The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

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T.TIE BELFAST MEETI.,‘,V.

The Orangemen of Ireland are well sati,fled with their
Belfast meeting. All the forces of Orangeiem in a district
where it flourishes were collected on Saturday and formal

the most imposing demonstration in point of numbers
since the commencement of the Defence agitation. The
fact that Mr. Johnstone, M.P., was inducel to preside
secured the attendance of the rank and file of the Orange
Society, who, from feelings of jealousy, had kept away
from other meetings. The meeting was chiefly composed
of the working classes. Its numbers are differently
estimated in the, voluminous reports of the proceedings
which appear in the local journals. The Express
states that at the commencement there were
about 15,003 present, but that after some time, when the
workpeople were re:eased from the mills, it received
enormous accessions, and that it was ultimately computed
at from 80,000 to 100,000. The number of tickets issued
was 75,000, and One ticket was sufficient t) admit an
Orange Lodge. Special trains broughtcontingents from a
distance. From Monaghan and. Londonderry 1,800
Orangemen came, under the command of Captain Madden
and Mr. Archdall. When they entered the Botanic Gar-
dens the " brethren " pill: on their scarves and other
insignia, and marched in military order to their places
around the platform, which was profusely adorned with
flags and banners. The meeting was opened, of course,
with the singing of a psalm and prayer. The chairman
commenced the oratorical performances of the day with a
speech, in which he referred to the Bangor procession in
terms of satisfaction, and expressed the determination of
Irish Protestants never toccnctde their rights to meet as
Orangemen where and when they pleased to express their
opinions. He characterised the Orange Institution as the
noblest organisation ever devised by Protestants to main-
tain their cause and to carry Out the spread of
Bible Christianity. The chairman's observations
kindled the enthusiasm of the meeting. Mr.
John Thompson, D.L., high sheriff of the county of
Antrim, moved the first resolution, which contained a pro-
test against Mr. Gladstone's bill, as subverting the Pro-
teitant constitution of the country. Mr. John Guy
Ferguson, Governor of the .Apprentice Boys of Derry,
seconded the resolution. He assured the meeting that
the "mighty heart" of the body to which he belonged
was throbbing with one universal feeling of opposition to
the spoliatory measure. Mr. William M'Cormick, an
Episcopalian, vice-president of the Belfast Working Men's
Association, and Mr. Joseph English, a Presbyterian
working man, supported the resolution in speeches advo-
cating bold and determined action. Mr. Adam J. Macrory,
president of the Presbyterian Constitutional Association,
moved in a long speech the next resolution, which
asserted the right of the Presbyterian Church to a con-
tinuance of the Regium Donum. The Rev. Dr. Baylee
seconded the resolution. The meeting was also
addressed by Messrs. Alexander Sims, W. Wallace, Rev.
J. D. Crawford, Rev. R. Henderson (Presbyterian), and
others in support of resolutions urging the Lords to cast
out the bill, and adopting a petition to the Queen against
it. The meeting was orderly, and passed off without
creating any disturbance in the town, its political excite.
ment being allowed to expend itself in the cool seclusion
of the Gardens.

FURTIIER DOINGS OF THE SPIRIT=
RAPPERS.

A few days ago we reprinted the evidence adduced at a
recent meeting, of the Spirittialism Committee of the
London Dialectical Society. The following narrative is
in addition to what we then published :
Mr. John Jones, of Enmore Park, South Norwood,
gave au account of a stance which had been held at his
house in July lad, as follows:—"It was on Friday,
July 17th, about ten o'clock, in a room sixteen feet
by thirty four, two gas burners a!ight. In the room
was a heavy 100 table,arouud winch were ten chairs, seven
occupied. The other three chairs were meant to repre-
sent my late wife, my daughter Marian, and my son
Walter. I had placed en my wife's chair her last silk
dress, on my daughter's the flannel robe she wore before
passing away, and en my :son's chair his necktie. I was
trying to think of some time to get us into a state of har-
mony, when suddenly my.thoughts were anticipated ; my
accordion began to emit sounds, and a most jubilant tune
was brilliantly played. Bright lights, like stars, were
seen moving up and down the keys during the hymn of
praise. The accordion then gently rose in the air about
four inches, and floated three feet round the table. A
hymn was sung by my family, and then my aged
mother was raised from the floor in her chair until
her knees were on a level with the table top. My late
wife's bonnet was raised from the vacant chair, and car-
ried to my daughter Edith. My late wife's chair then
rose in the air with the dress on it, and leant upon my
mother's breast. The chair then floated back to its place.
The dress on the chair began to pass over and moved on
Loa my mother's knee. Then my deceased daughter's chair
moved round, with the rube extended on it, close to the
table, shoved-my chair away, and :be chair and I were
forced aside to make room for hers. ller chair then went
from the table, passed by the rear of my chair, no human
being touching it. Simultaneously Mr. Home was carried
bodily away from the tab!c. It then proceeded to occupy
the space vacated by Mr. Home, and gradually, and in
sight of all present, rose up in the air. Mr. Jones also
said that he had on snore than one occasion seen a large
100 table he was sitting at,. at his maztal wish, rise from
the floor as high as the ceiling."

Mrs. Itowcroft stated that in July 1860 she had seen
le apparition of her husband. " I was lying," she said,
on the sofa, at about six and seven o'clock in the evening,

perfectly awake, and not thinking at all about my husband,
when I beard three distinct knocks at the door. Thinking
it must be one of the waiters, I said ' Come in,' and my
husband, who had been dead five years, entered, dressed
in the morning dress prescribed for British consuls—a
blue coat, with Victoria buttons, a straw-coloured waist-
coat, and a white hat, such as he always used to wear in
the summer. He had also a walking-stick, with a chamois-
horn handle. I jumped up and advanced towards him.
He then went into the next room ; ani when I had
recovered myself sufficiently to follow him he was gone."
In answer to questions, this lady stated that she was
unable to say how long the apparition lasted ; she had
every reason to believe that her husband was poisoned on
board a ship ; the door actually opened when she said

" Come in ;" the door was not open when the apparition
disappeared.
Miss A. Jones gave an account of certain remarkable
phenomena which she had witnessed at a stance held at
Stockton Howse. Mr. Home, who was present, said that
he was ill, the spirits were in him, and did not understand
him. She saw a bodily form above his shoulders, and it

took the form of a ccne. He went out on to the verandah,
and was carried from thence right across the lawn, a
distance of more than a hundred feet, to a rhododendron
bed. He returned, bringing with him a piece of rhododen-
dron, and although it was raining fast he was not at all
wet, and the soles of his shoes were dry. He had observed
on going out that they would each have a different
perfume given to them, and accordingly, as soon as he was
gone, it seemed as if each one present had been sprinkled
with a different kind of cc nt.
This closed the evidence for that evening.

SID END OF A CENTENAM4.N.—An old w
supposed to be, 103 years of ale is reported to have died
at I r stol. E'he caught her dress on fire while sifting
ashes, and was so much frightened and injured that she
soon afterwards died.
ROYALTY AND THE EAELSWOOD ASYLUM.—HiS
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has kindly con-
sented to lay the first stone of the enlargement of the •
Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, Redhill, Surrey, on Mon-
day, the 28th of June, and the annual fete and summer
entertainment will take place the same day. Ladies
desirous of obtaining purses to be presented to his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales and laid upon the first
stone will be supplied on early application. Each five
guineas collected will entitle to a life vote.
THE LATEST VELOCIPEDE.—BouncI to be ahead
of the world in everything, the Californians are in glee over
a new invention in velocipedes. The four-wheeled machine
is comfortable, the three-wheeled more convenient, the
bicycle seems to need a marvel of skill and confidence to
manage, but a resident of San Francisco has invented a one-
wheeled velocipede, which he claims is as easily balanced,
longitudinally and laterally, and more easily worked than
any of the others. The only improvement left wouldbe to go
without wheels—but that would be returning to first prin-
ciples, and so will hardly be patented.—New York Times.
NEWS FROM InELAND.—The following budget
of news from Ireland is published :—A farmer named
Dunphy, of Waterford, was visited on Saturday by men
with blackened faces, who threatened him with something
serious if he did not give up land in his possession.—The
police at Cork are beginning to stir about the Fenians, and
have commenced a search for arms and documents. Under
a warrant from the Lord-Lieutenant they searched the
house of Patrick Byrnes on Sunday, but found nothing
but a report of the speech delivered from the prisoners'
duck by the Fenian General Burke. Byrnes was one of the
speakers at the late mass met ting.7-John Francis Kearns,
one of the Fenians recently liberated, has become a
lunatic, and has been placed in the Cork Asylum.—Con-
stable Crowley, who was wounded at the recent dis-
turbances at Ballyheigue, is getting worse. O'Hara is
dying in the infirmary at Cork, and Dunne is not expected
to live very long.—Several burglaries were committed in
the city of Cork and neighbourhood during the past
week. The new Mayor attendee the Bridewell on Sun-
day, and discharged three men and two women, prisoners
for drunkenness ; and at the police-court on Monday he
declared his firm determination to •wt down disorderly
eondact.

THE OEN±RAL ELECTIONS 1N FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY'.

The calm which previitea throughout the capital yes-
terday has not been broken to-day. The elections are
passing off in the most pacific manner. The French do not
like agitation in wet weather—a shower of rain would at any
time prevent an insurrection in Paris—but here to-day the
weather is splendid, and yet there is no agitation. Save
that Paris is covered with bills, that the newspapers are
doing aft excessive trade, and that a small crowd is
assembled round some of the balloting places, there are
no signs that an alteration is going on—certainly'none of
the signs which ordinarily attend a contest in -England.
The newspapers prosper in these exciting times. The sale
of the Liberal journals especially is something incred ible,and
even the semi-officials are attaining a circulation which they, '
will never reach again until the next general election.
The reason of this sale is not very apparent, for the
papers contain less now than at any future time.
Whilst the Ballot is doing its work they must
perforce be content with exhortations to the elec-
tors to vote on the right side. The billstickers
are not less busy than the journalists. Nothing can be
more impartial than their labours. They patronise all the
candidates alike, and no aspirant to legislative honours
can apparently afford to do without them. It has been
reckoned that the various candidates for the Seine depart.
ment, that is for the city of Paris, have issued 150,000 bills
—an average of 3,000 to each. Of course many of the
fifty who professed to come to the poll will receive no
votes and have accordingly spent very little money.
To avoid inconvenience, the voting places have been
multiplied as much as possible. They are established in
the halls of the Mairies, or other convenient buildings
belonging to the State or the City of Paris. In each
bureau are seated a president, and two assessors on
his right and left ; and before the latter are placed
registers containing the names of the electors. The urn
stands in the centre of the table ; being,in fact, a wooden
box with double padlocks, having a slit in the lid,
through which the voting ticket is introduced.
' As each bulletin is deposited, the president, after a
verification in the registers, tears off the corner
of the card which had been handed to him, and says, " M.
So-and-So has voted." In general very few groups
were formed, the voters departing at once after depositing
their bulletins. Nobody is admitted to this room except
the voter;but it is easy for outsiders to see all that is going
on. Very few sergents.cle-ville are employed in guard-
ing the voting places, nor does there appear the
slightest need for them. The mode of voting varies
comiderahly in different districts. At Montmartre
the electors come in very, slowly one by one at intervals of
two minutes ; whereas at the Batignolles the stream is
continuous, and in Quartier of the Epinettes the eagerness
to vote is very remarkable. But in all cases the business
was conducted with the most unexceptional quietness.
Th 3 same is reported by telegraph from the departments.
The voting, we are told, is far more general than on
previous occasions, but nowhere is there any disturbance.
The electors then have behaved irreproachably, but the.
same can scarcely be said, if report speaks truly, of the
authorities. In the first place, the electors on the
last two occasions have claimed the right of
sealing the ballot-box with their private seals in
addition to the seals affixed by the president and
assessors. This year the privilege has been denied, and
much discontent has been awakened. It is noteworthy
that last night, at eleven o'clock, M. Tillers, accompanied
by his friends, went to the Mairies of the 17th arron-
dissement and demanded to ses the ballot-box. It
was shewn him, and he carefully examined the
, .tterior to assure himself that the Lox had not been
tampered with. The Maire, uho was not present when
this was done, is very angry. Ile considers M. Thiers's
conduct au insult, but then the authorities should not, in
the first instance have forbidden the electors to exercise
the privilege which they enjoyed in former years. The
Tennis enumerates several arbitrary acts of the officials in
the provinc,..s, and no doubt the authorities in the
c, aintry districts will not forget the experience of former
years. But in Paris the Opposition is too watchful

COMPLETION OF THE UNION PACIFIC

BAILWAY.

Some exciting scenes took place during the last days of
the great work by which a railway Las been thrown
across the American continent from the Atlantic
to the Pacific seaboard. The enterprise was carried
on by two companies, the " Central Pacific" working
from California to the East, and the Union Pacific
crossing the Missouri into the desert from the West.
These two companies were by no means friendly, and for
some time past the squabbles and lawsuits in which their
rivalry found vent seem to have scandalised even the
financiers of New York. According to the Times corre-
spondent, this rivalry endured to the last, and prevented
the junet7on of the two lines for several weeks.
" The roadmakers of each company worked like heroes to
extend their lines. The more miles of road, cheaply
built, the more bonds there would be, and the more
profit. The grading parties of each line met weeks ago,
but they did not join. The companies did not love each
other, so they turned the cold shoulder and passed by, and,
each working on, for fifty-three miles the two roads were
graded parallel to each other. Here was an excellent
chance for trouble, and it came. Each road followed its
surveys ; they ran into each other, and so did the roads,
and so did the labourers, and so did clubs and stones.
The roads were nearly always in sight of each other,
sometimes but a few yards apart, and once they crossed.
The labourers dug out each other's embankments, and
filled up each other's cuttings ; they cursed and fought
and fired blasts without giving native, so that a small
earthquake, followed by a shower of d6bris, would greet
the opposite party. Happily no human being was killed,
but several mules were, and finally each party sent to
headquarters for firearms for protection. They worked
and fought on, building their roads side by side, delaying
the junction and completion of the line until the managers
concluded that the proceedings were too costly, and
there was a compromise at Washington, which was
speedily telegraphed to the Plains and restored peace
there. By the compromise the Central Company
abandoned its own graded line and took the Union Com-
pany's line. The track was laid on the latter. The Union
paid the expense, and gets the Government bonds for
fifty-three miles. Bonds were at the bottom of the whole
trouble."

The Bth of May was fixed for the formal junction, but
owing to further difficulties it did not take place until the
10th. On that day the Pacific Railway was com-
pleted, and the project which was deemed a visionary
scheme three years ago became an accomplished
reality. All over the country the event was celebrated
by bell-ringing, cannon-firing, processions, and oratory of
the true American type. At noon, on the 10th, the last
spike was driven in, every stroke of the hammer
being announced by telegraph in every telegraph
office of the States. " There were prayers and
speeches, Te Deums' and Hail Columbian,' Old
Hundredths' and ' Star-spangled Banners ; ' and of
every incident as it happened all Americans were informed
at the instant. Promontory Point signalled to New
York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Washing-
ton, 4tc., with the comprehensive salute, To every-
body ! Keep quiet.' By-and-by came another an-
nouncement of the beginning of the ceremonies—
' Almost ready : hats off. Prayer is being offered.'
Then came a pause, during which the electrified
' everybody' was charitably supposed to be pray-
jug. This little task, however, was soon completed ;
for the next message was, ' We have got done praying.
The spike is about to be presented.' By-and•by came
warning to look out for three taps on the bell, as the
signal that the final blows on the spike were to be given.
Then the hammer of the magnet tapped the bell, one, two,
three, and at 2.47 Promontory Point triumphantly flashed
the concluding message, Done.' A tie of polished Cali-
fornia laurel, bound with American silver, and a spike of
Californian gold mark the place of union at Promontory
Point, near Salt Lake, Utah."

A diocesan conference, summoned by the Arch-
bishop of York, opened at Sheffield on Monday. Amongst the
subjects of discussion is set down the question of " how to
attach the working classes to the Church." His Grace held
en ordination at Sheffield on Sunday.

The 34th West York Rifle Volunteers, who have
been encamped at Woodsome-park during the past week,
were inspected on Saturday by Licut.-Colonel Wombwell.
In the course cf his remarks at the close of the proceedings,
the inspecting eflicer expressed himself strongly in favour
of occasional camp life, as enabling volunteers to get an
insight into the duties that might be requirA of a soldier.
At the Sheffield sessions on Saturday thirteen colliers
were indicted for having riotously Lssembled at Mexbro' on
the 11th April. The charge arose out of what is known as
the Deuaby Main lock-out. The men were engaged under a
month's notice, and the propriotors having resolved to discon-
tinue the einplo ment of union teen, terminated the
( ngagement with their han(ls on the usual notice, and
set on non-unionists. The charge against the pri-
a. ners then was that they on the day named riotously
assembled and endeavoured to prevent the non-uni9nists
from following their lawful employment. The j nry ref urned a
verdict against the accused, when the Court exercised
its discrimination in dealing with the men, and ordered
William Birkinshaw, Bowers, and Hodson to be bound
over in their recoguisauces to keep the peace for three
months ; Martin Birkinshaw was sentenced to three months,
John Taylor and Samuel Tye to six weeks, and Calligan,
Ford, I' ul wood, Johnson, Longbettom, Marland, and
Morrill, to one month, all with hard labour.