The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-15 00:00:00

PROTESTANT MEETING AT DUBLIN.
The Conservative papers lay great stress on a meeting
held on Monday evening at Dublin. The demonstration
against the Irish Church Bill was announced to take place
in the Dublin Exhibition Palace only two days previously;
yet above 30,000 tickets were issued, and it is said that
the building was crowded in every part. The number
present is variously estimated at from 15,000 to 25,000•
Three platforms were spoken from—in the Concert Hall,
in the Great Transept, and in Leinster Hall. Resolutions
were passed with " unexampled demonstrations of enthu•
siasm" and repeated cries of "No compromise !" "No
surrender !" earnestly calling upon the Lords to throw out
the bill.
Sir Edward Grogan presided at the principal platform.
Among the speakers were -The Hon. David Plunket,
Mr. Falkiner, Q.C., the Rev. Dr. Foley, the Rev. Dr.
Griffin, and Mr. Alexander Boyle. The meeting lasted
over three hours, during which the excitement increased;
but all was quiet. The demonstration was an unparalleled
success.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AT CORK.
A supposed attempt at assassination was made at Cork
on Monday. A shot was fired into the Constitution office.
The bullet passed through a space where a member of the
staff had just been standing, breaking,- the windows, no
striking the opposite door. A similar thing occurred A
few days ago. The Constitution is supposed to be ob.
noxious to the Fenians, hence the outrage.

OTHER OUTRAGES.
The two persons named Murray who were recently
arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of
Mr. Anketell, have been again remanded by the magistrates.
It is stated that additional evidence has been obtained,
and that the authorities entertain some hope that they
may ultimately be enabled to bring the murderer to

justice.
A small farmer, named Flynn, residing at Drumcollon
County Leitrim, four miles from Mohill, was killed on
Saturday night in a dispute with a person nara,c/
Cassidy, about cutting turf. His skull was fractured wit°
a spade.

THE FRENCH THIEVES.

The Daily News has an interesting article descriptive of
the thieves of Paris. The facts are taken from a
paper in
the Revue des Deux Mondes, by M. Maxime du Caren
who classifies his subjects as a botanist would his plants.
The thieves (he declares) form a clan, separate and die.
tinct, and divisable into some twenty groups. They have
a dialect of themselves. The language of the gipsies
fornlS
a large part of this strange patois, into which words
from other foreign tongues enter. The chief of a COre.
pany of thieves is called meg or reek, by contraction,
according to M. du Camp, from the Latin magus, Arable
meld,: (king) ; the executioner is tollard, from the
Latin tellere, quia tollit c vivis. In the thieves' argot, the
word fur pardon is redam, from the Latin redinzere, to
redeem. In it years are berges, from the German ber.g
(mountain), symbolising the difficult ascent of ths°
arduous life. Other metaphors are more obvious. T
speak is balancer le chiffon rouge, "to wave the
red rag "—that is, the tongue. To peach 11P.,,0,n,
a comrade is judacer, to play the Judas. jus-1'",
an odd concession, the Court of Assizes is la
(the just one). The Legislative Body is "-;•
Tower of Babel an omnibus, " the common oven ;S
the grating of the prison windows is " the harp." 12,11.,e1
gendarmes are the "dealers in lace" (or, by an arabigul"'
asnear:so—ntme-aarLhgarnetd: deor ,laacsets;ve am'hieghgtusilalyot,inteheiva:biSiebybaliel
Sorrowful Ascent. Now, from the five 61,313,5 e
placed in the middle of the pavement of the na--
..
de la Roquette, it is called the Abbey
Stones. To deny (vier) is, by a mere of the r 1.1:
play upon ear(u'
"togo to Niort." The bench on which the accused sit
in
the courts of justice is known as the planehe au Pain'
the bread-plank ; a phrase which, as 111. du Cat"
observes, strikingly paints the ordinary destitution °ftb its
occupants. In the hierarchy of the thieves' clan
as we shl°l°
oula
highest place is occupied by the faisseurs, or,
call them, swindlers. Next follow "free burgesses,
obtain entrance into houses by professing to belong te t,17,
profession of the occupant, and who are readY to Pc4
up anything that comes to hand. " The actor who ha'
been ruined by the burning down of his theatres the
to
humble and mendicant ecclesiastic who is under a VOW
been
go on foot to Rome, the man of letters who has
the
fatally involved in the failure of his publisher,. wet.
chant who has been unlucky in business, the old tutor
whom family misfortunes and his own virtue hake
reduced to distress," belong to this class. r-CheY_
the
have their counterparts in England, as have also
chineurs, who sell stuffs to women from door to doer
which they are able to offer at inconceivably low Priees,
.
The 'rot au poivricr, the theft from the pepper-castor
with which a thief's career generally begins, is robb'rl
from a drunken man under pretence of assisting bile. The
tireur is our pickpocket, who haunts crowds at theatre'
doors, exhibitions, and railway stations. He is gene1,3,,111,
accompanied by three or four lads—mouelterons,
gnats, who indicate likely subjects to him. la
triumph of this art is to make the tire ‘`
chicane, that is, with the back turned to the Persi°lii
who is being plundered. Its greatest adept was I\l.
,e
Lepreuil, who had acquired the honourable nei,()"..,
of " the hand of gold." M. du Camp gives an illustrati.
of his skill. An immense crowd being assembled ditrtlnte
the time of the Republic on the Place de la B"rse';rea
police agent on duty recognising Mimi Lepreuil rege"
him to take himself away. That illustrious wan refusal' e
taking his stand upon his right as a citizen. " Leeve,ed
alone," he said, " with your Republicans ; I have rumar.,,
in five hundred pockets, and have not found a single.Suis
Other forms of theft are the vol et la atourne, mrbl.„e,
practised by female shoplifters, and the vol retal;.;
which is theft of goods exposed for sale in the open
tag, is
the vol a la rade or au radin, in which the shol3-h the
carried off bodily ; and the rot ft la vrillee Whtxr
boy.
C.
joe,
bearings of the shop having been taken in the day
hole is pierced in the shutters, and " the rat,' make
thief, enters, and admits his coxnrades, ere
short work of its contents. The casseurs de s deg
our housebreakers, and often break heeds Ai
as doors. The carrevrs have their field of operate:
with
jewellers' shops. "He examines the precious etontbat
Ii
extreme attention, closely, very closely—so closelY
wooed
touches them with his nose. His nose has been ich are
with virgin wax ; some diamonds stick to it, Other
slipped promptly into the sharper's sleeve•
out et
practitioners use their tongues, shooting thenlio, with
the jewels like certain insect-catching aninle.Le palra
rapid and precise aim, or fix the stones to
°rear, in
of the hand with gum adraganth. The ea,r.,e whe
throwing a couple of sous to an accompils' cal u•
acts the street beggar, often throws with thern
_7is
able diamond. A single jeweller in the Palais 11%), thgale
to have lost property to the value of £4,°°,_ luggage
operation of two earreurs. The roulotier ste3P`isepore•
from trucks, and completes the category of the ba
tho
or inferior thieves, whom M. du Camp describesu,;epiore
there are many other varieties of it. To the ha foal
(the word pegre comes through the old Italian pregi;22o., of
the Latin piger, slothful) belong. the camb go; 08
chamber-rifler, caroubleur, or robber with false keY_ the
sorguer, or man of the night, who stops carriagiesi'ng „„a
high road, and regulates his labours by the
hol. cioselY
setting of the moon ; and the scionneur, C
_tirder
resembles our garotter. None of these she fro
..niotocie
as an accident of plunder. At the head of them all
the escarpe, who is assassin by profession.

near
A pauper lunatic in the Garlands 2t-sP"-- / 000.
Carlisle, named Ann Cook, has become entitled 000
A relative died recently, and left her and her sisterrO,
between em. Mary
CHARGthE OF LIBEL.—An action against a ciera
officer for libel was heard in the Court of Comma j-gili•
oil Monday. Captain Brooke, riding master at the ~'
_ll
tary College at Sandhurst, sued Colonel Peel, forraerlY. a
: 01 a
officer in the 11th Hussars, for having libelled 101'111A
letter e had written to Lord Williana a'1300.,
-GeneraAdjutant-1 at the Horse Guards. Tie court'
d the
ever, held that the communication was privileged: al'
plaintiff was non-suited. 13 EACS
11
TWENTY SHILLINGS COMPENSATION iron to
or PROMISE.—A woman, named Mitchell, belonging ,
the parish of Leslie, has just sued William Olcinnll3c/00,
tailor in Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, for £l2 darnsgest in,oer
sequence of defender having engaged to marry 01' bio
and failed to do so. Oldman is over 70 yearning of 14;et ; the
would-be wife between 40 and 50. Before gfin;:: '
merits the sheriff gave defender a last chance 0' ',,,,)siti:"
the case by taking the lady. The " old gentle— er.
declined the offer, and the sheriff found for the pursn i.
He thought 20s. would cover all the loss she bad stistaine°t
that
THE MASSACRE IN ABYSSINIA.—TIIO Staeille.ll.
t the object of Mr. Henr Powell and his brother'nl
law's visit to Egypt is "toy obtain from the Vicr:YtO
sufficient force to enable them to mete out justic-
tra"
the murderers of their kinsfolk," is emphatically CO 4,
dieted. Their purpose is, it is stated, to obtain ".s.
adequate escort from the Egyptian governor a t 1‘1,5t4
sowah to proceed as near as practicable to the locall,1;
of the reported massacre, and to ascertain by Per'cl'id
Shon e
inquiries on the spot the fate of their relateves.
their worst fears be realised, they will proba.bly leave °I
i punishment of the assassins to the only
mentality, namely, the Egyptian forces, who are now ea
active service in that territory. On the other hand,
should it prove that the unfortunate party are retained f.ls
hostages by the wild Basenah tribe, negotiations Will n,.:
set on foot and every conciliatory moo 001 t 9 Fillv -
available instill'
gleifliberatiOn. '''-' -