The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

At one o'clock yesterday, an adjourned meeting of the
proprietors in the Grand Junction Railway Company was
held in the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange-buildings, the
object of which was to receive a statement from the
directors relative to the expected termination of the pend-
ing differences with the London and Birmingham Railway
Company. The meeting was very numerously attended.
JOHN Moss, Esq., Chairman of the Board, having
taken the chair, read the following address :—Gentlemen,
although I regret that yon have had the trouble of assem-
bling again so soon after your late meeting, I am happy
to say there is no occasion to detain you now for any con-
siderable time, nor have I to bring before you any un-
pleasant subject. (Hear, and cheers.) The directors
think they may with confidence say, that the present state
of their relations with the London and Birmingham board
is such as to leave a reasonable hope that a permanent
arrangement, beneficial alike to the public and to the two
companies, can be made at an early period, though none
such has yet been concluded. The unanimous recom-
mendation of the board,. therefore, under these circum-
stances, is, that all discussion should be avoided at
present. (Hear, hear.) I may remind you that the
ordinary half-yearly meeting of the company will take
on Saturday, the Ist of February. Although the direc-
tors cannot now anticipate any such necessity, the board
have requested me to say, that, if iu the meantime it be-
comes necessary to concur in measures for the protection
of the company's fair interests, they will not hesitate
(relying upon the ultimate support of their constituents)
to take, on their own responsibility, all such proceedings
as they may think desirable. It is not the wish of the
directors to adjourn this meeting, except sine die, but
rather dissolve this meeting, and wait for the meeting of
the Ist of February, before which, I hope, all will be
concluded satisfactorily with the London and Birming-
ham Company.
The meeting having intimated their approbation of this
course, Mr. Moss added that it was his most: anxious
wish, and he should endeavour to bring about an arrange •
meat with the London and Birmingham board. Under
present circumstances he would, therefore, merely move
that the meeting adjourn sine die.
The motion was carried by acclamation and the proceed-
ings terminated.

The Albion states that Mr. J. Langan will be a candidate
for Vauxhall Ward at the next election.

The splendid new transatlantic steam-ship Cambria
sails hence, on Saturday next, for Halifax and Boston.
A vacancy has been, occasioned for Pitt-street Ward by
the death of William Fawcett, Esq., whose death is
announced in our obituary.

GuANO.—The Minister of Commerce has addressed a
circular to all the Chambers of Commerce, announcing
that the Spanish government has ordered that the manure
called guano should be admitted into Spanish ports duty
free under the flag of whatever nation.
SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY.—This excellent
society presented, yesterday, their medal to Mr. R. W.
Walker, for exertions in saving the lives of two persons
from drowning, off Woodside pier, a few weeks since.
Inspector Savage also rendered important service on the
same occasion.

The Grand Jury at the recent sessions called the atten-
tion of the magistrates to the nuisance of horns' blowing
in the public streets by omnibus attendants and others,
whereby the lives of her Majesty's subjects on horseback
and in carriages are endangered.—[We should like if the
Grand Jury at the next sessions would turn their atten-
tion to the " nuisance" of people being run over, in some
of our streets, by omnibuses and other carriages coming
upon people passing, without such a note of preparation
as a horn affords. Really we are getting a little too
fearful of having the tympanum of our ears disturbed,
or the soft tread of our feet upon our Turkey carpets
broken in upon by vulgar sounds ! Such of " her Majes-
ty's subjects on horseback," as have seats so frail, should
either give a little less corn to their steeds or get inside.
—En. L. S.]
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—The friends of the
Saturday evening concerts a-d literary entertainments,
for the amusement and improvement of the working clas-
ses, gave a grand tea party, at the Music-hall, on Satur-
day evening last, which was well attended. In the absence
of Mr. Wm. Rathbone, the chair was taken by Jr.D John
Smith : tea, coffee, and cakes were plentifully supplied by
Mr. Hiles, confectioner, of Parker-street. After this
repast, Mrs. Weare delivered an interesting lecture on the
advantage of female education, and a variety of pleasing
songs. glees, &c., were sung by Miss Whitnall, Miss
Joseph, Mr. Hornby, and Miss Manton. Robertson
Ghidstone, Esq., sent a letter enclosing £5 towards the
funds. A letter was also read from R. Rathbone, Esq.,
enclosing £1 ls., and another from Christopher Rawdon,
Esq., enclosing £2 2s. The writers of both expressed
their approbation of the objects of the committee. The
company separated about ten o'clock, highly pleased with
the good fare, and the intellectual recreation of the even-
ing.

QUEEN'S COUNTY.—BARBAROUS MURDER.—About
four o'clock on the 20th instant, a boy who happened to
be cutting switches in the plantation at Levelly, near
Rathdowney, discovered the body of a man who had been
brutally murdered. There were five cuts on the head,
and on the right side was the appearance of two stabs in-
flicted by a bayonet or some other sharp instrament. The
murdesed man, upon examination, was found to be John
Dillon, of Rathdowney ; and it was the opinion of medical
gentlemen who attended that he must have been five or
six hours dead when discovered. John Dillon was up-
wards of 70 years of age, and a respectable man. It seems
he had a rent charge.on some land held by his nephews,
also named Dillon, which being allowed to run in arrear,
he had them served with an ejectment process, that was
to be tried at Abbeyleix Quarter Sessions on the 28th in-
stant. In consequence of an arrangement proposed by his
nephews, James and Robert Dillon, for the settlement of
the differences between them, the old man left home for
Levelly at about half-past eleven o'clock ; and the next
account we have of him is that of finding his body as al-
ready mentioned. It is supposed that the nephews plan-
ned the murder, and that in order to facilitate their dia-
bolical intentions, they beguiled their unsuspecting victim
to the spot where the tragedy was enacted. On Saturday
an inquest was held on the body at Rathdowney, and
a verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned against some
person or persons unknown ; and that James and Robert
Dillon were aiding and conspiring in the same. Robert
Dillon was arrested on the evening of the murder; there
were recent marks of blood on his trousers. In account-
ing for himself, he equivocated very much, and his state-
ment could not be sustained by facts. James Dillon has
absconded. The Government has offered, through the
hands of Mr. T. Cannon, resident magistrate, Mary-
borough, a reward of £BO for the discovery of the mur-
derer.—Leinster Express.

DARTMOUTH ELECTION.

At four o'clock on Friday the Mayor took his seat at
the hustins, and declared Mr. Somes duly elected Mem•
ber of Parliament for Dartmouth.

By the official poll• book the numbers were—
Mr. Joseph Somes. ..
Mr. G. Moffatt

Being market-day, the concourse of persons assembled
far outnumbered those who attended the nomination.
There were from 3,000 to 5,000 present.
Mr. Somes expressed his heartfelt thanks for the
honour conferred, and assured them that, as member for
the borough, he should make no distinction among his
constituents, whether they were Tory, Whig, or Radical.
Having no personal considerations to swerve him, he had
but one object in view—the interest of the town ; and any
influence he might now obtain with Her Majesty's Go-
vernment should be used for the benefit of his consti-
tuents. (Loud and prolonged cheers.)
Mr. Moffatt said, that the result of the poll would
give his opponent only a temporary triumph. He knew
well the means by which the election was carried. When
addressing the electors yesterday he had a majority of
promises. (Laughter.) Apart from other proofs, there
was a strong moral proof in the fact that many voters who
had been Liberals for 10, 20, and 30 years, on this occa-
sion voted for the tory candidate. He further stated that
he knew the election had been carried by bribery.
At this announcement, Winsor, a journeyman builder,
leaped on the reporters' desk in front of the hustings,
and advancing to the Whig booth challenged one of the
committee with having tempted him with three months'
work if he would vote for Mr. Moffatt. (Cries of Chalker,
Chalker !. bribery, bribery !") A general meWe followed,
during which it was arranged that neither Mr. Moffat nor
Mr. Somes should again address the meeting.

' The successful candidate proposed a vote of thanks to
the Mayor, which was seconded by Mr. Moffatt and car-
ried with three cheers, each party retiring with their
friends.
The defeat of Mr. Moffat is eminently a defeat of the
" Anti-Corn-Law League"—a defeat, too, of a nature
always the most damaging, for it was not on the part of
the Conservatives a seat retained, but a seat wrested from
the enemy. Mr. Somes. the successful candidate, pre-
vented the possibility of glossing over the real terms of the
combat. "I declare to you," said he, " that I bezieve
the Anti-Corn-Law League to be the greatest enemies to
the middle and working classes." The gentleman hold-
ing this opinion—himself largely engaged in commercial
pursuits—has been chosen by the majority of the electors
of Dartmouth as their representative, to express such
opinion, if need be, in Parliament. Such is the practical
comment on Mr. Cobden's boast of carrying the elections,
and Mr. Bright's declaration, " We are winning now !"