The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-16 00:00:00

Health of the Az any Abroad.

The Catholic Congress at Maine'.

A correspondent writes to a contemporary :—" On my
returning from Malines, I find quoted in yourjournal—and
I understand that this is the case with nearlythe whole
round of the London press—a passage from the l
dance Beige relating to the recent Ca holic
kind Congressnclelenai
M, alines, which throws a good deal of light on theof
independence'
adopted by that journal. I find there stated
that at the call of the illustrious French preacher, the Pere
Felix—who for the last 11 years has preached the usual
course of Lenten sermons before the eminently intellectual
audience which gather around the pulpit of Notre Damo de
Paris—' the assembly (of Malines) replied by cries, a hun-
dred times repeated, of " Vive Jesus Christ l'" One
might indeed have believed oneself at a banquet,' adds the
independent' scribe, at the moment when the health of
the host is proposed,' &o. On the whole, the call to hail
publicly the names of our Blessed Saviour, His Vicar on
Earth, and the Catholic Church, uttered by the first sacred
orator of France at the present time, is represented by the
Independence to have been responded to in such a way as
only fools or blackguards could do it. Now, sir, I was
present at the scene, and to me it seemed one of the
grandest I ever witnessed. I shall describe it
for the benefit of your readers. At the end of
one of his usual calm and clear discourses addressed
to the Congress in its hall of meeting, the Pere Felix, who
had been alluding to the insults inflicted on our Saviour
by Renan and other recent writers, called for a special
manifestation, on the part of the whole assembly, of its be-
lief and love with regard to the Divinity of Christ, His
Vicar, and His Church, and invited the assembly to repeat
after him the following acclamations, which he first pro-
nounced with outstretched hand, in a calm and firm tone of
I voice, ' Vive Notre Signeur Jesus Christ, vrai Dieu of
vrai homme I' The whole of the 4,000 gentlemen gresent
in the hall at once stood up and stretched their right hands
like the speaker, and repeated in the same calm and earnest
manner, and in measured time, as it were, those 4,000 voices
speaking in unison, Vive Jesus Christ, Notre Seigneur,
vrai Dieu et vrai homme l' In like manner were the other
two acclamations repeated, much after the manner in
which, from the earliest times, the members of the then
truly great Christian assemblies, which are called the
councils and synods of the Church, repeat the ' Acclama-
tions' set down in the rituals for the conclusion of their
meetings. Far from appearing to my artistic appreciation
to be the act of either fools or blackguards, the whole scene
seemed to me not only enacted by sensible and earnest men,
but as the grandest and most appropriate declaration of
faith, like the taking of the oath of allegiance by a whole
host; in fine, a kind of renewal of a Christian's baptismal
vows.
" I need hardly dwell after this on the way in which the
' independent' scribe speaks of my truly reverend friend,
Father Hermann, and the manner in which he makes out
that the five pirates of the Flowery Land, executed at New-
gate in February last, were made up of one Catholic and
three Protestants, All who have the happiness of knowing
Father Hermann, and M. Listz first of all, can testify to
his eminent talents as a musician and as a sacred orator,
just as they can attest to his constant humility, abnegation,
and religious fulfilment of his sacred vocation. It is no
credit to any one's judgment or honesty to speak of him
otherwise.

DRUNK FOR TWENTY YEARS.—An inquest WBB
held on Wednesday in Cannon-street, St. GeorgVe-in- the-
East, as to the death of Sarah Whalley, aged fifty-nine
years. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased had
been a desperate drunkard for no less than 20 years—it was
her husband's opinion that she had not once been properly
sober in all that timo—and had died suddenly on Monday
morning. The medical testimony showed that all the organs
of deceased were in a shccking state of disease, from her
habits of drinking, and that death had immediately resulted
from disease of the heart. The jury returned a verdict in
accordance with the evidence.

The Correctional Tribunal of Poitiers (Vienne)
has just been occupied with the trial of a
band of pretendbd sorcerers, composed of a woman.
named Vignaud; Plcere Vignaud, her husband; Eugtsne
Vignaud, his brother; and a relative of theirs named
Prevost, on a charge of swindling a widow named Cail-
lebon out of upwards of 3,603 f. The female prisoner
had, in 1861, undergone an imprisonment of 13 months for
similar practices. Soon after her release she returned to
Poitiers, where she made the acquaintance of the prose-
cutris, whom she persuaded that she (the prisoner) had
the power of discovering a quantity of gold which the
widow's husband had concealed in the house on
his return from Spain. Unfortunately, for the dupe,
she believed in the er.i3tence of this hidden treasure, for the

(liscovery of which she had before applied to different SDIII-
- and she Lent a willing ear to the promises made.
The woman Vignaud commenced her ororalions by taking
the widow about to diff,.rent parts of the country, the latter
baying, as a matter of course, to pay all the expenses.
Holes were also dug by Vignaud in st,verhl ports of 11•. e
house, and various incantations performed ov,r them. In
a short time after, during the absence of the widow, and
when her granddaughter only was present, she removed
a stone from the back of the chimney and showed the
girl, without, however, allowing her to come close to it,
something having a yellowish appearance, which the
sorceress said was part of the treasure. The girl in delight
informed her grandmother of the fact, who unloosed her
purse-strings more than ever. Some time after the announce •
ment was made that the treasure had bcea found, and the
prisoners, accompanied by the widow, went to Angouleme,
carrying with them a box containing, according to the
account of the woman Vignaud, about 20 pounds weight of
gold. The object of the journey, all the expenses of which
as a matter of course were defrayed by the victim, was to
sell the precious metal. The police, however, having
heard of the arrival of persons with such a large sum,
fancied that a robbery had been committed, and insisted on
having the box opened, when it was found to be filled with
pieces of old iron. Madame Caillebon then returned to
Poitiers, and gave information to the police. When before
the Court the evidence given by the prosecutrix was so clear
that the prisoners could not deny the facts, and were found
guilty and condemned, the woman Vignaud as the princi-
pal to eighteen months' imprisonment ; her husband to four
months, and the other two to two months each. The four
were also condemned to a fine of 50f each and to alt the
expenses.

Aa officer-de-sante, named Allczard, was last week tried
by the Court of Assizes of the Hante-Loire on a charge of
attempting to murder a young man named Bonfils, residing
at Auz)n ; Alle zard'a servant, a young woman named
Mestre, was also charged as an accessory before
the fact. It appeared from the indictment that
the female prisoner entered All( zard's service in
the summer of 1863, and that an improper con•
nection was soon established between them. Among
the persons who visited Allczard was a young man
named Bonfils, whom the former soon begun to suspect of
an amour with his servant, and to prevent any communica-
tion between them he locked the girl in her chamber every
night, and sealed a strip of paper on her window, so that it
could not be opened without his knowledge. These precau,
tions, however, did not satisfy his jealousy. Under the
pretext that robbers were always prowling about his premises
during the night, he begged his neighbours to assist him in
watching, which they did for several nights without making
any discovery. Having thus paved the way for his design, he
advised his servant to give Bonfils a rendezvous in his stable
at 11. o'clock that night, under the pretence that she had
something important to communicate. Bonfils went at the
hour appointed, and was just entering the stable, when
Allezard, who was watching at the window, fired at him
twice and wonnded him severely in the leg and thigh. The
wounded man's cries EOM brought the neighbours to his
aid, and he explained ho had gone there to meet Allezard's
servant by her own appointment. She and her master were
according arrested. The girl at once confessed that she had
made an appointment to meet Bonfils, but that her master
had that night looked her up as usual. She protested that
she had no suspicion of what her master intended to do.
The evidence having clearly proved that the whole thing
was a plot devised by Allezard to get rid of his supposed
rival, the jury found him guilty of wilfully wounding, and
the Court sentenced him to four years' imprisonment. The
female was acquitted.
At the Court of Assizes of the Aube a farm-servant, named
Malley, has just been tried on a charge of having at Mou-
lins, on the 25th March last, murdered his wife by throwing
her into the river Aube ; a married woman named Tonnelot,
with whom ho had cohabited both before and after his mar-
riage, was also charged as an accomplice in the crime.
The woman Malley having disappeared on the 25th
March last, the prisoner, a man of very bad character, was
immediately suspected if having murdered her, and
several circumstances were se n discovered which left no
doubt of his guilt. He was accordingly arrested, and, after
vainly endeavouring to combat the evidence against him,
at last confessed that at the instigatinn of the woman Tun-
°clot, he had induced his wife to go with him to set tome
;'riends at a neighbouring village, but that the woman
Tonnelot met them near the river, and they then executed
the design of drowning her. In consequence of this con-
ression the woman Tonnelot was arrested. The river was
dragged, and the body of Malley's wife was found near the
spot indicated by him. In court, the female prisoner de-
nied her guilt, and attempted to prove an alibi, but failed,
while several witnesses deposed that they had seen her
coming from tho direction of the river shortly after the
time when the murder was committed. The jury found
both prisoners guilty, but with extenuating circumstances,
and the court accordingly condemned them to hard labour
for life.

THE NEW CARDINAL,--There is a rumour abroad
that one of the two cardinals' hats, rendered vacant by
the death of Cardinal Savelli and Cardinal Bedini, will be
conferred upon the Right Rev. Monsignore Manning, D.D
Provost of Westminster, and that he will, as a prior step.
be raised to the office of a bishop. The right rev. doctor
was formerly archdeacon of the diocese of Chichester. He
was one of the most prominent of,the High Church party,
and an earnest coadjutor of the Bishop of Oxford in his
Church work. The other cardinal's hat will, it is said, be
conferred upon a French bishop who is a close personal
friend of the Emperor.

TIGER AND BUFFALO FIGHTS IN JAVA.—As
110 circus or arena of any kind is erected for the
fetes, several men, armed with long spears, form a ring
consisting of a vast concourse of eager spectators. The fight
between the tiger and the buffalo is always considered the
sensational scene of the day. The portable cage into which
the tiger has been driven is placed in the centre of the
ring, and that of his adversary exactly opposite, a few
paces apart. When the doors are opened, the tiger, it he
has lost heart by his long confinement, will immediately
make a rush towards the circle of spectators, seeking for
a gap through which he may make his escape—a vain
attempt, for so formidable is the zone by which he is sur-
rounded, and so threatening are the glittering spear heads,
that, with his tail between his hind legs, he not unfre-
quently retreats to his artificial cover, out of which he
must again be driven in order to make him come to the
scratch. If, as is generally the case, he at last turns in des-
peration from the pointed barrier of spears, and encounters
the buffalo, infuriate t by pain inflicted by the points of the
same weapons, the king of the jungle raises his head, waves
his tail from side to side like a cat ready to pounce on its
prey, and looks at his adversary as though the glare of his
fieroe eyes were sufficient to inspire awe and dread. The
audience at this crisis becomes breathless with excitement.
From the Regent himself, to the little boy who gazes at the
scene seated on his father's shoulder, all are fascinated by
the same dread spectacle, and an ominous silence prevails.
The defiant roar of the tiger is responded to by the deep bel-
lowing of the buffalo, which shakes the surrounding
ground. The tiger, after stealthily advancing, stops to
watch the movements of his foe; the buffalo, threatening
his adversary with his formidable horns, stands ready to
toss him in the air. But the cunning animal, by a kind of
instinct, seems to understand the danger to which he is
exposed, and crouching down, as though for a leap, while
his enemy rushes forward to fling him up, he leaps over his
head, and with the speed of lightning saddles himself all
fours on his back. Beyond the reach of danger from his op-
ponent's horns, he now plants his teeth in the skin of the
unfortunate buffalo, whose groans of rage and anguish are
distinctly heard amid the loud shouts of the people. Should
the tiger not succeed in taking his leap at the right moment,
the buffalo throws him up into the air like a ball, and as he
falls, stands prepared to goad him to death. If the tiger
should come off victorious in the contest, he is carefully
kept and tended, to display his prowess in another gala.—
Life in Java, by W. B. .D'illnzeida.

THE WHALE FISHING.—On Taesday the ateain-
ahip Polynia, Capt. Gravill, arrived at Dundee from
the whale fishing. The Polynia comes home clean, after
an absence of about five months. She reached the
fishing ground in May, and continued to shift from one
place to another up till two or three weeks ago, when she
cleared the ice. During the whole time one whale only was
sighted, and some very bad weather was experienced.
Capt. Gravill reports having seen the Activer of Peterhead,
which had no whales, but the oil of 657 seals. The Sir Colin
Campbell, of Peterhead, was also spoken by the Polynia,
and had at that time ono whale and about 3;io seals, which

would yield about lti or 20 tuns of oil. The crew/ of the
Polynia caught Z 2 brown bears, some of which were of
considerable size. Two have been brought home alive, and
the others have been preserved for their hides. Captain
Gravill states that he scarcely ever saw worse weather, and
never during the many years he has gone to the whale fish.
ing did he move about so much and meet with so little sue-
cess.—.Dundee A,lvertiser.
" France," says the Kreutz Zeitang of Berlin, "did
last month take some alight step for Denmark, but
only out cf complaisance for England• The proceeding,
besides, had no official character, and consisted only in
charging in an unofficial manner the French ambassador at
Beilin to recommend moderation towards Denmark in the
conversations which he should have with Count de Bite
mark and M. de Thiele. The subsidiary demand of Earl
Russsll that universal suffrage should be applied in Schles-
i wig, has not been supported by the Cabinet of the Tuileries

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By order.
FREDERICI: CLARIcE, Secretary.
Waterloo-fridge Station, London, Sept, 10, 1864.

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