May 18,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



approaching Whitsun holidays. A train is announced to 

 leave Leeds on Whit-Monday the 27th, at Ch. 50m. a.m., 

 and reach London at 5h. 30m. p.m., leaving London on 

 its return, on Thursday the 30th, at 11 a.m. : the fares 

 being from Leeds to London and back, first class 50*., 

 and second class, 25s. Cheap trains will leave Notting- 

 ham for London twice during the Whitsun week, giving , 

 the passengers the option of stopping four or eight days ; 

 the fares by the second class, there and back, being 28s. 

 Cheap trips are also announced, as during the Easter 

 week, by the Dover, Southampton, Brighton, and Col- 

 chester Railways. — The most severe contest which has 

 taken place for many years has recently closed between 

 two rival petitions from companies intending to form a 

 railway to Harwich. One emanated from parties sup- 

 ported by Mr. Attwood, the other from the Eastern 

 Counties Company, supported by Mr. Bagshaw. The 

 contest has lasted for 14 days, and has ended, in 

 both the Bills being thrown out. The expense thus 

 fruitlessly incurred will amount at least on each side 

 to 12,000/.— On Tuesday a meeting was held at Oxford 

 for the purpose of ascertaining the opinions of the lead- 

 ing members of the University, and the principal 

 citizens on a proposed line from the new station on the 

 Great Western Railway at Oxford, to join the Birming- 

 ham line at Rugby ; Dr. Marsham, warden of Merton 

 College in the chair. The meeting was attended by 

 several gentlemen connected with the Great Western 

 Railroad, by many heads of houses, and other leading 

 members of the University, and by a large number of the 

 most influential inhabitants of the city. The meeting, 

 after hearing Mr. Barlow, one of the directors ; ft 

 Brunei, the engineer; and Mr. Saunders, Secretary to 

 the Great Western Company, resolved unanimously that 

 the proposed line to Rugby via Banbury would be most 

 desirable to the University, city, and neighbourhood of 

 Oxford. The pro; er steps for commencing the line will 

 be immediately taken. 



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IRELAND. 

 DaU'm.— Various speculations are still indulged in 

 respecting the cause of the unexpected announcement of 

 Chief Justice Pennefather, that he was '•sorry" the 

 Court would be unable to pronounce judgment upon the 

 new trial motion until next term, which commences on 

 the 22 1 inst., and continues for three weeks. By some 

 it is asserted that the judges are equally divided— by 

 others, that Mr. Justice Burton is solely in favour of a 

 new trial. By some it is asserted that there is no 

 division of opinion whatever amongst the judges, that 

 they are unanimous in refusing a new trial, and that they 

 were induced to postpone their judgment on the point 

 by two causes— first, the necessity of devoting the two 

 remaining days of the last term to business pressing upon 

 the Court ; and secondly, in order to afford time for pre- 

 paring their judgments, which are to be given in an 

 elaborate form at the opening of Trinity Term on the 

 22d lnit The judges, according to this version, are 

 likely to occupy two days at least in announcing their 

 reasons for refusing to disturb the verdict. The usage 

 is for the Chief Justice to express the opinion of the 

 Court when its members are unanimous ; but it is said 

 this practice is to be departed from in the present in- 

 stance. It is however rumoured in other quarters that 

 •the whole Court were unanimous in declining to grant 

 the motion for a new trial as against all the parties 

 convicted with the exception of the Rev. Mr. Tierney ; 

 and that Mr. Justice Crorapton stands alone, and upon 

 some minor point, with regard to that gentleman. How- 

 ever, all speculations on the matter must be received 

 witn caution, and it is supposed that there was some 

 material cause for delay, when the Chief Justice so un- 

 equivocally expressed his «' sorrow - for the postpone- 

 ?hl '~?} r ' M«rtley Queen'. Counsel, who presided at 

 the investigation m Shmrone, has presented his report to 

 government, detailing the recent system of getting up 

 Riband prosecutions in that part of King's County, in 

 which policemen were implicated. The Government 

 have determined upon the dismissal of three of the police, 

 one of them a person of superior station in the force, and 

 also upon the removal to another station of a civil officer 

 holding an appointment in the district.— The landlord 

 and tenant commission have required returns of the num- 

 ber of ejectments filed in the Irish Courts of Queen's 

 Bench, Exchequer, and Common Pleas, during the last 

 five years distinguishing the tenants served, the coun- 

 ties, and the number of habeases issued thereupon. A 

 weekly journal observes, with respect to this return— 

 We have reason to believe, that those returns will ex- 

 ? ™* formidable extent of ejectment-much greater 

 Tear Z* I Bt aU wlc «^ed upon. Within a single 

 three Z?^ i™-' alone ' there h «™ been very neaHy 

 towmcnto ?n \ ectment *> averaging from ten to fifteen 

 the Ueneai ] * ac ^ ect *™t.»--The weekly meeting of 



Peace, in the cha r Mr 5» Ex-Justice of the 

 * motion, to the effect ^1^ a *""* gaVe DOtice of 

 nion that the pl^^MonTl™ * - Were ° f ^ 

 Lord-Lieutenant of Sb»d-« iZl^FV? ^ ? f 

 existence for six centurie lis f e l t to h f h **^' n "5 

 -Iting, and as having lot ttS n ^ ^ 

 tie dram of money from this count™ »Ja ,ncre f8e 



«d. nary bwinew having been transacted, Mr O'Con 

 ill rose for the purpose of aliuuin" to a tAnil 

 jna. to hin.seif, VSch he wou.d TaVUi P °f g£ 

 f the Jast j,me. He was not in the habit of noticing 

 ttyar.egation of newspaper calumny, but he bad re- 

 ««iy seen a report of a debate in the House of Lords 



wherein some contradictory statements had been made 

 by Lords Wharncliffe and Normanby with respect to an 

 offer made to himself. He now wished distinctly to 

 state the facts of the case. In the first place, it was ad- 

 mitted by Lord Normanby himself that he had been 

 offered the Mastership of the Rolls, and on that point 

 there was no controversy. If he had accepted that office, 

 he would have had about 25,0007. of the public money 

 in his pockets by this time, but then he would have done 

 nothing for Ireland. It might be the greatest extreme of 

 vanity, but still he thought Ireland wanted him. Now, 

 the question to be decided was, whether he was offered 

 the Mastership of the Rolls or the Chief Baronship, or 

 not. The first was admitted ; Lord Normanby denied 

 the latter ; but there was this very comical circumstance 

 about the offer — the Rolls were not then vacant, and 

 Lord Normanby had not asked the assent of the gentle- 

 man who filled it to make any transfer. When the 

 vacancy occurred in the office, Mr. Woulfe wrote to 

 him (Mr. O'Connell) stating that though the Chief 

 Baronship would begiven to him as a matter of routine right, 

 yet he would waive that right altogether if the Government 

 intended to give him (Mr. O'Connell) that office. After 

 that he had the honour of an interview with Lord Nor- 

 manby, who spoke to him about the vacancy, but he 

 (Mr. O'Connell) interrupted him, and said, " Spare 

 yourself the trouble, my Lord ; I do not wish to say 

 anything unpleasant to you, but I will not take any 

 office under Government." He said now that he did 

 not offer him the Chief Baronship. That must be true, 

 as his Lordship said so, and he must be best able to tell 

 what he meant ; but it was strange enough that he 

 (Mr. O'Connell) understood it differently, and more so 

 that within a few months after that interview he (Mr. 

 O'Connell) stated in the House, in the presence of Lord 

 John Russell and other members of Government, that 

 the choice had been offered to him, and that statement 

 was not contradicted. Twice he repeated that statement 

 without being set right ; and it was really too hard for 

 Lord Normanby, after a lapse of two years, to come out 

 now with a statement to the contrary. After a lengthy 

 address to the Protestants of Ireland, the hon. gentle- 

 man alluded to the appointment of Mr. O'Brien. He 

 declared that, " So help him God," he would not take 

 the Repeal of the Union if there was any restriction of 

 any Protestant right of conscience. Mr. O'Connell 

 then informed the audience that he was about to leave 

 them for England, and retired amidst great cheering, 

 which lasted for some minutes. The rent was 453/. — The 

 dissolution of the Dublin Conservative Society took place 

 on Monday. Captain W. S. Bull presided on the occa- 

 sion, and attributed the decay of a society which once 

 numbered 1200 members to the liberalism of Sir Robert 

 Peel's administration, which has paralysed the zeal of 

 Conservatism in Dublin. 



Leitrim. — A man named Thomas Nash, residing in 

 the parish of Cloone, in this county, was attacked in his 

 own house, on Sunday week, by a party of five armed 

 men, and murdered on the spot. 



Tipperary.— On the 10th inst., Mr. Lee, steward to 

 John Garden, Esq., of Barnabo, near Templemore, was 

 fired at from a plantation, close to which he had to pass. 

 The ball took effect, and lodged in the flesh of the arm, 

 from which it has been extracted. Mr. Lee is a respect- 

 able man, and has been for many years in the employ- 

 ment of Mr. Garden. The reason assigned for the out- 

 rage is, that he was getting houses levelled from which 

 defaulting tenants had been ejected. Mr. Carden has 



escaped more than once from assassins on the same 

 lands. 



Bel/as /.—About ten o'clock on Thursday night some 

 persons built across the road to Bally money a barricade, 

 from two to three feet high, of large stones, evidently 

 with the intention of upsetting the mail for Belfast. 

 Many hands must have been employed in the work, as 

 it was done in less than thirty minutes. Fortunately 

 the circumstance was made known before the arrival of 

 the coach. An investigation took place next dav, and a 

 reward has been offered for the apprehension of the 

 offenders. 



Limerick -On Wednesday night, (says the Limerick 

 Uiromcle) the surrounding country was illuminated for 

 the supposed triumph of Mr. O'Connell over the 

 Attorney-Genera l in the Court of Q ueen's Bench ! 



vr • t ™ SCOTLAND." 



hW iTi "^ ,r Th * P roceedin S» of the General Assem- 

 bly, winch will „cite great interest nnder the present 

 circumstances o the Church of Scotland, commence, on 

 Thursday at Edinburgh. The Marquess of Bute, her 



of the Church of Scotland, will hare his residence, levees, 

 and entertainments at the Palace of Holyrood d in T t he 

 lifting of he Assembly. The levees or public entertain! 

 ments will be held on each day of the Assembly, half an 

 hour before its meeting. Hi. Grace attended dirine 

 service m the High Church on Thursday, and will do so 



there will be no levees or public entertainments at the 



ml?, , t FH £ SB K d ! T, u- The Free Church Assembly 

 meets at Edinburgh at the same time. »«u»"j 



to 150, was decided by a House of~4fiiwrr~r == " — 

 the division of Marcl/l 8, and on that^ Ma^ , 

 Ashley was supported by the following 88 ml u^ 

 whose aid was withheld on Monday last \f .. f * mbe «, 



Ada^vtac?' EmlFn * ViSC ' "— ^ 



Fellowes, E. 

 Aldam, W. French, F. 



Antrobus, E. Gladstone, Capt. 



Archdall, Capt. Gore, M. 



Barclay, D. Gore, W. R. O. 



Baskerville, T. B. M. Goring, C. 

 Beresford, Major. Gregory, W. H. 

 Berkeley, Hon. Capt. Grimston, Vise. 

 Blake, M. J. Grogan, E. 



Buller, C. Hall, Sir B. 



Butler, Hon. Col. Hayes, Sir E. 

 Carew, Hon. R. S. Hervey, Lord A. 

 Cavendish, Hn. C. C. Holland, R. 

 Cavendish, Hm.G.H. Hope, A. 



Chetwode, Sir J. 

 Colville, C. R. 

 Copeland, Mr. Aid. 

 Cresswell, B. 

 Curteis, H. B. 

 Dalrymple, Capt. 

 Davies, D. A. S. 

 Douglas, J. D. S. 

 Duke, Sir J. 

 Duncombe, Hon. O. 

 Dundas, Adm. 

 Du Pre, C. G. 

 Eaton, Ft. J. 

 Egerton, Sir P. 

 Ellice, E. 



Horsman, E. 



Marton, G. 

 Maxwell, Hon. j. p 



Mordaum, Srj 

 Muntz, G. F. ' 



Neville, R. 



Newport, Viae. 

 Newry, Vi Sc . 

 O'Connell, D. 

 Packe, C. W. 

 Pakington, J. S . 

 Palmer, G. 

 Palmer, R. 



Pennant, Hon. Col 



Plumridge, Capt. 

 Polhill, F. 



Praed, \\\ t, 



Howard, Hon. C. W. Rendlesham", Lord 

 Jocelyn, Vise. r 0SS , D. R. 



Johnstone, Sir J. 

 Knight, H. G. 

 Knight, F.W. 

 Law, Hon. C. E. 

 Legh, G. C. 

 Leveson, Lord 

 Lindsay, H. H. 

 Lowther, J. H. 



Macnamara, Major 

 Mahon, Vies. 



Round, C. G. 

 Ryder, Hon. G. D. 

 Smith, A. 

 Smollett, A. 

 Stanton, W. H. 

 Stewart, J. 

 Sturt, H. C. 

 Taylor, J. A. 

 Trotter, J. 

 Vivian, J. H. 



Mainwaring, T. 

 Martin, J. 



Of the above list, the following Members 14 recorded their 

 votes directly in opposition to the proposition which they 

 had previously supported : — 



Aldam, W. Hope, A. 



Barclay, D. Knight, H. Gaily 



Chetwode, Sir J. Legh, G. C. 



Gore, M. Martin, J. 



Grimston, Viscount Maxwell, J. J. P. 



Lord Ashley was supported on Mondav by the follow.!* 



Newry, Viscount 

 Palmer, G. 

 Ross, D. R. 

 Trotter, J. 



32 Members, who did not vote witi 

 previous divisions 



Archbold, R. 

 Barnard, E. G. 

 Benett, J. 

 Bernell, Captain 

 Blake, M. 

 Blandford, Marq. of 

 Brisco, M. 

 Browne, R. D. 

 Chelsea, Viscount 

 Christie, VV. D. 

 Corbally, M. E. 



i him on either of the 



O'Connell, M. 

 Philipps.SirR. B.P. 

 Pryse, P. 

 Redington, T. N. 

 Seale, Sir J. H. 

 Sheil, Rt. Hon.R.L. 

 Smitli, B. 

 Somers, J. P. 

 Turnor, C. 

 Watson, W. H. 



Dundas, D. 

 Esmond, Sir T. 

 Heneage, E. 

 Howard, Sir R. 

 Hurst, R. H. 

 Jcrvis, J. 

 Johnson, General 

 Lambton, II. 

 Langton, W. G. 

 Layard, Captain 

 Mahcr, N. 



The Ministry were supported on the last division by 107 

 Members who had not registered their votes on either of 

 the previous occasions. The Ministerial majority on 

 Monday was 297; from which deduct the 14 voters who 

 had previously declared their assent to the 10-hours 

 principle, 14 ; actual Ministerial Majority, 283. On 

 Monday there voted with Lord Ashley 159 ; to this add 

 the 88 who supported him on the 18th and 22d March, 

 83 : actual number for the 10-hours clause, 247 ,' the real 

 majority will then only be 36. 



The Navies of France and England.— -We have 

 stated in our foreign article that some curiosity has been 

 excited in Paris by the publication of a remarkable pam- 

 phlet on this subject from the pen of the Prince de Join- 

 ville. The following extracts from this work, which 

 appeared in the Morning Chronicle of yesterday will, no 

 doubt, interest our readers: — "The steam navy has 

 changed the face of matters. Tt is now our military 

 resources which will come to take the place of our impo- 

 verished naval establishments. We shall always have 

 enough of officers and men for the duties left for a sailor 

 to perform on board a steamer. The engine supplies the 

 place of a hundred hands, and I have no occasion to say 

 that we shall ever feel the want of money forthe !? ?r 

 struction of steam engines, nor of soldiers to fight 

 when they shall be called on to support the honour 

 of the country. With a steam navy the boldest war 

 of aggression on the ocean is permitted. we ar 

 sure of our movements, free in our actions. Time, 

 wind, or tides, give us no longer concern : we ca 

 calculate to a day or an hour. In case of a < 

 nental war, the most unexpected diversions are possible. 

 In a few hours armies can be transported from tranc^ 

 into Italy, Holland, or Prussia. What was once don- 

 at Ancona with a rapidity which was seconded by w 

 winds, can now be done every day without their assi ■ 

 ance, almost against their influence, and with still g« a 

 rapidity. As I have already said, these new resourc 

 suit us admirably, and the forms of war, thus oodine , 

 do not leave the chances as they were thirty years ^ 

 between France and the enemies with which she m *>. t 

 gage. It is a subject worthy of inquiry to what f 

 the progress of steam and its probable employrnen ^ 

 cites the attention of our neighbours.— I am not o ^ 

 those who, in the illusion of national vanity, bene : 

 to be in a state to contend, when both sides are : ei 

 asainst the British power, neither would I allow it 



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said that in any case we could not resist it. My 

 opinion is, that it is possible for us to «»PP " . aa d 

 against any power, even if that power were fcngian . 

 that by re-establishing a sort of equality in the jua 

 employment of our resources, if we cannot ga s ^ 

 successes, we can, at least, march with security q[ 



ought to be our object— the maintenance to rr ^ 

 the rank which belongs to her. Our successes ^ 

 be striking, because we will take care not ^ 

 all our resources at once, on a decisive conte j^ 

 we will make war with security, because we wn fae 

 two objects at once, which are equally vulneraD 



The Divisions on the Factories Bill.— lord \ 8 hlev's 

 proposition was sustained in a division on the 18 h of 

 March, by 179 to 170, giving a majority of 9 n a II owe 



KTh*^ 3 " emberS - ° a thC 22d 0^ the sam" 

 month that decision was confirmed by 186 to 183, a 



|? a a j:° r l ty ° •?' w ]\ en t 3 ' 3 members voted. The clauM i means oi inuicung ua our eii B uii» 



having a similar object, negatived on Monday last by 297 I ferings unknown to a nation which has never 



confidence of the English people in their ^r 1 ^ btt t 

 tion, and her maritime commerce. Who can o» ^ fi 

 that with a steam navy strongly organised, we ^ 

 means of inflicting on our enemies' coasts losses w 



felt the 



