The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-01 00:00:00

DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
this company was held on Thursday, at their office in
Dublin, WILLIAM Moors La Toccoa, Esq., presiding,
in the absence of Mr. Barlow, the chairman of the coin-
Page directors' report, which has already appeared in our
columns, and the engineer's report, having been read and
adopted,
The CHAIRMAN next moved that a dividend of 10s.
per share be paid to such proprietors only as have paid up
calls prior to, and due previous to, the 30th of June, and
rateably to all other proprietors according to the respective
amounts paid by them on their shares on or before such
' 30th of June, but such proportion of dividend not to be paid
to them until they shall pay up all calls, with interest there-
on, which may be due.
Motion passed unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN having made a few remarks with re-
ference to their transactions for the last six months,
Mr. FRENCH asked would the part of the line between
Portadown and Gorab Wood be opened within a twelve-
month d

CHAIRMAN —Very considerably within that. I cannot
say positively how soon on account of the bog, but I should
say within three months.
The meeting then separated.

GLOrCESTER AND DEAN FOREST RAILWAY.—
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Satur-
day ; S. Baker Esq., chairman of the company, presiding.
The secretary Laker,
rend the directors' report, which
was very satisfactory. The directors expressed their con-
tinued confidence in the advantages which this company
had reaped in the recent agreement with the Great
Western Company, and referring to the fact that as soon as
the Hereford and Gloucester Railway was opened in con-
nexion with this line, the shareholders of this company
would receive 51 per cent., the report called upon the
shareholders individually to subscribe to the undertaking of
the said Hereford and Gloucester line, which depended so
much upon local support. Mr. Brunel (the engineer) re-
ported that the event of the opening of the line was close at
hand, and that they would be able to cross the
Severn at Gloucester within a fortnight. From
that point to the junction with the South \Vales line
at Maybe the works were completed and the permanent
way was laid down. The Chairman moved resolutions to
the following effect: 1. That the report of the directors be
received and adopted, and together with the statement of
accounts, be distributed among the proprietors. 2. That
the seal of the company be affixed to the register of pro-
prietors. 3. That Mr. W. P. Price and Mr. C. T. Avery
be re-elected directors. 4. That Mr. J. Calton be re-elected
auditor. After a short discussion the resolutions were
passed, and the meeting broke up, having first voted thanks
to the chairman.

FLEETWOOD, PRESTON, AND WEST RIDING JUNC-
TION.—At the half•yearly meeting, held at Preston on
Saturday, the chairman (Mr. T. B. Addison) stated that
the committee appointed some time ago were at present in
communication with the directors of the Longridge Com-
pany, and endeavouring to effect an amicable arrangement
of the matters in difference between them. Until within
the last few days they bad not been able to make much
progress. Now, however, he thought the conference had
proceeded so far that the directors of this company would
shortly be able to report that some arrangement had been
upon. Under these circumstances, he moved the
went of the meeting to Friday the 12th of Septem-
ber. The motion was agreed to, and the meeting separated.
It is understood that the arrangement now pending is, that
the line should be worked by • committee from both com-
panies, and that the Longridge Company should take six-
sevenths of the nett whole line, and the West Riding Com-
pany one-seventh.
BELFAST AND COUNTY OP DOWN RAILWAY.—
The eleventh ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company
was held on Thursday in Belfast. The chair was taken by
W. J. C. Allen, Esq. The report stated that during the
last half-year ending the 31st ult., the directors, with a view
to press as lightly as possible on the shareholders, have
made but one call of 21. 10s. per share, due the 15th April
last. At the last half-yearly meeting the forfeiture of 695
shares, upon which 5,2771. 10s. had been received, was con-
firmed, and the directors are determined to act in a similar
manner with a further number. The directors regret that
the passenger traffic of the half-year has not been so good as
might have been anticipated, your line, in common with
others, having suffered from the unusual number of persons
who left Ireland to visit the great attraction in the metro-
polis. The directors call the attention of the shareholders
to the increase in the goods traffic, which they have no
doubt will be still further augmented when the arrange-
ments are fully completed. There appears an the sheet a
balance of 3,1221. 6s. 3d., after deducting all working ex-
Za; out of which the directors would recommend a
vle:nd of ila. per share, which, when the forfeiture of
all shares be ultimately completed, will leave a consider-
able sum to be applied to the depreciation fund. The
report was unanimously adopted, as well as a dividend of
lls. per share. The meeting then adjourned.

DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN.—The halt yearly
meeting of this companaras held in Dublin, on Friday
J. Diggs. La Touche, ~ in the chair. Fran the direct-
tors' report it appeared after deducting all the ex-
rues, the profits for the half-year anointed to 1,4331.
He. Id. ; to this is to be added the reserved fends'llllol
2a. 10d. • making • total to credit revenue ve of
MOW., ihe ressewal fund) of 2,7631. lie. 11d. Oat of this
ram the directors reoommended a dividend of Is. on seek
paid-up skate the capital of the ilee the Wl' I
year, leavin,lllsl. law 11d. as a nine for general
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es elhe likk of July. Mr. Townley seconded the
=4/whisk paned unanimously. The ordinary meeting
WON ties nalllaad; and the chairman moved a resolution,

declariffig a dividend isf fie. peg share, with certain
limita-
tions. The resolution was adopted ; and, attar some formal
preen dings, the meeting
separated.
DUBLIN AND BltATir.—The half-yearly
meeting of the shareholders of this company was held in
Dublin on Friday. Sir George Preston in the chair. The
report of the directors, which was adopted without opposi-
tion, contained the following statement :—" The act granted
to your corporation the last session gives you the positive
power of making the line from Dublin to Bray, and enacts
that the said railway shall form a part of the undertaking,
and be subject to the provisions of your original act of
1816; however, by the 33d section of the act, conferring
upon you the title of ' The Dublin and Dray Railway Com-
pany, the powers to make the extension from Duntirtyn
to the town of Bray are suspended for a limited time, and
in a certain event may not be exercised by you. The event
referred to is, that inasmuch as the ' Waterford, Wexford,
Wicklow, and Dublin Railway' Company (now ' The Dub-
' lin and Wicklow Company) have a hue nearly identical
with your line, and it being expedient only one should be
made, that they (the Dublin and Wicklow Company)
should have the first power reserved to them of making it,
provided they contracted for the purchase of the land
within one year, and actually completed the line in two
from the passing of the act; otherwise the power of the
said Dublin and Wicklow Railway Company, as to the
portion of the railway between Damien= and Bray should
altogether cease. Thus, the legislature have secured the
railway (via Dundrura) to the public, and the triadic from
Bray to Dublin must pass over your line; and should elapse
occur by the Wicklow Company from Duadrum, then the
sole property in the line will belong to, and become vested
in your company.
DUBLIN AND WICKLOW RAILWAY.—The ordinary
general meeting of this company, better known as the Three
W's, was held at the Northumberland hotel, Dublin, on
Friday, Lord Courtown in the chair. From the statement
of receipts and expenditure it appeared that a balance re-
mained to the credit of the company of 3,8511.; the receipts
from deposits on shares and interest being 1:53,9301., and
the payments 150,0781. Some of the shareholders having
complained that the report contained no information, Ur.
Muggeridge said that at the special meeting which would
shortly be held, an opportunity would be afforded of stating
exactly the grounds upon which they have acted. They did
not give any information which they conceived was nut likely
to be satisfactory to the shareholders, but thought it better
to run the risk of bringing forward the report a little meagre.
THAMES HAVEN RAILWAY.—The meeting ad-
vertised to take place on Saturday was adjourned owing to
the want of a sufficient attendance.

IRELAND.

DunLtN, Aro. 30.

The following details of the atrocious agrarian
murder in the Queen's County are given by the
Leinskr Exprese:—

There is but one opinion throughout the county with
regard to the cause of Mr. White's death. It is ascribed to
a cause purely agrarian ; and the following are the general
circumstances of the case:—Mr. White held by lease, made
in 17'29, for lives renewable fur ever, 150 acres of the lands of
Ballyruin, on the estate of the Earl of Portarlington. The
remainder of the townland consisted of 100 acres of ordinary
turf bog. The Earl's estates having been brought into the
Incumbered Estates Court, Mr. White became anxious to
purchase the head rent payable for the farm which he so
occupied, and thereby to become owner in fee. lie accord-
ingly made a private contract with the solicitors having the
carriage of the sale to have it on payment of 7101. When
this arrangement came before the commissioners for their
sanction, a difficulty arose as to the boundaries of M r.W hite 's
farm, and the severance of so small a townland ; and fur
the purpose of getting his own head rent he was obliged to
purchase the turf bog in addition to his farm, and fur which
he had to pay 12e11. The Commissioners of the Incumbered
Estates Court then greatest him a deed by which Ike became,
owner of the entire townland ; they also issued an injunction
under the authority of which he was put in possession by tho
sheriff of the county Shortly after Mr. White gettiog pos-
session, several of the tenants of the other Moreland* on the
estates of the Earl of l'ortarlington (which are also for sale
in the Incumbered Estutes Court), mitered Ballyruin fur the
purpose of cutting turf undiremoving bog-mould, under an
alleged claim of a right of turbary upon the bog as annexed
to their holdings upon the other estates. Mr. White caused
application to be made to the coininissioners for redress, ins
asmuch as these claims were not put forward in the rental
under which he had purchased. The answer he received was
" We put you in possession, and you must protect your own
rights; we won't interfere." Mr. White then attempted to
cut away the road to these banks, but was resisted by a party
of from three to four hundred persons, collected from
every direction of the country by the parties claiming the
right. Under the circumstances Mr. White abandoned the
attempt. He was then served with a written notice, signed
by about thirty-two persons, who claimed right to the bog
as annexed to their holdings, and tes having used it for
years. These persons called on him to avoid a forcible
collision, and to vindicate his rights, if any he had, in a
court of justice, and by peaceable means. In order to
follow up the advice, Mr. V. hite summoned several of the
persons who cut turf on the bog, before the magistrates as-
sembled at Abbeyfeix petty sessions. Having proved the
act of trespass, and exhibited his deed of sale under the In-
cumbered Estates Court, the accused parties proved to
having cut turf on the bog annexed to their holdings on the
other portion of the estate for a series of years. The justices,
after sonic deliberation, dismissed the case. Mr. White
then threatened the parties that he would institute pro-
ceedings in the superior courts, for the purpose of trying
his right peaceably, but the death-blow of the assassin
interposed, assuming to itself a power beyond the laws of
the hued.

Mr. White is very generally lamented. He was a good
employer, and expended a great deal of money during tho
year. In his capacity of poor•law guardian the poor ever
found in him an advocate, although no man could more jea-
lously watch over the interests of the ratepayers in any
matter where he considered outlay unnecessary.
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On Thursday, at 12 o'clock, the adjourned inquest was
held at the court-house, Abbeyleix.
The first witness examined was Denis Ouilfoyle--Ile had
been in Mr. White's employment. On last Monday morn-
ing, about 9 o'clock, he brought the pony-gig to the hall-
dour of Mr. White's house, when he gut into it, and drove
in the direction of Dallyroan. Ile was then in as good
health as ever he saw him. The next place he saw him
was ut the police barrack of Dallyroan, between 10 and II
o cluck. Ile was then lying on the table dead. There
were two holes in his breast, and a great deal of blood on
his clothes. The body was afterwards removed to Abbey-
leix. Witness never knew any one to threaten Mr. White
but was aware of his being at law with people about a bog:

James Sheeran, of Newtown, near Ballyroan, was cent
examined—lie used to be working at a lime-kiln near the
road, and taw Mr. White pars very often. On last Mon-
day, while quarrying stones at Newtown, he heard the cries
of the children that Mr. White was dead. When he canto
down he found him ,ying dead in the gig. Ilia head was
hanging on one side. Ile then went and gave information
about the matter to the sergeant of police at Ballyroan.—
This witness swore he did not hear the children say any-
He afterward* admitted ho heard them say that
Mr. hite was dead.)—Though there was a number of
children on the road at the time, and that he had been an
inhabitant of the place, ho knew only two of them, who
turned out to be his own children, Catherine and Mary
Anne Sheeran. He did not hear a shut that morning ; and
asked how he could, u he was in the quarry ? One of the
jury asked him if being down in the quarry prevented
him from hearing the children ? To this question
ho gave no answer. There were two persons in
the quarry at the time, James Ringwood and Daniel
Dunn. Witness afterwards admitted that one of the
children on tile road when he came down was • chap
named Ringwood, and added " sure the sergeant saw
him." lie was asked if he saw any other children on the
road at tho time ? He answered he was sure not. In answer
to the question if he saw any one passing the road at the
time or a little before, he in return asked how could he, as he
had been at the quarry at work ? He afterwards admitted
that he had been at his breakfast some time before that. Ilia
house was near the place; he did not either on that or any
other day see a strange person upon the road. In answer to
the question did he sue any reapers that morning, he said "I
saw reapers that day passing, but I did nut mind them; I
saw reapers going to reap Mr"—here the witness suddenly
paused, and remained silent. Being asked for whom were
the reapers going to work, he said ho did not know for
whom. A kusir asked if he saw Pelt Maher going to reap (a
man arrested under suspicious circumstances). He readily
answered in the negative. Mr. Brownlow remarked that
though the witness said he was at work that morning down
in the quarry, he saw hint on the top of it at work us he was
•paring. The witness then said he used to be on the quarry
and kiln. In answer to a question from Mr. War, J.P.,
he said be knew the men were reapers by their hooks. He
afterwards denied be saw any hooks. He did not know any
one that went the road that day.

Dr. Swan was examined as to the cause of death. He
made apost marten examination of the body of Mr. Edward
White at Abbeylein, on the afternoon of Monday. He
found one opening near the centre of the back, and two
openings in the breast. These were gunshot or pistol
wounds. The two openings in front were op to to the
one behind. The balls passed through the back on the
right side, on a level with the eighth rib. The wounds
were in themselves sufficient to Mlle death.
To Mr. B. M'Mahon (a juror)-1 cannot say whether
they were gunshot or pistol wounds; the person who tired
the shot must have been very close to Mr. White; there
were marks of fire upon the coat.
The jars having retired for some time, returned with a
verdict to the effect that the deceased came by his death in
emiesquenoe of gunshot or pistol wound*, indicted by some
person or persons unknown.
The magistrates thee retired to the grand jury room for
the purpose of examining witnesses privately. After mature
deliberation, their worships decided on adjourning the in-
vestigation until next Wednesday. The prisoner' Patt
Maher, was remanded for further examination, and trans-
mitted to the county gaol. The witnesses were given in
*barge to the police.

Tan GOLD COAST Coats.—TJusA pending
arrangements for the formatiogLuf 4Eisuncps it le
understood, in a forward stale. to
Sli
consist of one major oommataing, whet. is Um iril
governor of the settlement, three eapt.aine, nts,
three ensigns, one adjutant, cis ' ser-
geants, 12 corporals, and 300 privates.—.lt . tau, der-
stood that the officers will not be segarldwinise,lenger
than three years on the amt.
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