The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-10
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GREAT WESTERN STEAM CoMpAsy.--The meeting Of
this company which most unexpectedly lasted three
days terminated on Saturday most angry discussion
to the directors not having insured the stranded
vessel the Great Britain which cost nearly fl10O00 for
more than OOO which nothing like adequate
amount respected her value and the directors were
blamed for having returned the passage money and
for not having taken immediate and efficient measures
TO Ee5 her om was I'M" in wrre
bound to insure the ship in adequate amount anu
asserted that, in addition, they had given pledge
to do to give notice to the proprietary that they
might themselves insure their interests respectively
that it contrary to mercantile usage to return the
passage money and that therefore the directors should
not have done and that soon as the vessel was
they ought to have obtained the services of the
eminent engineering talent to get her of, instead
of wasting time they had done, in correspondence
with tho underwriters, whose stake was so small The
directors in reply that the passage money having
and the vessel having beeen stranded at the commence
ment of that voyage they were bound as honest men
to return the passage money and in support of this
view they produced letters from various steam
ship companies, declaring that they should have
done With respect to the insurance, thoy stated
that upon the two previous voyages the Great Britain
had been insured for 100000 each time and that they
had used digent means to insure her on the last yoy
age. and that to the which they had taken
subsequent to her unfortunately being stranded they
had taken the best they could adopt At the second
days meeting Capt. Claxton, r. NJ, with tho view Of
meeting the views of all parties, aud of obvatng the
strong objection which had been manifested to the mo-
ton that the directors report be received and adopt
cd proposed that the report received adopted
without prejudice to the protest put in by Mr. Abbott
and Others At tho close of the third days discussion
this motion adopted and also one proposed by di
rector to meet another ground Of opposition that the
list Of the proprietary Of the company be open to the in
stood that the property of the company will be at once
sold and it's affairs wound up. The Great Western
steamship offered for sale by auction the 18th
ult at the companys Offices in accordance with public
Advertisement but although she stated to have cost
found in as good condition as the rst day after having
made 80 successful voyages only EGO 900 offered for
her. and she withdrawn at, was understood tho
reserve of $4,000.
ceedng rapidly in Germany. Next year the line will be
complete between Cologne and the extreme frontier of
federation. Vienna, Breslau Berlin and Hamburger
are now connected together by continuous rail-
way The augsburg 1 Gazette inform, informs us that a
Of the different railway companies possessing this vast
range of lines Between Vienna and stctin there il
distance of 225 French leagues and between Vienna and
Hamburg $50 leagues This is the greatest extent that
railway line has yet The various directors have
agreed arrangement Of departures in correspond
with each other that the distance between Vienna
and Hamburg may DO cleared in az hours comprising
stoppages and between Vienna and Stettin 40 hours
The train leaves Vienna at O'Clock in the evening" and
arrives at Brcsau the next day about noon and
Bresau at o'clock and arrives at Berlin at O'Clock in
the mornings it leaves again ut o'clock for Hamburg
and Stettin. The back train leaves Hamburg at l
O'Clock in the afternoon and Stettn ut d reaches Ber
Bresau next day ut Ii o'clock and at Vienna the second
day ut in tho morning. The works on the southern
ne-from Vienna to Trieste-are proceeding rapidly
When this line is finished, travellers may book them
selves from Hamburg to Trieste alignani's Mes
senger. -*.-'
NV ELECTRIC TELEoRArH-The Echo Saumurois
states that Mt this moment there is being established
the Tours and Nantes Railroad apparatus composed
of iron wire extending from end Of the raroa
along the wire and by means of small pstons placed
intervals Of 200 yards whenever train is in motion its
passage at each point of the railroad will be indicated
the fixed machine by tho movement OF a small piston
which, by interrupng the electric current for
will designate the number Of the post before which the
train Is passing By these means tho director Of tho
fixed machine will receive Information almost every
second to the speed of the train in notion and
the position occupied by it. 1t is unnecessary to insist
the Importance of such indication. By always
knowing the exact position of train its passage, it
will enable the conductor to moderate the speed Of the
trains and to send assistance with greater promptitude
in of accident to prevent the interruption
the road rs much as possible
The Crisis In Ireland.
From the London Times March 1871
Lord John Russell does not at all overstate the diff
Guilty of his path when he says that clouds and dark
rest Ireland and legislation Is bcsct with
that they had to the bottom of Irish distress
one can deny that than all has arrived, and
moreover, that worse still remains The half of po
puous island, usually verging famine actually
suffers that dreadful extremity is there any ap
pearance Of early relief The usual food Of the peopi
has persisted and threatens not return for peroo
tar beyond the calculations of man The only store
house to which the public purveyor look for relief
that natural magazine created by the industry of tho
people, over and above their simple wants anc
usually reserved for the payment Of rent and other out
goings and the supplies providentiay arriving from
distant shores The former of these is that which
mon and economy would teach most to depend
upon. But here Is the difficulty. To arrest that nou
rshng and fertiizng stream ON its course to detan
the spot to convert II into the relief Of distress the
wages of labor, and the material of reproductions is al
least apparent and possible loss to those who have
hitherto cxacted wasted aienatcd this Henc,
serious struggle betoeen the rights of the many ana
the rights Of the Jew-6etWeen sorring peasants ana
sratened proprietors-befWeen famine and pestienct
or hal scd of nd
the other Such the perious alternatives before the
House such the clouds and darkness Irish affairs
For part po not hesitate to avow have
avowcd similar occasions that Mt such crisis
The few must give cay 10 the many the part to the tchoIe
| While most thoroughly, and at the time most
gladly believe that the propretors exaggerae the sacr
fees demanded at their hands assert with all bold
ness that land created for man, and not for
land that landlords made for he people, and Their
peculiar interests only ministerial and subordinate
to the good Of the whole general in the field must
lay hold of the that he finds and devote them In
the first instance to that purpose which he is bound
consider paramount obect-thc maintenance Of hi,
army The compensation he may think proper to afford
| to tho owners IL another and secondary question
What IL Lord John Russell but commandcr-in- chic
| In unexamplcd campaign;-Ireiand the field, famine
zines order, MATERIAL or IN word, any other resource
than the boidness and skill Of their chiTi The
sty Of the crisis admits not the usuagcs rather thu
abuses Of peace II an evil custom has deprived the
bourer Of his hire this il just the time to found
equitable system. Labor and wages, population ant
wealth. have suffered a long divorce, and must now b.
rccopced Grant that the change Is great, and what
man would not willingly undertake. it is forced on til,
Legislature Society Is reconstructed in disaster eacl
new birth Is in throes and institutions the monu
ments Of wrong In clouds and darkneesn 1t is ncces
sary to take short aud simple rule, the guidance
some great moral truth The first law Of nature tina
the people must be fed and that iron
the work of their hands is the clue of this labyrnth
In the public veal an enlightened statesman will dis
Germ the cloud by day and the pillar Of nrc by nigh
through this terrible wlderness and public veal H.
empty unless it includes the relief of those who ar
ready to perish and the employment of those who arr
aole 70 ~ork ou' nave "os 'he opportunity
The armies Of mcndicancy have been DESTROYED or dis
banded All that miserable system which was rather n,
apology society than civilized society itself has fall
en- to the ground Politicians held 1t up long as the
could Secretaries Of State found convenient and cu
ocized the noble and trustworthy custom of perpctua
breeding beggary The right Of prcyng the nfan
resources rising enterprise, and blightng the frs
bloom Of prosperity, was cried up as sacred an,