting .a testi-
monial to Captain Ingraham, of the United States'
sloop-of-war St. Louis, in appreciation of his-gal-
lant conduct in rescuing the Hungarian, KOSsta,
from the Austrian frigate in Smyrna Harbour.
The hall was densely crowded.-
Dates from .Havaunah to the 13th ult. announce
that, owinr,
.to the high price of freights, there
were no extensive operations in sugar, although
the article was in much demand.

The Cunard screw steamship Andes arrived at
Boston, from Liverpool, on the 22nd ult. On the
11th ult she encountered a tremendous hurricane,
during which Mr. John Mmiwell, the second Mate,
was washed overboard and drowned, and Captain
Hutchins was so badly injured that he died the
same afternoon.

Telegraphic despatches from Washington state
that General Almonte, the Mexican Minister, had
received intelligence of large discoveries of .gold
on the Rio Mescala, which 'is on the route of the
Mexican Ocean Mail and Inland Company. Theu-
sands of Mexicans were flocking thither.
The last accounts from Texas deny the reports
of the hostile disposition and movements of the
Mexicans, and declare that more friendly feelings
never existed betiveen the people of the. two
countries. • •

Commodore Vanderbilt's steam yacht the North
Star, arrived at New York on the 23rd from her
European trip. . _ _

Telegraphic accounts from Washington of the
23rd ult. state that the reply of the Cabinet to the
Austrian protest on the Kossta affair would be
published in a few days, and. would fully come
up to public expectation. Mr. Marcy, it is said,
has long since taken occasion to communicate to
the United States' Minister in London the Presi-
dent's views on Lord John Russell's despatch re-
lating to Cuba. The position of the Administra-
tion is decided, and does not differ materially from
the views propounded by Mr. Everett, the late
Secretary.

The importation of dry goods for the week
ending the 24th ult. was in amount twice as
much as during the corresponding period of last
year, and exceeding anything ever known in the
trade, both in extent and value. The flour and
grain markets have advanced in consequence of
the news per the Africa, with an active demand.
Barrel flour advanced 121 c. to 181 c., per barrel,
and wheat 2c. to 3c. per bushel ; corn was held
more firmly. Canadian flour steady ; Southern
flour better; rye flour firm. Scotch pig iron steady;
lead firm. In. provisions, pork rather firmer;
beef firm. In wood rather more active. In freights,
40,000 bushels.of wheat were taken to Liverpool at
Bd. to 9d. ; to Glasgow, at Old- A British ship was
also taken up for Falmouth, and orders, at 13d. for
wheat. .

AMERICAN SHIP NEWS.
NEW YORK.

ARRlVED.—September 21, Leviathan, Knapp, from Liver-
pool, in 35 days. September 22, Africa, (e.s) Harrison,
Liverpool. _

CLEARED.—September 22, Andrew Foster, Holbertson,
Liverpool.

CHARLESTON

ARRIVED, September 19, Switzerland. Carter, and Irvine,
Whitty, from Liverpool.
CLEARED, September 20, Mary Bale, Hollins for Liver-
pool.

BALTIMORE.
ARRIVED, September 19, Sea Nymph, Batten, from Liver-
pool.

BOSTON.
ARRIVED, September 23, Chariot of Fame, Knowles,
from Liverpool in 27 days.

then returned with more help to the two ladies, one of whose
hands was jammed, and we got them Out. I donit, know
whether the insensible lady was dead or not, but I think she
was. We laid her on the bank. The other was not much
hurt. We next discovered the body of a very large man
-under the train. His head was cut off and gone. We found
no trace of it. Both his legs were cut off also from the
thighs down. We got out the remains and placed them on
the bank. I was at this time a good deal exhausted, having
worked very hard. Sir Edward Kennedy now came up. He
had been a passenger in the carriage next the engine, which
had been shot by the collision past Straffan station. Re had
escaped unhurt, and had rendered every assistance to the
passengers in those two carriages, which, with the engine,
had been sent on by the concussion. • He then returned
down the line to help there, and took the command from me,
to my great relief, for I was quite worn out."

ARREST OF THE ENGINE maim

• As soon as information of the accident had been conveyed
to the police, Sergeant Kennedy, of the E division, pro-
ceeded to the terminus and there arrested James Gass, the
engine driver of the cattle train. On being taken to the
station-house the following charge was entered on the charge
sheet :--" Arrested on suspicion of being accessory to the
death, of a number of persons at present unknown, near the
Straffan station of the Great Southern and Western Railway,
b9tween the hours of five and seven o'clock on Wednesday
evening, he being driver of a cattle train; and supposed to
have driven the same carelessly and n egligently into a passenger
train, thereby causing the death of these parties, and se-
riously injuring others."
_

In the- course of the day the prisoner was taken before
Mr. Porter, at the Head Office, in the custody of Inspector
Ebbitt, and Sergeant Kennedy, of the E division.
Mr. Pilkington, Sub-Inspector of Constabulary, county
Kildare, was also in attendance to procure the removal of
the prisoner to the locality of the fatal occurrence.
Inspector Ebbitt declined to allow the prisoner out of his
custody before the decision of the coroner was known as to
the death of the boy who died in Steven's Hospital,
Mr. Pilkington thought it necessary to bring the prisoner
before Dr. Hayes, coroner for the county Kildare, who was
then about holding an inquest at Straffan on the dead bodies
there. It was finally decided that the prisoner should be at
once removed to Straffan in custody of Mr. Pilkington and
Sergeant Kennedy, which was accordingly done.

THE INQUEST ON . THE BODIES

Yesterday, Robert Hays, Esq., coroner for the county
Kildare, attended at Shaffan, to hold an inquest on the
bodies of those killed by the collision. The driver, stoker,
and guard of the goods train were in custody. A jury hav-
ing been sworn, and some of the bodies identified, 'William
Hutchinson, a labouring man, deposed :—I live at
Ciownings ; I was standing on the railway bank yesterday
evening when the accident took place ; it was about half-
past six o'clock ; on coming out from my house close to the
railway I observed the passenger train standing still, and
men doing, something to the engine ; after it had stood there
about twenty minutes the other train ran into it ; I saw a
man whom I afterwards understood to be the guard, leave
the passenger train with a light in his hand, and walk along
the line in the direction of Sallins, waving the light ; at ten
or fifteen perches distance I lost, sight of him, but I could
see the light after he had gone a considerable distance fur-
ther—l should think half a mile ; after the acceident had
occurred he came running back; before that I saw no red
tight at the end of the passenger train ; I am not positive
that there was not ; after the guard went down the line with
the light I remarked that there was no red lamp to the end
of the train, and said to some of the passengers who were on
the road that there should be a red lamp on the last carriage ;
as I stood there a lady put her head out of the window of a

carriage and asked pie- to get her a drink of water ; the
night was dark, and a thick shower of rain had just
come on; from where I stood to the spot whet e the
collision took place, was not more than a perch ; the goods
train came along at a reasonably strong speed, but not
faster than usual ; when they struck the carriage which
received the blow of the luggage engine was raised up
as high as the wires of the electric telegraph, upwards of
twelve feet ; the goods train did not appear to slacken its
speed.
Mr. Kempster Malcolm Knapp examined—l was a passen-
ger by the train which left the station at Killarney at about
half-past ten o'clock on yesterday, the sth instant ; I was
accompanied by my wife, Cherry Agnes Knapp, my child
Annie, and a young lady, a cousin of my wife's named Mar-
garet Palmer; the train became stationary at six o'clock in
the evening at Clowning's, and in reply to a question asked
by some one I heard the guard, or-some officer of the com-
pany, reply that there was some slight injury to the engine;
I and my party remained in the carriage after most of the
other passengers had got out ; at last I got out to look about
me, but still stood by the carriage in which my wife and
friend were ; I did not imagine that any accident would
occur, as I saw the guard and others going down the line
with lights and a red flag ; my wife asked me not to stand
so near the carriage, so I went on the bank immediately
opposite to it, where several other persons were standing ;
while there I saw the lights of the other train approaching
at apparently so slow a speed that every one said it is all
safe," and entreated the ladies to keep their seats ; I saw
the approaching train pass the guard, who had gone down
the line to meet it, at a distance of a quarter of a mile or
thereabouts ; I had seen the guard wave his light the whole
time to the train which was approaching, which made us
think it was a signal that everything was right ; it appeared
to me shortly after that the approaching train all at once
increased its speed, and I called to my friend to jump out,
but in an instant the approaching train dashed into the sta-
tionary train. The carriage in which I and my friends were
travelling was a second-class carriage and was the last of the
train, and consequently was next to the engine which ran into
it ; I saw it dashed to 'pieces, and thinking that my wife
and her cousin were under the engine I searched about it for
some time in darkness and covered with steam ; after about
three quarters of an hour's searching, as it appeared to me,
I found the bodies of my wife and her cousin, who were then
quite dead, about 60 yards behind the engine ; I found my
little girl under their dead bodies; she was much mangled
and scalded, and her leg broke.
At this stage of the proceedings, Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald,
Q.C., and Mr. Jeffers, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the
Railway Company, and in accordance with their sugges-
tions the inquest was adjourned till to-morrow (Saturday)
the prisoners being remanded under a coroners warrant
to Naas gaol.

THE EXTRAORDINARY CONSPIRACY CASE.—This extra-
Ordinary case was brought to a conclusion yesterday, by the
dismissal of the summons and the discharge of the de-

fondants, Mrs. Kelly and Messrs. Maloree ancf Campion. MV
LISBURN ELECTION.— The Belfast Mercury states that
this election will take place next week. You will be glad
to hear that up to the present, the star of the Liberal can-
didate is in the ascendant.

The screw steam-ship, Glasgow, left the Clydc
on Thursday afternoon, for New York, taking out 450 pas-
sengers, cabin and steerage, besides a full cargo.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE MANCHESTER
BANKRUPTCY COURTS.—Monday, 10th October :—Charles
Clayar, press dyer, Howarth Cross Mill, Rochdale, certifi-
cates ; Francis Robinson, publican, Manchester, adjourned
last examination.—Tuesday, 11th October Art-
ingstall, joiner and builder, Pendleton, dividend at twelve
o'clock each day.

CHARGE OF LIBEL AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—
Yesterday.. the Rev. Wade Martin, 'a clergyman of the
Church of England, was brought before Mr. Jardine, the
police magistrate at Bow Street, charged with having cir-
culated and published a wilful; malicious, and scandalous
libel npon the character of the lady • of the Hon. Craven
Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P. Mr. Bodkin appeared on be-
half of the Hon. C. F. Berkeley who stated that the defend-
ant had written a letter to his (Mr.f Berkeley's) eldest brother,
containing the foulest aspersions on his wife's character.
After hearing the case the magistrates determined to send it
for trial, and the defendant was committed to Newgate to
take his trial.
• IMPORTANT TO STAKE-HOLDF.Tts Awn OTHRIII3.-At
a late hour on Thursday, a case came on for hearing, at the
County Court, Manchester, before R. Brandt, Esq., Judge,
which is of considerable importance to stake-holders and
others connected with the trotting and racing of horses. The
case to which we refer, was Harrison v. Clough. The action
was brought to recover £2O, money alleged to be had and
received by the defendant on account of the plaintiff. It
appeared, that on the 3rd of April last, the plaintiff, who is
a waste dealer in Manchester, met, at the Trafford Arms,
Stretford, Elias Levi, who is well acquainted with the
sporting world, and the defendant, who keeps the Boar's
Head, Withy Grove, Manchester. Upon that occasion, a
match was made between Harrison and. Levi, that Harrison's
mare, Bloomer, should trot Levi's pony, Bobtail, for £lOO
a-side, and on each side, £2O was paid down as a deposit,
Clough being the stake-holder. It was arranged, that the
parties should meet in a fortnight afterwards, for the purpose
of staking the rest of the money., and making a formal
agreement. When they met, Harrison asserted, that upon
the occasion of their first meeting, he had been distinctly
given to understand, by Levi, that one of the entries to be
made in the agreement was to be, that Bobtail had never
run a public match before, and that that should be one of
the conditions of the match. On the other hand, Levi
contended, that no such stipulation had been made. A
quarrel ensued between the parties, and Levi claimed the
£2O deposited to the plaintiff, on the ground that the latter
refused to comply with the terms of the original agreement
between them. Clough paid over the stakes he held in his
.hands, £4O, and the action was brought to recover £2O of
that sum, the amount deposited by Harrison. On Harrison
being sworn, he declared most solemnly, that at the first
meeting it was distinctly stated, that a portion of the formal
'agreement should be to the effect, that Bobtail had never
trotted in a public race before, and when the
condition was refused to be complied with by Levi, he
claimed his money, and held Clough responsible for it. On
*the other hand, Levi swore that such a condition as that
insisted upon by Harrison was never mentioned at the
Trafford Arms. 'Clough stated that it was mentioned the
same day, but after the money was staked.-Mr. Ovens,
barrister-at-law for the defendant contended that his client
was entitled to the verdict, as the condition was not stated
before the money was staked. Mr. R. B. B. Cobbet, solici-
tor, who was for the plaintiff, argued that the agreement
had not been completed.— So thought his Honour, who gave
the verdict for the plaintiff.

EVANGELIZATION OF IRELAND.--MEET-
IN THE CLAYTON HALL LAST NIGHT.

A meeting of the clergymen, and others concerned and
interested in the recent religious movement which took place
in Ireland, was held in the Clayton Hall, Clayton-square,
last night. The meeting was very niinierously attended, but
there were only a few clergymen and other gentlemen upon
the platform. The chair was taken at seven o'clock by the
Rev. S. MINTON, incumbent of St. Silas's.

The proceedings were opened by a prayer for the evangeli-
zation and spiritual welfare of Ireland ; after which
The Rev. CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting in some intro-
. He stated that they had met to hear
-egarding the prqceedingp ati

chictory observations.
some further details rc, _
,s of a hod
of christian ministers who recently went forth to preach th
gospel in Ireland. They would hear how they acted, an
how they Were treated. Most of them were already awar
how they were treated—not in all instances but in sonic
It resembled in-many respects the circumstances which at
tended the preaching of Paul. The people in that instancy
first tried MO Violence, and then they appealed to the loca
authorities, and said the preacher was acting contrary to th,
laws of Caesar. In Ireland, the priests, oho answered to th(
unbelieving- Jews, first instigated the crowd to get up a riot;
and then, as in Limerick, they appealed to the local autho-
rities, and said they could not answer for the peace of the
community, if such proceedings were allowed to go on. But
there was this difference, that the country where these gentle-
men went to preach, was not under heathen rule or Popish
rule, but under their Protestant Queen, and their Protestant
laws. (Applause.) They 'trere doing nothing contrary to
the laws, and should have received the protection of the laws.
There were very few places in the kingdom where they
would not have received that protection but unhappy Ireland
(Hear, hear, and applause.) lie did not speak alone of th
flagrant and wholesale perjury committed there
assizes, by witnesses and juries where their priests were con,
concerned, but of the encouragement given by those in high
places, who endeavoured to govern Ireland through her
priests. (Applause:) Balers should be a terror to evil-
doers ; but in Ireland the evil-doers Were the rulers. (Ap-
plause.) _ The priests wore a terror to the magistrates, who
were afraid. to put the law in fore where they were con-
cerned. Had that plan succeeded? Had it conciliated
Ireland ? It had not. It reminded him of a caricature well
known in London, in which a barrel-organ player was seen

It every

before a door, refusing to move an inch under sixpence,
saying he knew the value of peace and quietness.
(Laughter.) O'Connell was the man playing the barrel-organ
and Sir Robert Peel came out with a large purse and offered
him £30,000 a-year to move on, but O'Connell said—" I'll
never move on under Repeal—do you think I don't know the
value of peace and quietness." (Loud laughter.) There
never could be peace in Ireland while Ireland was governed
in that way. The Rev. Chairman cited different in-
stances of trials in Limerick and in the North of Ireland.,
in order to show that where priests were concerned in Ire-
land, the law was not administered with impartiality. He
then referred to a case exemplifying the manner by which the
law was administered on the other side, in which persons
were imprisoned and fined for joining in an orange proces-
sion. He did not say that they could not be fined and im-
prisoned, because in Ireland Orange processions were cer-
tainly against the law, and he did not approve of anything
which was against the law, but it only showed how the law
was administered in Ireland. The mass of the people of
England did not know of these things, for they did not read
the Irish papers which told of them, but now they had ad-
ditional evidence which they would hear to night. He was
very glad—not that these gentlemen had been thrashed—
(laughter)—but that they would be able to open the eyes of
the gullible British public to what Popery really was. (Hear,
hear, and loud applaus,.) They had instances of it in the
case of the Madiai, and the more recent case of Miss Cun-
ningham°. (Applause.) This showed what Romanism was
abroad, and the gentlemen present would tell them what it
was in Ireland. A system of terrorism was also being esta-
blished in London, where recently a poor convert woman was
assaulted in the streets, and a policeman refused to interfere.
After some further observations upon the necessity of having
the law there and in Ireland enforced, the Chairman con-
cluded amid loud applause.
The Rev. Mr. DICKENSON next addressed the meeting.
He referred to the establishment of the mission which had
recently gone forth into Ireland, of which he had been formerly
the proposer, and of which he was one, and declared that he
should esteem it one of the highest honours, to be permitted
to go to Ireland again upon a similar mission, without even
returning from Liverpool to his flock. He looked upon it
that the Lord had sent them through trifling humiliations
and little dangers to show, that the work was not to be
accomplished by writing, but by presence and open speaking.
They were not despondent or cast down by their visit. The
reverend speaker then proceeded to narrate the circumstances
which attended the visit to Ireland. He had been one of
those wlo were selected to visit the city of Limerick, and
preach in the vicinity of Bale's bridge. He had prepared
for violence, left all his money at home, and was as lightly
clothed as possible, expecting a swim in the Shannon.
(Laughter and applause.) The Irish people appeared to
have an awe for prayer, for they did not interrupt him
during his opening prayer ; but when he began to preach,
they gathered round him, pinched him, struck him, threw
him down, flung stones, and called out to throw him into
the river. He endeavoured to get to his lodgings, and was
assisted by a friendly young Romanist woman, as he after-
wards ascertained, to take refuge in a garret, when about
1,100 of the mob surrounded the house. He was at length
visited by a stalwart sergeant of the police, who brought
him, with great difficulty, through the yelling mob. Be it
remembered, to the honour of Romanists, that both the
policemen, who were instrumental in his deliverance, were
Romanists. • (Applause.) The police inspector told him
that the Limerick mob was the most violent he ever knew,
except one other, the name of which, the speaker had for-
gotten ; and that, at any night, for a glass of whiskey, men
could be got there, to murder him. To shew the
influence of the priests, when a woman who struck one
of his brother missionaries with a stone, was arrested
by a policeman, a priest came forward and said,
" Let that woman go, and I will answer for the
peace being kept." They did not wish to prosecute, but
that the police said if they did not, they (the police) would
suffer in character, and perhaps lose their places. The
scurrility of an Irish attorney,. before the magistrates he
should never forget. One of his expressions was, when he
was told that the proceedings took place at seven o'clock—
" Who ever heard of converting an Irishman after dinner ?"
LLoud laughter and applause,) They had to leave
imerick, as they were told their lives would not be safe if
they remained there. Similar disturbances took place in
Clonmell, Bruff, and Tipperary. Some of the Limerick
mob came to Tipperary and asked if he (the Rev. speaker)
was there, but he had been sent to Cahir. They were fol-
lowed, he felt satisfied; in the train, and everywhere else, by
scouts, who marked them out, and pointed them to the
people. The speaker then detailed his visit to Cahir. A
gigantic police-sergeant—the police were all giants in Ire-
land—and they had need to be— (laughter)—told him if
they wished to preach in the open air, he should get more
men to protect them, as he had only thirteen, but he could
not answer for their not being shot from a window. The
curate there, whose windows had several times been broken,
although he was only a year there, told them if they
preached in the open air they would be killed. They were,
of course, denounced by the priests from the altar, and the
expressions of the mob were—" the devil prosper you,—go
back to the hell you came from," and such words. They
were not, therefore, able to hold an open air meeting there,
but they were very successful in receiving audiences and
many Romanists in the church. Several soldiers attended
there, and one of them had since thrown off the trammels of
Popery, and became a Protestant. (Applause.) They next
proceeded to Fethard, a town in Tipperary, where they got
the use of the Presbyterian church, and where they were
exceedingly successful. The minister of the Established
church there was a solitary exception to all the other
ministers they had met, and refused to receive them. He
went to Cork, but was not able to preach in the open air,
owing to the people having -been grontly excited by the
proceedings in Limerick and Clonmell. The Protestant
inspector of police was very useful to them there, in dis-
tributing tracts among the police. On the whole, the Rev.
speaker said he had distributed in his mission in the
different towns, about 1,500 tracts, and who could say
what benefit might spring from that number ? He was
happy to say that the mission was by no means a
failure, and he had learned this fact, that the spirit
of Popery was everywhere essential and unchangeably
the same. (Loud applause). [Some interruption was
here caused by some person who cried out some
words which we could not catch, from one of the galleries.
The CHAIRMAN said if that person continued to interrupt he
should be put out. The interruption did not, however, con-
tinue.] The reverend speaker then proceeded saying, that
all the persecution of Popery, was chargeable not upon the
people, but upon the priests. (Applause). He would assert
that, even though there might be priests there in disguise.
(Renewed applause). He narrated an instance in which a
priest named O'Flyn, in the county Cork, had endeavoured
with a force of bludgeon men to prevent a Protestant Clergy-
man from preaChing the gospel, but the preacher was not to
be deterred, and the priest had to give up the attempt. The
priest from the altar in Clonmel said, " let them down easy
boys"—and a Romanist servant maid explained it to her
master by saying—" didn't we know what his reverence
meant." It showed that there was a conspiracy on the part
of the priests, and it was upon them, not the people, they
charged these deeds of violence. (Applause). In the name
of God, he charged these deeds upon the priests of the south
of Ireland. (Renewed applause). After alluding to the
success of the Established Church in the west of Ireland,
and anticipating a similar success in the south, the reverend
speaker concluded his address amid enthusiastic applause, by
declaring that Maynooth • should fall—that its famous or
rather infamous halls, should hold, in some future day, the
pupils of a great Protestant Institution.
The Rev. Mr. KUM next came forward, and proceeded to
narrate the events ofhis mission to Ireland. If it was objected
that they only stirred up contention and strife, they could
answer by saying, that the same reproach had been cast
upon the first preachers of the christian gospel, and they were
only at an humble distance bearing the reproach of taking
up the cross of its Divine founder. The reverend speaker
went on to answer objections which were made to the details
of the plan which had been carried out, and the publicity
which had been given it. Had they taken a secret course,