The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-01 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACK WOOD.
After a deservedly favourable review of the " His-
tory of the Conquest of Peru," by the most eminent
of American historians, William H. Prescott, 13 lack-
wood rejoices his readers with a sprightly description
of " Crossing the Desert," suggested by the recent
peregrinations or wanderings of " a young English
gentleman of family and fortune named Sydney."
These two contributions are followed by a glimpse—
a brief, but earnest glimpse—at the career and cha-
racter of Jean Paul Frederick Richter. Like the
writer of this biographic notice, we are disposed to
congratulate the public upon the late appearance of
the memoir of this extraordinary man, this man of
whom it is justly remarked—" A perfect Titan as an
author, in the common relations of social and domes-
tic life he is a god." As but few are acquainted in
this our England with the estimation, and admiration,
and even veneration which is due to Richter, we can-
not do better than give a few of the prefatory remarks
contained in the Edinburgh Magazine. After ob-
serving that in reading the work already alluded to
" we are plunging at once with bold, fearless swoop
into the very centre of the Fatherland, into the midst
of the untrodden fir forests of the Fichtelgebirge,
where many great hearts billow out sublime thoughts
—hearts that never saw that which is most kindred
to them in nature—the sea," the contributor con-
tinues thus—

I gave, as though he had been an ogre, hawking little
children, summer recollections were so strong upon Miss
Tox, that she shook her head, and murmured she would
be comparatively old before she knew it—which seemed
likely."
Enter, nevertheless, Mrs. Chick, suffering from a
peculiar kind of mono iyllabic cough ;" a ttrt of ,
pri-
mer, or easy introduction to the art of coughing.
The dialogue that ensues is ludicrously true to
nature. Mrs. Chick announces Dombey's approach.
ing nuptails with Edith Granger, and Miss Tox
swoons in the arms of the wretched native who has
just entered the room with a polite message from the
Major over the way. Mrs. Chick's eyes are
opened, a pair of scales—in her estimation some-
thing like those used in grocer's shops—falling
from them, and she parts in wrath from poor
Lucretia Tox. The next chapter is a most
touching and powerful fragment of pathetic
narrative; it depicts the growing love of Florence
for her second mother, and the anguish of that second
mother the night before the marriage.
" Slowly and thoughtfully did Edith wander alone
through the mansion of which she was so soon to be the
lady : and little heed took she of all the elegance and
splendour it began to display. The same indomitable
haughtiness of soul, the same proud scorn, expressed in
eye and lip, the same fierce beauty, only tamed by a
sense of its own little worth, and of the little worth of
everything around it, went through the grand salouns
and balls, and had got loose among the shady trees, and
raged and rent themselves. The mimic roses on the
walls and floors were set round with sharp thorns, that
tore her breast ; in every scrap of gold so dazzling to
the eye, she saw some hateful atom of her purchase-mo-
ney ; the broad high mirrors showed her, at full length,
a woman with a noble quality yet dwelling in her nature,
who was too false to her better self, and too debased and
lost to save herself. She believed that all this lvti so
plain more or less, to all eyes, that she had no reso...
or power of self-assertion but in pride ; and with
pride, which tortured her own heart night and day,
fought her fate out, braved it, and defied it.
.‘ Was this the woman whom Florence—qin -jinuicen
girl, strong only in her earnestness and simple truth—
could so impress and quell, that by her 'side she was;
another creature, with her tempest of pas%ion hushed;
and her very pride itself subdued ? Wa..! the wo:
man who now sat beside her in a carriagto4,lwith their
srms entwined, and who, when she courted and lentreatiA
her to love and trust her, drew her fairy elid to nestles
on her breast, and would have laid down her life to
shield it from wrong or harm?
" Oh, Edith I It were w
time ! Better and happie
than to live on to the en
Yet she is calm, and
presence of every ow • her agony and
remorse at her of unseen. She
taunts her mot' ' 7ee4-, 'a Florence
remaining under \lrs. Skew-
.on. plat decoyed 'Cleopatra, : in her
greasy flannel „gown, with her a.-,es lying
round Iler on the table and sofa, asks, is 'he not fit
company for a girl ! " What are you, pray? What
ire you ?" " I have put the question to myaeY," says
Edith, ashy pale, and pointing to the window, "more
than once, when I have been sitting ,there, and some-
thing in the faded likeness of my sex has wandered
past outside; and God knows I have met with my
reply." In the privacy of her own chamber she is
yet more affected by her situation.

" A German in imagination—Oh, Heaven I he liter-
ally strikes you blind with skyrockets and sunbeams
(almost as madly at times as our own Shelley), and cir
cunanavigates your brain with a dance of nebulous
..ken phantoms, till you seriously doubt whether you
-of a.phantom yourself ; a German for kindliness
impiicity and true-heartedness—a man having his
• always in his hand, and his arms ready to be
-..own round everybody's neck ; greeting every man
'h a blessinr. and cursing only the devil, and—lik,
A.cely him heartily : a German for
..rt, and
_purity of unadulterated even-
' ;lout the least notion, at the same time,
Qvfar 'call orthodoxy, much less of
nolatict tnesepall Church ; a rare Christian ;
w, Cirnnbt-vead and relish thoroughly
,-uless you ar, , ourself, any more than you
Pin the gospel or John. For Richter also is a preacher
in his own 11:y--a smilir,-;l93porting, nay a jesting
preacher at times, ble aMk pilackground of earnest-
ness : his jests being not of rude men, but of
innocent children ; his ---,stnr tte earnestness not
of a sent. nresbyti uut'of a strong-sighted
sera". •tt looks face and becomes in
tense' bright. A -r is Richter, and better
than it German, in e-&lks, iness of his philosophy
and the subtlety oehis Itufation : a speculation pro-
found, but not dark; a subtlety nice 'without being fini-
cal, and delicate without being meagre. A Germai;
further, and specially, is this man, in his vast and various
erudition, and in that quality, without which learning
Was never achieved, hard laboriousness and indefatigabl,
perseverance. It is incredible what books he read : not
Merely literary books, but also and principally scientific
books s natural history especially in all its branches,
from the star to the star-fish; quarto upon quarto of
piously-gathered extracts were the we'l- quarried mate
rials out of which his most light and fantastic, as well as
his most solid and architectural fabrics were raised : a
merit of the highest order in our estimation : an offence
and a scandal to many; for nothing offends cenceited
and shallow residers so much as to find ia an imaginative
work allusions to grave scientific facts, of which their
butterfly-spirits are incapable. Then, over and above all
this, Richter possesses a virtue which only a few Ger-
mans possess : he is a man of infinite humour; humour,
too, of the best kind; sportive, sunny, and genial, rather
than cutting and sarcastic ; broad without being gross.
refined without being affected. Then his faults, also—
and their name is legion—how German are they ! His
want of taste, his mingled homeliness and sublimity, his
nnpruned luxuriance, his sentimental wantonness ! But
let these pass ; he who notices them seriously is not fit
to read Richter. It requires a certain delicate tact of
finger to pluck the rose on this rich bush without being
pricked by the thorn ; John Bull especially, with his
stone and lime church, his statutable religion and his
direct railroad understanding, is very apt to be exas-
perated by the capricious jerking electric points of such
a genuine German genius as Richter. On the pediment
of this strange temple we would place in large letters
the cry of the Cumaian Sibyl in Virgil—
" Procul, 0 procul este, profani !"
Let no mere mathematician, no mere Benthamite, no
mere mechanist, no mere botanist,' no mere man of
taste, and trim man of measured syllables, enter here.
Procul, 0 procul este, profani It is enchanted ground.
We have no quarrel with you; we quarrel with nobody;
only keep your own ground, in God's name, and don't
quarrel with us and our German friend Paul."
Then is transcribed the touching narrative of Jean
Paul Richter's death. Listen !
" Noon had by this time arrived. Richter, thinking
it was night, said-- It was time to go to rest!' and wished
to retire. He was wheeled into his sleeping apartment,
and all was arranged as if for repose ; a small table near
his bed, with a glass of water, and his two watches a
common one and a repeater. His wife now brought him
a wreath of flowers that a lady had sent him, for every
one wished to add-some charm to his last days. As he
touched them carefully, for he could neither see nor
smell them, he seemed to rejoice in the images of the
flowers in his mind, for he said repeatedly to Caroline—
'My beautiful flowers, my lovely flowers!'
"Although his friends sat around the bed, as he
imagined it was night, they conversed no longer ; he
arranged his arms as if preparing for repose, which
Was to be to him the repose of death, and soon sank
into a tranquil sleep.
" Deep silence pervaded the apartment. Caroline sat
at the head of the bed, with her eyes immovably fixed
on the face of her beloved husband. Otto had retired,
and the nephew sat with Plato's Phaedon in his band,
open at the death of Socrates. At that moment a tall
and beautiful form entered the chamber ; and, at the
foot of the bed, with his hands raised to heaven, and
deeply moved, he repeated aloud the prayer of his
Mosaic faith. It was Emanuel, and next to Otto, the
Most beloved of Richter's friends.

lie, indeed, at such a
die sa, Edith,

" To and fro, and to and fro, and to and fro again,
ave hundred times, among the splendid pronarations for
her adornment on the morrow ; with her dark hair
shaken down, her dark eyes flashing with a raging
light, her broad white bosom red with the cruel grasp of
the relentless hand with which she spurned it from her,
()acing up and down with an averted head, as if she
would avoid the sight or,sper awn fair person, and di-
vorce herself from its companiewhip. Thus, in the dead
time of the night before her bridal, Edith Granger
wrestled with her unquiet spiiit, tearless, friendless,
silent, proud, and uncomplaining."
Peeping in at the door of Florence's room, she finds
the young girl sleeping soundly, and feels herself
irresistibly drawn on towards the couch:
"Drawn nearer, nearer, nearer yet ; at last, drawn so
near, that stooping down, she pressed her lips to the
gentle band that lay outside the bed, and put it softly
to her neck. Its touch was like the prophet's rod of
old, upon the rock. Her tears sprung forth beneath it,
as she sunk upon her knees, and laid her aching head
and streaming hair upon the pillow by its side.
" Thus Edith Granger passed the night before her
bridal. Thus the sun found her on her bridal morning."
Then comes the wedding, preceded by the following
beautiful passages :
" Dawn, with its passionless blank face, steals shiver-
ing to the church beneath which lies the dust of little
Paul and his mother, and looks in at the windows. It
is cold and dark. >light crouches yet, upon the pave-
ment, and broods, sombre and heavy, in nooks and cor-
ners of the building. The steeple-clock, perched up
above the houses, emerging from beneath another of the
countless ripples in the tide of time that regularly roll
and break on the eternal shore, is greyly visible, like a
stone beacon, recording how the sea flows on ; but within
doors, dawn, at first, can only peep at night, and see that
it is there.

" Hovering feebly round the church, and looking in,
dawn moans and weeps for its short reign, and its tears
trickle on the window-glass, and the trees against the
church wall, bow their heads, and wring their many
hands in sympathy. Night, growing pale before it, gra•
dually fades out of the church, but lingers in the vaults
below, and sits upon the coffins. And now comes bright
day, burnishing the steeple clock, and reddening the
spire, and drying up the tears of dawn, and stifling
_its
complaining ; and the scared dawn, following the night,
and chasing it from its last refuge, shrinks into the
vaults itself and hides, with a frightened face, among the
dead, until night returns, refreshed, to drive it out.
And now, the mice, who have been busier with the
prayer-books than their proper Owners, and with the
hassocks, more worn by their little teeth than by human
knees, hide their bright eyes in their holes, and gather
close together in affright at the resounding clashing of
the church door. For the beadle, that man of power,
comes early this morning with the sexton ; and Mrs.
Miff, the wheczy little pew opener—a might; dry old
lady, sparely dressed, with not an inch of fulness any
where abOut her—is also here, and has been waiting at
the church gate half•an-hour, as her place is, for the
beadle."

" About six o'clock the physician entered. Richter
yitt appeared to sleep ; his features became every
moment holier, his brow more heavenly, but it was col.!
as marble to the touch ; and as the tears of his wife fell
upon it he remained immovable. At length his respira-
tion became less regular, but his features always calmer,
more heavenly. A slight convulsion passed over the
face ; the physician cried out—' That is death and all
was quiet. The spirit had departed!
" All sank, praying, upon their knees. This moment,
that raised them above the earth with the departing
spirit, admitted of no tears !
" Thus Richter went from earth, great and holy as
a poet, greater and holier as a man!' "
Alas ! for the deathbed even as beautiful as this, the
quenching of the life of the loved and loving!

Miss Miff comes out wonderfully; so does Mr.
Sownds the beadle, who looks upon the bride as " a
spanker ;" so does Mr. Toots ; so does his familiar,
the Game Chicken, who has been dipping his beak
into a tankard of strong beer, and picking up two
pounds of beefsteak ; so does Captain Cuttle ; so does
Mrs. Perch, who appears " (but that she always
is)" in an interesting situation ; so does Towlinson ;
so does Major Bagstock, of whose hand his Royal
Highness the late Duke of York did him the honour
to observe, Sir, to his Royal Highness the late Duke of
Kent, that it was the hand of Josh, a rough and
tough, and possibly an up to-snuff old vagabond ;
so does Cousin Feenix—Lord Feenix. The speec •
of the Noble Lord at the wedding breakfast is 4
capital bit of social reporting. Indeed the entire
chapter about the festivities is an elaborate piece of
" drawing from the life" which Charles Dickens
could alone have written.

DO2IIBEY AND SON. No. X. By C. Dickens.
Lucretia Tox discloses her secret aspirations to the
hand of Dombey, to the sister of the said Dombey,
when visited by Mrs. Chick in Princess•s••place. The
description of Miss Tox's sitting room and of the
general aspect of Princess's-place (by which sketch
this amusing interview is prefaced), is one of those
odd pieces of minute drawing for which Boz is un-
rivalled. The breakfast of the fair Lucretia, saith
her faithful biographer, was composed of her cus-
tomary viands; "to wit, one French roll rasped, _____,
one egg new laid (or warranted to be), and NEWS FOR THE GEOLOGISTS.—The Journal des
one little pot of tea, wherein was infused one little Debats publishes the following letter, dated Odessa the
silver scoop-hill of that herb on behalf of Miss Tox, eth instant:—" The Counsellor of State, Erdmana;Pro-
and one little scoop-full on behalf of the tea-pot—a fessor of Geology at the Imperial University of Dorpat,
flight of fancy in which good housekeepers delight." who at this moment is travelling in the south of Russia,
Clothing her hands in a pair of antique gloves like has discovered in a property situated to the north of
dead leaves, Lucretia proceeded to arrange her nick-
Odessa several skeletons of fossil animals of enormous
nacks as appeared to be her daily wont, among other dimensions. The skeletons are 83 in number, viz.,
6 elephants, I rhinoceros, 2 oxen, 4 stags, 1 antelope,
things attending to the comforts of her bird—" a very
6libealrs, 2 hyenas, 2 dogs,
Those
cats,os
kaenl
edt a
truminatingether
high-shouldered canary, stricken in years, and much
species
were
rumpled, but a piercing singer, as Princess's-place well withalllm animal,
f unknown.n d under ea
sthickelnasYereogf cal-
knew." Not a few will recognise this likeness, the like- careous earth. bones,
The discovery made by M. Erdmann is
ness unhappily rather of a species than of an individual. the more remarkable, as hitherto there never has been
But Miss Tox bath a paramount duty above all any remains of the antediluvian animal reign discovered
others in her domestic economy, namely, of snipping in Russia."
here and there among her plants with a pair of SCIS- SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLwar.—Yesterday a branch
sors "for some botanical reason that was very power- of this railway, about nine miles in length, and extend-
ful with Miss Tox." This particular morning, how- ing from Minster to Deal, was opened by the Chairman
ever, she was slow in coming to the plants. and Directors of the company with the usual ceremo-
nies. The stations along the new line were handsomely
" The weather was warm, the wind southerly ; and
there was a sigh of the summer time in Princess's-place, decorated. The whole population of the neighbourhood
that turned Miss Tox's thoughts upon the country. The assembled to celebrate the event ; huge flags were seen
pot-boy attached to the Princess's Arms had come out fluttering in every direction ; shops were shut and busi-
with a can and trickled water, in a flowing pattern, all oess suspended ; and, in fact, it was a complete holiday.
over Princess's-place, and it gave the weedy ground a a
ihteYlf. past four o'clock a public dinner took place in
fresh scent—quite a growing scent, Miss Tox said. lea own-hall of Deal, every corner of which was occu-
ptr,lnclsn the absence of the Mayor, who was prevented
There was a tiny blink of sun peeping in from
ss from being present, his deputy filled the chair,
and was
the groat street round the corner, and the smoky
by Mr. M‘Gregor, chairman of the
sparrows hopped over it and back again, bright-
sliinton, Mr. B. Harding, Captain Ty-n-
-ening as they passed : or bathed in it like a dalcompany,iNlr. MI: cct:ils,r te(el
rite;A., Mr. C, Dickens, Mr. J. Stuart,
stream, and became glorified sparrows, unconnected with
to the company, Mr. C. Emer-
chimneys. Legends in praise of Ginger Beer, with pic• sPinr., Herbert,
tll eliCZre'ab 1 earY Lushington, Mr. Browne, and
tonal representations of thirsty customers submerged in
yvaTedn on the occasion by
the effervescence, or stunned by the flying corks, were Mr. Walter, superierltti
cellent diiiner wiis provided of the company. An
Hotel, and and the comp
conspicuous in the window of the Princess's Arms. They
were making late hay, somewhere out of town ; and having done
of the Ito
0, proceeded_ liy a sue-
Limit 'ample justice thereot
though the fragrance had a long way to come, and many • e
cession of, appropriate toasts to celebrate the event of
the course of
counter fragrances to contend with among the dwellings
of the poor (may God reward the worthy gentlemen the day. 2 Many speeches ss,,erev made in
the evening upon the benefits -drely to accrue to Deal
who stickle for the Plague as part and parcel of the 1
from r?..i.way corneeftication, and all present appeared
wisdom of our ancestors, and do their little best to
sang' Anti in their .Apectation that their ancient port was
keep those dwellings miserable), yet it was wafted
awakening to a new existence. Mr. M‘Gregor, in „.
faintly into Princess's-place, whispering of Nature and
her wholesome air, as such things will, even unto priso- len awledging the kind manner in which he and his col-
!csagues had been received, shortly reviewed the position
ners and captives, and those who are desolate and op-
its which the company now stands with respect to its
pressed, in very spite of aldermen and knights to boot ;
at whose sage nod--and how they nod !—the rolling, projects before Parliament and the question of direet
world stands still ! communication in Kent. His observations drew 'forth
the warmest approbation. It was past ei'nt" Miss Tox sat down upon the window soat, and
thought of her good papa deceased—Mr. Tox, of the before the directors and their friend:, left Deal by
Customs Department of the public service ; and of her special train or, their way back to London, but their de-
childhood, passed at a seaport, among a considerable parture did ;lot close the festi`:',i• tes of the evening. The
o'clock
quantity of cold tar, and some rusticity. She fell into a raidf,t:i -and ease with 7;nich the new line was passed
softened remembrance of meadows, in old time, gleam- °vr..r., both going a.l,d coming furnished satisfactory
ing with buttercups, like so many inverted firmaments of •'ig'-dences f the solidity • 'which •
has b
0 e. with it pen con-
golden stars ; and how she haa made chains of dande *structed.
ion-stalks for youthful Towers of eternal constan' '
v C'' "drIBIDGE.—The Vice-Chancellor has appointed
dressed • •
chiefly in nankeen ; and how soon those f- .;" ' -'
0 ne Rev. Edward Thompson, Incepting Doctor in Divinity
had withered and broken. ...s.,ers L
" and incumbent of All Saints, St. John's Wood, to preach
the sparrows and the blink of u
" Sitting in the window-seat, and look' .-- the University sermon next Sunday morning, and the
likewise of her good mamma decease s in A
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Melbourne in the after-
se'?
Miss
• Tox thought out upon
owner of the powdered head and pin .4-sister to the noon.
and her rheumatism. And when 6 Cgii —of her virtues R. COBDEN, ESQ., M.P.—We understand, from
authority on which we can rely, that the Danford pro-
and a rough voice, and a v . a man with bulgy legs,
that crushed his hat into p ..env y basket on his head perty near Midhurst, whero the Honourable Member
ing flowers down Print- - mere black muffin, came cry- for Stockport was born, and indeed which may be con-
roots of daisies shud,, .es 's-place, making his timid little , sidered as his patrimonial estate, has been purchased
...ler iu the vibration of every yell he t% either by, or for that gentleman.—Smsz Advertiser,

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING JULY 1, 1847.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRE-
LAND) OPENING TO MARYBOROUGH.

expenditure, will in a few years be almost entirely super-
seded by railways constructed in their immediate
vicinity. Now railways are in completion in every
part of the country, and a few years will suffice
to complete many of the lines now in an un-
finished state. The capital stocks of most have been
filled up by subscriptions from the middle classes.
New York capitalists sre very shy, and touch all
works of internal improvement cautiously; and rich men
are unwilling to part with their money, unless immediate
returns in the shape of dividends are guaranteed. In
consequence of this principle prevailing so generally, the
system of paying interest upon all instalments paid in
upon subscriptions to railroads has been adopted. The
journals condemn this system, as it is not more or less
than paying back to subscribers, in the shape of interest,
part of the principal, the deficiency produced by these
payments having to be made up by an increase of capital
stock. On the Boston line there has been a general
increase of trade. In fact, the increase of business on
the railroads already in operation has put all previous
calculations far in the back-ground. Estimates.
originally deemed to be highly exaggerated, have proved
to be far below the actual results. The annexed table
exhibits the gross receipts of this following railroads
leading from Boston, in four years ending December 1,
1846: 1843. 1846.
Boston and Worcester $383,367 $554,712
Western
Boston and Lowell
Fitchburg
Boston and Maine
Eastern
Boston and Providence 233,388 360,375

On Saturday the Great Southern and Western Rail-
way was opened for public traffic to Mary borough, a
distance of 53i miles. After the dispatch of the regular
traffic trait' at nine A.M., the engineer-in-chief, Sir
John Macneil; the vice-chairman of the board of direc-
tors, Edward M'Donnell, Esq.; William Haughton,
Esq., W. Goold, Esq., two of the directors, with a
number of friends, proceeded by an express train at
half-past ten to Maryborough, where they arrived at a
quarter before twelve, and proceeded to examine some
of the works connected with the line—the new road
lead ng into the town under the railway—the site of the
new station at the Golden Croft, &c. The party next
proceeded to make trial of the portion of the line thence
to Mountrath, which is nearly completed. Leaving
Maryborough the line crosses the road leading to Mount-
mellick, and also that to Mountrath, over both of which
it is carried on high embankments, by means of lattice
bridges, the former beinq 52 feet span, the latter 50 feet.
These bridges are quite of a novel character, being the
first of the kind yet built, and after a design of Sir John
Macneil's, for combining the greatest strength of frame
with the least sacrifice of headway, on the lattice prin.
ciple.
After returning to Maryborough, the party adjourned
to M'Evoy's Hotel, where a splendid dejeuner was pre-
pared.
The Deputy Chairman of the Board presided, and at
his left sat the Rev. T. Harpur, Rector of Maryborougb,
and the Rev. Dr. O'Connor, P.P. There were also
present—George Hoyte, Esq., Vice• Chairman of the
Drogheda Railway Company ; Mr. Newton and Mr.
Alexander, of the Irish South-Eastern Railway ; Mr.
Prior, of the London and North-Western Railway of
England ; James Fagan, P. V. Fitzpatrick, Esqrs., &c.
TheCuAinan.sx proposed the usual loyal toasts, after
which he gave the healths of the Rev. Mr. Harpur and
the Rev. Dr. O'Connor.
The Rev. Mr. HARPUR and the Rev. Dr. O'CoNtion
severally expressed their acknowledgments, and the
latter gentleman totek the opp:T,tunity of proposing the
heath of " The great engine Sir John Macneil, to
whose talent and ability ';',mpany and the country
so deeply indebted.' r
Sir J. MACNEIL, in returning thanks, took occasion
to state how warmly all his exertions had been seconded
by the board of directors. It -was only fair for him to
sav that he could only design, while the execution was
left to the contractors ; and it had been hii good fortune
to have his works entrusted to contractors who had given
him and the Company the utmost satisfaction. Thor
were two of those gentlemen present, and it gave him
much pleasure to propose " The healths of Messrs.
Dargan and Moore."

DARGAN briefly acknowledged the high compli-
ment paid him. He had always received the utmost
kindness and support at the hands of the board of direc-
tors ; and holding as he then did contracts for the com-
pletion of nearly the entire line to Cork, and having
that day upwards of fifty thousand men employed in
various parts of Ireland, it was a source of much satis-
faction to him to feel that he might rely upon the same
consideration from the directors, and to feel that they
had confidence in him.—(Applause.)
Mr. MOORE also returned thanks.

Total $1,918,734 $3,260,725
Aggregate increase on all the roads is 57 per cent.
Fares were generally reduced in 1845.
POPULATION PER MILE ON THE MASSACHUSETTS
LINES.—From calculations recently made, it has been
ascertained that the population of the towns immediately
adjoining some of the railroads of Massachusetts was as
follows;—viz., of the Old Golony Railroad, not including
Dorchester, 15,976, giving an average of 702 per mile, that
of the I)suvi - road, not including Roxbury, 39,977,
or 973 per mile
,; of the Worcester road, 27,159, or 603
per mile ; of the Fitchbury road, 27,353, or 547 per
mile ; of the Lowel road, 28,664, or 1,102 per mile ; of
the Boston and Maine road, terminating at the line of
the state of New Hampshire, 19,865, or 567 per mile ;
and on the Eastern road, terminating also at the border
of the state, 51,967, or 1,310 per mile.
The Boston Traveller states a remarkable fact, if it be
one, or rather makes Mr. Gilmore, president of the
Western Railroad, state a remarkable fact, in his testi-
mony before the railroad committee of the Massachusetts
Legislature, viz., " That the present through travel be-
tween Albany and Boston ort the Western Railroad, only
averages 120 to 150 per month." This would be only
five or six for each working day.

The CHAIRMAN then gave " The health of the Deputy
Chairman of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, George
Hoy te, Esq."
Mr. HOYTE returned thanks, and said the manner in
which the works had been executed reflected the highest
credit upon all concerned, and he hoped the day was not
far distant when they would be assembled at Cork to
celebrate the completion of this great line.—(Hear,
hear.) He had no doubt but that in a very short time
Cork and Belfast would be brought within a dis-
tance of eight hours.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Hoyte
gave " The health of Mr. M`Donnell, deputy-chairman,
and the rest of the directors of the Great Southern and
Western Railway."
Mr. M'DONNELL briefly thanked the company for the
honour paid him and the board.
Mr. HAUGHTON, one of the directors, also expressed
his obligation, and gave—" The health of the Chairman
of the Company, George Carr, Esq.," who was absent
in London on important business connected with the
railway.
Mr. GOOLE proposed—" Success to to the Irish South-
Eastern Railway," which would be one of their most im-
portant feeders.
Mr. ALEXANDER expressed hs obligations.
The next toast was that of " Mr. Prior, connected
with the London and North-Western Railway of Eng-
land."

Mr. PRIOR, in returning thanks, observed that it was
his first visit to Ireland. He had seen nothing in the
country which precluded it from rising in industrial
eminence to equal England.--(Hear, hear.) Most cer-
tainly, so far as railways were concerned, he bad seen
nothing in England superior to the noble line he had
traversed on that day.—(Hear, hear.)
" The Health of James Fagan, Esq.," was proposed
and warmly toasted.
After some other toasts,

MAMMOTH ENGINE.—A monster engine on Stephen-
son's principle has just been completed by Messrs.
Foster and Co., cf Liverpool. It is intended for passenger
trains. It has four driving wheels (each six feet in
diameter) connected, boiler sixteen feet long, and its im-
mense weight may be estimated by the fact that thirteen
horses were employed to draw it through the metro-
polis. Its destination is said to be the South-Eastern
Railway.

THE Two RAILWAY MISCARRIAGES THROUGH
FRIGHT.—The following is from a correspondent:—
" Hope disappointed maketh the heart sick of the
railway commissionership. The Government ought
better to have calculated its own strength, and either
not have created such a mere fiction of commis-
sionership for any public good, or, having created
it, ought to have given it vigorous and decided
support. As the matter, however, now stands, Mr.
Strutt's office is null, and the power of the Whigs against
the railways nugatory. The public are, therefore, anx-
iously inquiring when this expensive, and, as it has
proved, perfectly useless commissionship is to be broken
up? Mr. Strutt having said good bye to his fundamental
Bill, the country (pitying his weakened condition under
two such awful miscarriages from fright), are now
equally desirous of saying good bye to Mr. Strutt and
his whole staff. The puffed-up railway men have, it
appears (like Mr. Borth wick) triumphed over the Whigs;
but let them beware that the now universally spreading
murmurs do not speedily break into a storm of public in-
dignation, which will lead, if not to the total abolition
of the companies, to measures infinitely more restrictive
upon them than those contemplated in Mr. Strutt's Bill."
THE LATE COLLISION ON. THE SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.
—Since this occurrence the_passing of goods across the
two lines of rails (which was the occasion of the acci-
dent) has been discontinued ; a proper signal post has
been erected, and an additional porter has been placed
at the Gorton station. We understand these changes
are what were required, and they will no doubt be ac-
cepted by the public as an earnest of the directors' care
and watchfulness.—Manchester Examiner.
TOURNAY AND JURBISE, AND LANDEN AND lIASSELT.
—An experimental trip on the Landen and Hasselt line
took place on the 24th instant, when the work of every
portion of the line underwent a strict examination by
the Government engineers, and the official opening is
fixed for the 12th of July next.
EAST LescassuaE.—There was a grand ceremony on
Thursday at Helmshore, near Haslingden, on the occa-
sion of laying the foundation stone of the viaduct there
on the main line of this railway. This important work
is a continuous double viaduct, separated by retaining
walls in the middle, skirting the side of the hills, near
Helmshore. There are 15 arches in the whole, of about
30 feet span each, and the total length of the viaduct is
400 yards. The height of the principal arches is about
50 feet, and they are erected on a curve of about three-
quarters of a mile radius. The works on a considerable
portion of this part of the line (fur some length of which
the Act was only obtained in the present session of Par-
liament), and of this viaduct, notwithstanding the fact of
the foundation stone having been postponed till the pre-
sent time, are in a very forward state, one of the arches
of the viaduct, and many of those on other parts of the
line, being already up to the springing point.—Manches-
ter Times.

The CHAIRMAN gave " To the next merry meeting, he
hoped at Thurles."
This sentiment was loudly cheered, and the company
repaired to the train, which shortly afterwards started,
and arrived in Dublin at half-past eight P.M accom-
plishing part of the trip at the rate of sixty miles an hour.

OPENING OF TIIE BOROUGHBRIDCE BRANCH OF
TIIE YORK AND NEWCASTLE. - This branch was
opened on Thursday. Its length is 54 miles, and it forms
a junction with the Great North of England Railway on
Pill Moor, south of the Sessay station. Leaving the
parent line it takes a westerly direction across Pill Moor,
an extensive waste, the junction being on a curve of
forty chains radius, the line runs nearly on a level, and
then proceeds on a straight line on towards Brafferton,
where there is an ample station in course of erection.
Passing this station a cutting is entered, in length about
one-third of a mile, through a loose sand and gravel
strata, the extreme depth being 36 feet. The high road
from Brafferton to Thornton Bridge is carried over the
railway in the cutting by a handsome viaduct of three
"ar, les. On emerging from the cutting a very beautiful
country opens out to the view, the line immedately
approaching and crossing the river Swale, over which
it is carried is a noble stone bridge of three
arches, each of fifty feet span. This is a skew bridge at
an angle of 201 degrees. The village and beautiful
church of Brafferton present, from this point, a beautiful
view in the rear of the traveller. After the Swale has
been passed, the line again takes the level, and proceed-
ing perfectly straight, it traverses a beautiful and lux-
uriant country. After crossing the highway from Kirby
Hill to Myton, the line then takes a curve, of three quar-
tel•s of a mile radius to the south, and then proceeds
straight for about 400 yards, passing Milby on the right,
with the truly historical town of Aldborough on the left,
then taking a curve of three -fourths of a mile radius to
the north, it terminates in a straight run of about 300
yards to Boroughbridge station. Excepting the Braf-
ferton cutting and the works at and in connexion with
the Swale bridge, the entire line is nearly on the level,
and has been of most easy construction. It opens
outi a connexion with a very important agri-
cultural district, of which the ancient town of
Boroughbridge, the residence of Andrew Lawson, Esq.,
M.P., is in the centre. The station is situate within 200
yards of the magnificent bridge, being on the north side
of the town, in the township of Langthrope, on Earl de
Grey's estate. It is 159 feet long, and designed by G.
'l'. Andrews, Esq., of York. It is in the Grecian style
of architecture, with an elegant arcade in front. The
fabric, is of brickwork, with stone dressings, and it
comprises first and second class waiting rooms, booking
offices, station-master's apartments, and other conve-
niences. There are also immediately adjacent an engine-
house, merchandise warehouse, cattle dock, carriage
landings, &c., the whole establishment comprising an
area of about seven acres. The works at the stations
have been executed by Messrs. Burton, of London. The
contractor of the line was Mr. Richard Cail, of New-
castle. The resident engineer was Mr. Joseph Stephen-
son. The opening day was one of great moment to the
inhabitants of Boroughbride, and the town band attended
each train to the junction.-

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The second adjourned special general meeting of the
shareholders of this company, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the conduct and proceedings of the
directors with regard to the proposed sale of the line to
the Great Western Company, was held yesterday after-
noon at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. It is needless
to say that the refusal of the House of Lords on Friday
night to suspend the standing orders in favour of the
promoters of the Amalgamation Bill has very consider.
ably altered the respective position of the contending
parties. Mr. P. H. Muntz occupied the chair, and, as
usual, Mr. Russell, M.P. (chairman), Mr. Saunders
(secretary), and other officials of the Great Western,
were in attendance.
The first question propounded by Mr. Mozley, the
leader of the dissentient shareholders, was as to whether
or not the directors were prepared to submit any terms
of arrangement to the proprietary. As far as he
(Mr. Mozley) was concerned, he would state that he
had thrown no obstacle in the way of an amicable
settlement of all differences. He believed that the
contention, if continued, would be injurious and disas-
trous, not only to the directors, but to all others inte-
rested in the property of which they (the directors) were
the trustees. He (Mr. Mozley) had to complain that,
although an appointed director, he had no means of be
coming acquainted excepting almost by force, with the
business of the board of directors. Against the
chairman, however, he had no personal complaint to
make. On the other hand, he believed that if all the
members of that body had taken the same course as their
[lon. Chairman had done, the present position of the
company would have been very different. He (Mr.
Mozley), as director, was ignorant of the stated time of
the meetings of that board, and he was at a loss to know
how it was that a mere section of the directors could
legally carry on the affairs of the company. Every
member was assuredly entitled to be made acquainted
with every particular of the business transacted.
The CHAIRMAN observed that no meetings of the
board of directors had been held.
Mr. MOZLEY—A vast amount of business had been
transacted. He should like to know how it had been
done, and by whom?
The CHAIRMAN—The directors were called together
when a meeting was necessary, and in the mean time
a committee—the appointed executive—transacted the
business.
Mr. MOZLEY—There had been a large outlay of
money. Who gave the cheques?
THE CHAIRMAN—The finance committee.
Mr. MOZLEY—Was he to understand that the finance
committee, without the supervision of the board of
directors, transacted the money affairs of the company ?
The CHAIRMAN—The finance committee was appoint-
ed by the board of directors.
Mr. MozLnir—He had been informed that recently a
gentleman occupying a high position in society had
proposed certain terms of arrangement between parties.
He wished to ask the chairman whether he was aware of
that fact ?
The CHAIRMAN replied, that he had not the slightest
knowledge of the circumstance to which the Hon. Pro-
prietor alluded.
Mr. MozLEr—All he could say was that he believed
their chairman ; but he (Mr. Mozley) had heard such a
statement from authority. Before proceeding to the
immediate business of the day he wished to remark,
that he had heard that before the time at which the sale
to the Great Western was proposed, other agreements,
although not laid before the shareholders, existed ; and
he and those with whom he acted thought that all such
agreements, being bond fide, should be maintained and
acted upon in good faith. He, therefore, with the hope
and the expressed intention of assisting the directors
in the accomplishment of such objects, begged leave,
preparatory to other business, to propose the following
resolution :
That this meeting, considering the main objects of
the Bill now before Parliament to enable the Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to make
certain alterations in the line of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway, and to purchase the Stratford-
on-Avon canal navigation, and for other purposes, to
be consistent with the interests of the shareholders, de-
sires to express its concurrence in the provisions of such
Bill, excepting those which confer power on the Great
Western Company to subscribe for, or to purchase and
hold shares in this company under the alleged agree-
ment, to the terms of which the shareholders in this
company object, and which enable the Great Western
Railway Company to raise capital for that purpose, and
to vote in respect thereof; of which provisions in the
present state of the matter this meeting cannot approve;
and this meeting, understanding that certain share-
holders have petitioned the House of Lords against such
Bill on standing orders, respectfully request those share-
holders not to proceed further with such petition pro-
vided the objectionable provisions before referred to are
withdrawn ; and doth hereby express the desire of the
shareholders that, subject to the withdrawal of such
provisions, the said Bill should be allowed to proceed
without further opposition in Parliament."
Mr. C. H. JONES seconded the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN said he did not see any objection to
the resolution, but Mr. Mozley must be aware that no no-
tice had appeared of any resolution to that effect being
brought forward at that meeting. He believed, too, that
such a resolution was altogether unnecessary, even for
the purposes contemplated by its proposers. The House
of Lords would require the standing orders to be com-
plied with; but if unopposed, or if the opposition was
withdrawn, it was possible the Bill in question, having
for its object the purchase of the Stratford canal, might
be allowed to go forward.
Mr. MOZLEY observed, that the Chairman must exer-
cise his own discretion. If the resolution was wrong it
would be ineffective; if it was right it would assist, as it
was intended, the directors.
The CHAIRMAN was sure Mr. Mozley would see that
the resolution did not come within the objects contem-
plated or named in the advertisement calling the present
meeting.
Mr. MOZLEY, after some further conversation, with-
drew the resolution, stating that he should bring it for-
ward at the close of the meeting, when Mr. Muntz had
left the chair.
The Chairman then, at the request of Mr. Mozley,
handed back his resolution.
The CHAIRMAN intimated that Mr. Mozley could
adopt any course he chose.
Mr. MOZLEY again expressed his deep regret that the
dissensions which prevailed between the directors and
the shareholders had not been brought to a close. A
fearful responsibility rested upon those by whom it
was continued. He believed that as regarded the con-
struction of this line and its management, an expenditure
had been incurred unparalleled in railway history. He
had again to complain that as a director he had been re-
fused the inspection of certain deeds in the possession of
the board of directors, as trustees of the company—
deeds for which he, as a director, was responsible. He
was bound in justice to state that the Hon. Proprietor
whom he saw opposite (Mr. Russell, the chairman of the
Great Western) had fully admitted the principle for
which he contended, and said that he was fully entitled
to the inspection of the deeds in question. The only
way to keep directors under control was to be able to
subject them continuously to the power of general meet-
ings. After some further observations, the Hon. Gen-
tleman concluded by stating that he should move another
adjournment; they had now a meeting, and he was
anxious that it should not be concluded without giving
the directors an opportunity of submitting the proposi-
tion of some arrangement to the shareholders. He
begged leave to move the following resolution :
" That this meeting be and the same is hereby ad-
journed until Monday, the 12th day of July next, at
one o'clock in the afternoon, at Dee's Royal Hotel, in
Birmingham, when the consideration of all and singular
the matters mentioned and referred to in the requisition
of the 29th day of April last, under which this meeting
is held, will be resumed, if necessary.
Mr. TURNER seconded the motion.
Mr. STEVENS and the CHAIRMAN mutually explained
respecting the refusal to allow Mr. Mozley the inspection
of some deeds executed before that gentleman became a
director. The existence of these " subsidiary agree-
ments," it appeared, came out before the Standing Orders
Committee of the House of Lords, and Mr. Mosley, as
a director, demanding an inspection of them, he was
refused, unless upon a motion he obtained an order from
the Board of Directors.
Mr. MOZLEY declared this proceeding to be monstrous,
and contrary to all precedent; he had conversed with
many railway directors and they declared that they bad
never before heard such a dictum laid down. The Hon.
Proprietor next complained of the directors making a
call upon the shareholders. All other companies, when
101. per share was paid up, had the power, as they had,
to borrow, and that power they exercised; but, in this
company, a further call was made for the purpose of
oppressing the shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN 4142;tillaly repudiated any wish to
oppress the shared *kers.
Mr. W. MATHEWS then, at considerable length, AR:
fended the conduct of the directors, and said, thei', ter
gentleman would rejoice more than himself_ iifnatengrity
-rangement, ,nsistently with the honour d
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ba
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of the present directors, could be effected,
n andlie all differ-
ences between that body and the present tilts
for ever put an end to. Brushingaww
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Western.—(Cries of
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sod his friends.
come from Mr. Mosley
Mr. MOZLEY thought that four gentlemen thrown into
a room together without the presence of lawyers would
to an arratigement.
wanteds soon
the best price they could get for their pro-
perty; they had no wish to injure the Great Western,
but they were desirous that other companies beside the
Great Western should have the right to run upon the
line.
Mr. Muntz then vacated the chair •, and Mr. Turner
being appointed to succeed him, the first resolution pro-
posed by Mr. Mozley was again proposed by that gen-
tleman, seconded, and carried unanimously.
The meeting then adjourned to the 12th of July.

TUE MARQUIS OF LONDONDBRAY.—We are grati-
fied to Lear hat the Noble and tii'lant Marquis is re-
covering fr. • ,he effects of his seri ,tii'4'--ident on Sunday
last.
TIIE BRITISH LA ULM:ail\ t; ASSOCIATION FOR
SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.—HER MAJESTY'S BENEVO-
LENCE.—The committee of the above association, which
numbers among its members many ladies connected with
the higher circles of society, in consequence of the low
state of their funds, have recently received a munificent
donation of 5001. from her Majesty, which greatly
assisted in forwarding the objects of the association.
Lord and Lady Stanley leave town on Saturday
next for Knowsley-park, the Earl of Derby's seat in.
Lancashire, where the Noble Lord and Lady are to re-
ceive a visit from hialmperial Highness the Grand Duke
Constantine of Russia on Tuesday next.