The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-03 00:00:00

SOUTHERN.

A special meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the office, Bishopsgate-street ; Mr. Graham
in the chair. _ _ _

The Secretary read the heads of a bill for antho- '
rising the company to make deviations and branches
from their authorised line. It would enable the
company to make a branch line connecting the
Southern Railway with the Killenaune collieries,
which were in full operation, and they expected a
large traffic. The contractor was in possession of
land for the first section of eight miles of the main
line, and the works were in pr ogress.
On the motion of the Chairman, a formal resolu-
tion approving the bill was carried unanimously,
and the proceedings terminated.

GOLD AND SILVER.—The value o
ported into the United Kingdom in the threehegold itn-
months
ending the 31st of March this year was computed at
£2,425,989, as compared with £2,851237 in 1865, and
£1,108,840 in 1861 (corresponding periods). The value of
t
the exports of gold from the United Kingdom in the three
months ending the 31st of March this year was computed
at £1,396,364, as compared with £1,470,514 in 1865, and
£3,811,806 in 1864 (corresponding periods). The value of
the silver imported into the United Kingdom in the three
months ending the 31st of March this year was computed
at £2,193,182, as compared with £1,770,238 in 1865, and
£3,639,590 in 1864 (corresponding periods). The value of
the silver exported from the United Kingdom to the 31st
of March this year was computed at £2,442,858, as com-
pared with £1,515,005 in 1865, and £3,511,480 in 1864
(corresponding periods).

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, May 2.
The remains of O'Neill, the murdered constable,
was honoured with a public funeral yesterday.
High mass was solemnised at Ann-street Chapel,
at which many priests and an immense concourse
of people assisted. The hearse was followed thence
to Glasnevin Cemetery by 200 members of the me-
tropolitan force walking three deep. Nearly 100
vehicles followed, bearing the friends of the de-
ceased and others, who wished thus to mark their
abhorrence of the crime by which poor O'Neill lost
his life. Another reason for the peculiar distinc-
tion for a man in such a humble rank is pro-
bably thelact that he belonged to one of the nume-
rous "confraternities" which exist among the Ro-
man Catholics of Dublin, and the members of which
make it one of their special duties to procure fune-
ral honours for their departed brethren. In addition
to the general bond of union in the Roman Catholic
Church, there is a very extensive organisation of
brotherhood for mutual benefit and for purposes of
charity, in which the visitation of the sick and the
burial of the dead are regarded as the most impor-
tant. A large number of the metropolitan force are
active members of these religious societies—a fact
which some Protestants think renders them liable to
be too much under the control of their clergy.
The detectives have not yet succeeded in finding
Kearney. The impression is that he is screened by
the Fenian Brotherhood. The police have arrested
his brother, Patrick Kearney, and a boy named
Campbell, who worked in the same forge with the
accused. The brother was found with a quantity of
ammunition in his room, evidently prepared for re-
sistance, for be had in his pocket a six-chambered
revolver loaded and capped, and £lO in money, for
which he was unable to account. A subscription list
has been opened for the benefit of Mrs. O'Neill and
her orphan children. Yesterday the sergeant-major
of the Coldstream Guards set the example, by wait-
ing on the Commissioners of Police with a letter of
condo:ence for the widow from the non-commissioned
officers and men, and a sum of six guineas which
they had contributed.

The military authorities have ordered a court of
inquiry to assemble at the Royal Barracks this day,
before which all the soldiers reported out of quarters
on Saturday night must appear, in order to test the
truth of the report that two soldiers were in the as-
sassin's company when the murder was committed.
Yesterday 12 Fenian prisoners were brought from
the county gaol, Limerick, to the Mountjoy prison,
Dublin. They were conveyed in the prison van to
the railway station, each prisoner, while passing
from the van to the carriage, being firmly held by
the collar between two constables. As there were
40 young men in custody, and it was not known
which of them were to be removed, their relatives
assembled in large numbers, and there was great
lamentation at their departure.
Mr. John Brennan, a native of Bray, who had
made a large fortune in America, and came home to
spend a large portion of it on buildings in his na-
tive town, died rather suddenly yesterday morning
at his residence, Sea-point. It was he who built
the International Hotel at Bray. He also caused
the erection of a terrace called by his name, and
several other fine buildings. It is said that there
will be an inquiry into the cause of his death.

May was ushered in with a bitter east wind and
a considerable fall of snow, which greatly marred
the enjoyment of the Curragh races, which com-
menced yesterday, and were attended by the Lord-
Lieutenant, Lady Wodehouse, and a large number
of officers and people of distinction from Dublin
and the neighbouring counties.
Col. Buchanan, Royal Artillery, having relin-
quished the command of the Royal Artillery in Ire-
land for the purpose of proceeding to India with a
portion of the Bth Brigade during the present sea-
son, his place will be taken by Col. T. B. F. Mar-
riott, who arrived in Dublin yesterday.