The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Messrs. Whitworth's street-cleansing machines are now
used in Dublin and Belfast.
The flour and oatmeal deliveries from Caber mills to
Caber are escorted by a party of dragoons, threats of
popular violence being apprehended.
At the Tipperary assizes. on Tuesday, William Fogarty
was sentenced to be hanged for an attempt to murder Mr.
Mc. Donnell.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—Mr. Plumptre gave notice in
the House of Commons, on Friday, that it was his inten-
tion to propose a bill to repeal the Bth and 9th Victoria,
authorising the endowment of the College of Ma%nooth.
Sir R. Peel has declined to present the petitions of the
Rev. J. Sinnott, and the repeal wardens of Wexford,
praying for the appointment of Roman Catholic chaplains
to regiments in foreign stations.
PRIESTS PROTECTION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—The
gross amount now raised towards the .£9,;0 is £852 Gs. 9d.,
so that only £47 13s. 3d. is now required by the 9th inst.
to obtain the lady's offer of £lOO.
CAUSE AND EFFECT.—Mr. Kirk, the member for
Carrickfergus, was one of the few Irish members who
supported the ministerial measure for the destruction of
Irish agriculture.—Mr• Kirk's son has just been ap-
pointed to a lucrative situation under the Government.
The Coercion Bill was roughly handled in Conciliation
Hall, on Monday, by Tom Steele. Addressing Lord St.
Germans (in his absence) Mr. Steele said " Why don't you
dare to prosecute me for denouncing you as a cold-blooded
projector of a massacre ?" '' Nine groans for the bloody-
minded Lord St. Germans!" (Awful yelling.) The rent
for the week was £255.

On Sunduy week ( Sunday again), three men entered
the house of Thomas Cantwell, near Mountmellich, and
presented a double-barrelled pistol at him, which he
grasped, and while endeavouring to wrench it from the
ruffians, it exploded, and two balls lodged in the body of
Cantwell's brother, who is since dead. The Cant-
wells had: rendered themselves obnoxious by acting as
bailiffs.

BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—A valuable mare, the property of
Mr. John Gray, steward to the Rev. John Digby Wing-
field, of Geashill, hiving been observed to take suddenly
ill, was sent to a neighbouring veterinary surgeon, who
could not form any opinion of the animal's illness, until,
after having died in a few days, he discovered in her
bowels a number of large sharp "brogue nails," which
must have been maliciously made up in a ball and thrust
down the poor animal's throat.— Dublin paper.
ARRIVAL OF PROVISIONS.—VesseIs are arriving daily
with Indian Corn. On Monday four ships arrived from
England with 10,000 bags of Biscuit intended for the use
of the poor of this country, in addition to the Government
importations of Indian Corn from America, and further
supplies of bread are expected. The Biscuit is not made
of Indian Corn Meal, but has been manufactured at the
Government dockyards of Deptford and Portsmouth.
Three vessels have arrived for private speculation with In-
dian Corn, to be sold in England or Ireland.—Cork paper.
ILLEGAL MARRIAGES.—At the Newtownlimavady
Petty Sessions on Tuesday last, the Rev. Edward Do-
herty, a clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, was
charged with having celebrated a marriage between a
Pr 'testant and a Roman Catholic, contrary to the statute.
The prosecution was brought on by direction of the
Registrar-General of Marriages, and after the examination
of a witness, and some addresses on the part of the legal
and other gentlemen concerned, the magistrates decided
on receiving information against Mr. Doherty.
NEW SCREW IRON STEAM-SHIPS.—On Friday week,
the first iron screw steamer (the Shamrock) ever built in
Dublin was launched from Mr. Barrington's foundry, at
Ringsend•bridge, amid the cheers of a great concourse of
people. The hull only of the Shamrock is as yet afloat,
and measures 135 feet in length, 14 feet in depth, by 22
across deck, and so far she presents a model of sym-
metrical construction. On the following day the launch-
ing of the first iron screw-steamer, 300 tons burden, ever
built in Cork, took place amidst great rejoicing.
MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE IN LOUGH SWILLY.—
On the 20th inst., Mr. Samuel Park, of Ballybegley, ac-
companied by three servants, went to Latterkenny mar-
ket to purchase turf, and had with them a boat for the
purpose of conveying them home. They did not start
from the port until late in the evening, probably waiting
on the tide. The night was extremely cold, with high
wind and sleet. When they came near the Isles of Ma-
norcunningham, Mr. Park, who had been rowing, became
exhausted, and said to the others that he was done, and,
shortly after, it was found that he had expired. The
others now determined to abandon the boat. and made
for the shore, which they reached in safety ; and Golagly,
one of the party, sought admission into a house near the
shore, but was refused, and he, melancholy to relate, pe-
rished within a few yards of it. The others were more
fortunate than their companions, and are safe.
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—On Friday at .Nenagh,
Patrick Rice and Patrick Hayes were found guilty of a
conspiracy to murder the late Patrick Clarke, Esq. the
trial occupied the Court fully eight days, and the result
was looked for with deep interest, not only in the county
of Tipperary, but in Dublin, where Mr. Clark was well
known and respected. The ill-fated gentleman's offence
—which was punished by his assassination—was the dis-
missal of the convict Hayes from his service, and by the
evidence on the trial it appeared that this man openly
declared, in August last, two months before the crime was
perpetrated, Mr. Clarke was a bad man and ought to be
shot. The propriety of his murder was on two or three
occasions discussed in the presence of several persons.
The prisoners were indicted for conspiring to murder, as
no direct evidence could be given of the actual perpetration
of it by Hayes, although satisfactory proof was given he
planned it. He procured the aid of Rice and another man,
not amenable to the law, and was not far away from the
scene of murder. Both the prisoners were sentenced in
the most solemn terms to death without any hope of
mercy. In connection with this case, and as a lamentable
evidence of the chance which justice has in Ireland, we
give the following. No one can venture to aid her without
the risk, and in an exposed district the certainty, of having
himself murdered or his property injured. We quote
from a paper not over ready to publish the failicgs of its
friends—we mean the Freeman's Journal:

HOUSE LEVELLING-REVENGE

The house of Byrnes, the principal prosecutor in the case of
Mr. Chlrk, was levelled to the ground, on the night of last Fri-
(thy. There were some potatoes in a pit at the rere of the house,
which were scattered about, and trampled on so as to render
them useless.

CONFESSIONS OF AN IRISH INFORMER.—At the Ne-
naph assizes, on Friday, two men, named Edward Ryan
and John Conway, were charged with firing into the house
of Pat. Hogan, of Bawn. One of the principal witnesses
against them was an approver, named James Darmody, a
young man 2G years of age. In the course of his cross-
examination, he admitted having been concerned in no
less than five murders, besides a fatal fight, robberies, &c.
On the first occasion he was only 16. The following ex-
tracts from his evidence on cross-examination, will give
some idea of his character :
" Upon your oath, would you not shoot a man if you were
asl.ed ? I don't think I would.

"And why did you go shoot a man for Fogarty
cause I knew him. (Sensation.)

did it be•

" So, if any man you knew asked you to murder another, you
would do it ? When I am on such business, I would not kill a
man unless I was attacked.

"Were you at Hogan's house at any lime after the attack ?
I was. in about a month after. It might be three weeks.
" What brought you there ?—I went to fight for him.—
(Laughter.)

•
' Counsel—So you went to fight for Hogan, though you went
to murder him three weeks before? (Laughter.) I did. Pat
Murphy took me there, to have a fight with a party at Hogan's.
. .

" When you went to Hogan's house, you were shown the bed-
room he slept in ?—I was
" Upon your oath, if you
murder him ? (Here the
Mr. Rolleston. and, withou

got into his room, would you not
iprovcr turned a ferocious look upon
ny hesitation, replied, in a loud

and resolute voice, ' I would.'

" What induced you to give information ?—I heard that one
the party was going to turf, approver, and I turned before him.
" So you told all you bnew to save yourself ?—I did.
"Murders and all ?—Murders',and all. (Murmurs.)"

FREE TRADE AND IDE FAMINE IN IRELAND.—The
Dublin Scarcity Committee reported in November last,
that even up to that time there had been exported from
the Irish ports, grain, nearly enough to feed the entire
population for a twelvemonth ! What a collection of lu-
natic vagaries, then, have we here :-1. A country grow-
ing, as we have no doubt Ireland did last year, twice as
much food as her population required; and yet declared
to be in danger of FAMINE!! 2. While hundreds of
ships are leaving her ports with grain for the Ertlish
market, no one thinks it even desirable to retain any of
this grain for the consumption of the people, although
they are at that moment reported to be in danger of star-
vation. 3. But it is resolved to send 4,000 miles over
the water, and to fetch from America a few ship-loads of
maize, as the only conceivable way of " averting famine."
4. 4nd this being the plan resolved upon, and it being
quite certain, that if the Government proposed it as
needful to avert famine, such a vote would pass the House
of Commons without an hour's debate,—Sir Robert Peel
cannot effect so simple and easy an object without piling-
Epg the country into ,o7ution as a means. Because a

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complete the chaos of absurdity, because some of the po-
tatoes in Ireland have become rotten, therefore all foreign
silks, cottons, linens, and woollens are to be henceforth
allowed to come into England duty free.

EJECTION OF TENANTRY,

An affecting tale of an alleged wholesale eviction of
" 270 poor, industrious, and honest people" from the
estate of Mr. Gerard, in the county of Galway, has ap-
peared in the " Liberal" journals of Ireland, from which
one would be led to believe that a more hard-hearted and
griping landlord never existed—one, in fact, who, from an
avaricious disposition, would, for the sake of fattening
bullocks and pocketting the proceeds, leave the peasantry
under him to die of sheer starvation. The present case
illustrates the adage, that " one story is good till another
is told ;" and Mr. Gerard has fully vindicated himself
from the foul aspersions cast upon his character as a land-
owner and a man, by furnishing a detail of the whole pro-
ceedings. We have but room to give the heads of this
statement, which, however, is sufficiently clear, and bears
the stamp of truth. The estate called Ballinlass, contains
about 300 acres of prime upland land and 50 of moor. In
1827 Mr. Gerard acceded to a proposal from 30 persons
to let it at 30s. an acre, and nothing for the boa. The
rent was paid by one of them—the principal up to March,
1842. The original tenants, however, sub-let nearly the
whole to about 40 miserable persons at £2, £2 10s., and
even £3. Mr. G. endeavoured to prevent this, and never
received rents from the under tenants. In September,
1842, and subsequently, all the original temnts refused to
pay a farthing, and he was forced, in 1844, to bring an
action to eject them. A defence was set up, but he ob-
tained a verdict—the rent then due being £7OB. A ques-
tion of law arose as to the agreement, and the action was
again tried in 1814, with the same result, but not a far-
thing of rent was paid, though the land was cropped, and
the money went partly in litigation, and the residue into
the defendants' pockets. In September, 1845, Mr. G.
Proposed to them to forgive all arrears of rent (then up-
wards of £1000) and allow them to take away the crops
(worth £300), and remain in their houses till February
last, if they would then vacate. They agreed, and signed
a consent to that effect. In February he offered men,
horses, and carts at his own expense, to remove their pro-
visions, manure, furniture, and everything belonging to
them. Few of them, however, would remove, and it was
not till six weeks after the time agreed upon that he was
forced to take possession through the sheriff. Even the
timber of the houses was carefully taken down and re-
moved for them. Two sick families were not then removed.
and a doctor was paid by him to attend them. A statement
made that a child was killed by the officers was false, and
the people were, by his orders, treated with the greatest
kindness and consideration, for which many of them had
thanked him ; and to four widows dispossessed, he gave
£4 each. The rent then due out of the land was £1643,
besides poor rates, county rates, and heavy legal expenses.
Mr. Gerard equally contradicts a statement that he had
wrongfully dispossessed some tenants on his estate of
Newbridge. The land was let on a lease for the lives of
three persons, all of whom were dead ; but another life
was set up in lieu of the last survivor, though that person
was not born at the time the lease was granted. The
tenants took vexatious defence, putting Mr. G. to great
expense, but made no defence on the trial, which was, of
course, given against them. Mr. G. thus concludes :

" I could, in like- manner, satisfy any dispassionate person
that my conduct as proprietor of that property was always
marked by a just and kind feeling to those of my tenants
who deserved favour at my hands by their good conduct
and industry. I have carried on extensive works, given
great employment, and much assistance at all times in
clothing and food on my estate." What becomes, now,
of the affecting tale ? We were told that the tenants were
not only willing and ready to pay all rent and arrears, but
the full amount due was actually tendered to the agent of
the estate, to the sheriff, and finally to the police who
attended at the execution of the habere; but nothing
would do the landlord hnt a level plain whereon that con-
tented village stood, for the purpose of adding another
piece of meadow land to ijs wide grazing farm. The
peasantry were to be starvld—ar,i.ihilated—that another
herd of bullocks might be fattened for the market. This
is the substance of the liberal version of the proceedings
adopted on the part of the landlord. We have now had a
complete refutation of all these falsehoods.

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS,

There are nearly £2,000 raised already for the family of
the late Bishop of Jerusalem.

The Episcopal Collegeoi Bishops in Scotland have
agreed to erect Argyle and the Isles into a separate diocese.
A new church, situate in Chester-square, London, was
consecrated on Thursday. The Marquis of Westminster
subscribed £5,000 towards its erection.

The receipts this year of the Leeds Auxiliary to the
Church Pastoral Aid Society have exceeded those of last
year by upwards of £3,000.
The Rev. W. F. Pierson, 8.A., curate of St. Clement's
district, has been appointed by the Rev. Dr. Whittaker,
vicar, to the curacy of the Parish Church Blackburn.
A Prebendal Stall in Durham Cathedral has become
vacant by the death of the venerable Rev. Thomas Gis-
burne, who expired at his seat in Staffordshire, on Tues-
day week, in the 88th year of his age.
SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—On Friday week, the
Rev. Daniel Evans, 8.D., of l‘loesnwydd, Cardiganshire,
a gentleman well known to our Welsh readers by the
name of Daniel Dclu, and, indeed, to the majority of
Englishmen resident in South Wales, as one of the most
eminent of Welsh poets of the principality—hung himself,
during a fit of insanity, by a silk handkerchief, which he
had fastened to his bedpost.
THE IRISH CHURCH.—In your report of the speeches
of Lords Grey and Brougham, those Noble Lords state
that the Irish Church has but 600,000 or 700,000 adhe-
rents; whereas, by a census made in 1831, fifteen years
ago, the number of members of the Irish Church were re-
turned as 852.000, and it is universally admitted on all
hands in Ireland that they have greatly increased since
then, having, in many cases, doubled and even trebled the
number returned in that census. In the parish of which
Ote writer of this is incumbent, the number of Church
Protestants has increased by a third within the last six
years. The number of members of the Established
Church in Ireland now exceeds 1,000,000, as will shortly
be made known and established.— Correspondent of the
Times.

The English Churchman notices a novel speculation
which has just been set on foot under the denomination
of the " Bible Commentary Company." The projector
of this scheme (which is provisionally registered under
the joint stock companies' act) is Mr. Thomas Arnold, a
London bookseller. The proposed capital is £20,000. in
shares of £2 10s. each. The literary department is regu-
lated by a committee of superintendence, composed of
dissenting ministers; the financial affairs by a body of di-
rectors nominated by the shareholders. A circular letter
is issued by the projector, enclosing a quantity of scrip,
to be put into the hands of " active and zealous individu-
als, either male or female, especially Sunday-school
teachers," for disposal, and containing a statement of the
twofold objects of the company. The printed form of
application for shares contains the usual insidious clause
that the allottee will be responsible for no sum beyond the
amount of his shares.

ACADEMICAL EDUCATION.—There was some time ago
presented to the authorities of Oxford, a mem trial signed
by many eminent men, suggesting that something should
be done to render academical education accessible to the
sons of those whose incomes are too narrow for the pre-
sent scale of expenditure at Oxford, either by the addi-
tion of additional departments to existing colleges, or by
the foundation of new ones. The report of a committee,
to which this memorial was referred, states that almost as
much as practicable has been done to diminish the neces-
sary expenses of students ; others it is very difficult to
control. The jsuggestion respecting the establishment of
new colleges, the committee regard as impracticable ; and
that of additional departments to existing colleges as ob-
jectionable, because they would be considered inferior.
They think a simpler expedient " would be the founda-
tion of exhibitions to be conferred, not upon grounds of
literary merit, but of poverty, character, and economical
habits, for the direct purpose of aiding those, and only
those, who need such assistance ; and to be forthwith
taken away from those who would not conform to regula-
tions of strict economy. Advances of money, also, to
cover the first expenses of the university, the fees, cau-
tion money, and cost of furniture, might often be service-
able to parents of narrow incomes, and might be after-
wards in part or altogether repaid."
THE REv. T. D. GREGG.—This bold, persevering, and
triumpharofdefender of protestant truth has been cited by
the Archbishop of Dublin, to appear at the Consistory
Court, Dublin, "to answer articles concerning his soul's
health, and more especially in a certain cause of correc-
tion, for having taken upon himself to perform divine ser-
vice, and preach in a private house, situate in Nicholas-
street, in the parish of Saint Nicholas within the walls of
Dublin, without due licence or authority, contrary to the
laws and canons of the Church of Ireland." The rev.
gentleman disputes his grace's power to withdraw the
license from the church in which he officiates, and which
has been in connection with the Church of England, we
believe, upwards of a century ; but the withdrawal of the
license has, we presume, made the building, in the Arch-
bishop's estimation, a " private house." Mr. Gregg has
written a spirited letter to his congregation, in the course
of which, alluding to a remark in the citation, that the
court " will proceed according to law, the absence or con-
tumacy of him so cited in anywise notwithstanding," he
says, " No, my friends, there shall be no proceeding in
anywise according to law, or contrary to law, the Lord
giving me health and strength, in my absence. Rest
assured of this : I shall, please God, be there to answer
for myself; to stand up against the tyranny, the despo-
tism, the illegal, and unconstitutional courses that are
now being pursued to cripple the liberty, degrade the cha-
racter, nu:lify the functions, tie the hands, and gag the
mouths of Christian ministers. I will be there, and 1 will
prove before the judges of the court, before the face of the
public, aye, before the face of the empire—for all will
look with interest on this struggle—that the attempt is
now being made, and has been long in progress, in con-
travention of the law itself, aye, and of the gospel too, to
reduce the Protestant clergy to a worse than popish
subserviency, and to render the episcopal office that
which would render it a curse, and would make Presby-
terianism, Methodism, Congregationalism, or any other
ism, a happy deliverance from Prelatisrn ; to change that
which I believe to be a divine institution into a terrific
visitation, a most afflicting judgment on the land."

How seldom do we feel, perceive, or think of the small
beginnings of disease which surround and operate upon us
in our enjoyments and intercourse with the •
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Grows with our growth, and strength with our strength."
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April 7, 1846.

RAILWAY

INTELLIGENCE.

The sub-committee have declared the standing orders
not complied with in the case of the Manchester and
Bury Atmospheric Railway.
The South-Eastern are now running two express trains
daily -both ways, performing the distance from London to
Dover in two hours and a half.
The committee of the House of Commons decided on
Friday, that the standing orders could not be dispensed
with in the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Balls.
The Birkenhead, Larrcashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Bill, was read a second time in the House of
Commons, on Friday.
The Railway Times says, that it is now pretty well as
that the case of Woolmer v. Toby, relative ta
the liability of railway allottees, was a got-up affair for the
purpose of establishing a precedent.
The Gauge Report is beginning to operate on future
movements. The London and Oxford annt unced to the
parliamentary committee their intention to adopt the
narrow gauge. _

AN ENGINEER'S OPINION.—In group 21 on Friday►
Mr. J. U. Rastrick, civil engineer, who was called to
speak to the goodness of the London and Oxford line,
admitted he only went over it on Saturday week in a
chaise and four.

At Shrewsbury, Mr. Garbett, solicitor, of Wellington,
obtained a verdict of five pounds damages against Mr.
Yarborough, solicitor, London, for slander in attributing
felonious transactions to Mr. Garbett, relative to the
Shropshire Mineral Railway.
RAILWAY BILLS.—In the House of Commons, on
Thursday, Mr. Hudson gave notice of a motion to insert
a clause in all railway bills, authorising the registered
shareholders, at a meeting called for the purpose, at which
meeting three-fifths of the shareholders should be present,
personally or by proxy, to declare the company dissolved;
full compensation being made to the landowners for all
loss they may have sustained by the operation of the act.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—From official returns it appears
that the amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly
1,800 miles of railway, was £116,997, thus accounted for:
£53.709 for the conveyance of passengers only, £31,003
for the carriage of goods, and the remainder of £32,285
for passengers and goods together, not respectively appore
tioned ; beine an increase over the corresponding week of
last year of £2o,223.—Railway•Chronicle.
RAILWAY MEETINGS.—SeveraI meetings were held,
last week, to hear declarations of dividends. The follow-
ing are the announcements made :—The Newcastle and
Carlisle, of £2 10s. per share ; the Dublin and Kings-
town, of 10 per cent. on the paid-up capital ; the Ulster,
of 18. ner share on 10,383 shares ; but the Durham and
Sunderland, having overdrawn their account by some
£1,400 last half year, have no dividend to declare.
Mr. Spackman has opened an office in London for the
registration of scripholders and allottees in ten relives);
companies, amongst which are the two London and
Manchester direct. for the purpose of petitioning parlia-
ment to stop the progress of the bills, and memorialising
the Beard of Trade for such amendment in the law of
provisional registration as may give to the ecripholdera
"a complete control over their own property."
An important railway compensation case was tried at
Margate, on Saturday, before Mr. Bodkin, assessor of
the Cinque Ports, and a jury. The land in question,
which is required by the South-Eastern Company for their
Margate extension, is a patch containing about twelve
acres, with a straight frontage of 330 feet to the Matins
Parade. The surveyors, on the part of the owner, esti'
mated its value at upwards of £lB,OOO, those of the com-
pany at from £4,160 to £3.100. The jury returned a ver-
dict of £5,265, including 25 per cent. forced sale. The
Attorney-General, with a special fee of 15U guineas, et'
tended for the proprietor.
EDINBURGH, LEITH, A ND GRANTON RAILWA..--The
South Leith branch of this railway has passed the stand-
ing orders and the new money bill, both unopposed. The
Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric has not yet passed the
standing orders committee, and there is every reason to
believe this line will be abandoned. The Granton and
Leith branches, proposed by the Edinburgh and Glasgow
and the Caledonian, are postponed till after Easter; but
there is every reason to believe that these lines will no,.
pass. The Edinburgh and Perth have been thrown out
on standing orders. Thus the rights and privileges of the
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway will be mail'.
tained entire, all competing lines being annihilated.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE MEN.—A case has come i°
our knowledge, which shows the danger of appearing as a
provisional committee man in a railway scheme. The
name of the Rev. J. S. Baron, of Brill, was made use of,
as he alleges, without his consent, as one of the provi•
sional committee of the Grand Junction, Great Westereer
and South Western Railway Junction Company, adieu'
was projected last year. Within the last few days, Mr*
Baron has been served with a writ at the suit of a tral
who have a demand against the company. aVe under'
stand the sum demanded of Mr. Baron is no less the°
£l,OOO. If a man can be liable under such circumstances,
what individual is safe ?—Banbury Guardian.
INFLUENCE OF RAILWAYS.—In the civil court at Cho'
ter on Wednesday, Mr. Jervis, Q.C., applied to the learn'
ed judge, Mr. Justice Williams, to adjourn the court t
half-past 9 o'clock the next morning, on the ground thst r
as the trains did not arrive before that time, it would be "
great convenience to the special jurors who were summon-
ed for that day, and who in consequence were not likely
to be in court before that hour. His Lordship observed,
that the railways had now become the masters of almost
all the trade and everything else in the country. and even
supposed, therefore, as he was only one of
Her Majesty had to submit to their arrangements. Ile
commissioners, no alternative remained for him but quiet-
ly to strike and submit likewise.
Tf 't was
TICE EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON RAILWAYS.---- r
left to myself, I would neither increase my gang!, n° not
wheel, nor my speed, until I had more experiene!' the
only in the construction of engines, but also eu e,
strength of materials. You can never get over the i°
qualities of the road arising from the change of teg, per:.
ture and weather. You may have the most perfect ro
that has been standing for months, and been run uP°,
Her Majesty
daily-3 ou will have a shower of rain, or a contiouation:ei
wet weather, during the time the trains are running,
in two days the roads may become positively dangerous;
and no ordinary precaution can meet that; therefore,!_
say, until we can ensure our roads being in better order
than we can at present, we ought not even to maintain oel,
present speed.—Mr. Locke's Evidence.
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RAILWAY EXCHANGES.—Whenever railways penee
v.,,,,
purely agricultural districts, they effect a complete revo'i
tion in prices, and very soon establish a regular course ~
exchange between the mining and manufacturing and tad
agricultural produce. 'Wherever coal is dear, grain aaj
meat is cheap, for want of markets. When the Bristol afsr
Exeter Railway penetrated Devonshire, the demand
wood faggots almost ceased, the peasantry could buy co
&c. ".0
cheaper, while the price of butter, poultry, rose 1,
Exeter market, for the railway opened to the fernier§ a'l
the markets up to London. The consumption of yegt,ei
tables in manufacturing towns is enormous. It is stet
by Captain Lawes, in his evidence before the gnage c°"-ve
mission, that as much as 12 or 14 tons of cucumbers has‘d
arrived in Manchester in one day from the neighbourhc'se
of Rugby, and Oxford, it is anticipated that an iromenill
interchange will take place of garden stuff and agriculteeros
produce, for coals. The effect of railways on the :p0 or
market may te judged from the fact, that on one SatOroy
in August last, the Birmingham and London Ra',ves.
brought up 550 oxen, 5,571 sheep, 349 pigs, and 3 ca`
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On Tuesday, at socl
Clarendon-Rooms, a large number of the directors
esog
principal shareholders met for the purpose of consideislr.
the propriety of presenting a testimonial of respect t° eget
Henry Booth, the secretary, and formerly them al'eits
and treasurer of the Liverpool and Manchester beforw,
amalgamation. The chair was taken by Charles
03eete
rence, Esq., chairman of the board, by whom the Coo'
ing was called.—The circular by which it had been d that
vened set forth the claims of Mr. Booth, and state god
it bad been suggested by several gentlemen eon° 0 so
with railways that Mr. Booth, whose name has hereerge,
closely identified with the first railway constructed tuk
neral purposes, was highly deserving of some iera..rftser
the approbation and esteem of the public. It Torls'
went on to observe, that, important as are the benePietsrf
rived from the services of Mr. Booth, by the nr°,,Pre sr°
with which he has been immediately connected, Wee'rair
insignificant when compared with those of a more P e
nent character resulting to the community at larrierstet
the successful opening of the Liverpool ani Mon,c,etil '
Railway—an event which brought the greatest in". A 0
of the age to maturity, as it were, by a single efforl,oo9',
that early period, before railway management was „ogee
as a profession, the whole of the multifarious 8; ontil,
merits, every minute detail, whether in the office ° 0605
road, devolved on Mr. Booth, and it must be a gr° speed
reflection to him, that in freedom from accident, 1,0 the
of travelling, and in the comfort and convenieneee°Sllo4
passengers, the early annals of the Liverpool 130.'thsbo°,
cheater Railway will not contrakt unfavourable' v"00,
of many railways of modern date. The Cliairmreseo•ol
suitable address, moved that a testimonial he, priors els
to Mr. Booth, and that a committee of the dre 're ern,
tke Grand Junction, and those gentlemen wh° we be 9;1'0
the late Manchester and Liverpool directiotiorr, Jou,
pointed a committee to carry out this object.
Moss seconded the resolution, which, after el one
tory speeches from other gentlemen, was carrie
sip,
mously. Several thousand pounds were subsesreesliqo
the room. It was stated in the course of the pro' 130aes
d
that on the amalgamation of the companies, bee 00
had acted in the most disinterested manner, an f his °Ars
offered the slightest opposition to the loweringd dbe 'es
salary, when it was thought that his duties wo'lesl 00
terially lessened, which had not, however, Preeeseo
the case, as the business of the company had i

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April 7, 1846.

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Mr. and Mrs. William Jackson have left Hamilton-
'Square for London.
The Liverpool Sanatory Bill and the Liverpool Improve-
Ment Bill were respectively read a second time in the
House of Commons on Friday.
The amateur performance at the Theatre Royal for the
Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Institution realized
£l7O.
The Liverpool docks' bill was, on 'Wednesday, reported
in the House of Commons, and ordered to be read a third
time. The Herculaneum docks' bill was read a second
time.
ANOTHER CLERICAL CONVERT TO ROME.—The Rev.
Mr. Wells, curate of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Liver-
Pool, who has been wavering for some time, last week
conformed to the church of Rome.
LIBERAL COLLECTION.—On Sunday week, the sum of
£lO7 was collected at Christ Church, Salford, after a ser-
mon by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, for the Manchester
Infirmary.
SOUTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.—EIias Ar-
naud, Esq., formerly belonging to the congregation of St.
Michael's, has liberally given a donation of ten guineas in
addition to his annual subscription of two guineas.
Messrs. Whitworth and Co., the eminent machinists in
Manchester, are now engaged in making a screw pro-
peller for one of her Majesty's steam frigates. It is to be
-Made of brass, and will doubtless be the largest casting
in that metal that ever took place in the country.
On Tuesday evening the Health of Towns' Association
held a meeting at the Free-school, Hunter-street, for the
Purpose of enlightening the working classes on subjects
connected with the public health. Mr. Littledale pre-
sided. Suitable addresses were made by the Rev. H.
Higgins, Mr. T. Blackburn, Mr. Parker, and others.
On Wednesday last, a new steamer, built by Messrs.
Rigby and Hancock, for Messrs. Willoughby, of Birken-
. bead, was launched at Hawarden. She went from the
stocks in beautiful style, and is expected to be ready for
Plying on the Mersey early in May. She was christened
the Birkenhead.
A Hoax.—On Wednesday the hoax relative to the
wonderful gyrations in the air of a " Don Edward Hew-
son" took amazingly, and Clayton-square was crowded.
The serial voyager, however, never made his appearance ;
and the crowd gradually diminished as the fact occurred
to them that it was the'' first of April."
ST. ANNE'S NATIONAL SCHOOLS, STANLEY.—These
schools, near the Old Swan, were opened a few days since,
and the festivities connected therewith were kept up for
three days, during which a bazaar was held, and upwards
of 800 persons took tea in the school-room. The contri-
butions on these occasions added £l3O to the funds of this
very useful and praiseworthy undertaking.
On Saturday week was launched from the building-yard
of Joseph Steel, Esq., Baffin-street, a beautiful ship, of
about 570 register tons, intended for the trade between
this Pert and Calcutta. She was named the Anna P.
Henderson, in honour of the lady of Charles P. Hender-
Son, Esq., of Manchester. After the launch, a highly re-
spectable party sat down in the mould-room to a sump-
tuous refection.
EXPLOSION OF A STEAM BOILER.—On Tuesday after-
noon, about half-past five o'clock, an awful explosion of
a steam-boiler occurred at the machine manufactory be-
longing to Mr. Samuel Rodgett, Blackburn, by which
two persons were killed, several others seriously injured,
the whole of the premises destroyed, and great part of a
row of houses, running by the side of the factory, much
damaged,
BOTTLE CAST ASHORE.—On Thursday a stout round
glass bottle was picked up on the beach at Society, near
Hopetoun-house, Linlitbgowshire. The bottle was sealed,
and contained the following notice, dated March IC:—
" Elizabeth, of Liverpool, bound to Newcastle, no great
distance off the Bell Rock. We expect never to see land
again, for we are driving fast to the northward. John
'Wilson, Liverpool."
Under the head of Police, last week, we inserted a pa-
ragraph giving the result of an excise conviction against
al • Plummer. Our reporter omitted to add, that the
se was one of a peculiar character. Nr. Plummer was
In the habit of preparing perfumed tobacco for certain
customers, and sold it at 16s. per lb. He had no inten-
then of committing a fraud on the revenue, and virtually
adulterating
was none. What he did he did openly, and the
tfte!rating or perfuming compound was only one in
Lu• The law, however, is imperative.
bate,"sit's TRICKS.—On Friday last, Mr. Martin, the
.uister, when addressing the jury on a case in the Nisi
s •Court, in replying to some severe remarks made by
one of his learned brethren of the long robe, on the ap-
parent hesitation of a witness, said : "My friend put to
11 witness a question which was a mixture of truth and
falsehood,
aisehood, and because he stopped a little before answer-
ing to separate the two, be accuses him of unfair hesita-
tion, and of a desire to keep back the truth. I know this
was the case. Why, gentlemen, it is one of our com-
monest tricks !"
The New Theatre Royal, Manchester, had a narrow
escape from destruction by fire on Monday evening last.
A gauze screen at the back part of the stage was acci-
dentally set on fire, and damage done to the amount of
£23. The accident occurred after the play (" Richlieu")
had been concluded, and before the farce (" Rob Roy")
was to commence. There was some excitement amongst
the audience, but nothing like alarm, and they all quietly
retired on being informed of the nature of the calamity,
• and that from the damage dcne to the scenery, &c.,
it was impossible to proceed with the performance that
evening.
HEROIC CONDUCT.—On Wednesday, a purse contain-
ing fourieen guineas was presented to Wm. Kane, a hand
On board one of the Birkenhead boats, for having at the
imminent risk of his own life, saved no less than six per-
sons from drowning; and, on Friday, strange to say,
another was added to the number in the person of an
elderly butcher named Edward Hughes. As the William
Stanley steamer was leaving the ferry at Birkenhead, in
the afternoon, Hughes fell into the river; he had charge
'3f a number of cattle, one of which was also precipitated
Into the water. As the man was about to sink, Kane
"lunged from the steamer, caught him, and held him up
one arm until a boat was sent to their rescue. Such
tin Paralleled bravery and success is really deserving of a
More enduring expression of public admiration.
WEST DERBY UNION.—At the usual weekly meeting
2en Tuesday, letters were produced from the Poor-Law
Commissioners, accompanied by the requisite papers for
Completing the appointment of Mr. Harbord, as medical
°lficer of the southern division of Toxteth-park ; and for
thoseae of Mr. Tristram and Mr. Shearson, as relieving
°sucers under the new arrangement. A letter also an-
ri"need the acquiescence of the commissioners in the pro-
t°,Sed advance of Mr. Tristram's salary, for the second or
~,vest Derby district, to £l3O per annum. At the end of
the Proceedings, Mr. Smith handed in a notice of motion,
to the effect, that on Tuesday, the 14th of April, he should
move that the dining of guardians in the union house be
'thenceforth discontinued. This notice, which was so
horded as to reserve its import until its close, was read
by the chairman, and listened to with inquisitive and un-
fu,sPecting gravity by all present. Its final words were
its author,
by a loud burst of laughter from all present, save
author, who manifestly enjoyed the scene.
Saatous ROBBER Y.—On Friday, at the police-court,
ree respectable youths, named Stevens, Poulson, and
D vrY, were committed for trial, charged with stealing a
°Y of insurance. They were employed in the Liver-
Fire and Life Insurance establishment. On Tuesday
t,ey Went to a Mr. Hornby's with a policy, on which the
vin ent was £l4O, they received the money, and had
"mar's preparations to abscond, being taken on board the
packet-ship Coronet, for New York. The money was in
4;113() note and two £2O notes. They had changed the
dotes at Mr. Durando's bullion-office, whither they were
es"dticted by one of •the servants of the Emigration
4cietY, who received from Mr. Durando a consideration
D£s for taking them. Mr. Rushton said it was one of
e most disgraceful things he had ever heard of. Mr.
v urando had charged at an exorbitant rate for the money
;ley bad had ; 225. Gil. for coins the proper charge of
the
was 205., and 18s Gd. for those worth 16s. ; and
tee confidential servant of a regular licensed society
vraceived £5 for taking these poor lads to such a place. It
We.s_efrightful to contemplate the extent to which emigrants
co
I. li ble to be imposed on if this practice were a
minion one.
HinnwAv BOARD.—The usual eing of htay Board was held on Thursday, mwethen a portre from
"e Parliamentary c ,mnsittee on the subject of the Liver-
Pooll,l dock bill was read. It stated the result of the coin -
ltees labours, which was similar to that effected by the ,
Select
Vestry, which we have reported in the proceedings
the
• the latter body. A clause was however, inserted in
' bill, making the remainder oi the warehouses to be
erected, on the Albert Dock quays expressly liable to suches„i"es- The committee also reported that the commis-
-°-lers' bills had passed through committee on standing
ers, and would be read a first time on Wednesday.
e law-clerk having received a note from London, stating
ofthe intention of Mr. Shuttleworth to group the two bills
th the Corporation, the two bills of the commissioners,
oex arring ton Water-works Company's bill, and the
to teth-Paik bill,—the committee strongly recommended
7,6 board the adoption of a resolution to that tffect.
that Commilttee had resolved, in order to avoid the expense
at 4
).muste arise from a contest between the Corporation
seets" commissioners, to ascertain without delay the
to men's of government as to which bill was most likely
uethe; u-ith their approval. They also reported that,
Dare,: e instructions of the board, the law-clerk had pre-
Wee" a petition against the Liverpool and llarrington
water-works bill.—The report was adopted.
Lp ELECT VESTRY.—At the meeting on Tuesday Mr.
to ',odes stated the result of the visit of the deputation
able tond." respecting the dock bill. They had been un-
matain insertion of the clause making the new dock
114sile°0usfe liable to taxation, as the Speaker of the
,ommons considered that notice of application
I.:°foxetheeserating ought to have been given, though Mr.
ee s' a retied that the standing order applied to parties
Are;tl)lYlng for leave to bring in a bill," whilst the Select
kr, re,,, were opposing a bill. "The deputation," said
posed rides, " were surprised to find themselves op-
LiveY the hon. member for Salford, who told the coin-
Live e r that the docks of Liverpool were not the docks of
a P°ol but of Manchester—(a laugh)—and that it was
thin at error that local taxation should interfere with any-
affetirT re commerce of the country. Everything
-4glit to be
land from done to facilitate the transmission of goods to
;etittieiotiniaT
anchester ; and oe means was to keep down
Liverpool, and sotto reduce the expense. One
for the observed, that it would be equally reasonable
learehoume.rchants of Liverpool to object to the taxing of
setting goods
Menchester. which, doubtless, prevented
tollerner goods from Manchester so cheaply as they
one Wise would do. (Hear, hear.) This, however, was
tende c'f the absurdities which people fell into, who con-
tope that free-trade should be carried to the utmost!,
se" counsel against the bill then said, that if the case of
the
pPre_ti_tisoners was not to be heard, the clause upon which
erase ':'o was based must be withdrawn. A discussion
draw
el and the committee decided in favour of the with-
foe A them vote
e of thanks was passed to the deputation
'evir veluaservices.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.-TIIESDAY.

(Before Mr. Justice Patteson.)
The trial of Currie, for the murder of Ann Ellison, was
continued. We gave a copious report of the first day's
proceedings in the STANDARD of Tuesday last. The rest
of the evidence went principally to show that an intimacy
evisted between the prisoner and deceased, and that they
had been seen together on various occasions retiring to a
private room in the factory, and he (prisoner) had set a
little girl to watch, and tell him when the overlooker was
coming. Two persons were called as witnesses from the
gaol at Kirkdale, who detailed conversations that had
taken place with the prisoner. One of them said that the
prisoner stated to him, " Being a married man, and she
in the family way, I put her away to cover my shame."
The witness said he had not mentioned this before because
he had promised the prisoner not to divulge it. There
were forty witnesses for the prosecution. For the defence,
Mr. Joseph Pollock addressed the jury for nearly three
hours and a half, but called no witnesses, and the learned
Judge occupied two hours and a half in summing up the
evidence. The jury were absent an hour and a half, and
returned with a verdict of " Not guilty."