The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

APRIL 5, 1859.

of a mile.

Merry Peal, 4 yrs; Sarprise, 3 yrs; Harriett (late
Jessie), 6 yrs; Lady iu Waiting, 3 yrs; Forester, 6 yrs;
Dulcet, aged; Bilberry, 3 yrs; Yellow Boy, 3 yrs; The
Rogue, 4 yrs; Knight of the Thistle, 4 yrs; Cotieula, 4
yra; Iris, 4 yrs; Sprig of Shillelah, 3 yrs; Dividend,
yrs; Longinus, 5 yrs; Butterfly, 3 3 r 3; Robt;:.t, 3 yrs;
Heroine, 6 yrs; Croupier, 4 3, rs; fby Lanercoet, out of
Cytherea, 3 yrs; c by Venison, out of Passion, 3 yrs;
Iracundus, 4 yrs; Mariana, 3 yrs; Leybourne, 4 yrs;
Captious, 3 yrs; lanthe, 4 yrs; Tonic, 4 yrs; Xenophon,
3 yrs; Faukpas, 4 yrs; Narcissus, 5 yrs; Happy Jee, 3
yrs; Scavenger, 6 yrs; Catalpa, 4 yrs; Father Thames,
3 yrs; Haresfoot, 4 yrs; Follow ma-Lads, 4 yrs; Staple-
ton, 3,;yrs; Hungerford, 4 yrs; Joc-o'-SA, aged; Buck-
thorn, 3 yrs.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Earl Fi;zwillam's hds., Thuraduy, Bulwick ; Satur-
day, Apthorpc-10.
The Cleveland hds., Thursday, Ciaphow-10.
The South Devon hds., Thurs.,'Afton Brook, Berry.
Mr. Trelawney's hds., Thurs., Wsdharn-10f.
The Durham County hds., Thurs , Elm Park-101.
The Carmarthenshire hds., Thurs., Conviill-10.
The Tivyside hds., Thurs., Pontarsally-10.
The Llandly hds., Fri., Pembrey House—S.
Sir W. W. VVynn's hds., Thurs., Llanged win.
The Tredegar hds., Thurs., Penyland Gate-10i,
Mr. Wheblo's hds., to-morrow, Hampstead Norris;
Wed., Finchampstead Ridges; Sat., Pinge Wood-11.
The H. H. hds., Tours., Brandean Common; Sat.,
Raleigh House-11.

EXTENSION OF INTERCOURSE BET W EEN
ENGLAND AIVD IRELAND.
We understand that the most extensive arrangements
are in progress to increase the facilities for travelling
in Ireland during the ensuing season, and to encourage
the visits of strangers from all quarters to the remote
and romantic regions of the West. For this purpose the
Chester and Holyhead Railway. Company, have entered
into cornranniestionwith the different leading lines in both
countries, and the directors are determined to csrry out
the plan upon a most liberal and extensive scale. Wo
think all parties will agree, that there is nothing more
calculated to rouse the dormant energies of this country
and devAop its resources, than by thus uniting both
countries cordially and practically together in such a
desirable project.
Wo believe that it is in contemplation to issue return
excursion tickets to Ist and 2d class passengers in all
the leading towns in England and Scotland, returnable
at the end of one month, and upon the most moderate
terms.

On the arrival of the tourists in Dublin they will be
enabled to proceed by the following routes, with the
option of stopping when and where they please, and of
joining the lines again at any point they may deem con-
venient; while ample accommodation will be provided
for them not only directly along the lino itself, but also
to visit the different districts it passes through, either in
the way of business or amusement.
It is proposed that tourists should go in the first in-
stance from Dublin to Cork. and, after visiting the
scenery of that delightful neighbourhood, proceed by
rail to Bandon, and then to Bantry, taking in all the
beautiful scenery of the south and west, and opening
the vast resources of that important district, in which
the agricultural, mineral, and marine resources of Ire-
land now lie comparatively dormant, for want of that
very system of internal traffic, which it is the object of
these companies to promote.
From Bantry the route will lie through the magnifi-
cent scenery of Glengariff and Kenmare to Killarney,
thence to Mallow, and back to Dublin.
The second route is from Dublin to Galway, and
then west by Oughterard to Clifden, and by Connemara
and the Killeries to Westport, and back by Castlebar
and Tuam, &e., to Dublin. Tourists can, if necessary,
extend their routes to Ballycroy and Erris, and home
by. those vast tracts of Grillo and uncultivated lands
around the Nephin, to Balling, Roscommon, and Long-
ford, through some of the richest but most deserted tracts
in Ireland.

In addition to the above special excursion tickets will
bo issued to the county of Wicklow, and also to the
Giant's Causeway from Dublin, whereby the beauties,
as well as the resources, of Ireland will be suddenly
opened to the world at large, upon a scale of accommo-
dation and at a rate of price that rill astonish the na-
tives.

Having thus given a very brier sketch of the pro-
posed project, we beg to call the attention of our country
friends to the subject, and to point out to the holders of
land, as well as to those who are on the look out for it,
the vast field of operations thus opened to their view.
To the capitalist and tenant-farmers in England and
Scotland, anxious to break ground in Ireland, do we
direct our special attention, and call upon them to be
prepared to take advantage of the move during the
ensuing season. Hitherto, wo know they have been de-
terred from the difficulties that beset tbeir path, in
poking their way through the remote districts of the
south and west, and that many of them have returned
in despair for this very reason ; but now here is a holy
alliance of the most influential and important Oodles in
the three kingdoms, to place their vast machinery at
their command, and to enable them to visit every part
of Ireland, upon terms, and under circumstances, such
as were never contemplated or conceived before.
For example, a capitalist or large tenant-farmer, from
England or Scotland, anxious to invest his capital, his
industry, and skill in the legitimate and untrammelled
cultivation of the land, can purchase an "Irish tourist
ticket," as it is called, for 51., or for 6/., according to the
class he wishes to travel in, in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Car-
lisle Hull, Birmingham, London, &c. On his arrival in
Dublin he will be enabled to make the necessary in-
quiries, at his leisure, as to what routes he will pursue,
and where he will seek to direct his enterprise. Having
acquired the necessary information from an office
specially established for the purpose, ho will resume his
journey, and be carried down, without trouble or an-
noyance, to within a few miles of his destination; and
whether his inclination leads him to the mountains of
Kerry and Iveragh, the fertile banks of the Shannon,
or the wild and more remote, but not less interesting,
plains of Connaught and the far West, it is all the same,
for he carries a little ticket in his pocket, and as long as
he keeps that safe, it will frank him, like a talisman,
wherever he goes, and will bring him back at the end of
a month safe and sound to the very spot he started from.
In f .et, we cannot possibly exaggerate the importance
of this movement, we regard it as the most fortunate
event that could occur, and the one best calculated to
solve our present difficulties, and to get this country out
of the fix it is in. For it is not by bungling or party
legislation that it can be done, but by the energy and
active co-operation of the master minds who built the
Tubular-bridge, with their kindred brethren in Ireland;
and we are delighted to see that the former are not
going to stop either at Bangor or at Holyhead, but aro
determined to push their lino on practically to Dublin,
so as to unite and to co-operate with that great arterial
system of traffic, which is now nearly matured in
Ireland.
We shall return to the subject, for it is one of deep
and vital interest, and, in the meantime, we conjure
theironr
country friends to second the railway companies in_
noble endeavours to open the wide fields of profitable develop
investment now before them, and practically, to
system
theo
r
the vast resources of this country. By making a good
t
beginning now, we lay the foundation fora s
international intercourse and traffic, from which
happiest results must follow.—lrish Farmers Gazette.

, 7.411/KE
that steps were being taken,
It was stated last week
resolution agreed to at a full
TIIE----S.ENGINE .
in conformity with a
oresof
the Amalgamated Society,
meeting of the executive a
reconciliation between the
have ngineers ; unhappily, how-
ever, and ec3Pl°Yi proved abortive. We ins-
oper
far,
towards bringing
ever, those steps, so hno formal application, by means
derstand that, annoy( _ as
council of the Amalgamated
h been made by the London
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executive
members of tehecentra
1 Committee of the Associated Em-
ot a written docu
Society toi
dtli-leid cull members of the latter body have been
Pl°Yers'-nto
by the former, with a view
.to enlist their
appealed .
__in the cause of an amicable adjustment of the
ialcau"
dispute, but, unfortunately, without having produced
any satisfactory result ,
from the tenor of the Manchester employers' reply, that
asstis
Factory settlement of the question is all but hope-
less, inasmuch as the men, as a body, although they
have made the first overtures towards peace, cannot be
expected to surrender unconditionally to the employers'
terms. The principal reliance of the operative appears
to be upon the support of the trades generally—a sup-
port, however, which is not at present so encouraging in
extent as to warrant very sanguine hopes of ultimate
triumph on the part of the men. The engineers, •on
Saturday, received their twelfth week's strike pay at the
reduced rate—viz., 10s. each for society and non society
men ; but even this sum they will find some difficulty in
maintaining unless the trades come forward with more
energetic assistance.
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,XPLOSION AND MIRACULOUS ESCAPE ON THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Saturday an explosion of
an engine occurred on the line of the Great Western Rail-
way, and, though occasioning serious damage to person and
property, was providentially unattended with loss of life.
It appears that about three o'clock in the morning, on a
goods train, consisting of 38 trucks, arriving at Bull's-bridge,
near the Southall station, the boiler of the engine suddenly
burst with a terrific report, by the force of which the funnel
and dome were shattered to pieces. The engine- driver,
named Taylor, was thrown several feet into the air, then
falling on the tram-road; while the fireman was precipitated
about three yards on to the embankment. Taylor was lying
insensible, and was conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital, Pad-
dington ; his face, neck, and head were frightfully disfigured
from having been scalded by the steam. Every attention
was paid him, and yesterday afternoon he was progressing
favourably.
THE NEWPORT OLD BANK.—On Monday, at the
uaftp
Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy, the bankrupts came
on their last adjourned examination, which they passed,
some inquiries had been instituted relative to their 11130 a 1,1
,antg
with the Newport and Caerleon Savings Bank,,
Abercaurn and Gwyther Colliery. The bank, it was shown,
were now creditors to the amount of 1,0451. Ilia Honour
be
intimated that, before the certificate wouldb the colliery,
and
granted, a
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