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

IREL AND,

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 Ncrth-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 Mount; oy 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 residing 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
lEustace, 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 IV estern Star, 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-
inallock workhouse ; a second, Mr. Thos. Hartnet,
an independent farmer, from near Newcastle west ;
and the third, Mr. Michael Condon, also a respee,
able farmer from. the same neighbourhood. On pass-
ing through the streets to the prison muchsynapathy
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

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DO VEIL
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 £2,813, 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 £31,438, against £23,963, 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 3 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.

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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.

THE 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.

Royal Polytee',nie Institution.

The ordinary general meeting of the shareholders
was held on Saturday at the institution ; the Rev. J.
B. 0 wen in the chair.
After the usual preliminary business,
A SHAREHOLDER complained that the report of
the directors had not been sent out and circulated
among the shareholders with the balance-sheet, &C.
The CHAIRMAN said he did not think that could
be done with a view to economy, but there would be
no difficulty in future in publishing a summary of
such reports.

The CHAIRMAN then said it was with deep regret
he had to announce that, in consequence of a very
severe indisposition, Mr. Pepper had not been able
to attend at the institution for several days past, and
as the same cause prevented his being present that
day he had sent a report to the board of directors,
which he (the chairman) would read to the meeting.
The chairman then read the report. Professor
Pepper regretted that the public had not come for-
ward to support the institution during the last
six months as they had in the corresponding period
in 1864. This he attributed in a great degree to the
intense heat which' prevailed during the lastsummer
and the disagreeable weather during the Christmas
liolilayo. As an illustration of the effect which the

weather has upon the receipts of the institution, Pro-
fessor Pepper drew attention to the fact that a seri-
ous diminution of receipts was sustained during the
late three days' snow. After referring to some of the
principal entertainments during the last six months,
Professor Pepper remarked that the portion of the
public really appreciating scientific discourses was
very small compared with the majority, who require
the light entertainments to be at a maximum and
scientific lectures at a minimum. The laboratory
had been further utilised by the delivery of regular
courses of lectures on electricity, geology, and che-
mistry. The chairman said he was happy to add to
the report of Professor Pepper that since Christmas
the new exhibitions had been wonderfully successful.
He took the last week as an instance, when they
cleared £2B ; whereas in the corresponding week last
year they lost £3O, which shows a difference of £5B.
From the public approbation which the new enter-
tainment had gained he thought they might look
forward to a much better report at the end of the
current half year. From the report of the directors,
which the chairman next read, it appeared that the
receipts for the past half year had been considerably
less than the corresponding period, the cause of
which the directors believed was as stated in Pro-
fessor Pepper's report. Notwithstanding, however,
the heavy undertakings taken in hand during the