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STT N, SEPTEMBER 29, 1848.

[PRICE SD.

I OPENING OF RAILWAYS IN
LINCOLNSHIRE.
On Monday last a railway steam-engine passed
along the line of the Great Northern Railway from
Peterborough to Lincoln, proving that the works are
in great advance, and near completion. The joint
station at Lincoln for the use of the Great Northern,
and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rail-
way Company, is also near completion, the platforms
being finished, and the glazing of the building in pro-
gress. The first opening in connexion with the lines
of both these companies, beyond what is already
working, will -take place on Monday next, from
Louth to Boston, the inhabitants of which latter
town have, since our last, held a meeting to make
arrangements for celebrating the event in a manner
commensurate with its importance to the trade and
convenience of the place. The exact time of opening
for public traffic of the Great Northern line from'
Peterborough by Spalding and 'Boston to Lincoln,
cannot be determined till next week, but it
is intended to be about the middle of Octo-
ber. As soon as that opening takes place,
parties may leave Hull for London later than at
present, and arrivo at the same time. They will
leave Hull at seven o'clock at night, instead of six as
at present, and arrive in London by the same mail, and
have a saving of from 46 to 60 miles, which will
consequently be a saving in proportion of prices. We
have seen a statement which makes the saving 60
miles of railway, but supposing it to be 45 miles, or
3s. 9d. less fare by the Government trains, and still
more in the higher classes, it will be an amount both
of money and time which will be appreciated in these
days of competition and pressure. The following
estimate of distances saved is from the pen of an occa-
sional correspondent :
London and Hull, via the Midland (the present only
.. 821 miles-.
.. 112 f
50

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. The charge-
against Mr. Gavan Duffy, of the Nation, for high
treason, is grounded mainly upon a letter said to have
been addressed by him to alr. Smith O'Brien and
which was discovered by the police in the travelling
bag of the latter gentleman subsequent to his arrest.
Yesterday it transpired that the individual, a person
formerly employed in the Nation office, who was to
have proved Mr. Duffy's handwriting in this letter,
had suddenly decamped, and the Crown will now find
it necessary to establish the proof by other means.
It is stated that a gentleman who had been con-
nected with the Nation, and who now holds an office
in a public department, has been served with a
subinena by the. Crown, to prove the handwriting of
Mr. Duffy.
Lord Clarendon has determined upon a summary
and vigorous course to prevent the revival of the
Jacobin journals. In the prospectus of the National,
intended as the successor of the Nation, Mr.
Fulham, who had been connected with the latter
journal, appears as the responsible party. Yesterday
a warrant under the Suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act was issued for the apprehension of Mr.
Fullham, who, however, was out of the way when
the police went to execute it. The warrant had been
prepared some weeks since, but was not acted upon.
It is stated that the intention of establishing the
National has been abandoned. Some warrants against
other parties were issued yesterday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne re-
turned to Dublin yesterday, after visiting their
estates in this country. The Noble Alarquis paid a
hurried visit to the National Schools in Marlborough-
street yesterday, and expressed much satisfaction with
the p.r2Kress of the system of education in this
fay- L-c7rd', and IlikayMansclovvee_ subsequently
left town on their return- `M-island:
The following particulars with respect to the
prisoners to be tried at Clonmel, are given in
Saunders's News Letter of this morning :
" CLONMEL, WEDNESDAY.—Proclamations from
Dublin Castle were posted up about the town this
morning, offering 1001. reward to any one who will
give information that will enable the authorities to
arrest O'Mahony.
" Mr. Meagher, ALP., is in town, and is frequently
admitted to visit his son, Thomas F. Meagher, who
seems to be in as good health and spirits as ever.
" M'Manus had decided upon defending himself,
and attempting to justify the part-he had taken in the
late movement ; but yielding to the advice of his
friends, at a late hour last night he sent for Mr.
.Dwyer, of Tipperary, a solicitor of great experience
in criminal business, and of large practice in this
county, and begged of him to take his case. Mr.
Dwyer is now his solicitor, but I have not heard
whether he has yet selected counsel.
" Smith O'Brien has undertaken to pay for com-
petent legal assistance for all the poor men who are
to be tried, leaving the choice of individuals to them-
selves. It is said that his counsel have great hope of
gaining a favourable verdict on the strength of some
technicalities, if not on the merits of the case.
" The police still maintain the utmost vigilance in
searching for arms, and also for persons against whom
there is evidence of connexion with the late distur-
bance. Several hundred men have absconded from
their residences, especially in the neighbourhood of
Carrick-on-Suir.
"It is now ascertained that six of the rebels who at-
tacked the Rev. Mr. Hill's house were shot by the
gallant little band that defended it; they have since
died."
The Freeman's Journal contains the following from
Clonmel ;
" Several persons of rank ani position will, it is
understood, attend from England to give evidence on
behalf of Mr. Smith O'Brien, in reference to the
matters on which it was originally contemplated that
Lord John Russell should be examined, but whose
testimony will equally apply to the matters referred
to, and thus obviate the necessity for requiring the
personal attendance of the Premier.
" The prisoners from Ballingarry and the Collieries
will be defended by Mr. Stoney O'Callaghan, bar-
rister, who has specially arrived on their behalf.
" Major- General M'Donald, with his aid-de-camp,
Captain M'Kenzie, arrived from Kilkenny at three
o'clock, and will remain in town during the sittings
of the Commis.-ion.
" Lord Dudley Stuart has arrived in town, and
has taken apartments at the Globe Hotel. It is
said that his arrival is in reference to the State trials.
" The judges have not yet come in from Knock-
lofty ; they are expected this (Wednesday) evening.
" None of the counsel for the accused have yet
arrived, with the exception of Mr. F. Maher. The
agents for the prisoners are busily engaged pre-
paring evidence to support the challenge to the
array. '
The Waterford Chronicle of yesterday thus refers
to the arrest of the proprietor of that journal—
" We must claim the indulgence of our subscribers
this post. We are placed just now in a very awkward
position. Mr. Killilea, the proprietor of this journal,
left here on Monday morning for Carrick-on-Suir, to
collect some bills due to his establishment. It ap-
pears he had to drive a few wiles beyond Carrick to
see some of his subscribers, and that on his return
back, at an advanced hour of the night, he was ar-
rested in Carrick for some offence which has not yet
come to light, and which seems to be involved in deep
mystery.
"No report has yet reached us of the crime' of
which he has been guilty, nor has any explanation
been afforded for this curt proceedure of those in
authority. To us, this appears not a little strange, as
the authorities visited Mr. Killilea's residence yester-
day, made a diligent search there, and ultimately
departed without giving one word of explanation,
though much importuned by Mrs. Killilea on the
matter.
" All we know of Mr. Killilea since his arrest is,
that he has been conveyed to the gaol of Clonmel,
and that he is, we believe, ignorant as ourselves of
the matter for which he has been arrested."
The same journal says—
" It is almost certain that Messrs. Meagher, Leyne,
and O'Donohue put themselves in the way of being
arrested by the police, owing to the base conduct of
some scoundrel farmers who used to set their dogs
at these patriots whenever they sought shelter from
them."
The Limerick Examiner contains the following:—
" On Monday constables Shannon and Mason, with
a strong party of the city . police, escorted
was a
confinedyo
man of the name of Cunningham, who
in the county gaol, under a charge of high treason.
The escort left by early train, and delivered their
prisoner to the authorities at Clonmel. It is thought
he will be tried at the present Commission, as he is
charged with being concerned in some of the attacks
about Carrick•ore Suir.
" Mr. Patrick Connolly, of Knockany, has been
arrested on the charge of treasonable. practices, and
put in Bruff 13ridewell, while undergoing examination
and communicating with the Executive.
" On Monday an express was sent into this city for
troops, in consequence of an unexpected assemblage
of 20.000 people, which, it was said, would take place
yesterday on the hill of Knockfierna. A troop of the
King's Dragoon Guards, and four companies of the
47th Regiment were immediately dispatched for
Rathkeale. On Monday moning, at six o'clock, a
company of the 88th Regiment was ordered from
Newcastle to Abbeyfeale, in consequence of an appre-
hended outbreak in that quarter."
The following appears in the Limerick Chronicle of
yesterday :
"It is stated that on Sunday last, a letter in the
name of Mr. D. Hartnett, who is gazetted in the Hue
and Cry, as leader of the rebel party that robbed the
mails at Abbeyfeale, and headed a body of pikemen
on the mountains, where Head-Constable Hogben was
detained a captive for three days, was sent to the
police and military of the district, calling on them to
be prepared for a general onslaught the next night,
when the peasantry were to rise en masse, and murder
them all ! The police and military were under arms
all night, prepared to give the rebels a warm reception
should they visit them.
"Two men named Frawley and Collins, residing
at Patrick's-well, were waited on last Friday by a
man who stated he was from Abbeyfeale, whence he
had come as a deputy to solicit co operation in that
quarter, for a simultaneous rising to murder the police
and military of the surrounding districts, but his soli-
citations were unavailing. Mr. Monsell, M.P., and
Mr. James Barry, having been apprised of the trans-
action, immediately iastituted inquiry, and, strange
to say, it is supposed the party who made the aepliea-
tion to Frawley and Collins was an ex-policeman,
for whose arrest a warrant has issued, with the vie is
of fully investigating the case. On Sunday the Rev.
Mr. Scott, from the altar of Patrick's. well Chapel,
warned his flock against joining illegal confederacies,
and told them to beware of spies and Paddy M'Kews,
wholwere going through the country with the view of
entrapping the peasantry into treasonable acts.
" Notices were posted through several villages is
this county on Sunday, warning tenants against pay.
ing rents."
MONEY MARKET.—SaIes yesterday at the Corn
mercial Exchange—Three per Cent.. Consols, 85 ;
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent., Money, 85i,
Railways—Great Southern and Weitern, 22 ; Mid-

London-to• Rugby
Rugby to Normanton
Normanton to Hull

Total .. 2454
[These figures do not exactly tally with the Mid-
land time tables, which charges, however, from Lon-
don to Hull, 245 miles.]
London to Hull, via the London and North-Western,
Great Northern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire lines :
London to Northampton .. 671 miles.
Northampton to Peterborough .. 433
Peterborough to Grimsby ... 80
Grimsby to New Holland ... 14
New Holland to Hull (ferry) ... 3

Total ... .. ... 207;
London to Hull, via the Great Northern and Eastern
Counties Railways :
London to Peterborough ..
Peterborough to Grimsby ..
Grimsby to Hull ..

1021 miles.
80
17

Total ... 199 k
Parties travelling over the Lincolnshire lines from this
town to London, will have the opportunity of going
from Peterborough either through Cambridge, or
over the London and North-Western:through North-
ampton, thereby having the advantage of going to
either end of London. Some portion of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Com-
pany's lines will be opened on the Ist of November.
Notice, we believe, is intended to be given to the
Commissioners of Railways to open on that day from
New Holland to Barton, and also from the Brock-
lesby station to Lincoln and Gansborough. From a
recent visit to a portion of the works we question
whether so much can be accomplished ; but great
efforts are making, and as much as possible of those
sections of the work will be completed and opened
on or about that day. This will give a further ad-
vantage to Hull, by shortening the distance to Derby,
and thence to Birmingham, Bristol, Gloucester, and
the whole of the West of England. The present
distance is stated in the Midland time-table to be—
Hull to Normanton 48 miles.
Normanton to Derby . . 63

Total ... ... ... 111
By the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire the
distance will be :

Hull to Lincoln
Lincoln to Derby

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Ind Great Western and Railway Canal, 154 ex
—Royal Exchange—The Midland Great Wester*!
Railway and Royal Canal Company (421. 10s: paid),
15, -; Great Southern and Western (421. 10s:. paid),
221 ; Dublin Consumers' Gas Company, 31.4-;1.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT. EIGHTY- FIVE Hgit: D OF
CATTLE SMOTHERED TO DEATH.—Shortly before nine
o'clock on Saturday evening last an accident of a very
extraordinary and, in this port, unprecedented cha-
racter, occurred at the Queen's Quay, on board the
Foyle steamer, plying between this port and Fleet.
wood. By this accident no fewer than eighty-five
head of cattle and a pony were suddenly and unex-
pectedly destroyed. From the information which we
have been able to collect, it appears that the Foyle
had taken in her cago, with a view of sailing at nine
o'clock for Fleetwood. The cargo consisted principally
of cattle, to the number of 305 head, fifty of whom
were placed down in the forehold, and the rest were
tied on deck with ropes in the usual way. A few
minutes before the hour of sailing the vessel began
to sway a good deal from the motion of the cattle on
deck, the action of the tide, and her lightness in the
water. The cattle dealers exhibited the utmost alarm
for the safety of the stock, and expressed themselves in
a hasty and somewhat violent manner. A heavy lurch
to one side inspired them with so much fear that they
foolishly cut the ropes whilth tied the cattle on that
side, and the next moment another lurch threw the
untied cattle with tremendous violence against the
others opposite, and the result was that seventy-seven
head were instantly killed or. smothered to death,
about thirty hurled into the river, and the ship was
thrown on her beam. ends. Five of the thirty animals
thrown out of the vessel were drowned, the other
twenty-five were saved, but with much difficulty,
owing to the darkness of the night and the unfavour-
able nature of the quays for having them raised out
of the water. The cattle belonged respectively to
thirteen Irish dealers. The value of those destroyed
is estimated, by competent judges, at between three
and four hundred pounds. The Foyle was obliged
to delay her time of sailing till Sabbath morning at
eight o'clock. Early yesterday (Monday) morning
about twenty of the butchers of Belfast were on the
quay, busily engaged in skinning the animals, and
preparing them for sale by auction. At two o'clock
the entire lot, eighty-five head, were bought up, at
from Gs. to 7s. per cwt., by Mr. Warring, a tallow-
merchant in this town, for the_ _purp.ose of
boiling them down for the tallow market. Alt
the, hides were also sold, and realised.. good
prices. We think' 'it- right, to add -that Mr,
Robert Henderson, the enterprising egent Or
the Fleetwood Company, exhibited the utmost sym-
pathy for the owners of the cattle in the very great
loss they have sustained, and exerted himself, with the
people in his employment, in the most active manner,
to save as many of the beasts as possible. It is also
but justice to Messrs. Armstrong and Lindsay, Cap-
tain Rea, of the constabulary, Head-constable M'ln-
tyre and others of the police force, who attended with
torches, to state that their exertions were also marked
and praiseworthy. It is stated that several of the
owners of the cattle were yesterday making arrange-
ments to have an inquiry instituted into all the, cir-
cumstances connected with the accident.--Belfast

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ARRIVAL or BREADSTUFFS.—This morning several
foreign vessels, with cargoes of breadstuffs, arrived in
the Shannon ; amongst them Le Glorieux, formerly
a ship of war, but now disrated, and employed in the
mercantile service.—Limerick Reporter of Tuesday.