The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-24 00:00:00

THE REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH
LEICESTERSHIRE.

Mr. Heygate, Conservative, and Mr. Paget, Liberal,
candidates for the representation of South Leicestershire,
addressed their supporters at Leicester last night; the
former at the Corn Exchange, under the presidency of
Mr. Charles Brook, Enderly Hall, and the latter at
the Temperance Hall, Alderman Toller, president of the
Liberal Registration Society, chairman. Mr. Heygate
hoped the Irish Land Bill would be more effectual for the
pacification of Ireland than the Church Bill had been.
He was opposed to compulsory education and rating,
and praised Mr. Forster for his statesmanlike method;
but could not give equal praise to the Government in regard
to colonial policy, because our colonies were alienated
from the mother country. He deprecated Free Trade as
carried out by the French Treaty, and could not see why
any alteration should not be made when it was known
that it had failed. In reference to the Malt Tax, he
thought some of the enormous surplus might have
been applied to reducing to some extent the
duty on malt for the benefit of agriculturists.
Mr. Paget, in his speech, said, though he had a strong
objection to the ballot, he should support it if returned.
Referring to Ireland, he pointed out that the Irish Church
Bill was the first instalment of justice to that country ;
and that when landlord and tenant had equal justice
done to them Ireland would be as prosperous as
any other portion of the kingdom. Mr. Paget advo-
cated the abolition of university tests, opposed the
game laws, and said he should give an unre-
stricted support to Mr. Gladstone. Both meetings
were largely attended, the candidates being well received.
The contest is likely to be a close one.

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at Campsall,
a village near Manchester, on the body of a child four
years old, who was supposed to have died from the effects
of criminal violence, a man named Gough being under
committal for trial for the criminal assault, which was
committed as late as the Bth April last, according
to the prisoner's confession while he was drunk. The child's
mother gave evidence that, though previously healthy, she
had drooped since the day of the assault, and shortly
afterwards became subject to convulsive fits, and died on
Friday. Two surgeons, who made a post-mortem exami-
nation, deposed that the child died from disease of the
brain, which might have been accelerated, but was not
caused by the violence to which she had been subjected.
The coroner said that in the face of such medical Usti-
mony, however surprising it might be, he could not
recommend the jury to return a verdict of wilful murder.
After considerable hesitation the jury found that the
child died from natural causes.

THE MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIG ENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLowc,

Influenced by the abundance of money, the brilliant
weather, and the tolerably favourable aspect of agricultural
affairs, the stock markets have presented a fair degree of
animation to-day, and the quotations have ended firm.
The receipt of the intelligence from Madrid announcing
that, if elected by the Cortes, Marshal Espartero will
accept the throne has stimulated the inquiry for Spanish
Securities, resulting in an important enhancement. The _
Railway Market has been without feature of importance, but; ;
a good demand has been experienced for North Eastern
Consols, and the tone, on the whole, has not been unfavour-
able. The market for Home Securities has been steady.
Consols for money have been done at 91} to 94f,
and for June at 941 to 94j. Reduced and New
Three per Cents., 921 to 92j; Exchequer Bills,
par to 5s prem. ; Bank Stock has marked 234 to 236; India
Five per Cents. are quoted at 104 to 1141- ; and India Bonds
at 20s to 25s prem.
As regards English railways the business doing has not
been extensive. North Eastern Console have been pur-
chased to a fair extent, and the quotation has risen to 1381
to 139, showing an advance of 1. Great Northern A has
been rather weaker, otherwise prices have been fairly main-
tained.

In Indian Railway Stocks the business doing has been
only moderate ; but prices 1 ave ruled firm. Canadian
Shares have been purchased cautiously. Foreign Shares
have been steady ; Great Luxembourg, at 131 to 14, show a
rise of 1. Lombards are quoted at 15 to 151.
Foreign bonds have been in fair request. For Spanish
1867 and 1869 the demand has been active at an advance of
about per cent., the former being quoted at 31 7-16 to 31
9-16, and the latter at 30i to 301. Italian and Egyptian
have been quiet, but firm. The Turkish have been flat.
The United States 5.20 Bonds have been steady and I per
cent, better.

The demand for mines has been heavy. Assheton have
fallen 1,. Pacific, on the other hand, have been dealt in at
an advance of 1, having marked 81.
Bank Shares have been steady. London and County
have been done at 50± to 501 ; London Jo'nt Stock, 36± to
361 ; London and Westminster, 631 to 64 ; and 'Union of
London, 01.
Telegraph Shares have been firm. Anglo-American have
risen 3-16th, being quoted at 171 to 171; whilst French
Cables, at 171 to 16, are 1 better.
As regards Miscellaneous Securities, Buds 'lO, Bay shares
have been 1 lower, at 121 to 121.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Sales probably 10,000 bales. hlarket steady.

The Duke of Richmond has accepted the office
of President of the CRT Carlton Club.
CRYSTAL PALACE SHILLING OPERAS.-4 The Rival
Beauties," a comic operetta by Alberto Randegger, will be
played this afternoon and on Thursday. The composer will
conduct, and the principal characters will be played by
Miss Edith Wynne, Miss Elena Angele, and Mr. Cummings.

NEW YORK GOSSIP.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

NEW YORK, May 3, 1870.
Spring, long wished for, long waited for, and longer still
in coming, is here at last. During the past few days the sun
has done yeoman's duty in the work of bringing back to life
the straggling trees and bushes, which, scattered .here and
there in parks and courtyards, and lining now and then a
street, serve to remind us poor city folk of the days before
we came to coop ourselves up in this great prison, and to
touch our brick and mortar hearts in consequence ; and with
the coming of spring and the return of the birds and flowers
come also hopes of a prosperous period, and prayers that the
green leaves shall not be the only indications that a "dead"
season is over and that new life is springing up about us.
But enough of the weather, that ever fruitful topic, and of
business with which I have nothing to do, inasmuch as I
write of gossip, and let me rather tell of moving day and its
miseries. But the man is yet unborn who could adequately
describe the terrible turmoil which reigns in the city at this
moment. Yearly rents in New York invariably expire on
the Ist of May, and as the great majority of the various
stores and tenements are held on short leases nearly every
one " moves "on that day. The effect produced can only
be imagined—the vans which crowd the streets, piled to an
incredible height with household goods—the throngs of
pedestrians carrying the more fragile or more valuable arti-
cles—the houses turned topsy-turvey, the incessant smashing
of furniture, and consequent breakage of the third Command.
ment —all these, and many like these, are characteristics of
the first of May—a black-letter day, if ever there was one.
This year it happened to fall on a Sunday, and the " celebra-
tion" of it was therefore postponed to Monday, which, to the
delight of every one broke, clear and cloudless, though it is
often the fortune of the inhabitants of this good city to be
compelled to expose their goods and chattels to the tender
mercies of a thunder-storm. That additional agony was
spared, however, and the removing has progressed as plea-
santly as could be expected, and expeditiously enough, for
by sunset to-day the last of the stragglers will be housed for
another year at least.
The " Arcade Railway Bill," as it is commonly called,
has passed both Houses of the Legislature, and in all proba-
bility will receive the Governor's sanction and become a
law. If the company to whom the charter is to be granted
are successful in their undertaking it will work a revolu-
tion in the building of cities hereafter, greater than any that
has been planned or executed. The project is no less a
one than this—Broadway, from the Battery to Union-
square, and from thence, both Broadway and the Fourth-
avenue to Harlem, are to be dug out to the depth of sixteen
feet, and of the width of the present streets. The trench
thus cut out is to be covered by a massive iron roof on,
which the pavement will be relaid, and the street thus re-
serve its former appearance externally. But internally, or
beneath the pavement, a new street is to be built, the base-
ments of the existing houses to be altered into capacious
stores, the side walks paved and graded, and in the centre
four lines of railway tracks are to be laid, of which the two
inner ones are to be devoted to through trains of cars,
drawn by locomotives, and running from the Battery to
Harlem, with occasional stoppages at important stations
only, and the outer to similar trains destined to accom-
modate the " way travel," or those passengers who desire
to go but a short distance. The new street is to be bril-
liantly lighted by gas, and rendered as attractive for shop-
ping or promenading as the old highway above it. This
you will see is a great undertaking, and one of which the
practicability has not as yet been proved—though all the
best civil engineers of this city have pronounced it feasible.
If successful, as all trust it may be, it will not only prove a
great convenience to all who " live up town," but will
actually prevent New York from growing smaller, as it
now threatens to do. Manhattan Island, being in shape
long and narrow, and the portion of the city being co .-
fined to the southernmost end, it is evident that merchants
and their clerks who live at the northern end, as all men
of moderate means needs must do, should have quick
transit from their places of business to their homes, and,
that being attainable, vast numbers have been steadily
leaving the city during the past few years, and removing
either to Brooklyn or Jersey city, or one of the many
suburbs of New York—from whence a ferry boat of any
of the numerous lines will bring them within easy walking
distances of their offices in fifteen minutes at most. Under
the new order of things, however, this steady emigration
will be stopped, as all will then be able to reach their homes
in a very short space of time, and at a moderate expense. I
do not wish to devote too much space to one topic, or I
should tell of the discomforts and annoyances to which all
who ride in the horse-cars are exposed, but will leave that
for another occasion. I must not neglect, however, to explain
how the process of digging out before mentioned is to be
executed. The operations of the company are to be con-
fined to the distance lying between two cross-streets, and over
that surface a substantial bridge is to be erected that travel
may proceed without interruption. When the ro f is on
and the pavement laid: the bridge is to be taken up to the
next cross-street, and the work will proceed as before.
Should the Governor sign the bill—as he is expected to do
—the company will commence operations at once, and push
the work as rapidly as possible.

Speculation is rife as to the result of the M'Farland trial,
now drawing to a close. This cause celebre, with accounts
of which the newspapers has teemed; during the past three
weeks, has attracted more attention, and furnished a more
fruitful subject for discussion in all the circles of society
than any which the present generation can remember. For
fear that some of your readers may be unacquainted with
the case, I will give you the salient points. One Daniel
M'Farland, a man of education, but of intemperate habits,
married a lady named Abby Sage, and by her had two
children. They lived together happily enough for a num-
ber of years, until H'Farland's dissolute ways, growing
worse and worse, caused his undertakings to fail, and his
friends to abandon him. As is too often the case, he chose
to wreak his vengeance by treating his wife—as the evi-
dence shows—in the most brutal manner. About this time
she made the acquaintance of Albert D. Richardson, a jour-
nalist
by occupation, a brilliant correspondent during the
late war—author of several works, and a man of standing
in the community. He and other friends repre-
sented to Mrs. M'Farland that she was doing her-
self an injustice in remaining with a man who
treated her thus cruelly, and urged her—as her talents fitted
her for the profession—to go upon the stage, and reinforced
their arguments by procuring for her an engagement at the
Winter Garden Theatre. Mrs. M'Farland acted upon their
advice, left her husband, and accepted the engagement
offered her, She maintained herself by her profession, and
by contributing to various periodicals earned an enviable
position as a writer, During this time she was thrown
much in Ricbardson's company, and he very frequently
escorted her to and from the theatre. On one of these occa-
sions M'Farland, maddened by drink, jealousy, and the loss
of his wife, stole behind the pair as they were leaving the
Winter Garden, and shot Richardson in the back, inflicting
a dangerous but not mortal wound. This brought matters
to a crisis. While Richardson was confined to his bed, Mrs.
M'Farland nursed and tended him, and during this time
she agreed to procure a divorce from her husband, and, as
love had sprung up between them, marry Richardson.
M'Farland, in the meantime, continued to drink to excess,
and pour the sting of his sorrows into every willing ear
To make a long story short, the divorce was obtained last
autumn in the State of Illinois, and the parties were to
have been married shortly after. M'Farland heard of this,
and swore the marriage would never be, armed himself with
a pistol, and went in much of his victim. He met him
many times in the days that followed, but always face to
face, until one day in November last, when he was sitting
in the office of the Tribune, Richardson entered, and, without
seeing M'Farland, walked up to the counter and asked for
hie letters, The words were yet on his lips when M'Far-
land, rising up suddenly, reached across the counter and
fired point blank, the ball entering his victim's breast.
Richardson was carried to the Astor House, where he lay
in great suffering for several days, Shortly before his
death he sent for Mrs. M'Farland ; they were married by the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the Rev. Dr. S witingham,
and son after Richardson died,
That is the story, told from the evidence, and without
bias of any kind. Thp fact that the persons engaged
in the tragedy were all well known to the public lent
additional interest to what was already an extraordinary
case, and little else has been talked of since the trial began.
The theory of the defence has been insanity, and they have
worked hard to establish the plea, several of the most
eminent criminal lawyers in this city being retained for the
prisoner. The prosecution has been conducted in a no less
able manner, and now that the announcement is made that
the case is drawing to a close, the excitement is rising to
fever heat. Both sides hava their supporters, and it would
be impossible to say with whom the sympathy of the public
is most enlisted ; but Daniel M. Tarland is enjoying the
fairest of trials, and to the verdict of the jury, whatever it
may be, the voice of the people will say Amen.
The theatres have done little in the way of change
of programme of late, but several novelties were introduced
on Monday night, of which the most important was the
production, at Niblo's Garden, of a new drama by Alexander
Dumas, entitled "Mosquito," in which Miss Lydia Thomp_
son appealed as the heroine. The play was written expressly
for Miss Thompson by the veteran novelist and dramatist,
and is in his most romantic, and therefore his best, vein,
and it was placed upon the stage in a style ,of the ,utmost
magnificence by the management, and Miss Lydia Thompson
earned much well-deserved applause by her excellent acting.
The drama was followed by the burlesque of "La Son-
nambula," in which the burlesque troupe appeared. Both
pieces were received with ranch favour by the audience on

Monday evening, and will doubtless enjoy a prolonged
season of success. Mr. Fechter, who has appeared at the
French Theatre during the past and part of the present
week as Claude Melnotte, will play Don Cresar de Bazan,
for the first time in this city, on Wednesday evening. His
performances are exceedingly attractive, as demonstrated by
the large audiences which assemble nightly. The much talked-
of Spanish ballet troupe made their debut at the Grand Opera
House on Monday evening, appearing in the spectacular
drama of the " Twelve Temptations." The other places
of amusement are all enjoying a fair share of patronage,
but call for no mention at the present time. Be-
fore leaving the theatrical arena I must not forget .to
state that it is announced, on apparently good authority,
that the proseut manager of Selwyn's theatre in Boston will
retire from his position at the close of the present season,
and that Mr. Fechter will succeed him. The rumour is
plausible enough, and, if founded on fact, you will lose a
great actor, and we shall gain one, and the Alabama claims
need not be considered any further.
And now let me mention minor matters in a final paragraph.
In the case of Heath et al (English stockholders of the Erie
railway) against that company, the detendants have for-
mally entered their appearance in the clerk's office of the
United States Circuit Court, and their answer will be filed
on the first of next month. The sense of decency of this
community has long enough been shocked by the doings of
Fisk and his accomplices, and we owe a debt of gratitude to
Messrs. Heath and others for endeavouring to bring them to
justice, even should the effort prove unsuccessful. The
new commissioners of the Central Park are going to introduce
a new feature into that charming place of resort,
namely, promenade concerts on Sunday. The proposition
meets with general approbation. The work on the bridge
between this city and Brooklyn is being carried on without
interruption, and before long the two cities will be within
walking distance of one another, as they should have been
long ago. The spring Exhibition of the National Academy
of Design is, in many respects, the best ever made. Though
there are many weak and a few tad pictures, the great ma-
jority are of a high order of merit. The rooms are thronged
day and night by the fashionable world. Property to the
value of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was de-
troyed on Sunday last by an extensive fire in Centre-street.
The buildings burned were occupied by the New York
Printing Company. Much activity is to be noted in all •the
departments of trade, and business-men look forward hope-
fully—the streets are thronged by numbers of fair women
and brave man riding in superb equipages or enjoying their
constitutional stroll. Balls and parties innumerable are
given every evening, and, in a word, the season has begun
PRINCE HAL.

THE GARIBALDIAN MOVEMENT IN ITALY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROME, 17th May.

A separate notice of the singular outbreak of the late
eight days cannot be otherwise than interesting to your
readers, and although it has for the moment failed, it is
impossible to say when or how it may again break forth.
The facts of Catanzaro are not less significant than those
of Aspromonte, and what has passed, and perhaps is still
passing in the Maremma, is so strange in a country boast-
ing organized Government, that it is almost incredible.
I put aside for the• present the hypothesis that the
movement is approved and winked at by the Cabinet as on
former occasions. It is perfectly unfounded ; for the
monarchy only exists by sufferance, and has more to fear
from the success of the Mazzinians against Rome, than any
other power has. What is far more alarming is that the
Government of Florence was perfectly ignorant of the
scope, force, and leadership of the bands till they were all
over the province of Grosseto in which is situated the royal
castle of San Rossore, which is supposed to have been one
of their objects of attack, although their leader, Gagliano,
a Garibaldian officer of not very good fame, published, on
the 10th of May, the following proclamation, which de-
notes a fully developed scheme of action on a scale of which
an active and watchful Government had no right to plead
ignorance :—" Order of the day. Officers, sub-officers,
and soldiers !—Behold us here once more. Oh, my faithful
comrades on the field of glory ; behold us here in arms for
this last and decisive struggle, to sweep from the surface
of our Italy that most opprobrious and shameful stain of
the Papacy, maintained by the forces of obstruction and
foreign tyranny.
" I ask of you constancy and faith in your chiefs, and
above all rigorous discipline ; remember that we are two
glorious vanguards of other and numerous legions of
volunteers, that the eyes of Italy, of our fellow soldiers,
and of the world are upon us ; which of us, then, will dare
violate the honour of our legion, of our country, and of the
Garibaldian uniform which we wear? If there be such
an one, I will have him shot without fail ; and I desire
that if I should myself deviate from the paths of duty that
the same punishment should fall on me.
" Officers, sub-officers, and soldiers,—Strong in justice
and in the holiness of the Italian cause, we will support
with courage difficulties of every kind. Privations,
fatigues, disastrous marches (sic), and what we desire still
more—a meeting with an enemy who prevents the com-
plete emancipation of Italy and soils our beautiful land.
On, then, to the shores of Tiber, and chase for ever from
Rome the Papal domination. Courage, oh, my brave
companions, and forward ! God is with the valiant. •
Let our cry be, `Long live Italy ! Down with the Pope•
King ! '

" The Commandant of the Legion,

" GIACOMO GAGLIANO."
This heroic patriot, whom may I observe (par parenthese)
distinguished himself for cowardice and rapine in the cam-
paign of 1867, in the province of Viterbo, and especially
at Bagnoria, where he sacked a convent of poor Francis-
cans, beat the defenceless monks, and stole their money,
and ultimately became leader of the bands in the Maremma.
The minister's Lanza was so little aware of what was going
on that he named an engineer, named Mayer as the chief.
The truth, I believe, is that Mayer has advanced funds
and lent his workmen, but did not take an active share
in the affair. Lanza has evidently been deceived right
and left by the prefeots. The telegraphic communications,
too, were to a great extent in the hands of the
Mazzinians, to whom half the employes belong,
and the bands were were three hundred strong
when they seized the arms of the National
Guard at Lustignano on the 12th. That they have all
disappeared at a given signal as rapidly as they appeared,
is one of the most alarming symptoms, and only proves
the perfect organisation of the Garibaldian committees.
Considerable excitement prevails in Rome, and Colonel
Aletti despatched two companies of lancers by
rail to Montalto, on a four days' expedition, yester-
day morning, with orders to patrol the country,
from 4quapendente o Orte Valentano, the extreme
confines of the Pontifical States on the Tuscan frontier.
A number of bad characters, long known to the police as
agents of the insurgents, have left Rome to join the bands,
and several arrests have been made; but nothing further is
anticipated for the present of a dangerous character,
although the agitation is universal in Southern and Cen-
tral Italy, and Lanza's downfall is considered imminent,
after the proofs of incapacity he has given.
The weakness of the Administration has never
been more evident. In spite of the repeated
armed outbreaks in Calabria, and of the fact that at
least 300 persons were concerned in them, numbers of them
prisoners, it is notorious that no proceedings will be taken
to vindicate the law. Menotti Garibaldi was, there is not
a rational doubt, the organiser of the movement, and his
brother Ricciotti is still with the bands at Costalo. His
servant is among the prisoners, and was severely
wounded.

In Naples there have been two emeates of the students,
and the University is closed in consequence, and every-
thing presages further disorders.
I learn this moment that a squadron of Dragoons has
left Rome to reinforce the frontier posts, and that an in-
crease of the French garrison at Civita Vecchia and
-Viterbo will take place at the first sign of danger. There
is a report of inCyemeilt in Sicily, and of the desertion of
a body of troops 4 gne place. Several sub-officers of
the garrison of Livorno have Already joined Gagliano.
The tranquility of the Roman frontier has not been hitherto
affected, but as Rome is full of revolutionary agents, a
considerable amount of uneasiness exists. Many of the
great Roman families dare not leave home for their
annual journey to Paris or the ;German baths, and are
already concealing their plate 444 jewels.

THE PALL MALL FRACAS.—It is stated that the
"peremptory interference of friends" has resulted in a
settlement of t e fracas between two members of the
Reform Club—one of them a member of Parliament.

FIRINGS UPQN THE BIILLFINCH.—T4e Bombay
Government have received a letter from. Colonel Pelly,
which gives details of the firing on one of the boats of
H.M.S. Bullfinch, which gave rise to apprehensions of
troubles in the gulf. Captain Godder reported to the
British Consul, at Muscat, that the Bullfinch's boat had
been fired upon as it passed between the mainland and
the Fort Telalee. It now appears that the British Govern-
ment need not be referred to; the Consul having summoned
the Muscat Agent, received for explanation that the
mistake had arisen through the darkness of the night.
A written account of the affair was afterwards given,
which was to the effect that merchant vessels having come
into the harbour, the guards of the fort had been directed
to keep a pod look-out to prevent smuggling, and that
th@ whole was a piece of gross carelessness, " for which
the Governor of tke Fort had been imprisoned, and
the garrison discharged; '/ •