The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

THE WEST,

The most extraordinary express ever carried between
London and Dublin was accomplished on Wednesday, bf
Mr. C. P. Roney, " Railway Bonaparte" and the " VI eg'
horn of the West," when a special train was put in re.-
quisition for the conveyance of those of the nobility and
gentry who were to he present at the opening of the
Exhibition. The following was the time kept :—Left
Euston station at 8.35 a.m. ; Rugby (85 miles) at 10.37
a.m. ; Chester (178 miles). at 1.6 p.m., and arrived at
Holyhead (263 miles), at 3.11 p.m. Left Holyhead et,
3.36 p.m, and arrived at Kingstown (Dublin time) at
7.3 p.m. Deducting, therefore, the stoppage of thirteen
minutes at Chester for refreshments, the distance between
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minutesegnr e great nedaliberalityonnti
of the London and North-Western and Chester and
Holyhead Companies, placed at the service of the corn'
mittee of the Exhibition, free of all cost. Along the
line numaers were congregated at each of the stations,
end gave a loud huzza as the train whirled past thew.
Amonst other passengers who came by this extraordinary
express there were the Earl and Countess of Granville,
Lord Naas, M.P., the Lord Mayor of York, Mr. Sheriff
Croll, of London; Mr. Under-Sheriff James, of London,
and Mrs. James ; Sir Richard Mayne, Chief Corn'
missioner of the London Metropolitan Police ; the Hon.
John Ross, Solicitor-General for Canada ; Sir Joseph
Paxton, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr. George Godwin, F.R.S.,
Mr. Grove, Secretary of the Crystal Palace Company-
Mr. Roney had left Dublin the previous day, by the
1 p.m. mail, and thus performed the double journey
between the English and Irish metropolitan Cities in little
more than twenty-eight hours. Lord and Lady Granville
are the guests of their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant
and Lady St. Germans. Lord Naas and Mr. Vance, both
members of the committee lately formed at the instance
of Mr. Herbert, for the purpose of improving the corn-
munication between England and Ireland, took tti..
e
opportunity of expressing to Mr. Roney their best than.'
for proving to them what might be done in the communecation between London and Dublin, under a proper
management. The weather was charmingly fine during
the whole trip.

NATIVE MANUFACTURE NOT EXHIBITED.
The Dublin Evening Mail asks why it is that among
the samples of native manufacture exhibited, Doctel
Abe Hale has not a table for showing the stuff that pledge,'
are made of. A promise-loom after the genuine modeq
displaying the various threads in their complications so
entanglements, which produce the perfect pattern of e"
Irish senator, would be a most indigenous productioai
The weft of cupidity traversing the warp of sophistry, and
both so skilfully glazed by the plastic hand of a revereTi
famous
artisan as to present a similitude called honour, woo':
afford altogether a finished illustration of Spenser's fa':
definition of an Irish mantle. Such a cloak, with such,:
showman as Doctor Mac Hale to bring out its beauties id
prominent perfection, would send all the paletots at',
zephyrs in creation into the shade. Dr. Newman, tong
might help the collection—only that he, unfortunatell,d,
not Irish—by exhibiting Truth in crotchet work ; er's,
we are sure, that Mr. Sadleir, or either of the ScullY4
would have no objection to add their private collection,
Irish brass to the repository. Mr. John O'Connell
.ar;',
already sent a bar of the iron that many and many a ti ,8
entered into his respected parent's soul, and which, strag
to say, is nothing the worse of the wear, proving ,Sr,'l,\lf
remarkably well tempered that iron must have been.
ors
Keogh has still a little bit of the oath he took at
much at the service of the committee ; and as it has.berof
recently polished up, under the immediate superviswi'oo,l
the dove-eyed Bishop of Athlone, it looks quite as gt,
as new. Mr. Norton, the Hon. Solicitor's late opPo'lftener
will show the hand he shook with that gentleuaao,o it
the contest; aye, and defy the whole world to say
is not every whit as clean as the other hand. The
both
Member for Kerry's head and Mr. Duffy's pluck are.,nts ;
Irish, and curiosities, too in their several departo3,lo,
while Dr. Cahill's fustian is most undoubted and all'o'ver
Other productions, various and valuable, must Elan' with
for another day ; but we cannot omit to mention,nony,
admiration, Mr. Cecil Lawless'' TipperarY 5"
It is filmset equal to the real thing.