The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-13 00:00:00

credit previous to the last half-yearly meeting, he was sure
the meeting would concur in thinking that it was lees than
could have been anticipated. (Rear, hear.) if so, he must
say that that result was to be attributed to the great
caution which had been exercised by the directors, not
only during the last six months, but previously. (Hear, hear.)
Upon that subject he bad °sly to add that he believed tho
rest of their property was safe. The loss by defelcatioa was
a matter of deep regret to the directors, first, that they
should suffer so severe a loss in such a was; and, secondly,
that a servant in whom the directors placed so much confi-
dence, should, by violating that confidence, and committing so
great a fraud have blighted his prospects and ruined himself
Sir R. JENKINE having seconded the motion that the
report be received,
The CRAIEXAN stated (in reply to questions from Mr.
llodgkinson, Sir J. Wilson, and others) that the whole
amount of defalcation by the clerk was ra,her under 8,0001;
first with regard to the West. end branch, it not only
paid its expences, but sent a good profit to the parent
establishment; that the directors could not possibly examine
the details of the business of the branch hank ; that no
blame attached to them for the fraud which had been
committed; that it could not have been committed it
the checks they bad ordered had been observed, and
that it had taken the directors quite as much by surprise as
any of the proprietors.
The report was then unanimously adopted, and the retir-
ing directors re-elected, neat. con., Mr. Blount withdrawing
his name, which he said he had put forward at the desire of
several shareholders.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.
A meeting of the above commission was held this
day at No. 8 Committee-room, House of Commons, Lord
Morpeth in' the chair. A large mass of accounts was
audited, and communications and petitions from various
quarters were read. All desoriberi idhd complained of, a
most defective aystem of drainage and of accumulation of 4lth
in places calculated to have a detrimental influence on the
public health.
The important business transacted consisted of a resolu-
tion, pledging the commission t the adootion of one general
system of drainage for the metropolis. Two plans had been
submitted respectively by Mr. Phillips and Mr. Austin.
Mr. Chadwick preferred that of the latter gentleman, as
providing for districts below high-water level, by an inge-
nious pumping apparatus. Both plane were referred.
The other importapt feature of the day's pro.
eeedlngs was the announcement, by Lord Morpeth, that
government bad placed the whole ordnance staff at
the service of the commission, and that that department had
admitted the practicability of preparing, within &short time,
an ordnance plan of the metropolis, which would be quite
sufficient for the purposes of the commission. The commis-
sion adjourned to this day fortnight.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

COUNTY OF LIMERICK.

(PUOIC Ova OWN REPORTEIL)

LIMERICK, TCY.EIDAT.

MURDER OP THOMAS M'ENIRY.—FromY all that .1 p
peered on the trial of John Renihan, for the murder of
Thomas M'Eniry, the particulars of which I forwarded
yesterday, it would be difficult to assign a motive for the
dreadful crime perpetrated in this instance. The only thing
that transpired to show what could have led to the outrage
was that the prisoner had impounded some cattle belonging
to the deceased, for a tresptue, and that the latter had
Renihan summoned for having assaulted hie servant-boy,
when he went to ask for the restoration of the cattle. This

would be a slight cause, indeed, for such an atrocious crime.
That something else must have led to it may be presumed
from several circumstances connected with the parties.
It appeared in the course of the trial that, in conse-
quence of the barking of his dogs on the night of the
murder, the deceased went out and discharged a gun; but
whether at the party who was about to attack his house, did
not appear. However, they were probably exa-perated at
this, and it may have caused them to do what they had
not intended in going to his house. But there is another
circumstance which I have heard, though it did not appear
on the trial. Some years sine* the father of the prisoner
died from the effects of a beating he received from a person
in the employment of the deceased, M'Eniry, who was be-
lieved to have instigated his servant to commit the assault.
How far the recollection of this may have influenced the pri-
soner's conduct is a question for consideration. I base also
heard that M'Eniry incurred ill-will by taking land of which
his own brother had been dispossessed. It is said that the
prsoner, who seemed to be about twenty years of age, was
to have come into the possession of a considerable farm in a
few days alter the murder. It was sworn on the trial that
when the party were beating the deceased, one of them told
him " to remember the last court day," that on which the
summons alluded to was tried.
SENTENCE trON TUE PRISONER.—At the sitting of the
court this morning, the prisoner, Renihan, wee placed at
the bar, and the Clerk of the Crown having read the record
of his conviction, and asked him what he had to say why
sentence of death and execution should not be passed upon
him, according to law, for the wilful murder of Thomas
M'Eniry, he said—" Nothing at all, Sir, but that I am
innocent of the charge."
The judges then put on their black caps, and the Lord
Chief Baron proceeded to pass sentence upon the prisoner.
His lordship, addressing him, said he had been found guilty
of aiding and abetting in the murder of Thomas M.Eniry,
than which a murder more atrocious in its character, and
surrounded by circumstances of more dreadful, barbarous,
and savage cruelty, was seldom the suliject of investigation
in a court of justice. His lordship recapitulated the facts
of the case as they appeared in the evidence, and in a feel-
ing sad impressive manner pointed out the sad and fatal
consequence of such outrages—outrages in the putting down
of which, he add, persons of the class to which the deceased
belonged had the deepest interest. His lordship then im-
plored the prisoner to take advantage of the time remaining
to him, by seeking for that pardon from heaven which he
could not expect on earth. He conjured him to employ that
short space in eximises of repentance and devotion, for which
ample means and assistance would be afforded him. His
lordship then, in the usual manner, passed sentence on the
prisoner, fixing the 11th of February as the day on which it
should be carried into execution.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar. He dis-
played the greatest firmness, and did not appear to be much,
if at all, moved at bearing the dreadful sentence pro-
nounced upon him. He deliberately took his cap off the
iron railing of the dock, and descended to the lower part of
it with a firm step, and stood up bold and erect, listening to
the proceedings that followed.
ATTACKING A DWELLING-HollBl3.—Patrick Long and
John Coleman were indicted fur having attacked the dwell-
ing-house of Daniel Shee, at Bsllyhale, county Limerick, on
the 16th of July last, and robbed him of a gun.
The prosecutor was examined by the Attorney-General,
and swore that on the night in question a party of armed
men came to hie house, broke his windows, and demanded
his gun, which he handed out to them through the window.
He identified the prisoners as being of the party. On going
away the party shot his dog, the ball that killed the dog
going through the door of the house, and they told him that
that was the usage they would give himself on the following
Sunday night.
The witness, on being cross-examined by Mr. O'Hea,
admitted that a sheep lost by one of the prisoners was found

in his yard.
Manuel& Shee was examined by the solicitor-general (who
arrived is town last night) : She corroborated her father's
testimony as to the attack on the house, and swore that she
believed the person to whom the gun was handed out was
Coleman, one of the prisoners.
It appeared by her information, a portion of which was
read by Mr. O'Hea, that the witness swore, when making
it, that the gun was taken by a man who was a stranger
to her, and handed to another.
The prosecutor's servant boy also deposed to the fact of the
attack having been made on the house, but he could not
identify either of the prisoners.
Mr. H.. De Massey was examined to prove that the
country was in a disturbed state st the time of the outrage.
Mr O'Hea addressed the jury for the defence. He said
the question was altogether one of identity, and submitted
that the evidence on the point was not sufficient to justify a
conviction.
The Chief Baron charged the jury, who, after a short con-
sultation, acquitted the prisoner.
ROBBERY OP ARMS, AND ATTACKING a DWELLING-
HOUBE.—MichaeI Callaghan was indicted for baring attacked
the dwelling-house of John Carroll, at Crease, on the 4th of
December, 1816, and robbed it of a Run.
The Attorney-General detailed the facts of the case, and
said he did so because the prosecution was to be in part sus-
tained by the evidence of an approver.
John Carroll was then examined by the Solicitor-General
—The witness deposed to the fact Oat the attack had been
made on his house, and that his gun had been taken ; be saw
the gun afterwards with the police, but he could not identify
the prisoner.
Thomas Carroll (the approver), examined by the Attor-
ney-General—l was one of the party that attacked the
prosecutor's house ; there were fourteen of us ; they were
at my house on the night of the attack, and the prisoner
gave me money to go for whiskey ; that was about eight or
nine o'clock in the evening; Caffry and Gibbons, and two
strange men came to my house that night, and I understood
that they were to go to a steward on the public works to
threaten him for having put a brother of Gibbons' off the
public works ; Callaghan went for a second bottle of whis-
key, and when be came back he said he met the police on
the patrol : I went to bed, and Callaghan, the prisoner,
came to me, and desired me to get up, as they were
going to Carroll's for a gun; I then went with them;
there was six or seven of us, and about the same number
joined us on our way to the house; we had a double-bar-
relled gun, a single-barrelled gun, and a blunderbuss ; the
doubled-barrelled gun was mine; the others whom we met
had more erns ; five of them went to the house, and the
others went to watch the police; the prisoner broke the win-
dow with a stone, and demanded the gun; Carroll first
denied that he had the gun in the house, but his father-
in-law told him to throw them out the old gun ; " Thank
you, Mr. Grady," says I—for I did not like to see any injury
done for the sake of the gun ; Callaghan brought away the
gun ; they returned for the powder-horn, but din't insist on
getting it; I saw the gun a month [after with Callaghan.
(The gun was here produced, but the witness could not
identi it.)
Cross-examined by Mr. O'Hea—Well, Captain, you and
I met before, I believe? I believe we did, a little. Who
was your comrade-man, as you called him ? No answer.
Against whom did you swear at the last assizes ? Mick
Howard. Was be the man whom you mere to be your
comrade-man? I swore his sister's husband was my com-
rade, and a neighbouring man. Was he ever in any expe-
dition with you ?Isit in any fact I—no, but be asked me
to go on a fact with him. Was your house the place
where the boys used to meet ? It was my mother-in-law's