The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

SPORTING- INTELLIGENCE.

HEREFORD GRAND STEEPLE CHASE,
THURSDAY, FED. 12.
The Handicap of 25 soya. each, with 100 added, was
won by Mr. Preston's Brunette, beating Crackstnan and
Little Tommy.
A Sweepstakes of 5 :zovs. each, 3 miles, was won by Mr
G. Moseley's Jerry, beating Gipsy Queen and the Mer-
chant.

The Sweepstakes of 3 sovs, each were won, in three
heats, by Mr. Turner's Brewood beating Delamore and

two others

On Monday, a foot race between Peter
:Melrose and the Young Sportsman came off at the Grapes.
rear Newcastle. at £2 a side, distance 120 yards. Before

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post.—A match Las been made between Lowery and Ro-
gers to rnn round the race course for .t 5 a side ; a depcsit
has been made at Mr. Peacock'e, Drury-lanf., Newcastle.

' IRELAND.

The Tullamore Board of Guardians have lately adopted
a petition in favour of Repeal.
An Irish paper mentions the case of a sick man at
Thornend-gate, who, in a fit of delirium, got up and ate
several bank-notes by way of disappointment to his ex-
pectant heirs. . .

At Coolmen, in the county Clare, a few days ago, in a
fit of religious enthusiasm, a man nailed his feet and his
left hand to the post of his bed, in imitation of the cruci-
fixion of our Saviour.

A bar of gold, weighing 30 ounces avordopois, and worth
'.£115-10s. Od. was found a few days ago in a field near
Blackwatertown, Armagh, about eight feet below the
surface. About a thousand silver coins have been found
at Borrisokane, Tipperary. They consist of groats of
Henry IV. and silver pennies of Henry 11.
The Cork Constitution states, that a house in that town
nets £17,000 by the recent decision, noticed in our last,
relative to the return of the duties on corn released the
day before the measure of 1842 came into operation. The
proprietor of a baking establishment in Cork will, it is
said, have £2OOO returned to him.

AGRARIAN MURDER.—On Friday night a party of men
invested several houses on the lands of Dangan, and in
one house occupied by a widow woman and her son named
Leary, they beat the young man in such a dreadful manner
that he died before morning. The cowardly ruffians also
beat the old woman, breaking her collar bone, and other-
wise dreadfully abusing her.—Clare Journal.
The precautionary measure of quartering a troop of
Light Dragoons in the town of Galway, where serious
disturbances were, and are still apprehended, has excited
great indignation among some of the lower classes. On
Tuesday morning a fellow was engaged placarding the
town with an " address from the Claddagh people to the
men of Galway," calling upon them, as Government had
sent them troops in place of food, to unite to a man, and
drive the military out of the town. The placard was in
manuscript, and is stated to have been of a most seditious
nature.

THE POTATOES IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND —The
following is from the Erening Mail:—" A gentleman,
who has more knowledge of Ireland, and more experi-
ence in potato crops than all the commissioners and all
the cabinet ministers put together, writes thus in a letter
received this morning :

" 'Warrenpoint, Feb. 10.
" ' Thereis a great quantity of potatoes exported from
this port every week for Liverpool, and no sign of famine
here yet. I came from Bangor yesterday, 42 miles across
the country, and it is a curious sight to see, at this time
of year, sec

stack-yards, and hundreds of acres of pota-
undug, in which way they are keeping well—i. e.,
the good keeping good—the bad not worse.' "
REPEAL ASSOCIATION —The prospect of the Hall was
rather blue on Monday, owing probably to the combined
influence of the weather and the absence of any novelty to
stimulate the patriotic interest of the greasy rulers who
usually attend. The chair, on the motion of W. S.
O'Brien, Agitator pro tem., was taken by Mr. R. A. Fitz-
gerald, who, deriving proportionate eloquence from a mi-
serable scrap of paper which he held in his hand, pro-
ceeded to congratulate the association on the numerous
and respectable (!) attendance which they exhibit every
week, and to declare his readiness as a landed proprietor
to forego his private interests for the public weal, and
support the abolition of the corn laws. Mr. O'Neil Daunt
called on the landlords to join the "national" ranks, now
that the only barrier which he stated hitherto to have pre-
vented them—that of private interest—was about to be
destroyed by the removal of the monopoly in the English
market, which they apparently possess.. The Head Paci-
ficator, Mr. J. A. O'Neill, Alderman O'Brien (the new
" mimber" for Cashel), and Mr. H. Grattan, M.P., also
addressed the meeting. The rent for the week was de-
clared to be £268.

FALSE REPORTS OF FAMINE.—Some days ago a Wa-
terford paper sent forth an awful statement to the effect
that the long threatened famine had set in at Dungarvon,
and that about 5000 persons, or about five-sixths of the
inhabitants of the town, were in a state of absolute starva-
tion. Of course the most was made of this in all the free
trade journals. The fact turns out to be that the poor are
not even in as destitute a condition as they were this time
last year, when provisions were abundant and moderate ;
and the workhouse, capable of holding 700 persons, now
contains only 369. A large proportion of the inhabitants
are fishermen, and the following little fact, whilst it illus-
states their pride, demonstrates that they are not so badly
off as represented. It appears that a sum of £215 was
collected for them in the town a short time ago for the
purpose of enabling them to improve their tackling, but
they took huff at the conditions proposed by the donors,
and only £l5 were taken, the remaidng £2OO being still
at their service, if they think proper to subscribe to the
very reascnable terms on which it is offered. After this
exposé we should hope that due regard should be paid to
panic statements float the provinces.

THE POTATO CROP.—At the meeting at Enniskillen,
on Tuesday, the Rev. Mr. Richardson said he considered
that nothing that Sir Robert Peel could do would be suf-
ficient to meet the ruinous measure he had proposed.
Ireland was an agricultural country, and the great mass
of the people were supported by the produce of the land ;
and, therefore, deprive her of protection to agriculture,
and she must go down. Every class of persons, from the
highest to the lowest in the land, must deteriorate and
grow worse every day. lie would ask the respectable
shopkeepers of the town, then present, if their shops
were ever better filled than they were at present? and
this arose from the farmers around having more means at
their disposal ; bat-would this be the case if the value of
their agricultural produce were decreased ? He remem-

bered that two or three years ago a far greater depression
arising from the bad state of the crops, existed than there
now did. fie remembered that two or three years ago—
the failure of the potato crop—that failure which Sir R.
Peel now produced in support of his argument, had been
as great as in this present season of digress. The shops

were deserted. Even when potatces were lid. a stone
distress prevailed; there was plenty of provisions, but no
money to buy them. It would not be a sufficient com-
pensation that the lands should be received from cesses to
which they were subject. He would go far in his disappro-
bation of Sir Robert Peel. How could they place de-

pendence on a minister who one year took one view of a
question, and in another year took a view directly in op-
position to his former one ?

RAILWAY

INTP. 14LIGE CE

At the Great Western Railway meeting a dividend of 4
per cent. was declared.
A dividend of £1 15s. per share has been declar
the London and Brighton Railway.
The Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway Bill has
passed the Standing Orders Committee.
For the last month of the present half-year £437,603
has been received as railway receipts, being an increase
over the corresponding period of 1845 of £61,843.
BUXTON, MACC! ESFIELD, CONGLETON, AND CREW,.
R ILWAY.—This company have determined only to
apply for a line from Congleton to Crewe in the p:e3ent
session.

The wooden viaduct of the South Devon Railway had a
narrow escape of being totally burnt, in consequence of
the negligence of some workmen engaged in repairing it
allowing the pitch pot to boil over.
A largl slip of an embankment supporting the down
rail of the Great Western Railway occurred on Saturday
night. No lives were lost, but the damage will be about
£lOOO.
At a numerous meeting of shareholders in the Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Granton Railway, held in Mr. Daw-
son's office on Thursday, it was resolved to sanction the
proposed amalgamation with the Edinburgh and Northern.

.
A very crowded meeting at Runcorn have resolved to
petition parliament in favour of the Huyton and Aston
Branch Line of the Grand Junction Company, which
crosses the Mersey at Runcorn.

Messrs. Brunel and Gooch have projected an engine
which they calculate will run eighty miles per hour; it is
to outdo the atmospheric. This engine is to have 18 inch
cylinders, 2 feet stroke, 8 feet driving-wheel, and an in-
creased diameter of boiler, to contain 270 tubes.
• The John Bull says several of the aldermen of London
engaged in railway speculations have been served with
writs for their liabilities. One has received 175, another
65, and a third 33. Several of the civic worthies, it is
said, have winged their way to sunnier climes, and others
hold themselves ready for an early flight.

We learn from Vienna that the two viaducts, thrown
over the Mullion, in the environs of Melnick (Bohemia),
for the use of the Vienna and Prague Railroad, were lately
washed down by the flood. The Government has at once
taken measures for re-erecting the two bridges, so that
the railroad may be stopped for as short a time as possible.
At the Kenyon Junction, on the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway, on Thursday last, two luggage trains
came in contact, whereby the engine belonging to the
Liverpool and Manchester line was destroyed, and several
wagons belonging to the Bolton and Leigh Company
shattered.No person was hurt.

GREAT NORTH AND SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—The
majority of the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the
company ; but it appears a difficulty is likely to arise in
effecting this result by the interference.of the law, the so-
licitor to the company opposing any such measure. A
committee it appointed from among the body of share-
holders to look after general interests.
The Chester Town Council have determined to peti ion
against the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction and Mold
Extension, with its branches ' • the Birkenhead, Chester,
Mold, Ruabon, and Vale of Llangollen ; the Liverpool,
Birkenhead, Parkgate, and Holyhead Junction; and the
Mold Junction, as they would injuriously affect the river
Dee.

ROYAL NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY.—WC learn from
the Yorkshire Gazelle that Mr. George Stephenson, who
went over to Spain with Sir Joshua Walmsley, for the
purpose of investigating this scheme, found that, instead
of a revenue of near £50.000 a-year, it could not have one
of more than £6,000, and, consequently, he dissuaded Sir
Joshua from having anything to do with the scheme.
RAILWAY " REPUDIATORS".—In consequence of the
decision lately given by the judges in reference to scrip
transactions, in which they affirm the legality of all sales
of scrip made in lines duly registered, several actions, have
been commenced against parties who have declined to
make good their bargains. Amongst others, proceedings
have been taken against certain parties in Preston. where
the sum claimed amounts to upwards of £1,400. The ca-
ses will come on at the ensuing assizes at L'verpool.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Atrthe half-
yearly meeting, on We •nesday, it was stated that one-
third of the earth-werks were completed. Six hundred
and forty-one are employed, betides 195 in Angles:a.
Arrangements have been made to have a j.)int-station at
Chester. A harbour of r.:riquogt 1 v
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chair man s ;id tevuid one day riral Linerpool _
chair:limn said he felt confident no ether line but their
own would go through Wales, as the other line had via-
ducts considerably higher than tie monument and shafts
below St. Paul's Cathedral. F.; s• "
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