The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-22 00:00:00

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT T

TOM-HOUSE, MAtten2l.
The Brockelbank, Grant, from Boulogne; Columbine,
Strannack, Hamburgh ; Trois Peres, Poissy, larfleur; Bri-
tannia, Strannack, Rotterdam; Edward, Nelson, Osler Ru-
toer ; Tourist, Ling, Antwerp; London Merchant, Morfew,
Rotterdam : St. Leonard, Whitnall, Dunkirk ; Janet, Chal-
mers, Mauritius; Julie, Prearrer, and Commerce, Lefebvre,
Calais; George Canning, Wenn, Constantinople; William,
Halh, Stockholm; Uriana, Cyder, Britannia, Belin, Trusty,
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Chile, Elson, Messina; Hirondelle, Douve, Havre ; Gladi-
ator, Britton, New York ; Philomela, Spratt, Buenos Ayres ;
pelicr, Allen, Charleston ; Atalanta, Pope, Dunkirk ; Liberty
Cameron,, Mackin,
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Para ; Ran-
dolph, Calcutta ;. Esther, Nicholson, Mauritius; Favourite,
Steward, Cadiz ; Hamilton, Johnson, Demerara.
CLEARED Trieste and Venice;
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Constantinople; Vrow Theresa 'Josepha,
Great Britain,
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DIRECT COMMUNICATION
BETWEEN DUBLIN and LONDON, through WALES.

On Monday last a numerous Deputation, consisting, of
Members of Parliament, appointed at a meeting held on
the 3d instant, at the King's Arms Hotel, and also of
Merchants and Bankers of the city of London, appointed
at a Meeting held on the lith instant, waited on the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, in order to ascertain the views of
the Government, and in how far they would be disposed to
assist in carrying this important national project into effect.
Among those present were Messrs. O'Connell, Lefroy,
Wallace, M.P. for Greenock, F. Shaw, Hon. R. Clive,
Mr. A. H. Lynch, K.C., Colonel Percival, Messrs. W. S.
O'Brien, J. Bodkin, Sharman Crawford, Dunbar, Brady,
Colonel Powell, and M. J. O'Connell, from the Com-
mittee of Members of Parliament ; Mr. Kingscote, bankFr,
Mr. Moxton, Mr. Pym, and Mr. Murray, from the City

Committee.
Mr. O'CONNELL briefly introduced the subject, and
stated that the object of the Deputation was to call the at-
tention of Government to a plan that had been suggested
of constructing a Railway from Port-Dynllaen to London,
by which it was stated that the intercourse between London
and Dublin could be accomplished in 12 hours ; he referred
especially to the natural advantages of the proposed har-
bour of Port-Dynllaen, which might easily be made
to accommodate steam vessels of the largest class, to
which Holyhead was totally inadequate, and by means of
which the sea voyage between England and Ireland would
be materially shortened in point of time. He then ad-
verted to the benefits which would result, not only to the
public, but especially to the Post-office revenue, from the
proposed railroad, in connexion with the harbour. He
stated that it appeared, that not only would the corres-

pondence be materially accelerated, but an immense saving
would arise in the expenditure upon the packets now estab-
lished ; the letters which at present pass between Milford
and Dunmore to the South of Ireland would, by the pro-
posed route, arrive more than 20 hours earlier than by the
present, and the steam packets on that station might con-
sequently be discontinued ; and by this arrangement, and
others which he detailed, he showed that a saving amount-
ing to from eighty to one hundred thousand pounds annu-
ally would very speedily be realized ; that communications
had taken place with parties of the highest respectability in
the city, and that it the Government would consent to
allow to such parties the savings to be realized by the pro-
posed communication for a given number of years, they
would be ready at once to embark in the undertaking, and
to carry it into effect. It appeared that by availing them-
selves of the lines now in progress, or of others which were
projected, it would not be necessary to construct any new
line beyond 120 or 130 miles, and for which alone the -aid
of Government would be required.
Messrs. SHAW and LEFROY followed, and urged the vast
importance of rendering the communication between Lon-
don and Dublin as easy and expeditious as possible, and
that the project was one in respect to which all parties
•
seemed unanimous.
Mr. RICE stated in substance, that he was himself
strongly impressed with an opinion that the project of car-
rying a railroad through Wales would be attended with very
great difficulties ; but if it were found, on examination, that
the undertaking could be accomplished, and that London
and Dublin could be brought within 12, 14, or 15 hours'
distance of each other, the object would be one of the great-
est national importance. That, generally speaking, he was
desirous to see works of this kind undertaken and carried
through by private capital ; still as it might reasonably be
doubted whether this project would be productive of profit
as a mere commercial speculation, and as it was to the great
lenefits which must result from it to both countries, in a
more extended point of view, that lie looked forward, be
thought the State might with great propriety be called on
to assist the undertaking, and that even so large a sum as
two millions, which bad been named, could not, when consi-
dered with reference to the immense benefits which the suc-
cess of the project must eventually realize, be considered

excessive.
Mr. RICE, in the course of the conversation which en-
sued, earnestly called upon the Irish Members of Parlia-
ment, then present, to use their best efforts to induce
parties who entertained projects for the establishment of
railwal s in Ireland to come to some understanding upon
the general subject, and that Parliament should be spared
the necessity of deciding upon rival and sometimes con-
flicting projects. That it was of the greatest importance
that leading lines of railway should, if possible, be laid out at
once, the wholc progress of which should be carefully con-
sidered, and the extreme termini fixed upon in the first in-
stance—that if such leading lines were judiciously se-
lected, owns and places adjacent could, by forming branch
lines, not only communicate direct with the capital, if such
leading lines emanated from it, but also with every other
place along the lines or connected with it, and thus an im-
mense amount of public accommodation would be bad at a
comparatively small cost.
The Hon. Mr. CLIVE, in adverting to the proposed
harbour at Port-Dynilaen, stated that, from all he had heard
res7ecting, it, he was impressed with the opinion that it was
peculiarly eligible for a Packet Station, and he had no
doubt that aßailway through \Vales would be found prac-
ticable ; indeed he recollected that the harbour and route
in question was proposed in Parliament to long ago as
1803, and only lost by a majority of one.
Mr. RICE requested that•be might be furnished with es-
timates of the proposed line and harbour ; also the precise
time which it would save as compared with Liverpcol and
when the Railways from London to those places
were completed.
Mr. O'CoNNELL stated that a second survey was now in
pro4ress under the direction of' Messrs. `lie noiles and Ras-
trick, and the moment they made their Report, which he
expected would be in the course of a fortnight, the infor-
m Ilion he required sheuld be laid before him.
Do potation then withdrew, much pleased nitb the
frank and candid statem. nts of the Right Honourable
Geatleman.

THE WIDOW AND HER SON.

The new lodgers at first attracted our curiosity, and af-
t:a-wards cxci•ca our interest. They were a young lad, of
cig,htezn or nineteen, and his mother, a lady of about fifty,
or it might he less. The mother wore a widow's weeds,
and the boy was also clothed in deep mourning. They
were poor--very pocr ; for their only means- of support
arose from the pittance the boy earned by copying writings,
and translating for the bOoksellers. They had removed
from some country place, and settled in London, partly
because it afforded better chances of employment for the
bay, and, partly, perhaps, with the natural desire to leave.
a place where they had been in better circumstances, and
where their poverty was known. They were proud under
their reverses, and above revealing their wants and priva-.
Lions to strangers. How bitter these privations were, and
how hardly the boy worked to remove them, no one ever
knew but themselves. Night after night, two, three, four,
hours after midnight could we bear the occasional raking
together of the scanty fire, or the hollow and half-stifled
cough, which indicated his being still at work ; and day
after day could we see more plainly that nature
had set that unearthly light in his plaintive face
which is the beacon of her worst disease. Actuated, we
hope, by a higher feeling than mere curiosity, we contrived
to establish first an acquaintance, and then a close inti-
macy, with the poor strangers. Our worst fears were rea-
lised ; the boy was sinking fast. Through a part cf the
winter, and the whole of the following spring and summer,
his labours were unceasingly prolonged. The mother at-
tempted to procure needle-work, embroidery—anything for
bread. A few shillings now and then were all she could
earn, and the boy worked steadily on—dying by minutes—
but never once giving utterance to complaint or murmur.
It was a beautiful autumn evening when we went in to
pay our customary visit to the invalid. His little remaining
strength had been decreasing rapidly for two or three days
preceding, and he was lying on a sofa before the open
window, gazing at the setting sun. His mother had been
reading the Bible to him, for she closed the book as we
entered, and advanced to meet us. " I was telling Wil-
liam," she said, " that we must manage to take him into
the country somewhere, so that he may get quite well.
He is not ill, you know, but he is not very strong, and has
exerted himself too much lately." Poor thing! The tears
that streamed through her fingers, as she turned aside, as
if to adjust her close widow's cap, too plainly showed how
fruitless was the attempt to deceive herself. The boy placed
one hand in ours, grasped his mother's arm with the other,
drew her hastily towards him, and fervently kissed her
cheek. There was a short pause as he sunk back upon
his pillow, and looked with appalling earnestness on his
mother's face. " William, William," said tho terrified pa-
rent, " don't look at me se ; speak to me, dear." The boy
smiled languidly, but an instant afteywards his features re-
solved into the same cold, solemn gaze. " William, dear
William," said the distracted mother," rouse yourself, dear,
don't look at me so, love, pray don't. Oh, my God !
what shall Ido ! My dear, dear boy !he is dying." The
boy raised himself by a violent effort, and folded his hands
together—" Mother, dear, dear mother, bury me in the
open fields—anywhere but in these dreadful streets. I
should like to lie where you can see my grave, mother, but
not in these close, crowded streets ; they have killed me.
Kiss me again mother, put your arm round my neck."
lie fell back, a strange expression stole upon his features,
not of pain or suffering, but an indescribable fixing of every
line and muscle—the boy was dead.—Sketches by Boz.

Messrs. Fics and Slanewald, of Quedlinburgh in
Westphalia, have discovered a process, whereby, in twelve
hours, ten pounds of pure sugar, perfectly crystallised, may
be extracted from 100 pounds of beet-root. The secret was
immediately purchased by. M. Brokhoff, of Wisburg, for
20,000 fr., with the condition that it should not be used be-
yond the provinces of the Rhine and Westphalia.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1836:

months from the commencement. In the mean while
facilities should be provided for carrying on a contra-
band trade with the native merchants and tea-growers
in the interior, by which means all inconvenience to the
public here would be prevented. As our principal
object would be to compel the Chinese Government to
abolish a monopoly, a thousand times worse than that
hitherto enjoyed by the East India Company—and as
we would not make terms for ourselves only, but for
Europe—France and America would readily lend us all
the assistance in their power, with a view to the more
immediate attainment of a great common good. At
present the monopoly of the trade with China is only
half abolished. When the Chinese are placed on the
same footing as ourselves, then the trade will be really
free. The monopoly enjoyed by the East India Com-
pany was not half so injurious as the monopoly now
in the hands of the Hong merchants. A free trade
with China would be a thousand times more advan-
tageous to the peple of Great Britain and Ireland than
the actual possession of our Indian Empire.