The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-08 00:00:00

POLITICAL GOSSIP. We take the following from the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian :—" Neither politics nor fashion think it worth while to go out of town for the few holidays of Whitsuntide. I never saw a greater number of Well-appointed open carriages, filled with well dressed occupants, moving about the streets and parks as during the last two clays. The hotels are full to overflowing, and dinners, concerts, and balls succeed one another night after night, just as though the Land Bill were still in Committee, or the Civil Service estimates had got there. Most of the Ministers have indeed made a rush into the fresh air ; and men of business, who represent manufacturing towns in Parliament, haVe seized the opportunity to look into their own affairs. But party associations and coteries know of no respite in their conferences and consultations. The various sections of the Conservatives (for there is no mistake about the widening schism in the Opposition ranksl never were more busy than just now. Blackwood's criticism on " Lothair " has sounded the toc sin, and the Carlton is in a state of civil war. Mr. Disraeli himself has gone into the country by the advice of his physician, to try the effect of the genial air as a restora tive, which he greatly needs ; and his pitiless rival, whose new mansion is not yet finished, though the scaffolding is down, has likewise felt it prudent to sleep out of town, having also suffered from a bronchial affec tion during the spring. Lord Cairns, too, has been hit hard by the prolonged cold weather. It was painful to notice the hoarseness, which he in vain essayed to conquer, when speaking the other day against the Chancellor's High Court of Justice Bill. His delicacy of frame and obviously enfeebled power of sustained effort strangely contrasted with the robust vigour and unattenuated vitality of Lord Westbury, whose capacity for being troublesome and whose love of ingenious mischief appeared to be inexhaustible." THE EARL OF DERBY ON PVBLIC CHARITIES. The Earl of Derby made a tolerably lengthy speech at the ceremonies in connection with the Stanley Hospital at Liverpool— an institution which the statesman has done so much to establish by the free gift of a site measuring some 8,000 square yards. Of speeches, said the earl, there was no lack, but if any occasion could justify an out-pouring of words, it was the commencement of a useful public undertaking. But when your under taking is complete, continued his lordship, ceremonials and addresses, although unobjectionable, are not to my mind particularly necessary. When the thing is done the best course is to say as little about it as may be and begin afresh upon something that is likely to be equally useful in its turn. But when you are asking your friends and neigh bours to tax themselves in order to execute a certain plan, it becomes only necessary to tell them, first, that the plan is there, ready, and only wanting funds to turn it into a reality ; and next, that it is of such a nature as to make the supply of those funds a public duty. Now, I do not think, especially after what the Mayor has said, that I need give you many details as to the want that exists for this hospital. Turn your eyes to the Mersey, and you will see lining its shores a range of docks the most magnificent and most costly, without exception, that shy nation, at any period of its history, has constructed. Y ou w ill see there work s which haVe cost 22 or 23 millions, and which are far from being yet complete. They will stretch, as you are aware, when finished, far to sea ward of the spot on which we now stand, and remembering the local history of the last 50 years—remembering that miraculous growth of Liverpool and its suburbs, of which the Mayor has reminded us ; bearing in mind, too, that that progress, though, no doubt, at varying rates of speed, has continued, in bad times as well as in good, through years of cotton famine, of depressed trade, and of manufacturing distress—remembering all these things, it seems to me not rash to predict that there are many present who will see this coast, up to Seaforth, and perhaps beyond, filled up to the depth of a mile, inland, with ships and houses, with warehouses and railway stations, with a few churches and schools, and I am afraid a great many public houses. In short, with all the requirements, and all the accompaniments, good and bad, of a dense and busy. population. That is for us, in these parts, simply an inevitable destiny, unless either foreign war, on a vast scale, or domestic disturbance, in terfere ; and, for my part, I hope and believe we shall have sense enough to keep out of one and the other. Well, from the commercial and statistical point of view—and it is a point of view with which I acknowledge a good deal of sympathy—that is 4 great result. But good and evil are easily intermingled in human affairs. With the sunshine you must have the shadow • and the shadow which the prosperity o f a great trading community throws is, unhappily, a very dark one. With every fresh applica tion of mechanical power you have liability to a fresh class of a cc id en t s arising from the use of that power. With every increase in the density of a given population, other things being equal, you have— I fear it is a fact established beyond dispute—an increased liability to certain forms of epidemic disease. Where men and women are closely packed together contagion spreads more rapidly, and do what you will you cannot make the air of a great city as healthy as that of a country vil lage. You have only to look at the rate at which children die in places like Liverpool to see what is the difference, and although sanitary improvement has done a good deal already, and may do a good deal more, I fear the difference w ill always continue to be considerable. And if I turn from the sanitary to the social point of view, it is, I am afraid, indisputable that the difficulty of , dealing with individual poverty and distress is greater in a community of some hundreds of thousands than where each family lives among a few neighbours, all of whom know and are known to one another. Personal sympathy and personal acquaintance are things not easy to do without or to replace in the relief of the poor ; in a great mercantile or manufacturing community they will be rarer than elsewhere, not assuredly because there is less benevolence, but because everybody has got his own business to mind, and hardly anybody knows the name of his next-door neighbour. You may, indeed, argue that with so much wealth and prosperity we ought not to have many poor ; but unhappily that is not a conclusion that experience verifies. Where there is drunkenness there will always be improvidence—generally pauperism, and often things worse than either ; and though we may be mending in that respect—and I think, on the whole, we are—l am afraid it must be admitted that we are still very far from being a temperate people. So, again, where unskilled labour is much in demand, and where, as in business connected with shipping and docks, a good deal of that demand is uncer tain and fluctuating, you will have, I fear, a class per manently on the edge of want. Let sanitarists do what they can —and they can do much—to check the first growth of disease ; let educationists and social reformers exert themselves as they will to raise the lowest class of honest labourers into a better position, we may feel quite sure that as long as any of us live doctors will have diseases to cure, and benevolent persons will not want for objects of legitimate charity to assist. Well, then, I think we may assume that if a hospital is a good thing anywhere it willbe a good thing here. You have the river and the docks close at hand, both of them likely, I am afraid, to furnish an unfailing supply of casualties. You will have all round this building a vast population chiefly of the wage-receiving class, and I cannot expect or hope, whatever I or you might wish, that other causes of suffering and disease will be wanting for which the individual sufferer is himself morally responsible. You have no rival institution of the same character within a distance of about a mile and a half, and none such is likely, for a long while at least, to be set up. I need hardly trouble you further, for the usefulness of a well-managed hospital is one of those things which you cannot easily prove, just because no amount of argument or de monstration can make it clearer than it is. I have lately had occasion to say at a meeting in London, and I now repeat it here, that of all human institutions a well managed hospital is one of the least liable to abuse. There is absolutely no room for imposture about it. A patient has no motive for pretending to be ill when he is not, and if he were to make the attempt he would probably fail. Then, again, though against the ordinary contingencies of life you may fairly expect even a poor man to provide, yet the accident of being thrown for weeks out of work, either by illness or casualty, and thereby losing the means of meeting even ordinary expenses at a moment when he has extraordinary expenses to incur, is one so excep tional in its character as to justify the applica tion of an exceptional remedy. So again you may pauperise a man,—that is, you may teach him to depend on begging rather than on working—by helping him over many difficulties, because many difficulties are apt to recur, and with them recurs the temptation to beg ; but nobody who has been treated for a broken leg ever wishes to break it again merely for the pleasure of being cured. There is still another view of the case, and that is that by bringing together the sick and the injured into one place you enormously economize the valuable time of the leading medical men, and thereby greatly multiply their power of work, besides setting up a school of medical science, which is a benefit, of course, to every class of the community. But these things are obvious, and I should not touch upon them except for one reason ; but in days like these, when there is—and I rejoice to see it—great zeal in the cause of the suffering and the poor, but zeal not always accompanied by knowledge or judgment, and when, accordingly, many forms of so-called charity are afloat, many useless and some absolutely mischievous, we suffer under double danger. Men get fairly puzzled to choose among all these. Those who are naturally free-handed and liberal either shut their eyes and give blindly and indiscri minately to all, or reluctantly abstain from giving to almost all from the fear that they will be doing m ore harm than good ; and I need not say, in that perplexity and difficulty, others of an opposite turn of mind find an excellent excuse for not helping anybody except them selves. It seems, therefore, worth while to say, and I say it with entire conviction, that if any one feels he has a duty to perform in the matter of giving and is perplexed in his choice he cannot go wrong if he selects as the dispenser of his charity a well-managed hospital in a populous town. LONDON VAGABONDS.—The more we do for the vagabond class the more their numbers increase, and the more daring are they in their predatory warfare against society. There are about 1,700 vagrants registered at this moment as recipients of relief at the casual wards of metropolitan workhouses, and fully as many more are pro- vided with food and shelter in other ways at the public expense. There are in London not less than 20,000 vaga bonds of various degrees, including the most abject street beggar at one end of the scale, and the most accomplished coiner or housebreaker at the other.—City Press. THE REVIVAL OF FENIANISM. There is no longer room to doubt that Fenianism is once more displaying itself in active operation. The cap ture of the alleged Fenians, Davitt and Wilson, and their examination at the Marylebone Police-court have led to the disclosure of a wide-spread organisation for the col lection and distribution of offensive weapons throughout the - United Kingdom. It would be premature as yet to pronounce upon the guilt of these men; but it is unques tionable that all the evidence collected points to renewed hostile movements on the Part of the Brotherhood. The Times gives some particulars on this subject. For some time past fire-arms and ammunition have been sent to Glasgow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Manchester, and Leeds, and have been forwarded from those places to Ireland. If these weapons had been packed in cases such as are ordinarily used by gunmakers, or if the parcels had been directed to gunsmiths, there would have been nothing to arouse suspicion ; but when the police found that a person who was ostensibly a Waits and soda merchant in Leeds was receiving and sending away rifles, bayonets, revolvers, and cartridges, packed in what appeared to be flour barrels, herring-tubs, and spirit casks, and directed at one time to a spirit dealers, and at others to general mer chants, to a gentleman from London staying at an hotel, or to ladies whose occupation was not specified, it was natural that a feeling of distrust should be excited. Officers of the detective force were, therefore, set to work throughout the kingdom in order to trace these mysterious parcels to the original consignors ; and, according to the evidenc e given at Marylebone during the examination of the two prisoners who now stand charged with treason-felony, the police succeeded about the end of March in tracing some boxes and barrels containing firearms and ammu nition to the prisoner Wilson; who is a gun and pistol maker in Birmingham. Froth this town the cases were watched to various Manufacturing towns, whence their contents were repacked in small barrels and despatchedto Ireland, where the police finally took possession of them. From the extent of the operations which have become known to the police, it is clear that funds of a consider able amount are in the hands of the conspirators' agents, " subscribed," as Mr. Poland said, "by the wretched dupes of the Fenian movement." Many of the weapons were of very poor quality. It may be interesting 'to give some account of the case as it at present stands against the two prisoners. The story dates back to the 26th of March. On the afternoon of that day two detectives were watching a passage in Caroline-street, Birmingham, which leads to a small house called " The Cottage," occupied by a man named Rafferty. A young man, whose name is Meeningham, brother to one of Wilson's partners, and employed by the firm, took something in a handcart up to Rafferty's cot tage. He was followed up the passage by Wilson, and in a short time the two came down the passage, and Meeningham, who ptished the handcart, started on the run for the receiving-house of the Midland Railway. There he delivered a large deal box which contained 19 muzzle loading rifles, 19 bayonets, one Snider rifle, and one sword bayonet. The box was addressed " J o h n Wilson, Mid- land Goods Station, Leeds.—To be called for. From John Wilson." Two days afterwards the prisoner Wilson ciaimed the box at the Leeds parcel office and signed a re ceipt for it. He then accompanied another man,who wheeled the box away in a hand-cart,as far as Hunslett-lane,where he turned into a public-house and was lost sight of by the detective who followed the man with the cart until the box Was deposited in a warehouse in Miln's-yard, Swinegate, Leeds. This warehouse was taken by Davitt, under the name of W. R. Jackson, on the 28th of January. He agreed to give £lO a year for the premises, and to pay a month's rent in advance, representing himself to be a commercial traveller, who wanted the place as a store for soda and soap. During the time he was in the occupation of this place he lodged at No. 22, Oak-road, near Leeds, with a man who acted as warehouseman, and who was known by the aliases of Wilson, Rawlinson, Henderson, and Anderson. This was the man who took the box from the prisoner Wilson at the Railway-station. After the box had been placed in the warehouse the place was locked up for the night. On the following morning Davitt and his assistant opened the warehouse about 9 o'clock, and shortly afterwards the warehouseman went away and returned with four or five empty casks. These casks were filled, and Davitt assisted the man to put them into the hand-cart, and gave him delivery notes. Four mots were taken, two at a time, to the railway station. A fifth cask was taken in the direction of the York road, but it does not appear to have been traced. The four caskstakentothe station were filled with arms and ammuni tion. These casks wereaddressed to various persons in Ire land, and cards affixed to them stated that they were from dealers of the names of Rawlinson and Henderson in Leeds —neither of which persons are known. To return to Birmingham. There, on the' 29th of March, the de tectives on watch saw young Meeninham with the hand cart, followed by Wilson, go up to Rafferty's cottage and take a cask to the parcel receiving -house of the goods station. This cask contained thirty revolvers and 700 cartridges, made up in 14 packages. It was addressed, " Matthew Ward, Licensed Broker, 68, Rutterglen Loon, Glasgow—From J. Johnston," and was delivered at the shop of a marine store dealer, whose name was not painted up. From this place it was removed by two men to the shop of an Irishman, a dealer in old clothes, named Macnamara, living in Gildie-court, in the same city, and was there seized by the police. Again, on the 14th of April, Meeningham, followed, as heretofore, by Wilson, went up the passage towards Rafferty's cottage with three apparently empty boxes in the hand-cart. In a short time the two reappeared, and Meeningham ran with the cart to the Globe Parcel Delivery Office, where he left the boxes. The three boxes were despatched to Newcastle-upon- Tyne, and there taken possession of and kept by the police who never had any application for them. One was ad dressed to "J. N. Kershaw, Glassmakers' Arms, Bailiff gate, Newcastle-upon-Tyne," and the two others to " C. H. Williams, Globe Parcel Express Office." Neither of these persons was known in the town, the landlord at the Glass makers' Arms being a man named Mullens. Each of these boxes contained twenty-five revolvers. Lastly, on the 16th of April, young Meeningham went up the entry leading to Rafferty's house, wheeling a hand-cart, and much the same performance as before was repeated by him and Wilson. The hand-cart contained two boxes. One of them was addressed to " Mr. C. H. Williams, Globe Parcel Express Office, Newcastle-on-Tyne," and the other to " Mr. Benjamin Richards, Globe Parcel Express, Market-street, Manchester." On the 19th of April Davitt went into this office in Manchester, and asked if a parcel so directed had arrived. The man in the office having been told by the police what to say, replied that he had got notice from Birming ham that the box would arrive on the morrow. Accord ingly, on the following day, an Irishman named M`Carty came for the box, paid 3s. for the carriage, and with the assistance of another man put the box into a cart, and drove away, followed by a detective in a cab. M` earthy went first to George Leigh-street, and, leaving the cart in the care of his companion, entered the house of one Geoghegan. On leaving this house he drove to Bengal-street, and stopped at his own door. The detective then got out of his cab, and im mediately he was seen, M`Carty's companion ran away. He was pursued, but managed to escape. M`Carty, how ever, who keeps a beerhouse and grocer's shop, carried the box indoors, but did not claim it when the police took possession. This box contained 100 rounds of Boxer cartridges for Snider rifles, and five and a half packages containing altogether 1,100 revolver cartridges marked "No. 12 M. Eley Brothers." The day after this discovery Geoghegan's house was searched, and on the premises were found three new revolvers and five boxes, each holding 25 revolver-cartridges. There can be little doubt that all the weapons and ammunition seized by the police in this country would ultimately have found their way into Ireland, where the Dublin police have stopped a large number of similar consignments upon their arriva in the steamers from Holyhead. The National Debt at the close of the last year was £748,276,183, and since then the sum'of 27,000,000 has been converted into a temporary annu ity. The debt is now less than it has ever been since 1813. It is no less than £120,000,000 below the amount it stood at in 1815, and £70,000,000 below the return of 1857, at the close of the Crimean war and Indian mutiny. The Austrian correspondent of the Cologne Gazette say that complaints arise on all sides of the ruthless man ner in which the valuable mountain woods are sold to speculators and cut down by them. This misfortune has now reached the Salzkammergut with its lovely woods, and an earnest remonstrance appears in the New Free Press on this subject. The woods are recklessly cut down and the land stripped of its magnificent growth of timber. On Monday a respectable man named Ward was assisting a publican on Wash-common, Newbury, to turn a low character named Brindley out of the house, when Brindley threatened to "do for ' Ward. He afterwards attacked Ward in the road and gave him such a fearful blow on - the side of his head that he died in the course of a few minutes, Brindley. who is a lazy, dissolute fellow, i.► in custody. The Dundee Advertiser gives some account of the annual supper and ball in honour of her Majesty's birth day given at Balmoral Castle. The Queen and the Prin cesses Louise and Beatrice were present, and entered into the hilarity of the demonstration with zest. Besides the servants of the Queen's household, and the tenantry on the estate of Balmoral, many of those from Abergeldie and Birkhall were also present, as well as all the gamekeepers, gardeners, and foresters on the royal estates. DROUGHT IN YORKSHIRE. —There is still no rain. With only 7iin. of rain in 1870, and less than 2in. in April, May, and June, the condition of the land is one of com plete dryness. The whole of the early sown turnips are lost, and farmers, as a rule, are quite puzzled what to do. The land is so hot and void of moisture that it is quite vain to sow afresh, though some have ventured on that course. Wheat bears the drought well, but everything else is getting worse. On Sunday, though a brisk east wind blew, the heat in the sun was 109 deg., and the barometer rose to 30'50. Fat stock is rapidly rising in price, and lean cattle are a drug.—Times. MARK LEMON'S PLAYS.—Among the dramatic productions of the late Mr. Mark Lemon, we note " The Adventures of a Gentleman ;" " Bob Short ;" " Captain Pro Tern ;" " Chimes " (with G.A. a'Beckett) December 19, 1844 ; " C o ld W ater Cure •" " Domestic Economy ;" " Don Caesar de B azan " (with G. A. a'Beckett), October 8, 1844 ; " Fashionable Arrivals;" " Fridolin " (opera) ; " G en tl eman in Black ;" " Grandfather Whitehead ;" " G wynneth Vaughan;" "Hearts are Trumps;" " Honesty the Best Policy;" " Ins and Outs; "Ladies' Clubs ;" " Love and Charity ;" " M.P. for the Rotten Borough," " M e d ea " (Burlesque) ; " Mind Your own Business," April 24, 1852; " My Man Tom ; " " Number Nip " (with Shirley Brooks) ; December "26, 1853 ; Peter Wilkins" (with G. A. a 'B ec k ett), April 13, 1846 ; "Railway Belle," November 20, 1854 ; "St. George and the Dragon" (with G. A. a'Beckett), March 24, 1845 " Sardanapalus (with G. A. a'Beckett), J u ly 20, 1853 ; " School for Tigers," " Three Secrets," " Wax and Wonder," and " What will the World Say?"—London THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORISING, JUNE 8, 1870. AN IRISH ORGANISATION. THE SAULT ST; MARIE CANAL. A Birmingham correspondent sends the following com munication to a Dublin newspaper :—An extensive organisation, which sprung out a number of enthusiastic meetings recently held in Birmingham, and which devotes itself to Irish subjects, has issued a manifesto. The asso ciation directs its attention first to Ireland because the exigencies of that country most demand it. Action is to be taken on the following subjects : Irish Land Bill, which the association believes will fail to restore peace and harmouy in Ireland ; Coercion Bill, hoping expression of public opinion may lead to the repeal of that unconstitutional and iniquitous measure, or shame the Government into allowing it to remain a dead letter on the statute book; the political prisoners, the association considering it a disgrace that political prisoners should be allowed to exist in a land so proud of proud of its liberty as England. The .New York Times gives the official correspondence which has taken place in reference to the passage of Ca nadian vessels through the Sault St. Marie Canal, and concerning which there have been many contradictory re ports in circulation. It is now settled that there is no military question involved, the vessel applying for passage being freighted with strictly commercial goods for the Hudson's Bay Company. The correspondence is chiefly important for the assurance incidentally given by Mr. Thornton that the difficulties with the Red River people were amicably settled, and that the delegates from the Fort Garry district have acknowledged Themselves per fectly satisfied. We believe this is the first official an nouncemen of the fact which has been received by the Washington authorities, and it fully justifies the courtesy which has been extended by the Government in permitting the Canadian supply vessels to pass through the Sault Canal. .[\ oRTH CAROLINA. PELHAM, May 23. A shocking murder, resulting in the death of one of the Republican ex-Senators of this State, occurred at Yancey ville on Saturday evening last. It was one of the most remarkable tragedies that ever occurred in North Caro lina. On Saturday evening J. W. Stevens, the ex- Senator, who had that day attended a public meeting in the town, was missed by his family. Search was made on Saturday night all over the place, but without success. On Sunday morning the search was resumed, and after looking everywhere else the Court-house was searched. The keys to all the private and jury rooms were found except one, and that room was locked. The door was burst open and Mr. Stevens was found dead, dangling , from a beam, with a rope around his neck and his cloth ing saturated with blood. A deep gash in his breast showed that he had been stabbed to the heart and another wound showed that the assassin's dagger had penetrated the unfortunate victim's throat. It is supposed that lie was inveigled into the room by his assassins on the plea of business and then foully murdered. No clue to the per petrators of the bloody deed has yet been obtained. The people of all political opinions express great regret at this horrible occurrence and active efforts are being made to ferret out the murderers. THE SPIRITUALIST IMPOSTURE The following extract from a recent number of a print devoted to the advocacy of spiritualism, furnishes an illus tration of the sort of cures performed by the " Great Healer," as Dr. Newton is styled : On Wed nesday morning Mr. J. Ashman took Dr. Newton to see Mr. Ezra, of 5, Surrey-place, Coleman-street, Camber well, who had been carried on a bed to 75, Newman street, to meet the doctor. He had not walked for four years, and was lying down when the doctor saw him. Dr. Newton put his hands on the patient's head, said it was a very bad case, but that he would be instantly cured. When the doctor com manded him to arise, he got up, and went out for a walk with Mr. Ashman. Some ladies who were present were in transports of joy at the cure and manifested their feelings of gratitude in a very impressive manner. He was hopelessly invalided, and had tried all means to restore health without success. This paragraph (says the Liverpool Courier) attracted the attention of a person in Liverpool whose son is afflicted, and regarding whom Dr. Newton prophesied that on a certain day named, the youth would be seized with a vomit ing of blood, and would henceforth be cured. It is almost needless to say that when the day arrived there was no vomiting of blood and no cure. The person whose faith in Dr. Newton's healing powers had been thus shaken thought it judicious to inquire whether the preceding paragraph was genuine, and the result is con tained in the following note ?—" Mr. Ezra regrets to inform Mr. that he has not derived the benefit stated, and is still a most severe sufferer.-5, Surrey-place, Coleman-street, Camberwell, June Ist, 1870." AN INFERNAL CRIME. The crime charged against a man named Lange, a dealer in picture frames in this city, is one that should give him a pre-eminence in the criminal catalogue for diabolical intent. He shipped a box in April last on the New Orleans steamer and secured an insurance on it of one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, and the box proved to have been prepared with explosive and inflam mable material, and was only prevented from burning the ship by the watchfulness and activity of the captain. In the box were vessels of alcohol, gasoline and turpentine, and fire was apparently to have been set to these by a chemical that would explode with slight friction. The friction was provided for by mice shut in a box, who, in gnawing their way out, were to fire the train thati might have destroyed the ship and all her company at sea. Here, then, is, if the charge prove true, a man who deliberately contrives that awful calamity, fire, on a ship at sea—con trives the possible frightful death of twenty or thirty per sons—to secure the small prize of 1,600 dollars insurance money. He should be tried by a jury of sea captains and sailors. It is a remarkable coincidence that this crime was attempted against the steamer George Washington, while some years since a crime of the same nature was contrived in the shipment of goods on the Mississippi steamer Martha Washington. —New York Herald. LAW AND POLICE. MINT PROSECUTIONS.—A number of persons, men and women, have been prosecuted by the Mint, and sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to heavy sentences, owing to former convictions. One man and three women were sentenced to five years' penal servitude, and one man and one woman, who had already undergone that term of punishment, to ten years penal servitude. THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—At the Central Criminal Court a clerk named Hervey pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling moneys from the Patriotic fund. The amount of his defalcations was £2OO. He had appropriated remittances which w e re mad e fr om the Fund to relatives of soldiers who had died in the Indian wars and for which he was instructed to send out post-office orders, or to pay the agents in this country. His offence was not discovered until he had gone to Canada, but he has since returned to London and given hi..zelf up. He was sentenced to nine months im prisonment. MAJOR WIELAND'S BANKRUPTCY.—This bankrnpt came before the Chief Judge to pass his adjourned examination. Mr. Reed, for the trustee, complained that in no wise had the bankrupt performed his duty as declared by the Act of Parliament. The statement of the bankrupt shewed secured debts, £33,900; debts partly secured, £7,B47—the value of such securities being stated at £6,000 ; unsecured debts, £2,891. This bare statement was all that the trustee could obtain. His lordship said the bankrupt must give every information that was required by the trustee, and the examination would be adjourned for that purpose. If the order was resisted he would be committed to k)rison. IHE BIRMINGHAM FENIANS.—At the Marylebone Police-Court, John Wilson, gun and pistol manufacturer, Harper's-buildings, Birmingham, and Michael Davit, were again brought up before Mr. D'Eyncourt charged with treason-felony. Wilson was also charged with un lawfully having fifty six-chambered revolvers in his pos session, of which he could give no satisfactory . account ; and Davitt was further charged with loitering about the Great Western Railway terminus, and having in his possession £l5O, for which lie could not satisfactorily account. The court and its approaches were well guarded by policemen, armed—as on previous occasions—with revolvers, but there were not more than thirty or forty persons present. The prisoners were again remanded. THE DEBTS OF A CLERK OF THE PEACE.—The Clerk of the Peace for Dublin, Charles Kernan, attorney and soli citor, described as of Woodfield-villas, Streatham, Surrey, and of Black Rock, Dublin, applied to Mr. Regis trar Spring Rice, at the Court of Ba n kruptcy, • for his order of discharge. His debts are £61,838 ; assets, £730 ; property held as security, £30,000. In the list of creditors appears the name of Cardinal Cullen, who is a creditor for £5,000 as legatee under the will of the late Mr. Gallagher, to which the bankrupt,and his partner were executors. It was stated that the bankrupt holds the office of clerk of the peace for the city of Dublin, the annual value of which is £BOO • but the income has been assigned to the Hibernian Bank, who are secured creditors for £13,000. The bankrupt not having filed accounts of his partnership with Mr. Tracey, an adjournment was ordered until November. SINGULAR CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A COLLIERY PROPRIETOR.—The county magistrates at Wigan have had a singular case before them. Mr. Thomas Gidlow, the owner of extensive colleries at Hindley, near Wigan, was charged with having stolen a quantity of, coal from a neighbouring mine from January 1867 to December 1869. The council for the prosecution stated that the defendant being the lessor of the coal under certain lands in Hindley had without any arrangement or contract with the plaintiff worked through his coal, a strip about 100 yards in width, in order to pass from a coalfield on one side to a coalfield on the other. Last September the defendant had opened negotiations for a lease, but the matter had not been arranged, Mr. Gidlow not agreeing to the terms of Mr. Hargreaves, the p r os ecu t or . On the cross-examination of Mr. Hargreaves, however, it appeared that a verbal arrangement had been come to between the prosecutor and the defendant; and, after a hearing which lasted two days, the jury concluded that the case was not one to send to a jury. CHARGE AGAINST AN EX-POLICEMAN.-At Bow-street Thomas Turner, a superannuated policeman, was charged with stealing a door-key. The prosecutor, Mr. Atkinson Walker, who said he was a law student, said that he lately occupied three rooms at 17, Woburn-buildings, one at the top of the house for a young lady who had been decoyed up from the country, and whom he wished to protect from further harm. The prisoner had taken forcible possession of the key of the upper room, and last night be gave him into custody for a petty felony. James Bishop, landlord of the house, said he had given the prosecutor verbal notice to leave three times, and he had promised to go. He (Bishop) did not let the room to the young woman, and he objected to her occupying it. The defendant was his agent in the matter, and acted upon his instructions. Mr. Vaughan said there was no pretence for the charge of felony. ASSISTING CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS.—An old man named John Wild, described as a "hedge lawyer," was broUght before the Manchester stipendiary magistrate charged with forgery, A body of gentlemen were asso ciated together in London under the name of the ", Trus tees of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion," whose object it was to assist Congregational ministers. Among other chapels which they had been in the habit of assisting was one at Middleton, and an annual grant o f £3O p er annum, payable quarterly, was made to it. On the 14th April, the secretary to the trnstees sent a cheque for £7 10s. to Mr. John Wild, the correspondin g secre t ary t o the chapel. The prisoner, who resided in Middleton, obtained the letter from the Post Office, cashed the cheque, and squandered away the money. The prisoner, who said he did not know but what the cheque was in tended for him, was committed for trial. ry THE FORGERY BY A LADY.—At the Central Criminal ----- Court, Elizabeth Smith, 32, a ladylike-looking woman, pleaded guilty to the charge of forging and uttering a cheque for £l2O, with intent to defraud. The prisoner, it will be recollected, opened an account at Messrs. Twining's, the bankers', by paying in a cheque upon Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co. for £l9O, purporting to be signed by Mr. Lone ' nan, of Paternoster-row- Th e pri soner told such a plausible story that the manager of the bank was completely thrown off his guard, and he allowed the prisoner to draw a cheque for £5O against the amount she was supposed to have paid in, and she was paid the money, but soon afterwards her story was found to be a fabrication, and the £l9O cheque a forgery. The prisoner it appeared was very respectably connected, and she had at a former period been in the establishment of Mr. Longman as a governess, and that of course gave her an opportunity of becoming acquainted with circumstances which enabled her to deceive the Messrs. Twining, and led to the success of her contemplated fraud. Since the prisoner has been in custody, she has made a long written statement, which was handed to the Court, and the Recorder said he would read it, and consider what sentence should be pronounced. THE FENIANS ON THE CANADIAN BORDER. The Fenians are on the move, it seems, and with such dispatch, energy, and secrecy have they acted that both Canadian and American authorities are apparently out witted. While a small column has appeared away off in Minnesota on what now looks like a feint, other and more formidable bands have moved through New York and Vermont, and are on the border, if not across it. The American commander at Sault St. Marie has reported " suspicious characters" moving through the canal, but whether smugglers or soldiers we are not told. Colonel Bolton, the Canadian commander, naturally considers, every " suspicious character " to be a Fenian, and, recognizing that discretion is an essential if not the better part of Canadian valour, he has doubled the guards around his camp in the Canadian wilderness. Of the active column in this State and in Vermont the information is rather indefinite. But there is little doubt that the Fenians are moving in the East in such force as to demand the attention of the Government, which will, we doubt not, promptly enforce strict neutrality, without waiting for suggestion from the Canadian authorities. Such was not the custom of the English, it is true • but their example is not one which President Grant thinks it proper to follow, and the Fenians who design crossing into Canada East will have not only to meet an enemy in front, but also to avoid a force on their flanks. The official cor respondence relative to the refusal to pass the Canadian vessels through the Sault St. Marie Canal reveals the pur pose of the President to maintain a strict neutrality. The English Minister states positively that the steamer Chicora, which was refused the passage, had only Hudson Bay Company stores on board ; but it is established by the Canadian papers that the troops which had been on board were removed in small boats pending the application at the Custom House. The English Minister also assures the Secretary of State that the expedition goes not to conquer Riel, but to establish the new Government of Manitoba.—New York Tribune. AFFAIRS IN SOUTHERN ITALY. A correspondent in Italy writes as follows :—Contradic tory reports continue to circulate about the whereabouts of Garibaldi and his sons. The General is said by the Gazetta di Torino to have escaped the surveillance of the Italian fleet, and to have left Caprera. Ricciotti is also stated to have_ been arrested. His per sonal courage is yeti, superior to his brother, Menotti's, and he is popular among his party, which Menotti is not, and, if any serious action is contemplated, Garibaldi's younger son is more likely to take the leader ship than his brother ; but, if the movement has Bixio at its head, the significance would be greater still, as it would irr ply the intervention at least tacit, of the Italian troops. It is quite certain that a number of officers have resigned (ostensibly) their commissions as they did in 1867, and I think it well to inform you of the very sinister aspect of affairs in Italy, which no official varnish can conceal, and which renders the situation of Southern Italy as perilousa one as need be. A great Republican demonstration has taken place at Florence in honour of the dead of Cartatone in 1848. An incendiary placard was affixed to the walls calling on the soldiers to desert, and form a Republic. The second service for the dead of Cartatone which was of an official character was literally unattended, the Republi cans being resolved to have a separate demonstration in their own sense. Fazzini has joined Bixio in his " com mercial enterprise," and large sums are being subscribed for it by the proprietors of the Southern provinces. It is fully understood that it is a cover for a general Republican organization, and the new letter of Mazzini is evidently published in concert with the last development of the Republican party in France under the presidency of Ernest Picard, a party which, while hostile to the Empire, repudiates the excesses of Rochefort and his fellows, which deterred all having any thing to lose from joining the movement of which they were the head. WHOLESALE ROBBERY. The magistrates at the Derby county police-court had an uncommon offender before them on Monday. His name was John Brierley, and he was charged with a systematic series of robberies at the Derby Railway station. On Saturday evening, between six and seven o'clock, a middle aged man of respectable appearance was noticed loitering about the platform, and while one of the porters turned his back, he seized two bags and stepped aside. As soon as he saw a man watching him he " bolted off " into one of the closets. in a waiting room. The station-master was communicated with, and when the man came out of the waiting-room he gave him into custody. Inspector Lownds, Sergeant Parker, and Detective Sheppard subsequently went to the house of the Prisoner, and there found a vast amount of property too extensive for them to carry away all at once. Having conveyed a portion of the property to the county police office, they returned with a cab, which scarcely held the remainder. The articles included nine carpet bags, two leather portmanteaus, a quantity of silver plate (stolen from the first-class re freshment rooms), silver forks, spoons, and tankards, five umbrellas, ten overcoats, two walking sticks, an extensive quantity of ladies and gentlemen's unlerclothing, two or three rugs, a rifle, a revolver, two letter b a l ances , some carpet patterns, collars, neckties, handkerchiefs, and about £lOO worth of brass fittings, stolen from Messrs. Fletcher and Co., of the Masson Foundry, Litchurch, where the accused was engaged as manager. In his possession were also found several pledge tickets--for two gold watches, sleeve links, and other articles of jewelry. The search at the prisoner's house was not concluded by the police until midnight on Saturday. The whole of the goods, with the exception of the brass fittings, are the produce w o f systematic a yfor many s e s p p a s e r t p , e t t h r e a e t o e d m on n a n t y h h e a A v n i d g l and had many complaints of thefts from the waiting-rooms at Derry. The prisoner on Good Friday last stole from the platform two travelling cases, the property of Mr. Tempest, of Little Eaton, near Derby. In fact, the articles stolen are too numerous to particularise. The case against the Prisoner was not concluded at the first hearing. CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS IN SPAIN. Things have progressed pretty well with the Englishmen Captured by the brigands in Spain. The news that they were absolutely set at liberty was premature, but at any rate it is certain that the emissary sent out by the Spa nish Government succeeded in discovering the retreat of the robbers, that negotiations were opened for their release, and that Mr. Bonell has been set at liberty in order to finally arrange the terms. There is at present no likelihood of a repetition of the Greek affair. It would appear that the captu re was planned in Gibraltar itself. The precise facts of this remarkable affair have never yet been stated, and therefore an account given by the Gibraltar Chronicle may be acceptable. It is from the issue dated May 23rd, and runs thus :—" Gibraltar was startled out of its wonted stagnation yesterday morning by a rumour which turned out to be well founded, that an imitation of the Greek brigands' affair, happily at present without its fatal termination had' been car ried out within a very short distance o f th e Rock. It seems that Mr. John Bonell, of this place, with his nephew, Mr. J. A. Bonell, went out on Saturday for their usual afternoon's aide as far as the plain of the Zabal,' where on the previous day they had been much struck with the appearance of a mare belonging to a party of five men at the ventorillo (inn) there. This band was evidently on the look 3ut on Saturday for the Messrs. Bonell, as when they were seen riding towards the place the inmates of the ventorillo, consisting of the mistress of the house, her young son, and a man servant, were at once placed in `du rance vile' in the coal hole, wherethey remained. On the arrival of the Bonells at the house they were ordered to dismount, which they did after a little delay, and were afterwards taken indoors and informed they must pay $5,000 before they could be released. After their first alarm was over, the elder proposed that his nephew should be allowed to go to Gibralter for the ' money, but this was ref use d, an o ff er b e i ng made instead that the nephew should remain while the uncle went, This the latter declined to do on , any conditions, intimating that he would go wherever his nephew was taken, even though he was shot for his pains. All this time the inmates of the house were shut up in the coal-hole, listening to what was going on. Theyimagine it must have been about eight o'clock in the evening when the _ robbers took their departure, carrying off besides their cap tives a mule (on which it is supposed young Bonell was placed, as his pony was found in the stable), and all the eatables and grain which the inn contained. Fortunately a small iron crowbar was found in the coal-hole, and the prisoners, who by this time were nearly suffocated in conse quence of the place not being ventilated in the least at once set to work to effect their own deliverance, which after some time they succeeded in doing. All that night they were afraid to venture out fearing that some of the robbers might still be in hiding in the neighbourhood, but mustering up courage towards morning they sent shortly after dawn to the authorities at the Lines, and also to the Tunara, where there is a detachment of the Civil Guard, to report what had occurred. The sister of Mr. John Bonell, finding her brother did not return yesterday morning, dispatched a mes senger in search of tidings, and it is to him we are indebted for the foregoing particulars. His excellency the governor, Sir Richard Airey, himself rode out to the Lines on learn ing the particulars, and dispatched Colonel Street, C. 8., assistant military secretary, to Algeciras, and Captain Monsell, A.D. C., to San Roque, to communicate with the authorities at those places. Telegrams have been dispatched by the Governor of Algeciras to all the mili tary posts in the province ordering a sharp look out to be kept and a pursuit to be at once instituted. Owing to the `start obtained by the robbers it is feared some time must elapse before they are taken," A PROMISING SENSATION SPOILED. There has been an after-piece to the heavy drama on Bullock and Georgia enacted in the Senate last week, which promised for awhile to lead to big results in the shape of one or two dead bodies on some bloody field in the vicinity of Bladensburg or elsewhere. But, like many another affair which opened with fair pros pects of a big sensation, it has suddenly . and very flatly come to an end. No duel is to happen. Neither a Bullockite nor a Ferryite is to fill an untimely grave, and Morton and Ferry will have no "dead body" to answer for hereafter at the judg ment seat. It appears that on the day of the furious debate between Ferry 'and Morton on the Fifteenth Amendment Bill a friend of Bullock happened to be in the Senate, and freely expressed his views on the high merits of the Indiana Senator's address. A gentleman to whom these remarks were particularly addressed unfor nately happened to be on the other side, and took mortal offence at the Bullockite's freedom of speech. He retorted very harshly, and the result was a formal demand by the Bullockite for a retraction. A corre spondence followed, and it seemed as though bloody business was meant. The Bullockite—Major Ben T. Hutchins by name—chose a friend, and the other party— Colonel Quintin Curtius Washington—fortified himself likewise. The first chosen seconds would not work blood thirsty enough, and a new batch was chosen, and then another. General George W. Adams was the first amicus of Hutchins, and L. L. Cronuse officiated mildly for the other side. Then young Bright, son of the ex-Senator, and General Ames took their places as substitutes and finally the seconds b ecame G enera l Ri c h ar d Winter Smith and Johnny Coyle. Under the last-named gen tlemen the hostile negotiations were perfected and the choice of weapons made. I believe the hour of meeting on the bloody field was actually fixed. It was a great pity, therefore, such a promising sensation should be spoiled; but it was. There was a hitch in some place, and the duel was abandoned. Hutchins claims he comes off with flying colours, while Washington is reticent, but eminently dignified. Your correspondent interviewed to night the gallant Major, who stated that a friend of Colonel Washington informed him that soon of ter the little onpleasantness " in the Senate Gallery, Washington sent for a couple of pistols, which he has carried ever since. Hutchins says he regards Colonel Washington as not wishing to fight, and hereafter he will not recognise any com munication from him. As the correspondence is very brief I suppose it may be as well to send it to you. The Bullockite first sent a note by L. L. Croness to Mr. Washington, demanding a retraction of the offensive words which were according to Major Butchings as follows : " God damn you, sir, I don't know you ' • and God damn you, sir, I don't want to know yo u : an d God damn you, sir, if I had my way I would hang every one of you, sir." To this note Mr. Washington responded as follows : " Washington, D.C., May 18, 1870. " Sir,—Your note, bearing yesterday's date, was handed to me to-day by Mr. L. L. Crounse. In reply, I have to state that while I was engaged in my usual duties in the Sena;e gallery you, without possing any personal ac quaintance with me whatever, expressed to me political opinions which were to me necessarily offensive. I had said nothing to you, had not looked at you, and did not even know your name or anything of you when you thus aeeosted me. Had your remark been civil, though yon were a stranger to me, I should have made no answer, or a civil one ; but they were irritating and offensive —first, in maintaining that a large class in the South, to whom I belong, ought to be shut out from any post of honour or trust under the national or State Governments ; second, in holding up the people of the South, and especially the people of Georgia, as so lawless and violent as to make it necessary to quarter troops among them. Ido not pretend to quote your precise language, but the substance of what I under stood you to say. As a Southern man Ido not recognise the right of any one, and especially an utter stranger to me, as you were, to address remarks to me which neces sarily reflect upon myself and the Southern • people, and that, too without any provocation. It was after, and because you had thus wantonly expressed to me offen sive and irritating remarks that I uttered any response, and that response the one of which yon complain as per sonal. I hope that you are by this time sensible of your error in thus expressing disagreeable opinions to a total stranger, and when you shall have expressed regret for your own aggression your request for an explanation satis factory to us both will have a better basis than it now has. I am your obedient servant, " L. Q. WASHINGTON. " Ben T. Hutchins. With this note Mr. Washington also sent the following memoranda to be signed by Hutchins " After consultation with my friends, I have to say that I did not suppose that I was speaking to a Southern gentleman when I addressed you. I moreover did not design to offend you, and withdraw the offensive and unpleasant - remarks. This explanation I respectfully re quest you to recall the personal remarks used by you. Reply." Of course, the irate Bullockite refused to sign the above He would have nothing but blood. Finally, Hutchins, having the fear of the district law against duelling, which is very severe, before his eyes, went across the Long Bridge into Virginia and wrote the following, which he carried over here and left in the office of Mr. Washington : " Alexandria, Va., May 23, 1870. Mr. L. Q. Washington—Not having any reply to my second communication and not finding any suitable friend to carry this message I leave this request on your table, asking for the third time a satisfactory explanation of your personal remark, or else choose your own time, place, weapons, &c., which is due to one gentleman from another. " BEN. T. HUTCHINS." THE CUBAN QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, May 24. The most striking features of the House proceedings to day were the temporary defeat of Lynch's prescription for the terrible malady afflicting American tonnage and a very interesting and apparently unpremeditated discussion of the Cuban question. The present defeat of Lynch was looked for. There were rumours afloat in the air for a week past that such would be the result of all his labour and pains ; but nobody I fancy, anticipated that to -day during- the discussion of such a dry subject as the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill for the second time, one of the most remarkable debates of the session would have occurred, and yet I think it not unreasonable to predict that out of the spontaneous outburst in behalf of Cuba on the floor of the House to-day more solid results are likely to flow, calculated to give shape and character to foreign policy, than anything that has happened here since the advent of Grant's administration. During the life of the present Congress many speeches were made in favour of lending a helping hand to struggling 'Cuba, but they an fell barren of effect. Members listened but seemed indifferent and careless about the matter. It really ap peared as though Congress had no heart for anything but reconstruction and the African, as if the great representa tive body of the great republic of the world was unable to settle domestic troubles and at the same time extend a generous aid to a feeble but noble people battling a gainst tyranny and oppression. But when Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, in a speech of impassioned eloquence, drew a vivid picture of the American flag, dishonoured by Spanish insolence, and caused to be read the account of the insults offered to our consul at Santiago de Cuba he commanded the most breathless attention and roused the House to a genuine expression of sympathy, which all former efforts failed to evoke. There was not a single member who dared to uphold the supine policy thus far practised in regard to Spain. Republicans who are re cognised as the ablest leaders of the House expressed themselves freely in favour of prompt action, and some of them even attacked the Administration over the shoulders of the Navy Department, rather unjustly, for not having long ago vindicated the sacred character of our flag both in Paraguay and Cuba. Mr. Dawes was very em phatic in expressing his condemnation, and Logan, of Illinois, in a speech of great earnestness and power, called for a vigorous and honourable policy in regard to struggling Cuba , Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, declared that the Foreign Affairs Committee were ready and eager to make a report whenever an opportunity would be given, and that he bad been waiting for a chance to do so, and at the same time stated that he and his committee would be found as anxious and willing to defend American rights as any body of men in Congress or out of it. There seems to be little doubt, from the character of all the remarks made, that something will be done speedily to resent the Spanish insults, and to chew to Spain and the world that the American flag must be respected, and that the rights of American citizens abroad can not be invaded with impunity. Indeed the feeling seemed to be so strong during the height of the excitement to-day that I verily believe had any member proposed,to consider the subject in regular form, and moved to allow General Banks to make a report then and • there there would not have been a single dissentient vote. A s the case now stands both sides of the House are strongly committed to the cause of Cuba as agains t Spain, and some action may be expected in regard t o Consul Phillips, the American citizens murdered in Cuba, and the entire Cuban question within a very few daYs- THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. The bill which has passed the United States Senate to enforce the fifteenth amendment is a bill to protect honest voters and to punish perjurers, repeaters, ballot stuffers, and forgers in our political elections. It is a good bill for honest men, but a bad thing for knaves. Some general law of this sort from Congress is very much needed; and especially for the restoration o f p assa bl y h onest elections in this city. From all that we have heard of it our late election on this island was a grim joke, and an amusing farce to the repeaters from beginning to end. According to the free and easy system of this election the democracy have only to say the word to the repeaters, and they can roll up any majority in this city that may be called for to carry the State, and we believe.that ev en h ones t Republi cans consented to this repeating in order to make up a clear case for Congress. At all events, so notorious is it that our metropolitan elections have fallen into the control of gangs of repeaters, and so notorious is it, too, that our State laws and city ordi nances, by general consent, are disregarded and treated with derision and contempt, that only a United States law and the national authorities in its enforcement are com petent to reach and remedy this demoralizing state of things. The New York Republicans are so bewildered by our elections of the last three years, and so corrupted and demoralized, that they are powerless to help them selves ; while the democrats are very naturally satisfied with a system which still increases their majorities. Nor are these election frauds limited to this city or the Demo cratic party. The party which has the power and the ma chinery in this State or that State, here or elsewhere, no longer scruples at any means whereby an election may be carried. Here it happens that the materials, the appli ances, and the temptations for fraudulent practices being most abundant, these practices are more glaringly de veloped than anywhere else. It is only the old story, that " where the carcase is there will the vultures be I gathered together ;" or where millions of spoils are in volved thousands of votes may be manufactured. A gene ral law of Congress and the United States authorities to enforce it, embracing the President and the exercise of his power to call in the army and navy when neces sary to execute the law, will, we believe, be a good thing for the whole country. As for State sovereignty, that absurdity went down with the rebellion, and as for State rights they will not be damaged or endangered by a national law providing the ways and means for en forcing the simple rule of honesty in our political elections. Railroads and telegraphs, indeed, have brought the re motest States of the Union so near to the common centre, and have so interwoven all the States with each other, that nothing but the generel regulation of our elections by some uniform law of Congress will preserve to the people that great power of last resort which they hold in the elec tive franchise. As our cities and States, too, become more and more densely populated we see that the neces sity of a generallaw for the regulation of our electionsmore and more increases. We live in a new age of steam and tele graphs, a new age of concentration of thought and cen tralisation of material and moral forces, and the action of . our national government must be shaped to meet this new order of things. We are no longer and can be no more a loose confederation of discordant States but we are a nation of States, the common sovereignty over which lies in the people and in their representatives in Congress. New York Herald. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND.—Another railway accident has taken place in Switzerland on the Geneva line. As a train was passing by Monthous, a block from the glacier fell upon it and crushed the last three carriages, which were reduced to fragments. Three passengers were killed and five others seriously wounded. The accident would halve been more serious but for the presence of mind of the engine driver, who increased the steam when he saw the glacier giving way, MOVEMENTS OF THE FENIANS. If there is not a veritable Fenian operation against the peace and sovereignty of the New Dominion on foot, there is certainly a great d ea l o f h urra hi ng i n th e woods and marching and countermarching in the telegraphic reports. From Buffalo is reported " great activity during the last forty eight hours," of " large bodies of drilled veterans, and five car loads of these are reported in a later dispatch as moving from Buffalo through Rochester for some point further east, from which it is conjectured they are to 0 T" proach the frontier. Albany is full of the same explosive fellows. They are heard of in Auburn as on the way t ° Minnesota; Burlington and other points in Vermont send word of their movements, and even Boston has a story to tell of the same threatening display. In every case the despatches agree on one or two points—first, it is the actual presence of men for some unusual purpose t hat is reported, and no theories or guesses are given, because the men were nowhere communicative ; next, in every instance where the quality of the men is noted they are described as men who were formerly in the United States volunteer forces. Besides—and more conclusive still of the earnest intention of these valiant sons to free all of Ireland that can be found on Canadian soil—the Govern" ment at Washington has received information sufficient to warrant the President in issuing his proclamation warning the Fenians of the illegality of their purpose. So long . as the proclamation is unaccompanied by a general move" meat of United States troops and an indiscriminate arrest of every suspected personage bearing arms, however,. it will not avail much, and the invaders, if the necessity occurs and they are discreet, may even be enabled to get into the enemy's country by dodging the troops sent to prevent them. Here, then, is apparently the fact of a Fenian operation fairly before us, and the further fac t that the persons in charge are putting forward material that can hold its tongue an d stand fire. Speculations of the possibilities of such 3 movement may, therefore, well be spared, since it will certainly not be many days, perhaps hours, before these fellows will be heard of as in more or lees bloody collision with soldiers, militiamen or the police on the other side the lines. From the wid e ly different points at which the movement simultaneously appears, it seems to be intended to throw parties across the frontier in way to baffle all possible vigilance on the other side and on this also. Invasion in this way is easy enough, but the concentration in the enemy's country of these is olate parties may prove to be quite another matter if the Canadian authorities are not stampeded by the first alarm and act at the right moment with discreet energy. If i; shall ever happen, however, that two or three thousand of the reckless and resolute rascals who probably make up these parties are concentrated on Canadian soil, under a leader of only av3rage skill, we do not see why the world might not be indulged with the spectacle of a real Fenian war on a more or less bloody scale, Until the war really comes, however, and in view of the Me' history of Fenian movements, we are at present only authorized in concluding that the Fenian treasurY is empty, and that the leaders feel convinced that " some thing must be done " to fill it.—New York Herald. A NATURALISED CITIZEN'S DEMAND.— John Warren has sent a memorial to the Senate, pray i n g redres s f for his arrest and imprisonment by the government ° . t Great Britain, under the charge of giving aid and coinfe,r to the enemies thereof. He re l a t es the st° l •l of his imprisonment and genera l ill treatme nt for two years, having been confined with the vilest convicts, and the fact of his being a naturalised citizen of the United States treated with contempt. He holds that thiei United States havi ng i nv it e d hi m t o a bjure. T t , allegiance to all fo re i gn powers an d potentates , especial l y to Queen Victoria, to assume allegiance to a free coun try ' and having exacted a fee from him for the same, it bet comes and is a s acre d con t rac t b e t ween thi s governme nt a nd her citizens, w hi c h, accor di ng t o a ll principles of honoi!re justice, and recognised law, should be fulfilled to ti7i letter. He has no pecuniary motives to gratifY,, a n t , should any damages accrue from it, pledges himsei f o e devote the money to good and praiseworthy objects. . us honour of our country and the perpetuity of our 0011.00. flag are far dearer to him than all that good can The petition was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Lady Helena Trydell Cotter died at Ea S li Mallow, County Cork, on the Ist inst. She was the fo r daughter and co-heiress of the late James Lombard, Egli' of Lombardstown, County Cork, and married, Jun e is s ; 1823, Sir James Lawrence Cotter, Bart., M.P. for Mid i° for many years, wLo died December 31, 1834. 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It has produced a surprisingly flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise s• - ilis s c o re lent food too highly. —From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25 *, liver No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yea rs r oll , complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ri e A nd ralpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessoes s 'Lerd the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; 00, Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of manY Y frora dyspepsia. No 49,832 " Fifty years' indescribable agorf oc , n rn dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, le No spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cu re e ars 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of I"rimley, Surrey, of 30 Y and diseased lungs . spitting of blood, liver derangeinevt,.,aey partial deafness. 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