The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-13 00:00:00

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Lover's Lives of Eminent PernnlPs. Not:. 1 and 2. F.
Lover, PaternosTei-row.

The present serial work promises to be one of a very
useful and interesting character. The first number con•
tains a portio•t of a memoir of Lady Rachel Russell, the
wife of the celebrated Lord William Russell, with a very
fine engraving from an original painting by Cooper. The
second number concludes the lite of Lady Rachel, and
commences that of the Empress Josephine, of whom also
we have an engraving from an orizinal painting by Isahey.
The numbers thus far are well written, and the work it-
self very creditably got up.

Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels. No.. 47.
Robert Cadell, Edinburgh ; Houlston and Stoneman,
London.
The number before us contains as its frontispiece a fine
engraved portrait of the Regent Murray. The woodcuts
throughout are good, and fully support the high character
which this splendid edition has deservedly acquired.

expended in the purchase of new stock, leaving a balance
of £2.111 17s. Bd. The directors roti4ratolide the pro-
prietors on the proposed railway from Harrogate and the
Leeds and Bradfo:d line.
PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY FROM LEEDS TO BRAD-
FORD.—Last week a meting was held at Leeds, for the
promotion of a more direct and shorter line of railway
than that which has been projected in connection with the
North Midland Railway Company. It was resolved that
a company should he formed for the establishment of a
new line, which, for distinction sake, we may call the
southern line; the capital to consist of 12,000 shares of
£25 each. e understand that the southern line will
commence at or near the end of Aire-street, Wellington-
street, in Leeds, cross the river Aire near the Upper Weir,
and the Leeds and Liverpool canal between Holmefield-
lane end and Holbeck Town end ; and skirting the hill
side towards Low Wortley, will pass close to Butterbowl
Mill, Fat-they, on the north side of Beulah farm house,
and from thence along the Pudsey and Tong Valley, by
Holme Green, to the south of, and near to the Court-
house in Bradford. On Friday morning 5,000 shares had
been subscribed for at Leeds, independent of those taken
up at Bradford and elsewhere.

NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.—The fourth half-yearly meeting of this com-
pany was held at York, on Thursday last. The report
stated the works of the line had been carried on with the
utmost rigour during the past half-year, and that the di-
rectors have entered into contracts for the erection of eight
stations at different points of the line, including one for
the city of Durham. The latter station is to be completed
on the Ist of March, and those on the south of Durham
on the Ist of May next. The directors had concluded an
agreement with the Great North of England Railway
Company, to work the whole of the traffic between Dar-
lington and Newcastle; and all the guaranteeing compa-
nies have unanimously concurred in relieving this company
from their engagement to grant a lease of the line : there
was a good prospect of a railway being made from Berwick-
upon-Tweed to Edinburgh by the North British Railway
Company. The directors strongly recommended the share-
holders to give them authority to take prompt measures
for the effecting of a railway communication from New-
castle to Edinburgh. The cash account represented a
balance in the hands of the treasurer of £42,497 17a.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The meeting of this company
was held on Wednesday : a dividend of £1 per share was
declared ; and it was resolved to conclude contracts for
leasing the Hastings and Lewes branch at a rate of 4 per
cent, upon the cost of construction, not exceeding
£475,000, and the Shoreham and Chichester branch at a
rate of 4 per cent. upon cost of construction, not exceed-
ing £300,000. A resolution was passed giving the direc-
tors power to enter into negociations with the South-
Eastern Company for a final settlement of the large out-
standing claim of £360,000 on fair and reasonable terms.
Unless such power was delegated, it was stated that no
hope of arrangement could be expected for the present
generation of shareholders. Whatever sum is found due
to the Brighton Company will, it appears, be applied to
the payment of the mortgage bonds, in condition with the
terms of the act of Parliament. The traffic increased
during the half. year £9.885, while the expenses have been
reduced £7,500, making a gross increase in net revenue
of £17,300. The Brighton Company has at last joined
the South-Eastern and Croyden Companies in an amalga-
mation of working expenses, which arrangements come
into operation from the Ist of March. After paying this
dividend, which absorbs £35,156, a surplus of £2,510 is
left to the credit of the current half-year.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.-011 Friday
the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors took
place at the London terminus, Euston-grove. Mr. G. C.
Glyn, the chairman of the company, presided, and con-
gratulated the shareholders on the prospect that was opened
for their connecting the London and Birmingham line with
Lancaster and Carlisle, and in another direction with
Holyhead, where a spacious harbour was about to be
formed by government. The revenue account for the last
half-year, as compared with the corresponding half-year
of 1842, showed an increase in the traffic of £11,393, and
a decrease of £6,221 in the working charges. The direc-
tors had to report that the net profits of the year 1843
being £502,484 Os. 5d., and the dividend declared at the
last half-yearly meeting £242,732 145., there remained a
disposable balance of £259,751 6s. 5d., from which they
recommended that a dividend of 5 per cent. be deducted,
leaving £17,006 IBs. sd. to the credit of the current half-
year. The directors bad to apply to the proprietors for
powers to carry out the line from Chester to Holyhead,
where the government was about to erect a new harbour,
and thus make it the great medium of intercourse with
Ireland. Every endeavour had been made to accommo-
date the public, and, in order to do so, they had given to
all passengers go;ng and returning by the railway on the
same day the benefit of a reduction of one-third in their
fares, and they allowed them to corn pound for two months'
fares at half-price. They had also modified their rates to
first-class passengers riding in the company's carriages,
but travelling with their own carriages on the train, by
charging them second-class fares. The report was adopted,
a dividend of 5 per cent. declared, and 17s. on each of the
£32 shares of the company. A resolution was adopted
giving powers to the directors to provide capital for making
the proposed railway between Chester and Holyhead, not
exceeding in the whole £1,000,000 sterling, and to take
any other measures for the interest of the company.

MARTYRS TO £30,000 A-YEAR.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

The lay traversers, or demagogues of the platform, are
Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, Thomas Ray, and
Thomas Steele.

We know not whst income either of the two first may
derive from the funds paid into•the Repeal Exchequer.
But, independently of that. Mr. Daniel O'Connell ex-
tracts from the agitation of the country his annual Tri-
bute, amounting on an average to £20,000 a-year. We
'cannot separate the interest of the son from that of the
father; we, therefore, include Mr. John O'Connell in
this lucrative speculation.

Mr. Ray is Secretary of the Repeal Association, and,
in that capacity, draws, in the shape of salary and other
emoluments, an annual income of (we understand)
£l,OOO.

Mr. Thomas Steele is an agent, bearing the indefinite
character of Head Pacificator, and, besides travelling ex-
penses on special occasions, draws an allowance of five
pounds a-week (at the least) out of the Repeal Rent.
Having disposed of the tonguesmen, or demagogues of
the platform, we now come to the pensmen, or dema-
gogues of the press. They are by name and occupation—
Charles Gavan Duffy, proprietor of the Nation; John
Gray, proprietor of the Freeman's Journa, and the Even-
ing Freeman; and Richard Barrett, proprietor of the
Pilot.
The profits which those literary demagogues derive
from the agitation of the country, may be ascertained
with sufficient accuracy on data of the simplest and surest
kind.

It is a law of the Association (see rule 9 of the book of
instructions to Repeal Wardens, rent-collectors, &c.),
that—" The sum of ten pounds collected and forwarded
to the Association, entitles the repealers of the district
whence it comes to a weekly paper for the entire year,
gratis; and the sum of twenty pounds entitles them to
the Pilot or Evening Freeman newspaper for the same
period, if they prefer either to two weekly newspapers."
Now, the price of a weekly newspaper for the year is
£1 10s.; of a three-day evening paper, £3. One pound
ten shillings are to ten pounds, just as three pounds are
to twenty—that is to say, each is 15 per cent. on every
hundred pounds transmitted to the Repeal Association.
Had we an exact account of the income of the Corn-
Exchange, we should be able to tell to a shilling the an-
nual profits of this incendiarism. But, supposing the
Rent to amount, one week with another, to £1,060 (and
it has sometimes trebled that amount), we have an income
of £52,000 per annum, out of which the literary traver-
sers abovementioned divide among them (at 15 per cent.)
about one-sixth of the entire amount—namely, the sum
of £7,800 per annum ; being at the moderate rate of
£2.600 to each and every of them. All this, be it ob-
served, is over and above the fair ordinary profit made by
their newspapers in the usual way, as the exponents of
party opinion, or as payment for Repeal advertisements,
&c. Let us now tot the items :
Lay:
1. Mr. O'Connell
2. Mr. John O'Connell •
3. Mr. T. M. Ray .....
4. Mr. Thomas Steele
Literary :-
5. Mr. Richard Barrett .
6. Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy
7. Dootor Gray

£20,000
1,000
260

2,600
2,C00
2,600

£29,060

Thus, of the eight traversers now on trial, seven draw
from the funds derived from the agitation they have raised,
very nearly thirty thousand pounds a-year. To them, at
least, agitation is, and has been, a profitable traffic.
Let agitation die, and what would be the consequence
to those disinterested patriots? Would they not lose this
£29,000 per annum ? On the other hand, let the agita-
tion be increased—let it be doubled, or trebled—and, in
proportion as those blow-coals are enabled to infuriate
the flame, will their profits on the ruin and misery of
their country be swelled.

Is this, gentlemen traversers, a true bill or not ? We
tell you that you must render an account to the people of
the money you have induced them to pay into your hands.
You must tell them how much or bow little you admit of
the charge : for, unless your own documents be false, this
bill must be true. You cannot be silent. We repeat our
statement, that of the nine traversers originally indicted,
but two could come into court with clean hands, and we
owe it is justice to the Roman Catholic priesthood to say,
that those two are priests of the Church of Rome. The
lay traversers, whether of the press or of the platform,
re making money on the mischiefs they are able to cre-
ate. They have, in the disturbance of their country, the
deep interest of pecuniary profit.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK IN THE FRITH OF CLYDE.
—About eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon, the long
boat of the schooner Ann, of Ardrossan,—Jas. Craw-
ford, master,—was discovered lying on Brest Rock, keel
up, with her four oars under her. At noon, the jolly
boat was seen drifting in towards the shore ; which, on
coming within reach, was found to contain the cold and
lifeless corpse of the mate, John Henderson, son of Mr.
Matthew Henderson, ship-builder, Ardrossan. Several
pieces of wreck have since come ashore, such as rails,
bulwarks, &c., and there is every reason to fear she has
been run down by some vessel on Sunday night, some-
where near Ailsa Craig. The Ann, of Ardrossan, was a
fine new Schooner, built only eight months ago, by Mr.
Henderson, of Ardrossan. She had made one voyage to
and from Malta, and was on her passage from Cork to the
Clyde, with a cargo of flour. There is too much reason
to fear that all the crew have perished. The captain had
a wife and six children.—Ayr Advertiser.

SECOZ-,i) EDITION.

Standurd-ogice, Half-past Eight o'clock,

THE STATE TRIALS.

DUBLIN Monday, Feb. 12th.
At an early hour this morning groups of per suns were
seen wending away their way along the quays towards the
Four Courts.
The morning was wet and gloomy, but about eight
o'clock began to clear up a little.
At half-past eight o'clock the avenues to the court were
crowded, and it was scarcely possible to pass through the
hall.

There was a very large police force on duty in the outer
yard to preserve order, which was exceedingly requisite,
owing to the eagerness of the multitude to crush in.
At nine o'clock the court presented a very gay and ani-
mated appearance at this hour.
The gallery was crowded, but there were very few
ladies present, either in the public gallery, the reserved
seats, or in the high sheriff's gallery.
The bar mustered very strong, not a seat was unoccu-
pied, and many members were forced to stand ; the side
avenues were also thronged to an inconvenient extent.
At this hour Mr. O'Connell entered, accompanied by
Mr. John O'Connell and Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun.
All the other traversers were present, with the exception
of the Rev. Mr. Tierney and Mr. Duffy.
The Right Hon. D. R. Pigot, Mr. Moore, Q.C. Mr.
Henn, Q.C., Mr. M onaghan, Q.C., Sir Coleman O'Logh-
len, Mr. Thomas Hagan, and several others of the tra-
versers' counsel now entered and took their seats.

Immediately after the Attorney and Solicitor-General,
with Mr. Sergeant Warren, Mr. Manly, Q.C., Mr.
Brewster, Q.C., Mr. Bennett, Q.C., Mr. Tomb, Mr.
Napier, Mr. Holmes, and others entered.

Exactly at fifteen minutes past nine o'clock, Judge
Burton, the Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Crampton
entered the court, and took their seats on the beneh.
Mr. Justice Crampton, for the information of his
brother judges on the bench, related all that had transpired
during their absence on Saturday night after the jury had
retired to consider their verdict.

The jury were then called. The traversers and jury
having answered to their names,
Mr. Justice Crampton stated to the jury the course
which they were to pursue in returning their verdict,
and explained the meaning and effect of the various
divisions of the indictment, after which he advised them
to retire for a few minutes, and see whether they had act-
ed in accordance with his instructions. At 25 minutes to
ten o'clock the jury accordingly withdrew.
The jury returned at nine minutes to ten o'clock, when
The Clerk of the Crown said—Gentlemen of the jury,
hand in your issue paper.
The Foreman—We have put our names to the different
counts—that is, we have written them on the list, as there
was not room for us to write them under the separate
parts of each count. And here 1 would ask, on the part
of the jury, are they to get compensation for their time—
(laughter.)
M r. Moore, Q.C. (to the Clerk of the Crown)—Call each
juror by his name.

- This being done by the Clerk of the Crown, he asked—
Gentlemen of the jury, do you agree?
Foreman—Yes.

Mr. Moore, Q.C.—I wish it to appear on your lord-
ship's notes that there is an objection, on the part of the
traversers, to the reception of the verdict, on the ground of
a misnomer as to the name of Rigby, one of the jurors, who
is one of the persons in the jury-box. He stated that his
name was John Jason Rigby, whereas the name which ap-
pears on the panel is John Rigby, and which, on this trial,
amounts to a misnomer.

The Attorney-General—Rigby was sworn as "John
Rigby," and there was no particular notice taken at the
time of that circumstance by the Crown.

THE VERDICT.

The Clerk of theCrown—Gentlemen, you say this is your
verdict ?
Foreman—Yes.
The Clerk of the Crown then read the verdict, which was
as follows :