The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 10,—The provincial papers received
this day are filled with the details of outrages against
life and property, and in localities, too, heretofore free
from such crimes. All the persons convicted of capital
offences at the Limerick Commission will be executed
on the same day.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

It would appear from the Belfast papers that the
spirit of insubordination has made its way into
Antrim. Some time since our columns recorded
the fact of Mr. M'Couslan and the Rev. Mr. Ross
having received threatening notices. Subsequently
the Messrs. Atone, of Castlewellan, were named to
prepare for death, and it is now stated that Messrs.
O'Hara, Montgomery, and Leslie, all magistrates of
Antrim, have received letters threatening them with
destruction.
STATE OF GALWAY.

Mr. Freeman, the Assistant Barrister for Galway,
in his charge to the grand jury, gives the following
description of the present state of that county :
" The calendar (he observes) here bears the same
character that such returns have borne all round the
present sessions circuit in this county, and exhibits
a degree of disorganization, an almost overthrow of
the very first elementary principles of society—a
disregard of property ; reckless characters committing
depredations upon the most humble peasants, taking
away their property—slaughtering their cattle
wherever they can lay hands on them, and carrying
away their carcasses ; and committing other felonies
on all classes of society without distinction."
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa-
tion was held this day at Conciliation Hall ; Layne,
Esq., in the chair. The attendance was large, but
the proceedings were of no public interest. Mr.
John O'Connell made the usual number of speeches,
in the course of which he abused Lord Shrewsbury
in good'set terms, and eulogised Dr: M'Hale. The
rent for the week amounted to 701.
In the course of the proceedings, an epistle from
the Catholic Bishop cf Meath was read by the secre-
tary.

ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A PASSENGER TRAIN.---
At RAIN.—
At the quarter sessions held at Cardiff on the Bth of
this mouth, William Scott was convicted and sentenced
to seven years' transportation, for wilfully and ma-
liciously attempting to overturn a passenger train on
the Taff ',Vale Railway, by removing the rails. The
train proceeded at its usuarate, and with apparent se.-
curity, until it had arrived eighteen miles from Cardiff,
when the engine, tender, andthree of the carriages went
off the line. Fortunately for the lives of the passengers,
th the engine went off on o side of the mountain. , .0n
inspecting the line, it was discovered that two of the
rails had been taken up. Had the rails been displaced
only a few yards further on, the train must have gone
into the river. The prisoner was apprehended on sus-
picious circumstances. The evidence fully bore out the
verdict of the jury.
ANOTHER EXTENSIVEexte AND MYSTERIOUS RAIL-
VAY ROBBERY.—An
robbery took plane on
monday, between the
nsive
Paddington and Bristol station's of
the Great Western Railway Company, the loss sustained
being; it is supposed, from
that the property, consisting '. 00 to 2,0001. It appears
enclosod in an inch-thick of gold and silver coin, was
down, faid the address 0 n
ther iron-bound
was " Messrs. bound deal box, nailed
Bad-
cock and Co., bankers, - T n aunt
about 1201bs„ and on its being 0.. sent off by the quarter
" The weight of it was
past ten o'clock mail train, it-
was put at the bottom of a
seat, behind which seat Was
another compartment, in
which four or five welt-dressed
in at Paddington, took their places
some of whom got
different stations on the line, and upon ; they alighted at
train at Bristol, a man named coutpon the arrival of the
of the company, and whose duty
.tte.rell, in the employ;
right inside the carriages,
made' is to see that all was
the discovery that a
panel under the seat of the compartment
"gentlemen" bad occupied had by some means or other
which the
been removed, and that the box, aft
forced open, and emptied of the valuable contents, had
" being takers' out,
been replaced in its original position ; neither chisel,
knife, crow-bar, nor any other ilmplement by which the
daring and most artful act of plunder might have been
,effect, could be found. .
EXTENSIVE AND DARING BURGLARY AND; Ron.
1111 RY AT VISCOUNT FOLKSToNes. LONGFORD
CASTLE,
JAN. 10, 1848.-13etween the hours of nine and ' half-
vast ten last eight, while the servants of
Viscount Folk-
svm
e, of Longford Castle (situated a few miles from
SLe'isbury) had gone to the hall, for
supper, &c., some
daring* thieves broke open the rooms occupied by the
coaeAan and stable servants, over the ecachhouse, and
stole .crow the said rooms as follows :_.A box' three feet
long a..74:1 two feet wide, wherein was a smaller resaboganY
box, containing 421. in gold, thirty
other valuables (these were taken away,rivate letters',. and
because the jocks could not there be it is presurned,
also a black dress coat, a black frock forcibly picks d),
ditto, two pair ,-tf
1 black trousers, four waistcoats, three satin scarfs, and
two silk neckerchiefs, all the property
his Lordship's coachman. There were of Henry Walker,
five sovereigns, a geest-coat, and a
oci also taken away
ooting-jacket, the
property of Thomas Williams, the groom, and a silver
watch, belonging to Richard Turner, ono
of
men. Tho thieves have not been discoveredthe stable-
CHARINGeCnOSS:IIOSTITAL.—Teiterday afternnon,
a meeting of the governors and committee of the above
hospital was held at the institution in We
fir.
Strand, fot.•
the' transaction of general business.
iNan of Manchester, is the chair. The
. Bowers, the
ye :o.r just ended stc.ted &at 12,092 indigent' for the
sick had,
dun mg the past year, been sdmitted on tell"'
e books
reliet;, at a cost of 2,292/. 4s. 11d„ of which
were its, and 10,037 were out patiei2ts, maitclumber 1,155
233,75,3 individuals Niko have partaken ;of the advantages
a total of
lasdvantages
ef the i.latiintion from its commencement iu The
funds era at present in a very low state, and inadequatelB*to the deenends made upon the charity.
THE CASE 01' GEORGE THURSTILL.
individual, a horticultarist at 'Norwich, and ~,
from his position iu isociety and his family connections,
for some tune escaped. suspicion, has just been
to imprisionment for one year, with hard labour,
The above
man who,
sentenced
been convicted of stealing various articles of having
clothes, &c.
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