The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-03 00:00:00

The Fenians in London.

There is no doubt that the Government is in posses-
sion of unpleasant information with regard to
the . operation of the London Fenians. The
seizures of arms, and the arrival in the City
of men, whose faces have ere this becdme
familiar as sympathisers, at least, with
the conspiracy, have considerably tended to confirm
private reports tendered from sources always at the
command of Colonel Henderson. Within the past
week the police at the
.railway stations and other
places of arrival have been unusually numerous
and vigilant. Yesterday morning the suspected
Fenians in custody were escorted by a
convoy of mounted constables, armed with cutlasses,
to the police-court. The streets leading to the
House of Detention are also watched by more grave
and silent police than for months past. The
most alarming intelligence, however, of pre-
cautionary meaures is reported from Wool-
wich. There extra guards have been placed
in charge of all buildings, arms, powder, &c., that
may be exposed to attack, and boats, containing
crews of Thames police, armed with revolvers, have
been ordered to cruise about day and night on the
river, in front of the Royal Arsenal, in preparation
for any emergency.
Lord Mayo's Policy in India.

The Calcutta correspondent of the Times says the
policy of Lord Mayo in India is a policy of public
works. The Governor-General has charged himself
with the direct supervision of the public works
department the details of which are so over-
whelming that the most independent man would be
in the hands of his secretary. What is condemned,
says the Times correspondent, and what Lord Mayor
will find no support in, is the attempt to spend twelve
millions sterling a year on public works through a
department organised as that is over which
Colonel Strackney presides. It is all well
he argues, to boast of this enormous expenditure, to
cry up the new policy of State Railways and State
Canals, to point to the expenditure of one-
fifth of the land revenue every year on works that
will not return a penny to the Treasury, but
is the country getting its money's worth ? Before
year after year so much money is spent he considers
it becomes an earnest and high-principled Govern-
ment like that of India to satisfy itself on this sub-
ject by formal inquiry
The Halfpenny Newspaper Stamp.
"A Working Man" considers that the Govern-
ment have taken a curious step in the issue of the
halfpenny stamp on newspapers to shew that they
are anxious to encourage the cheap . press. The
change, he says, will only benefit the rich readers of
the Times and the weekly papers, while the readers
of the cheap daily press, who cannot procure their
copies at the railway station, but must have them sent
by post, will have to pay an additional taxunder the new

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arrangement, averaging from Os. to 13s. per annum.
He contends that the proposal of the Government
to allow the threepenny paper with its supplement
weighing nearly six ounces, to be sent for the same
price AS the ld. paper, which weighs under three ounces,
is an anomaly in legislation which is a disgrace to
the` present century. He wishes it not to be mis-
understood that the present tariff actually imposes a
tax upon the working man, as at the present time
they can obtain a parcel of newspapers at a penny
for every four ounces, but under the new regulation,
supposing this parcel contains four papers, which it
does in many instances, the conveyance by the post-
office will cost double the amount.