The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-05 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

It was then moved by Mr. ROBERTSON, " That iir
per cent. be taken as the rate of interest which will
satisfy this meeting, provided it be paid ou the terms
already proposed by the bank.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Pinuirs, and
carried with only three dissentients.
It was also agreed, on the suggestion of the CHAIR-
MAN, that a deputation, consisting of himself, Mr.
Beloe, Mr. Birkett, Mr. James Woodruff, and the
secretary, should be appointed to wait upon and
confer with the directors on the subject, previous to
their meeting of Saturday next.
A vote of thanks was then voted to Mr. Harbord,
after which the meeting seperated.

IRELAND.
SHOCKING MURDER OF MAJOR MAHON.
DUBLIN, Nov. 3.
—Accounts were received this
morning of the murder of Major Mahon, one of the
most extensive proprietors in the county of Roscom-
mon, whilst on his return from a meeting of the board
of guardians, on Monday afternoon. The unfortu-
nate gentleman was travelling in his carriage when
the fatal shot was fired. Major Mahon was nephew
to the late General Lord Hartland, and inherited
most of his property. He possessed an estate in Ros-
common, the rental of which was from eight to ten
thousand a year, and had the reputation of a good
landlord.
The Evening Mail gives the following account of
this horrible crime:—
" STBOKESTOWN, TUESDAY NIGHT.--A 9 Major
Mahon was returning home from a meeting of the
board of guardians of Roscommon Union, on this
evening, he was shot d3ad by an assassin, about four
miles from Strokestown. The melancholy occurrence
took place about twenty minutes past six o'clock in
the evening.
" Major Mahon has been in possession of the Hart-
land property for a couple of years. The tenants
owed three years' rent, amounting to thirty thousand
pounds.

"At first the tenants refused either to pay rent,
till the land, or give it up. Last year, however, a
large portion of them agreed to leave the country ;
and Major Mahon at his own expense chartered two
vessels, and sent a number of the tenantry to
America. Long, however, before this occurred, it
was well known in the country that Major Mahon
was a doomed man. His name stood first upon a list
of twelve gentlemen, all of whom have been doomed
to death on account of their refusal to continue the
conacre system. The failure of the potato crcp
saved them for the time. As Major Mahon has been
taken off, there is little doubt that other gentlemen
will soon follow.

" Major Mahon within the last few days was de-
nounced as an absentee, and one who refused to contri-
bute to the local subscriptions of the neighbourhood."
(rnom ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT)
" Major Mahon, of Strokestown, fell by the hands
of assassins this evening. He had lately succeeded to
a property so over-peopled that, if lett unaided, the
population must have starved. He therefore laid out
6,000/. last year in assisting a large number to emi-
grate ; many more solicited to be so favoured, bat in
one year nothing more could be done.
" On Tuesday he had driven into Strokestown, and
called at his agent's office, to lay out plans for the
employment of men upon a large scale. He pro-
ceeded to Roscommon, where, for want of funds, the
poorhouse was in danger of being closed, and his wish
was to keep open everything that could benefit the
poor. Returning from this choritable duty, he was
marked by two assassins, who fired at him at a little
after six o'clock in the evening, at about four miles
from Strokestown. One piece missed fire, bUt the
other took effect, lodging a heavily loaded discharge
in the breast. The victim exclaimed, 0 God !' and
spoke no more."

- NEW STIPEDIARYIIIAGISTRATE.-31r. J. H. Shell,
a magistrate of Westmeath, has been appointed a
stipendiary magistrate, in the room of the MO Major
Shaw, son of Sir Robert Shaw, Bart.

HIPWRECK.—PLYMODTH, NOY. 3.—The schooner
Unique, of Sunderland, George Clarke master, arrived
here on the Ist inst. from Alexandria, with a consign-
ment of beans for Messrs. Fox, Sons, and Co., and the
same day received orders to proceed to Gloucester.
With a pilot on board, at five o'clock in the afternoon,
she got under weigh; when rounding Penlee Point, there
having been previously a light wind from the south-
east, it fell suddenly calm. The anchor was ordered to
be dropped, but before this could be accomplished the
schooner struck heavily on a rock, and there being at
the time a heavy swell on she soon filled. The revenue
cruizer Arrow was fortunately near, and Commander
Loudon, descrying the perilous position of the schooner,
sent a boat to her, dropped the cruiser's anchor. awl
followed himself in a second boat. The Arrow's two
boats then carried out an anchor and hawser from the
schooner, and used every exertion to get her off. Un-
fortunately the hawser, which was new, broke, and, the
sea increasing, Captain Clarke, after consulting Com-
mander Loudon and all present, abandoned the schooner
at half-past ten in the evening. The captain of the
partwen
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protect the
anchors, and cables are saved.
made Captain
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brother, Sir W. Ma, Aldermen Sir Peter Laurie, Fare-
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FORGERY TOR Arn
tion was received at h
banking-house in Lot
be Mansion-house that an eminent
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forgery;
had been defrauded of
a the parties, it is sup-
posed to lull suspicion,
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one obtained the money in notes to a
large amount, being for 1,0001, No. 85,950, lst
January, 1847. The Forresters have obtained a clue to
the guilty parties.
THE NEW POSTAGE STAMPS.--Some personslthve
complained, through the columns of the Times, says the
Civil and Mercantile Journal, that the gum used for the
new shilling and tenpenny postage-stamps is not so pa-
latable as that used on the obverse of the ordinary penny
and twopenny profiles of her Majesty. We are enabled
to state that the gum used on all is the same.
PRESENT TO THE HOUSE OP COMMONS.—A com-
munication has been received by the Customs authorities
from Mr. Trevelyan, one of the secretaries to the Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, desiring, on
the part of their Lordships, that the Board would give
directions for the delivery, duty-free, of a package
Lordship's wishes con-
taining books, the same being a present from the French
1 Government to the House of Commons, Etnd which h
arrived at the Custom-house by a steamer from Ter of
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directions for their
being duly obeyed,

THE ROYAL RANK OF LIVER-
POOL.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. -.A. meeting of the depo-
sitors in the Royal Bank was held this day, at the
Clarendon Rooms. The meeting wi:s convened in
consequence of an advertisement which appeared in
each of the Liverpool papers since Tuesd,ay last. The
meeting was most numerously attended, there being
many depositors from a distance present, and also
considerable numbers of ladies, who were also depo-
sitors. The chair was occupied by Mr. Harberd.
The CHAIRMAN having asked if any gentleman had
any observations to make,
Mr. SUTTON said, that perhaps many present were
in the same position which he then
occupie d. The
firm to which he belonged had received the circular
of the Royal Bank, proposing the terms which had
been made public, and to which they had replied in
the affirmative. They had accepted that proposition,
and, therefore, he wished to know how he could now
enter into any other arrangement, or whether he
could, in honour, take any course different from it ?
He wished it to be distinctly understood that he
was desirous of acting honourably and firmly with the
bank, as well as assisting in any measures which the
depositors might agree to. He felt some diffidence,
therefore, in taking part in the meeting.
A DEPOSITOR here stated that he was in much the
same position ; but having only accepted the terms of
the bank conditionally, he did not consider himself
bound by them.
The Cum-RATAN wished to make one or two obser-
rations, and seeing Mr. Holme present, who was a
proprietor of the bank, he hoped that he would cor-
rect him if he erred. He might state that the amount
of the deposits exceeded by a small sum 600,0001., of
which sum 300,0001, had been placed at the disposal
of the bank, about 39,000/. had positively refused
their terms, and the remaining portion have not ex-
pressed their sentiments at all. He might also be
permitted to state that he bad spoken to some of the
directors, and they, in the most straightforward and
manly way, acknowledged that they look upon the
first proposition of the bank as not being suffi-
ciently liberal. One gentleman suggested the
propriety of dealing with the debtors of th bank and the depositors in this way :—Thase
e who were indebted to the bank should, so
long as they owed the money, pay more than the
ordinary rate of interest; and the bank, during the use
of the depositors' money, they also in return pay them
at an extra rate. He felt convinced himself that
if six or seven per cent, was charged on their debts,
that it would have the most salutary effect in resusci-
tating the affairs of the bank. It would, in fact, force
all who were able to pay up, and by this means the
bank would be put in possession of funds to enable it
to go on prosperously, an event which was very much
to be desired.—(Cheers.) The chairman concluded
by suggesting the propriety of appointing a deputa-
tion of two or three gentlemen to discuss this matter
with the bank directors.