The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

THE FORTHCOMING CHURCH CONGRESS.

The arrangements for the Church Congress at South-
ampton, which commences on Tuesday, are approaching
completion. The hall at the rear of High-street will seat
2,400 persons. The Bishop of Winchester will preside,
and deliver the inaugural address. There will be each day
three sermons of three hours each, including a working
men's meeting, whereat the Bishops of Winchester and
Peterborough and the Earl of Shaftesbury will take part.
Before the inaugural address of the president on Tuesday
there will be two services, at which the Bishops of Oxford
and Salisbury will preside. Papers will be read by the
Bishop of Madras and Sir Barker Freere upon foreign
missionary efforts, and among other papers will also be read
on the duty of the Church in the present phase of national
education as toTmiddle class education, lay representation
in Church Ritual, and Christian unity, having special
reference to the reunion of Nonconformists to the Church.
M. Beresford Hope, M.P., Chancellor Massingberd,
Canon Gregory, Archdeacon Freeman, Earl Nelson, Mr.
Russell Gurney, &c., are expected to be among the
speakers.

MR. CECIL RAIKES, M.P., AND THE SWANSEA

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION.

Last night Mr. Cecil Raikes, M.P. for Chester, and
Chairman of the Council of the National Union of Con-
servative and Constitutional Association, addressed the
members of the Swansea Constitutional Association. The
chair was taken by Mr. Rowel Gwyn, and there was alarge
attendance of members. The speaker touched upon the
various political and social topics of the day, and urged
the universal formation of associations whose object w
to promulgate constitutional principles.

BEDFORDSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The Bedfordshire Agricultural Society's Show took
place yesterday at Biggleswade, which little town was en
fete. The show was a good one, but hardly so large as
that held last year at Bedford. There was a good entry
of hunters and of stock. The members' dinner, too, was
held in the afternoon M the Town LW, Colonel Liudwll

presided. Colonel Gilpin and other county and borough
members were present.

MINERS' AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION.

The conference of this body yesterday considered the cased
of men on strike. West Yorkshire, not being in the
Union, all, that could be done in the case of Mr. Bower's
men, was to recommend it to the sympathy and support
of the district. In the case of Silverdale, North Stafford-
shire, it was decided to recommend a return to work if a
competent engineer be appointed, and if not that the men
should be supported.

THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAX, OCIIOBER 8, 870

GENERAL CLUSERET

The Paris correspondent of the Standard, writing from
Rouen on the 6th inst., remarks :—Your special corre-
spondent at Lyons will have told you how, after enduring
the harlequin tricks of the Radical mounl;ebanks,
who, for six weeks, had been trying to organise
a reign of terror in the second city of the
country; the National Guard had rebelled, and
with scant assistance from the prefect—one M.
Challemel-Lacour, whose subsequent behaviour leads to
a supposition of his being an accomplice of " General "
Cluseret and Co.—kicked the would-be dictators out of
the Hotel de Ville. Cluseret was ordered to
be arrested, but he was allowed to escape, and
is, I believe, now at Marseilles, where he is trying to get
up a row. The very day before the upset of the faction
to will: 11 he belongs this so-called General Cluseret had
been appointed by the ringleader, a bricklayer called
Saigne, " Comm ander-in-C hiefof the Revolutionary Armies
of the South." He returned thanks for his appointment in
a speech, which is a gem in its way :—" Citoyens,—l feel
really confused at the great honour done me by the people
of Lyons. I will respond to its appeal. I accept the
great, the noble mission which I hold from its confidence.
I will save the Republic. You have just proclaimed me
—unanimously—Commander-in-Chief of the Armies
of the South. Thanks. Oh, thanks ! Citoyens, .my
friends, Citoyens, whom I love, thanks once more for
having put yourfateinto my hands. Yes, you will be happy.
I shall secure your happiness. I will know how to crush
all obstacles thereto—the shackles of tyranny. Forward,
I say, my friends, let us go ahead I As a preliminary
measure of public safe V, I propose the immediate dis-
, missal of all the officers in the army—(bravo, bravo, from
the roughs who formed the audience). I propose, also,
the immediate arrest of the general in command at
Lyons, and the whole of his staff—as having caused the
misfortunes of the people. Follow me ! Let us go to
the Croix itousse and seize on the traitor." (Bravo,
bravo). Before this " measure of public safety " could be
carried ont, the " general " and his ragged following were
dispersed, and the Prefect installed himself at the Hotel
de Ville in their stead. But, after allowing General
Cluseret to escape, this Prefect, M. Challemel-Lacour,
proceeded to act upon the hint of General Clu-
seret, and ordered the arrest of General Mazure, who
submitted to this indignity with J. degree of readiness
which I must say makes me feel very sceptical respecting
the existence of an " Army of Lyons," This arrest has
had serious consequences. It has led to the resignation
by Admiral Pouriohon, the one member of the Tours Go-
vernment who was able to organise the army, of his post as
Minister of War ad interim—and his place has been sup-
plied by—M. Cremieux, with a committee of civilians!
The French are ever the same—M. Cremieux and a
ward acting as " Minister of War " reminds me strongly
of Beaumarchais's pungent epigram—" Il fallait un
calculateur, ce fut un danseur qu'on choisit."
We have no news from Paris. The wind has
unfortunately shifted to the west, which would send
balloons into the region occupied by the enemy. The
idea of using the river does not seem to have, occurred
to any one yet. The Prussians yesterday morning
were at Blaru, close to Vernon, and a force of cavalry
and infantry have left Rouen to meet them.
A gunboat has arrived here from Cherbourg.
She is ten times too large for river service. Her name is
L'Etendard, about three hundred tons. She is schooner-
rigged, with striped masts, and is altogether meant for
cruising at sea. She has a screw engine, and a dispro-
portionately small funnel ; her armament consists of one
huge iron breech-loader (a. 50-pounder, or thereabouts)
mounted on a platform, and protected against musketry
by an iron fender; two carronades on pivots, a little
abaft the gangway ; and a 4-pounder stern-chaser. This
latter and the carronades are brass. I cannot conceive
why she was sent here, for she cannot use
her gun against an enemy occupying the Case Ste. Cathe-
rine or the Mont Riboudet. The popular belief is that in
the event of the Prussians coming she will be employed in
conveying the specie in the bank to a safe place.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One shilling day, Friday,
Oct. 6th, 1870.—Admission by season tickets, 1,473; do.
on payment, 1,457. Total visitors, 2,930.
HEAVY SENTENCE ON A STOCKBROKER.—At the
Glasgow Circuit Court, on Wednesday, Samuel Watson
Dempster was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for
having forged and uttered four bills of exchange for sums
amounting to 2554, in name of Niven and Rintoul, coach-
builders, Greenock; Caird and Co., shipbuilders,
Greenock ; Lang and Melvin, coschbuilders, Alserdeen ;
and H. Murray and Co., shipbuilders, Port Glasgow.
There were twelve charges libelled against panel, who
had been transacting business as a stockbroker.

A commanding officer of volunteers, commenting
on Lord Elcho's last letter (an abstract of which we have
published) deprecates the difference between the volun-
teers and' the militia. " If," he says, " volunteers con-
tinue to exist, they must be much less volunteers than
heretofore, and all class distinction between them and the
army and reserve forces should be utterly discountenanced,
and, as far as possiblo, put an end to. Our object should
be to associate all ranks and classes in the pursuit of mili-
tary training and efficiency."

LETTERS FOR PARIS.—In consequence of the risk
attending the transmission of letters for Paris, under
present circumstances, the French Post Office have begged
that no registered letters for Paris may be sent. The
French Post Office will, however, take charge of all ordi-
nary letters, and do their utmost to send them into Paris
on the first favourable opportunity. Postmasters will,
therefore, be instructed not to receive for registration any
letters addressed to Paris.

ELOPEMENT IN SOUTH WALES.—Duriug the past
few days rumours of a painful character have found cur-
rency in the district of Swansea, which subsequent events
have proved to be too true. About ten days ago the
owner of considerable property in the Swansea Valley,
having reason to believe that an intimacy of too close
a nature existed between his wife and her coachman
(which had long been the talk of the neighbourhood), dis-
charged both the coachman and the footman, after which
he himself left for London. On Saturday last his wife,
who was left behind, was missing, and it has since been
ascertained that she has joined the coachman, with whom
she is now cohabiting. The most distressing part of the
sad story remains to be told. There were four daughters
of the family, one of whom is married. The other three,
the youngest of whom is about 19 years of age, were stay-
ing at Folkestone on a visit, being attended by the maid of
the mother. On hearing the startling intelligence of the
elopement, her system received such a shock that she
died in a few hours afterwards. The recreant wife is not
more than 40 years of age, and was a woman of remark-
ably prepossessing appearance. Her husband iS apwards
of 70 years of age. The affair has created quite a sensa-
tion in the neighbourhood, in which the family held a high
position.

SUICIDE AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.—
Last evening Mr. W. J. Payne held an inquest, at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, respecting the death of Dr.
Augustus Matthiesson, aged 39 years. Mr. Henry
Matthiesson deposed that he was a merchant, residing
at Furnival's-inn. The deceased was his brother. He
was an M.D., and the Professor of Chemistry at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital. Witness had not seen him for
six months. On Thursday, by appointment, witness was
to have dined with him. In consequence of that appoint.
ment witness went to the hospital at a quarter to 5 o'clock
in the evening, and upon doing so, proceeded to the pri-
vate room of the laboratory, and found it locked. The
door was opened by means of a key. The chemical assis
taut of the deceased was present at the time, and he went
into the private room connected with the laboratory.
They found the deceased sitting upon an arm chair, and he
looked as if asleep. The chair was near a table, upon
which was a glass. The room had a peculiar smell in it.
The deceased was dead. A doctor was then sent for. The
deceased was a very excitable man. Alfred Burns, labo-
ratory boy, said that the deceased came to the hospital at
half-past nine 'o'clock on Thursday morning. He asked
witness for the keys of the cellar in which the chemicals
were kept. When he came out of the cellar he had a phial
in his hand. He afterwards went into his private room
and kept walking about. In the afternoon witness found
the door locked. Mr. W. W. Baker, lecturer on phy-
siology at the hospital, deposed that he was called to the
deceased when . he was found dead in his room.
He had then been dead four hours. There was
a " test glass " tightly corked on the table near
the corpse. It was labelled " Urate of ammonia."
The deceased was a man of high character and world-
wide reputation. There could be no foundation what-
ever for any charge of indecent assault brought against
him. Dr. S. J. Gee, assistant doctor, said that the'
deceased was a very sensitive man. He had 13 high
moral character. He would feel keenly any charge
brought against him. Witness had made a post-mortem
examination of the body, and he had found that the de-
ceased had poisoned himself with prussic acid. Mr. W.
H. Cross, clerk of the hospital, said that he found in a
drawer in the deceased's private room a letter as follows :
" I have been charged with an indecent assault on a lad,
and although innocent, yet it blights all my future pros-
pects,,and.therefore I have resolved to resign all." The
coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of
" Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."

THE TAKING OF ROME.
The following letter has been sent to the Tablet :--
The Military Prison, Genoa, Sept 25th.

Your humble servants the English Zouaves to the num-
ber of 78, are incarcerated in this prison, under the pre-
tence of being sent to England. When we shall get out I
don't know, so I resign myself to my fate, and rejoicing
that I am in prison for the glorious cause, I write yOru an
account of the last eventful week. 1 arrived at Civita
Vecchia on the 17th (Saturday), and found that the
city had capitulated a few hours before. Three hundred
Zouaves prisoners (among them Walter Marshall whom I
went to see). In the course of the day, two other gentle-
men arrived by sea, determined also to get to Rome and
join the Zouaves. So on Sunday morning the 18th, we
started from Civita "Vecchia with the firm resolve to get
into Rome at all hazards. (My two companions being
Mr. T—, an American, and Mr. 0--, of the Middle
Temple.) We took a carriage, and arrived at Paolo that
day, where we were stopped by the Italian
troops under General Bixio, We had to sleep altogether
'in a little dirty room, the whole place being full of Pied-
montese. The next morning (Monday) we again started
for Rome in our carriage, and arrived at an " Osteria,"
ten miles from Rome, where we were again stopped.
However, by leaving our luggage in the carriage, we r ~,:
suaded the Italian authorities that we should return, and
so gained permission to go forward a little distance on foot
When we were fairly out of sight, we left the road, and flew
across country to Rome, leaving our baggage, &c., to the
Piedmontese. We reached the Porta Angelica at 4 p.m.,
after a very tiring walk, and Deo gratias, the yellow and
white flag was still waving. No time was lost in enrolling
our names in the Zouaves, and that evening was spent in
looking for our company (Captain Parry's), which was no
easy matter to find. At last we heard that it was stationed
in a vineyard, to the left of the Porta San Paolo. We
joined our company as full privates on Tuesday mornings
and the bombardment began on that day at five a.m.
The Mater Omnium Ecclesiarum, the glorious St John
Lateran, was struck by more than 100 balls. At the
Porta Pia, two companies of Zouaves kept at bay 10,000
Piedmontese, for four hours, and killed many. At last,
when the churches were beginning to suffer, the Diplo-
matic body determined to go to the Italian committee
and remonstrate, so the white flag was hoisted for an
armistice. And now comes the bad part—General Zappi,
who was in command of that part of Rome, took advan-
tage of this armistice to let in a number of
Piedmontese troops, and then declared that the
City had surrendered ; he galloped about from place to
place, ordering that resistance should cease, and the troops
bewildered, in almost every place obeyed his orders. Thus
was Rome taken by treachery, and the name of Zapp
will rank with Judas for ever ! During the night the
Pontifical troops kept possession of the part of Rome
across the Tiber, and while the Corso, &c., was filled
with mobs who wreckedthe houses of Lancilotti and others,
killing eight persons, and doing other damage, we spent
the night in the Piazza di S. Pietro, and all was quiet.
At 10 o'clock next day we marched out with all the
honours of war. Thus I said farewell to Rome, without
having had time to re-visit any church or to see any one,
Now I must end my letter. For in the confusion in which
all around me is, I have only been able to write down a
few notes ; when we meet you shall have the whole long
sad story. —Orate pro Rom.

Th 6 coins that were found, with other mementoes,
by the workmen who discovered the foundation stone of
the old Blackfriars-bridge a few days since have been
presented by the Metropolitan Board of Works to the cor-
poration of the City of London.

Sir R. Murchison has offerel £G,OOO towards the
endowment of a separate chair of Geology and Minera-
logy in the University of Edinburgh, on condition that
the Government will supplement the gift by granting a
similar sum.—Nature.

Mr. Underwood, an English gentleman who lately
purchased at a bargain price the Glandore iron mines in
the county Cork, has discovered a deposit of rich copper
ore. Many of the samples have been assayed up to 57
per cent. of copper ; besides, there are large hills and rocks
of felspar, containing, when dressed, 15 per cent. of
sulphate of copper ore.

The Dublin journals contain an advertisement from
the Civil Service Commissioners of an "open competition"
for the county surveyorship of Westmeath, which is to be
held in TJublin Castle on the Bth of November and fol-
lowing days. These situations are highly prized in
Ireland, and the opening of such valuable appointments
to general competition gives the highest satisfaction.
MAzzaYl IN PRlSON.—Signor Aurelio Saffi has
written a letter, which appears in the Diritto, in which he
gives some extracts from communications received from
Mazzini in prison. The prisoner is permitted to write to
his friends, but his letters are inspected by the autho-
rities. He informs his friend Saffi that he is tolerably
well in health, and that he is treated with the greatest
courtesy.

THE REPORTED MURDERS IN PARIS.—No inter
ligence has been received at the American Embassy with
regard to the strange story in circulation concerning the
murder of three Imperialists in Paris, " amongst them a
certain viscount, well known and universally popular in
this country."

Mr. G. Chance, the newly-appointed magistrate,
on Thursday visited Lambeth Police-court, to which he
has been attached, and will shortly take his seat. He
was called to the Bar in 1846, and went the Oxford
circuit. Mr. Ellison and Mr. Chance will now be the
magistrates for Lambeth Police-court. A vacancy has
occurred at Worship-street Police-court, on the removal
of Mr. Ellison to Lambeth Police-court.

A vessel containing a cargo of ambulance waggons,
horses, appliances, medicines, and comforts, chartered by
the Society for the Aid of the Sick and Wounded in the
War, will leave the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to-day.
During the past few days horses and large quantities of
goods have been sent down from London by the society,
for embarkation. Amongst the appliances manufactured
in the Royal Arsenal, and purchased by the society from
Government, are twelve general service waggons and
twelve English ambulances, harness, water-barrels,
stretchers on wheels, &c., which will be used in removing
the sick and wounded from the battle-field to hospitals for
treatment. On every waggon and package is painted a
red cross on a white ground.

EMBEZZLEMENT OF £3,000 AND WHOLESALE
FORGERIES. —Extraordinary revelations have just been
made in connection with one of the very many women's
clubs now flourishing in Sheffield. The club has been esta-
blished several years, and its business has been conducted
by a secretary. When the principals, of whom there are
three, met a fortnight ago, a letter was read from the secre-
tary in which he stated that he had misappropriated the
week's, receipts, but that the money should be forthcoming
at their next meeting. As nothing more was seen of him,
his bookq and the notes held as securities by the club were
examined, and it has been found that the majority of the
notes are forgeries, and that the payments upon them had
been made by the secretary himself. A number of the
persons whose names are attached to the notes have been
waited upon, and they have pronounced the signatures to
be forgeries. The defalcations, which extend over four or
five years, amount to about £3,000. There is reason to
believe that two other persons are implicated in the trans-
action, and all three have absconded.
THE DROUGHT IN THE FEN DISTB IC TS.—
Throughout the whole of South Lincolnshire the country
is in a tearful state from the absence of rain. Pasture
cannot be said to exist, many a farmer of experience
declaring that the cattle have been pining for weeks.
All the green crops are suffering from the smother
fly. This tiny creature floats in the air, causing a
continual annoyance to the pedestrian. They assemble
in myriads on all green crops, upon which they
appear to derive sustenance. In a few weeks they cause
a terrible stench, the tops of the roots rotting in a very
short time. The inhabitants about the fens are suffering
severely. Water, drawn from a few fresh-water rivers, is
hawked about and greedily purchased. In some towns,
such as Bourne, the natural springs are in great request.
The water consumed by many of the poorer clas4es is
simply unfit in every way for human consumption, and it
will not be surprising to hear of disease and death being
prevalent in many of the towns. This is something extra-
ordinary when it is considered that during winter and the
spring these districts are completely flooded for miles with
good water. Under these circumssances even the war is
of minor importance to the rural population, who cannot
help themselves in the matter.

SALMON ANGLING IN SCOTLAND.—AIthough the
water has fallen rather low, good fishing has been had on
some of the Scotch rivers, and should the weather con-
tinue at all favourable, some fine sport will no doubt
be had before the close season commences. Several
fine salmon and grilse have been landed on the
Spey during the past week. The sport at Gor-
Jon Castle has been particularly good, fifty-three
salmon and grilse having been brought to land in five
days. Of this number the Duke of Richmond captured
eight salmon—the largest weighing 281 b.—and three grilse.
Lord Francis Gordon Lennox killed three salmon, includ-
ing one of 301 b., and a grilse. Lady Frances Gordon
Lennox took two. salmon weighing respectively 101 b. and
241 b. and a grilse Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, Lady
Alexander Gordon Lennox, Lady F. Montague, Lady
Dyke, the Earl of March, Sir Reginald Graham, and
several others, have also been out and have had good
sport. On the other stations of the Spey several salmon
and grilse have been taken.
CACAOINE.—CacOa nibs on the removal of the oil fall
nto powder, and this powder is cacioine. Cacaoine contains
neither sugar nor any other admixture whatever. Cacioine makes
one of the lightest, thinnest of warm drinks, and is the most de
sirable of all for use in the later hours of the day. Cacioine, by
reason of the ingenious method by which the oil Is removed, pre-
serves all the fine natural flavour of cacao nibs.—Prepared only
by James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, 112, Great Rus.
sell-street ; 170, Piccadilly ; and 4S, Threadneedle-s breet ;at their
Works for Dietetic Preparations, Euston-road.—ADVT.

OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning

The Times says the appeals of the Government, the
exhortations of the Prefects, the joint efforts of the Mu
nicipal Corporations, and, finally, the appearance in the
field of the Army of the Loire, and of their forces
organised in the north and west, may breathe a
new spirit into the vast body of the French nation, and
make it "rise like one man " to the utter extermination
of the hated invader. The Prussians, however, are not
likely to underrate their enemies, or to remit their vigi-
lance and activity. They will not be much affected by
what is called their " defeat " at Toury, as they are not
elated by the reports of daily encounters in which success
has become for them almost a matter of course. Still they
will not easily be lulled into a treacherous security :
they will be aware of the necessity of recovering lost
ground, of testing the real strength of these new
armies which 'have mustered up courage to meet
them in the field. The French have often astonished
the world by their rapid transition from the ex-
tremes of gloomy depression to those of the wildest
elation. No •effort of patriotic devotion, however.
will enable them to meet their victorious enemy
in an equal encounter in the open field. It
will take many months before the Army of the
Loire will be able to withstand the shock of the
highly disciplined troops against whom Bazaine
and MacMahon's veterans never seemed to have
any chance. But the Germans may have to meet
their enemies in unequal encounters. They cannot
always fight in the open field. Their position
round a fortress measuring several scores of miles in
circumference exposes them to a variety of attacks,
which nothing but the most unremitting watchful-
ness will enable them to foil at all points. They have
to deal with a foe maddened by the sense of deep humilia-
tion, panting for revenge, shrinking from none of those
deeds that belong even to brigandage, and are deemed
incompatible with the usages of modern warfare.