The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-06 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A COLLEGIAN,

Intelligence has reached Oxford of the death of Mr.
Ernays Leopold Bernays, Exhibitioner of New College,
who was drowned while bathing at Glengariffe.

ESCAPE FROM PORTLAND PRISON.

It was discovered early yesterday morning that a convict
had escaped from his cell at Portland Prison. He got through
the roof by making a rope with the blanket and sheets.
The black "flag was hoisted, and the coastguards, with
troops from the barracks, formed a line on the beach and
iu Portland around the prison precincts to prevent any
escape from the island. The convict is not yet caught.

The election for tie mastership :of Balliol College is
fixed for the 7th instant. It is expected Professor Jowett
will be elected unanimously.

On Saturday Lord Erne's steamer was wrecked at
Corry Bridge, upper Lough Erne. Lord Crichton, M.P
and his friends had to walk to the nearest town.

Large numbers of Germans are constantly arriving in
Lough Foyle from America on their way to the Continent
to take part in the war there.

MURDER IN HACKNEY.

At the Worship-street Police-court, yesterday, Thomas
Walker, about twenty-five years of age, whose head was
enveloped in surgical bandages, was placed at the bar be.
fore Mr. Newton, charged with causing the death of
Walter Witting.

Mrs. Mary Ann Witting, a respectable-looking woman,
who cried whilst giving her evidence, said : I live at No.
2, Durham-street, Hackney-road. My husband died at
two o'clock yesterday (Sunday) afternoon from the effects
of injuries inflicted upon him by that man (pointing to
the prisoner). About half-past one o'clock yesterday after-
noon I was in the kitchen, when the prisoner, who lives
in the same house, came down and struck me. He pushed
me out of the kitchen into the garden, and then struck me
about the head and face. I screamed out for my husband
and he came to help me. Directly he entered the garden
the prisoner rushed at him and struck him. He got hie
head beneath his arm, and held him while he beat him in
a dreadful manner, striking him about the head and be-
hind the ear. My husband said to me, "Polly, I have go!:
my death blow," and staggered into the house and up to
the parlour. I followed him, and shut the door, and the
prisoner came up and burst it in. I called out that we
should all be murdered, and my husband got up from
the chair and went to the window to call a constable. Ho
fell forward and slipped out of the window on the pave-
ment and died. I ran to the door, and the prisoner
pursued me till I got into the street to my husband.
Mr. Newton stopped the further hearing of the case,
and it having been stated that a post mortem examination
of the body was to take place, be remanded the prisoner
for the production of medical evidence.
The prisoner was then remanded.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—MOII-
- September sth, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets,
1,153 ; ditto on payments, 3,208 ; total visitors, 4,361.
The Baboo Chunder Sen will be present this (Tues-
day evening, at a meeting of the East Central Tempe-
rance Association, at the Town Hall, Shoreditch.

A. rumour having been circulated to the effect that
Mr. M'Combie intends to retire from the representation
of West Aberdeenshire in Parliament, that gentleman
announces that the statement is incorrect.
THE COUNT DE GRAMONT.—The Count de
Gramont was said to be one of the passengers by the
Calais steamboat which arrived at Dover yesterday morn-
ing. By the French mail packet, which arrived in the
afternoon, the Prince de Metternich and the Duchess de
Mouchy were passengers. Intelligence was received by
the same mail to the effect that M. Gambetta had sent a
circular to the prefects and sub-prefects throughout
France, apprising them of the altered state of affairs.
Large numbers of French people land at Dover daily.
Mr. Gladstone is expected to arrive town to-
day, though the circumstance that his coining, which was
arranged for Saturday last, has been at least once post-
poned may naturally be thought to cast some doubt
upon the event until it shall have occurred.
Indeed, there is no absolute necessity foi his
exchanging the sea air, which has proved so
beneficial to his health, for the more official atmo-
sphere of London, since he finds in his host at Walmer
Castle, Lord Granville, precisely that colleague whom he
would most desire to consult at the present crisis ; and
we have already explained how direct and instantaneous
arc the means of communication between Downing-street
and the Lord Warden's residence. What we have just
said sufficiently disposes of the baseless statement quoted
by an evening contemporary yesterday from the bide-
9endance Beige, that Lord Granville had " proposed an
• armistice," and that a Cabinet Council had been " called
for Monday " Trier/rank

THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE.

The special correspondent of the Tgegrctph thus de-
scribes the fall of the Empire.:—

"In every street, among the shouts and plaudits of
excited and howling mobs, men mounted upon ladders are
tearing down the arms and eagles which are the in-
signia of the empire, and defacing or destroying
with hammers the letters which Syllable the Em-
peror's ill-omened name. Perfumers, coiffeurs,
clemisiers, tailors, bootmakers, fournisseurs, up•
)Isterers, confectioners, jewellers, who so lately
gloried in adding 'De S. M. PEmpereur,' or 'De S. M.
l'lmperatrice ' behind the words indicative of their calling

—such, for instance, as the well-known Leopold, the
`Coiffeur de S. M. l'Empereue—are now vieing
with each other in having poor fallen Cnsar's name
obliterated and defaced. I hear no allusion, no whisper
which breathes the name of the Comte de Paris
or the Due d'Aumale. They seem, to all in-
tents and purposes, as much forgotten as though
they had never existed. The Republic, the Republic !
is the only cry. Nor are there wanting Frenchmen who
already, with flashing eyes, are eager to tell you, ' If we
succeed in establishing a Republic in France, especially
without bloodshed, and without passing through an inter-
val of disorder and anarchy, let other countries beware of
the dangerous contagion which Republicanism exhales.
" When the Chamber met, soonafter one o'clock on Sun-
day, it presented ate extraordinary sight. The strangers'
galleries were filled to overflowing, and the members were
in a state of the wildest excitement. The debate was
begun by M. Raspail, the storm petrel of Revolution, who,
without wasting words, called upon the Chamber to
proclaim the dethronement of the Napoleonic Dynasty.
The fiery Irreconcilable 'I WAS followed by- M.
de Keratry, who attacked the Ministry for guard-
ing the Corps Legisratif with troops, and for
giving orders contrary to those of General Trochu.
General Palikao offered a short defence of his con-
duct and then he proposed that the Chamber
should meet the crisis by electing a Committee of Public
Safety, which should include the Ministers. A sharp
vote from the Left elicited the further information that
General Palikao himself should be nominated the Lieute-
nant-General of the Council. When the Minister of War
had ceased speaking, M. Jules Favre rose to demand that
the Chamber should proclaim the dethronement of the
Emperor. On two grounds he claime I priority—first,
that he had given notice of his plan before Gen. Palikao
had proposed the scheme of the Government ; and,
secondly, that his project was the more complete. M.
Thiers also claimed a hearing for his motion to appoint a
Commission of Government and National Defence, and to
convoke a Constituent Assembly so soon as.circumstances
should permit. After M. Gambetta had criticised the
terms of the resolution, M. Schneider, the president,
proposed that the Chambers should declare all the
three propositions urgent, and that a commission
of nine members should draw up a report on the
subject, and communicate it to the Deputies. The
sitting was then suspended for a short time, and about
half-past two, when the deputies again met, the Chamber
was occupied by a battalion of the National Guards. M.
Gambetta almost immediately mounted the tribune, and
with the thundering eloquence of which he is master,
proceeded todiscuss the duties of the hour. He calledupon
the Parisians to be calm and united. The efforts of the
eloquent Deputy to maintain order were fruitless; the
tumult grew wilder and more wild; and when M. Cr&
mieux mounted the tribune, his words were drowned in the
noise of discordant voices. M. Schneider himself then
tried to restore order, and for a moment he succeeded. But
no sooner did he cease to urge the necessity of calm than
he himself, and all his dignity, were swept away by
a wild rush of the mob into the Chamber. Meanwhile
M. Gambetta retained possession of the tribune, and, ad-
dressing the surging crowd, besought them to keep order
and be calm. Joining in the appeal, M. Schneider im-
plored the people to remember their dirty as patriots,
as lovers of France and of liberty. He reminded
them that the Deputies would discuss the duties of
the hour, and would pronounce such a decision as
should be demanded by the situation. All the
efforts of the President, however, were fruitless,
and at last he-came down from his throne of authority in
despair. By this time the confusion and the noise had
so increased that M. Girault du Cher tried in vain to
throw oil on the troubled waters ; and when M.
Gambetta attempted to make himself heard, he
equally failed. Then M. Glais-Bizoin went to the
oratorical post, but his voice was also drowned in the
wild tumult, and his rhetoric was reduced to a dumb show
of frantic gesticulation. House orators of the mob took
the duties of the President out of the tribune into their
own hands. One seized M. Schneider's bell and violently
rang it as a summons to silence ; others tried to address
their companions ; and, in a• struggle to gain
possession of the tribune, one man was thrown
down. By this time it was about twenty minutes past
time o'clock, and the Corps L6gislatif had virtually
ceased to exist. Most of the members had fled, and the
hall of debate was left in possession of the crowd. Mean-
while the Place de la Concorde was filled by an enormous
throng, bearing emblems of Republicanism, and raising
loud shouts of Vive la Republique ! ' The noise was
deafening—the confusion indescribable."