The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

DUTCH-RHENISH RAILWAY

A general meeting of the shareholders in the Com-
pany for this line was.held'yc sterd ay, at one o'clock, at
the London Tavern. W. J. Chaplin, Esq., Chairman of
the South-Western Railway, in the, chair.
The • CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by stating
that circumstances had occasioned the presence of sevmal
of the directors in Paris, and had put him into the posi-
tion of ehairman. This could hardly he considered as
an English meeting, because the head direct& being in
Holland, they could. not therefore come to any de-
finite ch.cisii.n, hit' as the meeting had been called in de-
ference to the wishes of their proprietors, their sentiments
might now be gathered, and be stated by the delegation
at the meeting of the directors in. Holland. He lamented
that the meeting had not b.-Jen deferred till the close of
the financial year ; but etill, although only ten months
had elapsed, he thought the direct.ws would be able to
give some satisfactory intimation. of the worth of the
property at the end of the year. He would now call
upon Mr. Janson to read the report of the directors in
Holland:

The report stated that the King of the Nether-
lands and the Secretary for the Home Department
had not hesitated to connect themselvei with the line;
that by the Concession of 16th May, 1845, the posses-
sion and working of all the railways granted to the Com-
pany, and to era constructed, are fully secured till the
end of the year 1898 : after that, they are not to re-
lapse to the Government, except on its refunding all the
sums that have b:en expended, without any deduction
on account either of dividends or of any repayment?. It
the Government intended to la same the lines, it must
give at least one year's notice previous to the expiration
of the grant ; and, in failure of this notice, the grant.
will be extended for a new period of twenty-five years.
The Government has, moreover, guaranteed to the Com-
pany the greatest freedom and independence in its man-
agement and financial administration ; whilst no greater
tax can be imposed upon it annually thaonootthreee-
fourths per thousand, or ls. 6d. r
Pe i
the capital. The difficulties whcich
manifestedbeen already in part
them-
selves in the commencementf hratvh,e
administration were
overcome. The regulations for
alterations, in the meetings
approved of, with very
last, at which meetindg
sthe presidency of that direction.
of the general directiohnfie:oEnxeci thete
nlcByt ht
the
ercdo
.11h9tt 19th y
derthe Lee,
Government.w h o had
Schim-
melpennick accepted
previously J.
been employed e Vanerby
The chief engineer ‘ssMusr.eNng.
The transfer of the oxisting,lailway was not effected till
the : st of September last. Since then the company have
had the entire management of the line ; and that the
service had not only been conducted with great regu-
larity, but that not a single accident has happened on
this line. Meanwhile, so far from the sum stated as the
probable cost of the transfer having been exceeded, the
company has actually realised a saving in that item of
about 300,000 florins, equal to 25,0001. On another
point the financial position of the company was also im-
proved. It was stipulated that a sum of 500,000 florins,
equal to 41,6661., should be deposited as a security fund,
without any interest being allowed for it by Govern-
ment. This capital has been relieved, on depositing, in
lieu thereof, bonds which will bear interest—so that
an annual profit of upwards of 20,000 florins, equal to
1,6661., has thereby been secured to the company.
The materiel of the railway remains in the best state ;
the condition of the whole property of the Company and
of the line, in its entire extent, leaves nothing to be
desired, and it has obtained the approbation of all who
have closely inspected it. In order to afford greater
accommodation to the trains, they had laid down
a double rail on some points of the line, and
this alteration has already answered the designed end.
They had also felt the necessity of improving the means
of conveyance by water to the chief station in Amster-
dam; and, for the attainment of this object, to establish
additional warehouses, as well as to erect wharfs for
landing and shipping merchandise. By means of these
compi.ehensive imnrovements, the merchants of Amster-
dam will be able to have goods conveyed by air! accus-
tomed water carriage, .without the expense of cartage,
and immediately placed on the waggons of the railway,
and to receive them in the same manner from the
station. It is stile in contemplation of the authorities

te form a convenient wharf at Arnheim, which
will establish the most ready connexion between
the chief city of the kingdom and the Rhire,
for goods destined -to places beyond Pruss'se
Among the branches the construction of which has
been undertaken by the Company, that to the Entrepot-
dock at Amsterdam occupies the first place, r, garded
in a mercantile point of view ; because it not (silly in-
sures to the Company the conveyance of goods from the
warehouses of private individuals, but also those which
are warehoused in that large commercial depot. Two
routes presented themselves—the one longer, over an
objectionable tract of ground, and interfering with,
much privet a property ; the ether, over better ground,
and belosging exclusively to the corporation of Amster-
dam. The former route was originally projected and
sanctioned by 'Government ; the latter was, after due
examination, selected. The advantages connected with
this new route were as great as they were obvious ; and,
ifinurtihnesc(o3n3s,3tr3u3eLlon, it was calculated a saving of 400,000
would be effected ; the keeping of it is
repair, in consequence of the superiority of the ground,
would be much less expensive ; and tedious and costly
law-suits with private individuals, for the expropriation
of their properties, would thus be avoided for the future,
as regards the keeping of it in repair, as would have been
observed from the foregoing statement. With respect 10
the conveyance of passengers, the report announced,
that the results already obtained were of the roost
satisfactory nature. Notwithstanding the unfinished
state of the railway, and although the ms"
sures adopted and projected can develop their full effects
only at a future period, still they were able, in this first
year of the opening of the line to Arnheim, to calculate
with certainty on a return, of more than 600,000 n.
(50,0001.), which will thus, for that first year, yield an
interest of nearly four per cent. on the expended capital,
after deducting all expenses. Agreeably to the act of
concession, the junction of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway
with the Prussian was to be a matter of diploniattc
arrangement between the two Governments, and the
had just been brought to a successful conclusion.
Meanwhile, the financial interests of the Company We
not less occupied attention : and here, also, they half
reason to be satisfied. In conformity with Art. 24°
the statute-, the meeting of the general direction, on °i".,
proposal, authorised us to redeem a portion of the 101
of 9,000,00011. (750,0001), and nearly a third of the
loan has teen redeemed on reasonable terms, and the
bonds have come into possession of the Company. The
effect of this redemption has of course been a consider'
able saving of interest • but as the time is approaching
in which the works confided to their care will have to be
commenced, they also intend to submit to that meetini
the propriety of making a third call. They have laid'
down as a principle, when speaking of the future, 1°
keep within the bounds of probability ; and they, there'
fore, trust, that the anticipations which they have in
dulged will be surpassed by realities. If their expressed
wish in this respect had not prevailed, they would here
preferred delaying their report till the close of the fluellei
(nal year, because they flatter themselves that they slew' f
then have been able to communicate the adjustment It
still open questions, whereas they now often have to Wee
of pending negotiations. They proposed, however, °l'll
fitting opportunity, to give another report, which wl
be satisfactory to the shareholders at large.
The SECRETARY afterwards read the report from the
English directors and the observations of Mr. Isoell;
the English engineer, the former confirming the ntitcoe
report, and the latter showing the probability of ge 0
traffic, and that the earthworks to Arnheim had be ,
,e
completed fel- a doub'e line, although only a single lint
had been laid down. The country was flat, and the „I,
per mile will be far below that of English railways- 'Lee
gauge was to be the same as the German lines, w 1
which it was intended to communicate.
These several documents were received with Mu
ch
applause.
The CHAIRMAN said that as confidence in our forelei,
line ought to be supported, he would say a few worls,e!et
'
though not otherwise after such lengthy reports. He -cl
last autumn been invited to visit Holland, and he foil eif
the population so great that there was a eertaintY, tr,
success. There was Amsterdam with 250,000, Reti;b
dam with 100,000, Utrecht 60,000, and Arnheim
24,000, ell upon the line ; and he only wondered rest,
the wealthy and numerous inhabitants of t,litee
places did not make the line for themselves. But an_ 0
reflection soon showed him the cause, and the more
ef
when he recollected three or four years since, when intielp
were desirous of getting the concession of the it ,0
line, it required 2,300 subscribers in France to take
many as 200 shareholders in this company had Oo
W amongst them. He then went over a plan of lay
' showing its course and connexion with the Gertt
ye
' railways. In 1845, the traffic on the Amsterdam the
had reached 6,625,000 persons and upwards, and 0, to
proposed line was seven miles nearer, it was natural 0
presume that this would be increased. There vie,ec
consideration as to whether the transfer of she t„Tcs,
should be at Arnheim, on the frontier, or at Esene,fiel,
This matter was, however, now satisfactorily 817_', oft
Toe line to the latter place would be all finished to
course of one year, and the remainder of the line, .71_0
was now being formed to Minden, a distance of 42 n' the
would be completed early in 1847, and then ,1;b
Dutch-Rhenish line would be in communication e
Boneerinailr.eadßyy a
formeuemd,paanridsownhidcrhawwnas
up
padbey al‘lilr.thltefowss°,,Yseol;
twc'en their probable traffic on this line—by the beclet
appeared on the Birmingham line, between the Ist vee
awl December 31, 1839, the first year of its opellinPees
number of passengers were on the whole 94 oleos
which were at that time opened. 301,557, or on an ;pc:
age of 3,208 passengers per mile. On the Grandle
tion line, during six months, the average on ;435
miles of its course was 233,501, or on an average, rivs
passengers per mile. On the Paris and Rouen line °,..,tibor;
six months of the first year of its opening, the newegeo
carried were 348,976, or on an average 4,150 pase,e; tie
on the 84 miles of its course, while on the Arnhep-814'
the number carried during the six months was 281,:uble
or an average of 4,857 passengers, or more than d, 0r
that of the Grand Junction. On the line between.o the
sterdam and the Hague, the number carried was,
six months after its opening, 626,316 on the 37 inil r
: be
its course, or an average of 16,927 passengers th°
mile ; while during last year the average ° cool'
number carried by the South-Western ail
pany had been 11,412 passengers per inil'e,ole"
showing that the passenger traffic to be anttelebo;
was in every way satisfactory. Then as to 010.12,9 the
bility of remuneration, lie would atate that the Prllie fo",
Company were entitled to charge were 11d. per 030,0;
the first class, lid. 1;n- the second class, and V.4,', illo
third class, against 1 3-sd. for the first class
Rouen line, which was, perhaps, the best corr,, eel;
that could be adduced, 1 1-sd. for the second OhiS
id. fur the third class. This Rouen line was ePe 00'
ten per cent. dividend. On the Western line tn. 0014,
rage charge for the three classes was lid., so the•fr
of tte
.
was little dout of success. Theo as to the cost oele;
line, the origibnal estimate was for the whole We. 111
which would be the whole length, including coy
branches, 1,824,6001.; but, in consequemee of the isti
tiations of the direction in Holland, the Op 000
1,731,6001., making a cost of some' ping 11y,
than 17,0001. 1 mile. On the Arn.!riallirlill,e,'
the cost, iucluding land, was 15,507/. per mile, °d ,
in England, the cost was 20,0001. to 30,0001.,,,506
one instance, he believed, as much as 50,0001. 'VP;
that the cost was far in favour of the Dutch line- lb"
again, as to the cost of working, he found that el el9,'
Arnheim line the whole number of miles traveree7ss.l'
during the last six m0nthe,120.568, at an expenseolo
per mile; while ou the South-Western line the 1ni1405,
versed were somewhat above 400,000 miles, at an ef,/'tolL
of 3s. 6d. a mile. On the South-Western line the Ceseiari
paid 12,8291. ss. for mileage to Government, and 1;01
for poor-rates and taxes, while, according to agr ~65,,
with the Government, ie Company were to PsYrel•
a mile, so that the expense was 7501. as against ffsj
In Holland there was no poor-rates to pay at all.jiglOhe
coke cost about 275. a ton, while in the south of of t
the price was 265. And as a proof of his hello! e
goodness
ofp.le the line he held 4,035 shares, which
tended
iv,:
Tie
keep.
i
Chairman,to was cheered throughout the wbo
eto
address which seemed to give the meeting the ""
j
5
satisfaction. 01(
In reply to a Shareholder, Mr. CHAPII-I:est
the double line of rails was laid down P erke
worksArnheim,
werean d
ethat()n s
tthroughout r the
ac_ociro7plec':oo
length
way
thtoe
line and all that was wanted to be, 'oi,
the line was the laying of the rails. It would_ eve' e
that when the several avenues of traffic were,„ Sore
the amount of it would be very largely incressef 00 levd,
had been found impossible to keep the passengee-see /
ante of goods as soon as the lice was e to
suggestion of Mr. CASO, it was agrees. s ,
water, and great benefit vvo,:ld ensuecolm*
On the
tog' cr
lish the names of the directors at tehe next mee (of
to postpone the financial statement the saint' 'tool
tunny.
from the
pabci
Thanks were unanimously and enthuaii.‘sticisiji
to the Chairman, and the meeting separated.

_
LYNN AND ELY RAILIV``q-01.,09.;
A special general meeting of the proprietet.44oe;4
company was held yest.Tday, at the London n.
at which the drafts of the following bills were Noo
of. Mr. Lacy, of Kenyon House, Manchester, ,te
the chair. Cfr
1 A to empower the Lynn and Ely Rio, 10of IA
pany to construct a railway from the borough
heels to Spalding, in the parts of Holland in the 01
of Lincoln, with a branch to Holbeach. owallfe
A Bill to empower the Lynn and Ely 11a'. h 01-,„ th°
pany to construct a railway from the borough
beeb to March, in the parish of Doddingtori;
Isle of Ely, and county of Cambridge. nod i°
The meeting was of a formal nature, ce--", rdh
suance of a standing order of the House of I.!°
did not occupy much time.
ELY AND HUNTINGDON RAIL-Aerie opf
Immediately afterwards a meeting of the /1.0.11.1.04
in this Company took place, at which the a ftm Oto
Bill to empower the Company to construe; 14 tO,
from Brampton, in the county of Hunting° forool
town of Bedford, was approved of.
Like the previous meeting it was purely 0f
character.
11•••=1 00 014
1103 •
YARIIAM SINCE CONVICTION.—VaTiOIIg,LOO,IOOi
current here as to certain confessions which Jta'iider.dis
to have made since his condemnation; we barb e the,tiiire;
to ascertain the fact, and we believe that uP t°dtt'snate'd
our writing this (Monday) nothing of the kind bai, 0,41
nor has, as is commonly believed, Mr. Tolver 13_ " solvvtt
tbe
view with him. An error also prevails as to rted P-Thre-4
the warrant for his execution, which it is repW.
received, and that it will take place on Saturdeffrorftb eliflo
are not now any warrants for execution ; a ca'o'f
up by the clerk of assize with the sentences
those pr;
soners ; this is sent to the sheriff, who, against .1 prOC
with the word "death" added, takes the usi,,l.;es tb3,9t-itio
to carry the law into effect. The sheriff also
execution, which is almost invariably the
after sentence, which, in this instance, wi abof'!
18th instant. We have not heard whether the •
day a:Lel—Yarmouth Gronicle.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND
GENERAL FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.

A general business meeting of the above Company
was held yesterday in the London Tavern, at one o'clock,
for the purpose of declaring the result of the last fire
years' experience. Charles Bleadon, Esq., presided.
The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the
profit on the fire and life branches of the Company's
business was upwards of 23,000/, the appropriation of
which gave general satisfaction. Five per cent. was
added to the proprietors' capital, and after writing off a
large sum from the preliminary expenses, a balance of
nearly 11,0001. was passed to the reserved fund.
The report was received by the crowded meeting with
evident satisfaction.

The CHAIRMAN stated that the report would lie for
inspection in the offices of the Company for ten days,
when all might have an opportunity of inspecting it at
leisure.

Mr. BINGLEY, in moving the adoption of the report,
said, that it had given him the highest satisfaction, and
although in some points he was inclined to dissent from
the directors, yet so much confidence did he place in
them that hehad given way, and was determined to sup-
port them to the utmost.—(Cheers.) Ha moved that
the report now read be adopted, and entered on the
minutes.

Mr. KEASIEY seconded the adoption of the report.
Four directors, six committeemen, and one auditor,
who were to have gone out, were re-elected unani-
mously.
Thanks were moved to the directors and Chairman,
hich were acknowledged in a neat and eloquent speech
by Mr. Alderman Musgrove. The meeting then sepa-
rated.

SIR F. TRENCH and LORD LINCOLN
TEIE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The following letters have been lately printed. No
!The will dissent from the opinions set forth, although it
,is not a little strange that the letters should have been
'published.—Times.

85, all-ma, Feb. .
My dear Lord Lincoln,—ElrlyP this ll
morning,9 in
crossing Leicester-square, I saw a magnificent boll of
an elm-tree so skilfully suspended by chain slings as to
attract my admiration. I followed it towards Long-
acre, and was struck with the beautiful graining of its
butt, which I should guess to be twelve feet in circum-
ference ; it was about nine feet in circumference at the
top, and the length might be twenty-five to thirty feet,
and it was as straight as an arrow. I asked one of the
waggoners where it came from, and you may judge my
dismay when he said " from Hyde Park."
You may recollect that at Sir Ribert Peel's dinner I
told you that I was on the point of writing to you, to
beg that you would not allow any old trees to be cut
down without your special permission, and very much
do I regret that the fear of being deemed intrusive pre-
vented my so doing, as it might have been the means of
saving those superb old trees which have been cut down
since, and which nll the wealth of the world cannot now
Teplace.

When' lamented the destruction of the fine old avenue
of horse chesnuts between the King's-road and Chelsea
lHospital (which are to be replaced by fine young trees),
you told me you did not know who hai ordered them to
be cut down. I went to the spot to inquire, but could not
obta;u any information ; but I saw pr,strate en the
ground no less than fifty, independent of a magnificent
and venerable tree (not in the avenue), under whose
'shade I have often seen a hundred or two hundred people
listening to a railing Methodist preacher. I asked a
carpenter working at one end of the new houses what
he thought one of the avenues of trees might be worth?
and be said " between 21. and 31.;" 150/. to the Ex-
chequer, yet millions wou'd not replace them.
I think it was on the morning of the 6th of this
month I went to look over Coventry time, and was
struck by the magnificence of an old elm tree (the only
one, as my informant told me, left of a group of ten or
twelve) ; its top was shattered by storm or lightning,
but it might have been cut so as to produce good
shoots, and to form a head like one of the two that are
left opposite Grafton House, and near the reservoir.
But, alas! next morning, as I passed along Piccadilly,
before nine o'clock, I found'a gang of carpenters felling
it, And so rapid were their Operations, that as I returned
through Hyde Park, by the Serpentine, I met a waggon
cOnveying toppings and loppings to what the waggoner
ealled " the wood depot;" and the place where it
bad stood was already filled up. Next morning I
took a rule and measured it, and several of the great
stems that lay near the sawpit. Some of the
butt,,
when squared and sawn into planks, measured 8 feet in
diameter, and others between 21 and 3 feet. I consider
the destruction of these trees a sacrilege—if an embank.
meat was necessary they might have been surroundA
with a guard of bricks, as is done with the three small
plane trees (prAahly in consequence of
tbeyloevuerlo(r)fdeLr,s))r
but if the walk had been continued 1
Coventry'A garden till it came
t nearly opposite to Cam
bridge Housie, accordin,,
I submitted to you,
every one of these fine treeoi(dGoo, ;0: mightao have
ea v e been spared,
and two flights of steps
()wide), with a
broad landing between them (s,
at the 14t*
enalof Water-
loo-place), and with a handsome balustraden
aeteding Up
to the level of the reservoir, would have b
feature, and probably would not have cost so
the, removal of the earth to form the embank as
which has caused the destruction of these venerable old
trees.

* 26.—anigan, Jhn.
Twelve months June ago aL madrn was muordered on the
mountains off Nine-mile House, near Carrick-on Suir,
and the friends of the murdered man prosecuted. A
woman relaetd to the prosecutors was married to a pub-
lican named Egan, who owned a tent erected on the
race-course of Balling. On the evening of the day
stated above, a party of twelve or fifteen men entered
the tent, and grievously assaulted Egan and his servant
Landrigan with stones.
On the following day Landrigan died, and Egan
became so ill that his recovery for a while was doubtful.
*June 22.—800th, George J. Bell, Esq., J.P.
Was shot dead in his gig, as he was returning at about
half-past two p.m. from divine service with two of his
children. The horse running away with the vehicle, one
of the children was thrown, and a wheel passed over his
arm, which was broken.
* Kenny, Thady (County Clare),
The decelsed man's father had taken land at Dogneive,
from which James Sexton .had been previously ejected.
Deceased was returning home from that place, when he
was shot in the face from behind a hedge, his assistant
felhwing the attack by inflicting severe wounds on the
back of the head with some sharp instrument. The son
of Sexton (aforesaid) was taken into custody, and com-
mitted for trial.
* Linney, Thomas (East Galway).
This person, who was shot through the lungs, had
been recently engaged as a steward by the Rev. Mr.
Butson, of Clonfort, who had discharged his former
steward (named Coutes), retaining, however, in his ser-
vice two of Coutes'a brothers as coachman and stable-
kceper. To these and to their father (old Coutes, who
lived in the neighbourhood), and to another stable-boy,
suspicion attached, and they were apprehended. Several
threatening letters had been previously sent to Mr. But-
son, desiring him to discharge Linney.
* Clarke, Patrick, Esq., of South Hill (County Tipperary).
This gentleman was shot dead by two men
while riding round his own demesne, superin-
tending his workmen. It appears that Mr. Clarke
yseveral years ago had purchased the estate in quPs-
_on, but had never, until recently, resided there.
Having been induced to visit the place and prolong
benstay, he had discovered that, in his absence, he had
.ezn •
sryub,jevrethietoh ahosyhstedmoffraud on the art of his
aroseOsftentout of a' dispute a
to whomltthi
down,check
determinedf toh and put
is bfaythseormehathdought that the immediate cause
betweenaiventwuop ohist
leasntde,waanrdd'soosoonosf,
quit, with a BUM of
married, Mr. Clarke insisted should
whom on gettin
i obne e felle oonanpinte;:edy (not willing that both should
wrehmsonasihnna)ido.
n
man and another malcontent,
to pay arrears, as the imme-
diate conspirators of thnes,ma:i,r;der. Of the two men be-
ilniefoverdmatotiobne thhaenacbtuota.nl
receivedns one is Custody, and
others as co-conspirators
Hopkins, Sir Francis, Bart., J.P. (County Westmeath).
Although life was not taken in this ease, it is concluded
in this return on account of serious character.
Sir Francis Hopkins had been dining with Colonel
Caulfield, of Bloomfield, and as he alighted (on his re-
turn) at the hall-door of his own re4idence at Rochfort
he was fired at, by one of two men (both armed) who
had been lying in wait for him ; 'and although the as-
sassin missed his aim, his murderous intention was
tsuf-
ficiently manifest from the
hfafthoafil-dfiftoeoer, nearnbulle which.tsof si
differ-
ent sizes having struck
Francis stood at the time.

I have been at a loss what to do with this letter ; but
I believe you are still at the head of the Woody and
Forests, and, therefore, I address it you, and do entreat
that you, or your successor, will give orders " that, fur
the future, no tree shall be cut down with Jut your
special permission."
The same motive which led me to send a copy of my
mote to you about fountains to Sir R. Peel, added to the
fear that this letter Tway fall to the ground (ineffectual)
between you and your successor, induce me to adopt the
same course now. The emergency appears to me to
justiry this intrusion, even in this moment of unexam-
pled pressure ; for if the evil spirit which has been
guilty of the ma,s•icre of these fine old trees is no
checked in its sudden rapid course, who knows wha
havoc may be made ?
Yours sincerely
To the Earl of Lincoln.
A LETTER TO LORD LINCOLN ON THE SUBJECT OF

F. W. TRENCH.

THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
N ov. Scarb3rough, . .. 17
My dear Lord Lincoln,-4 have been snaking, 1845.
ashitoercti
tour in Spain (the land of fountains), and h
Corunna, Vigo, Lisbon, Cadiz, Seville, Algeciras
Malaga, 3renada (not forgetting`sotto di Roma, though,
uo fountains are to be seen there).
/Almer!,ai, (3arthageria,
eiras, Per-
Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona,
_llona, gni.
ria,
and
11
Pignan, Montpelier, Clermont, Orleans, Blois, a
Rouen.
Everywhere I looked fur fountains, and have seen
them of every sEape and siz.,, I rein a simple dolphin to
the elaborate groups on some of the Spanish alae.edits,
or the gaud and less modest exhibition of the lus
B utty
buxom nympy hs in the Place de Concorde, at Paris.
uo
eful where have
ung I seen anything so mesquin and so
a. 3 your fountains in Trafalgar-square.
As I passed through London I perceived that prepara-
tions were making for some alterations, and 1 therefore
obtrude myself to call your attention to a fountain which
I saw (and fur the first time) in the Champs Elyi3s, and
which, to my taste, surpasses in beauty anything of the
kind anywhere. It has neither architecture embellish-
ment nor sculptural decoration. It must be the cheapest
of all possible fountains, for it requires nothing but a
proper distribution of the pipes, of which you can easily
obtain a plan, and a sufficiency- of water, which the
Thames or your London water-works can give more
liberally than the river Seine or carnee French sources.
If you have not seen it, I stly recommend it to
your especial notice ; or, if you cannot look at it your-
self, send to Paris some one on whose judgment and
taste you can rely. With a little wind and a bright sun
the effect is more beautiful than anything of the kind I
have ever seen—l will not except the six rainbows at
Terni—perliaps Mr. Barry may have seen it. I send a
eoPy of this to Sir R. Peel ; but my appeal is to you,
not to him, because I know lie dislikes being approached
upon any subject except through the proper official
channel. Yours, sincerely,

The assassins were mining away, when Sir Francis
seized one of them, and would have held him, had not
the accomplice returned to his assk awe and snapped a
pistol at Sir Francis, who th,reupon quitted hi, hold
and attacked the other ; a scuffle en,iuecl, in which both
men fell upon Sir Francis, who received three cuts on
the head, two of them of a serious nature. The aisas-
sins then decamped, leaving a hat on the .ground, which
subsequently led to the arrest and identification of one
of them.

* Molony, Patrick (County Tipperary).
The brother of the deceased had taken a few acres of
land some years ago, from which the former tenant had
been ejected ; he had been (previously to this murder)
served with a threatening notice to quit. As deceased
sat with his brother in the evening, four men entered
the house ; two of them presenting a pistol each at tile
brothers, demanded why they did not obey the notice.
One of them struck the deceased on the head, breaking
his skull, which he did not long survive. The former
tenant above referred to, who is a relative, is suspected,
but sufficient evidence has not yet been obtained to
warrant his detention.

* Costello, Jame.; (Kilkenny).
This man was for some time past employed as a
" rent-warmer" on the estate of Burton Persse, Esq. ;
lie had recently driven cattle for arrears. He was
sitting at supper with his father and family, when he
was shot dead through the window. The assassins ara
as yet unknown.
This * Hogan, John (County Tipperary).
brother man was probably murdered instead of his
brother,ter (Darby), who had been for some time o?b-
The deceaged had taken land. His assassins
otherare ununknown.He received three shots in the body, and
i
injuries which caused immediate death.
* January 12—Mr. James Lynch (County Limerick).
Had served ejectraents on several small tenants on his
farm. He was law at Pitioto noon, withig 50 yards of

go. To the Earl of Lincoln, W. Fix. TRENCH.

Drina the night of Fr,day last, some incendiary set
fire to the Grand Stand on Sutton Coldfield raecourse.
neinq composed of wE•ocl, the building was completely de-
troyag..— Wolverhampton Chronicle.

COURT OF ALDERMEN. HOMICIDES (IRELAND).
Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at the Man- I The following are the more interesting portions of a
sion-house, ,e for the purpose of receiving a communication Parliamentary paper, containing extracts made by Col.
frogs the Lord Mayor relative to the steps his Lordship I M-Gregor frora th e police la,pcirts stating the partieu-
hid. taken in rcspret to the Spite' sermon, and other lags of the principal homicides in 'lrelaed in the years
matters connected therewith. 1845 and 1846, and forwarded to the Home-office by
At the desire of the Lord Mayor Mr. Forth, of the I him.— (No conviction has taken place where an asterisk Town Clerk's office, read a eorrespondsnce which took is placed before the name of the victim.) :
place between the Town Clerk upon the part of the Lord 'l/4 Jan, 27.—Ryan, John (county Tipperary).
Mayor and Mr. Trollope upon the part of the President A farmer was about to propose for land, the property
of Christ's 'Hospital, from which it appeared that his of Mr. Philips, of Mount Rivers. There had is
this
Lordship had detelmined, in consequence of the non- case been no compulsory ejectment or rigorous exaction
recognition of his authority, as heed of the hospital, not
of rights. On his way, however, to the proprietor, he
to attend on Monday and Tuesday next to hear the
Spital sermon at thaat institution, nor to receive the ' was assailed by two men, strangers to himself, one of
children of the establishment at the Mansion-house no- whom pulled him from his horse, and fractured his head
with a stone. He survived only a few days. Two per-
cording to the usual cUstom. A record was produced from Sons were taken into custody on strong suspicion ; but
which it appeared that from the year 1721 to the year the injured man, evidently fearing the consequences to
1795, it had been the custom of the Court of Aldermen his
to appoint that the Spital sermons should be preached on ind family, would make no disclosures tending to their
entification.
Eater Monday and Easter Tuesday, at St. Bride's
Church, and there was no record to prove that until sub- *January 29.—M'Leod, Esq., R.M. (County
sequently to the year 1795, the Spital sermon had been r
preached at Christ Church. Under these circumstances of the county of Cavan, and the ad-
Towards the close of November, 1844, the peace of
the northern part
his Lordship, considering that an indignity had been .
Joining parts of Leitrim, had become very seriously
cast upon his high office by the terms, and substance of
the correspondence, addressed a letter to the Rev, Mr.
WbiteboJ s. To meet these circumstances, the magis-
disturbed by numerous armed and .organised bodies of
Dale, canon of St. Paul's, and vicar of St. Bride's Church,
tract' applied for an increased police force, and an addi-
to grant permission for the use of St. Bride's Church, for
tional stipendiary magistrate. The required police were
the preaching of the Spital sermonsbefore the Court, and . immediately supplied, and Mr M'Leod, the resident ma-
gistrate governors of the several hospitals. To that letter stationed at Enniskillen, was selected by the
the vicar returned an immediate answer of acquiescence, Government. and temporarily placed at Ballina-
requesting at the same time that it should be distinctly more, in aid of the local authorities in the suppression of
understood that he did not at all meddle with the qucs- the illegal organisation referred to.
lion between the Lord Mayor and the president of the On the day above stated, Mr. M'Leod had been dining
hospital. with W., Percy, Esq, J.P., of Garadice, and had set
out in the evening on his return to his own quarters.
A long discussion, or rather conveTttionf, took place,
which ended in the unanimous adoptionv ocot:oo resole_ Finding Mr. Perey's lodge-gate shut (contrary to prac-
tions, the first requesting the Right lice when company is entertained), Mr. MSLeod was in
Bishop of St. David's, and the ReseChitaerli.es FarnebP;other,
the act of desiring the driver of his car to get it
opened, when he was fired at from behind an opening
church of St. Bride's, on Monday and Tuesday in Easter
i
chaplain to the Lord Mayor, to preach before the Court
and the governors of the several hospitals at the parish
in the evergreen at the ladge-gate, where the assassin,
week, and the second requesting the use of that church aided by the light of a candle (left, as if designedly, in
of the vicar. the lodge), is believed to have deliberately taken his
The Loan
aim ;
..the gun-shot penetrated the heart and lungs, and
settled the ess
Mlyiac7in intimated that his brethren having
point by adopting his suggestion, he caused instantaneous death. There is no doubt that a
should waive hise objection, which sprung out of the in-
eanspiracy had been formed, and it is an ascertained
dignity offered to him as to the reception of the scholars, fact that a notice of the murder was posted at Enniskil-
and invite thaw on the usual day to the Mansion House,len two days tefore its perpetration.
The Court then adjourned. Two circumstances, have, however, been mentioned
as its immediate exciting cause ; by some it is attri-
buted to his having refused bail to certain individuals
in custody on serious offences ; by others to a decision
made by Mr. M'Leod some days previously at Bam n-
boy petty sessions.
*January 18.—Smith, Samuel, Esq., (County Tip-
perary.)
The attention of a resident of Borrisofarney bavirg
been attracted by a horse passing his door witliout a
rider, he discovered at about eighty yards distant, on
the road, the body of Mr. Smith, the scull broken in two
places, and the brain protruding.
Hopes were entertained of the discovery of the as-
sassins, as a soldier of the 69th regiment swore that he
witnessed the perpetration of the murder by four per-
sons, whom he pretended to identify, but he afterwards
deserted, and there is no doubt of his perjury. It is
understood that he was about dispossessing two per-
sons of a farm, which was to be given to another.
*March 12.—Dwyer, Denis (County Tipperary, South),
The brother of this man, John Dwyer, of Listowran,
had taken a farm at Glenbairn, from which the former
tenant had been ejected. The Dwyers, with about
fifteen men, had been plqughing on this land, and were
returning home about seven P.M., when they were at-
tacked by thirty or forty persons with stones. Several
were more or less injured, but Denis received a fracture
of the skull, of which, after a few days, he died.
*April 2,-Ryan, James (South Tipperary).
Was shot dead by his brother John. On the death of
their father John bad received a sum of money in lieu ef
his share of the land. Having proceeded to America
and spent his money, he returned, claiming his portion
of land; of course it was refused, and the ill-feeling
arising in consequence induced the commission of this
murder. The perpetrator has absconded..
*April I7.—Swift, Patrick. ,
Was found dead in the river of the town of Galway.
There were several marks of violence about his body
and head. He had come to the town to give evidence in
a civil bill case, which was dismissed in his (Swift's)
absence,
*May 4.—Waters, John (County Tipperary).
Had been in the employment of Henry Going, Esq.,
of Riverlawn, and was a stranger at the place. As he
was returning to his master's residence with a man
named Corrigan (whose services as ploughman were
likely to be superseded by those of Water,) several
armed with bludgeons, according to the statement of
Corrigan, leaped off the road into the grove.
*May 24.—Kennelly, John (County Tipperary).
A certain man had received a portion of land with his
wife, as her fortune, on condition of his paying a sum
of money to her relatives. The wife died soon after,
and the man married again ; the friends of the deceased
wife then wanted to recover possession of the land,
which was refused ; but the man was several times
assaulted, and ultimately compelled to quit the land and
the neighbourhood. A feud was thus created between
the friends of the first and second wives.
As a party of the former were returning from the
market at Roscrea to Moneygall, they were waylaid and
assaulted with stones by some of the latter, and several
serious injuries were inflicted.
John Kennelly, belonging to neither party, who hap-
pened'also to be returning from the market, endeavoured
to iuterp ,sed as a peace-maker, when he was knocked
4own, and the back of his skull fractured by a blow of
a stone on the bide of the head. Kennelly died in about
a week.

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that detection was su , 03,4, 4.''' 'fOtiti,tp offend
This ingenious tell- ta. A :;.- • tt;s-}ic. (iovern
ment, and t') two or the e :_! 'o_ (*YR-kiwi:ills'. 1— .
a trial was refusAr. tit ldr;
klipl
tonished when we tell . e oi:if, ic(
reason assignei by one of the antin,r,tit-s for no
acloptkg it was that, it was in vain to stn rrpuh tom
for companies, as th.,y would not be eh(ervel As TTI
are not convinced hy this argument in t',? en•,e of rail
nails, and can tee no reason why law; and re g,idatiora
allured not be made and enforced,
we hooe ftat- tit(
Government will conic 1c a different decision now. Tim
next point to be considered, in it must he ittimitte.d
that, in spite of all Lilts and regulations, there may he
negligence on the part of railroad agents, is the proven•
tion of collision by mechanical means- when immediate
danger is at hand. We do not, as we haw, already üb.
served, think that any kind ( f br,:ak (61! ( Cr' c:ttally
do this ; but within the last two or ti
have sten a plan . for which an En-
named Ah.x.mder, bat ii ho is a r,
has taken out patents kern, and in wilt
would, we think, prevent et lest nine
that a collision now products. By an admirable mecha-
nism applied to eeeh railway varri?ge, the moment
the collision take) ply. ee the praund hetwccii the
rails is forcittly grasped, and the i.:-.„.tzi:, of the
train is checked. This will not perli.:Ti tot illy
I r rent injury, nor
(Ices even the inventor eNreet
such a resuit, hut it will reduce the el,nger in
the proportion above statud, and wiil eil..otually pre-
vent the carriag;es riding over each other, which
is the moat serious contequenee of railroad c,:lii,ions.
We, however, now return to the discas,ion in LID: (lea-
dewy. The members who spoke were unanimous in
opinion that all inventions having the-reason of theory
in their favour should he tried, that the Gov:.rninent
should for this purpose be Lberal in the application of
funds, and that it should make stronger and better regu-
lations as to the general duties of railroad agents—an
opinion, in which we cordially concur. The communi-
cations to the Academy at this sitting were few in
number, and destitute of interest to the public at large.

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