The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-24 00:00:00

OPENING OF KEBLE COLLEGE,

One hundred and fifty-six years have passed since a new
college was added to those previously affiliated to the
University of Oxford. Then Worcester College, with its
ugly front hiding some find old buildings that had belonged
to the defunct Gloucester Hall was inaugurated with
some little ceremony, in the heavy, stately, dull fashion
which was characteristic of the period when Stuart
Anne was Queen. At Cambridge no college has been
founded since the beginning of this century, when Down-
ing was about one year old. Thus the event of Thursday
is as rare as it is important. The first stone of Keble
College was laid on the 25th of April, 1868, by the late
lamented Archbishop Longley, to commemorate the
sainted author of the " Christian Year," and to make
provision for the education, on economical prin-
ciples, of students in the doctrines of the
Church of England The college is situated
close to the new museum, and between the park
and St. Giles's Church. The buildings, Which are of red,
white, and grey brick, with stone dressings, are of early
decorated Gothic. On Thursday there was a large
assemblage of churchmen and churchwomen at an early
celebration of Holy Communion in the college chapel.
The offertory, which amounted to a large sum, was given
to the Keble Memorial Fund, and will be applied to the
completion of the college, which still lacks many features
of the design adopted by its promoters. At
half-past ten o'clock, Mr. Talbot, of Christ
Church, the first warden, with the members of the
Council of the College, yienk_to the gateway to receive,
the most honourable the Marquis of Salisbury, Chancellor
of the University. The visitor was represented by Dr.
Mackarness, the new bishop of the diocese. The Chancel-
lor and the deputy visitor having been received in due form
joined a procession, which was headed by a surpliced
choir, went round the quadrangle to the chapel, singing
the 27th, 121se, 122nd, 127th, and 150th Psalms. The
service in the chapel was a special office, compiled under
the direction of the late and present bishops of the dio-
cese, and was conducted by the present bishop. At the
close of it the warden was presented to the Chancellor,
and duly installed in the principal seat. Subsequently a
large meeting, at which Canon Liddon, Dr. Pusey, and
others spoke, was held in the groands of the college.

THE FRENCH CONSPIRACY.
The Pall Mall Gazette publishes the acte d'accusation of
the High Court of Justice, which is to assemble at Blois
on the 18th of July. It is dated June 4, and, after
stating who formed the " chambres des mises en accusa-
tion," and that the requisitory of M. Grandperret (this is
the document published j ust before the plebiscite, which the
Marseillaise published as afeuilleton) would be joined to the
existing acte, it thus proceeds :—" For many years the re-
volutionary party had disarmed itself before the power and
the authorityof the Imperial power; but in 1868 the public
meetings which were held in different parts of the capital, and
the violence of the speeches -Which were delivered there, had
reanimated the passions. The Meii of mai:in—as one of
the accused has said—had recognised each other, had
drawn together, and understood one another. Soon secret
conventicles (conciliabules) were organised chez Dupont,
Guerin, Sappia, Fontaine pere, and others, all known bythe extravagance of their republican and socialist opi-
nions. The police watched all the movements
of the members of these meetings, Without being
able to penetrate as yet into their projects and their end.
Nevertheless, their influence was visible externally in the
violent language of their adepts, in the menaces of some
of them against the agents a authority, and in a certain
assurance of the success of 'their enterprises in a not
distaiit future which they manifested. The slightest public
emotaion was seized on eagerly as an occasion for riots, and
it was remarked that the rioters were immediately united,
and seemed to assemble and to march at a given signal.
The ddcument then describes what took place at Victor
Noir's funeral, and the attempt of M. Gustave Flourens
to get up an insurrection in the streets of Paris, and pro-
ceeds :—The rioters had manifested their projects by the
most culpable acts ; the police, therefore, had full
liberty of action, and numerous arrests were
made on the barricades and wherever disorder shewed
itself. Search was made at the domicile of the men com-
posing the conventicle, whom the police had for some
time watched. Arms and ammunition were found there,
and a great number of revolutionary writings. It was
soon discovered, by the confessiop, of the accused them-
selves, that groups of agitators had been formed by the
advice of Villeneuve, a friend of Blanquai, at St, :at
Batignolles, at Belleville, and at Levallois ; that subscrip-
tions had been opened to buy arms, and that these arms,
when bought, had been distributed to those who were
not able to provide themselves ; that at length
the determination had been taken to overthrow the Im-
perial Government and to attempt the life of the Em-
peror. Only one point remained obscured ; how could
these men, armed only with revolvers for the most part,
have persuaded themselves that they could fight with suc-
cess the public forces with the formidable arms which
they possess ? In the secret meetings it had been
answered to this question that there was an understand-
ing with the army. But what had reassured the most
timid were these words, often repeated by the
leaders. ' Science will take the place of force " (ill, science
suppleera ala force). These words had been frequently
met with during the inquiry, but what did they mean ?
The process relative to the facts reported above was on the
point of being terminated when new facts came to light
The Prefecture of Police was informed, on the one hand,
that a man named Beaury had arrived from London with
the design of assassinating the Emperor; and on the
other hand, that explosive bombs were being made in Paris,
either to serve for an attempt against his Majesty, or to
be employed against the troops in case of a revolutionary
movement. A surveillance was established. Beaury
was arrested on the 29th of April, being the bearer of a
six-chambered loaded revolver. Camille Beaury, private
in the 7th Regiment of the Line quartered in Pans, had
deserted after the funeral of Salmon, called Victor Noir,
at which he had been present. He went first of all to
Belgium, and thence to London, where he met with another
deserter, named Fayolles, and where he also met Gustave
Flourens, whom he had known in Paris. Beaury was pre-
sent in London at a banquet given by the refugees to
Tibaldi, of Italian origin, condemned in France, recently
returned from Cayenne. Beaury has affirmed, and per-
sists in affirming, that the resolution to assassinate the
Emperor was taken by Fayolles, Flourens, Tibaldi, and.
himself ; that they drew lots for which of the four con-
spirators should be the first to act, and that it was him
(Beaury) whom chance chose and that the next day he
left for France. Arrived m Paris, he put himself
in relations with a man named Soret, to whom
he had been recommended by Flourens, and
also with a man named Ballot, who gave him money
on Flourens' account. Soret is the individual with whom
Flourens took refuge on the night of the 7th-Bth of Feb-
ruary, and it was in Ballot's house that the same
Flourens remained hid during forty days, from the Bth
of February to the 20th of March. Ballot did not con-
fine himself to handing money to Beaury, who wished to
assassinate the Emperor ; he also gave money, always by
order of Flourens, to those who were employed in making
bombs." The act d'accusatim then describes how these
bombs were made. Some manufacturers were induced,
on various pretexts, to make them, and they were taken
to the house of the man named Roussel, where they were
seized on the 29th of April. The day before, or two
days before, says thereport, Ballot, Roussel, Greffier, and
Ruisseau, were together at a wineseller's, from which they
went to go to Roussel's to examine the bombs. The con-
cubine of Soret has declared that Greffier gave her a bomb
to shew to Ballot, and that she carried it to the latter.
It was Greffier who received the funds from Ballot which
were destined to pay for the making the bombs. The sur-
was given by Ballot either to Soret or to Roussel directly.
The accused Ballot lived in the same house as Roussel.
This latter shewed him one of the bombs, and several
which were not yet prepared, saying to him, "We
shall make use of them." Ballot understood
that it was (qu'il s'agissait) either to blow up the
Emperor or else houses. The 29th of April, in
the morning, he had undertaken, at Roussel's request, to
carry away the bombs from the house, but this could not
be done. Roussel and Soret have taken flight ; the place
of their retreat is not known. Ballot was arrested the
4th of May at the Northern Railway station at the moment
he was about to leave Paris. Experts have been charged
to examine the bombs ; they have reported that these
bombs, when loaded with common powder, produce but a
very moderate effect, but that, loaded with the powder of
which the recipe was found at Roussel's they burst in a
manner to produce terrible effects. Then follows the list
of 72 accused, which has already appeared in the decree
convoking the High Court.

PAWNBROKERS. The committee appointed by
the House of Commons to institute an inquiry into the
state of the pawnbroking trade of the United Kingdom
met again yesterday, Mr. Ayrton in the chair. Mr.
McCaul, the Chief Constable of Glasgow, was examined
as to the working of the pawnbroking system in Scotland.
So also was Mr. B. Miller, a magistrate of the city of
Glasgow, who stated that he was not prepared to give a
definite opinion as to the manner in which pawnbroking
was conducted in Glasgow. His experience had made
him come to the conclusion that pawnbroking
had contributed largely to the demoralisation
of the lower classes of the population, and
that some restrictions should be placed on the trade. He
thought that some steps should be taken to prevent people
making themselves and their children poor and miserable
as they are at present, by the inducements held out to
them to part with their clothes. He suggested that
licences for pawnbroking should be granted in the same
way as publicans' licences, that provision should be
made for the reversion of pledges, and that a restriction
should be placed upon the pledge of articles of necessary
wear. Mr. Williamson, one of the superintendents of the
detective police of the metropolis, gave the result of his
experience of the pawnbroking trade of London. He
thought that on the whole the majority of the pawn-
brokers of the metropolis carry out the Act of Parliament
affecting them honestly enough. There were several
difficulties under the present law which the police had to
contend against. They got very little assistance from the
pawnbrokers. This, he thought, might be remedied by
Parliament. The committee adjourned soon afterwards.