The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

JEALOUSY IN HUMBLE LIFE.—A little African, with
strongly marked features of the negro type, who gave the
pugnacious name of Peter Crawley, was charged with
being drunk and disorderly, and making a disturbance in
Devonshire-street, St. George-in-the-East.
Donald MiKay, a police-c onstable, No. 275 K, said h
was called to a disturbance in Devonshire-street at one
o'clock this morning, and saw the prisoner, who was rav-
ing loudly and offering to fight every one near him. The
prisoner also called upon the people at No. 35 to come out
and he would kill them all. He endeavoured to quiet the
prisoner, but could not ; and after a scene of wild strug-
gling and rolling upon the ground he was obliged to take
him into custody. The prisoner had nothing on but his
trowsers. The house, No. 35, was a scene of great con_
fusion. • The windows were broken and furniture de-
stroyed. A woman was severely beaten by the prisoner,
and had two black eyes. She had made an appointment
with the prisoner, who went to the house at midnight, and
on entering the room he found her in bed in the arms of
another black man—(laughter)—which so enraged him
that he attacked both, half killed his sable rival, and
dragged the couple out of bed. The clothes hanging up
on lines to dry were torn down, the chairs and tables
smashed, and a general wreck made of the contents of the
room.
Mr. Paget—He was jealous of the other black man ?
M'Kay—He was, sir; ho was raving mad, and said he
would kill the woman and the ugly black nigger who was
with her. (Loud laughter.)
The prisoner, in a few words of broken English, said he
came home in the ship Norma yesterday, and he knew the
woman who played him false three years ago.
Mr. Paget—That is a long time. You must not make
these disturbances and beat the woman for preferring the
attraction of the other black man.
The Prisoner—l will kill her.
Mr. Paget—No ; you must not touch her. I shall com-
mit you to prison for seven days.
The Prisoner—Then I shall lose my clothes, my money,
everything.
Mr. Paget—No ; the police will look after your clothes ;
your ship will be paid off to-morrow (Tuesday), and your
wages will be found at the shipping office.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 2.

Joseph Cummins, the brave fellow who so nearly
lost his life in resisting the attempts of an Irish-
American rowdy to murder and rob him on the
Finglas road on Tuesday night, lies still in hospital
in a precarious state. As the man is very poor and
has a large family depending on his daily labour,
subscriptions are being actively collected, and
already upwards of £5O have been subscribed for
their support. It is believed that had it not been
for the interference of the injured man's son, who
furiously attacked the highwayman with a whip-
handle, Cummins must have been killed, as the
ruffian was able to fire one shot at the son,
which happily missed him. An examination of
the wounds has been made by Mr. Fleming, which
was attended with satisfactory results. The wound in
the eye was examined with a porcelain probe, on
Nelaton's principle, and the fact of the bullet being
lodged in the skull, close to the brain, ascertained
beyond a doubt. This probe was invented by the
celebrated French surgeon Nelaton, and first suc-
cessfully applied in the discovery of the bullet in the
ande of Garibaldi. It consists simply of a rough
point of porcelain. If the wound contain a lodgment
of lead, contact with it will impart a black mark to the
porcelain if the body lodged be iron, the mark will
be of a red colour. The Nelaton probe was exten-
sively used in the American war. Mr. Fleming
made his'examination in the presence of Professor
Houghton, M.D., Dr. Butcher, -and other gentle-,
men, together with the surgical class of the hospital.
What he used was not a specially constructed
appliance, but merely a few inches of slender por-
celain, which had formed part of an ornament. The
brain of the sufferer has not been injured by the
shot. He is at present going on well, and there is
every hope of saving his life.
The Evening Freeman says :—,‘ We are happy to
state that the operation of extracting the bullet from
the eye of poor Cummins was carried out this morn-
ing, at the Richmond Hospital, with partial suc-
cess. Surgeon Fleming undertook the operation,
at which Surgeon Gordon and other medical
gentlemen were present. After the surgeon had
probed the wound, he ascertained that the
bullet had flattened, and that it had broken into
two or three pieces. It struck, it appears, against
the wall of the orbit, and was thus prevented from
reaching the brain. Surgeon Fleming succeeded in
extricating about half of the bullet, and he hopes to
find the remaining portion to-morrow morning.
No attempt has yet been made to extract the bullet
from the thigh, the wound in that region not yet
being in a condition to be operated on."
The highwayman, O'Flynn, is in rather a dan-
gerous state in prison, the punishment he received
on the head threatening to produce erysipelas. He
has been identified by Mr. Taylor, of the Dunsink
Observatory, as having attempted to plunder him
on the same evening at Finglas. The prisoner fired
at him, and Mr. Taylor had a narrow escape, as
there is a bullet-hole in the tail of his coat.

:isses ani

Capt. Knollys, author of "
mony," has a new novel in the press.
THE AMERICAN POET, 'WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT,
has purchased the homestead in his native town of Cmu-
mington, Hampshire county, Mass., and is refitting it for a
summer residence.
THE CONCLUDING VOLUMES OF MR. GRANTLEY
F. BERKELEY'S " LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS" are announced
for publication in the autumn.
MR. HARRISON, THE SINGER, is seriously ill
with a brain-attack ; but hopes are entertained of his

recovery.
DRURY LANE will be opened in about three weeks
with " Macbeth" and " Comus."
PRINCE ALBERT'S PETS.—Prince Albert was in-
tensely fond of animals, and especially of birds.
Few gardens have been so densely peopled by the feathered
songsters as those attached to the palace at Pimlico, for it
was a place of privilege to them ; not a nest was ever
knowingly disturbed, and it was the constant aim of the
Royal father to teach his children to show tenderness to
helpless creatures. The Princes and Princesses had each
their little garden ; nests were often watched—not to ter-
rify the parent birds, but to guard them from accidental
disturbance, so that every family of fledglings had fromthe
moment of their birth a guarded home on sacred ground.
On one occasion one of the children found in the garden a
blind sparrow. This member of a great pugilistic com-
munity had had its eyes scratched out in a fight, and when
found was quite helpless. The child was much concerned
about its fate, and secured the good services of Mrs.
Wyness, the gardener's wife, begging of her to nurse it
while the family were away at Osborne. On their return
to Pimlico, the child, who had never forgotten the blind
sparrow, hastened to inquire of Mrs. Wyness respecting it,
and was deeply grieved to hear that it had diedin spite of
.tb.enithit careful tending.—Llibberd's Gardener's 4.lfagazin:e.

This noble specimen of -marine architecture, just
built for the Hamburg and American Steampacket
Company, left the Southampton Docks on Saturday
morning at 11 o'clock, with a party of about 100
ladies and gentlemen on board, and proceeded to
Spithead, for the purpose of testing her speed and
the working of her machinery before being placed
on the line between Hamburg, Southampton, and
New York. The Allemannia was built by Messrs.
C. A. bay and Co., of the Northern Ironworks, at
Southampton, from the designs of Mr. Macormac,
their nautical constructor, and engined at the same
establishment. She has accommodation for 60 first
and 160 second class passengers, and 600 emigrants,
while stowage capacity is provided for 1,000 tons of
cargo and 900 tons of coal. The length of the ves-
sel between perpendiculars is 313 ft. ; breadth, 40ft.
3M. ; depth from base line to spar deck, 35ft. 10in. ;
tonnage, builders' measurement, 2,484 ; engines,
400 horse-power nominal, fitted with four boilers,
superheating apparatus, and all the most recent
improvements applicable to marine engines.
During the run on Saturday the engines made 62
revolutions per minute; with 251 b. pressure of steam,
and vacuum 27in. The chief saloon is fitted up in
the most elegant style, and the arrangements of the
sleeping berths and other parts of the vessel are com-
plete in every respect. The spar deck is flush fore
and aft, the hull has a straight stem and round
stern, and the vessel is brig rigged. On leaving
Southampton the Allemannia steamed direct to Spit-
head, and passed down the line of the English fleet
there at anchor. After running through Spithead
the Allcmannia steamed out towards the Nab Light,
and then returned and proceeded to the westward,
nearly to the Needles, finally reaching the docks
about 7 o'clock in the evening.cr A very high rate of
speed was sustained throughout the trip, and the
performances of the ship gave great satisfaction to
all on board. During the afternoon the company
partook of a dejeilner in the magnificent saloon,
where a few toasts were drunk, and the builders of
the Allemannia, were warmly complimented on hav-
ing produced so noble a vessel, creditable alike to
the firm of Messrs. Day and Co. and to the port of
Southampton. The command of the Allemannia is
intrusted to Capt. H. N. Trautmann, and she is in-
tended to leave Southampton, on her first outward
voyage to New York, on the 20th inst. A new screw
steamer named the Surat, of 2,596 tons and 500-
horse power, and 14ft. longer than the Allemannia,
is rapidly approaching completion for the Peninsular
and Oriental Company at Messrs. Day's yard at
Northam

Place-Hunters and Pensions•

(From Fraser's Magazine.)
The late Bishop of Durham (Villiers) was the victim of
an accidental and seemingly insignificant circumstance,
The appointment of the son-in-law, whose sole disqualifi-
cation was the relationship, would probably have passed
unchallenged, had he not rejoiced in the attractive name of
Cheese. The value of a bishop's daughter in the matri-
monial market is as high as if no such misadventure had
occurred. Masterships in Chancery are no longer con-
ferred from private or political motives, because they are
no longer conferred at all. When Jekyll, at past eighty,
proposed to resign upon a pension, on the plea that he was
no longer fit for the duties of the office, Lord Eldon coin-
forted him with the remark that he was quite as fit as ever
—which was the truth. The little law Jekyll ever knew
was common law, and he accepted his mastership in the
same spirit in which Colonel Hanger answered Pitt, when
told that the place he wanted was not a sinecure. "Give
it me, and leave me alone to make it one." The unabashed
profligacy of place-hunters, and the enormous gains of
statesmen prior to the present century, may afford com-
fort to modern economists and financial reformers ; and
we may begin with the patriots of the Revolution. "At
this time (1688)," says Lord Macaulay, "Montague's
wishes pointed to the Church. At a later period, when he
was a peer with twelve thousand a-year, when his villa on
the Thames was regarded as the most delightful of all
suburban retreats, when ho was ready to revel in Tokay,
from the Imperial cellar, and in soups made out of birds
nests brought from the Indian Ocean, and costing three
guineas a-piece, his enemies were fond of reminding him
that there had been a time when he had eked Out by his
wits an income of barely fifty pounds, when he had been
happy with a trencher of matton chops and a flagon of ale
from the college buttery, and when a tithe pig was the
rarest luxury for which he dared to hope." if Montague
came honestly by his twelve thousand a year, he must have
saved it out of his official emoluments. Speaking of the
last days of Queen Anne, Lord Stanhope says that "service
of the country was then a service of vast emolument." He
computes the yearly income of the Duke of Marlborough (ex-
clusive of Blenheim and Parliamentary grants, &c.) at
£54,825, and the Duchess's offices and pensions at £9,500.
Lord Dartmouth, in a note to Burnet, computes their
joint salaries at £90,000. Sir Robert Walpole, who lived
sumptuously and laid out enormous sums in buildings and
pictures, more than quadrupled his hereditary estate, be-
sides providing for his sons by patent places of the aggre-
gate value of £14,000 a year. Fox, the first Lord Hol-
land, could not have made less than half a million out of
the perquisites of office. With the exception of Lord
Melville, the two or three last generations of British
statesmen have been free from the suspicion of peculation
and venality, although neither Pitt nor Fox was remark-
able for extreme delicacy in contracting pecuniary obliga-
tions. When the secession of the Duke of Portland, with
A large section of the Whig party, towards the commence-
ment of the French Revolution, deprived Fox of all im-
mediate chance of office, he stooped to accept an annuity
of £1,500 by way of compensation. When Pitt's debts
had grown more than ordinarily embarrassing he allowed
£12,000 to be raised by way of loan amongst his friends
and supporters, some of whom (like Rose) were trading on
him as a main source of preferment. There is still a startling,
amount of laity 'where' the public purge, iss concerned ;
and few
,peoplo see any harm in giving a consul-
ship or minor governorship to a ruined spendthrift, or a
commissionership to a relative without any imaginable
qualification. No ono complained of Mr. Disraeli for pro-
viding handsomely for a brother at one of the Boards at
Somerset House, nor even for awarding himself a pension
of £2,000 a-year, for barely two years' service, under
circumstances which laid this latest act of his official life
peculiarly open to comment. It is the capricious nature
of public opinion, tolerant by habits, bta intolerant by fits,
that operates as a snare to high functionaries; and the
moral to be drawn from Lord Westbury's fall is, that there
is no true safety except in the Strictest absenncceefrtoom,rtillli
potism and the steady uncompromising adhere 1
ciple.

" THE LIFE OF MAN SYMBOLIZED BY THE MONTHS
OF THE YEAR," by Mr. R. Bigot,
will b. e published by the
Messrs. Longmans, in November, with illustrations by
Mr. John Leighton.
On Friday the remains of the late Mr. Justice
rfaliburttili,vititheowo:dll(;nklnToLne,attittiehorersoidence of the deceasedf " Sam Slick," were
conveye
to Isleworth churchyard, for interment. The funeral,
which was conducted in a private and unostentatious '
man-
ner, took place at noon, the corpse being followed to the
grave by the friends of the late Mr. Haliburton. The latter
were taken in four mourning coaches to the place of burial.
The Rev. S. R. Anderson, 8.A., read the service for the
dead. Most of the lic!tses in Isleworth were wholly or
partially closed, in which pfti;_to Mr. Haliburton was greatly
respected and esteemed. As p,hoYe stated, the funeral
t ero being scarcely a dozen people on the
(haccording to his own wish) was au .extremely quiet one,
-.round addi-
b

tion to the mourners.
• FREE SUNDAY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Yest,
terdny about 15,000 persons, shareholders, share-
holders' friends, and the members of the Crystal Palace
share clubs and their friends were admitted to the palace
and grounds by free tickets. The bulk of the company
belonged to the middle class. The weather was magnifi-
cent, and all present seemed thoroughly to enjoy the privi-
lege. During the afternoon a selection of sacred music
was performed on the grand organ by Mr. 'Coward, and a
short address was delivered by Mr. Baxter Langley in ex-
planation of the principles of the National Sunday League,
under whose auspices the arrangements were carried out.
It was announced that shortly a free Sunday would be
given to the letter-carriers of the metropolis.
A SCOTCH FARMER OF THE OLD SCHOOL.—Mr.
M'lan, senior, was a man past eighty, but fresh and
hale for his years. His figure was slight and wiry, his
face a fresh pink, his hair like snow. Age, though it had
bowed him somewhat, had not been able to steal the fire
from his eye, nor the vigour from his limbs. He Wred
the army at an early age ; carried colours in
Ireland
before the century came in ; was with Moore at Cosru.n.lllvaas;
followed Wellington through the P eninsular battle
,
with the 42d at Quatre Bras, and hurt when the -brazen
cuirassiers came charging through the tall rye grass ; and,
finally, stood at Waterloo in a square that crumbled before
the artillery and cavalry charges of Napoleon—crumbled,
but never flinched ! . . . M‘lan was an isleman of the
old school ; penetrated through every drop of his blood
with pride of birth, and with a sense of honour which was
like a good conscience.—Alexander Smith's Summer in
Skye.
---The last spring tide
LARGE TAKE OF MACKEREL.
in St. Bride's Bay, Pembrokeshire, brought immense shoals
of mackerel close to the shore, and the fishermen succeeded
in capturing tons of the fish with their nets. Largo takes
were also made at Neyland, Milford, and all around the
Pembrokeshire coast. It is eight years since such large
shoals of mackerel were captured on the coast befor

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARGATE RACES-THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
EAMSGATE PLATE.

Little Gentleman
Balornock
Land of the West

The above are the only telegrams received up to the hour
of going to press. We shall give a complete list in a later
edition.

TAT TERSALL S' —1 his Everting.

ST. LEGER.
5 to 4 agst Gladiateur -(taken)
100 to 15 agst Regalia (taken)
10 to 1 agst Klarinska (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Archimedes, (offered)
100 to . 8 agst The Duke (offered)
100 to 7 agst Breadalbarie (offered)
100 to 1 agst Broomielaw (taken)

DERBY:
NO to 7 agst Lord Lyon (offered)
25 to Angst Rustic (taken)
40 to 4 agstsPritnate (taken)
100 to 1 agst Esca (taken)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.

1 LEAMINGTONagst
Nuneaton
t aS STAKES.
S .
5 to
n)
sto 1 agst Endsleigh (token)
sto 1 agst Alabama (taken)
.7 to. 1 agst Buckfoot (taken)
YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Claremont (taken)
ST. LEGER.
sto 4 agst Gladiateur (taken)
6to 1 agst Regalia (taken)
9to 1 agst Klarinska (taken) '
.10 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken)
10 to 1 agst The Duke (taken)
12 to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken)
100 to 6 agst Christmas Carol (taken)
415 to 1 agst Liddington (taken)
50 to 1 agst Peeress (taken)
100 to 1 agst Zambezi (offered)

Confederate- Bondholders' Meeting.
(THIS DAY.)
A meeting of the bondholders was held at the London
Tavern this day to consider their altered position in refe-
rence to their 7 per cent. cotton loan, arising from the fact
that the Government of the United States was now the
executive of the Confederate States, and to appthnt a com-
mittee to take such other steps as should be deemed ad-
visable for the protection of their interests.
Admiral Sir Probyn Wallis was Moved to the chair.
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN said that he was instrumental in call-
ing the meeting, but he was not in a position at present
to place before the meeting any facts as to the rights
of the bondholders, which was a question for the
committee to decide. The question they had to consider
was whether the bonds were worth the paper on which
they were written, and the prices they had given. He
considered that the questions involved were of most grave
and important character. (Hear, hear.) They had to as-
certain whether the Confederate States were not liable
to the payment of the bonds, notwithstanding political
events, inasmuch as it was a question as to whether they
had forfeited their national rights by rebellion. It was
also a question whether the Federal Government was not
bound to indemnify the claims of the bondholders, having
seized the property of the Confederate. States. After
some further observations, he cited the deci-
sion of Vice-Chancellor Wood in a recent case
in which the learned judge ruled that the United States
had not a lien upon some cotton which they had seized.
He stated also that an eminent Q.C. was prepared to tel
the bondholders that the Confederate States property was
liable to the bondholders, or that the Federal Govern-
ment should pay their claims.
After some discussion a committee of three was ap-
pointed, with power to add to their number.
Thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting
adjourned until the 18th October.