The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION.

of William Dargan.' (Loud and enthusiastic cheering,
and waving of handkerchiefs in every part of the
building.")
To this we are told there was an expression of the
" utmost enthusiasm," and the very appropriate air,
"Had you the luck to see Donnybrook Fair," was sung
as the most fitting finale to the chairman's speech.
Mr. Dargan then responded as follows :—Mr. Chair-
man, my lords, and gentlemen, I thank you most deeply
and most sincerely for the honour you have done me, by
the cordiality, the good feeling, and the approbation
which I discovered in that hearty cheer with which I
was rejoiced and delighted. (Hear, hear.) There are
many classes of men in the community performing their
own duties with every attention, every care, and every
justice ; but the man who, by his own intelligence in
the application of his own energies, who in the applica-
tion of that gifted mind which so peculiarly belongs to
the manufacturer, the artist, and the genius—who,
whilst he is prosecuting his own legitimate objects for
his own advantage, spreads benefit and blessing which
the employment of labour gives to sustain the rich and
support the poor—that man represents one peculiar
class, and it is from this class of men, which I believe
to be a valuable stay of human society, that I have now
received this distinguished honour— (cheers)--and I
can truthfully may, there is no compliment that could
have come upon me with equal force and with equal
feelings as that conferred upon me by men of my own
station and prosecuting my own duties. (Cheers.) I
may now tell you who have contributed so largely to
what we all, thank goodness, are able to say has suc-
ceeded. (Cheers.) Though at one time there may have
been, or rather there was a great doubt of our success,
that it has been successful through your aid and under
the guidance and the management of a number of gen-
tlemen, who took up their duties without prospect or
hope of any reward except the approbation of their
countrymen, and who performed those duties with a
zeal, an activity, a judgment, a skill, and an untiring
perseverance that I never saw equalled. (Hear,lhear.)
As I said before, there was a time when even the most
sanguine amongst us were doubtful ; but it is a very
high gratification to have come to this period and to
feel as I think and hope—and as I believe this evening
gives evidence—that in our experiment we have been
successful. (Loud cheers.) If no other result had
happened from our Exhibition than the visit of our
gracious Queen, coining to stamp with her notice
and with her dignity her appreciation of labour and
its results, and of art and genius, such as was displayed
before her in that Exhibition, I think it would have
amply repaid us for all the trouble we had. (Hear.) But
I do hope that other and more lasting results will come
from it. (Hear.) I hope that now we know the way,
and that we know what can be done by labour, and in-
telligence, and genius, having had not only the result of
our own exertions, but the co-operation and kind assis-
tance of persons and exhibitors from all countries—
(hear) -rwho have placed before us the products of their
skill as a lesson to ourselves and our people, I do hope
that this Exhibition, which has been so kindly and
generously managed by those gentlemen, as I men-
tioned before, who gave their time to it, and by you
who so nobly came forward to aid and embellish it,
will not pass away without permanent results. (Hear,
hear.) As regards myself, in connection with it I may
justly say that I have never had greater pleasure in
any undertaking with which I was connected. (Ap-
plause.) With its results I am still better pleased ; and if
anything were wanted to gratify and to satisfy me as to
the value and the advantage to be derived from it, it
would be this cordial co-operation, and this generous
tribute that is paid to the committee and to me by the
exhibitors. (Cheers.) I need not say more—other
topics may be better touched on at other places, and
there is much to be said this evening I believe. I will
not trespass on you further, but 'I am deeply grateful
and sincerely hopeful. Mr. Dargan resumed his seal;
amidst the warmest acclamations.

Mr. Dargan then proposed the Chairman's health,
who, of course, when returning thanks, expressed his
" utterly inability" to do so. And thus, after a few
more speeches, terminates an event which might have
been creditable to those concerned in it, but which, so
far as we can gather, leaves Mr. Dargan to glean his
renown and honourable distinction from the common
sense of the world, rather than from the generous sym-
pathy of his own countrymen. Thus they estim tte
their great men in Ireland !

NEW REFORM BILL.

(From the Times . )

Among all the subjects which will engage the public
mind next session there is none so important, or per-
haps so difficult, as that of the elective franchise. A
faulty distribution of electoral districts, an imperfect
manner of taking the suffrage—almost any mistake may
be remedied except that which relates to the franchise ;
but here an error is not only most important but most
irretrievable. France was, indeed, able to recall a fran-
chise rashly conceded, but the revocation was immedi-
ately followed by the total loss of her liberties, and a
nominal return to the abrogated franchise by way of
compensation. If we place our franchise too high it is
easy to lower it ; if we place it too low it i impossible
to raise it. This is the lesson of all constitutional his-
tory—a lesson which never ought to be absent from our
minds.

BANQUET TO WILLIAM DARGAN AND THE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
DUBLIN, Thursday.—The Great Exhibition of 1853,
the opening of whioh, it will be remembered, was com-
memorated by a grand banquet, given by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, caused at its conclusion another
display of public feeling, no less illustrative of the gene-
ral interest it excited, and which proved no less the
high esteem in which its great originator is held by all
`classes and ranks of society. A banquet to the Execu-
tive Committee and Mr. Dargan, from whose enterprise
and public spirit the Exhibition arose, by the exhibitors,
to whose liberality in contributing their goods so much
of its success is due, was indeed a happy thought, the
carrying out of which formed a fitting termination to
the Exhibition season. The arrangements for this de-
monstration were on a large and magnificent scale, and
the anxiety to procure tickets perhaps unprecedented.
The banquet was served in the King's Room of the
Mansion-house, which was appropriately ornamented
with mementoes of the Exhibition.
The chair was occupied by Wm. Fry, Esq., T.C. On
the right of the chair sat William Dargan, the guest of
the evening, and on his left Geo. Roe, Esq., Chairman
of the Executive Committee. Amongst the noblemen
and gentlemen present were the following :—The Lord
Mayor ; Earl Clancarty, Lord Massereene, Lord Talbot
de Malahide, Lord Ward, Lord Gough, Lord Rossmore,
Earl Bective, Lord Besborough ; Sir Hervey Bruce,
Sir A. Brooke, Sir P. Nugent, Sir J. Benson, Sir W.
Somerville, Sir C. P. Roney, Sir J. K. James, Sir E.
M'Donnel, Sir R. Kane, G. Roe, Esq., W. D. La Touche,
W. Dargan, J. Pennefather, T. Hutton, W. Fry, J.
Barton, Hon. J. Vereker, William Pare, L. E. Foot,
Walter Sweetman, W. J. Murland, R. Andrews, J.
Classon, W. H. Porter, Rt. Hon. More O'Ferral, W.
Tefford, Sir James Murray, Robert Cassidy, Dr. Orpen,
Thos. Connolly, M.P. ; Anketell T. M. Gresham, Alder-
man Gresham. Alderman Hoyte, the Mayor of Cork,
the Mayor of Belfast, -the Mayor of Limerick, Mr. Chap-
lin, Mr. Fishbourn, Mr. Todd, Mr. Purdon, Mr. Coulson,
Dr. Lover, Prof. Gluckman, Mr. Bell, Mr. Sibthorpe,
Mr. M'Kay, Mr. Bagot, Mr. Fairbairne, Mr. Carlton,
r. Reed, Dr. Steele, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Kerr, Mr.
Gilpin, Mr. Codd, Mr. Delany, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Can
nick, Mr. Papworth, Mr. Vance, Mr. Hodges, Dr.
Thomell, Mr. Hirsch, Mr. Willans, Mr. Waterhouse,
Mr. Courtenay, Mr. Box, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Cordner,
Mr. Baird, Rev. Ogle Moore, Mr. R. F. Mulvany, Mr.
Stephens, Alderman Guinness, Dr. Barker, Mr. Austin,
Mr. Woodhouse, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Gray, Mr. Roche.
This banquet was given ostensibly to the great founder
and promoter of the Irish Exhibition, without whose
help, in all probability, the Exhibition would never have
taken place at all. To Mr. Dargan the entire country
owes a debt of gratitude, for he did, out of his impulsive
generosity, what no Irish noble in the whole lengtll
and breadth of the land either could, or was willing to
do. Yet, mark the result. In the long report of thes e
proceedings, published in Saunders's News Letter, we
find long, tawdry, wordy speeches, full of the silly rub-
bish emanating from an after-dinner mind "in honour"
of people who had no more to do with the Exhibition
than with the building of the Tower of Babel, while the
man of the day, greater on this occasion than any man
there, had the honour, forsooth, of having his health
proposed by the chairman in the following cold and mo-
dified terms
Gentlemen, we have now arrived at the toast of the
evening. (Cheers.) Never in my life did I feel so in-
competent to the performance o any task I had under-
taken as I feel at this moment ; and I know that I can
only cast myself upon your indulgence for the few words
which I shall endeavour to address to you. In looking
at the position which Mr. Dargan holds this evening,
let us contemplate it in connection with the Great Ex-
hibition which has just now closed. Had that Exhibi-
tion never taken place, Mr. Dargan would be one of the
greatest manufacturers of this country, one of the largest
employers, and one of those who set the brightest ex-
ample of industry and enterprise. Nevertheless, his
name is inseparably connected with this Exhibition.
Gentlemen, we cannot think of it without naturally re-
verting to the Great Exhibition of 1851, and we naturally
compare our Exhibition with that one. You all recollect
that the idea of the Exhibition of 1851 originated with
Prince Albert. Tae chairman then reviewed the
history of the Exhibition of 1851, remarking that
the committee of that project did riot proceed to
carry it out until after they had obtained subscrip-
tions to the amount of 80,0001. and a Parliamentary
guarantee. He then adverted to the circumstances under
which the Exhibition in Dublin had been started, and
went on to say, the only guarantee which Mr. Dargan
e luired inr elation to it was, that nota shilling should b 3
advanced for its purposes by any one but himself.
(Cheers.) That guarantee was given, and he required
an >ther, which was, that under no circumstances should
he have a shilling profit out oF its proceeds. These were
acts quite in accordance with the spirit for which he is
so distinguished. (Hear and cheers.) Gentlemen, my
great desire this evening is to speak to some practical
Purpose. My great objec, is to speak not so much of
Mr. Dargan himself as of his works and of his character,
and to endeavour to impress upon you, as I hope I have
Impressed upon myself, the example which he has set to .
country. It is only in this point of view that I can
look on this banquet as of any national importance.
Gentlemen, in one word, I feel totally incompetent to do
ludlee to this toast. I therefore give you The health

and respectability. The operatives yield to these per-
suasions, and are now linked together in the insane de-
sign of effecting the ruin of their masters, and, through
their ruin, their own. These, surely, are not the people
to whom we can entrust the management of our affairs.
It will not be, we apprehend, for them that we shall
make a new Reform Bill. The man who cannot
manage his own concerns with ordinary prudence is un-
fit to be trusted with those of others, and he who is too
stupid, too weak, or• too unruly to conform to the regu-
lations of a factory, has little claim to a voice in the
government of an empire. We are an old country, en-
cumbered by debts and complicated relations of every
kind, with ancient institutions adapted to modern pur-
poses, with a machinery of government so delicate that
few beyond ourselves understand it, and we cannot
afford to risk this noble, mechanism in the rash and un-
tutored hands than are stretched out to grasp it. Ex-
tend the suffrage if you will, down to the present limit,
but forbear to lower that limit so as to include men of
whom we need say nothing worse than that they are
likely to be as bad stewards of our interests as they have
been of their own.

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SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.

An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders
of this company was held yesterday at the Bridge House
Hotel, London-bridge, for the purpose of further and
finally resolving on the expediency of a dissolution of
the company, Mr. James Macgregor, M.P., the chair-
man of the company presided.

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100

The following report of the directors was submitted
to the meeting :—The accounts of the South-Eastern
and Continental Steam-packet Company, now submitted
to the proprietors, show an available balance of assets
at their disposal of 135,0911. Bs. 11d., which includes
the sum of 99,4061., which will be paid by the South-
Eastern Railway Company for the eight steam ships
belonging to the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-
packet Company on their transfer, and a balance in cash
at the bankers of 38,366/. 18s. 3d. It will be observed
in the accounts that the company still has outstanding
claims to settle, to the amount of 1,8171. Bs. 4d., and
that there is a sum of 9881. is. due to proprietors for
dividends which have been declared, and which are in
course of payment. The number of shares which have
been paid up by the proprietors is 11,099 shares ; and
the number upon which calls are still due is 23 shares ;
and the amount of calls due is 1241. The directors
will submit the following resolutions to the proprie-
tors :

all
111
100
, 17t
114
all

1. That it is further and finally resolved, that a dis-
solution of the company (such dissolution having been
recommended by the directors) is expedient.
2. That the report of the directors, the profit and
loss account, and the balance-sheet of the accounts of
the company now produced to this meeting be and the
same are hereby approved. _ _ _

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40
25
25

812 s

3. That the drift deed of release submitted to this
meeting be and the same is hereby approved ; and, in
order to the final winding-up of the affairs and concerns of
the company, the directors are hereby requested to pro-
cure the execution by all proper parties of a deed in
conformity therewith, and they are hereby authorised
to require every person to whom any part of the assets
of the company is to be paid, or to whom any debenture
of the South-Eastern Railway Company is to be issued
in lieu of payment, to execute the deed on such pay-
ment being made, or such debenture being issued to
them.

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all

100
3-1
100

The directors will be prepared to pay to-morrow, the
4th inst., to each proprietor, on his executing the deed
of release, 121. per share. After payment of the 121.
per share, a balance will now remain in the hands of the
directors of 1,6271. Bs. 11d. ; and any balance in their
hands on the final winding-up of the company's affairs
will be available for distribution.

The proprietors in London who have deposited their
certificates with the secretary in terms of his circular
letter of the 29th ultimo, inviting them so to do, will
find their cheques ready drawn, and at their disposal to-
morrow or any following day, from eleven to three
o'clock, at the South-Eastern Railway Offices, at the
London-bridge Terminus. Duplicates of the deed of
release will be sent to Liverpool and Manchester, for
execution by proprietors resident in Lancashire, on
Tuesday next, the Bth inst., of which notice by circular
will be sent to each proprietor there.
The directors cannot take leave of the proprietors
without thanking them for the honourable confidence
they have been pleased to place in them since the estab-
lishment of the company.

St.
St.
St.
St.

100
100
100
1100

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20
50

DR. BILANOE-SHEET, Nov. 4, 1853.
To creditors, viz., dividends in course of
payments, 988/. Is. ; sundry creditors,
1,8171. Bs. 44.
To profit and loss : Balance at credit of that
account, as per statement, 23,8711. Bs.
11d.
To capital : 11,142 shares, at 101. per share,
111,220/. ; amount divisible among the
proprietors

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21s.
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£137,896 18 3

CR.
By South-Eastern Railway Company :
Amount of purchase money of eight
steam-ships, as agreed between the two
companies £99,406 0 0
By arrears of calls
By cash : Balance in hand

St.

With reference to the elective franchise, there are two
questions and two ways of increasing the numbers e
titled to its exercise—the one by its extension, the othtr
by its reduction. The principle of the one, carried out
to its extreme results, would be to take the lowe t
existing franchise as a minimum, and to reduce all exist-
ing qualifications down to that level. Tne principle of
the second would, if carried to its extremity, lead us to
universal suffrage. In favour of the extensioa of the
franchise is the consideration that, notwithstanding all
prophecies of its evil working, the ten-pound franchise
has been found a safe measure of the capacity of voters
for the election of members of Parliament. The ten-
pound franchise in a town extends to a much lower class
than in the country, and, as it has been found safe to
give the right of voting to the tenants of the high-rented
houses of our thriving boroughs, it seems reasonable to
conclude that it will be equally safe to enfranchise
the inhabitant of a ten-pound house in a village
or moderately-sized market-town, where, rents being
lower, the position of the occupant is easier, and the
probability of his intelligence greater. There is no class
in this country so unfairly treated at this moment as the
occupants of houses between the value of fifty and ten
pounds per annum not situated in Parliamentary
boroughs. They possess the property which, by the
confession of the Legislature, should entitle them to the
possession of a vote ; but, because that property is situ-
ated in one part of the country instead of another, the
criterion of intelligence and competency, which is suffi-
cient for others, is of no avail, and they are deprived of
the suffrage, not from any demerit or unfitness of their
own, but from the wish to preserve entire the agricul- '
tural character of the county constituencies. We there-
fore apprehend that no reasonable objection can exist in
any unprejudiced mind to the extension of the county
constituencies to the same point as has been already con-
ceded to the boroughs.
It is not, however, equally clear that a reduction of
the franchise may be advisable, although that reduction
was sanctioned on a former occasion by the high autho-
rity of Lord John Russell. This is no abstract question
to be decided by arguments on the rights of man, but a
mere point of wisdom and convenience, depending on
the fitness of the lower orders for the receipt of the elec-
tive right. Its decision will vary according to the dif-
ferent wills and inclinations of those who have to decide
it. Some may think that we cannot make the basis of
our constitution too broad, and may use in favour of
further enlargement the very same arguments which
were employed in favour of the increased franchise in
1831. Against this opinion, however, we may oppose
many, and those very practical, considerations. Where is
the evidence that those to whom we are asked to intrust
the franchise are able to discharge that duty satisfac-
torily ? We admit that the basis of representation should
be made as wide as possible, but if, in order to be com-
prehensive, we intrude persons too ignorant or too venal
for the faithful discharge of their duty, we do the great-
est injury to the body politic, and through it to those
persons themselves. The object is, not to find the
largest, but the most liberal and enlightened constituency
—not to throw the representation of the country into
one class, but to give each and all their due weight and
prominence. Now, there is this peculiarity in lowering
the franchise, that the class that we should admit by
any considerable reduction is numerous that it would
swamp all the others, and v's:;aally rec_sopolise the
representation itself. Its numbers are to lxge that all
others would be insignificant in comp:.rison. The change
would be properly described, not as the aimission of the
five-pound householders to the 1.-anchi:,e, but as the
vesting of the whole representation of the country in the
five-pound householders—not the admission of that class
to a share in the government, but the making it really
the governing and dominant class.
Now, before we take the government of this country
out of those hands in which it has been hitherto vested,
and place it in hands in which it has never been vested
at all, we ought well to consider the grounds for making
such a revolution, the demerits of the persons whom we
propose to deprive of power, and the merits of those on
whom we propose to confer it. Our present constitu-
encies have, upon the whole, sapplied us with an
amount of working ability adequate for the busi-
ness of the country, and the faults of which we
have to complain in them are not such as seem
likely to be remedied by a lowering of the franchise.
If there has been venality, we must seek for it among
the freemen and the poorest of the ten-pound house-
holders, and we can scarcely hope to cure it by the ad-
mission of a poorer and more dependent class. If there
has been prejudice, and ignorance, and a preference of
I mere local interest to higher qualifications, we see no
reason to expect that these defects will be remedied by
going lower in the scale of property and intelligence. Jr
we regard the conduct of the unenfranchised classes in
matters not remote and difficult, like questions of State
policy, but easy and within their own experience, we
sea every reason to doubt the soundness of their judg-
ment, and to shrink from placing our affairs in hands
so little able prudently and judiciously to administer
their own. Look at what is now passing in the manu-
facturing districts. A period of prosperity has arrived
which offers the working man the means of saving, over
and above the wants of the moment, money enough to
provide him against the subsequent fluctuations of trade.
Terms are offered him by his employers which he him-
self considers liberal, and which he would, in most cases,
thankfully accept. But here step in those whom, in an
evil hour, he has constituted his leaders, and to whom
he yields a servile and indiscriminating obedience. They
tell him, contrary to his own knowledge, that his mas-
ter fattens on his ruin ; they encourage him to claim
' the ridiculous privilege of fixing the rate of his own
wages, and urge him to endure any misery, and inflict
any wretchedness on his own family, rather than sub-
mit to terms which would enable him to live in comfort

£137,896 18 3
By balance, divisible among the proprietors £135,091 8 11
Note.—The above amount of assets will

be sufficient to pay the sum of 121. for
each share, equal on 11,122 shares to 133,464 0 0

And leave a balance of 11,627 8 11

DR. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
To dividend, at the rato of 51. per cent. per
annum, declared Sept. 16, 1853
To balance

CR. £26,651 18 11
By balance at credit, after payment of divi-
dend declared in March last
By reserve fund—Balance at credit of that
account, 53,8171. 3s. 7d. ; less balance at
debit of "steam-ships account," 32,988/.
lls. 2d.
By interest on purchase-money of ships and
stores, to date, at 41. per cent, per annum,
as agreed, less income tax, 3,1451. 7s. 7d. ;
sundry interest, 8841. Os. 9d.
By balance of sundry reserves, &c., now
transferred .

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50

4,029 8 4
657 16 0

£26,651 18 11

The CHAIRMAN said it would be seen from the report
that any gentleman who had deposited his certificate,
and would apply to-morrow at the office of the company,
would receive 121. per share, and that after the payment
of that sum to each proprietor there would remain in
the hands of the directors a balance of 1,627/. Bs. lid.
for further distribution at a later day. Some small
claims on the company still remained unsettled, and the
directors thought it proper to retain that sum in their
hands until those claims should be finally disposed of,
and then it would be their duty to make a further dis-
tribution of the assets of about 3s. per share. He
concluded by moving the first resolution contained in
report. _ _

St.
16
St.
St.

Mr. RENSHAW (the deputy cha, irman) seconded the
resolution, which, after a desultory conversation, was
agreed to. _

The second resolution was also passed.

The CHAIRMAN then moved the third resolution, re-
questing the solicitor to the company to read the draft
deed of release therein referred to.

This having been done, the resolution was agreed to.
Mr. WRIGHT then proposed a vote of thanks to the
chairman, directors, and other ofEcers of the company,
which was carried by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment,
said the affairs of the company had been a source of great
anxiety to the directors, who had felt the peculiar deli-
cacy of their position as directors and arbitrators be-
tween the railway company and the steam company, and
it was gratifying to find that they had discharged their
duties between the companies to the satisfaction of both.
He congratulated the proprietors on the happy issue of
their affairs, which was far better than remaining in an
anomalous position, supposing them to be entitled to a
dividend of 5 per cent, without the means of enforcing
it in a legal manner. He also congratulated the South-
E lstern Railway Company on their possession of eight
steam-ships, unrivalled for the performance of the business
in which they were employed. (Cheers.) This was one
of the most impo:•tant branches of the service, and he
considered the possession of these vessels eminently cal
culated to promote the permanent prosperity of the com-
pany. (Cheers.)

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3
100

In reply to a SHAREHOLDER,

The CHAIRMAN said, that in addition to the duplicates
of the deed to be deposited at the terminus at Liverpool
and Manchester, where the great majority of the share-
holders resided, a duplicate would be sent round to
other parts of the country for the accommodation of the
other shareholders who he trusted would execute it as
speedily ag possible.
The meeting then broke up.

NEW SIIN.—A Mr. Goldbammer has astonished the
people of Berlin by li:s experiments of his so-called elec-
tr'ic sun. Or Saturday right he placed his apparatus on
the brlcony ot.: the Hotel de Russie, and, directing the
rays upon the museum, distant 350 yards, lit up the
whole vicinity, so that it was easy to read small print.
THE Loss OF THE LEONA RA, OF LLANELLY.—We find
from what our correspondent relates that the fears ex-
pressed as to the loss of the above vessel in our last
week's Flerald have proved to be only too true. Since
our last it seems that a rumour was spread in the neigh-
bourhood, of a portion of the crew having arrived home.
But upon inquiring it turned out to be false. There is
no doubt now entertained by the owners, Messrs. Wil-
kins and Co., as well as by the relatives of the crew,
that she was the vessel referred to in our last that was
seen going down off St. Ann's Lighthouse. It seems
that two other schooners, names unknown, were seen
going down near the same place, all the hands of which,
it is feared, have perished. Captain Charles was an ex-
cellent seaman, an affectionate husband, and kind father.
He has left a widow and five young children to lament
his loss.--Swansea iderald.

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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1853.

SHARE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices
yesterday.

194 -20 i

4
8 - 91
13 —ll dial

16 - 18
54 -
94 - 96
522 - 53
154 -
13 - 15

44. =- .4.6

7i - 8}

41 4i
3 - 34
12,f - 12
38 - 42
27 - 29

64- - 66

58 = 6

ii - ii

8I 82
57 59
121 - 126
;103 - 102
80 - 81i1

!86 -- 89
11 -13 p
64 -- 65
7t
5 -4,;
12t -- 134
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DREADFUL AND FATAL INUNDATION AT
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The Cork, Examiner, of Wednesday evening, contains
an account of the disastrous effects of an inundation
with which that city has been visited, involving the loss
of several lives and great destruction of property
" The most terrible flood," says this journal, " which
has ever appeared in the city is now raging, not only in
the river, but rushing like a millrace through the streets,
flooding the houses, and suspending the whole
course of business. At an early hour this morning
the western part of the city was covered to a con-
siderable extent with water, but this attracted no great
alarm, as that portion is the first to suffer from the ef-
fects of deluging rains. But as it was observed to spread
across like a sea, bearing down portions of trees and
fragments of timber buildings, apprehension became ex-
cited. About 10 o'clock the Grand Parade became
flooded, and the stream, separating itself there, bore
down rapidly along Patrick-street and the South-mall,
and gradually extended itself over every portion of the
flat of the city. By 12 o'clock the rush of the water
through every street necessitated the closing of the
shops, and business was totally suspended. The
aspect of the city now became very threatening,
and the alarm general and intense, but this feeling
was changed to horror when, about half-past twelve,
the account of a fearful calamity came to add to the ter-
ror of the scene. At that hour the turbid and swollen
water was rushing under Patrick's-bridge in large and
rough waves like those of the sea ; the bridge was as
usual crowded with passers-by, some of whom were gazing
with mingled alarm and curiosity at the menacing waters,
when suddenly a crack was heard, and in a second
the western portion of the pier near Camden-quay gave
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numbers were is not accurately known ; there are
various and conflicting accounts, some saying so high
as 20, but the more general and believed account esti-
mates them at between 8 and 12. At present no
notion even can be formed of who those unhappy persons
were. Not one of those who fell was saved ; not a
hand or head was seen above the waters in which they
were carried down.
" Great fears are entertained for the safety of North
Gate-bridge, the water rushing through which is literally
foaming over the parapets.
" Accounts have reached town that the whole country
for 30 miles round has been inundated to a terrible ex-
tent, and a fearful amount of damage has been done,
but of course we cannot as yet estimate to what extent,
or give any particulars.
A blacksmith, whose whole house and workshop were
carried away by the flood, came floating down upon
a bed, to which he clung desperately. He appeared
to have come a considerable distance, but, being a
large, powerful man, he still retained his strength
and self-possession. As he came near the Anglesea-
bridge, while the most breathless interest was excited
by the spectacle, repeated and, we are glad to
say, finally successful attempts were made to save
him. Ropes were thrown from several of the ships, one
of which he grasped, and was carried frequently under
the bottom of the vessel by the terrific rush of the water,
but was at last dragged ashore safe. It was stated that
his son also had been saved, and that his wife and child
were drowned.
" Thousands of spectators crowd the quays, in some
cases to their imminent danger, and notwithstanding all
the efforts of the police, watching the various objects
that are brought down by the flood. One of the most
singular of these was a tree, upon which a live turkey
was perched.
"We have heard that the flood on the Blackwater
exceeds anything that has occurred within living
memory. Vast trees are said to have been torn up from
their roots and carried away, spreading destruction to
every obstacle they encountered.
At four o'clock the accounts are—Judging from pre-
sent appearances the flood is not likely to rise higher ;
but we cannot say that great dangers are not yet to
be apprehended. Business, of course, still remains
suspended, and boats are to be seen in various
parts of the streets. The flood appears to
have been general in the south. From Water-
ford we learns of a deplorable accident to a coach
at the low part of the road between Mullinabro'-aate and
Dunkitt, where the depth of water was at least blO feet.
The coachman, unaware of the great depth of water, the
night being very dark, drove on the horses until they and
the vehicle turned over into an unprotected dyke, and
coveredou t , and
ta
w ere instantly covered with water. The inside passengers
broke the upper window, and three succeeded in getting
remained till assistance was affordedxtbryeated from'
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the railway navvies, and were by them i
the
breasts wheel clingingwith
water, thereto,
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establishment, and formerly a
perished,
together with
was unable to escape, and The horses, their perilous perilous situation. Mr. Naylor,
the equally unfortunate coachin
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ing been freed by the
paon°,l, on the same night,
land. In the same place
mule laden with fowls,
was driving a
a poor man, whothe fate of his
d and the mule met
also was drowne ,
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driver. Nesthi was a cloak. It is therefore supposed a
ing, on et a watery grave.
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