Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-08 00:00:00

FALL OF A•ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.

Tito Roman Catholies in Plymouth have for some time past had in
course of erection; in a field leading to Eidatt a noble-looking struc-
tare, which was to .serge them, as a cathedral for the diocese of
Plymouth; The building was raeidly progressing towards comple-
tion, and it was expected that it would be ready for consecration on
the 4,11 Atignst next. The hope was entirely destroyed on Wednes-
day, for eerly in, the afternoon about half of the roof fell in with a
tremendous crash, and the building, with its lofty western front
standing apart'from the roof, which connects the transept with the
chancel of the church, presents the appearance of a ruin. Happily no
lives were lost The workmen hadthe.alarm-given in time, and they
ran away as fast as their legs could carry them, the architect being
the last to leave the building In the hurry he was knocked down,
and received a slight contusion on the a-m, and it was almost mar-
vellous that he was not baried in the ruins. The whole of the buil-
ding at the time of the accident was roofed in, and everything was
apparently going on well. The church was formed with side aisles,
and from one end' to the other the roof, sshich was an extremely lofty
one, was supported by arches which sprang from, pillars. These
piilars wero formed"of Bath stone,and the arches springing from them
were of brick. On, Tuesday. some defects were observed by Mr.
Roberts, the builder, which caused him to telegraph Er Mr. Haasom. '
the architect, of Bristol, to come down immediately. That gentle-
man at once left for Plymouth,. visited the church, and saw enough
to convince him that steps mast be immediately taken to secure
the building. The Bath stone had proved too• weak for the weight
which it had to sustain, and some of it had split. A number
of mEn were set to work to shore•up the arches previously to re-
moving the defective work, which was found to be immediately over
the piers, and consisted of brickwork and limestone. Before :these
measures could be matured, the architect saw symptoms that the
building was likely to fa, and he had only time to warn the men to
leave the building, and ten to get away himself, when the four
southern arches of the nave and the large eastern arch fell with a
tremendous crash, br aging down with them the southern clerestory.
A small portion of the nave roofstill remains, but it is far fro n secure.
The disaster ceased a great sensation, and 'large numbers of persons
have crowded to the spot to see the ruin.--Plyntoulh Journal.

IMPORTANT Ta MA,STRRs nF VESSELS AND

MERO HANTS.

At the Southwark Police-court on Friday, Mr. Combs was engaged
several hours in hearing evidence against Mr. John Huett, the master
of the Hardwicke, a vessel re:ontly arrived at Horeelyclowe from
Cronstadt, laden wth tallow, for refusing and neglecting to pay to
Joseph Mead, the m ,te of the vessel, the sum. of £3l, being the
balan--e of wages due to him in the performance .4 hie duties. Mr.
Solomon appeared for the complainant, and a clerk to Mr. Young, of
Stepney, for the captain. The latter person did not deny that the sum
of £3l was the ba ance of- the compiainant's waeee but the captain
contended that such a snm was notactuaily due to Jim, as there was
£23, the value of a cask of tallow, to be deducted. The mate's duty in
shipping the cargo was to keep a tally 'tied see that everything was
safely delivered on board.beforeh, signed the cargo book, and get the
captain to sign the bill of lading The captain alleged the mate
had received on board 359-c isks of tallow at Cronstant, wheleas, on
the vessel being unloaded in the rort of London. there were only 358
casks. The price of the missing cask tallow was £23, and the
mate was answerable for that; consequently the captain was j ',stifled
in refusing to pay him.that dual. Mr. Combs asked when the vessel
was loaded? The Captain repled in October and then he had an
idea that he should have been able to make his voyage, but the
weather prevented him. Mr. Combe observed that the ve.sel was
then rine months at Cronstadt? The Captain replied Vat sn,h was
the case; but the. cargo was on board, and he supposed there were
359 casks, according to the bill of lading. Mr. Young's clerk sub-
mitted to his worship that according to. the 188th section or the Mer-
chant Seamen's Act, the mate was liable for any defic envy in the cargo,
and magistrates had an equitable jurisdiction in the matter. The
mate's duty was toheep tally, sign the cargo book, and submit that
to the m ger for his signature to the bill of lading. Mr. Solomon
contended that the Act of Parliament said nothing about the set-off.
Besides that, he should be ab e to pr.,ve that his client was not respon-
sible for the tallow, as he did not keep the whole of th • tally. In fact
it was net an amazing lo s. To substantiate that he called the mate,
who said it was his duty to keep the tally on loading the vessel when
the ship's duties did n,t call him away. Sever. 1 times while loading
the tallow he hat to leave the tally as the captain was not on board,
and then he left the son of the latter in charge. He cou'd not say
the exact number of casks received, but he nr.de a mark against one
down on the tally as doubtful. He produced the journal to prove
that. Mr. Combo, after looking at the latter, said that cer-
tainly was in the mate's favour, and his baits, compelled to
leave the tally while attending the other parts of the ship's duty cor-
roborated that opinion. He asked the mate whether he tallied the
unloading of the tallow? He replied that he did not. He was on
beard at the wharf, but he rid not know how many casks were un-
loaded. The captain was also on board then, a,,cl he knew he did not
take the tally. Mr. Solomon submitted that nere was quite sufficient
evidence to entitle his client to the whole of his wages. He had per-
formed his duty elfielentiy, and could not be considered answerable
for the cask of tallow which was ent -red doubtful in the ship's journal.
Mr. Coombe considered that neither the captain nor owners had
proved their loss; therefore he must make an order for the sum of
£3l and costs, to be paid to the complainant. The captain paid the
money, contending that he had been unjustly dealt with, and left the
court.

THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER IN GERMANY. -By recent
accounts from St. Petersbnrgh, we learn that the Emperor

and Empress of Russia will arrive at Kiel on the 2nd July.
Their Majesties will afterwards proceed by H uniirg,
Hanover, Go'tingen. and Frankfort to Darmstadt, where
they will remain from the 6h to the 12. h. Thence the
Emperor will visit the Em.,resF-Mother at Wildbad, and
afterwards conduct the reigning Empress to ICissengen or
Bruckeoau. His Majesty will probably pass through
Berlin on the 20th on his way to W4rsaw. Couut de

Nes3elrode has left Berlin for Kissengen.
MB. HEADLAM'S MEDICAL BILL.—We are glad to see
that the menical profession in Ireland are alive to their
own interests as affected by the medical bills now before
the House of Commons. At the annual meeinz of the
Irish Medieal Association, held at Dublits on Tulsday
last, and reported in our colums of this day, the:matter was
very fully discussed, and it was resolved—" That we beg to
express our warm concurrence in Mr. H:acllarn's Bill, cal-
culated as it is to improve and elevate the status o,f the

profession generally." An amendment wa; proposed by
Dr. Donovan, but was not pressed upon the txte.zting.—

Irish Paper.
THE MYSTERIES OF INDIA.—The C'ent;rod Star, an Oade
newspaper, says :—" There is a strange rumour at Feroz--
pare that an individual of rank, who was supposed to have
died from cholera, really met with bis death in an affair
of honour. Mr. --- was frequently seen in company
with:the wife of an individual who ha; recently arrived from
Europe ; and even on the very morning of the day on when
it was stated Mr. --- had been attacked with cholera,
he was seen riding out with the-lady in question, who, too,

by the bye, seems to have spent a .great part of her time
abroad. About three p.m. that day,Mr. ---- complained
of being unwell, and went to see his Mewls. He
returned a couple of hours after, bu,t again went in search
of his friends. Nothing further, was beard of him until
late at night, when medical aid was called in, which how-
eever, availed nothing, as Mr. ----- gave up the ghost
at two a.m. the following morniig. It is moreover stated
that there was unnecessary haste observe I in shrouding
and coffining the corpse, and that ti,) one, except those in
confidence was allowed to see it.
EXTENSIVE RIBBER/. IN Coax..---On Tuesday night the
house of Mr. Henry Reed; grocer and spirit dealer,
North Main street, was entered through the rear, and a
sum of £7OO, which Mr. Reed• had left in the sate in the
shop the evening previous, taken fram it. At the
police-office Patrick Molonv,, a fellow who had
been on several occasions convicted of robbery, was
charged by acting-constable McAuliffe with hay*. been
prowling about the neighbourhood of Mr. Reed's house
about two o'clock in the morning. It having been supposed
that he might have been concerned in the robbery,
he was remanded on the application of the acting-constable.
Head constable Crovviy also bright up a returned
convict named Callaghan, whom he arrested that morning
on suspicion of being. coacerne-i in the robbery, in a
shoemaker's shop in the Nkgrth Main-street. where he was
purchasing a pair of boats far a female friend. On the
prisoner being examined a sum, of ITs was found in his
possession, and Head... Constable Crowly knew. he had no
means of obtaining, that sum honestly. He was remanded
until to-morrow.—Cork Examiner.

MELANCIOLY,DEA.TH OF A. CII,ILD SW POISO N. —A. most
distressing case. of this nature occurred in the town of
Antrim on Monday evening. lust-, when a remarkably fine
child, nearly three years. old, son of Dr. Spearieg, of
Antrim,phials--one
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dressing
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containing
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geeta;
eboat he :01
tdoef, ha d torte iatl his m titer's
andwhi wee'thhe other tlso
morphine small
and ether, which had been prepared as a remedy for tooth-
ache, and swallowed the contents of both. The child
ran down. stairs to its mother, in met agony, crying
that "his mouth was. burned," and the distracted me•her
discovered,. too late, the unfortunate cause of her child's
suffering. Dr. Spearing was out, visiting a patient, at
the time, and Dr. M'Comb was in ion nediate at.tenclene,
but, notwithstanding every means and exo, lion that ‘vere
resorted to both by him and Dr. Sdearing, who had
returned in the meantime, the port child sank, and died in
about five hours after he h:d taken the poison. An
inquest was held on the body on Saturday, by Alexaiider
Markham, Esq., Coroner, and. a highly respectable lary,
and returned a verdict in accard,nee with the tacts.
The warmest sympatky was evinced by all pr.seet. at t!sis
melancholy accidentr whinh.has terminated so totally. and
plunged an amiable family in the deepest grief.—Belfast
News Letter.
The Auscorrepru P,ICKLE MsuCHANT.—A raw trd of
£2OO has bean offered for the eppsehenson of Mr. John
Gregory, oilman and pickle merchant. of the B trough, who
is stated to have ahsconded with 42;000, in phi, in his
possession. He ias adjudged a bankrup'. a few days
but left his place, of business on the 23rd of May. The
vrarrant for his, apprehension was placed in the hands of
Mr. Field, the well-known detective officer, a day or two
since, but there is some reason to fear that the bankrupt
has too many days clear start for his active pursuer. ThE
debts of the bauktunt are stated to b 3 about 30,0001., ani
until very recently he was supposed to be doing a first.
rate and thriving business. Only a few days previous to hi,
absconding he had opened a user shop in the borough
inaugurated the event by giving away several thou, and
sands of jars of pickles ; a similar course was aloptel
in the case of a shop he had previously opened it
the Walworth.road. It is stated that one of his largos
creditors, hearing of this very wholesale and somewha
unprofitable mode of doing business, waited upon th
bankrupt, and informing him that it would be titn
enough to give his goods away when he had paid fo
them, insisted upon the immediate settlement of h
account. It is suspected that the bankrupt has taken h
governess of children with him as a companion in tt

PIRIT OF THE LONDON PRESS.

WHAT IS MR. GLADSTONE ABOUT ?

The month of March proverbially " comes in like
a lion and goes out like a lamb." Mr. Gladstone, on
the contrary, goes out like a lion and comes in like
a lamb. How he raged and roared in the latter
days of the last parliament, whose cud indeed he
had a large share in hastening by his violence,
How he protested against the extravagance of the
ministry, and vowed to stand between the country
and the" ruia with which it was threatened by the
profligate expenditure of the government. He was
to knock off at least two millions. The country
was to be sure of one man to keep watch and ward
for its finances. Mr. Gladstone was to be a Joseph
Hume on the largest scale, with the addition of the
highest oratorical powers. Such were the expeeta-
tions encouraged; what has been the realisation ?
The navy and army estimates have passed, and Mr.
Gladstone's voice has never been heard. Ministers
have walked over the course. They have had all
they asked for without a show of resistance, or
even a murmur of discontent. Mr. Gladstone's
opposition, which loomed so mighty in the closing
days of the last parliament, has proved a mere fog-
bank, a thing of vapour. What can be the mean-
ing of this ? Has the member for Oxford under-
gone a metamphorsis, aid been changed into a
mist? Or has he; by a hardly less miraculous
Process, become an altered and a wiser man by the
lessons of the elections? Has he discovered that the
country does not like anything in excess, not even
the profession of economy ? Or is there some little
personal disappointment in the case? He had set
his heart on having a follower, profanely called a
tail, if but of one point. How he spouted away day
after day and night after night.; wherever a handful
of electors could be kathered together, to persuade
the good folks that his brother-in-laW teats the man
to aid him in saving the nation threatened with
ruin from Lord Palmerston's guilty extravagance.
The Welsh, however, were quite unmoved by Mr.
Gladstone's oratory, and chose a representative
just as if there was no question about the
salvation of the nation. The consequence
is, that Mr. Gladstone finds himself in the
House of Commons without a single follower.
The Peelites are scattered to the winds, or the few
left have been taught to sober their pretensions.
Mr. Gladstone finds himself alone, and his courage
is not of that sort which rises with an exigency.
If the government had been as weak in this as it

was in the diss.olved parliament, active, vehement
and unsparing would Mr. Gladstone have been in
his attacks upon it. Io season and out of season
would he have raised his indignant voice against
the ruinous extravagance of the estimates. But
against Lord Pahnerston's assured majority Mr.
Gladstone's spirit quails. He is not the man to
kick against the pricks. In Wales, he was told to
his face that he was a political craven. Let us
rather hope, however, that he has seen the error
of his ways, and that his present silence is not
owing to the Causes suggested, but to a late
discovery of the factiousness of his courses on
the budget and the China question. The.
turn of the elections, assisted by reflection
in the interval preceding the assembling
of parliament, may have revealed this truth
to the member for Oxford. Whatever may be
the fact we have been moved to touch upon this
subject by the questions which begin to arise in
different quarters—what has become of Mr. Glad-
stone ? what is he doing ? where is his voice ?
Many have asked whether he has slipped out of
parliament altogether unobserved—whether he was
turned out of Oxford, and other such simple ques-
tions. Indeed, we. have been expecting to see
advertisements in the second column of the Times-
supplement, imploring information to tranquillise
the minds of anxious friends as to the political
whereabouts of Mr. Gladstone, and why he is not
heard of in the present parliament. It is perhaps,
however, best to let well alone, and to be content
with Mr. Gladstone as he is. Sydney Smith hearing-
it observed of one of the celebrities of the age, that
he had appeared to great advantage in conversation,
said "Yes, there were some splendtd flashes of
silence." We ought to be satisfied with Mr. Glad-
stone's splendid flash of silence in this parliament
and to ask no more.—Examiner.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE BOARD
OF TRADE.

The exhibition of Sir James Graham in the
debate on Mr. Horsfall's motion on Thursday, was
highly interesting in some respects. The new
members of the• house who had never heard the
revolving baronet before had an opportunity of
judging of his elaborate mannerism, his careful
getting-up, and his odd mixture of sour remarks
and saccharine compliments. The exhibition was
entitled to the respect which should be conceded to
a veteran performer. A certain faded air of former
power, a want of freshness of views, and a disposition
to play the part of laudator temporis acti, indicated
that the rhetorical member for Carlisle does not
look to a future" being before him. Much of his
speech was of the kind appropriate to the "Recol-
lections of his Life and Times." Mr. Horsfall
objected to the present constitution of the Board
of Trade, and Sir James Graham had recourse to
panegyric on the great things done by the past
presidents and vice-presidents of the board. The
sarcastic baronet talked of Mr. Labouchere, to " his
immortal (!) credit," doing certain things. " The
immortal Labouchere !'' It is always thus with Sir
James Graham's compliments. They seem as if
meant for interpretation per antipkrasin His eulogy
in this case reminds one of the withered immortelles
that one sees at PereLa Chaise. Mr. Huskisson also
came in for safe panegyric. That eminent person
was severely disparaged in his later years; and
while he was in the flesh, we do not recollect
that Sir James Graham made any chivalrous
attempts to defend him against a legion of adver-
saries. "My right honourable friend, Mr. Ellice,
the member for Coventry, received an historical
reference from the recording lips of the retro-
spective orator. Poor Mr. Ellice was reminded
how he -had once been an ultra-protectionist for
"native industry; and even a passage from one
of Mr. Ellice's former speeches was quoted to
prove the assertion of the bitter baronet who repre-
sents Carlisle. Now, such conduct is hardly
fair as between one member of the House of
Commons and another. We suspect that Sir James
Graham gave no notice to the member for Coventry
that he was going to disinter one of his speeches
made thirty years since. The exordium of Sir J.
Graham's oration on Thursday thus commenced :
" Not ,seeing, sir,any gentleman disposed to address
the house, I shall take the liberty of making a few
observations." Just as if the speech had net been
under ineubation for a fortnight ! It was by acci-
dent that the extract from the speech of Mr.
Ellice came into his pocket. His speech, of course,
was not an impromptu fait a loisir. It is time, in.
deed, for Sir James Graham, after his forty years'
experience, to give up lisis " very peculiar" kind
of composition. Mr. NE:, however, can easily
retaliate by quoting extracts from " Corn and Cur-
rency," from the declamation by Sir J. Graham
against the " rival palaces" of the Duke of Welling-
ton and Sir Robert Peel (temp 1830); from bis anti-
popery speeches 1834), from his anti-whig speeches
in 1837; his protectionist speeches ix 1841, "with
the dismal sound of :he factory bell," the letter
opening defences (1844); the "dark" attack on
Recorder Shaw in 1846, and the Recorder's
rejoinder ; and a few other " extracts,'
which could scarcely come under the
head of " elegant," although they had been
spoken in the House of Commons by the fashion..
able Mr. Thomas Duncombe, and the eloquent ex-
M.P. for Edinburgh, Mr. Macaulay- The member
for Coventry is by no means inapt at statistical
calculatious, and he is as well qualified as anyone
else to count the unlucky whirls of the great par-
liamentary teetetum, during his Bpinninga for
forty yearn But the new members get from Sir
J. Graham an excellent lesson on Thursday night:
The elocutionary merits of the speaker, and the
personal defects of the senator never rising into
a IP4ding statesmant vfere- strikingly exemplified

in concocted havangue, delivered with off-hand
ease by the mo€t artificial of the debaters of our
time —Press.

'RAILWAY GRIEVANCES.

A. very short time ago the public complained
grievously of the railways ; now the railways com-
plain of the public or the government, which acts
for it. Upwards of 300,000,000/ of capital vested
in railways, it is stated, in a memorial adopted at a
meeting, held at the London Tavern on Wednes-
day, of the railway interest, obtain only 31. 12s per
cent., while railways in Germany and France
pay from 61. to 201. per cent. ; the larger re-
inuneration being due- to the protection and pri-
vileges accorded to them by the goverment. The
railway interest objects repeatedly to the facility
given by parliament to the construction of competing
lines, and particularly to bills now before parlia-
ment of which there is a great number, for con-
structing fresh works and branch lines of conside-
rable magnitude. Competition is branded as
injurious to the proprietors and productive of no
permanent utility to the public. The railways are
unjustly assessed, it is affirmed, both locally and
by the government; and are further aggrieved
by the undue severity of Lord Campbell's Act
for awarding compensation for injuries. The
privileged Post-office, too, takes away their
minor parcels traffic, and reduces their profits.
The ultimate prayer is to be placed under some
independent tribunal instead of parliamentary
committees, and that no " further branches or
extensions be encouraged by parliament, except in
case of paramount public necessity, until the
existing companies shall be at least in the receipt
of dividends according to the fair standard of
other commercial undertakings." The railway
interest, according to the chairman, Mr. Vance,
" suffers the most manifest injustice ever perpe-
trated by any government," and all apparently
because its dividends are not on the average more
than 31. 12s per cent.; and because some
ill-projected and ill-managed lines payno dividends
at all. It is a very sad thing unquestionably that
railways, which, mechanically, have succeeded be-
yond anticipation, and are quite wonderful for
their general utility and convenience, should have
failed commercially. While capital engaged in
other enterprises is yielding from six to ten per
cent , the capital invested in railways—which has,
in common with the gold discoveries and free
trade, contributed to raise the rate of profit
generally—yields little more than half the
lowest current rate of profit. But whose
fault is this ? The railway interest charge it on the
government erroneously; for the government had
nothing to do with " sinking a large amount of
capital" in barren lines. " The whole capital
was voluntarily provided by private enterprise,
without aid or contribution from the State." It is
altogether a private undertaking. The Govern-
ment neither incited nor encouraged the enter-
prise. It does not now encourage the formation of
new lines. The enormous expense of Acts of
Parliament, amounting in 1855 to £12,548,715,
was only one of the many obstacles the Govern-
ment threw in the way of constructing railways.
They were all overcome by railway projectors,
The new road promised to be a mine of wealth
to those who could work it. Thousands rushed
into the fields just as they rushed to the
diggings. It was impossible to get drafts-
men enough and clerks enough to
prepare the
prospectus. Millions of money were wasted on
ill-concocted schemes that never have answered.
Even those which have answered the best have in
general been conducted, in respect to showy
buildings, in anything but a parsimonious spirit.
Now, when ill'iounded expectations are, disap-
pointed, and the eagerness to get 10 or 15 per
cent. without ascertaining exactly how it was to
be got, is ascertained to have been a speculative
error, the railway proprietors and directors cast
all the blame from themselves on the
government. They have been destroying
each other's property, making competing lines
(and they are doing it now according to the
memorial), at the same time they blame the parlia-
ment for having granted them the boons they
urgently prayed for. They made out a "case for
the construction of a rail," " placed estimates
before committees," used great exertions to get
bills passed, and at length find that" the cost of
construction has exceeded the estimates, and the
expected profit has not been realised." By their
own showing they are to blame, and have no right
to demand help from the government. To us the
interest seems very much like an encumbered
landlord. As he has in his estate a good
security for large loans and a good facility
for making them, so railway directors had in the
capital collected from their original shareholders
a good security on which to borrow, and they did
borrow very largely. On July 19 of last year, we
published several extracts from Captain Galton's
report on railways for 1855, including this passage
—" Of the total amount raised for the construction
of railways, 75,161.2411 has been loans, 52,818,0261.
preference shares, and the remainder, viz ,
169,604,0171., ordinary share capital." One notice-
able fact is that from 1849 to 1854 inclusive, the
average rate of dividend on the whole of the
ordinary share capital con tinually increased,
but in 1855 declined. The difference between
the sum appropriated to dividends on these shares
in 1855, and 1854, is 327,080/. less in 1855, but
the difference between the sum payable as interest
on preference shares and loans in 1855 and in
1854, is £392,383 more in 1855—showing very dis-
tinctly where the increased earnings of the rail-
ways went. Out of these earnings no lsss than
£5,888,857 was appropriated to pay interest on
money borrowed, as loans or as preference shares,
We suppose that in the year 1856, owing to the
continued high rate of interest, and debentures
having been renewed in the year, the sum devoted
to the payment of interest was still larger, which
helps to explain present complaints; connected, as
they are, with complaints of. the supposed
influence of the currency laws in producing
a high rate of interest. The capital
was borrowed at the current rate of interest
which has always been paid. There has been no
repudiation by railways, and the original share-
holders have only received dividends after they
have paid their creditors. In cases where deben-
tures and other forms of borrowing had to be
renewed since the current rate of interest has be-
come unusually high, the railway proprietors have
suffered, like all other borrowers, from the high rate
and the activity of, trade, which has increased their
traffic and enhanced their gain, has also enhanced
the interest they have had to pay on every renewed
mortgage, thus depriving the shareholders of the
advantages of the general prosperity. The pre-
ference shares are as much a loan or a mortgage as
the debentures issued, and in fact have borne higher
rate of interest. Together the two mortgages are
127,979,2671., while the share capital is 169,604,0171;
the average interest on all preference shares was
upwards of 5 per cent., a©d the average interest of
ail loans was more than 41 per cent. The parties
who have their money in railway securities have
no reason to find fault with the investment.
In fact, preference shares are as good a security as
is to be found in the market, and, yielding a higher
interest, are preferred to Consols. The holders
of these shares have done well, whatever may be the
fate of the holders of the original share capital. But
after the financiers of the great undertaking have
thus burdened it and mortgaged it, leaving the
men who first advanced their money for the great
undertaking with a small dividend, they ask the
government for help, and utter many reproaches
against it for their want of means to pay large di-
vidends to the original shareholders. The Irish
landlords, sinking under their mortgages, had as
good a right to complain of the government—and
they did complain—as the railway financers have
now to complain. Who they are we care not
minutely to inquire; but if the shareholders look
close'y into their own concerns, they will find
amongst their own directors their chief mis-
managers.—Economist

THE CURRENCY REFORM MOVEMENT.
We are glad to see that the spirit of monetary
Worm, though trampled upon and despised by
sectioli which represents the millionaires, is not yet
dead; not' do we believe, so long as the existence