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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

and necessarily 'dependent upon my personal-labour for
my support. Other men have got into Parliament to push
their fortunes. It is right that such people should hold
them Selves under a per onal obligation to the electors
whose votes enabled them to get there. -I
-got into Par-
liament to serve the country, and particularly the borough
town which sent me there. I not only do not seek place,
but, if place be offered to me, I mean to refuse it—so
long, at least, as Repeal fails to command the support of
Administrations: To this I Stand publicly pledged. But,
pledged or not, such is my resolution. Every year, there-
fore, that i am a Member of Parliament, I may,—and
probably 1 shall—become much poorer than I am now.
But I cannot by any_ possibility become a farthing richer
by my seat. It is clear, then, that owe no personal
obligation to my constituents, who elected me only on the
public grounds on which alone I sought their confidence."
A ROMISH PntEsT,—Among the cases tried at the ses-
sions on Saturday was that of a man named Buckley
against a priest named M`Cartliy, for assault. Buckley is
employed by the Rev. Mr. Cotter, of Donoughmore, to
carry about bibles and tracts for sale, and, these being in
no favour with the priest, his reverence, according to the
evidence, set to and horsewhipped him, flinging his books
at him, collaring and dragging him about the road be-
tween the acts, and pummelling him, by way of Variety,
with the butt end of his whip about the face and. head.
The first thing that appears to have aroused his reverence's
wrath was a tract on purgatory. That profitable impos-
ture is a sore subject with the papacy, and this•worldly
son of the church militant was naturally indignant that
profane hands should presume to meddle with it. He
therefore laid on with all his might, and to the fleetness
of his limbs Buckley probably owes it that he was not car-
ried home with broken bones. The jury, however, did
not agree, and his reverence is restored to his parish to
resume with invigorated ardour his practical illustrations
of apostolic rule. Where the jury found their difficulty we
do not inquire ; but we hope they discovered it in some-
thing stronger than the very unsatisfactory defence. The
cho fence satisfied some of the jury, and Mr. M`Carthy has
their sanction to assault and horsewhip every man who
hawks a bible through his parish. Nor have his flock
been slow to profit by it. What's good for the priest
must be good for the people, and the latter, taking license
fro 'a the non-agreement of the jury, and stimulated, it is
said, by some savoury exhortations, assembled in great
numbers round Mr. Cotter's Church, on Sunday night,
with lighted barrels, and celebrated his reverence's triumph
by hooting and shouting, and terrifying the congregation.
—Cork Constitution.

EXTRAORDINARY ROMANCE IN CORK.—In Cork, twelve
months since, a young gentlenian, a Roman Catholic, stu-
dying for a profession, was in the habit of visiting the
house of a tradesman, a Unitarian, who had a handsome
daughter. Having to pro:=eente his studies in Dublin, he
took his leave, was absent eleven months, never wrote to
the lady. and on his return to Cork did not renew the in-
timacy. One morning, last week, the lady's brother
called oh him, and demanded what his intentions were.
The student disclaimed having ever promised marriage, or
intended marriage. His visitor asked him to confront the
lady. He consented. On entering his father's drawing-
room he found her in a bridal dress, her family dressed for
a marriage feast, and a Unitarian clergyman prepared to
perform the ceremony. A brace of loaded pistols lay on
the sideboard, and the student, in fear, consented, and
was married ! As one of the party was a Catholic, a priest
was in attendance, and he performed the ceremony ac-
cording to the rites of his church. At the conclusion the
student claimed the protection of the priest, who obtained
for him permission to depart. He left the house and did
not return. The double marriage was announced, on the
17th ultimo, in the Cork Examiner, which paper, last
Monday, vouched, for the fidelity of the facts, but stated,
" there bad been an engagement, as we are informed, but
the engagement was broken off formally, on the part of
the gentleman, a day or two before the circumstances
which ended in an unwilline marriage taking place. Let-
ters written by the lady and her sister are in the possession
of the gentleman ; and as the whole affair is under the
consideration of eminent legal advisers, preparatory to
proceedings at law, these letters must, ere long, become
the property of a curious public. We shall only say that
they will have a very decided influence upon the case. The
lady, it is rumoured, loved " not wisely, but too well;
and the gentleman pointedly denies he could have been the
individual so loved."

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
A fatal accident occurred on the London and Brighton
and South Coast Railway on Thursday afternoon. As the
Portsmouth train was going from Portsmouth to Brigh-
ton, one of the guards, named Hart, was adjusting some
luggage on one of the carriages as the train was going
under an archway near Angmering, when his bead came
in contact with the arch, and the poor fellow was killed on
the spot.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,152 miles of rail-
way, was £206,848, thus accounted for :—X111,094 for the
conveyance of passengers only, £47,550 for the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £48,204 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an in-
crease of £24,225 over the corresponding week of last year,
when the mileage was about 2,525.
At a special meeting of the Wear Valley, Middles-
borough and Redcar, and Stockton and Darlington Rail-
way Companies, it was resolved to lease the Wear Valley
(which now includes the Bishop Auckland and Weardale,
the Wear and Derwent, the Weardale 'extension, and the
Shildon tunnel) and the Middlesborough and Redcar line
to the Stockton and Darlington, at a rent equivalent to 6
per cent. on the capital.
COLLISION ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A
collision took place near the Reading station on Tuesday
morning last, by the up and down train coming in contact
with each other. The accident is attributed to the
" switchman," or " pointsman," having given the wrong
signal, and thus caused the train to pass on to the impro-
per rail. Several of the trucks were destroyed, and pro-
perty to a large amount damaged and destroyed ; but no
personal injury was sustained.
INCREASE OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The Great Western
traffic returns during the last thirteen weeks have, without
the opening of a single additional mile of railway by the
company during the last twelve months, exceeded those
for the corresponding thirteen weeks of last year by no
less a sum than £11,500, or nearly £lOOO per week. A
remarkable fact connected with this increase of receipt is,
that, notwithstanding the depressed condition of the mer-
cantile world, the Great Western Company have, during
the last two weeks, carried more goods of a general de-
scription than they had ever previously conveyed in the
same period. The goods' receipts for the last week,
amounted to £5,280.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—We are happy to learn
that in the course of about six weeks from the present
time the electric telegraph will be completed between Lon-
don and the North. The delay which has occurred in
completing the line of communication, by the fixing of
wires between London and Rugby, is anything rather than
creditable to the greatest of railway companies. We re-
joice that the reproach which it involved is to be so soon
removed. At the present moment the telegraph from
Liverpool can communicate with York, Hull, Newcastle,
Berwick, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Derby,
Leicester, Nottingham, Lincoln, and Rugby, and when
the chain is completed between the latter station and
London, all the towns at present connected with the me-
tropolis will, of course, be also in communication with the
north.

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, a luggage train on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way, on coming down the incline from Cowlairs station,
acquired such a velocity while passing through the tunnel,
that the men stationed at the breaks had not sufficient
power to arrest its progress. The train was heard by seve-
ral persons coming down the incline at such a rapid pace
as to excite alarm, when, almost immediately after, a tre-
mendous crash was heard, which shook the neighbourhood.
The train, with the fearful momentum it had acquired,
penetrated above fifty feet into one of the railway com-
pany's stores, situated above the Star Hotel, bringing
down in its headlong career a thick stone gable and two
stone partitions, and entering into two of the offices con-
nected with the stores. The scene of ruin here presenting
itself was most appalling ; three breaks, with a number of
trucks lying piled above one another, and covered with
the stones of the gables and partitions, and the beams,
rafters, and flooring of the storehouse, were lying together
in one mingled mass. There were four or five men on the
trucks at the time; three have escaped with their lives,
although two of them are severly injured, and two are still
missing, one of whom, James Macarthur, a married man,
was seen on the foremost break immediately before the
collision took place, and there can be little doubt that he
has met his death among the rubbish. One of the guards
leaped off the train as it emerged from the tunnel, and es-
caped with a slight cut on the head and a few bruises; the
other two who have been found were lying among the
ruins senseless, covered with large stones, but recovered
in about twenty minutes after, so far as to be able to
speak. They are both very severely bruised.