The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-27 00:00:00

REPORT

During the past six months no additions have been made to
capital account. The traffic returns for the past half-year show, as
compared with the corresponding period in 1855, an increase of
about six per cent., viz.:—

Passengers.

Goods and Live Stock. Total
Parcels.

X s. d. s. d. £. s. d. X. s• d•
1856.. 42,205 1,193 10 2.. 191 9 7 17 19 4 1.402 19 1
1855..43,011 1,189 0 8 .. 117 16 8 .. 13 1 11 .. 1,319 19 3

Increase

£B2 19 10

The working expenses, including repairs, for the past half-year.
amount to £754 17s Bd. The very unfavourable state of the weather
during the early part of the summer had naturally a very prejudicial
effect on the receipts, but since the fine weather has set in the
traffic has increased in a grater ratio than in any former yen*. In
orner to effect a saving in t' e present rate of interest which is
incurred on the advance from their bankers, your Directors have
de, ided on exercising the borrovv.ng powers of the Company, by
offering to take money on debenture, rather than issue the
remainder of the Preference Shares. Third Class Return TiAtets

have been isaued since Ist July, and are likely to answer extremely
well. Your Directors observe that aCompanv is now bring formed

for ext 'tiding the present Ne Nry and Enniskillen Line to Armaoh
should this be effected the most beneficial results to your Company
may be anticipated. An arrangement for a junction between this
Company snd the Newry and Enniskillen Company would thee
become of primary importance, and a resolution empow,ring your
Directors to join that Company in an application to Parliament, as
well as to authorise any traffic arrangement that may be deemed
advisable, will be submitted to the meeting.

In moving the adoption of the report,
The Chairman said, it would be seen from that report,
that they were then in a position to take advantage of
their extended lines of communication with Ireland,
which were then in the course of construction, as, during
the last half-year, the traffic had increased in a very
material degree.
Mr. Lupton, of Newry, seconded the adoption of the
report.
Mr. Magee, of Newry, directed the attention of the
meeting to the importance of the company making a
junction with the Newry and Enniskillen CompanYy,
under the present circumstances, as it would then have a
tendency of developing, in a most material degree, the
traffic with the interior of Ireland. For his part, be
had no hesitation in saying, that if the junction was
carried out, that their property would be doubled in
value. He estimated that a line forming a communica-
tion with Armagh could not be more than £5,000 or
£6,000, and might easily be carried out if the Newry
and Enniskillen Company would pay half the expense.
Some conversation followed, which terminated in the
adoption of the following resolution :—" That the
directors be, and they are hereby authorised and et";
powered to make arrangements with the Newry and
Enniskillen Railway Company, for the amalgamation or
lease of the railway and works of this company with
that company, or for the formation of a junction between'
the lines of the two companies, or the reciprocal work-
ing and interchange of traffic, or for such mutual.
running powers, or for the working of the lines of this
company as they may deem desirable and advantageous,
to the interests of this company, and to make or join ana
co-operate with the Newry and Enniskillen Railwai
Company in making an application or applications to
parliament in the ensuing session, for effecting all or all
of such purposes."
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the busi-
ness of the day.

THE MURDER IN BOND STREET

THE INQUEST

Yesterday, the Deputy Coroner held an inquest on the
body of William Goote, who was killed in Bond street+
on Sunday, the full particulars of which appeared in
our paper of yesterday. The father of the deceased, 3
respectable shoemaker, from Kendal, proved that the
deceased's name was William Goote, and that he WO
29 years of age. Patrick Duffy was examined, and gave
the same evidence as he did on Monday, reported in Of
impression of Tuesday.
The wife of Duffy, in addition, said : Whilst her
husband was out, the prisoner entered the room where
the deceased was lying, and he told her to go away, 35
she had given him enough of the knife. She put her,;
arms round him, and said, "I did not intend to do it.
She then kissed him, and said she was sorry for doing.
it. The deceased was dead at that time. The prisoner'
was not exactly sober at the time. Witness thinks the'
prisoner was jealous of the deceased.
Donald 111‘Donald, police officer 112, was examined'His evidence was the same as given at the police court
on Monday.
Surgeon Sayers, of the Northern Dispensary, v/11A°
made the post mortem examination of the body, sal",-
The wound was a quarter of an inch long. It w.lt
between the fifth and sixth ribs of the left side.
penetrated the lungs and the perilardium, and entered
the left verticle of the heart. That caused death.
The Coroner did not think the evidence sufficient I.°
warrant the jury in finding a verdict of wilful m
and he was, therefore, of opinion, that a verdict of mail-
slaughter was the only one they could return.
The Jury were unanimously of that opinion, an
found accordingly.

SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY

A FEW PLAIN

FACTS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. t
Sir,—There is a vulgar proverb, " Throw plenty of (lir
some will stick." My assailants in your columns of 13vs,
week, especially " my friend" " Scientia," appears to hat,
read this proverb to advantage. I freely admit my inabilitY
reply to the abuse with which they have favoured me. j'
never advanced sufficiently far in sc'entific studies to retie
the Billingsgate Calculus, and, consequently, am too ignor,f!gt,
of "the higher branches of mathematics," to enter the lied:
with men of such a " wide grasp of mind" as your learileol;
correspondents; and candidly confess that, though not,
to
Irishman, as "my friend" supposes, lam too green' 0,
appreciate his logic—l beg pardon, I should have said "
" mathematics."
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But, however incompetent I may be to follow the -°tf
fto,
flights of your correspondents, I may venture, perhaps'
intrude upon your space with the statement of a few sir"
facts.
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1. Let " the lovers of fair play" observe, that ;t-
-ray assailants are anonymous—not one of them has ven,th-a
to affix his signature to any one of the false assertions 11.4;
unworthy insinuations which they have thought it becerial of
to make—and that I challenge them, or any one of thelThAt
throw off the mask, and make good any one statement wbl,:it,
they have made, either as to my argument itself, or the 813"
in which I have conducted it.
2. It is a fact, that every argument which I have 11—„d
remains unanswered, and every statement unshaken, a"go
that every charge of misrepresentation which my anonynigo:
friends, from " Verax" downwards or upwards, as they rati•
prefer, have made against me is false, and that I am rellor.
to prove it to be false, whenever any one of them has A
courage to show himself. This is a plain challenge,
it be met again only by " the higher branches of niat'"en,
matics," the public will know how to estimate these "
tific" theologians.
3. /t is not true, as your correspondents insinuate, III!!
some of them even assert
_that I have ever descended,itt.,

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abuse or to personalities in my conduct of the argnfn-40
I have written nothing, I trust, unbecoming a Christian "t
gentleman. If anything of the kind can be- pointed oltst,
am ready to express regret, and apologise for it. I rep"
under this head, the challenge given under the last. 409
4. I have been myself assailed in the most abusive :06
—reckless assertions have been made, charging me wit:t of
basest motives, and with the most dishonest rnanagenie-og
the argument. I ha-e contented myself with rebilt;sof
these charges, and challenging my accusers, and partien'a to.
that " much abused (?) man" " Verax," to meet me fecoisi
face, as we must meet in a coming day. So far, the 61,7011'
is all on one side. "Ego vassu lo tasatuns." Ido notnrie
it to be otherwise, and assure my assailants that my r ,jOO
cipal regret is on their own account and on that of re"
itself, which is thus dragged in the dirt. dde
I would be happy to except, from these observations tot'
correspondent " W."—did I not detect in his letter tif,
withstanding the studied contrast in tone) the famiainr°-
of " Verax."

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As soon as he comes forward in a manly and ahrito4
manner, and expresses his regret for the false acetigrae
which he has made against me, under his, old sigeegi'le
shall be prepared, and so will the discerning public, t:°,llo°
him credit for sincerity in the charitable language whw
makes use of under the new. be
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3. In the mean time, let " lovors of truth ,t refuel/0'
that "Verax " and " W." (to say nothing of other slifetoe
tures), are but different masks under which the sates ferf
has successively appeared to sustain different, and
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.
inconsistent, characters; and, if we were to purt 0",,
enquiries a step further, and ask who this actor iLator'.
appears upon the stage, now, in the character of a vied : bell.
to redress the wrongs of a "'much abused man ;"av:
that of an accuser, who sticks at nothing which ul9, th
him to damage the object of his hatred ; and, lastly 10041:
of a Christian peacemaker, counselling opposing Polo
(being himself the only one who needs the counsel) t° le Fly
one another." I say, whoever shall take the troll plot
comparing the actor with the parts which he has acteoldeg
feel that the performance affords as good a sPecol s
"pious fraud," and of the odium theologieurn, 28
been witnessed in the annals of that most humiliating
intellectual exercises—" religious controversy." otiell,s
It may be that, as one of your courteous correte to
to
say, I am "behind the age," but it does appear tort, "0,,.
strange that, in the middle of the nineteenth ceurthrilol
in this enlightened place, it is impossible for "-Word
minister to vindicate the plenary inspiration of the
Cod, without giving rise to such painful proceed
had made use of the weapons that have been used Nei
me, how would I not have been impaled in the' blic•
is charity," and held up to the execration of the Putiolfr
remain, sir, your obedient servant, JosrA.o B.
August 25,1856.