The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

The government have finally determined upon establish-
ing one of the provincial colleges at Cork. Operations
will commence immediately.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body met on Monday
in Conciliation-hall. The attendance, both in quality and
quantity was wretched in the extreme; and the proceed-
ings of far more than average dulness. An address to
the Protestants of Ulster, inviting them to join the repeal
movement, was also read and unanimously adopted. The
rent for the week was announced to be £207 13s. 7d.

Father Mathew says there are sixty thousand persons
in Cork who have never taken the total abstinence pledge,
and he declared last week that there were more base pledge
breakers in Cork than in all Ireland !

A GLurroN's END.—A man named Boland, from
Miltown, near Kilmacow, died on Tuesday, in this city
from the effects of eating too much. It appears that
before he left his own house he consumed something
about three pounds of meat, together with a large quan-
tity of buttermilk, after which, on his arrival in town, he
eat four pounds more!—also porter, beer, spirits, ale,
cordial, &c., &c. Verdict accordingly. He was upwards
of 6u years of age !—Waterford Chronicle.
OILANGEISIA IN IRELAND.—On Wednesday last a most
important meeting was held at Enniskillen, at which were
present the Earl of Enniskillen (in the chair), Sir A.
Brooke, M.P., Col. Verner, M.P., the Hon. Somerset
Maxwell, and a large number of the aristocracy and clergy.
After considerable discussion it was resolved that a new
association should be formed, based on the same princi-
ples as the Orange institution, but modified in such wise
as to be in strict accordance with the letter and spirit of
the existing laws of the country.

DREADFUL MURDER.-At a holy well at Bantry, two
factions, the Flynns and Murphys, had a battle. One of
the Murphys, a teetotaller, was knocked down, and while
down a fiend in woman's form took a large stone, and
coming over the prostrate man let it fall with violence on
his chest. Instant death was the result. Some of the
parties engaged in the affray have been arrested by the
police, but the immediate murderers have as yet escaped
their vigilance. There are over thirty on the run from
justice.

A gentleman named Howard, residing at Rathmines,
near Dublin, committed suicide last week, while in a state
of insanity. The body presented an awful appearance;
the head was almost literally blown off the shoulders, and
the gun was certainly placed in a curious position under
the sideboard. The circumstance caused some difficulty
to the jury, as they could not well account for the position
of the gun. It appeared that the deceased pushed the
trigger with the ramrod, and so violent was the shock,
that the stock was torn from the piece, and a quantity of
shot (with which the gun was loaded) entered the ceiling.

FRUITS OF THE PEEL POLICY.—Tbe Conservative
electors of Dublin appear to labour under the foolish de-
lusion tLat the best way to thwart Sir Robert's govern-
ment is to abet O'Connell's project of returning 70 repeal
members, and accordingly they are using little effort at
the registration courts, and the consequence will proba-
bly be that the city will be banded over at the next elec-
tio❑ to the Liberator. But the Premier's losses at the
next general election will not, unfortunately, be confined
to Dublin city. The state of the county registration
renders it almost impossible for any candidate, not a
member of the repeal confederacy, to face the hustings
with the most remote chance of success. This reaction
is solely to be attributed to the unceasing diligence of the
Roman Catholic priesthood, who, to say the truth, have
been labouring in their vocation like men who felt them-
selves bound by every tie of gratitude to spare no exer-
tions which may tend to strengthen the hands of a
Minister, who has just conceded enough to satisfy the
most sceptical that much more will be yielded hereafter.
MAYNOOTH CONSISTENCY.—In the Quarterly Re-
view, vol. 67, p, 150, we find the following sentence on
Maynooth :—MAYNooTH THE CURSE OF IRELAND—
and when will Englishmen learn that nothing but a
curse can spring from an abandonment of principle ?)
This college, which is allowed on all hands to be the seat
and fountain head of the mischief, was founded in 1795,
under "An act for the better education of persons pro-
fessing the Papist or Roman Catholic religion." Its
real object was to take Romish priests out of the hands of
foreign influence. Its profession was to give them a bet-
ter education, as if it were possible for any religion, least
of all for Popery, to allow of so called heretical interfe-
rence with the education of its priesthood." It is a hu-
miliating symptom of this moral degradation which Po-
pery and Peelism are producing around us to find this
same Tory organ, which thus had declared Maynooth to
be the curse of Ireland, and a departure from principle to
be the necessary cause of that curse, now wheeling round,
and, in its last number, applauding the government for
having "done their duty" in the endowment of that very
ell-se of Ireland ; and not only so, but asserting that the
state provision for the Roman Catholic clergy is " the
only measure that offers a reasonable prospect of tran-
quillizing Ireland, and cementing and venting the in-
tegrity of the empire.—Dublin Warder.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company
have it in contemplation to construct a branch railway
from their main line, through Knutsford, to the salt-
works of Cheshire.
The Board of Trade have issued circulars to the
London and Croydon, and Eastern Counties Companies,
rzcommending the abolition of assistant engines behind a
train.

A labourer was killed on the Newcastle and North
Shields Railway on Tuesday night. He was walking on
the line in the dark, and did not observe the train ap-
proaching until too late.

NEW RAILWAY STATION AT MANCHESTER.—A new
station for the Manchester and Bolton Railway is pro-
jected. The plan is to extend the line from the present
inconvenient terminus in New Bailey-street in a direction
nearly due east, across the streets of cottage property
between that street, Chapel-street, and the river, and
across the Irwell by a skew bridge to the westerly side of
the Parsonage, where ample space would be obtained for
an excellent station.

RAILWAY ACTS.—During the Session of Parliament
that has just closed, bills have passed for the construction :
—lst, of 18951 miles of additional railways in England and
Wales, at an estimated expense of £28,312,047, being an
average cost of £14,951 per mile ;-2nd, of 41181 miles of
additional railways in Scotland, at an estimated expense of
£6,549,500, being an average cost of £14,913 per mile ;-
3rd, of 6441 miles of additional railways in Ireland, at an
estimated expense of £7,598,035, being an average cost of
£11,790 per mile.
RAILWAY WITHOUT STEAM OR FIRE.—The proposed
railway from Callao to Lima, in Peru, will neither re-
quire the agency of steam nor the aid of fire. The
ground has a gradual and unbroken rise the whole way.
Above Lima flows the river Rimac, which passes through
a part of the city in its way to the sea near Callao. This
river, though not navigable, affords at all seasons of the
year a hundred times the water-power necessary to work
any traffic that can possibly come upon the rail. The
saving of the usual expense of fuel is thus effected ; and
the cost of the steam-engines, and, what is no smal item
in railway expenditure, the charges for their after manage.
ment, are entirely avoided.

RAILWAYS.--On Friday a parliamentary return was
printed of all bills of the late sessions for railways. It
appears that the estimated expense of 52 railways set forth
in the return is £43,339,325. The capital stock is stated
at £44.741,200, and the money authorized to be borrowed
£14,872,326. Another return gives the number of acts
which have passed in the session ; the length of each
line; the number of cach shares, and the amount of capi-
tal subscribed for each ; the number of new shares that
each line is empowered to create ; and the sum of money
each line is empowered to borrow. The lengths of the
lines are 2,746 m. 6f. and 4c. The number of shares
subscibed for is 723,819 ; the amount of capital subscibed
£31,890,474; the number of shares empowered to be
created, 927,697 ; and the money empowered to be bor-
rowed £13,678,038..

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The eighteenth
half-yearly meeting was held at Bristol, on Thursday.
The report stated that the amount of rent, and share of
toll, announced by the Great Western Company to be
due to this company, for the half-year ended on the
13th of June last, was as follows :—Fixed rent of the line
from Bristol to Exeter, from 14th December, 1844, to the
13th of June, 1845, at £71,957 a-year, £35978 10s.; share
of toll on 203,2101 passengers conveyed 6,616,798 miles,
at Id. per mile, £6892 10s. ; on merchandise. 50,024 tons
7 cwts. 221b5., equal to one ton conveyed 1,997,618 miles,
at Id. per mile, £2OBO 17s.—total £44,951 17s. ; con-
sidering that this is far the least productive half-year, the
receipts are very satisfactory. The report enters fully
into the arrangements that the company are making with
the North and South Devon, and the Great Western
Railways, so as to extend a communication with Corn-
wall, and strongly approves of the atmospheric system
being established on the new lines forming in the West of
England.

GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH.—The fifteenth half-
yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at Glasgow,
on Tuesday last; John Learmouth, Esq., in the chair.
The receipts for the half-year were £66,288 7s. 2d. ; the
expenses, including interest on loans, taxes, &c., £31,246
14s. 3d. ; leaving, with a balance of £1,848 13s. 11d. in
hand, the sum of £36,890 6s. 10d., out of which the
directors recommended a dividend of 30s. per share on
the original £5O stock,—of 7s. 6d. on the old quarter
shares,—and .of Is. 6d. on the sum of £2 10s. per share
on the new quarters, being the amount paid up at 31st
July,—or at the rate of six per cent. per annum on the
whole stock, payable on Monday, 15th September next;
and that the balance of £1,452 16s. 10d. be carried to the
credit of next account. The report was adopted. For
the completion of the new lines or branches, the direc-
tors recommended the raising of £703,125, of an issue of
new £25 shares, allowing one share for every £5O of
stock, which were also adopted, the period for the first
call of £5 being fixed for April next.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—A stormy meeting of
this company was held on Thursday, at the London Ta-
vern ; Mr. Henry Bosanquet in the chair. A dividend
of 3s. per share on £25 paid was declared. The report
was read amid mingled cheers and hisses. Mr. Scott,
the holder of 1000 shares, made a severe attack on the
inefficiency of the directors, and moved that Mr. Hudson
br invited to join in the management. A good deal of
discussion followed, the directors and their friends resist-
ing the motion as one of censure. Mr. D. W. Harvey
supported Mr. Scott, and moved an amendment of a
somewhat less obnoxious character, " that a committee
be appointed to confer with the directors on the financial
condition of the company." A division took place on this
amendment, which was carried on a show of hands by 97
to 82. A poll was demanded, and when it closed the
numbers were—for the amendment, 1,391, representing
£69,720 ; against it, 2,015, representing £93,498 ; giving
a majority in favour of the directors of 621. The scruti-
neet.s also reported that only three directors had voted,
representing 155 votes, or £7,754. The report was
adopted, and the meeting separated.
MR. HUDSON'S LINE FROM THE HUMBER TO THE
MERSEY.—An important arrangement has been concluded
between Mr. George Hudson and the provisional com-
mittee of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Com-
pany, by means of which Mr. G. Hudson will attain his
long-coveted object of an independent access, under his
own control, from the Humber to the Mersey. For this
he has been long working, and measures, which to some
seemed objectless, and to form only the instances of a not
faultless judgment, are now found to have been coolly
and deliberately calculated. He obtained an extension of
the Leeds and Bradford line from Shipley as far as Colne,
a small town in the north-eastern part of Lancashire ;
and there were few who could understand the views he
entertained in projecting that extension. It is now,
however, set at rest, by the arrangement effected between
him and the provisional committee of the Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston Company, together with the
Blackburn and Preston Company. He thus secures his
own lines between Liverpool and Hull, and is independent
of the existing route, which is split up into so many hands.
The capital for the formation of the line is to be provided
equally by him and the two companies named.
GREAT NORTH AND SOUTH WALES AND WORCES-
TER RAILWAY. —While in England the greater number
of lines run North and South, the Principality is accom-
modated only by lines embracing, as it were, three sides
of its frontier, but effecting no penetration into the heart
of the country. Taking Birmingham as the centre of
England, and of its railway system, we find that \Vales is
accommodated by the Grand Junction Company's line
to Crewe, whence the Crewe and Chester line carries us
to Chester. Practically, this city must be considered as
the north-eastern extremity of the Principality, and we
wish our readers to bear in mind the fact. Now if from
this north-eastern boundary there were lines diverging
in various directions into the hart of the country, Wales
would not have much to complain. The fact is, however,
otherwise. Wales is embraced by an enormous pair of
iron arms—the Chester and Holyhead, and the lines in
the south, with one exception, avoiding the interior—but
there are no great arteries—no divergent lines to accom-
modate the vast traffic and rapidly increasing population
of one of the most flourishing portions of the empire.—
This state of things could not be expec'ed to remain in
statu quo, and accordingly a splendid line of railway is
projected from Worcester to Caernarvon, through the
very heart of the country. This railway will be no doubt
of the greatest service to the principality, bringing the
middle of the country into direct communication with
England ; but of itself it is incomplete. There still
remains the necessity of a communication between North
and South Wales, arid this is proposed to be accomplished
by a line commencing at a point on the last-mentioned
line, in the valley of the Dovey, and proceeding through
Machynlleth to the important town of Aberystwith.
Even so far a most important district is opened to the
coast.. Proceeding onwards, Tregaron is next accommo-
dated, then Lampeter, Newcastle-Emlyn to Cardigan.
This line is only eighty miles long. Let our readers
examine the map, and they will perceive that from the
peculiar nature of the country, the interior is brought
into connection with the coast in five different places.
—lron Times.