The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

Tilt PlIVEBT:4011 STANDARD.

imperial,- :parliament.

Itory of the intentions of government as to npansportation.
He was not prepared with any definite plan ,at present as
to the summary conviction of juvenile offenders:; ‘lytit with
respect to the disposal of them after convintiertyinforma-
tion would be afforded in the papers to be laid 13tforethe

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
The standing orders having been suspended, the 'Corn
Duties and Navigation Laws Suspension Bills were read
a third time and passed. iouse.
On the motion of Mr. FIELDEN, leave mu -given?' to
Lord
nt LANSDOW
an inE then made a statement of the go- bring in a bill:to
limit the hours of labour of :young per-
vernme p regard to Ireland, similar to that'of the sons and femalee-in factories to ten hours a dot-
premier in the Commons, given below. In answer to a question by Mr. FOULE'
Lord STANLEY spoke generally in approval of the plan, Lord Jotni•RussELL stated that in t).
but recommended that means should be taken to apportion • • -

&ROPE,

to the extension of .t

propeity, so that they

received benefit frc

on the landlord, but those who
m the improvements, and that ad-
ities should be made to railwny'com-

iALT, ue oeuevea teat provisions would rye made to ensure
relief in case the, boards of guardians should•refuseitr and,
necessary, a specific clause should be iutrodiiced for
ose ; as to mendicity and vagrancy, he admitted
s an important subject, and although further le-

trances c

panies

thattlt it
purl
ouse adjourned. gislation

The motion was agreed to, and the I

s reqUired in the matter, the goZernment had

no bill ready

HOUSE OF CONnIO'NS.-M

Lord J. RUSSELL proceeded to make his statement of
the remedial measures necessary for Ireland. He said
after alluding to the number of agricultural labour
Ireland, that the total number of persons employ _
officials under the board of works is, at the present mo
went, 11,587 ;*the number of superintendents is 185.; th
_
amoun

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--Iwv—_
Sir H..DOUGLAS presented petitiOnS from the. Corporation and from the Select Vestry of Liverpool
--ainst the Poor Removal Act.

In reply to a question, Lord J. RURSELL stated that
the cost .hitherto incurred in carrying •out public-works
and the Poor Employment Act, was .X 2,000,000. The
Commissariat account was a current account, and it was
impossible .to declare its amount now. If the
,present
nians for relievincr distress in Trel.nd

..xpended for the payment of all in the debt con-
tracted is £2,410,366. The number of labourers has in-
creased from 30,135 in September last to 440,687 in De
In the last week's account they were stated
criur ' and eighty thousand •

were persevereu
anu, at we could ,not expect to expend less' than X 500,000 or
uouot but that the number £600,000 a month till the month of August. On the
to half a million. The expense of employing whole, he thought that if the present plans did not cease,
these men in December was £585,000, and it is calculated the whole cost of them would not be lessthan X 7,000,000.
that this month it will be between £700,000 and £BOO,OOO. By the plan now proposed by government, a reduction
He then said, that in the opinion of government it was would be made in the amount of that expense.
`-',411 relief committees, which should be em- Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for a select committee to
.4criptions, to levy rates, and to inquire into the treatment of convicts on board the hulks

hundred
t time, I do u

desirable t
powered t
receive do'

------•".." ..`-'... .8`'•'........./ ..rn "Y Lula ........ I at woonvicti, ,which proposition, after some discussion,
dthey
ts. or should be enabled to
.purchase food, to establish soup I was reject,ed'by a majority of 77.
epo th.t 4.1.....- -,__ • . -
Tile, u_ Mr. LAIIOUCHERE, in answer to a question, stated that
Thep the government intended to confine to landowners any
facilities that they might give in Ireland for proouriug
seed by an advance of money. It was thnnaht 6.4-4,..,..m-

should as far as th

were able, di
ts, and that

inbute relief, to the famishing appli
should not require the indispensable
hear)—but that a labouring man E.
work upon his own plot of ground, lra .vu
thus his labour would tend to benefit tt
harvest, and perhaps, by such an ar
be enabled to cant some small trifl

st of wort

lould be allovied tA:a

approaching
ment, he might
addition to the

I furnish seed to the small holders them'selv;s e;;;
but to enable landowners or local societies to sup-

ply them

Mr. FERRAND, in bringing forward his motion on the sub-
relief afforded him by the committee. These arrangements ject of the Poor-law Commissioners, of which we have,al-
- proposed should be carried on under the superintend- ready given the terms, asked for the patient indulgence of
once of Sir J. Burgoyne, the Inspector General of Forti- the house, to which he felt himself in some degree enti-
-fications in this country, who had consented to go to tied, inasmuch as in the year 1844 it had done him on this
Ireland at any time when called on. That gentleman very subject cruel-injustice. It was not his intention that
will be in communication with the Lord Lieutenant, and .evening to enter into any examination of the principles -of
will co-operate or not, as he thinks best, with the Board the New Poor Law—he should have another opportunity
of Works. with the enmrniqqinnkra of flip Porw-law with ___ _

the heads'of the constabulary f

he must say, t

'at not

and with

had convinced

The qt

Z with regard to proposing

of immediate n

workhouse squabble
dark document—

ad received its death-blow from a
That law derived its birth from a

tors of Arts

J. J. -Hooper, Wadham

supplying the people with food who are in want, will
!,ed in connection with that already done ; while

" Monstrum horrendun2, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademp-
thm9,_

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 27.—At a Conk,
the following degrees were conferred :
Rev. John Casson Battersby, and Rev.
Julius John Richards, St. John's College.
Arts.—Aupistus Spiller Harris, Caius College
Smith, Queen's Coll
Bolton, Christ's College.
The Bishop of Ripon has established a Sunday school
in his palace, for the .neighbouring
R. P'

.egation held to-day,
—Master of Arts.—
Archibald }Eneas
Bachelor -of
; Charles
Charles Hope

The Cambria's advice

lege ; and

tichards, Esq., of
presented £lOOO towari
parish.

f Tregadwgan, South Wales, has
•ds building a new church in the

for the d

!e of 8.A., held in Hilary Term 1847, fiftT
three candidates were passed for that degree.
The number of students at Trinity College, Dublin, at
present is 1697, the number of matriculations during the
past year being 1697.

xucnmona nas presented the munificent
donation of £5OO towards the contemplated restoration of
Chichester Cathedral.

Talbot Clifton, Esq. has given the site for a new
Church at Lytham, and has also contributed £5OO for the
building. A large number of other handsome subscrip-
tions has also been received.

27,069

Feb. 2, 18-47.
.....................„
•
One conclusion he drew from the Andover inquiryoind 'FOREIGN 44* COLONIAL INIELLIGENCE. A very good blow has been struck at duelling in Mis- THE BENCH AND THE BAR.
sissipi, by the enforcement of a law of the State, which NowrintriN Ciacurr.—The following days have been
rdeluisrecisf
ithheatintahne
hseurikililvsoirn sanduallelb.e responsible for the
other disclosures connected with those charges, rwere,
that if the subordinates of other ,euttlic departments acted UNITED STATES
AND MEXICO.
appointed for opening the commission on the Northern
as the subordinates of the Poor-lave Commission, it. would We have accounts from New York to the Bth instant..
Circuit :=Lancaster, Monday, February 15.—Appleby,
The King of Bavaria has authorised an association of Thursday; February 18.—Carlisle, Saturday, February 20.
•
formed for rearing silkworms, and' promoting the —Newcastle, Wednesday, February 24.—Durham, Mon-
te very difficult:to carry out effeetwally the public service.. The proceedings in Congress since our last accounts had iA.
Sir ROBERT PaEL denied that. the imputation cast*t)y‘', been unimportant. 'On the-29th of December, the Presi-• laules,
growth of silk within the kingdom. The Queen has day, March I.—York, Saturday, March 6.—Liverpool,
taken the association under her patrotiage, and is to name 1 Saturday, March 20. Judges.—Mr. Baron Alderson and
Mr. Disraeli, that some great official power had been,e-x.-
ercised for crushing Mr. Ferranti was justified bykthe • dent sent a message recommending that provision should • "
the President.
MR. COBDEN IN ITALY —l4lr Cobden was entertained
facts of the case to which-he referred hon. member-3010i be made for the appointment of a general officer to take
Its sittings are to be -held at Munich.
Insolvent Commissioner, during
which he recapitulated. . the command of all the military forces in the field ; and
urging the Congress 'to " early action ".with regard to the
at dinner on the 16th ult .the. free M
Jr.. BGa.ronnaßniosl,fe.Esq.,
' '
~ by traders. of Genoa, his summer circuits will attend at Lancaster, on Monday,
The motion was -withdrawn. measures necessary for the prosecution of the war. The
the MarcheseAl • *
ezio presiding. The English, French, July 12, at Liverpool on July 19, at Beaummis on Wed-
On the motion of, Lord .banes RUSSELL, the Brewing democratic party had rejetted the proposed duty on tea
• Spanish, Belgian, and other consuls were present ; and da
nes y, July 28, at Ruthin on Friday, July 30, at Mold
from Sugar Bill was read a second time without any--dis- and coffee, and were bitterly attacked by the official
the toast ofthe
night, the health of the member for on Monday, August 2, and at Chester on Tuesday,
cussion.
journal. at Washington.
Stockport, was given by the French consul. August 3. '
______.....—.
The accounts from 'Mexico are derived through the
A great flood has in •
occurred Ohio, rooting up trees, The benchers of the Inner Temple have resolved that
HOUSE- OF LORDS.—Farnay. United States, and should be received with caution. Santa
Earl FITZWILLIAM, followed by Lord BROUG,EAM, Anna was said to have concentrated 37,000 troops at San destroying shocks of corn, injuring the railway, and cans- henceforth no one shall be'elected to the bench of the
brought under the notice of their lordships the:-great Luis Potosi, and held himself invulnerable at that point, ing an immense loss of property. In some places boats Inner Temple, unless he obtain the votes of a majority of
amount of immigration which- was taking place of :Irish relying on the strength of Vera Cruz to resist attack, and were used by the inhabitants to get to their residences. the existing benchers and that four black- balls shall be
At Cincinnati five persons were drowned, and there the sufficient to exclude.
paupers into Ltverpool and. the ports of Scotland era the
which must be captured before the United States' troops -
Clyde, followed by some observations on the operation of
could touch him. General Taylor's army was represented loss of flour, hogs, and pork is great, several mills being UNATTESTED ALTERATIONS IN WILLS.—In the Pre-
Lord
-swept away.
rogative Court, on Tuesday, Sir H. Jenner Fust; whew
the Labour Rate Act.
as not being more than 14,000 effective men. A force of
By the • lof the transitship Z ' •
arrival
ABERDEEN, in. reference to the correspone.ence about 1200 occupied Tampico ; and it was said that a body
between France and England on the subject of the Spanish of 3000 Mexicans were encamped at Tulle, some eighty on Wednesday, a copy of the president's message to con- effects of inattention to those sections of the Wills Act
- gress has been received. In this document the president which made it
marriages, suggested the propriety of its being brought to
miles distant,' meditating an attack.
recommends the appointment of a Lieutenant-General to ' unattested alterations. It was, he said, extremely pain--
HOUSEa speedy termination.
Santa Anna had marched eight days of the journey from
command the armies of - ful, court after court, to be under the • necessity of defeat-
* San Luis Potosi to •• Saltillo. Provisions were getting . • .
OF COMMONS.—Fruna.v. '
scarce at San Luis, so that he was obliged to send to Chi- •
• tional regiments shall be raised to serve during the war. ing the clear intention of testators, under
The increase in the regular army is for to enable the re- t• thatunattested the presump-
ion alterations were made subsequently
Lord JOHN RUSSELL intimated the order in which be huadua and Dorango for corn. On the Bth of December
should proceed with Irish measures. On Monday next a courier arrived from Mexico, stating that a pronuncia-Public to "prosecutethe •b M • with •
warawn Mexico vigour to the execution of the will.
" and success.
THE LAW AS TO THE PUBLICATION OF STATE PAPERS-
to move for leave to bring, in .a bill to render valid the miento had taken place, and that Heyrera had driven Al-
proceedings which had been had under Mr. Laboucliere's monto from the capital. In consequence of this intelli-
IRELAND. —A short time back the Times published a mass of ex-
tracts from letters, &c., regarding Polish affairs, written
letter; and when that bill had been read a second time, to gencn, General Valencia had been ordered to take seven
proceed with a bill for the relief of the temporary distress regiments of infantry and march off to Mexico as quick The National Club have received upwards of £lO,OOO by Lord Castlereagh while present as the representative-
in that country • and next with a measure for the
. existing , , as possible. The captain of a company and all his men, for the starving Irish. of Great Britain at the Congress of Vienna. The brother
permanent amendment of the Irish Poor-law. Mexicans, had been seized by a detachment of seventy There are no less than 5,300 paupers in Cork Work- of the Minister, the Marquis of Londonderry, sent a so-
In answer to a question, Lord PALMERSTON stated that Americans. The captain had letters •.of instruction from house. .i • 4 licitor to the Times office with a view of preventing the
• further publication of these notes ; but a flat denial was
no authority had been given .by the Mexican government Generals Ampudia and Paredes. Major Beamish at a meeting in Cork, last week, said •
for granting letters of marque in this country against the . An attempt had been made upon Tampico by 7,000 that 15,000 persons have died in the west of that county
given to the demand. The noble Marquis then applied
to the Foreign Office on the subject. Lord Palmerston,..
United States.
' Mexican cavalry, but, as usual, the heroic courage, mili- of starvation.
however, replied that lie was not prepared to say that the
A conversation ensued upon the existing state of tile- tary tactics, and undaunted heroism of the United States' The subscription for the Irish amounts
tress in Scotland. The Chelsea Pensioners Bill and the troops repulsed and routed the attacking party. WolverhamptonA -
to nearly £2OOO. mong the subscribers is the Rev. law would interdict the journal in question from the act
Distilling from Sugar Bill were read a second, and the
York shippinglist urnis es a statement of
The New f •-h Wm. Dalton, for £lOO. complained of, especially as the matter supplied was found
Buckwheat, &c., Importation-Bill a third time. the import and export of wheat and flour at and from that VERY LIBERAL.—The Roman Catholic Archbishop of on comparison with the actual papers of Lord Castlereagh,
- port during the years 1845 and 1846, which presents these Armagh has issued an indulgence, giving the famishin to be but a translation from French of what had originally
UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. results : - labourers permission to work on holidays. g been translated from English into that language. In a
1845. 1846.
postscript to the letter expressing the doubts of the Foreign
Emigration, for the present year, has already corn-
______, ~.
r-
Secretary on the subject it is intimated, that the law
------, 1----- -------` menced. The quays of Dublin are crowded with parties
OXFORD, JANUARY 28.—At a congregation held this Wheat. Flour. Wheat. Flour.
. officers of the Crown have reported "that they are not
day the following degrees were ..conferred :—Doetor in From Hudson River.. 289,682 1,700,198 1,172,646 2,280,628 preparing to start for the New World. The Limerzek
of any legal measures which can be taken to pre-
-83,636 87,704 401,355 70,042 Chronicle states that emigrant vessels are to sail from aware
Divinity.—Rev. W. A. Strange, Pembroke. Doctor in New Orleans ..
vent the publication of any further n Ports 234,750 175,257 94'242 197,715 that port so early as the 13th of February.
papers of the same
Civil Law by Commutation.—Rev. C. J. Chapnes, St. ;', souther
description as those which have appeared in the Times."
Alban-hall. Master of Arts.—Rev. H. D. Harper, Fel-
-608,076 1,963,159 1,668,243 2,548,786 OIL FOR IRISH LIGHT-HOUSES.—The Dublin Corpo-
ration advertise for a supply of the above commodity. •
Lord Londonderry himself sent Lord Palmerston' " s deo.-
low of Jesus ; Rev. W. Oakley, Jesus; W. H. Townsend, Thi; shows an increase of receipts for the
Sion to the Times.
Lincoln ;G. Bowen, E. Pickering, and C. J. Cummings, present year, of flour of
vat5tra.,,1111111111.................
Brazennose ;J. H. Stewart, Exeter; Rev. H. Fyffe, Ditto of wheat
. ....4
RAILWAY ARP AM e
New-inn hall ; Rev. T. H. Gillam, Pembroke. Bache- The export of these same articles for the same time was : honourable gentleman.
tors of Arts.—E. Austin, Queen's ;J. Bailey, Trinity ; Of wheat
_ 404,604 1,477,356 1,072,752 Th. rini.o... ,i;‘,4:11._ I.___ __ , --•- -
T I KT -___ _ TT T 11

The Dublin distillers have passed a resolution that the

g~Veri,rneru proposition to reduce the duties on West
India rum imported info Ireland to 3s. 2d. per gallon will

prove utterly ruinous to the' Irish distillery trade, and
most prejudicial to the landholders, farmers, and traders
of Ireland.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
The Kendal and Windermere line is expected to be
opened on the Ist April next.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.-011 Wednesday filo
Bishopstoke and Salisbury Branch was opened in due
form.
The London and North-Western, Lancaster and Car-
lisle, and the Caledonian are conjointly to be the lessees
of the Scottish Central.

The subscription relief fund for Ireland and Scotland
has reached nearly £100,000; and the committee have al-
ready freighted with_meal, and despatched to Ireland, se-
veral Queen's ships, placed at their disposal by
ment. They have also undertaken the supply ofgovern-
one of
the meal depots at Cork, opened in the first instance by
government. Their importations are either f. b.

c.tLuer to ne i
away under judicious and experienced direction, or tgoven be
sold at a low rate to the relief committees.
SKIBBEREEN.—The following is a passage of a letter ad-
dressed to Mr. Blake, of Cork, by Dr. Crowley, of Skib-
bereen, dated January 22nd :—" Deaths here are daily in-
creasing; Dr. Donovan and I have just returned from the
village of South Been. where we }lntl fn h,,,.., es

y selves that that was eleven days dead; and where do you think?
in a kitchen garden. We had to dig the ground, or rather
the hole, ourselves ; no one would come near us, the smell
was so intolerable. We are half dead from the work lately
imposed on us, It is now, as I write, eleven o'clock at
night, and I have not as yet dined."
SOUND POTATOES !—A correspondent informs us (Lon-
donderry Standard,) that, in the parish of Lower Ba-
doney, a great number of the farmers, whose names he
s I mentions, have large pits of potatoes, the quality of which

One line of the rails of the extension of the Birkenhead
and Chester Railway to the docks is to be ready by the
31st March.
On Friday, a handsome testimonial, consisting of silver
candelabra, was presented to Mr. David Waddington,
deputy-chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway, by the
officers of that line.
The Railway
,Record says that the Manchester and
Leeds Company are in treaty for the Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport line, on terms the most advantageous to
the shareholders.
The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway, (deviation of main line,) acid Chester and Birken-
head.Railway Bills were read a second time in the House
of Commons on Friday.
A young woman named Dolman was, last week, killed
at the Whittlesford station of the Cambridge Railway.
She was struck by an engine in crossing the line. Her
bonnet was first found, and the finder was horrified by
her head dropping out of it.
It was decided in the

~..urt of Queen's Bench on Wed-
nesday, in a special case connected with the South-East-
ern line, that a Railway Company has a right to refuse its
certificate of approval to an engine which a stranger pro-
poses to run on its line.
After some demur, the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
resolved to adopt the directors' proposal to lease the line
to the South-Eastern at 4i per cent., and equal profits
until the formation of the line, when the terms were to
be commuted to a rental of 5i per cent,
The extensive factories in connexion with the locomo-
tive and carriage-works of the Eastern Counties, adjacent
to the station at Stratford, and the three hundred houses
and church, for the accommodation of the company's
workmen, have received, the appropriate title of Hudson's
New Town.
According to the Railway Record, that portion of the
directors of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction, who wish to emancipate the line from the in-
fluence of the Manchester and Leeds Company, will have
a large majority of the votes at the meeting to be held in
Manchester to-day (Tuesday).
The turnpike-roads of England and Wales amount to
only 23,000 miles, and in 1852 we have reason to antici-
pate that from 8,000 to 10,000 miles of railways will be
open for traffic. That these railways may satisfactorily
perform the work that formerly was done on common
roads it is absolutely necessary that they should be
uniform and continuous.

is, in every respect, equal to that of former years. We
have seen (says the Leinster Express) a sample of pota-
toes belonging to a gentleman not twenty miles from

preserva-

its is the case with

uiie coun 18., and
that strong hopes may be entertained that wellnare have not
seen the " last of the potatoes."
STORm ON THE IRISH COAST.—On Sunday week,
Limerick and the neighbourhood were visited by a violent
storm. Fortunately little damage was done upon land ;
but the shipping in the river suffered severely by the visi-
tation. The brig Glencoe, of Liverpool, Captain Bower,
which discharged wheat and flour at that port, and was
outward bound in ballast for Alexandria, dragged from
her anchors at Scattery-roads, and was forced ashore at
Kilrush vide, with loss of mainmast, foretopmast, rigging,
and rudder unshipped. An Italian brig and barque, also
at Scattery, were dashed ashore at Isleorne, between
Moneypoint and Kilrush, and, it is feared, will become a
total loss. The Friendship, at Bideford, for Liverpool,
ballast, is ashore, with loss of keel.
The members of the Relief Committee at Thurles have
sent a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant, in which they
pray him immediately to open depots of corn, and sell it
at such prices as would leave the merchant a fair and rea-
sonable profit, instead of that far too large one of 60 to
70 per cent., which he now heartlessly takes. They state
that there are 7,000 persons in that town in various degrees
of destitution. By far the greater part of the landed pro-
prietors are non-resident, and consequently give little aid
in money, and still less in employment or moral influence.
While they continually hear of Indian corn brought to the
different ports at £lO to £ll a ton, they cannot buy one
ton of it for less than £lB, besides the expense of carriage;
and the poorhouse now contains 200 more persons than
its roper complement.
TTHE MINISTERIAL MEASURES.—The plans for the
immediate and permanent relief of Ireland, propounded
by ministers, have raised the drooping spirits of the citi-
zens of Dublin, and already the stock and share markets
have experienced the good effects. There is only one
point upon which there appears to be any complaint—
that of the grant of £50,000 for the purchase of seed for
the poorer landholders. The popular comparison of the
" drop of water in a bucket" is applied to it ; and many
hold that the grant of this, or three times a larger sum,
would be fraught with evil consequences, as every poor
tenant would he led to expect a share of it. - The editor of
the Packet calculates that, taking the average of the baro-
nies at 90,000 acres, the proposed grant woud not, at the
present prices of oats, supply more than seed for a single
acre in each barony in Ireland. At the Commercial Build-
ings, the opinion prevails, that it would be better to
abandon the proposition altogether, if the amount be not
advanced to at least £250,000. However, taking the
statement of Lord J. Russell in omnibus, it has given
great satisfaction.

VERY PROPER.--At the meeting on Friday, of the
Midland Railway Company, Mr. Hudson, the chairman,
said, in reply to a question from Mr. J. Brancker, that he
had offered to head a list for the compensation of the
family of Mr. Buteler, killed last year at mosborough,
with £5OO, but the company had taken upon itself the
payment of £5OOO for that purpose.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The platfo
rlyi
for the Britannia and Conway Bridges. on which the tubes
are to be constructed, are now in course of erection, and a
considerable quantity of the iron is already manufactured.
The platform at the Straits will be 1000 feet in length,
with wharfs and sheds to protect the workmen. In a few
weeks the construction of the tubes will be commenced.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.-We mentioned, last week,
that the Queen's Speech was transmitted to Sheffield, by
electric telegraph on the day of its delivery. At the
Chesterfield station, a man was placed to hold a couple of
candles, with directions to look stedfastly at the index
and see that the light fell full upon it. He did so for a
full hour, but at length fell, as stiff as a post, having been
mesmerised by the protracted fixity-of his attention.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 2730 miles of rail-
way, was £134,230, thus accounted for :—X67,645 for the
conveyance of passengers only, £38,738 for the carrigfe
of goods, and a remainder of £27,847 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned; being an
increase of £19,861 over the corresponding week of last
year, when the mileage was about 1920.
AMERICAN RAILROAD IRON.-1 he first bar of railroatl
iron was made in 1844, and these are now sixteen or
e'ghteen foundries at which it is made, and these make
over one hundred and twenty thousand tons per annum.
This amount is sufficient to lay four miles of railroad per
day, or twelve hundred miles per year. The progress of
this manufacture, in the short space of two years, in this
country, is very remarkabl and is a strong manifestation
of American enterprise and skill.—New York Tribune;
It is stated that the Eastern Counties Railway have
made handsome money compensation to some of the per--
sons who were hurt by the accident at Stratford in Sep-
tember last. Mrs. Smith, a poor woman of Chigwell,
whose legs were broken, and who has just been pronounced
convalescent, has been paid 600 guineas. Mr. Cotton, of
the
et
entirelyßank of
recovered, England, whohs was
withdrawnsever e b;
hheu ratc
tai no d has
n he
ititz
cyommenced against the company, on their paying a large
sum to the Bethnal-green schools.-

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Another " positively last ap-
pearance this season " of the star • of Conciliation-hall
failed in drawing a full house on Monday. Mr. O'Con-
_,,

nett was present, and, on the authority of a Mr. William
Thomas Kelly, a member of the association, redd out the
names of several landlords in the county of Mayo, who,
according to Mr. Kelly, had obtained decrees against
their tenants at the late quarter sessions for the rent only
due in November last. These were the gentlemen who
were calling the government to come forward, although
they themselves would render no assistance, even if death
were to be the consequence of their hardheartedness. It
was arranged that the committee should meet on the fol-
lowing day, to prepare a petition.to parliament upon the
subject from Mr. Kelly, in order to have commissioners
appointed to point out the good from the bad landlords
through the country, so as to enable the legislature to
treat such a case as it deserved. It was announced that
Mr. O'Flaherty, of Knockbane, is to be the " Old Ire-
land " candidate for Galway, in succession to Sir Valen-
tine Blake, whose resignation is no longer a matter of
doubt. At the Corn as well as the Stock Exchange there
was a serious fall in the funds, the rent having closed at
£l5 16s. Ild. The ship is sinking.

MR. B. J. MOZLEY.—Mr. Mozley is one of that small
band of men to whom this country is indebted for her
railway system. As he himself expressed it at the last
London and North Western meeting, he is one of the
pioneers of the railway system. He was one ofaa ny, a
thed h
pro_e
jectors of the Liverpool and Manchester n
thßeaiGrlw was and is one of the largest holders
Junc-
tion. He was one of the pioneers of these two great
leading Companies, and he has remained true to them to
the last. His last movement has made his nanle famous
in the railway world,' and in securing a large profit on
their shares the Birmingham and Oxford proprietors have
to thank him alone.—Railway Times.
RAILWAY TAXATION.—It was shown, by evidence be-
fore Morrison's own committee, that the tax on English
railways (parish rates and passenger duty) exceeds the
taxation of French railways by about five per cent. per
annum on the gross receipts • add one per cent. for income
tax, part of which may fairly be included, and you have
an excess of six per cent. Now, take the same railway
which we have already adduced as an example of great
original cost and a low average fare, six per cent. on the
gross receipts of the Brighton and South Coast is nearly
£30,000 per annum. £30,000 per annum, with the accu-
mulations of interest at four per cent., will amount to
£5,000,000 in 501- years (as calculated by an insurance
officer of high standing), being more than the cost of the
railway
55 }Tars would make it .£6,000,000. Four per
rennt. is a high rate for Government and a low rate for the
railways. In England, therefore, the companies will, in
e ect, have presented their railroads to the Government
ff
in 50 or 60 years. This fact is precisely the reverse of
Mr. Aforrison's statement, and we call his attention to it:
—Railway Chronicle.

MORE STARVATION

An extraordinary and fatal accident occurred at the
Southall Station on the Great Western Railway on Mon-
day. It appears that at about a quarter-past four o'clock,
the twelve o'clock express train from Exeter was running
at its usual speed by the above station, and at the same
moment the four o'clock stopping down-train was
slacking its speed previously to its stopping at that place.
The express train had passed the station some fifty yards,
and the four o'clock down train was about 200 or 250
yards also on the London side, when the tire of the driv-
ing wheel next to the down rail broke into several pieces,
which were projected in different directions, with a ter-
rible velocity. One portion, of four feet in length, was
thrown to a considerable height, and in its descent came
longitudinally on the front of the second-class carriage.
next the luggage van of the down train, forcing away a
small portion of the front end, as well as a longitudinal
slip of the top, and making a clear breach into the car-
riage itself. So great was the force with which it fell,
that the three first com partments of the carriages were
broken, the one into the other. We are informed that
the second and third compartments were filled with pas-
sengers. Of those in the second compartment, two la-
bouring men, liens Hall and Henry Bishop. who were
sitting opposite each other, were killed. The portion of
the tire fell on their heads, and their deaths were instan-
taneous. A woman who was in the same compartment
was also struck on the head, and is stated to be in a dan-
gerous condition. We believe that no other person in
the'down-train sustained any injury. A severe injury,
and from a similar cause, happened to Mrs. Mountjoy
Martin, who was a passenger by the express train,