The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

Lyons and Mediterranean.

SOuthern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

REMOVAL OF THE FENIAN PRISONERS.-D ÜBLIN;
Sunday.—All the Fenian prisoners-35 in number—were
removed from Richm3nd Bridewell to Kilmainham Go-
vernment County Prison between 12 and 1 this morning.
Slr Robert Peel was present.

REFORM BILL RETURNS.—We have just seen
copies of the circulars issued from Whitehall calling upon
the local authorities to forward to the Poor-law Board
schedules of the ratings of different classes of tenements
in counties and in cities and in boroughs; obviously for
the purpose of ascertaining, according to the latest assess-
ments, what accessions will be made to the present con-
stituencies by a " vertical" extension of the franchise.
Downing-street would like to know, if the qualification be
lowered, what numbers of additional voters will be let in
at certain downward steps, and, therefore, asks, in respect
of the counties, for th. number of occupiers rated at £lO
and under £l2 ; at £l2 and under £l5 ; at £l5 and under
£2O ; and at £2O and under £5O. With regard to cities and
boroughs, the particulcrs sought are the numbers of occu-
piers in each at £4 and under £5 ; at £5 and under £6 ; at
£6 and under .£7 ; at £7 and under £8 ; at £8 and under
£lO. The returns are to be filled up from the rate-books in
respect of the " rateable value" of each tenement, not ac-
cording to the "gross estimated rental" as heretofore used
for electoral statistics. The difference, we need hardly
say, is very material between the gross and the rateable
value.—Manchester Guardian.

THE NEGRO IN GEORGIA.—In a letter from Mil-
ledgeville, Georgia, in the Cincinnati Gazette, we find the
following passage :—" With regard to the neg,ro, I am
both pleased and pained—pained that so many of them
still entertain such erroneous ideas as to the nature and
responsibilities of freedom ; pleased that so large a number,
contrary to the predictions and wishes of their enemies as
well as the fears and misgivings of their friends, contrary
to all that might have been expected from the mental,
moral, social, and physical degradation to which they were
so long reduced, have arisen as if by an inspiration to a
proper comprehension of the circumstances of their case
and have like true men and women gone steadily and earl
nestly to work to improve their condition in the only way
it can be improved— by honorable and honest toil. I con-
versed in Macon with seven colored men, whom I picked
out at random from the crowds passing along the streets.
The first was head waiter at a hotel, and was receiving in
wages twenty-five dollars per month, having started at ten
dollars. The second was an old man, a dray driver, who
was getting a dollar a day, and was sending four children
to school. The third was a cigar manufacturer, who was
receiving twenty dollars a month and board for his labor ;
he too having commenced at ten dollars. The fourth was
a laborer engaged in transporting cotton from the ware-
house to the river side, preparatory to loading in flatboats,
and was paid for this one dollar and twenty-five cents per
day. The fifth was a lazy, lubberly-looking fellow, whose
worthless appearance would, in nine cases out of ten, pre-
vent him from obtaining work, and whose innate worth-
lessness would probably induce him to abandon it very
shortly after it was obtained. He endeavoured to make
me believe that ho had been at work and was willing to
work, but his whole story was confused and contradictory,
and I set him down as a very trifling sort of a boy. The
sixth was a restaurant cook, a good-looking young fellow,
who seemed as merry as a lark, and chuckled with delight
when he told me he ' got fifteen dollars a month and
found.' The seventh was a porter in a wholesale grocery
store, received eighty cents a day for his services, and liked
his employer ' fust rate.' Thus, of the seven with whom I
talked, six were at work and doing well, while the seventh
was so entirely sensible of his duty and obligations that he
was ashamed to own he was idle. Now I ask any man,
no matter what are his partisan views and prejudices, to
look at this statement candidly, and say what more or
what better could be expected of these poor creatures, who
have been degraded by many years of servitude ; who, from
the hour of their birth, have never been taught the rudest
elements of responsibility and self-dependence ; who have
systematically been deprived of the wages due to toil, and
who, in this condition, without money, property, or
resources, have suddenly been set adrift, and leit to make
their own way in the world."