

Jfl.Y 27,] 



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THE N WSPAPER. 



[1844. 



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been 89W/. 14*. 6a*., while the net increase of divisable 

 profits exc \e of the last balance in hand, was 

 'I. \'f. bd. The report submitted gave great satis- 

 faction, and resolutions were earned, authorising the 

 director* to follow out the branch lines through Swinton, 

 Doncaster. Bawtry, to Lincoln, Yoik, fee. — An arrange- 

 ment, it is said, has been come to between the Green- 

 wich and Croydon companies the terms of which are, 

 that the Croydon company takes the south line of rails 

 to itself, for the purpose of laying down the atmospheric 

 railway. H nd gives the Greenwich company "25,000/. 

 towards the eipenses of adding another pair of rails on 

 the north of their line. The passengers are to come to 



menced the proceedings by reading a letter liom the 

 Repeaters of Halifax, Nova's .tia. inclosing a subscrip. 

 tion of 200/., and announced the receipt ot several sums 

 transmitted to him during the week from the country. 

 Sir V. Bake. MP., read a letter from the Editor « 

 Galway Vindicator, tender 1 resignation as a mem- 



ber of the Association ; and proceeded to addreas the 

 meeting on the subject of Repeal. He stowed himself at. 

 ardent Repealer — the advocate of an independent and 

 unrestricted Parliament in (.'ollege-srreen for the manage- 

 ment of Irish afjiirs ; but if it c< uld be shown, as he 

 thought it could, that they were entitled to something 

 more than this federal Parliament, and that : | could 



London-bridge on the principle of a proportionate loll ; obtain something more, he felt assured that no member 



in this manner 30 per cent, is to be deducted from the 

 receipts lor locomotive power, aiul the remainder is to 

 be divided between Uie Greenwich and Croydon com- 



e/ 



panics in proportion to the ditttnee travelled on tl 

 Greenwich to that on the Croydon. For New-cross 

 passengers the Greenwich will have CO per cent, of 

 70 per cent, of the receipts, that ie, 42 per cent, 

 of the receipts, and for Croydon passengers 16 per 

 cent, of the 70, or 1 1.2 per cent, of the gross receipts. 

 — The Brussels papers state that the Belgian Government 

 has been (or some time engaged in a negotiation with the 



English Govemesent for the pnrpoee of establishing a 



daily post between Ostcnd and I) ver. The sui t has 



been followed up with so much activity, that there ir. 

 every reason to b. Iieve that the railroad f ■ I in 



and those of Belgium and Germany will be placed in 



perfect communication. Last w ^ an eiperin ital 

 voyage waa made, which was completely successful. 

 The new steam-boat the Princess Mart, the property of 

 the Dover and London Railway ( opany, accomplished 

 the passage between hover and 0»tend io 4} ) 



The Dirvmomof the Dover Railway, M. Bat 1 



of the Public Works, and M. Drouet, ary of tl 



Belgian Lega'i n in England, left L n by the Dote 



Railway, at 20 minutes past 6 en Tessdaj morning. 

 The tram arrived at Dover at 50 minutes past 8, sf 

 stopping at Folkestone 12 minutes ; the Princess 

 Mary was in readiness, snd left Doter at 20 minutes 

 past 9, and anited at Ostend at 50 minutes past 1. 

 The doctors of the Doter Railway were there received 

 by the director of the Belgian railway*, the director of 

 the Rhenish railways, the chief engineer, and the in- 

 spector. The pa>sage tiom London to Ostend was thus 

 completed in 7J hours, including the embarkation an.i 

 all Stoppages, which occupied 40 minutes. The regular 

 mail which left Dover at the same time with the Princess 

 Mary, did not reach Ostend till . r > in the evening. By 

 this conveyance the inhabitants of Brussels received at 

 6 in the evening, The Times pttblianed in London the 

 same morning. It is impossible to anticipate the ad- 

 vantages which may arise by extending the operations of 



the English railways to those of Belgium and Germany. 



The third edition of the lirusstls Gazelle ot the 16l 

 inst. contained several extracts from The Times of the 

 same day. — A considerable reduction of the farrs between 

 Liverpool and London is about to be made immediately, 

 the directors of the Grand Junction and the London and 

 Birmingham Railway Companies having bo'h decided in 

 favour ot such a step. This is one of the first results of the 

 understanding which now exists between the two com- 

 panies. — A meeting was held at Dorchester on Friday ot 

 those per»ons who were favourable to what has been 

 termed the coast line of railway from Southampton t«» 

 that city. The Mayor of Dorchester was in the chair. 

 The report of the committee, containing the reports of 

 Capt. Moorsom and Mr. Pare, was read. Capt. Moor- 

 eom stated muc . in favoav of that line to pa«a by Red- 

 brook, Lymihursr, Kin. wood, Wimborne, Poole, and 

 Wareham, and so 10 Dorchester, and from Dorchester, 

 by atmospheric traction, over the hills to Weymouth. 

 The expenses of the line between Southampton and Dor- 

 chester » d be 450,000/., and Dorchester to Wey 

 mouth 104 000/ more. Mr. Pare 'a report stated that 

 the traffic would amount to 48,752/., *nd|that the 1 rofit 



would be 6± pe it. The committee strongly rec< 



mended the adoption of this line, and stated that they 

 believed they should meet with the co-operation of t: 

 South Western Company. Lord Wnr-ley moved the 

 adoption of the report. It was very desirable that this 

 county should hate the advantage of railway communi- 

 cation with London and the south-eastern parts of 

 England. It was of national importance that there 

 should be a railway along the coast, in case of war or of 

 vessels committing depredations. Captain Garland se- 

 conded the resolution. A long discussion then took 

 place on the name of the line, and whether it could not 

 go from Warrham to Weymouth, and so on to Bridport 

 and Exet-r, avoiding Dorchester. Mr. Hoddmg drew 

 attention to tbe tine from Salisbury, through Shaftesbury 

 to Dorchester. Ultimately the n roe of the line was fet- 

 tled to be Southampton and Dorchester, and the resolu- 

 tion was carried unanimously. 



IRELAND. 



^//tiorin.—Lonl Heytesbury, the newly-appointed Lord 

 JUieuieaant of Ireland, accompanied by his secretary, Mr. 

 A Court, left London on Thursday morning by railway fee 

 "▼erpool. y lg Lordship wastoemtotrk in a Government 

 teamer yesterday morn-ne. proceed diiect to Kingstown 

 nerbour, and the** to Dublin, to take upon himself the 

 ,.? or a»a new office. Lady Heytesoury is gone 



\*rT? f ° r * 8b ° rl P ertod ' «» d will join his 



£°rdsh.p )n the course of the ensuing month.- 



nlaL Wer \7' eet,ng ° f thc Re P eal Association took 

 RrnH , °? . Mond *y « Conciliation Hall, Captain 

 Broderick in the chair. Mr. S. O'Brien, A .P., com- 



of that Association would object to join in an effort to 

 procure all the advantages which he 1 1 ought thee had a 

 right to claim. In his 0] on they cuuld obtain not 

 only a federal independent Parliament, but aUo the tight 

 to send 105 delegates to the British Parliament to legis- 

 late on imperial matters, and prevent injurious 1 r- 

 rence with Irish affairs. The Irish Parliament 

 would be selected from that Association, and the dele- 

 gates to the English legislature would be taken from 

 the body so elected. No*, there was no doubt thai these 

 gentlemen would 1 sprite a vast deal of the brains of tl 

 Irish Parliament, and he firmly believed the resell would 

 be that they would be able to guide and govern the Bu- 

 sh Parliament when they obtained admitsi to it. Mr. 

 T. If'Netin, barnster-at-law, brought foi ward a report 

 on the national estimates, which, he Ststed, was drawn 

 up for the purpose of showing the people how tin ir 

 money wss spent, and of accust ig Hem to a manly 



and pre 1 line of thought, He l k occasion to give 

 a history of the rise ami progress, of the national . t, 

 and the cause which I its accumulation from t 



eerliest period to the present time. He dent d the En- 

 glish Army as being at ] iipoaed of the lowest 

 and most disreputable poition of the population, at least 

 in I ngland, and applied such phrases to t em as the (ol 



low-rig :-_*' The Bi % of AfT inistan," " the atro- 



ties committed under thc felon flag of Kngland," " the 

 murders of a featherbed people bv >ns engaged in su| - 

 port of an illegal trathc in opium," iVc. Mr. S O'Hrien 

 said, that the phrase " felon fla;» of England " was Bfl 



requiring explanation, ihey did not speak of the En- 

 glish flag generally as being a felon flag, but they thought 

 it became so when carried into such places ss Chins and 

 Affgh inistan, snd when innocent people were sacrificed. 



I hey could not approve of felony against nations any 

 more than sgainst individuals. Mr. Roche, Ml'., su< 

 -equently, on behalf of Mr. M'Nevin, withdrew the 

 phrase altogether, - because it was most important at the 

 present period that they should keep within the limits of 

 the law in this agitation, and not afford * the enemy ' 

 any opening to attack them." Rev. Mr. Hearn, P.l\. 

 handed in 60/. from the Repealer* f Manchester, 

 and described the effect created by the incarceration 

 of Mr. O'Connell. He was requested to < ren 

 a meeting for the purpose of recording the opinions 

 of the friends of Ireland in Manchester on that sub- 

 ject. He did so. and he was happy to say that their 

 first and second chairmen were justices of the peace If 

 a magistrate attended a monster meeting in 1 md he 



>st his commission, but in 1 Jan.! it was otherw •; 

 thus proving there wss one law for England and another 

 for Ireland. A struggle was at present going on I *ee 

 the colliers and the proprietors of mines, and he had to 

 mention a circumstance connected with that sti e 



which might prove interesting to the peopl of this coun- 

 try. It appears that the Marquess of Londonderry, a 

 person interested n the struggle to which he had ailed* 

 was importing from his estates in this country numbers 

 of labourers to supplant the refractor ers. lie w 



sure his Lordship bad no claims on the sympathy of the 

 ople ol this country, and he would therefore call on 

 therunot to second his views. Mr. v. O'Brien addressed 

 the meeting at ton rable length. He coo nutated 

 the assembly 00 the peaceable state of the country, as 

 evinced by the assizes, and then proce ad to take a 

 review of the present state of affairs. He concluded by 

 asking what would be the posit'on of the empire if the 

 Irish should say, "You have trampled on our rights in 

 pence, how can you ask us to shed our blood for vou, or 

 pay % taxes in war ?" What would be the result if the 



Irish people acted thus ? He would not, however, specu- 

 e on any »uch conn .cy, but he would tell the 

 British Government this, that in order to obtain the sup- 

 port of the Irish people, which w d enable them to del 

 the world, they snould be prepared Io consent to a repeal 

 of the union. Mr. H. GfOttaJl, M.l\, addressed the 



meeting in an emphatic speech, and on concluding was 

 loudly cheered. Mr. D. O'Connell n ade his uses! 

 weekly return from the prison, and said he was happy to 

 inform the meeting 1 hat t he w DOOSpirmtors" still continu. d 

 in the enjoyment of uninterrupted health ; they were, in 

 fact, daily improving. He then proceeded to read t' 

 opinions of his father on pass ng events. At the close of 

 the meeting the week's rent was announced to be 



1551/. 8*. Id. 



Kutf't County. — At the Assizes on Thursday, the man 

 Darned Dolin, charged with the murder of Lord Nortwrj 

 was brought to trial before Mr. Justice C nptou, and 

 a Jury consisting entirely of Protes»ants. The So tcitor- 

 fien-ral stated the case, which spied the mine v. 

 No new facts or features were brought t, and Mr. 

 Justice Oampton in charging the jury, said that then- 

 were certain admitted facta in the case which the jurv 

 ihOvtd not for a moment lose s'ght of in coning to a 

 just and fair conclusion. In the first place, the murder 

 was committed on a certain day, sod at s certain hour, 



whilst in company with his own steward, and in his own 

 demesne. It was admitted, too, that the prisoner wss 

 n near that place, both before and alter the murder wee 

 committed, but in s dress wholly different from that 

 which the ssssssin wore at the moment the shot wss 

 fired. In truth, the whole v ht of the prosecution 

 rested upon the evidence of Michael Day, and the 

 woman Lynan. If the jury believed that those persons 

 told the truth, there could be no doubt of the prisoner's 

 guilt ; but if they disbelieved them, or even had a doubt 

 as to their accuracy or veracity, they would be bound to 

 acquit the prisoner. The duty they had to perform was 

 nn awful one, and he was sure they would discharge it, 

 regardless of all consideration but the evidence that had 

 been submitted ;» them, which he would read over to 

 them, lesving it then to their own consciences to draw 

 inclusions. Great anxiety was evinced during the re- 

 tirement el the jury, but when a verdict of Acuuiital 

 was pronoi ed, the nstouishment was great and univer- 

 sal. It took every one by surprise, and none more SO 



than the pn n himself and his Irielids. 



Limerick.-' Jamco. snd Mary O'Kegan. Mnry 1 1 urns, 

 snd Thcioaei Loom y, were indicted for setting fire 

 out- ifficcsoi the Knrlof Dunraven, at Adnre,on the 18th 

 April lost. The indictment c< «ined four counts, in 



eoeh ot which Looney was charged wit I citing the 



Other prisoners to commit the outrage. Mr ! ennett, 

 Q.i ., ststed the case, and ol I, that it waa one of 



the meet ettrsordinai uses, pethsps, that had ever come 

 b. a jury. He said then motive Wsl 1 so much 



hatred or enmity to the 1 srl of Puuraven, as to procure 

 moio y from tin < vn as approvers, jnocer-in . in fact, 



tba commission o4 a crime that they might become wit- 



ses — a circumstnnce which ral 1 i.^gravated their 

 • than otherw O mil t en an approve* 



in thecal f | s charged with firing with intent to 



kill, and he had bet n in the pay of Government, and had 

 re ved all that it was determined too gift htm. The 

 wife of 1 »'Kegsn h-»d also been a Crown witness, and was 



slso paid off. Mary Burns wan also a witness In the 

 f a robbery at Mr. Stafford O'Brien's, but bring 

 the only witness the case was 1 night on. She, too, 



had been paid off. Looney, the fourth prisoner, had 

 n also a witness in the case the murder of Mr. 

 Shine, and thc conroctor ol this conspiracy. He was 



dd off. Thee, these parties, ">ng nothing more to 



t, and I ingbythei nuds^ton of a crime to be taken 



again into the pay of the Government, they committed 



ie act In question. Mary Imogen's mother .had heard 



them plotting the conspiracy, and they were to identify 

 'iir prrsoni out of a great number, to show the accuracy 

 ■nd veracity of their stat A great number of 



witn< - having been eta mined, the judge recapitulated 

 the evident e, and without leaving the box the jury found 

 a verdict ol guilty against ail but Mary O'Regan. 



jftiisceltaiuotis. 



Old England. — At (he recenr meeting of the Agricul- 

 tural ety at Southampton, Chevalier Hunsen, the 

 Prussian Minister, alluded in striking teims to the 



kindred love of country life which prevails in this country 

 snd in Prussia, "those countries'' ss he called them, 

 "of good old Saxon blood." lie said that "perhaps 

 ey would allow him to tell them an aneodote of the King 

 ol Prussia, Ins royal mister, when upon bis la'e visit to 



this country. When visiting the splendid establishment 

 ol lit on, and gating from one of the old gothie windows 



'on the m nficent scene around him — the ancient 



ructure in which he stood — the fields and woods smil- 

 ing around it, and the happy faces of the boys gazing up 

 Ins — looking at this union of old and new, he ex- 

 claimed. " lilessed is the. country where the old is ever 

 new, mid wuere the new is ever entwined with the old." 



Arson, — Mr. 1'wart has procured a Parliamentary 

 return, showing the number of persons committed, ron- 

 victed, and executed for arson, and other wilful burning 

 in England and Wales, during each of the six years which 

 have el i| d siooe 1837, when the law was mitigated, 

 with the toUl numbers; also, the number of persons 



mmitted, convicted, and accented for arson, ando'ber 

 wilful burning, in England and Wales, during each of 

 th»- -is years preceding the year 7, when the law was 



mitigated, with the total numbers; likewise the centesimal 

 proportions of convictions to commitments during each 

 period of six years preceding and following the mitigation 

 of the law. It appears that in the six years fift«e 1837, 

 when the law was mitigated, M4 were committed, of 

 which 117 were convicted ; not one was executed. Thc 

 centesimal proportion of ■" -ictiona to com tments, 

 from 1838 to 1813, was 34.01 ; and from 1831 to 1835, 



24.11. 



^-1 Submarine Fonst. — About 1500 men are at present 

 engaged in completing ami repairing the great Cale- 

 donian n:*l, and their operations have in some respects 

 been facility by the late drought, which has reduced 

 the wate s of Loch Oich to a lower level than remem- 

 bered in the memory of man. and thus rendered more 



sy the removal of a subiquatic forest which has been 



i m vered in the course of the channel through that lake. 



indrede of trees of all sixes have been dr^ed 



ou of this waieiy bed, where they had 1-in for centuries, 



counting chiefly of the finest black oak— some of tM 



logs 3} feet in diameter, others 2b to -JO feet long, and 



veral i„ high preservation, whilst others wrre c,1 " rr( £ 

 by tire. Atewl.ige.eit mile hollowed «*££** 

 to serve as canoes, were also j*r-Gi*>P* Conner. 



m mmkr Assess.- ' "* ND > ' [' . d i itreff i r spectacle 



immediately before the rising of the Osnrt, a auwca«D B »p*v 



