The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, in Lord Redesdale's Committee, the
Petersfield and Bishop's Waltham Bill was adjourned
till Monday ; the Rathkeale and Newcastle Junction
was adjourned till the 31st inst., and the Fulham
Bill was passed with amendments. In the com-
mittee held in Room C, the Metropolitan and North
Metropolitan were adjourned until to-day. The
committee in the Painted Chamber passed the Great
Eastern Bill with amendments. The Great Eastern
(Stean_boats) Bill was passed.
Before the Examiner for the Ibuse of Lords the
Solway Junction was passed.
In the House of Commons' Committee on unop-
posed bills, the Devon and Cornwall Bill was passed
with amendments, and also the Central Cornwall
Bill was passed. The Athenry and Ennis Junction
Bill was passed without amendments ; the Glasgow
(City) -Union Bill was passed with amendments,
and also the Bristol Port Railway and Pier and the
Dublin Trunk Connecting. The North British
(Carlisle Deviation) was adjourned. In group 7,
the Midland and Glasgow and South-Western Bill
was proceeded with and adjourned ; the Midland
was further adjourned, as were the Tewkesbury
and Malvern and the Wolverhampton and Walsall.
In Group No. 12, the London, Chatham, and Dover
was proceeded with and adjourned; in the London,
Chatham, and Dover (No. 3), the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover (No. 2), and the London, Chatham,
and Dover (No. 4) appearances were taken, and
the bills were adjourned.

MAURITIUS.

The traffic receipts on the Mauritius Govern-
ment lines for the four weeks ending the 7th of
April amounted on 66 miles of railway to £4,083,
and for the corresponding four weeks last year on
the same mileage to £5,101, showing a decrease of
£l,OlB.

MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL.
The report of the directors states that a satisfac-
tory recommencement of executive operations had
been made in respect of the works between Soon-
kasala and Cuddapah, and all desirable proceedings
had been adopted for their vigorous continuance.
A number of executive engineers had been most
carefully selected in England and despatched to
Madras, and were now engaged along the line of
main canal between Soonkasala and Cuddapah,
under the direction of the chief engineer. In Oc-
tober last the Secretary of State in Council for India
had officially stated in a communication to the local
Government that he considered it particularly desir-
able that the company should have no grounds for
complaint of unnecessary delay on the part of the
Government in passing orders on plans and esti.
mates. It was therefore hoped that in future
greatergeate
freedom of action would be permitted to hpany, and that those portions of the guarantee system
which had hitherto been productive of delay, expense,
and disappointment would henceforth be materially
modified. The breach in the Auicut at Soonkasala
had been repaired in a substantial manner. The
complete and unfinished embankment and masonry
I
walls of the main canal between the 18th and the
72d miles bad been carefully examined and tested
under the superintendence of the company's chief
engineer, and all measures necessary to strengthen
them would now be executed without loss of time.
In the meantime the works between the 72d mile
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portion of the Bellary section from Wallayspor
Bellary, 67 miles in length, had been most carefully-
planned by Mr. Gordon, and had been favourably
reported on by the Government engineer. The
whole of the guaranteed capital of £1,000,000, with
the exception of £1,499, bad been paid to the Secre-
tary of State in Council, and it was therefore pro-
posed that the necessary authority should be given
by the proprietors for converting the same into
guatanteed stock. The guaranteed capital would,
it was calculated, be wholly expended in India by
the middle of June, front which time the expendi-
ture on account of the agreed advance of £600,000
by the Secretar- of State would commence.

L E LaIIU.

DUTLIN, May 23.

Preparations are being made for the execution of
the convict Burke on Wesinesday next. The warrant
will be forward d to the governor of Kilmainham
Gaol to-day. Burke is resigned to his fate, aud
pays great attention to his religions duties. Every-
body is kind and considerate towards him, and his
prison fare is of the mos; generous character. He
is said to be cheerful, and to have not declined in
health since his conviction. His wife and children,
have been spoken of, but the Very Rev. Canon
Kennedy, P.P., who is his spiritual director, has
published a letter in which he says that the only
woman he mentions is his mother, to whom he seems
devotedly attached. Capt. WAfferty also appears
perfectly resigned to his doom, and converses cheer-
fully with the officials of the prison. Both con-
victs occupy the cells they had before their trial..
The Sisters of Charity are frequent visitors to tlae
prison, and do all they can to console the unfortu-
nate men in their awful position. There is still
some hope, however, that at the Ilst moment the
Atneen hmself mereitulki save,
them from the gallows. One fact is much against
this hope—neither they nor any of the principal in-
surgents have expressed the slightest repentance far
their acts of rebellion. On the contrary, they have
all shown themselves to be animated by a spirit of
hatred and defiance to the Government. If they
themselves acknowledged the criminality of their
acts and implored pardon, the case would be diffe-
rent. But still the question remains whether it is
politic to make them martyrs.
At the Special Commission yesterday sentence
was pronounced as follows upon persons guilty on

the indictment charging them with offences under
the Whiteboy Act :—Patrick Meares and Henry
Filgate, two years' imprisonment each ; Andrew
Milor, 12 months' imprisonment ; Joseph Brown
and Joseph M'Carty, 15 months' each ; Joseph
Tomkins, 18 months', and James Mullaney, nine
months' imprisonment. A number of persons were
allowed to Stand out on bail, or on their own re-
cognizance, to be of good behaviour for live years,
and to appear when caLted on to stand their trial.
The Court adjourned till 10 o'clock this morning.
Alfred. Aylward was hrought up before Mr. Bar-
ton, at the head-office, yesterday. The police had
no further evidence to produce against him on the
charge of Fenianism, and the magistrates ordered
him to be discharged ; but when leaving the court
he was arrested under a warrant of the Lords Jus-
tices and taken to Kilmainham Gaol, where he will
be detained under the Habeas Corpus Suspension
Act. He has not yet disclosed the names of the
parties who fired at him.
A reputed Fenian leader, named M'Donnell, who
absconded from Slane, county of Meath, after the
rising,"has been arrested at Newcastle, in England.
He is said to have mounted a neighbour's horse on
the night of the sth of March, and to have ridden
about the country rousing the people to join in the
insurrection at Drogheda.
The Cork Special Commission makes some pro-
gress. Four prisoners, M'Clure, Kelly, Joyce, and
Bowler, were put on their trial for high treason
yesterday morning. The Attorney-General stated
the case for the Crown. It was nearly the same
story which has been so often told. The approver
Corydon was the first witness, an I he gave his evi-
dence in the same flippant manner that distin-
, Ignished him iu Dublin. He was cross-erimined by
Mr. Heron, Q.C., who has been "assigned with Mr.
Waters as counsel for the prisoners.

DUBLIN, Thursday Evening.
Captain M'Clure, on his trial for high treason at
Cork, has pleaded " Guilty." Sentence deferred.
Edward Otnegan pleaded " Guilty" in Dublin to
the charge of treason felony. Several others,
arraigned for minor offences, also pleaded "Guilty'i
and were discharged.