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

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of 1838 the Rcv. Jame

of the

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piracy to swear away the life of a man named Wright,
and subsequently sentenced to two years'_iniprisonment

selected by his diocesan to discharge the
duties of assistant to the Rev. Mr. Doheny, the chaplain
of the Dumnanway workhouse.

by the Chi

it seen'.

arl of Mountcashel, passed through London on
on his route from Paris to his seat in Ireland.
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family from ti

Vended

r, illingsoever to encounter the danger
n person, feeling that he has no right to expose
;rs whose presence and-exposure to it can be in
st useful. It is necessary to state the facts as
re, because some of the newspapers have falsely

to it Ott

gen ero

lays with his-family, as a desertion of his post

a meeting at Conciliation-hall, on Monday,
markable for nothing 'aut the presentation

or a staremem, V/ itUCIMIII Fa, co
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.
WHale'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
natrimnnv. 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 noor-rate or employment. In fact, if prompt and

energetic efforts be not made, the coming winter will be
one of as terrible suffering as the last. There are, lam
bnnnv to sax_ stung, indicatinns of a spirit of energy and

it gentry in various localities,
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 esse
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.

'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-Yougls al,
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 lheflames.
What adds to the sad catastrophe is, that Leahy, who

j• hia employer to t

;ontlagration,

family had perished
timed before he reached the spo

"A was all but con-
hole family,

the itu
Thus £

with one exception

)cen 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-

caratilly attended to.—Cork Co nstit

ANOTHER GAOL CONSPIRACY.—The Armagh Guar-
an gives the subjoined account of a daring conspiracy

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
1 1

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

rospem

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
gated by Mr. William Paton, justice of the

Confined in irons

ensued

THE HOLY-CROSS DEMONSTRATION.—On Sunda3
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
-c ra this emintrv. shall he'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 arbitrator

ituted and impartial
ade on such principl
,fter be determined

or other fairly

of the Your

ntry
ne not to be

vice to the y

ads, leaving the
and the govern-

ment;;;;11:ci rates if they can: There is a good deal
of difference between this and the professed object of the
meeting, which was the extension to Tipperary of the
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 he 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

etch furuislied by the Cork Constitution of

landers'at the Victoria Theatre, last evening, which was
sought to have been made `select,' by confining the ad-

quite emooo, but if time be allowed the firm the cre- mission to sixpenny tickets, out tile uuurs were uroKen
ditors will be paid in full. Large sums of the assets are by sledges, and the gallery and pit quickly filled with
understood to be locked up in Mexico, and a portion of rabble, and many of those who had purchased tickets
the remainder consists of uncontrovertible securities. found it impossible to gain admission, while many others
A house in the London wine trade is also understood deemed it prudent not to attempt the task. ' Free ad-
to have been compelled to suspend payment. The firm of mission' being secured; the house was crowded to incon-
Giles and Co., in the corn trade, one of the houses that venience, and during the proceedings which took place
recently stopped payment, have, after a full examination there were frequent thumping matches between the old
eof their affairs, made an offer of 10s. in the and young. Mr. Denny Lane took the chair, and while
their creditors, payable by four instalments. addressing the meeting some one turned the main gas
hows rather upwards of 12s. in the cock, and all was in darkness, during which there was the

of the st

the liberated Africans and icie-WL'esurrn.dTa"pll.;;;;;;;;M- P-o-u-nd.—The old established house of Cockburn Brothers, I most terrific commotion, particularly amongst a number
these importations. in the Portuguese wine trade, has been compelled to stop of women, to whom the boxes were appropriated. After
THE PARIS PRINTERS.—The printers of Paris have payment. The branch of the house at Oporto drew upon some time the lamps were again lit, and the Chairman
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about the commencement of autumn. This year, On ap- counts for the downfall of the nrm. Inn uuuse nas oeen u uonnen, wnen ne was 11,Sbitilvta mum, uppruuri-
plying to the Prefect of Police for the customary permis- long at the head of the wine trade in Scotland, and their ous epithets, and during his efforts to address them he was
- refusal was given. The men, finding a public din- misfortune is the subject of unqualified regret by every yelled at most vociferously. Mr. M. J. Barry followed,
1-..,41 impossible, appointed a committee to person acquainted with them in business, as well as in and he fared nothing better; neither did Father Mullane,
cuited to their number of guests their social relations. The creditors of Messrs. Woodley who told them, that though small in body he was a giant
M. Gerbes, a and Co. will be gratified to learn that a prospect exists of in mind.
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oung Meagher, seeing his
t rusned forward to fill up the breach, but the

the statement submitted to them shows suffi- I the spirit of turbulence, bu
within a few thousands, to cover the whole of give up the hopeless task

stock, at the same time, being valued I readef ret

t below the current market prices. The
Harman and Co., the great Russian.
-nth of October, 1846, haw
1 s. in the pound

ly was ()Nig&

lie struggled

attack was renewed with increased vigour
manfully and strenuously against the hisses, shouts7and
cheers of which he was the object. There he stood, saw-
the air, but to no effect, for nearly half an hour, until

ie mot,
vidend of

rease of £26,045 over t
ir, when the mileage was

use of delay

tingle

ace was, that

Edenly upon the mail train, and a tearful
The guard is the only person injured: I

ceived a severe brui

LONDON AND YOR

RAILWAY.—The contractors
commenced operations in Deeping Fen, about three m
from Spalding, with thirty men, and more will shortl3
added to the number. A neat little brick and slu
cottage, erected a few months ago, and one in prog
adjoining, have been purchased and taken down, for
entrance to the intended station at Windsover. Co
derable devastation of houses, orchards, gardens, 4
several acres in extent, must occur for this giga

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 London Stock Exchange, on
Wednesday. 500 shares were bought at a certain price in

and in an hour adv

it they were sold, with "
)n bought, the news t

were thereu

who immediately disposed of the sin-
-Herapalk's Journal.

tted to the

very interesting

The IA

RAILWAY CHURCH AT DARLINGTO
Chronicle of the 17th instant contains ;
account of the ceremony of laying the foun-clation 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 sharehol? -,st)

sin the York and New
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 states "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 mayhave 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
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asgow, 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, anreland, 101 were killed and 100
more or less injured, being at the rate of 1-2300th per
cent. on both. Moreover, it appears, from 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,
Id other similar acts of temerity), 19 trespassers killed
injured, and 1 person killed and another injured

CASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTIC

RAILWAY

special general meeting of this company was held at the
station, at Lancaster, on Thursday last, for the purpose
of declaring a dividend. The cluirman (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
)n the three-quarter shares; and 4s. on the guar-
'res. It was proposed that the dividends be de-
accordingly, when Mr. Kynaston moved

amendment, that the dividends be 15s. 7d. or
shares, 9s. sd. on the three-quarters, and 4s. 2d. on the
quarters. The full amount of discount (Xl2 10s.) at
which the three-quarter shares were issued, had been
added to them in calculating the dividend, when only £l9

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 RAILWA
COMPANIES.—On Thursday a deputation, consisting o
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 ell
Property was being greatly depressed

sums companies w

verance in

only in rail

but in

merce ; and that the

half-vi