The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-02 00:00:00

THE SECRET TREATY.

THE public have doubtless by this time had
quite enough of the Secret Treaty project. In Booth
it is not at• all a cheerful or attractive subject,
But it would seem to be a public duty
to expose the fresh depths of political infamy
which each day reveals in connection with this affair.
Mr. GLADSTONE has said that "nothing more de-
plorable, nothing more dismal has marked, perhaps,
the history of mankind " than the war which is now
commencing ; but it appears that there is one
thing more deplorable and dismal, and
that is the infamous course of negotiation
which preceded the war. According to the note
which Count. BISMARCK has sent round to the
various Prussian Embassies, France has made not
merely one or two proposals to despoil her neighbours
for the aggrandisement of herself and. Prussia, but
for years past has regularly urged such treachery as
part of her systematic policy. tis not merely the
King of the BELGIANS that the EMPEROR has pro-
posed to rob. Switzerland, Bavaria, Hesse-
Darmstadt, Italy, and \ustria—each in its
turn has been marked out for prey:
There would have beeu some excuse, though.
but a poor one, for this rapacity, if it had arisen
• from a desire to counterbalance the gains of Prussia
in 1866, and to restore the superiority of France:
But some of these spoliation schemes were suggested
long before Prussia assailed Austria, long even
before she attacked Denmark. As depicted
lby BISMARCK, the conduct of the .EMPEROR
appears BO bad that it could not well be
worse. It is without excuse, without one redeeming
feature. What the charges set forth in this
note amount to is, that France has at
different times since 1862 offered to join with Prussia
in various schemes for plundering the possessions of
neighbouring independent nations, sometimes whilst
the French Government was on terms of warm
friendship with those nations, sometimes when
their independence was guaranteed by solemn
treaties ; and that these proposals were occasionally
mooted whilst Europe was enjoying profound peace,
and when nothing had occurred to irritate France.
It does not follow, of course, that these allegations are
all strictly correct, because Count BISMARCK makes
them. One or two thcts,however,must have considerable
weight. The French Government has not been able
to rebut any of the facts respecting the Secret Treaty
on which it has already had a chance of speaking.
Count BISMARCK'S narrative is extremely circum-
stantial, and though diplomatists—it will not do to
mince matters—are nob at all careful respecting
the truth, they usually " embellish " in the way of
general statements; they do not, as a rule, commit
themselves to falsehoods in affairs of detail. The
case at the best is bad. If we never clear up more
than we know already, the character of the French
Sovereign will be tarnished with an indelible stain ;
if all that Count BISMARCK says be proven, the
treachery and perfidy of the THIRD NAPOLEON will
have established a claim to rank equal in perfect
development to the treachery and perfidy of the
FlRST.—Eastern Morning News.

Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., sails on Thursday for
Quebec. He intends to take a three or four months'
tour through the United States, first visiting Mr. James
Russell Lowell, of Cambridge, near Boston.

On Friday night
_the correspondent of a Belfast

paper was arrested-at Metz. He Was found in the camp
at half-past ten o'clock at night talking with soldiers, and
asking for an officer whose name was unknown to anyone.
He was sent to the central post to spend the night and to
be examined on the next morning by the Prevot-Gbn6ral.
His papers seem to have been in order.

A Bombay telegram makes known the result of
the " Aurora ' prosecution. The prisoners were brought
up for sentence on Saturday, and the judge decided that
the court had full jurisdiction in the matter. The brokers
Elmstone and Whitewall were sentenced to penal servi-
tude for life; Harnott, the captain of the ship, to fifteen
years' penal servitude ; and Marks, the carpenter, to ten
years penal servitude.
An explosion of gas by which one person was
injured took place shortly after midnight on Sunday
night, at 32, Priory-road, Kilburn. Mrs. Shea, the occu-
pier of the premises, wp,s seeking for an escape of gas in
the back room on the first floor, when the gas ignited front
the light which she was carrying. The room and its con-
tents were severely damaged, and Mrs. Shea was slightly
burned in the hands and feet.

The London correspondent of the Scotsman says :
—" Although opinion is still a good deal divided on the
subject, I believe it is too probable that at no distant
period the study of Greek will be no longer rendered .com-
pulsory at Oxford. Learned authorities greatly differ in
their estimate of the relative value of the dead and living
languages ; but there appears to be no doubt that the
University is now approaching the change I have indi-
cated."

Rain fell coliously in London in the afternoon, and;
a short thunderstorm prevailed. The sky was generally
cloudy over the British Isles. Lightning was reported
froin Valentia. Temperature increased considerably,
espepially in the South of England, dining the night. At
eight o'clock in the morning the thermometer in Loudon
registered 66 deg., at Dover 68 deg. It was, however, 67
at- Liverpool; elsewhere more moderate. The sea is
calmer.

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TIIE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Mr. Hughes addressed the Conference at Burslem on
Friday afternoon, on appeal against the recommendations
of the Liverpool district Meeting, which were to the effect
that he be not again appointed to a circuit. The time for
rising having nearly arrived, the discussion was
deferred till eleven o'clock on Saturday, when it
was moved that the resolutions of the district
meeting be adopted. Dr. Waddy, Mr. Vasey, Dr.
Osboin, Dr. James, Mr. S. R. Hall, and others
spoke, all in reprobation of the means employed by Ali-.
Hughes to alter one of the fundamental principles of
Methodism. Mr. S. It. Hall contended that Mr. Hughes
should have at least one year in which to consider the
whole matter during which he should suffer no pecuniary
loss, but have his allowances in full, and he, Mr. Hall,
was willing himself to give a cheque for the
whole amount if the Conference wished it.—
' After a long discussion, it was moved by Dr. Jobson,
" That the Conference adopts the findings of the Liver-
pool district meeting, and, while re-asserting the decision
of last year, that should Mr. Hughes continue to hold
such views he must eventually be separated from us; that
for the next year he become a supernumerary, his name
be continued on the Journal of the .Conference,
only, and that a speCial report be Presented by the super-
intendent of the circuit in which Mr. Hughes may reside,
to the next conference." This was 'Alt to the conference,
and fully 400 hands were held up for it, and only two
against it. The result is that Mr. Hughes will have his
allowances nearly in full, but he will not have ministerial
duty, and his name will not appea4r on the printed
minutes.

FATHER HYACINTHE ON INFALLIBILITY.
Father Hyacinthe has written a, protest against the
dogma of Papal Infallibility, which is contained in the
decree of the Council of Rome. He considers that the
Catholics are called upon to distinguish between an apparent
and a real authority, and between a reasonable and a blind
submission. He rests his condemnation on two points—
first, that the Council is not free ; and, secondly, that it
is not oecumenical in character. Because he is a Catholic
he refuses to sanction a doctrine which was alto-
gether unknown to ecclesiastical antiquity, and which
involves a radical change in the constitution
of the Church. Because he is a Christian he protests
against the theory of presenting divine honours to a man
which is contrary to the Gospel of which he is the Minister.
One of the most illustrious predecessors of Pius IX, the
great Saint Gregory, refused the title of universal Bishop,
which was offered to him. What would he have
said to that of infallible pontiff ? Father Hyacinthe con-
cludes by appealing to a council which ig really free and
cecumenical, and, above all, he appeals to God. Men
have proved themselves incapable of discovering truth
and justice, and, behold, Heaven has taken up
the cause, and has pronounced judgment on the
Council, which was to have been a work of light and
peace in the religious world, and has increased the
darkness, and spread abroad discord. War, like
a terrible echo, has replied to it from the
social world. War is a scourge of God, but in send-
ing the chastisement, may He not also be bringing us the
remedy. In sweeping away the ancient edifice, may He
not be preparing the ground where the Divine Spouse of
the Church shall construct the new Jerusalem.

The Prince and Princess Christian will remain
at the Foley Arms Hotel, Great Malvern, for six weeks,
A woman named Bastin, with a child in her arms
at the time, were shot on Sunday at Exeter, by a man
named Peter Cann. The child was killed and the woman
3riously injured.

The Oddfellows had their annual festrial yester-
day at the Crystal palace, and special trains from all parts
of the country brought visitors to London. There were,
as usual, plenty of attractions.

Sir William Heathcote, the late member for the
University of Oxford, and the former colleague of Mr.
Gladstone in the representation of the academic consti-
tuency, has been made a member of the Privy Council.
Baron Brunow does not take his final leave from
England, quite so soon as was expected. His successor is
to be Prince Orloff, who is not just yet, ready to assume
the charge under circumstances of so much delicacy and
difficulty.
The Post -understands that tiovernment have
abandoned the intention of proceeding with the sale of
Woolwich 'Dockyard..

The Corporation of Belfait on Monday -determined
to request the British Association for the Advancement
'f Science to hold. its Congress for 1872 at Belfast.

THE- CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS. Upwards of
.300 hakr been received by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion
House in aid of the fund now being raised there to. pre-
sent tokens of the public appreciation of the-loyalty and
valour of the Canadian Volunteers in defending the fron-
tiers of the Dominion during the recent Fenian raids,
SUICIDE THROUO-11 FEAR OF THE PEW-L.-OR
Monday morning rill inquest was held in Arlington-street,
Vauxhall-road, on the body of William Richard Hill, aged
36 years. For home time past he had been given to habits
'of excessive intemperance, and had an idea that the devil
was following him about. On Thursday he committed
suicide by cutting his throat. The jury returned a verdict
of unsound mind.

Two CHILDREN DROWNED AT THE VICTORIA Em-
BANKMENT.-A sad accident happened on Sunday, about
eight o'clock in the evening, by which'two young children
lost their lives. They were playing about on the parapet
of the Thames Embankment near Blackfriars Bridge, and
accidentally fell over into the water. Somehrave fellow
jumped over mid tried to save them, but his efforts were
unavailing. Later on the elder of the two children was
piej;ed up near London Bridge.
THE REv. 'ROBERT MOFEAT.—This distinguished
clergyman, who-for upwards of 50 years has been engaged
in Mission work, received a cordial welcome on Monday
fruit.), the Directors of the London Missionary Society.
Mr. Moffat assured his hearers that it would give him
the utmost pleasure still to further the cause of missions,
when he had 'fully recovered the use of his native
tongue, he hoped to encourage the Churches not only by
his presence but by his words.
'1 RE CHASSEPOr AND THE NEEDLE-GUN.—A
private letter from an Oxford man, dated " Saarbrucken,
Friday, 28th," says :—" I can't help reiterating that in
all the shooting there has yet been, the Prussiana have
had out and out the best of it. Nothing could be worse
than the Chassepot at short ranges. We see the French-
men spitting on their cartridges, sticking their 'fingers
into their guns, and giving every possible sign that, after
a few shuts, the Chassepot gets so foul ,they don't know
how to treat it."

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN GLASGOW.—On Friday
evening John Logan, pawnbroker, Oswald-street, Glasgow,
was asked by F. O'Brien, recently his assistant, for a
balance of pay. Logan refused, because O'Brien had left
without warning. O'Brien followed Logan to his house,
and at the door Logan fired one chamber of a loaded six-
barrelled revolver. The ball grazed several inches of the
skull of its intended victim, inflicting a painful, though
not mortal, wound. The police surgeon says that O'Brien
had a narrow escape. Logan has been apprehended. It
appears that he had been drinking prior to the occurrence.

- -
TUE SORROWS OF A PUBLISHER.—Extract from
the Slone/wren Journal of 21st July, 1870 :—" The extra-
ordinary statement made by Mr. Miller, of Drumlithie,
one of the members for Edinburgh, that the opposition of
the people of Kincardineshire was not of much consequence,
deserves to be duly weighed. The representations and
wishes of any community, be they small or great, are entitled
to respectful consideration at the hands of those who pre-
tend to be the representatives of the people." Melan-
choly Result— " Mr. Miller has to request that the pub-
lisher of the Stonchaven Tournasl will send to him a note
of what he owes for that paper to this date, and
he has also torequest that the publisher discontinue to
send the paper to him.-12, Gloucester-square, London,
`V., July 22."

A CIIAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.—An inquest was
held on Saturday night on the body of Charles Sheen,
one of the surviving partners of the firm of George
Sheen and Sons, wholesale grocers, Leicester, who, that
morning, was found dead on the road between •adby
and Leicester. He bad been in his trap to
take home his offiancee, and on returning the
horse took fright ; be was thrown out ; falling on his head,
his neck was broken, and his death must have been instan-
taneous. The horse ran into Leicester, on entering which
it ran against the shafts of a trap, in which a young lady
was seated, and who was thrown out by The collision. She
was conveyed to the infirmary, where she now lies, and
only slight hopes are entertained of her recovery. The
horse was killed on the spot. A verdict of accidental death
was returned in the case of Mr. Sheen.

DEMETitIO PAILPA —Some sensation was created
on Monday in the Court of Bankruptcy, by an application,
made by Mr. Bagley, to commit M. Demetrio Pap pa, for
contempt of court, he having been adjudicated a bank-
rupt, and having refused to answer certain questions. The
bankrupt was recently convicted of fraud at the Central
Criminal Court, and sentenced to. five years' penal Eervi-
tude, The prisoner appeared in the witness-box in the
convict garb, attended by two officers, and was examined
touching the disposal of a number of shares in a public
company, and also as to certain papers and title deeds.-re-
lating to 35,000 acres of lard in Tenvessee, U.S. Ibis
lordship the Chief Judge said the prisoner- had evinced
some degree of readiness to answer the questions put to
him by the learned counsel, and thought, probably, that
the same desire 'to give information to the trustee would
lie present to the mind of the bankrupt, as no good would
accrue to Lim by.withhohling all reahonable information
from his creditors.

The petition to be filed to-clay against the return
of Mr. J. 11. Tillet, M.P. for Norwich, will raise two•
points—one is Mr. Tillett's alleged disqualihcation in con-.
sequence of his having been.- reported .by the Norwigh
Election Commissioners to have been implicated in the
purchase of the show of hands at the ,Norwich aection in
November, 1868. Another will be the employment of
Mr. 0. D. Ray as an agent for the sitting member while
he was scheduled for corrupt practices by the Norwich
Election Commissioners. .

MURDER IN ULSTER.—A. mail named John
Gallagher, agent on the SeafOrd6 estate of Colbnel Forde,
M.P., was murdered, on Friday night; or Saturday morq-
ing. It is believed the outrage was committed for the
purpose of robbery, as the deceased wai known
to carry about occasionally large sums
.of money.
On Friday he received a considerable amount, some of
which he paid away, and then left his house. Shortly
afterwards he entered a plantation near at hand, where
his body was discovered next morning. Sixteen pounds
were taken from him. At an inquest held on Saturday a
verdict was returned of " wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown." Another investigation is
to he held.

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EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1870.