The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

BARBAROUS MURDER IN SLIM).

The cormspotitlerit of Ll)+, f)ohrio h:,,,nifog Po,/
supplir, the folhrin4 p.o.rticuhars of the barbarous murder
of doer persons in the towu of Rallyinote, county Sligo :

Jan. 9.
"Crest con•ternation was created iu thin town this
morning by a rep It of three persons having lien tour.
lend in the proverbially peaceful town of Ballymote.
Last night mine were inclined to doubt it. but. unfortu•
Lately, it has turned out tube too ti tie. I have ascertained
that kr. Callaghan, his wife, and a servant girl have beet)
foully murdered by some person or persons at preseut an-
known. Mr. Callaghan ,uel hi. wife kept what is cou-
ddered a strong grocer's shop in the town of Bally te,
about II mile. from Sligo. They were in very comfortable
eircurrestances, and were much respected in the neighbour.
had. on account of the shop not having beet, opened this
morning s. urinal, inquiries were set on foot, and, on au
entrance Icing mash: into the house, Mr. and Mrs. Callag-
han were found shunt in their beds, touch bruised, and with
their throat. cut. sal in an outhouse the servant girl was
found dead, with her throat cut Dearly from ear to e,ir.
Mr. Callui.;bau was about eighty years of age, and his
wife was not Intel his junior. so that it is not prubirble the
murderer or murderer; met with much opposition from the
aged souple ; but it is supposed that the poor girl heard a
scuttle, by .urne IllettllS became ecquainted with the dread-
ful work going on in the bedroom, and, in the hope of
moving her own life, made for the back door, but Lad
not time to proceed many steps outside before she was
overtaken sod foully murdered It is thought that the
object of the perpetrators was plunder, and that the
Os/lagbuns were knows to be premed of considerable
means; and from the appearance of wane drawers, it is
thought that robbery has been added to the great crime.
Al P.M as the molder because known the polioe were
,in the alert, and some mounted men of the force were
despotched to Sligo to have measures taken tojorevent any
stispirioie. persons proceeding by steamer to Liverpool or
Glasgow. An express wee also seat to loniakilleu to use
the telegraph wires to put the authorities at Belfast and
other seaports on the qei erre. It is generally thOt
that the murders were uot peepetrated soy woos be-
longing to the town or neighbourhood.l owever, it is me-
lees to speculate on this point in the present state of uncer-
tainty. The police have been sent in all directions, and it
is hoped that the guilty party will not be long out of cus-
tody. An inquest will be held this afternoon or to.
morrow."

cOM.VERCIAL DOCK COMPANY. -(THIS DAY)
The half-yearly tneoting of the proprietors wan
held at 1 o'clock at the Deckhouse, 106, Fenthurch•
street ; Mc. 1). T. Mow; to in the chair.

The report said : The direct:in have to report that
the number of ships which entered the docke during the
past year was as follows:--810 ships wood laden, 214,106
tom ; 621 corn laden, 12.5,637 tons ; 24 variously, 6,202 tons ;
67 light, 19,101 tons ; total. 1,331 shim 365.0;16 tons. This,
though out quite so good as last year, is in excess
of the average of several preview, years. The director,
have the pleasure to report that the granaries have been
fully and profitably employed during the greater
part of the past year, and at the present time
the stock of grain is the largest that has been
in the company's warehouses at any one period. With a
view of meatiest the requirements of thi• menasing trade,
the dint-tors have, under the advice of the company's
engineers, resolved upon making an addition to one
a( the present granaries, whic h will, at a comparatively
mall cost, afford increased storage to the extent of 20,000
gr.. of The construction of the sew exit to the Thames
aulhwirad under the last act of parliament is proceeding
estialectarily. The directors recommend that a dividend be
desired teethe half .year of 21 per cent. Imes the capital
shuck of the company free of income tax, and that the
ems be payable on and after illoodiy, the 34th
instant." The report concluded by Mating that the
dividend warrante would in future be Mai to ISmiertfroprieter
by post, sad that the folkorlag that day
from the board biks6M
rotation:— Flcessquet, Mr.
H. Brandt., Mr. J. sal Mr. M. Thinens.
On the motion of the 111•111.111 A N, the repat was ado
Mr. Ger to moved the decleratien of a divided of 2
cent. for the half .year, which was agesad to ; and the re.
tiring directors having bees twdeeled, the meeting
separated.

It *cents that, notwithstanding the extrsorilivary
inclemency o: the season, some half-dozen members of the
howl= Bathing Club do not flinch from the performaace
of their ablutiom regularly every morning in the Serpen-
tine. It may be aeked bow suck a thing is possible when
that sheet of water is a solid mass of ice nearly a foot
thick ! But to men cast is meek a heroic mould all diffi-
culties sae but trifles. All they have to do is to borrow a
hatchet from the Humane flodety, and cut away as mock
of the km as will furnish them with a bath. These brave
bathers are quite minded with a single dive, seal-Iffte,
below the freezing surface ; and when they emerge from the
Rerpentine, with icicle laden beards, they, of course protest
that it is delightful.
Mr. Owen Jones writes: —" If Mohammed La-
MAO, who complains is the Tint. of this day of the
' cereleasome or *some* of the artists who designed the
Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace at itydenhain
is placing imeriptions of the holy name of God es the
Sow,' will nay visit to the Alhambes in Spaia he will
find the from which there tiles were copied
still on the of that building, mil where, I believe, they
were placed by the Moors themselves. It me my duty
to reproduce tie fact as I found it." Tu show that be was
not ignorant of the modern objection, Mr. doom thee quotes
an extract hem his ()sole Book of the Alhambra Cant
ROOrIMO TIII RIVAL EXCIMANGt. —Yesterday a
meeting of tke committee on Chrednun Affairs, convened
principally to consider the aubjeet of roofing the Royal
Exchange with glass, which has frequently before bees
niseitaL especially during the lest year. was held in the
ha of the Mercers' Coinpeny, the 'Lord Mayor acting as
chairmen. On the motion of Mr. H. Lowman Taylor, •
resolution was adopted to the effect that in the °pinkest
of the eommittee the memorial of the merchants in favour
of covering the area of the Exchange should he com-
plied with, provided a suitable design can be adopted,
the mesas furnished, and the assent of the tenants obtained
whose rights may in any wa be liable to interference. The
committee bail previemly for plans to carry the
project suggested by the memeridish into effect, intimating
their intention to award premiums to the designers of the
three best Thirty-three each pleas have bent mat in, and
it was arranged yesterday that the duty of selecting from
among them tisanes most (boilable, was tossabistheousa-
mittee to awned the prizes and chomp the one for final estop-
: tion. should be confided to the Lord Mayor sad the Master
it the Mercers' Company, with liberty to call to their sa.
signer. Mr. Tice. the architect of the Exchange, and Mr.
Smith, the architect of the Meroers' Company.
!torment:se' QtARTEALY MiLTINO. Bin-
111NONAll, JAN. 10.—The second meeting of the iron:nastier
of this district for this ginner was held in this town this
afternoon. The attend nee was less than the avenge ; and
it is many years since there was a qusrterolay in which
there was so small an amount of business dime. The few
makers of the very best brand. of finished iron continue to
',mimed the trade price; makers of inferior qualities dad
it difficult to sell at any price, awl each transactions as did I
take place today must have been at very low rates, such
was the indisposition on the part of consumer* to enter into
engagements of any kind ; and the general tone of the as-
*stably was that of despondency. At many of the works'
operations will soon be stopped, consequent oo the difficulty
of obtaining material, the canals, with me exception, being
frozen The pigruastsni are suffering meet from the
pr,eent depend= ; tint the iron trade in is district in
every breach of it ia almost a* had as it CM be.
N'otTterolears, THI ' RsDAY. —WO COMMA report
much alter dim for the better in the lace trade; the unsettled
state of the money market tending to depress trole,not only
here but all over the country the same autism is president.
There ere some few home Innen as well as Germain in the
market, but they boy very carefully, in fact, we cannot ex-
pese anythiug else whilst money is at its present high rite.
Yarn is very stiff in price as well as most descriptions of silk.
The trade of the town postally has !meg been ex-
tremely bad. and instead daisy Improvenseet taking eases
it seems as if thiap are getting from bad to worn. The
little demand for manufecteres which existed List year
seems now to be vanishing away, and employment for work-
less, which has long been some, is getting more so. Newly
all the futons.s is the district have either totally
or partially stopped working, sad the time when they will
spin townie full work seems somewhat indellnite,
ing from present appearame, In the meantime, the long
continue.) depression has produced its natural consequences,
i end the crudities of the artieses of the district as a clam
is very deplorable, and the „,e-estest digress sad destituticie
prevail.. Nntwitleetandime the active esertiota of platen-
! threpie indiridusb, clergymen, and other members of tell-
pos. to pruvide for the went* of the lels.osio; poor,
pauperism still frightfully 'escrow/es, and as tl Cr, arc to
sages at present of a far until. reaction
m the man fac-
turig trade it need hanlly be remarked that mopeds far
the Rest few mouths ..re gloomy and noestl.feeuev.
Tallies may, however :an on bet:er than is now anti.
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