The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

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SILVER PLATE.
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. tention of customers to the reduced prices at which they are
new selling the best wrought London-made SILVER SPOONS and
FORKS. and Silver Tea and Coffee Services. The pamphlet, illus-
trated by drawings, and containing the weights and prices of the va•
rious articles required in family use. may be had on application, or
will be sent, post fret, to any part of Great Britain, Ireland or the
Colonies.

A. SAVORY and SONS. 14, Conahill, London, opposite tho
Bank.

AVMS'S CANDLES, sid. and Gd. per lb. ;
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Wax Candles, Is.; German Wax, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ;
Transparent Wax, Is. Pd. ; Best Wax, 2s. Id. ; Spersn Candles,
Is. Gd. and is. 7d. Metallic, 7M. and 9d.; Mottled Soap, 60s. and
:14s. per I Nibs. ; Yellow, 485., 545., and 60s. ; Windsor Soap, Is. 4d.
per packet ; Brow* Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 25.; Almond, 2s. 6.d. ;
Sealing Wax, 4s. Gd. per lb. ; Sperm 011, 7s. Gd. per gallon ; Solar,
3s. 3d. , Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse. 63, St.
Martin's-lane. Export or Grocers' and Oil-shop Goods at lower
prices.

lent to an additional one and half per cent. of dividend
sn the share capital."

GREAT WESTERN, LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN,
AND SOUTH-WESTERN.--We believe that the negotia-
tions between the three hitherto competing companies
aro progressing steadily, though of course slowly. The
contracting parties may be said to be only on the very
threshold of arrangements, as the interests they have to
consider and uphold require that every step and propo-
sition should be weighed and viewed on all sides before
being taken or adopted. This, however, we may state,
that though amalgamation, as some of our contempora-
ries, shooting in the dark, have hinted at, is absolutely
out of the question, yet a friendly'combination, ton the
most extensive scale, having all the force and value of
amalgamation, may be looked forward to. At all events
we may hazard a prediction that henceforward a death
blow will be given to those costly contests which have
proved the source of so much lasting mischief to the railway
interest, and such a prolific nest-egg toclasses who have
no sympathies in common with industrial enterprise.
One circumstance will doubtless have due consideration
—the prosperity of the shareholders.We expect this
will be attained by a system which at the same time per-
forms all that the public have a right to expect from
railway undertakings.—Railway
Gazette.
OXFORD AND RUGRY.--The works on this northward
extension of the Great Western, of fifty miles in length,
have been stopped during the past week; and it is not
probable that the operations will be resumed before the
spring.
NEW LlNE.—Surveys for a line now being made, prior
to the publication of the usual November notices of in-
tention to proceed to Parliament in the ensuing session
for a line to connect with the . Chester and Holyhead
Railway, from Bangor to the port et Carnarvon, the
chief seat of the mineral trade of North Wales.
INCREASE IN RAILWAYRECEIPTS.---It must be exceed-
ingly gratifying to the holders of railway shares, at a
time when so many circumstances have conspired to
cause a depression in their market valise, to find that the
receipts continue to exhibit a considerate increase over
the returns of the corresponding week of last year. In
the Eastern Counties there is this week an increase over
the corresponding week of last year of no less
_than
2,350/.; in the London and South-Western, 2,3001.; in
the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 2,4001.; in the Lon-
don and Brighton, 1,5001.; Midland Counties, 1,000/.;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1,5501; Lancaster and Car-
lisle, 1,0001.; London and North-Western, 650/.; Great
Western, 3004; and London and South-Eastern, 340/.
Observer.

IRELAND.

THE SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—The Clonmel Chronicle of
Friday says—
" The Special Commission at Clonmel will not close
till all the political prisoners shall have been tried. The
Attorney-General leaves town to-morrow night for
Dublin, to conduct the prosecution against Duffy and the
other State prisoners for trial there. Crown summonses
were served here this morning and yesterday, upon per-
sons required to give evidence against Duffy. The Soli-
citor-General will conduct the prosecution for the Crown,
in the cases of the State prisoners for trial in Clonmel."
MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND.
A correspondence is in progress between the
Dublin Chamber of Commerce and the Postmaster-
General, respecting the inconvenience of the present
mail communication between Dublin and England,
via Holyhead and Liverpool. The Chamber of Com-
merce object particularly to the departure of the
Liverpool mail at so early an hour in the afternoon as
four o'clock, and they also draw attention to the in-
convenience of the Holyhead route, the mail steamer
being dispatched from Kingstown at half-past eleven
A.M., only three hours after the departure of the
steamer belonging to the Chester and Holyhead Com-
pany. The Mercantile Advertiser contains the last
letter from the Chamber of Commerce to the Post-
master-General, dated October 13, which concludes
as follows :

" On the strong objections which exist to the present
arrangement your Lordship has beeninformed.
" Your Lordship has been apprised that all the banks,
the custom-house, and nearly all the public offices, close
at three o'clock, rendering the previous hours amongst
the busiest of the day, and rendering it extremely diffi-
cult, and in some cases impossible, to make that business
the subject of letters which are now required to be
posted at the receiving-houses throughout the city before
three o'clock, and at the General Post• office before half-
past three, or until forty minuts past three, on pay-
ment of a fee of sixpence in addition to the postage on
each letter.

"Your Lordship has also been informed that the mail
for Liverpool is not required solely for correspondence
with London, but is at present essential to the impor-
tant communication with the manufacturing districts of
England, and that this correspondence is seriously im-
peded by the existing regulation.
" That the letters for Belfast, which do not arrive in
Dublin until a quarter before' five o'clock, and which
wore formally forwarded vie Liverpool when that mail
was dispatched at half-past six, are now wholly excluded
from a mail dispatched at half-past four.
" That the letters from Cork, which do not arrive in
Dublin until twenty minutes past three, cannot, as for-
merly, be delivered in time to permit of any communica-
tion arising out of them being made yid Liverpool, &c.,
although Cork being the port of call' for vessels arriving
for orders, it is highly important that such communica-
tion should not be delayed.
" The Chamber of Commerce refrain from trespassing
on your Lordship's attention by a detail of minor incon-
veniences; nor need they refer to transactions which
occurred in 1846, except to point out to your Lordship
than when an alteration in the dispatch of the Liverpool
mail, similar to that now complained of, was made in a
similar manner, that is, made by the authorities in
London, without any communication whatsoever with
those locally formed in Dublin, it was found necessary
almost immediately to annul that arrangement, and to
adopt the regulation which has since existed.
" Your Lordship is possibly not aware that the recent
alteration in the dispatch of the Liverpool mail was not
made at the request or on the suggestion of the bankers,
merchants, or traders of Dublin, or, so far as can be
ascertained, on that of any portion of the community
interested in the postal communication between Great
Britain and Ireland; that no effort appears to have been
made by the Post-office authorities to consult the wishes
or elicit the opinion of those whose interests and con-
venience were most likely to be affected; nor was any intimation whatsoever given of the arrangement until the
Post-office authorities in London notified, by public ad-
vertisement, that it was completed, and it would be car-
ried into effect at an early and specified day. This course
of proceeding, with reference to the interests of the citi-
zens of Dublin, the Chamber of Commerce deeply regret;
they are led to believe that it is not in accordance with
the course usually adopted, where the similar interests
of important towns in Great Britain are affected, and
must have been adopted in forgetfulness of the assurance
contained in the Postmaster-General's letter of the 25th
March last, that in consequence of a letter which his
Lordship had then repently received from the Secretary
of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, ho was
unable to afford any definite information as to the course
he would be prepared to pursue (when the Holyhead
line would be opened), but that ho would not fail to
communicate further with the Chamber of Commerce
upon the subject as soon as his arrangements were finally ,
decided. Hopin g:for your Lordship's favourable consi-
deration of the suggestions offered and relief from the
inconvenience consequent on the too early dispatch of
the Liverpool mail, 1 have the honour to be, my Lord,
your Lordship'! most obedient servant,
CHARLES HALIDAY, Hon. Sec.
e To the Host Noble the Marquis of Clanricarde,
Postmaster-General. &c. &c., London.'

OPENING OF THE DUBLIN COMMISSION.
The commission was opened at the Court-houFse,
Green-street, this day. The presiding judges were
Mr. Justice Torrens and Mr. Justice Crampton, who
were accompanied by the Lord Mayor and other con,'
porate officers. The grand juries for the county and
city having been sworn,
Judge TORRENS, in addresing the city grand jury,
said it became his duty to call their attention to the du-
ties they were imperatively called upon to perform, and
to instruct them as to the state of the calendar, and
make such observations as he might deem just in the
performance of his duty. In the first place, he had
to tell them that, notwithstanding the calendayrp,rien-
sented crimes affecting the state of society, et
consequence of proceedings which had taken place at
the last commission, they would not be called upon to ex-
amine into evidence affecting those serious cases. He spoke
from the records of the city, in which ho found that at
the last commission there were four persons charged
with the serious offences to which ho alluded. Three of
those four persons were Charles Gavan Duffy, Richard
D. Williams, Kevin Izod O'Doberty, who were charged
with felony for publishing certain seditious writings in
newspapers. Ono of those persons
the Nation anti,Tribune
was tried at the last oommission, under bills of indict-
ment found by their predecessors, and on that subject
any further explanations which the Court could give
would be quite unnecessary. Bills of indictment having
been found by a former grand jury against those persons,
it was not necessary that new bills should be sent up on
the present occasion in the cases of Williams and
O'Doherty. The third case was that of Charles Gavan
Duffy, against whom bills had been already found, for
the publication of certain seditious writings in the Nation
newspaper; and upon being arraigned, and called upon to
plead, he put in a plea, in which the Crown joined
issue, so that, bills having been found by their predeces-
sors, the present grand jury were relieved from the con-
sideration of those three serious cases. Respecting the
other cases on the calendar, with the exception of ont2,
he found them of the ordinary nature which frequently
occur in the metropolis, and being such he found it un-
necessary to draw their attention to any but the one he
had alluded to. That case, too, was connected viith
political subjects, which had been before the Court, and
which, in another place, was now under inquiry.
The case to which he alluded had reference to the
wounding of a policeman, with intent to kill, and
murder. He had looked into the informations, which ,