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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

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EATti RUSSELL AND TUE GC, YERNMENT.

Clearly the old 'Whigs are 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." He 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 he
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 clone to support the Queen's authority
in the sister island.

THE MARQUIS Op SALISBURY AND THIC
GOVERNMENT.

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. He
spoke with extraordinary hesitation and embarrass-
ment. When, after commenting upon 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 shewed 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 gloves, 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.

THE MAYOR OF CORK.
' The news from Cork, unfortunately, confirms the
first intelligence froni that city, that the result of the
Government policy has been to raise Mr. O'Sullivan
in general estimation. While he was allowed to do
as he liked his conduct was rather regarded
by the lower classes as laughable, yet still
as something to be feebly condemned. But
now be is to be made a " martyr "
all
his faults are turned to noble deeds. The
cry of the " Constitution in Danger " is taken up ;
and Cork is proud of her first magistrate. Even
among those who would be foremost in condemning
;edition it is a doubtful matter whether the Govern-
ment bill ought to be allowed to pass. They would
be very glad for Mr. O'Sullivan to resign,. but they
are afraid that the passage of such a bill would
inflict a blow on the right of choosing its own
mayor, which is possessed by the Corporation. In
the House of Commons, too, there is a great
dislike of the bill. It may be a necessary, but it is
regarded as a most disagreeable, task. And the
haste of the Government, the manifest want of any
inquiry worthy of the name, the uncertainty as to
the form and practice of receiving evidence on oath
at the bar of the House, all these circumstances in:.
crease the disinclination to deal with the matter.
As to Mr. O'Sullivan himself, so eccentric is he that
it can hardly be said what he will do. On Saturday
night he sent out telerzrams announcing his resigna-
tion: but hardly had the news become known when
he changed his mind and contradicted it. First he
would, then ho would not, have counsel at the bar of
the house. He denounced those as traitors and
treacherous friends who had defended him in the
local council, and refused as an offer from the enemy
theproposed payment of his expenses for the defence.
He shews favour to the law-breakers ; he has
no name bad enough for the police, and
those who wish to maintain order. Anyone who
wishes to obtain his favour must neither attack nor
defend him—but has only to get drunk or to
commit some petty offence. Certainly, if the Mayor
does not resign, lazy or timid members of the House
must throw aside both their love for letting alone and
their fear of interference; such a man must not be
retained on the bench. The Government intend to
go on, and have retained as counsel for the Crown, to
appear at the bar of the House, Mr. Solicitor-
General Barry, Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, and Mr.
Archbold, the Attorney-General's standing " devil,!'

" SPORT."

What will the Macaulay of the `2lst century say
of the sports of the 19th ? Surely the bear-baiting
and the cock-fighting of 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
4-he Hurlingliam Club, over which Lord
Holmesdale, M.P. for West Kent,
_presided.
"In the shooting ground business commenced
by twenty-six entering for a one sow. handicap
sweepstake, at three birds each, from five traps,l4
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
()and of one of our most famous regimerfts presiding
at the massacre of pigeons! The entertainment is to
continue every Saturday throughout the season.
Alas that our jeunesse dor& 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. C. Walker, of Woolwich, cleared Mt. lin., and W.
llennell, of Sandhurst, precisely the same height.
Again, for second honours, A. W. llanson,
of Woolwich, got over 4ft. 10in.' and
this was tied by W. Hope, of Sandhurst.
The flat, race of 440 yards was won by
11. Hart, of Woolwich, in 56sec. The 181 b. shot was
thrown 32ft. 2in. by M'llree, of Sandhurst. The
half-mile race was won in 2min. .10.355ec. by
Thuillier, of Sandhurst. The -widest jump Was
19ft. lin., and won by Clerk, of Sandhurst. In the
one-mile race another Sandhurst man, Fovvnes, was
the winner by Lk yards in 4min. 58sec.

would be a most peaceful one. The Pope drives as usual,
and looks remarkably well.

The uncertainty which I stated in my last as existing on
the resumption of relations between St. Petersburg and
the Court of Rome is greater than ever, and the persons
best informed on such matters laid very little credit to the
rumours of any change. The Russian Government has
just exiled another Polish bishop to Siberia, and
this is an additional reason for -no rapprochement being
probable.
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 consequently 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.

AMERICAN AFFAIP►S.

(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
first ground broken will be on the Brooklyn side,
near the Ferry. The " strike " on the Second
Avenue Railroad is so far in favour of the men that
no cars are now running ; by degrees they broke
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 sanc-
tion the eight-hour principle. A ladies' Club-house
was opened on Monday, at 49, East 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 accommodation. 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. Pat ker is ill, and appears to
know nothing of thetcirctunstances, which are these :
—A very large number of produce houses, among
whom are the Ueited States Warehousing Com-
p my, D. A. It )se, John W. Scott, Wade and Estry,
Whitlock and IVallace, Tompkins and Company,
Kent and Company, J. Ketcham, and John 11. Poole
and Co. depoAte 1 in his custody quantities of grain.
Peck sold at the market rates 113,754 bushel.s of
cern,7o,sslbushels of oats, and 7,561 bushels of rye,
on which he realisA, it is affirmed, $160,000, and
sloped to Europe, it is believed, in the steamer of
the 16th inst. When some of the innocents who
had also sold their grain called to deliver it, it was
nowhere to b seen, nor Peck either. The perch
was vacant, the grain gone, their bird flown, and I
dare say while comfortably seated at his hotel in
London he may real my interesting remarks. W.ll.
Nelson has been arrested for embezzling over $6,000
from the Equitable Insurance 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
money, but so little answered with this clerk that
he was cleared out of all the dollars to which he
had helped himself from the Equitable Insurance.
As an instance of the admirable way in which our
laws are administered, I may add, that his friends
have compounded the felony by paying for his release.
The young gentlemen also have been arrested who
passed the forged cheques on Jay Cooke and Co. at
the Bank of the State of New York ; the teller iden-
tified the passer, who then confessed and implicated
the forgers. The heat_ has been intense ; we had a
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 previous
week, young children being the chief sufferers. In
Brooklyn the number was 134, rather a decrease.
the reports of the fillibustering expeditions fitting
for Cuba turn out on close inquiry to be gross exag-
geratiors. A diligent search was made by the Collec-
tor and the United States Marshal to get evidence of
a reported expedition from this port anti itNhea%svp
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Gettysburg, Narraganset,g Com-
mand
Commander John Irwin, 729 tons, 9
guns ;
503 tons, 7 large guns • the Nipsic, Lieu-
the Yantic, Commander Trevott Abbott,
and 4 guns ; the lately added to this
tenant-Commander T. 0. Selfridge, 563 tons,
vessels
squadron are the corvette Galena, Commander
A. W. Johnson, 514 tons, mounting 8 guns; the
sloop Seminole, Commander E. K. Owen, 550 tons,
8 gnus ; Saugus, Commander Joseph W. Tyffe,
ironclad, 580 tons, 2 heavy turret guns ; the Mos-
holu, 2,348 tons, 13 guns ; the Sabine, 1,726 tons,
making a total of 108 guns, besides the
3tw4 gohuenas' 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 at 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
fall out and you settle any claims Ihave by telling me
to appropriate Joe Buggina's brown stone front in
Fifth-avenue, it may be a very pleasant and sooth-
ing bribe to me, and a very easy settlement of
troublesome_ claims for you ; but what would the
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L carrying on the war against Vanderbilt .and clear
out Buggies, family, and servants, contracting to
do this in the shortest possible period. There are
people so stupid as not to sec 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
rtsponsible for all the fools. One thing is certain,
that the " bears" of stocks and the " bulls" of gold
had 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,