The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

THURLES MEETING

At a highly respectable and influential Meeting, held by
Requisition, at Boyton's Hotel, Thurles, on Monday,
6th October instant,
NICHOLAS V. NIAHER, Esq., M.P., in the Chair,
The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to:

Moved by James Butler, Esq., M.D. Thurles, second-
ed by Mr. Joshua Lester, Turtulla
That in the opinion of this Meeting, the construction
of a Railway, as set forth in the Prospectus of the Com-.
pany called " The Thurles, Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir,
and Nenagh Railway Company," is best calculated to
promote the prosperity of Thurles, and to meet all the re-
quirements of this great County, in reference to its vast
population, its agricultural and mineral productions; and
that this Meeting will give that undertaking its most
strenuous support when under the consideration of Par-
liament.
Moved by Mr. Robert Nicholson, Engineer to the Mi-
ning Company of Ireland ; seconded by Mr. William
Crowe, Thurles. _ _

That the general interest of the County of Tipperary, as
well as the public at large, absolutely require that no
Trunk Line should be sanctioned through this County
which will not afford the most direct communication with
the Market of Clonmel, and the Port of Waterford.
PrloNeti by ratite}, 11) do, Esq.. 1.1.1.)•, 'nudes: se-
conded by Mr. R. W. Bourke, Thurles,
That we respectfully solicit our county members, N.
V. Maher, and R. A. Fitzgerald, Esqrs., to give their
support and influence in Parliament to the passing of the
Act for the Thurles, Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir, and Ne-
nagh Railway Bill.
(Signed)
NICHOLAS V. MAHER, Chairman.
THOMAS HENESY, Secretary.
Mr. Maher having vacated the chair, and James Butler,
Esq., called thereto :
Moved by Mr. Robert Manin, Shanballa ; seconded by
Dr. Ryan :
That the particular thanks of the meeting be returned
to our respected chairman, Mr. Maher, for his proper and
dignified conduct in the chair, and for his attention and
care, at all times, to the prosperity cf his native county.
(Signed)
JAMES BUTLER, Chairman.
THOMAS HENNESY, Secretary.

TH URLES. CLONMEL, CARRICK-ON-SUIR,
AND NENAGII CENTRAL TIPPERARY
RAILWAY.
To the Editor of the Tipperary Free Press.
Sir,—l wish to call your attention, upon national
grounds, to the above undertaking. Ido so for two rea-
sons. Ido not suppose you would countenance any pro-
ject detrimental to the interests of the county, and I
presume you would advocote that which would mani-
festly tend to promote its prosperity. This railway comes
within the latter description ; it is a good line for the
country, and it is a mos, valuable one for the inhabitants
of Clonmel. It runs through the Slievardagh Collieries,
where, I need not inform von, the Mining Company of
Ireland and two or three spirited private gentlemen, are
engaged in raising coals. Their operations are only of
recent commoncement, and yet they raise at the rate of
100,000 tons per annum. Now, sir, the quality of these
coals is such that they are used not only, for agricultural
and mercantile, but, of late, for domestic purposes, and
particularly by the respectable class of nouseholders, Ns,
have erected kitchen ranges. now very generally adopted
but from the distance they are brought, they cannot be
delivered in Clonmel, being about 12 or 14 miles, under
at least Bs. per ton expense of carriage. But when the
railway shall have been constructed, the costs of carriage
for these coals, as regulated by Act of Parliament, will be

one penny per ton per mile. The result is obvious. We
shall have our coals delivered in Clonmel for about Is. 2d.
per ton. I need not comment on this strong fact. You
observe it in evidence of traffic which the railway must
derive from this article alone, and the great boon conferred
upon the poorer classes as well as on the consumer gene-
rally, by reducing one of the chief necesaries of life so
very considerably. A lam anxious that I should par-
ticipate in the advantages which this railway must, when
completed, bring to the inhabitants of the populous dis-
trict within its range, I may mention as another source of
its traffic, and another cause of its utility to the country—
the clay or earth which lies between the coal veins is in
demand among glass manufacturers—there are two com-
panies already formed for the manufacture of glass on as
extensive scale in Ireland, and that earth which they must
procure to carry on their operations, can be brought by
railway or by water carriage from Clonmel to Dublin.
My object in referring to these details, is to show, that
besides the advantages which will be conferred locally by
the railway, it will have an increasing source of traffic,
which has not been relied upon by its promoters; and
promising, as it does, from the passenger traffic, to be a
most remunerative line to the shareholders, it deserves
support from the public at large, for the reasons before
stated, of great national utility.

_
I am, sir,
Yonr obedient Fe-vent,
AN INHABITANT OF CLONMea,
Clonmel,l7th October, 1845.