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

The PRESIDENT then rose and said that the ordinary
business conducted at the Council dinner of the society
was now concluded, but he could not mete his seat
without expressing the thanks of the society to his
Royal Highne.ss Prince Albert for honouring them with
his presence, and the gratification with which they looked
forward to his dining with them in the Pavillion
next day.
His iiuval Highness and the President left the room
immediately after, and the proceedings of the society for
the day were at an end.
To-clay the great event of the meeting took place
under the most favourable circumstances. The cattle-
yard has been thrown open to the public, the hoarding
which separated it from the implement depart vent
having been completely removed. In the morning,
though 2s. ed. was charged for admission, several thou-
sands of • visitors hastened to the spot: and, the price
being reduced to ls. at two o'clock, innumerable crowds
are now gathering towards the scene of attraction.
Railways, omnibuses, and flies, are each contributing
incessantly fresh numbers to the mass of spectators; and,
besides these, an almost continuous stream of pedestrians
flows along the approaches to the yard. At ten o'clock
in the morning the stalls of prize animals were so much
filled as not to be approachable without difficulty. By
this time, in all probability, they are completely mobbed.
Before entering into details I should mention, that the
weather is magnificent, and the heat overpowering.
Entering the yard, a scene of the most anirnate•d kind
presents itself. Ranged under'the sheds which occupy
the southern half of the yard, and luxuriating in straw
bedding and a grateful shelter from the sun's rays, the
live stock are seen. The large animals are placed in
stalls, while the sheep and pigs are cribbed up in pens.
The spaces between the sheds are filled with eager spec-
tators of both sexes, all excited by the ❑ovelty of the
scene, and many loud in their expressions of admiration
or criticism. At the stalls where prize tickets are
exhibited a knot of busy farmers is formed, who, not
content with surveying the animal within, and scruti-
nising its mould, subject it to extensive mani-
pulations on the hind quarters, the back, flanks, and
in fact everywhere. It is due ito the beasts to mention
that they submitted to this process with wonderful
composure. Scarcely a prize exhibited escaped this
process unless indeed the pigs be excepted. With
them a sharp poke or rap with a cane was considered
sufficient, and the result was that in that department of
the show, from the grunt of the large boar to the squeak
of the pigling, an endless succession of porcine sounds
assailed the ear. Those who were not occupied in the
stalls examining the cattle paced leisurely around the
yard, many of them escorting ladies, who, it is to be
presumed, picked up a considerable amount of agricultu-
ral lore o❑ the occasion. At some points the keepers of
the stock exhibited appeared to take an active interest in
the reputation of their beasts, and exerted themselves
strenuously to show them off to advantage. This was the
case generally where prizes had been won, or a buyer was
wished for. As to the animals themselves, they had
evidently been so accustomed to good living and cleanli-
ness, and had passed their lives so comfortably, that it
is nut to be wondered at that they should wear a
happy and contended look. This was particularly ob
vious with the cattle, who stood up or lay down with the
most provoking indifference. In consequence it some-
times happened that when you got to the stall of some
animal which had carried off an important prize, and
had edged yourself within the circle of his admirers to
have a peep at his form, you found the huge creature
prone upon the ground, and his keeper watching lest the
idle curiosity of man should disturb his siesta. As for
the sheep and pigs, they seemed to suffer grievously
from the heat. Most of them fairly succumbed beneath
it, and with panting bodies lay extended in the straw
with which their peas were littered. The fattening sys-
tem, which has, it is to be hoped, been at last put a stop
to in cattle-rearing, still exercises some sway over them,
and one could scarcely help commiserating the long
woolled sheep especially, whose fleecy coverings must
have added considerably to their discomfort.

To give a more rninuie idea of the show I shall men

FRIDAY _EVENING,

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY OF TORONTO AND LAKE HURON.
The annual mnting of this company was held at the
nfficos of the Canada Company, St. Helen's-place,
Bishopsgate-streat, yesterday—Mr. C. Franks in the
chair.

The retiring directors (with the exception of Mr.
Easthops) 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 them 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 survey from Halifax to
Quelsee had not yet been made public, and the plan
which might be adopted for completing the lino
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 Ene,lish 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 751. 19s. 9d., leaving
in their hands the sum of 2561. 15s. 3d., which would
be 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.

OPENIYG OP THE 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 director. 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, Hardy,
and Co., the proprietors of the works, allowed to inspect
the whole of the premises, which are 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.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER-
HAMPTON.

We are happy to be enabled to state that a provisional
agreement has been entered into between the directors
of the Midland Company and of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Company, the effect of which will
probably be the speedy completion for opening of the
branch line from this city, to the junction with the
Bristol and Birmingham Railway, at Abbott's Wood.
This part of the line is to be completed if possible by
the Ist. of September, and to be worked by the Midland
Company, as soon as it shall receive the sanction of the

.1 V Y 14, 1848.

IRELAND.
ARREST OF MR. T. F. 2.IEAGIIER.
DUBLIN, dui. 12.—After 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 awsre,
was ou 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. He 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 u Mr. Brown, a stipendiary
magistrate of Limerick, grounded on informations,
charging him with having uttered a seditious speech st
a club meeting held at Rathkeale 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 townsman 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 offiae
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 a-as
indispensable that Mr. Meagher should continua 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, happeni•d 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 350/. each.

Mr. Richard O'Gorman, jun., who was present, then
tendered as sureties his own father, Richard O'Gorman,
sen., and Mr. Richard M'Donnell, paper merchant.
Subsequently Alderman Butler 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 bo 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, as the warrant.
though endorsed in Dublin, was made returnable to
Limerick.

The seditious matter for which Mr. Meagher is about
to be prosecuted was uttered at the Ruthkcalo 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 th. informations as follows: