The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-01 00:00:00

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

The foot and mouth disease has appeared in the
Bosworth division of Leicestershire. One farmer has six
teen cattle attacked with it.

The foot and mouth disease iespreading with alarming
rapidity in several districts of Somerset. In the Frome
petty sessional district, there have been fifty-nine fresh
outbreaks during the last Month in the Xilmersaon
division there have been 16, and in the Windatiton divi-
sion 100.

FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR TENBY.
Yesterday an explosion of fire-damp took place at
'Moreton Colliery; three miles from Tenby. One man
was killed ; another is go'Seitiatisly burnt that he is not
expected to recoyer.

-rim LICENSING SYSTEM IN DERRY,

A regular agitation has been commenced for the sup-
pression of public•houses in Londonderry, memorials to
the Recorder having emanated from ifiany public bodies
in the city, and from the citizens generally. To-day the
usual applications were made to the magistrates for the
signing of certificates for a renewal of licences. Many
were refused on the grounds that the houses were used
for illegal purposes. It is alleged that the alarming in
crease of crime in Derry is the result of the immense
increase in the number of public-bOUSeS,

The Rev. Dr. Veremie; Trinity; College; the Ven: Dean
of Lincoln, . has placed his resignation of the office of
Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University in
the hands of the Vice-Chancellor. He has held the pro-
fessorship, which was founded by King Henry VIII. in
1540, and has been augmented with the valuable rectory
of Somersham, for twenty years; and has been, since his
appointrrient to the Deanery of Lincoln, in the receipt of
a very large income. He is the twenty-fourth holder of
the professorship, and his successor must be appointed by
the Council of the Senate. The examination must take
place within twenty-eight days.

At a Provincial Grand Lodge of Freemasons at New-
castle, yesterday, Earl Percy was installed as Provincial
Grand Master of Northumberland, the ceremony being
performed by Mr. John Fawcett, P. G.M. of Durham, in
the absence of the Earl of Carnarvon. £lOO was voted to
the charities of the town. -

THE MUTIN Y AMONG THE FRANCS-
TIRE URS.

The correspondent of the Telegraph at Tours, writing
mt Tuesday, gives the following account of an outbreak
tmong the troops in that city :—" Yesterday a large body
of troops —Hussars, Gardes Mobiles, and Franca-tireurs—
poured into the town, making the Mall gay with the
3olours of uniforms and the glitter of steel. Among others
3ame a body of the Francs-tireurt de la 'Seine. The
Francs-tireurs, or free lances, as I need scarcely remind
die English public, are volunteers who provide themselves
with rifle, bayonet, and simple uniform ; elect all, or most,
of their own officers; scour the country in search of the
enemy's flying detachments ; and, in a spirit of wild
ireedom, lead the life of guerilla soldiers. Fornied in the
3apital of its neighbourhood, the Francs-tireurs
ie la Seine have been dashing about the country,
and making things as unpleasant as possible to the ITh-
[ans. , The other day they were near fithiviers, which is
'oily occupied by 3,000 Germans, and shots were ex-
changed between the rival corps. Yesterday they were
at Orleans, which the men wished to make their head-
quarters, becouse the enemy were at hand, and would thus,
they thought, give them abundant chances of combaf.
But the Colonel seems to have overruled the men. and
brought them to Tours by railway. Enraged at
being taken away from a }lace which must inevitably be
the scene of a guerilla combat, the Franes.titeurls came
here in a high spirit of mutiny, declaring that the com-
manding officer was a coward, and charged him
with other high crimes and misdemeanours. The men
themselves were certain' y not cowards. They had the look of
skirmishers who could go anywhere and do anything.
And their performance, I am told, has been as good as
their promise. But, unfortunately, they have been
badly treated, and hence arose the mutiny of last night.
After the men had received billets on the inhabi-
tants, the officers came to the Hotel de l'Univers in
a body, and about eight o'clock in the evening sat
down to dinner. Seon afterwards the loud sound of
angry voices was heard at the archway of the
hotel ; and, on going out, I found a large crowd,
in the midst of which a number of ar ned Francs-
Crews. were describing their grievances with wild
eloquence and frantic gesticulation. One tall, fierce
fellow his face pale with rage was explaining
that the men had not been able to put off their
shoes or their clothes for five days; that when they
went to the houses on which they were billeted,
the people would not receive them or give them
any food ; that they had eaten nothing since
the night before ; and that they had got no
Pay for several weeks ; meanwhile, he added,
they were totally neglected by their officers, who
were enjoying a dinner of ever s‘t many courses
in the sane a manger. It was disgraceful, he added,
that they should thus be treated by the people for
whbm they had engaged to shed their blood, and ten•
fold disgraceful that they should thus be neglected by
their own chiefs. The crowd waxed larger, the num-
ber of the Francs-tireurs increased, and the din be-
came deafening, until at last a deputation walked
in at the gateway, and, entering the room in which
the officers were dining, stated their grievances. It was
a deputation of men armed to the teeth and maddened by
hunger and the sense of wrong. Its tone, I presume,
was not very respectful, and, indeed, the men seem to
have threatened that, if the officers did not at once
satisfy their demands, they would revolt in a body,
and make provision for themselves. The precise
reply of the officers I do not know ; but it so enraged
the men that when the deputation came to the street
the leaders of the mutiny frantically shouted 'A kt
9are P and began to move off towards the railway station.
By this time an officer had appeared, and was try-
ing to reduce the men to order, and he threatened to shoot
any man who should disobey. But he was shouted down,
hustled, cuffed, driven back, until every moment it seemed
as if blool were about to flow. Then, amid indescribable
noise and confusion, the men declared that they would
compel the officers to do their duty, and, headed bya short
determined Franc-tireur, who told his comrades to foilow,
they pushed aside the crowd, and again made for the
gateway, to enter the officers' room. Those of us who were
standing on the pavement of the street were driven back
by the rush of armed men, and for a moment it seemed as
if the archway were to be the scene of a deadly
fight. The officer to whom I have referred held
a revolver in his band, and made a desperate
effort to keep back the men ; but they seized him by the
shoulders, cuffed him, drove him back, and, griping him
by the collar, shouted in his face words of mad passion.
Meanwhile, a few of the men bad been loyal to their
chiefs, and, seeing the officers so roughly handled,
one hot young fellow, close beside me, raised his
Chassepot, put his hand on the trigger, and was
about to fire on his advancing eorerades, when au
officer leapedlonvard, seized the rifle by the barrel, and,
after a vitlent struggle, held it down by main force.
When the mutineers saw the uplifted revolver,
they fell -back for a moment, and thus on-
abled their loyal comrades and the officers
to swing round the heavy gates. Isy the time
that we had got to the Vvindowl the gates
had been shut, and, recovering from the momentary
panic, the mutineers were again rushing to the doorway.
Three, lam told, were- deliberately seen to load their
Chassepots, and there was a loud demand for the blood
of the captain who had fired the pistol. Had he gone
out, he Would certainly have been shot. In their
rage against the whole body of officers, and their
wild eager eeks to kill that captain, they battered at the
door with their rifies;and tried to drive in the gates.
While we were every moment expecting to see the
destruction.of the barrier which cut off the rival com-
batants from each other, some gendarmes and a body of
soldiers rushed up and plunged into the crowd with
bayonets fixed. For .1 While the tumult waxed so
trinch wilder that every moment we expected to see the
regulars and the Francs-tireurs attack each other with
steel or shot ; but gradually the mutineers were broken
up into groups, and at last they found a vent
for their rage in outbursts of wild but harmless
eloquence. Even now, when all the witnesses are at
hand, and when the event is still fresh, it is exceedingly
'difficult46 get at the real truth with respect to the causes
and results of • the mutiny. Meanwhile, the demands of
the mutineers seem to be still unsatisfied ; and the
Francs-tireurs de la Seine are wandering about the town
without the slightest dread, it would seem, of court-
martial."