The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-14 00:00:00

FRIDAY

EVENING, JULY 14, 1848,

I RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
CITY OF TORONTO AND LAKE HURON.
The annual meeting of this company was held at the
offices of the Canada Company, St. Helen's-place,
Bishopsgate-street, yesterday—Mr. C. Franks in the
chair.

The retiring directors (with the exception of Mr.
Ea.sthopo) and auditors having been re-elected,
The CHAIRMAN read the report, which stated that
since the last general meeting no circumstances had
arisen to alter the opinion entertained by the directors
that a line of railway to connect the city of Toronto and
Lake Ontario with Lake Huron, would be a profitable
undertaking, but on various grounds it had not appeared
to,theal advisable to take any intermediate steps. for its
prosecution. In the first place, the line, however im-
portant and advantageous in itself, would be much
more so if prosecuted in connexion with a line of rail-
ways through British North America, and as the re-
port upon the Government surrey from Halifax to
Quebec had not yet been made public, and the plan
which might ho adopted for completing the line
through Montreal was still undetermined, the
directors were of opinion that it would be
advisable to delay any operations until those
pans were better understood; moreover, the
state of the money market continued to be so very
unsatisfactory, as by no means to justify the belief that
a call upon the proprietors would be well received. For
these reasons the directors had thought it inexpedient to
incur any expense in obtaining a power for the construc-
tion of the work in connexion of the company incorpo-
rated for a similar object in Canada, feeling assured that
when the English company were disposed to provide the
capital for the work, no difficulty would exist: in obtain-
ing any necessary legal authority. The directors, under
these circumstances, had restricted their expenses to the
smallest possible amount, and by the exercise of the
closest economy their outgoings in the last twelve months
had only amounted to the sum of 75/. 19s. 9d., leaving
in their hands the sum of 2561. 15s. 3d., which would
he sufficient to keep the undertaking on foot for some
years, during which, if a favourable opportunity should
present itself for proceeding in the object, they would,
according to a pledge made on a former occasion, call the
proprietors together, and take their opinion upon the
inexpediency of proceeding before any engagement was
made for the purpose.
The report was unanimously adopted, and thanks
being voted to the chairman, the meeting separated.

OPENING OF TIIE CLACKEATON VALLEY.

On Wednesday last this portion of the comprehensive
scheme of railways promoted by the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company, was formally opened by
the directors. At ten o'clock in the morning a large
party of the directors and their friends left Manchester
for Clackeaton ; and at the same hour a considerable
number left Leeds. Both the parties met at Mirfield,
where the junction with the main trunk is effected, and
proceeded thence by special train along the new line to
Low Moor. About the same hour a large number of
persons, including many of the Yorkshire directors and
their friends, left Low :Moor, and traversed the line
to Mirfield and back again. This train was accompa-
nied by several bands of music and a large number of
banners.

On the arrival of the directors at Low Moor they
were, by the courtesy of Messrs. Hird, Dawson, Hard
and Co., the proprietors of the works, allowed to inspecti
the whole of the premises, which aro the largest of the
kind in England.
The directors having inspected the whole of the works,
came back to the station with a view of returning to
Clackeaton, where a cold collation was provided for them
and they arrived about four o'clock. The train, on its
return from Low Moor, consisted of 33 carriages, prin-
cipally third-class, every one of which was densely
packed, as was also the roofs and every available spot
where a seat or standing place could be obtained. There
could not be fewer than 3,500 persons in the train, which
was drawn by four engines.
The down train having arrived at Clackeaton, the di-
rectors and invited guests—about 300 in number—sat
down to an excellent cold collation in a spacious tent
erected for the occasion, and several toasts and senti-
ments having been given, the principal of which—
Prosperity to the Clackeaton Railway"—was most en-
thusiastically responded to, the company broke up shortly
after seven o'clock, well satisfied with the day's pro-
ceedings.
The train for Manchester started shortly after, where
it arrived before eleven o'clock.
The Leeds people reached their destination about one
o'clock.

IRELAND.

ARREST OF MR. T. F. MEAGHER.

DUBLIN, JULY 12.—Alter Mr. John Mitchel, the
most dangerous, because the most sincere of the apostles
of treason, Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher has been made
amenable to justice. This gentleman, you are aware,
was on the eve of his departure for America, on a " mis-
sion of importance as regarded the political condition of
Ireland," and had proceeded as far as Waterford, his
native city. where his apprehension was effected
yesterday. Ho arrived this morning at the King's-bridge
' terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway,
in the custody of a body of police, and at one o'clock
this day he was brought before Messrs. Tyndall and
Wyse, the sitting magistrates at College-street Police-
office, on a warrant issued by a Mr. Brown, a stipendiary
magistrate of Limerick, grounded on informations,
charging him with having uttered a seditious speech at
a club meeting held at Rathkesle a few days since. On
the occasion of the arrest the people of Waterford col-
lected in great numbers, and expressed a determination
to resist the removal of their townsmau at any and every
cost.

Through an awkward mistake, Mr. Meagher was con-
veyed at an early hour this morning to Dublin, although
the warrant was made returnable to Limerick, and was
kept in the custody of the police up to the hour he was
brought before the magistrates of College-street office
this day.
Mr. Tyndall then informed Mr. Meagher that he had
been arrested for a misdemeanour only, and not under
the Felony Act, and that the offence was therefore one
in which bail might be taken. This, however, was a step
which the magistrates of that office had no power to take,
for, as the warrant was returnable to Limerick, it was
indispensable that Mr. Meagher should continue in cus-
tody until his return to Limerick, where the magistrate
who signed the warrant for his arrest would receive bail
for his appearance to stand his trial for sedition at the
present Limerick assizes.

Fortunately for the prisoner, Mr. Brown, the stipen-
diary magistrate, who backed the warrant, happened to
be in town, and even in the office at the time, and ac-
cordingly, when this circumstance was notified to the
magistrates, they consented at once to receive bail—Mr.
Meagher's own recognizances in 3001., and two sureties
of 3501. each.

Mr. Richard O'Gorman, jun., who was present, then
tendered as sureties his own father, Richard O'Gorman,
sen., and Mr. Richard Al'Donnell, paper merchant.
Subsequently Alderman Butlor was substituted for
Mr. M‘Donnell, and the bail bonds being perfected Mr.
Meagher was bound over to attend in Limerick to-
morrow. As, however, the offence charged is only a
misdemeanour, Mr. Meagher is entitled to traverse, and
cannot, therefore, under the present information, be tried
until spring assizes, 1849.
Mr. Lawless, who acted as Mr. Meagher's agent, then
requested that his client might be allowed to traverse
until the next assizes of Limerick.

Mr. Brown replied that it was necessary that Mr.
Meagher should go to Limerick, and apply there for
liberty to traverse to the next assizes, ac the warrant,
though endorsed in Dublin, was made returnable to
Limerick.

The seditious matter for which Ur. Meagher is about
to be prosecuted was uttered at the Ruthkealo Club a
few days since in the presence of two of the Limerick
police, upon whose sworn informations of the words used
the warrant issued. The language objected to is recited
in the informations as follows:

" That the said Thomas F. Meagher did, on the sth
of July last, at Rathkeale, in the county of Limerick,
deliver a seditious speech before an assemblage of persons,
calling on them • to organize in force to obstruct the
execution of the law, and be prepared to prevent the
law from being carried out, by force; in case a similar
attempt was made as in the case of John Mitchel, to
strike such a blow as should prevent the law from being
carried out by force in such a case."'
The following account of Mr. Meagher's arrest ap-
' pears in the Waterford Mail of yesterday :
" On Tuesday afternoon, as Mr. Thomas A. Meagher,
who was in this city since Tuesday last, was proceeding
from the house of Mr. Sweetman, of Blenheim, in this
county, he was arrested on a charge of felony by Cap-
tain Gunn, R.M., who proceeded with him to his father's
residence on the Mall. As soon as the news of his cap-
ture became known great crowds assembled in the im-
mediate neighbourhood, and it was deemed advisable to
call out the military force, horse, infantry, and artillery,
who took up a position along the line from Colebeck
street to John-street, leading to the Manor ; the police
in considerable force being statioued in the Town-hall.
Up to our going to press, however, everything was tran-
roil—not the slightest sivn of disturbance."