The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-19 00:00:00

HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.

A meeting of Members of Parliament and others, in-
terested in promoting a line of railway from London to
Holyhead, via Chester and Bangor, took place at the
Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, yesterday.
Among those present we observed Lord Robert Grosve-
nor, M. P., Hon. W. 0. Stanley, M. P., Captain Deans
Dundac, M. P., Captain Dundas, Mr. Cerhaily, M. P.
Mr. Vigors, M. P., Sir Robert Bateson, M. P., Sir Wil-
liam Somerville, M. P., Sir Denham Norreys, M. P., Mr.
W. S. O'Brien, M. P., Mr. J. Jervis, M.P., the Hon.
Mr. Pilipps, Mr. Uniacke, Mayor of Chester, Captain
Wardell, Mr. George Stevenson, the celebrated engineer,
and several other influential gentlemen.

At one o' lock, or the motion of Mr. STANLEY, seconded
by Mr. Lams, Lord Robert Grosvenor ;cis called to
the Chair.

The Noble CUAIRSIAN said they wore met together on
a very important occasion ; and he was happy to find,
from the number of influential persons who were present,
that it was so considered by them. There were many others
who would have been present, but they were prevented by
the shortness of the notice. Letters had been received
from Mr. John Carr Glyn, Chairman of the London and
Birmingham Railway, and from Mr. Hallidq, of the
Chamber of Commerce, Dubliu, highly approving of the
objects of the meeting. The latter gentleman observed
that the Report of the Railway Commissioners was highly
satisfactory, more especially as 'the objection to the Kish
hank in Holyhead Bay had arisen with the Climber of
Commerce, Dublin. The Noble Lord then proceeded to
observe, that it was well known to many present that for a
long time the quickest and shortest communication be-
tween London and Dublin bad been eagerly sought for.
Two lines had been proposed, which had attracted much
attention. One was that projected by Mr. Vienullcs—
one was errough Worcester to Portdynllaen. That cer.
randy was the shortest mileage line, but it presented very
great engineering difficulties, and not only that, but when
teey had arrived at the terminus, the port was almost
to be made in order to fit it for a packet
station, which would require an enormous outlay
of capital. The other fine, which he was happy to say had
been approved of by the Commissioners, was that which
proceeded through the town of Chester, by Conway and
Bangor, to Holyhead ; and that line presented remarkable
facilities for laying down a railway. The line was actu-
ally complete from London to Chester, and there were no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude between Chester
and Holyhead. The port of Holyhead had long required
some improvement at the hands of the Government, as
well to fit it for a picket station as for a port of refuge for
Liverpool ; and that was an additional reason why Holy-
head seemed to be more peculiarly adapted for the purpose
than Portdynllaen. It was well known that in selecting
the route between different countries the shortest sea pas-
sage was that always selected by passengers. Another ad-
vantage, too remarkable to be overlooked, was, that whereas
the line to Portdynllaen passed through very unimportant
districts, the line by Chester to Holyhead laid open the most
important manufacturing districts in England, including
Yorkshire and Lancashire, which is almost an empire in
itself.—( Hear, hear.) Having said so much, it was not
necessary, nor was it his duty as Chairman, than merely
call their attention to certain resolutions which had been
proposed, and which he hoped would meet the concur-
rence of every one present. •
Sir ROBERT BATESON moved the first reso'.ution. As
an Irishman he felt deeply interested in the best and safest
and most direct communication being adopted. He there-
fore felt much pleasure in proposing the resolution, as he
was always anxious to promote the connection between the
two countries. From what had been stated by the Noble
Chairman, and from other information he had received,
it appeared to him that the line by Chester was the most
practical and the most direct. One advantage
was, that it communicated with what ho might
term the great national line of railroad to
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mously.

Captain DEANS DUNDAS said the meeting having de-
cided, by the resolution which bad just been passed, that
they should go the shortest route, he now came to t::e
other battle they had to fight—namely, to dispenE, with
the Standing Orders of the House of Cummons. He had
his doubts that, if these were enforced, the undertaking
would be thrown back for two or three years.
Mr. UNIACKE seconded the motion. From some expe-
rience which he had had in railway matters, and from hav-
ing taken an active part in promoting the Great Holyhead
Railway, he could speak from experience of the great di,-
alvantages under which it laboured from the existence of
Sanding Orders. The Chesterand Crewe Railway Com-
pany had had surveys made, and had expended a consider-
able sum, in bringing the undertaking before the
public, but they did not feel justified in going to the
great additional expense of lodging plans and giving
notices to the landowners on the line. After
the Company had been formed, a meeting had
been called at the place where they at present
were, and a deputation from that meeting bad led
to the issuing of a Commis ion by the Govern-
ment. The Commission was issued in August, but
from a delay which they did not contemplate,
the Report was me ready in time for the March
notices. After the Commission had been issued, a peti-
tion was presented for a line through Worcester, anti
the Commissicners were directed to include that in their
Report. In consequence of that line being admitted, the
Repert of the Commissioners was thrown back. Accord-
ing to the present Standing ()tilers of the House, the Bill
could not be introduced, alth.,ugh there was hardly a dis-
sentient landowner on the whole line. He trusted that
as the present might be considered a national under-
taking, the House of Commons would suspend the
Standing Orders with respect to the deposits of plans and
serving of notices. There was another regulation which
affected all enterprise in that country. What its object
was, not being 111 Parliament, he could not tell. In
other countries he saw the Government extending the
benefits of railway communication to their frontiers.
They saw them fostering the enterprises of capitalists,
and, without disrespect to the House. of Commons, he
must say that he considered the effect of the Standing
Orders. had been, not to cheek speculation, for that had
pretty well checked itself, but to prevent useful and ire-
portent measures from being brought forward, and to
plralyse the energies of the country. It seemed to him
a most unfair regulation to call upon Companies to deposit
101. out of 1.00/., and wait the chance of their Rill being
approved of or not. In times of pressure and difficulty in
the Money Market, men could not do that ; and it appeared
to him that if they could procure a modification of that re-
gulati m, it would greaCy promote the success of their
undertaking.—( Hear, hear.)

The resaution was carried unanimously.
The next resolution for a petition to Parliament.
to promote the objects of that undertaking, was moved
by the Hon. Captain PHIPPS, seconded by Mr. ELLIOT
FULLER, and carried unaninieusly.
Mr. 0. STANLEY, M. P. moved the next resolution, the
object of which was to wait upon the Government and
Members of Parliament, to induce them to promote the
undertaking. The Hon, Gentleman read extracts from
the Report of the Railway Commissioners, for the pur-
pose of showing that the line selected was the best that
could be adopted. He did not think that they were asking
too much to call upon the Government to render some
assistance to what must be considered a national under-
taking. By a return which he had laid upon the
table of the House of Commons, it appeared that if
the present line was carried into execution, it would
save tba country a sum of upwards of 77,000/.
The Hon Gentleman then read a statement of the ce-
penses of the Liverpool, Waterford, and Holyhead Packet
Establishments, for the purpose of showing that the expen-
diture was much more considerable than the receipts. Bc-
fore a contract was made in 1837 with a private Company
for carrying time mails, the expenses at Liverpool were
29 0001. a-year, and the receipts would not average
12,500/ per annum. They paid for the contract 9,000/.
a-year, and taking the whole expenditure at Liverpool, as
appeared by the Parliamentary Return, at 36,0001., and the
receipts at 12,5001., the balance ag;imst the Government
would be 23,500!., and if they added 9,0001. for the
contract, the total loss wculd be 32,500/. Ile was firmly
convinced that if the line were carried on from Chester to
Holyhead, it wculd be perfectly unnecessary to keep up a
packet station either at Milford or Liverpool.
Mr. J. JARVIS, M. P., thought it wouid be in vain to
apply for the suseension of the Standing Orders until
they had first obtained an interview with the Government,
and procured its sanction and approbation. When the met-
ter was feirly presented to the Government, he
thought no serious impediment would be thrown
in their way, particularly in an undertaking like
this, because they had the best evidence that all Govern-
ments of late years felt the importance of promoting the
best lines of communication. If riilroads bad not been
called into existence, the Great Holyhead Railway
would be an evidence of the anxiety of the Government
on that point ; and the alacrity with which
the sums
necessary for its construction was voted,showedHe
thought the best
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Sir Wm. SOMERVILLE reoved, and Mr. W. J. O'BRIEN
seconded, a vote of thanks to tho Noble L,a7rman, who
brit fly returned thanks.
A Deputation was then appointed to wait upon the Go-
vernment, and the meeting broke up.

At a meeting held at Errol, Scotland, on the
Bth instant, to take the Anti-Corn-law Circular of Mr. Alex.
Johnston, Glasgow, into consideration, a manifesto, expressive
of a, determination to co-operate, in agitating for Household
suff,•age, the Ballot, and a repeat of the Corn-laws, propoied
by Patrick Matthew.. (late member of the Chartist Convention
fur Perthshire and eshire districts), was unanimously agreed
to. IVe have received a copy of this document, and regret that,
owing to its length, we cannot find room for it.

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN

RAILWAY.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
A serious accident occurred on this railway on Sunday
last. The engine of the train, which left Vauxhall at ten
o'clock on Sunday mcraing, was thrown off the rail about
five miles before it reached Winchester. The engine
driver and the ttcker were both killed. A lady in one of
the second class c-irriages bed several of her toes hurt
severely. A gentleman's servant, in the same carriage,
was cut in the forehead, but there was no fracture. Fur-
ther than this, there was no injury cf any consequence to
any passenger. One of the servants of the Company was
in the lugg,ge carriage next to the engine, and escaped
unhurt. No passenger in the first class carriages suffered
anything beyond alarm, except perhaps very slight bruises.
The statement e,mtainad in a letter in the Standard of
yesterday, which represented the engine to have exploded
and caused .serious injury to a lady occupying one of the
first-class carriages, is utterly untrue. The accident is
believed to have been caused by some mi.chievous person
having wickedly put something across the rail.
The inquest which will be taken on the bodies of the
unfortunate men will, we hope, show that the Company
are vigilantly engaged in tracing the offender and bringing
him to justice. It is very melancholy to witness the sud-
den destruction of two men usefully engaged in their duty,
but it will strike the mind of observers that the situation
of those who conduct and manage these engines being ob-
viously most exposed to dahgcr, supplies them with the
most powerful motives for care and att.-titian, and cannot
fail to operate beneficially on their conduct by making
them sober and careful, and yields additional protection to
those who travel by this mode of conveyance.
The Earl of Dundonald appears to have been one of the
passengers, and, with the other passengers, came forward
to hear testimony in favour of the proper conduct of the
servants of the Company. No obstruction or fault is attri-
butable to the road. The trains during the whole of yes-
terday passed up and down with the same security and
speed as usual. The first up from Southampton yesterday
morning, we are told, was the largest and fullest that has
yet passed over this road.

!SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Herald.)
hips in place are actually forgetful of the people, and
Tories cut of place do not much like to remind them that
there is a people in existence. In fact, an appeal to
public fecling from the Conservative side of the House is
so rarer that one is inevitably led to infer that it is con-
sidere4tmeath the dignity of Conservative senatorship to
addre's the tribunal of public opinion at all. Yet there
have been oppositions in the House of Commons quite
equal in intellect, intelligence, and wisdom, dignity, and
eloquence, to the present, that did not disdain to appeal
from Parliamentary divisions to the sense of the universal
people. In the question of taxation it cannot be denied
that the people are peculiarly interested, and yet' in
the discussion upon the Budget of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer the interests of the people, and the
faith of Government pledged to the people on the subject
of the assexed taxes, were left as-completely out of view as
if the Members of the House of Commons on bath sides of
the House only represented themselves. If they alone
paid the taxes we should have had no objection to their
taking a view of the Chancellor's budget, which had no re-
ference to anything beyond the visible horizon of the House.
But whatever Whigs and Tories may vote on the subject,
it is certain the people must pay. They have a right,
therefore, to he heard upon the merits of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's plan. For Mr. Baring's brass they have
to give their sterling gold. And surely Whig brass never
made a more impudent demand upon the public pocket
than in the matter of a proposed augmentation of the As-
sessed Taxes.

( From the Morning Advertiser.)
If Ireland be disfranchised, as is proposed, the Liberal
constituencies of England and Sentlond will be deprived of
all power in the Legislature save that of a miserable mi-
nority. At present the Liberal majority cf the united
Legislature, consisting, for the most part, of Irish Mem-
bers, is lamentably inadcquata to sustain the measures
called for by the wants and wishes of the people. Take
away the Liberal Irish Members, and at one stroke
the British Pariiatuont is unreformed, and Tory gold,
op,--rting in such places as Cambridge and Ludlow, will
• 1
leave the faction nothing to regret in the loss of Gatton
and Old Sarum. Is would, therefore, be gross stupidity
to regard this measure as one exclusively Irish.
( From the Morning Chronicle.)

The Tories are essentially an anti-union party. They
are the original and only true enemies of the Union. Had
a liboral policy prevailed in Ireland since the passing of
the Emancipation and. Reforca Acts, the question of the
Repeal of the Union would never have been mooted—
would never have had a dozen advocates. What but the
Tory inthsenee has given the repealers the slightest weight,
or gained them a moment's hearing with the country ?
Toryism is the natural parent of the repeal principle, and
when the Tory organs revile Mr. O'Connell, they, in
reality, reprobate and denounce their own leaders and their
own party. What is it that has maintained the municipal
and ecclesiastical establishments of Ireland in their pre-
sent anomalous and diseased condition, but the disastrous
power which Toryism has exerted in both branches of the
Legislature? and what is it but the denial of rciicf from
these cruel burdens.w;lat, but the defeat .of the appro.
priatioo elau;e arid the measure of Corporate Reform
what, but the proposition of such measures as Lord Stan-
ley's Mil, tint have enabled the advocates of repeal to
find an audience in any part of Ireland ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(MONDAY EVENING.)
TIMES.—This has been a moss animated day on the
Stock Exchange, the certainty that ua loan will be
created having operated as an impulse to speculation in
every .description of security negotiated on the Ex-
change, the activity net being confined to any particu-
lar market. Those who had speculated for a fall in
Consols, consequent on a loan or a fundicg, have been
buying in with great rapidity to cover their account on
the 213th. Consols, which opened at 921. left off at
92 for money and this account, end were done at 94
to for the account on the 16th of July. Exchequer
hill; have been as high as 29e., but the last quotation is
265. to 28s. premium.
Of the forign securities the most coniiderble rise has
been in Mexican Bonds, which have advanced about Lk.
The rise in shares is considerab:e.

SUN.—No arrivals this afternoon. The chief sub-
ject of attention in the City is the advance in the Cus-
toms' duties, v,,hich of course balks some of the large
holders of produce, who had they been aware of it be-
fore, would have cleared their stocks and pocketed the
5 per cent. saved. Of course the public at large would
neither have been benefited nor injured by an earlier
notice, as these parties would not have sold until the
duties were put on.
Respecting the petition of the grocers for the admis-
sion at a lower duty of foreign sugars for home con-
sumption, one serious question is asked in the City—
would not the adoption of this course encourage the
slave colonies?

Consols left off very firmly at 901 j both for money
and time. During the day the price for Account was
lower than for immediate delivery, showing the abun-
dance of unemployed capital. Bank Stock was firm at
1761 ; India Stock rose to 2ali- ; and Exchequer Bills
to 295. prem.

The Foreign Market was brisk for almost every secu-
rity till the close of business. Spanish Actives were
28i to 2.9 i ; Portuguese New receded from 35i to
354 ; Russian Bonds were firm at 115 ; and the rest
the same us in the middle of the day.

The Share Market fully maintained its buoyancy
this afternoon.

CENTRAL CRILVIINAL CGURT.

OLD CO UR T.
A person of respectable appearance, named William
Thirk, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment
for misdemeanour, preferred against him by the Corpora-
tion of the City of London. The misdemeanour charged
in the indictment was for having, on the 6th of this month,
exposed for sale, in Smithfield market, two cows in a dis-
eased state. Three Counsel were engaged for the pro-
secution, and two for the defence. After a lengthened
trial the Jury consulted together for a few minutes, and
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

TROUT IN THE RIVER. CARRAGHT.--The
late rains had greatly swollen the river, which was now clear-
inn-', and I was anxious not to lolosethe golden moment. Trout
was abundant ; many of good size, notwithstanding the conti-
nual netting of this river ; and. as I crossed one stream, a tri-
butary to the Lowne, about six miles from Killarney, I found
the fall under the bridge crowded with those fresh run from the
sea. A fly was useless---a good worm, well scorned, would
have been effectual at this moment—and the best substitute for
the resistless bait I offered. I took upwards of forty common
trout and sea trout, from a quarter to a pound and a-half, under
this fall alone.—Sportsman in Ireland.
Mr. Comyn has been appointed Crown Solicitor
of Roscommon.

At a meeting of the Presbytery of Fordoun, held
on Wednesday week, the Rev. Alexander Whyte, Moderator,
it was agreed to overture the General Assembly to rescind the
Veto Act ; and also to take cognizance of the irregular pro-
'ceedings of the last Commission, in taking up cases not corn-_
mitted to them, particularly the case of the seven ministers
.Strathbogie; and to take effectual measures for securinghe
f
the
`obedience of the Commission to tae instructions of the As-
sembly. •
COURT OF SESSION.—The Gazette of Tuesday.
announces the appointment ( f Mr. Ivory to the vacancy in the
among men of
Court. We believe there is but one. p
all parties, as to the great legal the sound judg-
attahline°mh-
lesnOs'eminently qualify
meat, the integrity and industry,
him for the high situation. It is no slight advantage, too, that
y be termed, comparatively
he comes to the bench at what
maturityma of his powers, and with
speaking, an early age, t
his active habits in fullinviughoieur.• Much evil has ensued from
--", alit seat, when their faculties
raising old men to th
"d theierijedustry gone; and much, also, from
were decayed,
placesof
in the prime of life, keeping them
men who got their
after the infirmities age have rendered them useless, or worse
. than useless.—Scotsman.