The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

A FACTION FIGHT.

At the Killaloe petty sessions, a few days ago, 18 persons
were summoned for having been engaged in a faction fight
on the 26th ult. Two families, named Connells and Skebans,
had a long-standing dispute about the right to an acre of
land, resulting in protracted litigation and many collisions.
They are all related as first and second cousins, The priest
and the landlord vainly sought to reconcile them ; the latter
even divided the piece of land between them, but all to no
purpose. When they met they fought, and at a place called
Fahybridge, on the day mentioned, they had an engage-
ment which, both for the vigour of the onslaught and the
number of casualties, completely eclipsed all that had pre-
ceded it. It appeared that the fight was originated by the
Skebans. Among other acts it was sworn that a lad about
16 or 17 went behind Michael Connell with a stone, and
felled him to the ground. The fight then raged with inde-
scribable fury. Pitchforks and other weapons were used,
and such was the fury of the combatants that they broke
the handles of some of the instruments on each other's per-
sons; loaded whip-handles prostrated those they struck,
and stones flew in every direction. The melee ended at
length more through the exhaustion of both parties than
tether cause. Many of the combatants were left cone •
any
loss on the grt7:llo,
The Clare Freeman ;.1
AsCrib
,es the parties on both
belonging to the respectable class af farmers, and_ I:s
*itireescor years
compsidesr.
lug all ages, from the grey-headed man - • • hearty
to the young girl and boy of 16. They were all hraie,o
en?
and comfortably-dressed persons, and nearly Et)iviveyYt'ag "'been
some marks of the savage affray in
lily in their lives. The prisoners were the vs r
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engaged. The magistrates said they newvehriS; spt:crehenbsruwtah-o
should have been expected to quell such
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conduct was a disgrace to then ountryti
two months to three weeks impsonmethe
combatants, the
were passed upon the most guilty of
others were bound to keep the peace.

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FRENCH PouLTRY.--Wonderful poultry of the
French-Flemish country, why take the trouble to
,:',e poultry? Why not stop shodrt
one at ewith it ?t
Pggs in thearents
rising
geno:ation, and die out and have
so scraggy and weak, that the
-is have I seen this day, followed by their wretched
of chicke,
slelre,icoemles a mockery when applied
scratching nothing out of the mud with an
young foraili...4'
helcens's last "
air tottering ale:it on
valiant word drumstick._
to them, and the crow of t.,. ()it'd and master has been a
mere dejected case of croup,-..,,, Uncommer-
cial,"

The members of the Family P. Salty werersthe
s local
ss
iotfra
and so like one another—fathers, mothers,
brothers, uncles, and aunts—that I think
audience were much confused about the plot of the
piece under representation, and to the last expected
that everybody must turn out to be the long-lost
relative of everybody else, The Theatre was esta-
blished on the top story of the Hotel de Ville, and
was approached by a long bare staircase, whereon,
in an airy situation, one of the P. S ilcy Family—a
stout gentleman imperfectly repressed by a belt—
took the money. This occasioned the greatest ex-
citement of the evening; for, no sooner did the cur-
tain rise on the introductory Vaudeville, and re-
veal in the person of the young lover (singing a
very short song with his eyebrows) apparently the
very same identical stout gentleman imperfectly re-
pressed by a belt, than everybody rushed out to the
paying-place, to ascertain whether he could pos-
sibly have put on that dress-caat, that clear com-
plexion, and those arched black vocal eyebrows, in
so short a space of time. It then became manifest
that this was another stout gentleman imperfectly
repressed by a belt; to whom, before the spec-
tators had recovered their presence of mind,
entered a third stout gentleman imperfectly
repressed by a belt, exactly like him. These
two "subjects," making with the money-taker three
of the announced fifteen, fell into conversation
touching a charming young widow : who, presently
appearing, proved to be a stout lady altogether ir-
repressible by any means—quite a parallel case to
the American Negro—fourth of the fifteen subjects,
and sister of the fifth who presided over the check-
department. In good time the whole of the fifteen
subjects were dramatically presented, and we had
the inevitable Ma .Mere, 2114 Mere! and also the
inevitable malediction d'un pere, and likewise the
inevitable Marquis, and also the inevitable provin-
cial young man, weak-minded but faithful, who
followed Julie to Paris, and cried and laughed and
choked all at once. The story was wrought out
with the help of a virtuous spinniug-wheel in the
beginning, a
vicious set of diamonds in the middle,
and a rheumatic blessing (which arrived by post)
from Ma Mere towards the end; the whole result-
ing in a small sword in the body of one of the stout
gentlemen imperfectly repressed by a belt, 50,000
francs per annum and a decoration to the other
stouta
ng
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rmo pme ref
ve ce tr
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provinbelt,cial
young man that if he were not supremely happy—
which he seemed to have no reason whatever for
being—he ought to be. This afforded him a final
opportunity of crying and laughing and choking
all at once, and sent the audience home sentimen-
tally delighted.—New number of " All the Year
_Round."

be 60fr long, and to average 12ft high, a,
a cylinder would contain 5,760 cubic
power of that quantity of hydrogen wo•IJ le' •
posing the silk and whatever apparat . .
furnished with to weigh 2601bs,—in rea v
nearly so much,—there would still rem:
sufficient to lift and sustain a man weigh
of ordinary strength is able to lift 6,0001 bah: , • t o
one foot in a minute, when applying his strength under
fair mechanical advantages. Five miles an hour is 440 ft
in a minute, and 440 into 6,000 goes 131 times; so that the
strength of one man, applied under proper conditions, would
be sufficient to lift 1311bs 440 ft in a minute. A plane sur-
face, moving through the air at the rate of 440 ft in a minute,
or five miles an hour, would experience a resistance of 25
times 'OO5, or '125, of a pound on every square foot; and if
the plane surface %%ere equal in extent to the largest section
of the proposed cylinder, it would thus experience a total
resistance of 141bs. In the case of the cylinder itself, owing
to the paraboloidal form of its ends, the resistance wouhl be
a third less than this, reducing the total to 911bs. To propel
this cylinder at the rate of five miles an hour would there-
fore require the exertion of force capable of lifting 9Dbs
i t4Oft in a minute. We have seen that a man of ordinary
he could
could lift lUbs Ilt'ft in a minule. Consequently,
propel the cylinder, at the speed luentioned, with
great ease.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

,es Lieut.-Commander
iron paddlewheel stcamvesscl
THE NAVY.
Stokes, from the
Bloodhound Her :Majesty's
West Coast of Africa, yesterday hauled alongside
the eastern wharf in the outer basin at Woolwich,
in order to return stores, in readiness to pa 3- out
3of
commission on Tuesday, the 15th inst. Lieut. Stokes
was appointed by Commodore Edmonstone to the
command of the Bloodhound on the 6th Sept., 1861,
and took up his commission in the Congo river,
superseding Lieut. Dolben, who returned home.
Lieut.-Stokes sailed from England in the paddle
sloop Alecto, in which vessel he served as First
Lieut. in Feb., 1860, and was subsequently ap-
pointed to the command of the Brune, in which
vessel he was present at the attack of Porto Novo,
and was afterwards employed principally in the
Bights of Biafra and Benin in the suppression of the
traffic in gases, but took no prizes. In Sept., 1862,
yellow fever manifested itself in several cases ou
board the Bloodhound, and carried off Mr. Hamp-
shire, the engineer in charge, and seven of the crew.
The commander was likewise severely attacked with
the disease, but recovered. Lieut. Stokes' services,
in company with Capt. Barton, her Majesty's Con-
sul at Fernando Po, to assert the rights of Bri-
tish subjects in the Benin River, have been fa-
vourably reported. Captain Barton and Lieut.
Stokes are the only white men who up to the
present moment have been known to ascend the
Elephant Mountain in Batanga, where they were
attended by a numerous guard of bushmen, to whom
they were objects of curiosity and wonder.
Her Majesty's paddle sloop Hydra, about to re-
place the Medina in the Mediterranean, and in pro-
gress of fitment at -Woolwich, yesterday commenced
coaling, in readiness for an early trial trip of her
machinery.
The iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 160-
horse power, is to be placed in No. 3 dock at
Chatham, for the purpose of ascertaining the locality
of her leak.

The old line-of-battle sailing ship Duncan, 74, is
partially demolished at Chatham dockyard, and in
the course of a few days will have entirely disap-
peared. Notwithstanding that she is one of the
oldest vessels of her class belonging to the English
navy, most of her timbers are sound, and give but
few signs of decay. In consequence of the difficulty
experienced in obtaining hired shipwrights to break
her up, the work has to be performed by the me-
chanics belonging to the establishment.
A number of workmen are employed at Chatham
dockyard in erecting strong cast-iron girders on
each side of No. 6 shed, beneath which the screw
gunvessel Myrmidon is standing partially com-
pleted. These additions are made in the expecta-
tion that this slip will be used in the construction of
one of the new iron-cased vessels which are to he
commenced at that establishment. The Myrmidon,
which is about two-thirds comp'.eted, will be the only
wooden vessel taken in hand at Chatham dockyard.

Master W. Shepley Taylor, whose name stands
at the head of the list of successful candidates passed
at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, as naval
cadets of the first class, was educated during thir-
teen months previously on board the Conway train-
ing ship, Commander Richard I\l °aid, R.N. While
in the Conway, Master Taylor gained the first
cadetship given by his Grace the Duke of Somerset,
K.G., First Lord of the Admiralty, the gold medal
for greatest general proficiency in all subj,:ets of
training and education, and the first mathematical
prize in the first class. Master Robert Findlay, who
passed his examination as first-class naval cadet at
the Royal Naval College at the same time, was also
educated on board the Conway, and gained the
second cadetship given by the Duke of Somerset.
The Lord Bishop of Salisbury held a confirmation
service on Tuesday at IVyke Regis, Dorset, spe-
cially for the naval cadets of her Majesty's ship
Britannia, Capt. R. Ashmore Powell, C.B. (cadet
in for her Majesty's navy stationed at
Portland)
i 72 of the young gentlemen presented
training-ship :
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themselves, and were confirmed.