The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

IRE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

The Radical Corporation of Dublin met on Saturday,
to petition the Queen to protect the Pope !
The donations received in the different dioceses of Prance
for the relief of the indigent Irish amounted on the 20th of
September to 324,047 f.
The enormous quantity of 76 bales of smuggled tobacco
has been found by the excise-officers, concealed under a
large heap of straw and agricultural implements, on the
premises of a farmer, at Ballybracken, County Cork.
FALL or A CORN STORE.—On Thursday the corn store
of Mr. T. M. Usborne, Esq., at Upper William-street,
yielded to the unequal pressure of Indian corn and bread-
stuffs deposited therein. All the lofts but the uppermost
successively fell, and came down to the basement story,
mingling with a heap af mortar and rubbish. Fortunately
no person was injured.—Limerick Chronicle. '
GATHERING OF IRISH MEMBERS.—The responses to
Mr. John O'Connell's summons to hold a mock Parlia- 1
merit some time in the month of November, are, like
angels' visits, few and far between. As yet the assentors
to the proposition are limited to the Repeal members and
a few Whigs, trembling for the safety of their seats on a
future occasion, should they make sign of independence
by refusing to comply with the behests of the self-elected
leader of the Irish people.
HOARDING OF GRAIN.—In a late number we endea-
voured to impress upon our agricultural friends, the dan-
ger of hoarding up grain in these unsettled days of famine
and free-trade. The following fact, which since came to
our knowledge, proves the judiciousness of our advice on
this subject. A wealthy farmer in this neighbourhood was
offered 2s. per stone for one thousand stones of oats which
he had on hand in March last, which he refused saying he
would not take less than 2s. 6d. per stone. He sold the
entire lot last week at ls. per stone.— Tyrone Constitution.
The Right Rey. Dr. Delany, the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Cork, has made an appointment in that diocese
which has given great and just offence to people of all re-
ligious persuasions. It may be recollected that at the
Cork Assizes of 1838 the Rev. James Burke, together with
three persons named Crean, was found guilty of a con-
spiracy to swear away the life of a man named Wright,
and subsequently sentenced to two years' imprisonment
and to pay a fine of £2OO. This reverend delinquent has,
it seems, been selected by his diocesan to discharge the
duties of assistant to the Rev. Mr. Doheny, the chaplain
of the Dunmanway workhouse.
The Earl of Mountcashel passed through London on
Thursday, on his route from Paris to his seat in Ireland.
Lord Mountcasliel's brief absence from the field of his
benevolent and truly Christian labours was caused merely
by his anxiety to remove his family from the influence of
the infectious fever now prevailing in its neighbourhood ;
his lordship, how willing soever to encounter the danger
in his own person, feeling that he has no right to expose
to it others whose presence and exposure to it can be in
no respect useful. It is necessary to state the facts as
they are, because some of the newspapers have falsely
and ungenerously charged Lord Mountcashel's removal
for a few days with his family, as a desertion of his post.
There was a meeting at Conciliation-hall, on Monday,
which was remarkable for nothing but the presentation
of a statement of accounts for the past year—(is this a
sop for the Young Irelanders ?)—and the reading of a
long letter signed " t John, Archbishop of Tuam," ad-
vocating the repeal of the Union. In the course of Dr.
M`Hale's communication occurs the following passage :
" As the payment of debts is now the favourite theme
with our political moralists, they will not, I trust, forget
the obligation of having refunded to Ireland the sum
abstracted by the Union, and to the poor of Ireland their
patrimony, plundered from them by the Established
Church."

The Morning Chronicle's Dublin correspondent says,
that from almost all parts of Ireland " the accounts are
most gloomy as to the prospects of the approaching win-
ter. In the aggregate, there is an abundance of food, but
millions of the population who had existed in former
years upon potatoes are, or very soon will be, totally
destitute, unless sustenance can be provided for them by
the poor-rate or employment. In fact, if prompt and
energetic efforts be not made, the coming winter will he
one of as terrible suffering as the last. There are, lam
happy to say, some indications of a spirit of energy and
foresight amongst the resident gentry in various localities,
to provide by remunerative employment against such a
calamity."
IRISH TENANTS.—Mr. John O'Connell has published
a long letter to the Irish people, in which he says that
" seizure of crops and eviction of tenants are progressing
with fearful rapidity at this moment in various parts of
Ireland ;" and he exclaims " no mercy to the landlords if
they don't show mercy to the people." With regard to
the fact, in a general point of view it is essentially false.
The real state of things is this :—A wide conspiracy
against the payment of rent exists in the provinces of
Munster and Connaught, and in some of the counties of
Leinster. The landlord, to whom long arrears of rent
are due, and who is himself pressed with burdens newly
heaped upon him, beholds the haggards of his tenantry
crammed with wheat, oats, barley, and other produce of
his land, while he is told there is no money for him.
What ! is he not only justified, but in duty bound to
attempt the enforcement of his just demands under-such
circumstances ? None can deny his right, or insinuate
oppression against him.
MOST MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On the night of
Monday, a hut, which was erected by a man of the name
of Leahy, at Ballyverigan, about two miles from Youghal,
and which contained six human beings, viz. :—a woman,
wife to Leahy, her mother-in-law, and four children of
the former, two of whom, with the mother, were in fever
—took fire, and every soul of them perished in theflames.
What adds to the sad catastrophe is, that Leahy, who
had been sent by his employer to the fair of Bartlemy, or
Bartholomew's-well, and was on his return home at night,
was the first person that discovered the conflagration, but
did not arrive in time to render any assistance, as his
whole family had perished, and the hut was all but con-
sumed before he reached the spot. Thus a whole family,
with one exception, have been swept away in a moment,
from the disinclination, but too prevalent amongst the
lower orders, to sending such members of their families
as are afflicted with fever into the hospitals so consider-
ately prepared for their reception, and where they are so
carefully attended to.—Cork Constitution.
ANOTHER GAOL CONSPIRACY.—The Armagh Guar-
dian gives the subjoined account of a daring conspiracy
which, fortunately, had been discovered in the gaol of
that county :—" It appears that there are 24 convicts at
present, and that among them the diabolical plot was
hatched, by which they meant to effect an escape. The
particulars, as related by one of the party are as follow :
At a certain fixed time it was arranged that one by one
they were to fain sickness, which would cause their re-
moval to the hospital, from whence escape would be more
easily effected, in consequence of being detached from
the prison and having to contend with only one of the
turnkeys. When in hospital, iron saws, with which the
bars of the windows were to be cut, were to be supplied
by the sister of one of the convicts. We believe that it
was further intended to murder the turnkey in charge of
the hospital and the deputy-governor, which latter person
was fortunate enough to discover the plot, the issue of
which might have proved fatal to many. The whole affair
was investigated by Mr. William Paton, justice of the
peace, and the local inspector, and the three leaders were
confined in irons."
THE HOLY-CROSS DEMONSTRATION.—On Sunday

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week, a meeting of tenant farmers and about 4,000 in
number, was held at Holycross, Tipperary. Resolutions
were passed, establishing a tenant league, or an associa-
tion of tenant farmers, for the purpose of asserting and
securing the rights and improving the condition of the
occupying tenantry of the soil, and declaring " that any
person now holding the actual possession of any portion
of the soil of this country, shall be deemed to have a per-
manent possession of the same, during so long as he shall
continue to pay such rent as shall be fixed and determined
by the adjudication of sworn arbitrators, or other fairly
constituted and impartial tribunal, such adjudication to
be made on such principles and in such mode as may
hereafter be determined by convention and agreement
between the landlord and occupier." The orator of the
day was Mr. Doheny, a clever partisan of the Young
Ireland school, and one of the writers in the Nation
newspaper. The sum total of his advice to the peasantry
appeared to be that they should determine not to be
thrust out of their holdings, and at the same time keep a
firm grasp upon the crops in their hands, leaving the
landlords to get their rents if they can and the govern-
ment to collect rates if they can. There is a good deal
of difference between this and the professed object of the
!meting, which was the extension to Tipperary of the

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tenant-right of Ulster.
MORAL V. PHYSICAL FORCE.—The "Irish Confedera-
tion" has despatched a roving commission to ransack the
provinces for recruits, wherever they can be got to swell
the ranks of the seceders. In Limerick and Kilkenny,
they have been tolerably successful, but in the " beautiful
city " of Cork they were destined to meet rather a rough
reception from the disciples of the moral force principle.
Here is a sketch furnished by the Cork Constitution of
Tuesday :—" There was a meeting of the Young Ire-
lenders at the Victoria Theatre, last evening, which was
sought to have been made select,' by confining the ad-
mission to sixpenny tickets, but the doors were broken in
by sledges, and the gallery and pit quickly filled with
rabble, and many of those who had purchased tickets
found it impossible to gain admission, while many others
deemed it prudent not to attempt the task. Free ad-
mission' being secured, the house was crowded to incon-
venience, and during the proceedings which took place
there were frequent thumping matches between the old
and young. Mr. Denny Lane took the chair, and while
addressing the meeting some one turned the main gas
cock, and all was in darkness, during which there was the
most terrific commotion, particularly amongst a number
of women, to whom the boxes were appropriated. After
some time the lamps were again lit, and the Chairman
proceeded until a remark fell from him reflecting upon
O'Connell, when he was assailed with the most opprobri-
ous epithets, and during his efforts to address them he was
yelled at most vociferously. Mr. M. J. Barry followed,
and he fared nothing better; neither did Father Mullane,
who told them, that though small in body he was a giant
in mind. But the grand row was reserved for Mr. W. S,
O'Brien, M.P., who strove for a long time to overcome
the spirit of turbulence, but eventually was obliged to
give up the hopeless task. Young Meagher, seeing his
leader retreat rushed forward to fill up the breach, but the
attack was renewed with increased vigour. He struggled
manfully and strenuously against the hisses, shouts, and
cheers of which he was the object. There he stood, saw-
ing the air, but to no effect, for nearly half an hour, until
he told them 'that he was determined to remain on the
spot for three days, if need be, until he was heard.' This
seemed to appease them, but not until some dozen noisy
spirits were huddled from gallery and pit, and not a few
black eyes and bloody noses were bestowed on neighbours.
He was followed by a Mr. Brennan, Mr. Brady, and Mr.
Shea Lawlor, and at 11 o'clock the chair was vacated. and
Ate audience dispersed, separating in their exit the skirts
from many cots.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

A gentleman of the deputation from Liverpool character-
ised the peculiar reception of that body by the great Nor&
them powers, on Thursday last, as a new edition of
" BAXTER'S SHOVE.”—Railway Times.
A passenger on the railway lately dropped his chrono-
meter through the railway carriage whilst travelling, but
it was subsequently found on the line with only the glass
broken.

It is expected•that the late accident on the Manchester
and Leeds Railway will cost the company not less than
£lO,OOO, as it is not likely they can offer Mr. Weston's
family less than £5OOO, considering the lucrative situation
he held.

EXPRESS TRAINS.—We believe we shall be found cor-
rect in stating that the expres, train from London to Li-
verpool, via the Trent Valley line, will perform the dis-
tance—viz. 200 miles. in five hours, or at the rate of 40
miles per hour.—Sun.
From the official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,152 miles of rail-
way, was £207,463, thus acerounted for :-114,700 for the
conveyance of passengers only, £46,405 for the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £46,358 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £20,045 over the corresponding week of last
year, when the mileage was about 2,525.
ACCIDENT.—The mail train on the Dorchester and
Southampton Railway being considered beyond its usual
time, of arrival at an intermediate station, a pilot engine
was despatched, the line being a single one, to ascertain
the cause of delay. The consequence was, that this en-
gine, being on the same line of rail, in rounding a curve,
came suddenly upon the mail train, and a fearful crash
ensued. The guard is the only person injured : he re-
ceived a severe bruise.

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.—The contractors have
commenced operations in Deeping Fen, about three miles
from ,Spalding, with thirty men, and more will shortly be
added to the number. A neat little brick and slated
cottage, erected a few months ago, and one in progress
adjoining, have been purchased and taken down, for the
entrance to the intended station at Windsover. Consi-
derable devastation of houses, orchards, gardens, &c.,
several acres in extent, must occur for this gigantic
railway undertaking.

TELEGRAPHIC BUSINESS.—We have heard of a curious
transaction by means of the electric telegraph, which is
said to have occurred in our Lonthin Stock Exchange, on
Wednesday. 500 shares were bought at a certain price in
the market ; the news, per telegraph, was sent off to one
of our provincial towns, and in an hour advice was sent
back that they were sold, with "go it again." 500 more
were thereupon bought, the news transmitted to the agent,
who immediately disposed of the shares—of course to a
profit.—Herapatle s Journal.
RAILWAY CHURCH AT DARLINGTON.—The Durham
Chronicle of the 17th instant contains a very interesting
account of the ceremony of laying the foundation stone
of a new church at Darlington. We call it a " Railway
Church," for towards its cost £6OO have been raised, by
private subscription, by the great North of England share-
holders, besides £6OO towards the schools. Among the
other subscribers are George Hudson, Esq., M.P., £lOO ;
and certain shareholders in the York and Newcastle
Railway Company, £5OO, this latter contribution being
secured through Mr. Hudson's exertions.
AMIENS AND BOULOGNE RAILWAY.—An official letter
was published in the Times of Saturday, from the secre-
tary of this company, relative to the meetings held in Liver.=
pool and London. The secretary regrets that " false
communications were made which passed uncontradicted,"
and stales "that at the ordinary yearly general meeting, to
be held next month, the directors will lay before the pro-
prietors an account of their affairs, and will feel happy to
have it in their power, by a true and detailed statement of
the position of the company, to restore among the sharehol-
ders that confidence which may have been shaken by the last
interested misrepresentations made to them in England."
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—
Experiments have, it appears by the New York papers,
been recently made with the electric telegraph, to deter-
mine the difference of longitude between New York,
Philadelphia, and Washington. From these experiments
two important conclusions have been deduced,—first,
that by means of the magnetic telegraph, a clock in New
York can be compared with another at a distance of 200
miles quite as accurately as two clocks can be compared
in adjoining rooms ; secondly, that the time required for
the electric fluid to travel from New York to Washington
and back again, a distance of 450 miles, is so small a
fraCtion of a second that it is inappreciable to the most
practised observer. To this we may add, that Mr. Bain,
of Edinburgh, the inventor of the electric clock, offered
so to apply the principle to the clocks of that city and
Glasgow, through the agency of the railway telegraph, as
to give them motion from one and the same source, and
thus to indicate precisely the same time at the same mo-
ment, though 46 miles distant.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A return of the number and
nature of the accidents which occurred on the various
railways in the United Kingdom, from the Ist of January
to the 30th of June, 1847, has been issued. It shows us,
in brief, that of a grand total number of 23,119,412 pas-
sengers conveyed during the said half-year on railroads in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, 101 were killed and 100
more or less injured, being at the rate of 1-2300th per
cent. on both. Moreover, it appears, froni a careful
analysis of the returns, that of the 101 persons killed and
100 injured, there were 14 passengers killed and 48
wounded from other causes beyond their own control, 8
killed and 3 injured owing to their own folly or incauti-
ousness, 8 servants of companies killed and 17 injured
from causes beyond their own control, 51 servants killed
and 24 injured owing to want of caution or recklessness
(such as leaping from engines or carriages in rapid motion,
and other similar acts of temerity), 19 trespassers killed
and 7 injured, and 1 person killed and another injured
.while crossing the railways at level crossings.

LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.—A
special general meeting of this company was held at the
station, at Lancaster, on Thursday last, for the purpose
of declaring a dividend. The chairman (Joseph Bushell,
Esq.) stated, that during the half year they had received
from the canal company, £6,650, being the half-year's
rent of their line, and this sum, together with interest re-
ceived from the Lancaster and Carlisle Company, and
other receipts, left a balance in hand of £8,290 10s. 7d.
after payment of all expenses, which would produce a divi-
dend of about 15s. per share, on the old shares; 10s. per
share, on the three-quarter hares ; and 4s. on the quar-
ter shares. It was proposed that the dividends be de-
clared accordingly, when Mr. Kynaston moved, as an
amendment, that the dividends be 15s. 7d. on the old
shares, 9s. sd. on the three-quarters, and 4s. 2d. on the
quarters. The full amount of discount (£l2 10s.) at
which the three-quarter shares were issued, had been
added to them in calculating the dividend, when only £l9
was paid up. This was unfair to the other portions of the
stock. A somewhat lengthy discussion took place on the
subject, in the course of which the chairman expressed
himself favourable to Mr. Kynaston's views. The amend-
ment was ultimately lost, and a dividend of 15s. 10d. and
4s. declared.
THE LIVERPOOL DEPUTATION AND THE RAILWAY
COMPANIES.—On Thursday a deputation, consisting of
Mr. D. Neilson, Mr. S. Woods, Mr. Healey, and others,
deputed by the Liverpool Stock Exchange, waited on the
chairman and directors of the principal railway compa-
nies, in accordance with the wishes of the entire members
of the Liverpool Stock Exchange, to take into considera-
tion the present state of railway property,- and to adopt
such measures as might be deemed advisable. The de-
putation first had an interview with Mr. Geo. Carr Glyn,
M.P., the chairman, and the directors of the North-
Western Railway, and Mr. Hudson, who met them at
the Euston Station. Mr. Neilson intimated the views of
the Liverpool Stock Exchange, to the effect that railway
property was being greatly depressed by the enormous
sums companies were attempting to obtain ; that perse-
verance in such a course would aggravate the evil not
only in railway interests, but in every branch of com-
merce ; and that the only remedy would be a cordial
union among railway companies.—Mr. Glyn said he
could not add anything to the declaration he had made
at the last half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
London and North-Western Railway. The directors
were determined to carry out that declaration, namely,
that they should not enter into any new contracts con-
nected with bills for lines that were granted last session,
except under very special circumstances, should such
arise.—Mr. Hudson, as representative of several compa-

nies, concurred in this, and renewed the declaration he
had made to the same effect.—The deputation then sug-
gested an aggregate meeting of the different railway
companies.—The directors present did not entertain the
same views of the advantages of such a meeting, as the
financial circumstances of several of the companies were
so diverse, that all could not concur in one mode of ac-
tion. The declarations made might, however, be stated
to other companies in any future conferences with them.
It should be known that a considerable portion of the
calls made by the companies represented by Mr. Glyn and
Mr. Hudson were for paying off debentures, and a large
sum had been paid to the Bank of England on this account.
Some gentlemen were of opinion than when the manufac-
turers of Manchester stopped their mills, the railway com-
panies must stop their calls.—The deputation then pro-
ceeded to Paddington, and saw Mr. Russell, (chairman) of
the Great Western Railway Company, Mr. Mills, and Mr.
F. Barlow, of the Waterford, Wicklow, and other rail-
ways, Mr. Rufford, of the Oxford and other lines, and
Mr. Saunders.—Mr. Russell, in reply to some suggestion
before stated, doubted whether a railway company had
power to pledge itself distinctly to any particular course.
The Great Western had done all in their power for some
time to limit their calls, and to retard rather than accelerate
their works. They would go on upon that principle, but
with respect to some particular lines, where contracts had
been made and engagements fulfilled, they could not un-
dertake to adopt an alteration. Mr. Mills and the other
directors present expressed their concurrence with the
views just expressed.—The next interview was with Mr.
Chaplin, M.P., Chairman of the South Western Railway,
and his colleagues. Mr. C. said they would suspend
their works as much as possible, consistently with their
engagements, to avoid the pressure of calls. They had
limited the expenditure accordingly. The deputation
then waited on Mr. Ricardo, and the directors of the
North Staffordshire Railway. Mr. Ricardo said they
had no intention to make any further call this year ;
but, if it became the interest of the company to do so,
he should not hesitate to make such call.—Mr. Macgregor,
of the South Eastern and Dover, said he and his colleagues
would do all in their power to curtail expenditure, lighten
the burden, and defer the calls.—The London, Brighton,
and South Coast, through their chairman Mr. Grenfell,
would agree to any measure sought for by the general rail-
way constituency. The Shrewsbury and Birmingham had
made contracts which they could not suspend.—Several
influential railway authorities are of opinion that a board
of commercial men ought to be appointed to adjudicate the
question, or that some measure should be introduced early
in the ensuing session for the purpose, similar to that in-
troduced by Lord Dalhousie to enable insolvent companies
to wind up.—The deputation'having waited on all the prm-
cipal companiep, returned to Liverpool with them zeoultge