The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-29 00:00:00

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN
IRELAND.
A telegram from Belfast announces that a serious acci-
dent occurred on Monday, on the Holywood and Bangor
Railway. Ali express train from Bangor, a fashionable
watering-place, wag tixt its way to Belfast, when a
luggage train ran into it. Ninety-four persons were in
the train, sixteen of whom were injured, but none
fatally.

THE DEAN OF EXETER AND THE
DISSENTERS.

Au Exeter correspondent writes that the Dean has be-
come extremely unpopular with the Dissenters of that
. At a meeting at Newton Abbot the other day,
speaking on the Education question, he said he did not think
the Present movement was started really so much to pro-
mote the cause of education as with a desire to promote
the ' Dissenting interest. He therefore, felt per-
suaded that the battle was really between the
Church of England on the one side and
the Nonconformists on the other. At a subsequent meet-
ing at Exeter he repeated what he had said at Newton,
but stated that he exonerated the Wesleyans. On Sunday
the Dean preached at the Cathedral, and in the course of
his sermon he proceeded to dispute the right of unor-
dained Christians to assume the ministerial office, first on
the ground of possible ignorance, which was a very serious
matter in these days. It was important, also, that
a man should be placed under authority. If
a minister of the Church of England erred, there
was an authority to which appeal might be made, but
this was not so in the case of Dissenting ministers. Then
look, said the Dean, in conclusion, at the spheres in which
these self-cOnstituted ministers work—they do not go
into the out-of-the-way places—they stick to the crowded
city, the fashioniable congregation, and leave those who
most want help to provide for themselves.

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
An important meeting of the fellows and members of
the Royal College of, Surgeons was held at the
Institution, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, yesterday afternoon,
Mr. Edward Cock, president, in the chair. The meeting
was convened to discuss the question as to the
advisability of petitioning Parliament in the name
of the Fellows and members at large in favour
of the restoration of clause 18 of the Medical
Act Amendment Bill relating to the qualification of prac-
titioners in medicine and surgery. It was originally pro-
posed by Clause 18, that the medical authorities should
not in future confer any of the qualifications mentioned
in Schedule A to the Act of 1858, except to persons who
had' obtained the license to practise under the
provisions of the bill, and as Clause 18 has been
struck out, regret was expressed by the petitioners,
who contended that the main principle of the bill—
one portal system—is entirely abandoned, but that by the
bill, as it at present stands, the medical authorities will
be enabled to confer their several degrees and diplomas,
which will be undeniably qualifications to practice.
Also, that the bill in its present form is calculated to keep
alive competition aniongst the medical authorities,
and that if the oniistion of the clause 18
is a concession, it is totally uncalled for.
The subject was debated at great leugth at this meeting,
and ultimately a resolution was passed, affirming that the
18th clause ought to be reinserted in the bill.

By the Cape mail we learn of further discoveries of
valuable diamonds and rubies in Southrrn Africa.
Yesterday Henry Marshall, late a sergeant in the
Manchester police force, and previously in the service of
the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, was committed for
trial at the Manchester Police-court, charged with having
stolen a sovereign, the property of a prisoner, and with
having obtained £2 by false pretences. The prisoner is
said to have effected the robbery by altering the sum
entered in the property book from 26 to 25.
The people of Gibraltar have been in a great state
of alarm through the finding of a letter stating that the
powder magazine of the rock was undermined, and that
the whole place would be blown up. The letter was
placed in the hands of the authorities, and although every
proper step was taken to ensure security, there is
every reason to believe the affair is nothing more than

a hoax.
At Scarborough a lady of genteel appearance is in
custody charged with having committed bigamy by
marrying a gentleman of independent means residing
thet,e, whilst her husband, a lieutenant in the Royal
Navy, remained alive. The case has been adjourned to
allow time for the prisoner to obtain professional assist-
ance, and she has been liberated on giving bail to the

.extent of £2OO.
The barometer has again recoverAl at all but the
French stations. The highest reading reported is in the
south of Ireland. The winds are light and moderate all
along the coasts of Great Britain. They are blowing in
a northerly direction. Temperature has not changed in
any remarkable way. At eight o'clock in the morning
'the thermometer in London registered 58 deg. The sky
remains rather cloudy, especially in the north-west, but
the weather is fine and the sea calm.
What looks very much like a trade outrage has
just been perpetrated at Eckington. Whilst a man was
working with a mowing machine in a field belonging to
Mr. Luke Stevenson, the mower came in contact with
some pieces of iron which had evidently been wilfully
fixed in the ground for the purpose of breaking it. It is
surmised that the diabolical act has been committed by
some discontented people who are opposed to the use of
machinery for agricultural purposes, and a reward has
been offered for the discovery of the offenders.
The anti-surplice disturbances at Ashton-in-
Mackerfield were not renewed on Sunday last, the vicar
having, by the advice of the Bishop of Manchester,
decided to abandon the use of the surplice in the pulpit.
The vicar stated that the surplice was the vestment
recognised and authorised by the Reformed Church, that
he was at a loss to comprehend how it had come to be
regarded as the badge of a party, or what way it was a
mark of a Ritualistic tendency, but he would put aside
private taste and opinion in the matter for the sake of

peace.
A. London correspondent of the Irish Times has
obtained information, from a source which he says he has
invariably found reliable, that at the meeting of the
Cabinet on Saturday it was formally determined, after
long and earnest discussion, to withdraw the Irish Land
Bill in the event of the Lords adhering to some of the
important amendments which the Opposition have already
carried. The determination is said to have been arrived
at mainly in consequence of an intimation given by the
Government whips in the Upper House that the Conser-
vatives are determined to abide by their decisions.
The Liverpool Courier referring to the late fatal
boat accident in the Great Float near the Mersey, on
Saturday, says :—" At the inquest there was one fact
elicited, which Birkenhead people will not like to learn,
namely, that they have among them medical men who
have more regard for respectability than human life, and
who do not like to succour anybody without the certainty
of receiving remuneration. Three-quarters of an hour
elapsed before medical aid could be procured, so that if,
after the young men had been taken from the water, there
was any chance of saving their lives, this delay was
almost certain to prove fatal. The same paper adds : We
should like to hear Dr. Lamb's explanation, and also that
of the other doctor alleged to have been so scrupulous
about working for no pay.
THE ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY.—It is reported
that the Prusso-Italian-Swiss treaty relative to the St.
Gothard Railway has not yet been signed, and that the
payment of the stipulated subsidy has been put off until
January, 1871. The inclusive term for the acceptation of
the treaty has been fixed for the end of next January,
as the subsidies had not been voted by Italy
and Wurtemburg. Fifty-two millions of francs
are yet wanting to complete the enterprise, and
Prussia seeks to gain time, in order to make up the
amount in Germany, and to influence her Italian allies.
An envoy of the Helvetian Confederation has already
commenced operations for the purpose. He has left
Berlin for Stutgard, and will shortly visit Carlsruhe,
finally repairing to Switzerland to give a report of his
labours.

THE ORLEANS PRINCES AND THE EMPEROR.—
The Daily News cannot easily credit the statement of La
France, that one of the principal reasons for the Govern-
ment's opposition is that the " demand should be
addressed to the Emperor, accompanied by a formal re-
nunciation of all claims to the Throne." Louis
Philippe was the offspring of revolution. Louis Napoleon
has exactly the same origin. The former, it is true, never
appealed to a plebiscitary vote, but it was because he felt
or fancied he did not need it. Whatever may be thought
of him or his various Governments, he reigned constitu-
• tionally, and therefore he may be said to have reigned by
the will of the French people. It seems, therefore, absurd
in Napoleon 111. to require the Orleanist Princes, as a
preliminary to their entrance into France, to abandon a
claim which is as good as his own, except in the fact of
1 possession.
A TRAFALGAR-SQUARE MEETING.—On Monday
night, a considerable number of people assembled in Tra-
falgar-square, attracted by the following advertisement,
which had appeared in some of the Loudon papers last
week :—" Slavery in England.—A public meeting of
Slaves will be held in Trafa,lgar-square, at 8 o'clock, on
Monday evening, June 27 (to be continued weekly), when
' a Poor Slave' will take the chair, and explain
the means by which slavery may be abolished
in England." As no one appeared to take the
chair, those assembled began to look upon ' the
proposed meeting as a hoax, and gradually, to disperse.-
At nine o'clock only a few stragglers • were left in . the ,
square. Just about that time a Mr.,Johnson, who is con-
nected with the Democratic League meeting in Clerken-
well, entered the quadrangle, accompanied by two or
three friends,. one carryiugra large bundle, of papers under
his arm. From their demeanour it was evident that that
pm- were promoters of the movement, but after taking '
*pl d,' position at the foot of ,the , monument ;and eon-
suiting together for a few minutes, they were evi-
.,fiently• disconcerted at the , . small number present,
fan -walked away from the square, apparently much dis-
-1 4p ointed at finding- so fecal "slaves '"hail rt,plortiledlte
th it appeal.