The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 20.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Massilia, Captain Lockie, with the heavy Bom-
bay mails, arrived this evening. She brings 35
passengers ; 11 packages specie, value £3,139 ; pre-
cious stone, 6,000 rupees ; and a general cargo, con-
sisting of 482 bales cotton, 292 bales 469 boxes silk,
1,271 chests tea, 95 chests oranges, 23 casks wine,
and 43 packages sundries.
The Massilia experienced along the coast of Por-
tugal a strong north-easterly gale and heavy sea ;
across the Bay of Biscay heavy squalls of rain and
sleet with tremendous north-west swell, and up the
Channel dark, squally weather, with moderate
breezes.

On the 19th the Massillia exchanged signals with
the Pero., bound to Alexandria with the outward
mails of the 12th, and on the 21st with the British
brig Queen, steering eastward ; also with a man-of-
war, supposed French, standing east, under steam
and sail.

The usual Egyptian squadron was at Alexandria.
Her Majesty's ship Pelican left Alexandria on the
12th for Beyrout.
The Victoria, Hibernia, Caledonia, Gibraltar,
Royal Oak, Resistance, Enterprise, Hydra, Cocka-
trice, Psyche, and Wizard, wee at Malta.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Feb. 26.

On Saturday, six more soldiers, W. Price, D.
Lyons, and W. Curry, privates, belonging to the
87th regiment ; J. Hughes, 75th regiment ; and D.
Kinchela, alias J. Kelly, Royal Artillery, all on
furlough in this city, were arrested on a charge of
having deserted from their regiments and joined the
Fenian Brotherhood. Subsequently to the arrests,
the police having received information that some of
the persons arrested as civilians at Pilsworth's pub-
lichouse in James's-street were soldiers in disguise,
they proceeded to the prison in which they are con-
fined, and discovered that the men who had given
their names as Thomas O'Brien and Wm. Thomp-
son were in reality two deserters from the sth Dra-
goon Guards, named James Wilson and Martin
floynes. The police also arrested a man named
James M'Grath at the North-wall on Saturday, on
a charge of Fenianism.
The men Cullen, Lawlor, Lyons, and Byrne, re-
cently arrested in Townsend-street under the sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus, were•conveyed on
Saturday night under a strong escort of police from
the College-street Station to Mountjoy prison. The
prisoners confined in Chancery-lane Station have
not yet been removed.

An important arrest has been made in the County
Carlow. The Express correspondent says :—" After
several mouths' searching, by night and day, John
Morris, the famous Head Centre for Carlow, was
arrested this morning at the house of his uncle, Ned
Nolan, a farmer residinn. at Kilmaglash, near My-
shal. By the arrest of this outlaw the Fenian cause
in this part of the country has got a serious check,
as there is reason to suppose that he was one of the
most active agents engaged in the treasonable con-
spiracy." £lOO reward had been offered for his
apprehension. The arrest was very cleverly effected.
At Ballinasloe yesterday morning, the same jour-
nal reports:--" Shortly after 2 o'clock, Sub-inspec-
tor Sweeny, accompanied by Head-constable Ellis,
and a party of constabulary, proceeded to make a
number of arrests. The parties at the time were in
their beds, and no resistance was made. Their names
were:—John Martin, butcher; Michael Clarke,
stonemason, just returned from America ; John
Eustace, baker; and Timothy Connor, shoemaker,
late agent for the Irish People. The parties were
brought to the police barracks, where our active re-
sident magistrate, Mr. John M. Hatchell, was in
waiting, and they were soon transmitted to Bride-
well, where they remain at present with two sub-
constables on sentry. The loyal people of this town
on proceeding to their various places of worship were
greatly annoyed to hear of their arrests, though
most of them expected such a result. It is expected
that more arrests will speedily be made, and that
disclosures will be made involving parties entirely
unsuspected. The country in the meanwhile remains
in a disquieted state, and the general desire is that
troops should be sent here and to Loughrea. The
local paper, the TVesternStar, has several times called
on the Executive to send a couple of companies here,
but we are still left to the protection of the police."

Accounts from Limerick state that some Fenians
were brought in by train from the country on Satur-
day and confined in the same prison with all the
other suspected Fenians taken up during the week
under the suspended Habeas Corpus Act. One of
the prisoners is named Wall, schoolmaster of Kil-
mallock workhouse ; a second, Mr. Thos. Hartnet,
an independent•farmer, from near Newcastle west ;
and the third, Mr. Michael Condon, also a respect-
able farmerfrom the same neighbourhood. On pass-
ing through the streets to the prison much sympathy
was expressed for them by the crowds who congre-
gated at all public thoroughfares to see them.
A respectable young man from Rathcoole, ar-
rested yesterday under the same act, was also
brought in and committed to the county gaol. It is
said that great influence has been used to admit
some of the parties to bail. The board of military
officers, which has been sitting here for the last
fortnight by adjournments, have not yet concluded

their labours. Some civilian witnesses have given
their evidence in such a vague way as to cause order
after order to be issued for " further inquiries,"
and this has prolonged the sittings. It is now said
that the testimony taken down by the Court will
involve other non-commissioned officers besides the
four under arrest. A young man named Dwyer
was arrested this evening on suspicion of being
Geary, who fired at the head-constable in Rath-
keale, but was discharged. The trial of Sergeant
Darragh at Cork had not concluded on Saturday.
The 41st half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
of the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Com-
pany was held on Saturday at the Company's office,
Talbot-street, Mr. John Barlow in the chair. The
chairman, in moving the adoption of the report,
explained the various propositions that bad been
made to the directors of the Dublin and Drogheda
Railway Company for an amalgamation of the two
lines. A discussion followed, after which the report
was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 1i per
cent. was declared.

MONDAY EVENING.

This morning the orderly-officers and sergeant-
majors in the Dublin garrison inspected the Fenian
prisoners, and identified five, arrested in civilian
clothes, as deserters from their regiments in Eng-
land. They were delivered handcuffed to the mili-
tary authorities.
Three publicans and another man were arrested
this morning at Sligo.

Sergeant Campbell, of the Antrim militia, and
two other men, were arrested to-day in Belfast ;
also a man named Murphy, in Cork, and another
at Kinsale.

Ten casks of powder, weighing 25 pounds each,
and 1,000 yards of fuzee, have been seized in
Kilkenny.

The Carlow " head-centre," for whose appre-
hension a reward was offered, has been taken in
Belfast.

A sergeant of the Antrim militia has been arrested
hi Cork.

In Bantry and other places several arrests are
reported.
Five persons recently arrived here, have been re-
cognised as deserters. One has been handed over
to the military authorities, and the others remanded
for further examination.

The constable wounded in Tipperary, although
he received three shots, is progressing favourably.
Geary, who fired on the constable, still eludes the
police.

A constable was stabbed in Carrick-on-Suir
last night while arresting a fellow for using treason-
able expressions.
On Saturday upwards of 80 members of the
Stephen's-green Club entertained the Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland at a banquet. This entertainment
was intended as a marked compliment to Mr. For-
tescue prior to his departure from Ireland for his
official duties in London.

Railway and other Companies.

STRATFORD-ON-AVON.

The directors of this company have determined
to declare a dividend for the past half-year at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum.

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DO VER.

The report of the directors states that the gross
receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of Decem-
ber last upon all the lines owned and worked by the
company had been £271,134, against £237,225 for
the corresponding half of 1864, showing an increase
of £33,909, or 14.3 per cent. The working ex-
penses amounted to £143,823, or 53 per cent.,
against £124,124 in the same half of 1864, showing
an increase of £19,700. The receipts of the gene-
ral undertaking amounted to £206,116, against
£182,249, showing an increase of £23,867, or 13.10
per cent. The receipts of the Metropolitan Exten-
sions during the half-year amounted to £62,876,
against £47,923 in same half of 1864, showing
an increase of £14,952, or 31.20 per cent. The
average receipts per mile of the general un-
dertaking in the half-year had been £2, 843 , as against
£2,514 for the corresponding half of 1864. The
average receipts per mile of the Metropolitan Ex-
tensions had been £5,240, against £4,167 per mile
in 1864. The receipts of the steamboats during the
half-year had been £36,646, and the expenditure
£24,386, including £2,500 carried to the reserve
and insurance fund, which now amounted to £15,562.
The balance of the revenue account of the general
undertaking amounted to £91,024, and for the cor-
responding half of 1864 to £80,544, showing an
increased profit of £10,480 in the past half-year.
The balance of revenue on the Metropolitan Exten-
sion amounted to 131,438, against 123,963, showing
an increased profit of £7,475. The total number
of passengers conveyed on the company's railway
and branch lines was 5,123,038, being 759,374 more
than in the corresponding half of 1864. Of this
number 629,632 were carried on the Metropolitan
Extension, and 132,742 on the other lines of the
company. Great frequency and regularity in the
running of trains were conditions absolutely essential
to the existence of traffic, especially in the metro-
politan district. On the city section the two addi-
tional lines between Loughborough Junction and
the Elephant Castle, a distance of 1 mile 65 chains,
were completed. The Great Northern Company,
as a temporary measure, ran trains to Ludgate sta-
tion, and only awaited the completion of the widen-
ings south of the river to continue those trains to
Victoria and the Crystal Palace. Arrangements
had been made under which the Borough goods
traffic of the Great Northern Company would be
carried on to the Blackfriars Station, and goods and
coal trains would commence to run through between
the systems on the Ist of March. The capital ac-
count of the main line showed that £4,789,465 had
been expended ; of the Metropolitan Extensions
£6,182,515 ; of the Victoria Station improvements
£470,718; and of the city lines £1,125,147 had been
expended.
MID-KENT.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the office, iVestrainster-chambers; Mr.
L. Simpson in the chair.
The report stated that the purchase money of the
line should by this time have been paid by the South
Eastern Company, but all the endeavours of the
directors of the Mid-Kent to obtain a settlement as
yet had been unsuccessful. Fresh negotiations had
been opened, which the directors trusted would result
in a speedy settlement of the questions in dispute
between the two companies.
The report was adopted unanimously, and a divi-
dend of £3 ss. per cent. for the past half-year was
declared on the ordinary capital, payable on the
28th inst.

The retiring director, Mr. Makins, and retiring
auditor, Mr. Room, were re-elected, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.

RAILWAY BILLS.

Before Mr. Smith yesterday in the case of the Cork
Harb9ur and Curraghbinny Extension the stand-
ing orders were not complied with. For the Wol
verhampton and Walsall there was no appearance.
The Aberdare Northern Bill was postponed until
March 7.
Before Mr. Frere the Swansea Union Bill com
plied with the standing orders. The Merthyr,
Tredegar, and Abergavenny was postponed. The
West Cork, Cork and Bandon, Cork and Kinsale
Junction, and Cork Maroom Direct (Arrangement),
was adjourned till Friday next, and the Tamar, Kit
Hill, and Callington until the 12th of March. In
the case of the Sheffield, Buxton, and Liverpool
there was no appearance.
Yesterday the Referees' court was opened for the
consideration of the locus standi of parties in respect
of Gas, Water, and a University Bill. The rail-
way bills will not be considered before Monday
next.

HEALTH OF THE MASTER OF TRINITY.—Dr.
Humphrey was in attendance upon Dr. Whewell
during the whole of Sunday night. Yesterday morning
consciousness returned sufficiently to enable the Master to
state that the accident was the result of the sudden start-
ing of his horse, and not as was at first apprehended of his
seizure by a fit. The Master is pronounced much better,
and strong hopes are entertained that the dangerous crisis
has passed. The inquiries at Trinity Lodq Jaye 'Won
most 'tumorous.

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Monday.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Helena, drove in the grounds this
morning.

TIIE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords
yesterday afternoon.
The Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess
of Macclesfield, took a carriage drive.