The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-09 00:00:00

COUNTY CALENDAR.

Andrew Carroll, aged 20, assault on a policeman ;
Peter Dalton, 23, do.; John Walsh, 18, assault; James
Young, 19, for milking cows ; John M'Evoy, 26, do. ;
Joseph Foster, 21, do.; James Young, 19, killing a goat;
Fred. M'Evoy, 26, do.; James Coyle, 20, highway rob-
bery, Rathfarnham; Anne Coyle, 52, do.; Thomas Cur-
tis, 19, do.; Terence Gorman, 28, having a gun not duly
licensed; Mary Moran, 20, burglary; Mary-Anne Hay-
den, 19, do.; Mary Murphy, 24,-felony; Frederick Disk,
obtaining money under false pretences.
The master of the Ballinrobe workhouse has been ac-
quitted of a charge of murder at Mayo assizes.
There are the usual conflicting accounts about the
potato crop. But most certainly the blight is making
progress in various districts. The far greater portion
of the crop, however, is still quite safe.
The Downpairick Recorder contains the following:—
" Two war-steamers, the Cyclops and the Driver,
have been cruising round the coast daring this week.
They anchored for a short time in Ardglass harbour on
Thursday, and afterwards proceeded in direction of Bel-
fast. We understand they are laden with arms and
ammunition, intended to be distributed amoagst the
special constables according to the discretion of the ma-
gistrates, at whose instance the war-steamers were sent
here."

The Dublin Commission opens to day. The Cork
Examiner, published on Saturday evening, contains the

following .

" Mr. Butt, Q.C., and Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bart.,
have left this city for Dublin, where there presence is
required in the legal preparations for the defence of the
State prisoners.
" Mr. Henn, Q.C., has been retained for the Crown,
in the pending trials at Green-street. The Learned Gen-
tleman left for Dublin last evening."
DEATH OF GEORGE NIMMO, ESQ., C.E.—We regret
to announce that on Tuesday last, as Mr. Nimmo, accom-
panied by two men in a sailing-boat, were crossing one of
the bays in Connemara, the boat, when at full sail, struck
upon a sunken rock which cleft her in two. The two
men, with this much• lamented gentleman, perished, being
considerably off the land, and beyond the reach of any
assistance.—Galway Vindicator.
REPRESENTATION OF SLlGO.—Three petitions have
been lodged against the return of Mr. Somers.—Sligo
Champion.
COLLISION AT SEA. The Londonderry steamer,
coming to Sligo from Liverpool, and the screw-steamer
Connaught Ranger, ran foul of each other, at one o'clock
on Thursday morning, near Innisnahull. Both vessels
put back to Londonderry. The screw is reported to be
♦ery much injured, but the cargoes are safe.—Sligo
Champion.

(From the Dublin Pilot.)
It having been stated that Mr. Doheny had been ar-
rested, much interest was manifested to day about the
Cashel Railway terminus, at which a number of persons
had assembled a considerable time before the arrival of
the mail-train, due at three. On its arrival we learned
that " Everything was tranquil along the line,"—that the
people were very busy in the aff.tirs of the harvest, and
that the arrest of Mr. Doheny was not true. Mr. Do-
heny had not been heard of since the previous accounts
(elsewhere published), but his early capture was looked
upon as certain, as ho was stated to be broken down
with fatigue and want. There is nothing new about
Mr. Meagher, who, it is said, bad escaped from Water-
ford. _

We were informed that Mr. Joseph Lalor owes his
liberation to the fact of his being a naturalised American
citizen, and to his having proved he was over here on
business.
It will be perceived that it is by the early morning
trains alone the political prisoners are conveyed—doubt-
less for the purpose of bringing them in with the least
possible noise or disturbance.
COINCIDENCES .-It has been suggested to us as curious
coincidences that Mr. Smith O'Brien was tried in
Dublin on the 15th of May, the anniversary of O'Con-
nell's death; was arrested on the sth of August, the an-
niversary of his burial; and committed to prison on the
6th, the anniversary of his birth.
CLONMEL, Auc. 7.—A highly respectable gentleman
resident in Golden, told me he was credibly informed
that Meagher, O'Gorman, and Dillon were in Clonoulty
on Friday night. It is a village a few miles from
Golden, and about sixteen from Clonmel. They
were completely broken down, and in a most
wretched condition wet, cold, and famished.
They called at a farmer's house, and im-
plored him to afford them food and shelter
even for a while; but he resolutely refused, and
told them of the caution which was posted up every-
where. Dillon said he could hold out no longer, and
would surrender himself that eight, if he could get rest
nowhere.
We cannot conclude without mentioning the heroic
conduct of a young man who, to-day, had a narrow
escape of being shot by a villain who laid in wait to
assassinate him. The circumstances are as follow;
John Hilton, a land steward to George Gough,
Esq., of Ardsalla, in this county, went this morning,
at six o'clock, to ring the work hell as usual. A
little dog that accompanied him barked on approach-
ing a shrubbery, and caused Hilton to look sharply
about him, when to his amazement he saw a large
athletic man within five yards, with a pistol pen
his head ; he made a sudden and violent -rrueashatd a
at the
villain, which knocked him down, Hilton falling over
him, and grasping the pistol, which he succeded in taking
from him, but lost afterwards and regained again ; a ter-
rible struggle ensued, and lasted for three-quarters of
an hour, in which Hilton gave the fellow a terrible
wound over the eye, but was uninjured himself. He
finally
secured him, and brought him a prisoner to
Fethurd.

LAMB SHEARS FOR SHEERNESS DOCILYARD.—The
masttnakers of this dockyard have just completed a powerful
shears, formed of pieces of timber joined together in a similar
manner as the made masts of first-rate ships of war in the
Royal Navy. Some idea may be formed of the magnitude
of the main support of the shears when its dimensions are
given, being Iz7 feet long, and 3 feet 1 inch in diameter on
the average throughout its entire length. It contains 1,300
feet of solid timber, weighing 27 tons, and required:s2 pieces,
each cut out of large-sized trees, and joined together with
Jeffery's marine glue, of which it required five cwt. to coat
the joieings, and it has been so uniformly applied by the
workmen that the superfluous quantity oozing from the join-
ings on the pieces of wood being pressed together with iron
hoops is calculated not to exceed ten pounds weight. The
two side-shear masts are each formed of two very large trees
joined together with the same substance, and when they are
put up will be of a most efficient description, and capable of
shipping and unshipping the largest masts used in the Royal
Navy, and moving other great weights.
STRANGE, BUT TRUE.—When a man breaks down,
his establishment, by a remarkable coincidence, breaks up.—
Puppet Show.