The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

vided that all powers for the construction of new
works be struck out. Swansea General Station and
Hotel (Railway) provided that clause 10 be struck
out, unless proof be given that it has been approved
at a meeting of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, and provided also that clause 11 be struck
out unless a similar proof be given in respect of the
Vale of Neath Railway Company. Brecon and
Merthyr Tydfil Junction (Southern Lines), provided
that the powers authorising the construction of the
railways Nos. 6 and 7be struck out. Ryde station
(Railway), provided that all compulsory powers
over a certain coalyard and store be struck out of
the Bill. The Mid-London, provided that clause
29 and all compulsory powers over certain fore-
courts be struck out. The London, Chatham, Dover
and South-Eastern (Kennington, Clapham, and
Brixton), provided that the powers authorising the
construction of Railway No. 3be struck out. That
the standing orders not complied with in the cases
of the Aberdare Valley and Caerphilly Junction,
the Ely Valley and Vale of Neath Junction, and
South-Eastern ought to be dispensed with. In the
case of the Metropolitan Tramways, and the Ryde
Pier Tramways, the standing orders ought not to
be dispensed with. In the case of the Birkenhead
and Liverpool, and the London, Chatham, and
Dover (New Lines) the standing orders ought to be
dispensed with.

AGRICULTURAL HALL (LIMITED).
The report states that the net amount to the credit
of revenue was £2,982. The results of the year
had not been fortunate. The horse show took
place in the midst of a general election. The cattle
show was seriously affected by the cattle plague.
The visitors at the horse show were 18,000, and at
the cattle show 41,000 under the attendance of the
.preceding years. At the same time the rents ob-
tained from the various exhibitions held at the hall
had been satisfactory. Having regard to the re-
duced income of the past year, the directors were
willing to reduce the fees voted to them at the last
general meeting by 25 per cent. They had also
made arrangements for reducing the working ex-
penses. The directors recommended the payment
of a dividend of £5 per cent., clear of income tax,
leaving £l,OOO. The capital account to the 31st of
January showed that £ll,BlB had been received,
and £8,977 expended, leaving £2,841.

IRELAND.

DUBLLN, March 6.
One of the detective officers, Mr. Cooke, who had
given evidence during the Fenian trials, and had just
returned from Cork, where he had been as a witness
at the court-martial, was assaulted in the Lower
Castle-yard on Saturday night, about 11 o'clock.
Having reported his arrival at the office, he was
proceeding homeward, accompanied by another offi-
cer, named Carey. A remark of his was jeeringly
repeated by a person whom he had not seen as he
was standing in the shade at the corner of the
Chapel Royal. He was at the same moment jostled
off the footway by a soldier, who was accompanied
by two civilians. Before he had time to speak he
was struck on the head with a military belt. He
then tried to grapple with his assailant, but was
struck again and knocked down, when the two civi-
lians ran off with his hat. The soldier also:ran away,
but was pursued and arrested by Carey. He gave his
name as John Hurley, Ist Battalion 60th Rifles. He
was brought before Mr. Wyse at the Head Police-
office yesterday, when the assault was proved. The
prisoner's defence was that Cooke was beastly
drunk at the time, and that he had another man by
the throat whom he hadrescued from him. This was
false, as there was no one with him but the other
officer, and he was walking along with his port-
manteau in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
He supposed that the civilians had told the soldier
who he was, and that he had a spife about the arrest
of the soldier in James'-street. An officer of the
regiment, who was present, said the prisoner had a
bad character, and as the regiment was to embark
last night for Gibraltar the magistrate did not send
the case for trial, but ordered the prisoner to be
handed over to the military authorities on paying a
fine of ss. The fine was paid during the day, and
the soldier was taken into military custody.
Another violent assault on the police was perpe-
trated on Sunday night, in Mary-street, for which
three persons named Mooney, Molony, and Bren-
nan were charged at the Capel-street office yester-
days Constable Doyle deposed that while he and
Constable Morgan were on duty in Mary-street,
between 11 and 12 o'clock, they noticed a num-
ber of disorderly persons on the footway, quar-
relling among themselves. As witness was passing
the corner of Capel-street, the prisoner Mooney
stepped up to him and said, " You are a - de-
tective." Witness said, "lam a policeman," and,
putting his hand against the prisoner's breast, he
pushed him off and told him to go home. Mooney
then seized witness by the coat, and said, " Come
on, boys, we'll whack him." The prisoner Bren-
nan then came forward and gave witness a severe
blow in the face. Both Mooney and Brennan called
witness a - detective, and kicked him on the
ankle. Witness then struck Brennan a blow on the
head and knocked him down. He was 'instantly
struck by some one from behind, and knocked
down. Two other constables then came up and
arrested the prisoners. Mr. O'Donnell remanded
the prisoners for the present, in order that inquiries
might be made as to their character.
Yesterday morning the 92d, or Gordon High-
landers, landed at Kingstown, from her Majesty's
screw steam troopship Simoom. The numerical
strength of the regiment which arrived by this trans-
port is 24 officers, 673 non-commissioned officers
and rank and file, 126 women, and 164 children,
with eight horses. The men were divided into two
detachments, which left Kingstown for Dublin by
special trains at 9.15 a.m. and 11.15 a.m. respec-
tively. On arriving at Westland-row terminus
they were met by the band of the 2d Battalion, 60th
Rifles, which played them in. The men marched
to King's-bridge terminus, whence they were con-
veyed by special train to the Curragh Camp, there
to be stationed until barrack accommodation can be
provided for them in Dublin. It is precisely 15
years to-day since the 92d left Cork for foreign
service. They were last quartered in Dublin in
1847, arriving here from Enniskillen on the 2d of
June. ' In less than six months they were ordered
to Limerick, in consequence of some apprehended
disturbances connected with the "Young Ireland"
agitation. During 1848 they formed the garrison
of Clonmel along with the Scots Greys. In 1851
they left Cork for the lonian Islands, where they
served until ordered to the Crimea, which they
reached immediately after the fall of Sebastopol. On
the evacuation of the Crimea by the allied armies
the 92d proceeded to India and rendered efficient
service under Lord Clyde in the suppression of the
mutiny. In 1863, their term of foreign service hav-
ing expired, they were ordered home, and since
then have een quartered in Scotland and at Alder-
shott.

Three men who had been in custody for shooting
at the Glenbane policeman have been discharged.
Some arrests have been made in Galway—namely,
James 0. Flynn, victualler ; Patrick O'Connor,
gunsmith ; James Henahan, blacksmith ; John
Cunniffe, employed in the paper mills of the Messrs.
Tallon aid Murray; John Burke, corn buyer for
Mr. R. N. Somerville ; and a, plumber named
Green, Ncho was concealed under a bed when ar-
rested. Most of those persons are rather respect-
able in their line of business, and their arrest has
caused considerable excitement in the neighbour-
hood. The rural districts are almost entirely free
from the taint of Fenianism, except in a few cases
where they are contaminated by emissaries from the
neighbouring towns.
At tke opening of the Waterford Assizes yester-
congr congratulated nay, Byron Deasy
the lightness of the calendar the
e tranquillity
on
the county. Similar congratulations were ad-
dressed to the grand jury of 'Westmeath by the
Chief Justice of the Common Plc as.
At the Monaghan Assizes yesterday, Edward
Warirg Gray, son of the late I' r. Sam Gray, of
Ballylay, who has been in gaol since last July—
stood forward, charged with h ovine wilfully and
maliciously murdered Peter Shev lin on the 22d of
July last, in the town of Castleblaney. The pri-
soner came into Castleblaney with a large number