The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Dublin mountains are now covered with snow; argil
showers of hail, with a biting wind, convince that winter
has not yet departed.
Two magistrates of the county of Clare, Michael Fins-
cane and Smith Blood, Esqrs., have been fired at, and
dangerously wounded.
The Waterford poor law guardians have passed a reso-
lution to give the paupers bread instead of potatoes for
dinner, from the high price asked for the latter.
At the Down assizes, a Catholic clergyman was indicted
for having celebrated marriage between two Protestants,
but a special verdict was taken, in order that the question
may be argued in a higher court
ANOTHER MURDER.—On Sunday night week, a man
named Meara was murdered by six miscreants, who broke
into his house, near Clough-jordan, in the county of
Tipperary. They dashed the unfortunate man's brains
out with clubs and stones.

Some rioting took place at Kilrush on Tuesday evening
between the police and the country people, in which
some persons connected with the towns joined. One of
the police had his skull fractured, and several of the ri-
oters were wounded by the bayonets of the police. The
ringleader was in the first instance arrested, but was res-
cued by the mob—he was, however, again taken.
FATAL. FACTION FIGHT.—On the Ist inst. two faction
parties, about four hundred strong, assembled at the fair
of Killedmond, county Carlow, to settle a dispute about a
farm by a regular battle. Several magistrates were present
and a large body of constabulary, and the factions were
overawed and retired. In the evening, however, they
again assembled, maddened by drink, when during the
affray that followed, one man was so dreadfully hurt as to
occasion his death.

ASSASSINATION OF A MAGISTRATE.—On Tuesday last
as Mr. Pierce Carrick, a magistrate in the county of Clare,
was returning in his car from a meeting at Ennis, to devise
means for relieving the distress of the people, he was fired
at from behind a wall when within a mile from his home,
Toureen House, and a bullet lodged in his thigh. Mr.
Carrick jumped from the car, and without a moment's
delay a second shot was fired. Another ball entered at
his groin, and passed round towards his spine, inflicting
the wound of which he died next day.
FATAL AFFRAY IN IRELAND.—A few nights since, a
difference arose between two men, about a right of pre-
cedence to put corn on a kiln at the mill of Ganaveen,
near Glantahe ; blows ensued, and some mutual friends
of the parties, who happened to be present, took part, it
is much to be regretted, not for the purpose of making
peace. One of the men, named Manion, bad his brains
dashed out on the spot, and so severe were the wounds
received by the other man, that he has since expired.—'
Tuam Herald.

AWFUL ACCIDENT.—A very awful accident occurred,
on Wednesday, at New Inn, in this county, by which the
lives of three men were sacrificed. It appears that one
of these men proceeded to light a lime-kiln, but, not being
a regular lime burner, he did not perfectly understand
how to proceed to work. He could not satisfactorily pro-
duce the necessary heat, and in order to stir up the fire he
got a ladder and descended into the kiln, when instan-
taneous suffocation was the result. A second and third
man followed in like manner, and with the same disas-
trous consequences. The bodies were got out by break-
ing down the front wall of the kiln.—Tipperary Vindic.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Mr. John Mitchell presided
at the weekly meeting on Monday. A short letter from
Mr. O'Connell on the Coercion Bill was read. In it he
says, " My great object in writing this hurried line is to
conjure the independent members of parliament to come
to London as speedily as possible. The presence of every
Irish member friendly to constitutional liberty is essen-
tially required by the exigence of the times. There is one
consolation,—that the atrocious and ludicrous Coercion
Bill carries with it a most unanswerable argument in fa-
vour of the protection of a domestic parliament." Mr.
Steel delivered one of his fervid speeches in support of the
motion that the letter should be inserted on the minutes.
The others speakers were Mr. Grattan, Mr. Meagher,
Mr. Mahotiy, and Mr. Mackey. The rent for the week,
which included £lOO from America, and £l4 from Liver-
pool, was announced to be £2.10 Os. 3d.

'WHITEMAN'S BRUNSWICK HOTEL—The recent ex-
tension and the great improvements that have of late been
made at this hotel, together with its advantageous situa-
tion, renders it a most Asirable casual residence for com-
mercial and other gentlemen, and those who visit the
assizes would do well to secure the attention of the host—
a jolly well-meani❑g Boniface, whose best services are ever
at the call of his patrons.

March 24, 1846.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The direct London and Manchester Railway Bill bas
been thrown out on standing orders for the present ses-
sion. _

HIGH CHARGES FOR RAILWAY PARCELS.
Flower's letter to the directors of the Grand Junction
Railway, upon this important subject, is, it is said, nevi
under the consideration of the board in London.
On Sunday week two men were killed on the Maccles-
field branch of the London and Birmingham Railwal•
One lot of waggons ran into another lot, and the deceased
were jammed between them.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT COMPENSATION.—It is said thet
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company have compromise°,
the action for damages, at the instance of the children 0'
the deceased Mr. Cooney, horse-dealer in Glasgow, wb°
was killed in a railway carriage on that line in May last,
for the sum of £2OOO, with all expenses.
The Standing Orders' Committee of the House of
Commons, on Friday decided, in the cases of the Chester
and Manchester, Direct Boston, Newark. and Sheflieht
Railway, and the Welsh Midland Railway, that the Stand-
ing Orders ought not to be dispensed with. That the
parties should not be allowed to proceed with their BUIS;
THE TABLES TURNED.—At Rutland assizes, the Ear'
of Harborough indicted several bf the surveyors and la-
bourers on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, for riot
in Stapleford Park, and they were acquitted. The We
day a true bill was found against the noble earl and S
number of his retainers, for a conspiracy to prevent the
railway from being made, or the survey from being cool'.
pleted. _ _ _

The Wishaw and Coltness, about to merge into the'
Edinburgh and Glasgow, have declared a half-yearly dial'
dend of 12s. 6d. on the £25 share ; and the Glasgow, Pale"
ley and Greenock, about to be amalgated with the Cale'
donian, are to pay the guaranteed division of 6 per cent.
on the amount called up of the preference shares, and
per cent on the £25 and £l2 10s. shares. deducting
come tax.

The report of the half-yearly meeting of the South'
Eastern betokens increasing prosperity. After paying'
tollto the Croyden and rent to the Greenwich, the bal'
ante at disposal for dividends is £78,018, yielding 175. 6d•
per share upon the paid up shares, and of the proportion
ate amounts 6s. 7d. on No. 1 shares and 3s. 9d. on No. Z.
shares, less the income tax. After doing this, there Iglu'
remain £11,900 to be carried to next half-year's account.
RAILWAY LABOURERS' STRIKE AT PENRITK.--011
Wednesday week, upwards of 1,100 of the labourers cal'
ployed on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway struck work
and left the line, in consequence of the contractors issuing
a notice requiring the men to work 10 hours yer day--
the time previou sly being 10 hours. Although the strike
was mutual among the English and Irish, no disturbance
or disorder took place. Upwards of 400 of the men left
and tramped off elsewhere.

At a meeting of the Croydon Railway Company. 011
Tuesday week, the Chairman in his address, stated that s
proposition had been made to the Company from an Asse'
ciation, which proposes to erect villages for the working'
classes at six or eight miles from London, and by a slight
rentcharge give the occupiers a passage by the railway t°
and from London daily to attend to their various employ'
[Gents. He was not at present prepared to say how far It
might be carried out, but he thought it practicable, the
only difficulty being that passengers took up so much ►more
room than goods, to the carriage of which it would 01
some measure assimilate.

NON-LIABILITIES OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTSI3.
MEN.—An action was brought in the City Sheriffs' Court,
at Guildhall, on Thursday, by Mr. Hadland, of Cheap'
side, against Mr. Thomas Johnson, a gentleman residing
at Newark, and one of the Provisional Committee of the
defunct General Canal and Steam Haulage Company, for
a sum of £B. 13s. 4d. for stationery supplied to the Cour
pany. The defendant paid 10s. into Court, denying bi°
liability beyond that amount. Evidence having beer/
given, fully proving that the defendant had nothing to do'
with the Company until long after the goods were sup'
plied, the jury returned a verdict in his fa7our.
SODTH EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL STEAM-PAC/al'
COMPANY.—The half-yearly meeting took place on ThurS'
day. James M`Gregor, Esq., took the chair. The report
showed the earnings to have been £6695 17s. 9d. The
vessels were five in number ; but, owing to the expecte",
opening of the line to Ramsgate, and the great traffie,
likely to follow that of the Great Northern Railway °f
France, the directors had ordered three more steamers',
The profit was sufficient to allow a dividend of 4s. Per
share. The chairman moved the adoption of the report:
which was seconded by Viscount Torrington, and passed
unanimously. Viscount Torrington, Benjamin Harding+,
Esq., James M`Gregor, Esq., and Captain Tindale were
re-elected directors.

GOOD NEWS FOR RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—In the
debate on railways in the House of Commons, on Thurs-
day, Mr. R. D. Mangles, the member for Guildford''
stated that the London and Birmingham Railway COI
pany, and the Grand Juucticn Railway Company, bar
agreed to hind themselves to a voluntary maximum of 20'
per mile for the first-class passengers, Id. per mile foe
the second•class, and td. per mile for the third-class'
As the Grand Junction Company are now owners of the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the above maximl4o6'
of fares will, in all probability, apply to that line also'
When these rates are established, the maximum fare t°
Liverpool will be ss. 2d. for first-class; 3s. 'Old. second'
class • and 2s. 7d. third-class passengers. The fares t:
London, first-class, 335.; second-class, 245. 9d. • 0,1),a-
-third-class, Hrs. 6d.: assuming the distance to be IVv:
miles. The fares may be even lower, but cannot be higbe°
than the sums stated.
STRIKE ON A RAILWAY.—On Monday, a large boll
of the labourers employed on the Chester and liniyhes
Railway, on the Saltney side of the river, " struck" f°l.:
an advance of 6d. per day in their wages. After leavinli:
their employment. they crossed the river, and proceeded
along the line as far as the tonne!, insisting as they went
along that all the other labourers should join in the strike.
Some resistance was offered by the men working at the
tunnel, for which they were pelted with stones, and ulti;
mately driven from their work. Matters assuming
somewhat serious aspect, a strong body of police wets
ordered to the spot, who succeeded in capturing four 0*
the ringleaders, named Michael Trayner, George Chess
worth, James Amery, and Joseph Minshull. They wer
brought up before the Chester magistrates on TuesclBl,:
but, the case not being pressed against them by the rat'
way authorities, they were liberated on promising to he
°
have ir etter for the future.
IMPORTANT TO PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN-
case was tried at York on Saturday, before Mr. Justle
Coleridge, when the personal liability of provisional coot
mitteemen for the debts contracted on the part of thel
company was established. The plaintiffs were Worth sst
Frith, surveyors to a company which was in existence
autumn, called the Leeds, Midland, and Lincoln Jusci
tion Railway; and the defendants were Mr. Gresham LIP
Mr. Copland, two of the provisional committee of tbee,•
line. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Webster, tf„,
solicitor to the company, who was called as a witness 1")
the defendants, that it was projected by himself s°,
Messrs. Worth and Frith, on the footing that the el
penses of the latter were to be guaranteed to the exte:j
of £100; and that, beyond that amount, if no provision.f
committee could be formed, each party were to bear there
own expenses. There had never been any meeting of t°,
parties who had agreed to become members of the colt
mittee. Mr. Justice Coleridge, in summing up, said, did
the liability of the defendants was sufficiently establisbeio
by letters put in evidence, in which they agreed to i?,
the committee; and the jury gave a verdict for the platy
tiffs. Damages, £879 ss. 6d., and costs.
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LIABILITY OF RAILWAY ALLOTTEES.—At the ftebe
Assizes, on Friday, Mr. Woolmer, as chairman of to
provisional committee of the Direct Exeter and Plynso„l/11
Railway project, sued Mr. Toby for £lO5, the dePOlg
money on forty shares allotted to him in that scheme• sr,
appeared that, soon after the prospectus was issued, I,°e•
Toby sent application in the following form to the difito
tors :—" I request you will allot me 50 shares of tal
each in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept
•t 0
same, or such number as you may allot to me, sublease
the regulations of the company, and to sign the neces,so
documents, and to pay when required the deposit of tso
12s. 6d. per share." Forty shares were allotted, but rej
panic succeeded, and, though the scheme was conside.;j,
a bona fide one, very few of the deposits were ni
Meanwhile the plans were lodged, and expenses to 'os
amount of £6,000 incurred, but, as the money wale
forthcoming, the project was necessarily abandoned.
directors applied for 3s, per share from the allotteessii,
enable them to pay their expenses, but to these anPlictSo
ons no replies were received. It was contended f°,!,, (of
defence that at the most the defendant was only Hsu' ssi
£6, being at the rate of 3s. per share, which wouldiirs.
his proportion of the loss. The jury found for the Ply
tiff for the full amount claimed.

THE CjURT 4- FASHIONABLE WO
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Haterl
HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM.—Her MajestYl,
her second drawing-room, this season, on Thursasileo:
St. James's Palace. It was very numerously atrelja,
and the presentation of the fair de'bulantes excited (1,
interest. Her Majesty was observed to look raueuoto;
tigued. The youthful Lady Rose Somerset, whoeepit
presentation took place, as well as her fair sister, tbe,,io7,
Blanche, attracted general admiration. slier .I",;ier,
wore on the occasion a dress of white tulle illusion "weft'.
white satin slip, trimmed with bouquets of cerise fie isder
train of cerise and silver brocade, lined with white eb.oo
and trimmed round with cerise and silver blond ;doff;
and sleeves ornamented with diamonds. Hesd ildsre
wreath of cerise flowers and diamonds, feathers $O",-lIT
blond lappets. The whole of British manufacture. 00;
Duchess of Kent wore a court dress composed of to or,`;
talcs of tulle, trimmed with superb Brussels 111 obtto,
a dress of rich white moire ; the train and body O'd
satin, brocaded in silver, and tastefully ornarnent(s, fetle'd
Brussels lace and amaranthe velvet. Head dreeflitl,d
tilers, lace lappets, and diamonds.—Her MajestY,',;oo'
Albert, and the royal children still remain at Boo"
Pa'l he lace. Ire°
Queen Dowager is to take her final departure
Witley Court on the 21st instant. the
Her Majesty has appointed Mrs. Anderson, 0,
lented painter, teacher to the princess royal. ,fr. J.
The Marquis of Salisbury, accompanied by P-ti, tis
Balfour, M.P,. and Lady Blanche Balfour, wen„,t,,, note,
from Hatfield House, Herts, on Tuesday. -"Ault 0.,,
marquis received his Excellency Count de St.": str
Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Lord and Leds
ley, and a distinguished circle, at Hatfield. Sir
of',
SOCIETY AT SYDNEY.—During the govern.- tem . 000
Richard Bourke, an attempt was made by h~n~ilies' set
duce into bis own parties some emancipist ft~e SY(ICO7'
on one occasion the grand-daughter of a 1,11 at ,s 0
hangman actually made her appearance at the tw-o,
vernment-house. This fact being fbund out ut his rO5
of families present, a representation was made I..`opie
eti 4;
cellency through his aid-de-camp, and, after r
of opposition on the part of the governor, a atop
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