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 Lisk,
obtaining money under false pretenees.
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 Downpatrick Recorder contains the following:—
" Two war-steamers, the Cyclops and the Driver,
have been cruising round the coast during 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 amongst the
special constables according to the discretion of the ma-
gistrates, at %hose 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, Bari.,
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 ti ials 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
very 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 affairs 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 he was stated to be broken down
with fatigue and want. There is nothing new about
Mr. Meagher, who, it is said, had 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 ho 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 T 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, AUG. 7.—A highly respectable gentleman
resident in Golden, told me he was credibly informed
that Meagher, O'Gorman, rind 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 night, 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 presented at
his head ; he made a sudden and violent rush 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 hire, and brought him a prisoner to
Fethard.

LARGE SHEARS FOR SHEERNESS DOCKYARD.—The
mastmakers 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 127 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 joikings, 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 aro 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.—
Puffet Show.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the West of England and
South Wales Land Draining Incorporation Bill were
considered and agreed to.

The London (City) Small Debts Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Sand bach Charity Estate Bill was read a second
time and ordered to be committed.
The Weld Blundell's Estate Bill was read a second
time and ordered to be committed.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that it be an
instruction to the Committee of Selection to appoint the
Committee on the Sandbach Charity Estate Bill to sit
and proceed forthwith.—Agreed to.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the
Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills be allowed to
sit and proceed on the Virgin Mary Hospital (New-
castle-upon-Tyne) Estate Bill to-morrow, provided one
day's notice thereof be given in the Private Bill-office.
Agreed to.
Sir THOMAS BIRCH moved that it be an instruc-
tion to the Committee of Selection to appoint the Com-
mittee on the Weld Blundell's Estate Bill to meet o❑
Monday if they think fit.—Agri ed to.