The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

Pyrrhus the First, 5

yrs
Jericho, 6 yrs 9 O'Gannet, 6 yrs 7 1
War Eagle, 4 yrs ... 8 13,T0m Whiffler, 4 yrs 7 1
Lightning, aged 8 13 Sagacity, 4 yrs
Inheritress, aged
Jonathan Wild, 5 yrs 8, 7,Marietta, 5 yrs
Lady Wildair, 6 yrs 8 7,Sister to 2Egis, 4 yrs 7 0
Rattrap, 5 yrs 8 2 Mountain Dew, 4 yrs 7 0
Blackbird, 5 yrs 8 2:Tit-bit, 5 yrs 6 13
Morpeth, aged 8 2 'Queen Mary, 4 yrs... 6 13
Reminiscence, 4 yrs 8 21 Antagonist, 4 yrs ... 6 13
Mogador, 4 yrs
Vesta, 4 yrs 8 &IMuscow, 5 yrs
Antler, aged
Ranelagh, 5 yrs
Rowena. 6 yrs
Bourton, 5 yrs
Miss Elis, 6 yrs
Sweetsauce, 4 yrs ... 7 12'i Milliner, 5 yrs
Shawn Buidhe, 4 yrs 7-12 Auricula, 5 yrs
Atlantic, 4 yrs
Sut]ej, 6 yrs 7 12; ham, 5 yrs
Cleimont, 4 yrs
Peep-o'-dayßoy, 4yrs 7 10 Passionate, 4 yrs ... 6 4
Britannia, 6 yra
Mirmillo, 4 yrs
Sir Arthur, 6 yrs 7 10' Wiclred, 5 yrs 6 4
Clumsy, 6 yrs 7 10 Snuff Box, 3 yrs ... 5 7
Joe Lovell, aged__ 7 10 Prince Charley, 3 yrs 5 7
The Tartar, 4 yrs
Crozier, 4 yrs 7 9 Sampson, 3 yrs
Montpensier, 4 yrs... 7 8 Eagle's Plume, 3 yrs 5 7
Best of Three, aged 7 BLatitat, 3 yrs 5 6
Questionable, 4 yrs... 7 8 Cracow, 3 yrs 5 6
Walmgate-bar With- Bletchington, 3 yrs
out, 4 yrs 7 6 Black Ball, 3 yrs ... 5 4
Tufthunter, 4 yrs I 7 6 Glen Saddel, 3 yrs... 5 3
Fergus, 4 yrs
Projectile, 4 yrs 7 6 Good Boy, 3 yrs ... 5 3
Spectator, aged
Cremorne,'4 yrs 7 4 Self-Defence, 3 yrs . 4 13
Stull; 4 yrs
Premier, 5 yrs
Rufus, 5 yrs
Alboni, 4 yrs .... .... 7 2 Reminiscence, 3 yrs . 4 10
NORTHAMPTON AND
48.
1 18)YT CHLEY HUNT
RACES,
The Great Northamptonshire Handicap of 25 soya. each,
15 ft, and only S if declared by the Ist of February.
st lb at lb
War Eagle, 4 yrs .... 8 13
Inheritress, aged 8 8
Lightning, aged 8 5
Lady Wildair, 6 yrs 8 5
The Cur, 6 yrs
Saddle, 4 yrs .
Morpeth, aged
Rat-trap, 5 yrs
Reminiscence, 4 yrs 8 2
Prussic Acid, 5 yrs 7 13
Grimston, 5 yrs 7 12
Rowena, 6 yrs 7 10
Clermont, 4 yrs 7 10 i
Tuft-hunter, 4 yrs 7 10
The Windsor Painter,
6 yrs 7 10
Bourton, 5 yrs
Miss Elis, 6 yrs 7 10
Fergus, 4 yrs 7 9
Peep-o'-dayßoy, 4 yrs 7 9
Antler, aged
Mirmillo, 4 yrs 7 8
Ennui, 5 yrs
Joe Lovell, aged 7 7
Vesta, 4 yrs
Freo Lance, 5 yrs 7 7
Best of Three, aged
Joe o' Sot, 4 yrs
Sheraton, 5 yrs 7 7
Watch-dog, 4 yrs
Hydrangea, 5 yrs
Tarella, 4 yrs .....
Intrepid, aged
Spectator, aged
Marietta, 5 yrs
Rufus, 5 yrs
Pantomime, 4 vrs
Vampyre, 4 yrs 7 3
Scandal, 4 yrs 7 3
Sagacity, 4 yrs
Clumsy, 6 yrs... 7 2
Bingham, 4 yrs ...
Stultz, 4 yrs
Cosachia, 4 yrs
Queen Mary, 4 yrs . 7 01
Pottinger, 4 yrs 7 0
Bukhara, aged
Chance, aged
Tit-bit, 5 yrs 7 0
Ballinafad, 4 yrs
Avenger, 5 yrs
Little Mary, 6 yrs 7 0
Teresa, aged

Walmgato-bar With-
out, 4 yrs 7 0
The Premier, 5 yrs 7 0
Marquis of Conyng-
ham, 5 yrs 6 13
Fitzwilliam, 5 yrs
Lethargy, 4 yrs 6 13
Congress, 4 yrs 6 12
Britannia, 6 yrs 6 12
Counterfeit, aged
Sultana, 4 yrs
Shy-lock, 4 yrs
Circassian Maid,4yrs 6 11
Chemisette, 5 yrs 6 11
Antagonist, 4 yrs
Palms, 4 yrs
Enchanter, 4 yrs
Louisa Newell, 4 yrs 6 10
Sir Peter Laurie,4 yrs 6 9
Prospect, 5 yrs
St. Oswald, 4 yrs 6 8
Wee Bit, 4 yrs
Blue Light, 5 yrs
Lyme, 4 yrs
the Hatter, 5 yrs
Mountain Dew, 4 yrs 6 7
Columbus, 6 yrs
Lush, 4 yrs
Sister to Agis, 4 yrs 6 7
Milliner, 5 yrs
Widred, 5 yrs 6 5
Marlow, 4 yrs
Passionate, 4 yrs
'Sylvan, 3 yrs 5 7
Cracow, 3 yrs 5 7
Stourbridge, 3 yrs 5 7
Good Boy, 3 yrs 5 5
Reflection, 3 yrs 5 2
Hornpipe, 3 yrs 5 0
Fernhill, 3 yrs
Telegraph, 3 yrs
Self-Defence, 3 yrs 5 0
Latitat, 3 yrs 5 0
Matadore, 3 yrs 5 0
Embrace, 3 yrs
Miss Margrave, 3 yrs 4 12
Black Ball, 3 yrs
Convict, 3 yrs 4 12
Duplicity, 3 yrs 4 10
Egremont, 3 yrs 4 7
B f by Thistlewhip-
per, dam by Cain,
3 yrs
argrave have been entered
owners, and will be struck
LU.

Pantomime and Miss M
without the consent of their
out, unless ordered to remai,

GAME PRESERVERS.—FroIn information we have
gleaned, it is a " great fact" that most of the game pre-
servers are prodigiously sore when they have a few fees
to pay in the way of magistrates clerks' fees—yr.!, even
a few fees to justices' clerks when a poacher is com
miffed to prison. Cmve3ing to gaol maintenance
therein, &e., are all placed up:m the public rate-pa) ers,
and yet most of the game mania nobility and gentry
begrudge a few fees (probably not more in a case than
half a sovereign, including constable, &c.), having to pay
justices' clerks. There are those, too, when a poacher
pays penalty and costs, who expect the witnesses (who
are their own men) to be al'owed for their time in laying
information and in attending magistrates when the case
is heard. Verily, what tine feelings and nice consciences
have some of our " fine English gentlemen!"—Fran a
Correspondent.
THE LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S SLOOP SNAKE.--
The Zuid Afrikaan reports the following :—" Arrived
in Simon's Bay, Nov. 10, Honourable Company's mail
steamer Progresso, Lieutenant Romeiro, from Mozam-
bique, O-ctober 13, to Simon's Bay, with stores saved
from the wreck of her Majesty's sloop Snake, stranded
within a few miles of Mozambique. Passengers ; Dr.
Maranda, Portuguese army ; Lieut. Webber, and 42
officers and men of her Majesty's sloop Snake. The re-
mainder of the crew have been conveyed to the Mauritius
in a French ship."

IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.

(From Saunders's News Letter of Yesterday.)
CONSPIRACY TO MURDER.—ANOTHER
CAPITAL CONVICTION.
ENNis, TUESDAY, JAN. 18.—In the case of the
Queen against .Michael M'Mahon, for conspiring to
incite John Perry and others to murder, or subscribe
money for the payment of the murder of Mr. Matthew
Rolland, the following evidence was elicited for the
prosecution after I dispatched my letter this morning
by the mail :
This ease was looked upon $3 one of the most im-
portant on the calendar, as from its nature it was
considered more calculated to arrive at the root of
the secret system adopted by criminals to perpetrate
the barbarous murders which have taken place in
this and the adjoining counties.
Michael Hawkins—l know the prisoner and Mr.
Rolland. The prisoner came to me and spoke to me
about him. Ile said lie wanted some money to make
up 9/. for a party who was to shoot Mr. Matthew
Rolland. Ile said Rolland was the first man who
prevented them from getting their diet on the works ;
he also said he had a great many farms, and it would
be better if the poor people got them; he said some
of the 9/. was paid, but not all ; that there was some
promised. The prisoner then desired me to go to
Michael Morony, and ask him to subscribe to the
money that was wanting. When he asked me to do
that, I said I would. I did not go to Morony imme-
diately, but I did afterwards. The Moreny I went
to was not the man who was on the table, but his son.
The prisoner ails() told me that James Driscoll was to
pay part of the money. He was speaking to me in
this way for a fortnight. I was getting in dread of
God and man, and I went to my clergy and told my
pastor, and be advised us all not to join in any bad
business; I then gave it up. When I was telling
Morony of it the prisoner passed along.
Cross-examined by Mr. O'IIEA—I was never se-
cretary to a meeting, or to any treasonable society. I
was never connected with anything dangerous to my
soul or body. I had no quarrel with Mr. Bulland
but "he had an oddity of a form with me." lie was
a committee man on the board of works. I asked
him for work, and did not get it. M'Mahon got on
the works. The "oddity of a form" existed before
this time. I could not tell the cause of our difference.
All the difference was, that we did not speak. I
remember the time of the Terry Alts,lB3l. I know
Clonarkin Hill. I never gathered a thousand Terrys
there, or served any threatening notices at that time.
James Driscoll, examined by the ATTORNEY-GE-
NERAL—The prisoner lived about a mile from me.
He came to me last November and asked me for a
The
reason of money to shoot Mat Rolland.
reason he assigned was, that Mr. Rolland was not
dieting the men, and was not giving himself em-
ployment. He also bid me ask James M'Enery,
of Tyrivana, my brother-in-law, to subscribe, and
said he would speak himself to Pat M'Mahon and
Mick Morony, and get money from them. I requested
the prisoner for God's sake to drop such wicked
business, and refused to subscribe. He said I believe
it is as good to drop it.
Cross-examined by Mr. O'HEA—I am no relation
of John Morony, but my wife is; she is first cousin.
Rolland got a farm I was looking for; the one Hines
had. I never said he ought to get a bullet through
his body. If Bolland was dead somebody should take
it at a fair price, but its no bargain now.
The case for the Crown having closed,
Mr. O'HEA addressed the jury for the prisoner, and
contended that the indictment was not proved. His
client was charged with conspiracy with others
named in the indictment to murder the first witness
produced for the prosecution, or to procure his assassi-
nation ; but that case was not made out, therefore he
should be acquitted.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied on behalf of the
Crown, and submitted that the indictment was fully
sustained, as it was not necessary to bring home the
crime to the other persons whose names were set out
in it.

The CIIIEF JUSTICE charged the jury, who con-
victed the prisoner of the conspiracy, acquitting him
of the solicitation to murder. He received the an-
nouncement with apparent indifference.—On Wed-
nesday sentence of death was recorded against him.
In pronouncing it, the Chief Baron spoke of the
atrocity of the prisoner's crime, which he said was
calculated to uproot society to its very foundation by
encouraging a system which, if carried out, would
corrupt the entire population of the country.
ATTACHING A DWELLING-HOUSE AND ROBBERY OF
Anus. Daniel M'Namara, John Slattery, John
Rochfort, Michael Murphy, Denis Kennedy, Thomas
Hogan, and Michael Kennedy, were indicted for
having, on the 25th of September, 1847, attacked the
dwelling-house of Michael Hennessy, at Ballyhoy, in
this county, and unlawfully obliging one Thomas
llennessy to deliver to them a gun, his property.
Some of the prisoners were charged with the former
offence, and others with the felony of arms.
The jury convicted Murphy, M‘Namara, and Slat-
tery, acquitting the other three.
His Lordship then pronounced sentence on them
as follows : Slattery, 14 years' transportation ;
Murphy, seven years' transportation ; and M`Na-
mara, 12 months' imprisonment.
ENNIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19.

SENTENCE UPON CRowE.—John Crowe, the man
who was convicted for conspiring with the two con-
victs Patrick Ryan (Small), William Ryan (Puck),
James Hayes, and others, to murder the late Mr.
James Watson, of Ballycorney, having been placed
at the bar to receive the sentence of the Court,
The Clerk of the Court asked him the usual ques-
tion, whether he had anything to say why sentence
of death should not be pronounced against him.
The prisoner, who appears to have suffered con-
siderably since his conviction on Monday, judging
by his haggard countenance, said in a weak and
unsteady voice—l have only to say, your Lordships,
that there was not one word of truth sworn on the
table, but what was sworn as to my going to Mr.
Arthur to speak to him about the cattle. Everything
else which was stated was perjury, for I never saw
the men lam charged with to my knowledge. lam
innocent; and I hope the Court will grant me along
day, and let my body be buried with my parents.
That is all I have to say.
The Judges having put on their black caps,
The CHIEF BARON pronounced the extreme penalty
of the law, observing that the crime of the priso-
ner, who was a man far above the lower classes of
society, was of a much deeper die than that of the
men who actually perpetrated the murder which
he hired them to execute. His Lordship concluded
by naming the 19th of February for his execution.
The prisoner left the dock without making any
further observation ; his step, however, and general
appearance, displayed the utmost degree of fear and
cowardice. His unfortunate wife and children were
all within hearing of the sentence, but they listened
to it in perfect silence, as if they expected nothing
else but the last penalty of the law.
MURDER OF MARTIN M'MAUON.—Thomas M'En-
nery, Patrick Gearan, Charles Healy, and John
Griffin, the first of whom was convicted and the other
three of whom pleaded guilty of the murder of Mar-
tin M'Mahon, having been called to the bar, sentence
of death was recorded against them. The Chief Ba-
ron, in pronouncing it, stated that they would have
been sentenced to death were it not that it appeared
that they did not contemplate murder, although death
ensued from their conduct, and also from the fact that
the arms which they carried were not found to be
loaded, and no shots were fired.
POSTING THREATENING NOTICES.—James Herse,
James Duggan, Lawrence Shanahan, and John
M'Mahon, for posting a threatening notice on the gate
of Colonel Crofton Vandeleur—twelve months' impri-
sonment each.

ATTACKING A DWELLING•HOUSE.— Thomas King,
Martin Malony, and John Duggan, all very young
men, under 25 years of age, were indicted for having
on the 4th of December, 1846, at Tullagh, in this
county, assaulted the dwelling-house of Patrick
Burke. _ _ _

The prosecutor deposed that he was a blacksmith,
and that about twelve o'clock on the night in ques-
tion his house was attacked, but he defended it, and
would not let the assailants in; he could not identify
the prisoners.
Patrick Cunningham (an informer) identified all
the prisoners as persons who accompanied him in the
attack upon Burke's house.
Some corroborative evidence having been given of
a very strong character,
The CHIEF BakoN charged the jury, who convicted
all the prisoners. His Lordship sentenced them to
be each imprisoned for eighteen months with hard
labour.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE COMAIISSION AT ENNIS.
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL, in moving the adjourn•
ment of the Commission, referred to the cases which
had been tried during the week. Their Lordships
were sitting in Clare. He said that owing to the
dreadful state of crime in the country there were no
less than five men sentenced to death, and five against
whom sentence of death was recorded—towards
whom it was most probable the Government would,
upon the recommendation of the Court, extend
mercy. There were also fourteen or fifteen pr isonen
sentenced to banishment from the country, and not
a single case was tried in which some of the parties
charged were nut found guilty after the fullest and
fairest inv.! stigation—the prisoners in all instances
obtaining the benefit cf the slightest doubt that could
be entertained as to their criminality. The Learned
Gentlemen implored of the people to abstain from
crime and to deliver up their arms ; and, in conclu-
sion, moved that the Commission should be adjourned
to the 7th of February, in order that in case the law
was violated in the mean time, that the most speedy
justice should be done.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said, he and his learned
brother fully agreed with the Government as to the
propriety and necessity of adjourning the Commis-
sion upon a full consideration of the cases which had
come before them. The state of the country was

such that the law should be carried out promptly in
order to preserve life and property.
Their Lordships then rose at half•past one o'clock.
REMOVAL OF CONVICTS.— The :,,everal convicts
sentenced to transp rtation during the Litting of the
Special Commission in this county, were removed
hand-cuffed and in chains, as soon as the Court rose,
Ito Limerick, en route for the metropolis. They were
tied on cars, having been taken direct from the dock,
and were escorted by a troop of the Queen's Bays and
a strong party of mounted constabulary. There was
not much feeling exhibited for the unfortunate men
by those who witnessed the melancholy spectacle ; a
few of them had a friend or two to bid them farewell,
but the great majority seemed to be totally deserted
by friends, if they bad them, and also by their com-
panions in iniquity, who most probably did not wish
to come into close proximity with the authorities.

THE BURNING OF A PRISONER
IN TIIE GRAVESEND LOCK• UP.
GRAVESEND, THURSDAY EVENING.—This forenoon,
at eleven o'clock, Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for West
Kent, held an inquiry at the Town-hall, concerning
the death of Thomas Budge, a Waterman, aged 40,
who perished in the recent conflagration of the
strawhouse, attached to the borough lock• up.
The body being viewed,

Sergeant Denyer, No. 1, of the town police, was
called—Between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday
night the deceased was brought to the station-home,
' charged with being guilty of violent conduct. fie
duly booked the charge against him, and he then Lai
him placed in the strawhouse. It was well furnished
with straw, and was generally used as a refuge for
destitute persons found wandering in the streets by
the police, or noisy prisoners. The deceased kept
singing, whistling, and shouting for some hours after
he was locked up. Inspector Penman, on leaving
the station, at half-past five, heard him making a noise
—shouting and dancing about. At six o'clock, a
man named Washer, a labourer, employed in cleansing
the market-place, came to the station-house, and
stated that the strawhouse was en fire. Knowing
that Budge was there confined, he immediately ran
with, the keys to open the door. It was nearly
burnt through, and on opening it the inside seemed
all on fire. The steps leading from the door had
fallen down into the store• place underneath, used by
the market people for the stowage of their stands,
boards, and trestles. Neither saw tor heard anything
of the deceased until the fire was subdued. His re-
mains were found in one corner of the building,
lying acoss the rafters.

By the CORONER.—The last person who was put in
the straw-house previous to the deceased, wa., a desti-
tute female of the name of Newport, on Friday night.
She sold lucifer matches about the streets. If nothing
had occurred to the deceased, he would have been
taken before the magistrates on Monday morning.
The police had no orders to visit prisoners whilst con-
fined in that place. The deceased had frequently
been placed in the straw. house. The magistrates
have directed the imprisonment of disorderly persons
there, when the ordinary police cells were vacant.
Jane Newport, a miserable looking creature, who
was said to have once occupied one of the principal
hotels in the borough, said she was married, but her
husband had separated from her. She now subsisted
by selling lucifer matches. Being destitute, she was
allowed to sleep in the straw-house on Friday night.
She had no lucifer matches when she went in, or
about her possession. That she was certain of.
The CORONER then summed up, and suggested the
propriety of the borough magistrates directing the
police to visit the prisoners every hour, as in the me-
tropolitan districts; for this unfortunate occurrence,
without imputing blame to any party, showed the
necessity of such a regulation.
The jury, after retiring, found that the deceased
died from the effects of fire, but how caused there
was no evidence to show. They also considered the
deceased was in legal custody; and after recommend-
ing the adoption of the Coroner's suggestion, pointed
out other improvements which could be made in the
rebuilding of the house.
The Mayor and Mr. Oakes remarked that the magis-
trates had already determined on carrying out those
preeautions.

GAS MOVEMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The price of gas being about to be reduced
throughout the metropolis (by meter) to six shillings
per thousand cubic feet, it now remains for consumers
to consider why they have not an equitable standard
by which those instruments should be tested; at pre-
sent none exists, and the public are at the mercy and
caprice of gas-light companies. As all weights and
measures by which every other article is sold are
stanzped under Government authority, IN by should not
an Act of Parliament regulate the standard of gas
meters ? Consumers must take care of their own
interest, and apply for an Act to regulate the just
registration of the admeasurement of gas, that perfect
confidence may be established amongst all parties.
I am, Sir, your moat obedient servant,
J. S. UNDERWOOD, Gas-light Surveyor.

TAXES OFFICERS.—We understand that the as-
sessors and collectors of taxes intend shortly to renew
their application for increased poundage. We trust
these ill-used officers will succeed, as in fairness and
right they ought.

Under the head of Palermo, January 3, the Patria
of Florence has the following :—" A report is still in
circulation that at Syracuse the people have got posses-
sion of the fortress, permitting General Palma to retire
with most of his officers. The soldiers of the citadel are
said to have fraternised with the people."
A private, named Moore, of the Scots Gre3 s, was
accidentally drowned in the Lake of Ballinturly, county
Roscommon, on Saturday last, in returning from a
harassing night's duty in search of fire-arms.
THE LATE LORD REAY.—A notice respecting the
will of the late Lord Reay having some time ago ap-
peared in our columns calculated to convey erroneous
impressions as to provisions made by the will for his
successor in his title and for his nearest relations, it has
become necessary to state the fact that although Lord
Reay sold the family estate, called, from its extent, the
" Reay Country," to the Duke of Sutherland, for
314,0001., he has not left any productive estate or fund
whatever for the purchase of an estate for his family, or
as a provision by annuity or otherwise for any of his
nearest relations.—Morning Post,
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE, BLACKWALL RAILWAY.
—A melancholy accident took place at the Blackvvall
Railway, on Tuesday evening, to one of the conductor.;
at the Minories station, named Rutherford. It is sup-
posed he omitted to unhook the rope attached to this
carriage, which, on arriving at the Minories, dragged off
the entire front of it, whereon the man was standing,
which circumstance threw him across the rails, and the
carriage went over his arm and leg. Death terminated
his sufferings on Wednesday morning.
COMPENSATION FOR RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—In the
report which we gave some weeks ago of the condem-
nation of certain employes on the Orleans Railway for
having by their negligence caused the terrible accident
which took place on that line on the 20th of November,
we stated that the Correctional Tribunal of Orleans had
until
liint shouldedfrom abweaardbliengtodammaakgees
ntociantvihirnei
eg been able to
persons e
intorson s
their injured
re-
spective cases. Two parties not h
come to an arrangement with the Company, the Tri-
buna
on
l, in its
of thesesittinga few days ago, was called on to
decide.
parties was a female, named
Garb 6, of Orleans, who received some violent contu-
sions; the company bad offered her 500 f., and the Tri-
bunal awarded her 1,0001. The other party was the
widow of a man named Perrin; the man having died
after having had his two legs, which were crushed, am-
putated. The Tribunal awarded the widow and ber
children 15,000 f., 14,000 f. of which are to be placed in
the public funds, the interest to be allowed to the widow
for life, and at her death the fund to be divided among
her three children. On the marriage of her two daugh-
ters they are each to receive fortunes of 1,5001., the
same as their father allowed to his eldest girl, and the
interest paid to the widow is to be reduced in proportion
to the amount withdrawn. Finally, if the widow shall
marry again, she is only to receive a third of the inte-
rest on the 14,000f.—Galignani.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM.—
On Monday all the trains to Newton—except the first
and last each way—commenced running by atmospheric
power, and the trial has fully answered the expectations
of the most sanguine supporters of the system. Not-
withstanding all the disadvantages which must attend
the commencement of every new undertaking, not a
single instance of stoppage or delay has occurred on the
new piece of road fronsTei;;nmouth to Newton. On
the first day the express train was unusually heavy, and
it started from Newton six minutes after its properi
time, but it reached Exeter at the regula.
r period,
ou
gaining six minutes on the twenty r0,a19 thirtyl
se
Wednesday, the down express train Ty
at Nowtoti,
minutes late at Exeter, but, on arriving th,re.
ten minutes had been recovered.....M
in mach, tuo
very short
fore, in praise of this systeple-wis.
time, we learn, an express train
som es,
epar.ll(i7thcoi:ltlji'noaspt atmospheric attain- ll'hjAvaidlsttlnaorn:heefrntoirmosoeTfe
what
of its
power, we may mention that on Sunday week a coal
train was started from Exeter at 10 A.M., coasistit.g of
ninety true,
containing ninety tons, and it reached
summer House—a distance of 20 miles—including stop-
pages at Teignmouth and Dawlish, in 50 minutes. We
have been favoured with another account, which states
that the distance was accomplished one day last week—
frein Teignmouth to Newton, 5 miles—in ii minutes and
15 seconds, and that at a part of the distance the speed
was e‘idcntly at the rate of 80 miles an hour. Tris was
an experimental trip. On Wednesday morning,
the 12th inst., the 9.50 AM. train ran from Teigne
mouth 'to Newton, with five full carriages in 7i minutes.
Everything appears to leo with the utmost ea.:o and re-
gularity, and we believe every one who has seen the
working of the system feels the most perfect confidence
in its success.—Western Luminary.
THE OPPRESSIVE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY.—In the
London Times of Tuesday and Wednesday there are 348
advertisements from coachmen, butlers, footmen, cooks,
house-maids, nursery-maids, and maids of all work who
" want places." The duty on these advertisements
amount to 261 25., which Government takes out of the
pockets of these unemployed persons, and for what ?
Simply, solely, and wholly, for endeavouring to obtain
employment ! Sheftieiti Times.

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