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• i ptsworate. 4 upon the jeople to purchase the bonds of the Irish Republic, and that in 60 days from that time the blow wov ld be struck for MAI independence. I attended meetings of the organisations subsequent to March, 1866. I saw the bonds of the Irish Re public circulated at the meetings. The object of the other meetings that I attended at, as expressed by the mombers of the organisation, was to raise money on the Fenian bonds. I heard John O'Alahony state at one of the meetings that he hoped to have sufficient money to enable Stephens to commence fighting by the fall of 1865. I ceased to be an active member of the organization after March, 1866. Previous to that I held the position of secretary to a circle. The circle was called the Rogers' Circle. Thomas F. Burke succeeded Rogers as District Centre for Manhattan. This witness was cross examined by Mr. Butt, but without shaking the effect of his evidence. John J. Congdon was then examined by the Attorney-General. He repeated the evidence given by him on the previous trial with reference to his being in the Federal army, and his connection with the Fenian organisation. He stated that in the month of August, 1865, he was sent by J. O'Ma hnny, the head of the conspiracy in America, to Ireland. After coming to Dublin he attended a meeting in the house of J. Doniffe, a tailor, in South Anne-street, where he and the officers with him met Stephens, Rossa, Duffy, Brophy, and other men who held high positions in the organisation. He proved he met the prisoner, M'Afferty, in Dublin, in February, 1866. He was introduced to witness as C. - tptain M'Afferty, of the Confederate or rebel army, who had served in Morgan'3 guerillas. There was no statement made at that time that he belonged to the Fenian Brotherhood. All the others present were Fenians. Met several Fenian officers fre quently while he remained in Dublin. Saw Colonel Kelly, Gen. Halpin, and others. Met a person named John Flood. E. Duffy was the Fenian 1 or ganizer for the province of Connaught. Witness I was sent to Liverpool and ordered to remain there. He was receiving Fenian pay at the time. Captain O'Rorke, who was known by the name of Beecher, was paymaster. Met the prisoner next in Liver pool, January, 1862. Saw him with Colonel Kelly, John Joseph Rogers, Captain Dunne, and others. Saw them at a meeting in Brickfield-street, in Liverpool, one of the head-quarters of the Fenians. They - stated that Stephens did not mean to fight, and that they would not put up with his nonsense any longer, as they had come to have a fight. M'Afferty was at that meeting, and was near enough to hear that statement. In the month of February be again saw the prisoner in Liverpool. Late in January there was a meeting in Liverpool about forming a directory. There were only American officers present. Captain O'Rorke, who was in the chair, stated that the organizers had come to the conclusion that Stephens did not intend to tight. He wanted them to depose Stephens, and they them selves to constitute the authority of the Irish Re public. He further told them that the Head Centre in England, Flood, left there by Stephens's instruc tions, and bad joined the directory as well as Capt. M'Afferty. He wanted to know if the American officers then in Liverpool would sanction the names of M'Afferty and Flood as members of the directory. The meeting agreed to the names being adopted. ' Saw AltAfferty and Flood in Liverpool about the 7th or 9th of February. A meeting of Fenians was held afterwards, at which they stated that they came from London, representing the directory. They stated that they brought some money amount ing to about £2O, which was for the purpose of paying the way of the officers there to Chester, where the Castle was to be seized on the following Monday. The witness proceeded to give evidence as to his having given information to the authorities. About 500 persons had got into the train at Birken head to go to Chester, when a man named Gibbons spoke to witness and said that he had been directed by Capt. M'Afferty and the Fenian authorities in Chester to tell all hands to go back, as " the affair" was sold. Witness was afterwards sent to Dublin to await further orders. A meeting was held in a small shed near the canal, off Brunswick-street, at which information was given with reference to the night when the rising was to take place. Wit ness was directed to go to Mill-street, in the county of Cork. The meeting was held about a week be fore the rising. At a meeting in the Z iological gardens in Liverpool, O'Rorke paid 30s. to each of the officers in order to keep them in Ireland until the rising a ould take place. O'Rorke stated that there would be French and German officers to bead the rising in Ireland. Ile did not say what the movement would be. They were all to receive in structions, O'Rorke said, when they got to Dublin. The prisoners Flood and Edward Duffy were then put forward and identified by the witness. This witness was cross-examined at much length by Mr. Dowse, Q.C., but nothing of importance was elicited. Mary Anne Day was then called, but in conse quence of a misdescription it was ruled that her evi dence could not be heard. She was described as an innkeeper at Chester, but it appeared that her mother, Mrs. Evans, was the keeper of the King's Head Inn, an 1 she (witness) hal no share in the profits of the establishment. Mr. Bray, examined by Mr. Macdonogh —I am a detective officer in the city of Chester. I know the prisoner. I was on duty in the city of Chester on the 11th of February. I first stw him between and 6 o'clock on the evening of that thy. I saw him at the railway station in company with another man. I saw the other man several times during the ilay, (The prisoner Flood was then put forward and identified.) I first saw Flood about 9 o'clock in the morning on the railway platform. I did not see M'Afferty there. About 30 men came by the train that came in from Liverpool at half-past 9 o'clock. They appeared to be working men. They all left the station together. I saw Flood addressing those men. He went among them and spoke to them, and then went away. The men then left the plat form and then went up the town. By the next train about 100 men of asirnilar appearance came to Ches ter, and went in a body up the town. I remained at the railway station till 12 o'clock. Several trains from Manchester and Warwick came in in the mean time, and about SO people, apparently working men, came by each. They kept together in bodies, and went up the City-road. I remained at the station and saw other trains coming in. Numbers of per sons came in by each train. There wereabout 00 of the same class of persons by those trains. They kept in bodies. 1 went into the city and soon came back to the railway station, where I remained for about two hours. About three trains came in during that time, and numbers of men came by them. About 4 o'clock I went to the police office again, then to the railway station. Between 5 and 6 o'clock a train came in from Manchester, via Crewe. There were men in the carriages, but they did not get out. A few came out. I saw both M'Afferty and Flood at that time. I saw them speaking to the persons iu the train and those on the platform. All compart ments of the carriages were filled. They appeared to be through passengers from Holy head. I don't know where M'Afferty and Flood went to. They did not go away by the train. I was at the station again about 7 o'clock, and I remained there till 12 o'clock at night. While there I saw M'Afferty and Flood. I saw them go into a train for Birkenhead. Next day I assisted in making a search near the railway station, and I found a large quantity of ball cartridges in the railway field, and a nutnta.r of pistols and bullet moulds in the canal. Altogether about 1,200 or 1,300 strangers came into the town that day. I saw some of them going by the Liver pool and some by the Manchester trains. About 4,000 of thc Guards came to Chester that day. I know the Castle of Chester. I know there was a large quantity of arms of various kinds belonging to her Majesty i u t h e Castle. I saw them on the pre vious Friday. There were about 100 soldiers there at the time. The volunteers at Chester were under arms early on that day. The Lord Chief Justice—ls the Castle a strong place ?—No, my lord. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. B u tt , b ut nothing important was elicited. The Court adjourned at 20 minutes past 6 o'clock till 10 o'clof:k this morning. The Special Commission for the trial of Fenian prisoners- was opened at Cork, yesterday i n th e , " I EILIE SUN" NEWSPAPER.—" The Mitre" Taytrn, ew Church-street, near the Alpha-road, l'addirLton.—Nir PIZZ (homy yenta of t.hurth stree hairtnz taken the Above flusincss of Air. Fred. 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They may possibly be re luctant to make any concessions to law, to autho rity, or even to public opinion, but they can scarcely think it dignified for themselves' or creditable to rioterscau e t a o n d become r baesrs:coifa the t e d p i n e a t c h e e . p u T l h )l e i r mind with their pro ceedings received the somewhat undeserved honour of occupying the attention of Parliament fora consider able period last evening, and though no very definite conclusion was arrived at, Mr. WALPOLE declared that the Government were a • • roams to avoid any un necessary collision with the people, while taking all possible precautions to repress any disturbance. It seems that there will be no inter • f creme with the proceedings of the Leaguers unless there is some disturbance or riot, though the Government will have a sufficient police force in reserve, and permis sion has been given to the residents • inthe vicini • • tyof the Park to be sworn • in as special constables. These pre cautions are not so unnecessary B as r. RIGHT appears to think, since the cost of reglazing the window frames of a large West-end house is an unwelcome expense to some householders, notwithstanding that it may assume the form of a forced contribution to the Reform League. Mr. BRIGHT has come for ward as the champion of the Leaguers, and made a lengthened speech in their behalf, but as he also presented a petition on behalf of the Fenians his advocacy lost something of its value. Mr. BRIGHT holds that great meetings in England are never provocative of breaches of the peace. Whether the Leaguers' demonstration came under the head of " great meetings" or not may be uncertain, but if the hon. member for Birmingham, in his monopoly of the study of history, has not altogether overlooked the records of his own time, he may remember that some five years ago liyde Park was the theatre of a series of " great meetings" to demonstrate popular sympathies respecting GARIBALDI and the PorE. Sunday after Sunday the Park was the scene of riot and serious disturbance. No toler ably respectable person could pass through it in safety, and severe injuries were in many cases received' It was the stronghold of ruffianism till the respectable half of London lost patience, and vigorous measures were taken to put it down ; and, if we remember rightly, it was forthwith resolved that no more meetings should be permitted in the Park. Mr. BRIGHT asks " whether any number of persons have not a perfect right to enter the Park ?" And taking the affirmative for granted, he goes on to ask " whether they have not the right of standing shoulder to shoulder, and of expressing their opinions in a loud voice ?" A very loud voice it must be if a hundredth part of the hundred thousand men he would allow to assemble are to hear two words of what is said. But who believes that the demonstration of Monday is intended for the delivery of speeches, which could be very much better heard in the Agricultural Hall or some other large building. We cannot think Mr. BRIGHT free from blame in citing the conse quences to the Government of Louis PHILIPPE in refusing their sanction to the proposed banquets, and we should think he had lived long enough in London to know the sort of characters which every mixed and noisy company attracts in the public thoroughfares. Iu the case of great public proces sions the cause of order is always safely left to the public themselves, but the very classes who keep order on sight-seeing days, the steady mechanics, the sober artisans out with their families, and the general body of the working classes, will be the very ones who will keep away from Monday's demonstration. The roughs, and idlers, and pick pocketA will probably muster in strong force, hoping for an opportunity for riot and plunder, and the collection of these worthies at the Weit-end is not a very creditable object of ambition. We are glad to find that Mr. GLADSTONE has thrown his influence into the scale, and, after his appeal to them last night, the Reform League have an excellent excuse for altering their programme. The good sense and justice of Mr. GLADSTONE'S remarks were indisputable. The working men, as a body, were, he said, as loyal as any members of that House, but it was not consistent with the duty of such persons to place themselves in conflict with those who were responsible for the execution of the law. lie advised them to conform to the wishes of the Government; " so much, at least, of respect is due to the Government as the adminis trators of the law, from the private individual, the loyal subject of the QUEEN." Both sides of the house, said Mr. GLADSTONE, fully agreed upon this question, and we miy hope his opinion will have weight. The members of the League can scarcely wish to get mixed up in a discreditable disturbance, especially as they have no shadow of a ground for just complaint. They have been allowed to hold meetings in Trafalgar-square, to form processions through the streets, and they have had the use of some of the great city halls. If the object was to prevent them from discussing the Government measure, it would certainly not be attained by keeping them out of the Parks. But no English Government would dream of such a hopeless effort. Mr. BRIGHT says that, had it not been for these meetings, the Conservatives would not have introduced a Reform Bill, and would, conse quently, not now occupy the Government benches. This is another instance of the hon. gentleman's short ness of political memory, since the Reform League was not heard of in 1859. We cannot think that the present agitation is at all likely to further the inte rests of Reform, and we are not surprised that Mr. IVALrotx should have received a memorial signed by some thousands of persons against it. The ambition of Englishmen has always hitherto been to combine political liberty with universal respect for law. The desire of the Leaguers appears to be the substitution of what Mr. NEATE caljed " A Parliament in the streets," in which the noisiest and most aggressive become the most important. The announcement which the Chancellor of the Exchequer made to the House last night concerning the course which the Government would take about the inestion of residence is just what was expected by all parties, and it is one that is so evidently suggested by common sense that there is scarcely any need to comment upon it. The Ministry have resolved to defer to the decision of the committee. There was little or no excitement in the House when the decision was made known, because it was pretty generally anticipated, but of course a few remarks were made. Mr. lioesmAN, vexed that all his efforts to put au end to discussions upon Reform for this year were unavailing, took care to quote from the letter which Mr. DisitAlim had sent to his supporters previous to the division ; but this was soon disposed of by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. These observa tions upon past doings and speeches seem quite the rage just now ; but it is a very idle sort of argu ment at the best, and in the present instance it was an inconclusive one, because Mr. GLADSTONE'S amendments were framed so as to upset the Government if carried, and it was :essential that they should be met with a direct negative. It was the more unfair of the latter to go on in this wanner, because it infused a wrong element into the Committee, and rendered the consideration of the bill a party question, instead of A subject upon which the House met to consider upon common grounds of interest and importance. At any rate the diffi culty has been got over, and that is the chief thing to think of, and all other inconveniences are quite of secondary consideration in the matter. Mr. Dis- RAELI expressed the regret which the Government experienced in having to relinquish their proposal for a two years' residence, but he said also, which was very true, that " every candid mind must feel that the course which they bad taken, upon due con sileration, was one consistent with their character as men of honour and the duty which they owed to their country and the Crown." We consider the remarks of Mr. HonsmAN as factious and ill-timed, and those who think of following in his track had better look to the importance of the question at issue, and not perplex those who have already enough on their hands. Mr.DISIZAELI also explained that the Government would insert au amendment iu clause three to remove all " ambiguity" as to the position of the compound householders, and a clause will be moved to repeal the section of Sir W. CLAY'S Act in reference to compounders and ten pounders. All things taken into account the Reform Bill h as made be long b great progr ess efore i t is got through w week, and we trust it w ill notugh committee and sent up to the House of Lords, for the public will naturally rejoice at so significant a sign of its pro gress as this will afford. To do this will rest with the House, for the Government are sure to make all needful exertions in the matter. " Strange age that thus offers a premium for crime," was said by one who exposed the fallacies of the present day respecting the high consideration in which criminals were held, and really Mr. BRIGHT, and those hon. members who followed suit to him last night respecting the Fenian prisoners, fully exemplified that description. A petition was presented by Mr. BRIGHT which was couched in such extraordinary terms that we are not surprised that a motion was made that it should not be allowed to lie on the table of the House. It was as well that this was not agreed to, for fear of misrepresentation on the subject, ' but the protest was certainly not unreasonable. Those who drew up the petition were either grossly ignorant or absurdly indifferent. They actually said that those who were made prisoners were men " whose cause and offence were alike free from dis honour." This was a curious definition of those who are committing the offence of high treason, and endeavouring to subvert the Government of the country. This is not all, however, for the petitioners furthermore declared that the state of Ireland, in some degree, justified the course which the Fenians pursued, and wound up their claim by demanding that the said Fenians should be treated on the principles of " honourable warfare." 4g So are they all, all honourable men," may well be added in connection with them, we suppose ; but really we think Mr. BRIGHT should know better than to put himself forward in such a cause. We are not surprised that Lord NAAS should declare that the statements respecting the treatment of Fenian prisoners were much exaggerated, for we should have come to the same conclusion without any answer being officially given. It is quite contrary to the usual any great hardship inflicted, and as for the notion management of convict prisons th at there should be that the object was to degrade the prisoners that is quite absurd, because in the sig ht of our im p artial judges they are degraded by conviction, the offences of which they are convicted, and it would be a vio lation of the laws to consider them as prisoners of war. Those who persist in these exaggerated state ments, and use this inflated language, have a great deal to answer fur, and they do a great deal of mischief, unintentionally no doubt, but not less surely. It is high time that this folly should cease ; and we are sure of one thing, that if there has been an error of judgment on the part of the authorities in Ireland, it has been on the side of d too a I m s _u cane h eleniencyucy, be to wit ads the misguided added,indivi that has me t w ith no return whatever, but seems rather to have been taken advantage of to prosecute further plans, and to plunge still deeper into the plots devised against the Executive. . r 1: .'.a THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV ENIN9, MAY 4, 1867. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOND ENT. ) PARIS, Frid ay E vening. Some and pa anxietypers which a f ew d ays ago . at the p rospect of expressedysamseee deep seem to h t t oh e e equally sorry that a pacific arrange ment is almost a natter o f cert ainty. This position of affairs stops the g ame of .fabri ca ti ng sensation and alarming reports, which, like the r azor o f P eter Paris jou r - Pi" papers. Thus r's razor a m roan, a l N l v portion ere made " to sell" t h e i r o f the nals, and a few of the G erman papers, spread a re port that Prussis has not agreed to the evacuation of Luxembourg, but has consented to the Confer ence without at all pledging herself to adopt the concession of that point, as the basis upon which the discussions of the Conference are to be founded. Other journals, which do not go so far as to deny the adoption of the preliminary step of conciliation by Prussia, endeavour to detract from its importance and value by argu ing that the details of the question, when discussed, before Prussia ss the a Conference will raise up obstacles of the most serious c h aracter, and again place the question of peace or war i n the balance. soa I shall ere deliverc cAnothercommences m argumentmtheencesfortressthe discussion, ti i s s c , oun t s h es that ot and n fo unless , it will prove pa unlessper ( t compelled.he/ nd e - po ; nil that d ath she n ece NN. oß i t l h, l ieg n re o ) t do aa i de s ,r o tas afterwards l l e matter in two sittings. rity, that all will run so smoothly- that goodthe c a o u n t f h e o r -- ti o n s h ou ld b e con fi ne d e r n h c i es may will bew well able l b e e toif settlethe a u t e he s to Luxembourg, and the large c i rc l e o f t h e many treaties be not entered up on , are conspicuous for their • National publishes a The evening papers inventions. The Avenir Ber lin, stating that Prussia pretended despatch from and that N. Bismarck not consent to the Con ference,Luxem- bourg were neutralised it might remain . • within the Zollverein. —.smarck declared if M. Jonas, Councillor of State, has remitted to the Minister of Foreign Affairs the letters which accredit him at the French Court as Charge d'Affaires of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Monseigneur F ur i nez, who lately resigned •the Bishopric of F arautaise, has been appointed canon of the first order t o t h e Imperial C h apter o f S t . Denis, in the room o f Mons. Cruice, decease d . On Wednesday morning the Emperor reviewed in the Court of the Tuileries and the Place Carrousal th e second division of the first corps d'armee (G enera l Decaen), the third brigade of the division of cavalry, the troops of artillery (General de Bentzma n ) , and several corps not brigaded. The whole of th ese troops were under the command of General of Division Soutuain, Commandant of the Place of Pa r i s , and were drawn up in nine lines. 11l successively passed before each line, Ills Majesty and was c or di a ll y greeted with cries of " L ong live the Empe ror !" " Lona live the Empress !" and " Long live the Imperial Prince !" The Emperor di s t r ib uted medals and decorations. His Majesty wa s accompanied by the Minis ter of W ar , M arshal Canro b er t, Com mandant of th e Fi rst Corps d'Artuee ; General Fleury, Grand E querry, Aide-de- C amp ; G enera l of Division de F a ill ey, Aide-de -Camp ; General de Courson, Chief of the General Staff of the First Corps d'Armee ; and the officers on service in the military household of the Emperor. A despatch from the Havannah states that Vice- Admiral de la Ronciere de Noury, ill command of the ironclad quad= of the Imperial navy , left . that port on the 27thof March for Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the same period the Themis, bear ing the flag of Vice-Admiral Didelot, had sailed for Port-au-Prince, from whence the news was satis factory. The provisional Government of General Nissage Saget appeared to afford guarantees of order, and the fear of a violent reaction was dis pelled for the present. Admiral Clone, on board the frigate Le Magellan, and followed by the gunboat Adonis, had again put to sea with the intention of proceeding direct to France. A tremendous storm, unexampled for violence, prevailed all day on Sunday last at Bordeaux, and the inundation in the streets stopped the circulation. It was about four in the afternoon that the storm was at its height. Trees were blown down and chimney-pots dashed to pieces, and houses were unroofed. No personal injury, however, was sus tained. In restoring a buiding at Sta,nz, in Switzerland, a beautiful fresco painting has been discovered, re presenting the descent from the Cross and the de posit of Christ in the tomb. This picture was executed in 1570, at the expense of M. Heing, the head of the Municipality of Uri, whose coat of arms and that of his wife figure in this ancient work of art. The colours are still fresh, and indeed it is altogether in good preservation. The police of Geneva, assisted by two bankers of that city, have just arrested some English malefac tors implicated in a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy. Among the number is a man named Sichmon, who fled from London about about a year ago, carrying away diamonds and other precious stones to the value of a million francs. The police of London had offered a reward of £2OO for the capture of this thief, and, it is said, went to New York after him, being deceived in consequence of his having left orders to have his letters directed to him at that city. The band consists of three men and two women. They were in possession of much valuable property, including a magnificent painting of Raphael, wbich the Marquis de Champana of Rome intrusted a few years ago to Sichmon to sell for him. This picture was valued in the catalogue at 800,000 fr. An English police-officer was expected at Geneva to take charge of Sichmon. Considerable excitement has been created at Lyons by the murder of M. Josephin Gouvalant under extraordinary circumstances. He was what is called un honinte d'affaires, that is to say, he kept an office in the Rue Ferraudicre, where both ladies and gentlemen went to consult him upon business of any kind. He found husbands for ladies and wives for gentlemen, servants for masters and masters for servants, and he acted as agent for the purchase or sale of property. M. Gouvalant was about 35 and unmarried. He had valuable jewellery and property of other kind at his house, and was fond of exhibiting his treasures. This will explain the motive of the crime which has thrown the city of Lyons into agitation. The mutilated body of the unfortunate man was found a day or two ago in the Rhone, not far from the city. The head was cut off. There was a mortal wound on the left breast, which the surgeons believe was inflicted during life. The arms and legs were cut from the body apparently by a skilful person. From certain circumstances the identification is complete. The deceased had been missing from his house since the 24th of April. On searching the house, it was dis covered that all his money and valuables had been taken away. It is not supposed that the deceased was murdered in his house, but the probability is that he was decoyed to some lonely spot and then murdered. The assassins took away his keys, which he was in the habit of carrying about with him, and then went to his house and carried off his property. The Lyons Courier says that there is reason for suspecting that a young woman of bad repute has played a principal character in this terrible drama, so surrounded with atrocity. The weather has been fine and warm to-day, without rain, but there are still indications of change and storm. The Exhibition has been much crowded to-day ; in fact, each day it increases in interest and attrac tion, in spite of a few ill-natured but foolish and impotent attempts to depreciate its grandeur and m agnificen ce. Iu the Legislative Body to-day an important communication was made on the part of the Go vertitnent, to the effect that Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, in accord with Hol land, had consented to a Conference to settle the difficulties relative to the Grand Duchy of Luxem bourg, on the principle of neutralisation, and that the Conference would assemble in London on Tues day next. The Origin of our Volunteer Army. - - TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your columns yesterday there appeared the report of a meeting convened to present a testi monial for services rendered in connection with the origin of the Volunteer movement. At that meet ing Lord Ranelagh seems to have made a most un necessary and wholly unprovoked attack on Capt. Hans Busk. I trust, therefore, that in common fairness, I miy be allowed space for a few observations in reply. Lord Ranelagh stated that Captain Busk took credit to himself for having been cheered in Hyde -park as " the originator of the Volunteers," on the occasion of the memorable review in June, 1860. Very little turns upon the fact, but that the circumstance re ferred did occur is sufficiently attested by the fol lowing paragraph which appeared in the Brighton Guardian of June 27, 1860, quoted, if I mistake not, from the limes :—"AN INCIDENT OF TIIK LATE REVIEW.—As the troops commenced their march past the Queen considerabl e i nterest and curiosity were manifested by many of the s p ectators to catch a glimpse of Captain Busk, who has attained such celebrity as the great authority of the day on all matters connected with the rifle. As the VICTORIA. RIFLES advanced with that manly bearing which so pre-eminently disauguish them from other Volun teer corps they were received with deafening cheers, and Captain Hans Busk was loudly greeted from various quarters as he was recognised at the head of his company. The spectacle displayed in Hyde Park on the 23d June was, unquestionably, the grandest that has been witnessed by the present generation, but for obvious reasons it must have been peculiarly gratifying to the gallant officer above alluded to." Lord Ranelagh further, by a garbled extract from one of Captain Busk's works, altogether per verting the author's meaning, took upon himself to affirm that Captain Busk bad spoken disparag ingly of volunteers in general. His lordship alto gether ignoring that the sole purport of the book was strenuously to urge the organisation of such forces, and with which it was that the raw materials of militia and line regiments were unfavourably contrasted, the reason given being, that as the latter troops must necessarily be taken from a class lower in the social scale, they could not be expected to be animated by the chivalrous feeling, the energy, or the indomitable pluck of an army having to so large an extent among its rank and file men of the same grade as the officers in line or militia regiments. That this was the meaning in which the passage was accepted is sufficiently obvious from a review by Mr. A. B. Richards himself, who, alluding expressly to the portion of the volume in question, thus wrote : " This is an admirable treatise, the concluding portion ought to be printed in gold, and hung over the chimney-piece of every man who has a spark of the old feeling of Crecy and Agincourt smouldering in hi 6 breast." Lord Ranelagh went on to say that " Captain Busk had better not have exhibited himself as originator, as he only di , ' it for SELF. He puts himself forward most improperly, and in a way not creditable to him." The first part of this sentence sounds strangely from one who at the very time was actually soli citing pecuniary contributions for a personal testi monial to a friend of his own ! The fact being, that on every occasion from 1860 up to the Ares: nt hour, when a similar recognition of Captain Busk's eminent and acknowledged services has been p o posed, he has invariably and persistently decliuLd to accept the smallest token of public gratitude, or any emolument of any description ; and at this moment, a considerable amount bang been sub- scribed, Captain Busk has most spontaneously and disinterestedly proposed that the fund should be devoted to the establishment of a lifeboat on the South Coast, instead of being presented, as in tended, to himself. As for Captain Busk " putting himself forward' in the matter, Lord Ranelagh is evidently ignorant of the fact that Captain Busk was known and ac knowledged from one end of the kingdom to the other as the " originator of the movement" years before any coadjutor in his great and important work had appeared upon the scene. In corrobora tion of this I might adduce overwhelming and con clusive evidence. I will, however, content myself with the following selections from an immense mass of similar testimony. Some six or seven years ago the Times, alluding to the origin of the Volunteer movement, stated : Several persons are vehemently contending for the honour of having taken the initiative in a move ment which has had so signal a success as to have produced a costless disciplined army of 150,000 marksmen. We have been appealed to, and names we have never heard of have been paced before us as deserving of public gratitude on this account. Of course no individual can have any claim to the merit of having originated this great work. It arose out of the circumstances and exigencies of the day, and it sprang from a unanimous feeling of the ne cessity of preparing for defence. The earliest and most strenuous advocate, however, of the Volunteer system, when in its infancy, was, so far as we know, Hans Busk, who has continued lecturing and writing and counselling upon this subject up to the present hour. He was, as we know, for some time alone in pressing the subject upon the public notice, and to him, if to anybody, credit is due for having laboriously aided at the birth of this institution. The Volunteer army, however, is not an invention, and no one has a right to patent it." The Law 7imes affirmed— " We can vouch for it that long before the subject had been mooted in the newspapers, or even whis pered in the columns of the Times, Captain Busk was actively recruiting in the hall of the Middle Temple, and successful in persuading a large num ber of its learned members to enlist, and that his exhortations were precisely those which the Times long afterwards urged so powerfully and with such excellent effect. That was undoubtedly the begin ning of the movement, and Captain Busk was as undoubtedly its author, and to him should the credit be given." We think the Government will do well to con. sider whether, while rewarding every bringer of a recruit to the regular army, while offering fees to recruiting sergeants, and commissions to gentlemen who induce 100 men to join the ranks, it might not advantageously confer some honourable mark Of distinction on the man who has brought to its sup port the services of 150,000 volunteers.—lllanchester Express. Captain Hans Busk, so well known as the suc cessful originator of thatgreat movement which has resulted in the establishment of an army numbering upwards of 130,000 men, delivered on Tuesday one of his popular lectures on "The Rifle, and How to Use it," at the Eastbourne Assembly Room.—East bourne Chronicle. Captain Busk is fairly entitled to the honour of having placed at her Majesty's disposal the most magnificent army which the world has ever seen, with the formation of which his name must conse quently ever be proudly associated. —Northern Ex press. Captain Bask was the advocate of this Volunteer movement before a ripple was discernible on the face of that ocean of opinion which is now moving onward in an irresistible tide, at a time, too, when the timid predicted failure and the witling ventured to sneer. Nobody sneers now.—Newcastle Express. At the close of an address at Leicester, the Mayor, proposing the best thanks of the meeting to Captain Busk for his interesting and most eloquent address, said Captain Busk was a national benefactor. They should recollect that he was the very earliest origi nator of this movement. They must aslo remem ber that he had consistently pursued his noble efforts in its behalf for many years at very consi derable personal inconvenience and expense to him se' f. —.Leicester Chronicle. Captain Hans Busk, not content with having converted us into a nation of soldiers through his unwearied advocacy of the Volunteer movement, the importance of which he was the first to point out, has been lecturing lately in various parts of the country on " Rifle Corps and Rifle Shooting" to very crowded audiences. —Brighton Herald. Captain Hans Busk,. who is incontestably the originator of the rifle movement in England, lately delivered a most admirable, instructive, and deeply interesting lecture on the above subject at Shrews bury.—Shrewsbury Journal. Yesterday evening Captain Hans Busk, THE ORIGINATOR OF THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT, gave a lecture on the above subject in the Exchange Hall.--Nottingham Express. "Is there one," says John Hunter, " whom diffi culties dishearten, who bends to the storm ? He will do little. Is there one who will conquer? That kind of man never fails. " Such a man apparently is Hans Busk. Once convinced of the importance and necessity of the movement he was , 4 unceasing," to use the language of the Times, "in lecturing, writing and counselling on this subject. lie was, .s we know, for some time alone in press ing the subject upon the public notice ; and to him, if to anybody, credit is due for having laboriously aided at the birth of this in stitution."—The Volun teers' F acts. Book Having availed ourselves of the greatest national benefit that has been conferred on England for years, we may well look round inquiringly to find out on whose brows the reward for so unprecedented a boon shoull be placed. Captain Hans Busk has, in purity of idea, iu expenditure of time, money, and interest, in single-hearted labour to further the good cause, indisputably won the distinction of distinction of being the "Father of the Volunteer Movement." It is disheartening enough that after the sacrifice of so much to such an end the hero of our system of " Defence, not Defiance" should see his well-earned honours questioned: it is hardly less so, it seems to us, that his services should still be without a due meed of recognition from his country. " Captain Busk, as is well known, declines any pecuniary recompense for his praiseworthy efforts. Can nothing else be suggested that should mark our sense of an achievement at /east as honourable as laying the foundation-stone of an asylum for idiots, or opening the City gates on the occasion of a Royal entry ?"—Court Journal. A contributor to the Sporting Gazette, speaking of the formation of our Volunteer army, writes : " It seems to me one of the greatest and noblest services that a subject has ever rendered to the Crown—and for such a piece of work it is sought not to confer any substantial mark of gratit u d e on a national benefactor, but absolutely to wrest from him the ' barren honour' he has acquired with so much toil. The claims of other a s pi rants to the distinction of having originated the Volun teer movement may be easily disposed of, but the absence of a fitting testimonial (I hate the word, but what can one say ?) to the man who conceived and helped:to carry it out is not so easily accounted for, and I do trust that in the fulness of time the reproach may be taken away from the nation. ') I could without difficulty have filled m any columns with additional proofs. I will con c l u d e with the observations of Sir Duncan MacDo uga ll and of Lord Mount-Edgcuinbc—" Sir I)uucan MacDougall, in March, 1861, wrote to Captain Busk, as follows—' It would indeed be the greatest gratification to me if national as well as Ministerial gratitude led to your being rewarded in the m anner I think you deserve.' fhe Right Hon. Lord Mount-Edgcumbe (then Lord Valletort, M.P.) on introducing Captain Maus Busk to a public audience at Plymouth, October, 1860, observed— ` fhe Volunteer movement had extended from John o'Groat's to the Land's End, and if asked who was the initiator and promoter of the movement, he felt certain the would all reply, Captain Hans Busk." I ihink I have said enough fully to vindicate Captain Busk's claim to his honourable and hard earned title of " Founder _of our noble Volunteer Arrny.” . -4—Yours, &c., " F. G. Loyal inditutiop, Uay 2 3 1667. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, May 3. The Congress to-day approved the Government Bill for the recruiting of the Spanish army. There is no news whatever. Complete tranquil lity prevails throughout Spain, notwithstanding the efforts that have been made by the enemies of order to excite agitation. MADRID, April 30. The Espana of to-day says :—" A statement Was circulated on the Bourse yesterday that public order had been disturbed in Navarre, in conse quence of a party of emigrants, to the number of 400, having crossed the frontier. We are in a posi tion to give the most unqualified denial to this assertion." PORTUGAL. LISBON, May 4. A question was addressed to the Government i" the Chamber of Peers the day before yesterday relative to the events at Oporto on the 22d April. Senhor Eugene Almieda, member of the Opposition, observed that although the riots were a bai and reprehensible means of protesting against Govern ment measures, he nevertheless censures the dissolution of the Patriotic Association of Oporto. The Minister of War, in reply, ener getically defended the rights and the conduct of the Government in this matter. To-day the motion of Viscount Govea, declaring that the Chamber is satisfied with the explanations of the Government, was approved by 42 against 7 votes. A deputation from the Municipal Chamber of Oporto presented a petition against the new taxes to the _King at the Afuda Palace yesterday evening. His Majesty received the deputation courteously, and said he was prepared to perform his duty ac cording to the constitutional charter. The Queen leaves to-morrow for Italy. BAVARIA. MUNICH, May 4. The Ki— of Bavaria will visit Paris in the course of the summer. AMERICA. NEW YonK, May 3 (Evening). The Cunard steamer Persia has arrived out. LIVERPOOL, May 4. The Guions steamer Manhattan, Captain Wil liams, from New York, on the 20th April, with 13 cabin and 40 steerage passengers, arrived here late last night. SOUTHAMPTON, May 4. The New York and Bremen Company's steamer Baltic, from New York, on the 20th April, has arrived here with 30 bags of mails and a general cargo for London. After coaling she will proceed for Bremen this afternoon. PENZANCE, May 4• The Swiftsure, from Melbourne, with passengers and a general cargo, including a large consignment of gold passed up Channel (off here) this morning. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 3, Three o'clock.—The market, as was anticipated, has been buoyant during the past hour, and all classes of securities show a sensible improvement. The closing quotations are as fol lows it per Cents 97 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 40 Do. end month 6B 42} Credit Mobilier 377 50 Do. end mouth Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1417 50 ILAIL' Bank Shares 3405 -- Italian Loan 49 10 Do. end mouth 49 25 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - .wAYB. Orleans For Account. 853 Northern 1155 Lyons and Mediterranean 9OO Southern 552 50 Western 547 50 Eastern Sardinkn Austrian Lombard 392 50 North of Spain — SaragosE a 92 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman.. — MARKETS.--This day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit is limited, but increased quantities of vegetables are on sale. FRUIT—Pine apples, 5s to 8s; grapes, 63 Od to 103 Od per lb; apples, 4s Od to Ms Od per bushel; oranges, 4s Od to 9s ; lemons, 7s to 9s per 100; cobnuts, 75s to MOs per 1001bs; strawberries, 6d to is Od per oz.; pears, Oa to Os per doz.; melons, Os to Os. VEGETABLE , S—Cabbages, is 3d to 2s ; cauliflowers, 3s to 6s per dozen heads; beet, is Od to 2s; celery, 2s Od to 2s 6d per dozen heads ; horseradish, 4s to 6s per bundle ; turnips, 6d to 01; carrots, 6d to 8d per bunch ; cucum bers, 2s tO 4s each ; small salad, 2d to 3d ; mushrooms, Is 6d to 2s Od per pottle; onions, 4s to 5s Od per bushel; endive 2s to 3s, lettuces, 2s to 3s per score; parsley, 6d to Bd, mint 4d to is per bunch ; potatoes, 758 to 160 s per ton. NEWPORT. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 4d to 48 6d Lamb 6s Od to 7s 2 d I Mutton ... 3s Gd to 4s 8d Pork Veal WIIITEGLIAPEL. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 43 to 43 4d Veal Muttou 3s 6d to 4s 83 Pork Lamb BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 91(1 to 10d.; of household ditto, 7/d. to 9d. per 4lbs Per 81b to sink the offal. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 56 to 641bs, 2-id to 3d ; 64 to 721bs, 3d to 3i l ; 72 to 801bs, 3id to 3id ; 80 to 881bs. ' 3id to 4d ; 88 to 9tAbs., 4d to 4id. Ilor se hides, 9s to lOs Od ; calf skins (light), 2s to 48 ' • full, 7s Od ; polled sheep, 00s Od to 00 s ; half-breds, Os Od to lOs Od ; downs, 7s Od to 8s Od ; lamb, 3s 3d to 4s Od ; shearlings, is 5d to is 6d. HAY. SMITHFIELD —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s ; clover, £4 Os to £5 12s 6d ; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load. CUMBERLAND —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s; clover, £4 03 to £5 12s 6d ; and - straw, £2 to £2 8s per load. WIIITECIIAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 to £4 158 Od ; clover, £4 Os to £0 15s Od ; and straw, £2 to .£2 Cs. per load. PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND LOTTO'S.—Photo graphic Albums, a choice of 3,000 ; despatch-boxes, writ ing-cases, dressing-cases, travelling-bags, envelope-cases, blotting-books, ink-stands, desks, book-slides, work-boxes, tea-caddies, hand-bags and reticules, card-cases, purses, stationery cabinets, scent-bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, &c. ; cigar-cases, card-baskets, pocket-books, elec tro-gilt and elegantly-mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer books, and Church Services, iu every type. Parkins and Grotto, 25, Oxford-street. The public supplied at wholesale prices from the largest stock in London. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY. —A diabolical attempt to upset the down express train from London on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, between the Rochester-bridge and Chatham stations, was made on Thursday evening. On the arrival of the up Continental express train, which does not stop between Canterbury and Home-hill, the driver noticed three of the iron chairs used on the line placed on the metals of the down line in such a position that had the train approached • them there is no doubt that it would have been hurled over the embankment; The driver brought up the train at the Rochester-bridge station, and gave notice to the station-master, who immediately sent down the line and had the metals cleared before the pass ing of the down express. 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