Apr. 13,] 



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Railways. — The following are the returns for the past 

 week :— Birmingham and Derby, 1353/. ; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 2024/. ; Eastern Counties, 3774/. ; Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 2054/. : Great "Western, 12,640/. ; 

 Grand Junction, 7332/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1251/. ; Great North of England, 1266/. ; London and 

 Birmingham, 15,561/* South- Western, 5303/. ; Blackwall, 

 651/. ; Greenwich, 822/. ; Brighton, 2657/. ; Croydon, 243/.; 

 Liverpool and Manchester, 4198/. ; Midland Counties, 

 2486/. ; North Midland, 4209/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 

 1491/. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 502/. — On Saturday a 

 Parliamentary return was issued of all moneys raised under 

 Acts whereby railroad companies have been incorporated, 

 from January, 1826, to January, 1844, distinguishing the 

 6ums raised as principal from the sums to be raised by 

 loan or mortgage. The return contains the names of 121 

 railways, and the titles of no fewer than 250 Acts of Parlia- 

 ment which passed in the years mentioned, under which 

 the moneys were raised. The entire sum was seventy- 

 nine millions twenty-six thousand and three hundred and 

 seventeen pounds ! Of such sum, 57,357,735/. was capital 

 in joint-stock, and 21,638,582/. to be raised by loan or 

 mortgage. The total sum to be raised according to Acts 

 of Parliament by the Arbroath and Forfar Company 

 amounted to 160,000/.; the Birmingham and Derby 

 Junction was altogether empowered to raise 1,200,000/. ; 

 the Birmingham and Gloucester, 1,413,741/. ; the Bristol 

 and Exeter, 2,000,000/. ; the Bristol and Gloucestershire, 

 876,000/.; the Whitstable and Canterbury, (a tram-road,) 

 80,000/. ; the Cheltenham and Great Western, 2,000,000/.; 

 the Chester and Birkenhead, 499,999/.; the Chester 

 and Crewe, 458,333/.; the Clarence, 799,645/.; the 

 Dublin and Drogheda, 600,000/. ; the Eastern Counties, 

 2,533,333/. ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1,500,000/. ; the 

 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 1,249,900/.; the Leinsterand 

 Munster, 1,065,000/.; the Great North of England, 

 1,730,000/. ; the Great Western, 4,999,999/.; the Liver- 

 pool and Manchester, 1,832,375/. ; the Birmingham and 

 London, 5,500,000/.; the Blackwall, 1,066,000/.; the 

 Brighton and London, 2,820,000/. ; the Croydon, alto- 

 gether, 921,333/. (the original estimate of Mr. Gibbs, the 

 engineer, having been only 140,000/.!); the Greenwich, 

 993,333/. (or nearly double the original capital of 

 533,000/.!); the South-Western, 2,540,000/.; the Leeds 

 and Manchester, 3,429,000/. ; the Manchester and Bir- 

 mingham, 2,800,000/. ; the Grand Junction, 800,000/. ; 

 the Midland Counties, 1,866,333/.; the Newcastle and 

 Carlisle, 1,050,000/. ; the Northern and Eastern, 

 1,631,288/. ; the North Midland, 3,400,000/. ; the South- 

 Eastern and Dover, 3,630,277/. ; the Sheffield and Man- 

 chester. 1,533,000/. ; and the York and North Midland, 

 681,666/. The above are only a fraction of the whole, 

 but even these will serve to prove the astonishing mone- 

 tary power and resources of the empire. In some instances 

 (and the Greenwich and Croydon lines may be named 

 amongst others) the original estimates have been enor- 

 mously exceeded ; the latter insignificant line, which is 

 only 10£ miles in length, having already cost the propri- 

 etors nearly a million sterling (or 100,000/. per mile), 

 whereas the originally proposed capital amounted to 

 140,000/. — The railway excursions announced in our last 

 for the Easter holidays appear to have received their due 

 share of patronage. From Monday to Wednesday 5720 

 availed themselves of the excursion to Brighton by the rail- 

 way to that town, and 13,454 travelled by the Eastern 

 Counties line, which appears to have been the most popular 

 of all the metropolitan railways ; the passengers to Dover 

 and Folkestone amounted to about 1270, the greater 

 distance at this season having doubtless operated as a dis- 

 couragement—It is intended to open the railway from 

 Darlington to Newcastle on the 13th of June, after which 

 there will be an uninterrupted railway intercourse between 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne and London. 



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IRELAND. 

 Dublin.— The weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa- 

 tion, usually held on Monday, has been postponed for a 

 few days, in consequence of Mr. O'Connell and the lead- 

 ing members of the Association having left town to attend 

 the Repeal dinner at Cork. The counsel for the tra- 

 versers on the state trials were to hold a consultation in 

 this city on the 12th inst., previous to the opening of 

 Easter Term, on Monday next. — There is an increase of 

 20,804/. in the customs receipts,"'and nearly 1400 in the 

 number of documents passed per warehouse goods, in the 

 port of Dublin, in the present quarter, over the cor- 

 responding quarter of last year ; the sums received for the 

 several quarters being, 1843,218,162/.; 1844,238,966/. 

 There is a falling-off in the consumption of tobacco, and 

 an increase in that of tea, sugar, and coffee— a fact which 

 speaks favourably of the improved habits of the people- 

 Lord Eliot's Enfranchisement Bill has not been received 

 in Dublin as a boon. The Repeal Association has already 

 issued a protest against it, calling it a « most afflicting 

 measure, and requesting the Irish members to give it 

 the most decided opposition by all means known to the 



constitution of Parliament, however vexatious those means 

 may be called. 



Cork.— On Monday a public dinner was given to Mr 

 O Connell in this city, Mr. Smith O'Brien in the chair, 

 supported by the mayors of Cork, Limerick. Waterford| 

 Clonmel, and Kilkenny, by the following M.P.'s— Mr. 

 Callaghan, Sir D. Roche, Mr. Powell, Mr. Meagher, and | 

 Mr. Roche, and by about 800 other gentlemen. Mr. 

 O'Connell, in responding to the toast of his health, spoke 

 at great length on the present state of the Repeal ques- 

 tion, and alluded in the following terms to his expected 

 imprisonment :— " Why did they wish to have me in their 

 power? They thought to put an end to agitation. (Cries 

 of * Never.') I like that 'never* — no, never. No, never 



whilst our grievances exist — while the union remains ] 

 unrepealed. They expected that there would be some 

 submission if they managed to have a verdict. I am 

 advanced in life — the prison may terminate my exist- 

 ence. (Cries of 'No.') Oh, it may. (No, no.) Why do 

 you say no ? I do not shrink from it. I do not say so 

 in pitiful bewailing. I came here to proclaim to the 

 province of Munster, and from this I will send my voice 

 to the utmost limits of the northern, and to the eastern 

 and western provinces — I came here to read you a lec- 

 ture — I am here to instruct you in your duty not merely 



to tell you how deeply I am indebted to you. I came 

 here to tell you, and universal Ireland, that it would be 

 the idlest thing in the world not to think that I would go 

 into prison. I am as sure as that any man hears me here 

 that I will go into prison. (Several voices, * You sha'n't.') 

 Oh, that is folly. You say I sha'n't—I say I must : I do not 

 say I will, but I say I must, for others command. Any man 

 who imagines that the Ministry will relax — who really se- 

 riously entertains a doubt on the subject — does not pos- 

 sess the faculties which I am glad to see possessed by those 

 whom he had the honour to address. Then take it for cer- 

 tain that the sentence will be executed, and take this for a 

 consolation, that they may imprison me — that they may 

 confine my person, but they will not deprive me of a 

 single pleasurable sensation. There is no horror in con- 

 finement for a man who was working for forty years for 

 Ireland. I am only astonished that they put me in gaol 

 after forty-four years, and that they did not commence by 

 doing so."— The trial of Mr.Delany,and Thomas and Denis 

 Carroll, for the murder of Dr. Quarry on the 4th Nov. 

 last, the particulars of which were given in our Paper at 

 the time, was concluded last week. The Jury returned 

 a verdict, finding Thomas and Denis Carroll not guilty 

 of murder, but guilty of an aggravated manslaughter ; 

 and George Foster Delany guilty of manslaughter, with 

 an earnest recommendation to mercy, upon the ground of 

 his previous excellent character for humanity. The Judge 

 sentenced the two Carrolls to transportation for seven 

 years, and Mr. Delany to twelve months' imprisonment. 

 — The inhabitants of Cork seriously contemplate a rail- 

 way from that city to Limerick, and to connect themselves 

 with the Cashel line through Limerick. It would make 

 the route to Dublin only 13 miles longer than by a direct 

 rail to Cashel. 



Tipper ary.— Two other convictions for murder have 

 taken place at these Assizes. The first was that of | 

 Thomas Wade for the murder of Patrick Ryan Morgan, 

 at Cummer Hunt, in 1842. The prisoners' two brothers, 

 John and Patrick, were also arraigned, but having refused 

 to join in their challenges with their brother, they were 

 set aside for the present. The murder arose out of a 

 dispute about land. The crime was proved by the evidence 

 of an accomplice, whose direct evidence was conclusive 

 of the prisoner's guilt. The witness however admitted 

 that he himself struck the finishing blow, which deprived 

 their victim of his life. The cross-examination of this 

 miscreant elicited some horrifying particulars respecting 

 his previous mode of life, and the cool indifference with 

 which the commission of the most atrocious crime is 

 treated in this district. The second case was that of 

 John Hickey, Martin Ryan, and Martin Casey, for con- 

 spiring to murder James Hanley, which occupied two 

 days. The verdict returned was, Casey and Ryan not 

 guilty ; and John Hickey, guilty. 



King's County. — In consequence of a memorial to 

 Government, a reprieve for a week was granted a few 

 days ago, in the case of Thomas Dowling, who was under 

 sentence of death at Tullamore, for the murder of Mr. 

 Gatchell, a magistrate and land agent in the King's 

 county. The result of the memorial, and the preliminary 

 inquiry, in this extraordinary case is, that Government has 

 forwarded another reprieve for a month, to afford time for 

 further inquiry. It is asserted that a brother of the ap- 

 prover, and not Dowling, was the actual murderer, and 

 that he has fled to America. It appeared in the evidence 

 for the prosecution, that Dowling and his family had been 

 utterly ruined by the proceedings for the enforcement of 

 rent adopted against them.— In the case of Jubee, the 

 soldier, convicted at the same assizes for the murder of 

 Adjutant Mackey, the Government decided that the law 

 must take its course, and he was executed on Wednesday. 



[1844.] 



his quarters at the British embas^yTa^mSo^* 

 assistance. The doctor says :_ « Cnnfi i 8, f*«**y 

 more kind than this? He (Colonel Shield hi ^ * 

 tained in his house, Meshede R aja b, who wa )l ^ de " 

 servant to Colonel Stoddart, and by whom herM F" 1 

 Rajab) was sent to Cabul. He had 7 been imnH 8hedc 

 Bokhara. I have taken him into my ser^C^ 2 

 accompany me to Bokhara in about ten daW r 

 have met with the greatest kindness and hospital 6 ; l 

 Colonel Shiel and the gentlemen attached to the emU 

 and I wish this to be understood in the stricter *****' 

 the word." Dr. Wolff further says :-« Colonel^ 

 told me that he had seen the ambassador from BoH 

 who told him that he did not believe that Colonel W 

 dart and Captain Conolly had been killed, but tint rt 

 were kept in prison." Dr. Wolff had seen Count 2 

 Medem, the Russian envoy, and received from himt 

 account of his interview with the ambassador wWa 

 differed but little from that published some time a*r 

 the papers. The doctor has not yet been to visit uV 

 Bokhara ambassador, as he wishes previously to be nZ 

 sented to the King of Persia. Dr. Wolff says CoC 

 Stoddart's servant told him that " people had been fa 

 quently confined for five years in prison at Bokhara and 

 believed by all the inhabitants to have been killed wd 

 then suddenly had made their appearance again." '"flu 

 doctor then says :— " So much is certain, that no one it 

 Bokhara has witnessed the execution of Stoddart or 

 Conolly, and my determination, therefore, of goinr 

 straight to Bokhara is unshaken and unabated. I ||3 

 now begin to draw money on Drummond's in good 

 earnest, for I must appear respectably at Bokhara as the 

 great mullah from England, described by the Sultan and 

 the Sheik-ul-Islam, but as the mullahs among the 

 Muhammedans live with great simplicity, I shall do the 

 same. I shall not neglect to make search for the other 



SCOTLAND. 



^m6wrpA.— James Bryce, who after a trial of two days 

 (the 12th and 13th ult.), before the Court of Justiciary, 

 was convicted of the murder of his brother-in-law, was 

 executed at the usual place of execution in this city on 

 W ednesday last. He was in a state of pitiable exhaustion 

 when placed on the drop. Notwithstanding a drizzling 

 rain descended, and a raw wind blew during the morning 

 an immense multitude came from the neighbouring 

 country, and the place of execution was surrounded by an 

 anxious crowd as early as six o'clock. 



Glasgow. -A fortnight since, during a performance at 

 the Glasgow Theatre, a false alarm of fire was raised, 

 which so terrified the audience that they made a rush to 

 the doors, and the panic becoming general, several persons 

 were severely injured, and one has since died. 



itltsccliamous. 



Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. — Captain 

 Grover has received Dr. Wolff's journal up to the 6th 

 February. He left Tabrees on the 20th January, and 

 after a perilous and painful journey, reached Tehran in 

 perfect health, on the 4th February. Fifty-six miles 

 from Tehran, he was obliged to write to Colonel Shiel 

 petitioning that five horses might be sent to hi 8 assistance! 

 Colonel Shiel instantly sent the required horses, and 

 wrote in the kindest terms, inviting the doctor to take up 



British officers at and near Bokhara, and every sepoy I 

 might pick up." The King of Persia evinces the kindest 

 zeal. He has already written to the Ameer of Bokhari, 

 claiming these unfortunate men as British officers of dis- 

 tinction, and urging the Ameer to send them imme- 

 diately to Tehran, with all the honours due to their 

 exalted rank. His Majesty has also ordered a Mehmaud&h 

 to accompany Dr. Wolff to the Bokhara territory, and 

 we may now confidently expect that the fate of these 

 officers will not long remain a mystery. 



French Antiquities. — A man, in digging a trench at 

 Pagny-sur-Moselle, a short time back, struck on an 

 earthen vase (which was unfortunately broken), contain- 

 ing 2400 medals of the thirteenth and fourteenth cento- 

 ries. Some are smaller than the rest, and bear the figure 

 of a bishop wearing his mitre. On the other side ia a 

 cross, with some characters around. On the larger onei, 

 on one side is a number of heraldic signs, and on the 

 other a large cross. On some may be seen the words 

 Signum Dei vivi, and on some of the smaller " I. 0. H., 

 the initials of Jean d'Apremont, Bishop of Metz. 

 Amongst those pieces were found eleven struck with the 

 effigy of John Count de Maine, afterwards King John of 

 France, made prisoner at Poictiers ; six pieces of St. 

 Louis ; six of Jean d'Apremont, Bishop of Metz in 1227; 

 and two of Jacques de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz in 1239. 

 —A discovery highly interesting to the antiquary htf 

 lately been made in the middle of an extensive forest, near 

 Saint Saulge, about five leagues from Nevers. Itis J* 

 ruins of an entire Gallo-Roman town, a temple, and other 

 buildings, squares, and many streets. Every day vases ot 

 different materials, statuettes, fragments of larger statues 

 of fine execution, and other remnants of value are daily 



turned up Galignani. 



Desirable Investments.— -The Courrier Francis an- 

 nounces that a joint-stock company has been formed in 

 the department of the Seine-et-Oise for the destruction a 

 rats. The following is an extract from the deed prepared 

 by. M. Baget, a notary at Nauphle-le-Chateau, and regis- 

 tered on the 17th December, 1843 :-" M. paries- Adn« 

 Paris, a destroyer of rats, residing at Nauphle-le-LnatM% 

 and M. Edine Frege, likewise a destroyer of rats, resiuug 

 at Paris, have established between them a company 

 their joint names for the destruction of rats and mice, 

 extend to all France." The name of the com ?* a l [h 

 "Paris and Frege," to continue 20 years fr°»"® h) 

 of December, 1843. Capital, 500,000f. (20,000/. Bnm^ 

 La Rtforme publishes the prospectus of a new joi J ^ 

 company, established at Paris, under the title 

 Solicitude : an Establishment for Insurance agaw» 



ness and Misery. " hrottbt 



Canal of the Pyrenees.— A project has been o -s 

 forward by Mr. Buck, the Civil Engineer, for cu^ 

 "canal of the Pyrenees" to connect the Medlte bft he 

 with the Atlantic, and avoid the circuitous rouie ,/ waS 

 coast of Spain. The plan, as it at present st ^ French 

 first matured by M. Galabert, member ot tue 

 Chamber of Deputies. The French Legislature^ 

 to a company that was to carry it into executi o ^ gQ# 

 perty in perpetuity in the canal, with several o &c: 



tages, but required a deposit of 3,000,0001. unc> ^ ^ 

 was passed. The subscriptions were complete , ^ ^ 

 company was in active operation. In conse real aine<l 

 this deposit not having been made, the grant ba ^ ^ 

 subject to forfeiture, but nevertheless the scnem ^ 



been abandoned, and the notion exists of raw s 

 in England. 



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Assize Intelligence. Western Circuit, J a *£° fixed** 

 ricide. -It having: been knovrn that Monday J ,a( J , her> the B»<** 

 the trial of the Sealeys for the murder of their ^ m0 rtfJ» 

 intense anxiety was manifested at ^n early ["J?' ww foru^ 

 to obtain a seat in the hall. Long before the cour 



