Nov. 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1344. 



Stafford. — The Earl of Shrewsbury, who subscribe 

 such large sums towards the erection of new Roman 

 Catholic churches in every part of the kingdom, is build- 

 ing, at his own expense, a splendid church at Chcadle, 

 in this county, about five miles from Alton Towers. In 

 addition to the materials for building this church, which 

 is to be composed entirely of stone, his lordship intend* 

 to spend no less a sum than 2 "j. 000/. in ornamenting and 

 completing it. The ornamental portion of the building 

 is to be of the most magnificent description, and alto- 

 gether it will be one of the finest things of the kind in 

 the kingdom. His lordship is also erectin % a new church 

 at the village of Alton, about a mile from his seat, solely 

 at his own expense, with a monastery for a new order of 

 monks to be established there. This building will cost 

 a great deal of money, and will bs of the most complete 



character. 



Stockport.— On Tuesday a fatal accident occurred at 

 the Churchgate factory in this town, belonging to Messrs. 

 Elkanah and S. H. Cheetham, by the falling of a large 

 chimney attached to the works, which caused the death 

 of two men, and seriously injured two or three others. 

 The chimney had for some time been in a dilapidated 

 state, and the recent high wind and dampness had ren- 

 dered its state still more dangerous. On Monday nearly 

 a cartload of bricks fell from the top on the roof of a 

 factory below, in consequence of which the hands refused 

 to work, and the engine was stop J. Next morninr it 

 was determined to take it down, and several men were 

 engaged for this purpose. About noon they had taken 

 down about 5 yards of it, and most of the men and fac- 

 tory hands had left for dinner, when the whole ss sud- 

 denly fell, carrying down the boiler-house, and almost 

 entirely filling with bricks, tin r, and rubbish, the yard 

 and reservoir. A sweep was at the »p of the chimney 

 at the time, engaged in the work. Finding it going, he 

 l;.l off, but was followed by the mass of brickwork, 

 and thrown violently into the water, at one corner of the 

 reservoir, a great weight of bricks falling upon him. He 

 was extricated from his situation as soon as possible, but 

 was much injured. Two othtr men were found under 

 the brickwork quite dead. 



Windsor. — Her Majesty and Prince Albert have long 

 contemplated the erection of schools in a convenient 

 situati- i;i on the Royal domains, for the education of the 

 park and gamekeepers' children. A spot, admirably 

 adapted for such a purpose, having been selected at the 

 west end of the gardens at Cumberland-lodge, about a 

 mile from the statue of George IV., the necessary plans 

 of the intended building, executed under the orders of 

 the Commissioners of Woods and Works, have been 

 submitted to and approved of by Her Majesty. The 

 building will be in the Elizabethan style, and erected at 

 the cost of about 1500/., which will be defrayed by Her 

 Majesty and the Prince. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the 

 past week :— -Birmm ham and Gloucester. 2 130/. ; Bris- 

 tol and Gloucester, 1005/. ; Eastern Counties, 4331/.; 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2522/.; .Great Western, 

 16,510/. ; Grand Junction, 8053/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, 

 and Ayr, 1702/.; Great North of England,~1851/. ; Lon- 

 don and Birmingham, 16,047/.; South Western, 6247/. ; 

 Greenwich, 728/. ; Brighton, 5040/. ; Croydon, 157/.; 

 Liverpool and Manchester, 4058/. ; Manchester, Leeds, 

 and Hull associated, 5859/.; Midland, 10,122/.; Man- 

 chester and Birmingham, 3267/. ; Newcastle and Car- 

 lisle, 1872/. ; Newcastle and Darlington, 1031/. ; Pres- 

 ton and Wyre, 356/. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 661/.— 

 A meeting, numerously attended, was held on Monday 

 at Milton-next-Sittingbourne, for the purpose of consi- 

 dering the merits of the various competing lines through 

 the northern part of Kent. The chair was taken by Mr. 

 Hinde, one of the coroners for the county, and the meet- 

 ing was addressed by Sir John Fielden, Bart., who, in a 

 lengthened speech, proposed an independent line. This 

 was opposed by the Solicitor to the South Eastern Com- 

 pany, who pointed out the public advantages which 

 would be realised by permitting the Company to make 

 the line, and pledging them to carry out their promises. 

 An amendment was then proposed in favour of the South 

 Eastern Company, and carried by a large majority, not 



above 40 hands being held up for the original motion 



A meeting of the Provincial Committee of the Windsor 

 Junction Company took place last week, for the purpose 

 of receiving the report of the engineer, and adopting a 

 resolution thereon, as to the most eligible line, pre- 

 vious to the details being submitted to" Her Majesty. 

 The following resolution was unanimously adopted, sub- 

 ject to its confirmation at a general meeting of the sub- 

 scribe™-'' That the proposed lines of railway shall be 

 from \\ indsor to the Great Western at Slough, and from 

 v\ indsor to Staines, thereby connecting Staines with 



E W !i n thC G . reat , W <**rn." A copy of this reso- 



retary, for the purpose of 1 

 Nearly 1000 shares have 

 hy parties residing in the 

 The main line is intend* 

 Hatchet-lane, near Windsor-bridge? ^Z^E^U? 

 .bet, and thence to the Metropolis tCu g 1 ^inbr^ok" 

 lonnslow, Brentford, and Hammersmith. A ^branch 

 »ne „ tended to proceed from Datchet to St Li 

 there to jom the Richmond and Staines Juncti 



•criSd f< r" l,S l0 °° ■ ^ reS have al »W be *» «ub- 

 Windsor lU * * P*?* ln lhe neighbourhood of 

 1^SJ™ZZ5&J! intended to°commence in 



h« .; V. i-i.L , \ 1Re lerm,nQS to the main line will 

 Deat.l.llhank, whence a railway will be constructed 

 •wording to the arrangements at present contemplated! 



direcVl^R T C i USe £ f , Her Ma i"ty and the Court, 

 direct to Buckingham Palace, thus bringing Windsor 



Castle within 33 minutes' journey of the Palace. — The 

 Quarterly Meeting of the Grand Junction Company took 



lac3 on Friday, when the us.ual dividend of 21. 10s. per 

 share, or 10 per cent., was declared. The chairman 

 made a speech in explanation of the difference existing 

 between the Grand Junction and the London and Bir- 

 mingham Boards, stating that the Grand Junction were 

 prepared for any alternative, and the needful measures 

 were being taken for bringing before Parliament their 

 Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton line, and also that from 

 Shrewsbury to Stafford. He said that if the Board 

 of Trade and Parliament should conceive that the 

 Shropshire public will be better served by other 

 parties than by this company, they must, of course, 

 submit ; but he was informed that there were insuperable 

 difficulties between Birmingham and Wolverhampton to 

 a competing line with that proposed by the Grand Junc- 

 tion. The chairman concluded by saying, that if Parlia- 

 ment would only protect them against unnecessary 

 competing lines, the public would be vastly benefited ; 

 for they had no wish to have excessive dividends ; their 

 view, on the contrary, being to divide with the public the 

 profits of increased traffic, both in the way of lower 

 prices, and of greater accommodation. — The Birming- 

 ham and Gloucester Company, in special meeting, have 

 determined to construct a deviation line through the city 

 of Worcester, and from thence to Droitwich and to Wol- 

 verhampton, reserving their main line to the south of 

 Stoke Prior. To effect this object, 500,000/. are to be 

 raised by the issue of 10,000 shares of 501. each. — A 

 meeting of the Sheffield and Manchester Company was 

 held on Monday, to consider the terms of the lease to be 

 granted conjointly to the Midland and the Manchester 

 and Birmingham Companies ; the period of the lease to 

 be 30 years, terminable at the end of 10 or 20 by a three 

 years' notice from either party ; rent to be 5 per cent, 

 on a capital of 900,000/. But should the weekly receipts 

 throughout the year average more than 2800/., the rent 

 to be 5 J per cent. ; if above 3000/. to average 6 per cent. ; 

 and for any further average increase of 250/. a week, to 

 increase ^ per cent, up to 10 per cent. The chairman 

 moved that these terms be accepted ; upon which an 

 amendment was moved in favour of the Manchester and 

 Leeds Company which had offered to lease the line on more 



vourable terms, viz. 6 per cent. A prolonged discussion 

 followed, during which several gentlemen supported the 

 original proposition ; some spoke in favour of the 

 amendment, and two advocated the continuance of the 

 Company on its present independent footing. The amend- 

 ment was ultimately negatived, only 24 hands being held up 

 in its favour, and nearly ten times that number against it. 

 The original motion was then put and carried with 

 another, authorising the directors to apply to Parliament 

 for the necessary powers.— A meeting of the great North 

 of England Company was held at Darlington on Monday, 

 at which it was unanimously resolved «to undertake the 

 formation of a railway from a point in the new line, near 

 Cooper House, in the parish of Croft and township of 

 Dalton, to Richmond, in addition to the Harrogate and 

 Ilipon Junction, which a special general meeting of this 

 Company, on the 15th ult., resolved to undertake ; and 

 the Directors were authorised to order the necessary 



surveys, and apply to Parliament next session At a 



public meeting at Cambridge last week, resolutions in 



vour of the proposed Cambridge and Lincoln line were 

 adopted, with an expression of opinion from the Chair- 

 man that this line by St. Ives, Bedford, and Peterbo- 

 rough, to Lincoln, had many advantages over that of 

 the direct London and York. The trifling shortening 

 of distance effected by the latter, he said, would be more 

 than counterbalanced by the increased speed of the Cam- 

 bridge and Lincoln line, which ran nearly all the way on 

 a level, and could thus be accomplished at much less 

 expense. With regard to the station, it had been consi- 

 dered more advisable to have a joint station with the 

 Northern and Eastern Company's line, and they had the 

 support of all the Companies at present in existence. It 

 was also stated that a railway is likely to be formed from 

 Tottenham to Farringdon-street, which will be of incal- 

 culable advantage to the Cambridgeshire dealers, for the 

 conveyance of their cattle to the London market, giving 

 them a station in the very centre of the metropolis. — 

 An active opposition to the Kendal and Windermere 

 railway has sprung up in the locality which it is intended 

 to traverse. At a public Meeting held last week, Pro- 

 fessor Wilson in the chair, resolutions were passed 

 pledging those present to oppose the railway by all legal 

 means, and subscriptions were entered into to carry that 

 object into effect. The Earl of Bradford and other in- 

 fluential landowners were among those present A 



Meeting of the North Wales Mineral Railway Company, 

 from Chester to Wrexham, was held last week, at which 

 it was resolved to extend the line from Wrexham to 

 Ruabon, in order to connect the important mineral dis- 

 tricts through which the extended line will pass, with 

 Liverpool ; and to afford greater facilities to travellers 

 reaching the vale of Llangollen and the beautiful scenery 

 of the northern part of the principality, Ruabon, the pro- 

 posed terminus being near Llangollen.— We learn by the 

 Railway Chronicle th&tthm was a collision on the Midland 

 Railway on Saturday evening. The mail train from 

 Derby, having two engines, after having run about 17 

 miles, when past Stretton station, ran into some empty 

 waggons, part of the waggon-train having broken adrift. 

 It was in a cutting and on a curve, and it appears that 

 the guard of the waggon-train, who is well accustomed to 

 the business, had not gone back to give the proper signal. 

 He has been, taken into custody. On striking the waggons, 

 the two engines were thrown across the railway so as to 

 form a complete barrier, and one of the drivers was 



seriously injured in the head. The passenm traim 

 both up and down, were detained upwards of five hour« 

 before one of the lines could be cleared, and the up nas 

 sengers were taken back to Chesterfield. None of the 

 passengers were injured, and one man only, next to the 

 engine, was slightly hurt.— The surveyors appointed 

 to inspect the proposed line of railway between the Brick 

 layers' Arras station of the Dover, Brighton, and Croydon 

 Railway and Nine Elms, in order to form a junction with 

 the South Eastern and South Western to include ap- 

 proaches from Hungerford, Waterloo, and Westminster 

 bridges, have been very active for several days on the 

 Surrey side of those bridges, in surveying the property 

 through which the line will pass, preparatory to the in- 

 tended application to Parliament. 



IRELAND. 



Dublin. — The violence of the gale of Friday night and 

 the whole of Saturday, has been productive of numerous 

 shipwrecks, and considerable damage on the eastern 

 coast. A number of vessels from Liverpool and other 

 parts at home and abroad, were driven for shelter to 

 Kingstown Harbour, and many of them, owing to the in- 

 sufficiency of their ground-tackling, were much injured. 

 The light-ship at West-bank parted her chains, but was 

 replaced on Sunday. The railroad from Kingstown to 

 Dublin sustained no injury ; but in various parts of the 

 harbour the storm and the waves have left traces of their 

 fury after them. A steamer was lost on Saturday morn- 

 ing off Lambay, and all hands perished. The K ngstown, 

 from Liverpool to West Africa, parted her chains, and 

 was stranded, and came into collision with the William 

 and Isabella, from Archangel to Gloucester, timber laden. 

 The Kingstown was subsequently destroyed by fire, but 

 the crew were saved. The sea washed over the pier at 

 Kingstown as high as 50 feet. A more continuously 

 violent storm is not within memory, and it is feared that 

 several vessels have been totally lost, of which we have 

 no accounts yet. — Railway speculations have imparted a 

 life and spirit throughout Ireland to which it has hereto- 

 fore been a stranger. The subject excites the greatest 

 possible interest amongst all classes, and party-feeling 

 has not as yet mixed itself up with the matter. The 

 Great Western Railway Company from Dublin to Ath- 

 lone, has been in treaty with the Royal Canal Company, 

 and have purchased the land from the directors. The 

 railway is to run along the south bank of the canal, from 

 Dublin to Mullingar ; but at the same time not interfer- 

 ing with the navigation of the canal, which is to proceed 

 as usual. The whole of the shares in the Waterford and 

 Limerick Company have been taken, and applications 

 for a considerable number over the requisite capital have 

 been made, although scarcely three weeks have elapsed 

 since this scheme was originated, and the prospectus 

 has been before the public not more than ten days. 

 There is to be a railway from Drogheda to Kells by Navan 

 —an independent line. Another from Clare to Lime- 

 rick is spoken of, and one from Kilkenny to Waterford 

 with wooden rails.— Lieut. Puddicombe, of the Royal 

 Marines, whose recent trial in Cork made so much sen- 

 sation, is ordered to rejoin the Portsmouth division.— 

 Mr. O'Connell has addressed aietter to the Editor of the 

 Kerry Examiner, in which he requires him, as well as 

 all other Repealers, to suspend his judgment about 

 "Federalism" until the Federalists themselves think 

 proper to tell them what it is. He concludes by saying, 

 *< Whatever shall be the result, you may easily venture 

 to believe that I, for one, will never consent to receive 

 less for Ireland than she had before. I am ready to 

 accept as much more for her as I can possibly get. — 

 Mr. John Lawless has withdrawn from the Repeal 

 Association in consequence of Mr. O'Connell's declara- 

 tion in favour of Federalism.-The weekly meeting of 

 the Repeal Association was held on Monday, Alderman 

 Butler in the chair. Mr. O'Hea read a resolution o 

 the effect that the Association deem it a paramount duty 

 o call on the people of Ireland to sustain with all their 



the Association to pass such a resolution. The tie i wuicn 

 extsied between J people of Ireland and their Liberator 



devotion to their serv IC £ Mr ,0 He.th.op 

 a panegyric on Mr. U tonnen, "* ° . 



tea,,, and called upon the people ™™™£' ** 

 readr with their contributions on the 1/th inst. U»P£ 

 Broderick seconded the motion which was nnan m ou £ 

 agreed to. Mr. M. O'Connell hen read .let er Jro-n 

 Mr W S O'Brien, on the subject of Federalism, 

 from which The following is an extract :-< 'For », ; o« 

 nart. I feel persuaded that a simple repeal of the union 

 -bat s a return to the international arrangement^ 

 stipulated in 1782 between Great Britain and Ireland, 

 accompanied by a reconstruction of the Irish wr 

 liament upon a reformed pr.nc.ple-is both more easily 

 attainable, and when attained more conducive to a 

 interest of Ireland than any federa comlitot on wh.cn 

 can be devfsed. But though such be my ^^ 

 opinion I am not prepared to reject any plan foi -the re 

 peal of the union which shall appear to be mo e r ra« 

 cable and more satisfactory to all who may 'f'\^ 

 to be parties to the adjustment of this great q»es"on 

 Give to Ireland ample powers of self-government, an 

 on this condition we are willing to consider what ir 

 of constitution will at the same time tend most enw 



