The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STA&IJARD:

' The Marquis of Normanby has given notice of his in-
tention to bring in a bill to extend the elective franchise
Let our readers " look on this picture and on this," to all persons paying the income tax, either in boroughs
and say what is the trustworthiness of the character of or counties,
the man who to-day declares that a specific act would be Setroeeneo.—The Board of Customs having reason
an abandonment of duty," and to-morrow, without any to believe that extensive smuggling transactions have been
reason for change, abandons his duty. Ordinarily such successfully carried on by vessels engaged in the coasting
a character would certainly be himself soon abandoned trade, and that there has been a great laxity on the part
by every person who regarded their own self-respect : of the tide surveyors at some ports in the boarding and
SIR R. PEEL IN OPPOSITION, SIR R. PEEL. IN OFFICE, rummaging such vessels, have issued directions that the
JUNE 23, 1840. APRIL 3, 1845. officers of the water-guard be strictly enjoined to rum-
" While supporting the "We have resolved upon wage coasting vessels as frequently and thoroughly as
principle of the grant, I this measure, after mature possible, and to keep a record at their respective stations
cannot also subscribe to a deliberation, and in the be- of the vessels so rummaged, for the inspection of the
sentiment which I hate lief that it is nothing more surveyors general of customs on their official visits to the
heard attributed to the no- than a liberal construction different ports of the kingdom. The collectors and comp-
ble lord opposite. I cannot of the obligations which, trollers all over the kingdom are also required to report
agree that, in passing the in point of honour and all information they may obtain with respect to runs of
grant, a contract was ever good faith, hare been irn- smuggled goods.
implied to prevent the le- posed upon us by the legis- EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sun-
gislature from interfering, lature of this country. * * day night week, as two servant girls, Knights and Riches,
should the money be per- We intend to propose that who had been walking on the jetty at Yarmouth, were
verted to improper purposes. the visits shall be bond fide running homeward hand in hand, being alarmed at the
I cannot agree that the sys- visits, that they shall be held lateness of the hour, they both accidentally fell from the
tem of education carried on annually instead of trienni- margin of the river into the water. Knights was found
there is a matter of indffer- ally, and that the Lord by a
captain of a vessel, with whom they had previously
ence to the legis.'ature. I Lieutenant shall have a been walking, scrambling up the bank, and she pointed
think that the system pur- power of directing an addi- to apparently a bundle of clothes floating below. He
sued at Maynooth is a legi- tional visit when he thinks immediately jumped in and pulled the body of Riches
tirnate matter of considers- proper ; but the subjects of out, but she was quite dead. What renders the accident
tion for parliament,and that the vieiters' investigation somewhat extraordinary, was the extreme lightness of the
it would be an abandonment and inspection shall not in- might; but Knights says the moon-light caused the sand
of duty were the Hou-e of elude anything relating to and the chalk by the river side to resemble each other so
Commons toavow a doctrine the doctrine or discipline closely, that a mistake of this kind is very probable.
which would allow us to say of the church of Rome.
to the Roman Catholic pro- (Loud opposition cheers.) FLIGHT OF WILD GEESE.—On Sanday evening week,
fessor—' Here is the money We will not spoil our act at ten o'clock, the inhabitants of Perth were roused by
—we are pledged to grant it by any such proposition as the flight of an immense flock of wild geese directly over
the town. The atmosphere being very misty, the extent
—you may do with it as you that and if w would e did, it
please, inculcate doctrines be utterly inefficient for any of the flock could only be conjectured from the noise
subversive made, in calling to each other, it is to be presumed, to
jurious to morality; but we keep the whole in a body, which the thickness of the air
of o der, and in- public good."
cannot interfere." —Statesman. rendered difficult. Notwithstanding this caution, a good
many separated from the flock, and got bewildered in gar-
dens in various parts of the town, where they kept up a
screaming during the whole night. The wild goose is
known to migrate by night to southern climates about this
The new war-steamer Terrible will be fitted up with period, but seldom to approach large towns. It is sup-
-28 guns, and her cost will exceed £150,000. posed they were attracted by the strong reflection of the
The new duty on auctioneers' tisenses throughout the gas upon the misty atmosphere.—Perthshire Courier.
United Kingdom is to be (on the passing of the act) £lO EXECUTION OF SARAH FREEMAN.—This wretched
a-3 ear.
culprit expiated with her life, at Taunton, on Wednesday,
The auction duties ceased to be charged from the Bth the diabolical crime of which she was convicted. It will
of the present month, on the usual condition that the he in the recollection of our readers that the unhappy
parties consented to abide the ultimate decision of parlia- woman was committed upon four distinct charges of mur-
ment. der, namely, for having administered arsenic to her hus-
band, her illegitimate son, her mother, and her brother,
The tolls for Menai-bridge were let last week for (of whose murder she was convicted at the late spring
f£1,140. an increase of .£lB5, and those of Conway-bridge assizes,) which caused their death. She slept well from
or £560, an increase of £155, compared with the prece- twelve o'clock on Tuesday night until six on Wednesday
ring year.
morning, when she got up and ate a hearty breakfast. She
The India mail of the 3d, as well as that of the 20th of
strongly rotested her innocence to e chaplain and
each month. is in future to be conveyed between this others, saying, that she bought the poison for herself, and
country and Malta and Alexandria by the Peninsular and that her brother John took it from her bag and gave it to
Oriental Company's steamers. her mother and brother. After receiving the sacrament
James Hartley, Esq., of the Bishopwearmouth glass- she epeeared on the scaffold shortly before eleven o'clock,
works, has, by a series of experiments, proved that pipes and joined in prayer, again protesting her innocence. In
for gas and water, stronger than the ordinary metal pipes, a few minutes the fatal noose was adjusted, the bolt drawn,
and much cheaper, may be made of glass. and she ceased to exist.
" Captain Pratt," of Harwich, was convicted at the The Scotch members of both houses of Parliament are
Central Criminal Conrt, on e aturday week, for forging a making preparations to resist any material alterations in
check for £lO 10s. on Messrs. Herries and Co., the the laws that regulate their banking establishment. In
bankers. He was sentenced to ten years' transportation. the lower house there is, we believe, only one Scotch
The amount of money
member not opposed to any change; and in the upper
coined at the Mint, during the
twenty years ending with 1836. was over sixty-seven mil-
house the Scotch peers are, we hear, nearly as unanimous.
lions of pounds sterling. The charge for coining this sum So that Sir Robert Peel will have to encounter a most
formidable arid determined opposition should he be re-
was nearly £421,000.
solved to persevere in restrictive legislation. And it is
The devastations, consequent on the overflowing of the scarcely possible that he will, under such circumstances,
Elbe, at Dresden, have commuted the most frightful intriuluce any measure that will operate injuriously to
ravages, The graves of the churchyards were emptied of that system of banking to which Scotland ascribes its ion-
their dead, and the coffins, some open, and some empty, provement and prosperity—the more, as no practical evils
floated on the top of the flood. of any moment have been traced to it. That Sirobert
STEAM WITH INDIA.—Two Admiralty agents have Peel can, if so disposed, carry through a measure hostle
been sent to India, and another is on the eve of being to their interests we do not doubt; but his success will,
appointed to that country, to conduct the mail duties of in that case, be achieved against the unanimous wishes of
the new contracts. It is reported that this new service will all Scotland, and be the result of a subservient and igno-
be better remunerated. rant Parliamentary majority.—Atlas.
From the statistics of the New Connexion of General PORTABLE LIFE-BOATS.—On Saturday last, experi-
Baptists, from 1776 to 1844, it appears that the number ments to test the serviceableness and efficacy of the new
baptised by immersion is 22,962. The number of mem- life-boat, recently invented by M. Monzani, were made
bers in 1776 was 1,609, and in 1844 the number was in the basin of Woolwich Dockyard, in presence of a
17,569, being an increase of upwards of 16,000. great many nautical arid scientific persons, amongst whom
Before the repeal of the duty a square of the best sheet were Sir Francis Collier, Sir Edward Parry, Mr. Willock,
Chairman of the East India Company, Sir J. Franklin.
glass of 6 inches by 4 was charged ls. 5d., and it is now• .
Captain Crosier, R.N., Mr. Laing, and others. The
selling for 11d., making a difference of 6d. in one square
boat weighs only 2161 b. with all her tackle and apparatus,
of glass. The patent
and would hold about 21 persons. She is constructed of
is now selling for Is. 7d. plate, which before the alteration
was selling at 2s. 6d , a square of the dimensions stated, waterproof cloth, something like sail-cloth, stretched on
a frame of wood ; when not wanted she may be stowed
Mr. S. Thompson, of Darlington, has completed an or placed on the deck or other convenient part of any
electrical clock to go for years without requiring to be vessel where she will be flat, not taking up more than
wound up, having neither weights nor main-springs. It is three inches in depth, the depth of the frame or hoop
of large dimensions, a splendid piece of workmanship, which forms her gunwale. The experiments made last
very complete, and is now going in his manufactory at week by command of the Admiralty were very satisfactory.
Darlington, where it excites much attention. Her powers were severely tested ; she was thrown from
The ninth ennuil meeting of the London Art Union the Alecto steamer, at a height of 25 feet from the water,
was held in Drury -lane Theatre, on Tuesday last. The i into the basin ; she took the water safely, not shipping
Duke of Cambridge in the chair. The amount of the I above a quart of the element. Eight men then descended
year's subscriptions was £15,440, of which the sum of by ropes and boarded her in a minute ; they pulled her
£13,643 4s. 2d. has been set apart for the purchase of across the basin and performed a variety of evolutions
works of art. to the satisfaction of the spectators. She is understood
to have all the advantages of what is called the mussoolah
If our second-rate pastures were drained, broken up,
boat, without the objections to it. Being flat-bottomed
and well-cultivated, a large increase of agricultural pro-
she. draws little water, and will ride over a heavy surf,
duce, an increased demand in the market for labour, in-
w ere a common. ship's boat could scarcely live. She is
creased farmers' profits, and after the repayment of the h
portable and light, yet sufficiently. strong and. requires no
capital invested in the transaction, increased rents might
tackle in being ho sled over the side of a ship. By means
all reasonably be looked for.—Gardeners' Chronicle.
of this very simple invention half the perils of the ocean
By a parliamentary paper of customs duties, printed, it may be avoided.
appears that the mean annual produce of duties in two
years preceding the establishment of the new tariff SHIPS OF WAR BUILDING.—The following is the
amounted to £22,637,494, and in the two years following official return, .
issued
by order of the Right Hon. the
the establishment of the new tariff £22,720,886, compri- Lords Commissioners of the Board of Admiralty, of the
sing 813 articles.number of ships of war at present being built in her Ma-
, Il
FAMILY OF CAPTAIN TREVOR.—Her Majesty has jesty's different royal dockyards, many of which are in a
very advanced state of completion, and will be launched
been pleased to present a son of the unfortunate Captain during the present year :—Chatham—Active, 36 guns :
Trevor, who was killed at Cabul, with a nomination to Arab, 16 ; Bulldog, steam-ship • Calypso, 20 guns ;
Christ's Hospital. This is the second instance in which Challenger, 18 • Chesapee, 36 ; 'Coquette, 20 ; Cressy,
her Majesty's benevolence has been exercised in the same 80; Despatch 'l6 ; Elk, 16 16;
Heron, 16 Irresistible, 80 ;
way for the family of that brave and lamented officer. Kangaroo, 16'; Majestic, 80; Mars, 80; Raleigh, 50;
We have much satisfaction in announcing that Sir S. Severn, 50. Deptford—Phaeton, 50 guns; Termagant,
R. Glynne, Bart., M.P., has been appointed by her Ma- steam frigate. Devonport—Aboukir, 90 guns ; Archne,
jetty to the office of Lord Lieutenant of the county of 18 ; Avenger, steam frigate; Creole, 26 ; Exmouth, 90 ;
Flint, vacant by the death of the late Marquis of West- Liffey, 50 ; Niobe, 56 ; St. Jean d'Acre, 90 ; Sans Pareil,
minster. The favour of the Sovereign, in thus promoting 84 ; Thetis, 36 ; Pembroke—Algiers, 90 guns ; Arethusa,
to an important dignity the respected proprietor of Ha- 50; Atalanta; Britomart, 10; Brunswick, 80; Camilla,
warden, has been worthily bestowed.—Chester Courant. 16; Colossas,Bo; Conflict, steam-ship ; Constance. 50;
The Derby Mercury says—" We have much pleasure Desperate, steam-frigate; Dragon, ditto ; Encounter
in being able to state, that the business of the eminent steam-slood ; Inflexible, ditto ; Kingfisher, 12 ; Liberty.
firm of Samuel Allsop and Sons, Burton ale brewers. 16; Lion, 80; Mariner, 16; Martin, 16; Squirrel, 16;
will be carried on as usual; the creditors having satisfied Sybille, 36; Victoria, 110; Windsor Castle, 110. Ports-
themselves, on investigating a statemeut of affairs laid mouth—Arrogant, steam frigate; Centaur, ditto; Daunt-
before them by Messrs. Richardson, the solicitors of the less, ditto ; Marlborough, 110 guns ; Prince of Wales,
firm, that the assets of the concern are amply sufficient to 110 ; Princess Royal, 90 ; Royal Frederick, 110 ; Royal
meet all its liabilities, and leave a considerable surplus." Sovereign, 110; Shannon, 50. Sheerness—Alarm, 26
We regret to have to record the premature death of guns ; Darr, 3 ; Fury, steam-sloop. Woolwich—Aga-
Lady Ridley, wife of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., memnon, 80 guns; Amphion, steam-frigate; Fervent,
and only surviving daughter, we believe, of Baron Parke, ditto ; Hannibal, 90; Hound, 6; Niger, steam-sloop ;
Odin, steam-frigate; Royal Albert. 120; Sphynx, steam-
who expired on Sunday week at Blagden Hall, the bon.
sloop ; at miscellaneous dockyards.—Blackwall, Harpy,
baronet's seat, near Newcastle, Northumberland. We i
hear that her ladyship was confined only a few weeks 1 steam-vessel; Mvrtnydon, ditto ; Torch. ditto; Trident.
back, and that she had been ailing ever since. Baron and steam-sloop ; Vulcan, steam-frigate. Bombay—Gos-
hawk, 12 guns; Madress, 80 ; Malacca , 26; Zebra, 16.
Lady Parke are overwhelmed with this sad family be-
reavement, as it will be remembered their daughter, who l Glasgow—Sicnoom, steam-frigate. Greenock—Pegasus,
Liverpool— Bir kenbead, steam- frigate.
married a son of the Earl of Carlisle, died in the month steam-sloop.
Millwall Megtera, steam-sloop. Poplar—Grappler,
of her accouchement.
THE HAMPSTEAD MURDER.—Last week several let-
steam-vessel ; and Recruit, brig. The naval force of
Great Britain consists of 680 ships-of-war, carrying from
ters were addressed to 'locker purporting to be written Ito 120 guns each. Of this number, there are 125 armed
by the person who had assisted him with the murder and steam-vessels constructed on the most approved princi-
who h-id actually struck the blow. The individual, whose plea. This immen-e fleet employs in time of peace
name is Allen Kelmar, was traced, and on Friday brought 23,000 able-bodied seamen, 2,000 stout lads, and 94 corn-
before the Lord Mayor. He is a teacher at a school. panics of Royal Marines, stationed as follows :-Ist divi-
He stated to the Lord Mayor, that he was the writer of sion, Chatham, 23 companies ; Portsmouth. 2d division,
those letters ; that there was no foundation whatever for 28 companies • Plymouth, 3d division, 24 companies;
the statements made in them; that he was not acquainted Woolwich, 4th' division, 19 companies; and 2 companies
with either Hocker or Delarue ; and that he had never Royal Marine Artillery at Portsmouth.
been to Hampstead until after the murder. The prisoner's
brother, who was in attendance, said he considered this FATAL AND MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT DUCKIN-
was merely a foolish attempt to obtain notoriety. The FIELD BY THE FALLING OF NINE RAILWAY ARCHES.—
Lord Mayor believed that such was the case, but ordered On Saturday evening one of the most distressing and ex-
the silly fellow to be removed for the present to Al aryle-
tensively fatal accidents that ever occurred in this neigh-
bone-office, whence Hocker was committed. At two
bourhood, with the exception of one at Hyde, in 1829,
o'clock the prisoner was placed before the magistrates of
took place. In this instance sixteen lives have been sacri-
ficed. About twelve months ago, the contractors for the
Marylebone Police-office, when some of his family bay-
Ashton Branch Rwaenced erations,
ing deposed to the diseased state of his mind, Mr. Long
ceeded with the worail to tocom them entire satisfaction and
ofpro-
the
said he did not think, after what had transpired, that he
should be justified in detaining him ; but, as he was at a company. The line, which is only about two miles boil,
loss how to act, he left the court to consult Sir J. Gra-
was nearly completed, arid was to have been opened this
ham. On his return, he said he could not detain the
summer. It was a double branch line, connecting the irn-
prisoner. He had, no doubt, deluded himself into the
to portant towns of Ashton and Stalybridge with Manches-
belief, whilst in a state of melancholy, that he was im-
r, and passed over a portion of the town of Ashton
upon 2 0 arches, crossin the Huddersfie and an-
plicated in the murder. He should, therefore, discharge
Chester canal and the river Tame on its way.ld The arMches
him.
were built of stone, and the workmen were levelling the
line with a view of having the rails laid down almost im-
mediately. About 30 men were engaged in this work,
and their labours were fast drawing to a completion.
That afternoon, however, about three o'clock, nine of the
arches gave way with a most tremendous crash, carrying
with them the whole of the men employed upon them.
The first arch which gave way was that over the river
Tame, on which several men were employed. It was in
another moment followed by eight arches, every one of
which became a mass of ruins, burying beneath the fallen
materials a large number of navigators and other la-
bourers employed. The scene at this moment was most
distressing, not only on account of the sacrifice of human
life, but also on account of the perilous sitnation of those
who were precipitated into the river over which the arch
passed. The fallen materials having gorged up the river,
it shortly began to rol over the stories, &c., which had
fallen, and thrt atened final destruction to those unfortu-
nate creatures who were partially buried in the ruins.
The news of the accident, as a matter of course, spread in
air direction., and numerous exaggerated reports were cir-
culated, which soon brought together a large concourse of
persons anxiously innuiring the particulars, amongst
whom were the friends and relatives of those persons em_
ployed on the works. The scene at this time was indeed
lamentable and distressing beyond description. Women
looking for their husbands, children for their fathers, and
parents for their children, of whom no tidings could he
obtained, and whose cries and wringing of hands rendered
the already melancholy scene distressing in the extreme.
Prompt exertions were immediately made to remove the '
ruins and to recover the bodies of those buried beneath
them. Two men were extricated alive, and, by the latest
accounts received, are doing well. Six bodies were found
during Saturday afternoon and night, and four during
Sunday. On Tuesday, two more were recovered, and on
Wednesday, other two, making in all 14 men killed, and
two seriously injured. It is expected that nearly all who
were reported missing are now found. Preliminary in-
quests have been held on the bodies, which have been ad-
journed until Wednesday, (to-morrow) when the whole of
the affair will be rigidly investigated.

PEEL VERSUS PEEL ON MAYNOOTH

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

A CLEVER FRAIID.—HALIFAX, APRIL 24.—(From a
correspondent.)—A perhaps novel trick has just been
played off here, the result of which has been to relieve a
portion of the amusement-loving public of some of its su-
perfluous cash. A person, styling himself Mr. Charles
Russell, announced a grand musical treat, to take place
last night (Wednesday) at the Odd Fellows' Hall At the
time appointed a large audience assembled, when, after
waiting for some time, it was found that the only actor in
the business (who had taken the precaution of having all
monies paid at the door), had decamped, having left on
pretence of making inquiry at the railway station after the
absent performers. Some idea of the origin of the
roguery—and perhaps of the rogue—way be obtained from
the bill of entertainment, which, of course, was plenti-
fully distributed. It was to be an American treat. Miss
Charlotte Villiers of the principal American concerts;
Mr. T. D. Rice, the celebrated American comedian ; Mr.
Henry Porde, and Mr. Charles Russell himself, the great
American mimic and caricaturist, were to be the per-
formers. Mr. C. Russell was to assume seven different
disguises, and Miss Villiers was to be equally versatile,
the disguises being perfectly impenetrable. The un-
conscionable fellow's pleasantry is seen all through the pro-
gramme, His first song is, " I calculate there'll be a row
here." Then follows "The Music.lesson," " I guess
you'll say you've seen me now," and the " Absent Man."
Mr. T. D. Rice sings, with banjo accompaniments,
" Dinah dear, him go away," " Tarnation Strange," and
afterwards gives a lecture on heads (phrenology)! The
conclusion is Mr. Chas. Russell's comic monopolooe, with
"Jonathan's Tripp" " Always too Late," " Coach Wait-
ing," " Richt slick away I went," " A trip proposed,"
" 0 dear, he's gone," " Change your room," &c. ; and it
was gravely announced that the laughable and rapid change
of character was to keep the audience in a continual roar r f
laughter from beginning to end. As for one part of the
programme, it would seem that the fellow's in ention is to
make the grand tour, and have a " brilliantly successful
musical scamper over Europe," it is advisable that the
utmost publicity should be given to this mode of opera,
Lion.

WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND
DUBLIN RAILWAY,
Through Wicklow, Arklow, Gorey, and Enniscorthy, to
Wexford, New Ross, and Waterford, with a Branch
from Enniscorthy to C,rlow.
TOTAL LENGTH, WITH BRANCHES, 150 MILES.

CAPITAL, £2,000,000, IN 100,000 SHARES OF £2O
EACH. DEPOSIT, £1 10s. PElt SHARE.

OFFICES, No. 449, WEST S2IIAND, LONDON.

PROVISIONAL' COMMITTEE.
Colonel Acton, M.P. /
Thomas Barnewall, Esq
Edward Bayly, Esq.
Loftus A. Bryan, Esq.
John Boyd, Esq.
The Earl of Courtown.
Hon. R. S. Carew, M.P.
Robert Doyne, Esq.
Thomas L. Dennis, Esq.
Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bart., M.P.
James Galway, Esq.
P. D. Hadow, Esq., Director of the Cork and Waterford
Railway.
John Macdonnell, Esq.
Richard W. Morris, Esq.
Thomas Meagher, Esq., Chairman of the Waterford and
Limerick Railway.
John Maher, Esq.
The Hon. Somerset R. Maxwell.
Captain Robert Owen.
Lieut.-Colonel Owen.
Sir John Power, Bart.
James Power, Esq , M.P.
Charles Putland, Esq.
Stephen Ram, Esq.
Thomas N. Redington, Esq., M.P.
J. Goddard Richards, Esq.
Lord Viscount Stopford.
John H. Talbot, Esq.
James Talbot, Esq.
Charles Tottenham, Esq.
Daniel Tighe, Esq.
Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Cork and
Waterford Railway.
Sir Benjamin Morris Wall, Mayor of Waterford.
Lord Viscount Barrington, M.P.,")
F. P. Barlow, Esq.,
R. F. Gower, Esq.,
W. G. Hayter, Esq., M.P.,
J. W. Miles, Esq.,
E. W. Mills, Esq.,
David Lewis, Esq.,
Louis Vigurs, Esq..
James Gibbs, Esq.,
Frederick Ricketts, Esq.,
W. Watson, Esq.,
John Crosthwaite, Esq., Liverpool.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
I. K. Brunel, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Hal Wax, Mills, and CO.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall.
SECRETARY, PRO TEM.
Richard M. IVluggeride, Esq.

I Directors of the
IGreat Western and
the South Wales
Railways.

}Directors of the
Bristol and Exeter
Railway.

THE object of this Line is to connect the Metropolis
of Ireland with the important Ports of Wexford,
Waterford, and Cork. (the latter by means of the proposed
Cork and Waterford Railway,) and to afford to the Inland
Counties of Ireland the most direct route (with the short-
est sea voyage) to South Wales, the South of England,
and London.

The importance of Waterford as a Harbour and Port is
too well known to need any comment, suffice it to say,
that its Exports and Imports have considerably increased
within the last few years—and it is one of the most rising
ports of Ireland.

The Bay of Wexford has been carefully examined, and
proves capable of improvement to an extent that will
admit of the largest Steamers coming up to a quay, to be
erected at a short distance from the Town, to which
Railway communication can readily be continued; and
the Capital of the Company has been fixed with this
view.

The proposed line will give to the rich agricultural
counties of Kilkenny and Carlow, a remarkable facility
tor the transmission of their produce, through the ports
of Wexford and Waterford, to the great market for Irish
provisions afforded by the dense mining populations of
South Wales and Cornwall, to the inland and manufactu-
ring districts of England and to the Metropolis, and will
facilitate the development of the well-known mineral re-
sources of the county of Wicklow, by furnishing the cop-
per and other ores abounding in the district with a ready
access to the smelting works situated at Swansea and
other points of the South Wales Coal Basin.
The proposed line was brought under the consideration
of the Board of Trade by its present promoters last year
but at too late a period to admit of all the necessary de-
tails being furnished to enable the board to give their final
decision upon the scheme—they consequently recom-
mended its postponement for another session ; but in their
report they published the following extract from that of
the commissioners appointed by parliament to inquire into
the manner in which railway communications could be
most advantageously promoted in Ireland :—" Should the
country, at a future period, show resources sufficient to
justify the establishment of a railway between Wexford
and Dublin, it is possible that the best line will not be
found to pass through Carlow, but along the coast to
Arklow, and thence through the county of Wicklow to
Dublin."
The Board follow up this extract by these remarks:—
" Here there are two competing schemes, the one (Dub-
lin, Carlow, and Wexford) complete in itself, but 1 kely
to be more costly than its traffic may justify—the other
(the proposed line) incomplete, immature, but still a mea-
sure vastly more comprehensive, and, if carried intoeffect,
backed by a powerful monied interest, of manifestly
greater national advantage."
The preliminary examination made last year was suffi-
ciently satisfactory to warrant (without entering into de-
tails) the belief that a fully remunerative traffic will pre-
sent itself on the proposed line. This belief is strength-
ened by the new railway extensions projected since the
period of such examination, and by the generally favour-
able character of the eogntry in an engineering point of
view.

The position of the proposed line which is intended to
connect Waterford and Wexford will receive a very large
traffic from the Waterford and Limerick, and Waterford
and Kilkenny Railways, which have been favourably re-
ported upon by the Board of Trade ; and to which, in re-
ference to the proposed line, the following remarks of the
Board of Trade on the former of these lines, may be con-
sidered applicable :
"The passenger traffic has hitherto been directed more
towards Dublin than to N 4 aterford ; but if the South
Wales Railway should receive the sanction of parliament,
and be placed in connexion with steamers to Wexford, or
to Waterford, a portion of the Limerick passenger traffic
will be diverted from Dublin in the direction of Water-
ford, as giving the readiest route to Bristol, and a conve-
nient route to London. The goods traffic will undoubt-
edly take the line to Waterford rather than to Dublin,
Waterford being the more convenient sea-port."
The shortness of the passage from Wexford to Fish-
guard, and its favourable character with respect to the
tides, prevailing winds, &c., would of course render Wex-
ford the most eligible of the Irish ports for embarkation;
and when it is considered that a Coast Line from Cork to
Waterford, via Youghall, as well as a line from Kilkenny
to Galway, are projected, it will be evident that a vast
portion of the traffic of Ireland, South and West of Dub-
lin. must fall in upon some part of the proposed railway.
The very romantic and justly celebrated beauties of the
County Wicklow, in the immediate vicinity of which the
proposed line will pass for many miles, will probably at-
tract a larger passenger traffic than any other railway in
Ireland. On this point the railway commissioners report:
—" Among the inducements which we may notice as
holding out a prospect of support for such undertakings,
are to be mentioned the numbers from all parts of the
United Kingdom, and even from the continent of Europe,
who would resort to Ireland as travellers to view the na-
tural beauties of its splendid and varied scenery."
When it is remembered how very imperfectly, at pre-
sent, the rich and varied resources of Ireland have been
developed, and how highly distinguished the district
through which the proposed Waterford, Wexford, Wick-
low, and Dublin Railway will pass, has long been, for the
possession of all the elements that constitute commercial
and agricultural greatness, and for the uniform tranquility
arid industry which pervade all classes of its population,
the promoters of this undertaking have the fullest convic-
tion that, alike on public and private grounds, it will be
found worthy of general confidence and support.
The usual power will be taken by the act to allow in-
terest at £1 per cent. per annum on the amount of the
Subscriptions paid up, and no Subscriber wit! be answer-
able for more than the amount of his deposit of £1 10s.
per share until the act be obtained, and then not beyond
the amount of his subscripti .n.
Pr ospeetusei may be had, and applications for shares,
in the following form, may be addressed to the Secretary,
at the Offices of the Company, or to the Solicitors.

To the P, °visional Commi'tee of Me Waterford,
Wicklow, and Dublin Railway.
GENTLEMEN,—I request you will allot me Shares
of £2O each in the above proposed:railway ; and I hereby
engage to pay the deposit of £1 10s. per share, and to sign
the subscribers' agreement and parliamentary contract
when required
Dated this

day of

, 1845

Trade or professions

VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Edward Marsh and Henry
Whitehead were summoned before Mr. Rushton, on
Thursday, charted with assaulting Mr. Alfred Burgess, of
Sir Thomas's-buildings. The prosecutor stated that on
Sunday night week he was coming from Knotty Ash, be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock, and when opposite Nor-
ton-street, in London-road, met several drunken men,
who were expos.ne their persons. lie remonstrated with
them, and left them ; but he had not proceeded far be-
fore one of them knocked him down, and otherwise mal-
treated him. He was conveyed home in a state of insen-
sibility, and after medical aid had been procured, it was
found that his collar-bone had been fractured. He had
since learned that two of the men were employed at the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway terminus, where he
identified one of the prisoners. Mr. Rushton, addressing
the prisoners said, " You have had a very narrow chance
of being sent to trial ; you must pay a fine of 60s. and
costs, or be imprisoned one month, and should you refuse
to pay all the expenses which have been incurred in con-
sequence of your violence, I will have you brought up
here again,"