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

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FEBRUARY 26, 1848.

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, jun, grocer, Bristol, March 9 and
April 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra-
nian, official assignee, Bristol; Ste►ens and Co., Gray's
inn-square, London; Perkins, Bristol.
Thomas Wilmot, chemist, Moreton in Marsh, Glou-
cestershire, March 14, at eleven, 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-
don; Littledale and Bardswell, 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-
narti'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, London; Mason, Liverpool.
William Fallow s' 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; Nen sam, 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 the week ending February 22,
1848. is 245. 11U d. per cwt.

SOUTH YORKSHIRE,I)ONCASTER
AND GOOLE RAILWAY.
The first hall-yearly general, and also a special or
extraordinary meeting of the proprietors of this company,
was held yesterday afternoon at the London Tavern.
Eerl Fitzwilliam 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•
ment. 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 mouth, 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 toe laud 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
( very reason to anticipate that the line from Swinton to
Doncaster wou'l be opened for traffic early next year.
The balance remaining to the credit of the company was
43,613/. Is. 4d. in cash and Exchequer-bills. A large
amount Lad 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
profitably employ. The total expenditure of the com-
pany, which was 70,523/. 19a. 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, engineering, and other charges. During that ses-
sion fifteen schemes 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
sanctioned 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 been 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
he last year was 14,517/. Os. I Id., 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 5/. per cent. per annum, from the passing of
the Act, for the ball-year ending the 22d of January,
amounting in the aggregate to 2,812/. 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 61.
per cent. per annum, until the opening of the line.
the extension of the South Yorkshire lino to Penistone
was struck out by the Committee on the Bill, and it
appeared necessary to the directors, for the interest of
the proprietors, 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,e93/. 103. ltd. 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
Parliamereary contests cost so much, bet if he had had
the management of railway affairs in England, and if his
advice had been taken some time ego 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.)
lie 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
We to fix just shat price he liked for conveying his
coal over the line. This, he said, had been the case
on some other lines, and was en abuse which should
not be allowed to exist by the proprietors.
Earl FITZWILLIAM, wholiis 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 ho 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 masse,
proceeded to leave the room. As he-reached the door,
Mr. DEfeesoet, Chairman of the GreatNorthernßailway,
took the vacant chair, and introated his Lordship to re-
consider his determination, which, if persisted in, he
said, would materially injure the property of the com-
pany in the public estimation. The appeal had the de-
sired effect, 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 be
did not think it consistent with his public position to do
so, and he had only entered into this undertaking be-
cause it would benefit the district with which ho was
connected in Yorkshire, and be of great public advan-
tage.—(Cheere.)
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 votitg 1,2001. 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
seeeion of Parliament.
A rote of thaeles was then passed to the Chairman,
and the meeting seperated.

FATAL COLLIERY A CCIDENT. —ASIITON.UNDE
LI Nit, FEB. 2.4.—Fouß LIVES LOST.—On Wednesday
evening one of those distressing accidents, an explosion
of fire camp, 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 lice. From the facts
which we have been enabled to collect, it appears that
the accident was occasioned by that fruitful source by
7%11101 so many sad catastrophes take place, viz., the
working with a naked 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
in a most dreadful manner. On the accident becoming
known at the top of the pit means were taken to bring
up the sufferers, who were 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 coroner's inquest.

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

PRICE SD.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 24,—The Poor-law Commissioners
have dissolved two more boards of guardians—those of

the unions of Ennistymon (county a 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 anti
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 Meekness Abbey, has circu-
lated an address amongst his tenantry inlierry, offering
to pay the entire of their poor-rate ; but, says this ex-
cellent landlord, " I shall expect, in return, that none of
the labourers usually employcd by you shall be com-
pelled to hare 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 Ttoman 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 WITERORD 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 4-11 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 assisting 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, Mar-
tin Travers, and Michael Byrne was there. Was there
till late that day. There was a conversation about Mr.
Lloyd on that day; Owen Byrne said that they were
all noticed by Mr. Lloyd, and that his life was in the
lease and that he ought to be shot, that there was no
other 'remedy but to shoot him. Ile (witness) said
that he was a good man, and that it ought not to be
done, and Pat Regan said the same thing, but the rest
were for having him shot, and Donoghue, the prisoner,
said ho was prepared to come any day at all, and
that that day was wet and the pistol might not go oft
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 nes no luck in it; witness went home, which was
only a 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 ho was a piece elf from him. Flan-
agan he heard is dead.
Cross-examined 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 ho went
to Owen Byrne, his brother, who sent him to Durham,
about twelve miles, for the prisoner, Thomas Donoghue,
to visit him ; and he went to the house of Donoghue,
and his wile 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
theta to Cultra.

Michael Reynolds, police constable, proved that he,
with two more police, were out that night, and met the
last witness at Carrigan's, which is on the road from
Durham to Elphin.
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 men 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 for, and they said they wanted to shoot him ; and
Mr. Lloyd said, " Pull away boys." Witness cried out,
" Don't kill my master," and immediately one of them
fired (identifies the prisoaer 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 of Elphin every day, and that he was
afraid to positively swear against him.
Patrick Holmes was the next witness, who proved
that he 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 sout from some person, and then
heard a shot, and going over the rising ground, he saw
the body of Mr. Lloyd in the gig. He appeared dead.
He 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. Ho knew Flanagan, but he
did not know the prisoner before that day (identifies him
as ens 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, havinz a pistol or a short gun concealed
under his coat.
Mr. Bunee 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 persons 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 unanimously, and it
was fixed to commence in a fortnight from that day.—
Stockport Alcreury.
The Duke of W ve a grand banquet
ellington ga
at Strathfieldsayo last evening to the Learned Judges
going the Western Circuit, en route to open the corn-
miss:on at Winchester, the High Sheriff of the county,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Lord and Lady
Charles Wellesley-, &e. The Noble and Gallant Duke,
accompanied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro,
is expected to return to town to-day.