The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

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ber the committee passed the Caledonian and Forth
and Clyde Navigation Bill, with amendments ; the
Great Eastern (steamboat) and the
.Great Eastern
Bills were adjourned until this day. In the House of
Commons Committee, Group 7, the Midland and
Glasgow and South-Western Companies Bill was
proceeded with and adjourned until to-day ;. the
Midland Bill was adjourned until Friday, as was the
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the Easton and Church Hope Bill was postponed.

litELAND.

DUBLIN, May 20.

In the case of "The Queen v. Stephen J. Meany"
the Court of Appeal delivered judgment on Satur-
day evening. The prisoner had been convicted at the
last ordinary Commission of Oyer and Terminer of
the crime of treason felony. It had been proved at
the trial that the Fenian conspiracy, of which he was
a member, existed both in America and this king-
dom, and that the prisoner had committed overt acts
of treason felony in America, but no overt act was
proved against him in the county of the city of Dub-
lin, in which he was tried, or anywhere else in this
kingdom. Questions raised on behalf of the prisoner
at the trial had been reserved by the learned Judges
for this Court, as to whether the conviction was
good under the circumstances. All the Judges sat,
with the exception of Mr. Justice Morris, Mr.
Justice George, Baron Deasy, Mr. Justice Fitz-
gerald, Baron Hughes, Chief Justice Monohan,
and the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench were for
upholding the conviction. Mr. Justice O'Hagan,
Baron Fitzgerald, Mr. Justice O'Brien, Mr. Justice
Keogh, and the Chief Baron Pigott decided in
favour of the prisoner. The conviction therefore is
affirmed by a majority of one.
In the case of "'The Queen v. Mulcahy," which
is to be brought before the House of Lords, Mr.
Buft moved that• the fees, amounting to £59, be re-
mitted. the Solicitor-General opposed the motion,
and judgment is to be given on Tuesday.
The health of the convict Burke is giving way
rapidly. He was very ill during the week, and it
was reported yesterday, but without foundation,
that he was dead. He is not likely to live till the
day appointed for his execution, the 29th inst.
Aylward still refuses to give any information re-
specting the persons by whom he was attacked. As
law cl:trk, he was in the employment of a gentleman
who is Crown Solicitor fur a southern county, and
the Fenians, it appears, believed that information
was conveyed to the Government through him.
About 1,000 persons walked in procession yester-
day at the funeral of a Fenian prisoner named
Richard Stowell, who had been released from Naas
Gaol on account of his illness.
The four mail steamers plying between Kingstown
and • Holyhead are now all off the line. The Con-
naught lies at Liverpool, getting in new boilers; the
Leinster is in the Dublin Graving dock, under re-
pair; the Ulster is laid up at Kingstown with her
yalves damaged ; and the Munster is in Holyhead in