The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-22 00:00:00

OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN).

A special general meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the London Tavern; Sir Macdonald Stephenson
in the chair.

Mr. Cooke, the secretary, having read the notice con-
vening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said that after the general meeting on
the 31st ult. several shareholders, who held a considerable
amount of the capital, intimated to him their hope and ex-
pectation that whatever proposal the Board contemplated
for disposing of the remaining unissued shares might be
fully and frankly discussed with the shareholders, in the
•assurance that the directors would be supported by them,
and that their co-operation would be given to the fullest
' extent in their power to any measure which would expedite
the completion of the line and the realisation of its com-
mercial prospects. Ho trusted that the course pursued
would receive their cordial approval and support. The
entire capital of the company was fixed at £1,784,000, of
which £892,000 were in debentures and £892,000 in
shares. Of this share capital there remained only 3,175
shares unissued, and the Board, after mature deliberation,
had decided, if it met the sanction and approval of the
shareholders, to appropriate those shares rateably among
the proprietors. The proportion would, therefore, be about
one £2O share for every £lOO of capital now held, and it
was proposed to issue those shares at a price to be fixed
and communicated by circular to the proprietors, payment
being made by instalments extending over some months.
The rate of issue of those shares should be fixed, less with
reference to the market value of Turkish stock than with
a view to insure the whole of the shares being at once
taken up, .as the advantage they offered over the ordinary
stock of the country would be readily recognised, the rail-
way shares combining both the security of the Govern-
ment guarantee and the profits of the railway. The £2O
shares obtained at a considerable discount would tend to

reduce the average cost, and the arrangement would enable
'he contractor, by the increased means thus provided, to
push on the works with renewed energy, and by the early
completion of the line to secure to the shareholders the full
Government guarantee of £112,000 a year, as well as the
working of the then heavy traffic at a good profit. With
reference to a question as to the interest on the shares pay-
able on the Ist of July next, it would be paid as usual. He
then moved the following resolution :

"That the council of administration be, and they are
hereby, invested with power to dispose of the unissued
13,175 shares in the company at such price and on such
terms as they may determine, provided that such shares
shall be offered, in the first instance, to the shareholders
rateably in proportion to the number of their shares."
Mr. A. DEVAUX seconded the motion.
In reply to a question, it was stated that a traffic of from
£3O to £4O a mile a week would render the company inde-
pendent of the Turkish guarantee. The contractor was
using every exertion to forward the works so as to open the
line throughout before next February.
The motion was carried unanimously, and the proceed-
ings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1865.

1864. 1865 1864.

! Belfast and, N. Counties 136
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne . 28
Bristol and Exeter l2l
Caledonian 2Bl
Cambrian
Cook ermouth K & Penrlth
Cookermonth and Workin
Cork and Bandon 2O
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l
Cornwall 631
Deeside < 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll
Furness, &c 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Ea.stern,Nrfk.,&E.Union - 663
Great Northern 404
Great North of Scotland 99
Ut. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7l
rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3871
Great Western 1268
Hull & Hornsea
Inverness &Aberdeen Juno ll7l
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191
Irish North-Western 145
Kent Coast 27
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403
Limerick and 'Ennis... 241
Limerick and Foynes 261
Llanelly 461
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 267/
London, Chatham, & Dover 721
Do. Metropolitan Extension 11/
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man..Sheffteld. & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9l
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Metropolitan 3l
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6631
Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind 262
Monkland 7ll
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 10t9
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Rhymney l9l
Scottish Central ll3
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB
Taff Vale 57
Ulster lO5l
Vale of Clwyd
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 274
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&ll4ll 521
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt is 10
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 33,394 27,663
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 261 393 355
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 1851 5,:05 3,501
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 185 5,911 4,114
Dutch Rhenish lOB/ 1( 81 6,838 4,874
Eastern of France
Eastern Bengal llO 110 2,724 1687
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1335 28.701 23,664
Great Central of Belgium 295 272 6,311 4,886
Great Indian Peninsula 590 533* 12,426 14,250
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,861 4,329
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 345 10,748 14,3:2
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant (81 650 19,1437 21,156
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 728 723 57,827 54,6 9
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 1967 1781 125,0%0 123,733
Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 71, 83 72.629
Recife and San Francisco. &c 771 771 1,375 1,192
Scinde lO5 105 2,081. 2,177
Do. Punjab, &c 32 32 231 293
South Austrian, &o .. 1651 1527 47,515 47,359
Southern of France e23 770 .6,031 23,")36
Victoria

138 2,084 1.732
49 9 4 730
28 2,074 2,0 3
1214 6,585 6,3 9
262} 18.911 17,683
84 1,868 1,316
245
9 333 349
20 356 345
6} 191 177
651 1,921 1.618
17 349 310
63 1,427 1.323
75 1,664 1.673
23 240 207
91 2,607 2,445
50 2,692 3.176
198 9,499 8,896
663 34,499 31,270
365 33,995 31,294
99 2,801 2,616
711 397 596
873} 7,984 10.417
1225 63,793 65,527
226
1,292 1,152
1,504 1,490
1,896 1,821
1,520 740
40,360 36,707
172 123
102 103
755 726
384 365
1(9,250 103,313
1,996 1,807
27,410 21.399
24,886 18,545
6,272 4,923
2,800 1,3(0
1, 40 1,465
18,588 18,011
1,763 1,343
1,54; 1,660
2,802 2,t 47
48,6.34 42,875
4,045 4.674
1,688 1,664
3,063 2,811

117 f
1191
145

24
20
461
20k
126141

5831
1095

25t
191
113
134
66
75i
306

1051
10

21,751 20,163
60,399 57,463
3,172 3,14!
7,868 8.753

985 909
5,683 6,454
L 5,300 5,095

953 649
4.183 3,7: 8
25,701 19.515
5,189 5,7 i 4
2,951 2.604
180 167

513 448
1,139 9 6
856 877
4.20 u 4.416
635 802
885 1,19 i
806 1,060

Welland
West 46 N-Wn. of France

IRELAND,

DUBLIN, April 21.
Punchestown has been called the Irish Epsom,
and the first day of the races " the Irish Derby."
Perhaps the resemblance was never so strong as
yesterday, whether we regard the public excitement,
the numbers that drove out of Dublin to witness the
sport, or the intense interest with which the various
races were regarded. Punchestown is said to be
the finest steeplechase course in the world, the
natural conformation of the ground being such
as to test in the severest manner the power, the
speed, and the endurance of the competing horses.
Racing had been declining in Ireland, and with
it the breed of horses but, thanks to the ex-
cellent management of the Kildare Hunt Club,
under whose auspices the races are held, Punches-
town has become an institution of the country
and one of the most flourishing. It is cer-
tainly the most popular,and has the greatest powers
to fill the hearts of just men of all creeds and
classes with common sentiments, interests, and
pleasures. But the interest is not confined to Ire-
land. Some of the best horses in England and
Scotland were entered to compete for the prizes, and
the number of sporting men who came from your
side of the Channel to witness the events was im-
mense. Partly from this cause and on account of
the Cattle Show every hotel in Dublin has been
during the week full to overflowing. The weather
is generally favourable for Punchestown, and on
this occasion it is remarkably so. For three days
and nights it had been raining,and so foggy that the
sun was never able once to show his face, nor was a
star to be seen, but soon after daybreak yesterday
morning the sky cleared up,the sun broke forth and
the weather was bright and genial, and spring was in-
vested with charms such as she seldom wears out of
this green isle. Hence a sort of delirious joy seemed
to pervade the enormous multitude congregated
about the racecourse. During the day Dublin
looked comparatively deserted, and throughout the
surrounding districts business was suspended. The
old Naas-road was thronged the whole way with
vehicles of all sorts from an early hour, from the
stylish drag, well stored with materials for dinner,
down to the outside car (which earned £2 by the
trip), and even the country cart, the list of convey-
ances comprising every sort of vehicle that modern
ingenuity has invented. Another route is by the
Great Southern Railway to Sallins, from which cabs
and cars conveyed passengers to the-course, a distance
of four or five miles, through a country which Lon-
doners would call very wild. Special trains began
to run at 9 o'clock, and continued at short intervals
till 11 o'clock to bring crowds to the ground, which
at noon was covered with a dense mass of spectators.
From the Grand Stand the scene was one which none
who beheld it can soon forget. Those who have been
at Epsom on the Derby day can best imagine the pic-
ture of crowding carriages, the intense excitement of
the multitudes, and the relaxation that succeeded,
the feasting and the merriment in the intervals of the
races, the tents and stands of all sorts, picturesque
mingling of groups the most heterogeneous, thebeau-
tiful motion of the horses with riders in beautiful
colours flying across the place, and rising and dipping
like birds as they crossed the fences—the wild thrill
of delight when the winner came to the post, and the
sudden rush of the spectators from the positions they
had occupied, and the loud burst of conversation that
followed the strain upon their attention. The great
race of the day was won by Mr. George Knox, of
the Curragh, who rode his Hard Times and carried
off the Champion Stakes, value £4OO. The Union
Plate, £2OO, was won by Mr. T. Fitzpatrick's
Cuckoo. The Conyngham Cup, £3OO, by Mr. J.
Lanigan's General Elliotson. The Kildare Hunt
Cup by Mr. Aylmer's Blood Royal. The Hunt
Plate, £lOO, by Mr. Evan's Goldfinder. The Irish
horses, as usual, proved their superiority as steeple-
chasers by carrying off all the prizes of the day.
The Lord-Lieutenant and Lady Wodehouse
honoured the Kildare Hunt Club by tlitir presence
at the races, having been conveyed to Sallins by
special train.

The attendance at the Cattle Show yesterday was
not at all so numerous as mighthave been expected,
or as it would have been but for very powerful com-
petitions in other directions. It may be said almost
without exaggeration that all the gentlemen went
to Funchestown races, and all the ladies went to

the Horticultural Society's Flower Show. There
certainly were comparatively few of either at the
Cattle Show. Those who did attend it seemed
intent only on buying or selling, and I believe ex-
tensive sales of stock have been effected. The show
will be open to-day again, when the artisans and
the humbler classes will have their turn.
Mr. John Rea, solicitor, member of the Belfast
Town Council, and related in the celebrated Chan-
cery suit, has been found guilty of uttering a libel
against Mr. Lyttle, Mayor of Belfast, and was
brought up for judgment in the Court of Queen's
Bench yesterday. He put in an affidavit stating
grounds for mitigation of punishment, in which he
called Mr. Lyttle a perjurer ; he argued that he
ought to have a new trial, that the Attorney-
General should prosecute his antagonist, and that
he should himself be discharged, and digressed into
a variety of topics, which the Court declared to be
irrelevant. At length the Court brought the un-
profitable discussion to an end, and stated that
sentence would be given on Saturday. It is said
that Mr. Rea intends to bring the matter before the
House of Lords.

Notwithstanding the Royal Dublin Society's cattle
show, the Punchestown races, and the inclement state
of the weather for the previous few days, the show
of the Royal Horticultural Society, in the Rotunda-
gardens, was quite a success. The day was warm
and bright, and the attendance fashionable and nu-
merous. The plants, flowers, &c., were not inferior
to those exhibited on previous occasions by the society.
The azaleas were a peculiarly attractive feature of
the exhibition, and in the fruits and vegetables the
strawberries and rhubarb were objects of admira-
tion. Among those who obtained prizes were the
Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary.
The execution of Michael Lynch for the murder of
his father took place yesterday morning at Cork, in
front of the county gaol. As nearly ten years had
elapsed since the last execution in that city, and in
that case the victim, was not a Cork man, an im-
mense crowd, estimated at 10,000 people, was at- ;
tracted to the scene, partly, no doubt, from
curiosity to witness the novel spectacle, and partly
from the circumstances attending the crime, which
was a domestic tragedy of the sensational class—the
deliberate murder of a father on a lonely highway
at midnight by a young man of 23, who wished to
avenge his mother's wrongs. There was also a
good deal of sympathy in favour of the convict,
arising from the fact that he was found guilty mainly
on his own confession. Since his conviction great
efforts were made to obtain a commutation of the
sentence ; but the Lord-Lieutenant felt constrained
to decide that the law must take its course. The
wretched convict himself seemed to take but
little interest in those efforts, his demeanour in
prison having been characterised by stolid indiffer-
ence, which showed a defect in his moral sense, if
not some derangement in his intellect. He ascended
the scaffold with a firm step, made a full confession
of his guilt, and acknowledged the justice of his
sentence. His appearance excited a low murmur
from the vast asssembly, and when the bolt was
drawn there was a deep silence while the body fell.
There was a convulsive struggle for two or three
seconds, and all was over. After hanging the usual
time the body was taken down and buried in one of
the yards of the prison.

Earl De Grey on the Volunteer Movement.

On Thursday a meeting of the friends and sup-
porters of the Yorkshire Rifle Association was held
at Leeds. The chair was occupied by Earl De Grey.
The noble chairman said the present gathering had
been convened for the purpose of considering what
measures should be adopted to place the Yorkshire
Rifle Association in the position which such an in-
stitution ought to occupy in that great county. The
fact of the limited attendance that day showed that
the objects and requirements of the association were
not generally known, rather than that the service
which it rendered to the public was not duly appre-
ciated—(hear, hear)—for he could not believe
that Yorkshiremen less appreciated the Asso-
ciation than was the case with respect to similar
societies in other countries. From the establishment
of the volunteer force to its present organisation,
rifle associations began to spring into existence, and
_ _

every county had found out the practical value of
such institutions. The parent society—the National
Rifle Association—commenced with small begin-
nings, but had gradually so extended its sphere of
usefulness that it now occupied tilt highest position
in the country. He attached great value to such
county societies, principally in consideration of the
fact that they, in their annual shooting competi-
tions, provoked a healthy spirit of emulation. At
a meeting like the present it was not for him to
dilate at all upon the importance of this great na-
tional movement, which had given us during the
last few years so great and important an addition
to our means of national defence. That movement
sprung from the spontaneous feeling on the part of
the people of England that those means of defence
ought to be extended. (Hear, hear.) That move-
ment, so originated, had, he was proud to think,
been supported and encouraged by successive Go-i
vernments ; it commenced under the Administration
of Lord Derby, and it had been fostered under that
of Lord Palmerston. (Hear, hear.) But, though
the movement had had this encouragement from
Government and from Parliament, he believed that
no single circumstance had had a greater influ-
ence upon its extension and development than
the existence of rifle associations.. (Hear,
hear.) Whenever he had had an opportu-
tunity, he had always expressed the opinion that it
was unwise to neglect drill for rifle shooting; but,
at the same time, it could not be expected that volun-
teers would be able to beat the regular troops of
the country with respect to drill, whilst, on the
other hand, they might be able to excel t hem in rifle
shooting. (Hear, hear.) Such being his idea on
the subject, he regretted to say that the Yorkshire
Rifle Association was not in the position it ought to
be. The Council of the Society had done its duty ;
and, with regard to the amount of money spent by
them in prizes, he believed only two counties in
England spent more. But unfortunately the
efforts of those gentlemen who had the manage-
ment of the Association had not been supported
by the county at large ; though he could not help
hoping that this would no longer be the case when
the object and wants of the Society were more
generally known. (Hear, hear.) They could not
all become volunteers, but they could all show
their readiness to assist and encourage the move-
ment by coming forward with their subscriptions.
The Lancashire Association received no less a sum
than £l,OOO from subscribers alone; whilst here, in
Yorkshire, only about £3OO from this source would
be available during the present year. His Lordship
concluded with an earnest appeal in favour of the
association.

Lord LONDESBOROUGH moved—" That this meet-
ing is of opinion that the volunteer force of this
country was much strengthened and encouraged by
the maintenance of this and similar institutions."—

Major Harrison (Harrogate), seconded the proposi-
tion, which was adopted.—Lord Wenlock gave a
statement of the affairs of the society, and moved a
resolution declaring it to be desirable that more
prizes should be offered at the annual competitions,
and that an effort should be made to secure further
donations and annual subscriptions.—Mr. Leonard
Thompson seconded the proposition, which was also
adopted.—By other resolutions adopted by Colonel
Akroyd, of Halifax ; Major Morrison, M.P ; Col.
Hayworth, of Hull ; Colonel Hirst, of Bradford ;
and other gentlemen, it was agreed to invoke the
assistance and influence of the lords lieutenant, the
deputy lieutenants, and the press of the country.

A RARE BIRD.—On Saturday last, a large and
beautiful Icelandic falcon perched on the poorhouse, Elgin,
and was so feeble that it allowed itself to be captured by
some workmen. This, we believe, is the second bird of the
kind seen in the north of Scotland for 30 years. The bird
is as large, if not larger, than the common eagle, and white
in plumage.

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