The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

IRELAND,

14-.SIIING WITHIN THE LIMITS.—On Saturday, at
twelve c:clock, in the Townhall, Berwick, before the
Mayor and ierr Alderman Fleming, Pierre Malfoison, No.
652, and Riti iJarie Nakire, No. 767, French fishermen,
from Boulogne, wer,e charged by Alfred Frederick Mares-
caux, commander of le,er Mejesty's gunboat Louisa, with
having fished, contrary to the statute, within three miles
of the English coast. He sate:—l was cruising last night
along the noast from Holy Island 4.-o Berwick. About half-
past two o'clock I saw a number of ,French boats fishing
within the limits among the English mes. At that time
it was quite moonlight. I boarded the boats of the prisoners,
and there being too heavy a sea to tuw them in I took the
captains out. The crew were in the act of hauling their nets;
they said that owing to the wind and darkness of the night
they were driven in. The wind would drive them in a little,
but not to the extent they were; the sea would, if anything,
carry them out. He generally made an allowance for the
wind. Geo. Maxwell, pilot, Holy Island, said on Friday
evening he saw a number of French fishing boats in the bay.
Two were boarded, the bearings were taken, and the boats
were found to be within the three miles. The tide was
half flood. The prisoners were each fined £3, which was
paid. Tuesday morning, before Mr Alderman Fleming and
Robert Thompson, Esq., Captain Marescourt, of H.M.
gunboat Louisa, charged Deforge Joan Baptiste, Fo. 762 ;
Ramez Jacques Francois, No. 749 ; and Leerivain Augustin,
No. 707; all from Boulogne, with fishing within the limits
on Monday night. He was cruising on Monday evening
between Berwick and Emanuel Head and Holy Island.
He towed three French boats out of the line. There were
about 80 French fishing boats lying about with their heads
towards the shore. About 11 o'clock he came across the
boats of the three defendants, and found they were within
a mile of the shore. At that time it was moonlight. The
wind was such that they might have easily got out ; but
instead of doing so they kept the heads of the boats inwards.
Several boats, when they saw him, tacked about. This was,
he said, a most deliberate case of illegal fishing, for they ran
as it mere right under his nose. He further stated that
ho would likely be before the fishery commissioners next
year, and he would most certainly state that the present
panishment was not adequate to repress illegal fishing.
There was no use, he considered, having a law, unless it
was upheld. The pilot, George Markwell, gave confirma-
tory evidence, stating that at the time the prisoners were
caught he could see twelve miles along the coast. The
magistrates fined the prisoners cash £lO, or in default of
payment to be kept in custody till their beats would be
brought in, which would then be detained for fourteen days,
The Bench were of opinion that the ends of justice were not
attained by merely fining thew, as one night's fishing, they
remarked, would cover two or three yeers' lines; and in
future :Iley determined to detain their boats. The money
was pail in this case, and the prisoners were discharged.—
_Dem ick Warder.

BIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.—We
understand that the Racoon, with Prince Alfred
and the Duke of Itoxburghe on board, has arrived at Ice-
land. The prince will make a few visits and return early
in September to this country. His It9yal highness, who is
an expert angler, killoa 62 salmon. during his short stay in
Norway in the Duke of Itozburghe's fishicg waters. The
first afternoon he killed 4ix fish, and on the following days
eighteen salmon each day, and on the fourth day, after
going a little further up the water ho killed twenty salmon.
All of them were large fish, weighing from 6.bs to 271bs
each.—. Edinburgh Courant.

TEE HOUSE OF COMMONEI.—A SKETCH.—By
half-past four the House has sacrificed eupugh to
the:decent fiction of private legislation. The time for pub-
lic business has arrived, and the seats begin to fill rapidly.
The Ministers arrive to submit themselves to the batteryof
questions by which their constitutional responsibility ie
supposed to be carried opt. Of late this has been the moat
exciting period of a House pf Commons' sitting. The se-
curity of Ministers has depenJed on the skill with which
they have been able to keep their secrets from the Opposi-
tion, and the hopes of the Opposition bay° turned upon the
possibility of luring or taunting the Ministers into some in-
cautious revelations of their misdeeds. The portion of
public business at half-past four has consequently taken the
form of a sharp tournament of question seed answer, in
which a good deal of ingenuity is sometimes cisplayed.
Each Minister has his own peculiar mode of parzying the
thrusts which are pointed at him. Mr. Layer. el gets
angry and• stands upon his dignity, which is un-
doubtedly the worst plan. Mr. Milner Gibson says some-
thing wholly beside the question, and at the same time
smiles in so bewitching a manner that a questioner who
shall attempt to pursue his inquiry would feel himself the
most brutal of mankind. Mr. Gladstone plunges into a
labyrinth of words, through which his listeners despairingly
give up all attempts to follow him—AA when the torrent
stops he leaves them so bewildered and dazed that they are
fain to abandon all further questions till their intellects
have been tranquillised by a few minutes' repose. But
Lord Palmerston is by far the greatest master of the foil.
A keen perception of what the point really is—a firm deter-
mination not to seem to see it—and an audacity in making
bad jokes, and returning impertinent answeis, which often,
often as the exhibition of it has been repeated, seems every
time to take the House by surprise as a refreshing novelty,
all these qualities constitute him the moat perfect adept in
the use of language upon Talleyrand's principles that, the
present generation has witnessed. It is a game in which
the Opposition very seldom win.— Quarterly Review.
CRACOW FROM R.OSCIUSZKO S MOUND.—To see
Cracow to the greatest advantage, you must climb
to the top of Kosciuezko's mound, two English miles with-
out the walls. You then discover that the city is built at
the spot where the two rivers, the Rudawa and the. Vi-
stula, converge, and that a range of wooded hills, terminat-
ing in the mound on which you are standing, runs up into
the triangle formed by the convergence of the two rivers.
This mound, raised by patriotic hands in memory of their
greatest national hero, was ruthlessly seized upon by the
Austrians and converted into a fortress when they violated
the treaty of Vienna by destroying the liberties cf Cracow,
which, by the stipulations of that treaty, was to re-
main a free town far ever. The traveller who has taken
the trouble to mount to the top of the mound has but to
look around him and he will at once see that the Aus-
trians have not been idle since IE4B, As the Russians
have rendered the citadel at Warsaw impregnable, and
the Prussians have done the same by Posen, it would
appear that Austria is bent on turning Cracow to the
same account. It will be many years before the works
are anything like finished, and, until their completion,
Cracow is any day at the mercy of the Russians pouring
in through the gates of Michalowice on the top of
yonder hill, and less than five English miles distant, Im-
mediately in front of the spectator is spread out the
picturesque old city, out of the centre of which, as from
a forest of churches, raises itself up majestically the
castle hill, with its roj al residence and cathedral, big with
the memories of Poland's departed glory. Now, the Pule
who Auld visit the tombs of S Kosciuzko, and
Poniatowsky, or would go to worship in his own cathedral,
is only admitted at certa n hours of the day by a little
wicket gate in the fortifications, and has to thread his way
through frowning cannon, which command the approaches.
When the national feeling is thus cruelly wounded, is it I
wonderful that the Pars should be disaatisfied with the
Austrian Government P During the 15 years which have
elapsed since they laid violent hands upon Cracow, I would
defy the Austrians to point to a public work of theirs which
had fur its object the development-of the material resources
of the country. The railvdy which connects Cracow with
Lemberg, and that now in ccurre of construction from
Lemberg to Czanowi z, in the Bukowina, is the work of
Prince Sapieha, to whom the province of Galicia owes what
little commercial prosperity it can boast of. Were the
Austrians driven across the Carpathians to-morrow, the
only trace they would leave behind of their occupation of
the country would be a few dozen glaring red brick forts
in a more or less forward state of.preparition.—Bullock's
Polish ,~yel knces.

DUBLTN, Aug. 30.
A most brutal and unprovoked murder was com-
mitted in Omagh on Saturday evening last. The vie•
tim is Mr J. M'Cressan, a solicitor of considerable
repute in the county of Donegal. The circumstances
are as follows :—At the last Omagh Assizes Mr
MaCrossa.n was solicitor for the plaintiff in the
case of Doyle v. %FLoughlin, coach builder. It was
the only record at last assizes. A verdict of £8
damages and GI. costs was found for the plaintiff.
M'Loughlin, the defendant, not paying. the damages
and coats, an ezecution was brought against him,
and the Glib-sheriff. Mr C. M 'Crossan, Irat,".er of the
aiaceased, RIO on Saturclaylast about to precaed with
the eizecution. MaLoughlia resisted, and his clue,
which is situated io Viatica street, (a
th© sheriff and his bailitfs.
cootah, shut rip
reaistance was offercd,
against the approach of
The sheriff, seeing that
aawalr the advice of his brother, who went to him,
r, . L
and while speaking to the sut'aa heriff en the street
at MaLoughlin'a house, an iron rot', 5 feat 8 incbea
in length, having a hook with a bao at the point,
was thrust by MaLoughlin out of the window on the
upper story, and pludged into the throat cf Mr
M'Crosssn, liftirg him off the ground, and idnicting
a dreadful wound. The carotid artery was cut, and
the blood gushed out in prda'asion. All the remedies
which medical skill could devise were applied.
During the night, and up to Sunday afternoon,
some hopes, though faint, were entertained of his
recovery, but about 1 o'clock p.m. he fainted, and
a change for the worse set in, w hich became snore
serious, until he finally expired, after intense suffer-
ing, at 5 o'clock yesterday morning. A report of
the brutal outrage was at once conveyed to the con-
stabulary, three of whom were quickly at the
scene of the unfortunate occurrence. Constable
M'Caugban immediately ascended the window,
forced his way into the house, and arrested
APLoughlin.

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Bi'ORTING INTELLIGENCE,—This Days

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