The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDO N, IZIDAY EVE IN'G, JANUARY 14, 1870.

In Liquidation.—ln the matter of
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Company are required, on or before the 31st day of Janu-
ary, 1870, to send their names and addresses, and the par-
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AUDREY BROAD. at his Offices, No. 2, Walbrook-imild-
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the benefit of any distribution made.

LIFE ANNUITIES.-MANCHESTER COR-
PORATION WATERWORKS.

The Waterworks Committee of the Corporation of the
City of Manchester is prepared to issue, free from all
official charges, ANNUITIES for LIVES, jointly or sepa-
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of the Borough Rates of the City, and the Rates, Rents, and
other Waterworks Property.
Applications, personally or in writing, may be made or
sent to the City Treasurer, or to Mr. Berrey, Waterworks
Offices, Town Hall, Manchester.

By order,
JOSEPH HERON, Town Clerk.
Town Hall, Manchester, January 6, 1870.

TO MERCHANTS. IRONMONGERS,. AND
OTHERS.

MESSRS. HARTON and SON, Manufacturing
Pew terers, 61 and 62, Shoe-lane, London, respect-
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LONDON, 711URSDAY, JAN. 13, 1870.

TILE narrative of the miserable Auteuil affair Is
now tolerably complete, and, unfortunately, the more
circumstantial the account, the more disgraceful does
the transaction appear. It is true that we are still
much in the dark as to who gave the prove-
catio in the Prince's house; but as each of the
survivors directly contradicts the story of the other,
it seems clear that special regard for " honour " is no
guarantee of a respect for truth, and that fire-eating
is not incompatible with lying. The quarrel had its
origin in Corsica. The _Revanche, a journal published
at Bastia, was conducted by M. PASCHAL GROUSSET
and other democrats, who consider the abuse of the
NAPOLEON family a worthier mission than the spread
of democratic principles. Each member of the
obnoxious race was assailed in turn, until at
length Prince PIERRE BONAPARTE, a not over-
wise gentleman of adventurous temperament,
thought it needful to reply. He sent a letter or
letters to the Avenir of Corsica, and so successfully
rivalled the scurrility of his adversaries that they felt
hurt. M. GROUSSET resolved to challenge the Prince.
M. ROCHEFORT sympathised with M. GROUSSET. It
was such a scandal for a libeller to be attacked with
his own weapon, that the Paris deputy's blood was
stirred. Whilst M. GROUSSET was challenging the
Prince, M. ROCHEFORT was publishing more dis-
graceful attacks in his Paris paper, the Marseil-
lase, and at length the Paris deputy re-
ceived a challenge also. Thus the creditable
member of the House of BONAPARTE had three
duels on hand at once—with M. GROUSSET,
with M. ROCHEFORT, and with M. LAVINGE,
who wrote one of the lampoons in the Marseil-
lain. It was in the act of arranging for
the duel with the first-named journalist
that the Prince committed the crime for which
he now awaits trial. M. VICTOR NOIR and M.
FONVIELLE went to arrange preliminaries on behalf
of M. GROUSSET. The Prince shot M. NOIR, pro-
voked, as he says, by a blow from the unfortu-
nate young journalist ; but, according to M.
FONVIELLE'S version, without provocation. This
is the only point in the story remaining to be cleared
up. Certain highly suggestive facts are, however,
beyond doubt. The Prince had a loaded revolver
ready for the seconds. He sent one bullet. through
the body of the victim, and two through the dress of
the other second. The unfortunate Nom brought a
sword-stick with him. M. FONVIELLE himself car-
ried a revolver. Th e meeting was of a merely busi-
ness character; the journalists had come, not to fight,
but to, arrange for fighting; and yet all the three
armed themselves as if the streets of Paris were a
Texan prairie, or the year 1870 the dark ages. And
after Nom is dead the two survivors engage in a
lying contest over his corpse. 1j leave the wisdom
of the public to decide which is the more
deserving of belief.
* Unfortunately the Paris mob have not been slow
to identify this sad scandal with their public
grievances. The quarrel was as much a private one as
any other of the mad escapades in which Parisians
indulge. The EMPEROR has no control over
his relative's pen, otherwise the Avenir of Cor-
sica would never have published the disgraceful
letter which led to M. GROUSSET'S challenge. Prince
PIERRE—son of the First EMPEROR'S younger
brother—is only" e, distant relative of NAPOLEON 111.,
and is on no good terms with him. But these con-
siderations have had no weight with the hordes whom
ROCHEFORT is proud to lead. The murder of NOIR
has been made the occasion for a fresh outburst of
that unreasoning hostility to the Imperial Family of
which the Paris population have given so many
strange examples. If NAPOLEON m. is not repre-
sented as inspiring the fivenir letter, as sanctioning the
homicide, he is credited with a wish to shield his
foolish relative from the consequences of his deed.
Any ordinary disaster of the kind might have excited
horror and disgust, and then have faded out
of memory. But the name of BONA-
PARTE multiplies the mischief. The turbu-
lence of the French capital has found a fresh
excuse for breaking forth; the Government, which
had gained the good will of all whose good will is
worth having, is again vulnerable ; the funds which
had risen continuously during the early days of the
year, are now sinking again. But unhappy as is this
event, it would have been far more baneful three
weeks ago. Then the EMPEROR had not
made up his mind as to the course
he should take, the Irreconcilables were hopeful of a
failure in the constitutional reforms, and a catastrophe
like this would have strengthened, if not confirmed.
their position. But, as it happens, the madmen
of the Avenir and the _Revanche have waited
until the Emrnnort has chosen wisely, and the
country has expressed its satisfaction. Ile has
gained the nation to his side, and he cannot
he accused of attempting to disarm popular indig-
nation by concession. The change which was so
long preparing has come just in time. The EMPEROR
deseaves the full sympathy of his subjects. It was
impossible not to foresee the ill effects of this catas-
trophe, but it is equally clear that it ought to have
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MARLBOROUGH- S TREET.

SHAMEFUL CRUELTY.—WiIIiam Pavier, of the
Railway Hotel, Pond-street, Hampstead, and
Joseph Johnson, a carman in his employ, appeared
before Mr. Knox to answer the complaint of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, the former for causing a horse to be tor-
tured, and the latter for torturing it by working it
while in an unfit state.

Johnson was seen by a constable named Spinks
driving a horse attached to a coal waggon, and blood
and matter was issuing from one of its hoofs ; it
was very lame, seemed to be in great pain, and
could hardly stand.
George Young, an officer of the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the
horse was in a dreadful state.

Mr. Arthur Cherry, the Government veterinary-
surgeon, said the horse was suffering from inflamed
side bone, and that it was decidedly an act of
cruelty to work the horse.

Pavier said if he had known the state of the
horn he would not have sent him out.
Mr. Knox said Pavier had no business to trade
on the pain and suffering of the horse. Ilis great
object was to put an end to the horse's suffering. If
the owner of the horse would have it destroyed he
would deal with the case in one way, if not he
would deal with it in another.

Pavier said he would have the horse destroyed,
and Mr. Knox taking that into account fined him
205., and ordered him to pay 12s. 6d. costs instead
of £5, and discharged Johnson.
A SYSTEMATIC WIFE BEATER.—GeOrp Reveare,
of 48, Princes-row, Lambeth, a painter, was brought
before Mr. Knox on a warrant by Costigan, ons
of the warrant officers, charged with assaulting hi
wife Caroline.

The complainant said the prisoner came to where
she was staying and asked her to come home with
him, and on her refusing to do so on account of his
previous illusage, he assaulted her and blackened
her eyes.

In reply to Mr. Knox, the complainant said the
prisoner was a drunkard, and had done no work
for months, and was constantly illusing her.
The prisoner admitted he had not acted properly,
but promised to mend his conduct for the future if
he was dealt leniently with.
Mr. Poole, of the firm of Poole and Lord, shirt
makers, of Oxford-street, spoke in high terms of
the complainant, stating that she worked for their
firm, and was a very hard working and respectable
woman; and had for some time kept the prisoner
and her child.

Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three
months with hard labour, and ordered him to find
bail at the expiration of that term for a further
period of three months. _ _ _

The prisoner laughed as he left the dock.

orinur ur Tll4 2IIBLIC jOURNALg.

It would be vain, says the Times, to deny the danger of
the present position of affairs in France. A multitude
which has been estimated at 50,000 persons attended, on
Wednesday, the burial of M. Victor Noir. A proposal was
made to renew the most tragic episodes of the February
Revolution—to take the body froM the hearse, bare the
bleeding breast, and parade it through the most central
and crowded thoroughfares of Paris. Had the suggestion
been listened to, a sanguinary conflct would have been
almost inevitable, although the issue could hardly be
doubtful. We have, for our own part, no doubt that the
Government would in any case have the better of any
collision ; but our confidence in that respect was
just as firm and full six months ago. Our hope was that
with the New yEra there might be less occasion for reliance
on mere strength, less apprehension of possible conflicts.
That unfortunate brawl in the Rue d'Autueil has upset all
calculations, and renewed tho anxieties of three months
since. Two trials will commence at the same moment—
that of a Prince stained with blood, and that of a
lampooner bespattered with his own foul ink. The
former will be brought before a High Court of Justice;
the latter will be denied even the benefit of a jury. We
have not the least doubt that justice will be done
in Loth cases. Still, it is unfortunate that, in a
country where so much stress is laid upon the principle of
equality, the greater malefactor should have the advan-
tage of an exceptional tribunal—a tribunal against the
continuance of which M. 011ivier entertains as strong an
objection as M. Rochefort himself. The Government is
thus engaged in a contest in which no very signal victory
'ran by any chance await it, in which, indeed, they might
almost pray for a decisive defeat ; for nothing short of the
application of the law in all its severity in the case of Prince
Pierre will allay the profound, and not unreasonable, indigna-
tion which his slaughter of that ill-fated young journalist has
aroused among the lowest classes of the Parisian population.
It is too sad to think that Ministers who took office with
the most settled and earnest intention of giving freedom
its fullest development, and who proved their good will by
such acts as the free amnesty extended to Ledru Rollin
and Tibaldi, should so soon have to submit to the neces-
sity of repressive measures. It is too sad to hear M.
011ivier, who is so fully entitled to identify himself with
"moderation and liberty," allude to the " force" on
which, "if provoked beyond endurance," he must place
his reliance. However loud an outburst of applause
from the Right of the Chamber may have greeted
the Minister's words, we regret that M. 011ivier should
have deemed it necessary, so early in his official career,
to hold out a threat. A ruler's energy may have to be
shown in deeds, but should never find expression in words.
There has been no lack of force for these last twenty years
in the French Government, and it was only when the
Emperor's faith in force was shaken that a new rule set in
from which, but for this untoward Auteuil episode, so
much better an order of things might have been confi-
dently expected to arise.

The Standard remarks that the Bishop of St. Asaph has
resigned his see and Wales is clamorous fora Welsh bishop.
On the principle that there cannot be smoke without fire,
there must be some reason for this cry, and as our readers
may naturally feel curious to know why, after so many
years of apparently peaceful rule by English prelates,
there is a cry at all, we purpose so give, as far as we are
able, an explanation of the reason and the facts by which
it is supported. The cry ccmos from the Churchmen of
North Wales. They demand for their new bishop one
capable of preaching the Word of God and administer-
ing the sacred offices of the Church to them in their
own language. They desire one capable of sympa-
thising with their idiosyncrasies and possessing
a knowledge of their spiritual wants. There is now a
most active movement throughout the four dioceses of
Wales to promote a better Church feeling in the Princi-
pality ; all Churchmen are fully aware of the impending
crisis; an influential committee of Convocation is now
deliberating on the means to be adopted; the clergy and
laity go hand in hand to the work; but they must have
a Welsh bishop to superintend this good work, a bishop
qualified not only to preach in the Welsh language—for
that is by no means the only point to look to—but qualified
also to increase the efficiency of the Church. To enlist
sympathy, to command respect even from his opponents
the new bishop must be, to use an old phrase, "a_ scholar
and a gentleman."

The Daily .11-ews thinks that Mr. Bright's reply to tha
deputation which waited upon him at Birmingham, urg-
ing the release of the Fenian prisoners, ought not to take
any one by surprise. It simply follows up, in a manner
not less admirable, the excellent letter in which Mr.
Gladstone answered a similar solicitation. We hope that
not merely its purport, but its precise terms, will be
made known to all Irishmen. Of this, indeed, it would
not do to be confident. That portion of the Irish
population which sympathises more or less with Fenian-
ism, depends for its information upon journals which
do not deserve the implicit trust that is placed in them.
While denouncing the crime of sedition, Mr. Bright speaks
with a grave and manly compassion for the men who have
righteously incurred the punishment which they are now
undergoing. Possibly the language which we have quoted
will be contrasted by critics with the speech which Mr.
Bright made some ago in presenting what was called the
Fenian petition. In Mr. Bright's contrast between the
happy condition of England, which has no poli-
tical prisons, and the less fortunate nations of
Europe, which are unable to dispense with them,
that suppressed John Bullism which Lord Granville has
remarked as one of the most notable features in his col-
league's character creeps out. Probably there is no more
thorough Englishman among her Majesty's subjects than
Mr. Bright, though the national qualities have often ap-
peared in him in a form which did not commend them to
the liking of some of his countrymen. John Bull in his
fighting mood is an awkward customer, whether the strife
be political or military. John Bull, when the fight is over and
he has had his way, is scarcely to be recognised for the
same being. Turning from John Bull to John Bright, we
may remark that there is no real contradiction between
the former attitude of the member for Birmingham and
the present attitude of the President of the Board of
Trade. Mr. Bright gives more prominence now to some
considerations to which he gave less prominence formerly.
He sees Government from within, as well as from with-
out ; and it is well that a man of so much capacity and
public confidence should be in a position to view it on
both sides.

The Pall Mall Gazette is not altogether pleased at Mr.
Bright's remarks upon political offences. The leniency
with which political crimes are often viewed is so great a
source of danger to the State that it becomes necessary to
counterbalance it by the infliction of very heavy penalties.
Murder or arson is not likely to be committed by either
good men or vain men. The first are kept straight by
their sense of right, the others by their desire of being
thought well of. But neither conscience nor love of
approbation can be trusted to deter men from poli-
tical crimes, and consequently it is the more
important that the State should affix to them a
punishment so signal as to make up in some measure for
the want of these accustomed safeguards. The truth is
that people constantly talk of political offences as though
they were not, properly speaking, the subjects of punish-
Mont at all. Imprisonment becomes merely an honourable
captivity, a denial of the opportunity of doing further
mischief. Those who look at the matter in this light do,
i 8 fact, concede to every political criminal a sort of
belligerent right to be treated as a prisoner of war.
They confound the man who wantonly disturbs
the peace of the community by violence and pillage with
the man who, in a time of civil strife, takes part with the
combatant whose cause has the best title to his support.
To do this is to destroy as far as in them lies one of the
most solid guarantees of public order. If the recognised
immunities of civil war are to be extended to common-
place sedition, society will be at the mercy of evf.•ry wrong-
headed enthusiast who chooses to carry on a species of
guerilla contest against the constituted authorities under
which he lives.

There are few who will not regret, says the Post, that
the Star and Garter Hotel at Richmond has been burnt to
the ground. Possessing for many years an undisputed
pre-eminence amongst all our suburban hostelries, and
commanding from its windows a view of the Valley of the
Thames of unrivalled beauty, the loss of this
favourite resort of the jaded Londoner, the scene
of so many festive gatherings, will be regarded
in some sort as a social misfortune. "De
mortuis nil nisi bonum" may be applied to
things as well as men, and in contemplating the
ruins of the old house we are desirous to recollect
nothing of it but what is good. We willingly shut our
eyes to its blemishes, and refuse to call to mind its imper-
fections. Even those who occasionally abused the "Star"
and " the Company" did hot fail to resort as frequently
as before to their old trysting-place ; and when
the coming month of May has converted tho
chestnuts in the park into gigantic bouquets they
will miss the familiar brick house at the gate where.
notwithstanding all their grumblings, they used to while
aWay so pleasantly many a Sunday evening. Nor is it the
Londoner alone who has been a sufferer by this catas-
trophe. The visitor, whether from at home or from abroad
never missed seeing the view from Richmond-hill; and a
dinner at the Star and Garter was as indispensable a
thing as a visit to the Houses of Parliament or the Tower
of London.

Nature states that it has been decided to establish
It school of science alld art at Dover,

SIR. BRIGHT AND THE PERMISSIVE BILL.
A deputation of the local executive of the United King-
dom Alliance, headed by Mr. Kempster, waited on the
Birmingham members on Thursday in reference to the Per-
missive Bill, Mr. Kempster having, according to one acccount,
" threatened the withdrawal of the Alliance support from
Messrs. Bright and Dixon in consequence of their vote on
that measure.' .

Mr. BRIGHT, at some length, condemned the bill as a
piece of machinery. Whilst prepared to give the control-
ling power to a town council or some governing body, he
condemned the giving of such power to the general com-
munity to be exercised in the form of a special vote.
He rebuked Mr. Kempster for the harsh judgment
he had formed of the conduct of members who voted
against the bill, and said it was not a question of approval
or disapproval of restrictive measures. In the objects
sought to be attained all were agreed, and the only ques-
tion was as to the method. Without committing himself
to details, he intimated that a Government bill would be
brought forward, which he hoped would give satisfaction.

PROFESSOR MACGREGOR ON•" THE SIX

DAYS OF CREATION."

In a long letter which aprear3 in the Edinburgh Daily
Review, Professor Macgregor, of New College, Edin-
burgh, discusses the question about the "Six Days of
Creation," which has been raised anew by the Rev. Mr.
Gilfillan, in the paper which that gentleman read to his
congregation on Sunday last. The most important
" point" made by the Rev. Professor is the following:—
"Regarding the duration of the days, the Confession
says nothing. It is probable that most of the West-
minster divines believed that the days were natural' or
`literal' days of twenty-four hours each. It is possible
that some of them may have, like Thomas Burnet, regarded
the daye as creative epochs of great and indefinite extent.
It is certain that whatever may have been their personal
opinions regarding the duration of the days, they have
not introduced any opinion regarding that duration into
the Confession of their faith. Accordingly, the recent
assailants of the Confession, in their polemic against its
statement about the space of six days,' find it necessary
to perpetrate an interpolation. Where the Confession
says simply six days,' they, professing to reproduce its
utterances, interlope some such words as `natural' or
literal,' making it to say six natural days' or six
literal days.' The interpolation may be necessary in order
to make plain their view of the import of the Confession.
But the necessity of interpolation shews that their view is
mistaken. If the Confession had dogmatized about the
duration of the days, it would have been the easiest thing
in the world to prove this, by prodtcing the dogma in
terms of the Confession—without interpolation of terms
by the assailant."

TIIE GOVERNMENT AND THE ARTILLERY
VOLUNTEERS.

A meeting of officers connected with the artillery
branch of the volunteer service, who are also members of
the Council of the National Artillery Association, was
held at the offices of the association, Charing-cross,
on Thursday. Colonel Harcourt occupied the chair. The
proceedings were opened by Colonel Harcourt, who
stated that he had been requested by the Secretary of
State for War to write him a letter on the Shoeburyness
meeting of the National Artillery Association looked at
as a school of instruction in gunnery. This letter was
read and approved by the meeting. On the motion of
Colonel Durnford,lst Surrey Artillery, it was unanimously
resolved :—" That the requirements and interests of the
Volunteer Artillery Force are so distinct from those of
the Engineers and Rifles that it is expedient, without in
any way affecting or interfering with the steps taken by
the metropolitan commanding officers, that the National
Artillery Association should carefully consider the whole
of the propositions submitted to the War Office, and the
necessary requirements of the force, and should report
specially thereon to the Secretary for 'War."
The meeting then proceeded to discuss Mr. Cardwell's
scheme as far as it affected the artillery, and it was
resolved to embody the opinions of the meeting in a
circular which is to be sent to every artillery corps, and a
special report, founded on the replies received, will be
forwarded to the Secretary of State for 'War before the
next conference.