The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-12 00:00:00

CARNARV ON.

A most important meeting of the nobility, clergy, gentry,
and freeholders of the county of Carnarvon, was held in
the Shire-hall, on Friday, to consider the best means of co-
g)peratin; with the citizens of Dublin, in support of a pro-
ject for communicating between Dublin and London, by
railway and steam-packet, in twelve hours. The High
Sheriff presided. The meeting was attended by the Right
lion. Lord NeWhurgh, Colonel Jones Parry, M.P., &c.
Letters were road from T. A. Smith, Esq., M.P. ; W.
I,nisly Ge,re, Esq. M.P. ; John Maddocks, Es
P• for 'Denbigh ; q., late
C. Griffith Wynne, late M.P.
Esq.,
fur ti,, county of Carnarvon ; all highly approving of the
Prc'ket, as of great national and local advantage.
Ile main features are as follow :—.The distance from
Kingstown to Portdynllaen, in Carnarvonshire, which is an
excellent harbour, capable at all hours of the tide of shelter-
'n; the largest classes of steam-packets, is supposed to be run
!n fir,: hours ; and the land route of 220 miles, by railway,
ul seven hours, making a total of twelve hours only.
The line is highly recommended, as the voyage from
Kingstown to Pnrtdynllean is a much more favourable one
than that from the former porno Holyhead : and from the
superior class of vessels that can be
employed upon it,
be raade much more expeditiously and certain. Besides
11°I.Yllead is a notoriously bad harbour, very shallow, and
°illy Suitable for vessels drawing eleven feet of water, and is
condemned port by the insurance offices. Portdynllaen,
nn the contrary, affords anchorage in from twenty, to forty-1
'five feet of water, and is by nature formed for an asylum
'harbour, in that part of the Irish channel, and has away
been recommended as such by the ruost experiencedl engi-
s
neers, such as the late Mr. Roplers and Mr. Rennie.
The railway is projected earough Merionethshire, Mont-I
getneryshire 'Worcester, and Oxford, and the difficulties to he encountered are /ess than on the London and Bir-
mingham.
The project: is advocated as a national one. The advan-
tages are--fhat it will beat any other line (the Liverpool
11tirtningharn Railway offering at present the greatest
171) by eleven hours, and if the projected railways in
re
-and are carried into execution, that any part of Ireland
"nay be communicated with from the London seat of Go-
Yernment in twenty-four hours ! This will be the means of
Thteroducing into Ireland what she so
much wants, not only
Capital and enterprise, but tilt mind of England. It
will thus furnish profitabfe emlo to the peasantry,
and check that spirit of iusurrecptionyment consequent upon idle-
ness, want, and distress. It must also materially lessen the
cost_ of governing Ireland, as by placing it in more imme-
diate connexion with the Government, much of the local ex-
Penditure will be saved, particularly in troops, and the nume-
rous constabulary. The whole project,
saltsindeed, offers re-
q. the greatest importance to all interests—national,
"nirnercial, and agricultural.
The meeting was addressed by John Lloyd, Esq., Colo-
nel Jones Parry, &c., and a string of resolutions were
jPassed unanimously, declaratory of the utility of the pro-
ect in every point of view, and the advantages it embraced.
A provisional committee was appointed ; and also a depu-
tation to the public meeting to be holden in Dublin on the
20th inst., at which the Lord Mayor will preside.