The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDO_N, MOINDAY EVENING, MAY 31, Uni39.

LAW- AND POLICE.

MISCELLAIVEOUS NEWS.

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THE "COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER."—OR Saturday, i LOYAL DOINGS AND SAYINGS.
in the Court of Queen's Bench, the case of the Dement- The amusing, but not always discreet, London
water estates was heard. Amelia Ratcliffe, the lady correspondent of the Elgin, Courant writes some
r.:laiming to be the descendant of the unfortunate Ratcliffe, amusing gossip respecting the Prince of Wales.
Referring to the recent appearance of his Royal
Earl cf Derwentwatcr, who was executed in the reign
Highness among the geographers, the correspondent
)f George 11. for participating in the Scotch rebellion,
says that the very neat speech made on this occa-
appealed against conviction for trespass. Miss Ratcliffe,
sign, as well as other royal speeches previously,
by way of asserting her right to his estates, which had '
puziled those who are best acuainted- with the
been confiscated by tho Crown and granted to Greenwich Prince's capacity for originating and giving utte-
Hospital, had taken possession of Dilston Castle, an old . ranee to ideas. While some persons were discussing
castle forming part of the estates, and being expelled the phenomenon, Dr. Howard Russell interposed
from it, she raised a wooden hut on the side of the road. rather gruffly, and jerked out, between the puffs of
For this the magistrates convicted her for trespass, and his cigar, I wrote out the speeches, and doosid hard
she appealed. The court affirmed the conviction, work I had to keep them short enough for the
A VELOCIPEDE IN TROUBLE.—At Lambeth, a young Prince to trouble about getting them off by heart."
T
man residing at Brixton was charged with driving a The same correspondent intimates that the grant to
the Prince from the Privy purse, together with a
velocipede on the footway. The magistrate said that it
was an offence against the Act, and the defendant must "little round sum to pay for some of his outstanding
obligations " was " extracted, as one would say, at
pay a penalty of 10s. and costs. , the point of the bayonet."
FORTUNE-ThLLING AT BIRMINGHAM. - Margaret Parks It is stated that the Viceroy of p E tisto be
was; charged, at the Birmingham Police-court, with received on this occasion in a manner' worthy of his
obtaining money by fortune-telling. The case having rank. After the magnificent reception just given by
been proved against her, she was sent to gaol for one firm to the Prince and the Princess of Wales, it was
month, with hard labour. simply impossible to send him to an hotel ; and as
PLATE GLASS INSURANCE COMpANIES.—At the South- the royal hosts could hardly ask the Earl of Dudley
wark Police-court, on Saturday, a young man named to take their place again, Buckingham Palace, which
Williams alias Webb, was charged with conspiracy to is empty 360 days of the year, is to be placed at the
defraud, by pretending to be the agent to the " General disposal of his Highness.
Plate Glass Insurance Company," and the "National THE LORDS AND THE BILL.
Plate Glass Insurance Company," which were The John Bull says "it is impossible that Mr.
never in existence. The court was crowded Gladstone's spoliation bill can become law during
by licensed victuallers and others who had been the current session." It will either be so altered in
defrauded by the gang to which the prisoner belonged. A committee that Mr. Gladstone will repudiate it, or it
great deal of evidence was given identifying the prisoner will be unconditionally rejected. Either event would
,
with the mock company, and his solicitor reserved his give time for reaction and agitation, and " agitation"
defence, only saying that he was the dupe of more guilty in season and out of season, is one great requisite.
parties. He was committed for trial at the next sessions The same paper asserts that the country has not
of the Central Criminal Court, bail being accepted. yet expressed any opinion upon the Irish
Church ; all that it decided was, as to
whether Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Disraeli should
be Premier (why it decided in favour of the
former our contemporary does not say). The John
Bull further asserts that, while Lord Russell will
vote for the second reading, Lord Cairns is surprised
at the feeling which has been evoked in favour of
decisive action on the part of the Lords. Our
ccntemporary csks only for another year, and pro-
plies:es that if that space for repentance is given,
everyone will be astonished at the result.
According to the London correspondent of the
Scotsman, the recent semi-authoritative announce-
ments respecting the intention of the Lords to throw
out the bill were put out as feelers ; and the result
has been to skew the entire want of sympathy
between the Orange party and the great bulk of the
nation. The Government do not chew the least
anxiety as to what the Lords will do.
The Spectator infers from a recent article in the
Standard that the Lords have thrown up the game.
The amendments which the Conservative organ
insists upon are very few, and, with one exception,
of small importance. If, therefore, these are all the
changes which will be asked for by way of preserving
their lordships' dignity, it is not likely that any
serious difficulty will arise.
The Saturday Review likens the position of the
Irish Churchmen to that of an offending servant to
whom the stern head of the household has given
warning. The Lords are to say something in their
behalf. " Missis is to speak for them." But the
Review does not think anything -will come of it.
The Lords will not alter the irrevocable fiat of the
Commons. There is Lord Carnarvon, for instance,
who last year voted for the Suspensory Bill ; Lord
Salisbury, who deprecated the opposition of the
Peers to the clearly-expressed will of the people;
and Lord Cairns, who cannot but remember that
both Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Disraeli's Chancellor have
small chance of returning to office until this matter
is settled.
The Church Review criticises very severely tho
conduct of Irish Churchmen. Their threat to dissolve
the union if the Church is disestablished shows how
little their loyalty is worth :
" Never was a cause snore hopelessly mismanaged.
These Protestants are themselves sealing the worst fate
•tliat can befal the Irish Establishment. They are basing
on the ascendancy principle,
light of faction and rebellion. Anyone not judicially
atlniedetah'elsneitnhveeystdife)gfenjilesioni-einlyciple of ascendancy in a lurid
blind can see that nothing is to be got out of Parliament,
upon this ground. The principle of ascendancy is for
ever gone as a rule of policy in this country. how can
we help these people? It is almost difficult to syropa-
thire even with the cause that has the irrecoverable un-
happiness of their advocacy."
A COMMONER AND TWO PEERS ON THE IRISH
CHURCH BILL.

THE MURDER AT WATERFORD.

The alleged murder in Waterford is now confirmed. It
took place nearly a week ago, in the parish of Rath-
gormack, county of Waterford. The murdered man was
a respectable, peaceful farmer, named Patrick Power, who
held a farm of fifty acres at Craiga-villa, in the parish of
Rathgormack, which he came into possession of at his
father's death. There is nothing in the crime which can
in any way connect it with the long list of agrarian out-
rages. .Power was on terms of friendship, and even
intimacy, with all his neighbours, and has neither
been evicted out of a holding nor taken the land of
others. He Las held the one farm always, and has
never dabbled in any way with those of others. The
particulars of the outrage are these :—On the morning
of Tuesday last the deceased went into the town
of Carrick-on-Suir, about seven miles from his own house,
to dispose of three firkins of butter, which he sold, and
left the town about eight o'clock in the evening, with
some flour and oatmeal, in the cart he had brOught
with him. He was then observed to have taken a little
drink. At ten o'clock the same night he called at
the public-house of a Mrs. Kennedy, at Rattgormack, in
company with a young man whom the Kennedys do not
know. They got some drink, and took snore away with
them in a porter bottle. The girl noticed deceased had
taken drink, and diluted the whisky she gave him
with water. The other man was sober. After leaving
this house nothing more was heard of him till the
following morning, when about seven o'clock he was
found by his son and daughter, who had gone out to
look for him, lying stone dead iu a ditch on his back, with
his head literally smashed to pieces, having fourteen
frightful wounds on it, so that the features were fearfully
mutilated. The place where the body was found was
only about fifty yards from some inhabited cabins, and
about 300 yards round a turn in the road from Kennedy's
house, and about a mile from his own dwelling. A large
pool of blood was under him, and the stones lying near all
besmeared with blood also. His horse was found straying
by his son on Wednesday morning, which led to their
going in search of him. Information was at once given
to the police. Detachments scoured the country
all day in search of the perpetrators of this
deed. An inquest was held on the remains at deceased's
house, by Mr. W. H. Gore, coroner, and a respect-
Able jury, when a verdict of " Wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown" was returned. On Thursday
morning a party of constabulary succeeded in arresting the
man who was last seen in company with deceased. His
name is Wall, and he admits having been with deceased,
and tells a confused story of some recollection of lying
down with the deceased to sleep on the roadside. His
, clothing was saturated with blood, and he was in bed in
his own home when arrested. He has been committed to
the county gaol on the suspicion of being connected
with the murder. It is surmised that the renewal
of some old faction feud gave rise to the commission of tho
deed. The deceased's father, it is said, was the leader of
oae of the factions in this part of the country called the
" Polleens" and the " Gows," but the deceased himself
was never mixed up with the faction feuds, but always
led a peaceable, quiet life. It is further reported that the
man arrested belonged to an opposite faction. This, of
course, is only rumour. All the money deceased had with
him when leaving Carrick was found on his person when
dead. Mr. Loch, county inspector, and Mr. M'Carthy,
sub-inspector, are prosecuting the search for further idol.-
' 'nation with great activity.

The lion. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., has for some
time been treasurer of the Irish Church Missions.
The Hon. A. Kinnaird voted for the disestablish-
ment of the Irish Church. The supporters of
the Irish Church Missions think that he
cannot conscientiously fulfil their office if he
believes the Church ought not to be retailed as a State
Church. They therefore request the hon. gentleman's
resignation. Mr. Kinnaird has consented. In doing
so he declares, in a letter to the Rec:nyl, that he is
as much opposed to the Roman Catholic religion as
ever ; " but," he says, " I share with many brethren
abroad and at home in the feeling that the Irish
Church Establishment gives an advantage to
that system by the semblance of being persecuted:
and I therefore in Parliament supported the measure
for disestablishment." To Mr. Colquhoun, the
chairman of the society, he writes, " I have for
fourteen years had much pleasure in acting as
treasurer to the Irish Church Missions, and accord-
ing to my judgment the course I have pursued in
Parliament will really most effectually advance the
cause of the true Church of Christ in lreland."-
Earl Grey does not by any means agree with Mr.
Kinnaird, but he, notwithstanding, does not seem to
care about ousting the Irish Church Bill. He
received a deputation on Friday from the Dublin
Church conference, which urged him to move the
rejection•of the measure in the Lords. But he was
very cautious indeed. He would promise nothing.
He sympathised with Irish Churchmen on account
of their position, was obliged to• the deputation for
bringing the matter under his notice, &c. But the
strongest terms he used with regard to the action of
the Lords on the bill was, " Should the House decide
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weo‘uillds
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upon entertaining the details of the measure, somo
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against."
That ; ray does not look like fighting. Earl Grey
‘L‘\ surrender"oan opponent
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Lothian,crl of the bill
as far as its abstract principle is concerned, is much
more decided than Earl Grey. The latter is in
doubt evidently, the former boldly counsels the Peers
to pass the bill. He writes, he says, under great
bodily suffering ; he has long been withdrawn from
the world, and he fears that not mixing with it may
have cramped his views ; but as he cannot give his
viva voce advice to the Lords, he asks the Times to be
allowed to give it through its columns. He points
out that last year the dispute was between the Lords
and the Commons, now it is between the first and
the nation, the Lower House undoubtedly represent-
ing the country in this matter. He still dislikes the
• bill, he says ; but he remembers that free trade
turned out a blessing, and this • measure (though he
can hardly conceive it) may do likewise. If the
bill is thrown out, it will revive agitation and
ill-feeling, and cause blood to be shed in
Ireland, and the newspapers to teem with
horrors. There can be only one reason for rejecting
the bill—that the country has changed its •• mind.
Those who think so are Justified in attempting to
send the question back to the constituencies.- But is
it so ? If not, the rejection would be a great mistake.

SHOCKING MURDER AT GLASGOW.—A mother
WAS murdered by her daughter in Glasgow on Friday
night. The daughter, who is 37 years of age, had been
drinking for several weeks, and appear to have drank her-
self into delirium tremens. In this state she heard voices
in the clouds ordering her to murder her mother, and she
obeyed them. She half•choked the old woman, and then
beat her on the head with a smoothing-inn. Thereafter
the murderess went to her brother's and told what she had

done.
A STRANGE EPISODE.—The Moniteur de l'Armee
gives a strange episode in the destruction of the General
Abbatucci. '['here were some officers and their wives on
board, and when it became evident there was no hope, the
poor ladies and gentlemen took off all their jewels and
placed them, with their money, watches, chains, and
rings, on the deck. "We must not appear before .God
with things like these." It would seem as if they believed
their physical presence would be carried beyond the

grave.
TIIE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD AND CIIIIRCH PRO-
PERTY.—At a meeting of the committee of the Archidia-
conal Conference the Bishop of Lichfield suggested that the
rudidecanal conferences should at an early period discuss
the desirability of appointing a Board of Trustees for the
entire Church in order that all new church property should
be vested in them. He stated that he was every day more
averse to placing Church property in the hands of the State,
because by a single clause in an Act of Parliament both old
and new may be swept away. The suggestion was received
without any comment whatever.—Shrewsbury Free Press.
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS' SALARIES. —The Pres-
byterians of Ulster, or some of them, seem to starve their
ministers. At a meeting in Tyrone the other day, Mr.
Green, the Crown Solicitor for Antrim, gave some statistics
of ministerial stipends. There were, be sal!, 270 congrega-
tions in connection with the General Assembly paying less
than £5O a year each to their ministers. In the Dun-
gannon Presbytery, for instance, there are six ministers
who receive annually the following amounts in excess of
the Regium Donum:—£22 9s. 5d., £35, £23 Os. 11d.,
£37 3s. 7d., £34 18s., and £2 Vs. 10d ! In the Donegal
Presbytery there are several ministers who receive about .
£22 each, and other Presbyters appear to be nearly as
bad. Yet the Ulster Presbyterians include many rich
people, and are generally the most thriving class in
Irel and.
NOVEL APPLICATION FOR DAMAGES. Not a
hundred miles from Llandyssil, Cardlganshire, a young
man, disappointed in a love affair, sent a bill containing the
following items to his " deceitful love" after she had been
wedded to another Nov., 4, 1868.—Mrs.
late Miss —, to Mr. To 53 glasses of wine at dif-
ferent fairs and markets, 13s. 3d. ; to 1 pair of shoes, and
heeling another pair that I wore out in going and coming
from 4s. Gd. ; for l)r.'s bill for curing a cough, caught
by waiting under your window on a wet night, V.) its, 941.;
to postage, &c., is. lid.; to deceiving me and throwing
me out of a partner for life, £lOO ; to enticing me to come
to 99 times, at 2s. Gd. each time, £l2 ; to 12 days lost
in your company, £4 Vs. 6d.—£128145. 9d. --Shrewsbury
Free Prem.
A Bunoran. DROWNED.--Dr. Lankester, the
i coroner, has received information of the shocking death of
a man. It appears that about half-past two on Saturday
Imorning Police-constable Joseph Love saw a man getting
out of the first floor back window of the house No. 6,
Mocas cottages, Camden-street, St. Pancras. Before
the constable could get to the house the man dropped
from the balcony into the street, and, seeing the con-
stable following him, he ran down the street, climbed
II over a garden wall and got on the towing path of
the Regent's Canal. The constable followed, and the
deceased hid himself under the College-street Bridge, but
seeing the constable still following he ran along the
The constable got up to the deceased, and
staowidinlige
path.
ild have to go to the police-station, but as he
was going to catch bold of him deceased suddenly stepped
hack and jumped into the canal. The constable
endeavoured to reach him, but before he could do so the
deceased bad got into the middle of the canal. In a
m• .ute or so be called out, " I ape going down ; save me !
save me !" but before the constable could render him any
assistance he sank. Drags were immediately sent for;
but when the deceased was lniought to the towing-path
life was found to be extinct., I

few days, if they do so ; a warning taxe, or olame yourscu-.
We want to hurt no man who do not 'deserve it. You'r
getting fair play and time to consider, and then blame
yourself. If . . . or . . . force ye, we will have
revenge on them.
" THE IRISH BOYS AND SONS OF FREEDOM.
" God save Ireland."

FOREIGN NOTES.
ENGL,i/tD AND AMERICA.

The memorial has since been forwarded, notwith-
standing the notice, but it has not, it is said, been
so numerously signed as it would otherwise have
been.

The " Yankee " correspondent of the Spectator says
that the comments of the English press on Mr.
Sumner's speech are pitched in a surprising tone;
but they are not likely to give offence. The writer
believes the assumption that the Americans are animated
by a dangerous feeling of ill. vill to England to be a
mistake. There is no such feeling. " For eight years
there has not been here so placid a tone of mind towards
England as there is at present—one so disposed towards
hearty and permanent relations of friendship." The
Spectator, in an " editorial," adds its belief that
American sentiment towards Britain has greatly changed
—that the disposition is to throw over Mr. Sumner's
speech. But this is simply the result of the change of
feeling in England.

REDUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
No fewer than twelve ironclads—all of which did good
service in the civil war—have been advertised for sale by
the War Department of the United States. This fine
collection of war material is in good condition, and, accord-
ing to the .A .ClO Yen: Times, is sold solely to carry out the
policy of economy and reduction. This advertisement
has, certainly, the reverse of a warlike appearance. Only
a few days ago an American official gave his opinion
that the United States navy was not in a condition
for war, and that it was more than questionable
whether it could keep the seas against the British fleet.
The sale of twelve ironclads is, then, a decisive peace
manifesto.

LOSS OF TWO ABERDEEN SHIPS AND THEIR CREWS.
Two deplorable shipwrecks have occurred in the Gulf
of St. Lawrence. A telegram from Quebec announces
the wreck of the ships Zetur (Captain Taylor) and
Margaret, both of Aberdeen, off Anticosti Island. Al'
hands were lost except the mate of the Margaret.

THE ATROCITIES ON BOARD THE JAMES FOSTER.
The horrible story of the voyage made by the emigrant
ship James Poster, from England to New York, will not
yet have faded from the recollection of newspaper
readers. The Emigration Commissioners at New York
have for some time past been inquiring into this affair,
and their report was ready a few days ago. They find
fault with the arrangements of the British Emigration
authorities, whom they severely censure. The report says
the principal security against the recurrence of such evils
is to be found, perhaps, in the rapid discontinuance of
sailing ships in the carrying of emigrants to New York, and
the employment of steam vessels in their stead. Mean-
while, shipowners are besought to exercise greater care
and caution in the selection of their office's.