The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-21 00:00:00

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT IN EGYPT.

The case of the Viceroy of Egypt is particularly hard.
" Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," but the Vice-
roy has, so to speak, only a semi-crown, and yet no poten-
tate can well be in a more uneasy position. More than
one attempt has been made upon his life. Ruling a nation
is all very well, but when it. is accompanied with the
imminent risk of being elevated into the air as you lie on
your bed or as you sit in your chair, ordinary mortals
may well congratulate themselves. The last attempt
to assassinate the Viceroy seems to have been
founded on the model of the Guy Fawkes conspiracy.
It was projected to blow up the Viceroy as he sat
Wt the theatre. His Highness's chair is on a slightly
raised platform, and in the floor was found the infernal
machine, composed of an apothecary's mortar. At the
bottom of the mortar was found a layer of gunpowder,
above which was a layer of balls, upon that another layer
of powder, and on the top of all a layer of bullets and small
pieces of glass. Between each layer was placed paper, and
a quantity of powder was also strewn about under the raised
platform, and so arranged under the main gaspipe that fire
could soon have finished the work of destruction. A wick,
impregnated with some inflammable matter, was then
introduced into 'the mortar, and passing down the wall
was hidden sufficiently by the gas-pipe to escape observa-
tion, while the other end of the wick was attached to a
beam near a gas-jet in the side scene, where it could easily
be ignited. The theatre had ben closed for some days
previously, thus giving the conspirators every opportunity
of arranging the details of this neat scheme. But who
the conspirators are is not disclosed, even if they are
known.

WASHINGTON, April 2.
If our people are ugly towards Spain in Cuba, it
is not that they desire anything but the good of
Spaniards in Spain. At the meeting of the American
Tract Society of New York, held at the Congrega-
tional Church here, Spain figured prominently. It
was for that country the most urgent claims were
made; there, the work is said to be most encouraging,
vouched for by the Rev. F. C. Fletcher, who gave
his personal observations of his missionary labours.
Chief Justice Chase presided. The Home evange-
lical work since the war has been directed to the
South and taken the most prominent place with the
Society; 2,800 Sabbath and secular schools there
have been assisted, and 300,000 United States
primers have been distributed. Abroad publica-
tions have been circulated in 141 different languages
and dialects, many in Arabic. The whole publish-
ing work of the Society, which has existed for 45
years, has been the issue of 23,500,000 bound
volumes, 300,000,000 tracts, and 112,000,000 pe-
riodicals. The new Attorney-General is upsetting
the legal decisions of the old Attorney-General, and
furnishing every pretty lesson of how seldom doctors
agree. Mr. Everts ruled that the labourers em-
ployed by Government were to receive their full
wages, though the time, iu accordance with the late
law, had been reduced from ten to eight hours.
Attorney-General Hoar reverses that decision, and
says that the workmen are only to get eight-tenths
of the wages, while Secretary Boric presses for the
repeal of the eight-hour law. Mr. Hoar is also of
opinion that the late Mr. Bates, who was Mr. Lin-
coln's Attorney-General, was wrong in his law,
whereby Secretary Welles raised the rank of the
staff to correspond with the rank of the line officers
when the grade in the navy was raised from Com-
modore to Admiral. The line officers asserted that
he had no power to do this ; Attorney-General
Bates said he had ; and Attorney-General Hoar
says he had not ; and the new Secretary of the
Navy asks the Naval Committee of the House to ,
have the relative rank fixed, or he will be compelled
of
to reduce the rank of the staff officers in accordance f The following curious regulations for the 1.15,,,e4
ye Royal Household of Henry VII. compare arens'''..7jt
with this decision. Secretary Boutwell is justifying
;withtthose of her Majesty Queen Victoria : -1. The ht13.,`,.0,
the trepidation among the female clerks employed in
always keep himself clean, in order not to c t beep
various departments of the Treasury, for a very laree
nullis'e his
Majesty's health. 2. The treasurer shall not coe scullions who walk about almost naked, cald dies
laso•cr d
number have been discharged. A number of speci d
agentsformerly appointed for political services are to or lie down before the kitchen fire. 3. No meat U0'494,
be removed en masge. But it is even easier to get , a certain price shall be served on the King's table. ;
The servants 'to furnish a sufficient guarantee to rid
them out than to keep them out, which constitutes
vide against. the subtraction of. wooden platters ;ter
the real difficulty, just as the bottom of an iron ship is
.. copper utensils to his Majesty. 5. re aa
scraped clear of all barnacles readily enough in dock,
plate being too costly for belongingily use, the greatest care 0 G.
but look at that ship's bottom after she has been a be taken of the wooden platters' and' pewter spoons' 5
short time at sea, and you see the same things No boy jr commissioner shall be kept at Court for tboil/h-O
quite fast and secure there, and feeling evidently of the servants. 7. Women, who are prodigal, shal'eo
banished the Court. 8. As likewise all kinds of dogs, enbe
very much at home. The President has been laid
a small number of spaniels, reserved for the use 13 we
up for the last few days, and did not receive till
9. The officers of the King's household 1(1 00
Tuesday, and a report was circulated in New York ladies..
in harmony with each other. 12. The stable boys 13°4,
that the attack was so severe that he was not ex- steal his Majesty's straw to put in their beds, as a Sl.,if
petted to recover ;so our rumour-mongers ma- ' dent quantity has been given them. 13. Betweeil vbe
naged in one week to kill both the outgoing and and seven o'clock the officer charged with the service oftliie
incoming Presidents. Much opposition is develop- i King's chamber shall light the fire and lay straw lu, Do
lug itself to General Grant in the Republican press, 1 private apartments of his Majesty. 14. Coal will olaitsci
furnished for.the apartments of the King, the Queen, particularly in New York, where the Evening Post
t..tho.seof Lady ady Mary. 15. The Ladies of Honour to. rot.
and the Sun show very plain symptoms of swinging
present-tvh i t
we
ibl
fr obaed an
maded some me beef for their breoaf;ers
round the circle. The Hon. J. Lathrop Motley 16ImeA
o
any of the King's big
ing, on condition they make a present t°
will, it is now generally believed, be the Minister to marry
England, though Mr. John Jay has lately been leijesty.
mentioned. Mr. Motley is now in 1% ashington, William M‘Willie, who died at Khkwood, Pdeeti'
son county, Mississippi,
and is often in the Senate Chamber. When the on March
3, was born
....,1) ,p
Liberty Hill, Kershaw District, South Carolina, on i'°io
announcement was made of the second adjournment
17, 1795. He graduated at South Carolina College
0,01
resolution of the llouse, Mr. Sumner shouted frotyn
eDecemeer, 1817, was admitted to the bar in 18;8, at vie,
his place " Impossible ;" in fact it would be ver catered upon a successful career a lawyer, and w'''s it
diflintilt to get through the mass of bnsiness await- ' pcat, dly elected to the House asof RepresentativeB Alo
ing action, but there is one way of dealing with it Senate of South Carolina. In 1845 M‘Willie remove" r,
which the Legislature will adopt, and that is leav- Mississippi, to reside on a plantation, which he bad 50,
chased ten years previously. He was elected a ItePla79 to
ing it .to take care of itself. Mr. Washburn, of
tative to Congress from Mississippi, serving from 18 ]9 Paraguay, made a statement to the House Cora-
-1831, was president of a bank, and was elected Gogo
mittee on Foreign Affairs, respecting the treatment of Mississippi in 1858.
by Lopez of his officials, Bliss and Masterman, but ' We clip the following from an American P3Peept,
nothing new transpired. Witnesses have been 1 —"Mr. Aird, a noted London barrister, was a printer' be
summoned, and the official conduct of Mr. Wash- ' too, was Douglas Jerrold ; John Kitto', the editor of:tg
burn and Admiral Davis will be investigated. ! pictorial Bible, was by trade a shoemaker; Dr. LivJLO
z. The correspondence relating to the dispute at , stone was a factory operative ; John Cassell a journeYcs ' r
Senators, though permission was refused to allow
Madrid has been printed and distributed to the carpenter; and William Gifford, the founder of the
;sr
burgh Review, first a cabin boy and then a shoemaker
the letters to be published.
T i preutic .
hey are from Secre- The largest kitchen in the world is that of Lie'.c
tary Seward, John P. Hale, and secretary of Lega-
tion big's Extract of Meat Company's establishment at '1":141,
tion, Perry. abe no.nination of General Lonbg- Bentos, on the river Uruguay, South America. The buis-pio
street was discussed in the Senate, and gave an ing covers an area of 20,000 square feet. In one hall the
opportunity to Governor Brownlow of attacking meat
'cutters, which can dispose of 200 bull°cot
are four
that officer, which the feeble old man did with no each per hour. There are 12 digesters, in which ths n'ooo
lack of bitterness ands pite •; the Senate, however boiled by steam. They can hold altogether 14'' 11/
poundsis of beef.
.About 80 oxen per hour are act°
refused to be guided by Brownlow, and sanctioned' slaughtered
r .or this immense establishment.
ore
the appointment. Secretary Boutwell asked Mr. The Legislature of British Columbia has aPK
George A. Halsey,who once represented in Congress plated 620, 000 to bring servant girls from England' ~ of
Newark District, New Jersey, to take the post of r gou, I.
ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills.—The .-- hi',
Register of the Treasury. Mr. Boutwell would not Danger. —Disease comes on With-slight symptoms, N''..rosir
receive a refusal, and declared that the President Ndvahnegnernoelfsli catedc,oninzi).oanse
whichin intensity s and s
e
sl ,e.ei;
would immediately send his name to the Senate. missness, when these Pills, taken in betrays
with ltt,
accompanying directions, would not only have checker', f
Mr. Halsey arrived at Washinoton last Monday, but conquered the incipient disorder. Patients dam
and rejected Mr. Boutwell's pressing invitation ward details of the most remarkable and instructive c`",ar
in which timely attention to Holloway's advice 110 OP
unless permitted to continue his leather business in
adcottibrtdly
.saved them from severs illnesses. These,.;ol'
New Jersey. The question was referred to the At-primarily on the digestive organs which they S"
torney-General, who considered that the law which latepwhen slow and imperfect. ' nag;
disqualified Mr. T. Stewart applied to Mr. Ilalsey, [ADVERTISEMENT 3—Consumption, and all bilious, torr-te. stomach,and liver complaints in ever stag re only aggcAfectl
which is much to be regretted, as he saw more of and accelerated by drugs of everyydescrlpation, but Ps'ivi
the workings of the Treasury Department when on asp bolveebaybDyu
tiltrarsya:us teaolp;raessetsorwie %Re
-111 ii haart:eeAnracboillea'sl4o
.Isittogtepl e sost:,
the Retrenchment Committee of the Fortieth Con- ii rai3ittea"itacdiogsetilti" (dyspepsia), cough, asthU'ltor
irteinots, htemorrhoids, livelt)•acomnaipldiai
anti?, ot3ias,tuatell jya,stnreicrifo?o,
gees than any other man. The Secretary of the
fluenzesan,enssdisreesveirns,
tTioer7
ead th r o aatnsa deixrhst,hreil-sia, tiasrrhsi
()CLIO: iiolf;
Treasury asked for the power of paying interest on
the public debt in advance ; and, after some le is- raiety,eruxpioitmiohnrtiretaailtiruralgiiiae,aritability, ;le ePllrsoureli
seer aa RiZsi;
kliTnts nitre nausea and heartburn, headache, savehne ,
in dperbeiglitlicy,
Coore
5,,
latibn on the subject, it appeared that this joint re-
i tbhreoseteohmitaisaernorNaelwteithutntres
sohfoutlaer,rfl
wain at the'pit os
solution approved in 1864 was still in the Statute-
Book :—" Resolved, That the Secretary of the FooCliluerea 1437.6-BZe Pope's, healthi restored Dubejalt; all
sthtger Holy Father is excellenot,mee;peaciLly2l's since, Theallnd "P5l
Treasury be authorized to anticipate the payment
Revaleinerlera.s'blicae h
of interest on the public debt by a period not ex- jirozod,n tionfe dwrcnhs she entirely tees Dau
pletilo
seeding one year, from time to time, either with or ett every
Inhlas It has srohl.uce a surprisingly
113,1„
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l'
healPdV3l;let,
Without rebate of interest upon the coupons as to excellent food too highlyn." Holiness—From the "elnzneettte
c.lllialyst2,s.of Cureprlin INeyo. 46270. Mr. Tames Roberts, tirnbFriaa,
him may seem expedient; and he is hereby autho- Surrey, of thirty years' diseased 'e of
rized to dispose of any gold in the Treasury of the p:iiitrtetingrooflT7olo.cl, r - P.:es derangement,tuartdec
easnd partial duetaci;4ol
United States not necessary for the payment of the WaterforCl, 'of many years' dyspepsia.-L. No. d49,j8i32r.5...,010,1
interest of the public debt, provided that the obli- years'asthma,
eo indescribableugh,
constipation,.ay flatulency, spasms, pelsia :1:15:1;0:011
vomiting.—MariaJoly.' Imp ortant calltio n.—Beware. of I-0 De,
gation to create the Sinking Fund, according to
the
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whicil, .pe ~0
Act of February 25, 1862, sCall not be impaired authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously stitt,//Pc'ir
In tins, at ls. 10.; 1 lb. 2s. sad.; 2 lbs. 4 s. ed ; 5 1b5.118,''009..0
thereby." In accordancewith this order, thep Sec- 225. ;', 4 lbs, 40a, Also Du BARRVs REVA LENTA AF I Ple;s., fov'po
LATEp POWDER. is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups a 1 '670'00
retary has given official notice that the interest due
,ts! at U.. 0., for 48 cups at Cs., for 288 cups at :. Os.. I°'
~,60,4Ce
on the Ist May will be paid on demand at the pro- I al.asse.—ntb;rMeg.aolput one penny per cup. The 80s. lot vio
alLtrittelye
sinndE!,4V,axii\io. o7n7reggipetnc;foreet.
per offices on a rebate of interest at the rate of 6 are Ban SY DOC
per cent, per annum in coin. General Howard will don; and all Grocers and Chemists.
continue in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau for
the present. Large reductions are to be made in
the bureau. The coloured people are coming in for
a share of office, as two Justices of the Peace for the
District of Columbia; one postmastership and an
assessorship of Internal Revenue have fallen to their
lot. The President has also granted an interview
to Lieut.-Governor Dann, of Louisiana, who is a
coloured man. Butler's bill for reconstructing
Mississippi has been postponed till next session.
The Reconstruction Committee, however, are taking
evidence on the subject of Texas, from which
State there is a delegation now in Washing-
ton. The Pre-ident received it yesterday, but,
as he does not allow reporters, what transpired
is not known. John W. Douglass has en-
tered on his duty as Deputy-Commissioner of In-
ternal Revenue. The Post-office Department is
organizing a special agent service. These agents
will be divided into three classes ; one to superin-
tend railway postal service, another for the examin-
ation of postal accounts, and the third as detec-
tives. The case of George W. Twitchell, petitioner,
against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, came
before the United States Supreme Court to-day.

Births.
HAMPTON -On the 19th inst at 22, Eaton-square'
Laura Hampton, of a daughter.
&foams—On the 19th inst., at Englemere, Ascot, berg
Mrs. Mowbray Morris, of a daughter.

Marriages.
COOK —SA XTON—Ou the 19th inst., at St. Barnahits' itoa'
sington, Thomas Cook, late of Ipswich, to 31giipaft-
the eldest daughter of the late James Saxton,' of
ford.
PEMBERTON—GAIITII—On the 20th inst., at St. San°,eilirstl'
Pimlico, Henry Leigh, youngest son of Edgard
Pemberton Esq., of Eaton-place, and Ton-y-11in', pv
to Mary Eliza, eldest daughter of Richard Gest,'
Q.C., of St. George's-square, and Morden, SurreP
Deaths: 31Alci"
ALLNUTT —On the 19th inst., at Loose Hill, near
stone, Henry Allnutt, Esq., aged 81.
Coox—On the 19th inst., at Gloucester-square, d
park, William Cook, of t. Paul's-churchyard, 3°
don Hall, Kent, aged 85.
SINGLETON—On the 18th inst., at Brighton, Captain k
Singleton, late 51st L. Infantry.

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Aliddleaox.—Wednes(lay, April 21, 1809.