The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.
THE POPE'S OWN IRISH.
The papers continue to chronicle the return home-
wards of the Irish pilgrims from the Eternal City.
According to present appearances, the share of the
Brigade in the glories to be won under General
Lamoriciere promises to be on the homoeopathic
scale, for by this time the phalanx of 1,500 must be
reduced to a mere skeleton depot, if all the concur-
rent accounts are to be credited of the numbers who
have deserted the Papal standard before striking a
blow to sustain the Chair of St. Peter. The cor-
respondent of Saunders, writing from Limerick
yesterday, thus • reports the arrival there of a fresh
batch of repentant prodigals :
" Letters previously received prepared the rela-
tives of a number of the foolish young men belong-
ing to this city who were afflicted by the Romish
mania a few weeks since, and in consequence rashly
took their flight hence to join the Pontifical army,
for their return to the homes of their parents, and
last evening a batch of about 22 arrived here by
train, in a worn and used up' condition, depressed
in spirits, and all repenting the misguided course
they had pursued. Those with whom they con-
versed they have given a deplorable picture of the
privations and sufferings they endured throughout,
alleging that but for the exertions of the Rev. Dr.
.7.ol‘Loughlin, late of the Franciscan Order in this
city, but who has now chief charge of the Irish
Volunteers in the Eternal City, the case would have
been even worse with them than it was. To him
they are indebted for having been sent back, and
in all particulars the accounts they give of matters
generally tally with the statements of the returned
Volunteer, O'Brien, which have been published in
his letters, and are therefore unnecessary to be re-
peated. It is, however, essential to mention that
many of them were induced to go to Rome under
promise of being appointed to high positions in the
Pope's army, instead of obtaining which they were
subjected to join the lowest ranks. One respectable
young man was assured he would at once be
made a colonel, but this he soon found out was an
illusion. Three of the county constabulary who
resigned the force are among those who arrived last
night, and their intention is to join the British
army, as numbers of the men who previously re-
turned have done in different parts of Ireland, and
who will no doubt, having learnt a satisfactory
lesson from their rash and thoughtless conduct,
prove good and loyal soldiers. It appears this is
the second batch of disappointed adventurers that
has arrived in Limerick within the last fortnight,
and are without means of employment."
The Cork Constitution of yesterday thus chronicles
the arrival there of a fresh batch of the repent-
ants :
" If present appearances are not very deceptive,
the Brigade that was to achieve so much glory on
Italian soil will soon be little but a name. For the
last few weeks numbers of those who went from
this country to Rome have been hastening back
and giving such accounts of the treatment they re-
ceived as satisfactorily explain the subsidence of
their zeal for the service of the Holy Father. Some
who went from this city, it has been already men-
tioned, have returned, but more have since come to
corroborate the statements of the horrors endured
by the recruits. Yesterday no fewer than 36
arrived here. Worn, pallid, and miserable, their
appearance left no necessity for tongue to tell of the
hardships they went through since a few short
months ago they embarked at our quays in the cer-
tainty of finding glory and good pay on the banks
of the Tiber. Their description of what they en-
dured is just the same as that which has already
been given by those who preceded them. The hardest
of marches, the vilest of lodging, and the worst of
food, and even of that same only just as much as
kept them from actual starvation, left them little
mind for bearing arms under Lamoriciere, and,
before it was too late, they left the Pontine Marshes
and their autumnal fevers behind them. Many of
the 36 belong to this city, but the greater number
are from Kerry and the adjoining counties."

RAILWAY INTELLIGEIVCE.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.

The report of the directors, to be submitted to
the proprietors at the half-yearly general meeting,
to be held on the 17th inst., atates that " the re-
venue account exhibits the following results of the
half-year :—Receipts from passengers, parcels,
mails, &c., £946,426, being an increase over the
corresponding half of 1859 of £55,048 ; ditto from
merchandise, &c., £1,065,816 ; increase, £124,397 ;
total, £2,012,342 ; increase, £179,445. Working
expenses, .£869,619 ; increase, £80,363. During the
past six months the increase in the number of pas-
sengers and tons ofgoods carried, and of train miles
run, as compared with the corresponding period of
1859, has been—Passengers, 264,355 ; goods and
minerals, 575,394 tons. Mileage of passenger
trains, 203,626 miles ; mileage of goods trains,
359,067 miles. The increased receipts have not arisen
from a return to more remunerative rates, little
change having taken place in that respect, the
traffic generally, both merchandise and passenger,
continuing subject to active competition, and there-
fore worked at a high rate of expense. The rapid'
development of the business renders necessary the '
enlargement very generally of stations, sidings, and
other conveniences, requisite for its conduct and for
the safe working of the line. This description of
outlay amounts, over so extensive a system, to a
large sum in the aggregate, and the practice of this
company to debit such charges against revenue, in-
stead of against capital, has had the effect of in.
creasing the working expenses, and thereby
of reducing very considerably the apparent pro-
fits of the past and previous half-years. Acts have
been passed by Parliament authorising the lease
of the St. Helens line between -Warrington and
Garston, and for the transfer of the Warring-
ton and Stockport line to this company ; author-
ising contracts for the use of Normanton Station,
and of the line between that station and Goose-hill
—the point to which the powers obtained last year
extended; authorising the construction of a branch
from the Stockport, Disley, and Whaley-bridge
Railway to Hayfield. For the construction of a
railway from Bedford to Cambridge; for the con-
struction of a railway from Nuneaton to near Lei-
cester, and confirming agreements between the Lon-
don and North Western and Midland Companies,
for the mutual use of the lines and stations between
Leicester and Coventry inclusive. By agreement
with the promoters of the bill for amalgamating the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford, and Worcester and
Hereford Companies, under the title of the West
Midland Railway Company,' clauses have been in-
serted in that act providing for theexchange and for-
warding on satisfactory terms of traffic between the
principal stations on the respective lines of railway.
The directors regret to report the failure of the re-
newed application to Parliament for authorising
arrangements between the London and North
Western, the Great Northern, and the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies. The bill
for the proposed line from Huyton to Moore was
also rejected on the opposition of paeties interested
in the navigation of the Upper Mersey ; and the
bill for an extension of the Garston and Edge Hill
line, and for a station at Brunswick-dock, Liver-
pool, passed the Commons, but was withdrawn in
consequence of unexpected opposition. The works of
the West London Extension Railway, and of the
Sutton Coldfield branch, have been contracted for,
and are in course of construction. The agreements for
working and for a lease of the Birkenhead Railway
by this and the Great Western Company jointly,
which have already been approved by the proprie-
tors, will be submitted for confirmation to the ,
special meeting, as will also the extended traffic
agreement with the North Staffordshire Railway'
Company, as finally settled by Mr. Bullar. It being
desirable that the principle of the renewal of road
account, which has been established with the sanc-
tion of the proprietors in respect of the main line of
the London and North Western system should be
adopted on the Lancaster and Carlisle and Chester
and Holyhead lines, the amount appropriated
from revenue will in, future be increased so as
to embrace those leased lines, as well as the
branches under that head recently constructed.
An additional vessel being requisite for the in-
creasing merchandise traffic between Holyhead and
Dublin, the directors propose, in accordance
with the course heretofore adopted, to appro-
priate to that purpose a further sum (estimated at
£24,000) from the balance at the credit of the in-
suranceCh and depreciation funds for the boats of the
Chester
May a_nd Holyhead Company. On the 2d of
firef the,r „I:',_uston Hotel was partially destroyed by
i building-, the property of this company,
was amply covered by their policies of insurance;
considerable injuryri had been done to the furniture,
and as the terra
.the lease was nearly expired, the
directors deemed it
expedienti to anticipate that
Period, and aer:ordlitnt. y:e.they negotiated for the pur-
ehaes of furniture,
kinds, connect;d with the wine,, and stores. of all
11,u,;ton and Victoria
Hotels., for the sum 0f£20,128 4s. 6,1., an ar-
r Lngernent which the directors consider advli
aed
-
t ivou:3. The hotel is being greatl imroved
at a farther cost of £2,500. The directors re-
quest a Tote of the proprietors for the followine.
works :—Enlargement of workshops at
Wolvertonb
and houses for workpeople, £20,000; carriage shop,
land, and new offices at Crewe, .£4,_2__ ___n4 ; covering
over yard at Earl estown waggon works, £6,70,:c;
station enJargenseut at Haydon-square, Euston,