The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

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Steele- and Mr. Ray lodged the necessary informations
against Mr. Lawlor before Oa magistrates of Henry-
street Police-office. yesterday, and in the course of the
evening the advocate of physical force was arrested at
his lodgings in the Imperial Hotel, where, however, he
was permitted to remain for the night, under the sur-
veillance of the police.
At the morning sitting of the magistrates of Henry.
street office this day, Mr.-O'Connell, accompanied by
Messrs. James O'Hea, lward Clements, Thomas Steele;
T. M. Ray, and Richard Barrett, came before Dr. Kelly
to prefer his charge against Mr. Lawlor. Mr. Lawlor,
shortly after, accompanied -by Mr. Pierce Mahony and
Mr. F. B. Healey, entered the otlice. The following is
the information sworn by Mr. O'Connell before Dr.
Kelly on Sunday, and on which the warrant for the ar-
rest of Mr. Lawlor was grounded:—
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"The information of J. O'Connell, Mq., of Gowran-
hill, Kingstown, &c., that Le has this clay, the 11 th of
October inst , received a letter, herewith annexed, and
to which he has affixed his initials, and Which letter is
dated ' Imperial Hotel, Saturday night, Oct. 10, 1546,'
'and signkd 'John Shea Lawlor,' ‘t hich letter this in-
formant believes to be in the handwriting of the said
John Shea Lawlor ; that the said letter is addressed by
the said John Shea Lawlor to this informant ; and from
the words and expressions used in the said letter, and
all, as informant believes to be, in the handwriting of
the said John Shea Lawlor, this informant has no doubt
whatever that the said letter was so addressed to him
for the purpose and with the intent, on the part of the
said John Shea Lawlor, of provoking this informant to
commit a breach of the peace, and of threatening to
send this informant a hostile message, whereby the lives
of this informant and of the said John Shea Lawlor
would be placed in peril."
Mr. O'Connell was sworn, and asked by Dr. KELLY if
Mr. Lawlor was the gentleman against whom he had
lodged the information ? Mr. O'Connell—Yes, that is
the gentleman. _ _

Dr. KELLY—From the expressions used in the letter
alluded to in the information, are you apprehensive of a
breach of the peace ? Mr. O'Connell—l am.
Dr. KELLY—Are you still under that impression ?
Mr. O'Connell—l am.
Dr. liET,Lia—Mr. La..llor, yeti are now free to answer
the charge mine, against you, and I am ready to hear
anything you may wish to offer in explanation or justi-
fication, if you have anything to offer ; and, if not,
it will be for me to take the best course I can.

Mr. Lawlor—l shall not offer any observation; I shall
leave the case entirely with you. You I conceive to be
the best judge of the whole case. Were I aware that
the case would get such extensive notoriety as it unfor-
tunately has, I should have come here prepared with a
professional gentleman, not for the purpose of saying
anything to any person, but of leaving the office without
saying one word on the subject.
Dr. KELLY—You don't deny having written this letter
to Mr. O'Connell ? Mr. Lawlor—l neither deny nor
admit anything ; I am quite silent on the whole affair.
Dr. KELLY—Then I have only one course pursue,
and that is to bind you to 'keep the peace. I shall re-
quire you to give me two sureties in the sum of 200 L
each, and you yourself in 4001., to keep the peace. If
you think the sum too high, I am ready to hear any ob-
servation you think fit to make on that point.
Mr. Lawlor—l shall not offer a single observation on
any part of the case.

D:. KELLY—Then you have no objection , to th(
amount of bail which I have named? Perhaps you might.
have something to say in that, respect, as this is not
your native city.

Mr. Lawior-LI am most anxious not to say a word
at all ; but, as to the amount of bail, it cannot make
any difference as to the security in any city where I
may be.
Dr. KELLY—Then I must have two sureties in 2001.,
and yourselt in 4001., to keep the peace.
Mr. Lawlor—For what? In binding a person to keep
the peace, there are two material items, which'l think
you have omitted altogether. The first is, as to the per-
son to whom I am to keep the peace; the second, as to
the period of time for which I am to be bound.
Dr. KELLY—As to whom you are to keep the peace,
the complainant in this case is, in the first instance, the
person to whom you are to be bound, and then gene-
rally to all her Majesty's subjects, for the term of five
years.
Mr. Lawlor—Do you think, from all the circum-
stances, and looking at the whole of the case, that' I
ought to be bound to keep the peace to any person ex-
cept the party who brought me here?
Dr. KELLY —I think your remarks are right.
Mr. Lawlor—l am very sorry to speak at all in this
matter. I intended to have walked into the office and
out again, without offering a single observation.
Mr. O'Connell said he did not come there to seek
protection for himself personally, but there was what
he considered a great public principle involved in it—
and he wished to, have all those who considered it a
duty in that respect to be protected. It was on public
grounds alone that he brought the case forward.
Dr. KELLY then directed Mr, Lawlor to enter into
securities to keep the peace towards Mr. O'Connell;
and Mr. Peirce Mahony and Mr. F. B. Healy having
entered into the necessary bond, Mr. Lawlor was dis-
charged._

M. O'Connell, on retiring from the office, thanked
Dr. Kelly for the manner in which he had acted.

Dr. KELLY said, I have only done my duty, and I am
very glad to find you have done yours.
The matter then terminated.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.

The Evening Mail says—
" The Archbishop of Dublin protests against the form
of prayer prepared by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
and agreed upon by her Majesty in Council, as well as
to that settled by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
humbly imploring the Almighty God to avert from these
countries the impending calamity of famine. The ob-
jections are of a twofold nature—legal and spiritual.
Dr. Whateley denies the constitutional right to issue
such a gommand; and, as he consideri"the visitatioirti
direct judgment from God, he looks upon any attempt
at propitiating the Divine wrath in the nature of a
blasphemy. Ills Grace preached a sermon upon this
subject yesterday in the episcopal Chapel of St. Ste-
phen, in which be expounded his views, political and
religious. Copies of the form .of public prayer, as it ap-
peared in the Gazette, were distributed throughout the
church, but worn subsequently removed, and the prayer
was not read—orders, as it was said, to that effect having
been issued by the Archbishop."

FORTIFICATION OF THE COASTS
, OF ENGLAND. •
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—It was with no ordinary pleasure I read the able
article under the above title, in your valuable paper of
the 7th inst., and the public owe great obligations to
you in making known the sentiments of M. C. H. Dupin,
on this highly important and vital subject, which, let
us trust, will receive the earnest and immediate attention
of the English Government.

You have often and so strenuously advocated the con-
struction of " Harbours of Refuge," as necessary for the
protection of the lives and property of her Majesty's
subjects in the English Channel, that I need not apolo-
gise for soliciting your indulgence on the present occa-
sion. In the event of a sudden outbreak of war with
our French neighbours (which every right-minded
person would lament), what protection, I will ask, will
the town of Brighton, with its 50,000 souls, have, if sud-
denly attacked by a fleet of war? Might not the
" Queen of Watering Places" be reduced to ruins in a
few short hours?

Frequently have you urged the great necessity for the
intermediate harbour, or breakwater, proposed by the
Admiralty Commissioners to be erected in Seaford Bay,
being midway between Portsmouth and Dover, and which
is in every way eligible, from its fine anchorage and great
depth of water at all tides, and, being near to the inner
harbour of Newhaven, would be of immense value in the
Channel for sheltering merchants' and steam vessels,
and also prove of vast importance to the British Govern-
ment; as, on the completion of the branch line of railroad
to the port of Newhaven from Lewes and Keymer, the
shortest route will be offered to France from the metro-
polis, and the greatest facility will then be afforded for
the transmission of troops and ammunition to the coast.
It is a notorious and lamentable fact, that there is no
good shelter for vessels between Dover and Portsmouth;
the consequence is, a great number of shipwrecks, and
losi of life annually, which would be generally avoided
by the construction of the proposed breakwater in Seaford
Bay.

If the Property•tax is to continue, surely a few thou-
sand pounds might be voted by Parliament every session
for such a national undertaking, and when many millions
sterling is so easily raised for railway speculations 1 !
You have more than once stated energetically, that the
situation of Seaford is paramount, and ought first to be
commenced. We have now another Government since
your last appeal, pray urge speedily upon them to com-
mence this work of art, without further delay, in the
days of peace, and before the finances may be unfortu-
nately required for the purposes of warfare.
I am, Mr. Editor, your most obedient servant,
Bth October, 1846. A CONSTANT READER.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—It has seldom happened
that we have had to set such a remarkable instance of
escape from death as the following before our readers:—
On Wednesday afternoon, while a woman awned Christie
was hanging out clothes from a window at Laurie's-
close, Giles-street, she lost her balance and fell to the
ground. The height of the window from which she fell
is four stories. In her descent sho came in contact with
and broke the poles that had been extended from all the
other windows below for drying clothes. Strange
enough she was so little hurt as to be able to walk up
the stairs again to her own house. The poles and ropes
she had displaced successively in her descent must have
broken the force of her fall.—Edinburgh Post.
Pim)! or GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 16 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 25 55 ; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25 77,1 t, it follows that gold
is 0.87 per cent, dearer in 'London than in Paris.
By advices from liamburgh the price of gold is 435
per mark, which, atthe English Mint price of 31.175. 10i d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an
taOhltnge of 13 10 ;
and the exchange at LTamblogh on London at short
it WOWS that gold is 0.23 per eetli SION!
being 18 9,
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Tbe following latter has been Written a inelf
bondholder :
•
1, Your letter in this day's money artielenAliVeit° 4PA
the Mexican affairs has caused much exciatise tits& -1"-4
uneasiness among the bondholders, as the variation in
the prices will :how you. As I find that Messrs. Schnei-
der and Co. (the Government agents) state that they
have no authority to stop the conversion which was still
going on, I beg that you will give publicity to the agents'
assertion, or make further inquiry into the matter, to
save ruin to the unfortunate holders, who may be other-
wise driven to sell their bonds at any price your re-
marks may drive the stock to."
Our remarks on this subject have bean little more
than a description of the contents of a certain dispatch,
copies of which are now in the City. Iu a matter of so
much importance it is but natural that much di,cussion
should arise, and that tifferent opinions should be uttered
as to a proceeding which seems to jeopardize a large
amount of property. On such points bs the legitimacy.
and permanence in power Of the authorities from whom
the disis,4:c has emunz.te or tilt irconstitutiot;al ability
to do such act as repudiate :Ile convertel bonds, we
public
leave the to judge, accortint tn the iiirortual4on
and knowledge they possess. We only wain them pot
to question the existence of a document comiinin,g such
provisions as have been described under this head, :.rd
to be prepared for its publication. They can then criti-
cise it at leisure, and consider whether the present
Government is more or less legitimate than that
Paredes. •
Since writing the above we have received the follow.
ing from Messrs. Schneider, the Mexican egen:s; and
though the second document is of great length, the at-
tention or the spEculators is so c,mpletele absorbed by
the position of Mexican stock, that we do not hesitate
to give it entire.• In the meantime, we would observe
that the statements of Messrs. Schneider do not in the
least impugn the validity of the document brought by
Senor Gomez Farias:—

" TO THE EDITOR OF TEE TIMES.
" Sir,—ln the present state of agitation of the publics
mind concerning the conversion of the old debt of Mexico
into the new stock, which was created by virtue of the
agreemeiff entered into between the Mexican Govern.
ment and the bondholders in June last, we think the
publication of the following translation of a letter written
by the ex-Minister of Finance, Don Luis de la Rosa, to
the editor of a Mexican newspaper called the Republi-
can°, and published in that paper in the-month of August
last, may tend very much to allay the uneasiness so na.
tut ally felt at the present moment, and we therefore
transmit it to you for that purpose.
" We also take advantage of this occasion to make
known to the public, that neither by the last packet, nor
by the one which preceded it, have we received any
communication from the authorities in Mexico, nor have
we any offieiarlinformation whatever concerning the
mission of senor Gomez Ferias to this country, whom
we have not seen, and from whom w e have nut as Tot
received any communication.

" Vre are, sir. your most obedient servants.
" JOHN SCHNEIDER AND, CO.
"No. 10, New Broad-street Mews, Oct 13."
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONITOR Itret.uß LICANO.'
" Sir,—The arrangement of the frreign debt has
been concluded in London—an arrangement which I had
the honour of setting on foot when I discharged -the
duties of Minister of Hacienda. The large sum of
more than 50,000,000 dollars i 5 embraced by it, and on
that account it claiths the attention of the entire republic.
Those of us whose duty it has bet n to participate in this
grave matter have the right to expect,,from their fellow-
citizens that they will not pass judgment upon it with-
out examining previously, and with all the needful
im-
partiality and circumspection, the. important documrats
which have to be published, and in which will be seen
the origin of this arrangement, its initiatory base's, which
were fixed by me when I had charge of thrr. Ministry,
the modifications it pas undergone, and the terms on
which
,it has been definitely established.: I have with
difficulty kept silence on this important matter, which,
like all other great financial operations, has been, and
ought to have been, private until its conclusion, but
which has now been accomplished. Nothing, therefore,
was written on the arrangement of the foreign debt, not-
withstanding some public writers have spoken of it many
Mmes very erroneously, because it was impossible for
them to have had under their notice the necessary data
for judging- of it. On a late occasion the editors of the
Republicano, in their number 164, have attempted to
sum up the result of this most important negotiation
in these few words, that the national treasury will
receive almost nothing of the enormous sum which is
treated of in this affair, and that the good folks who, in
the name of Mexico, have concluded it would gain for
themselves some millions of dollars.' I should most
deeply deplore if such had been the sad result to the re-
public of a negotiation which was originated under my
ministry, and by which I wished to secure so many ad-
vantages for the nation, that this very circumstance was
the reason why the bases which I had established were
disapproved in London. But I believe the editors of the
Republicans have very much erred in characterising in so unfavourable a manner the negotiation under notice,
and I am sure that their good faith will CaRSQ them to
change their opinion when they Lave the respective
documents before them. I, therefore, entreat them to
suspend their judgment for a few days, until these are
published.

" In the mean time I will notice the errors into which
it appears to me they have fallen. In the first place, I
will c•bscrve that the negotiation of the conversion of the
debt such as-was set on foot under my ministry would
be advantageous to the republic, even although the Ex-
chequer did not receive one single dollar, because, under
the administration of Senor Herrera, the question
treated of in the arrangement of this negotiation was
not so much that cf receiving great sums of money
as that of preserving the credit of Mexico, which
the succeeding year was liable to be very much
compromised, and of diminishing the.national dt tit by a
considerable amount. Nevertheless, I have received
under my ministry, and as an anticipated payment, half
a million of dollars in effective money, without, as I re-
member, any charge for interest, and without the addi-
tion of paper or credit of any class. I will not say (be-
cause I do not yet know circumstantially the mode in
which this negotiation has terminated) what may be the
sum which in effective money the Exchequer has yet to
receive. The amount fixed, according to the bases
which I subscribed, exceeded a million and a half of
dollars. The sum which (according to the same bases)
the national debt would be diminished would reach to
8,000,000 or 10,000,000 dolls.; but I can assert (trust-
i no. in the probity of Senors Fernandez del Castillo and
''arses, who succeeded me in the Ministry) that what-
ever may be the amounts by which the sums upon
which I have calculated may have been diminished, the
result of the arrangement will still be very advantageous
for Mexico.
"'With regard to the millions which the editors of the
Republicano suppose the agents of the nation have
gained in making this arrangement, much might be
said, but I will limit myself at prcoont to the de-
claration that one of the errors into which these
gentlemen have fallen is that of believing that Senor
Don Manuel Escaudon had been the party intrusted
with the conversion of the debt on the behalf of
the republic. I will say more,--that if this gentleman
had been so intrusted, he would have diecharged his duty
in accordance with the instructions td Government, and
with the same advantages which have now been obtained
for Mexico. But I repeat, that Senor Escaudon (ac-
cording to the information I hove received) has not inter-
fered in this matter in any official capacity. His Excel-
lency Senor Murphy, tko Mexican Minister in London,
Senor Don Guillermo O'Brien, and the Senors Schneider,
agents of the republic, have been the parties ale:Lally
charged with this important operation. With regard to
Senor Murphy, I have always entertained the most
favourable idea of his talent and probity; but when I
was discharging the duties of Minister of Hacienda,
I found in the archives of that department so many
documents which proved his patriotism, his intelli-
gence, •and lealty to the republic, that I ?did not hesi-
tate a moment in the belief that he was without
doubt the person best adapted for managing the
grave operation in which the conversion of the
debt consisted. Another person of talent and honour-
able feeling was required to co-operate in this matter,
and after many and most scrupulous reports which
I received, I determined to appoint Senor Don Guillermo
O'Brien, an individual well-informed in Mexican affairs.
intelligent in banking operations, of entire probity, and
who, if my recollection rightly serve me, has already
discharged very important commissions intrusted to him,
by the Government of our country.
" With respect to the house of Senors Schneider, to
whom I intrusted the agency of the republic, which was
previously conducted by the Senors Lizardi, evtn my
enemies have done me the justice to confess thP.t I made
a wise election. A new proof of this is pretented to us
in the documents which the editors of, tie Republican°
have recently published. At the
meeting which the
holders of Mexican bonds held in London, for the pur-
poseof examining the proposals of the Government re-
lative to the conversion of the debt, a committee pre-
sented its report on these proposals, and amongst other
things expressed itself as follows The committee
cannot conclude tl*ir report without expressing their
satisfaction at file:ling the agency of the Mexican re-
public in hands of the highly respectable house to
which it has been transferred : in their communications
With that housethey have seen an anxious desire to afford
to the bondholders all the information which could bo
useful to them.'

" ' It also appears to me that the editors of the lie.
publican° have erred in believing that by the new ar-
rangement of the debt the tobacco revenue has been
sold, and that the payment of anterior charges upon it
had not been provided for. The tobacco revenue has
hypc!he.z:ated, but it has not been sold,
n
manner
l alienated ; and as regards the credits
especiallyboereni e
nany aspcly
chargedi upon it, I am assured by persons who
have seen the definitive arrangement, that those credits
are in no way prejudiced.
" 'As it may be interesting, and serve to illustrate
this negotiation, I will add, that propositions for the
conversion of the foreign debt had already been pre.
sented under the Provisional Administration, and that
dtse of
republic this a rranthgan-
e
Senor Santa Anna (as I am informed) did not disap-
mpreonvte owfertehetmh,enaltihe.,osuilg
hfatvhoeureate conditions
the
those which wc;re afterwards adopted.
" ' This is what I have at present to say on this im-
portant subject, requesting the public will
be pleased to
suspend its judgment until the important documents
which are to be made public have been printed.
LUIS liE LA ROSA,
" `Mexico, Aug. 21, 1846"
.'"—Times.
As Cr

aptain Liddell, eldest son of the Hon. E. T.
Liddell, M.P., was exercising with the yeomanry cavalry,
on the Town Moor, Newt-ale, he had an awkward fall
from his horse, am received a kick from the animal on
his chest. Ile sufferer was immediately attended by
the' 110.;.:411 officer of the corps, and was afterwards eon-
:eyed in a carriage to Ravensworth Castle, wb,:xe, we
are happy to heti) he i4isip. Advertiser.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

The Act of Parliament for the Incorporation of this Company
having received the Royal Assent on the 27th day of July last, the
FIRST GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders is appointed to
be held at the Offices of the Company, No. 449, West Strand, London,
on MONDAY, the 26th day of October instant, at half-past Eleven o'clock
in the forenoon precisely, for the purpose of transacting the business
appointed by the Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and
the Uxbridge Railway Act, 1846, to be dons at such ordinary
meeting.
To entitle the Shareholders to vote at such meeting, they must
either produce scrip certificates for shares or the acknow:edgment
for scrip, signed by the Secretary. Shareholders to whom it may
not be convenient to attend and vote at the meeting, can vote by
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of proxy will be forwarded to them, on payment of 2a. Gd. for the
stamp, but which proxy, together with the scrip and bankers' receipt,
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Dated this Sth day of October, 1846.
By order, W. 11. WILSON, Secretary.
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