The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-12 00:00:00

STATE OF GALWAY.

Mr. Freeman, the Assistant Barrister for Galway,
in his charge to the grand jury, gives the following
description of the present state of that county :
" The calendar (he observes) here bears the same
character that such returns hare borne all round the
present sessions circuit in this county, and exhibits
a degree of disorganization, an almost overthrow of
the very first elementary principles of society—a
disregard of property ; reckless characters committing
depredations upon the most humble peasants, taking
sway their property—slaughtering their cattle
wherever they can lay hands on them, and carrying
away their carcasses ; and committing other felonies
on all classes of society without distinction."
REPEAL ASSOCIATION. _

The usual weekly meeting of tho Repeal Associa-
tion was held this day at Conciliation Hall ; Layne,
Esq., in the chair. The attendance was large, but
the proceedings were of no public interest. Mr.
John O'Connell made the usual number of speeches,
in the course of which he abused Lord Shrewsbury
in good set terms, and eulogised Dr; MlHale. The
rent for the week amounted to 701.

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In the course of the proceedings, an epistle from
the Catholic Bishop cf Meath was read by the secre-
tary.

ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A PASSENGER
At the quarter sessions held at Cardiff on the Bth of
this month, William Scott was convicted and sentenced
to seven years' transportation, for wilfully and ma-
liciously attempting to overturn a passenger train on
the Taff ,Vale Railway, by removing the rails. The
train proceeded at its usual rate, and with apparent se-
curity, until it had arrived eighteen miles from Cardiff,
when the engine, tender, andlthreo of the carriages went
olf the line. Fortunately for the lives of the passengers,
the engine went off on the side of the mountain. On
inspecting the line, it was discovered that two of the
rails had been taken up, Had the rails been displaced
only a few yards, further on, the train must have gone
into the river. l'he prisoner was apprehended on sus-
picious circumstances. The
evidence
fully bore out the
verdict of the jury.
ANOTHER EXTENSIVE AND MYSTERIOUS RAIL-
wAY ROBBERY.—An extensive robbery took place on
Dlonday, between the Paddington and Bristol stations of
the Great Western Railway Company, the loss sustained
being, it is supposed, from 1,500 to 2,0001. It appears
that the property, consisting of gold and silver coin, was
enclosed in an inch-thick iron-bound deal box, nailed
down, and the address o n the box was " Messrs. Bad-
suck and Co., bankers, Taunton." The weight of it was
about 1201b3„anu on its being sent off by the quarter
past ten o'clock mail train, it was put at the bottom of a
seat, baled which seat was another compartment, in
which four or five well-dressed men, some of wham got
in at Paddington, took their places ; they alighted at
different stations on the line, and upon the arrival of the
train at Bristol, a man named Cotterell, in the employ
of the company, and whose duty it is to see that all was
right inside the carriages, made the discovery that a
panel under the seat of the compartment which the
" gentlemen" had occupied had by some means or other
been removed, and that the box, after being taken out,
forced open, and emptied of the valuable contents, had
been replaced in its original position ; neither chisel,
knife, crow-bar, nor any other implement by which the
daring and most artful act of plunder might have been
effected, could be found.
EXTaNSIVE AND DARING BURGLARY AND ROB-
BERY AT VISCOUNT FOLKSTONE'S.—LONGFORD CASTLE,
JAN. 10, 184 S--Between the hours of nine and half.-
past ten last night, while the servants of Viscount Folk-
stone, of Longford Castle (situated a few miles from
Salisbury) had gone to the hall, for supper, &c., some
clarityg thieves broke open the rooms occupied by the
coachman and stable servants, over the coachhouse, and
stole from the said rooms as follows :—A box three feet
long and two feet wide, wherein
was a smaller mahogany
box, containing 421. in gold, thirty private letters, and
other valuables (these were taken away, it is presumed,
because the locks could not there be forcibly picked),
also a black dress coat, a black frock ditto, two pair of
black trousers, four waistcoats, three satin scarfs, and
two silk neckerchiefs, all the 'property of Henry Walker,
his Lordship's coachman. There were also taken away
five sovereigns,
a great-coat, and a shooting-jacket, the
property of Thomas Williams,the groom, and a silver
watch, belonging
to Richard Turner, one of the stable-
men. The thieves have not been discovered.
CHARING-Cuossi,HosriTAL.—Yesterday afternoon,
a meeting of the governors and committee of the above
hospital was held at the institut!on in West Strand, for
the transaction of general business. Dr. Bowers, the
Dean of Manchester, p the chair. The report for the
year just ended stated that 12,092 indigent sick had,
during the past year, been admitted on the books for
relief, at a cost of 2,2921. 4s. 11d., of which number 1,155
were in, and 10,937 were out patients, making a total of
233,758 individuals who have partaken of the advantages
of the ie
stiintion from its commencement in 18l a. The
fends are at present in a very low state, and inadequate
to the demands made upon the charity.
THE CASE OF GEORGE TIIURSTILL.—The above
individual, a horticultar!st at Norwicai, and a man who,
from his position in isociety, and his
.family connections,
for same time escaped suspicion, has just been sentenced
to iu,pilatnaeot ior ono year, WlLit hand labour, basing
t‘een convicted of stealing various articles of plate, books,
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