The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-15 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE COM.MENCEMENT.

The annual Cambridge commencement began yesterday
by the recitation of prize poems, which took place in the
Senate House in the presence of a distinguished audience,
including a large number of ladies. The Vice-Chancellor
presided, and the conduct of the undergraduates in the
gallery was very orderly, and strongly in contrast with
previous years. Mr. Page (St. John's) recited
his Greek translation from. Shakspeare's " Henry
the Fourth," for which he was awarded one
of the Porson prizes, and . his Latin Ode,
for which he received Sir William Brown's medal. Mr.
liuddlestone (King's) recited Mr. . Gurney's (Trinity)
translation from " Henry the Fourth," and his own Latin
poem, for which he obtained the Powis medal. Mr. Dick:
son (Caius) having recited his Greek Epigram, and Mr.
Wood- (St. John's) his .Latin Epigram, Mr. • Beek
(Trinity Hall) recited his English. poem " Runnymede."
The. various prize winner having received from . the
Vice-Chancellor their several prizes, the proceedings ter-
mninated.

ANOTHER RAILROAD HORROR.

TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED.

Another serious accident occurred on the Delaware,
Lackawanna, and Western Railroad about seven o'clock
on the morning of June Ist, near Paterson, N.J. This
road is just being built through that locality, and fatal
accidents have occurred nearly every week for the present
month or so. That of June Ist, however, was more serious
than any that has yet occurred. About twenty-five car-
penters left Paterson early in the morning on a car heavily
loaded with timber for the new bridge over the Passaic
river, near Ruthurfurd Park. The track is down
grade, and it is customary to send the cars down alone
without any locomotive, the gravity. being suffi-
cient for its propulsion. The car was in charge of a
brakeman, named Joseph McNeal. In attempting
to apply the brake'upon approaching a sharp curve leading
to the trestle work carrying the road over the Paterson
and Newark railway, the chain of the brake broke, and
the car dashed around the curve at full speed, and free
from all restraint. The car went partially around until,
when a few feet upon the trestle, it jumped from the
track, and precipitated its load of human beings and
heavy bridge timber in one confused wreck some twenty
feet below. The first impression was that nearly all were
killed, as all were more or less stunned by the shock, and
for an instant no one stirred, except one or two who had
foreseen the inevitable calamity and had jumped. The
uninjured, however, one by one jumped up and shook
themselves, and at once proceeded to extricate the
wounded from the ruins, while a messenger was hastily
despatched for surgical aid. Drs. Ballery, Quin, Leal,
Warner, and others, from Paterson, soon arrived upon
the spot.

Lord Stair will succeed Lord Ailsa as Lord Lieu.
tenant at Ayrshire.
We are informed that there is no truth in the
report that Mr. Charles Wykeham Martin, M.P. for
Newport, Isle of Wight, is about to apply for the Chil-
tern Hundreds.

THE ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY.—The Swiss Minis-
ter at Berlin has been empowered to sign a convention
with Count Bismark, by which the North German Con-
federation grants a subvention of ten million francs to the
St. Gothard Railway. •

The Norfolk Circuit (Mr. Baron Channell and
Mr. Justice Keating) has been fixed as follows :—Oak-
ham, Monday, July 11; Leicester, Tuesday, July 12 ;
Northampton, Saturday, July 16 ; Bucks, Wednesday,
July 20; Bedfordshire, Monday, July 25 ; Huntingdon-
shire, Thursday, July 28 ; Cambridge, Saturday,
July 30 ; Bury, Wednesday, August 3 ; Norwich,
August 6.

It is supposed that a clue has been discovered be-
tween the Workmen's Association in Vienna and the
democratic Socialist Committees of Paris. The seizure of
compromising documents by the police is said to leave no
doubt of the alliance which exists. The day and hour of
the late disturbances in Paris were known in Vienna be-
forehand. A sort of catechism has been given to the
soldiers which informs them what to do in case of a
rising, so that they may afford assistance to the people.

The distribution of barometrical pressure has
scarcely changed, but the temperature has become de-
cidedly warmer, especially in the east and north. Mode-
rate breezes from the south-west still .continue on the
English coast ; while the easterly wind in France has
backed to the north. The sky is clear in the south and
east, but cloudy elsewhere. The temperature in London
at eight o'clock yesterday morning registered five degrees
more than at Valencia, in the south of Ireland. This is
not generally the case.

The Bishop of Exeter attended a meeting held in
the Cathedral City yesterday, on the subject of education.
His lordship said he was in favour of a most stringent
conscience clause, believing that parents ought to feel
that the ultimate responsibility of giving their children
the benefit of a religious education rested upon them-
selves. There must be concession, but the limit was
maintaining the religious character of schools. Bible
instruction should be given in school hours. Dean Boyd
spoke against compulsory education.

The American correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette, writing of the Fenian invasion of Canada, says ;
" General Sherman, who has had opportunities of hear-
ing from the President on the subject, is said to have
declared that O'Neill—and probably also the other leaders
—will be made to feel the whole strength of the law.
Nothing could be more desirable, for this is the only
way to put an end to these childish and criminal pro-
ceedings, which can never produce any other result be-
yond costing a dozen people their lives from time
to time, and robbing the Irish servant maids of their
savings."

A gentleman residing in Palace-road, Roupell-park
expresses a hope that somebody will explain, if any one
can do so, the extraordinary incident which he proceeds
to relate :—" On Saturday, the 11th inst.. between 10
and 11 p.m., a formidable rifle bullet was lodged in my
bedroom, passing through two sheets of plate glass,
blinds, curtains, &c., life being thereby imminently en-
dangered, and property necessarily to some extent
damaged." It is possible, the writer thinks, that some
volunteer returning from drill with a loaded rifle, took
advantage of the open ground in the neighbourhood,
and imprudently discharged his weapon.
The Court of Assizes at Aix (Bouches-du-Rhone),
has just tried a man named Limperani, for the murder of
a priest named Mattei, cure of Carcheta, in Corsica,
who was found with his head nearly severed
from his body, his house having been robbed of 5,000
francs. The accused, and a man named Cialdivini,
were arrested, and tried at Bastia, when Limperam
was condemned to imprisonment for life, and the
other was acquitted. A new trial was ordered at Aix,
but Limperani only was now indicted. The accused
denied all participation in the crime, but the jury
declared him to be guilty, and the former sentence was
confirmed.

REPRESENTATION OF THE STRAW TRADE.—A
numerously attended meeting was held in Luton on Mon-
day evening, for the purpose of petitioning Government
to include in their bill for the filling up the four vacant
seats caused by the disfranchisement for corrupt practices,
the towns of Luton and Dunstable, as the centres
of the straw trade, now wholly unrepresented.
The chair was taken by Mr. W. Bigg,
of the London and County Bank, who, in opening the
proceedings read letters from the county members, Colonel
Gilpin and'Mr. Hastings Russell, the Marquis of Salis-
bury, the members for Herts, the Hon. H. Cowper, and
Mr. Brand, &c., regretting their inability to be present,
and generally sympathising with the object of the meeting.
After considerable discussion, a resolution was passed
adopting a memorial praying that the towns of Luton and
Dunstable might be directly represented in Parliament.

MOVING A WINDMILL SIXTEEN MILES.—A. novel
experiment, not quite so sensational as the moving of an
hotel at Chicago, but yet something quite out of the ordi-
nary way, has been the removal of a wind flour-mill,
with all its fittings, from Westacre to Clenchwarton,
Norfolk, a distance of about sixteen miles. The mill
was a wooden structure, and, with its machinery of enor-
mous weight, stood upon wheels, having been pur-
chased by a man living at Clenchwarton. He determined
to endeavour to draw it along the road by a traction
engine, but all efforts to find one strong enough proved
ineffectual ; the application, however, of a powerful
steam cultivation engine proved more successful. In pas-
sing along the route various expedients had to be tried, such
as in ascending a hill the engine proceeded to the summit,
and then pulled the mill up with a chain, and so carefully
had the task to be performed, that it occupied three days
to make the journey. In crossing the Great Eastern
Railway, at Walton, the telegraph wires were broken. In
attempting to cross the Ouse it was feared the celebrated
long bridge would not be strong enough to bear the enor-
mous weight, but the engine having first passed over, the
mill itself was drawn over, the timbers of the bridge in
the meantime creaking, and shewing that a very severe
test was being put upon its powers. At first it wasfeared
that the bridge had been broken, but this was found not
to be so. Its arrival at Clenchwarton was received with
quite a demonstration.

RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY OF IRISHMEN IN NEWCASTLE.
The Northern Daily Express says between nine and ten
o'clock on Sunday night the inhabitants of Bill Quay were
thrown into a state of alarm by the arrival of several
bands of Irishmen, who came by different routes from
Hebburn and Narrow, Each batch numbered from 20 to
30 men, and the greater part of them were armed with
heavy bludgeons, whilst some carried revolvers and
pistols, shewing clearly that some mischief was meant.
They concentrated their whole strength in a certain part
of Bill Quay, and it was then seen that they numbered
over a hundred. They speedily commenced operations by
firing off some thirteen or fourteen shots, part of them in
the air and the remainder against a house end, evidently
with the view of drawing out the enemy, which, it was
soon observed, consisted of nearly the whole of the Irish
residents in the place, and against whom the Jarrow and
Hebburn party expressed strong feelings of hatred. The
Irishmen of Bill Quay turned out spontaneously about
two hundred strong, and matters wore a serious aspect
when P.C.'s Kilgour and Nelson, of the Durham County
Constabulary, stationed at the Felling Shore, arrived on
the scene. At the first sight of the police the strangers
beat a precipitate retreat, leaving several of their
bludgeons behind, which were taken possession of by the
officers. Information was despatched to Superintendent
Squire, at Gateshead, at the commencement of the affair,
and he at once proceeded to the spot with a party of a
dozen police constables; but the rioters had fled .before
they arrived at Bill-quay. The object of the row is
scarcely known, but it apears it is connected with the
removal of a woman from Hebburn to Bill-quay, bringing
with her two young girls, whose friends and acquaintances
thought she had no right to take away. The assembly
of the men had been premeditated, as they arrived almost
at the same moment from different points.