The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-07 00:00:00

TSPAPF.

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tratEc*lich will naturally take p,
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crease this dividend. The direct(
that they have not experienced a. te4*-
Dewing their mortgages as they had _
in order to provide for the punctual pant litheS
interest-on the mortgages and debenture stock, a sum
is now every week carried to a deposit account opened • •
in the names of trustees for this special purpose.
The extraordinary and satisfactory - development of
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traffic on all the suburban lines south of London I;
would justify an estimate larger than the foregoing;
but, as bearing on the future prospects of the coni-
pany, nothing is more important than the union and
cordial relations between the several companies oc-
cupying the districts south of the Com-
munications have been made to the chairman of the
South-Eastern Company with a view to the union
of the South-Eastern and Brighton undertakings at
the earliest period practicable. The course sug-
gested as the simplest and safest for all parties is a
fusion of interest on the basis adopted in the case of
the North-Eastern amalgamation : all questions not
otherwise agreed to be settled by a referee mutually
appointed ; that the South-Western Company be
invited to join in such arrangements as will secure
permanently the working of all traffic in common in
friendly co-operation; that, if agreed, the companies
when united might aid in working and developing
the traffic of the Chatham and Dover Company with
mutual advantage. It would not be possible to ob-
tain the full and final sanction and confirmation of
Parliament to any such arrangements before next
year, but by an agreement between the companies
most important results, as respects the wellbeing of
the companies and the interests of the public, might
be immediately obtained by the suspension and ulti-
mate abandonment of works estimated to cost several
millions of capital, which are uncalled for by any
public necessity, and which, if constructed, would
tend to impoverish the companies, and further unfit
them for affording to the public the full services and •
advantages which may be derived from the enormous
capital already laid outtrl'eflrdiat Co-Operation be-
tween the South-Eastern and Brighton companies,
and making portions of lines and the principal sta-
tions of the companies available for use in common,
would demonstrate to Parliament that the public
convenience is to be advanced more by the union of
the companies than by the expenditure of millions
of capital in rivalry and struggles for traffic already
well accommodated. Entertaining these views the
board will use their best efforts to aid in their real-
isation. As intimated in the notice convening the
special meeting, two vacancies exist in the direction.
Their successors cannot be appointed by the meet-
ing ; but if two proprietors, duly qualified, are se-
lected and nominated, the directors will at once
adopt the necessary step to give full effect to such
nomination. The directors will not offer any objection
to the adjournment of the meeting called for the
9th inst., should such be the wish of the proprietors,
feeling that the m)re fully the facts and circum-
stances of the case are examined and carefully con-
sidered the more satisfactory will be the result to
the members of the board collectively and individ-
ually ; and should the meeting so determine, the
directors will be glad to co-operate with any com-
mittee appointed by the meeting. The only sug-
gestion that the board will offer to the proprietors
on this question is that they will select for such a
duty co-proprietors having a large permanent in-
terest in the undertaking, and who may be free to
form a calm and impartial judgment as to the courso
best calculated to advance the permanent welfare
of the undertaking."

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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, May G.

The trial of John M'Afferly was resumed at, the
Special Commission on Saturday. An alibi was
sought to be established for the prisoner by three
female witnesses from Manchester, two of whom
mother and daughter, deposed to seeing M'Afferty
and Flood, another prisoner not yet upon Ins trial,
in their house shortly before 4 o'clock on the day of
the Chester disturbance, and the third, the proprietor
of a public-house, deposed to seeing Flood that day
at 11 i❑ the forenoon and 8 at night, but could not,
however, identify M'Afferty as being the person
who was with Flood. Messrs. Dowse, Q.C., and
Mr. Butt, Q.C., delivered able speeches on behalf
of the prisoner. The prisoner then addressed the
Court, and after thanking his counsel for their
exertions on his behalf, said he had been led to be-
lieve from the moment of his arrest that the Go-
vernment of Great Britain did not intend to deal
fairly with him. Mr. Butt advised him not to make
any observations with reference to the Government,
and, after some few remarks from the Lord Chief
Justice, the prisoner stated that he was innocent of
any overt act of treason within the jurisdiction of
Great Britain. Mr. Nfacdonogh replied on the part
of the Crown.

The Court was adjourned at 8 o'clock until this
morning, when Mr. Justice Fitzgerald will charge
the jury.

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that he should have surgical treatment.
The grand jury of the county of Dublin have
presented an address to his Excellency the Lord-
Lieutenant, in which they state that they take the
first opportunity which has presented itself to thank
the Executive for the decision and promptitude with
which the late insane attempt at insurrection was
crushed, and for the speedy steps taken to bring the
guilty to justice. They likewise express their ap-
proval of the conduct of the constabulary. His
Excellency, in his reply, expresses his satisfaction
that the action of the Government has received
their approval, and adds that he entirely concurs
with them in their estimate of the services of the
constabulary.
In an address, expressing their loyalty to the
Throne and Constitution, which the Town Commis-
sioners of Ballinasloe have presented to his Excel-
lency the Lord-Lieutenant, they state that disaffec-
tion has no footing in the west of
also add an expression of approval
of the constabulary daring the gate outbreak. Ili s
Excellency, in reply, Inrf elatinind.
expresses his great satisfaction
at receiving these assurances. conTduecyt h
There o-
been connected in
various ways with Fenianisin. Eighty-two out of
that large number arc ordered for trial at the ensu-
ingd Tho
Special Commission, which opens t
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, taken
charges against the prisoners are for havm g aolarce charged
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the
rising at lulteely ; and
also police barracks in Muni_
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former place by shooting at and wounding him ;
for having firearms and ammunition in proclaimed
districts ; and for administering the Fenian oath.
The alleged Fenian " Centre " ltoonan, who
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escaped from a railway train, near Stafford, a few
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murder Mr. Bourne a t the
days ago, has been recaptured, and arrived At
Kingstown yesterday in custody.

MONDAY EVENING.
CAptain M'Afferty was found guilty to-day on
all the counts. The prisoner will not be sentenced
till the Court of Appeal decides on the reserved
points.

Connolly and Clarke were nett put on their trial
for high treason.
Cody, who attacked the policeman on Saturday
night, had on his person in print the names and
addresses of the judges who tried Burke and Doran,
and of the Crown counsel, the jury, and the wit-
nesses for the prosecution.

GREAT NORTLIERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-
ROAD, ISLINGToN.—The number of patients for the week
ending May 4 was 1,020, of which 287 were new cases.