ANGLO CELT -- June 23, 1853 -- part 1 -------------------------------------------------------- RAILWAY TO CLONES. A meeting was held in the Court-house of Cavan on the 20th instant, according to advertisement, for the purpose of inducing the gentry and merchants of this town and neighbourhood to lend a hand in carrying out the useful project of making a line of Railway from this town to Clones. The Railway from Armagh to Clones is in progress. The line from Mullingar to Cavan will be in progress immediately. It must be apparent to every one that the gap between these two important lines must be filled up. To effect this object, the above meeting was called, and though the notice was necessarily very short, yet we are happy to find the meeting was so well and so respectably attended. The chair was taken at one o'clock by Theophilus THOMPSON, Esq., J.P., who made a few prefatory remarks, and then Mr. ANKETELL and two or three other gentlemen who attended as a deputation from Monaghan and Belfast, addressed the chair, and explained the object of their visit. The most perfect unanimit! y prevailed ; every one seemed of opinion that a railway connecting the two lines should be made ; one or two gentlemen however, were of opinion that the line should keep to the East, and pass through Cootehill to Ballybay, rather than Clones. This, however, would involve an outlay of double what would be required to connect us with Clones. The line to Clones, if properly laid down, is only 1000 1/2 or 11 Irish miles, and a perfect level -- only two trifling streams to be crossed. It could be finished for less than eighty thousand pounds. When completed it will be amalgamated with the Armagh and Clones Railway conferring upon the shareholders all the advantages to be derived from a union with that important time. It will form part and portion of the long projected grand central trunk line of Ireland extending from Clones to Limerick, with a branch to Galway, and will also connect us with Derry by Enniskillen, and must eventually prove a very profitable investment. One third of the shares necessary for conveying out this project have been already subscribed for in Belfast ; the Ulster line have taken a large number ; in Armagh the names of most of the principal monied men are connected with it, and we are happy to say the deputation have been very successful in Cavan also. We believe upwards of a hundred shares have already been subscribed for, and we have no doubt that other parties will yet come forward and remove the reproach which rests upon this county of being the only county in Ireland indifferent to the advancement of railways. We may here suggest the propriety of a branch line to Belturbet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIRTHS. On the 13th inst., at Bellarena, county of Londonderry, the wife of Sir. F. William HEYGATE, Bart., of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Lower Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, the lady of Henry George HUGHES, Esq., Q.C., of a daughter. June 17, at 13, Cavendish Square, London, the Viscountess Mandeville, of a son and heir. MARRIAGES. June 13, at Carrie-on suir, Charles B. DOREN, Esq., of the Northern Whig, Belfast, to Mary, third daughter of the late J. LENIHAN, Esq., of Waterford. June 21, in St. Thomas's Church, by the Provost of Trinity College, Henry R. CROFTON, Esq.., of Crofton Park, Ballina, county of Mayo, to Kate, eldest daughter of the late Thomas FENTON, Esq., of Castletown, county of Sligo, and Chief Examiner of the Court of Chancery. DEATHS. June 21, at Killester House, county Dublin, Eliza Emily, youngest daughter of Commissary-General DESCOMBE(?) DESOOMBE?. May 21, at Jamaica, in the 44th year of his age, Francis Gerard MAYNE, Esq., brother of the late William MAYNE, of Freamemount?(Freanemount?), in the county of Monaghan, Esq. December 30, at Auckland, New Zealand, in the 24th year of his age, Sedborough MAYNE, Esq., Ensign in H.M. 56th(?) regiment, second son of the Rev. Edward MAYNE, of Lakeview, in the county of Monaghan. ==================================================== County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project