The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-17 00:00:00

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DIRECT NORTHERN LINE-FARRINGDON.
STREET EXT.L.NSION.
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(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Mr. Gibbs, an engineer; Mr. Seager, a distiller; and Mr. Green,
a surveyor, were then severally called, and gave rebutting evi-
dence against tha. Farringdon.street Extension, and the Com-
mittee adjourned.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, JULY 14.—There was a crowded meeting of the Asso.
elation to-day. The Liberator, accompanied by Capt. Broderick
and other members of the Committee, entered the Conciliation
Hall at half-past ten o'clock, and was received with the warmest
demonstrations of applause.
On the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, Counsellor
Loughnan took the chair.
Mr. RAY read letters from Mr. W. S. O'Brien, in answer to the
address voted to him.
After the dispatch of the business of the day, of no importance,
Mr. O'Coaieu. announced the rent for the week to be 318/.
Bs. 10d.
In the county of Cavan a young man was shot by the police,
under the circumstances described in the following letter in toe
Pilot ;
`• STRADONE, SUNDAY EVENING.—A homicide Was perpetrated
last night, about ten o'clock, at Lavey, within a mile of this town,
by the police, when on patrol. They met a few men on the
road at that place, who were out before their houses observing the
celebration of the
without further cause, they cc.
bonfires which blazed on the surrounding hills, in
anniversary of the 12th, and whom,
rested. A young man named Tierney, who was at the time quietly
enjoying himself by his own fireside, hearing that his neighbours
were made prisoners, ran out to inquire the cause, and before he
got within seven perches of the police, they fired upon him and
mortally wounded him—this morning terminating his existence.
The unhappy victim was a person of sncst excellent character, the
son and support of a widowed mother. The inquest will be held
this evening or to-morrow.
ENNISKILLEN, JULY 13._The 12th of July has passed over in
this town without the slightest disturbance of any kind—indeed a
feeling of cordiality and good-will appeare.l to pervade all classes of
the inhabitants.
THE MURDER OF Mit. BOOTH.
The following is appended to a letter of the Hon. Somerset R.
Maxwell, in the Dublin Eve:oin-f
coart House, Cavan, Saturday, July 12.
"An application being made to the grand jury on behalf of the
widow of the late Mr. Boot for Compensation under the fith and 7th
Wiliam IV., chap. 116, see. 106, evidence was adduced to prove
that the deceased was I nurdered on acoount of his exertions as a
magistrate to bring disturterS of the public peace to justice. After
a patient investigation, tha grand jury were unanimously of opinion
that the widow's claim we .5 fully made out, and they awarded her
five hundred pounds, to paid by four half-yearly instalments.
After some discussion as to the locality from which to levy this
sum, it was decided the t, as the Ribbon conspiracy from whence
the overt act in questiot i proceeded, more or less pervaded each
barony in the county,. • the sum should be levied on the county at
large. After some pet gress had been made in the examination,
the foreman suggested it, hat the facts elicited bore so strongly upon
the present state of th e county, that though they were only
dealing with a fiscal qv, estion, lie thought it most important that
the evidence should be c ommitted to writing, With a view to trans.
mit it to the Government 2.
I HE HARVEST.
There was a decided itet. •rovement in the weather to-day, calcu-
lated to allay the Apo, ittiprehenaions in the public mind for the

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