The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

Brigandage in Spain.

The excitement and anxiety felt by the friends of
the Messrs. Bonnel is still very great in Gibraltar.
There is good reason for uneasiness, since no commu-
nication of any kind has been received from either
captives or captors since the first demand for ransom.
It is supposed that tha brigands are now hiding
among a range of hills lying to the west, known only
to smugglers and adventurous sportsmen, who go
there in search of the ibex and other game. The
Spanish authorities are actively punning the
brigands, we are told, though how they can be in
pursuit of men whose route is unknown is not clearly
explained. The leader of the bandits is a
constant visitor at Gibraltar, and is said
to be well known to the guards on the
outposts. In this respect the Gibraltar drama
resembles the Marathon tragedy, and the active
measures taken by the authorities produce little
satisfaction. The Governor of Gibraltar has visited
the relatives of the two gentlemen seized, and
assured them that no efforts should be wanting
on his part to restore their unfortunate friends.
"Greek Meeting Greek."

If the Greek brigands have a savage and merciless
way of torturing and murdering their victims, the
conduct of ordinary Greeks towards the banditti,
against whom they have inimical feelings, seems
scarcely less horrifying. To judge from a dispatch
sent by the English Vice-Consul at Missolonghi to
Mr. Erskine, the destruction of brigands, by their
fellow countryman, is undertaken on some occasions
under Imo culiary dishonourable and crafty
circumstances. He says that at Arakova,
in the district of Kravara, three brothers named
Shermani, and a servant of theirs, resolved
that four well-known banditti whom they had before
befriended should die. The unsuspecting victims
were accordingly invited to dine within a chamber,
in which loop holes had keen bored. At• a certain
period of the feast three of the entertainers
withdrew, and the fourth, after a brief
interval, called loudly for " sweetmeats." According
to arrangement, these were not to be brought in, and
when the host left the room to ascertain, as it were,
the cause of the inattention to the visitors, a volley
was fired through the loopholes on the guests. Three
of the brigands fell in the room, wounded and
dying, the fourth, an active man, made a jump
through the window, and escaped. The treachery
of the Shermanis, though it resulted in the deaths of
three of the most famous robber chiefs at Missolonghi,
cannot but lend additional reproach to the name the
Greeks are latterly obtaining for themselves. The Sher-
manis will not themselves. moreover, reap
much satisfaction from their act, as the fugitive
brigand will in all likelihood obtain hordes of allies,
who will be only too anxious to join in repaying them
for their hospitality.
The Revision of the Scriptures.

At the first meeting of thd committee appointed
by the Convocation of Canterbury, various resolutions
and rules were agreed to as the fundamental prin-
ciples on which the revision is to be conducted. The
committee is to separate itself into two companies
the one for the revision of the Old,,the other for the
revision of the New Testament. The Old. Testament
company are to consist of the Bishops of St. David's,
Landaff, Ely, Lincoln, and Bath and Well,B ; And of