The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

EXETER AND CREDITON RAILWAY.

A special meeting of the shareholders of this company
was held at two o'clock, and was presided over by the
same chairman. Resolutions to the above effect, for the
lease of the line to the South-Western Company, were
agreed to ; and thanks having been awarded to the
chairman, the meeting separated.

ELECTION COIIIMITTEE.
DUBLIN.

The scrutiny in reference to Mr. Reynolds was re-
sumed yesterday. The votes of Michael Corrigan and
Peter O'Reilly were o3jected to, but the Committee de-
cided that they were good.—Adjourned.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
YESTERDAY.

GROUP No. I.—NORTIIERN COUNTIES UDZION.—,
The object of this Bill is to enable the above company
to make certain deviations in their main line, and im-
prove their original Act. Case opened.
GROUP No. 3.— MANCHESTER, BUXTON, AND MAT-
LOCK.—This company's deviation Bill was further pro-
ceeded with.

GROUP No. 4.—BIR3IINGHA3r AND OXFORD JUNC-
TION.—The clauses of the Deviation from Leamington
to Warwick Bill were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to
be reported.
GREAT WESTERN (LOOP LlNE).—Clauses agreed
to, and Bill ordered to be reported.
GREAT WESTERN (ADDITIONAL POWERS).—Pre-
amble passed, clauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be
reported. _ _

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTlON.—Preamble
passed, clauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be re-
ported.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.—In this case the
Committee decided that the preamble was not proved.
GROUP No. 5. NEWPORT AND PONTYPOOL
(POWER TO PURCHASE MONMOUTHSHIRE CANALS).—
Opposition heard.
GROUP No. 7.—ROTSTON ♦ND IIITCHIN EXTEN-
SlON.—Opposition of the Eastern Company further con-
sidered.

GROUP No. B.—SOUTH WESTERN (TAW VALE
PURCHASE).—Case further proceeded with, and evidence
taken in its favour.
GROUP No. 10.—LEASE OF SCOTTISH CENTRAL.
—The Bill for authorising the leasing of the above line
to the London and North-Western, the Lancaster and
Carlisle, and the Caledonian Companies was further
considered, and the evidence of Mr. Fox Blank, M.P.,and
others taken in its favour.
GROUP No. 11.— EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW.—
Case opened and evidence taken in its favour.
GROUP No. 13.—WrsuAw AND COLTNESS.—The
clauses in this company's deviations and branches Bill
were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be reported.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH SCOTLAND.--The
merchants in this town connected with Scotland are
complaining grievously of the postal arrangements with
that quarter. At present the box at the post-office is
closed at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, just at
the busiest period of the day. Letters by this mail arrive
in Glasgow and Edinburgh before two o'clock the
next morning, to remain in the post-office till eight
o'clock. Some time ago they petitioned the Post-
master to grant a separate mail fur Lancashire, to be
dispatched in the evening about seven or eight o'clock,
which would convey letters to be delivered at eight
o'clock next morning. The Postmaster replied
that, whenever the railway communication through-
out was finished, some alterations to suit their
convenience would be made; but, so far from this
having been done, now that the whole line of
railway has been completed for six months, no improve-
ment has been adopted. Letters from Scotland, in-
stead of being delivered in Liverpool by the first de-
livery, arc not given out till a quarter before ten
o'clock, a most inconvenient hour, as business com-
mences on our Exchange beibre that time, and the mer-
chants are thus prevented having their arrangements
made before business begins. They have again me-
moralized the Post-office to grant a single mail from
both ends, to be dispatched at eight o'clock in the af-
ternoon, and as the railway trains run in nine hours,
the mail would arrive at six o'clock the following morn-
ing ; but in the Post-office every convenience is sacri-
ficed to suit the arrangement of the mails to and from
London..—Liverpool Albion.
ABDUCTION OF YOUNG FEMALES.—On Saturday
morning a young lady, residing in Albert-road, Re gent's-
park, and
park, was discovered to have quitted her father's resi-
dence; the assistance of ti]teo,li,
'' ‘etunately succeeded in tracing her to a house of a
'etion in Duke-street, St. James's-square,
'aced, there is no doubt, for the
se d her from the
-ze SL„ . se-etcher of music, who had
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' basest purposes, oil, ziNgl' - k eoof. Several other
young ladies have been thus seeed by foreign pro-
Ocehsweraysere.
ieeseers during 00 jest r„„, ends and heavy rain lieu®
'ug VergAweise .let throughout Op paei',. week.,
prevailed ele.; ewers were oceasfeepall_Mingtoe'
*ll nail. The diminished, temperature,'sqer the
hot weather of Mayee*ete,e Peen :felt severely ' by
invalids, .and.. colds and coughs are not uncommon
even among the robust. On Saturday and yester-
day the atmosphere had assumed a more settled
aspect, though one or two heavy showers disturbed the
general placidity. A thunderstorm passed us at some
distance yesterday. Last night the barometer had an
upward tendency, the air was more mild, and we have
again promise of bright skies and sunshine. The country
everwhere looks splendid, the orchards, gardens, and
fields giving presage of crops equally abundant arid ex-
cellent.—Liverpool Albion of Monday.
CLUBS FOR THE PURCHASE OF ARMS.—We under-
stand, from good authority, that numbers of workmen
in this town are enrolled in clubs for the purchase of
fire-arms, with what intent may be easily surmised. Of
the whole of the workmen engaged in a large public
establishment, it is said that there are not six who are
not members of these combinations ; and some of them
make use of very significant expressions with regard to
certain persons high in place, which, were it nut that
" threatened men live long," might lead us to fear for
their safety. It was reported un Tuesday that the clubs
had been provided with a specimen of a firelock and
bayonet from Birmingham, which might be had (whole-
sale) for 12e. 6d.—Leicester Chronicle.
GATHERING or YOUNG IRELANDERS ON SUNDAY,
AT BIRKENHEAD.—Last night, at six o'clock, an open-
air meeting of fraternized Chartists and Young Ire-
lenders was held at Birkenhead, for the purpose of
organizing, if possible, amongst the labourers there,
armed confederate clubs. Between 200 and 300 per-
sons assembled, end very little enthusiasm was mani-
fested in the proceedings. A Mr. Gallagher was called '
to the chair ; and the meeting was addressed at
some length by the redoubtable Dr. Reynolds, of pike-
selling celebrity. On the motion of Mr. Robert, se-
conded by Mr. Gough, a resolution was passed to the
effect, that no Irishman could any longer, without
being a tyrant to his country or a coward, hesi-
tate to join the Repeal cause, and inviting all in
the district to unite and form a branch of the Repeal
club. The address of Dr. Reynolds was of the usual
character, in the course of which he talked of oppres-
sion, and of battle-fields, and exhorted the people to
arm, expressing his readiness to follow Mitchel if he
were certain that his removal would induce 1,000 Re
peelers to occupy his place. Cheers were given for
Mitchel, the Charter, and Repeal; groans for Lord
John Russell and the Irish Attorney-General; and ,a
resolution passed, " That every feeling of justice and of
gratitude impels us to make common cause
with the Chartists of England; and we pledge
ourselves never to desist from agitation till England
gets the Charter, and Ireland Repeal." A young man,
named Parkes, seconded the resolution, which was
unanimously passed. A resolution was then carried,
" That, after the wisest patriot, the martyred hero of
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Ireland, we call our club—the John Mitchel club, and
pledge ourselves to act upon the advice, and follow the
Chivalrous conduct caobnoduutetthorfeteh-qatuamrtiescrs o
allefdalnelhonou." T
"Chian of Monday. . . ..

POLIC 13 RASCALITY.—An extraordinary excitement
existed in Swaffbam and the neighbourhood, in conse-
quence of its having been discovered that a burglary on
the premises of Mr. Thomas Spanton, of the Friars
Thorns Farm, on the night of the 24th ult., was con-
cocted by the rural police, under the management of
Superintendent Peglar, of the Castlescre district, Mr.
Inspector John Low, and privates Smith and llaylett.
Effigies of Peglar and his men were paraded about the
town, and on one occasion there could not have been
less than two thousand persons present, with torches,
drums, 84c.—Liverpool Mail.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Richard Keating
(T.C., Dublin), Mr. J. M'Cann, Mr. Stephen P. Dick-
son, and Mr. Grogan, had a conference with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and Mr. John Wood, Chairman
of the Excise, yesterday, at the official residence of the
Right Hon. Baronet.