The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-26 00:00:00

T ( RDAY EN X G S r 4, FEBRUARY :!6, 1848.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,
COURT OF Q UEEN'S BENCH. Feb. 25.

;Sittings at Guildhall, before Lard Chief Justice DEN-
MAN and u Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN v. GOOCH AND ANOTHER.

This vt as an indictment on the part of the Crown
against the defendant for defrauding the revenue. Thu
leferidant had caused certain quantities of wool to be
removed from the Custom-house at a lower rate of duty

Alan was duly chargeable thereon. The case had been
removed by certiorari from the Central Criminal Court
to the Queen's Bench.
The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr.
Watson, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Bodkin appeared for
the Crown ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Sergeant
Shee for the defendants.

As the case for the defence had not been gone into
when the Court rose, we reserve the proceedings until
to-morrow.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Feb. 25.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.)
W. St'cock, jun., victualler, of Crawley-street, St.
Pancras, applied for his certificate. He was opposed by
Mr. Lucas, on behalf of two creditors, and supported by
Mr. Cooke.

In addition to the business of publican, the bankrupt
had recently engaged in building speculations, to which
he attributed his failure. His debts amounted to nearly
9,0001., of which 2,2181. was owing without security.
The property held by creditors was estimated at 6,420/.;
his furniture had sold for 572/., and his good debts wer e
estimated at 1781. From the bankrupt's examination it
appeared that in September last he handed over to his
father a lease, as a security for 1301. advanced to him
shortly before. His bankruptcy took place on the 9th
of December. This case did not appear in his balance-
sheet.

The COMMISSIONER—And this sum you spent in law,
in sham pleading. Here is au item of 504/. as law ex-
penses, and he has borrowed money in all directions ;
the charge for interest only is ..569/., together 1,073/.
Not content with carrying on the business of a publican
pretty successfully, he had been tempted by the brewers
to build a public-house, they advancing the money on
condition of his taking their beer. With regard to this
speculation he had kept no account, and all was guess-
work. The interests of commerce required that the
bankrupt should be punished for this conduct. He ought
to have come to this court, if at all, much earlier, before
giving up the lease to his father. The certificate must
be suspended twelve months from this date.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HoLnoTn.).
IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF STEIN, SMITH, AND CO.

In this matter there was a dividend meeting. The
failure took place so far back as 1812. The bankrupts
were merchants in Fenchurch-street. A dividend of
three half-pence in the pound will be declared in a few
days. The amount for which they failed was more than
60,0001.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 25.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.)
IN NE C. H. CULLEY.

This was an adjourned case. This insolvent had car-
ried on business as a butcher in Bury•street, St. James's,
and had appealed to the Court of Bankruptcy as an in-
solvent in the year 1846. He was now supported by Mr.
Duncan, and opposed by Mr. Dowse for Mr. Baker, a
grazier in Essex, with whom the insolvent had had ex-
t!_nsive dealing, and now owed him a balance of 1021.
A prolonged investigation was entered upon as to a
mortgage deed upon some landed property, which the in-
solvent had granted to a relative by way of security for
750/. advanced to him, being his savings during 40 years
service in the family of Mrs. Clitheroe ; atsd a charge of
undue preference was urged by the learned counsel.
The CosniussioNEß said that the advances appeared
to have been obtained-by the insolvent, i❑ order to
keep himself afloat in business, and to pay his creditors,
lie did not think the case made out,. was sufficient to•'
justify a remand.
The insolvent was then discharged.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Hallam.)
RE JAMES GRANT.

This insolvent, an aged man, was supported by air.
Dowse. The case had been more than once adjourned,
and the evidence produced at the various hearings dis-
closed a series of transactions, by which a largo amount
had been transferred from the insolvent's hands into
those of a woman who had been his housekeeper, and
other persons who appeared to be confederates with her.
're-day it was stated that Mr. Dowyrr, who was a
principal creditor and assignee, intended to have the
conduct of all the parties sifted in another court.
The COMMISSIONER said that the question for him to
decide was whether the insolvent had been the victim or
the accomplice of the conspiracy which, it seemed
evident, had been concocted. From all that had trans-
pired in that court, it appeared that ho should rather be
considered as a suffrer, than as implicated in any scheme
of fraud.

Some amendments being required in the schedule, the
insolvent was directed to come up on Monday fur his
discharge.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
Thompson Page and James .Nieholson were brought
before the Lord Mayor on the following charge:—
George Goodman, clerk to Messrs. Currie, bankers,
stated that the cheque was brought to them on Thursday
mornin, signed " John Ingle," and he passed it to
another clerk in the house.
Michael Haydon, the officer, said—l was sent for to
the banking
,house, and I found Nicholson there. A
cheque for 501. was produced, and I asked him where
he got it. He replied, " From a man in a public-house
iri Bishopsgate-street, whom he did not know, but should
know again." I went with him to the public-house, and
he pointed out Page to me as the person. Page said it
was true, and that he had received the cheque on
Monday, in a letter from Mr. Ingle, of Plymouth. In
answer to other questions he said he had left the letter
at his lodgings, but he did not know the name of the
street. At the house of Messrs. Currie he told them
the same tale. Upon searching Nicholson I found a
mariner's register ticket and a discharge from' a vessel
at Plymouth. I also found some letters upon him,
which, as I was opening, he told me were merely love
letters, and I found them to be as he described.
Mr. Woodhouse, clerk at Messrs. Currie's, said he
knew Mr. Ingle, of Devonport, who kept au account at
the house, and believed the writing on the check not to
be that gentleman's. They had received information
that some person had surreptitiously obtained Mr. Ingle's
cheque bock, and cautioning them upon the subject, and
since that time he was to use black instead of rod cheques.
Nicholson said I know nothing of this man (Page). I
never saw him before to-day, when I went into the public-
house to get a glass of ale. He there asked me to take
the check to the banking-house.
The prisoners were remanded.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
George Anderson, a person of dashing appearance,
living at No. 15, Queen-street, Brompton, was brought
before Mr. Bingham, charged with having obtained goods
fraudulently, and with having committed forgery.
Henry Sadler, job master, 131, New Bond-street,
said, on the 31st of August, 1846, the prisoner called on
him, and said he had been recommended to him by his
neighbour, Mr. Moore, as he wanted to hire a horse for
a short time. Prosecutor consented to let a horse on
hire for a short period, and, according to the directions
received from the prisoner, he sent the horse to Ealing.
Six weeks afterwards the prosecutor went down to
Ealing to make inquiries, but he could hear nothing of
the prisoner or the house.
James Matterface, coach maker, Hammersmith, said in
July, 1846. the prisoner hired a phieton from him at 2/.
a month. '1 he phaeton was sent to Ealing, but from that
time prosecutor had never been able to meet with the
prisoner.
Police-constable Rackstraw said he found 104 dupli-
cates on the prisoner when he took him into custody.
In defence, the prisoner said the horse was an old
animal, and he was to give 181. for it. The phteton also
was to be purchased for a stated sum.
Mr. Sadler and Mr. Matterface said there was no truth
in the prisoner's defence.
Mr. Sadler said he had no doubt, at a future examina-
tion, numerous other charges would be brought against
the prisoner
charge of forgery was then preferred against the
prisoner by Mr. Allen, plumbei• and glazier, Avery. row,
Bond-street, who had received a bill from the prisoner
with Mr. Moore's name on it, which name was pronounced
to be a forgery.
The prisoner was committed on the two first cases, and
remanded on the third, and ordered to be brought up on
Monday next.

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THE TEA DUTIES.—The deliverip of tea from the
bonded warehouses, immediately after the notice of the
Minister announcing his revenue policy, have been con-
siderable. Although there was very little probability of
a reduction of the rated duty at present levied on the
article being proposed, notwithstanding the movement
which had been made in certain quarters on the subject,
yet the trade in a great measure withheld the payment
of duties at the last moment to a certain extent, in the
possible event of the Government intending to make ally
alteration in the existing rate of duty on the article.
ROBBERY AT APSLET HOUSE.— Yesterday, a
jialrneynian sweep, who had been engaged in cleansing
the Hues at Apsley House, was detected 'by the porter
leavitig the premises with a quantity of valuable pro-
perty conceal, din his soot bag. lie was at once placed
in custody of the police, and removed to the station-
house in Vine-street, Piccadilly, and will be examined
at Marlborough-street this day.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.
FOREIGN OFFICE. FEB. 25, 184 S.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Francis Hastings. Gilbert, Esq., to be her Majesty's
Consul at Alexandria.
WAR- OFFICE, FEE. 25.
Ist Dragoons—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Smith Webb, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major,
vice Francis llearle Stephens, NV ho exchanges; Brevet
Major Edward Littledale to be Major, by purchase, vice
Webb„ who retires; Lieutenant Thomas Thoroton
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Littledale ;
Cornet Joseph John Venley to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Thorot;la; George Campbell, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase(iice Henley, Feb. 25.
6th Dragoons—fieut. Whitehall Dod to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Carrol, who retires.; Lieut. Charles
Bill, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant,
vice Dod, Feb. 25.

15th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Henry Keown to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Perrott, who retires ; Cornet
Edward Colston to be Lieutenant, by purchase, rico
Keown; Cornet Henry John Wade to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Bill, appointed to 6th Dragoons ;
James Edwards Vivian, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur-
, chase, vice Colson, Feb. 25 ; David Henry Howell,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Wale, Feb. 26.
16th Light Dragoons—Captain George Brown, from
halt-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice John Henry
Tonge, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Thomas Folliott
Powell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brown, who
retires; Cornet William Xhonias Dickson to be Lieu-
tenant, by purehase, viee Powell; Lancelot Halton,
Gent., to be Cornet, by puchase, vice Dickson, Feb. 25.
Coldstream Regitnent of Foot Guards—Brevet Colonel
Fret cis Venables Harcourt, from half-pay Unattached,
-
to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, vice William Stewart
Balfour, who exchanges ; Lieutenant and Captain
;William Samuel Newton to be Captain and Lieutenant
iColonel, by purchase, vice Harcourt, who retires; Ensign
kind Lieutenant Lionel Daniel Mackinnon to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Newton; Robert
Desmond Sulivan, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Mackinnon, Feb. 25.

9th Rerrbicoont of Foot—Major-General Sir James
Archibald Hope, K.C.8., to bo Colonel, vice Lieutenant-
General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.8., appointed to
71st Foot, Feb. 18.

24th Foot—Ensign Robert Geoffery Augustus de
Montmorency, from 49th Foot, to be Ensign, ♦ice St.
John, appointed to 94th Foot, Feb. 25.
32d Foot—Major Thomas :Ititton, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Major, vice George Browne, who
exchanges, receiving the difference ; Captain John
Eardley Wilmot Inglis to be Major, by purchase, vice
Hutton, who retires; Lieut. Charles Thomas King to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Robyns, who retiree ;
Lieut. Frederick Yard to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Inglis, Feb. 25; Ensign and Adjutant William Garforth
to have the rank of Lieutenant, Feb. 24; Ensign Bowen
Van Siranbenzee to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
King; Ensign William Power to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Yard; Ensign Walter Lawrence 'flees, from
67th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Stranbenzc•a; John Had-
ley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchaa i, vice Power,
Feb. 25. _

- -
36th Foot—Captain Richard Dyott, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice John Maule. who ex-
changes ; Lieutenant Henry W. Palmer to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Dyott, who retires; Ensign Henry
Keane Grant to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Palmer;
Flint William Stacey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Grant.
40th Foot—Edward William Clemishow Kingdom,
M. 1)., to be Assistant• Surgeon, vice Bruinruall, promoted
on the Staff, Feb. 25.
41st Foot—William Henry Hopkinson, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Willson, who retires, Feb.
25 ; Harley Kingsmill Drury, Gent., to be Ensign;
without purchase, vice Hopkinson, appointed to 62d
Foot, Feb. 26.

44th Foot—Tamworth George Ferrera, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Parka, appointed to 61st Foot,
Feb. 25.

49th Foot—John Augustus Conolly, Gent., to bo
Ensign, by purchase, vice do Montmorency, appointed to
24th Foot, Feb. 25.

52d Foot—Captain Augustus Blair, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, ♦ice George illurraN who
exchanges; Lieutenant Robert Octavius Cumming.%tie
Captain, by purchase, vice Blair, who retires; Ensagn
Charles Cornwallis Ross to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Cumming; Charles Anthony Bacon, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Ross, Feb. 25.
60th Foot—Lieutenant Ashton Mosley to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Mansell, who retires; Second Lieu-
tenant John Lambert Edward Baynes to be First Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Mosley; Conyngham Jones,
Gent., to be- Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Baynes, Feb. 25.
61st Foot—Ensign David Reid to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Egan, who retires; Ensign James Henry
Haffey Parks, from 44th Foot, to be Ensign, rice Reid,
Feb. 25.

62d Foot—Lieutenant Lennard Barrett Tyler to be
Captain' without purchase, rice Herbert, deceased,
Feb. 9; Lieutenant William F. Dickson to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Tyler, whose promotion, by purchase,
has been cancelled, Feb. 11; Ensign Henry William
Sibley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tyler,
promoted, Feb. 9; Ensign William Henry Hopkinson,
froth 41st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Sibley, Feb. 26.
G7th Foot—Robert Philip Armstrong, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Ingles, appointed to the 32d
Foot, Feb. 26.
71st Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Arbuth-
not, K.C.8., from 9th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Lieute-
nant- General Sir Thomas Reynell, Bart., and K.C.8.,
deceased, Feb. 18; Ensign Charles Watson, from 89th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Brown, who exchanges,
Feb. 25.
73d Foot—John James Vincent, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, Feb. 25.
19th Foot—Ensign Leopold Brown, from 71st Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Watson, who exchanges, Feb. 25.
94th Foot—Ensign Rice Davies Knight, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Frond, who retires ; Ensign
Charles William St. John, from 24th Foot, to be Ensign,
vine Knight ; Henry Vausittart Stonehouse, Gent., to be
vice Pemberton, who retires,
Ensign, by purchase,
Feb. 25.
96th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant William Thomp-
son, to be Quartermaster, vice Samuel Fox, who retires
on half-pay, June 23.
UsiaTmcners—Lieutenant Lachlan Hector Gilbert
Mclean, from 49th Foot, to be Captain, without pur-
chase, Feb. 25.
BREVET.—Major Thomas Hutton, of 32d Foot, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, June 28, 1e33.
MEMORANDUM. The commission of Lieutenant
George Collins, of 4th Foot, has been dated August
27, 1847, instead of July 15, 1845.
Erratum in the Gazette of Feb. 11, 1848.
62d Foot
—For Ensign William Rudman to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Tyler, promoted; read, vice
Dickson, promoted.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire.
Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, Bart. to be Deputy
Joie! Henderson, E,-.
Lieutenant; to be Deputy Lieu
tenant; Janice Richardson, Es-q,
to be Deputy Lieuten
ant; Boyd Alexander, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant;
John Hull Maxwell, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant;
logo Hervey, Esq., younger, to be Deputy Lieutenant;
lt.Na to be
Captain James Stirling, Deputy-Lieutenant,
Feb. 19.
Commission by the Lurd-Lieutenant and Sheriff Prin-
cipal Ayrshire.
The Prince Regent's Royal Regiment of Ayrshire
Miliiia—Ensign William Cuninghame Gemmell to be
Lieutenant, vice William Grieve, deceased, Feb. 18.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 17.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Orem
Gard, of Devonport, in the county of
Devon, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.
Henry Bolton, straw manufacturer, Luton Bedford-
shire, to surrender March 3 and April 7, at twelve, at
the Court, Basinghall-street. Catmint official assignee,
Birchind.ane; Lawrence and Plews, Old
Jewry-cham-
bers, Old Jewry.
Jonathan Bellehambers, bookseller, Str
and, March 9,
at twelve, and April 7, at one,
anes,saigo
at tee, B
the Coausghall-street;
r Basinghall-
ic
street. Whitmore. official
Fry and Co., Cheapside.
Valentine Francis Strove and William llosking, coal
Southwark,
merchants Dye-house-wharf, Clink-street,
March 7, at half-past twelve, and April_ 11, at twelve, at
the Court, Basinghall-street. Pennell, official assignee;
Miller and Horn, King Williani-street.
George Wills, coal merchant, Ilgh-street Wapping,
March 8, ut half-past twelve, and April 5, at half-past
eleven, at the. Court, Basingliall-street. Bell, official
assignee, Coleinan-street-buildings; Fourdrinier, Col-
lege-street, Dowgate-hill.
RObert Hicks, apothecary, Belgrave-street, Pimlico,
March 4 and April 14, at eleven, at the Court, Basing-
hall.astreet. Follett, oficial assignee, Sambrook-court
Basingliall-street; Wade and Co., Sergeant's inn. ,
henry Thomas Stephens, licensed victualler South-
ampton, March 2, at two, and March 31, at twelve, at
the Court, Basinghall-street. Edwards, official assignee,
Frederick's place, Old Jewry ; Fitch, Southampton-
street, Bloomsbury.
Gulielmus Tertius Butterfield, dealer in drugs, Ox-
ford street, March 3, at half-past twelve, ,and April 11,
at half-past eleven, at the Court, Basulghall-street.
Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; minter,
Brownlow-street, Holborn.
Willivssa John Buckland, licensed victualler, East
Greenwich, March 3 and April 11, at half-
past one, at
the Cburt, Basiticlv all-street. Graham, official assignee,
Coleinan-street-buildings; Dimtnock and Co., ciument,s.
lane. '
William Ask, watchmaker,
Wakefield, Yorkshire,
March 7 and 28, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Hatton, official assignee, Leeds; Sargent, Norfolk-street,
London; Reece, Birmingham.
William Smith, ship builder, South Stockton, York-
shire, March 6 and April 6, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Wright,
New Inn, Strand, London; Petty, Stockton; herb and
Clarkh; Leeds.
Robert Hood, draper, Smethwick, Staffordshire, March
4 and April 1, at eleven; at the Birmingham District
'Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Hodg-
son, Birmingham; Holland, West Bromwich.
Edward Roca, carpenter, Marshfield, Monmouthshire,

March 9 and April 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Irwin and
Co., Gray's Inn, London; Hassell, Bristol.
Thomas Plumley, jilt), grocer, Bristol, March 9 and
April 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra-
man, official assignee, Bristol; Stevens and Co., Gray's
Inn-square, London; Perkins, Bristol.

Thomas Wilmot, chemist, Moreton in Marsh, Glou-
cestershire, March 14, at a►even, and April 11, at two, at
the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee,
Bristol; Sharpe and Co., Bedford-row, London; Tilsley,
Moreton in Marsh.

John Wallace, corn merchant, Liverpool, March 10 and
April 7, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Mor-
gan, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent, Temple, Lon-
dun; Littledale and Bardawell, Liverpool.
John Ridsdale, share broker, Manchester, March 8 and
28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott,
official assignee, Manchester; Lewis and Cooke, Bar-
nard's Inn, London; Ray, Leeds.
Bennett Williams, grocer, Dyffryn, Merionethshire,
March 17 and April 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Bower,
Tokenhouse-yard, Loudon; Mason, Liverpool.
William Follows, coal fitter, Middlesbrough, York-
shire, March 9 and 30, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Williamson and
Co., Gray's Inn, London; Newsam, Middleborough;
Bond and Barwick, Leeds.

(Dividends, &c., in our next.)
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in tie week ending February 22,
1848, is 245. 1114 d. per cwt.

SOUTH YORKSHIRE,DONCASTER

AND GOOLE RAILWAY.
The first half-yearly general, and also a special or
extraordinary meeting of the proprietors of this company,
was held yesterday afternoon at the London Tavern.

Earl Fitzwilliain was unanimously voted to the chair.
The report which was read stated that since the pass-
ing of the Act, on the 23d of July last year,
the directors had been actively engaged in calling
in outstanding accounts, registering the shares,
and consolidating the stock. They had also
been enabled, by careful inquiry into the future
expenditure, and into the funds that will accrue to this
company on its amalgamation with the River Dun Com-
pany, to make such arrangements for paying interest on
calls, and on moneys paid in advance of calls, as to ren-
der the shares of this company a most valuable invest•
went. The particulars of the arrangement had been
fully explained in a statement already in the possession
of the proprietary. At the extraordinary general meet-
ing, held on the 28th of last month, the proposal for the
immediate commencement of the construction of a por-
tion of the railway, was carried by a large majority.
The directors had now to report that the land and
working plans had all been prepared, the works had
been commenced, and would be proceeded with as ra-
pidly as circumstances permitted. The directors had
every reason to anticipate that the line from Swinton to
Doncaster would be opened for traffic early next year.
The balance remaining to the credit of the company was
43,6131. Is. 4d. in cash and Exchequer-hills. A large
amount had been offered in advance of calls on the terms
of the circular of the 14th January, and the directors
were confident that this amount would be consider
ably increased before the time proposed for making
the first call; and as the company was enabled
to give seven per cent. per annum upon moneys
paid in advance of calls, they apprehended little
difficulty in obtaining the full amount which they can
prelitahly employ. The total expenditure of the com-
pany, which was 70,5231. 19s. 5d., extended over a period
of upwards of two years and a half, during which time
the company was engaged in two very severe Parlia-
mentary conflicts, and involving a double expenditure in
-law,_engineeiiiig, and other charges: • During that ses-
sion fifteen sehemes were projected in direct
compettion with this undertaking ; proving the
value of the district now occupied by the rail-
way. A sum of 47,2501. had been appropriated
as deposit on 18,000 shares, in the Sheffield, Rother-
ham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole
Railway, in accordance with an arrangement
,anctioned by a general meeting held in August, 1846.
The densely-populated district through which that line
passed abounded in minerals, leased to wealthy and en-
terprising companies, and all requiring a more expe-
ditious and economical transit to their respective markets.
To the eastern communication afforded by the South
Yorkshire line proper it would form a most valuable
feeder. In right of the large stake held by the pro-
prietors of this company in the Sheffield, Rotherham,
Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Com-
pany's undertaking, half of the board of that company
had boon nominated by the directors of this company,
and the management of this company's portion of the
scheme had been confided solely to those gentlemen.
The amount of revenue accruing to this company, under
)the contract with the River Dun Company, to the end of
the last year was 14,5171. Os. 11d., which sum would,
however, not be payable until the amalgamation by half
the capital being paid up and expended. Out of that
revenue the directors proposed to declare a dividend, at
the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, from the passing of
the Act. for the half-year ending the 22d of January,
amounting in the aggregate to 2,8121. 10s., for
which, interest warrants would be forthwith
issued, payable one month after the amalgamation.
The directors would hereafter be enabled, out of the
surplus and accruing revenue, to pay a dividend of 6/.
per cent. per annum, until the opening of the line.
The extension of the South Yorkshire line to Penistone
was struck out by the Committee on the Bill, and it
appeared necessary to the directors, for the interest of
the proprietdre, that the extension to Penistone should
be re.deposited in an altered shape, and a Bill introduced
into Parliament.

Mr. ENGLAND, a shareholder, complained of the item
in the accounts of 42,293/. 10s. 11d. for law and Parlia-
liamentary expenses, and trusted that the directors would
make some reduction in them for the future.

The CHAIRMAN said he was always extremely desirous
for economy in everything, but it should be recollected
that this company had to encounter two severe Parlia-
mentary struggles. It was a matter of regret to him that
Parliamentary contests cost so much, but if he had had
the management of railway affairs in England, and if his
advice had been taken some time ago respecting the
management and construction of railways, there would
have been no necessity for Parliamentary contests.—
(Hear.) But he would remind the meeting
that when gentlemen embarked in such undertakings
as this, they were, of course, understood
to make up their minds as to the risk and loss that
might ensue, as well as to the advantages.—(Cheers.)
Ile regretted, however, very much that the law expenses
were so exceedingly heavy.
The report was then received and adopted.
A resolution having been proposed for reducing the
number of directors to 12,
Mr. ENGLISH said he did not think it proper that any
large coal owner, in the district traversed by the rail-
way, should be upon the directory, because he would be
able to fix just what price he liked for conveying his
coal over the line. This, he said, had been the case
on some other lines, and was an abuse which should
not he allowed to exist by the proprietors.

Earl FITZWILLIAM, who is one of the most extensive
coal proprietors in Yorkshire, immediately took offence
at the observation, thinking that it was intended to ap
ply to him, and said he would not remain a moment
longer in the chair or upon the directory, since his
honour and integrity had been doubted. The
.Noble
Earl then took up his hat, and despite the solicitations

of the directors and shareholders, who rose en ',mese,
proveeded to leave the room. As he reached the door,
Mr. Deeteox, Chairman of the GreatNorthernßailway,
took the vacant chair, and intreated his Lordship to re•
consider his determination, which, if persisted in, he
would materially injure the property of the com-
pany in the public estimation. The appeal had the de-
sired street, and the shareholder having apologised
The NOBLE EARL resumed the chair, and said he
never had and never would have shares in any railway
or other speculation merely as a speculator, because he
did not think it consistent with his public position to do
so, and he bad only entered into this undertaking be-
cause it would benefit the district with which he was
connected in Yorkshire, and be of great public advan-
tage.—(Cheers.)
After some further discussion and explanation,
exculpating his Lordship from having any interested
motives in joining this company, the matter
dropped, and the resolution was carried ; also
others voting 1,200/. to the directors, ordering a
dividend at the rate of 51. per cent. up to January last,
and other formal resolutions, the meeting was made
special and a draft bill agreed to for extending a line to
Penistone, and ordered to be promoted in the present
session of Parliament.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
and the meeting separated.

FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—ASHTON-•UNDER-
LINE, FEB. 24.—Foua LIVES LOST.—On Wednesday
evening one of those distressing accidents, an explosion
of fire damp, occurred at the colliery of Messrs. Surie
and Lees, known as the Victoria Pits, Dukinfield, near
Ashton, which occasioned the immediate loss of four
lives, and has placed in jeopardy several others, three
of whom were not expected to survive many hours. Of
the four who were instantaneously killed, two were bro-
thers named Aspinal, and the father of these is one of
three who are not expected to live. From the facts
which we have been enabled to collect, it appears that
the accident was occasioned by that fruitful source by
which so many sad catastrophes take place, viz., the
working with a nuked candle, instead of obeying the
rules of the works and venturing into the pit without a
safety lamp. It is said that one of the sufferers took a
light into some of the old workings, the air in which
was so impregnated with the explosive gas that it imme-
diately exploded, blowing one man literally to pieces
and destroying three others, besides burning several
iu a most dreadful manner. On the accident becoming
known at the top of the pit means were taken to bring
up the sufferers, who wore carried to their own homes.
The dead bodies were taken to the Snipe Tavern, the
nearest public-house, where they are now lying awaiting
the coroners inquest..

early potatoes were exhibited for sale in the
market on Saturday last. The price demanded for them
was a shilling a pound.—Lancaster Guardian.

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IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, FEB. 24,—The Poor-law Commissioners
have dissolved two more boards of guardians—those of
the unions of Ennistymon (county of Clare), and Gort
(county of Galway). The regular guardians have now
been superseded in about thirty unions, and paid
guardians appointed. In a few instances, the ex-
guardians were glad to escape the responsibility, but
generally the local gentry are filled with indignation
by the proceedings of the commissioners, who pay little
heed to the complaints of these gentlemen. The com-
missioners are, in fact, determined to enforce the poor-
law at all hazards ; and so far as the collection of the
rate is concerned, they are succeeding in most of the
unions. Meantime, in some of the western and
southern counties, a great extent of destitution still
prevails.

The Mayo Telegraph of yesterday contains a further
list of fifteen deaths from starvation in the Castlebar
union. There have been numerous seizures for non-
payment of poor-rate ,• but in some instances the goods
exposed for sale found no bidders amongst the crowd
assembled at the auctions. As might be expected
where destitution is so general, there are numerous
frauds in the out-door relief system, especially in Mayo.
One of the local papers contains a list of persons re-
ceiving relief under false pretences, and most of whom
are in comparatively comfortable circumstances.
In some districts efforts are made by the gentry and
farmers to diminish the relief taxation by extending em
ployment ; but pauperism is extending, nevertheless, to
a most formidable extent.
Mr. Herbert, M.P., of Muckness Abbey, has circu-
lated as address amongst his tenantry in Kerry, offering
to pay the entire of their poor-rate ; but, says this ex
celleet landlord, " I shall expect, in return, that none of
the labourers usually employed by you shall be com-
pelled to have recourse to the poor-rate for relief, while
each of you has so wide a field upon which his labour
may be made reproductive."
DISTRESS AMONGST THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.
—The Cork Examiner quotes the following extract of a
letter from a Roman Catholic clergyman of the diocese
of Cloyne, as an instance of the condition to which the
clergy of that communion are now reduced by the poverty
of their flocks :—" Let me tell you (strange to say), I
have this day in my possession but one halfpenny; such
is the state of my finances, and I think it is, generally
speaking, the position of the priesthood of the country—
it cannot be otherwise. I have in my united parishes
6,000 in a state of starvation, many of whom have already
died of starvation ; may God deliver them, and give
them the grace of forbearance."
CITY OF WATERORD ELECTION.—Further accounts
have been received of the conflicts between the Old and
Young Irelanders, which have only been stopped by the
intervention of the military and police. On Tuesday
Colonel Sir C. O'Donnell, brigadier-general at Clonmel,
with two troops of the 4th Light Dragoons, arrived at
Waterford, where Sir Charles will remain during the
election.

MURDER OF THE REV. JOHN LLOYD.-CA-
PITAL CONVICTION.

The Evening Herald contains the following report of
a most important case tried yesterday at the Roscommon

Asssizes:

ROSCOMMON, FEB. 23.—A respectable jury having
been sworn, the Clerk of the Crown read the indictment
against Thomas Donoghue, charging him with having,
on the 28th of November, on the high road near Elgin,
in this county, fired at and killed the Rev. John Lloyd,
and in another count with aiding and assiAing one John
Flanagan to commit the murder.
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL stated the case for the
Crown.

Michael Walsh was then examined by the Learned
Gentleman—Recollects the Sunday before Mr. Lloyd
was shot. Was at the house of Owen Byrne early that
day, and saw the prisoner at the bar there. It is about
two miles across the fields from where Mr. Lloyd was
shot. John Flanagan, Pat Regan, Owen Byrne, liar-
tin Travers, and Michael Byrne was there: Was there
till late that day. There was a conversatalia about Mr.
Lloyd on that day; Owen Byrne said tha(Nie3: were
all noticed by Mr. Lloyd, and that his lifelike in the
lease and that he ought to be shot, that- ere was no
other remedy but to shoot him. He ( tness) said
that ho was a good man, and that it (mg* not to be
done, and Pat Regan said the same thing, but the rest
were for having him shot, and Donoghue, the prisoner,
said he WSlb prepared to come any day at all, and
that that day was wet and the pistol might not go off.
Saw the prisoner, and knew him three years before
that. Recollected going ,to Owen Byrne on the fol-
lowing Sunday ; that was the day Mr. Lloyd was
shot; Donoghue, Flanagan, Owen and Michael Byrne
were there that day in Owen Byrne's barn ; he saw
two pistols lying on the corn in the barn; there was some
conversation about Mr. Lloyd, but not so much as the
other day; it was a wet day too, and one of them said
there was no luck in it; witness went home, which was
only it few fields from Byrne's house, and left Donoghue
after him; some time after that he saw two men cross
the fields from Byrne's in the direction towards where
Mr. Lloyd was shot ; saw John Flanagan that evening
going towards his own house; he had a case of pistols,
and another man was on before him, but was not sure it
was the prisoner as he was a piece off from him. Flan-
agan he heard is (lead.
Cross•examieed by Mr. W. BURKE—Is not a tenant
of the late Mr. Lloyd. Did not swear his informations
till he heard from Mr. Lloyd, of Lisanow, that he had a
letter, and that he (witness) knew something of this.
Then he came and told the truth. It is not for a re-
ward, but for the love of justice he gave his testimony.
Martin Byrne, examined by Mr. FRENCH, Q.C.—Re-
members the Saturday before Mr. Lloyd was shot. Met
Michael Byrne, and from what he told witness he went
to Owen Byrne, his brother, who sent him to Durham,
about twelve miles, for the prisoner, Thomas Donoghue,
to visit him ; and ho went to the house of Donoghue,
and his wife went with him to Mr. Corr's, where he was
working, and in the evening both of them went to
Cultra. On the way they met three policemen, one of
whom asked witness where they were going, and he told
them to Cultra.

Michael Reynolds, police constable, proved that he,
with two more police, wore out that night, and met the
last witness at Carrigan's, which is on the road from
Durham to Eiphin.
Patt Rooney, examined by Mr. WEST, Q.C.—ls about
seventeen years of age. Was servant to the late Mr.
Lloyd. Remembers the day he was shot. Was driving
the gig in which his master was, and when above a mile
from home, two man were walking before them, and
when the gig overtook them, one went each side, and
the prisoner told witness to come down. Mr. Lloyd asked
what .or, and they said they wanted to shoot htm ; and
Mr. Lloyd said, " Pull away boys." Witness cried out,
" Don't kill my master," and immediately one of them
fired (identifies the prisoner as the man who fired the
shot). The prisoner told the other man to fire, and he
tried, but the pistol would not go off. Saw the prisoner
about a fortnight after, among five or six others, and
pointed him out as the man who shot his master.

In the cross-examination of this witness his first in-
formations were read, in which he stated that he be-
lieved the prisoner Donoghue was the man that shot his
master. To account for this, he said he had been then
going into the town ofElphin every day, and that he was
afraid to positively swear against him.
Patrick Holmes was the next witness, who proved
that lie was going an old road to the Rev. Mr. Lloyd's
on that day to get a bottle of wine, which Mr. Lloyd
had promised to his wife, who was sick, and that coming
towards a fort of rising ground he lost sight of Mr.
Lloyd, and he heard a shout from some person, and then
heard a shot, and going over the rising ground, be saw
the body of Mr. Lloyd in the gig. Be appeared dead.
Ile then saw two men coming from where the smoke
was, and they beckoned to him to go back, and he did,
as he saw pistols with them. He knew Flanagan, but he
did not know the prisoner before that day (identifies him
as onu of the men); a man named Coghlan shook hands
with Flanagan and said, " Well done, boys--you took
down the old fellow."
Thomas Brehery proved to having seen two men that
day running across the fields, and that the prisoner was
one of them, having a pistol or a short gun concealed
under his coat.
Mr. BURKE addressed the jury for the prisoner in an
eloquent speech, contending that there was a discrepancy
in the evidence, and that some of the evidence could not
be relied on.
The Judge delivered a long and able charge to the
jury, who, without leaving the box, found a verdict of
Guilty.
Roscommon, Feb. 23, half-past five o'clock.
This moment the jury have returned a verdict of
guilty against Thomas Donoghue, for the murder of the
Rev. John Lloyd, on the 28th of November last. The
Judge was deeply affected on hearing the verdict, and,
after some minutes'deliberation,addressed the Attorney-
General in a low voice, when his Lordship had the pri.
soner removed to his former cell, and postponed passing
the awful sentence until morning.
The Court never was so densely crowded, and before
the Judge charged the jury, the whole assembly anti-
cipated the just verdict of this the foulest murder that
ever disgraced any country.
Six o'clock, Wednesday evening.
Three persona are this moment committed for the
murder of Major Mahon.

EMIGRATION OF COTTON SPINNERS.—Last week
a general meeting of delegates was held at Bolton, of
the operative cotton spinners of Lancashire, Yorkshire,
Cheshire, and Derbyshire. The business of the meeting
was of a somewhat novel character. Instead of dis-
cussing the rate of wages, or the consequence of the
recent reductions, the discussion was entirely confined to
the consideration of the question of establishing the
means of emigrating the surplus hands among them to
the United States of America. It was proposed to do
this by a weekly subscription of 2d. a head, by which
they calculate that they can send out 329 spinners per
annum. The project was adopted unanimouslyt day.—
i
, and t
was fixed to commence in a fortnight from that
Stockport Mercury.
The Duke of Wellington gave a grand banquet
at Strathfieldsaye last evening to the Learned Judges
going the Western Circuit, ex route to open the com-
mission at Winchester, the High Sheriff of the county,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Lord and Lady
Charles Wellesley, &c. The Noble and Gallant Duke,
accompanied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro,
is expected to return to town to-day.