The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS

The South Wales Railway Rill be opened from Chep-
stow to Gloucester on the 18th of June.

An arrangement has just been made with the majority
of the water carriers between Liverpool and Manchester,
and intermediate towns, by the London end North-Wes-
tern, and Lancashire and Yorkshire Companies.
It is stated that the London and North-western railway
have rejected the overtures of the telegraph company to
secure a monopoly of that line for the wires of the com-
pany.

- The 18th of June next has been fixed as the day for
opening the portion of the South Wales line from Chen-

stow to Gloucester, in order to complete the rail commu-
nication between that city and Swansea.

The contract for the Norwegian railway has been granted
by that government to Messrs. J. L. Ricardo, Peto, and
Brassey for £450,000. The length of line is fifty miles,
and is to run from Lake Men son to Christiana, whence a
line of steamers will shortly be established to run to this
country.

LANCASHIRE ANDYORKSIIIRE ANDEASTLANCASHIRE
RAILWAY COMPANIES.—The committee of the House of
Commons declared unanimously, on Friday, upon the bill
of the East Lancashire Company, that the preamble had
not been proved. The bill had reference, we believe, to
the joint line and stations at Liverpool, and sought to dis-
turb existing parliamentary enactments. The bill was
opprsed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company.
IRELAND.

A greater breadth of land is now being ploughed up in
Ireland for potatoes tha❑ during the last four years.
Baron de Schcepping:, the charge d'affaires for Russia
at Lisbon, has transmitted to Ireland £90,000, to be
laid out in the purchase of encumbered estates.
The Dublin Nation states that the Tenant League has
decided upon starting Mr. Lucas, of the Tablet, and Mr.
Sergeant Shee (if not elected for Longford) for the repre-
sentation of the county of Meath at the next election.
The Waterford News says. " We are informed that
Thomas Cooke, one of the police, when taking the census
in 1841, asked a lady her age, and she told him she was
twenty-eight. He, to his great surprise, on inquiring her
age in '5l, was told by her she was exactly twenty-seven I"
FLAX COTTON.—The new process of M. Claussen for
the production of flax-cotton is now stated to have been
commenced on an extensive scale at the Kildinian Mills,
near Cork, belonging to Mr. Dargan, where the price of
£4 per ton without the seztl is offered for the raw mate-
rial. Sixty tons of the cotton, it is said, are to be forth-
with prepared for the Manchester market.

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EMIGRATION.—AII the roads entering this city are
crowded daily with emigrants, with cur loads of luggage,
boxes, bags of potatoes, &c., for America. Many of
them are comfortably clad, others look very poor • but,
with scarce an exception. the} are all ablebodied, and
appear to be agricultural labourers, seavants, &c. Satur-
day there was rn uuusual rush of emigrants for Liverpool,
by steamers, thence to take shipping for America. It
was computed that on that day no fewer than 1,100 per-
sons, male and female left this port. This we k there is
a similar rush, as the emigrants are leaving by sailing
vessels.—Cork paper.
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION REVIVED.—A meeting
was held on Monday at Conciliation Ilall, called by ad-
vertisement, of persons styling themselves the Repeal
Association, eschewing altogether the word " Catholic,"
which Mr. John O'Connell had lately added. The money
part of the business was very successful, a collection of
£5l 9s having been made, a sum far beyond the weekly
contribution latterly received under Mr. O'Connell's
auspices. A letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, de-
claring himself still as staunch a repealer as ever. An
address to the people of Ireland, and a petition to parlia-
ment against the removal of Kilmainham Hospital, were
agreed to by the meeting.
HORRIBLE ATROCITY.-011 Sunday night five fellows
forced an entrance into the house of a man named Nash,
of Castletown. Nash had received some money from a
son of his who is in America, which the thieves expected
to come at. Having entered the house, they Owed Nash
on his knees, and threatened him with death if he did not
give up the money. He assured them it was not in the
house. Failing in this, the wretches made a fire of straw,
and placed Mrs. Nash over it, and kept her in that posi-
tion until burned in a shocking manner. A servant maid
got out through a window, and called out some neigh-
bours, who came to give assistance ; but ere they arrived
the fellows had decamped, without their booty.—Clonmel
Chronicle.

BRUTAL MURDERS.—Two brutal murders have just
been committed in the South of Ireland. The victim in
the one case is a respectable farmer named Brown, residing
at Knock, near Skull. On Monday, the 31st ult., he
went to Skull on some business, and never having re-
turned, a search was made next morning, when his body
was found on the roadside, close by a fence on the lands
of Lowertown, a bruised and mangled corpse, the chest
and ribs being literally smashed in. A man named Dris-
coll is in custody on suspicion.—The victim in the other
case, which is reported by the Limerick Chronicle, is a
female, whose body was found in a canal with the skull
dreadfully broken, and the entire forehead laid open, as
if by blow of a hatchet or some blunt instrument. Stones
were also tied to her feet and apron. The body has been
identified as that of the wife of a labourer named Hanley,
who cohabited with a young woman with whom he was
on the point of sailing for America. Both these parties
have been taken in custody on suspicion.—Another cruel
murder was committed on Saturday, by an old woman,
on a young girl, for the sake, it is supposed, of half-a-
crown which the girl had in her possession.