The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-20 00:00:00

IRISH NEWS.

On the Kingstown and Holyhead mail-boat subscriP
tions lists for the benefit of the sufferers by the loss of the
Captain have been opened.
The Crown living of Callan, in the diocese of Ossory,
has become vacant by the death of the Rev. William
Pennefather, M.A. It is worth about £1,500 a year. 131
Mr. Pennefather's death, the precentorship of St. Gallic°
has become vacant. It is in the gift of the Bishop Of
Ossory.

Last month 43,000 pounds weight of food, " unsound and
unwholesome, and utterly unfit for human consumption,'
were seized and confiscated by the sanitary staff of the city
of Dublin.

The changes to be effected in the ancient Order of St
Patrick are, the Irish Times learns, under consideration,
and will shortly be promulgated. One of these will, no
doubt, provide for some such degree as Knight Companion
of St. Patrick, or K.C.P.

A change in the Irish game laws is about to be actively
agitated. The season commences in England and Scot-
land on the 12th, but in Ireland not until the 20th. It
is not likely that much, if any, opposition will be given to
a measure assimilating the law of Ireland to that of the
other kingdoms.

The side of what appeared to be a large vessel floated
into Tralee harbour on the 15th instant. From the size
of the portion floating the supposed lost vessel was esti-
mated to be of from 800 to 1,000 tons.

The Town Council of Dublin have adopted by a
large majority the scheme for the main drainage of the
city and purification of the Liffey. The bill for carrying
out the much-needed improvement, which the Corporation
have tardily taken up under heavy pressure both from
their constituents and the Government, is very long, and
full of legal technicalities. It has been many months in
preparation.

A large property was sold by auction in Cork a few daY5
ago under singular circumstances. It was a portion of the
estates of the late Robert Harnett, of Macroom, a person
of penurious habits, who died leaving his large property
to an illegitimate daughter. After her death a will was
attempted to be set up, bequeathing the property to a
gentleman of the legal profession. This will, however, was
disputed, and, after much litigation, was set aside. The
property, therefore, became escheated to the Crown in
1865. Subsequently, the surviving relatives of the late
Robert Harnett petitioned the Crown for a distribution of
the property amongst them, and a portion of the estate
was granted to two of the relatives upon trust, to sell It
for the benefit of those who had established their claims'
The property realised £7,680.

SERIOUS CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO DEFRAUD'
—At the Marlborough-street police-court Auguste Giraud,
a Frenchman, was charged on remand with conspiring.
with other persons not in custody to defraud Mr. Charles
Armand Grossetete, French bedding manufacturer, of
the sum of four hundred pounds. The pro.
secutor had some negotiations with the prisoner for the
disposal of his business, and was induced to advance
£4OO on certain shares professedly of a branch railway
round Paris, and which were said to be worth £1,400 or
£1,600, but which turned out to be valueless. The pro'
secutor was deceived as to the genuineness of the securities
by being taken to Mr. Baum's, bullion dealer, whose
assistant, Mr. Pearson, gave £32 for two of the shares,
and offered to buy fifty or sixty more at the
same price, but Mr. Pearson stated that the prisoner 111
previously left the money with him to buy the shares in
the way of business. The prosecutor was further de-
ceived by being taken to the office of Mr. Holt, solicitor,
of Pancras-lane, where he received the shares,
a clock, and some other articles, as he sliP"
posed, from the head of the firm, but really front
a person put there for the purpose, who hid
no connection with the office, The prisoner's solicitor
admitted that his client had been guilty of a dishonest
act, but contended that it was not one which rendered
him liable to a criminal prosecution. Mr. Tyrwhitt said
he could not shut his eyes to the fact that there had been
a deeply-laid plot to cheat the prosecutor. He remanded
he prisoner, and declined to take bail.
HAVOC AMONGST GREAT MEN.—The shocking
casualties among prominent commanders in the present
war, followed by sudden and amazing recovery, willTbe
cited hereafter as the greatest curiosities of history.
Emperor Napoleon died at Chalons at an early period 11
the struggle. He died again between Chalons an
M4zibres. He tried to die a third time at the head of his
army, but failed. At present he is in better health
than he has enjoyed for years. Marshal MacMan°P'
after being instantaneously killed at Sedan, recovered
time to be mortally wounded and die in Belgium. He 14
now convalescent. General Failly was shot by his own
troops. He was afterwards killed in battle by the Piens'
sians. Finally he was executed for cowardice. He is liew
alive and well. King William went raving mad and syse
conveyed to Berlin in a straight-jacket, ever since
time he has been in command at the front. Bismafe'
has been shot. The Crown Prince was killed in action
three weeks ago. Subsequently the former gentleman
held several interesting conversations with IN.L. Fay
and the Tribune correspondent, and the Prince'
notwithstanding his untimely demise, has con-
tinued to make pretty lively times in the
neighbourhood of Paris. The latest victim is General
Von Moltke, who has been borne to his grave in three
lead coffins, at three different times, and with Oar,
splendid funeral processions. He has not reappeared
yet ; but he has been so effectually buried that the
resurrection will take longer in his case than it did in the
others, —New York Tribune.

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