The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY. EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1864.

N°. 22.561

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during the whole day, though in some instances persons
fainted from the pressure of the crowd, The good conduct
of the people excited the astonishment of strangers. A re-
markable feature in the scene was the number of women of
all ages with children in their arms, not a few of them
mothers with infants at their breast. It was calculated that
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such magnitude, or so gratifying in its nature, ever before
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eloquent address, briefly reviewed the life and labours of
Father Mathew, and asked :

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" Who pleaded so passionately for the poor as he did ?
who worked for them as he did ?—who sacrificed for them
as he did ?—who stripped himself of his worldly goods
and embarrassed himself for them as Theobald Mathew
did ? (Cheers.) Think of the time when multitudes of God's
creatures—old and young, the strong man and the tender
infant—lived upon hia charity—would have perished with-
out his daily b,unty ; and then say, however glorious his
fame as the most illustrious reformer of his age, whether he
is not dearer to you as the devoted priest of the sanctuary,
as the dauntless champion of the poor, as he who fed the
hungry, and gave drink to the thirsty, and clothed the
naked, and sheltered the stranger and the wanderer, and
protected the widow and the orphan 1" (Cheers.) He con-
cluded as follows :—" The fight he fought was a great and
a noble one, and he resolved to die in harness. He died as a
soldier of the Cross, with his armour on. He died amid the
tears and the benedictions of all men, and upon his sainted
grave no hand has flung aught but a flower, and no tongue
has coupled his holy name with aught save a blessing or a
prayer. (Hear, hear.) This, then, is the man whom you are
met this day to honour—to honour by your union, your con-
cord, your dignity of demeanour. (Hear, hear.) To honour
such a man is to do honour to yourselves, to your country,
to the Irish name; not to honour him would be a disgrace
to you and to Ireland. (Loud cheers•) It is now my pleas-

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Inauguration of the Statue of Father
Mathew.

ing du,y, in the name of the citizens of Cork, to unveil the
statue which is to stand henceforward in your city as an
enduring memorial of its best and greatest citizen, and to
present to the gaze of those whom he loved and served in
life the semblance of those features which are so familiar to
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Brief addresses were then delivered by Mr Taylor, of the
National Temperance League, London, Mr Jas. Haughton,
Dublin ; and the Rev. Mr Dunscombe, a clergyman of the
Established Church. They exhorted the people to follow
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and expressed a hope that the demonstration would lead to
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DUBLIN, Oct. 10.
The public have been made acquainted with the career o
Father Mathew, " the Apostle of Temperance," by the ex
cell-nt " life" of him lately published by his friend and
ALP.,histhe present Mayor of
remarkable history may
be lrokw. - I aTbho
eu
principalrer , M r
parts Maguire,
o f
be briefly recalled to the recollection of our readers. Theo-
bald Mathew was a native of Tipperary, having been born
at Thomastown, five miles west of Chisel, on Oct. 10, 1790.
He was of good family, and had aristocratic connections.
He presented a striking illustration of the saying that the
child is father to the man, being remarkable in his youth for
benevolence, gentleness, and piety. Having evinced a desire
to become a priest, he entered Maynooth in his 17th year, but
he was prevented by circumstances from finishing his course
in that college. He became, however, a priest of the order of
Capuchins ; and, being sent to the friary of that order in
Kilkenny, he soon became popular and influential in
consequence of his ability and earnestness as a preacher.
He was removed from that " mission " to Cork, where
he laboured fom forty years—nearly to the close of his
career—in a place called "the Little Friary," Black-
amoor-lane. He had won for himself a position of com-
manding influence by his unceasing labours in the cause
of philanthropy, when his attention was particularly
directed to the prevalence of intemperance among the work-
ing classes in the south, and the miseries it entailed. There
had been a temperance movement in Ulster conducted by
a few Presbyterian ministers, and some members of the So-
ciety of Friends gave it their entire support. But it was
evident they could. produce little effect among Roman Ca-
tholics, who must be moved through their religious feelings,
and that could be done only by one of their own priests. It
was under these circumstances that a fellow-townsman, Mr
William Martin, pressed upon the Capuchin friar the duty
of devoting himself to the temperance cause. After much
deliberation Hr Mathew conquered the modesty and diffi-
dence of his nature, and entered with his whole heart upon
his great mission. The effects he produced excited astonish-
ment and admiration wherever they became known. Not
only in the south and west, among Roman Catholics and
people of the Celtic race, but among the Saxons of Lein-
ster and the sturdy Presbyterians of Ulster, the marvellous
influence of the humble friar was felt. He was also most
warmly received in England and Scotland. A reformation
unparalleled in modern times was effected through the in-
strumentality of his preaching and the administration of
the temperance pledge. The charm of his goodness, his
earnestness, his loving and charitable spirit, which knew
no distinction of party, and scarcely any distinction of creed,
won all hearts. A priest of such a spirit, labouring so dis-
interestedly in such a cause in Ireland, struck people as a
phenomenon so strange as to be almost a miracle in
itself; and it is not wonderful that the Roman Catholic
peasantry, and even some Protestants, believed that he was
gifted with miraculous power. But his mission involved
him in pecuniary difficulties, and debt weighed heavily on
his mind for years. Then came the famine of 1847. During
that terrible year he made almost superhuman exertions to
save the starving people, and exerted his influence most
usefully in recommending and furthering the measures of

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the Government for the same object. But his labours and
anxieties were too much for his strength. In 1848 he was
smitten with paralysis, Partially recovering he went to
America in the summer of 1849 in order to reclaim and ele-
vate his countrymen in the United States. His mission was
successful, but his health gave way again, and he returned
to Ireland in 1851, broken down and disabled, but true and
brave to the last. He lingered on for five years, and he died
at his work on the Bth December, 1856, in the 66th year of
his age.
It was generally felt that such a public benefactor should
have an enduring monument erected to his memory in the
principal scene of his labours, and the appeal made to the
public for funds was responded to with the utmost alacrity.
The late Mr Hogan received a commission for a statue of
Father Mathew, and he had made some progress in the
work when the hand of that distinguished artist was pre-
maturely arrested by death. This calamity caused consi-
derable loss of time. At length Mr Foley, R.A., was in-
duced to undertake the task, which he has completed in a
manner which has won the admiration of every one who
has seen the statue, which was this day unveiled in the pre-
sence of an immense multitude of spectators. In every re-
spect it is considered to be a masterpiece, even more success-
ful as a likeness and in the propriety of the attitude and cos-
tume than the beautiful statue of Goldsmith, by the same
artist. The dress of Father Mathew was peculiarly suited
to artistic purposes, so that it needed only to be literally
copied, which has been done to perfection. The long frock
coat with standing collar, the cloak placed loosely on the
and half-clerical boots reaching to the knee
breeches were habitually worn by Father Mathew, just as
sthhreleyu-cimandpeepsiste:v,Y and hanging in easy and graceful folds, and the
half military
in this bronze statue. The face is an excellent
Temperance likeness. The ample hair crowning the full benevolent
forehead, the grave, thoughtful, but sweetly benevolent fen.
turaensthe are likewise
faithfully
Afulplyoagtlie ven. Nothing
has the right can be better
h
of
hand extended, as if addressing the people, or about to ad-
minister the pledge to the kneeling postulates, while on the
left arm is raised a portion of the cloak, and in the left hand
t position.
is placed a temperance medal, and on the breast is suspended
a cross. The statue has been most successfully cast by Mr
Prince, of London. It stands Bft high,
including the plinth.
stands 9f t 6in
which
The pedestal,high, has been designed
by Mr Atkins, architect. The following is the inscription :
—" Mathew," and .t Apostle of Temperance" on the freeze ;
on the block " The tritute of a grateful people" is inscribed
in the front, and at the back "
1864 . Erected in the mayoralty of
"
John Francis Maguire, M.P.,
The statue was placed on the pedestal on Saturday, and
covered with a scarlet robe, surmounted by a wreath of
white flowers. The unveiling was effected on a new plan
worthy of imitation.
the robe was so arranged that by
pulling a string it disappeared instantaneously.
The procession attracted immense numbers. The whole
population seemed to be in the streets, or thronging the
windows and balconies along the whole route, which was
about a mile and a half long. The procession took an hour
and 45 minutes in passing. The weather was most fa-
vourable, and the whole effect was exceedingly animated
and brilliant, It was quite surprising that a provincial
city like Cork could turn out its trades in such large num-
bers and with such splendid decorations. The first carriage
conveyed the Mayor of Cork and the corporate officers ;
after this the six private carriages; the Mathew Committee,
with their guests, went next in seven carriages ; then came
eight or nine temperance societies, with their bands; then
the members of the young men's societies. The trades
marched in the following order :—Corkcutters, cabinet-
mayers, bakers, house painters, stonecutters, curriers, house
carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, farriers, tailors,
plasterers, shipwrights, coopers, boot and shoe makers,
victuallers, coachmakers. and sawyers. The Odd Fellows'
Society and Foresters made a grand show. All those who
walked in the procession bore wands tipped with blue or
green, each wearing a bit of white riband. They also
wore scarfs (generally green) with white rosettes. The
flags and banners were all new, and many of them
really beautiful. There was not a policeman to be
seen on duty through the town, except at the platform ; and
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an arrangement ought to have their corattt OA
wishes for success. They had 228 miles of railway
in th:-... American States, c.nd they conducted busi•
ness with the American people there in the moat
friendly and satisfactory manner. It was a great
object to consolidate the colonies under the British
Crown extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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at the present time, and that British provinces
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GRAND TRUNB. OF CANADA.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the London Tavern; Mr E. W.
Watkin in the chair.
Mr S. M. Grant, the secretary, having read the
notice convening the meeting, the report was taken
as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the report for the
half year ending the 30th of June be received and
adopted, said it would be his duty to give them an
account of their stewardship. They had endea-
voured to give the proprietors all the information
they could in the report, so that they might be able
more calmly to consider the state of their affairs
than it was possible for them at a meeting of that
kind. He was enabled to state that the traffic re-
turns for the week ending the 24th of September
amounted to £27,636 against £24,679 for the cor-
responding week of last year. (Hear, hear.) He
found that, on comparing the traffic receipts from
the Ist of July to the date he had mentioned with
those for the same period in 1863, there was an in-
crease of £41,454, or 17 per cent. On taking the
receipts and expenses up to the latest return there
was an increase in the net receipts of £15,068, or
351 per cent. They would find the statement of
capital in the 18th and 19. h pages of the report,
and it was unnecessary for him to add anything to
that statement. Ha would pass on to the other side
of their account, which included the deplorable acci-
dent of Beloeil Bridge, the continuation of the
American war, and the American currency. As
regarded the Beloeil accident they were unable to
discover any fault in the company's rules for work-
ing the traffic. The Beloeil Bridge crossed a tribu-
tary of the St Lawrence, and was a lift or swing
bridge. He was not aware of any swing bridge
that had been worked without accident. At almost
all the swing bridges accidents had happened.
It was a dangerous thing to life and property
on a railway to have such bridges, capable of form-
ing a gap in the way it was most desirable to do
away with such bridges, and substitute permanent
structures in their place. A settlement of all the
claims had been effected on terms which were fair
to the sufferers and to the company. He then ex-
plained that the fluctuation in the American cur-
rency had given the directors great anxiety. On
taking the quotations of the prices of gold since
August, 1863, he found they fluctuated from 1221
to 276, and from the 161 h of July last the highest
price was 276, and it came down as lo as 189.
Those fluctuations caused immense disturbance in
the whole of their operations. He would be glad
if they could render an account in sterling money,
and have only small deductions to deal with, but to
give an idea of the fluctuations in the American cur-
rency during the past year they must suppose a
sovereign worth at one time 165., then to go down
gradually to 75., and afterwards rise to lls. and all
varieties between those amounts. This caused the
price of labour and materials to fluctuate very con-
siderably, so as to make it very difficult to control
and regulate their affairs. They had been more for-
tunate in this respect than other companies ; they
had large sums to pay in American currency on
account of their having 228 miles of their railway
in the United States; they had to pay working ex-
penses, interest on bonds, and the Portland sinking
fund in that currency (£42,000), making altogether
about £160,000 or £170,000, which they were en-
abled to pay in that currency to the 20th of June.
They had sold a portion of their American funds,
and could replace them at a profit of 30,000 dols.
which was a fortunate and prudent transaction, but
it did not follow that losses on that account might
not occur. With money at 9 per cent. in London ii
was necessary to be cautious. It might go 'signer
or come down in a few months hence to 4 per cent.
The fluctuations in prices had caused the cost of
rolling rails to rise from 30 dole. a ton to 42 dole. a
ton, and wages of labourers from 1 dol. a day to
1 dol. 75c., just as if the value of a sovereign were
to vary from lls. to 7s. This had also caused a
great stagnation of trade, which would continue
more or less as those fluctuations happened. On
the other side of the account they had been enabled
to purchase £lOO,OOO of portland bonds which they
would have to pay off in 1866, and as they had a
good opportunity to purchase them they had ems
braced it. They could now dispose of these bonds
at a profit ; and they, proposed to deal with them
as was best for the interests of the company. The
gross receipts from all sources during the half-year
ending the 30th of June amounted to £528,301, the
working expenses to £315,021, and the balance to
£213,280; deducting from this £31,489 for the re-
newal of the permanent way left a net balance of
£181,791. The gross receipts, as compared with
those of the corresponding half of 1863, showed an
increase of £72,079, or equal to 15.80 per cent.
There was an increase in the number of passengers
carried of 66,164, or 1447 per cent., and in the re-
ceipts for passengers of £25,488, or 17.12 per cent.
The average receipt per passenger in 1863 was
ss. 7d., and in 1864, 6s. With regard to the freight
they had carried 430,034 tons, against 369,484
tous, showing an increase of 60,550 tons. The re
ceipts for freight had been £349,539, as against
£302,088, showing an increase of 47,451, or 15.70
per cent. The average yield per ton in 1864 was
16a. 3d., and in 1863, 16s. 4d. He then called
attention to the progress the company had made
in respect of net revenue. For the year 1859 it
amounted to £73,357, in 1860 to £102,684, in
1861 to £142 492, in 1862 to £170,233, and in
1863 to £315,036; and for the first half of 1864 to
£181,791, which was the largest net receipt they
had ever had in any previous half year. He called
their attention to the improvement of the perma
neat way, which had hitherto gone on rapidly, but
it might happen that in carrying out those improve-
ments financial considerations might induce them to
exercise some caution. The agreement with the
Buffalo and Lake Huron Company had been car-
ried into effect, and he was happy to say it had
met with approval in Upper Canada, and was
working most satisfactorily. Instead of the Western
produce sent by that line being confined to the route
via Buffalo, the forwarder could now send it as well
to Toronto or to Montreal. Mr Brydges had re-
ported that the traffic over the Buffalo and Lake
Hurcn line was now 40 per cent. more than for the
corresponding period of last year, and he was of
opinion that it the international bridge at Buffalo
was completed he could easily double that increase.
With regard to the leased lines they were working
satisfactorily. The receipts on the Atlantic and
St. Lawrence lines amounted to £104,000, and after
deducting expenses and other charges, there re-
mained a balance of £6,166. But if the interest
on those bonds were payable in England, there
would have been a loss in exchange of £5,588. The
Detroit and Port Huron line showed a receipt of
£27,616, and expenses of £28,425, including rent,
showing an apparent loss of £BO9 ; but if they had
to pay in gold there would have been a loss of
£7,068. The accounts with respect to the state of
crops in Canada led them to believe that they
would have as much traffic on the railway as they
could carry. The only limit woald be the quantity
of plant they could make available to carry it. He
found that the Canadian revenue was in a most
satisfactory state, and was more than sufficient to
meet the current expenditure. The receipts for
Customs in September in Montreal were 4,000,000
dole., against 2,400,000 dole. for the same month last
year. At Hamilten and Toronto the increase was
also very considerable, showing that the general
trade of the country was very satisfactory. He
had every confidence that the reciprocity treaty be-
tween the United States and Canada would be re-
newed on an equitable and fair basis. He believed
that the cessation of that treaty had been the cause
of the present endeavour to unite the upper and
lower provinces of North America into one Govern-
ment, instead of three separate Governments ;
to
organise one system of defence, and one system of

went.

Mr T. BARING, M.P., seconded the motion for the
adoption of the report.
The CHAIRMAN, in reply to questions, stated that
the loss on the currency in the past half-year had
been avoided, not postponed—they had nothing to
carry over ©n that account. As to the postal account
he had been assured that it would be very soon set-
tied, and he believed the Governtlient of Canada
would soon pay them what was due.
Mr ADAMS said he held £1,200 stock in the
company, and appealed to Mr. Baring as to whether
he had not a right to be heard. He then proceeded
to. address the meeting, when
The CHAIRMAN ob)ected to hear Mr Adams until
he could put the question to the meeting as to
whether they would hear Mr Adams or not, and
requested him to sit down. He (the chairman) said,
owing to the state of his health, he would only be
too glad to be released from his position in the com-
pany. He would not preside over a meeting unless
it was conducted in a businesslike manner. On two
previous occasions Mr Adams had made speeches and
voted at their meeting when he had no right what-
ever to do so. He could not allow Mr Adams to
proceed without first obtaining the assent of the
meeting.
Mr ADAMS contended that he had a right to be
heard, and complained that the chairman had not
allowed him to give an explanation.
A PROPRIETOR thought that, as Mr Watkin had
done so much for the company, they should support
him in the course he thought proper to adopt, and
he trusted that the day was not far distant when
they would vote him a substantial acknowledgment
of those services.
Mr J. MERCER said it was well known that Mr
Adams entertained certain ideas and notions of his
own; and as he had addressed them twice before
when he was not a proprietor, he thought the opi•
nion of the meeting should be taken. He now aps
peared desirous of diverting the meeting from the
statements of the Board, after the very able and
clear manner in which everything had been laid
before them.
Mr. ADAMS said he never had an opportunity of
replying to the observations.
The CHAIRMAN then put the questinn, and the
meeting by a show of hands decided on not hearing
Mr. Adams.
Mr. ADAMS said he must reply.
The CHAIRMAN then put the motion for the adop.
tion of the report, which was carried unanimously,
and he declared the business concluded.
Thanks were voted to the chairman and directors,
and the meeting separated.