The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SERIOUS GALE IN THE IRISH CHANNEL
LOSS 01 LIFE & DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.

(From our Second Edition of Tuesday last.)
At the close of the week before last, a heavy gale from
the south-elst prevailed in the Channel, and occasioned
serious destruction of life and property.

" If 'eaford, 17th March, 1811.
" Thomas Court, Esq.
" Dear Sir,—l regret to state that the Georgina, Wil-
son, master, from Liverpool to Arica, with a genera
cargo, struck on Blackwater Bank this morning, and sunk
about a mile from the shore, part of her masts over water.
Twelve of the crew were lost coming on shore in the boat.
William Curran, mate, and David M`Lcan, seaman, were
saved."

The Georgina is, we understand, owned by the executors
of the late John Worrall, deceased, and the loss of ship
and cargo is estimated at upwards of £40,000, little of
which, we are happy to learn, is insured in Liverpool.

" Pwllheli, 17th March, 1814, 10 p.m.
" Thos. Court, Esq.
" Dear Sir,--Since my report of last night. the gale
continued with great violence all night, and most part of
this day. At daylight this morning there were only three
vessels that rode out the gale at St. Studvrell's-roads,
viz., the schooner Myriam, of Pwllheli ; the Content,
Roberts, of Pwllheli ;. and the French brig. In all, 12
are now on shore, including those I reported last night,
viz., schooner Hope, of Milford ; schooner Roberts, from
Bangor for Exeter ; schooner Elizabeth, from Barrow for
Swansea ; smack Gelert, from Portmadoc for Bridge-
water ; smack Ellen, from Portmadoc for Swansea ;
smack Unity, of Cardigan ; smack Hopewell, of Cardi-
gan ; brig Catherine, of Whitehaven, from Whitehaven
for Cardiff, with iron ore, carried away windlass and
bitches, slipped both anchors, and makes a deal of water."

" Dublin, 181 h March, 1844.

" Thomas Court, Esq.
" Sia,—The'night of the 15th instant, and all the sub.
sequent day, it blew a perfect storm from the N.E., and
continued until yesterday at noon. Several colliers and
light craft have been wrecked at Kingstown Harbour, of
which the names are annexed. The Kish Bank light-ship
also broke her chain, and ran for this port, but we expect
will be replaced this tide, or, at furthest, the next tide, by
a relief light-ship, as every exertion is making to get her
out to her station. The schooner Active, of Leith, Capt.
Norman, with wheat, from Derry to Drogheda, went to
pieces near Clogher Head ; crew saved. The schooner
Majestic, Corkhill master, of Ramsey, from Runcorn to
Dublin, with coals, is on shore on the Velvet Strand, near
Baldoyle, but expected to be got off if the weather keeps
moderate. The schooner Mary, of Milford, James mas-
ter, with oats, from Killala to London, is stranded badly
on the Wicklow Bar, and has damaged her cargo. The
schooner Seymour, of Bray, struck on the Burford Bank,
and capsized, crew drowned. Weather now moderate.

LIST OF WRECKED AT KINGSTOWN HARBOUR.
Brig Helper, of Maryport, with coals.
„ Mary, of Whitehaven, ditto.
Schooner Betties, of Liverpool, ditto.
Brig Tom, of Whitehaven, ditto.
Schooner Agnes, of Preston, ditto.
Schooner Belview, of Greystones, ditto.
Schooner Jane & Francis, much injured.
Brig Pandora, ditto.
Sloop Catherine Mary, ditto.
Brig Maria, of Whitehaven, ditto.
Sloop Colonel Smith, of Carnarvon.

The Caroline, a fine ship, belonging to Messrs. Wilson
and Dawson, of Chapel-walks, in this town, which left
here in the early part of last week, foundered in the gale.
She was bound for Africa, her crew consisting of 29 per-
sons. On her arrival off the Welsh coast, it came on to
blow very hard, and Captain Jackson deemed it prudent
to run for the Studwell Roads for shelter. The entrance
had scarcely been gained before both her anchors were
obliged to be dropped for her safety. The gale increased
from the N.N.W. with a tremendous rolling sea on, and
after weathering for some time, she was driven from her
moorings on to the rocks on to the westermost Studwell
Islands, and quickly went to pieces. The captain and
some of the unfortunate fellows swam to the island, but
were as soon swept off by the surf, and perished. The
remainder of the crew saved themselves by the jolly and
long boats, although in a most dreadful state of exhaustion.
Her loss will be very heavy.
A letter from Belfast, dated the 16th, gives the follow-
ing melancholy intelligence :—" We had a most awful
accident in the Lough to-day. Lieutenant Victor, R.N.,
and his crew, consisting of eight men, in going down to
the hulk at Garmoyle, were upset in a squall, and, melan-
choly to relate, very soon perished."
Arklow Bay was the scene of a distressing shipwreck
on Saturday. The flat Penrhyn of Liverpool came on
shore ; all hands saved. At three p.m., the schooner
Brothers, of Arklow, Baden with copper ore, bound for
Bristol, came on the beach about 300 yards from the
shore, the sea at this time running over the ship. Capt.
[lore, while the vessel was going to pieces, attempted,
unsuccessfully, with a number of persons who were pre-
sent, to rescue two of the crew who were entangled in the
ropes. The remainder of the crew were saved.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

At a special meeting of the proprietors of the Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway Company, held
within the Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, on the 18th day
March, 1844, Erskine Douglas Sandford, Esc., Advocate
and Steward of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in the.
chair—

The Secretary laid on the table the newspapers contain.
ing the notice of meeting, and a copy of the circular sent
to the shareholders.

A deputation from the shareholders in England then
produced mandates for 2740 shares, having 142 votes,
and, from other parties, 780 shares, having SO votes,
which were laid on the table.

The Chairman then rose and stated, that a matter of
great importance was now to be considered by the share-
holders of this line, placed in the position to which they
had so long looked forward, as likely to afford them a
fair and ample remuneration for the difficulties in which
they have hitherto been involved. It may be known to
such of the original shareholders as are now present, that
the plan of a line to Newhaven, or Trinity, and Leith,
was originally projected in connection with the Edinburgh
and Glasgow, the prospectus of which contemplated its
termination in Market-street, where it would have been
joined by the Edinburgh and Newhaven line, thus afford-
ing a free access for the traffic to the sea. The Edinburgh
and Glasgow found it necessary to give up the extension
to Market-street, but in the meantime our bill had
passed, and it was necessary that our work should be
commenced. I merely mention this for the purpose of
calling to your minds that the junction with the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow in Market-steeet was a prominent and
leading principle in your plan ; and that the abandonment
of it nearly para!ysed all the efforts of your directors, and
was felt to be a great and serious evil. We have, how-
ever, always done our utmost to keep up an amicable
relation with the directors of that company, and we have
hitherto succeeded ; and I will say that, while your direc-
tors went on quietly and unobtrusively to do their duty,
through evil report and good report,interfering with no one,
they were always willing to treat upon the most amicable
terms with the directors of that more powerful body, and
to meet their views as for as they could consistently with
a due regard to their own interest. When the directors
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow had at last determined
upon the extension, for the purpose of obtaining an outlet
to the shipping ports for their great and increasing
traffic, we had several interviews, and as the directors of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow were desirous, and indeed
interested, that even the details of arrangement as to joint
traffic should be reduced into clauses, for the purpose of
being introduced into the proposed bills connected with
their extension, and our new branches to Leith and
Granton, we even agreed to that, but subject always to the
approval by you of the proposed arrangement. Now, I
think it right to state, that the principal point for your
consideration is, what is contained in the fourth clause,
and is one of principle, and of that all of you can judge.
It is this—whether you are to allow the Edinburgh and
Glasgow to fix the rates for which goods are to be carried
along the joint lines ? 'They insist upon this as essential
to their proceeding. You arc to understand, they are
willing to make up for this concession, that you should
have four miles instead of three ; and, considering their
great interest, it is not likely that they would affix a low
rate, a rate at which no profit would arise ; therefore, you
will draw one fourth more than you would strictly have a
right to. The quantity of goods to be sent along the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow line to Leith and Granton is likely to
be immense. Last year their report shows that they car-
ried at the rate of 120,000 tons, and this increasing, you
will consider whether the certainty of this will not coun-
terbalance the rights which you give up in regard to the
fixing the rate upon those goods ' • of course the right of
fixing your own rates upon goods coming to Edinburgh
from Leith and Granton, and vice versa, is untouched.
If you trust the prudence and good faith of the directors
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow—if you believe that they
will act as prudent men in the management of their own
affairs—there can be no reason for your not giving them
the power required in return for the boon offered. The
Chairman stated some of the rates charged by the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, for the purpose of showing that the
share apportioned to the Edinburgh and Newhaven would
afford in most instances an adequate return.

Mr. Richard Dawson, of Liverpool, said—Sir, on rising
to propose a resolution in support of the very clear and
candid statements you have now made, I have great satis-
faction in congratulating the meeting on the prospects of
this undertaking. I beg to call the attention of the meet-
ing to the very strong interest held in England, which I
have been called upon to protect, and to express the °pi_
nion they entertained on the receipt of the circular an_
nouncing the heads of proposed agreements between the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and this company, to be
submitted for your consideration this day. Strongly itn_
pressed with the importance of our railway, from its pe-
culiar situation, and well knowing the great advantages
the contiguous railways will derive from our line of rail-
way, with its branches, being the only outlet to the sea,
I beg without any further comment to propose the follow-
ing resolution, as calculated to secure to ourselves all those
rights and privileges which I consider so essentially ne-
cessary for the interests of the shareholders at large, thus
maintaininc, their independence :
" Moved—that this meeting disapprove of the heads of
the proposed agreement now laid before it, and desire that
the directors do forthwith withdraw the same, and of any
clauses being introduced into the respective bills now be-
fore parliament as to matters of details, as they are not
aware of its being usual to have any such clauses intro-
duced into acts of parliament, referring to connecting
lines, under similar circumstances • and they are of opi-
nion that such details ought not to be considered untq the

respective acts, above alluded to, are obtained,—But,
Resolved—that a clause giving a general power to the re-
spective companies, to enter into such arrangements as
may be mutually agreed upon by the said companies, and
confirmed under their respective seals, he permitted."
Mr. John Macfarlane, of Manchester, said—Fully con-
curring as I do, in the sentiments which have been ex-
pressed by Mr. Dawson, and being at the same time con-
vinced of the evil consequences which would arise to this
Company, were the proposed heads of agreement between
it and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, to
be adopted—more particularly as regards the clauses num-
beredfovr and seven—l have much pleasure in seconding
the motion now made by Mr. Dawson.
After a few general observations were made by other
gentlemen, the motion was put from the chair and carried
unanimously.
Mr. John Macfarlane, of Manchester, was proposed as
a Director, to represent the English Company,' and was
unanimously elected.
Thereafter the cordial thanks of the meeting were given
to the Chairman and Directors not only for calling the
shareholders together upon the occasion, but also for their
conduct in the management of the affairs of the Company

We understand the Directors in the evening entertained
the senior Magistrate, the Lord Dean of Guild, Council-
lor Macfarlan, the deputation from the shareholders in
England, with several influential residents of the city,
at dinner, within the Waterloo Hotel, which, with the ex-
cellent wines furnished by Mr. Rampling, in his usul good
style, gave a zest to the entertainment that kept the com-
pany together to a pretty late hour.

Standard-office, Twelve o'clock.

[ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENT.]

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY,

FROM
CARLISLE TO EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW.
THE Provisional Committee of the Caledonian Railway
having Tics DAY met and taken into consideration
certain Statements regarding their conduct, which were
made at a Public Meetiu& of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kil-
marnock, and Ayr Railway Committee, on the 20th in-
stant, think it right, distinctly to state, that, with the
exception of one Gentleman, whose name has been with-
drawn, they have the express authority of every Nobleman
and Gentleman whose name appears in the published list
of the Committee.

In evidence that the Committee have not over esti-
mated the advantage of this line of Railway, it may be
sufficient to mention, that in addition to the sum of
£600,000 provided for previously to coming before the
Public, the application for Shares has amounted during
the week to upwards of 1'900,000 in London alone.
22, Parliament-street, Westminster,
23d March, 1844.