

Nov. 2,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



("1844. 





m . an8 usually employed to prevent the occurrence or 

 accidents, and protect the lives of his men. On Saturday 

 morning the pit was at work as usual. The ground bailiff 

 had been down, and with the men examined the workings, 

 and found them all safe. About 11 o'clock, Mr. Darby 

 bein" on the pit bank, and wanting some lamps, requested 

 ►he butty to go down and send some up. He accordingly 

 descended the shaft, and immediately he reached the 

 bottom the explosion took place. There were 17 men 

 and boys in the pit at the time, and three horses ; 11 of 

 the men were killed, and of the six who were got out 

 alive, one is not expected to survive the injuries he re- 

 ceived. Two of the horses were killed ; the third, which 

 *as idle in the stable, was not hurt. At a depth of 16 

 yards below the working of the coal-pit in which the ex- 

 plosion took place there were at the time several men 

 employed in getting iron-stone. On hearing the explosion 

 above the men instantly got into an empty skip, which 

 happened to be at the bottom, and were drawn up ; had 

 they remained a short time longer, death would have en- 

 sued from the foul air descending to the mine in which 

 they were at work. Three horses in the same pit, which 

 it was of course impossible to move at so short a notice, 

 were killed by suffocation. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the 

 past week: — Birmingham and Gloucester, 2729/.; 

 Bristol and Gloucester, 1153/. ; Eastern Counties, 

 4602/.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2208/. ; Great Western, 

 17,151/.; Grand Junction, 8551/.; Glasgow, Paisley, 

 and Ayr, 1469/. ; Great North of England, 1980/. ; 

 London and Birmingham, 16,983/.; South Western, 

 6869/.; Black wall, 812/.; Greenwich, 754/.; Brighton, 

 5173/.; Croydon, 444/.; Liverpool and Manchester, 

 4943/. ; Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, 7292/. ; Mid- 

 land, 10,859/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1773/.; New- 

 castle and Darlington, 1068/. ; Preston and Wyre, 

 380/.; Southeastern and Dover, 5176/.; Sheffield 

 and Manchester, 868/. ; York and North Midland, 

 with Leeds and Selby, 2645/.— The Railway Depart- 

 ment of the Board of Trade have given notice that it is 

 their intention to examine into the following schemes, in 

 addition to those mentioned in former announcements : — 

 1. Schemes for extending railway communication to 

 Goole and to Great Grimsby. 2. Branches from, and ex- 

 tensions of, the Eastern Counties and Northern and 

 Eastern Railways. 3. Railway communication between 

 London and Norwich, and other schemes, in the counties 

 of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Essex. 4. Brunches 

 from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Clydesdale 

 Junction, and Edinburgh and Galashiels schemes. 

 5. Extension of the York and Scarborough and Hull 

 and Selby Railways to Bridlington and Driffield. 6. 

 Schemes for connecting Birkenhead with Manchester 

 and Stockport. 7. South Junction through Manches- 

 ter, Ashton and Stockport Junction, and Manchester 

 and Buxton. 8. Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, and 

 other schemes, in the district between the Bolton and 

 Pre.'ton and the Liverpool and Manchester Railways. 



9. Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, and other 

 Railway tchemes, in the district between the Bolton 

 and Preston and Manchester and Leeds Railways. 



10. Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury and 

 Chester schemes. 11. Worcester and Wolverhampton 

 and other schemes for extending railway communication 

 in V.'orcestershire and Staffordshire. 12. Schemes for 

 extending railway communications to the Potteries. 

 13. Schemes for extending railway communications to 

 Falmouth. 14. Schemes for extending railway commu- 

 nication to Staines and Windsor. 15. Schemes for 

 teaking railway communication in Ireland from Dublin 

 to Cork, Limerick, Cavan, Galway, Ennbkillen, Lon- 

 donderry, and VVaterford ; between Londonderry and 

 Enniskillen ; between Cork and Bandon ; between Cork 

 and Waterford ; between Cork and Limerick ; and com- 

 pleting railway communication between Dublin and 

 Belfast—The Times of Monday observes that "an 

 idea m.-.y be formed of the amount of capital em- 

 ployed in railway projects, when it is stated that it 

 has been estimated that the ninety new schemes now 

 before the public require 71,000,000/. as capital for 

 their construction, upon which 4,200,000/. will have to 

 be paid in calls before application can be made to Parlia- 

 ment. It is, however, not to be supposed that all of 

 these will receive the sanction of Government, or that 

 many of them, having competing interests, will be able 

 to get tie necessary amount of eubscriptious. The fact, 

 nevertheless, is sufficient to show how very extensively 

 the mania for railway projects has taken root, and how 

 yery cautious the public ought to be in participating in 

 lt j without making every possible inquiry relative to the 

 feasibility of the several schemes brought before them. 

 Already, Qs w m nave been seen by the decline in the 

 premiums of most of the favourite shares recently issued, 

 the suspicion is afloat that the abundance of money gave 

 this class of securities a temporary buoyancy when they 

 first came out ; but that now there is the prospect of the 

 abundance decreasing by the opening of other channels 

 'or its employment, less inclination is manifested to sup- 

 port the market, and the speculators, who are the prime 

 "novtrs in all these affairs, seeing the result of such a 

 state of things, have lately sold heavily to realise profit." 

 A Meeting of the York and North Midland Company 

 *M held at York on Monday for the purpose of sanc- 

 tioning an application to Parliament in the ensuing ses- 

 sion for power to enable the York and North Midland, 

 or some other company in connection with tbem, to 

 m *ke the following lines of railway : — A line from the 

 *ork and North Midland to Doncaster, one to Harro- 

 S ale » another from Selby to Goole. and a railway from 



he York and Scarborough extension to Bridlington and 



Driffield ; and to raise the necessary capital. Mr. Hud- 

 son, Chairman of the Directors, took the chair, and said 

 the first project was an extension of the North Midland 

 from Sherburn to Doncaster, the object of that being to 

 unite that line with one which had been proposed 

 from Lincoln to Doncaster. This extension would 

 be 19 miles in length, thus making the whole dis- 

 tance from York to Doncaster 32| miles. The pro- 

 posed line was to commence at the Milford junction, 

 and would not interfere with any gentleman's residence 

 at all, and there was no landowner opposed to it. The 

 next was the line to Harrogate, to which there was no 

 opposition. It would give accommodation to Tadcaster, 

 Hemp-ash, Wetherley, and Spofforth. The next line 

 was Goole, which would cost 100,000/. The one to 

 Bridlington, which would be 19 miles in length, would 

 cost 80,000/. The "Whitby and Pickering had been 

 already purchased for 80,000/., the original cost being 

 130,000/. The sum required altogether for these lines 

 was 635,000/. There were 190 miles of railway, and the 

 whole would be constructed at about 10,000/. per mile. 

 The capital of the company with the new creations was 

 1,895,000/. Resolutions affirming the expediency of 

 these line* and empowering the directors to go to Parlia- 

 ment were adopted unanimously.— A special train left 

 Southampton on Monday morning at 1\ a.m., consisting 

 of 21 carriages, laden with excursionists to witness the 

 Queen's visit to the City on opening the Royal Exchange, 

 with right to return on or before the five o'clock train on 

 Wednesday The new act of Parliament for the regula- 

 tion of fares on railways came into operation yesterday, 

 the 1st inst. The inspectors appointed by the Govern- 

 ment have been for some time busily engaged in visiting 

 the different termini, for the purpose of inspecting the 

 new third-class carriages, which have been constructed 

 according to the act of Parliament. Those on the 

 Brighton and Dover Railway were inspected last week : 

 they are close carriages in the form of large boxes, 2G 

 feet long by 10 broad, and capable of holding about 40 

 passengers. There is an opening on each side, which 

 can be closed up against the weather. The rate of tra- 

 velling in those carriages will be a penny per mde, so 

 that the fare to Brighton will be 4*. 3d. The lares for j 

 the third class will be at the same rate en all the 

 railways. 



IRELAND. 



Dublin.— The weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa- 

 tion was held on Monday, and was very thinly attended ; 

 the ladies' gallery being almost deserted, and the at- 

 tendance in other portions of Conciliation Hall being 

 very limited. Mr. Arabin, Lord Mayor elect, took the 

 Chair. Mr. M. O'Connell opened the business of the 

 meeting by moving the expulsion of some of the Repeal 

 Wardens in London for disorderly conduct, and took the 

 opportunity to correct a mistake which he had mar.e 

 some time since, in stating that Lord De Grey was to 

 obtain the Order of the Garter, and in coupling with this 

 statement some allusion to the alleged parsimony of the 

 Noble Earl in presenting a " shin of beef" as a Christ- 

 mas dinner for the inmates of the Mendicity Institution. 

 He had received a letter from a gentleman connected 

 with the Household (Major Parker), who totally denied 

 the truth of that story, and entered into an explanation 

 which fully acquitted Lord De Grey of every ground of 

 reflection in this matter. Captain Brodenck, after 

 handing ill several remittances, announced that the 

 returns from the registries had been most satisfactory, 

 and he considered that if the people followed up the 

 blow which had been so happily struck, they would 

 be in a position at the next general election to return 

 such a number of Repeal members as would give a 

 preponderating influence to their party in the House 

 of Commons. The Hon. Mr. Hutchinson handed in 

 15/. from Liscarrol, and read a communication which 

 accompanied the remittance. The letter called on the 

 aristocracy "to take the places of honour in the patri- 

 otic agitation which was being carried on for the restora- 

 tion of the nationality of their native country ; if they 

 did so, they would receive the warm-hearted blessings of 

 the people at large, and entitle themselves to the ever- 

 lasting gratitude of a generous nation. He (Mr. 

 Hutchinson) would reecho the sentiments contained m 

 the letter he had just read to the meeting. Now was 

 the time for the aristocracy to be up and stirring. He 

 would call emphatically on them to consider seriously 

 the actual condition of their country, and what might re- 

 sult from its continuance in that state. Englaud, he 

 was aware, was smiling at the puny efforts of these gen- 

 tlemen to shake off their foolish prejudices. Such he 

 knew were the private sentiments of every Englishman, 

 but he knew they dared not give utterance to them in 

 public. What did the objection of the aristocracy to join 

 them amount to ? Why, this : " We hold your opinions, 

 but yet we cannot follow them." He regretted that the state 

 of his health would oblige him to winter in France, and 

 he could assure the meeting that it was to him a source 

 of bitter mortification to leave the country at this pecu- 

 liar juncture. Although, however, he would not be pre- 

 sent in proprid persona, he would be in spirit, and he 

 trusted that every letter he read from Ireland would 

 give him assurance of the persevering and untiring ex- 

 ertions of the Irish people in theirpresentgonousc.- 



the leadership of Mr. O'Connell, they hid 



him since his accession to their ranks. Mr. M. O'Con- 

 nell moved, and Capt. Broderick seconded, a vote of 

 thanks to the Hon. Mr. Hutchinson, which was carried 

 unanimously. Mr. M. O'Connell then denounced the 

 Ribbon system, which he declared to be atrocious and in- 

 fernal. " Let the shepherds of the people know," he 

 said, " that the wolf is on the walk." He said that arms 

 had been shipped at Glasgow for Ireland by the 

 Ribbonmen, and exhibited a paper which had fallen 

 from the pockets of some Ribbon emissary in Dublin, but 

 which proved to be a certificate of admission into an 

 Orange Lodge. He warned the people against being 

 seduced by such miscreants. The meeting was subse- 

 quently addressed by several gentlemen, who handed in 

 contributions; and at the termination of the proceedings 

 Mr. M. O'Connell announced the rent for the week to 

 be 475/. 155. 3d.— The newspapers contain the announce- 

 ment that "the national collection for the O'Connell 

 Tribute of the present memorable year 1844, will be made 

 simultaneously on Sunday, November 17, in all the pa- 

 rishes of Ireland." An address has been put forward by 

 the trustees of the Tribute, Sir John Power, Bart, and 

 Ir. Cornelius MacLoghlin, stating the fresh claims of 

 Mr. O'Connell upon the gratitude of his countrymen. 

 A long letter appears in the Freeman's Journal of 

 Monday, from Mr. John A. O'Neil, in which he endea- 

 vours to defend Mr. O'Connell in his recent retrograde 

 movement in favour of federalism. Mr. O'Connell con- 

 tinues to enjoy much sport with hii beagles at Derrynane. 

 Several gentlemen, says the Kerry Examiner, some from 

 India, Poland, Germany, and other part?, have lately 

 visited the Abbey, and were received with true Irish hos- 

 pitality, and without distinction of class or creed. 



Mr. O'Connell has published a long mauifesto in the 

 Pilot of Wednesdav, directed chiefly to au article in the 

 Conservative Warder on the state of parties in Ireland. 

 The object of the letter is to effect a junction of the 

 Protestant and Catholic parties. After quoting several 

 passages from the Warder, Mr. O'Connell proceeds as 

 follows :— " We say that this co-operation ought to be in 

 a spirit of equality amongst all sects, persuasions, and 

 parties— 'neither submitting itself to the other's power, 

 friendly, brotherly, but independent.' We insist that 

 the movement should be made with the grandeur and 

 harmony of justice, and that justice alone can make its 

 results permanent, happy or secure. We do not desire 

 the restoration of the constitution of Ireland upon any 

 other basis but that of perfect justice to all— to every 

 sect, persuasion, and party; no partiality— partiality is 

 necessarily injustice-the strife of factions must be put 

 down by the constitution of the Irish Parliament, or 

 that constitution is totally worthless, and would be 

 despicable and odious. For my part, I feel that 

 my first duty is to combine the people of Ireland 

 — all the people of Ireland — in our peaceable, 

 legal, and constitutional struggle to restore to Ireland 

 her domestic Legislature, without which there is no 

 prospect before us but of increasing misery and accumu- 

 lating discontent Protestants of Ireland ! non- 

 Repealers ! we hold out to you the hand of perfect con- 

 ciliation, and there is a heart in that hand. In conclu- 

 sion, I beg to give notice that I will propose a series of 

 resolutions the next day I am able to attend the Asso- 

 ciation, resolutions embracing all the sentiments, and 

 embodying as many as possible of the words in the pa- 

 ragraphs which I have cited from the Warder. In the 

 mean time, let us all adopt the great principle upon 

 which conciliation should be founded— Justice to all, 

 partiality to none."— A meeting was held on V, ednes- 

 day of the members of the Dublin Total Abstinence So- 

 ciety and others, to augment the " Mathew Fund, by 

 a subscription. The Rev. Dr. Spratt presided, and the 

 meeting was addressed by Mr. M. O'Connell, and other 

 gentlemen. A letter from Mr. O'Connell, strongly 

 recommending the subscription in favour of Father 

 Mathew, was read, and the sum of 50/. was collected in 

 the room. A subscription was opened at Nenagh 

 on Mondey, in aid of the Mathe- Fund, when 

 nearly 30/. were made up. Lord Dunally presided 

 at the meeting, which terminated m this result.— All 

 the shares of the Wexford and Carlow Railway were 

 subscribed for within a week after the issuing of the 

 pros P ectus.-A Kerry paper complains that absentee 

 landlords, receiving rent to the amount of 6o, 000/. per 

 annum out of that district, do not contribute one shilling 

 to the Agricultural Society of the county .-The local corps 

 of pensioners, under the command of Major Swan, was 

 reviewed on Saturday in the Phoenix Park by Major- 

 General Wyndham. They mustered in number 600, and 

 performed all their exercises with precision and alacrity. 

 Tippcrary.— Another barbarous murder has been 

 committed on the verge of this county. The victim was 

 a person named Thomas M'Namara, who was employed 

 as one of the bog-rangers on the Limerick estate of the 

 ■rovernors of the schools founded by Erasmus Smith. 

 He was murdered about noon on Saturday week, on the 

 public road leading from Cappamcre to Doon, on the 

 lands of Ballycushown ; there were people passing to and 

 from the bog, bringing out turf to the very place where 

 he was murdered. The police were soon on the spot, 

 and arrested some persons whom they found there ; one 

 man, who was digging potatoes in a field next the : road, 

 fled, and the spade he was u % could not be found. He 

 waspuisued-by the police and others and arrested at 

 Doom-On Monday week a man named Thomas bana- 

 han, a process-server, when returning from Bor.isnleigh 

 to Drumtrasna, where he lived, after serving law notices, 

 was met by two men, who murdered ^^ b ^ l "S ^ 

 head to pieces with stor.es- It was about 8 o clock, and 



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reer. Under the leadership . 



nothing to fear. Having every confidence m bis wisdom 

 and discretion, he would caution his countrymen again, 

 being led away by any side-winded doctrines which might 

 be propounded to them. He would be wanting in cour- 



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