The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-20 00:00:00

A STRANGE INCIDENT.

A correspondent of the Indepenciance Beige, who sent
that paper a summary of a letter purporting to be from
President Grant to the Czar, and offering the American
fleet to Russia in case of war with England, is said
to have been banished ; the banishment, however,
is not for publishing false news, but because the
letter being private, " its publication is regarded
as constituting an offence against the person of the
Emperor." The source of this news is a telegram from
the Prussian correspondent of the Times. The important
feature in the business is that the banishment of the cor-
respondent assumes the accuracy of the statement about
President Grant and the American fleet.

The death is announced of the HoD. Humble Dud-
ley Ward, brother of the Earl of Dudley, which occurred
last week at DeaL

LONDON Scnoor, BOARD.—The Observer under-
stands that the London School Board will prepare a set
of rules and regulations, which will be sent to the other
School Boards, so that the opinions of the whole country
may be obtained in respect to arrangements which have a
general and not a merely local application. Although each
Board will have to adapt its measures to the exigencies of
its district, it is highly desirable that there should be unity
of action as far as it is practicable.
PANIC IN A CHURCH.—On Sunday night, during
the evening service at Leamington parish church, a por-
tion of the moulding of the principal arch of the south
transept suddenly fell and broke through the chair on
which a lady had been seated just before the accident.
Great alarm ensued, and a number of persons rushed from
the building in great terror, but the churchwardens and
clergy succeeded in calming the congregation before any-
one was injured.

DANGEROUS TRADES IN LONDON.—At the last
meeting of the Clerkenwell Vestry, Mr. E. D. Johnson
stated that there was a large manufactory in the parish
of the same description as that where the terrible explo-
sion at Birmingham occurred. Not only were cartridges
made, but they were loaded as well, and several hundred
hands were employed in the work. Without the Slightest
desire to hamper trade, he thought it the duty of the
Vestry to take some steps in the matter, as, in case of
accidents, hundreds of lives would be sacrificed, and there-
fore he moved that a letter be addressed to the district
superintendent of police calling his attention to the fact
that a cartridge manufactory existed in the district, and
asking the interference of the police in seeing that the Act
of Parliament with reference to dangerous trades is
properly regarded. In the course of the subsequent
discussion, Mr. G. Brooke said that, in addition to the
manufactory to which Mr. Johnson had referred, two
or three Iniwirod boys , and girls were engaged
in the same dangerous trade in another part of
the parish. Other speakers pointed Aut that
the large number of persons engaged in these factories in-
dicated that there must be a great quantity of powder on
the premises if, as was stated, the cartridges were not
only made, but filled. Some of the vestrymen expressed
a doubt whether the process of filling the cases with
powder was carried on in the manufactories mentioned ;
but this was met with the positive statement that not
only cartridge loading was carried on, but that percussion
caps were manufactured on the premises. Thereupon the
Vestry agreed to request an official inquiry on the part of
the police authorities. _ .

GARIBALDI IN FRANCE.—The following explana-
tion is given of the rumour, which is current in Italy,
about Garibaldi and his sons having resigned their mili-
tary command. The statements we are going to allude
to are contained in the Gazettina Rosa, of Naples, and in
Gazette di Torino ; they are from the pens of Achille
Bizzoni and Carlo Podio, well known Italian journalists
and associates in arms of Garibaldi, from whose camp
they date their letters. Signor Bizzoni writes that in the
engagements near Dijon, the French Mobile Guards were
.seized with panic terror, and that they r w away in the
most cowardly manner. Garibaldi felt compelled, in
order to resist this flood of fugitives, to descend from his
carriage ; as a last attempt at rallying them, he began to
sing the " Marseillaise !" But the defection of the
cowards," to use the words of the Italian writer, ren-
dered the retreat necessary ; Garibaldi and his son Ric-
ciotti, with the Italian legion and a few of thc more valorous
Francs-tireurs were the last to leave the battle-field.
In another letter, dated from Autun, Signor Podio relates
how the French Mobile Guards fled at the first shots of
the Germans in a fit of indescribable fright. They ran
away in hot baste ; and when the Garibaldians endea-
voured to stop them, the Mobiles discharged their muskets
at them, using also their bayonets against their Italian
comrades. "Nor," says Signor Podio, " was this all.
Poor Menotti Garibaldi, who ordered the Mobile
Guards to close their ranks and to turn once
more against the enemy, was insulted, dragged
from his horse, and thrown on the ground some
of them aiming even their guns at him. By almost
a miracle he was saved. He owed the protection of his
life mainly to the intervention of his staff, who rescued
him' from the hands of those wretches. These latter,
nevertheless, continued to follow him, and to heap insults
upon him. Thus they called out to him: ' Go, and be a
commander in Italy ! . Let thee be CVa to faire
" Carlo Podio, who relates this occurrence,
begins his letter with the words, " My innermost soul is
filled with unutterable grief."

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