The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-04 00:00:00

AN EVENTFUL CAREER.

The death of a man who played an important
part in the late political history of the United
States has just been announced by telegraph. The
career of Pierre Soul 6 might serve for a chapter of
romance, and though he was by birth and education
a Frenchman, he may naturally be regardrd as
an American. He was born at Castillon on the
Pyrenees during the first consaulate of Napoleon,
and studied at Toulouse and Bordeaux, being destined
for the Church. At the age of 15 he was detected as a
o)nspirator in a plot against the Bourbons, but escaped
to Navarre, and became a shepherd. Present yhe appeared
(n Paris, and under the patronage of Armand Carrel,
Victor Hugo, and others, wrote for the Republican journals.
ti 1821 Z he was among those who were tried for advo-
eating Republican sentiments, and his trial attracted great
attention. His counsel pleaded his client's youth in
extenuation, but Soulti indignantly rose and rejected
such an appeal, speaking warmly and elo-
quently in behalf of his opinions. He was
Imprisoned in Ste. PSla-rie and escaped to England ; but
not knowing a word ortlie language, he came back to
France. Fortunately for him, he met an old friend, who,
being in the navy, assisted him to reach America. In New
Orleans he found Frenchmen, but at once exerted himself
to master English,though he always retained a strong French
accent. He became a lawyer, and took no active part in
politics for twenty years. fn 1847 he was sent to the
Senate, and at once became a prominent leader of the
Southern ranks. Curiously enough, the ardent Republi-
can espoused the cause of the slaveholders, though
his resistance to Federal centralisation was more in
accordance with his earlier theories. In the great debate
on what was called the " Omnibus Bill " the last great
compromise between the North and South, Pierre Soul 6
made powerful and impassioned speeches, and excited the
greatest enthusiasm among his followers. In 1853 he resigned
his place in the Senate, having been appointed Ambas-
sador to Spain. He strongly advocated the purchase or
annexation of Cuba by the United States. During the
war, when Butler held New Orleans, Souls was im-
prisoned for disloyalty by his order, but after a few
months in Fort Lafayette, he was released on condition
that he should not return to Louisiana until the close of
the rebellion. Since that time he has taken no part ill
politics, but lived in comparative retirement, surrounded
by a large circle of friends. Theodore Parker once said
of him that his support of slavery prevented him from
becoming one of the greatest men in America.

TOE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT IN ITALY.
The last outbreak of the Mazzinians is a serious affair.
Several authorities, and especially the Daily News state
tht the army is mucl, t tinted with the revolutionary
spirit. The agents of Mazzini have long tried to corrupt
the forces,and at length their efforts have been successful.
The Daily News says that according to information re-
ceived by the Government it would appear that Sig.
nor Mazzini has been making one of his professional tours
in Italy, and that on his return to Lugano he transmitted
to his partisans in the Peninsula the fol-
lowing snot d'ordre:— They were to abstain
from any general rising, but as often as they
heard of a partial movement in one locality they
were at once to imitate it in another, giving to each
isolated movement a character of sympathy with the
army, which, he had reason to believe, the troops would
in some cases respond to. The attempt at Pavia last
Thursday morning was the first public signal of the
new plan of the revolutionary tactics, and on the
two previous days bands of strange, sinister-look-
ing individuals were seen prowling in the streets.
The Republican journal of Pavia La Libertcl, in
its Wednesday's number coolly announced that it
would cease any longer to appear, as the moment had
arrived not for writing but action. Had the Prefect of
Pavia, Signor Campi, been worth his salt, these indica-
tions alone ought to have put him more on his guard,
and the requisite precautionary steps might have
been taken in time. On the contrary, the Mazzinians
were allowed to have matters their own way.
Accordingly, two parties, each numbering from thirty
to forty persons, attacked the barracks of San,
Francesco between tho hours of three and four in the
morning. The barracks were occupied by a portion of
the 42nd Regiment of the line. The assailants summoned
the sentinel to surrender the barrack, but were refused ;
almost immediately on the alarm being given, the soldiers
poued out to oppose the assailants. Shots were exchanged.
One officer was mortally wounded, a non-commissioned
officer killed, two of the aggressors killed, and it
is believed, many wounded. The serious part
of the business, however, is that on the person
of one of the assailants was found a revolver
belonging to the Carabineers; that on examination it
appeared that more than seventy revolvers had been ab-
stracted from the Carabineers' barracks, and that four
Carabineers have disappeared, who, there is little doubt,
were in the plot. At exactly the same hour in Piacenza
a similar band appeared before the Piacenza Treasury and
barracks, the latter likewise occupied by a detachment
of the 42nd, but the attitude of the soldiers was from
the first so menacing that no attempt was made by the
revolutionary party to commit actual violence. In
Piacenza, as at Pavia there is a Mazzinian paper,
L'Agitatore, and it had given the signal for action the day
before by an article of extraordinary violence, aimed
directly at the King, whom it denounced as " a traitor."
The chief movement on the same day was intended to be
that of Bologna. Armed bands assembled at Brisighella,
not far from Faenza, and, making their way through the
passes of the Apennines to Bologna, evidently hoped to
meet with encouragement on their arrival there. They
were disappointed. Before reaching the city they received
intimation of their being likely to get so warm a reception
that they thought it more prudent to stop short.

A ROYAL TIGER HUNT.

Tiger hunting has formed a rather exciting feature of
the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to India. A letter in the
Times from the camp on the Mohan, Nepaul. says :
" Jung Bahadoor and the Duke's party, mounted
on elephants, crossed the river, and the Rajah of Bhulo-
ra.mpore, who was encamped close by, accompanied the
Duke. From our side of the river were mustered 130
elephants ; in the Maharajah's camp there were 275.
At a short distance from the camp the 400 elephants,
carrying about 1,200 men, were formed into line, extend-
ing more than a mile and a quarter. Jung Bahadoor, with
the Prince, placed himself in the centre. With a trum-
peter behind him, mounted on a small elephant, he
directed the movements of the line by the British trumpet
calls. It was a stirring sight to see the line advancing
grandly across the plain, then part of, it entering the
jungle, the elephants crashing down the trees that opposed
their progress, and reappearing and again completing the
line on the further side. Then the whole mass of elephants
gradually closed in towards the centre, and the circle had
become very small, makiug some think they were going to
draw a blank, when suddenly a tiger sprang up close to the
duke's elephant. The first shot wounded him, and he made a
dash to escape, but foundhimself surrounded by a wall of ele-
phants, stamping and snorting, with their trunks in the
air. He made an attempt to charge the line, but was
knocked over by another ball and despatched. After
dinner Jung Bahadoor's presents for the duke Vete pro-
cueed. The first brought into the mess tent was an ele-
phant, a small two-year-old, but highly educated.
He saluted his new master with a salaam with his
trunk, at the same time falling on his knees.
He was sent off to Calcutta for conveyance to
England. The other presents consisted of silver articles,
silks, elephants' tusks, and tiger skins, and, finally, a
little tiger about a month old. Jung Bahadoor placed
himself and his elephants at the duke's disposal during
the remainder of his Royal Highness's stay, and would
accompany him back to Lucknow. This determination
makes rather a heavy demand on the Commissioner's com-
missariat, as the gallant Nepaulese has six wives with him
and about 7,000 followers, including a regiment of
infantry."

In commenting upon the recent trial for bribery at
the Taunton Assizes, the Law Times remarks The
aununings up Of Mr. Justice Hannen have been justly the
Subject of universal admiration. There was but one
3pinion of them at the bar—that they would have added
reputation to the greatest of our judges.".
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Intending exhibitors at the Workmen's Inter-
national Exhibition, which is to be opened in July next,
should take notice that the 25th inst. has been fixed
as the last day for sending in forms with particulars
:)f articles for exhibition at the Agricultural Hall,
Islington.

We, Lancet, understand that the Royal College of
Burgeons, Ireland, has given its adhesion to the reform
recommended by the Medical Council—that a single
examining board in each of the three divisions of the
United Kingdom should be substituted for the numerous
examining bodies which are now in existence.
The Captain-General of Cuba, Caballero de
Rodas, has published at Puerto Principe a proclamation
to demonstrate the weakness of the insurrection and to
announce that what remains of it will be put down with
an extreme vigour and severity. The General then offers
an amnesty to all the insurgents who shall make a prompt
submission, the chiefs excepted.
The proprietors of the English and Foreign Trade
Gazette echo the protest against the new postal arrange-
ments for the transmission of printed matter abroad.
They affirm that their profits will be reduced 10 per
cent. Nor do they think that such a change will add to
the revenue, for henceforth the bulk of printed matter
will be shipped as freight to be distributed by agents.

The visitors of the Queen's University, Dublin,
have decided that Mr. Melville, who complaned of unfair
treatment in being rusticated and deprived of his scholar•
ship, had been guilty of a gross breach of discipline, but
had not offended against morals. They have reduced the
term of rustication to one year, and ordered the certifi-
zates withheld to be granted.

A number of improvements are about to be made
In the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, with a view of economis-
ing labour and reducing the cost of superintendence in the
various departments. The idea is to concentrate more
thoroughly each distinct branch of industry in one
iepartment only, instead of each particular trade being
represented in the whole of the departments as at present.

Admiral Belcher still believes that the steamship
'City of :Boston is safe. He says :—" If she stood
soutl-K.iiterly, and fell into. the Horse latitudes—where
!ew ships care to go, or have any businns—ancl hs dis-
abled, she may, like a transport I recollect be detained
:;here, from one hundred to one .hundred and fifty days,
And would eventually find her way, by the trade winds
rata some port in Florida or the West Indies."
A second Channel Islands telegraph cable is pro-
jected. Before the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph
Jompany are ready with the cable which they have pro-
alised to lay-in the course-of a few weeks, .Mr. Henley,
;he engineer of the Channel Islands Telegraph Company
!s about to lay another over precisely the same course,
lamely, from Start Roint t4l Guepuiseti ansUbanc9l9
ersev. -

THE NORTHAMPTON MEETING,

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Of the thirteen meetings of the week, the one most re-
luiring attention is that at Northampton. But this gather-
ing, like most of the other early spring meetings, will be
shorn of much of its ancient fame by the absence of two-
year-old racing. There is no gainsaying the fact that the
rule against two-year-old competitions in the early part of
the year, good rule though it is, has wofully
affected the spring racing. The Northampton.
Meeting takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday,
Fortunately for the success of the Great Northampton-
shire Stakes, Sabinus is not amongst the forty-seven still
left in, and as no good thing can easily be spotted it is
probable that a fair field will be got together. Bell's Life
prefers the Briton, Midsummer, Douglas and Free Trade.
Midsummeris a good horse when in the humour,though that
is not a very usual occurrence with him. The Briton has
only 7st. 21b. to carry, and therefore must possess some
!lances of retrieving Wednesday's overthrow. Douglas and
Free Trade are decidedly the best among the three-year-
olds. Douglas ran in the City and Suburban like a
stayer, and struggled gamely to the end, whilst Free
Trade's defeat of Jarnac in the Liverpool Spring Cup
entitles him to high respect. Of the four mentioned
Bell's Life prefers Douglas and the Briton. The
Sporting Life observes that Midsummer (4 yrs.
Bst. 31b.) is fairly handicapped on his best form, and will
take an immensity of beating over this long and severe
course. No horse has done better at Newmarket for a
long time, and Baron Rothschild's friends, as well as all
the concentrated talent at head quarters, have been send-
ing east-west, north, and south endeavouring to back him.
Free Trade's Liverpool Spring Cup penalty increases
his weight to 6st. 91b.,. the same with which Sabinus
won the Metropolitan in such rare style. Estimated
through Jarnac, however. The Briton should defeat Free
Trade and as nearly win as possible, as it was clear to
all the lookers-on that The Briton was a long way second
best to Sabinus had Butler thought fit to persevere. On
the whole, therefore, the Sporting Life prefers The Briton
and Midsummer. The Sportsman's opinion of Midsummer
is not a high one. He is, it thinks, a coward .in a
severe struggle. The Sportsman therefore prefers
The Briton or Mr. Brayley's representative.
Douglas cannot stay over such a severe
course as that at Northampton. The Field says :—" If
we reserve Midsummer, The Briton, Siderolite, and
Douglas, it is more than probable the winner of the
Northamptonshire Stakes will be named ; and as two of
them have recently appeared in public—The Briton and
Douglas—they are entitled to the preference."
With respect to the other races the Sporting Life has
the following :—" There are a large number of speedy
animals engaged in the Delapre Free Handicap (half smile),
which almost defies criticism, as the acceptances are not
declared until this evening, but at present Tibthorpe,
Flower Girl, and Roderick Dhu most take my fancy.
The Whittlebury Stakes (one mile and a quarter) has 15
subscribers, and will be won by King o' Scots, who has a
fair opportunity here, with his allowances, of winning his
first public race. The County Cup (two miles) may be
won by Cock of the Walk or Mysotis, and the Sulby
Handicap by Tibthorpe or Laird of Scotland. The Stand
Plate I shall award to April Morn."