The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Presse has the following on the sub-marine
telegraph. This is not the first time that M. de
Girardin has done justice to the energy with which
the President of the Republic gives encouragement
and protection to useful projects :
" The communication between London and Paris by
the electric telegraph of M. Brett is entirely esta-
blished. Here again a chimera has become a rea-
lity, thanks to the faith of M. Brett, a faith which
has traversed the ocean, and thanks to the perse-
vering intervention of Count d'Orsay, who obtained
a year ago, from the President of the Republic, a
promise that he would substitute his own good will in
place of the bad one of the bureaux? Perhaps the same
success might have been reserved for M. Petin if the
same intervention had in his case been used between the
President of the Republic and the Minister of the In-
terior. It appears that the only function of the bureau-
cracy in France is to do nothing, and to prevent every-
thing. If such be its part, it certainly fulfils it in a
most irreproachable manner. It will not be its fault if
the sub-marine telegraph has taken its place among the
list of accomplished progress, it will be that of the Pre-
sident of the Republic, of Count d'Orsay, and of M.
Brett."
We read in the Bulletin de Paris of Tuesday
evening :
The first expedition of emigrants to California, with
the funds derived from the lottery of the golden ingots,
will take place to-morrow from Havre, if the weather
permits. They are to leave Paris this evening by the
railroad. They are 140 in number."
..._ _ _ _

—lt has been stated that M. Langlois, Director of
the Lottery of the " Lingots d'Or," contracted with
M. Savalette for the sale of the last 500,000 tickets.
Yesterday M. Savalette brought an action against M.
Langlois before the Tribunal of Commerce, to obtain
the annulment of the contract, to get back 100,000 f.
which he had paid as a guarantee, and to obtain
250,000 f. as damages. He based his application
on the ground that the contract was that he was to
have the last 500,000 tickets, and that M. Langlois,
by fictitious sales, had made it appear that only
500,000 tickets remained, whereas the number was
much greater, and he was selling them in competition
with his. M. Savalette's advocate demanded that the
case should be heard forthwith ; but the advocate of
M. Langlois opposed this, and the Tribunal directed
that it should come on in the regular order.
M. Langlois, having published a letter in the Made
containing serious imputations upon M. Clement
Reyre, the Government Commissioner of the lottery,
the Minister of the Interior has ordered a prosecution
of M. Langlois, who will thus be called upon to sub-
stantiate his statement, or to take the consequences
of calumaious accusations.

FATAL AFFRAY NEAR ALN WICK.
On Sunday week the village of Ellingham, near Aln-
wick, in the county of Northumberland, was tho scene of
a serious affray with a number of drunken Irish reapers,
which has unhappily resulted in the death of one of
them. About four o'clock in the afternoon of that day
several Irish reapers broke a number of panes of glass
in the house of Mr. Laidlaw, a publican, where they had
been drinking, after which they became riotous and per-
fectly unmanageable. On leaving the house they pro-
eeeded in a body down a lane in the village, and were
followed by Mr. Laidlaw and two men, named Smith and
Gibbinson, who demanded payment for the damage done
to the windows. The Irishmen used very abusive language,
and one of them, whose name was M'Cormick, swung
his reaping hook in the air, and threatened to kill Mr.
Laidlaw with it, and so violent was their conduct that
he was glad to take refuge in a joiner's house. About a
quarter of an hour afterwards, three of the Irishmen,
one of whom was M'Cormick, met Smith and Gibbin-
son, and, after threatening them as they had done
Laidlaw, struck at them with their hooks, and in-
flicted a slight wound on Gibbinson's hand. Smith,
who at this time had a gun in his hand, threatened to
fire if they did not stand back, when M'Cormick replied
that there was no fear, fir the gun was not loaded.
Smith and Gibbinson then retreated, but were pursued
by the three Irishmen, who continued to strike them
with their hooks, but Gibbinson contrived to ward off
the blows with his stick. The two men were then
driven to a place where they could not retire further on
account of the bushes, upon which a desperate struggle
took place, in the midst of which Smith's gun went off.
Gibbinson and Smith then ran away, and the Irishmen
again pursued them, and one of them threw his hook,
which struck Smith on the shoulder. The two men
then escaped from their pursuers. It was afterwards
found that M'Cormick bad been shot, and Smith, when
he heard of it, expressed great sorrow, and said he had
no intention to hurt him, but only wished to protect
him-
self. M'Cormick's wound was found upon examination,
to be of a serious character, and he died from the
effects of it on the following Sunday. Smith has since
been apprehended. A jury has been summoned by
Mr. Russell, the coroner for the distric', by whom a
thorough investigation into all the circumstances will be
made.