Sept 7,1 



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Company, the report stated that it will be completed 

 within six months, and that the cost of its construction 

 will not exceed the estimated sum of 320,000/., being at 

 the rate of 11,500/. per mile. — At the half-yearly meet- 

 ing of the Yarmouth and Norwich Company, the report 

 showed, that from the 1st May to the 18th inst. the gross 

 receipts amounted to 6265/., a sum considered to 

 show very favourable results, as the goods traffic has 

 not yet commenced. No dividend was declared, the 

 opening of the line having been so recent. — At the Hull 

 and Selby meeting, the dividend declared was at the rate 

 of 5 per cent. The report stated, that during the half 

 year 95,089 passengers had travelled on the line, being 

 an increase of 14,540 over the corresponding period of 

 1843. The increase in goods traffic had also been con- 

 siderable. Resolutions were passed for applying to Par- 

 liament for an Act to amalgamate the Hull and Selby and 

 Manchester and Leeds Company, and also for an Act to 

 authorise the construction of the proposed branch to 

 Beverley, Driffield, and Bridlington. To provide the 

 necessary funds for this branch, 8000 half-shares are to 

 be created of 5/. each, which are to be offered to the 

 original proprietors in the Hull and Selby at par. The 

 newly-projected line from London to York, it is stated, 

 will increase the traffic of the Hull and Selby Railway, 

 should it be carried out. — At a meeting of the Brighton 

 and Chichester Company last week, the Report stated 

 that, in the prosecution of the Bill before Parliament 

 great opposition had been experienced from the land- 

 owners on the line, but the demands of these had all 

 been amicably arranged. Great assistance had been re- 

 ceived from the Duke of Richmond, to whose efforts 

 they were in a great measure indebted in passing the 

 Bill. An arrangement had been come to with the Duke 

 of Norfolk for the purchase of the bridge which was 

 erected by his Grace over the river Adur, for 42,000/. 

 Out of the original number of shares, 1180 remained, 

 which had not been taken up, and these the Brigh- 

 ton Company had offered to take, provided they 

 were allowed the option of leasing the line within 

 three months after the completion of the railway, 

 guaranteeing to the shareholders 4± per cent, on their 

 capital, with a division of the profits beyond that amount. 

 The Report was adopted, with a resolution accepting the 

 proposal of the Brighton Company. A resolution was 

 also passed empowering the directors to take steps for 

 the formation of a line from Chichester to Portsmouth. 

 •—A new railway from Liverpool to Manchester in oppo- 

 sition to the present one is in contemplation. It is 

 intended to commence at Sutton, pass through Ince, 

 Runcorn, and Warrington. The route is said to be 

 favourable for the construction of a railway at compara- 

 tively little cost. At a preliminary meeting at Birken- 



i 6 -An a fCW day8 back ' six g cn tlemen, representing 

 1,700,000/, were present, and expressed a sanguine 

 opinion of success. The new line is intended to be con- 

 ducted on the principle of low fares and a large traffic. 

 —A meeting of the Chester and Holyhead Company 

 was held last week, at which it was understood that a 

 proposition of an annual grant of 30,000/., with contin- 

 gent advantages to the line, had been made by Govern- 

 ment. This intelligence has caused a slight advance in 

 the price of shares.— The Grand Junction Company 

 have intimated that they are about to make arrange- 

 ments for putting second-class carriages on the line, so 

 as to meet those of the Birmingham and London at Bir- 

 mingham.— The Liverpool and Manchester, and Grand 

 Junction Companies, have it in contemplation to have 

 a statue to Mr. George Stephenson, the eminent engi- 

 neer, executed by the distinguished sculptor Gibson, 

 and erected in some public place in Liverpool.— 

 lne Great Western Company's first excursion-train 

 from London to Bath, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, 

 lett Paddmgton on Monday morning with nearly 500 

 passengers, the fares for the holiday travellers having 

 been reduced one- half. At Slough, Reading, and the 

 several stations along the line, the numbers were consi- 

 derably increased, amounting in the aggregate to nearly 

 1000 passengers.— Sunday being the last day for the 

 cheap excursion to Brighton and back, the terminus at 

 London-bridge was besieged by nearly 3000 people. At 

 seven o'clock they commenced sending them off in 

 batches. The first lot consisted cf 700, who were con- 

 veyed in 2o carriages, propelled by three engines; the 

 second of 20 carriages, containing 540 ; and the third of 

 40 carriages, containing 1 000. The latter train was pro- 

 pelled by six engines. The whole of the passengers re- 

 turned home by 10 p. m., in two monster trains, without 

 encountering any accident.— Prince William of Prussia, 

 who left Bristol on Saturday afternoon, in a special 

 tram, arrived at the Slough station in two hours and 

 seven minutes, the distance being exactly 100 miles ! 

 lne engine attached to the three carriages comprising 

 the special tram, proceeded along some portions of the 

 line at the rate of 65 miles an hour ! His Royal High- 

 ness reached the Castle, from Slough, in one of the 

 Queens carnages, and was in the presence of her 

 Majesty withm two hours and a half from the period of 

 his departure from the Bristol terminus.— According to 

 the testimony of Captain Laws, the manager, as given 

 before the railway committee, the original cost of a first- 

 class carriage on the Manchester and Leeds line is 

 between 300/. and 400/., and the renovation of lining, 

 painting, &c, amounts to about 1.50/. a year. This car- 

 nage wiil carry but eighteen persons, whereas a third- 

 class carriage on that line will take forty persons, and 

 costs at first only about 120/., with about 10/. per annum 

 for repairs.— The Sonth Western Railway Directors 

 have announced their intention to apply forthwith to 

 Parliament for leave to make a direct line from Salis- 



bury to Exeter, and Mr. Locke the engineer is at pre- 

 sent surveying the country. The saving of distance is 

 about 30 miles, and the route will include the populous 

 towns of Yeovil, Sherborne, &c. 



IRELAND. 



Dublin. — The reversal of the judgment in the case of 

 r. O'Connell and the other state prisoners was expected 

 to be known in Dublin on Thursday night. Government 

 messengers were sent off immediately after the decision 

 of the House of Lords with despatches for Her Majesty 

 at Windsor, and for Lord Heytesbury,the Lord-Lieutenant 

 of Ireland, informing him of the reversal of the sen- 

 tence. The object of the special messenger to Windsor, 

 it is said, was to obtain Her Majesty's signature to the 

 necessary warrant for the immediate release of Mr. 

 O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners ; and although some 

 delay is unavoidable in such cases, the despatch used 

 enabled Government to place the warrant in the hands 

 of Mr. Gartlan, one of the agents for the traversers, on 

 Thursday afternoon. That gentleman left town imme- 

 diately, and was expected to arrive in Dublin last evening. 

 It is rumoured, however, that Government had anticipated 

 the formal and somewhat tardy process of the law, and had 

 sent over instructions to the Lord-Lieutenant to discharge 

 the prisoners — The weekly meeting of the Repeal Asso- 

 ciation took place on Monday. Mr. 0'Hea,barrister-at- 

 law, on taking the chair, called the attention of the 

 meeting to the fact that, since the imprisonment of Mr. 

 O'Connell, the chairmen at their weekly assemblages 

 had been hitherto men of rank and station, but that the 

 committee had, on the present occasion, deviated from 

 the usual principles which regulated the selection of per- 

 sons for that high honour, and had nominated so humble 

 an individual as himself, in order to show to the lowest 

 members of the Association that the highest honours 

 that it could bestow were open to them as well as to 

 their superiors in wealth and influence. The chairman 

 then proceeded at great length to argue that the decision 

 which the House of Lords might come to upon the writ of 

 error would not in any way be proof of either the justice 

 or injustice of the recent proceedings in the state trials. 

 He warned the people not to be led away by the argu- 

 ments of the Conservative press, which would be indus- 

 triously put forth in the event of an adverse decision, to 

 persuade them that those trials had been right or just ; 

 for they were to remember that it was upon the proceed- 

 ings on the record that the House of Lords was to decide, 

 and not on the merits of the case. If, therefore, the 

 judgment of the lower Court was affirmed by the Supreme 

 Court— as he considered probable— he anticipated that 

 the assertion which the Premier had made in his place in 

 Parliament, that the prisoners had a fair trial, would be 

 triumphantly reiterated again and again ; and he took 

 that occasion to warn them of its fallacy. He congra- 

 tulated the Association on the bright prospects which 

 the present state of political affairs opened to all who 

 desired the welfare of Ireland. War was impending, 

 and, indeed, seemed unavoidable. In such an event occur- 

 ring Sir R. Peel said he relied upon the loyalty of the Irish 

 people. He was right, however: he might rely that the Irish 

 would be found like a wall of fire around their Sovereign; 

 but was it reasonable to expect that they would bear the 

 brunt of the battle and reap no advantage from the vic- 

 tory ? The Tangier pepper would very likely season 

 some agreeable condiment, of which the Irish would be 

 called upon to partake, but then was their time to make 

 their own terms. It was scarcely wise to press and 

 strain too much upon the well-known loyalty of the Irish 

 people in every season of difficulty, more especially as it 

 had ever been in time of war and danger that their 

 rights had been partly conceded to them. Everything 

 which passed along the political horizon was calculated 

 to inspire the Association with confidence and hope, and 

 he firmly believed that the day was not far remote when 

 the shadow of a mighty event to come would be lost 

 in the bright reality of an Irish parliament. After 

 several sums of money had been handed in, Mr. Dillon 

 Brown, M.P., read a letter from Mr. S. O'Brien, calling 

 upon the electors to attend to their qualifications, and 

 on Repealers of all ranks to be sure to register their 

 votes. In moving the insertion of this letter on the 

 minutes, and the marked thanks of the meeting to its 

 writer, Mr. Brown said he would call the attention of 

 the Association to two matters of paramount public im- 

 portance—the present relations between England and 

 France, and the intended visit of Her Majesty to Ireland. 

 I he demeanour of the Irish pecple in case of the latter 

 event taking place was of high importance, for the eyes 

 of the world would be upon them ; but it sank into in- 

 significance when compared with the former topic. A 

 French fleet was sweeping through the Mediterranean. 



m T« J",* ° elancho| y fact th *t the political aphorism 

 that England s weakness was Ireland's opportunity " 

 was only too true. With one exception Ireland had never 

 gamed a concession except by the arms of France— by 

 the arms of America-or by some intestinal tumult. 

 The present time was the hour of England's weakness. 

 ( Bravo! cheers, and cries of « More power.") The 

 hon. gentleman then proceeded at large to consider the 

 present state of the Mediterranean, which he considered 

 most perilous to English interests. He dealt in abun- 

 dant eulogy of the Prince de Joinville and the French 

 navy. If England's forces were engaged in the Oregon 

 or Cabul what was to prevent the Prince de Joinville, 

 who had already seized upon one of the pillars of Her- 

 cules, from ascertaining whether Calpe's boasted rock 

 was indeed inaccessible ? Whom would England have 

 to support her in such a contest ? Would Russia sup- 

 port her ? or Mehemet Ali ? or the Pope ? The English 





had applied the term of " cowIrds^lolhe'T^r^ 

 of France. The noble spirit of Conde-^ft.?** 

 the word m the youthful presence of the Prince I ? * 

 ville, who had answered it with the thur de? of t J- 

 non against Tangier. (Great cheering forloZ '* 

 With respect to the Wen's viri?*^"^ 

 considering it as an ill-timed visit F™»n- Jt. **** 

 nell liberated it would not be kss so 7o r 7ul° <* 

 would not be taken as a boon. Injustice had ht * "* 

 to the Irish people, and they wouhi To? c t\ S> 

 before any sovereign or minister on earth. Should H* 

 Majesty come, therefore, he, for one, would not .W 

 m her train. Ireland was now a house of uZntSl 

 O Connell was in prison-and no idle or ostenuSZ 

 pageant should be introduced upon her mnnpZ? 

 (Renewed cheering.) Should He^M^SX 

 he trusted she would take pains to learn the real «? 

 dition of their country, and, passing by the tr»n«W 

 glitter in the streets of Dublin? to look to their n^S 

 of an Exchange their deserted Customhouse 3 

 their ruined trade, he hoped she would pass thmS 

 the country and behold the semi-naked, shoeless hT 

 starved human being, who called himself theTiibW* 

 of the proud Victoria. (Much cheering and groaning 

 Let her contemplate a peaceable, sober, intellirenL 

 loyal people, and when she returns to her MinistrVS 

 her exclaim, " Is such a country, so blessed by Providence 

 to be permitted to remain in that state of ineffable miierv- 

 of dangerous despair ?" Mr. D. O'Connell, jun., bronifct 

 forward the following report from the Penitentiary •-, 

 " No. 1. Usual report— excellent health and spirit. 

 2. The decision of the judges to be waited for with the 

 utmost indifference. The 11 questions referred to the 

 English judges being so framed as to exclude theconii- 

 deration of the great merits of the case of the traverser! 

 — in particular, no question arises upon the charge of 

 the Chief Justice — a charge that nobody has been found 

 either in or out of the houses of Parliament to defend- 

 yet the traversers are deprived of any advantage from the 

 illegality of that charge. 3. The traversers are also de- 

 prived of any benefit from the Irish judges having 

 admitted newspapers as evidence of the facts therein 

 contained against the traversers. It is quite manifest 

 that this evidence would not have been received by the 

 Court of Queen's Bench in England, yet the traversers 

 are deprived of any benefit arising from the illegality of 

 that evidence. 4. The 1 1 questions submitted to the 

 judges are framed in the most unfavourable way for the 

 traversers ; and can be met and answered negatively, on 

 technical reasons totally independent of and unconnected 

 with the merits. 5. Under these circumstances it would 

 be quite idle to expect anything favourable from the de- 

 cision of the English judges. Let the people, therefore, 

 throughout Ireland receive with the utmost tranquillity, 

 and without the slightest irritation, the announcement of 

 an unfavourable decision by the judges. 6, Mr. O'Con- 

 nell is thoroughly convinced that the tranquillity of the 

 country will be unimpaired, and that the remainder of 

 the imprisonment will pass away with the same tranquil 

 forbearance on the part of the people that has marked 

 the three preceding months. In the present state of the 

 political world, there is no need of impatience ; tranquil 

 perseverance, that is, perseverance accompanied by per- 

 fect tranquillity, will insure beyond a doubt the repeal of 

 the Union. 7. Mr. O'Connell is very anxious that the 

 gentlemen engaged in the late registry in the city of 

 Dublin should be sensible of his deep gratitude to them 

 for their patriotic and disinterested exertions, and in par- 

 ticular Counsellors Mackay and Burke, who deserve the 

 thanks of the Association for their legal acumen and 

 patriotic exertions. These gentlemen have set a most 

 laudable example to other patriotic barristers and attor- 

 neys. 8. It is most desirable to follow up the "^tions 

 for registry in the city of Dublin, and in particular w 

 apply to the Protestant operatives and tradesmen t 

 procure them to join in the Repeal Registration. J"» 

 Protestant operatives and tradesmen have the » me ' 

 not a deeper interest in the repeal of the ljmon '" 

 the Catholics, and it is quite certain that no c» n<u " 

 will get the support of the Liberal interest at two 

 election but a Repealer, no matter what bis region j 

 be— that is utterly immaterial to the public -^ 

 O'Connell thinks that there would be no objectio n 

 to vote for the present members if they declar ea 

 selves Repealers, as they assuredly ought, it tbeyc 

 the material interests of their constituents. y - ^ very ^ 

 must be done to procure the registration to £«"".. 

 throughout the counties at the next session. W w 

 ject is so powerfully taken up by that inestim *oie J» [<x 

 Smith O'Brien, that any details had better bererfn 

 his return to town. 10. Peace and perseverance-- 

 quil perseverance. It is manifest that political eve 

 thickening into such consistency as will render ■ i ■ ^ 



sible that Ireland shall not peaceably attain J ustl e * fot 



i of the following resolution^ 



-" That in the event ot 

 i resolve that an extraordinary g 

 meeting of this Association be called exclusively I- - f 

 purpose of taking into .consideration the prop ^ 

 reviving the Volunteer Organisation of 177» »" ^ 

 by means of which the people of Ireland V rotett J^ hr » 



three nation* 

 ose wnica now luicaiou mc «vu. * v whice 



well as the general peace of the ™ or{ *±*™dZnti-lti* 



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they also wrung from the oppressive &nd \^fa 

 ministerial factions of these periods, Freedom ot i 

 and Legislative Independences—Mr. V roW ;' dopt joi 

 objected to the resolution, contending that i» ^ 



would bring them into collision with tue uo ucb 



and appealed to the chairman, as a lawyer, wnc 



