The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-14 00:00:00

CHARLES OSBORNE.

7, ORDNANCE-ROAD, REGENT'S PARK, LONDON, N. ;v,
Commissions executed on all races throughout the season
from 2s. 6d. upwards. Full market prices returned, and
ii innings immediately remitted upon receipt of voucher.
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.
To obviate the difficulties that the clause in the
politan Traffic Act must cause to many gentlemen wIAO are
in the habit of investing upon the chances of horae,s, all
town commissions received on the day of a race will be
executed, and voucher immediately forwarded.

PROGRAMME OF SHREWSBURY AUTUMN
MEETING.
FRIDAY.
The Autumn Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sous eab (to the fund), with 150 added; winners of any F ,3 ft
steeple-
chase handicap after Nov. 2 (at ten a.m.) 10M, or a
second 51b extra. About three miles and a half.
Age st lb Ago st lb
Meanwood (inc 101 b Highflyer •.. all 0
extra) ... al9 10 Helen . 6 10 1:2
Daisy (pd)... ... al2 7 Woodbury.
Hill ... a 10 IA
Beuazet (inc 10113 Ross •.. ... alO 1/
extra) .. ... al2 2 Souvenir ... 6 3.0 10
Dermot Asthore Ellangowan al9 10
(paid) ... ... 612 0 Colleen
... ••• a. 10 10
Globule ... all 12 Greenland... .. 610 9
Hall Con t,... a 11 11 Tom 5 10 8
The Nuu •..
... a 11 9 Hourlys
••• a 10 7
Despatch ... a 11 7 Gelert
•• 4 10 7
Gary s a 11 7 Gby Hobby Noble
The Doctor all 6 outof KittyShoby alO 7
Knave of Trumps all 6 Tom Thumb •.. 510 7
Sir William all 6 Clansman. ... •.. 510
The Elk ... all 5 Sylph ... ... 510 6
Tally-ho a, 11 5 Sea King alO ,6
Philosopher all 5 Golden Cross ... 6IA
Baider ... a 11 5 Stockings 6 I 0 5
L.S.D. 6 11 2 Captain Crosstree... a. 10 4
Part ... a 11 2 Nabocklish G 10 4
Sprtto all 2 Violet ..• a, 10 3
Plea a 11 2 Phantom . a 10 3
Orleton (late Ace of Badminton 5 10 2
Trumps) ... all 1 Flying Horse 510 2
Reporter ... a 11 1 Rhin,
••• a 10 0
Spatchcock a 11 0 Wisdom •
6 10 0
Patience ... all 0 Atalanta . •510 0
A Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 soya each, 2 ft, with 50
arldctl ; winners of a liordie race after Nov. 2 (at. tea
a.m.), len), a second 51b extra ; starters without, being
placed in th Salopian llur ll i Rice allowed 31b; one
mile and three quarters, over six hurdles; -11 subs.
Ago st lb Ago st lb
Helen (inc!. 51b ex.) 6 11 1 I Risk •.• 5 9 6
Pearl Diver ... all 0 Muezzin 69 6
Mouse a 10 10 Gladiator 4 9 6
Snit in 5 10 8
•••• 6 9 4
Eudsleigh ... ......5
10 7 Ileurlys a 9 3
Dick Turpiu 8 10 7 Mouitress ••• 4 9 3
Beadle GlO 6 Owen Roe... •.. 4 9 2
Steamboat... ... 410 6 Capt. Crosstreo ... a 812
Skirmish ... 5 10 6 Northill ... 4 8 12
Bishopton 5 10 6 Mountain Maid 4 8 10
Despatch ... a 10 1 'Pottle ... 4 •8 10
Nu ... ... 5 10 0 Custaloga ... 4 8 8
Triumpher ... 6 10 0 Voracity ... 4 8 8
Woodberry Hill ... a 912 Lord Waldegrave 5 8 7
Gazza Ladra ... 69 11 Banshee ... ... 4 8 7
Eliza gelding ... 4 910 Little Peevish ... 4 8 7
Mario Louise (inc. Joker ••• 6 8 7
101 b extra) Elegance .. 4 8
Hopvine Bonne Fortune ... 3 8 7
Faint Heart Busybody ... ... 3 8 5
Harrington King of Trumps ... a (pd)
Tumult

...4 910
...4 9 8
9 8
... a 9 8
... 4 9 7

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The Longnor Stoeplecha-se Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2ft
(to the fund), with 60 added; about two miles and a
quarter.

Ago st lb
Meanwood (inc 101 b
extra) ... al2 10
Sir Bobby .. a 12 7
Benazet (inc. 101 b

Age st lb
Risk ... 5 10 10
Souvenir 6 10 10
Huntsman's Daugh-
ter

1.. a 10 8

extra) ... alO 5 I Bird of Passage ... 610 7
Flyfisher (pd) ... al2 4 Greenland ... 610 7
Pearl Diver ... a 11 6 Queen of Hearts ... a 10 7
Dispatch ... all 4 Willingham g ... 510 7
Cabin 80y... a 11 4 Thalassitts... ... 5 10 7
Moose ... a 11 3 Sea King ... a 10 7
Patience ... all 3 Brandy Apple ... alO 6
L. S. D. 6 11 2 Miss Dodson ... 6 10 6
Spatchcock ... all 2 Golden Cross ... 610 5
Brighton ... a 11 1 Northill •.. 4 10 5
Laura (pd)... ... 611 0 Violet ... ... 410 4
Wild Duck... a 11 0 New Light a 10 4
Colleen a 11 0 Sylph ... ••• 5 10 3
Tally-ho a 11 0 Humphrey Davy ... 4 10
Triumpher... ... 611 0 Atalanta ... ... 510 0
Ace of Trumps ... a 11 0 Tottio ... 4 10
Sinite ... a 10 13 Banshee ... 410 0
Ace of Hearts ... alO 12 Little Peevish ... 410 0
Helen ... 6 10 'l2 Birdie ... alO 0
The Guide... 510 10 The Switcher ... 610 0
Woodbury Hill ... a 10 11 Joker ... 6 10 0
Highflyer ... alO 11 Little Peter ... a (pd)
The Rawdon Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for
all ages; winners after the declaration of the weights
71b extra ; about ono mile and a quarter.

A Plato of 40 sous (handicap), for all ages ; winners after
the declaration of the weights 71b extra ; about half a
mile, straight.

A Nursery Plato of 40 sous (handicap) ; about half a mile,
straight.

A Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 25 added, for two year
olds and upwards; about three quarters of a mile.
A Sweepstakes of 2 sovs each, with 25 added ; two year
olds 7st 6th, three 8 t 12th, four 9st 31b, five and up-
wards 9st slb ; about five furlongs, straight.
A Welter Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added; about.
one mile.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS•

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The following promotions were made yesterday
3i the Admiralty :
Captains—E. K. Barnard, to tho Trafalgar, commis-
sioned; J. D. M'C:ea, to the Favourite, vice Shortt, super-
seded at his own request.

Lieutenants—John L. F. Paul, A. G. R. Riall, H. W.
Dowding, and G. R. 8011, for services in the Harpy.
Naval Cadets Nominated—Mr. It. Polwhele.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LoNnom, Nov. 14.--Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

(By Telegraph.)
PLYMOUTH, Thursday.
Her Majesty's troopship Urgent, from Portsmouth, for
North America, and the Russian frigate Dmitry Drescher,
five days from Cop3nhagen, for Japan, arrived in the
Sound this morning.

GRATESEND, Thursday Morning.

Arrived —Ellachiue, from Stettin; Providence, from
Graveliues ; Citizen, steamer, from Bordeaux; Baron Ws,
steamer, from Antwerp; Panther, steamer, and Concordia,
steamer, from Boulogne ; Greatham Hall, steamer, from
Lisbon.

Sailed —Seine, steamer, for Boulog,ue ; Blanche, steamer,
for Dunkirk; Valdemar, steamer, for Konigsberg.
DeaL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Seine and Tarnise, scrowsteamer, from Loudon,
for Paris; Edwin Fox, from London, for Bombay.

STRANGE CONTRAST IN DEATII.--The Debats
publishes the subjoined :—" The religious journals
are busy in concocting legendary accounts of the combat
of Mentana. A communication from Rome in the Univers
speaks in these terms of a young captain of the Pontifical
Zouaves killed in that affair A most gracious smile was
still on his lips : and, strange contrast, which depicts the
difference of the two causes, by the side of this noble young
man lay the corpse of a Garibaldian, with a red beard
covered With blood, and whose hoe expressed damnation.' '

RAIL WAY AND OTHER COMPANIES.

BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-
street—Mr. E. Heseltine in the chair.
Mr. T. Short, the secretary, having read the no-
tice convening the meeting, the report was taken as
read.
The enAirmAN said that the reports of the two
companies circulated among the proprietors showed
how matters stood. He had to express his regret to
the bondholders that the whole of the last half year's
interest had not been paid. The chairman of the
Grand Trunk Company had given his opinion that
the Buffalo Company were not entitled to draw
money on account, and that made them behindhand
with the bondholders. lie allowed them, however,
to draw £5,000 in August, and £5,000 more last
month, and they would ask him to allow them to
draw the remainder, which he hoped would enable
them to give something to the preference share-
holders. There were three reasons that prevented
the Grand Trunk paying the amount they expected,
viz., the high rate of working expenses, the heavy
amount expended on renewals, and the loss on the
currency. This not only reduced the amount of net
receipts for the past half year, but it was usually the
worst, half for receipts. The large amount expended
on renewals showed that the Grand Trunk Company
were very liberal in laying out money, and they
were informed that the property was improved
thereby. When the time came for a lower expendi-
ture they might fairly look for an improvement in
the traffic. One of the drawbacks to development
of the traffic was the abrogation of the reciprocal
treaty, which had not only affected the traffic on the
railway, but had caused a great outcry among the
traders in America as well as in Canada, which he
thought would have some effect if the American
Government were to renew the. reciprocity treaty
with Canada ; it would be of mutual advantage to
both countries, and also tend -to improve the traffic
on the railway. There were differences between
them and the Grand Trunk as to certain charges in
the accounts, and it was very difficult to get meet-
ings of the joint committee to settle them. He hcped
they would be able to get those differences settled.
One point had reference to the expenses of the
London offices. The Buffalo Company thought
they were entitled to have the expenses of their
London offices allowed them as part of the general
expenses ; otherwise they had a right to object to
contribute their part towards the expenses of the
London offices of the Grand Trunk Company ; but
it was alleged that the Buffalo offices did not form
part of the working expenses of the Grand Trunk
Company. That m Ater would, however, have to be
gone into again. If the offices of the Grand Trunk
Company in Old Broad-street formed part of the
working expenses in Canada, so also were the
Buffalo Company's offices in Winchester-buildings,
and therefore the expenses of both ought to come
out of the same fund. The new bill promoted by the
Grand Trunk Company had been objected to by
the shareholders of that company, and in conse-
quence the chief portion of the bill had been
withdrawn. But as far as he could judge there was
a clause in the bill that he thought should be agreed
to by both companies ; but nothing would be done
in that respect,without the assent of the bondholders
and the shareholders. The object of the clause re-
ferred to was to enable both companies to settle any
differences that might crop up in a proper manner,
and for that purpose the existing agreement to a
certain extent should be amended so as to make it
work better. They had been called upon to fulfil a
clause in the agreement with the Grand Trunk
Company, which required the Buffalo Company to
subscribe £75,000 for the Buffalo-bridge and the
laying down of a third rail, but the Grank Trunk
were not in a position to make new railway
works, and as the large outlay of capital had
been the ruin of several railways, he hoped the
matter would not be entertained for some time
to come, or until the position of both com-
panies was greatly improved. He thought it very
important that the present large expenditure should
be greatly reduced, and when that was accom-
plished he believed there would be a future for the
Grand Trunk that would sooner or later reward
all the shareholders for their patience in waiting
so long for its realisation. The revenue of the
Grand Trunk Railway exceeded £1,250,000 a year,
and he did not suppose they would go on year after
year expending 85 per cent. of the gross receipts,
leaving only 15 per cent. of the gross receipts as
profit. It was not reasonable to suppose that those
heavy expenses would be continued, that the traffic
would not greatly increase, or that there would not
be a reduction in the price of gold.
Mr. A. Cox, a director, seconded the motion for
the adoption of the report.

Mr. .MoxoN said they had a right to complain of
the Grand Trunk Company not paying them earlier
their portion of the net receipts. The Buffalo and
Lake Huron claim came before the Equipment
Mortgage Bonds, yet the latter were paid on the day
when due, while the Buffalo Company had not yet
received all the money they were entitled to. As to
the permissive bill, he did not like it, and thought
at least they should have a copy of it before they
were asked to consider it.

Mr. WRIGHT suggested that the company should
receive monthly payments on account from the
Grand Trunk.

Mr. KING was opposed to having any clause in
the new bill giving power to modify or alter the
existing agreement between them and the Grand
Trunk Company, on the ground that the larger
company would be certain to get the advantage of
the smaller one.

Mr. PRICE suggested that the directors should
take a more decided course in dealing with the
Grand Trunk Company, to bring about a speedy
settlement of differences.

The CHAIRMAN, in reply, stated that they were
not very harmonious at present, and the less said
about them the better. As to the observations of
Mr. Moxon, the Buffalo Company had nothing to
do with the capital of the Grand Trunk, nor the
latter with the capital of the Buffalo. The Grand
Trunk could pay interest on the Equipment Bonds
whenever they pleased. Until the net profit was
ascertained the Buffalo Company were not entitled
to receive the 15 per cent. of it. The agreement with
the Grand Trunk was made on the 7th July, 1864,
and the object of the clause in the new bill was to
enable the two companies to vary some of the terms
by mutual consent during the continuance of the
agreement. There was a power in that agreement
to purchase the Buffalo shares at each. It might
be convenient to the Grand Trunk Company to
exercise that power, and thus do away with the
double government of the two companies. The
agreement was for 21 years, of which about 18 years
were unexpired. The act by which the agreement
was sanctioned did not give sufficient power to
compel the settlement of disputed points between
the two companies. There were various matters now
pending that ought to have been settled, and it was
with that view they had provisionally consented to
clauses in the Permissive Bill. He thought they
were entitled to have monthly payments on account,
as suggested by Mr. Wright.
Mr. lIARTRIDGE thought that instead of having
only 15 per per cent. of the gross receipts as profit,
the Grand Trunk ought to have 40 per cent. as
profit. Ile believed that the extraordinary expen-
diture must be reduced, as it was only of advantage
to speculators. ( I ear.)

The CHAIRMAN said it was under the impression
that the working expenses of the Grand Trunk
would be about GO per cent. of the gross receipts
that the Buffalo Company had entered into the
agreement. Ile did not see why 85 per cent. should
be absorbed, and as the Great Western Railway of
Canada was now worked for 50 per cent. of the
gross nxeipts he thought it was not too much to
expect that the Grand Trunk Railway should be
worked for about GO per cent. of the receipts. They
had received £5,000 from the Grand Trunk in
August, which was due to the bankers and repaid
to them. In October they received a further sum
of £5,000, which they handed over to the bond-
holders' committee.

. _
Mr. Cox remarked that when they gotthetalance
it would be available. Mr:
.s,ratt-in,‘ the president,
had told them that the Grand Trunk Company need

not pay the money till the end of the year, but he
hoped they would not act upbn it.
Resolutions were passed adopting the report ; re-
electing Messrs. E. Heseltine, P. Rawson, C. Lang-
ton, and A. Cox as directors ; Mr. C. Holland and
Mr. M. H. Maxwell having retired to reduce the
number of the board, the best thanks of the meeting
were voted to them for their valuable services, and
the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to
the chairman and directors.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 13.

At the sitting of the Commission Court yesterday
the Solicitor-General applied, on the part of Mr.
Price, the governor of Ki:mainham, to be allowed
to examine him, in order to refute the charges made
against him in General Ilalpin's address. The Chief
Baron recognised the reasonableness of his request.
Mr. Price was then resworn, and in the most posi li
tive terms deposed that there was not the slightest
foundation for the statement that prisoners who did
not salute the governor were sent to the cellars. On
the contrary, there was an express rule in the prison
that no prisoner was to recognise any officer. He
never inflicted punishment of any kind on a prisoner
for not saluting him. With respect to the complaint
that he had deprived the prisoner of a toothpick and
other articles, he was not aware that they had been
applied for—if they had been they would have been
given. Looking glasses and everything of that kind
were permitted to untried prisoners. Had furnished
the prisoners with portions of newspapers containing
accounts of the trials, and when he found that he
was undefended by counsel he lent him his own
copy of the State trials of 1865, in order that he
might make himself up in the law of treason felony.
All his statements with regard to the discipline of
the prison were equally unfounded. The prisoner re-
peated that he sent a letter applying for his tooth-
pick, and that he saw a warder hand it to the gover-
nor. He denounced Mr. Price and one of the warders
as perjurers. Mr. Price appealed to the Court for
protection against such a charge. The Court charac-
terised the observations of the prisoner as most im-
proper. The emphatic contradiction given to the im-
putations cast on the Crown officials must be regarded
with satisfaction. Had they not been promptly re-
futed a feeling of indignation would have been ex-
cited in the public mind. Some impression had been
produced by the circumstantial and positive manner
in which they were brought forward, and it is pro.
bable that an inquiry would have been demanded to
vindicate the fair and generous character of English
justice. As it is, however, the reckless assertions of
the prisoner, which were meant to awaken the sym-
pathies of the jury, only recoiled upon himself, and
could hardly have failed to produce a reaction pre-
judicial to his case. After the governor's examina
tion the Chief Baron charged the jury, explaining
the law and reviewing the evidence with great care.
Before he had concluded he asked the prisoner
whether there was any point to which he wished to
have the attention of the jury particularly drawn.
The prisoner called upon him to state that there was
no evidence whatever that he was a subject of Queen
Victoria. His lordship declined to do so, and re-
peated what he had stated in the beginning of the
trial, that it was for the prisoner to show that he
was not. The prisoner contended that it would not
be justice to convict him upon the assumption that
he was a British subject when the Crown prevented
him from showing the contrary. It was in evidence
that he had asked for his trunk, which contained his
papers. The Chief Baron observed that there was
no evidence that his papers ever reached the Crown.
They had been searched for and could not be found.
He reminded the prisoner that when he might have
had a jury composed in part of aliens he had declined
to say whether he was an alien or not, and the jury
must now act upon the information which they had.
The prisoner then asked his lordship to say that
there was no evidence that he was connected with
the conspiracy. His lordship declined to do so. The
prisoner next submitted that there was no evidence
that the documents produced were in his handwrit-
ing. His lordship said there was the evidence of a
warder. lie advanced other points with a like re-
stilt. The learned Judge then thoughtfully sug-
gested to the jury the expediency of their taking
lunch before he finished. They availed themselves
of the hint, and, after spending half an hour in
fortifying themselves against the risk of a long
deliberation, heard the remainder of the charge.
His lordship observed that the narrow question
was whether or not the prisoner had con-
spired with others in the county and city of
Dublin to levy war against the Queen. Massey, the
informer, was recalled, at the request of the jury, to
explain some points in his evidence. His lordship
'thought it fair to the witness to remind the jury
that, while Corydon and Devany both admitted
that they had received money from the Crown, he
denied that he had stated that he was influenced
solely by fear. The jury at 2 o'clock retired, and at
five minutes to 3 brought in a verdict of guilty.
Sentence was deferred. The Court then adjourned
until this morning, when Costello, in whose case a
jury disagreed, will be again put upon his trial.
The rival claimants for the patronage of the city
prisons have gone'into court to settle their dispute.
Mr. Macdonough, Q.C., applied yesterday on behalf
of Mr. Ormsby and Dr. Burne, who hare been ap-
pointed by the grand jury to the offices of inspector
and physician to the prisons, for a mandamus to
compel the board of superintendence to admit them.
The corporation, from which the board of superin-
tendence is elected, assert a right to nominate to the
vacant posts, and have appointed two other gentle-
men. A conditional order was granted, in order to
have the question argued. It turns upon the con-
struction of the Dublin Improvement Act.

His Eminence Cardinal Cullen has convened a
meeting for Friday next, in compliance with a re-
quisition signed by a large number of respectable
citizens, who " desire to express sympathy with his
Holiness the Pope, abhorrence of the wicked invasion
of the remaining portion of his dominions, and de-
termination to use every influence at our command
to support him in his present difficulties."
The Royal D üblin Society's winter show of poultry
and farm and dairy produce was opened yesterday.
It is on the whole a creditable exhibition.

A meeting of the inhabitants of Bandon was held
on Monday for the purpose of urging upon the Go-
vernment the necessity for railway reform, as illus-
trated by the want of sufficient accommodation for
the important agricultural district in which the
town is situate. The meeting was addressed by
Lord Bandon and other speakers, who complained
of the excessive fares charged b the companies
upon which it had to depend, and the advantage
which it would derive from extended facilities of
traffic. A resolution was passed appointing a com-
mittee to bring before the Railway Commission the
defects of the railway system in the South of Ire-
land.

The Chait of Mathematics in Queen's College,
Cork, has been filled by the appointment of Mr.
Charles Niven, 8.A., a senior wrangler and fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Professorship
of Natural Philosophy in Queen's College, Belfast,
has been conferred on Mr. J. D. Everett, M.A., of
the University of Glasgow. Both appointments are
likely to give satisfaction.

[ADVERTlSEMENT.]—llyspopsia(lndig!stion), Constipation, De
bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and live'
complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerates
by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du
Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by
thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such
as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver com-
plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats
diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and
ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia,
in stability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head-
ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness,
even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula,
tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and
between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health
restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July
11, MSG.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially
since, abandoning all other remedies, he has ecntined himself
entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he
consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a sur-
prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot
praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette du
Midi, Jaly 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timber
merchant, of Frintley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs,
spitting of blood; liver derangement, and partia deafness.
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty
years' indescribable agony from ,Jspepsia, nervousness.
asthma; cough, constipation, flatulen epasms, sickness and
vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many
mastifoary and more than sloppy imitations to which, withou'.
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attauaed.—
In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 61; 5 lbs., lls.;
12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77,
ategent-street, London; also Fortnam and Ma >c n, 182, Piccadilly;
and at 61, Graxechurch-street; 4, Chearsid ;; 63, 150, and 289,
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