The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

I bearing 3 per cent. interest, under the understanding, as
the Committee state, that every possible effort is to be
continued to reduce the mass of debt by the sales of
national properties, and to resume the payment of divi-
dends from the Ist Jan., 1843. This is at it should be.
CHRONICLE.—At the special meeting of the Com-
mittee of Spanish Bondholdors, held this day, the fol-
lowing resolutionswere passed :
" Resolved—That this Committee continue persuaded
that even in the present position of Spain she is fully
able to allow five per cent. upon the new stock into which
the Coupons in arrear are to be converted ; yet consider-
ing that his Excellency Senor Surra y Rull proposes this
arrangement as a means to relieve the Treasury from the
embarrassments of the moment, while by pushing his
retrenchments and commercial reforms he is preparing
to resume the payment of the regular five per cent. inte-
rest on the whole debt, from the Ist January, 1843, this
Committee having great confidence in the honour and
good faith of his Excellency, will endeavour to obtain
the general acquiescence of the Bondholders in the said
temporary arrangement, in the hope and under the un-
derstanding that every possible effort is to be continued
to reduce the mass of debt by the sales of national pro-
perties, and to resume the payment of dividends from
the Ist January, 1843, as aforesaid.
" Resolved, That the sentiments and professions of
his Excellency Senor Surra y Rull, expressed in his
letter of the 28th-June to Mr. Thornton, Chairman of
this Committee, and in his speeches in the Spanish
Cortes on the 24th June, 22d, 23d, and 24th July, and
other occasions, are worthy of the Minister of a great
nation ; and that the extract from his Excellency's
speech communicated by the Correspondent of the Morn-
ing Post, under date of the 22d July, from Madrid, be
published for the satisfaction of the holders of Spanish
Bonds. "By order of the Committee,
" THOMAS THORNTON, lion. Sec.

" Committee Rooms, Old Swan, Aug. 6, 1841."
We are much gratified to perceive that the Committee
have at last adopted the line of conduct that we have so
constantly advocated. We understand that in the course
of next week the Committee will publish a third Report,
and we hear that it will contain matter of great interest
to the holders of Spanish Securities.
POST.—We hear of Joint-stock Banks being under
advances to Joint-stock Trading Companies to large
amounts—ompanies, the success of which, in some in-
stances, would appear to be very questionable. The secu-
rity given may be thought commensurate with the risk,
but whether it be so or not is a point that can only be
ascertained when some crisis or other shall arise to put
the matter to the test. To us it seems highly injudicious
to be staking the capital of banks upon the prosperity of
any undertaking that may be interfered with by compe-
tition and ntunerous other contingent circumstances, nor
do we think this could very well be done, did it not hap-
pen, unfortunately. for the inconsiderate shareholders
who embark their properties in interests subject to the
control of they know not whom, that the leading and
influential Directors of the one thing are frequently the
leading and influential Directors of another. It is in
manufacturing districts such as Lancashire and York-
shire, and in great speculative communities like those of
London and Liverpool, that the greatest injury is to be
apprehended from the reckless combination of banks and
speculators, and the corrupt influences of Directors and
Managers of Joint-stock Companies.

IRELAND.
KING'S COUNTY.-DUBLIN, AUG. 5.
CHARGE OF SHOOTING AT MR. BIDDULPH.

TuLLAmonE, TIIESDAY.—This day having been fixed
for the trial of Michael Colgan and Michael Doherty,
for shooting at Francis Marsh Biddulph, Esq., with in-
tent to murder him, the Court was crowded from an
earlyhour by the country people, who seemed to take a
deepinterest in the result.

It will be remembered that this case was tried before
at the last Assizes, when the Jury were discharged with-
out coming to a verdict, and public attention was drawn
to it in more than an ordinary degree from it being made
the subject of debate in the House of Lords, where Lord
Charleville impugned the construction of the Jury who
tried it, and cast imputations on the Government for
having abandoned the old custom of challenge. All these
circumstances tended to increase the interest excited by
the case altogether, and particularly as regards the re-
sult of the trial.

When the prisoners were arraigned, the grand panel
was called over, and 154 appearances having been en-
tered by the Clerk of the Crown, several Jurors were
challenged on behalf of the prisoners.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated the case.

Mr. Biddulph was then examined—He said he resided
at Rathrobin, in the King's County. Recollected the
morning of the 25th of September. Proceeded on that
day to land, which he had got recently through a civil
bill decree. He went out of the gate, and he met a man
named Middleton. He proceeded along the road with
me towards Mountbolus for about two hundred yards.
When we came to a particular part of the hedge, which
was lower than the rest, he called after me, and said he
had another word to say to me ; and, upon turning
round with my face towards the ditch, a gun was fired at
me. There were two marks with swan drops, but I was
not cut. One entered, and another tore my skin. My
mare then ran back towards Michael Guy's house, and
I told a woman, named Guy, that I was shot, and I
then gallopped instantly back towards the place where
the shot was fired. When I went as far as Denis Con-
way's house I met a woman, named Honor Lynch ; she
pointed to where a man was running in the field, and I
rode into Conway's lawn, where there was a staked gap,
and the people not having opened it for me, I forced my
mare out over a stone wall at the end of the house, and,
on getting into the field, I saw a man running in a stub-
ble-field. I followed him, and overtook him where he
was with others at a harrow.

COURT-Did you know him ?
Witness, in continuation—l did know him. I went
from that to the meadow of Ballyellen, and then went
home. In about three weeks after, I, in consequence of
information received, found a gun in Clane plantation ;
the lock of the gun was down, and the hammer half up.
It had the appearance of having been recently discharged.
It had no ramrod. I know Doherty. He had been in
my employment, out of which I turned him about two
months before this transaction.

Honor Lynch was the next witness examined—l was
at home between nine and ten o'clock ; heard a shot
fired ; I saw the shot fired out of the plantation ; Mr.
Biddulph and John Middleton were on the road at the
time ; they were beside each other ; his horse gallopped
back towards Rathrobin when the shot was fired • I fol-
lowed Mr. 8., when I saw a man cross the road with a
gun ; he wore whiteish trousers, a blue coat, and black
hat ; he went towards Luggamarlaw ; he crossed the
road near Denis Conway's ; I found a piece of black stuff
near the spot where the shot was fired.
Honor Fury identifiQd the prisoners as the persons
who fired the shot ' • but, on her cross-examination, she
broke down, for she admitted having sworn before a
Magistrate that she believed Doherty was not one of
the men.

Two witnesses swore that they met Colgan near the
place at which Mr. Biddulph was assailed on the morning
of the occurrence ; and a Magistrate deposed that Colgan
denied having been at the place at all.
Jane Biddulph examined—Saw a man leap over the
demesne wall in a few minutes after the shot was fired.
Was not able to see liis features. He wore a frieze coat
and trousers. Did not know who the man was.

Mary Biddulph examined—DeposaFthatshe heard
the shot fired, and having run out, she saw a man run
through the lawn towards the plantation, with a long
gun in his hand. He wore a grey frieze body coat, light-
coloured smallclothes' and blue stockings, but she did
not know him. She followed him across the lawn, but
he turned round and pointed the gun at her. I saw Paddy
Colgan on the road afterwards.
By Mr. MURPHY--•I did not mention the name of Col-
gan at the last trial.
Caroline Biddulph examined—Saw a man on the lawn
with a gun in his hand. Thinks it was Doherty, but
would not positively swear to him.
By Mr. GORMAN—I knew Doherty before, as he v; as
in my brother's employment.
Elizabeth Biddulph was next examined, and identified
the prisoner Doherty as the person that wtr; sen run-
ning across the lawn with the gun in his hand, Saw him
leap the ditch. Was just beside him, and i.l-bught he had
whiskers, but it was a black stocking ':,nat was up about
his face. Knew him when she saw V him the next morn-
ing. Knew thatit was false wh...skers he had.
Mr. GOR3IAN—Oh ! Miss
come to know it was false Biddulph, when did you
whiskers the man had ?—I
knew it at the last trial.
kers ?-1 mentioned . .
Did You mention ' word about them being false whir-.
swore thyeo
Did you m •edit to my sister. 13-
' e ,cion it to the Magistrate before, when you
Ilformations ?—No.
you. nought he
leaped 0-,er
tsixlvear on the last trial that the man who
ditch had large black whiskers, or that
Mr. 011.31 AN had,i till Mary Anne Hennessy told you
at was a black sti3ei mg. ?—I did not.
taken for the Crown
disprove you, from the report
• The Court rosper
aotceae(cturtr to nine o'clock.
tnweasss for the defence was about ascending the
restcaws7
with again yesterday ; and as
table, one of the Jurors w
further hearing of the
theTfih
casaesltavaken suddenly ill, and the
inglf the Juror be not recovered,s :i. d jaonudr n to this morn-
.dty, the probability is that the tria
able to discharge
journed for a fortnight, or the prisoners admitted to bail
to stand their trial next assizes.

TO NON-ELECTORS.
HOW TO GAIN A VOTE, AND USE IT WITH-
OUT INTIMIDATION.
Every Reformer who is excluded from the list of
voters, and does not possess the necessary
qualifications
to get his name on the register, may as effectually cont •
'mite to the return of a Reform Candidate as if he had a contri-
bute
for himself, and that vote was protected from inti-
midation by the ballot, if he will examine the list of
voters, which may be seen at the house of any overseer
at all reasonable hours, any day before the 15th of
August, and make a note of the name and address of
any Tory that appears on the register and is not in
every way qualified. He should immediately forward
the information, with ground of objection, to somo active
Reformer or Registration Committee, who will object to
him ; and if he is unable to prove himself qualified, will
be excluded from the registeri the onus of proof lying
entirely with the person objected to.
Thus the Tory vote struck off will be one gained to
tho cause of Reform, and given as secretly, if not more
so, than a vote given by the informant under the protec-
tion of the ballot.

Surely the thousands in the metropolis excluded from
the franchise, and thoso who have been compelled to
sacrifice their consciences, and submit to the most shame-
ful as well as shameless intimidation, will avenge them-
selves upon their intimidators, and thus regain the vote
their private interest compelled them to give against
their own honest conviction.

The King of Hanover has forwarded, through
Sir F. B. Watsen, 1001. towards the funds of the Queen's
Free School in the parish of Jiew.