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THE NEWSPAPER. 



r ^TI^Tcattle^dealers. The principal partner is 



^™nJohn.on,who lately filled the office of Lord 



Jl raD d whose reverse of fortune is a subject of deep 

 r^ret amongst his friends and acquaintances. The 

 ount of the liabilities and probable assets has no 



am 

 transpired. 



Wcitoii Super Mare.— On Wednesday, a man called 

 Toel Fisher, an innkeeper in this town, murdered his 

 wife by fracturing l.er skull with an iron bar, and after- 

 wards cutting her throat. He at once confessed that he 

 had done so, and has since been committed for trial on 



the capital charge. 



Railways.— The following are the returns for the past 



[1844. 



Grand Junction, 8114/.; Glasgow,. Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1453/- Great North of England, J3/0J. ; London and 

 Birmingham, 18,193/.; South-Western, 8058/.; Black- 

 wall 995/. ; Greenwich, 962/. ; Brighton, 3530/. ; 

 Croydon, 5.03/.; Liverpool and Manchester, 4819/.; 

 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 6151/.; Mid- 



Manchester, 577/. ; York and North Midland, 1664/. 

 The meeting of the South Eastern and Dover company 

 took place last week. The chairman congratulated the 

 shareholders on the prospects of the railway, and gave a 

 comparative statement of the amount of traffic on the 

 railway in the months of April and May in 1843, and in 

 the present year, showing that the two months of the 

 present year had doubled those of last year. The branch 

 now constructing to Maidstone would shortly be opened, 

 and would bring a considerable accession of traffic to the 

 railway. The principal sources of traffic on this branch 

 railway would be from the carriage of lime and coal, from 

 which enormous profits are anticipated. He then exhi- 

 bited a statement of the receipts at the Bricklayers' 

 Arras station since its opening, and a statement of the 

 receipts at the London-bridge station during the same 

 period. From London-bridge they had carried 11,285 

 passengers, realising 5260/. ; from the Bricklayers' 

 Arms 19,953 passengers, realising 6060/. The 

 Reigate station had been opened as a joint station for 

 the London and Brighton and the Dover Companies, and 

 had been found to be of great public advantage. 

 The directors contemplated the formation of a branch 

 from Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells, a distance of 4| 

 miles. All the works on the Canterbury branch had been 

 contracted for, the surveys were making, and a meeting 

 would be soon called for the purpose of obtaining the 

 proprietors' sanction for raising the necessary capital. 

 He expressed dissatisfaction at the decision of the com- 

 mittee of the House of Commons upon the Hastings 

 line, and the determination of the directors to oppose 

 the rival Bill. A statement of the accounts was then 

 submitted, from which it appeared that the receipts since 

 the opening of the railway were 3,401,468/. 135. 3d., 

 and the expenses 3,296,273/. 17s., showing a balance of 

 lOa.194/. 16*. 3d. This was up to the 1 *t of April last. 

 From the statement of the revenue account for the half- 

 year ending the 31st of March, 1844, it appeared that 

 [he receipts had been 79 576/. 3s., expenses 52,746/. 3*., 

 leaving a bilance of 26,830/. Mr. Cardwell, M.P., and 

 Gen. Hodgson, were elected directors before the meeting 

 separated.— It appears that the Birmingham Company 

 have, through their chairman (Mr. Glyn), made the 

 to.I.owing P^posals to the Grand Junction Company, 

 with the view to settle the differences between the two 

 ooards relative to the Shrewsbury and Chester and Birk- 

 enhead hues:— << I. That the London and Birmingham 

 ana brand Junction Companies remain distinct and 

 separate as they now are, both in respect to their 

 management and capital. 2. That the directors of each 

 ooara be severally and exclusively responsible for their 

 management to their respective proprietors. 3. That 



into ff t g K engagemCntS ° f each com P anv be carried 

 nrUo ?u l * lat neitner en gage in any new enter- 



nrofirr ? °f? k i he consent of the other. 4. That the net 

 i rnm r nes ' from whatever source derived, go to 



'It ! 1 , ,» 0ut of w hich equal dividends shall be 

 clndttM * 0f both companies. " Mr. Glyn con- 



^s ins communication on the subject by remarking 



of deU'? n f T ,tprematurc toentcr at present into points 

 and dirt *i &m quite aware that numerous objections 

 ment h,?i C8 may he started to this or any other arrange- 

 in the J T ? nable to lHa cover any which ought tostand 

 Uined i * • §reat ^^age which would be thus 

 undertaki 0I 1 ? creasin ff the stability of these two great 

 our resn^r 8 ' i ° f rest0l ™g to the numerous body of 

 necessarilv b , reholders that confidence which must 

 —The new V en so Ion S a s we remain at variance." 

 gained consid.rl^- K >S 8t(m u P on R«»^ay f _ which 



and half-past G o'clock trains on the Great ' stern ; and printed in mourning, as on the death of members of the 

 in? W 5r» i y i» tfainS have ah0 met the 7, half-past Royal family, and the Corporation have called a meeting to 

 lu,.5,and b o clock trains on the London and Birmingham, express their condolence with Mr. O'Connell and his fel- 

 — On Tuesday week, the new church, erected and | low-prisoners. It is rumoured, however, that Government 

 endowed at \\ olverton by the shareholders of the London intend to suppress the Repeal Association, and that they 



and Birmingham Railway, and the trustees of the ' " T ...... J 



Ratcliffe estate, in which it is situated, was consecrated 

 by the Bishop of Lincoln. The Railway Companv have 

 fixed their central depot at this spot, and built houses for 

 their workmen, so that where a few years ago there was 

 nothing but corn-fields, there is now a daily increasing 

 town of not fewer than 1200 inhabitants, almost every 

 one of whom is connected with the railway. The 

 directors have done everything in their power to promote 

 the moral and religious improvement of this new popu- 

 lation. They have established schools for the young, 

 and a library and reading room for adults, and for some 

 time past divine service has been performed in the school- 

 room by a clergyman specially appointed for that purpose. 

 The services of Tuesday drew together a very full congre- 

 gation, the church, a handsome stone building op ible 

 of accommodating about 1500 persons, being crowded in 

 every part. 



IRELAND. 



The State Trials.— We were enabled in our last 

 to give au account of the final close of the state trials, 

 and the sentence, which was pronounced by Mr. Justice 

 Burton about 4 p.m. on Thursday. From that hour until 

 five, Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers remained 

 in the judges' chambers, whilst the necessary arrange- 

 ments were in progress for their transmission to the 

 Penitentiary, and to afford time for allaying the excite- 

 ment amongst the multitudes who remained outside the 

 courts. At a quarter after five o'clock the traversers 

 were driven off in three carriages, surrounded by a strong 

 force of horse police. In the first carriage sat Mr. 

 O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, the High Sheriff, Mr. 

 Ball, and the Rev. Dr. Miley. In the second carriage 

 were Dr. Gray, Mr. Duffy, Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Ray. 

 The third carriage contained Mr. Steele, Mr. Ford, Mr. 

 Ball, jun., and Mr. R. O'Gorman. There was a general 

 cry of " silence " among the crowd assembled outside the 

 court, and great excitement prevailed. The cavalcade 

 rapidly passed down Merchants'-quay, in order, as it 

 seemed, to prevent the crowds from discovering its real 

 destination ; but nevertheless great numbers followed, 

 and kept up with the carriages all the way to the Peni- 

 tentiary, where they arrived about six o'clock. When 

 Mr. O'Connell left the first carriage, a loud cheer arose 

 from the populace congregated on the road outside. Mr. 

 O'Connell entered the gateway, and passed through the 

 court-yard to the house of the governor, Mr. Purdon. 

 In theyard, a considerable number of gentlemen were 

 waiting, arranged in two files, who uncovered as Mr. 

 O'Connell, with hat in hand, passed between them. Mr. 

 O'Connell recognised and shook hands warmly with the 

 many friends who thus received him at the gates of his 

 prison. Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Steele, Mr. Duffy, 

 Dr. Gray, Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Ray soon after entered, 

 and all passed into the governor's house. The governor 

 being absent in England, the deputy-governor, Mr. 

 Cooper, attended to receive the prisoners from the high- 

 sheriff. Mr. O'Connell soon after proceeded to the 



by those ladies, subsequently appeared in the gardens 

 attached to the residence of the governor, and remained 

 there until dinner, when he and his fellow-prisoners dined 

 together. The Penitentiary is an immense pile of build. 



vernor s 



have it in contemplation to institute legal proceedings 

 against Mr. Smith O'Brien, for speeches delivered by him 

 on several occasions at the Corn-exchange and in Concilia- 

 tion Hall — The weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa- 

 tion took place on Monday, Mr. C. Powell, M.P. in the 

 chair. Mr. S. O'Brien said that Mr. O'Connell was in 

 j til, not by the verdict of a jury, or the charge of a Chief 

 Justice, but at the immediate instigation of the govern- 

 ment. The court were willing to lend every assistance 

 in allowing the traversers to remain at large till the ap- 

 peal to the House of Lords was decided ; they appealed 

 to the law officers of the Crown, but these gentlemen, 

 acting, no doubt, under instructions, resolutely refused 

 their sanction to this reasonable suggestion, lie was, 

 therefore, justified in throwing the entire odium on the 

 government. Every event, in his opinion, was accel- 

 erating the repeal— the result of the trials had put it 

 beyond a doubt. The bridge was cut away — henceforth 

 no one would dare to propose a compromise to any 

 ministry, lie would call on the members of the Ca- 

 tholic religion, one and all, to become liepealers. Who 

 was it that enabled you, Richard Shiel, to wear a silk 

 gown ? O'Connell. — Who enabled you to become a 

 member of Parliament ! O'Connell.— Who enabled you 

 to become a Privy Councillor ? O'Connell. — Where are 

 you now? He (Mr. O'Brien) would tell him that here 

 in the Conciliation-hall was his place, guiding his coun- 

 trymen by his counsels, and inspiring: them by his elo- 

 quence. Every man ought at the present juncture 

 to conduct himself as if the achievement of their 

 object depended on his individual exertion?. For him- 

 self, he would listen to no proposal short of ab- 

 solute repeal. The honourable gentleman then highly 

 eulogised the temperance movement, and begged leave 

 to mention to the meeting a resolution he had made, 

 and he called on Heaven to enable him to maintain 

 it ; it was this — that no intoxicating drink 6hould entar 

 his lips till the union was repealed . An address of 

 sympathy was then voted to Mr. O'Connell, and the 

 rent was handed in. Among the sums announced were 

 1000/. from Boston, America; 100/. from Mr. Nicholas 

 Maher, M.P., for Tipperary, towards the fine imposed 

 on Mr. O'Connell, with a promise to subscribe ">/. a 

 month towards the Repeal rent, during the incarceration 

 of the traversers. Money was poured in from all parts 

 of the Hall in such amounts that the ordinary business 

 was suspended. At 6 o'clock, Mr. S. O'Brien sail : " The 

 first week's return of rent, showing the opinion of the 

 Irish people on the captivity of Mr. O'Conuell, is 2596/." 

 The meeting then adjourned to Monday, when Mr. S. 

 O'Brien, M.P., directed the Secretary to alter the date 

 of the previous day's meeting to the " first week of the 

 captivity," and for the future to date all their proceedings 

 from that epoch. He also proposed, as members, the 

 children of two of the conspirators, Mr. Duffy and Dr. 

 Gray, at the suggestion of the ladies of the prisoners, as 

 they could not themselves hold direct communication 

 out of doors. At the close of the meeting, Mr. S. 

 O'Brien moved, and Dr. Nagle seconded a motion to the 

 effect, that the chair which had been occupied by Mr. 

 O'Connell at their former meetings, should remain 

 vacant during his absence from them. The resolution 

 having been adopted, the meeting was adjourned to 

 " Monday, in the second week of the captivity." 



Dublin.— It is announced that the Lord Lieutenant 

 will leave Dublin for England in about a fortnight, and 

 that he will not again return as Viceroy. 



is 

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fi uch rapid v!\a n . ot , oriet y a few years ago, and made 

 *t present in A Wlth the South Western Railway, ?• 

 **en filed a -.in .TJ27' a biU of S reat magnitude havin 

 Sir T. WiW 8 d P re *ent occupiers. It is said that 

 ar * retained . , 8everal eminent gentlemen of the bar 



la « answer Ann* ,?' the bUl c °»tains 800 folios ' and 

 e »ployment t ,os » . lt bius «» to find considerable 

 * nic & the a nL! • law yers. The parchment on 



""" 'ritten consists of the skin of 



ay morning the West London 



Junction with !', 00 !? f ° r public traffic as far as its 

 and other " leCTrea t Western line, but the station 



dSlZ^ 10 " 8 ..^ ^s junction 



nce Moudav t f,. t '-' , T 



7> trams have been running to meet the 9, 1 1, 





rs 



«beeD'-ln Wer v, i3 Wri «en consists of 

 raii Way ^ 0n ^ood 



L °ndonand r-,' I, * ia V on8 at its Junction with the 

 °Peni g of that ,ns - ine not bein S completed, the 



Sinr-e >*. * P°rtlOn Was deferral n«*;i XVv.A^cA*-- 



ings, situated in a very healthy locality. The go 

 house, where Mr. O'Connell and the other defendants m 

 the State Trials are located, is a spacious mansion, with 

 gardens attached, and the general prison is at the rear.— 

 On Monday, on the sitting of the full court, Mr. White- 

 side, Q.C., applied to their Lordships on behalf of the 

 prisoners, to be allowed to inspect the " record" on the 

 cause, lodged in the office of the clerk of the Crown, for 

 the alleged object of seeing and comparing the names 

 of the witnesses endorsed on the back of the original in- 

 dictment ; a proceeding, declared in the affidavit of Mr. 

 Ford, upon which the motion was fouuded, to be abso- 

 lutely necessary for the proper prosecution of the in- 

 tended writ of error. The Attorney-General opposed 

 the application, as being without precedent, and the 

 Judges were equally divided in their opinions, the Chief 

 Justice and Mr. Justice Crampton being against, and 

 Mr. Justice Burton and Mr. Justice Perrin for it. The 

 Attorney-General then said that two members of the 



Court having decided in favour of the application, Ire j pawl ng PEmnerew** 



would take no further objection to counsel for the pri- I — " Mais ou est done I Lmpcreur . 

 soners seeing the record, as suggested by Mr. Justice 

 Burton — namely, in presence of the Court. The docu- 

 ment was then handed to Mr. Whiteside, who, wi 

 some of his brethren, examined it for about half a mi- 

 nute, when it was returned to the Bench amidst the 

 laughter of the Crown Counsel. It is calculated that, 

 within ten days, all the necessary preliminary forms 

 will have been complied with, and the Writ of Lrror 

 regularly lodged for argument before the House of Lords. 

 —The news of Mr. O'Connell's imprisonment seems 

 to have caused more excitement in the provinces than in 

 Dublin. Letters from Clonmel, Thurles, Camek-on-buir, 

 Drogheda, Limerick, Dundalk, Newry, Nenagn, Kil- 

 kenny Cork, and other places, state that the greatest 

 excitement existed in the public mind in those pi 





was deferred until Wednesday. 



excitement existed in the public mind in those places, 

 and meetings were immediately to be held to express the 

 svmpathy and confidence of the Irish people in their 



pathy 

 «* Liberator." 



The Repeal newspapers in Dublin are 



SCOTLAND. 

 Edinburgh. — The election for the vacant Professor- 

 ship of Music in the Edinburgh University came off on 

 Saturday last. Since the meeting in April Dr. Wesley 

 had resigned, and on Saturday the candidates were re- 

 duced to three— Mr. Pearson, the son of the Dean of 

 Salisbury ; Mr. Donaldson, the advocate ; and Mr. Ben- 

 nett, the pianist. The Senate divided thus :— 14 voting 

 for Mr. Pearson, and 11 for Mr. Donaldson. Mr. Ben- 

 nett had no vote. The new Professor, Mr. Pearson, 

 was intended for the medical profession, but for the last 

 two years has been studying music in Germany. 



ittfecclianeou** 



The Emperor of Russia.— The Rentier, the Grand 

 Duke Michael, the Duke de Leuchtenberg, were all seen 



in turn — each led about by a whispering mask 



" II n'y est pas 



encore" was the answer ; but scarce was this uttered 

 when a towering plume moved, the crowd fell back, and 

 enframed in a vacant space stood a figure to winch there 

 is no second in Russia, if in the world itself — a figure of 

 the grandest beauty, expression, dimension, and carriage, 

 uniting all the majesties and graces of all the Heathen 

 gods — the little god of love alone perhaps excepted — on 

 its ample and symmetrical proportions. Had this 

 nobility of person belonged to a common Mougik 

 instead of to the Autocrat of all the Russi is, the admira- 

 tion could not have been less, nor scarcely the feeling of 

 moral awe. It was not the monarch who was go mafn- 

 ficent a man, but the man was so truly imperial. 

 person of the Emperor is that of a colossal man^ i_ fi 

 full prime of life and health, 42 years of age, , ■«» 

 feet 2 inches high, and well filled out, w »^ ut ^ 

 approach to corpulency-the head fV^T^^ 

 a splendid breadth of shoulder and chest, great leng 



