Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

NEWRY AND ARMAGH RAILWAY.

A meeting of parties interested in the trade of Newry,
and in the formation of the above railway, for the making
of which a bill has passed the Committee of the House of
Lords, way held at noon yesterday, in the Clarerrion-roomo,
South John-street, for the purpose of hearing information,
as to the prospects of the railway, from a deputation from
Newry. The chair was occupied by Mr. C. ffolland, and
among the gentlemen present were : A iam Kirk,
Esq., M.P. for Newry; Mr. J. J. Fit ; Mr. E.
Reath ; Mr. G U. Taunton ; Mc. J. M. Magi , (Newry);
Me. William M Culloch, (Newry); 31,.. J Bingham ;
Mr. - Wilson; Mr. J. Shaw; Mr. J. M.Kinistry ;
Captain Williams ; Me. R. Cochran, and M. J. Whitley.
The CHAIRMAN said that the bit! for the railway had
passed the H9use of Commons and the House of Lords,
but accompanied with certain con iitions of rather a
stringent character, in this far that it obliged the direc-
tors to give personal security themselves for the fulfil'.
ment of the conditions of the bill by making the line.
Under those circumstances it could not surprise any one
that the directors should hesitate to incur such a large per-
sonal responsibility, unless they saw a b >na fide subscription
list of a respectable character and suffi !lent amount filled
up The Chairman dwelt on the importance of the under- '
taking, and urged that it should receive at their hands the
consideration which it deserved. I

Mr. Josnua M. MAGEE, of Newry, reminded the meet-
ing that the trade of Newry lay chiefly with Liverpool,
and that it was an increasing trade. If that trade were
destroyed, or Newry not afforded the means of extendieg
its communications, those in Liverpool who dealt with it
would equally suffer with the people of the town, and
therefore it was that he ask, d them for support towards
the • construction of this railway. Mr. Magee then
proceeded to say that the entire length of the line
was nineteen miles, of which one mile has been
already made, and the object of the undertaking was the
construction of a direa:; line of railway between the im-
portant town of Newry, and the city of A rtnagh —and, by
a junction with the existing line of the Newry and War-
renpoint Company, to complete a through chain of
communication from the seaport of Warrenpoint via
Newry, to the best inland town in Ireland (Armagh);
and by means of the Monaghan Extension of the Mete!
Railway Company, now in rapid course of formation to
Monaghan - from thence to Clones, and from Clones to
Enniskillen, being in fact the identical route for which the
Newry and Enniskillen Railway Company in the dession
of 1845, obtained an act, by which the promoters of the
undertaking were incorporated by the name of " The
Newry and Enniskillen Railway Company." The intended
line will commence from the present Gorah Station of the
Newry and E inisk:llen Railway Company, and proceed by
Drumbanagher, Loughgilly, Market Hill, and Hamilton's
Bawn, to Armagh —where a jut ction will be effected, both
with the present Ulster line, from Belfast to Armagh, as also
with the extet sion of the last-named Company, to Monaghan.
It could be made for a cost of £B,OOO par mile. Mr.
M'Cormack having offered to construct it for that amount,
and no line could offer a safer investment for capital. Tne
no v channel through Carlingrord Lough would admit of
steamers sailing at fixed hours every day from Warren-
point, and thus a large amount of passengers and other
traffic which was now diverted from Newry would be
drawn to pass through it.
Mr. Mate, M.P., pointed out by reference to a map
on which the railways through the north of Ireland were
traced, that a great portion of the traffic which now
passed through Belfast and Dundalk would, if the Newry
and Armagh lines were constructed, pass over it
and through Warrenpoint to England. He argued
that passenger traffic between Liverpool and
Belfast and the North of Ireland, was not by the steamer
direct to Belfast, but by steamer and railway, via Fleet-
wood ; and that the advantages which the sailing of a
steamer, at a fixed hour every day, would present, would
speedily draw that traffic via Newry and Warrenpoint,
which would also be, in fact, the shortest route. The
disadvantage of Belfast was that, in consequence of the
depth of its channel, steamers could not every day leave it
at a fixed hour, while, owing to the new channel discovered
through Carlingford Lough, steamers of a large class could,
at all hours, leave it—even at dead low water. As to the
safety of the investment, he mentioned that the Ulster
Company's line, which cost nearly £20,000 per mile,
paid 6 per cent, and when the line now before
them could be made for £9,000 per mile, including every-
thing, he did not see why there should be any apprehen-
sion of an equal, if not a greater, revenue being earned
on it. Carlingford was decidedly the best harbour of
refuge on the north east coast of Ireland, and he had
strong reasons to believe that it was the intention of
government to make it such. (Hear, hear.)
Captain WILLIAMS said that the new channel through
Carling on Lough was discovered there a few months ago,
and it was no a' the belief that it was the original channel
to Carlingford. He took a steamer through it, having
previously sounded in a small boat, and he knew there
were not less than nineteen feet, at dead low water. At
the narrowest point, a short distance, it was 600 feet wide,
and from a mile to a mile-and-a half at the entrance. He
was satisfied it was a good channel, and that the contem-
plated railway, in which ho had taken shares, was a good
undertaking. ( Hear, hear.)
Mr. BINGIIAM moved that the meeting deemed the
explanations satisfactory, and were prepared to lend the
undertaking their support.
Mr M`KINISTRY seconded the motion, which was unaa.-
mously adopted.

Mr: E. ftEATII also byre testimony to the advantages of
the undert4king.
A Pat was then opened, and most of the gentlemen pre-
sent sabze ibed for shins. The capital is fixed at £lBO,OOO,
in 8,000 shares of £lO each.

Thanks were voted to the Chairman, after which the
meeting separated.

MunnEß AT DuaaAm.—A pitman named James Megee
has bean charged wi'h murdering his wife. They were
out tog( ther, and went into a public house. Tae wife got
very drunk, and could not walk out ; the husband dragged
her out, and was smn to boat and kick her. They were
not furthr observed, but he returned home alone. She
was "shortly after found severe!y injured, and lying groan-
ing in the road. She died in a few hours.

DI‘TRESSING SUICIDB PRIM WESTMINSTER•BRIDGE.—
On Wednesday, at noon, Mr. W. Biker held an inqu,fsr, at
the Black Horse Tavern, High-street, Poplar, on the body
of Mary Anne Lidien, aged nineteen years, who was found
dead in the river Thames, cff Limehouse Reach, under the
subjoined circumstances. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased had formerly been a ballet-girl at one of
the West End theatres, but for some time past she had ob-
tnin'd a livelihood by sitting as a " mold for artists,"
in their studios, for 011-paintings and drawings. On Satur-
day evening lie, the deceased was riding in a cab with a
female named Ann Bryan, with whom she quarrelled.
They separated in the vicinity of Millbank, and subse-
quently she was seen to mount the hoarding of Westminstc--
bridge and precipitate herself into the water. The mother
of the deceased having proved the identity, a Thames
police officer deposed to finding the body at Limehouse.
The deceased must have floated down the river a distance
of six mike. Toe inquiry was adjourned for further
nidenee.