The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-11 00:00:00

'TUE SUN, LONDON, IVESDAV EVENISG, MAY ll, 1869.

" SPORT."

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

What will the Macaulay of the 21st century say
of. the sports of the 19th ? Surely the bear-baiting
and the cock-fighting 0f,200 years ago were not so de-
grading as is the pigeon-shooting in which our young
" bloods" of to-day delight. The bear and the cock
had at least the right to fight for their lives; the
pigeon has no chance. A fashionable contemporary
tells us that there has just been a strong muster of
+he Hurlingham Club, over which Lord
Holmesdale, M.P. for West Kent, presided.
"In the shooting ground business commenced
by twenty-six entering for a one soy. handicap
sweepstake, at three birds each, from five traps, 11
oz. shot, the use of both barrels. The shooting was
excellent, for no less than ten killed all." While this
slaughter was going on the band of the Scots Fusi-
lier Guards was playing lively music. Fancy the
band of one of our most famous regiments presiding
at the massacre of pigeons! The entertainment is to
continue every Saturday throughout the season.
Alas that our jeunesse dm* should have nothing
better to do than this ! It is they, not Mr. Brad-
laugh, nor even Mr. Bright, who make democrats of
our literati, they who are rapidly arraying all the
brains of the country against them.
It is pleasant to turn from the London pigeon
shooters to the Oxford boating men. The boating
season on the Isis is now at its height. The races
were continued on Saturday evening, when Univer-
sity succeeded in bumping Corpus at the Willow
Crossing, and thus attained to the proud position of
head of the river ; Brasenose ran into Lincoln at
Sander's Bridge ; Merton succumbed to Christ
Church ; and Balliol caught up Pembroke at the
Gut. Magdalen yielded to Trinity at Sander's
Bridge, and Oriel overhauled St. Mary Hall at the
Green Barge. A large number of persons were
')resent, notwithstanding it rained the whole time.
Equally an improvement upon the pigeon
murders were the athletic sports at Sandhurst,
when the Royal Military College gave a return meet-
ing to that which the Woolwich cadets gave at
Beaufort House. There was a remarkable tie.
P. 0. Walker, of Woolwich, cleared sft. lin., andW.
Hennell, of Sandhurst, precisely the same height.
Again, for second honours, A. W. Hanson,
of Woolwich, got over 4f t. 10in., and
this was tied by W. Hope, of Sandhurst.
The flat race of 440 yards was won •by
H. Hart, of Woolwich, in sCsec. The 181 b. shot was
thrown 32ft. 2in. by APllree, of Sandhurst. The
half-mile race was won in 2min. 10.355ee. by
Thuillier, of Sandhurst. The widest jump was
19ft. lid., and won by Clerk, of Sandhurst. In the
one-mile race another Sandhurst man, Townes, was
the winner by 12 yards in 4min. 58sec.

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EAU", RUSSELL AND TYLE GC TERNMENT.

Clearly the old Whigs arc not satisfied with the
course taken by the Government with respect to
Ireland. It is not only Lord Westbury who has, to
use a slang expression, " cut up rough." tic and
the Marquis of Clanricarde were certain to
oppose any Liberal Government of which they were
not members; and Earl Grey was certain to oppose any
Government which consisted of more persons than
one, and that one Earl Grey ; but Lord Russell has
no grudge against the present Government, for ho
was offered a seat in the Cabinet. Nevertheless he
means to ask the Government on Thursday what its
intentions are with respect to Ireland. This implies
that his lordship does not consider the reply given
by Earl Granville on Friday adequate to the occa-
sion. If appearances do not greatly mislead us,
Ministers will have to do a good deal more than
they have yet done to support the Queen's authority
in the sister island.

THU MAR QUI3 OF SALISBURY AND TUB
G OVERNMENT.

Persons who were present at the debate on Friday
seem to consider that the Marquis of Salisbury was
not in earnest in his attack upon Mr. Bright. Ile
spoke with extraordinary hesitation and embarrass-
ment. IV hen, after commenting npon some remarks of
Mr. Bright, he added, " I suppose they meant nothing
very wicked or anarchical," a fierce Conservative
partizan was heard to mutter indignantly, " He
has let them out of it." Lord Granville showed not
the smallest discomposure, and there was no cheering
on either side. In fact, the whole scene was consi-
dered to be merely a sparring with the glovesz and
was as dull as it was expected to be exciting.
Immense was the contrast between the Upper and
the Lower House. In the latter assembly the
question put by Mr. Dodson, " that I report this (the
Irish Church) bill to the House," was greeted with
a storm of cheers by the Liberals, while the Con-
servatives rushed out of the House.

TrIE CAY,

Some time ago a subscription was set on foot in
order to clear out the Cam, which has for many
years been getting quite unfit for boating. The list
of subscribers is advertised in the Times, and occu-
pies nearly three coltunns. The Queen and the
Duke of Devonshire aive i!100 each, Mr. Hawkshaw,
the engineer, Nr. G.ll. Stephenson, and Mr. A. A.
Vansittart £2OO each. The Prince of Wales and
give £5O.
Canon Selwyn

CHARGE 017 DRUNKENNESS AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.

Clergymen, beware of rum and milk ! The Rev.
L. Mordacque, the vicar of Haslingden, being ill, was
ordered that medicinal compound by his doctor, and
has almost lost his vicarage in consequence. Some
of his parishioners presented a petition to the
Bishop of Manchester, charging him with
drunkenness ; and though the charge has been
aismis:;ed, the evidence being very conflicting,
Mr. Mordacque was advised to discontinue the use of
a medicine so dangerous.
ment, ought to have su Prudence, said the judg-
ggested a less suspicious
restorative.

would be a most peaceful one. The Pope drives as usual, •
You see, which blows no one good, and if a remark
and looks remarkably well. be true, credited to Mr. Thornton the British
The uncertainty which I stated in my last as existing on m. .
mister, now here, these threats will be used by the
the resumption of relations between St. Petersburg and
Tories to bring the Liberals into odium for sub--
the Court of Rome is greater than ever, and the persons
best informed on such matters laid very little credit to the nutting to them, but I imagine our warlike Senator
rumours of any change. The Russian Government has is alike unknown and uncared for in England. I
just exiled another Polish bishop to Siberia, and now learn that the strike on the Second-avenue is
this is an additional reason for no rapprochement being over and the cars are running regularly, the men
probable. having gained their object. Mr. and Mrs. George

The Pope has, as you are already aware, amnestied
several political prisoners; political, not in the English,
but Italian sense of the word, as none of them would have
escaped the criminal justice of their country had they been
English subjects. One of them, Venanzi, the head of
the Faristi plot in 1862, it was clearly proved on his
trial, had caused various doctors in his pay to poison
Pontifical soldiers in hospital, and had initiated
numbers of young men into the readiest way of assassi-
nation, by means of dead bodies, in the School of
Anatomy of San Giacomo, his tools, Mauro and another
surgeon, indicating the jugular and carotid veins to their
pupils, and teaching them to stab quickly and mortally.
These and their subordinates form the bulk of the political
prisoners, and men condemned for these and similar crimes
are held up by the revolutionary journals and committees
for admiration and sympathy. The town of Terni has
feted their arrival at the Italian frontier, and may cer-
tainly be congratulated on the guests it is honouring.
Several of the poorer of the prisoners have refused pardons,
as they are better off where they are than as emigrants to
Italy.

The waters of the Tiber have fallen to their usual level
within the last two or three days, and the excavations at
the Emporium have omsequently been resumed. The
great Column of African is now on the point of being
transported from its bed in the sand to the Paniculum.
Tadolini's superb statue of St. Michael leaves Rome for
Boston next week. The Pope will, it is said, visit the

studio before its departure, as already have the King and

Queen of Naples and all the royal and illustrious per-

sonages now in Rome. A beautiful photograph on glass,
framed as a lamp shade, has been taken of it for the Pope
by the artist, and presented to him on the occasion of his
jubilee. It is incontestably the noblest work of Christian

art which has been produced for many years in Rome, and

has produced a proportionate sensation.

The Roman funds have risen to 65, having long been
first at 58, and then at 62.

All ERI CAN AFFAIRS,

W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, arrived in
the Russia on Wednesday evening. The Fisk suit
against the Union Pacific is dragging its weary way
along. It *as up in the United States DistEct Court
before Judges Nelson and Batchelder ou Thurs-
day. One motion was to have theinjunetion vacated,
the other to have the papers on file removing the
case to the United States Court taken off. The
question touching the transfer to the other courts
was first argued. The pretensions of the Judge to
exercise an unwarranted influence over the officers
of railway companies is injuring this city, as
there is a move to transfer many of the depots
elsewhere. A large number of emigrants are
leaving for California. The Henry Chauncey
sailed on Wednesday evening for Aspinwall with
nearly 1,000 passengers ; great numbers cross
the continent by rail, and this is the way the
Senators from the Pacific States return. Senator
Fenton intends to sue some of our papers for

libel, and he has had sufficient cause. Mr. Seward
remains at Auburn, where he is giving receptions.
The Herald has opened its branch office in Brook-
lyn, and this brings me to the end of my budget
of news, to remember something I have forgotten
as usual, when too late.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

NEW YORK, April 24.
The Underground Railway job, notwithstanding
the opposition offered, has been carried in the As-
sembly at Albany by 83 to 10, and will pass the
Senate, but whether the majority will be able to
overrule the Governor's veto remains to be proved.
The Commissioners appointed to examine the plans
for bridging the East River have approved the cal-
culations of Mr. Roebling, the engineer. The New
York side is to be excavated on the return of the
Commissioners from their visit to Buffalo, but the
“bset
roikne t,l,te Brooklynohthes side,eeond
first ground "broken The will
is so far in
iflayvdoeugrroefestltTlemyenbrtoliimet
Avenuenear t h the
a}i'lerror,yi
d.
no cars are now running ;
down, not only in time, but literally by smashing
everything with which they came in contact ; but
the company tenaciously hold out, while the men
have carried their complaint to the Legislature at
Albany, and are likely to get the Assembly to sane-
tion the eight-hour pririciple. A ladies' Club-house
was opened on Monday, at 49, E ist Twenty-third-
street, next the Academy of Design; the cost of the
building and furniture is $50,000. The champions
of woman's rights will there have their stronghold
well victualled and supplied ; kitchens are plentiful,
as well as dining-rooms; but it is the mental food
of which the supply will be abundant, as the Revo-
lution has its offices below. The Working Woman's
Association will also be located there, and female
artists will occupy the spare accounned.ttion. A
Mr. Peck has left his perch with all the produce •
that bird could lay his talons on. The house of
which he was a partner, Parker, Peck, and Co.,
own the grain-elevator at the foot of De Graw-
street, Brooklyn. Mr. Parker is ill, and appears to
know nothing of the circumstances, which are these :
—A very large number of pro Ince houses, among
whom are t!te United States Warehousing Com-
pany, D. A. 11)se, John W. Scott, Wade and Estry,
V4Thitiock and Wallace, Tompkins rind Company,
Kent and Com paey,.J. Ket chant, and John 11. Poole
and Co. depo:itc 1 in his enst.idy quantities of grain.
Peck so'd at the market rates 113,751 bashel.s of
c0rn,70,551 bushels of oats, and 7,561 bushels of rye,
on which he realised, 'it is allirint3l, Vi13),000, and
sloped to Europe, it is beli tved, in the steamer of
the 16th inst. When some of tl.e innocents who
had also sold their grain called to deliver it, it was
nowhere to be seen, nor Peck either. The perch
was vacant, the grain gone, their bird (lawn,
and I
dare say while comfortably seated at his hotel in
London he may read myinteresting remarks. W. IL
Nelson has been arrested for embezzling over G,OOO
from the Equitable jnsurance Company. This young
gentleman had a turn for speculation, and tried his
hand at a game which seems to answer with James
Fisk, jun., when he tries it with other people's
hmeo nweays,
cleared
at
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1(11 e
with
lla this clerk that
had helped himself from the Equitable Insurance.
As an instance of the admirable
dors to which h e
may in Vs friendsur
laws are admiuistered, I may add, that h
have compounded the felony by paying for his release.
which l our
The young gentlemen also have been arrested who
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tified the passer, who then confessed and implicated
taenllderCid()ena-t
the forgers. The heat has been inteuse;
cold snap of most unseasonable severity, and lately
we have been grilling. The deaths last week in our
city were' 475, an increase of 40 upon the previousi
we
bada e a
week, young children being the chief sufferers. a
Brooklyn the number was 134, rather a
the reports of the filibustering expeditionsdecfirtetainseg.
for Cuba turn out on close inquiry to be gross exag-
geraatni°drteh. diligenteAun i
te
d s tsaetaersc
iNh INav rassh amadelto get by
evidencethe Collec-
tor
of
a reported expedition from this port and it has proved
to be a most untrue rumour as regards New York,
So confident were some of the sensation-mongers'
and the same I believe can be said of New Orleans.
Steadman's fillibustering expedition to while
Story, that Admiral Iloffsent vessels toiutercept Gen. Cuba,
never dreaming of any such expedition . From what
that gentleman was living quietly in New Orleans,
I can learn our fleet is to be reinforced as follows :
Capt. George R. Balch, 2,348
rra
The
aCnodr
carriestoo c ot: ,
13
guns; the Na ganset , Com-
mander T. S. Fillibrown, 809 tons, 3 guns ; the
guns ; the Yantic, Commander
Trevott Abbott,
Gettysburg, Commander John Irwin, 726 tons, 9
503 tons, 7 large guns ; the Nipsic, Lieu-
tenant-Commander T. O. Selfridge, 563 tons,
and 4 guns; the vessels lately added to this
squadron are the corvette Galena, Commander
A. W. Johnsmi, 514 tons, mounting 8 guns; the
sloop Seminole, Commander E. K. Owen, 550 tons,
8 guns ; Saugus, Commander Joseph W. 'Fyffe,
ironclad, 580 tons, 2 heavy turret guns ; the Mos-
bolu, 2,348 tons, 13 guns ; the Sabiue, 1,726 tons,
34 guns, making a total of 108 guns, besides the
two heavy turret guns. The affairs of Cuba, to-
gether with the rejection of the Alabama Conven-
tion, have created uneasiness, which Senator
Chandler's warlike speech so far helped as to run
gold up and knock stocks down. People are laugh-
ing ar. that Senator's serious proposal in so sedate
a body as the Senate, for England to barter away
Canada to the United States 'in payment of a bill
against Great Britain. If you, Mr. Editor, and I
fall out and you settle any claims I have by telling me
to appropriate Joe Buggins's brown stone front in
Fifth-avenue, it may be a very pleasant and sooth-
iag bribe to me, and a very easy settlement of
troublesome claims for you; but what would the
respectable Mr. Buggins say? Now if I am to act
the part our patriotic Senator proposes, I would
assemble the " toughs" Fisk employed when he was
carrying on the war against Vanderbilt and clear
out Buggins, family, and servants, contracting to
do this in the shortest possible period. There are
people so stupid as not to see the equity of this as
the senator from Michigan sees it ; but then there
are- people of all -grades of intellect, and he is not
r, sponsible for all the fools. One thing is certain,
that the " bears" of stocks and the " bulls of gold
bad a fine time. An advance of one in gold was
established in half an hour, which in large operations
makes a man's fortune in a day ; so it is an ill-wind,

WASHINGTON, April 23.
Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, who was
about to visit New York, gave a grand entertain-
ment to the members of Congress and and Diplo-
matic Corps, on Saturday evening, which was
largely attended. It is here stated that our present
Minister to London will not return home imme-
diately, as he will spend some time in European
travel.* The President desires Mr. Motley to reach
London early in June, and he has taken his passage
in the
.Cuba, to lea; c New York on the 19th May.
Our scramble for office is ended as far as the Senate
is concerned, but it never ends for the secretaries
and chiefs of bureaux. The Senate scrutinised care-
fully many of the appointments, and not without
reason, for they found, through pure accident in cne
instance, that a man who made ft and his profession,
to whom every dodge known to bankrupts was
the familiar path he bad often trod, who swindled
and cheated whenever the opportunity offered, had
been nominated, with his testimonials endorsed not
only by the Senators and Representatives of his
State, but by clergymen of note, editors of leading
papers, and those whose profession it is to war
a,ainst such enemies of society as this man.
When the appointmentbecamea scandal and general
attention was attracted to it, a well-known editor,
with shame and sorry, acknowledged that Lis name
was among the signatures. But whatever may be
our shortcomings as journalists, our men have on
the whole behaved better in the scramble than those
of any other profession. The only big appointment
tendered an editor was that of the New York Ap-
praieership, offered to Charles A. Dana, of the New
York Sun. A flattering letter accompanied it from
Secretary Boutwell, begging of him as a personal
favour to* accept the post, though he knew
that it would neither accord with • Mr. Dana's
tastes nor inclinations, and was belo ar his
claims, while Mr. Boutwell offered him his warm
support. The appointment is lucrative, and from a
dollar view would have well pail the Editor, who,
however, without hesitation, declined it. What Mr
D.mnasaidis perhaps the highest compliment he could
have paid his professional brethren. Educated to
commercial pursuits he was qualified for a post
suited to his taste, and while acknowledging this, he
replied, " But I alrealy hold an office of respon-
sibility as the conductor of an independent news-
paper, and I am persuaded that to abandon it, or
neglect it for the functions you offer me, would be
to leave a superior duty for one of much
lees im-
partance. Nor is it certain that I cannot do more
to help you in the pure and efficient administration
of the Treasury Department by remaining here and
denouncing and exposing political irninorality than
I could do as Appraiser by the most zealous efl-ort
to insure the faithful ited honest collection of the
Cll3tOMB." One of the great fights in the Senate
was over the appointment of a rebel General to be
Governor of New Mexico. The case of General
Crow was not unlike that of Lon ;street, exlept
that one was not so eminent a leader against the
Union as the other. Both were true to the rebel
cause while the war lasted, and both brought on
themselves a good deal of odium among Southerners
by adopting the Union cause as civilians, which
they had failed to defeat as soldiers. Crowe is an.
Alabama.nian, and he gave his best efforts when
the war ended to forward the reconstruction of his
State. General Grant's policy, although it may
not suit the War-horses, is one of simple justice,
and will tell favourably on the South. The posi-
tion of such gentlemen as Crowe, if ostracised by
both parties, would become so unenviable that no
Southerner would hereafter dare to follow his in-
inclination, and go in for" reconciliation were the
policy of extremists to prevail ; this knowledge,
however, had its weight with the Senate. for, after
a hard struggle the appointment was confirmed by
.a majority of 32 to 16. Mr. Carlisle having no
record that proved satisfactory to the Senate, failed
in getting the mission to Stockholm. J. Ross-
Browne wrote a very interesting account of the
Pacific slope, but however elaborate, however ex-
cellent, there was nothing in it that forwarded the
Republican party interests, so the Senate could see no
reason why heshould stay inChina. An order hasbeen
issued having reference to decorating with flowers
the graves of the soldiers who died for the country,
and observing the 30th May as the day set apart
to commemorate the great deeds of the Union
Army. It falls on the Sabbath, therefore those who
desire are at liberty to observe it on the Saturday
preceding.- A rumour spread that the President
intended to call an extra session of Congress, which
was said to emanate from the California Senators,
but this they denied. Most persons think they
have had enough of Congress for one spell, and
Gen. Grant appears also to think so, and some even
assert has said so. The officers who lose their com-
mands by the consolidation of the infantry com-
plain bitterly of the injustice. General Sherman,
who is Commander-in-Chief, carried out the
scheme, but the grievances are sent to the Secretary
of War, to whom they look for relief. That the
case is a hard one you may easily understand, for
gallant and meritorious soldiers who have worked
up to the point to which they aspired suddenly find
the whole fabric sink ; but General Rawlins has
pledged himself to look after their interests, and to
recompense them as the opportunity offers. The
Hale-Perry correspondence quarrel has assumed
another phase, as the New lark Tribune has got
itself mixed up in the matter. What with the
letters of its London correspondent denouncing Mr.
Hale, the replies from himself and his friends. the
publication of the strictly private official corre-
spondence supposed to be a profound secret, while
it occupied two columns of the Tribune, and the
scandal resultinglfrom this row shows an evident
tendency to grow. Senators Cragin, Thurman, and
Trumbull as a Special Committee are to investigate
the manner of its publication, how the newspapers
obtained the correspondence, and why they had the
bad taste to publish it. They are enapowerel to
send for persons and papers, to examine on oath,
to go anywhere, but they must report next session.
Yesterday some correspondents were examined
by the Committee to ascertain how the Tribune
obtained the despatches, but all refused to answer,
asserting that they were bound in honour to keep
that secret received in confiluce. They were dis-
missed, but the point was again debated in the
Sen mte, the puzzle being how to punish the ob-
streperous newspaper men. If, as Senator Craiaen
sugaaisted, they were sent to gaol, as the ben.tte
would adjourn immediately, they could only be
Iconfined for one night, but finally it was de-

* The belief is that Mr. Reverdy Johnson intends to
leave England on the 22d inst., but his successor cannot
arrive till the end of the month; but it is not stated
whether Mr. Johnson goes to the Continont or to the
states.